skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding

> "According to CPB, in 2009 11.3% of the aggregate revenues of all public radio broadcasting stations were funded from federal sources, principally through CPB; in 2012 10.9% of the revenues for Public Radio came from federal sources."

It appears approximately 10% of NPR funding is from the US government. That's a decent chunk, but not enough to hold sway if it goes against the majority of their donors.

Contrast that with a services like the BBC and RT which are almost all funded by taxpayer money:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Finances

> "According to the BBC's 2013/14 Annual Report, its total income was £5 billion (£5.066 billion),[2] which can be broken down as follows:

* £3.726 billion in licence fees collected from householders;
* £1.023 billion from the BBC's commercial businesses;
* £244.6 million from government grants, of which £238.5 million is from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the BBC World Service;
* £72.1 million from other income, such as rental collections and royalties from overseas broadcasts of programming.
"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Budget

"When it was established in 2005, ANO TV-Novosti invested $30 million in start-up costs to establish RT,[14] with a budget of $30 million for its first year of operation. Half of the network's budget came from the Russian government; the other half came from pro-Kremlin commercial banks at the government's request."

"About 80 percent of RT's costs are incurred outside Russia, paying partner networks around $260 million for the distribution of its channels in 2014."

"In 2015, RT was expected to receive 19 billion rubles ($307 million) from the Russian government in 2016."
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Multi-occur has kept me with emacs. Exactly what's wanted when making coordinated edits to multiple file formats, e.g. a project that involves JS, Go, Markdown. After some setup hassle, 'M-x mo <regexp>' or similar searches all open buffers, and presents matches in a new temporary buffer. Typing 'e' in that buffer makes it writable. The usual editing commands then simultaneously modify both the temporary multi-occur buffer, and the originals.
"they don't represent any underlying value or investment"
- You should try sending money to a friend or relative in a foreign country. You'll love the cost of what should be nothing more than a basic electronic transaction.
Two "males"... I hate it so much when people who are against stereotyping women so readily stereotype men. Those were two people who happened to be men. Your comment is everything that is wrong with today's "feminist" movement.
"Substance is illusory, only appearance is substantial."

It took me a while to put to words what I find objectionable about your view -- it's intellectual laziness masquerading as critical opinion.

Rather than grappling with a tough problem, it advocates abandoning the problem completely into some sort of post truth fluff, then dresses that up to pose as wisdom.

There's no critical analysis of how bias manifests or the tradeoffs of that bias versus other biases that might be introduced by other sets of circumstances -- there's no meat to that line of thinking.

It's intellectual high-fructose corn syrup.
Never read a troll that ended with "we are hiring" before
I think the traffic sign example was a nice setting for explaining the research. But of course really good examples always risk interfering with communication as much as they assist communication. I think that might've happened here.

Concretely, I have a hard time believing that adversarial traffic signs will be the Achilles heel of self-driving cars. Vandalizing signs is already illegal, and if doing so causes or was intended to cause a crash, law enforcement will throw the book at the culprit. And this already happens to human drivers. See e.g., http://globegazette.com/news/local/prank-turns-to-peril-vand... or http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-11/news/mn-2303_1_one-st...

Besides which, you can also just rip the sign out of the ground or replace the stop sign with an actual speed limit sign. From a SDC perspective, this is kind of the equivalent of using super clever software vulnerabilities when you have physical access to an un-encrypted HDD. Impressive technical tour de force, but misses the forest for the trees if your goal is security.

Traffic sign vandalism is a social problem with a social solution. The first person who tries something like this in production with malicious intent toward SDCs will be charged with some variation of attempted or actual manslaughter/murder and opponents of SDCs will switch to strategies other than domestic terrorism to advance their agenda.

This research is still very interesting and useful, of course, but primarily for other reasons. I just don't see traffic sign vandalism intended to confuse DNNs as a serious -- or unique -- threat to self-driving cars.
I'm saying that this is a weak argument:

Apple complies with law in countries where it operates.

Instead one should value the act itself:

Is it right or wrong to aid in restricting ~1b people's access to knowledge and information
about their government's past deeds[1], current affairs[2], corruption[3], etc.

I think it's wrong, other may think it's right.

But saying they're following local laws is similar to saying that someone is just respecting German WW2-laws on Jews or apartheid in South Africa.

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[1] Tiananmen Square

[2] Food safety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal)

[3] High-official corruption (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/world/asia/china-blocks-we...)
People who say there is no use case for bitcoin or they have no value tend to be in places where there is a somewhat reliable banking system and they do not use that banking system to transfer money internationally, because even a good banking system has a very high charge for international transfers, and as this is usually a flat fee it makes it very expensive for small transfers. However I have seen some places that charge a flat fee plus a %age of the total, which means large transfers are also relatively expensive.
I don't think this is a true dichotomy.

1) "call it speech and you can now do it unrestricted"

I agree, that would be silly; the perpetrator could choose to call any action speech.

2) campaigns of dishonesty

Could these campaigns be carried out by actions that fall under a commonly before hand agreed on definition of speech?
If your published code is bad I can quickly learn whether I'm wasting my time, but if it's good I still need to see you code in person. Neither GitHub nor homework proves you did the work.
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The report is discussing a survey of 190 articles, 6% of which they deemed negative and 54% deemed neutral.

I'm not sure how finding two articles contradicts any of that.
The incorrect premise here is that we won't kill and/or eat smart animals. Cute animals may (or may not) get a pass, but humans don't care about smart animals. After a decade and a half as a vegetarian, I realized we're nowhere advanced enough to make a difference in this or most other causes and a lifetime of vegetarianism won't even make a difference. Hell, we can't even stop killing ourselves and causing mass extinction events through our actions. A human, in its natural state, is the most disgusting, cruelest, nastiest creature in the known universe. Until we can figure out how to provide tools to the majority of people to raise them up out of this state (at least levels 1-2 of Maslow's pyramid), we have no hope in hell of fixing problems like this. This is not an argument to not try. It's simply an explanation of what is. If we ever get to a point where humans are able to fix such problems and have empathy and respect for each other and other creatures, it'll be amazing indeed. I certainly won't see it in my life or any of my peers' children's lives, I'm pretty sure of that, but I think certain cultures have indeed made big strides towards this in the last 50-100 years.
Are you even trying?
How does increased stock price affect capital
For companies with high growth stock (Netflix, Amazon or Tesla), does the increasing stock price mean they have access to cheaper capital? I've seen this mentioned in the news, but I'm confused how that works
Wow, way to absolve US from it's shitty UN voting/vetoing over the years.
It was Trump business interests!
What's the incentive for cops to plant drugs on people? I assume they get some kind of bonus or have a performance review rating on how many "criminals" they apprehend?
This is probably the experience of a lot of people. Never clicked on an ad, no idea who does. Same here.

I happen to know a guy who drives some very expensive cars. He made his money advertising stuff online and selling it. He knows all the tricks, the inside out of how Facebook and Google work, how to source cheap stuff, how to ship things, and so on.

So clearly someone is clicking the ads.

My guess is he has some tricks up his sleeve that are either unknown to most marketers or slightly dodgy. Actually that last one he told me himself. But he does know a thing or two about how the ads work, what makes people buy, and all that.
With that extra context, I agree. It can be quite frustrating to work with people who don't perform, or who don't understand where to focus their work.
Sure, if you can do this:

* know you need to accelerate ahead of time

* hit the exact right RPM before the clutch drop

* don't mind the noise, burning tires, and clutch wear

* have perfect traction, weather, straight road, temperature

* execute two perfect shifts

With normal driving you also have to worry about what gear you are in, what gear you want to be in, handling the throttle in the mean time, and turbo lag. By the time you go from say cruising on the highway in 6th and full throttle in 3rd the model 3 will already have a substantial jump on you.

The telsa on the other hand is pretty simple, just stomp. There's no wrong gear to be in, no shifting, not much noise (traction control and no gas motor). In a wide variety of situations a Tesla model 3 (at least the large range version) is going to feel faster than a WRX. I have had both a forester xt and a WRX.
Court Rules That Politicians Blocking Followers Violates Free Speech
"I am objecting to this on the basis of forcing me to violate Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps this greased handshake will help."
Have you tried neotree? It's a port of vim's nerdtree.
> The bug was that the BLISS compiler figured out that the first read results were never used and that it could optimize the first read away, no matter what the source code said.

It's called "dead code elimination" in compiler jargon. It's a standard optimization. I don't know where it first appeared.
I personally taught myself programming by reading and doing during high-school then got a formal CS education at university.

Currently working at one of the big guys as you call them, and I would say that many coworker seems to have a mix of formal education and self-education by building.
Your belief in functional, rational government is encouraging.
Laundering isn't about traceability. It's about taking money that's been gotten illegally (and thus you can't spend without the IRS asking questions) and paying tax on it so it appears as if you earned it by legitimate means.

Making traceable money untraceable doesn't mean it's now clean.
I dont think it is possible to boot strap a VR company. I have tried. Unique art assets cost a small fortune, as do animations, I found even with as much user generated content I still needed an artist, a server dev, and a front end dev. So unless you can get 100 hours a week of pro work, you dont stand a chance.
Dissent against authoritarian governments will always be a game of cat and mouse - sometimes the cat will catch the mouse, there's no preventing that.

But I think that you're underestimating the power of the mathematics here in terms of the levels of achievable misdirection.

If the government gets into your unencrypted context you're pretty much fucked - I'll give you that - but it does not necessarily mean that anyone else is going down with you.

Let's say you have an unencrypted piece of data telling you that the XOR of the least significant bits of a multitude of data streams contains secret data and a descriptor for the next source node. Most of the data streams will be completely innocent. Even once I extract that data I'll have no idea where the contraband information came from.

This naturally further reduces your bandwidth, and you'll need the streams to contain content that non-dissidents have a decent chance of downloading together by pure chance to reduce suspicion.

There are huge difficulties - but that does not come close to meaning that nothing can be done.
Because once they have "proof" that you're a criminal, then they get greater leeway in what they want to do in terms of searches and detaining you, and even if they turn up nothing, they still have something to charge you with and hang over your head.

Although these days, they don't even need to prove you're a criminal to steal your money with civil asset forfeiture, they just need to be able to find your money.
Seems like a fair amount of boilerplate. You really have to specify that the axes are Cartesian with every simple two-axis plot you make?
Virtual table should be one per class. A type field would be once per instance.
maybe mvp isn't there right word. we have demos we've developed locally and we're going to start pilots.
It's really slow to load for me, but can you buy BTC with USD from it, for example? Otherwise it's not really solving the hard part of the problem...
I worked my way through college by wirewrapping prototype boards. The last step was to get a magnifying glass and carefully inspect the board, pin by pin, looking for any stray tiny bits of wire, or any wire hairs sticking out. For soldered boards, I'd examine for any tiny solder bridges.

Doing that would save a ton of debugging time :-)

Since wirewrapping is a long obsolete technology, here's what the boards looked like:

https://microship.com/wp-content/uploads/1974/07/wirewrap.jp...
Huh? When I said the water was "magical" I was deriding the people who buy it, not the poster. Also, the "right" in America choses to live under a solid rock (as exemplified by them electing a reality TV presenter with a passing understanding of how the political system works as president and expecting him to magically fix everything they don't like) and they've given up on any pretense of actual discourse. I can't count how many times I've been told "the left doesn't understand", but when I ask exactly what "the left" doesn't understand I'm just given vague answers like "well, what the right wants." Of course "the left" will never understand if things aren't articulated.

So maybe it's time everyone came out of the cave?
> The language in the indictment about BTC-e’s “criminal design” mimics the indictment against Liberty Reserve — an anonymous currency service taken down by law enforcement in 2013 — which also accused the online exchange of having a “criminal design” and a system “designed so that criminals could effect financial transactions under multiple layers of anonymity.”

Basing the indictment on the intent of the design - something hard to prove or reason about objectively - seems like a very slippery slope. Couldn't a similar statement be made about almost any system that protects user privacy? Or maybe they're referring to specific legal requirements not being conformed to rather than a general "criminal design"?
Police have been so defanged in the bay that homeless people do whatever they want with impunity.
What's the legal status for moving $10m across international borders like that?
"What are the legitimate uses of Bitcoin? I have claimed here and will repeatedly do so -- there are none. I mean, sure, there are plenty, but apart from those, there are none."
> Yet, guns might actually be useful to the left should the US ever go tyrannical.

Funny, I've heard that argument thrown around so many times it's lost all meaning. During Obama, we were a fart away from him taking our guns... Jade Helm 15 came and went, and here we are. Still owning guns.

Now, Trump tells the police it's OK to rough suspects here and there, and "the righteous right" doesn't make a comment about how tyrannical that sounds. Wonder why?

(BTW, all that to say that the argument is kind of lame... if the government was to go tyrannical, their repressive tools are pretty damn impressive. They won't do it that way, they'll just use propaganda.)
I've done a fair amount of "command line" ops so I'm comfortable with it but the question what will migration be like when we do move to an iaas?
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How are you going to do transactions automatically when you can't send your money to one place? Whose bank account will your USD end up in so you can get some balance in this system?
The author programs in a lot of languages including Lisp and Smalltalk, so I doubt he feels J is all around superior. You have to admit the syntax is pretty universal (meaning it covers everything) and consistent. With Python you learn a bit of the language/syntax and then how to apply all the functions and methods where they belong.
The caveat is that upgrades aren't proportional. On a $200 round trip flight, a tiny bit more legroom might cost $150 each way. It's sometimes cheaper to buy two seats!

I'm not sure that the option to buy marginal comfort really exists. The higher fare classes that would deliver it are intended (and priced) for totally non-price-sensitive entities like business travelers.
> A human, in its natural state, is the most disgusting, cruelest, nastiest creature in the known universe.

Claims like this are utterly lacking perspective. Cats will happily torture smaller animals. Primates hunt each other. Dolphins rape. Humans are animals, yes. In no way are they more disgusting or cruel than others, though.
Do people really still unironically believe in global warming? I mean how gullible can you possibly be.
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The inequality that matters II: Why does dating in Seattle get left out? (2014)
I personally don't see a good rationale for needing to recognize any of them as utilities.

There are alternatives to Amazon, Facebook and Google - good ones at that - while it /could/ be argued that a search engine is an essential product, I would argue the opposite - and even more so for social networking and online shopping - if I saw conclusive proof that any go them were using their market power to force competitors out of the market, I might be more agreeable to the concept.
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An oversimplified explanation would possibly go like this:

Capital structure (i.e. proportion of debt and equity) is irrelevant in frictionless markets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theo...).

That being assumed, management of a company can raise capital by either issuing new shares (equity) or by taking on debt. Given that management is rational, they would issue new stocks whenever they believe the stock price is slightly over-valued by the market and always take on debt if they think the opposite.

But in reality, companies cannot always issue new shares. However, potential creditors know the company could issue shares instead of taking their debt. So, they will lower their interest offer.

Does that make sense somehow?
If you get the chance, check out Aaron Hsu's work. He wrote a compiler that converts Dyalog APL to C++ for high performance stuff...I can't remember if GPU or what. He goes over the code in several YouTube videos and HackerNews posts. First class stuff. I think Dyalog sells it as a product.
>Can you please elaborate on why you think BigQuery's streaming inserts are not particularly reliable?

I've heard this from many users through my work on Fluentd (in fact, many end up using fluent-plugin-bigquery because they don't want to deal with the minutiae of insertId and whatnot on their own).

Also, I don't think a lot of people fully understand the quota policy and get tripped up: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/quota-policy

>Separately, you can always use BigQuery's federated query capability of Bigtable.

Yes, and very few people understand what that means (I had to look up, and I am reasonably educated on GCP). This is not necessarily product shortcomings but packaging deficiencies that can be addressed with better product marketing.
That sounds like a very good approach, a source of knowledge and public coworking space.
What reason is there to block information about illegal organisations? Is information about ISIS blocked?
Table of the top 100 solutions:

http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank