skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not necessarily the point, the point is, first and foremost, that they've been unable to demonstrate good performance on any real benchmarks. You argue that they're good at things which need to represent "time", but the fact of the matter is that they're still far behind RNNs/LSTMs.

And also, your assertion that you "can't have 32-bit floats" and therefore we should go analog (which is what this project wants) is a rather poor understanding of the challenges facing computer architecture in the modern day. The problem is data movement, not the computation. For example, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories estimates that the cost of moving a 64-bit word 1mm ON CHIP will be approximately equal to the cost of a 64-bit FLOP on 10nm.
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Not sure how anyone running around swearing at people is going to accomplish a damn thing.

In fact it probably siphons off the energy from a movement that needs to learn not to create value in an institution driven by profit instead of societal betterment.

The proposal also suffers from the delusion of many who believe tweeting is equivalent to actually working to make the world a better place. Tweeting is more like self-congratulatory marketing that has the addictive property of also assuaging one's guilt for treating others poorly in real life.
That technical definition should be explicitly stated on their contract, otherwise, it does not and would not hold up in any court of law. Ambiguity on contract clauses becomes the burden on those who wrote and enforces it, and that by itself is a concern because United cannot simply state that their supposed clause also magically enforces such other circumstances.

They can definitely remove any person from a flight, but the context here is that they made an error from the get go all the way to how they handled the situation.
I would love to see announcements of new languages include a rationale. Why was this created? What problem was the author trying to solve that they thought the solution was a new language? What short comings did existing languages have that this new language overcomes?

This is not a critique; I'm just curious.
well, the 'person is a person through external validation' idea is silly on the face of it.
Then my statement is vacuously true. (This was intentional, but perhaps a bit obscure.)
Sad to say, this is exactly the sort of magic that, as the conclusion suggests, gets people not hired. Even on this very enlightened forum people argue in favour of less knowledgeable candidates (even with all else being equal).
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In this hypothetical scenario, they were already guaranteed a seat on the plane.
You're right, we should build a CloudFlare competitor based on ATS and take over the market.
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“You’re… defining the natural numbers by hand? Why?”

“Haskell is for mathematicians,” you explain. “We always define our terms.”

That's just beautiful
They're not better off now. Besides a small class of professional women. For minorities, the post-2008 economy has been absolutely savage. What's happened is that things have gotten very very good for people at the very top. For everyone else, we've just seen everyone move down a peg.

This is not to say there hasn't been wonderful progress in social justice. But from an economic justice perspective the modern economy is a disaster.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/07/26/wealth-gaps-rise-t...
Does GO have a dependency manager yet? last time i checked it out it was only things like go get which did a git checkout?
I doubt anything would keep working on active libraries without version locking composer / yarn seem to do this a lot better.
This is neat, but I wish education wasn't expensive to begin with.

Or better yet, just simply make education free via making the cost be capped at 5% of your yearly (before-tax) wage for Y years, or a total of $XXX,XXX, whichever comes first.

This is simple to implement and effectively shields those who have "useless degrees" as well. Everyone wins.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the system" and what prevents a 40 year old man from gaining basic computer skills? It's not rocket surgery and being 40 means they have been around computers basically their whole adult life. But more interesting question is what "the system is actively working against them" actually means? Who is "the system" and what actions do they take?
I'm on a phone so I won't type much. From my dissertational research and reading, I've got no hint that the hippocampus and the cortex learn advesariily, at least to my limited understanding of how such networks work. The hippocampus is thought to bind together the features of events into an integrated memory representation. It may do so by relating coded indexes in the hippocampus for features that actually exist in the cortex. So for example, you observe a car and a bike hit each other. Your percepts for the car and bike (features) are in your perceptual cortices. The hippocampus generates an index that when propogated back to the cortex, reactivates those cortices into a state similar to when you originally saw the event. That is memory...that reactivation. At least that is a popular idea in memory research that has empirical support.
Oh, yes, I totally agree. When you have a "CAN'T HAPPEN" in a code comment that's a sign of laziness or bad design and the same applies to company procedures. Hopefully United will go back and seriously rethink how they go about this now. It's just sad it had to come to this to make it happen.
Couldn't you apply this logic to absolutely any regulation? A company is losing money, yet you expect them to pay minimum wage? You expect them to provide health benefits?

Right now, Uber customers have a very affordable ride. And Uber's drivers suffer from their "gig economy relationship" that does not offer the same benefits as a full time job. If Uber were forced to employ them properly, the price customers pay will go up. If the product is good enough, people will continue to pay, and Uber will be fine. If it becomes unaffordable for customers, then maybe it wasn't actually affordable at all in the first place, it was just that the unaffordability cost was placed on the drivers, not the customers.
Wait, you're agreeing with me that the set in question is ill-defined, but still somehow comparable to other sets? I am not sure I follow. My statement is that you cannot meaningfully talk about "all the numbers that cannot be described with language". If you could, I'd ask you if this set intersected with [0, 1] has a lower bound / 'inf' that's contained in it, and if so, did I just describe that lower bound with language? I'm sure some sort of paradox similar to the one with integers can be constructed here...

In my view, every real number is well-defined and there's nothing controversial about the set of real numbers. If the infinite aspect of it causes some researchers to call it a "mathematical fantasy", so be it, so is literally every other mathematical model we use in our lives.
> they're certainly not for everybody and there's nothing therapeutic about giving them to people in a fragile mental/emotional state.

you're right, they might not be for everybody. there are good reasons to believe that people with a genetic risk factor for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia shouldn't take them because it exacerbates that existing risk factor. besides that group though, it's less obvious who should or should not take them.

I actually think psychedelics have amazing potential specifically FOR people with a fragile mental/emotional state (example: PTSD patients) when used as part of a holistic regime of therapy and counseling as well as taking psychedelics under the appropriate circumstances.

The shamanic traditions of many indigenous cultures emphasize exactly this. They aren't using these things as party drugs. Strong medicine, used with spiritual guidance and community support. That is a working model.
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In practice, it's a little convoluted ( https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-13/t-rowe-pr... , that story is about takeover bids, but I'm sure the process is similar).

Occasionally, I get postcards asking me to nominate a proxy for some upcoming shareholders meeting due to investments I own through my 401(k). I guess that you should be on the lookout for that kind of postcard and follow the instructions.
How else should they have gotten him off the plane? Legally he needed to leave and they had asked him to leave peaceably
I really like jhalterman's failsafe library. Exponential backoff, jitter, circuit breaker support, etc.

https://github.com/jhalterman/failsafe
That's just IDB coverage, mandated by the FAA. They don't get a choice here. You will find the exact same penalties and limits for all airlines.

Voluntary compensation is entirely different - they are free to offer whatever they like to get someone off the flight. Involuntary unfortunately incentives keeping those limits low as a matter of airline policy though, of course. They can force someone off a plane for usually far less than $800 if they feel like taking a customer good will hit. This ORD-SDF flight certainly was nowhere near $1350 in IDB comp - likely less than $300 in mandatory IDB comp based on average ticket prices.

I've seen these offers go as high as $2,000 during significant service disruptions on major airlines. This is a corporate policy failure, as I'm sure the gate agent was only allowed to authorize up to $800 for that flight or something dumb.

They rolled the dice on saving a few hundred bucks against their reputation this time. I think it's safe to say they lost badly on that calculation.
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Configuration files are important. You understand that once you have to untangle thousands upon thousands of lines of apache configuration. Luckily for me, that can pay a decent rate :D

In the context of load balancing, on the performance + latency + load balancing mechanism + configuration files criteria, Apache is the worst by a huge margin compared to both HAProxy and nginx.
I'd also add that the police should have denied the request to get involved because this situation was a contractual issue between the airline and the passenger. No laws were being broken.
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It's a shame. I've grown disillusioned with Apple, and have largely switched to Ubuntu on Thinkpads. But I really miss Apple's trackpad implementation.

I disable the trackpad and only use the pencil nub, which does work very well, but months in and I'm still not completely used to it. Not to mention other people are always disappointed to find my trackpad disabled if they jump on my computer.
Are they any better served by it being incorporated in the US and managed by a US based board of directors and mostly US based shareholders?

I suppose there might be some other sovereign wealth funds and investors from China, Gulf States, UK, etc. in there too but still, hardly representative of its actual user base.

I agree that that would probably be the worst option of the bunch, but it's just an example of other ways a platform can be governed that's not a for-profit corporation.
Whether or not it does is a matter of which philosophy you choose.

A Platonist may believe that those numbers exist in an abstract space we cannot reach. A Formalist simply defines "existence" in such a way that this is true without worrying about whether they really exist. And a Constructivist denies the existence of things that cannot actually be written down, at least in theory.
I think you don't understand just what America does in the world. Look up MKUltra, Bay of Pigs, the 73 Coupe in Chile, School of the Americas, Iranian-Contras, the BP/US/UK overthrow of Iran .. I mean the list is seriously as long as you want to make it.

The CIA created ISIS. The Congresswoman from Hawaii, who has visited Syria, even says as much:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qdf2WH4g9k
"while only powering about half the world"
Deep end? I tried to illustrate that one teacher made the effort to highlight a model's shortcomings while the other one couldn't see beyond his own ideological biases.
I usually pick them up on Amazon. I'm going for popular "good" games at the moment, and these tend to run anywhere from $5 - $30 depending on the condition. Most bargain bin games (movie tie-ins, less popular carts) can be had for less than $5, and then there's Shantae, which I can't find for less than $400 because the thing is so darn rare.
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depends on which drug you're talking about? Psilocybin and LSD are remarkably non-toxic. There is no known overdose level for either of those, as far as I know, and I've read quite a lot of the research. That's not to say that a huge dose would be psychologically safe or comfortable, just that I don't know of anyone suffering bodily harm as the primary action of taking either psilocybin or LSD.
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Yeah! We need something to stop all those 'crimethinking' things...
> Joe Public isn't using expensive Apple laptops. They want a $500 laptop that does the job.

This probably depends a lot on how you define what Joe Public looks like, but I think you're seriously underestimating the yeoman's effort Apple has put in to become an aspirational brand. Lots of people may make do with a $500 laptop, but lots of them want a Mac.

For better or worse, Apple is as much a lifestyle brand as a technology company today.
>I think you're overstating the risk of cell culture. Trans fats, to take your example, are a side chain reaction from the hydrogenation of vegetable oils, and results in fats that were never a significant part of our diet.

And I think you're understating the risk of side-effects, i.e.: understating the immense complexity of biological systems.

Yours is little more than a claim of faith.
> that's a purely civil matter.

Maybe, maybe not. Airlines are heavily subsidized by the US government in exchange for regulation so they will offer service to rural areas which might not otherwise be viable to run an airline into our out of. There are also laws and regulations which turn disobedience of airline personnel into a federal offense in particular situations.

Whether these, combined with this passenger's situation, turns this from a civil to a federal matter is something I'd leave for the lawyers.
>> "The simplest hack is to use a configuration management tool"

>> "You can also use a credential management suite for a more robust solution"

> Imagine this, you use consul to store your secrets, as you wrote up a script for Ansible to look things up, this include secrets. Great, but you need to authorize. So you need to keep the token somewhere.

You see, the problem springs from you mistaking Ansible for configuration
management tool. It is not, it is somebody's deployment script. What you want
is CFEngine, Puppet, or Chef, and you need it download configuration templates
and fill them with secrets on the server that you want configured. (CFEngine
can easily do that; Chef -- probably, since it's not a standalone tool, but
a Ruby framework, so you have ERB at your disposal; Puppet? no idea if it can
use ERB in masterless mode.)

Now you need to solve the problem how to get the secrets to the server being
configured. This would be easy if you had a specialized database service that
ships credentials, and only the ones that are relevant to the server are sent.
It's a pity we don't have such a database (or at least I am not aware of any),
but it's not exactly a famine problem to solve, it's just juggling with access
lists and some simple log replication protocol.
Looks like the 5510 has been succeeded by the 5520, which has a slightly better product page: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-15-5520-laptop/p...
What kind of tampering are you thinking about here? Aren't those messages sent from the server to the client? Thus, in-transit tampering should be prevented by TLS.

If the key isn't sent to the client, how is the client supposed to display that message? Why are these messages encoded into a cookie in the first place? I don't think I understand the concept.
> You're asking the police, a third-party representing the state and its acknowledged monopoly on legitimate use of force, to become involved. That doesn't necessarily mean that the resolution will or must be violent.

The only thing the police have that United lacks in this circumstance is the monopoly on violence; by asking the police to become involved, United is asking for violence, by force or it's explicit or implied threat, to be deployed to resolve this situation.

It's true that police can use mechanisms other than force or explicit threat, but so can United without involving the police. The only reason to involve the police is because they are violence, at least in the form of implied threat of force.
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Think the solution is to outlaw IDB for overbooking. This is similar to letting airlines sit a plane on the tarmac for hours with all the passengers stewing inside. Once they had to start paying penalties they quit doing that.

In this case, denying IDB would force the airlines to pay the passengers whatever it cost to get them to voluntary leave the plane. This constitutes a penalty for overbooking to the point where they have to refuse carriage, and also just compensation for those inconvenienced.
I guess Shuttleworth deliberately wants to piss-off the Free Open Source project developers and users. Seems like a rather twisted, bipolar Trump like goal which if succeeds would server to Ghost Ubuntu. Perhaps mark Shuttleworth is having one of those Donald J. Trump 'bad hair' days. That doesn't however excuse such crass demonetization of a major Ubuntu userbase.
I think one major factor that the article didn't mention, is that Malls are overpriced and lame. There's a mall I grew up with in Seattle, it was getting long in the tooth about 16 years ago, then it had a pretty major overhaul, and was revitalized. Now it's starting to get long in the tooth again.

All I know, is that when I go to any mall in my area, I tend to feel a little gross. Not gross like I feel in a wallmart, but gross enough not to want to be there. The lighting is wrong. The colors are wrong. The space feels constricting. The general energy feels wrong too. The end result is that the experience is draining.

I strongly suspect that another part of the problem is that the mall managers do a poor job managing the intangibles, and end up doing things to maximize short term profits. I've always been told to avoid mall retail space as a small player since malls will tend to turn the screws every year, until you're guaranteed to make no profit. And I think this strategy works until it doesn't. It makes sense to have high rents since it helps ensure that the highest quality tenants use a scarce resource (best example of this was the Eve economist raising rents in key locations to prop up the entire Eve economy), but I think it effects the overall diversity that may be necessary to foster in a place like a mall.
A rather more technical – but very interesting – take on this question is [0], which opens:

> One occasionally hears the argument — let us call it the math-tea argument, for perhaps it is heard at a good math tea — that there must be real numbers that we cannot describe or define, because there are are only countably many definitions, but uncountably many reals. Does it withstand scrutiny?

then explains in detail why it does not withstand scrutiny.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4597
I can't for the life of me understand what your point is supposed to be. You're making an observation that the particular civilization that led a campaign of violent global colonization was one that had a hostile attitude towards psychedelics. Yes, that is a correct observation. What kind of generalization are you trying to make from that though?
I used to use http://goji.io/, but once 1.8 hit and context was part of the request object there was little use for this library. Also, maybe it was just me, but I couldn't do very advance routing with goji. So I switched back to gorilla mux
I am not sure about the situation of dependency management on Go atm (havent used it for a few months), but in my case if I had a pre-compiled binary, I could just fire it up without having to worry about compiling from source. I was not a big fan of the way Go handled dependency a while ago, but I am sure there are better tools out there now.
Another thing that is only tangentially mentioned is that more affluent children can afford to take the achievement tests multiple times. When I took the ACT the second time in high school, my composite score went up 4 points without any extra study. I doubt many lower income kids have the opportunity to keep taking it until they get a good score....
By cancelling they could be cancelling all subsequent flights from that plane for that day. If I had the choice between kicking 4 people off a plane and cancelling potentially multiple flights I don't get how cancelling the flights would be better? Getting pilots and planes where they need to go after the planning gets messed up is incredibly expensive and also screws a bunch of passengers
Their examples of other organizations that are largely owned by their employees skips the fact that these other organizations have great leadership, who in turn foster commitment by spreading around the wealth.

Simply spreading around shares of the company won't make great leadership magically appear at Twitter. That's backwards thinking.
Your example is faulty.

> I'd ask you if this set intersected with [0, 1] has a lower bound / 'inf' that's contained in it, and if so, did I just describe that lower bound with language?

The "indescribable numbers" are dense in [0,1], and so (if the set exists) the inf of the set of indescribable numbers which are between 0 and 1 is 0. Perfectly describable.
Oh, interesting. I just kept picturing them requesting a child to leave on their own, or some other insanity.
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