skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is paywalled for me, but I will note that King of the Hill dealt with conservative themes in a positive manner, while the NY Times is a liberal paper, which views conservatism with disdain.
Drift: Messaging for customer success
"The idea is to bring neural networks to the Internet of Things.
A lot of motion detection cameras take pictures of branches moving in the wind—that’s not very helpful”
Maybe not but pockets of hackers can be there to prevent the damage from spreading.
Here is my take on what a post-nuclear war hacker may look like.
Solar energy may not be available so charging points have to be something like a bicycle modifiable to a tent(Maybe mod the tyres into wind energy devices and a fan).
More single board computers with outernet(?) plugged in.
It will be interesting to see how peer to peer networks
2D is a special case of 3D. If you only want to do 2D then a 2D API is going to be simpler than a 3D API. There's a whole mess of parameters and transformations that just go away.
I pay very close to that for our US taxes. We have to file 5 federal returns and one state return: an MFJ 1040 with supporting schedules (A, C, and D primarily), 2 kiddie returns, 2 gift tax returns, and a state return. Throughout the year, we file quarterly estimated taxes and 4868s.

Our total filing packet runs to nearly 100 pages and our annual bill is between $1800 and $2500, depending on the exact complexity, whether we have any amended filings to make, etc.

I DIY'd my taxes for many years, and once the kids came and brought the additional complexity (some of which is cyclic), I tried a professional one year. Literally in the first year, he looked over my prior DIY'd returns [that I was certain I'd done correctly] and found an error in one year where I'd overpaid $29K by miscalculating the basis of some employee RSUs and it was still within the statute of limitations where I could amend that year. He saved me 10 years' worth of his fees before he'd filed my first full year of taxes.
That sentence seems like its intention is to confuse the reader. To me it means for UberX: Fare - Cost = Revenue, and for UberPool: Fare = Revenue.
I wish this was true. If you are good at competitive programming, it is more than likely that you will be good on the whiteboard interview questions for a software developer position.
You can get a decent house (3 bedrooms, large yard) for 150k in many Midwestern cities as long as you're willing to live in the suburbs.
Trump seems to have the same extreme anti-tax ideology as Norquist.
It's not whether breaking common carrier rules are a crime. It's whether United had some legal standing to forcibly eject the passenger. If the regulation limits their ability to refuse service, that kills their legal standing to forcibly eject. Similar for their own "Rule 21" in their contract of carriage, if you view this as "refusal of transport": https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriag... It doesn't meet their own rules.

There are aviation lawyers questioning it: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/04/10/united-airlines-remove...
GANs are capable of generating full color images from semantic space and it exists already, it's not a thing from 20 years ahead.
There exists a book already for Linear Algebra w/interactive diagrams (that explodes my CPU) http://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

I just want accompanying lectures that build intuition like these https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x... or even the author standing in front of a blackboard discussing each chapter in the book and posting the lectures on the book's page. Some author's have done this like https://cs.wheaton.edu/~tvandrun/dmfp/

If it must be 'immersive' I'd also rather have a self-contained interactive book I can keep locally with signed errata updates instead of having to rely on slow websites that may be abandoned by the author or shutdown for whatever copyright reasons or ninja edited by somebody with misinformation.

Edit: or a book with an online tutor, like the one MIT made for SICP http://icampustutor.csail.mit.edu/6.001-public/
Truth is a simple concept.

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth/
Modifying the tax code is also the easiest way to accomplish redistribution of wealth (for better or for worse). This is at least in part because the complexity of the tax code obfuscates the cost of the program. For example, should we continue to fund the budget of the "Department of Benefits for People with Spouses Born Before January 2, 1952"? Who benefits (how many and by how much)? What does this program cost? Nobody knows. There is no such department. Instead there is a check box on line 39a of the 1040. Checking it might change the standard deduction, for people who take the standard deduction, if they checked some other boxes, "see instructions".
"with a good concurrency model, making your program comparatively easy to parallelize on a per-function basis"

Actually Go's shared-memory multithreading concurrency model encourages program architectures that are not easily parallelizable at all. And it's harmful to praise it. We have much better share-nothing models that encourage parallelizable programs from the start.
You would, if you would run out of components to build them.

All I'm saying is that when they came up with it, they planned it to be a dead end, e.g. fixed number of games, no ability to purchase games (either physically or download from internet), build using components that are EOL and no longer being produced...
Staying fit also helps job performance, as does public speaking.

Shall we start a comprehensive list of skills and activities tangentially related to making more money?
But customers get to choose their thresholds.

I do see the recruiter analogy, but I think there's one key difference you need to consider: Delta still has to get you on a plane at some point.
Rural Chattanooga almost had 10 Gbps internet until the State stepped in
We have those - but the system is constructed to be simple. If a not insignificant part of the population is eligible for some deduction, then either a) ensure it's automatically registered or b) remove the deduction or raise tresholds until everyone can again file automatically.

For example, interest rates, pensions, charities, home improvements etc are deductible and automatically deducted since e.g the bank or charity reports the interest cost or donation etc. Travel to work is deductible but the treshold for making the deduction is so high that few can claim it.

The key is to design the tax system so that it is easy to file. A deduction no matter how fair and reasonable that would make thousands have to file paperwork doesn't make sense.
The this/that antipattern is one reason I dislike the class pattern. I avoid it by using prototypes:

SomeClass = function (arg1) {
// Hopefully do something more interesting than this, indeed. :)
this.arg1 = arg1;
};

/**
* Assigns foo to the instance variable bar.
*/
SomeClass.prototype.method = function (foo) {
// Hopefully you do something more interesting than this, too!
this.bar = foo;
};

someClass = new SomeClass();
someclass.method(foo);

Then when I need a handler for a DOM element, I bind the instance to the method:

someClass = new SomeClass();
var handler = someclass.method.bind(someclass);
$('.link').click(handler); // using jQuery as easy-to-read DOM shorthand; it's not required

Or if I'm creating the handler within the class:

/**
* Creates a click handler for <a class="link"> elements.
*/
SomeClass.prototype.init = function () {
var handler = this.method.bind(this);
$('.link').click(handler);
};

Over the years I've found it really easy to maintain code written like this. There's no callback hell, you don't even need Promises, and everything is easy to document. But often I find myself in an environment where I'm maintaining someone else's code, and I can't just refactor everything, so I grit my teeth and use 'that' or 'self'. I like your idea a lot better.
> So you were born 20+ years ago?

And left less than 3 years ago. Not much had changed. In some ways, it got a lot worse. My perceptions aren't stuck in the past.

Again, don't believe me? Go person-by-person down your general assembly and send an email to each asking how they feel about allowing business owners the freedom to not serve LGBT people, or whether they will sponsor a bill to ban conversion therapy.

Or for that matter, ask if they support legislation to outlaw incrimination against LGBT individuals in hiring! Most midwestern states don't have such a law on the book.

And not just your representative -- all of them. Or even just yours and all from surrounding counties. After all, we wouldn't want to generalize.

> And you should feel guilty for continually shitting on a place you have no association with anymore.

Why?

I don't think the midwest is, on balance, a nice place to live. I think the cultural downsides of the region eventually bleed into your life, even if you try to cloister yourself in one of the urban liberal islands. My opinion may not be fair (I think it is, but allow the possibility that a lifetime of bad experiences was somehow unrepresentative). But it sure as hell isn't uninformed.

I think people who are considering moving to the midwest from a coastal area -- or especially from abroad -- should hear this perspective.
I'm currently using a camera scanner app for iOS called TurboScan. I move scanned documents onto my MacBook and back them up with the rest of my files. In the past, I've kept security conscious information inside encrypted disk images with a local and remote backup just like everything else.
It is possible to sample from the latent space and generate original drawings.
Set your status in slack
NZ lite... more like the inverse. Vancouver and specifically BC has a lot of similarities to NZ yes, including the frequent liquid sunshine.

Having spent approx half my working life in (Wellington/Vancouver) I'd say Vancouver would be a more natural fit for our US cousins.

However that said you can't beat NZ for internal travel, day trips, adventure tourism. Its basically a compact version of British Columbia.
Agreed. The point is that USGOV could 100% do it, for pocket change. It would be pocket change for a bunch of countries, really, and expensive but doable for a whole lot more.

I would assume the only reason we haven't done it has nothing to do with the cost, its simply that bitcoin is just not interesting enough to them (yet). I can't imagine that some USGOV and probably >1 non-us-gov have plans already and could rapidly build out an ASIC farm, if asked to do so (and funded, of course).
1. If you are going to write TODO, write TODO(paul) or similar, so that you easily know the originator.

2. Unless the dev team is very small, most TODOs belong in your issue tracking system. That's where they can be enumerated, described, discussed, prioritized, assigned, etc.
Sure, and I think the comment he replied to means "the term competitive is ambiguous, let me clear it up: this is not talking about advancing your career."
Yes. They are oversized and use a mix of plastic and metal teeth.
> I'm still not seeing how this actually affects you.

I stopped writing a book that happened to be overly close to another book someone else published. I had not read it when I started, but reading the second book I could no longer really separate the ideas. Now, sure plenty of people keep going in that situation but technically it does not take much to cross into derivative works. It's also why may (but far from all) writers stop reading others works.
That's pretty far off on basically every point.

There's no such thing as "using false pretenses to assault and batter someone by proxy". If you have authority to ask someone to leave, and call the police to enforce that, you have no control or responsibility over how they go about doing that.

Regarding "lying to police" and "filing false police reports", all the police need to be concerned about is that he was asked to leave by someone with authority to do so, and refuses to leave. Airline pilots and other such proprietors generally have broad discretion to require people to leave. If he has a contract that requires him to be transported, then he has a civil claim against the airline, but the order to leave by the captain is still entirely legitimate.

It is also not the responsibility of the police to investigate the reasons behind a request to leave and determine if they are legitimate or not according to contracts. The law recognizes that the courts are for making real determinations of facts, officers on a scene have broad discretion to do what appears to be the law based on the information they have at the time. And in this case, they were entirely right - the crew does have the authority to demand that someone leave and does not need to justify that to anyone. Failure to provide the service under contract is a civil claim to be addressed in court later. Or, the short version, this classic applies - you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.

I really don't get the need in these media sensation cases to burn everyone involved at the stake. Isn't it bad enough what United actually did wrong, which is to have a dumb policy for how to handle overbookings and crew transport? For nobody to look at the situation there and step back and try to find someone else more willing to take another flight?

There's a reason why we have due process instead of lynch mobs - the next person to make a mistake and be the target of the internet frenzy could be you. If you make a mistake someday and it gets blown up on the internet, wouldn't you rather face a reasoned punishment for the actual laws it can be proven that you actually broke, instead of having your life completely destroyed because everyone's really pissed off?
I think so!
Some of the Chrome extensions for HN offer a feature like this.

https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news/t:chrome/
This is one of the cases in law where everyone wants to argue about the contract but no one wants to sit down and read the thing.

Here contract of carriage
https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriag...

We can read the definitions section of the contract where it defines oversold

>Oversold Flight means a flight where there are more Passengers holding valid confirmed Tickets that check-in for the flight within the prescribed check-in time than there are available seats.

So does this apply to this case - yes, even though this individual was removed to accommodate UA employees the fact was there were more passengers holding valid tickets than there were available seats

Now scroll down to Rule 25 which gives the provisions for what would happen in the case of oversold flights - one of which allows for involuntarily denying passengers

>Boarding Priorities - If a flight is Oversold, no one may be denied boarding against his/her will until UA or other carrier personnel first ask for volunteers who will give up their reservations willingly in exchange for compensation as determined by UA. If there are not enough volunteers, other Passengers may be denied boarding involuntarily in accordance with UA’s boarding priority

The article may have one valid argument - that the language of the contract says "boarding" not "leaving once already seated" but I don't know how much of a difference that would make in legal terms. Is there really a world of difference between not being let on the plane and being asked to leave once you've taken your seat. I don't think there is.

It's possible that you might get this in front of a sympathetic jury and get an award. But as a lawyer, under the law it's pretty clear that United did not breach any contract. And This remains true no matter what talking heads on TV are saying.
Drupal is easy to criticize, but its handling of security issues and its code quality aren't the two places I'd start. They're actually two of the strengths of the project.
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The hilarious reason Jimmie Johnson doesn't block anyone on social media
You did not present any evidence of any of Norquist's argument.

The top federal income tax rate in the US occurred in 1944, and was 94%. At that point, the 1040 was substantially simpler than they are today, and there were far fewer other forms involved.

Since that point in time, filing has become increasingly complicated, but the tax rate has declined. If your "argument" had any merit, this would not be the case.

Grover Norquist purposefully steals hundreds of millions of hours of time and billions of dollars from Americans, every year, in the hope that we won't realize that he is actively making government less efficient, more burdensome, and worse.

If he wants to run an ad campaign, that's fine. But what he's doing right now is stealing time and money from every single American to push his agenda.
Thanks for your question, which I will respond to in a second. First let me explain how we got to 550 pages. I wanted to include a review of prerequisites material from high school math, which burned 100pp right off the batt. Then the main material (Ch2-Ch6) is just 220pp which is not bad (especially when you take into account the book is a compact format 5.5" x 8.5"). All of this was done in 2014, when I started to think about the applications of linear algebra.

But then the feature creep starts! In the introduction of the book I make the claim about how powerful LA techniques are, and how they serve as the foundation of machine learning, and generally "scientific modelling." To substantiate this claim, I decided to make a kick-ass applications chapter that SHOWS how powerful linear algebra really is (show me, don't tell me). Two years later, the result is a 270-page survey of pretty much everything I've learned over the years from engineering, physics, and computer science that used linear algebra.

> why this book? what does it really do in a new way?

The main point of this book is to teach all the LA material in an approachable, informal narrative as opposed to formal the theorem-proof approach used in most textbooks. Can serious mathematical topics be introduced using informal language, yet without saying anything outright wrong? Can I trick the reader into learning advanced topics like Fourier transforms and quantum mechanics by making the connections to basic operations explicit? Can I sneakily introduce spaced repetition by covering core ideas several times in the book using different notation and in different contexts?
Mufti of Chechnya promises Novaya Gazeta journalists Allah’s retribution – https://meduza.io/en/news/2017/04/14/mufti-of-chechnya-promi...
FWIW my experience is closer to 200k minimum. Especially if you want to be in one of the 1 or 2 best school districts in the area. But yeah, right ballpark. Definitely cheaper than CA. you can also go way south of 150k if you're not in a major metro area, though.

But for not much more (and with a higher salary) you can get a decent suburban house in any number of western or eastern cities. Maybe a tad less land here or there.

And the cities are still expensive with bad schools.
https://www.xkcd.com/251/

> Cueball: Hey. Hey! Stop retracting my CD!

> I feel uncomfortable when my computer physically struggles with me. Sure, I can overpower it now, but it feels like a few short steps from here to the robot war.

Another step towards this war is the Bluetooth connection in my wife's car. As a passenger, I cannot connect my phone to play music, directions, or make calls unless the car is in park, because "This function is not available while moving". And I hate it. We don't want to sit and wait to set off while its 8-year-old Bluetooth hardware pairs, we want to get going and let the navigator do the navigating.

Fortunately, this contrasts with the Waze navigation app's message box which actually detects motion using the GPS, and displays "Typing is disabled while driving - OK / Passenger"
it's a matter of perspective . making taxes more invisible to some people, myself included, makes them easier to raise.

so, the argument would be to first make taxes more painful. the best would be to remove auto withholding. if the average $50k a year family had to write a check for $3k to the government every 3 mouths they'd likely push much harder for lower taxes. less taxes means less money for government which would seem to mean smaller government. once the taxes are low and government is small you can simplify the tax code.

I'm not saying I agree with that or that I could ever actually happen but I don't see a flaw in the logic and why their own description of their mission can both say they are for simpler taxes and also be against the kind of simpler the linked article is about
1. You are assuming here that a and b will not be used anymore and are optimizing for a special case.

2. The general problem that I was trying to illustrate is that shared ownership requires either reference counting or avoiding it through copying if you don't have automatic memory management.
New Zealand does sound pretty incredible. A massive national park, the size of California, with only 5 million people, and very liveable and appealing cities.

Here's the thing. Would New Zealand stay that way if it pursued a policy of large scale immigration, they way the US has? The US takes well over a million new immigrants into the country every year. 10 years of our immigration would triple the size of New Zealand.

I'm sure they could find takers. Plenty of people would love to move to New Zealand.

I do wonder why the US, which takes over a million immigrants a year, takes so much heat for enforcing immigration policy, while New Zealand receives so much praise for being an ideal society.

It sounds like New Zealand may use its selectivity to allow in immigrants, but only those likely to contribute significantly to the bottom line. In a way, their exclusivity may actually help them cherry pick the very best. As strategy, I get it. But again, the NYTimes has been immensely critical of deportations in the US. Why do they give NZ a pass on this? And if they're going to praise New Zealand, doesn't that mean they're praising a very limited immigration policy?

I mean, how about this last quote: “It’s boom time for the next 10 years,” Mr. Drury said. The more immigrants, the better. “We’ll take a lot. We’ll take hundreds.”

Woah, not hundreds?
Anger is definitely not okay. Ideally, you say - 'This project isn't working because you failed to gather requirements from the right users." or "You spent three months choosing a vendor without proper due diligence who doesn't have a working client library, documentation, or a functioning test endpoint".

However the proper way to express anger in our enlightened business environment is passively and non specifically. "I'm unsure that this project is accomplishing it's goals." or "the team is having trouble with the vendor you chose" and then you schedule a 1:1 meeting to talk about it over a warm beverage where you adhere to a 10:1 complement to criticism ratio.
great stuff.read this,understand this and you'll get google offer for 350k per year.
Reddit started 2005. How is it new?
Well summarized, especially the last point. Terms like "crewmember" [sic] and "flight time" have very clear definitions in the relevant sections of USC and CFR. Using intuitive "common sense" definitions will lead to a wrong answer - is is often the case with anything legal. Legally, he didn't interfere with a flight crew and wasn't obligated to obey them as a flight crew.

The only charge I could see sticking here is simple trespass. United/Republic, as the owners of the vehicle in which he was sitting, had the right to evict him regardless of whether any contract says otherwise. The contract issue has to be resolved separately. However, things like common-carrier laws might complicate even that. It's entirely possible that trespass doesn't apply either.

United broke their contract. They also took action which led to violence. Those are two separate things in a legal sense, but United can and should be held accountable for both.
either-or really.
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