skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

That's obscure and it's also being taken out of context [1]. What I said, was "widespread notion in the Republican party" I do mean contemporary, this is not an exhaustive search or maybe I'd go back to the Magna Carte.

>The fact is that government, even democratic government, puts its needs and desires first.

Really, it's a fact? You have a citation for this fact? I haven't heard of such a thing in democracies, that's rather fundamentally the opposite of what they're about. Perhaps you're confused about the distinction between government and bureaucracy?

Anyway the small government advocacy pretty much amounts to whining for being on the losing end of the stick by people with failed ideas or failed representation. And the idea that democracy doesn't help terribly much I think is deeply ignorant of when and why it fails: being selectively non-democratic. Top on that list I'd but ethnic discrimination (racism) and misogyny. Anywhere those are protected, democracy is under threat.

The Articles of Confederation prescribed such a weak central government, that it was pointless and a failure, and thus scraped in favor of the current one.

The current constitution, prescribes a more powerful central government, but also incorporated and institutionalized racism to appease a certain local (regional) advocacy. Upons that compromise coming under threat, the "state's rights" types came back out of the woodwork, and then ~650,000 people died. See Yugoslavia for another example of democracy + racism = not really a democracy now, is it?

This local advocacy continued on in the U.S. with things like local school boards emphasizing and deemphasizing pesky things called facts, in order to avoid troubling local sensitivities, and ensuring a nation can have different ideas about how history and science have transpired.

Kansas, a real life experiment in less central government and more local government. Total failure. Only governor Christ Christie is less popular than Brownback.

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Gideon was criticizing the lawyer for not realizing the law had changed. It is a quote of a quote. What Gideon wrote was:
The error arose from want of diligent watchfulness in respect to legislative changes. He did not remember that it might be necessary to look at the statutes of the year before. Perhaps he had forgotten the saying, that “no man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.”
Given his history of incendiary garbage-spewing, if you trust Alex Jones, you're a moron.

If there's something you hear from Alex Jones that seems like it might be true, double-check it with knowledgeable sources before you adopt it as a fact.

Better yet, go find more reliable sources for your information.
Things that are ready to eat, won't get anyone sick. With raw meat, you have to wash your hands. If you touch cooked meat it's fine to wipe off your hands and handle bread. Because the cooked meat is safe to eat, it can't contaminate anything in such a way to make it dangerous.

Just be cautions of the unsafe side. You can never wipe your hands when they're unsafe (raw meat juice). Because the next time you wipe your hands, you're bringing the contamination back. I wash spatulas and forks that handle unsafe stuff like meat and eggs while they're cooking to help contain that danger.
Oh, and given that Christian Urban is a coauthor, are you using nominal techniques?
Thanks for explaining further. I see your points but I'd add one which I'd argue is an important (though obviously not the only) goal of the law - punishment/deterrence. If the girl committed the acts while also experiencing metal health problems that needs to be taken into consideration (maybe mandatory mental health treatment or something rather than prison) but at the end of the day she contributed significantly to a vulnerable person losing their life so she will have to lose her own freedom for a period of time in some way.

I think that would satisfy the victims relatives to some degree. As for the 'true causes that led the the death' that seems pretty obvious to me from the facts - she was the cause. He had stepped off the ledge so to speak and if she hadn't intervened and told him to get back in the car it's likely he wouldn't have died that day. When considering her guilt that's all that matters. Why the victim was suicidal in the first place is irrelevant to establishing her part in the incident.
Expat 2.2.1 with security fixes has been released
You should thank Jerry from Barnecules Nerdgasm channel on YouTube. He used too play it often, That's where I saw it from ...He started playing it from the old version which is where I heard about it too. I Take two hours off every Sunday to play it and get my typing skills up.
Oh, I actually thought it meant "newspaper" the material, similar to how some cities in India have banned disposable plastic.
Yeah, they just had a bizarre way of saying it.

There's far less than one chromosome's worth of difference between me and a orangatan.

"Just a chromosome" is like saying "just an extra brain"
Wouldn't that just discourage lawyers from taking cases that might not win?
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Yeah, more recent vintages 2012-2015 have had much lower conversion rates. These batches will probably peak out closer to 10% after a decade.
I'd rather people who cannot take care of themselves get welfare. The concept of a skill being with less than the minimum wage is saying as a society we can tolerate exportation, and perhaps slavery
Teachers plan days, weeks, terms and years in advance. If you need some help planning take a look at how they do it.
A photograph is a model of reality. This 3D render is a model of reality.
Thought it was cool too, and I don't play that many games.
Doesn't a sample size need to be at least 30 to be statistically significant?
The goal of a VC is not to have a high conversion rate... it's to find the big winners. Airbnb + other 'big wins' are 1 in 1500 or higher, but account for the vast majority of returns.

YC started out with a sub-dozen class size. Now it has more than a hundred per batch. The conversion rate is going down, but the hit rate, which is all that matters, likely is going up. More hits with more failure == more success for yc.
I use software mindmaps for planning (all nodes always prioritized) and stickies for physicality when getting tasks done. 30 minutes per sticky, with the goal of only writing 30 minutes worth of work on a sticky. Brief break after some stickies. It works really well, too well sometimes. I have to limit the amount of stickies per day or I get burned out.
I spent a lot of time trying different systems and finding I couldn't stick with one. Now I embrace the chaos of multiple systems.

I keep a bullet journal, which is mainly for journaling and long-term planning.

Some days I write a list of tasks on a piece of paper.

I put events with a definite time in my calendar (add with Fantastical, review with Calendar app, Week Cal + Fantastical on iPhone, Calendars 5 on iPad).

I put "someday" tasks and tasks that have a definite due date in Things on Mac and iOS (the new version is one of the best pieces of software I've ever used). The new Things also integrates calendar events into the "Today" view, which is quite useful. But I don't look at it every day.

Previously I used "2do" with "smart lists" corresponding to a priority matrix ("important urgent", "important not urgent", "not important urgent", "not important not urgent.") It was a bit too complicated and I switched to Things when the new version came out a couple months ago.

I also used to have a daily checklist in 2do, but after it became habit, I found I didn't need it anymore. I highly recommend a daily checklist for anyone recovering from burn-out, depression, or similar.

I've just switched to doing high-level planning in a "Master Plan" document in Quip. It's already quite detailed and covers most aspect of my life.

Otherwise lately I organize my days into 3 or 4 timed 1-2 hour focused work "zones", with as much ceremony as time affords, to the point of making special drinks, listening to specific music depending on the theme, and lighting candles.

I'm also experimenting with 3 10-minute open-ended thinking periods per day, for which I have alarms set in my phone.

The latter two habits have been very effective. I'd tried Pomodoro in the past, but I find that ceremony is important.

That sounds pretty exotic, but the major insight from the past 10 years of trying things is that finding the one right system is a fool's errand. Trying many different systems – the simpler the better – and letting them evolve naturally works best for me.
Hey programmers, we need to talk (2013)
Tensorflow Python 2.7 vs. Python 3.5: What is your setup?
how do you switch back and forth between 2.7 and 3.5

I am tired of getting 2.7 library errors every time every time I try to run 3.5 project. What is your ideal set up how do you maintain python path for two different versions of the language

Any thoughts advising best practices appreciated
All they had to do was not spin the story as if this guy figured out something that tesla didnt. There are ample explanations in the comments above. It is a really cool diy project though, and i wish they had written about it as such.

On an unrelated note, i think that whenever a commenter reffers to other comments in general, they should always say "the comments above" instead of simply "other comments" as a way to be humble/polite. It would be a cool form of hn etiquette.
They let in far more companies now and have different tracks available than before. Is a lower conversion rate worse? I think the true judge of that would be is the overall ROI going down.
The jaw seems to be very wrong imo
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/
Bitcoin is constantly on the rise. Will it ever crash?
What is driving the the ever increasing value of BTC and ETH
Ha! I think I have a Rose rain jacket from ASC 2001. Was that the last year Rose competed? I forget. I raced Mizzou's SunTiger 4 in 2001, then became Mechanical lead and Project Co-manager for SunTiger 5 in 2003.
The $13 billon deal includes Whole Foods + Real estate (400 stores)
Wow. Ayyadurai won $750,000 in a lawsuit from by-then-bankrupt Gawker Media. In fact it was billionaire Peter Thiel, who just wanted to ruin Gawker and was behind this result. Duh. What a waste of $750k.

"Denton wrote that "we expected to prevail" in the Ayyadurai and Terrill lawsuits, "but all-out legal war with" billionaire Peter Thiel, who financially backed Harder, was untenable in terms of cost, time and human toll.[37]" . Wikipedia.
ML/DL requires only sophomore math. Calculus, linear algebra and probability covers the majority of what you need.
This may be a bit confusing but Vega only uses some D3 helpers, it does not generate D3 code at any point. See https://vega.github.io/vega/about/vega-and-d3/ for details.

But you high-level point is accurate, D3 is more expressive since you can use all of JavaScript.
They'd been serving breakfast items all day in other countries for decades. Hong Kong springs to mind as a place you could definitely buy an Egg Mc Muffin anytime of day.
In other words, a nation state sponsored AOL in France. Facebook is headed to the same cemetery.
Git remote branches and Git's missing terminology
It was a great idea, however after using it a few years I think it does not really help. Even in the best possible case where you login with a password to a single site, it is too difficult to remember. Particularly since you never quiz yourself before it really matters. If there was a more active process where you had to identify if a given image was correct or not or the connection would be dropped then maybe you would learn it well enough for when you needed it. Much better to use public key authentication.

Kinda fun as abstract ascii art, though. I still enable it :).
Doing a little binary search on Everymac, it seems that the last new MBP model with Nvidia graphics was mid-2014. Both offerings with discrete graphics from mid-2015 had AMD cards. I'm also fairly sure you could still buy those mid-2014 MBPs well into 2015; I distinctly remember seeing both AMD and Nvidia MBPs available in the online store around that time.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macb...
This is a very poor metric. Companies running out of money and doing a small exit counts as "good" ("conversion") while a successful and growing company is interpreted as something negative (no exit).
I raced Mizzou's SunTiger 4 in 2001, then became Mechanical lead and Project Co-manager for SunTiger 5 in 2003. Mizzou's solar car team changed to a hydrogen car team for the eco-marathon competition after ASC 2005
Criminal age of responsibility for federal crimes is 11 years.
If the effect was detectable in the small sample, in a 8x larger sample it should show up clearly.

If it is a statistical artifact, of course it won't.
This is my cats' favorite machine learning application so far!
"But we do know that overall, climate change causes stronger hurricanes" How do we know this? I can find all sorts of papers predicting stronger hurricanes, but just like the predictions of more numerous hurricanes, there seems to be little observational evidence of the effect.

Here's the measured Accumulated Cyclone Energy, worldwide, 1970-2016. The total energy seems to peak in the mid 1990s. Is this consistent with claims of stronger hurricanes and more destructive hurricane seasons?

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/accumulated_cyclone_e...
If you're needing help with infosec, I highly braintrace.com They specialize in law firm information​ security.
Trying to make sense of these drafts still being written in English, given that with Brexit, none of the countries in EU zone have English as their first language (with exception of Ireland). Convention?
Notice how it stopped because it blew a fuse? This is a really cool project, but it's not a daily driver. And that's okay!

What isn't so okay is comparing it to those production cars that don't break down after a few hundred miles of use.
And (e) enjoy aimlessly walking through super market aisles (though I guess that's a subset of (a)).
Basically, you can't create an easy algorithm for something that's illegible.
What the hell is that? Are there people in HN who believe a propaganda from the state is any different from a propaganda from big corporations ?
I plan to use this to modify my approach in unsupervised visualizations
https://hackernoon.com/unsupervised-machine-learning-for-fun...
Are you seeing “Gift Card Rebel” spam everywhere on YouTube?
If I have a particularly complex day tomorrow, especially if there's lots of travel, I write down all the important stuff I need to do in schedule format on a 3x5" card. At the end I put down all the facts I might need, like important contacts or access codes or whatever.
... which makes the case that proponents of such taxes are at least partially motivated by anti-capitalism and socialism.
It is still the current lingua franca for most of Earth. Most of their populations learn English as a 2nd (or 3rd) language.

It's no different then past legislation and politics being done in Latin.
If not for the info you provided I may have wasted my time with them.

Honestly, I was wondering if Linode staff or people on "their side" downvoted the post since it didn't seem downvote worthy. It's only fair that their track record follow them, especially their free press. It wasn't a rant or an accusation or anything personal. It was just a list of their past actions and what others had to say about it.
"Conversion" rate, as defined here, doesn't make sense for YC's (or any startup investors') financial model.

Valuation could be useful. Maybe track the change in the companys' valuation over time.
You're excluding brand dilution as a function of class size. Knowing you are going to be one of 100+ companies going through the program each semester makes you less enthusiastic to join if you already have a very promising or successful company, and it makes it harder for VCs to determine signal; "It's from YC" stops being good enough.

A big reason for the class size explosion is almost certainly for network effects, a fleet of ready customers who support YC and drive growth out of the gates.

It creates the space for another brilliant investor to launch a rival YC that caters to a small size of elite founders. Isn't that almost inevitable?
Some of my classmates in college all went to a city a couple of hours away for a weekend, in a not so new car, and the car quit them about half way there. Turns out a car full of "mechanical engineers" drove an hour on the interstate with the car in 3rd gear because the gear selector didn't quite make it to D. Cooked the engine and I think they ended up totaling the car. They were top students too. That definitely reaffirmed my belief that GPA is a poor indicator of a quality engineer.
I don't really care and don't see why should I. Hysteria over tracking / "loss of privacy" seems overblown to me.
RFC 822 and RFC 733 use "electronic mail", which is clearly meant to be the same term as e-mail and email.

The point about "I got a copyright for EMAIL, therefore the US government recognized me as the inventor of email" belies either a fundamental misunderstanding of what copyright is and isn't or a malicious attempt to deceive and defraud.
> The cost is relatively small as compared to the benefit to all citizens

The cost is in fact small just compared to the subscription fees. I don't have the statistics for how much countries pay editors in subscription fees (because in fact these deals are often negociated in private and the terms are secret), but I think it is highly likely that this money is several times higher than what it would cost to run everything on private money.
virtualenvs, and outside of those taking care to always have proper

#!/usr/bin/env pythonX

lines at the top.
> It creates the space for another brilliant investor to launch a rival YC that caters to a small size of elite founders. Isn't that almost inevitable?

What would the attributes be of an elite founder?
Beyond ideological posturing, it's a fact of life that English is the language that most educated people across Europe know today (in addition to their national one). Blame Hollywood and Abbey Road. Dropping it just because the UK is currently in stupid-mode wouldn't achieve anything.
What makes Bill Gates a terrible person these days?
I googled and found: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange...

If this is as reported, I am not a lawyer but it sounds like he committed a crime, and he is most certainly a major asshole, among other things pushing the boundaries of what constitutes consent, then making the other party feel uncomfortable in their own home.

Then he blames the consequences on a global conspiracy. Probably part of the abuser personality, to evict himself from blame.

I was thinking, western intelligence has done a lot of sketchy things, usually in the form of coups, more recently with "enhanced interrogation" or eavesdropping... But I am not aware of any other case where people claim they falsely accused somebody of rape. Doesn't fit the profile.
A much more comprehensive analysis by experts in US securities law:

https://www.coinbase.com/legal/securities-law-framework.pdf
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I have most recently been trying to plan out at least 6 months ahead. How I am approaching this was inspired by some life events and some videos I had seen on Youtube.

I really liked this video by Scott Hanselmann (https://youtu.be/FS1mnISoG7U?t=8m2s) about scaling yourself and I liked this video that came out recently (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o) about behaviours that maximize your misery.

What I took from these two videos is that goals are important and in order to reach these goals, you need to find a way to keep yourself accountable without creating goals that are vague or unattainable.

I have just started writing a bunch of to-do lists on Google Keep and then I try to group various tasks and assign 3 per day. The goal is to focus on 3 things per day that build into 3 major areas of focus for the week which fuels 3 goals for the month... and so forth.

With that said, I missed some of the to-do's for a couple of days for this last week, but I prioritized other items that had come up spontaneously and completed the majority of the to-do's. At the very least, when I fail, I can at least look at what I had accomplished and not feel as bad.

Hope this helps.
It's the old one-size-fits-all-(but-badly) problem. If you want to maximize your target customer base, the taste of the food becomes very bland. So they try to compensate by adding more items to the menu - and subsequently run into the problems described in the article.
well tell that to North Koreans escaping through China. Technically, they are 'dissidents' in the eyes of Chinese gov. so --- it's ok for Chinese gov. to torture them & deport them back to N.K. to be tortured.
Hello. Mid-career scientist/engineer/entrepreneur here.

The majority of academics I have talked to about this in real life (let's say... 30-40 out of 50) thought we sorely needed open access in terms of:

- The public pays for science, they should be able to see the result

- Lots of out-of-work and between-jobs academics, scientists-turned-entrepreneur, scientists in small companies etc. that can't access a research library

- It's morally wrong to have the public sector hand so much money to a few private companies like Elsevier for doing very little besides existing and rent-seeking.

- Scientists and the public in developing countries and third world countries have a very limited ability to get involved in global science and engineering when it's paywalled.

- In fields like medicine especially, paywalls are literally preventing the public from knowing how to be healthy.

Have you considered that maybe the reason why for example, "The vast majority of all published papers is read only by the reviewers." is because it's not openly and freely published?

I suspect perhaps the reason you are being downvoted (on other sites presumably) is because most people think your view is wrong or unacceptable i.e. immoral. Have you considered that possibility?
More relevant for employees who care about a liquidity event, even if it is at a lower price, vs. investors who are willing to sit for 10 years and write off a loss on 90% of their portfolio.
Haha exactly.

I just can't imagine using a mobile/web app to replace that part of my workflow.
Large grills usually have two sides with two temperature controls.
So you're saying he's just insane?

I mean he categorically did not invent email. My friend Dave Crocker was involved in the birth of email and this guy was not participating in that process. it was created before his invention. It's just a lie.
Sure, great for VC lousy for founders. I agree with the post above. Why would great founders join ycombinator?
Hi! Always fun to see new language ideas and watch them grow.

I think the general idea is interesting. However, I suspect that you're underestimating the complexity of the things you've mentioned. I don't mean to be too negative, but have you implemented garbage collection? Getting it right for just one language takes lots of serious effort. With the added complication of needing to deal with other arbitrary user-designed language constructs, it might be an intractable problem.

Brainstorming ideas for language design is great. Trying new things is fantastic. But it's important to be humble and realistic, and to recognize that language design requires making thoughtful tradeoffs.
they can choose to not include certain things

No, they can't. That was my point.