skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is amazing research! I had no idea the rules actually varied this much. The same like one is especially odd. The LOAD_FAST seems to make sense because it's defined as : "Pushes a reference to the local co_varnames[var_num] onto the stack." (emphasis mine).

Also see the global case:

In [2]: x = 500

In [7]: def wat_wat_wat():
...: global x
...: x = 600
...: return x is 600
...:

In [8]: dis.disassemble(wat_wat_wat.__code__)
3 0 LOAD_CONST 1 (600)
2 STORE_GLOBAL 0 (x)

4 4 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (x)
6 LOAD_CONST 1 (600)
8 COMPARE_OP 8 (is)
10 RETURN_VALUE

In [9]: wat_wat_wat()
Out[9]: True

But this only goes further to prove my point - it's a bit of a silly question to quiz someone on :-) For one the question didn't seem to be well defined enough, but also it tests something that no one in their right mind would do, and also I don't know if the authors realized these nuances themselves either. I guess it makes for good trivia.
I think it's actually difficult to untangle the two aspects.

Especially when you consider the success ... or more accurately lack thereof ... of attempts to deliberately counter the tendency.

I think this is fairly deep psychological wiring, and possibly informational dynamics, period.

This from someone who detests the practice and would much rather see alternatives.
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Automation killed more jobs than either unions or free trade by orders of magnitude.
so may be start with explaining that this is not a repository as a developer would expect.
You've described a classic I/O bound server application (waiting on the database) that Node handles well. As soon as you introduce serious computations or server side rendering into the request handling performance would fall dramatically.
I guess this explains a bit the Spirit Bomb Goku sometimes used in the Dragon Ball Z.

Seems like in Japanese culture spirit and energy is the same thing?
A URL always includes the scheme. `http://www.example.com/1/ ` and `https://www.example.com/1/` could represent different content. If you want to change the scheme but keep the old links working, you need to redirect from the old to the new.
Screamy Bird — A clone of Flappy Bird but instead of tapping on the screen to make the bird flap you scream at your phone. http://glench.com/ScreamyBird (Works best in Firefox for larger devices) I made this for the SF Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon: https://stupidhackathon.github.io/
My girlfriend has had three stays at two different UHS hospitals in Phoenix (UHS is the subject of this ars technica article). They tried to keep her indefinitely the first time. The second two times were unnecessary month-long "stabilizations" that did not address the causes behind her presenting symptoms (self medication with alcohol). At the third stay UHS got her addicted to benzos, which stopped working after a month...

I know you're a psychiatrist, and it seems like you practice in a fairly conventional manner. My experience with the mental health system is that the doctors have good intentions, but have been misled by their training. Because my girlfriend's doctors have inverted cause and effect, they haven't been able to help her get her psychosis-provoking self-medication tendencies under control (they think that psychosis -> drug use, or that alcohol/drug use is a separate condition from her psychotic disorder).

For her first stay at UHS, it took a few days of calls for me to figure out the "magic words" for my girlfriend to say to get them to let her out - this was after about 2 weeks of "stabilization" that was really just getting her used to the tranquilizers. Finally someone told me she had to say "against medical advice", and they let her out two days later.

She started to come out of her zyprexa-maintained psychotic coma after about 3 days, then she resumed self-medicating her physiological imbalances. I knew that alcohol wouldn't help, but I couldn't prescribe what she needed, or force her to take it anyways.

She was under a court order for the second two stays at a different UHS facility, so she was powerless to resist the obsolete theories that they used to worsen her condition.

It is now known that psychosis is related to cortisol deficiency. Cortisol is produced in the mitochondria. Therapies which improve the metabolism are indicated for all mental health patients.

The only helpful treatment that my girlfriend received was getting revived by the fire department (benzos amplify opiates, fyi). Her drinking was under control for about two weeks after those two doses of naloxone. Naltrexone (similar to naloxone) is FDA-approved to help people keep their alcohol use under control.

I was able to verify that my theories were basically correct when she lived with me for about two months. But then she went to visit her mother, and made herself psychotic with the street pharmacy again (bad situation with her old not-friends -> alcohol -> meth amphetamine), and she's back to getting "helped" by professionals who don't care about cause-and-effect.

Robert Whitaker's Psychiatry Defends Its Antipsychotics is a refutation of psychiatry's latest attempt to defend the use of anti-psychotics: https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/05/psychiatry-defends-its-... (May 21, 2017)

I guess I'm just asking you to consider that anti-psychotics are most psychiatric patients' problem, rather than their solution. Since you work with the criminal justice system, you're in a position to do a lot of good for a lot of people.
I'm interested to know more about the tools/techniques you used to scrap the sites and clean the results. I am working on scraping contents from a couple of sites and it seems to be a pain, probably because i don't have lot of experience around it.
Pretty sure money ends up becoming a monopoly/oligopoly. The more people you can trade with the better. Also, the more people that use it lower transaction fees. Why use something with higher transaction fees. Convenience it's on your phone.
Bitcoin is failing to scale. Whenever network is jammed, only the the high economic value transaction is sent through it.

If you want to transfer the payment for your home, then it makes sense to use bitcoin, but today most people sell their btc for daily expenses, convert it into a faster crpyto (like Ether or litecoin etc) and use that instead.

Bitcoin maximalists don't want that, but I am quite comfortable with this scenario.
In an ideal world, union leadership should work with management team to make the company succeed and share the fruits of that success with the rank and file employees. A corollary of this is that if the company fails to succeed, there will be no goodies to share.

In practice, American unions failed to see that. Even if we ignore the cases where leadership just enriched themselves, unions concerned themselves mostly with extracting as much value as the employer would bear, and to a lesser degree to shield employees from the consequences of their mistakes.

On the other hand, fluid capitals means jobs would have gotten outsourced regardless of union's stance. In Mexico, which is far from having the cheapest labor in the world, minimum wage is less than $5USD per day. There are loads of social problems derived from that, but the fact that this is feasible at all relies on a much lower cost of living compared with USA. Try to implement that on the other side of the border and you'd be facing bread riots in no time.
Accept reality and you'll be halfway where you want to go. One such realities is that you are no longer who you used to be, and won't become that person ever again. Who you will be in the future, is still mostly decided by you alone and no one else.
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I was flown out of base-camp with pulmonary edema along with a Sherpa on a climbing team who was dying from the same thing. Happens to everyone. This is probably the biggest scare if you're doing the trek to base-camp. Drink plenty of water. Don't go too fast. Try not to catch cold before your trek. If you can, get your hands on some meds that help you acclimate easier/faster. And I almost forgot, get yourself travel insurance. Costs $90 but could potentially save you a $10K heli ride out of the mountains and a couple of grand in hospital expenses if shit hits the fan.
Enjoyed reading this article. The Greeks had this amazing knack to get into subjects like this and then _write_ about it, isn't. I am thinking of Plutarch's narration of the Ship of Theseus, a good starting point on issues related to identity and relationships among objects, such as products, software componentes, etc. etc., in a large enterprise.
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This is but one small part in the larger work on the history of Babbage's Analytical Engine:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/

This is honestly a really great work of historical research; if it were a book, I'd purchase a copy to add to my collection on Babbage and his works (small tidbit: Babbage is also the inventor of the "cow catcher" on trains).

Reading this, along with other books about the period (and contemporary with the period), one quickly comes to the determination that for all the fantasy aspects of the Steampunk genre, it doesn't hold a candle to the actual period of time (especially if one considers the idea that centuries "bleed" into each other, and allows for the early Edwardian period to be a part of the "Victorian-era" whole).
>Does this take into account opportunity cost for time off of work?

Of course not.

Some people can and do arrange their lives and their employment so that they can do this sort of thing. Even if not Everest, other types of extended climbing/trekking/walking/traveling sorts of vacations. I haven't done it for years but I've taken several month-long treks in Nepal during an earlier life.

Some people do focus their vacation on an extended annual trip--which is pretty much what I did at the time. Others make arrangements to take additional time off unpaid. If that's a priority, you find an employer willing to allow this.
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IIRC, it was npm (not node) that rolled over and gave it to kik just because they felt like it would be "confusing."

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm

https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin...
You actually threw away $25 worth of bitcoin
“Everything that works works because it's Bayesian” Why Deep Nets Generalize?
I think they represent the library community more than the dev community and are a bit stubborn to use the terms familiar to us (IMO).
Crowdsourcing the future
If I understand correctly, this is thoroughly different from "social media." In fact, it looks like "connections" are all but irrelevant - only "conversations" matter. Of course, conversations are richest when you have an understanding of the other participants background and depth of knowledge, so you can explore, test, debate and grow your own knowledge, or adjust your beliefs.

My impression is that Lyra targets a niche of individuals that "enjoy conversing." I'm not sure if there's a nexus, a central target topic of conversation (like a sub-reddit would have) or a connective tissue such as real-life familiarity (like a friends and family social network would have) to hold your users together.

Can you elaborate on who your target audience is, and how they will be attracted to the site, or what will maintain their interest (while avoiding the trap of making their engagement addictive?)
It's getting a little like this, huh?

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-bpIIJYLwDps/TXzOnVIwaPI/A...

edit: Personally left Facebook a little while ago. It had reduced in my time to the odd few minutes scrolling threw the news feed. It just did nothing for me. I don't miss it.
Wouldn't those people already know?
If you look more closely at the details here (beyond just deepminds blog post) you'll see that
1. It has not yet been deployed to all data centers. They just turned the system off for a period of time and looked at how much extra money it cost to run the data center like that, then extrapolated.

2. There was already a Google engineer back in 2012 who applied neural networks to this problem and saw huge gains (There is a blog post about this somewhere). In the deepmind blog post, they don't compare to this system, do for all we know it could just be a small refinement of that system. It is actually not clear whether deep RL was actually used or not from the deepminds blog post: it is only kind of implied.
Yeah, this gets me too.

Just because someone went to a training course, and now runs a standup, and use Jira or Trello does not make what you do agile.
Well they have patented a modern back/front buffer setup which is what used in virtually every GPU today http://www.google.com/patents/US20020113786

They also hold the patents on simulating physics on a GPU and a billion other patents.

Same goes for NVIDIA.

AMD and NVIDIA violate each other's patents all day long and many more they don't sue each other since that would be a legal balckhole for both companies.

But they will we very keen on sueing any new player.

Intel licenses a patent portfolio from NVIDIA currently for legal protections, and Samsung and Qualcomm license their GPU IP from AMD.
Related to this, I've been considering how we can accurately report on incidences such as arsons or shootings without giving them a narratively appealing context.

My naive approach was to replace "terrorist" with "some asshole", so that the news report "Terrorists detonated a bomb" would become "some assholes detonated a bomb". This is a joke example of a real concept. I think that our news sources have tried to do something similar by referring to ISIS as "Daesh", but the significance was lost on non-Arabic-speakers, and its usage never caught on.
Cool, open standards are a good thing :) good discussion going on here: https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues/ if anyone has questions on the protocol or just doesn't understand some of the writing.
I think unions are a great way of balancing the power of the employer and employee, but there are some major drawbacks.

I'm not sure how it is in Europe, but in the public higher education space here in the U.S. the unions are way to powerful.

An example of this imbalance:

All faculty and staff members for the California State University system are part of the same union. That means that the union has the collective bargaining power of all 50,000 employees. The union is very good at their job of protecting employees, and will always resist any disciplinary action by the administration, even if the employee is clearly in the wrong. This leads to a situation where administration will simply ignore extremely low-performing individuals because they would have to fight the union to do so.

Also, all CSU employees must pay the union dues, even if you are not part of the union, which is insane.

When unions are this big and this focused, their collective bargaining power, IMO, exceeds what is necessary to protect workers.

With the union you mentioned your a part of things seem to be better structured. Though it is large at around 140,000 members, they seem to be spread across many companies and I imagine that not every company is made up of 100% union employees. Also the fact that your union encompasses a wide variety of professions is definitely a big positive. That seems more like a fairer balance of power to me.
Location essentially doesn't matter for polar orbits, other than for safety purposes. (Technically, most polar orbits are not quite 90 degrees, and thus get some benefit from the Earth's rotation, which is greater when closer to the equator. But for high-inclination orbits, the cosine losses mean that this is a pretty marginal effect.)

Electron will be mostly used for low-orbit missions, as geosynchronous sats will generally be too large for it. GEO missions are equatorial, and will benefit from being launched close to the equator. Small sats in low orbits will generally be observation (which often go into a sun-synchronous orbit, which is nearly polar) or radio relay constellations (which will go into highly-inclined orbits like 60 degrees). So for the likely payloads, their launch site is just fine.

And, in reality, the benefit of equatorial launch isn't generally big enough to overcome logistical problems. Only Arianespace has bothered to establish a remote equatorial launch site... because Europe has essentially no appropriate launch site and they had to put one elsewhere anyway.
I mean, while I feel his pain and understand the compulsion to look at it like he threw away $4.8M, at the point he realized what he'd done, it was worth about $4k. He could have bought them back for $4k at that point, and the lost $4k would be a rounding error. He even mentions he might have sold it at that point because he could have used the extra $4k.

It's really no different than any other situation where you had a potential gain you passed on. If I'd put all my savings into TSLA @ ~ $25 in '11, I'd have an 1100% return. But I didn't.
This ^

Arguably one of the best things to come out of that whole incident was NPM's realization that the (then) entire system of dependencies had a huge issue; that is, the fact that one pissed of developer could break a massive amount of production codebases.

IMHO the incident was a good learning experience for the JS community as a whole and really shouldn't be framed so negatively all the time.
> I personally traded the convenience for privacy

You can choose what to do with the data. I assume you trust yourself to save only what you need (even just the social network ID if you really want to?)

> Security is taken more seriously

I trust Facebook to keep my password safe more than a random website I know little or nothing about (not yours, any website), if anything because Facebook has 100 times more resources than most other services. Also, most people use the same password for everything, the less places it's stored, the better.

:-)
Hey everyone, I'm part of the StackShare team.

I was the lead on this product. I worked on a really minimal version of this as part of our internal hackathon. It was pretty simple: look at the HN Algolia API, Reddit API, and a bunch of RSS feeds to pull in news based on the tools.

We ended up really liking the MVP and getting it out to users, who loved it. We've added a bunch of features post-MVP, and now we're really excited to share it publicly. I use Stack News first thing in the morning to catch up on tutorials and news for the tools I use day to day, I really enjoy it.

The team and I are around to answer questions so fire away!

More details on why we built this: https://medium.com/@stackshareio/introducing-stack-news-goog...
I mined a bunch of bitcoins in 2010. I was also experimenting with cryptography at the time and put the wallet in one of those files that can be decrypted into to different drives using different passwords for the key. I subsequently put that file on a flash drive, and the key on a totally different flash drive.

I lost the flash drive containing the key in about 2011, and I have what I think is an image of the first flash drive, but it's impossible to tell since I was in the habit of encrypting everything at the time.

Anyways, the first time bitcoin got up to $100 I did the math and I had basically lost access to several hundred thousand dollars. At first I was a little distraught, but I honestly never believed bitcoin would be worth anything. I just mined them because I coincidentally had the right GPUs to mine them and because I had access to "free" electricity from my school.

In effect, what happened was basically the 21st century version of "my mom threw out my Honus Wagner rookie card." If you knew that card would be valuable, you probably wouldn't have left it at your mom's house, or you probably would have sold it way before the market peaked. I know I would have sold my bitcoins wayyyy before the present day if I hadn't lost them.

I'm still mildly annoyed with myself though.

Edit: I also just remembered that the flash drive image is on an disk-spanning filesystem that broke when I upgraded Proxmox.
> They are obviously shitty people and everything they touch is shit.

Thoughtful and a high quality statement, the world is black and white and most issues have no grey areas at all

(/s)
I don't think you can do GITS as a live action movie. The amount of special effects required to pull it off means the budget needs to be huge, but that also means you have to "dumb down" the plot for mainstream audiences to have a chance to recover your costs.
Just like Agile and vendor-based software solutions of the past it seems like microservices are following the same path. I've seen projects starting off with microservices because someone several pay grades above deemed it so. Lots of resume-driven-development done here.
A company I worked for started a devops team. 3 years later and there's still not a single ops person on it. There were so many security holes in their group we had to ban them from releasing to our servers, so now they have their own cloud setup that is bleeding money.

The frustrating thing is: I'd have loved to work closer with them. But every time we tried, the response was "You have no place here, your slowing the process down". We just wanted to automate the security testing, they decided that throwing the security tests out altogether was a better idea. I do admit that it was indeed faster....
"Employee Association" usually gets thrown around a lot.
Apart from the philosophy I find it interesting to note, that the website has all external links routed via the Web Archive, even those, which are not going to get lost that easily, like Wikipedia's.
I apologize if I missed this but I didn't see an itemization of a death benefit paid to Sherpa's families.

I thought this had recently become regulated but I hear conflicting reports on these.

These are few years old but both worth a read on the subject of Sherpa insurance benefits:

https://www.outsideonline.com/1928326/disposable-man-western...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/mt-everest-disaster-raises-qu...
bq. HR is not to be trusted. Get everything they say in writing. Don't tell them anything you aren't comfortable sending out in an all-hands email.

+1
They worked very well for decades, fighting hard for a lot of things that we take for granted now, and then corporations found a legal loophole to get around them. Probably some laurels-resting too. Same basic thing with automation.

So toss out the idea of giving workers more leverage entirely, or try to adapt with the times? The relocation example shows that the business isn't on your side.

How many jobs has not having a union prevented from being outsourced? Even when not fully outsourced, how many of us work at companies that have foreign offices in certain regions that pay a fraction of the US going rate? Or that invest much heavier in lobbying for increased immigration than in worker training/re-training programs?
The whole thing was slow, mostly because I had way too little RAM (webengine consuming a large chunk of it), an underpowered CPU, and no 2D or 3D acceleration so it was all in raster mode.
I really like the idea of a social web standard.

This seems like a very constricting protocol, though: the one-to-one correspondence between a user and a server means I need to individually post my activity to the "inbox" of everyone who wants to read it (or they poll my "outbox" - I'm not sure). Not a recipe for an efficient system. It's called ActivityPub, so this was clearly a design decision to meet the goal of being decentralized.

But I probably wouldn't implement this standard in a project unless I modified it a bit so that many clients could share a server.
The people evaluating HR reps are poor at it. They don't know the difference between a good and a poor rep.