skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't preallocate for investors. It's too unpredictable. Employees, sure.

Is it that you want to be able to say to your team members, "you have X% in the worst case" ? I don't think it's practical to make such a statement if you're going down a fundraising path. At best you might be able give a near term worst case, based on the next round or two (e.g. apply the high side of Sam's seed/A dilution ranges). It's all guesswork though, and even with a preallocation you might need to exceed it.
I meant generally, in regards to the comment about places in the US having colder/wetter winters.
The question is why would you build a non-compliant building after the ADA, and what is a regulation if it's not enforced?
Same, I moved from Atom to VSCode for Golang work a while back, and I'm really enjoying it.

Vim-mode works exactly as expected, and plays well with everything else.
Yeah, this is the bad case. But this sort of policy also has an effect on other situations:

Suppose it costs $100 to make a video accessible for those with hearing impairments. Furthermore, suppose this video is really important - the university is willing to spend up to $20,000 on making it, but fortunately only has to spend $15,000. Without being a dick about "deaf accessible or you can't publish", the university would get $5000 of producer surplus and the hearing impaired lose out. With this rule, the university gets $4900 worth of producer surplus, and the hearing impaired can actually watch this very important video.

It's really easy to forget about the cases that aren't getting fought over but are still subject to the rule. If you've got an idea for a better rule that lets Berkeley publish these videos, but still keeps universities from pretending that they can't afford to make videos accessible when they actually can, I'm all ears.
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As the article started out describing spending an exorbitant amount of money to achieve a bunch of non-essential goals (not counting being with his father, of course) I was expecting "the other half" to refer to a friend or acquaintance without "means" dying in an alley due to lack of funds for medical treatment.
Viewing is not a right protected by copyright, so no license is required for that.
You could make that claim if they made such a decision, and you could assume they did if they had to go out of their way to disable CC. But of course, they have to go out of their way to include CC (in time, money and effort) so its entirely absurd to name it "contempt". At best, its negligence, and at worst, its reasonable (the video lectures aren't really related to the school's operations, it just happens to be easy to do).

Really, you could turn it around and call it contempt on the disabled's part, for suing with no clear benefit to anyone
I don't think that's the reason, considering Nintendo created special JavaScript APIs for accessing the Wii U's gamepad hardware features and made them available to all sites via their browser.

My bet is that they felt they needed more time to figure out how to properly sandbox it to prevent homebrew/piracy-related exploits, and that it will be released as a free installable item (or packaged with an OS update) in the next few months.
Off topic, but why is GitHub trying to direct potential Homebrew users to the correct contact forms for that project? Is Homebrew sending people to the GitHub contact form for troubleshooting or something?
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The two are not mutually exclusive. If the marketplace is competitive, then ISPs are incentivised to both offer freebies and to make their services affordable.

The problems with the United States are the large area to cover, combined with a relatively uncompetitive market, and the predominance of post-paid contracts. But you can't generalise this to the rest of the world.
>Many people think floating point numbers are magically precise.

Even worse, it kicks in earlier than one might naively think. People are often surprised to hear a value as simple as 0.1 has no matching floating point representation.

(For those interested, http://www.exploringbinary.com/why-0-point-1-does-not-exist-... has a nicely illustrated explanation.)
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> every other person seems to work for the "State Department"

I actually had a professor who specializes in algebraic number theory quit and move to DC, saying only that he was going to "work in Washington." I guess you can't really be subtle, there's not that many jobs out there in algebraic number theory.
I would just like to point out that cannabis is not a cure-all or even effective sometimes.

Here's my anecdotal story:
I personally have constant extreme pain (the joys of Ehlers-Danlos) and when I tried cannabis for my pain it not only was entirely ineffective, it greatly amplified my pain. So not only was I stoned, I was also in way more pain than usual. So I had a pretty bad time.

I think issue was that a lot of my pain comes from muscle overuse because when my muscles relax too much my joints stretch or pinch the nerves passing through them (which is super painful). So cannabis most likely made me too relaxed to not hurt myself constantly.

The reason no one in the medicine has even mentioned cannabis to you is because it is a schedule 1 drug. The DEA does not allow doctors to prescribe or administer schedule 1 drugs for any reason. You can read more about their guidelines here https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/manuals/pract/pract_...
The NAD is just trying to get the most for their members using the law. We are mad because we can't have access to free stuff that seems socially beneficial. This is people and society trying to find a balance. Is this the right balance? Probably not. But the whole 'welcome to hardcore liberal ideology' seems needlessly reductive both in terms of the argument and looking for an answer.
Another data point: the Switch will facilitate voice chat by the use of a smartphone app: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/5nv1ht/conf...

Chat is a function served by many, many applications and devices, of course, but it doesn't seem strange for games and system makers to provide dedicated in-game/system chat even in the face of Discord. Granted, chat is much more integral to a game than Netflix or even a web browser. But the argument isn't that the Switch "competes" on these facets, but that it's natural to use these apps before/during/after a game session. For example, after playing a game on my PS4 or Wii U, instead of switching off my system to turn on Netflix on my Smart TV, I'll just use the app on the system, because it's usually fewer steps. Admittedly, I rarely use my console browser...but that's because I usually have access to my laptop in my living room. But the Switch is meant to be a mobile device; it's not hard to imagine the situation of checking the web to look up a tip or guide while gaming. Could you pull out your phone? Sure, but again, you could argue this for any function on any system ("just use X device, which most people carry around all the time").

Again, it's not the absence of these things that are alone disconcerting. It's just that we know of these downsides -- on top of a whole bunch of other online-related things that on launch week we have no clue: Nintendo's online account system, social network, purchase transfers, etc., things that Nintendo's history has not inspired confidence about.
Sadly, there's more GNU code in this than Linux code, so it's not entirely inaccurate.
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I'm interested in this as I maintain a little floating point RNG project, but I suspect you are somehow mislead on this.

Simple RNGs can discard significant bits during math operations to help get random-like data, eg. the "middle-square method" or the lower bits of Math.sin(seed++) can be used as practically random. The little rng I developed and tested discards 0 to 3 MSbs erratically in its state as part of its generation scheme. But getting a library random function to return [1,2] and then subtracting 1 can barely affect overall uniformity of distribution. At best its just discarding 1 bit of potential entropy for more regular and i suspect louder noise floor.
I don't understand 3)

From the VC's point of view how is a 5% chance of a $200m exit different from a 1% chance of a $1b exit? (etc.)
What if it wasn't about the money? I wouldn't buy an ad alongside editorial content about my brand. Savvy media consumers tend to see that and think that the editorial content is actually paid content.
1080p came out in 1998.
Furthermore, the NRA is pro-gun safety. I can't speak for the NRA, but myself and other members will be wearing orange on June 2nd. It's not like the NRA is going to run a "BUY MORE GUNS!" advertisement... it'll likely be something tasteful. Then again, I have been disappointed by the NRA's taste in the past.
Except they didn't say NO GAYS. Rather some have meat allergy so they can't eat them. There are a lot of people who are hungry and could really use the free meat, except here a few people with meat allergy come in and say, "Since we're unable to partake in these free offerings we'd rather other people starve".
So SLI automatically bridges the two+ GPUs into a single logical card, with twice everything except RAM. Apps don't have to explicitly support it; they see a GPU with twice (or more) the number of texture units, cores, etc. as the underlying SLI'd card has.

If your VR doesn't scale up its performance with resources, perhaps it's artificially throttling itself to a max framerate? Can't push pixels fast enough to the headset? waiting for sensor data from the headset before rendering?
This is what is called a non-representative sample. To say the least...

Sheesh.
Although I'm not Dutch I profess a lot of affection to the Netherlands and I lived there for a bunch of years.

Having said that, it is IMHO possibly the worse place to be in case of a massive increase in the sea level. My house in Den Haag is 10ft below the sea level, maybe 5 miles away from the sea.

That's scary no matter how you put it, despite the best engineering effort from my friends at Rijkswaterstaat.
Great answer! Thanks.

Related question, "... if the client acts on the advice of the attorney and gets results they do not like, they can sue the attorney for malpractice..."

Does that really happen a lot, or is it just something that they drill into you in law school? I never hear about attorney malpractice suits.
I'm the other engineer at First Round and it's really fun. The people are very smart, there's a lot to build, and working in VC teaches you a lot about how startups work.
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But that's exactly the point: snapchat hasn't been around for very long at all. Myspace and livejournal both stuck around for a bit too, doesn't mean they weren't fads.

You may not grow out of snapchat, but the youngs are guaranteed to move on to something else. That's the way it's gone for everything else, no reason for snapchat to be any different.

Doesn't mean they can't build a business around the audience they have, but I think expecting that audience to continue to grow significantly over the long term is a mistake.
> They're giving away byproducts that, by their nature, gays/veg's/the deaf cannot use

There is nothing in the nature of these videos that makes them unsubtitleable.
Depends what you mean by “represent”.

The smallest positive “denormal” 80-bit float is (I think) 2^(2 − 2^(14)). I just represented it using 5 decimal digits and two minus signs. :-)
Ok, so here's the situation.

- I used a search engine to find the breakdown of websites by language, and quoted from it.

- You disputed it, telling me to look at the Alexa top 500 sites (which is a completely different stat).

- You then gave me another source, which is the language spoken by internet users. Again, a completely different stat.

- You now tell me that my source is useless, because the data is from Alexa - which a few minutes ago you were telling me was a better source of data (even though it was for a different stat).

- Now you're trying to convince me that the percentage of websites that are in Chinese is higher based on your feelings and intuition.

This is tedious. Either provide me with some concrete stats, or admit you don't know - but that you suspect it's higher.
Australia: better pay, better hours, better conditions, better weather, and better career prospects.

New Zealand: free plane ticket. Rugby. But then, Australia has that, too. Umm.

Hmmm.

Honestly, being born in New Zealand, earned a Bachelor CS degree, unable to get a job there. Before I graduated, I had plenty of experience but no qualification so nobody would take me. After I graduated, the same places said I had a qualification but no experience so they wouldn't take me.
Yes, "WarGames: The Dead Code" is indeed awful.
I ride with Uber drivers who complain to me about their earnings all the time and I just nod graciously and agree with them. (Even though I couldn't care less.) Maybe Uber should hire me as CEO, I'll even give them a discount.
That's not even remotely true. There are lots of situations and content types that are filtered or blocked by most advertising companies. I couldn't advertise a porn site when people search for "hacker news" on google, for example.
None of those companies are start-ups. Companies that are truly start-ups have little to zero revenue and little to zero name recognition. The companies you mentioned have passed the start-up phase but have yet to reach the Goliath phase (Amazon, Google, etc). They all have/had escape velocity and are/were on the upwards trajectory.
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"Patches were sent to many projects, avoiding threats to public security for years to come."

Are these pull requests that the project would still need to approve/merge or were they just pushed in?
Turns out there are more than two choices, so no.

http://wiki.c2.com/?FalseDichotomy
No network effect here. I'm using VSCode on a Mac to write Golang, and there's no reference or pull to any other MS products that I notice.
In that article the Mozilla spokesman says that they had no financial interest in the integration of Pocket. If they get revenue from customers introduced through the integration that seems like a barefaced lie.

>Chad Weiner, Mozilla's director of project management told PC World in an email back then that "there [was] no monetary benefit to Mozilla from the integration" and that Pocket "didn't pay for placement in the browser". (ibid) //

vs.

>Although the company emphasizes that Pocket and Telefonica didn’t pay for placement in the Firefox browser, Mozilla Corp. chief legal and business officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer told WIRED that Mozilla has revenue sharing arrangements with both companies. (Wired, as quoted ibid) //

They seem directly conflicting statements to me barring a monumental coincidence. Even if it were considered not contradictory, per se, then it's highly misleading. If I say "I wasn't paid to write this car review" and it turns out I get a cut of sales of the cars ... pretty fraud-y.
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ok THIS was my #1 80s TV show growing up : Autoaman

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0084978/

Can i get an amen please?!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't think that you understand. Advertising and editorial cannot communicate in trustworthy media outlets.
They did, indeed, get charged with wire fraud, and entered guilty pleas[1].

The EFF and others were pretty dismayed with this, and felt it should have been a civil, and not criminal matter.

Since that time, Congress also passed a "Bots Law" that specifically spells out gaming online tickets as "treated as unfair or deceptive acts or practices under the Federal Trade Commission Act." [2] I suspect this opens a door for larger fines as well.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2010/11/wiseguys-plead-guilty/

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/318...
You know what's also wrong? Somebody paid lawyers to sue or send letters instead of paying people to add captions or make transcripts.
What if you went in saying you had chest pain? And what do you do for annual checkups?
One option: To have full control of the user experience when people are working with Microsoft tools and technologies.

And maybe to push the whole editor market to a direction they like. A bit like what Google did with Chrome. Think about for example Typescript language service. Now they have been able to push the idea and demonstrate how useful it is. Probably this generates demand from users for other editors to add same feature.
Are you saying the people who don't believe in putting cochlear implants in to their kids must be liberals? If so, why?

The cochlear implant issue itself is a rather complex and interesting one. Most hearing people are immediately outraged when they learn that some deaf people want to prevent their children from hearing, but I think this is a knee-jerk reaction that stems mostly from ignorance of Deaf culture[1] and its value in the Deaf community.

There's a great documentary called Sound and Fury[2] that explores this issue by interviewing deaf and hearing families as they struggled to decide whether to have implant surgery performed on their children. I strongly encourage everyone to watch this documentary before making up their minds on this issue.

Also, talking to some Deaf people, getting some exposure to and knowledge of Deaf culture, learning about the long and ugly history of discrimination and paternalistic interventions by hearing people against deaf people, and the struggle of deaf people for self-determination would probably be a good idea too.

With this knowledge I think it becomes difficult to dismiss the issue as ridiculous or say that there's any easy, obvious answer.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_and_Fury_%28film%29
Assuming "floating point" refers to things fitting the IEEE754 spec at some precision, I'm pretty sure there are still only countably many of them.

After all, for any specific size of mantissa and exponent, there will be a finite number of floats of that size, and there are a countable number of options for mantissa and exponent (corresponds to N²), thus the number of floating point values is countable.

Alternatively, each of them corresponds to an arbitrary length bitstring, in addition to a pair of numbers defining the mantissa and exponent, which would put them in bijection with N³ and thus also be countable.

EDIT: to add to that, I believe that one cannot in any meaningful way encode uncomputable values (in the sense that even if one introduces distinguished bitstrings intended to "encode" a specific¹ uncomputable value one can't do anything other than treat is as a distinguished value, and especially one can't perform arithmetic on it or print its digits or similar), so you'll still be limited to a countable set of floating point numbers even with other tricks.

¹ If that term even has meaning when dealing with uncomputable numbers...
I don't agree with either of your points, spoken language or programming language. I served in the military and studied CS. I graduated when I was 31 and have had a great career. I also learned Arabic while in the military. I don't think there is anything unique about my experience. The idea that adults stop learning is garbage. The brain is much more complex then that.
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It'd be nice if you could order by column. At least let the default order be by rating or alphabetical, instead of none whatsoever?
The world is demonstrably worse off as a result of this lawsuit. Valuable knowledge that was freely available to many is now available to very few.

The disenfranchisement of the disabled is a problem, but if the logical (for Berkeley) solution to this problem is the disenfranchisement of all, perhaps we shouldn't go through with "solving" this problem. Perhaps it is better to accept that some amount of unfairness is inevitable, and that it's preferable to have these videos publicly available than to not.
The parent post creates a hypothetical opinion held by hypothetical people, and then criticizes it. IMHO this kind of comment is merely inflammatory; I'm no smarter after reading it, and if I buy into it then I become misinformed.
Very good idea! Will try it over the weekend, hope the implementation is sound, too.
This is one of the most impactful projects I've seen built using the GitHub source on BigQuery dataset (since we published it).

If you want to see other use cases - I've collected plenty of other stories from multiple parties at:

- https://medium.com/google-cloud/github-on-bigquery-analyze-a...

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The NRA has lobbied to block federally funded scientific research on gun violence and safety[1], so I wouldn't say they're pro gun safety, at a macro level at least.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-gun-re...
Right, I should have said "that they cannot use in the original byproduct form". But the same point applies, that it costs money to convert it, and the effect of requiring the conversion is to end a free giveaway that promotes a social good.
Options won't be available to retail investors until at least 5 days after the IPO (maybe more).
Wikipedia provides a pretty good summary:

William Kahan claims the following issues with unums:

1. Unum computation does not always deliver correct results.

2. The description of unums sidesteps using unum for solving calculus problems.

3. Unums can be expensive in terms of time and power consumption.

4. Each computation in unum space is likely to change the bit length of the structure. This requires either unpacking them into a fixed-size space, or data allocation, deallocation, and garbage collection during unum operations, similar to the issues for dealing with variable-length records in mass storage.

5. Unums provide only two kinds of numerical exception, quiet and signaling NaN (Not-a-Number).

6. Unum computation may deliver overly loose bounds from the selection of an algebraically correct but numerically unstable algorithm.

7. The costs and benefits of unum over short precision floating point for problems requiring low precision are not obvious.

8. Solving differential equations and evaluating integrals with unums guarantee correct answers but may not be as fast as methods that usually work.

Point #4 makes implementation tricky and slow. Point #6 (from what I understand) means unum operations tend to guarantee correctness by being overly vague - by denoting results that FP can produce using ranges that are just too big to be useful.
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