skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I get what you're saying, although the point of gerrymandering isn't to empower communities by giving them representatives who reflect their residents' political affiliations (although it works out that way for the ruling party). Rather, it's to disenfranchise voters for whichever party is out of power in a given state at that time.

I would much rather see a system where a given district is defined in terms of the common needs of its residents, not the political affiliation of the residents. Whichever party wins, they can try to fix the community's problems in their own way, and if they screw up, presumably the community might flip and try the other side for a while. If all anyone cares about is which political party someone is affiliated with, there's no accountability and no alternatives.

With the current system, all of this stuff is set in stone- a given representative might end up with with a 15% approval rating but still get reelected for 30 years. Gerrymandering is trying to rig the system to favor a party, not unlike how monopolies have the power to rig a market to favor themselves by subverting free market forces. In the case of monopolies, we have all sorts of antitrust/etc. laws to protect free markets. Some people say they go too far, some say they don't go far enough, but they're there at least. I wish we had many more similar legal concepts for redistricting, so the governance of the mechanics of US democracy is at least in theory geared towards empowering as much of the population as possible. Right now it's not even that way in theory, as politically-based gerrymandering is not only legal but the expected norm in most states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
Yeah. Classic survivorship bias. For every mortgaged house that financed a success there are ten more that didn't. Just know the odds.

https://xkcd.com/1827/
‪A team of students have developed the most efficient solar car ever‬
I'll just add the 12 principles of animation:

http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/aim/a_notes/anim_principles.ht...

Data doesn't need all 12 methods all of the time, but anticipation, pose to pose, overlapping action, ease, and timing are pretty essential.
I starting working in games in the early 2000s. The first game I worked on (Black & White) had me working 16-20 hour days, 6-7 days a week for 9 months. It destroyed my health and turned me into an agoraphobic for at least a year, with related conditions lasting much longer. I've seen people have to check into mental health institutions after shipping games.

At one place I worked, there was a "crack board", where they would have sweepstakes on who was going to come apart at the seams and lose it. Who knew mental health issues could be so fun? "lol".

Needless to say I no longer work in games, it has done damage to my body and psyche for very little return..
It's a weak acid similar to acetic acid (vinegar contains 9% acetic acid) but weaker.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formic_acid#Safety
https://github.com/reorx/httpstat

It’s great for checking something quickly, otherwise you have the same thing in browser’s dev tools.
India also has an established traditional eating pattern which is supportive of health and good nutrition. For example, cumin seeds are extremely high in iron, and make their way into lots of Indian cuisine. The mineral content of seeds generally isn't very bioavailable, but the extensive wet grinding and precooking of spices followed by cooking with starch and acid is a nearly ideal (and quite impressive) technique to convert locked-up metal phytates to bioavailable citrates and lactates. That prehistoric Indians were able to figure this out suggests that it brought significant benefits.
It's unfortunate because the GPU prices and availability right now are going nuts. I wanted to buy a GTX 1070 and it's out of stock with weeks of waiting on preorders on most European websites, with price increases of 40-50% in the last 30 days.
> These corporations own the US legacy media outlets (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, FOX, etc) and most of the larger online US news sites.

Even worse. They also own most of the local papers too.

What's even more troubling is that there will be more consolidation of the news industry in the future...

> It looks like it's going to be many decades before these giant media outlets finally lose their relevance.

Except that traditional media is moving into social media. Not only that, they have the ears of the social media magnates.

Google/facebook/reddit/etc have all had talks with traditional media companies and have started "favoring" traditional media in their algorithms/search results/etc. There are far more "nytimes/WaPo/etc" on social media today than a year ago or 5 years ago. Even on HN, look how much traditional media links we have here.

I don't think traditional media will go anywhere. As you said, they serve a valuable purpose - brainwashing large segments of the population.
After trying many, I settled with Materialistic [1]

Its easy to navigate, allows good interaction with HN and is very stable.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...
OnePlus 5 Is the First Android Phone to Beat the iPhone in Speed Test
I actually work quite hard on Indie Hackers. Since joining Stripe I've finally had the breathing room to focus on a long-term vision for the site. Making long-term changes requires a commensurate upfront investment, but it's still much better for everyone than me obsessing over the next week's ad revenue.

I have certainly been less public about what I'm doing. I suspect that will trend will reverse itself in the coming months, but I don't intend to reboot the blog any time soon. The most valuable content on IH comes from other people sharing their stories, not from me, so I'm better off spending my time facilitating that.

A few misconceptions I'd like to correct:

- I stopped sending of hundreds of emails to find interviewees the day I launched Indie Hackers last August. Nothing changed after joining Stripe.

- When I talk about building the forum, it's usually to illustrate the point of developers spending too much time coding. I think it's a bad idea for any founder to build something just because it's complicated, and I certainly wouldn't brag about it.

- The forum has actually been growing nicely in recent months. I used to spend a lot more time seeding discussions, but it's been good to see it grow more organically. In a perfect world I'd have infinite time to do more commenting and lots of other things, but in the real world I have to prioritize.
How do you treat a dog with OCD
What about (multiparty) session types? Can they be implemented for the actors to force them to follow a protocol?
Salient: "Michael K Williams asks: Am I typecast?" https://youtu.be/STkh15nZ1uA
A refugee funding America's psychedelic renaissance
Not everyone has the luxury to do that. There are many places where there just aren't that many employers, and the person may not be able to move.
Thanks, will check them.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I think you start getting into challenging grey area with pre-existing conditions. Is being overweight a consumer responsibility but an auto-immune disease isn't? How do you effectively draw a line between disease or health risks someone should be responsible for versus not.
Thanks, will check it.
Funded by Bayer and Syngenta.

The extremely cynical interpretation is that Bayer patented the first neonic in 1985 and the major one (Imidacloprid) is now off-patent.

Bayer would probably love it to be banned, so that everyone has to switch to some newer, less tested, more patent protected discovery of theirs.
https://medium.com/swlh/the-story-behind-siri-fbeb109938b0

Subheading: "And the man who made her."
Silicon Valley is Dead
EUROSEARCH SONG CONTEST: IF GOOGLE SEARCHES WERE USED TO AWARD POINTS
> It is nice in a theoretical sense, in the same way Haskell's [Char] is nice, in a practical sense it's awful.

Haskell's list of Char is awful in both a theoretical and practical sense whereas in erlang's case you can think of it as just a degenerate iolist.

> I don't remember Erlang having much if any string-manipulation API for working on bytes

Elixir is better but erlang certainly has string manipulation functionality for binaries: pattern matching, regular expressions, search, splitting and joining etc.

> This is only for output, so they're not actually ropes.

Not true, lots of non-output functions also accept iolists, e.g. the re module.
I'm just now in the process of moving from XFCE to Ratpoison - I'm trying more and more to memorize the hot-keys and avoid moving my hand to the mouse.
Perhaps initially, but since there's a limit to how high total compensation can go for all employees put together... the effect will be to compress compensation differences. The same is true if it should initially lead to deflation (e.g., if total compensation is already at the limit, then some of the more highly compensated employees will have to see their compensation cut in order for less-generously compensated employees to see theirs improved).

Ignoring macroeconomic effects, this should just lead to compression of compensation deltas regardless of whether it also leads to inflation or deflation. Now, if every State did this suddenly, and if transparency were required of the private sector as well, then there might be macroeconomic effects as well, such as higher inflation (or faster deflation), and I won't hazard a guess as to which.
Systematically enforcing laws would put all kinds of people in jail (including lawmakers), not just racial minorities.

Shouldn't we aim to reduce the gap between legality and morality?
This is one area where the scientific method feels like a subpar approach to deciding policy. I'll grant that it's likely better than the alternative in most cases but man does it create some really dangerous blind spots.
That's a completely different situation though.
Where's erlang's constant time indexable utf-32 string?
> you have now convinced me that std::bind should be deprecated ASAP

Once made a mistake using std::bind and got 500 lines of errors.
It's actually pretty rare to eat too much meat. Meat is expensive, despite subsidies. Unless you deliberately go out of your way to eat lots of meat, you won't be eating that much.

Furthermore, the combination of meats, vitamin D-added milk, and enriched cereals, the latter two courtesy of the FDA who have centuries of history fighting malnutrition, and who for example introduced hominy grits to the South to combat pellagra, tends to hit everybody's basic nutrition requirements with the exceptions of dietary fiber, vitamin C, and potassium. While good health is still dependent on eating a variety of vegetables, it's important to give the US food system its due -- it produced pretty good results before the modern Age of Excessive Sweeteners.
> Thus, while Bitcoin would have been possible in the 1970s, etherium and zcash wouldn't have been.

Not with current DAG sizes, but if this system had been available in the 70s it wouldn't have the current DAG sizes. If you assume a DAG that numbers in tens/hundreds of kbyes then it would have been workable.
> The US should take leadership ideas from China?

Yes, why not? The USA should take good ideas from anywhere they come from, as should any other country.

> notice that China is very short on private cars.

China has 172 million private cars, is that "very short" on private cars?

The USA has 250 million private cars by comparison.

China will likely exceed the US private car ownership in a few short years, will they still be "very short" on private cars when that happens?

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-automotiv...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-01/25/c_135043964.htm
I hadn't thought about this much, but this is an excellent point. I imagine the only thing that would change this in the future is if we made child bearing and rearing a lot less burdensome than what it is right now.... but that seems like a pipe dream, even as I write it down. I imagine economics are only one part of the difficulty with having children; the emotional consequences are probably much more significant.
Show HN: DPG – A deterministic password generator
Opt-out: various privacy choice links
Did Life on Earth Come from Outer Space?
> Consumption of red meat is at an all time high and is growing every year.

I was curious to see if this was actually the case, but the data doesn't really seem to support this claim. Meat consumption overall appears to have remained relatively stable over the past few years, but it's mostly been an increase in poultry intake that's made up for a simultaneous decline in red meat consumption.

http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/sta...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3045642/

http://fortune.com/2015/10/27/red-meat-consumption-decline/

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
Yeah flee from the right-wing nightmare that is the U.S. right now to join a nation with the exact same problems and that speaks a different language after all (oh and it is france, they'll let you know that you are american scum to them) This pathetic try to cash in on the whole Trump situation is disgusting. If you want to to relocate to Europe try Berlin or Stockholm.
My friend also wrote up a latex paper, it was about digging for the Grail. He can efficiently aim for the Grail.
I don't know why you got downvotes for that, but I agree and have had similar experience - multiple offers are very stressful for me. The pay and PTO are usually secondary concerns. Usually it's more stressful because I get job offers through my network, and when I turn down offers I'm also turning down one of my friends who's gotten really excited for me to come work with them. Also it gets more stressful when the better job for me pays less than a job I dont want as much, making it harder to decide. With only a few offers, you take them all seriously and spend time evaluating which ones will lead to a more fulfilling life, not just which ones pay more.

But... I bet the author is right about this mass application technique lowering his stress. He's gaming the system and not applying through his network, there's no great reason to care deeply about any of the offers, and he has so many offers that it's not risky to mess some of them up. You get to be detached and learn more about the application process by doing dozens of them at once.

It reminds me of this Moth podcast story about the guy who data mined for dates on OK cupid. https://themoth.org/stories/data-mining-for-dates Worth the listen, but he reported being a lot less invested in individual dates, and seeing interesting patterns in the process. It did add some stress, but a different kind of stress than he had with one-date-at-a-time.
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There has been a very strong dynamic over the past few years around France’s 10,000 startups.

Any info on the success rate?
For those who are seriously considering moving to a European nation for work purposes, you might want to also look up the EU blue card scheme[1] which is most likely more flexible than this for employees (no idea of equivalent for founders and investors).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_(European_Union)
I would strongly recommend Michael K. Williams' interview on NPR's Bullseye. It is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQyXxGgz__Y
Don't know why you were downvoted. Doing e.g. dataset -> .vtk file -> ParaView to add whatever vectors, color maps, surfaces etc. you want -> .obj file -> Blender to do final lighting, coloring and raytrace isn't unheard of. I've seen it done several times in CFD, and I've done it myself.

It becomes a bit of a pain for animating datasets, since you need to do Blender scripting with Python which is far from intuitive. But it's doable.

Having said that, this doesn't look like Blender.
I don't understand this kind of negativity and frankly, this is an incredibly weak comment because of it.
I have found HackDesign[0] to be a great source of ideas and resources to learn about design. I'm a developer myself and just have a guilty pleasure in learning design so I follow along HackDesign every now and then to learn new stuff.

[0]: https://hackdesign.org/
> And I strongly suspect that Europe has absolutely nothing to fear from both Russia and China.

This is most certainly not True, as the Russian annexation of Crimea and the Troubles in Ukraine have so clearly demonstrated. Even if Russian might not want to annex more territory, without the backing of NATO, Russia could bully Western European countries more easily.
What am I missing here? Is this just a guide on how to use apt-get? Also I though the gem command automatically used a user specific directory when not run as root.
When people say that a physical machine is Turing-complete, they invariably mean that it is equivalent to a linear-bounded automaton, precisely because an infinite tape isn't possible for us to construct.
Which flamewar are you referring to?
Or how about hard laws that forbid fabricated news (unless tagged as such)? I'm not saying it is a solution, but it should be explored.
> How can a vegan diet be more balanced? It lacks diversity which as far as I understand is the primary foundation for good healthy diet.

How does it lack diversity? There's far, far more non-animal foodstuffs in the world than types of meat/fish... Also, most traditional and 'varied' diets contain far more vegetable matter than meat anyway.
> the digits for 3 have either three horizonal strokes ౾ or three vertical strokes ౻, and the others similarly. I have an idea that the alternating vertical-horizontal system might have served as an error-detection mechanism

The Chinese Suzhou numerals use alternating 〡〢〣 and 一二三 but for a different reason:

"21" is written as "〢一" instead of "〢〡" which can be confused with "3" (〣)

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzhou_numerals
From the paper:

> [Pay with a Group Selfie (PGS)] is a mobile payment technique that leverages on face-to-face exchanges where pictures taken with mobile phones are used to embed all information (the parties’ identities, the exchanged goods/services, and the price) of a business transaction. The system relies on Visual Cryptography (VC) to generate two untamperable shares of the selfie showing the transaction. The buyer and the seller hold a share each, and the transaction can be checked simply by stacking the shares.
This was beautiful! Thank you!
Light-seconds to different places are written in the new 20CHF swiss banknotes
Historical roots of the student debt crisis
> hives are closer together and are inhibited from swarming

Can you expand on this? I've been thinking about getting a hive and coincidentally was wondering about this earlier today -- can you let a hive swarm without losing it? I.e. does a spritely new queen take half the hive with her? Is it healthier for the hive to do so?
During yesterday's evening walk past a corn field, it occurred to me that the impending roboticization (?) of farming may enable synergistic multiple plant fields/plantings on a large scale. What was the old (apocryphal, or not?) Native American combination: Corn, squash, and beans? (I'm just going by memory, as I was yesterday evening while walking.)

We may be on the edge of a new wave of a more organic farming, on a mass scale. Using plant communities and synergies to reduce or need for the more simplistic, mass application of chemicals.

Without even getting into all the genetic engineering and the like that is sure, however you feel about it, to continue.
Thank you for the tips, especially the idea of accepting other's articles. What's your process for moderating them, do they often require additional communication with an author?
Nice styles.
Well, they did a rather poor job didn't they?

Google Home Rated 6x More Accurate Than Alexa
http://www.channelnews.com.au/google-home-rated-6x-more-accu...
Internet, Activate Stand Up for Net Neutrality on July 12
If they could already do this, then wouldnt there already be a lot less space debris?
> yes! I have devs with college degrees who don't understand operator precedence.

Bitwise operators in C-like languages have precedences that make no sense at all; I can't remember those either. (Even though they sort-of make sense if you consider their historical heritage... no excuses though.) But do you really see software developers with a university degree that mess up the precedence of times and plus? I shudder when thinking about them working with my code. I would really appreciate to be able to write e.g.

a + b == 0 || c * d - e > f / g

without a misunderstanding of precedence. Why is that not a basic feature in the first programming course one gets? It certainly was in mine, two years ago.

EDIT: is there any way to sanely embed an asterisk in normal text here?
Yet only 70 companies are allowed to hire talent based on the visa rules.
I think you mean to say that veganism is a subset of vegetarianism? Omnivores by definition eat animal products.

I'm typically vegetarian to suit my own wacky body chemistry and slow metabolism (tldr; lowered/normalized my blood pressure, cholesterol, lost weight etc by diet changes and exercise) and would like to underline the point you're making about finding dietary substitutes. Protein consumption was the hardest thing for me to adjust back into nominal ranges. It's pretty easy to overconsume carbs (carbitarianism) on the way to getting the 50-100g of protein needed for a typical semi-active to active day.
If I get it right, you should be able to see your email server (if it uses TLS - we don't support StartTLS atm.), if you add it to the list of servers as, e.g., my.email.server:465

We want to simplify adding servers with multiple services. The plan is to allow setting a list of ports to check per server.
I definitely can be asking why the US apparently has an interest in spending vast amounts of money and lives, mostly from flyover country or Afghanistan itself, in the interest of changing Afghan society in a direction most Afghans aren't down with. It's extremely non obvious to me.

I'm guessing you have some moral premise about it being virtuous to spend other people's lives and money to help "the oppressed", by some construction, but I'm not sure how explicit you're willing to be about that premise, and I'm fairly sure I and many others don't agree with any plausible formulation along those lines.
I'm considering fleeing to someplace where I am assured health care.

If I continue to work solo, I don't need to worry about hours caps and all the rest.

Hell, maybe I'll be able to relax and "have a life", for a change.
> Startup compensation can be right up there with the big companies.

Does anyone know how to find these companies when you're already at the high end of the spectrum? There are thousands of start ups and even shooting an email or checking LinkedIn for previous work history of current engineers can be a time drain to figure this out.

Ideally, the compensation would be something like > 80% total comp of big tech company in liquid money + a lot of private RSU's ( > 50% of big tech total comp)
It's related to linear logic and affine logic, and both are kinda related to linear algebra I think.

With linear algebra, a function f is linear if, for any a,b, f(a+b)=f(a)+f(b)

Suppose there is a vending machine that sells soda for $1 each (doesn't have a menu, just dispenses the soda, for simplicity). If you put in $1, you get a soda. If you put in $1+$1, you get a soda + a soda.

The amount of soda you get is linear in the amount of money you put in.

This might not be a correct explanation of why it is called linear.

Also I don't really understand how the affine fits in this analogy, other than that "affine" is a somewhat weaker assumption than linear.

I hope someone can give a better answer than I did, because I thought I knew the answer, but when I tried to explain it, I found that I did not really know the answer.
Wow you have to have a graduate degree to even be an eligible employee, never mind.
As an aside, I don't know what to think of the fact that all AI assistant are made to appear female.