skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I directly or indirectly responsible for the national debt?

This information is sent so that an exchange through dialogue be made possible. Almost every day, many people keep saying that the system is corrupt, the system needs change, the system, the system and so on.

Recently it was discovered that this system is an accounting matrix called double-entry bookkeeping. The sole purpose of this accounting system is for PROFIT through a variety of methods such as interest, taxes, etc.

Here is how it begins.

All my life I've heard that we receive value for the income taxes we pay and it is also for the benefit of our social programs and health care. There is some time, I learned that this may be incorrect.
I started and I continue to ask questions like what happens to our taxes? Where do our taxes go? Who controls all taxes collected on those who pay income taxes? Where does the value come from?
I keep hearing and seeing in the news, in newspapers and on the Internet that Quebec, Canada and many places like Greece and Austria that there are deficits that need to be reduced. What is this word deficit? I discover that it is a debt that must be paid.

It seems that according to various sources of information, the budget must cover the debts. Being mystified by the word budget, a general definition has been found to provide a general meaning as a projection - into the future Â– possible revenues from any income taxes, taxes, profits, interest, etc.
A definition of the word "budget" proposed by the Oxford dictionary: "An annual or other regular estimate of national revenue and expenditure put forward by a finance minister ..."

NOTICE! Are we as a general population which, ultimately, directly and indirectly responsible to pay the debt?

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Was it really ever an $85M business if it never technically made money? (Per EBITDA)
This happened on my phone as well. Got a notification from Play Services that something had changed in my account and I needed to log in again. My browser session, however, remained intact.
It is certainly dangerous to play sounds to someone to try to trigger specific memories. This could prime them to give false information, entirely believing it was true.

Which is a shame, because it's really important to expose the sort of evil that happens at these places.
I'm sorry, what? Being a good engineer in the real world means building quality solutions within time and cost constraints. It's a craft. One can be a good engineer and have both pride and curiosity. You also need humility and the ability to put your customer's needs ahead of your ego.

I mean, by all means open up a little boutique data science consultancy that charges three orders of magnitude more for a solution that can't be updated by anyone without a ph.d and only beats an out of the box svm by .1%, where you put your pride and curiosity (your vanity) first. You might even find some suckers to patronize you, but man... I must be misunderstanding you because that is the most clueless and entitled thing I've read in days.

98% of the time data science customers actually just want some basic statistical insights into their data to make better informed decisions. If you aren't willing to help with that, and also can't find a research group to take you in (to work on their projects) and also can't bootstrap your own startup, then yes, stay in academia.
I don't get this whole "never overwrite data" thing, including Datomic, for example.

Isn't the disk space needed for these schemes enormous?
Because look at the success of e.g. the new Mustang, the new Camaro, the new Mini, the new Beetle etc. pp.
Resistive losses are only a part of the total loss on a transmission line.
I'm not sure what I would do with a dumbphone. According to my call history the last voice call I made or received was in November 2015...
If one has Ceph in place, of course, the wisest choice is to the Ceph block device service, which would be akin to using EBS or a SAN.
Your whole argument could be applied to biology too. If someone proved the theory of evolution false, millions of geneticists would be out of a job therefore we should suspect the theory of evolution to be false.
One of the specs is "Web Annotation Protocol—describes the transport mechanisms for creating and managing annotations in a method that is consistent with the Web Architecture and REST best practices."

https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-annotation-protocol-20170223/

So I guess they imagine you get an account with some service somewhere and then store your annotations there?
This is like peeing in a swimming pool and concluding people don't like your butterfly stroke.
10 monitoring talks that every developer should watch
We're... not talking about engineers though.
Operational Transform stuff. It's what makes Google Wave chooch and is also the heart of sharejs.
I had two blog posts exactly on that topic, math/phys -> data science:

- why: http://p.migdal.pl/2015/12/14/sci-to-data-sci.html (on academia vs industry)

- how: http://p.migdal.pl/2016/03/15/data-science-intro-for-math-ph... (also got reprinted at KDnuggets)
https://twitter.com/chanezon/status/834847669042311168

"containerd is all we wanted from @docker in @kubernetesio and none of what we didn't need: kudos to the team!"
French historian detained for 10 hours at Huston Airport [fr]
Robot teaches itselve how to walk
There is nothing I like about recruiters after understanding that they are in the business of finding and selling people for their own profit or their company's profit.

I find them to be pushy, inconsiderate, unthoughtful, and lacking real, hard skills that are useful to society. I find it interesting to think that in colleges / universities there is not a career path to be a "professional recruiter" like there is for "doctors, lawyers, engineers". Most people do not go to college to be a "recruiter".

In fact, after many terrible experiences with them, it is my goal to develop software which can completely replace human recruiters and automate their jobs.

It must be a hard day at work to do the following:

Task: Find candidates for a list of positions
Steps To Complete:
#1) Search LinkedIn, Other professional databases, Google, and other sources
#2) From #1, write a list of prospective candidates
#3) Email or call prospective candidates to discuss the position and optionally set up an interview
#4) Connect the prospective candidates with the client company.
Or try to help the wrong stranded dolphin
If you think regular GPU drivers are shitty, then wait until you try to install both AMD and nVidia drivers at the same time. It's not very stable, to say the least (Windows 7). Never tried it since. Not worth the hassle.
Tech spec is 2G GSM 900/1800 MHz frequency which is good across Europe and SEAsia but South America has variability (some by country, some by network) http://www.worldtimezone.com/gsm.html
It is not about ignorance. It is about self-awareness.

Similar problem:
"Most programmers think that with the above description in hand, writing the code is easy; they’re wrong. The only way you’ll believe this is by putting down this column right now and writing the code yourself. Try it." https://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/are-you-one-of-the-1...

Also, how often do you write complete implementations of anything on the whiteboard at work and therefore how useful is this skill?
Not necessarily replacing, but restricting. Algorithms would be difficult to implement perfectly, but putting geometric restrictions on district boundaries would be fairly easy and still allow human flexibility in specifying the lines. Also independent third party commissions do a better job than state legislatures.
Managing SELinux with Puppet
You don't. You've had your say. People listened and the consensus was to continue pursuing micro-services. That's pretty much how teams work as teams.

Good luck.
You're a professional that clients are paying multiple thousands of dollars for photography and you cannot afford the hardware to process their images? Color me skeptical.

If it's really true, then your pricing is clearly wrong.
I am curious what you find compelling about Bamsec? It certainly has a cleaner interface than EDGAR, but are there any other advantages?
Federated comments/annotations sound really cool from a developer's point of view, but also seem like a nightmare for publishers. If you cede administrative control over the comments on your site, how do you control trolls/attacks/spam/etc.?

Services like hypothes.is can do some filtering automatically, but this is missing the level above that - editorial privileges on comments on your own domain.
Why? The company that makes these phones, HMD Global, is part-owned by Foxconn. They wanted to create a line of affordable phones quickly, so of course they use their existing expertise and manufacturing lines.

Experimenting with design has very limited payoffs in the phone market these days (ask HTC), and retooling at Foxconn's scale is very expensive. Design innovation wouldn't be worth it.
Yes, either the NYT or WaPo uses them.
This is why single accounts aren't taken as gospel, because even at their best, they're not going to be entirely accurate. It's only when you're comparing many different sources who didn't know or contact each other that a pattern emerges. When survivors and guards, and all manner of witnesses all report the same details, those are the details you can have higher confidence in.

Of course, torturers aren't stupid... they've known for a long time that they might end up on the wrong side of a tribunal, or worse. These days you don't get names, you often stay black-bagged and bound, but people still remember voices, they see flashes during moments of struggle or when being "submarined". People remember smells and sensations that meant nothing to them, but which an experienced investigator is trained to recognize.

I'd recommend the book 'Torture and Democracy' to anyone interested in the topic, from any angle at all.
SSE1 is single-precision only. SSE2 added double precision.

So the bug will still appear for 'double' using just SSE1.
Excellent phone, but after a Z3C I'm missing the extra battery life.
Not everyone has a full github profile as their work is in house.
> Regardless of where one wishes to put the blame, this problem will _not_ be fixed. Period.

I realise that floating-point numbers are, to use the technical term, "whack", and I also realise that triaging the issue seems to point to a hardware error, not a software error, but I can't get passed this "yeah, there is a problem, so what?" attitude. Am I missing something critical here that makes this unreasonable to work around or fix?
A data scientist is an engineer.
Just in case you didn't know: If you used portions of Johns code, you agreed to the terms of his license. As such, you're required to include Johns name in the copyright notice, as the license specifies that thte copyright notice should be reproduced in full. You can add your own name above that, but you still have to keep the complete original copyright notice with Johns name in there [1].

Not doing that is not nice, and in the worst case could get you in legal trouble.

Original license: https://github.com/JohnPostlethwait/fixme/blob/master/LICENS...
Your license: https://github.com/ahmadassaf/code-notes/blob/master/LICENSE...

[1] http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/17823...
Yes, you can do that, just like adding support for say the PlayStation Move or 3D TVs. That doesn't equal a good experience though necessarily. So many game experiences suffer in VR if you're not designed for it at the start, and jutter/motion sickness is a real concern in VR.

VR generally wants you to have a slower paced first person view, if the player isn't in a cockpit of some sort and in a "natural sitting" position. Racing and flying games have this and are naturally good VR experiences if the engine will allow for it (not all do). But all 3rd person games are out. Most FPSes are out. Thats a good chunk of the industry.
Things I like about Scala and Kotlin and how they work in each language
The problem is this conception of superintelligence as something that comes after general artificial intelligence. Superintelligence is irrelevant. We'll have superaptitude before general AI, and that will be enough. One of the important principles of design is that specialized solutions are better than general ones.

The tasks humans are hired to perform by employers, and the processes which can be used to break democracy by exploiting big data, are far more constrained than the scope of cognition required to pass the Turing test.
This makes sense. Over here only Thunderbird got deauthed, everything else (devices and apps) kept working fine.
The pyramids wern't built by slave labour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_...
Chinese medical centers use virtual reality to cure drug addiction
"If true, that tells us that they already have more people then they could ever hope to choose from. After all, they'd be desperate enough to look outside that box otherwise."

You are assuming that these decisions are based on rational criteria.

They aren't.
first of all, this report is propaganda (also known as fake news) to demonize the syrian government [0][1]

second, amnesty international is NGO funded by George Soros; so it's expected to be politically biased, and cannot be trusted [2][3]

third, none of their evidence can be used in court, they are all based on hearsays, that's one of tricks one's can use to tell a propaganda from news based on facts

more history on amnesty international propaganda [4]

[0] http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2017/02/amnesty-internatio...
[1] http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/02/12/syria-uk-academic-slam...
[2] https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/us-pro...
[3] https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about
[4] http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/01/28/syria-the-amnesty-inte...
How do you propose to test your theory?

I don't know what you're defining as "toxic", but I've found that the worst companies I've worked for have been very "positive attitude", process-heavy, and diverse, and made a lot of bad decisions because no-one wanted to call them out as bad. The better companies I've experienced have a kind of skeptical, even caustic, culture that lets bad ideas get shot down quickly.
How would multihash handle parameterized algorithms like siphash, which take multiple arbitrary parameters? Adding every combination of "number of rounds" and "number of finalization rounds" as a separate table entry seems problematic.
Personally I yearn for a dumb-ish phone. That's as much due to form-factor as features. Essentially the entire market is candy bar touch sensitive, sealed battery and so on.

I can't be unique in wanting something that's not a candy bar? I've passed peak smartphone - and toned down my app use. I'll accept a few different formats as alternative.

Yet again, after a ludicrously short time, my sealed in smartphone battery was getting tired. I was hoping Blackberry was finally going to make the "obvious" handset change - a Classic with Android. They announced they were exiting handsets instead. The Far East gets a selection of Android flip phones, mostly very expensive premium, never coming near Europe. So I settled on getting a LG V20 when it released as it at least keeps SD and removable battery. Then LG decided EU doesn't get those.

So when my "smart" phone died, I got my old V8 Motorola (The Linux based flip follow on to the v3) out the drawer. It's fantastic. It gets more signal and clearer calls than any smartphone I have owned, and the original (12 year old?) battery gives weeks of standby. It has ergonomics. Of course the camera is awful, and there's next to no storage.

Seriously, give me that form factor with modern storage, Android and keep the a tiny screen that only comes on when you flip open. I don't need a huge screen to run a chat app, or listen to "turn left in 100 yards", or book a taxi. I can't think of a single app I use that needs a 4"+ screen. The miniscule external v8 screen is perfect for notifications and music player use. Should get decent standby life...

Nope, the entirity of global capitalism offers me 23,509 near identical candy bars in a simulation of choice.
Yes, and unfortunately you have to use the version in there (you can't upgrade nor use another client). Otherwise I love mobaxterm and bought a few licenses.
same boat here. there's hope if iphone 8 goes bezel-less that they can fit a 5" screen in a form factor not significantly bigger than a se, but it's speculation for now. I skipped the SE tho because why pay flagship prices for previous gen hardware? if a new se appears it needs to be on current-gen hardware or at a significant lesser price (europe pricing is mad btw)

I'm committed to the app store, but if the apple offering doesn't change I'm gonna jump to android right after the 8 announcement. googling around the samsung a3 seems a solid midrange offer (albeit I'm worried about operating system not getting updates) for the pocketable for factor
Eric Vanhouten at Instructables
In Canada you can often find Amazon items resold on ebay with much more reasonable international shipping. With Amazon, shipping is almost always prohibitively expensive for items not available on the regional domain (amazon.ca).
"Mathematicians becoming data scientists..."

At best you're talking about a career change, at worst you're talking about a watered-down version of your intended career.
Scott Adams is a freak
Elsewhere on the internet (without resorting to seedier places like torrent sites) you can find versions of SunOS 2.x/3.x/4.x as well as Solaris 1.x, 2.x, 7.x and 8.
I'm not sure I like that much that there's a fixed table purporting to contain IDs for all hashes ever used in the universe. It sound both inflexible - each time somebody uses a new parameter or new hash modification, it has to be updated, and hard to use - you have to drag this table around in all code that uses the protocol and remember to update it all the time. And all seems in service of saving a couple of bytes - maybe there would be better to have more verbose, but more flexible scheme, that allows to relatively easily add and identify hashes and read them by many tools?

I have same reservations about variable-int thing - it would sometimes save 2-3 bytes, but makes processing with simple tools much harder as many tools make it easy to cleave arbitrary strings into fixes pieces without knowing string's specific content, but variable-length fields make it significantly harder. Is the gain really worth the complications?

I've seen the FAQ but I guess I am not sure I agree with the authors on the question that what they did is actually the best...
my viewpoint was once there is a breach there will be anger and maybe 20% of our customers don't come back. not resetting passwords and possibly further endangering your customer base seems like a bad idea.

but i can see someone taking your viewpoint... which is worrying.
I don't know if it's as true or not now, but the entertainers have become much posher recently:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12170357/...

When actors and pop stars come from such elevated heights, I always get the impression that they are slick and professional - but much blander. For instance, the music of the 60s and 70s - when classes were mixing more - had more dynamism.
Could you suggest how the names of companies should be shown so we can improve the website? Appreciate your reply :)
Sure. It's just that there's no reason for anyone to care if the successful Android brand is called Nokia, Samsung, Pixel or something else. I guess it's like buying a PC in the late '90s -- they were all the same.
They have patents for screens full of holes that should allow a speaker and microphone to work through the screen:

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/10/14225872/apple-patent-oled...

There is another patent regarding the TouchID sensor working through a screen:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/10/04/apple-patents-fing...

The front facing camera is a bigger issue.
It's not a hardware error at all. If you want to use ieee 784 on a processor, you have to learn how it works; there are some subtleties whose root cause is attempting to approximate infinite precision mathematics in a finite precision processor.
The annotation system of the web is reddit.
I was hugely disappointed when it turned out that it's not remotely similar to the 3310.

They've basically created a generic featurephone and piggybacked on the glory of the 3310, which was anything but generic.

I highly doubt the new 3310 will be even slightly as durable as the old one.
This is well-known by everyone who works with float determinism. You have to set the FPU flag with assembler to force the desired width (among other things). See: fldcw, LDMXCSR, etc.

Take into account rounding modes and denormals too, and make sure to disable float optimisations that break determinism in your compiler.
This idea is related to the strictfp modifier in Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictfp
In countries other than the UK, I've heard of many people entering the programming field through a non-CompSci degree, but here if you don't have some kind of related degree you wouldn't get considered for a job in that particular field.

I'm not sure that's entirely fair. Very few of the professional programmers I've worked with during my career had Computer Science or other directly "computery" degrees. Most did have a degree and most were in one technical subject or another, but that doesn't seem particularly surprising.
If you live in the pacific northwest , I highly suggest visiting the Wing Luke museum and checking out the Bruce lee exhibit . You get intimate glimpses into his life: sketches, journal entries, meal plans, work out routines and personal letters.
It's 2G only so it depends on what provider you have. Some American providers plans to shut down their 2G networks. Sweden is fine as long as you're not up in the mountains in the north west.
So what happens to you if you get something right the first time?
Smooth embeddings for arXiv scientific paper titles
Hah! That is such a great read, all of the "this isn't a bug" and the tombstones of all the "duplicate" bug reports. Reminds me how challenging it is to do decimal floating point in binary. Mike Cowlishaw could go on for literally hours how just the concept is so broken and he wrote and shipped a decimal based floating point library which has none of these issues[1].

I still remember when I was told to never compare my floating point result to zero because even when it should be it probably won't be, always compare it to be less than a small sigma.

[1] http://speleotrove.com/decimal/
Probably don't even need to be senior for +$200k total comp at Big 4.
Gunnar Ritter dropped off the internet half a decade ago. Nothing on that site is maintained. It's a shame; I hope people pick up the mantle.
That sounds more like the Newton. The Palm pilot was a massive success - a smaller, cheaper PDA that wasn't just for gadget nerds.
This is nothing extraordinary: it occurs all the time (there are a lot of reports during Obama). It occurred to me in 1986.
Fix TLS. Let’s get rid of certificates