skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most of US history we didn't have term limits either, it was just a tradition after Washington didn't run for a third term. It wasn't until 1951 that it actually became law.
> English is unusual in that it generally uses “this” for the future and “that” for the past.

I don't know that I'd describe it as "future" and "past"; it's more that English uses "this" for "current" and "that" for "other", whether past or future.

For instance, "this situation is broken, that solution looks promising" uses "this" to refer to the present and "that" for the future.
I don't think we do ourselves any favors by delving into and attacking the politics of Glenn Beck or The Blaze (tensions are high enough already), either for or against.

This headline is interesting to me because The Blaze has been a pioneer in many ways as an internet-based media company that is attempting to disrupt a well-entrenched and very powerful establishment.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect employees to be able to figure out their own contingency plans for things that happen commonly. Eg, cars can drive on snow (no, you don't need an SUV, snow tires will suffice, and in flat places you can get away with all seasons just fine). Bus lines typically have snow routes. And so on. So basically the hospital's plan is "hopefully no more than x% of employees will be so thick as to screw up a response to a totally expected event".

Similarly, getting ahold of you is not one of their primary concerns.

As for how they handle an ACTUAL disaster, I'm not an expert. I do know that public hospitals have plans and standards, but I'm sure it is not the same nationwide. And, at the end of the day, all the planning in the world won't help if the employees simply refuse to show up. Perhaps they plan for the things they know that they can control (eg, infrastructure such as generators and supplies) but not for those they can't?

Obviously you wouldn't expect to the hospital to buy everyone motor boats so they can get to work in the event of a flood (for example). If the employees can't drive themselves to work, I'm not sure how to plan around that -- a private transportation service wouldn't work.
It would at least be nice to have a clear tag to indicate that the content you're going to is behind a paywall, e.g.,

[PAYWALL] I criticized Google. It got me fired. That’s how corporate power works
In this case since main alternatives are under licenses that come with less restrictive patent grants this is a very valid criticism. In case of React not so much.
Rare-Earth Nanocrystals May Be a Key Component of Building the Quantum Internet
It's not an official document unless it's officially written in the minutes by an official
I love huge, detailed, well sourced, documents like this. They are often on obscure or not "mainstream" topics. I often think that these kinds of writers are essentially the important historians of our age. As long as this document survives, a hundred years later someone can read it and understand the details of the history of flash photography. People rarely think about just how important someone's obsession over a "weird" or "pointless" topic can be for the historians of the next century.

I love the way individual web pages and blogs allow anyone to become a thorough historian like this. This is the kind of thing that put stars in the eyes of the dreamers in the infancy of the internet. Though you could argue that anyone could print a small amount of their own work ever since the printing press, the bar has significantly been lowered.
Untrue. Even KHL arena's like Prague O2, Bratislava, KHL Medveščak Zagreb in Croatia, Admiral Vladivostok, have smaller rinks, some are NHL sized.
links are broken now 404 everywhere :(

https://textpattern.com/faq/147/common-how-do-i-questions
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Went to a concert recently and insurance was built in just in case you got a flat tire or just couldn't attend. This in my opinion is a better solution that solves the scalping problem.
Just to add to this, by 2008, having Google's clout meant significant access to the president, which is really impressive for a company that was less than a decade old.

https://www.googletransparencyproject.org/articles/eric-schm...
While it may be simpler, it also removes any safety that rust adds. I'd imagine you'd get more mileage out of just using pointers and unsafe blocks liberally to get lifetime checking where you can.
This is how media and entertainment already bended to clients. Pull advertisements or sponsorship = lost revenue. A large parent corporation (e.g Verizon) can do this. Whether this is wise to lose coverage is another assessment.
One could argue the clear tag you're asking for is already there in the form of the source that's included with every submission.
By the same argument, I assume you believe the people on this[1] list also work for Schmidt/Google?

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000067823
They've raised $51 million. Imagine how big they would need to get to give their investors any return at all.
I had my first experience with them yesterday, we paid $70 for 2 pizzas 1 mile away. More precisely the "total" is $60 on the page and $70 in the tip popup, so I guess we'll get charged the later. People online think it might be an outdated menu price in their system (they have employees all the time going in the shop and nobody takes a picture of the flyer to fix the prices?), but there is no exact and reliable explanation anywhere. Next time we'll find another delivery service, that one looks scamy.
You work for whoever pays you. In this case Google/Schmidt paid NA, who paid the author. In an ideal world, then yes a think tank would be independent of their funding source. In the real world, they aren't and never have been. Ignoring this just gets you fired.

By all means shame NA for this, but thinking that it's a scandal that the non-profit world works for corporate donors is naiive.
Hah! I wish I didn't even have to guess (i.e. I wish nobody were so blindly dogmatic). Your answers make it clear you are certainly not one of those blind free-market dogma folks.

I think your Nash Equilibrium point is spot on, but it's fair to describe a breakdown in that as turning into a race-to-the-bottom.

> why unions exist. But that won't work when we're talking about states.

Oh, but that could. There's no inherent reason why states can't coordinate. They could do so in a weak fashion (i.e. recognize the need to maintain the equilibrium and just all do the right thing) or a strong fashion (lobby the federal government to step in and bar this sort of behavior).

As to your last paragraph, you could definitely convince me of that. I have seen evidence, however, that some places realize that they can refuse to play this losing game. A state can reject the growth-ponzi-scheme ( see https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/ ) for example and just let the other states play the race-to-the-bottom while they encourage positive economic activity through other means.

That's like a store refusing to slash their prices to compete and instead finding some other way to convince customers to stay loyal and not just focus on price (perhaps service is better, experience is better overall, etc). In the case of states, they can get great education, quality of life, protect the environment, and realize that they will prosper long-term and refuse to join the race-to-the-bottom. Enough states refusing to play race-to-the-bottom can bring back an equilibrium eventually.
My team has been using Clojure for about 7 years now, and we started using ClojureScript about 2 years ago. We're certainly finding it to be the path of least resistance compared to keeping up with Js. For example, we've been using Reagent for the front-end, and it's stayed the same all this time. Even as React itself keeps changing, all we have to do is update the library version, and everything just keeps working.

Keeping up with the way Js world evolves is absolutely bonkers in my opinion. By the time you finish writing an app, the whole stack becomes outdates as people jump onto new hot thing.

Even if you stick with something like React, the practices around it keep shifting, you now have Redux and Relay, and god knows what else people will come up with next week. Having a stable development environment is a big benefit in my book.

I'm also not seeing any problems with Clojure community being stagnant or decaying. It keeps growing steadily, and the library ecosystem is quite excellent at this point. Since Clojure embraces the host platform, you always have access to native libraries as well. If a cool library gets developed in Js or Java, it's immediately available in Clojure.

Node has a lot of hype, but I haven't seen anything developed on Node that's not available on the JVM. The only advantage of Node I see is that it takes less resources. Having actually developed some ClojureScript apps on top of Node, I think that it's a strictly inferior experience. Callbacks are much harder to work with than threads, and even promises and async result in much gnarlier code. Given my experience with it, I would only use Node for very simple applications.
Finance reform is a step in the right direction, but it is no magic bullet. The wealthy will just find other, less direct, ways of buying influence.
the WST is a left wing paper lol
If this person expected any other result from his ridiculous action then he was delusional. If my salary is funded by Google and I publically publish a celebratory post congratulating the EU for fining Google then I fully expect to be fired.
Where did you procure your logo dataset? Is it available to the public or for purchase?
Travel photography 101 with #teampixel
Meet the 13-year-old running for Vermont governor
Note, I think in spite of being in stage 3 the syntax and obvious cases seem to be largely unlikely to change. It certainly improves react quite a bit: you can define the proptypes and default values inside the class rather than after.
Yes.

Here is one paper of interest https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~loiluu/papers/oyente.pdf.
Minor compared to the cost of funding health care
Similar happened to me. Since then stuck with prime now for restaurants since the cost is set in stone and as far as I can tell, drivers can't decide to bail out if it's a delivery they don't want.
Wavelet Trees (2011)
Nice one! It's your project?
Thanks the "lol", sarcasm.
> Regarding everything being destructed at once: that’s called an arena

Thats such a great name :)
Not at all surprising if you've read When Google Met Wikileaks[0]

That being said, how delusional do you have to be working in a political think tank and think it'll be ok to cheer a multi-billion dollar fine against your main financial contributor. This guy got pummeled by his own hubris.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/When-Google-WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange/...
For every one of those there are others who are still functioning at a very high level. I played in Junior High, High School, and a couple years in college. I have yet to see any ill effects. The problem with the science behind it is they never take other factors into account. Who knows if someone had some genetic cause that may have exacerbated the effects of hits in football.
Basically the Indian government hoped that any "hoarded" undeclared (not taxed) notes would suddenly become worthless, and therefore not be deposited. Instead, almost all notes in circulation were deposited, meaning any undeclared currency managed to be declared in time.
Hell of an underrated movie. If you liked The Siege but haven't seen Unthinkable, give that one a watch as well.
He also has a TEDx talk that says just as much.
A huge number of blogs and sites make money through Google (adwords etc), so technically they're funded also by Google. Does this mean that they cannot host any criticism against Google or risk being shut down?
Not tangential, they call this out in section 2.1 of the paper. I'd paste it but the formatting does not copy/paste well.
React et al are the future Angular 2.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the impression I get from Standard Oil and Bell is that each big company essentially just had to duplicate its administrative tier and give each one its own branding, and then things (mostly) continued on as normal at the subsequently carved-up logistical and physical levels.

It seems to me that if we were to change Facebook from its own platform to an XMPP- or email-style federated network, then such a network would have to be constructed in the first place.

Not saying it can't (or shouldn't) be done, but I do believe it is a more complex example than Standard Oil or Bell. We've also got international borders and regulations in the mix.
Dijkstra is alleged to have said:

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

but that's disputed.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Computer_science#Disputed
The information is on the right place I guess but the site's first impression conveys to me that it is an academy for training monastics. Just one data point, but I would change the domain to something like spiritual academy. Kudos for following the schedule, I have been to a couple of retreats and know how hard it is.
Yes, of course they do. Why the hell else would alphabet donate to them?

It's literally the best investment they could make[1]:

"Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions. A year-long analysis by the Sunlight Foundation suggests, however, that what they gave pales compared to what those same corporations got: $4.4 trillion in federal business and support"

[1]https://sunlightfoundation.com/2014/11/17/fixed-fortunes-big...
Think tanks were born as ways for monarchs to research and organize legal arguments against Church doctrine. They have since expanded to cover a broad range of subjects, but the central point of a think tank is to get a bunch of smart people together to formalize a particular opinion and support it with arguments/research.

Most often, these are funded by a particular group, for a particular agenda. This is the definition of propaganda.
Oh, I know, I have a few examples as well, mostly regarding paying bills. Hate those sites but what can I do? I guess I could go back to mailing a check :-)

But it's not THAT inconvenient!
The RAND Corporation seem to be universally respected, how do they do it?
It seems like everyone in the comments who prefers multiple monitors has a strong use case for each.

If you are chunking your tasks such that each monitor really is a window into a different process or different machine, then it really makes sense to have two.

If you ask yourself the question, what is my second monitor for specifically, and you can't answer it, you might prefer only having one.
Maybe they should buy Sprint and DIY it. Maybe deliver a cache of video content at night using multicast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Broadcast_Multicast...
The obvious one is that nobody is going to trust the results of that group anymore.
I meant just dying because of getting tumbled and X-ray'd, not due to lack of food, but good to know, thanks.
Sometimes looks do matter :-(.

https://m.imgur.com/eb1ltEK
I don't see how this is incompatible with the parent's remarks.
Why do you think Jeff Bezos brought the Washington Post - he saw how Rupert Murdoch works.

Google should have brought the independent when it was up for sale cheap
I'm sure all of the google employees that are concerned with social justice and contributing to a company that makes the world a more fair place will be standing up and calling on google to make this right or they will be quitting.

Google employees have done it before and have contributed many thought-provoking articles in other scenarios where google was acting inappropriately. They have been strangely silent on this and that really emphasizes what a toxic culture google has these days.

Google employees were willing to leave their job because of a co-workers opinion, yet none that I have seen are willing to stand up and leave because of their companies own actions. I think that says a lot about the type of people that work at google, they're willing to punch down on people with less than them but not punch up at their masters. Truly sad.
Are we finally nearing the tipping point for tipping? This antiquated practice needs to go.
Same reason we pay accountants.
>IMO the bigger problem is corporate free loaders. All the local walmarts use way more police time than the targets, but Walmart doesn't pay additional fees for the intensive use of police.

I really have a problem with this statement. It's not like Walmart is trying to gobble up police services. Your statement reflects the Bloomberg article written about this topic, which IMO is a flawed view. The pains that Walmart faces are similar to many other retailers in non-affluent areas.
People who can't afford to lose their jobs generally aren't able to start businesses and produce revolutionary innovation. Want more innovation? Kill monopolies, increase income equality.

http://the1a.org/audio/#/shows/2017-08-30/zillionaire-to-oth...
Yes, everything can be a type error (security, memory management, concurrency (deadlocks), ...). You define properties about the code and you can check them either at runtime, or statically. If I choose to write in OCaml, the memory management is done with a GC, which relies on dynamically typed memory; but I write in Rust, there is no GC but a kind of static analysis for managing ownership; both approaches work.

Your fallacy is saying: there is a whole class of errors that can avoided if only we use a different type system, so there is no point in using that type system which defers (some or all) checks at runtime.

I can write code that manipulates values which represent types in the language, at runtime. If the types happen to be known or declared during compilation, fine enough, they can be optimized away. Otherwise, they will be checked later (which transparently invokes dynamic dispatch if needed), and I can even use them once they are known to compile the code myself, on a closure; there, along with other values which are then known, they can be taken into account to perform more aggressive optimizations. Why don't all language provide this?

As for bugs or errors, if you cannot lower risks (with static guarantees) then you have to improve on fault tolerance. You take other approaches to ensure the system behaves well, even if some parts can fail (e.g. Erlang).
To be fair on #2 how else can you enforce a recall? Enough communication was sent out and people where still using them.
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Why is this so interesting? They criticized a major customer and got fired. This would be distressing if it was a newspaper or scientific research organization or something, but I have no expectation that a "think tank" would have a hard wall between customers and output.

Does it just come down to some people having a completely different idea of what a "think tank" is and why it exists?
I recently wrote a little Python script to scrape the url from top submissions to Reddit's /r/The_Donald vs. /r/EnoughTrumpSpam to get an idea of the most conservative-leaning and liberal-leaning news outlets (e.g. more specifically which news sites conservative-leaning and liberal-leaning redditors use to support their respective narratives). Here are the results:

https://i.redd.it/45ezt3j9hziy.png

Edit: Oh and I almost forgot (and to bring this full circle) a Googler saw my post about this and made an interactive version:

https://medium.com/@hoffa/reddit-favorite-sources-the-most-l...

Edit: and to really bring this full circle, this Googler made an interactive version about HN:

https://medium.com/@hoffa/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-d...
The Security Dilemma of Cyberspace: Ancient Logic, New Problems
Microsoft and Tierion(TNT) collaborate on attestations & Blockchain proofs

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/blockchain-identity-p...
https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/tierion/
I've heard many times something along the line "I can just start hacking on a big refactoring because the compiler will tell me all the places that need fixing".
In most cases, better technology is just as expensive, if not more expensive. You need better trained and better staffed crew on ships, regardless of the systems in place.

As an example: Deck division will have 5/6 people on watch for a smaller ship: Port & Starboard lookouts, an aft lookout, a phone talker, someone actually steering the ship, and then a boatswain mate of the watch that organizes those individuals, keeps the ships schedule, and other various tasks. None of these individuals will actually be looking at a screen, but instead scanning the water for other ships.

Another division down in CIC may have just as many people looking at all the radar and managing the various data streams coming into the ship.

So, if you have 12 to 15 people in your division, which does happen, you'll be on Port & Starboard watch ( 5 hours on then 5 hours off, with a 4 hour mid-shift ).

Now, take an individual that is trained on Ship A, then after 3 years goes to Ship B. Ship B is a completely different class and has new(ish) technology systems. That sailor is then going to have to be completely retrained on those systems. After another 3 years, that sailor can seriously be shipped to a completely new platform where they then have to repeat the cycle.

Adding new technology would just complicate the matter.
Deeper or maybe just with Schmidt.
I realize you're quoting here, but two century old? Wasn't the start of US antitrust law at the beginning of the 20th century?
Watching you try and justify greedy behavior is almost as impressive as it is pathetic.
It's more about what they don't publish or research than what they do. Very few of those publications have ever published staunchly anti-corporate articles.

It's all good to argue some partisan political stuff, or things around the edges, but god help you if you start publishing anti-corporate articles.
Seriously? Where have they been these past months? Why could they not have spoken up sooner?

Anyway, let's hope it's not too late.
I think the high profile firing of someone who dared to challenge the company's hard-left-or-die group think was a PR nightmare for them. They've been too big and had too much information for years, but they weren't as obvious about their political bias and agenda.
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The other big difference is what's obsessively measured.

A few yards makes a huge difference in rugby, and players are certainly highly incentivised to give it their all, but even for the battering ram-type players, their ability to help the team actually get the ball across the gain line is a function of the stamina and mobility to get around the pitch for multiple phases of play, complex situational awareness and some degree of ball handling skills, not just the ability to block off the man directly in front of them for a few plays.

Not to mention rugby's increasingly strictly applied and penalised rules on what is and isn't a legal tackle which mean that a player who doesn't tackle in a relatively safe manner will be a liability to their teammates as well as themselves