skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an pointless way of expressing the percentage of taxation, and will inevitably lead to > 100% taxation, but that's not a useful way of looking at it.

Imagine an income tax model where everything less than $200k was untaxed, and everything above $200k is taxed at 20%, and tax is always rounded down towards the next cent value.

Thus $200.04 pays 0 tax, and $200.05 pays 1 cent tax. That 1 cent is '100% taxed', but given that would exist no matter what values you choose, it's not a helpful way of describing the taxation.
Your own list has a counterpoint: Bangladesh has a better HDI than Pakistan. Republic of Ireland also has an higher HDI than the UK and they were in much worse state than the UK when they became independent.
Thanks for the downvote instead of challenging any of my points! People just try to suppress differing opinions instead of engaging with them these days. It's sad. We can only learn by talking. Are disagreements really so threatening to your echo chamber?
I just skimmed the whole book and the content were about 70% of what we did in Discrete Mathematics in one term.

A term has ~15 weeks with 4 hours per week.

The exercises are not included in this - so I think 100-150 hours should suffice.
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Unfortunately though, there is a shortage of capacity for our mental representation of them. It's pretty easy to remember whether I'm on version 3 or 4, less so for versions 3713 and 3714.
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Whether teachers have noble motivations is completely irrelevant to whether the institutions perform their function well. All it means is that the teachers are working for institutions that take advantage of them.
React Fiber will make an impact, but it's an incremental upgrade so don't be afraid to start a new project now—there'll be an easy upgrade path when React 16 is out!

(Facebook has tens of thousands of components, so you can be sure that'll happen)
> It sounds like the people behind the ad blocker broke Ajax for that website while trying to block the ads - that's the mistake I am referring to.:

> The business I work for tried blocking adblockers and after a bit of back and forth they trumped us by blocking all AJAX requests on our site. We gave in after that.

I took this to mean that adblockers had to evolve and block AJAX on the website to make it accessible. Not, that they were hasty and disabled all functionality.

> You mention that native ads are gradually replacing direct ads as if it's a good thing.

On the contrary: "The most successful ads these days are the ones you can't tell are ads. They're also the stronger poison of the two."

> The good guys in the publishing industry go out of their way to prevents ads affecting content, they don't allow their writers/presenters etc to touch advertising and everything is clearly separate.

I didn't know this. However, I think it's a losing game. Consumers don't seem to care too much about the "good guys," unless a moral campaign is spear-headed (a la Tesla by The Oatmeal), only not seeing ads at all.

It's ironic really. We block ads so we're not influenced by them, but then we lower our guards and become susceptible to the indirect kind.

It's the natural order anyway. There will be those in the coming generations that will be like just like us. Except where we fought against direct ads, they will fight against the indirect. There've always been those unorganized who value critical analysis in all contexts, but their findings and ways never reach the public and make any impact.

Or maybe we've just made ourselves out to be sheep. As long as the coyotes aren't around, out of sight out of mind.

> In the long term, ad blockers will just push out those people who are driven by ethics and you'll be left with the sleazy publications that are driven by PR. This is coming from someone who has dealt with PR agencies and constantly turned down proposals.

As is with all things. You do not survive by being ethical, but by being the most adaptable, and sociopathy happens to be a great adaptation for sales.

I'm more interested in what happens next after the sleaze epoch. Will ads continue to become more and more manipulative then, finally after reaching too far, begin to wither and fade into the anals of history (albeit likely not as known as it should be, because of "out of sight out of mind."). Or will someone finally shake up this industry?
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It's just a shell script to manage dnsmasq running on my FreeBSD home server. It's not sophicated but equally it's written specifically for my server so no very portable either.

I did think about writing something to share but projects like Pi-hole have done a better job serving the community than i could have. So i just share the sources i use instead incase any like-minded sysadmins find it useful.
Starting in the 18th century, public education in America was an aspect of New England communities. The stated purpose was to spread literacy for understanding of scripture and for commerce. By the 19th century, it was widely understood throughout the U.S. that literacy improved the regional economy and provided opportunity for one's children. Public education became an expected government service, and many localities' education spending dominated their budgets.

At the time, education was a drain on agricultural families, so the child care aspect wasn't a benefit. City dwellers may not have employed their children, but child care wasn't especially beneficial since household labor without running water was substantial.

The modern phenomenon of public education as childcare is only made possible by widespread employment of women with children. The issue is best discussed from this standpoint, not a false idea of what public education was originally intended to accomplish.
Yeah so let's regress to letting tribes in that don't support modern advancement and call anything otherwise bigotry.
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> As a TensorFlow beginner, I need all the references I can get.

I think that having to use a duck typed language makes it so much harder than it has to be. The API is huge, and you get really no help from the IDE. If I could do tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer as in the example, and then get autocomplete to what I can do next with that object it would really help. Or list functions that takes that kind of object as input. Now, one is searching in the dark.
Learning Vue right now; it really feels like a much more reasonable version of Angular 1.
It's useful to apply the Steve Yegge political axis metaphor[1] here. C forces a fairly conservative approach because it stocks a full arsenal of footguns. Pike and most of the early Unix guys, though, are about as liberal as they can be within C's constraints. MISRA, on the other hand, is Idaho survivalist camp conservative.

Both parties have good reason for their ideologies. Early Unix programs were tiny enough that it was easy to keep an entire applications' rules in your head and take full advantage of them. So it makes sense to play fast and loose. MISRA-compliant systems, OTOH, are developed by large teams where no member understands the whole system, and the consequences of getting something wrong are measured in attorney man-years.

[1] https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4v...
Hmm... if that is what the OP intended, yes. Mayhap I was giving too much charity, but I would take it more of "Where is the evidence that you have successfully helped a patient lose 100 pounds?"

That is, again, it is not bullet proof. But, it is too often for someone to have experience that does not scale to the speed and size of facebook in this regard. Life is too easy to argue in the extremes of straw men. Wanting to know of experience that backs an argument is perfectly reasonable.
If you need something more powerful you can have a similar setup with Privoxy. I have a script[1] that regularly downloads the adblock lists and converts them into filter/action files for Privoxy plus some custom rules.
It's faster than a browser plugin and every device on the LAN can use it. It has a somewhat antiquated web UI and writing the rules it's not particularly user-friendly but it's working really well for me.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/privoxy#Ad_Blocking_wit...
Your blog post mainly consists of the statement:

"Get a clue, people. Hacker News is an awesome discussion forum because it serves a business purpose. Please stop acting like there is something bizarre or ethically questionable about the mods making sure that this free service actually serves the business that pays all the bills for it. Geez"

I don't agree with the the assertion that HN mainly "serves a business purpose", perhaps in its early days its main purpose was to funnel prospective people into YC (second step from pg's essays, I stumbled on HN this way back in the day).

While you consider the arguments as "inane", I think there is merit in people trying to understand the mechanisms on which HN is being moderated. The "Don't worry your pretty head, it's being done right" argument only drives up more suspicion, because this is exactly the way less than savory practices in government and elsewhere are hidden. I don't think this is the case with HN but trying to argue that the suspicions arise not (just) because people are just jerks or stupid.
That blew up in her face, didn't it?
Hubic may be interesting for personal use but it's unsuitable for commercial use, which is my actual goal. I need something which I can buy in bulk and scales into PB range.

For example the hubic contract [1] states that bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbit/s upstream and downstream. Compare this to 400 Mbps dedicated port speed for each Storage server at time4vps.eu. Indeed, time4vps.eu offers 32 TB of bandwidth per month with the 4 TB storage plan, while hubic's 10 Mbit/s means that even if I transfer 24/7 for the whole month I'll only be able to transfer 3.3 TB of the 10 TB they offer.

For heavy personal use something like Amazon Drive [2] is probably a better choice, because it offers unlimited storage for $60/year. People on reddit are saying they have hundreds of TBs stored with no complaints.

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[1] https://hubic.com/en/contracts/Contrat_hubiC_2014.pdf

[2] https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/
TL;DR: The "Bombshell" is Alphabet/Waymo's lawsuit against Lewandowski and Uber for stealing trade secrets, and an interpretation that Lewandowski formed Otto basically as a cover to get a big payday from Uber in exchange for the secrets.
There's an extension to Visual Studio that adds rich PHP support, here: https://www.devsense.com/. It's pretty good.

You might watch this video to get a sense of what the full Visual Studio IDE offers for a PHP developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up4bEMPktzU
Yeah, this is a big deal. Uber has gambled everything on self-driving cars, what with their absurd burn rate and all. If that gets shut down because of trade secret injunctions, I don't think they have time to pivot to another strategy, especially after their reputation has nosedived.
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Bad code is boring, because you quickly lose context or get confused by the 'bulldozer' approach that such code usually assumes.

So it won't help if you try and read it.

To paraphrase Tolstoy's quote about happy families:
"All good code is alike, yet each bad code is bad in its own way".

I remember a piece of advice from some guru programmer I've read some time ago:
"Don't just read the code - compile the program and try and change something in the code, maybe the window title, maybe add a menu item - something silly, but which forces you to figure out where things are done in code."
You can still use the editor and create projects as an anonymous user to see how the app works before committing to divulge your identity.
Importantly, the same research that indicates that kids would do better starting later also indicates that they (teenagers, at least, who were also the indicated population in the study about later start benefits) will generally have trouble getting to sleep much before midnight, regardless of when you 'send' them to sleep.
> also i think its pretty short sighted to say android isn't really tied in with google. that phone sends an insane amount of data back to google, right down to the keys you press on your keyboard.

Sounds like you're confusing Android/AOSP with GApps.
IBM i Java used to run on top of TIMI. But the runtime overhead and IBM developer overhead were too high, and now it runs on top of PASE, which implements the AIX runtime without involving TIMI.
I think the education system in the US is vastly different from the UK. In the US, the teachers are massively limited in their freedom to choose how and what to teach their kids. Mostly because the No Child Left Behind Act(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act), which requires teachers to teach for tests and nothing else. And this IS coming from someone who knows a teacher in the US. My uncle was an art teacher for several years, and ended up leaving because of the politics and lack of care given to students.
The bicycle race I'd love to watch would involve a
electric-motor-propelled bike...

You're looking for MotoGP. With rockets.
Has the Android side improved with React Native? The last time I took a look at this which was last year, the consensus was the Android result wasn't optimal.
"he will not divide us" means that you're saying he's trying to divide you. So, you're making a claim about someone without backing it, and when people actually show up in support of him, you switch off the camera to preserve the narrative?
It's that 'unambiguous' part that is the problem. When you convert scheduled times into UTC you are making them ambiguous.
Sandstorm takes apps that normally would need someone to run a server, breaks them down into the smallest shareable unit (a "grain"), and lets you host them all centrally, on the Sandstorm server. Whether that's the Oasis service, your own machines, or something in between.

So instead of running a whole Gitlab server, you'd run a Sandstorm server that hosts Gitlab grains, each consisting of a single repository. Gitlab itself is no longer responsible for sharing and authentication, the Gitlab grain lets Sandstorm handle that. Apps need to be rewired to fit into this paradigm, but once they do, it feels like one coherent platform rather than a bunch of separate individually hosted apps that maybe you glue together somehow.

For Etherpad, instead of running an Etherpad server that hosts many notepads, you create an Etherpad grain that has just one shared pad. For a drawing app, the grain would be just one drawing. For a photo gallery app, maybe it would be just one gallery. (These are all real examples, these grains all exist and work as I'm describing.)
I worked at Epic for a bit more than 2 years.

It was about 3 years too long. Yes, that math is correct.

As far as I recall, MUMPS is essentially the dedicated coding language for a b-tree based database, and the only reason to ever use it for anything is for processing huge numbers of transactions through your NoSQL database every second, forever. I guess you also might want it if none of your employees knew how to correctly normalize a relational database.

Other than the nightmarish accumulation of technical debt continually rolled over since 1979, and the ungodly high turnover of people jumping ship after realizing MUMPS was a golden ball-and-chain, it was a pretty nice place to work. But management had a culture that it needed to force down everyone's throats, and the tech stack was a real resume killer. I still get contacted by recruiters desperate for MUMPS developers, and they make me feel like someone trapped inside a house besieged by zombies. I get really quiet, and hope they don't break any windows.

It only works because they throw a huge amount of money at it, and no one has any incentive to cheap out on medical management software.
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If you consider yourself an experienced designer magician who can bring fun to traditionally boring domain, or someone who can make up for lack of experience with passion, we’re looking for you.

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That sounds like it'd require a custom read head. Normally, a floppy read head is comparatively small, and has to be moved across the disk's radius with a stepper motor. To read it in one pass would require a head that can read all the tracks at once, so this would be something specially-fabricated, which doesn't sound cheap at all. I'm sure it could be done (esp. considering how old floppy tech is), but I don't think it's something you're going to just fabricate in a small lab with spare parts, it'd need something custom manufactured.
Create React App was a great addition to the React ecosystem and definitely made the library more approachable. Excited to check this out!
To claim that there is only one way almost always belies a profound lack of imagination.
I can't imagine what Lewandowski and Uber were thinking here. The timeline is just too constrained to even be taken seriously.
That is a shallow and reductive approach to a rather complex constitutional issue.

I don't doubt that there was strong anti-English sentiment among some groups in Scotland in 2014. However, there are always extreme elements to any political movement - the mainstream campaigns were open and constructive, and in my opinion it's a weasel argument to complain that "nothing was done to discourage" anti-English sentiment.

Now in reality, it's hard to make a solid argument conomic case for Scottish independence. The sums can work out, but it will likely mean belt-tightening until the Scottish economy develops further. But the short-term economic outcome is not the only metric by which success can be measured.
But in many other countries, University places are either taxpayer funded or funded by a government loan scheme with with fiarly easy terms. As you can imagine, that leads to the same result as in the US.

So I would say these countries had a pre-existing moral ideal that everyone should have an undegraduate educaton, and then solutions (such as the US student loan industry) came about to implement that ideal.
I've often found that my motivation to work on something decreases if I'm being paid to do it. Side projects are often much more fun and energizing than your day job. Hope you feel the same!
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The bombshell part specifically would be Levandowski arranging with Uber to steal Waymo tech, form Otto, and Uber would acquire Otto. In all of the reporting I read about this after the first filing, this was missed.
It was a stupid moonshot play. They should have just focused on being a really good taxi company.
You are wary of them furthering their personal agenda. I quoted that.

There seems to be this assumption that good only occurs when some Christ-like martyr falls on their sword for the benefit of other people. The entire world seems to think that the only good men are dead men who died as martyrs to a cause and if someone is getting something out of the deal, they are evil predators.

I loathe this idea with every fiber of my being and would like to see it wholly stamped out of existence. I believe HN is as high quality a forum as it is because it has a purpose that serves the needs of the people who created it and run it.

I have done moderating for free. At the scale of HN, unpaid mods would absolutely not work. I wholly approve of them having a personal agenda here. I think the fact that they need to meet a standard of enlightened self interest is part of why they do so much better than most moderating teams.

Is that clearer?
E2 visa is a decent proxy for usefulness already.
I don't think it's a given that the right and proper thing for an intelligence agency to do is spy on every person it possibly can as much as it possibly can.
I've maintained for a long time that the ad networks themselves are the problem, not advertising as a whole. There is a place for video advertising (around content that is also video), there is a place for audio advertising (on the radio, around podcasts, on music services), and there is even a place for animated, interactive advertisements, on sites that are expected to dance and move anyway, like online games.

The trouble is, most third party networks are so laser focused on getting people to "interact" with their advertising that they've skewed the game in favor of distracting users from the content they arrived to consume. They're so focused on targeted advertising that they regularly invade users privacy, utilize questionable data collection practices, and break down security barriers when browsers try to shut down their violations of user trust. It's no wonder ad blockers are on the rise, because the existing ad networks are all untrustworthy.

There will always be a place for advertising when it's done properly. Watch an NFL broadcast and observe the product placement, the logos and sponsors everywhere. It's organic, integrated into the very fiber of the broadcast in a way that couldn't be blocked with even the most sophisticated blocking software. And it's also usually quite tasteful, there to promote the product, but not distracting enough to detract from the game the viewers came to the channel to watch.

This kind of advertising, organic product placement and sponsorships, where the content creator and the advertiser have a real partnership and coordinate their efforts, this is the kind of advertising I want to see more of. For all the drama they tend to draw, I commend the Gawker sites (Gizmodo is particularly good about this) for their Sponsored posts and their frequent "Deal of the Day" posts, which are first-party advertising that my blocker regularly fails to block. And you know what? Some of the deals are genuinely interesting to me, because Gizmodo clearly knows their audience, and selects advertising partners that make sense on their blogs. More of that please!