skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, let's say that set_motor_rpm() didn't try to slam the RPM to the requested value, but instead tried to smoothly accelerate or decelerate to the requested value at a rate that would not damage the motor. It might use a function called set_immediate_rpm() to set the value for the next instant, but that value needs to be not very different from the current value, or damage can result. You can use an object to make sure that nobody from outside calls set_immediate_rpm() by mistake.

Now, you're still right, because in C, you just make set_immediate_rpm() static, so that nobody can call it from outside the file, and then the non-static functions become the public API.
I was using an old version of 1Password, it stopped working for me on Sierra so I went to upgrade and the upgrade page had broken images and talked about working on El Capitan. I sent a support ticket (in February) in to make sure the upgrade would work on Sierra and had a back and forth where they ultimately said, "Like you saw, that web page hasn't been updated in awhile as Sierra is the latest macOS. Knowing that there is a better way to do things, in good faith we couldn't continue to sell a lesser product like the stand-alone license. Due to this, we are moving away from the stand-alone license and heading to higher and better pastures."

I got a marketing email about a week later from Dave Teare and replied expressing my disappointment that publicly they're saying the stand-alone model will continue indefinitely but privately, they're "moving away" from the "lesser product" that they couldn't in good conscience sell me any longer. No reply.

The actions of Agile Bits are not matching the words in my experience and that's a big deal given the type of software they sell.
Or "data science"

Also https://xkcd.com/1570/
Over 150 of the best machine learning nlp and python tutorials
That's one of those xckd which are missing the point, and it's not uncommon for the author to have pointless sarcasm. That's why I mostly don't find his comics interesting.
I don't think you understand the amount of information overload that comes with medical records.

A typical medical record can contain more than 100 pages of documentation.
I've seen records that span more than 1500 pages.

While most medical records are electronic, systems do not interoperate with one another.
So, you are forced to type in relevant information from a fax into your EHR system.

Most of the pain comes with documentation necessary for dealing with billing and insurance.
In fact most of the language is super vague so that you can cover your ass if someone tries to sue you.

Disclosure: I run a start up that is working on solving a lot of these problems.
> "the imposition of “vindictive protectiveness” encourages students to think pathologically."
Sure, but when we're talking about a core foundational feature, they do. Richard Stallman would absolutely be willing to say, "We 100% guarantee that gcc will never become non-free software" instead of "we realize that not all gcc users are ready to move to non-free software yet, and we promise that versions 7 and 8 will continue to be free software".

For a lot of people here, not remotely storing the vault is such a core foundational feature.
Just guessing, but 'going global' may factor into this. Not as in more than one meeting center, rather, globalizing the marketing for startups. There is an interesting 'snowball effect' of successful exits growing the number of investors, and YC, even with the huge number of applicants it enjoys today, may be seeing quality diminish and therefore need to establish more permanent presence in other founder hot beds around the world. Perhaps that such a move is independent of this raise, but in order to invest the money, they'll need to keep the building the flow of recruits.
Just thinking about how they work here, it looks like Roman numerals are effectively a base 5 notation, with a special behavior for 5n - 1.

In base 10 math there are 18 outcomes for adding two digits, and you have to do carry operations for 9 of them. With carries there are 20 and you have special cases for 10. In Roman numerals there are 10 outcomes, you have to do carries for 5 of them, special casing for two (4 and 9), the numbers are at least one digit longer and non uniform, so it's harder to line up the columns to do an addition in the first place.

No wonder algebra was invented in Arabic.
I saw this on Reddit, lwn and now here and I didn't see anyone comment on license upgrades. when FSF released GPLv3 they migrated a ton of software from one version to another.

although GPL is usually forward compatible with its newer versions I still wonder if that's the concern behind Stallman's opinion.
The long-lasting angst I continue to observe on the part of those (usually casual observers without skin in the game)denied their schadenfreude always impresses me.
No one's opinion was excluded by the split between Ethereum and Classic, both sides "got their way" by making the conscious choice of which chain they would like to continue with. I suspect some of the folks who chose the chain in which the hack did succeed are perhaps sour grapes that their specific view of Ethereum is significantly less popular (with a similarly small market cap) though.

This I see as a wonderful property of blockchain currencies, everyone can get what they want in an entirely democratic way, except the haters who just want to see other people's fun ruined.
I generally agree with this sentiment. The way I see it, if you have to make concessions for a platform, then that platform is not really a very viable option. If I want to play X, but X is not available for my platform, telling me "Well Y is supported, and it's also a AAA game!" That doesn't really help me any, because I don't want _Y_, I want _X_.

I feel like a large part of the group making who believe Linux is gaming ready doesn't understand that angle.
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Thanks! This is an easier to digest explanation.

What about another use case that's also fairly mundane but is date/time triggered and has a slightly different result/outcome?

Say someone wants to use ethereum to manage the sending of a bunch of birthday cards to friends.

Is it possible for an ethereum script be set up to trigger an event on a specific day to send a pre-composed email along with some funds (e.g. bitcoin or ethereum).
The guys who just stole $30M and $70M beg to disagree.
Your comment is not on point.

Here are the release dates with linux support date.

Tomb Raider: 2013, 2016

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: 2014, 2015

The Talos Principle: 2014, same day

Here are some other random selection:

Borderlands 2: 2012, 2014

Europa Universalis 4: 2013, same day

Pillars of Eternity: 2015, same day

Civilization 5: 2010, 2014

Civilization 6: 2016, 2017

Factorio: not yet released, already supports both

There is a clear trend towards more games with linux support and less lag between windows release and linux release. My impression is that the tipping point for newer games is already in favour of linux support than not linux support.

If you want to argue against linux gaming, I would argue with slightly older games that didn't receive a linux port and maybe never will.
Raising a billion dollars for a fund might be considered 'typical VC', or not, depending on one's perspective. Certainly the financial scale at which YC operates has changed over recent years. Practically speaking it is no longer ~$17k for ~7% to get through three months before demo day. While I believe that YC played a role in changing the economics of startups, the economics of startups have started looking more and more like "big money" investing...particularly as the idea of "startup" has morphed as the term has been adopted in popular culture and pension funds and insurance companies have gotten into the act.

At some point it will make sense to start thinking about YC as a staid financial institution (whether or not that point is today, is another question) rather than some plucky newcomer. The amount of money an organization has affects its operation. It's impossible to spend $1 billion carefully deliberating $20,000 decisions one at a time...and carefully deliberated $20,000 decisions one at a time was what made YC successful...and how and why it changed the startup landscape.
Making it more viable is a process, and it requires actually using it.
Okay, but when did Linux become my software?
> We have direct evidence that that is incorrect

Post it.

> Why would that matter to me as an individual? So long as my overall wealth is increasing

That's my point. It isn't, it just appears that way because you haven't looked past the shin y surface.

> This is just plain wrong in terms of a way to think about the economy or my life.

Subjective.

There are a lot of ordinary people who would say your way of thinking is wrong. Some actually want a stake in society, not an extra handful of rice per generation while a few at the top get an extra plantation.
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Speaking as both a parent and a former child, I also agree.
The equivalent to II + II = IIII isn't 2 + 2 = 4, it's 2 + 2 = 22. Simply jamming the symbols together gives you the right answer.
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I've done this using Inkscape a few times, usually works but I've had one company come back to me saying "uh no, print it out". They were in finance so maybe a regulatory thing or maybe just luck.
That doesn't seem that onerous. It's just a pull and and a merge—it's what git is designed for.
I don't even understand the point of that. Just rent a bedroom somewhere in Queens for M-Th nights at least.
What in the python standard library compares with the extraordinary diversity of functionality present in, say, org-mode?
Just-graduated MD/MPH and former EMT and ED admin here. I empathize strongly, since the first time I watched a 16-year girl who'd been in a MVC and first transported to Duke, who needed sub-specialty consults at UNC get re-scanned.

I'd read about CT dosing and realized that we had just increased this girls lifetime likelihood of ovarian or endometrial cancer by perhaps about 1/1000. For absolutely no reason other than the fact we couldn't get the images 8 miles down the road from the Duke ED, and the attending wanted to 'just be sure'.

I asked the resident why they couldn't send them digitally and they just laughed. That was 2009.

It's 8 years and a few hundred billion of national EMR spend later - and you know what? We still can't send an image between the two EDs. UNC and Duke were the first two nodes/servers on Usenet back in 1980[1], and 37 years later we can barely exchange medical data using our combined 1.3 billion dollars of Epic EMR implementations.

This problem harms people needlessly every day. Please use your voice as a provider to remind people whenever possible.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
> Where many other password managers use convoluted constructions with (e.g.) AES and PBKDF2, this is very straightforward GPG.

That's a bonus until you need to demonstrate FIPS 140-2 validation.
Any list putting Python on top makes me happy. It still is and remains my favorite language and, even if the metrics of the list are highly selective and not a general representation, it's nice to see it represented.
I've been looking for this. Thanks
Same for me.

Part of it is the brevity, and part of it is the shortcuts. E.g. when I did my masters, one thing I quickly realised was that papers that expressed an algorithm using mathematical notation almost always lacked essential details.

My impression is that it's too obvious when there are too large leaps in code, whereas in mathematical notation everyone accepts leaps that can obscure that essential details have been left out.

E.g. you'd have papers on thresholding of images for OCR (deciding what is background and what is foreground) where it turned out the results were highly dependent on certain values represented by certain variables that were never defined, for example, putting in a situation of reconstructing parameters by trial and error if you wanted to reproduce the results.

Today I'm immediately suspicious if results are presented as maths outside of fields where the maths is essential (and sometimes even then) as I see it as having a tendency to be used to gloss over sloppy work or save space by leaving out essential details.

I'm sure this is not the case in all fields, and that people with a more extensive maths background will be able to fill in more of those leaps without much effort, and so it might very well be acceptable in some fields. But to me a notation that makes it that easy to hide missing details is a liability.
Our infrastructure is crumbling, tech is being exported and offshored, space is in tatters, and the latest from the military is an incredibly expensive jet it still won't work, and incredibly expensive boat they just don't want.
Because
1. It cost money to replace people
2. If the CEO doesn't see it as a problem, he's not going to put resources on it.
3. Zero-tolerance policies are usually bad in every context. You were too flirty with a girl at work and put your arm around her? Bam, you're fired.
4. To understand a situation, you have to see it from both sides.
Were global (or at least nationwide) technical standards and specifications for data exchange protocols never defined as part of this mandate?
I'd say this is pretty awesome: https://blog.ycombinator.com/research

I don't think it's common for a VC to hand out free money. The best part is that with the data they get from these experiments, combined with the vast experience of starting and growing companies, they'll likely be able to find business models that are successful financially while simultaneously achieving the goals of what they are researching.

I'm no rocket surgeon, but off the top of my head, they could determine the personal financial implications of not having to worry about keeping a head over your kids' head and food on the table. If you give someone a basic income, what do they do with it? does someone use time to become more marketable and be able to earn more in the long-run instead of have to focus on a minimum wage job to feed their kids? Maybe there's a business model in using yourself as collateral. I've seen personal examples of this happening - high net worth individuals that meet exceptional people and give them a basic income so that they can focus on big ideas, not affording rent. Maybe through the data YC is collecting, they'll be able to find a scalable form of that.
So 2 spaces only on a typewriter?
> A 3 year track record is plenty long enough to prove out a system and provide a track record. It's a troubling sign that there is only $20 million in his fund if.

I'm curious as to why you say a 3 year track record is long enough to prove a system. I don't necessarily disagree (though I think number of trades executed in that timespan and the type of trading strategy might be as important as the timespan itself), but I'm interested in your reasoning.
In case you don't know: You can simply type the expressions in gnome-shell search to get results.

eg.: if you type "3+5" (without quotes), the result 8 will be shown. You can also have complex expressions like "3kg in lb", "sin (90)" etc.

Once the result is shown, you can simply press the Enter key to open the result in gnome-calculator.
Well, I'd check out how well grammarians and linguists write before I worry about their opinion of S&W...
It's too bad there are no timestamps on this. The attitudes expressed in thise comments seem to make sense back then and now seems so outdated.
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Sure, look at the feudal system, look at most communism implementations, look at China before their recent uptake of capitalist concepts.

Progress almost entirely stops in these places under these systems. Clearly, at some level there is a system effect.
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The implication here is that should you find the advantages of Linux compelling, you would factor that into your consumer choices. "I bought a hundred gallons of desiel but I couldn't get it working in my sedan so I'll just stick to the truck"
Statistics are often twisted around or taken out of context to make an argument, which is wrong. So don't get upset if that is dismissed to make conversation fact based, not speculation based. And this particular stats example is waved around often for that incorrect argumentation.
For those who play CS:GO and Dota 2 competitively, Linux isn't a viable option because CEVO and ESEA don't have clients for Linux. That's ignoring all of the bugs and quirky behavior that come with the platform. ALSA has a 10-100ms delay and for a game like CS:GO that relies so heavily on audio feedback, that's inexcusable. There are also issues with mouse input, lag, and random frame drops on Linux that have lingered for years.

You'll see all kinds of posts showing Min/Max FPS and how Linux beats Windows at this game or that but you rarely see any mention of Average FPS because they're usually pretty awful.
I was hoping that it like that situation when Caligula replaced a senator with a horse, but rather the hedge fund replaced quants with algae :-)
This was last edited in 2011. Things sure have changed.
Right, much like I + V is IV.

(There is more help; it's not as simple as people have been portraying, though...)
> In John Bogle's “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing,” he notes that the average U.S. equity fund compounded at 10 percent from 1980 through 2005, while the Vanguard 500 Index Fund made 12.3 percent. Actively managed funds did worse than average, not better as the brokers would have you believe.[1]

Lets see how it performs longer term (10 year period).

[1]: http://paulmerriman.com/10-reasons-brokers-dont-like-index-f...
Found this inside the JEM:
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.5604024,-95.0855631,3a,44.9y...

Recycling, in spaaaace.
see, the culture of positivity I spoke of exemplified right here on this forum- downvoting legit critiques while not engaging in any productive discussion about them. I could name names and bootcamps and specific examples, but I really don't think anyone wants me to do that. I think they all know exactly who they are, are hoping I do not, and I'm in turn hoping they will reflect on their choices. I'm also very much on the side of these students, all students of any ability, especially students saddled with debt without many financial options, and I'd prefer not to devalue any one's paid-for bootcamp before they secure the all-elusive junior dev role. I'm a student advocate. I believe in low barriers, shorter education, on-the-job-paid-training, corporate responsibility, and I believe in helping people get jobs, especially those in underserved groups.
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> I don't consider something that remember the login URL for a site (which most password managers can store) a marginal improvement at all.

Me neither, that's why I proposed a system that will allow your password manager to log you in automatically with a single click instead, with a trivial change to the server (a file with some information).

> I'm saying we should make better systems (not perfect ones) easier to use.

Having seen how little adoption Persona, which was pretty much perfect, got, I don't think the problem is usability.
Amazing.

But it seems like a powerful way to process data, not a way to write programs, am I right?

Maybe it could be said to be a spreadsheet-like data processor that generates Javascript code to process that data in that same way.

I hope I remember to install and try it when I get home.
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We have no idea what the beta of the fund is; it's difficult to talk about performance without knowledge of the fund's underlying risk

The other problem is scale - this is pretty evidently an advertising attempt in order to raise more cash. It's a lot easier to return 20% on, say, $100M AUM than it is on $1B AUM.

To be fair -- these caveats are true for almost every fund you hear about. I do think that's kind of my big issue with the article though, that this fund is just like every other fund; it's intrinsically an actively managed portfolio with the same shortcomings as any other. It's just got a good publicist!
Did it ever occur to you that a nice, "boring," safe culture is what many people want?
The whole point of the proof of work blockchain is that no trust is needed, and the state of the chain is determined by distributed concensus. There is no moral right or wrong. Forking is the by-design mechanism to deal with large scale disagreement.
Because if you don't memorize your 'primitive' algebraic rules you'll end up just doing a pullback with roman numerals in the middle. Integers don't have any values, they're mathematical objects with certain properties. Asking about 'the value of 5' doesn't make sense unless you're trying to convert to another, already known, number system.

What is 2 + 5? Well 2 is II and 5 is V which is IIIII. So then we have IIIIIII which is (IIIII)II or VII which is 7.
Not directly related to website monetization but I found Founders At Work very useful in terms of the different ways startups can find a path to revenue:

http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781590597149
You can use a securely hidden private key mnemonic (12-word, high entropy phrase) on a piece of paper, along with an offline "airgapped" computer, to sign transactions, then transfer the signed transactions to a device with internet access to publish it to the network.

That's probably the most secure method of managing keys yourself, assuming access to physical security. A good approximation of this solution is the use of a hardware wallet, which keeps the private key behind a secure enclave (USB interface, transaction signing occurs within the enclave)

There's no insurance or anything like that, either privately offered or via government regulation. The crypto market is still immature, so I wouldn't be surprised to see protections emerge in the coming decade. In the meantime, there is no equivalent to a bank for crypto assets—the best practice is currently to manage offline wallets oneself. Certainly be careful, though, user error is a big risk!
I don't see how this is not unsubstantive. The story is about someone arrested for running an illegal drug market. My suggestion was to just not do that.
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Well played, sir. Given the nature of FSF's business you'd think they'd be on the cutting edge of digital identification and authentication. GPG keys a thousand times better at properly identifying an owner than an easily forged pen-and-paper signature.

For that matter, why not have a blockchain assignment process? Given what a vanguard for technology FSF used to be it's a shame to watch it devolve at the pace of bureaucracy.