skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These all work, to an extent. But there's really only one way to deal with the problem once and for all and that's what Jesus did 2000 years ago.

I respect that you've stated this is your perspective as a Christian. However, I think most people on this community are coming from a perspective of empiricism. I'm not a die-hard empiricist in general, but when I'm posting on Hacker News, i try my very best to stay within the lines of that tradition.

Within that scope, would you find value in being able to cite empirical research supporting your assertion that religious faith is the "only" valid method of being happy? Not to mention, exactly one religion? Does your religious belief grant you more happiness than a devout Hindu or Muslim? How do you measure it? Also, considering "unhappiness" to be a "problem" which you've "solved", does that mean you are never unhappy?

I don't mean these questions to be demeaning. I have actually been in very deep depressive episodes where at some points, I decided that I would have loved to get deep into some religion and just turned on whatever solace those folks seem to get. But it was impossible - the contradictions are so glaring that I continue to not really understand how people who otherwise have very good problem solving and logic skills can be absorbed into such religions. This is all given that I also had experience with the so-called "mind control cult" phenomenon, that you'd see in a group like Scientology or the Moonies - in those scenarios, you develop an emotional block that prevents you from applying any critical thinking to the religious doctrine in question. Everyone is supposedly susceptible to some form of mind-control-based disabling of critical thinking. I can only assume that we all are regularly slipping into small forms of whatever critical-thinking pits we are susceptible towards - even super rationalists...but I lack the intellect to prove it :) (perhaps this is my personal critical thinking pit).
As we all know, people never judge based on looks or accent or verbal word choice. We select for talent even if it's from someone with a different culture and social mileau to us, right?
Unless you are day trading you don't need such a granular data format, so please stop saying you need to spend thousands and thousands of dollars to be able to back test a trading strategy
Whoops - I see that it's a problem and will fix it right away!
Scala IDE 4.6.0 is out
> SNAP is a subsidy for every industry that sells products that people on SNAP might purchase

You're missing my point. SNAP is a direct subsidy to Walmart not because they sell food, but because many of their workers cannot live where they live without being enrolled in SNAP due to the low pay.

SNAP subsidizes Walmart by supplementing workers' paychecks.
> I make no assertion about the true status of Buffett's motives

That's the "I'm not saying he's a rapist, I'm just asking the question" defense, and it's bullshit. Every single one of your posts in this thread is along the lines of "If Gates and Buffett were profiteering assholes, they would do {thing they do} for {evil reason you ascribe to it}."

So by duck typing, you're absolutely saying they're profiteering assholes.

And then you throw out strawmen like this to support your point:

> I will say that if Gates and Buffet truly believed that 40% of the wealth they accrue each year could be put to better use by the USG than themselves, they could put their money where their mouth is and donate that portion of their assets to the U.S. Treasury. [0] Instead, they seem to keep that wealth within vehicles that they can control.
I remember playing a flash or java game years ago that did exactly this. It was a 4d maze, rendered in stereoscopic 3d. It displayed the images side by side and you crossed your eyes to get the 3d effect.

It was really disorienting (the 4d, but also the eye-crossing), and like the post author says, just bundles of lines rather than solid shapes. Still very cool.

Ooh, I found it!

http://www.urticator.net/maze/
The problem with these is that they couldn't have been significant enough to make a dent in the outcome. Pretty much all significant achievements are fact-checkable. E.g. you may falsely claim that you were doing karate or basketball, but if you did win any trophies, then most selective schools wouldn't care about you.
It's kind of crazy because I suspect a large portion of the tourist crowd (especially those from the us) would probably sympathize with Catalan separatism.
Heh, do you have some old Radio-Electronics issues? Or Compute?
>Are they fleecing the little guy then?

Yes, more or less (although that's just one way they make money, and probably not the most lucrative) And fortunately for them there are plenty of "little guys" ready to enter the market on a regular basis.
That's a good analysis , particular the part about defectors .

And under that analysis, it seems that wisdom education , even of the deeper style that Buddhists or Christians do , will likely to fail, because a single defectors amplified by tech could do so much damage.

So are there any solutions to that?
The banks and governenrs would never allow a currency that they can't control and tax and which doesn't benefit the rich.
"DNA stores information at a density per unit volume exceeding any other known medium, from hard disks to quantum holography. It’s so dense that all the world’s digital data could be stored in a dot of DNA the weight of eight paper clips"

What???
When I started using Typescript (whilst at the time using Scala, Clojure and Python day to day), I ran into soundness issues constantly (daily).

I think I wrote a lot of code assuming that the type checker was sound and could check my abstractions, only to find that it wasn't and it couldn't.

If it were more sound, I would rely on the language to do more checking.

I don't get bitten as much any more, but I'm pretty sure that's mostly because I know what tradeoffs the language is making and I use other mechanisms to ensure safety.
Wow amazing, when will this be available as a javascript library?
It's the total, and reflects all shares whether or not they are likely to have vested by then; vesting schedules vary widely, and hopefully are something people will be told about when getting their offer.
And I'd argue that a well-designed UI only goes so far, and that eventually you need the expressiveness of some sort of programming language. This suggests a hierarchy of user interfaces for complex tasks:

structured language > purpose-specific UI > natural language (processing)

Old adventure games were really illuminating with respect to limitations of natural language interfaces. Rather than allowing for the expressiveness of natural language, you simply had the feeling of groping around like a blind child at an easter egg hunt for the few valid operations that existed.

I feel like this using GUI tools for data tasks. It's like being forced to communicate by banging rocks together compared to, say, the expressive power of R or Python.

I wonder if natural language interfaces could leapfrog GUIs if we all up and learned something like Lojban...
I'm unfamiliar with the situation if not for a couple news stories, but tourists can be overwhelming. As a stambouliote, I can say that it's only in the last couple of years I can go to places like Eminonu and Taksim to get things done. I recall Eminonu from 4-5 years ago, man, it was impossible to walk, an underpass mere 15 metres long took a quarter of an hour to pass, and when I had to go to Tahtakale to buy some stuff for cheap, I better waited winter... All the madness with politics and terrorism aside, I'm kind-a pleased that so less people are coming, for the mere fact that the city is "usable" now. It's completely possible that your fellow citizens be overwhelmed by it, and AFAIK Barcelona gets more tourists than when Istanbul was not hit by terror.
Google Capture the Flag 2017
Have you looked at the current hashrate distribution?
I did not know the below situation with tensor flow.
MS contributions to OSS, at least in this instant, appear a lot more transparent and not-self-centered, compared to Google's

"...It was made very clear from the first day of TensorFlow’s announcement, that Google created two TensorFlow versions: a public version and an internal version. As a TensorFlow user, one either must tolerate the slow speed of the public version, or pay to run the TensorFlow job on Google’s cloud.
..."
The keyword is "Classical" education when you're looking for homeschooling materials.
Criminal to governments, sure.

But peaceful political activism is criminal to many governments. Bitcoin serves an important purpose of helping to circumvent local product/service bans.

Yes, that is likely illegal. But it's certainly not categorically wrong.
> When I was in college the most disturbing trend was students who expected all tests to be things that they could study for using the technique of rote memorization and diligence. To a large extent, pre-law and pre-med curricula offer this

I can't speak to pre-med, but IME pre-law curriculum tends (unsurprisingly like law school itself) to include courses for which rote memorization and diligence is necessary but not sufficient to exam success; specifically, where there is a mass of detailed material (rules and their context, mostly) which must be memorized fairly exactly, but which must be applied to novel circumstances in free response essays in exams.
As hurricane season begins, NOAA told to slow its transition to better models
> good and cheap source

Pick one. You don't get both. I'm happy to share where you can get real data from.

https://www.tickdata.com

https://datashop.cboe.com

http://www.nanex.net/nxcore.html

https://quantquote.com

No affiliation with any of these.
An in depth fly-by of Jupiter
Short answer is No.

We use an ORM/abstraction layer so we can actually get the ACCOUNT_ID as a property of our in memory object before the query is formatted. In this way we can inject the proper connection for the formatted query to be run on before/during handoff to the ORM.

Longer answer is you could do this same injection any number of ways...it is just convenient for our existing stack to do it this way. In some places we actually do it differently in order to facilitate direct queries (without the ORM layer).
Well there's no need to be so sarcastic and snarky.

I did say some universities administer their own tests, so that's as objective as a test normally can be (not perfect), and probably more objective than one administered across different schools as people have already said.

I don't think it would be unreasonable to combine that with an interview. Teaching is a personal thing - academics will want to check that they can teach you and you're able to learn from them. The best university interviews I did were like a short teaching session and I came away with an opinion about who I wanted to learn from as much as I presume they had an opinion about who they wanted to spend their time teaching.
It's stops people's egos getting too big, and keeps them grounded. Verbal play, attack and defence is also an education for more subtle interactions later in life. Like it or not, adult life is a sea of competition and words are weapons.
Who catches the IMSI catchers? Researchers demonstrate Stingray detection kit
The problem is the data is missing for specific dates... I just can imagine what else is missing or it is wrong...
Not to be snarky, but JS has more bad examples of these concepts than one can count....

Having said that it is a good idea to learn about these early and keep them in mind. Sadly there isn't a good definitive list of JS' idiosyncrasy that I know of.
It actually could be interesting, if it only wasn't so (needlessly) inefficient.
No. The fireflies are able to adjust both their frequencies and phase differences. If their frequencies are matched they are phase-locked. If their phase difference is 0, then they are also synchronized.

From: https://www.math.hmc.edu/~dyong/math164/2006/runyeon/finalre...
Who said I am rebutting whatever he says he is doing?!?

I am rebutting his absurd claim that compilers can and more specifically do transform the code I hand-optimized to the tune of 1000x / 8000x by doing a top-level architectural transform. They can't and don't. In this particular case, the optimizer's contribution was trivial (actually less then I would have expected). And of course DJB gave a bunch of other examples as well, and both he and I (not that I am putting myself on the same level, not by a long shot) and many others have seen many other cases.

Jeez.
* Coercion: large down vote/propaganda community against any negative rust idea..evidenced here.

* IP Holders, well this is speculative. I can't understand anyone who would compare Rust against C in a positive way without possibly profiting from it. Rust is painful to write, painful to learn and makes you ask yourself: Can I not write a well designed and correct program in C? Of course I can. Why Am I Learning Rust? The answer seems to be peer pressure and propaganda.

* Write the same thing in C/Rust and read it in C/Rust and tell me who isn't making sense.
Seems like a problem that will fix itself. No one under 18 uses Facebook .
My point exactly, not the most lucrative. So what remains is the implicit assertion they are fleecing the big time guys. And somehow the big time guys remain in business... so what's going on?
Sounds like you have an axe to grind, especially since you cite no evidence yourself... How would you measure "less ethical," anyway? Are we more ethical now than 200 years ago or less, in your view?

According to Gallup, 91% of Americans in 1948 claimed to be Christian, compared to 69% in 2016. [0] I would assume "formally religious" is tracks similarly. Personally, I think we are less ethical, but since I wasn't around in 1948, hard to say.

I think ethics is related to your value of what is right and wrong. In 1948 people by and large had a "Christian" outlook on what is right and wrong and why. In 2016, the more popular claim is moral relativism, namely that there is no absolute right or wrong. Given that I can make up right and wrong and they only apply to me and not you, that seems to be a recipe for unethical behavior. In fact, I'm not sure "ethics" is a meaningful word if you subscribe to moral relativism.

Say what you like about "formally religious," but I think it offers a much better framework for ethics than the moral relativism we have now.

[0] http://www.gallup.com/poll/1690/religion.aspx
How these are uses to split applications to reduce risk:

http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/nizza.pdf

Survey in 2017 of most separation kernels with verification methods:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.01535.pdf

This one is a medium-assurance kernel that tries to knock out most errors or injections using SPARK Ada.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

In practice, a medium or high assurance evaluation would also require testing of about everything, covert-channel analysis to spot leaks, verification the object code matches the source, and independent team re-running those with a pentest on top. INTEGRITY-178B and VxWorks MILS are separation kernels that are finished with or in evaluation with all that data. seL4 has strongest formal methods on code and assembly but other stuff is still being done at R&D lab with no evaluation. Both it and Muen were integrated into Genode OS framework with all three needing more review, pentestimg, and improvements.
"DragonflEye [...] create new optogenetic tools that send guidance commands from the backpack to special “steering” neurons inside the dragonfly nerve cord." [0]

[0] http://www.draper.com/news/equipping-insects-special-service...
One potential benefit of using high school grades is that it spreads out the opportunity to attend college, over a wider geographic area than just the affluent cities. In my state (Wisconsin), admission to the flagship state college is distributed in some similar way, though I don't know the details.

Now of course we can ask if it's the best way to distribute this resource, and I think it depends to some extent on what you think is the mission of the college. At least in Wisconsin, there has been a traditional idea that the college exists to serve the development of the entire state. (The Wisconsin Idea). Politically, it gives people in the far corners of the state a stake in supporting public higher ed.

Of course that's just one take on the mission of one school.
If your data doesn't need to operate on an intraday scale, you can get perfectly accurate real time or historical data for free just by using a reputable broker like Interactive Brokers. At that point there's no need to buy the data on ebay, so I still don't understand why you ever would.
A lot of rideshare / delivery companies include insurance as part of their service fee while you are delivering / driving people. I would assume walmart would do something similar.
Sounds like derealization: "a feeling that one's surroundings are not real, especially as a symptom of mental disturbance."
Hi Kmaschta,

I saw some folks mentioning Gigster so thought I'd add some notes. For reference I'm Christian Thurston and I've been working at Gigster from early on.

The benefits of our model is that we do fixed price, not hourly, so if you're able to work better and faster then your effective hourly goes up. Also, with us you don't have to interface with the client - you work with a PM who speaks tech and write code - that's it.

Our clients are both technical and non-technical but it's a lot less relevant because you'll always be working with that PM layer as a dev, not directly with the client.

Here's what the higher end of pay looks like as well: https://www.forbes.com/sites/reneemorad/2016/10/24/the-skill...

Good luck on your search and hope you find a good situation that fits your needs :).
The streets aren't painted with tourist messaging. Some streets have some anti-tourist graffiti. Teenage edge-lord shitheads are a world-wide phenomenon. If you don't want to visit Barcelona because of some graffiti, you'd better stay inside your house 24/7 in Chicago for fear of being shot.
I'm the one who made the C / UNIX Shell implementation - it was a fun and quick thing to make.

https://github.com/girst/base65536

I'd appreciate some feedback.
Hard to compare...

* Skims are judged on the distance thrown rather than the number of bounces
ah very cool.

Our customers are technical and non-technical. There is a lot of web and mobile app development work, but we've had some interesting projects on there already (ML, AI, even an app to stop your cat from locking up your keyboard when you watch movies.... haha).

I really like your focus. It's ridiculous that the infrastructure doesn't exist for a professional making 400K / year to make 100K / year for 25% the time (assuming skill is stagnant. if it improves, rates should adjust).

Drop me a line if you ever want to chat -- vlad (at) turtle.ai

Good luck!
Maybe it's just that I'm hungry, but I find it strangely annoying.
Adolescence is an exercise in accumulating scar tissue. What you call damage, I can argue is growing up. You need a thicker hide and a more independent source of self worth; reliable continual external validation inhibits, imo.

Teachers are just other people too. The sooner teenagers recognise it fully, the better placed they'll be to choose their own way rather than have it chosen for them.
> Personally, I think we are less ethical

What does this mean to you?
You can still be grateful for what you have. A choice quote:

"But what about those individuals who clearly aren't living the dream? What about a homeless person, for example? The important thing to realize is that Stoicism is by no means a rich person's philosophy. Those who enjoy a comfortable and affluent life can benefit from the practice of Stoicism, but so can those who are impoverished. In particular, although their poverty will prevent them from doing many things, it will not preclude them from practicing negative visualization.

Consider the person who has been reduced to possession of only a loincloth. His circumstances could be worse: He could lose the loincloth. He would do well, say the Stoics, to reflect on this possibility. Suppose, then, that he loses his loincloth. As long as he retains his health, his circumstances could again be worse--a point worth considering. And if his health deteriorates? He can be thankful that he is still alive."

The quote is from "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" a great book:
https://books.google.com/books?id=T9rQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72&lpg=P...
Various firms do, both large and small, but it is extremely difficult to compete across so many fronts without a massive amount of capital (logistics, distribution, negotiations with manufacturers, real estate, marketing, product development, etc).

The return on investment for such a massive deployment of capital isn't huge and Walmart could adopt your strategies at any time, undercutting your value proposition. I'm also 100% certain there is a lot more collusion going on but with CEOs smart enough not to write it down in an email.

That said, a tightening labor market is forcing Walmart and other competitors to slowly raise pay.
I see.

Humans are composed of cells.

Socities are composed of humans.

Now we know everything about how they work!

Umm ... :)
The trend toward limiting ultimately counter-productive language flexibility is getting stronger, not weakening.

See static typing, golang, and functional languages.
Thanks for reminding us of openworm. The fact that scientists are still working on simulating an animal with barely a thousand cells surely relativizes claims about simulating a mammalian brain, let alone a human one.

Frankly, it's even kind of discouraging.
You cannot be the type that relies on reason alone. You need a large set of facts to reason from.

I don't need 2+2=4 - I could reason it out from first principals (where did I get them from?). However when I'm solving a larger problem it helps to know that 2+2=4 without having to figure it out or put it in a calculator.

This is why all arguments fail to hold weight with me. You cannot have just one. You have to have facts to reason from, and you have to have reasoning ability to use those facts with.

Now I will grant that you can have facts alone. They won't do you any good but you can have them. We can argue about which facts in particular are worth knowing (do you need to know cursive), since there is only so much time in a lifetime to learn facts eventually you need to choose to not learn some facts. It means you cannot reason from those facts, but some facts are not as useful as others. 2+2=4 is a universal fact that should be early on the list of facts to know (bushmen would disagree - it isn't useful to their world). Where was the battle of Bunker hill fought - useless in Australia, part of our shared cultural heritage in the US.
Yeah. BS bindings for OCaml-to-JS interop. Then using the Reason tools, as they provide a really nice workflow.
I don't do too much Scala development and I am not sure if I like the Scala IDE or IntelliJ + Scala plugin better. Opinions? Both now have visual programming worksheets/playgrounds.