skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rise of couple-owned startups
History shows no such thing.

Making college free (or at least easily affordable) is highly redistributive and highly accretive. See also: public transportation, affordable childcare, and so.

You're not just wrong when you say that government efforts to redistribute wealth mostly destroy it. The opposite is true: funding the commons through progressive taxation makes modern society possible. Redistribution is at the absolute core of everything the government does.
:-)

And of course it's both: it probably won't do it right where you need it, and it shouldn't even try where you don't (especially if that means messing up the code, see http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_201... )
I learned Perl back in the Perl 4 days, and still write one-off scripts in it. Lately, though, I do most new work in Python, since the young seem more likely to know that than to know Perl.
In terms of usability it's already on a par, it's just a question of waiting for average users to have a strong enough reason to switch. Potential speed improvements from Project Quantum seem like the best hope in the short term.
Identity management outfit OneLogin sugar coats impact of attack
I don't know how I feel about that. We're talking about subjective measurements here.

There are many languages that are "better" than JavaScript for example, yet not many that enjoy its share of success.
Docker files are good for small units of your app stack (nginx, web frameworks,etc).
As you grow you need to have consistency and predicability between all your servers. Like same version of libs, configs, etc.

As docker is a userland[0] app it does not provide that natively (there are some workarounds).

My workflow:

1. machine setup - puppet or ansible
2. Is machine ready for app? If yes pull app using Docker or Git
3. Need to modify update? Change configs, commit (always version your puppet/ansible configs and apps)
4. Profit

[0] - https://docs.docker.com/get-started/#container-diagram
You prescribe opioids for end of life care.

You can prescribe opioids if needed for short term pain - after surgery for example.

You refer to a specialist pain management clinic for long term pain. Opioids might be part of that treatment plan.

This is what England does: http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-aware
For that, we have the Roth 401k. Certainly 401ks aren't limited to the 20%, but the 20% can certainly contribute more easily and get more nominal matching.
The European Commission has successfully acted against Microsoft in the past and has repeatedly tried to act against Google on various antitrust concerns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp_v_Commission

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/technology/google-europea...
It's true. I've been using firefox again for about a month now. It's pretty decent, but definitely lags behind. Stack trace errors in the console don't respect source maps. A 3D scene ive been working on has been slow to load/refresh, where it's a non issue in chrome. I'm sticking with it for now, as I don't want to be all in on one company, but it's hard at times.
In Tolkeins case, they weren't published simply because they were unfinished.
Could I take my captured satellite to a base inside an extinct Japanese volcano?
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The article says top 20 percent consists of the households making $112,000 or more.

Many of those families live in places like New York or California where $112,000 is not much.

The families I know in New York City making around $2-300,000 live paycheck to paycheck in tiny, old rented apartments. Both parents work until 6-8 PM, they barely see their kids except in weekends. They spent the first decade or so after college paying off student debt and now they have five figure credit card debt. Their life is void of luxury. No cars, no fancy vacations, no real estate, no savings, no shares, often no pensions savings either. Everything is spent on kindergartens, nannies, schools, rent etc.

You may be upper middle class if your family makes $112,000 in Oklahoma. But it simply doesn't make sense to regard people in New York City or the Bay area with such salaries as upper middle class.
The system I've been working on actually predicted a Trump win: https://projectpiglet.com/

The problem was so many people just hated Clinton, and at the time, Trump had more people positive about him.
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I agree. I dont know where Mozilla is spending their money, but they are years behind in regards to security enhancements in comparison with Chrome, Edge, and IE11. Around IE7 nivea. Still waiting for 64 bit Firefox with Sandbox and per-tab-process and CFI.
Market data is mentioned. Does excel-d support RTD?
That probably depends on the narrative they're told and their propensity to believe it.

"Copy this Snapchat feature" vs "Stories are a new storytelling medium" vs. "We need to do this because Snap is a grave threat and Facebook's survival depends on your work" are all very different narratives to sell to the team.
Tech jobs with relocation packages
Yep there are, approx. 1-2 a day. I'm on Android, they seem to be rolling out changes in waves, not all at once, though - you may simply be left in a bucket without story ads...
It's just a press release but I've been using them for a while, and it is quite not very to watch a model training or hyperparameter search scale effortlessly over multiple GPUs. It almost makes up for the royal pain in the arse of having to rewrite your code to fit in the newish APIs required by cloud ML engine. Almost.
I never understood that about USA.

Free (or at least affordable) university education is one of the most cost-effective investments a state can make. I've seen it work wonders in Poland in the last 25 years. And I don't mean "education to become academic scientists" - that part sucks in Poland. I mean "education to become globally competitive in high-margin areas of economy". It's cheap, it benefits economy in many ways, and it lowers the inequality. If Poland can afford it (and could afford it when it had GDP per capita under 10 000 USD) - USA can too.

Also - economy is not zero-sum. Yes, top 20% is always 20%, but if the division between incomes of top 20% and top 30% is negligible - why should we care about top 20%?

And if your country has 20% of people that can compete on global market, but other countries have 40% or 60% - you're screwed. Well, I guess you can just import them instead of teaching your own, but what to do with these non-competitives you're left with?
What's the difference between clang-tidy, and cc --analyze?

FWIW, I just this week ran cc --analyze on a codebase that I inherited. It had a few false positives, but it mostly found real (albeit unlikely) bugs. Overall, it was an immensely helpful experience, as it found some bugs in areas of the code which I've never had to explore before, and it kind of forced me to understand those areas.
I don't have a good answer to your question, but for me it was actually performance. And this is particularly baffling, since Firefox seems to do extremely well in all benchmarks, often beating out Chrome.

But, as a quick test, I closed Chrome, and it was up again instantly (say 500ms). I did the same with Firefox (after a generous warmup / caching session), and got 4 to 6 seconds each time. Clicking links and page loading feels similar; on Chrome I don't notice it, on Firefox I always do. Am I the only one that feels this way?
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Why not 11:00 to 15:00, or 13:00 to 17:00?

Or even, why not reduce the core hours? 10:00 to 12:00 ?
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Any app with android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE ("Phone calls — read phone status and identity")

All those apps receive android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE broadcasts whenever the phone state changes (new call, etc), and for the incoming calls that intent's data always (AFAIK, maybe some firmware builds have privacy controls for this) contains the phone number.
The Wormhole Route to Android Coding Using Kotlin
Also, with The Silmarillion, they tried to add as little content as they could and just fill in gaps between his existing writings. That's why it has such a cut-and-paste feel to it, and I expect this book to be similar. While I think it's good to get as much of the original writing as possible, it would also be interesting to see them pass the stories off to another fantasy writer.
Agreed. It's the browser I'm using right now, but it's got some big problems. It's draining my battery and it interferes with chromecast.
Everybody knows Hubbard started a cult. But I'm talking about the "Church of All Worlds", which found its foundation myth in one of Heinlein's rather less good novels that was nonetheless all the rage for a while in the sixties - while it's no longer easily to hand, I have seen a photo of a couple of hippies at Woodstock, one holding a copy of the novel and expounding to the other. (Possibly expounding; they may just both be really high.)
Static sites can live on S3 which means never worrying about your server crashing (except for that one time!). It's really a stress free way of handling sites :-)
No. Find one person who will indeed use what you are building. Then find another. And so on.

Good luck.
Electric self driving cars.
Network Performance Monitoring software
The problem is when these tax expenditures become a substitute for more inclusive policies. Congress passes a tax deduction and then claims they have done something to address unaffordable tertiary education, when in fact they've only helped the people who least need it: people who could probably afford tuition anyway and whose children are most likely to qualify for academic and athletic scholarships.
Ask HN: What skills should I learn to work in the self driving industry?
I've got a sony laptop that I can hear scrolling through the audio; it's kind of a bummer to hear these buzzes and digital groans.
Why You Should Be Using Docker and XL Deploy Together
And that's why electric cars will the death of anti-car sentiment.
I've used Charles for quite some years now but have never been satisfied with how heavy it is (it's much better now then it used to be, but still) and how hard it can be to configure some times, even after all these years of using it.

Are there alternatives (with a GUI) for this? Been thinking about building my own....but I'm already "working" on a hunderd other projects..
Now available on iBooks:

Beren and Lúthien by J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien
https://itun.es/us/knBOfb.l
Is there an name for this "reality first" or "reality triumphs" concept? The closest I can think of is The Talos Principle, it is the name of a game, but in its context the meaning is, paraphrasing: "At the end of the day, even the mightiest thinkers and philosophers are made of flesh and bone".

On the other end, there is a Greg Egan (science fiction) novel where exactly this does not hold and pure maths can create virtual worlds in some abstract math universe, i.e. not running on a physical computer (though I think one was needed to bootstrap this into perpetual existence). The name escapes me at the moment.

You might be able to weave the consciousness problem into there by following the simulation hypothesis and claiming that the brain (of humans or some smart enough ancestor?) was either created with a shortcut to the underlying compute power or that over the course of evolution (think the FPGA + evolutionary algorithm story) this link developed, possibly independently multiple times. And since most concepts underlying biology are understood, "Quantum-woo" is the last holdout (see Penroses microtubuli idea).
> and could benefit by hiring a conservative just to function as devil's advocate

They do hire conservatives (Brooks, Douthat, Kristol, etc) and they just hired Bret Stephens.

> (like Fox News did with Alan Colmes)

You make it sound as if Alan Colmes, during his time at Fox, was there to give an equal voice to the liberal side of an issue, but in reality he was just marginalized to be the token "lefty" punching bag for Hannity.
Wave power can be collected using nanogenerators
Maybe in a very distant future. In short term most webcontent will still be delivered as Javascript (maybe transpiled from TS & co). WASM will cover some niches, e.g. for running some native applications and games directly in the browser. Or for making some high-performance low-level libraries (which might have a JS API on top).

Besides that WASM is also executed by a Javascript Engine, so it's speed still matters.
The explanation I've heard is that it disincentives people from the hard work which creates wealth. Anyway, I don't think your explanation "the rich undermine wealth redistribution" explains the parent's conclusion that wealth is destroyed (a failure to redistribute wealth doesn't necessarily result in less wealth overall).
This is awesome as a marketing story. But I think everybody is aware that this is not really a Tolkien book but a summary of his notes written down by his son. I don't know if it's good to really present this in such an unrealistic way.
I love the Silmarillion. It's the Old Testament Bible of an alternate universe. It's not a novel so much as a collection of mythological stories and a narrative history, very much in the style of medieval literature.
We are using it in production. It gets the job done.

Looking forward to a Perl6 stable release. It is stable but Rakudo still needs a bit of polush. Also it doesn't have the amount of modules Perl5 has. What it does have however, is precise arithmetic because numbers in Perl6 are internally represented as rationals.

https://docs.perl6.org/type/Rat
Would this be affected by the marketing of Oxycontin as a 12-hour pain medication, when it was known that it wears off earlier than that for a significant fraction of the population? Not a lawyer, and so I have no idea how that would affect liability.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/
The Silmarillion is just a collection of short stories and scribblings. It doesn't have an overal narrative focus. Reading the Silmarilion cover to cover is like reading the Bible cover to cover you won't enjoy it.

CT did a good job with Children of Hurin. The more developed stories (Children of Hurin, Beren and Luthien, and The Fall of Grondlin) were going to be stand alone novels with several drafts finished before JRR's death.

Having read the Silmarillion you should recognize these stores spanned several chapters and had a clear narrative focus unlike the rest of the slog.
First, Ranked Choice is not a single election strategy; it depends how you handle the case when your top choice is not elected. You are probably thinking of Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), where the bottom choice is eliminated and everyone who picked that candidate as their top choice gets their votes transferred to their next choices respectively.

IRV is better than our current system, but not by that much. Range (aka Score) Voting -- where you give each candidate a score from 1-10, like a judge in the olympics -- is much better. http://rangevoting.org/ (alias: http://scorevoting.net/) has a wealth of information on this topic, albeit in a website straight outta 2005.
I was working at the local uni for a while. There was a long, narrow corridor that had a large pinboard made of something very sound-absorbing material that was popular for a while. The other side was brick with doors here and there. Every time I walked past the pinboard, I felt like I was leaning towards it. Seems we have some similar skills like bats, we just don't realize we use it all the time until something changes.
WebAssembly is nice and all, but I don't understand why Mozilla is so obsessed with this feature that will be useable by 0.01% of applications. Meanwhile they are falling far behind in a variety of features that are useful to a much bigger % of the web. Safari and Edge have leapfrogged Firefox in providing the important things to web developers.
Yes, just like we can live by subsistence farming with manual labor, living in huts.

It can be done, but most of us want to progress.
Great suggestion. Also the OP may cross post this on https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/
At least in the Kuramoto model, it's a little more complicated than the OP makes it sound (but not much). Step 1 is more like "if you see a flash, bump your clock closer to midnight."

Specifically, an ODE is given for firefly $i$'s phase angle $
\theta_i$

$$\dot\theta_i = \omega_i + K / N \sum_{j=1}^N \sin(\theta_j - \theta_i)$$

This gets interesting because the flies natural frequencies $\omega_i$ are also assumed to be randomly distributed. So you don't get perfect phase-synchronization--flies with fast natural frequencies lead the pack as it loops around the phase ring, and flies with slow natural frequencies are dragged along at the back. Relative to the mean phase, your excess phase approaches a smooth increasing function of your natural frequency. But, for high enough values of $K$, you do get frequency-synchronization--everyone oscillates at the average frequency.

(For low values of $K$, or too-large natural frequencies, "rogue oscillators" emerge in a SNIPER bifurcation. They zoom around the phase ring at a different frequency, briefly slowing as they pass through the cloud of synchronized oscillators. Also applies for too-slow rogues.)

In the video and the OP's simulation, it looked the natural frequencies were all pretty similar, if not the same. However, there was a second addition that is not in the original Kuramoto model (but is in most subsequent models): rather than observing all other flies, only observe nearest neighbors. This can be added by putting a symmetric boolean adjacency matrix $A_{i,j}$ right before the $\sin$ in the previous equation.

This has the effect of making excess phase a smooth function of not only the natural frequency, but also some structural feature imposed by the network. In random networks like Erdos-Renyi, this feature is the node degree, but in the video it looks like it might be the long axis of the bush (so, like, one of the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian).

(In general, coupled oscillators, such as circadian gene clocks, show this smooth dependence of excess phase on per-unit heterogeneities, which is the topic for the first half of my PhD dissertation. The second half is figuring out what the heterogeneities are when you only have recordings of the dynamics to go by.)
Gc'd languages will take a while.
I'm on 13 straight years in the same C# code base and I still learn things about the fine details of the platform (CLR, the language). My peers that switch from ruby to js like they change underwear can't fathom how I can be doing the same thing for years - and I can't fathom how you can be programming in a platform where you - for example - don't know the time and memoryt complexity of every call you make, and sort of "see" the underlying code under your high level abstractions.

So I think the question is how refined you want your skill to be in that long tail of refinement approaching 100% but never getting there.
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The first time I'd ever heard of BART was when one of it's officers killed Oscar Grant.

I couldn't see myself ever wanting to take that mode of transportation.
In Praise of the Philly Stoop
As another commenter pointed out, to be in the top 20% a household only needs to earn $112k a year. That's like 2 teachers getting married, or 2 nurses, or 2 mid level office workers/government workers.

And this college fund implies there are kids involved. So a household with $112k/year and kids should be taxed heavily as possible because they didn't earn it? If they live in a high cost area or have any debt/medical problems they'll be in even more trouble.

It sounds to me like you want to tax and burden families such as that to move them back down into the income strata where there is uncertainty for housing/medicine/food/education/transportation. Why don't you like the idea of people working and earning an income in order to remove those uncertainties? That's all I want to do with my life. Is that such a terrible desire that when I finally get there I should have it taken away? By the way, I'm a recent medical graduate with 250k in debt from a lower-middle class family. If all goes well I'll be one of those evil 20% people after residency.
Perfect is the enemy of good. Isn't pharma losing some of their ill gotten profits better than them losing one?
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How could the browser know this is not a TLD without first doing a DNS lookup? And please don't mention Mozilla's Public Suffix List.
In the clojure case, it's because you've got a handful of data types and a massive amount of functions for manipulating them which you just need to glue together in a pipeline.
These new books are just longer versions of the Silmarillion stories. I did read the first one (Children of Hurin, I think) and decided to skip the rest.

Especially if you've read the multiple variations of the stories in Christopher Tolkien's History of Middle-Earth series, you'll be really, really familiar with the repetition.
Philosophers latched onto the idea of QM in consciousness bc they thought the randomness aspect left room for free will. Of course it doesn't, any more than hooking up an axe over your head that will only drop if a certain atom decays means that you can now choose the time of your death. The point being we don't control the randomness, it evolves according to the laws of QM and therefore there is no role at all for "choice" to play. Also observe that a rock has the same level of access to the underlying randomness of QM and we don't say it has free will. Even if the human brain propagates the randomness upwards to larger systems, there is still no choice in how that is done. Theoretically, it is possible for a rock to exhibit crazy quantum behavior every once in awhile as well.

Of course, free will is an inconsistent notion predicated on the idea that there is a "you" separate from "your chemicals" that would do something different if only that dang physics would let it. But separate yourself from your chemicals and you don't get free will, you get literally nothing. People don't realize the implicit dualism in all of this free will stuff
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"Clarification" rather than "Not true" would be a far more charitable way of stating this.

Story: http://veja.abril.com.br/brasil/delegado-que-abriu-inquerito...

Translated to English:

The delegate Adriano Antonio Soares , the Federal Police in Rio de Janeiro, was killed early on Wednesday in Florianopolis, after exchange of fire in a nightclub in the capital of Santa Catarina. Soares was responsible for opening an investigation into the death of Federal Supreme Court (STF) Minister Teori Zavascki , who died in a January crash.

That ... sounds sufficiently close to what was posted above to be considered "substantively true".
Or some, like I, DID enjoy reading Silmarillion cover to cover. It felt very "real", much like the Bible. Like a glimpse into a strange past.
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If you are an independent and highly skilled professional who knows the business, you can definitely work remotely. Good for you!

But that's a far cry from, "Why do information workers need company offices at all, ever?"
Agreed with everything but your first sentence.

MS was a much bigger impenetrable monopoly and the Web was won back. It can be done again. Having a great product and grassroots evangelism certainly help.

(Not that I think Chrome is THE ENEMY. It's constantly evolving, multiplatform and open source. IE was none of that. But I agree Google's practices you described are despicable. Huge kudos to VLC for doing the right thing)
I use Vue and React
Why not the other way round?

Have a plane take off with a small load and have rockets connect with it at it's highest altitude and push it into orbit.

expended stages could reconnect with another plane of the same model on the way down.