skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? I fly about two times a year to HI - never happened.
But anyways, my favorite airline, the companion ticket thing rocks (especially to HI)!
Yes, there is a point to protesting. This paper used rainfall as a source of exogenous variation to measure the effect of the Tea Party protests.

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/128/4/1633/184...

Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through coordinated rallies across the country on Tax Day, April 15, 2009. We exploit variation in rainfall on the day of these rallies as an exogenous source of variation in attendance. We show that good weather at this initial, coordinating event had significant consequences for the subsequent local strength of the movement, increased public support for Tea Party positions, and led to more Republican votes in the 2010 midterm elections. Policy making was also affected, as incumbents responded to large protests in their district by voting more conservatively in Congress. Our estimates suggest significant multiplier effects: an additional protester increased the number of Republican votes by a factor well above 1. Together our results show that protests can build political movements that ultimately affect policy making and that they do so by influencing political views rather than solely through the revelation of existing political preferences.
2 Clause BSD! Woop woop!

Seriously this is another good app in the arsenal.
this is a ridiculous title.
I know what unsafe means. The issue is that this library's author presumably hasn't actually verified that it actually is safe.
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That has already happened: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

The North Koreans have been trying to build this hotel for 30 years. It was a response to the Singapore Swissotel which was the tallest hotel in the world and built by a South Korean company.
If his friend or whoever he was talking about this product, most likely it's in their tracking cookies from them googling it. This is especially true since they are familiar with the product.
If you write code that can be called without 'unsafe' then you are required to make that code safe. Whether you implement it using unsafe underneath is irrelevant.

The unsafe block is there because it does FFI, which hasn't actually been verified to be safe.
In Chile we have that. Instant payments with shareable information.
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You could use an open protocol based on git, Docker, &c. internally, and build some interface friendly to non-programmers on top.
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I think this is a pretty gross misuse of the word "rain" for clickbait. The diamonds form close to the planets' solid cores, not anywhere near what we see as the planets' surfaces.
We could use an AI model spitting out various assemblages of this general explanation.

I am just flabergasted at how few American adults seem to have thought about this fundamental grade-school level material until 2017; even Google. What gives?
Yes, that's exactly how I do it with my Yubikey. Once 'moved' to the key, the private key cannot be retrieved.
I feel like almost every point on the top of their website is iffy.

>Bananas are the number one product in the world -- by what metric?

>Three years of experience in growing bananas -- Really only 3 years?

>More than 2.000.000 $ have been already invested in current business -- 2 million invested by who?

>The prospects of rapid scaling for the business -- just prospects, no plan?

>The first organic plantation -- I find that hard to believe that there has never been another organic plantation

>Support from the Government of Laos -- in what ways?
The only reason you do want to keep your account details secret is that people can set up direct debits on your account. This happened to Jeremy Clarkson after he posted his account number and sort code in a newspaper column and challenged people to take some money [0]

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm
"So you'll still have to deal with the absurd notion of holidays and weekends when working with bank transfers."

The blockchain works on holidays. Say what you want about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but the hard truth is that processing transactions 24/7/365 is part of their appeal compared to legacy financial systems, as perfectly illustrated in this example...
Great post, thank you!

But why is the config represented as a sexpr and not, say, YAML?
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Not in the old days, no.

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glVertex3f( 0,0,0 );

glVertex3f( 1,1,0 );

glVertex3f( 1,2,0 );

glEnd();
Please don't use code blocks to block-quote text as it makes it very difficult to read due to side-scrolling, particularly on mobile. A common way of indicating a block quote on HN is to prefix lines with ">".
I read this piece, and then sat in silence for long time. Memento Mori. I need to hug my family a little tighter tonight.
Does this suggest the VR industry is in trouble? Is it jettisoning an unprofitable money pit or is it the opposite - that VR is doing well and HTC needs money, so it's selling the crown jewels? Both (VR not doing well, HTC needs $)? Not familiar with the numbers.

Fuck. If Google ends up with Vive and Facebook has Occulus that'll about kill my interest in the tech. Both of those companies would rather flail aimlessly at making money over providing a quality product and the last thing I'd like to do is invest in their ecosystems further. Though Google is capable of subsidizing the tech for awhile, which might be nice...

It's finally starting to get reasonably priced for what it is (I have earned the right to complain; bought a Vive a ~year ago). Haven't touched it for about 8 of those months because the games weren't fundamentally better than non-VR and in a lot of ways were worse.

So much potential there, though. Play Quake in VR and realize what 21 year old (and free) tech is capable of.
I am no fan of chip&sign, but there is added security from the terminal to the merchant gateway, where a very significant amount of card theft has traditionally occurred. The POS system can be compromised and your card number is still safe.
I think this is the same Zhang with a later paper. This is the most direct mapping of edit distance from strings onto trees that I know of, and uses dynamic programming: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/03043975958...
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Whenever anybody asks this question, I always send them this paper. Rainfall on the Tea Party's "tax day" protest had a significant effect on the outcome of subsequent elections.
govt.nz is listed in https://publicsuffix.org just like co.uk , so ideally software should treat them the same.
"They would weigh a gram each, be launched in stacks of 800,000, and remain for a projected lifetime of 50 years within a 100,000-km-long cloud. The concept builds on existing technologies. It seems feasible that it could be developed and deployed in ≈25 years at a cost of a few trillion dollars, <0.5% of world gross domestic product (GDP) over that time."

Oh FFS. If we have a few $trillion to devote to global warming, we can enormously reduce it using known technologies.

There is an important clue in this spectacular self-own to the emotional allegiances of the people who get excited about ideas such as this one.
Frame Alignment theory is the sociological term for what you're describing. After Occupy there were millions of people who were more prepared for a message about the corruption of elites and the need for ordinary people to reclaim democracy in a profound way.

Beyond framing, Occupy also created social networks between activists, and those activists gained a lot of experience and developed specific skills. We saw an example of this network and these skills being deployed with Occupy Sandy, where those networks were used to out-organize FEMA and the Red Cross in areas of NJ after Hurricane Sandy.

Occupy also popularized and tested various forms of social organization and social technologies. Thousands of people now know from experience the strengths and weaknesses of permanent encampments as a tactic, consensus decision making, the people's mic, etc. Mass R&D.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/nyregion/where-fema-fell-s...
The people who backed him have gone on to participate in and influence state-level races:

- https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2017/08/why-bernie-...

- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bernie-...

Sanders' backers are arguably pushing potential 2020 candidates farther to the left than had Sanders not become popular. I think single-payer as a litmus test could be somehing that impacts the race, and Sanders can get credit/blame for that: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/healthc...
Schwab seems to clear my mobile deposits up to $10,000 per day within about 30 minutes of snapping the picture. If you deposit over $10,000 god help you.
In China with Alipay, I receive transfers instantly and deposits to my bank account "can take up to 2 hours", but typically land within 5 minutes. I get instant WeChat notifications whenever my card is used. Although, to be honest I haven't used a physical card in months. I pay for everything with QR codes. There's a code you can present to the attendant and they scan you (typically faster) and then I authenticate the transfer with a fingerprint or pin. It's honestly astounding to see how advanced the financial system is here, ESPECIALLY when compared to the bullshit that currently exists in the US.
I talked to 3 people who got into UX in their 40s
The parent did say "That is like half."

Electrical emissions are more like 30% according to this[1]. Transportation is another 27%, electrifying half of that would get us close to like half.

We're a long way from any of that, but maybe it's technically feasible with what we have now.

1. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
You just stumbled into and argument the game industry has been dealing with for years, whether or not programmers or artists should own shader code. This boils down to whether or not you implement a visual node based shader editor in your game engine. While I agree that expecting designers to know "modern gpu programming" is extreme, exposing fragment shader style functionality isn't a bad idea, if properly implemented. I also don't think it'd be super difficult for designers to grok.
Ha for the companion ticket I prefer Southwest (though it's a slight chore to get the companion pass). They don't fly to HI though.
How do you query the card balance and transfer the funds? Do you actually get cash out of the card, or do you have to resell it as a store credit to someone else?
> The pigheaded insistence on defending the US system

While I could respond to the rest of your points - including a couple of the statements which are factually incorrect - if this is the way you're going to talk to someone who's having a conversation with you in good faith, there's not much point in me spending any more time on the matter here tonight.
I imagine I get ribbed about my butt in seat time and how it appears tardy, but I hope that my logged hours and work produced shows I work what is expected and then am happy to buckle down for a long day when required.

If I have worked "Overtime" it is balanced out when the project is finished, and that is communicated to my PMs and comforms to the natural ebb and flow of company workload. I think it works well for everyone.
I spend my bitcoins on: my CPA, computer gear (Newegg), games (Steam), VPS and domain names (Vultr, Gandi), furniture (Overstock), etc

Also you fail to realize it but Bitcoin's practicality extends to more than just payments: it's great for informal person-to-person transactions. I gift bitcoins to my family overseas, I pay back lunch money to coworkers in bitcoins, etc. In fact I think person-to-person transactions is one of Bitcoin's most promising use case...
>In a lot of middle-income-class positions you get most of the things you described as perks.

I don't care about getting it myself. Although, it should be pointed out, you don't have to 'negotiate' for health care or notify someone of your preexisting conditions or any of that crap. You just have to turn up and you'll be treated entirely for free.

But I also want to live in a country where this applies to everyone that doesn't earn as much as me too.
Vive is the only part of HTC that's making any money right now. HTC is not doing well.
> The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has issued an official warning on the rapidly growing number of Anisakis infections linked to eating raw or undercooked fish. [...] The ministry urges consumers to keep the fish frozen below minus 20 degrees for at least a day, or heat it for at least for a minute in temperatures exceeding 60 degrees, which should kill the larvae.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/12/national/scienc...
There are point(s) to protesting the state, but not other groups of fringe citizens who disagree with you. They would be better dealt with by ignoring them.

The people showing up at these 'stand-off' style events are not wrong, but they are probably just short-sighted and distracted by boogeymen.
Powerful article. I can't imagine how he or those around him feel. I pray he gets better.

Man, I didn't expect to read something like that tonight.
I think you're still missing the point. It isn't all about what we can individually get. I don't want to live in a country where you have to have a special high-paying job to get fair and reasonable holidays and healthcare.
From the looks of it, their config files are close to (if not actually) executable code. It also looks like S-expressions are a common data serialization format for OCAML, which Jane Street is known for using.

Turning the question around, what would the advantages of using YAML instead of S-expressions?
Interesting, well, we are just now starting to make sense of Cech Cohomology. I think Kontsevich is def on the ball.
Sadly we can't. But you can use go library in Goby
>> Bernie Sanders rallied millions around a platform

And then he got screwed by Hillary Clinton and her crony, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, and accomplished absolutely nothing.
Don't worry, VR has been a colossal failure regardless of HTC's reasoning.
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I live in US and have a USAA bank account which allows this. They do not wait for the check to clear, even if it's tens of thousands of dollars. Obviously they reserve the right to bring your account into negative balance if the check fails to clear and you have spent it all. I guess it's akin to a line of credit?
Academia is less so than the others. The main thresholds of ability is determined by publications and grants. Both of those are peer-reviewed in a fair way (either blind reviewed, or where the conflict of interests have to leave the room). You can be amazingly successful being a no name who publishes and gets funding.
Maybe you shouldn't choose to have such a terrible healthcare system then.
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Glad to see this Dart feature appearing in C#:

Asynchronous Streams

Now you can "yield" Task<T> (~ Future<T> in Dart) and construct LINQ chains in an asynchronous fashion.
I hope it streamlines reactive programming greatly.

[1] Dart - Asynchronous Programming: Streams
https://www.dartlang.org/tutorials/language/streams

[2] .NET Futures: Asynchronous Streams
https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/05/async-streams
Truth. Just hearing "software failsafes" makes me queasy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
"What's wrong with poor performance leading to poverty?"

- It incentivizes fraud.

If the only way to avoid a McDonald-level job is a ground-breaking paper, you'll be willing to fake that ground-breaking paper, especially since if you're caught, you can still get the McDonald-level job sooner or later.

I am referring to a lot of current conditions, where adjunct professorships are paid at close to bare survival wages and "superstars" get substantial compensation.
A fun story of an old D&D player who meets and interviews Gary Gygax.

1. It's funny that he's so dismissive of the roleplaying aspect of D&D. Some groups I've played with got tons of laughs from roleplaying, the more competitive players less so.

2. What a mess copyright seems to have made! Avatars and Ilfs? Let the guys play!

My initial takeaways as a 10 year off and on player and dungeon master. RIP Gygax!
Hence my comment. North Koreans seem to have a thing for the grandiose.
Or create a struct that holds all anticipated values as pointers. Create setters. Yes the api will be different from the other languages involved but the other languages have generics.

In other words there is a solution to the problem that doesn't require generics at all.
If anyone gets it, I hope it's Valve.
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There are a lot of factors to consider, but there is a difference in the type of work the newer generation is doing. I think there is still a lot to learn about how best to enable productive thought work, and we are learning that 8hrs at a desk is probably not the one size fits all key to productivity.

To speak nothing of the normalizing of "permenant overtime", it is simply not sustainable for everyone to have their mind occupied for the majority of every day. It leaves no room or energy for individual endeavors, and I think many are simply waking up to that fact and exploring alternatives.
Ah, was confused as they lined them up below the total line, so was assuming they might break them out.
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Having used Oculus, Daydream, and Vive, I still think Vive provides the best experience. Vive is "room scale", whereas Oculus and Daydream both are "pivoting in an office chair scale". (Oculus has experimental tracking cameras now, but you can't assume the whole install base has them.)

But VR as a whole is still in its infancy. Some experiences don't work for users who are too tall or short (say, children). The install base is also still too small to run a profitable business creating just VR content.
It also allows for things like one of the UK Bitcoin trading sites that offers payment by bank transfer where it generally takes less time for the bank transfer to reach them than it takes for the BTC transfer to confirm.
I tried out a VR kit at the mall. It was a novelty experience for me.

I’d have been living the dream if it was 1995. But it was just OK to me now. Back in 95 I was in college and did a project using an SGI Origin something or other with an infinite reality engine, VR headset and inductance based flock of birds tracking system.

They felt about the same to me, although the graphics then were like that Duran Duran video.

The main reason I’d want a car system today would be to free myself from a fixed screen. Not for games in particular but for general computing use.

We’re getting there but the resolution isn’t there yet.
Gelman has been pretty adamant about the idea there probably always is some real correlation between almost any two measurements (that is why he advocates his type M and type S error concepts).

Perhaps you are confusing "skeptical the parameter is far from zero" with "skeptical the parameter is non-zero". It makes a big difference.
Was about to say this. It's based on their tech after all. Would be nice to see them take the fight to Oculus.

But somehow I'm guessing they probably don't want to manage manufacturing.
I'm reading some more recent short stories right now that take place in several moon colonies. They talk a lot about the scarcity of water.
Speculators do NOT (typically) cause coins to move. Buying, holding, and selling BTC on an exchange does NOT create transactions on the blockchain.

(Withdrawing and depositing BTC creates transactions, however most speculators do not do this, as most people leave BTC on exchanges.)
I know this doesn't solve your problem in C#, but F# gives you a compiler warning in such a case. The following code compiles without warnings or errors:

type Color = Red | Green | Blue

let superheroFromColor c =
match c with
| Red -> "Superman"
| Green -> "Green Lantern"
| Blue -> "Spiderman"

However, if you add Yellow as a new case to the Color discriminated union without adding a corresponding match pattern everywhere you match a Color value, you get a compiler warning:

type Color = Red | Green | Blue | Yellow

...

match c with
----------^
warning FS0025: Incomplete pattern matches on this expression. For example, the value 'Yellow' may indicate a case not covered by the pattern(s).

Aside: notice how terse and readable the code is compared to the C# equivalent; F# tends to have a high signal-to-noise ratio.
Android is one such system. Each app gets its own image (called Bundle) where it can store it's state. OS manages those state bundles to offer multitasking on memory-constrained devices and persist app state across reboots.
My mom drove me up from Eugene. We planned to go all the way to Corvallis but we saw a lot of people out so we stopped short and parked in a field.

And I did see that plane and the contrail.

If anyone is curious what it looked like when recording with a iPhone6 propped against a Snapple bottle on the roof of my mom's car. Here you go.

https://stfudamnit.com/ryan/eclipse.mp4

edit.. It looks like you can see the contrail on the right in the video.
Expanding on the other comment, the answer is that Jane Street uses OCaml, where they have to build many of the libraries themselves. They've built good libraries for s-expressions but not for YAML.

They've also built an ecosystem of tools for s-expressions and switching to YAML would discard that ecosystem without significant benefits. This is self-reinforcing, for example my tool uses s-expressions because everyone does, and it added to the ecosystem that makes s-expressions the right choice. Almost everyone there uses Emacs so s-expressions are equal to or easier to edit than YAML.

Kinda the same reasons that for config files Ruby people mostly use YAML, JS people mostly use JSON and Rust people mostly use TOML.
While I'm not a lawyer, I'd have to guess he'd likely have grounds to sue over wrongful termination. Also I'm sure if he was willing to become an informant and testify against VW, the EPA would have been able to work with the DoJ to grant him immunity from any prosecution. I wouldn't be surprised if VW is similar to other large companies in regards to a "no retaliation" whistleblower clause in their corporate policies.

Based on what I've read about him, it seemed like he was more than eager to deceive regulators. He had many opportunities to come clean and avoid this and instead he chose to toe the company line.
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Oh man ... and I feel bad about the 25 bitcoin I lost as a result of haphazardly formatting a hard drive back when they were effectively worthless.

It could be worse - I could have purchased a $40M circle of cardboard covered in ketchup that sort-of looks like pizza (it was Dominos[0])

[0] And I believe in 2010, that was before they tweaked their recipe, replacing the cardboard with something more bread-like. /s
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A SQL database also works on holidays. The problem with the "legacy financial systems" is not that their technology mysteriously shuts down on holidays, it's that the people do. As soon as they automate clearing house processes, they can also have 24/7/365 transactions, blockchain or not.
Domes you can't stop without effectively destroying them? Nah, haven't heard of them.