skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if somebody gives you a gift you knew was coming and pretend you're baffled by its appearance

I never know what to do when somebody goes through a lot of trouble to surprise me, but I figure it out anyway. Usually I play along and act surprised because it makes the other person feel good.

Imagine your girlfriend was planning a surprise birthday present for six months and somehow the secret leaked. You saw an open tab, or one of your common friends spilled the beans, or whatever. Are you going to ruin her excitement about surprising you just because "feigning surprise is bad"?
People reflexively feign or exaggerate all sorts of emotions and reactions, it'd be stranger if they didn't.
Therapeutic bacteriophages were mass-produced in Tbilisi, Georgia, before the collapse of the Soviet Union: http://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(0...
Apparently one of the "tricks" in Barry Lyndon was that the actors had to be coached to move in very specific planes so that they would remain in focus.

Sensor sensitivity is IMO one of the underappreciated aspects of digital--especially with full frame sensors. I can attend an event and shoot at ISO 3200 (or higher with newer cameras) at a fairly fast shutter speed and expect quality still photos. Back when I was doing photojournalism, something around 1600 was the fastest you could push even black & white film and still have usable results. (And those were still a compromise.) For color slides, 200 was close to the limit--and that was a compromise.
That's simply not what that word means, and tacking on exaggeration a totally different social behavior displayed by different people with different purposes.

feign |fān| verb [with object] — pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury): she feigned nervousness.
Exactly the same happened to me about 1-2 years ago. It was quite stressful, but at least I got the money in the end.
PyPy is originally bootstrapped on the C Python interpreter, but it can then interpret and compile itself without relying on CPythob anymore. If you insist, then once PyPy is bootstrapped, the "drop to a non-GC language" is its process of having compiled the garbage collector's Python code to machine code.

But you're still wrong on this drop being necessary, I think. You can do it just fine in a language with GC that also allows you to allocate a block of memory that is not considered by the GC.
The Soviet Union, not just Russia.
Weird, I knew some of the big corp banks did this for their lower tier accounts, but every credit union I've used has had free checking even on the basic no minimum balance accounts. TIL
I don't think one needs to be a sociopath to lie or pretend automatically. I believe we all do it all the time, as a very necessary social mechanism. There are all kinds of delusions we participate in together so that we can tolerate one another.
This is nonsense. What prevents you being the product even if you pay? Companies can still sell your data.

If unrollme made it clear they were making their money by selling every one of your emails in plaintext they'd never have signed up anyone.
Symbolically Expressed Lambdas
No, I didn't say that "you need to try it to understand". You don't need to do anything. Except to maybe learn a little humility, be less of a know-it-all, and observe the norms of the community that you've joined. Or not.

Anyway, I simply asserted that the claim to know an experience, before having that experience, is absurd. I'm pointing to the distinction between knowing something, subjectively, as opposed to knowing about it, objectively. That's just a fact.

Consider a less contentious example. Let's say that you've never eaten dry-aged beef. Would you claim to know the taste? Sure, you could understand the chemistry of the curing process. You could have loads of GC/MS data. People could tell you about it. You could have all sorts of brain scan data. You could have formulated all manner of suppositions. But even with all that, until you took a bite, you wouldn't know the taste.

In case this is a new concept for you:

> There are, however, other uses of the terminology related to objectivity. Many philosophers use the term “subjective knowledge” to refer only to knowledge of one’s own subjective states. Such knowledge is distinguished from one’s knowledge of another individual’s subjective states and from knowledge of objective reality, which would both be objective knowledge under the present definitions. Your knowledge of another person’s subjective states can be called objective knowledge since it is presumably part of the world that is “object” for you, just as you and your subjective states are part of the world that is “object” for the other person.

> This is a prominent distinction in epistemology (the philosophical study of knowledge) because many philosophers have maintained that subjective knowledge in this sense has a special status. They assert, roughly, that knowledge of one’s own subjective states is direct, or immediate, in a way that knowledge of anything else is not. It is convenient to refer to knowledge of one’s own subjective states simply as subjective knowledge. Following this definition, objective knowledge would be knowledge of anything other than one’s own subjective states.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/objectiv/
Oh really? When I think about it, it is the same credit card I've used to pay for everything for many years. Next time I'll try to pay with my backup card and see if the UI is any different. Thanks for the tip.
I don't use it, just trying to throw out some other options so I don't look like a complete Google shill :-).
Fear of Neofascism Keeps Emmanuel Macron Ahead of Marine Le Pen
Ask HN: Where do you turn for high quality journalism?
Upon hearing on HN today that Nautilus, a beloved science magazine, is struggling financially, I thought I'd ask the community about places online or in print to find excellent journalism. Any field or topic is fine--it doesn't have to be constrained to science or politics. I'm just hoping others can find journalistic gems, as rare as they may be today.
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If you don't want to flood your Facebook friends with millions of pictures of your dogs, here's a place where people will love you for it. #funsideproject
I've only tried to use it on a real computer.
The sooner we can move away from simple name resolution, the better. It’s way too easy to filter out things you don’t like right now, way too easy for users to be misled by domains that look similar to well-known domains, etc.

When you load a web site, the only thing you should really have to seek is a verifiable identity (that can further be used to ensure the integrity of the content), and the identity should be a million times more important than the domain. If I accept $SECURE_WIKIPEDIA_IDENTITY, I should be able to load mirrors from any of 10,000 domains that publish content under that identity, as long as my browser can verify the sender. That makes it completely impossible for those in power to simply match a domain to a regex. Incidentally, it would also eliminate garbage like registrars pocketing absurd amounts of cash for all possible domain variants of <company>.<anything> because a user wouldn’t even need to know domain names in a system that is based on much more descriptive identities.
"Explaining why he is using a blockchain at all, Stöcker says because the “future of business will be fuelled by the #MachineEconomy … Machines – such as autonomous cars.”"

So it's just for PR. No reasonable explanation at all.
Switch to another bank or CU. Most do not charge $2 checkwriting fees.
2. The dystopia imagined by THT is no less rooted in reality than 1984; in fact, THT's dystopia is more relevant today than Orwell's was or is.

Given the increasingly secular nature of the US, and given that we literally have televisions (see recent revelations about IoT fuckups/overreaches) watching us and people editing mainstream history...

...yeah, sorry dude, one of these is more relevant than the other.

If you want to generalize THT to be general misogyny, maybe, but if you do that then you need to treat 1984 with the same generality.

EDIT: Okay HN, clearly we are living on the precipice of a collapse of western civilization into militant theocracies. Clearly this co-opting of economics and politics by religious whackos is somehow more likely than a ubiquitous surveillance state kept in perpetual war to benefit a small elite .

Obviously, this is the more realistic dystopia, and my internalized bigotry is somehow preventing me from seeing the truth.

Or, you know, you're wrong.
Pass through entities means the entity doesn't pay taxes, it's owners do. And they always pay at personal income tax rates, so 39% for the high earners. This "loophole" exists today, again you have to pay yourself a reasonable salary but most sole proprietorships and tightly held (like family owned) businesses are structured this way.

Either the author is confused about pass through entities, or I am confused about Trump's proposal, because I'm thought it only affects C corps, not pass through entities.

Edit: OK, I've re-read it and it was my confusion. The author is claiming that S corp owners want lower taxes if C corp owners get them, and the author is entirely correct that would be a huge loophole.

What he doesn't say clearly enough is it's ridiculous on it's face, pass through entities don't get double taxed already, and because C corps are double taxed they and their shareholders will still pay as much if not more taxes than the shareholders of passthrough entities with similar levels of income. C corps will still pay on average 20% given state taxes, combined with state and federal taxes on dividends their high income shareholders will certainly pay over 40% combined.

In CA a highest bracket taxpayer receiving dividends from a C corp would pay 10% State Corporate, 15% Federal, 13% State income, 20% federal dividend, or 47% total taxes on every dollar of profit. If their business is an S corp, they'd pay 13% state taxes, and 39% federal, which works out to a nearly identical 47% rate. But for the S Corp, no one pays 39% on all their income, as I wrote above they only pay around 28% on their first $400k, so again the pass through entity is going to be lower tax than a C corp even with Trumps proposed tax cut.

For example, if you made $1M after deductions, you would pay $350k in federal income tax, or 35% even though you were deep in the 39% bracket, even at the top CA tax rate your total income taxes would be around 44% with a pass-through. Significantly less than a C corp with Trump's 15% rate.
> The common use of the term though is still what Java has.

The way you are defining "reference" makes it immaterially different from "pointer".

Can a pointer be null? Yes, in C.

Can a "reference" be null? Yes, in Java.

Can a pointer be used in arithmetic operations? Yes, in C.

Can a pointer not be used in arithmetic operations? Yes, in Go.

If this is really the common definition, it isn't a useful one.
OK, you don't apply Bayesian priors to other's behavior based on your own internal knowledge. I'm not sure why you have much confidence in the analysis, then. See the second argument of chroma.
Do they know that all transactions will be public and great resource for competitors?

Do they know that blockchain transactions need few confirmations to be trusted and mining takes time?
> Would you care to tell me where I said that? Because I don't see that at all.

That's how I read this: But what you're ignoring is the great number of bad things that lawyers don't do because either a) they are afraid of the professional consequences, b) they can get their clients to easily back off because they say, "professional ethics!" and people know it's a real thing, or c) they get disbarred and can't act as a lawyer any more.

> My point was that one can't say that legal professional ethics is totally worthless just because of when they've failed (or at least failed to prevent things you dislike). You have to look at its successes as well as its failures.

That's fair enough. I don't think codes of ethics are worthless either.
2017 EuroLLVM, Delivering Sample-Based PGO for PlayStation(R)4
I've been a wallflower too and definitely don't think it automatically puts you into the more dangerous direction.

Rather, I think it sets up the potential to be susceptible to them. TRP, for example, does a great job of channeling the (understandable) anxiety and frustration of unloved young men into negativity and hate.
I disagree. I'm not a wallflower, but I go out a lot by myself ... standing with your back to the wall lets you kind of get into the vibe of the place while observing and assessing people (who do I want to talk to) without feeling overwhelmed, eventually I pick a high traffic location, and sometimes it might still involve having my back to a wall or a bar, but then I get to make short observations about people ... "nice shoes", "what drink is that?" ... or my personal favorite "hey!" ... and based on how they respond, I can either engage or just let the brief interaction die off, and wait for someone else I find interesting to walk by.
So by "feigned reflex" you mean "lying or pretending automatically"? What you are describing has nothing to do with being surprised that someone is, e.g. trying to write a bitcoin client without understanding what a socket or IP address is.

I love Recurse, but the social rules are like padded corners for folks who need help that Recurse isn't equipped to provide, not something to take life lessons from. Every good team has junior folks who, by comparison, really simply just don't know jack shit about technology. Every single person came into this world without knowing anything and they need to feel like they belong as much as folks with 40 years of experience fiddling bits.

The root issue here is folks coming out of psychologically traumatizing competitive conditioning. You don't see any montessori kids complaining about anyone being surprised they're doing something without knowing a prerequisite.
Someone is out there owning those old-money waterfront mansions and $2m Central Park condos, vacationing at private clubs outsiders will rarely hear about, flying first-class around the world, writing six-figure checks at each $charity_gala_of_the_month, etc.

The mansions and condos tend to be private and secluded. The vacations and galas won't necessarily appear on Instagram. But the truly rich are absolutely out their living large.

I'd argue they are less driven by a need to hoard more money (they already have more than they know what to do with), and more driven by a need to shape world affairs in business and politics while fulfilling noblesse oblige social expectations like philanthropy for the poor, the arts, etc.

They might drive around town in a Toyota, but their family name is in big bold letters on a building somewhere.
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Not familiar with Neko, but superficially, it seems that VM is designed for a specific programming language. It uses a bytecode IR whereas Zeta uses a textual one. Neko is also farther along, more mature and feature complete than Zeta.

I intend to take a more experimental direction with Zeta. It won't have an FFI, for instance. It will only provide a small set of minimalist APIs. The VM will be intentionally designed to avoid code rot and breaking changes.

Another thing I would like to experiment with is transparent compilation of pixel shaders to run on GPUs, the ability to run code in any language running on Zeta (given some restrictions) on both the CPU and GPU. I believe I have found a way to make this work, based on my type-specialization research.
>Sounds like he simply didn't have the right cameras.

This isn't really fair. There were 10 of the 50mm f0.7 lenses ever made. And they were very difficult to use because of the narrow depth of field. I'm not sure snowy wilderness is as suitable an environment as languid candlelit for very precise blocking.
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Who said anything about GPT? I use MBR partitioning as well. Again, it's simple, and it works for my purposes, why change it?

And I don't consider a few seconds to be "painfully slow" for something that is done maybe once a week, if that (suspend is there for a reason...).

As far as "messing with MBR", why is that somehow problematic? MBR was specifically designed for this exact purpose - hosting a partition table and a boot loader. And there are tools to do precisely what needs to be done to it, and these tools have been there for a very long time - so I'm confident that they work right. On top of that, MBR structure is simple enough that I can manually inspect or edit it with dd directly on the block device in question.
It has the second-biggest market cap at $6 billion, it's been in production for a couple years, it has multiple open source implementations, its inventors and other developers are known to the public, it has much more powerful smart contract capabilities than Bitcoin, and it doesn't have high fees and backlogs.
Negative. Non-transitive dice work even when the expected value of each die is the same. The first example in the Wikipedia article exhibits this:

Die A has sides 2, 2, 4, 4, 9, 9.
Die B has sides 1, 1, 6, 6, 8, 8.
Die C has sides 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 7.

The expected value of each die is 5, yet A beats B, B beats C, and C beats A. Other examples in the article have sets of transitive dice where the expected value is not the same; transitivity still holds.
Exactly - loaded it up with my site - all blank, thought about it for a second realized we disable Frame loading. That's becoming so common now, any tool using frames is really at a disadvantage.
There's a parallel to this of course: don't be afraid to ask questions when you don't know something.
Study of bonobo muscles found they're more closely related to humans than chimps
Elegant commandline argument parsing on the shell
I see. So right now, if two pieces are too close together on the belt, they just go into the default bucket?

What is the limiting factor determining how many buckets you can operate with?

And I may have missed this detail, but you must perform a multi stage sort since you just have a few buckets? What is the level of the final sort, and what becomes of the parts at that time?
There have definitely been remarks about applying the proposal to pass throughs.

I don't think it is really all that interesting of a discussion because the plan isn't fleshed out enough.

In any case, they do have the goal of substantially altering the tax system, I guess what we have now isn't necessarily instructive about the shape it will take.
Similar, with much more powerful scripting.
The dictionary definition of a word is only its starting point. There are many levels of awareness that may be in operation when someone is said to "feign".
The problem isn't the surprise, it's showing that you are surprised. If you do so impulsively, you are being rude, whether you mean to be or not.
> Just did the wrong thing in trying to tough out a major depression on my own

Can you please post what did to tough out
There wouldn't any profit for pharma giants. You can't patent bacteriophage, they're the commonest life form on Earth (if you consider viruses to be a life form), they're extracted from unwanted waste (raw sewage) and they reproduce themselves in bacterial cultures.

This is why their use continued in the Soviet Union when they fell out of favour in the West. Profits don't matter under communism.
responsive design mode is included in safari as well
What's a Bayesian prior?
The challenge is to do it with the strn* functions. :-)

String manipulation isn't that hard, and strcpy and friends aren't very good. I'm a fan of creating a struct that has a uint8_t* and a length, and using that for all buffers, including strings.

Thanks for the pointer though! I'll definitely give it a careful read.
1. They only accept euros. So you get to multiply the euro risk times the ethereum risk times their oracle keeping your balance on ethereum risk.

2. Ethereum has already human intervention rolled back millions of dollars of transactions in "the dao" and they chosen winning and losing implementations whenever there's a network split due to their dual codebases trying to be bug for bug perfect in consensus.

3. You can't increase security or reduce risk, by layer abstractions on top of other things, in this case, the euro.

Smart contracts should never be referred to as "trivial" for many the millions of dollars has been lost over bugs missed in testing.

Colored coins is what VISA already does really really well, with higher uptime, larger network effect, and hell even PCI DSS "security" standards.

I love crypto, especially when it makes things better, not worse.
I get 8392 bytes on MacOS.

$ echo 'main(){puts("hello, world");}' | cc -fno-PIE -m32 -w -xc - && wc -c a.out
8392 a.out

(Other code generation and linker options,[1] GCC instead of Clang, different C/C++ standards, printf(3) or write(2) instead of puts(3) and `void main()` instead of `int main()` all had no effect on the binary size).

[1] I tried all the ones listed here, although I didn't try the more exotic methods at the end: http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-make-smaller-c-and...
> What is it you need from Jigsaw that OSGI doesn't already provide?

Simplicity, native language integration and a sane path for a Java linker.
The "rounding" he's describing is the "beating" you're describing. If the game you play is just long term sums of values then expected value is all you need, and in your example they're all even.
Yes it is.
There are actually many different cryptocurrencies (sometimes called altcoins) out there, here is a list of over 700:
http://coinmarketcap.com/

Ethereum is probably the second most important one after bitcoin.
The clever way would be to use payment channels, then it's instant and somewhat private.
It's a learned behavior, similar to how repeating memes is also a learned behavior. People use it for various purposes (signaling ingroup membership, belittling others, etc) and for no particular purpose at all, just like people often say things for no deep reason at all.

I believe that considered reflection of all of your expressions of emotion in a day is highly likely to come up with many which are for purposes other than desire to express that emotion. Many of them are culturally ingrained, much like (for some folks) feigned disguise is culturally ingrained or for other folks feigned distaste when a tribal enemy is mentioned is culturally ingrained.

A common emotional response you almost certainly fake without every thinking you're faking: how would you answer someone who asked "How are you doing today?" Virtually no one who is socially well-adjusted has a wide range of responses to that question despite there being a wide range of emotional states in life.

(I have fairly developed thoughts on the question of modulating emotional response to fit into a particular culture because of deep necessity to get better at it, including taking formal classes, at different points in my life.)