skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opinions they publish are fantastically extreme and often deeply offensive. The Guardian constantly pumps out honest to god racism, sexism and other deplorable viewpoints. The only reason you don't believe it's comparable to Breitbart is you haven't sat down and done an honest comparison.

My post simply lists out Guardian headlines for all to see. It originally had something like +15 points and now it's sitting at zero, apparently it touched a nerve with some people who can't stand the idea that the Guardian and Breitbart might be comparable.

Here are some more headlines from their opinion writers, just to disabuse anyone of the notion that the Guardian is somehow not a bastion of radical extremism. They hate white people, they hate democracy, they hate men, they hate voters, they hate tea and Thomas the Tank Engine. They make money out of peddling hatred.

"The budget should be less macho - how about it boys"

"Why do women lie more than men? Because we're nicer"

"The Whiteness Project will make you wince. Because white people can be rather awful"

"Sexists are scared of Mad Max because it's a call to dismantle patriarchies"

"Are you too white, rich, able-bodied and straight to be a feminist"

"Tea is a national disgrace: Britain's favourite beverage is a boring relic of our colonial past."

"The tyrannical world of Thomas the Tank Engine. Kids love this little dipstick of an engine ... but what a chilling isle Sodor is."

"What if men had periods? It's a question worth posing"

"Democracy is a religion that has failed the poor"

"The country is screwed, the electorate is evil, but here are nine reasons to be cheerful"

"The week in patriarchy: take a moment to step away for survival"

"Did you weep watching Wonder Woman? You weren't alone"

"Remember when men and women could be friends? Republicans don't"

"Why the mediocre male's days may be numbered"

etc etc.
These kinds of techniques are often claimed to be effective against flash floods, which makes sense since they slow down water transfer to rivers. Does anyone know any studies about how effective it could be against seriously heavy precipitation of the scale of Harvey or South Asia floods right now? In other words, how well does the approach scale?
Also worth noting that from the word "leftist" we know the political agenda of the parent commenter and should take what is written with an equally large grain of salt.
They raise 100% of what they raise. And 5% of what they raise goes to fees. Just like every other charity.

The people who are paying 5% of their fundraising are still just donating the Charity Water.
$ time python -c 'print(1)'
1

real	0m0.067s
user	0m0.015s
sys	0m0.025s

Is it slow? That was Python 2.7.10, and for me Python 3.6 is similarly fast.
Chat app Kik to raise $125M through an ICO in September
"Don't be chaotic".
Your describing of “MP3” as a level of quality doesn't really give credence to your claim.
Yep. Though specifically to printing, I was taught in school about the printing press leading to the protestant reformation and it's consequences. Witch hunts might be considered a part of that.

The same thing might be happening right now. It's widely accepted that online media revolutionized the political landscape. In Europe and the states we saw centrist parties lose control of the agenda, and the empowerment of fringier politics. Trump, LePenn, alt-right, Brexit, etc.

In the middle east we saw a bigger earlier impact: the arab spring protests are widely credited to online media.

This is much more controversial, but I think the ISIS family of religious phenomenon (and many less headline grabbing ones) has a Luther-Gutenberg relationship with online media.
As you might expect there are a number of non-profits that act as watch dogs for other non-profits, almost like a Better Business Bureau (BBB) type of concept, and they grade them on these financial dealings. Historically, I think Florida has the worst, where you see many non-profits spending upwards of 90% of their income on salary and administrative costs, meaning at best 10 cents on the dollar gets spent on the cause.

Off the top of my head the formulas give the best rating if the total compensation of the board is less than 10% of income, the cost of fundraising is less than 35% of income and at least 65% of the income goes to the cause/projects.

Of course I am with you, if you have ever attended some of these non-profit fundraisers, its pretty disgusting, a ballroom full of people living the high life, taking beneficial tax deductions, and so full of self-congratulatory righteousness you'd have to ask them to save some room if you'd have any interest in patting them on the back.
You are using a straw man: science is never final.
We however do really know what effect CO2 has, you even use the term "greenhouse gases", that's the effect right there in the name.
You state "strong evidence", please post links to this I have a few debunking minutes left for today. Thank you
I've already switched my browsers to Firefox Nightly and Brave, search engines to DuckDuckGo. Only my gmail and android remain. Time to switch. I remember a time when the holy grail of IT was working at Goolag.. sorry Google. Now, I'm not even interested in them anymore.
I think you're allergic to fire ants. They hurt, and you do get those zit-like sores, but I would much rather get a few fire ant bites than a bee or especially a wasp sting.
It sounds to me like what's you're describing to is the principle of subsidiary.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain takes a lot of its guidance from a book called The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaïdes. The latter is more of a textbook with practice schedules and the like, but is a very good guide to go from nothing to decent in 6 months.
I was working on something similar, but it was called Giggly. Albeit never launched like most shit i wrench on, the gig based economy is huge. These guys could have it in the bag if they scaled back a bit, all this machine learning may be great for the back-end but not something that needs to be part of the pitch. They are also ignoring the actual problem this service should address, which is the markets where actual gig based jobs reside, photography, dance, web site build outs, seasonal office temps, not just development or tech. Gig based job aggregator categorized by industry is where this would thrive. My .02
Bubble netting is a little more complex than just walking to a new area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_net_feeding

Also, baleen whales are not limited to krill and do eat a lot of larger fish.
> Structuring healthcare as an insurance doesn't work because pretty much everyone needs it at some point. It needs to be structured like a tax, because the rate at which you pay in has no correspondance with how much you need to get back out, but in aggregate the total sum paid matches the total care provided.

you've just outlined a money-losing system run by the government.

the reason private health insurance systems fail is not merely because everyone needs it at some point. it's because everyone uses much more of it than they've paid for with their premiums. (which is why, pre-Obamacare, insurance companies used to reject applicants with pre-existing conditions and why they put lifetime caps on benefits paid.)

but a government run single-payer system is not magic. the extra cash must come from somewhere.

one way a single-payer system could obtain the additional funds needed is by taking cash from some other government source (which is exactly what Obamacare does when it provides refundable tax credits to help low income people pay their otherwise unaffordable health insurance premiums.) but there's no end to the amount of money that could require.

another thing the government can do is limit services to patients, i.e. take a certain amount of decision making authority, by law, away from individuals, especially old individuals who are very sick. ("i'm sorry, but we're not paying for that new chemotherapy. it's hospice care for you.")

in addition, a single-payer system can also uniformly limit the prices health care providers, pharma companies, hospitals, etc can charge. (i.e take some decision making authority away from that sector of the economy, again, by law.)
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Presumably CPLX means the anti-corporate voices aren't part of the 'establishment left'.

Certainly, the people in control of the Democrats (such as superdelegates) did not choose an anti-corporate message in the last presidential election.
People instinctively understand the risks of throwing things, even sharp and heavy things. People do not have an instinctive understanding of the risks of lasers. They may both be dangerous, but that does not mean the two levels of danger are the same.
They did it quite easily prior to when certain EU nations decided to give them massive tax breaks (up to and including zero tax) if they located offices and production facilities in their nations, so your last point is moot. Until then, they didn't have offices in the EU because there was no point in sinking that kind of money into countries that would just tax you to death for little in return.
Just switched to Fastmail and so far has been very easy and simple.
You read it as "highly editorialized" and as implying "some type of nefarious action" but that was entirely your own reading. I'm guessing that this "nefarious" reading was your first impression, but recognize that it may not have been everyone's first impression.

Those of us who have head about the poor job Red Cross has been doing in the past few years saw from the headline that Facebook isn't using Red Cross, and interpreted it as exactly as the article intended: The Red Cross has faced intense scrutiny and criticism for its work in previous disasters, and FB decided not to use them.
The key point of the article is this:

“Google is very aggressive in throwing its money around Washington and Brussels, and then pulling the strings,” Mr. Lynn said. “People are so afraid of Google now.”

Honestly, the only thing shocking about any of this is that people thought Google was "special". The reality is, when its revenues are threatened, it's going to reach like any other corporation, which it should.

Google has its tentacles into almost everything, and you should be concerned/cautious about lock in, abuse and market competition challenges that go with it.

I personally find it a challenge every day to avoid using Google Services. I use Bing instead of Google, but I'm locked into Gmail (which is a great product), Google Drive (A great product), Google Maps (a great product), etc.
It has to be legal for the VM to store the object before it has been entirely initialised, but the question is whether other threads will be able to see it in that uninitialised state. If other threads can see a partially initialised object then you remove most of the nice guarantees final fields give the JIT.

NB. You can break all the JMM guarantees by having the constructor share the object reference with another thread. The JMM even says:

> If a reference to an object is shared with other threads during the initial construction of an
object, most of the guarantees for final fields of that object can go kerflooey; this includes cases in
which other parts of a program continue to use the original value of this field.
I didn't mean total replacement, in some cases it would work better, in other cases what we've got actually works pretty well. I meant some percentage of your tax should be controlled by the taxpayer directly, let's say 1% to start, increasing every 4 years by 1% up to, 20% for example.
10 000 acres is a typical size for a dry land wheat farm. That is also typically run by a single owner/operator. Today's machinery can plant or harvest at the rate of about twenty acres per hour.
Suppose you build a STREAM or TABLE from a topic and assume a field in the event is `id`. Later on, you introduce an update to this event where where your replace `id` by `user_id`, how is KSQL reacting?
Post mortem?
You don't need to use Intel's FSP if Intel will tell you how to do what the FSP does. FSP doesn't do anything magical, it just happens to setup a whole lot of early boot things for you like SDRAM configuration, microcode loading (and FSP knows what instructions its not allowed to use before microcode gets loaded), and starting the ME.

For Intel Bay Trail parts (which Intel publicly says you have to use FSP for), I was once told by a BIOS/firmware vendor that they didn't use Intel's FSP because it was too slow and their customers wanted very fast boot times. No idea if they were pulling my leg or not, but Intel's FSP on Bay Trail wasn't exactly super speedy.
That's what Xvfb is for.

"xvfb-run firefox" and "firefox -headless" should be functionally equivalent. But I would still be interested in performance comparison with numbers.
My wife had cataract surgery this summer. (We are not kids.) She had a book club meeting coming up shortly, so with her eyes still bothering her, I read about 30 pages of the club's next book to her. She then bought an audio version from the iTunes in the next day or so, and said that the narrator read much better than I did. I did not doubt this.
I think the only reason people aren't yet as afraid of Google as they were Microsoft circa 1996-2000, is that Google has yet to fully flex its ability to abuse its monopoly (not to mention there are a few other equally powerful juggernaut companies roaming tech now). That appears to be starting to change. No question the anti-trust hearings come next, the DOJ will pursue them over the next five years.

The supposedly business friendly Republicans now view them as a left-wing enemy, so a party shield (regarding anti-trust intervention) will not exist going forward. Obama kept them from DOJ interest during his time in office because of how close they all were, that's also not likely to be seen again in a future Democrat administration. Should be easy to carve them into pieces, with search + adsense + adwords on one side, and one or two other companies getting everything else. The new Search Co would then be put under a ten year government dictated operational agreement that would limit some of its abusive behavior.
I'm sure the various people losing a collective $75 billion in effects of Hurricane Sandy will be pleased to know that it wasn't a "major storm."
Unfortunately this means you wrote several copies of essentially the same code but with minor differences, and if you find and fix a bug in one the others are still wrong.
Thanks for sharing, it makes me realize that our messages are not independent.
Yes, I wrote the example. Then realized it was different and corrected only half of it.
Pi isn't an infinite series, it is just a number. Sure, it can be represented as an infinite series, but so can any number! (Eg. 1 = 0.999999...)
Not every data in Haskell is thunked and boxed. At least with GHC extensions.
Node really is self-destructing right before our eyes.

The leadership rewrote their rules to avoid having to ban two toxic individuals that the community reported for massive amounts of sexist and violent abuse directed at both the Node community and the general public.

Node community members who have spoken up about the two toxic individuals are getting ridiculed, harassed, and labeled 'alt-right' or' red pillers' and banned from Node discussion channels.
Many plants do have defensive measures to ward off herbivores. For example, when grass is damaged it releases numerous chemical signals into the air. This is what causes the freshly-mown lawn smell: http://mentalfloss.com/article/30573/what-causes-fresh-cut-g...

These defensive measures have a huge range. Some might only increase healing, others might attract life higher up in the food chain to attack the herbivores, and still others might be able to actively damage the herbivore.

My point is that eating plants may be less passive than we think. All of life has had billions of years to evolve, so the interactions can be pretty sophisticated all around.
Amazon sells products at a loss in order to put competitors out of business.

Google disables accounts, with no notification / justification, if someone's opinion offends them. Again with no justification / warning, they alter search traffic to/away form companies, with the ability to choose winners and looser in the 'free' market. I dont know how true it is, but I heard they were suppressing positive search results and bringing results with soldiers pointing guns to peoples heads during the arab spring to destabilize governments.

Facebook - well zuckerburg's manifesto on deciding whose words are heard or suppressed scares the shit out of me.

On top of all this, the big tech companies are avoiding taxes and concentrating jobs to small geographic areas. They are using their power/capital/lawyers to monopolize their respective markets and I feel we are starting to see the consequences of that more and more
Builds the future, meaning builds something Google had N years ago?
This would matter if think-tanks were independent academic research organizations. They aren't. They're basically mini-PACs or mini-ad agencies. You pay them to publish research that supports your corporate positions. That's how they make money.

Calling them "evil" is like calling a customer "evil".
Yeah, she's talking out both sides of her mouth.

First, she says his work is imperiling their funding (referring to Google's complaint about its positions not being represented). Then, she says his work has nothing to do with his firing.
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This depends on whether you are in the studio or are just playing back things.

In the studio, I would say that 24 bit at least should be the norm for recording purposes.

24 bit recording gives you very noticeable increased headroom (about 20dB). This gives you quite a bit more flexibility recording lower levels without concerning yourself about the noise floor. The difference isn't huge for most prosumer setups in practice, but given that the processing power and storage power of computers makes recording in 24 bit trivial to do, there really is no reason not to record 24 bit these days IMHO.

Sample rate also comes into play, mainly if you have older plugins that do not oversample. Some of the mathematical calculations involved, particularly if they are quickly responding to audio changes (eg limiting / compression, distortion), or are using "naive" aliasing-prone algorithms (eg naive sawtooth wave vs. something like BLEP / PolyBLEP etc.), can introduce frequencies beyond the Nyquist that may translate into aliasing. These days, I would say most plugins do oversample internally or at the very least give you the option to do so. There's also a VST wrapper to over-sample older plugins as well (http://www.experimentalscene.com/software/antialias/). So I do not think recording over 44.1kHz is very necessary these days. I don't discount opinions from people that recording at 192kHz "sounds better", though, given the possibility that they are using plugins that are prone to aliasing at 44.1kHz rates.

I personally do not see any benefit of 16/44.1kHz for playback most recordings. Maybe 24 bit would be useful for heavily dynamic music (one of the few categories where you generally find this is orchestral music), but I'm thinking even for here the 96dB range of 16 bit audio should be enough for most cases.
Looks cool. But I dont know if its vimium or what, but once I got into insert mode theres no way out of it (esc and C+[ dont work).
No, that's not what that paper says. It even says "in the United States, non-family corporate farms control 1% of agricultural land and generate close to 7% of output (USDA, 2004)."

What that paper says is that 'large, corporate' farms perform worse than 'small, individual' ones. And it explicitly says "The different behavior may be understood if we recall that in our samples scale is a proxy for farm type.".

What performs better are individual-run farms, i.e. not collectives (which is pertinent in the paper because that style of farming is a holdover from Communist times) and not what is called 'corporate' farming in the paper where you have a bunch of MBA's and agronomists hiring cheap labor.

Essentially (going beyond the numbers of the paper), farms that are run by individuals who have (presumably) more 'skin in the game' and who know the land, the history and local conditions better than hired guns is what makes those farms more productive. But that also puts a cap on the maximum amount of land you can manage, hence the correlation between farm organizational type and its size.

So, to tie that back to the GP - it's true that it's not necessarily the 'megafarms' that he's at a competitive disadvantage to (depending on what market you're looking at - I mean a farm as small as that isn't competing for big Cargill contracts), but his mostly tradition-based management style (looking at the description of the ground egg shells) did put him at a disadvantage to the point that such farmers can't survive today. Today's farmers are agricultural engineers (more often than not literally - many farmers, and a growing percentage, have some sort of university education). Keeping a farm profitable today is about leveraging technology, keeping data very accurately and making the most of it. That includes local-scale sensor networks, microdosage of nutrients ('fertilizers'), very fine-grained crop rotation schemes. And in lifestock and dairy farming even more so. It's all romantic that GP's grandfather had bunch of chickens and some cows that he could milk by hand if he wanted to, but the economic reality is that no dairy farmer today can survive that way, regardless of farm size.
We were using Xvfb with PhantomJS. Moving to a headless browser gave us the advantage of making sure everything is rendering just as we see in the GUI mode of that browser. This had a lot to do with moving away from PhantomJS. But it also removed the unkowns, Xvfb and other dependencies that came with it, from our stack. The lesser the unkowns the better I guess.
If you had read the article, you would see that the topic of discussion is reducing startup time when many modules are loaded due to the slow nature of `namedtuple`.
Do we really think that on their flagship phone, they're going to remove TouchID and thus the possibility of Apple Pay? I can't see it making sense for them.
I have 5 of them. Use them to monitor all my security cameras (with the Show), play music, control lights, my FireTV, listen to audible books, the news, build shopping lists, leave messages for my kid, etc. Essentially it has slipped into our lives.

Disclosure: Work at Amazon but am mostly just an Alexa fan.
Past returns do not dictate future results-- therefore, you should buy index funds because their past returns have been good.
"Perhaps not more likely, but since they run on heat, hurricanes could possibly become stronger in the future."

They run on heat differential, like any heat engine. A uniform global temperature increase would likely have minimal effects.
Every number has an infinite decimal expansion.

1 = 0.999...
1/2 = 0.49999...

etc.

In some ways it's a property of the representation, not something intrinsic to the number.
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My numbers are those the EU Antitrust committee recently published. Below 15% was the number they used as argument for why Android is a monopoly.

> Also, a used Mac Mini isn't $3000.

A Mac Mini that’s still under warranty, and an iPhone, and some years of Apple Developer fees, are.
I live just north of Houston and while checking out the flood waters, I saw just such masses, several of them in fact. If you do bump into them, or they bump into you, they will swarm you.
> Applauding and regretting and whatnot are both leagues more respectful

Oh, now you're favoring "respect" over "truly independent thinking"? How odd.