skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fewer Gif's, fewer emojis — they can be
funny and endearing in the right context,
but just feel forced and obtuse in a work
setting.

The difference in context is mostly related to the reality that all the best humor is NSFW, whether it's a GIF, an image macro, or any other meme-related content.

The emotional responses being grasped at by most workplace humor is contaminated by power differential, and practical need for a high signal-to-noise ratio so that shit actually gets done. Snappy banter is frequently an accumulation of unwanted cruft, depending on the performer and the audience.

When HR or an operations manager, or anyone else with serious authority in their hands, try their hand at anything other than Dad humor, unless they're extremely clever, and the joke is deftly crafted (usually not the case), the result is often inadvertently crass, and compounded by the Dunning-Kruger effect augmenting their awareness of how unfunny or otherwise tepid their material really is.
I would love to see an example of people using their price-gouging-acquired wealth to create a disaster relief supply chain. And that's only half sarcasm - if there are examples of people doing this and it's being reported on, I think it would be fascinating to read about. But something tells me real-life examples of this will be difficult to find.

In what reality do you think some random person on the side of the road is price gouging water bottles in order to fund an efficient supply chain to deliver bottles of water to the needy in the affected disaster area?

In what reality do you think this person isn't just pocketing the cash or using it to fund their own escape or reconstruction efforts?
Linux is a nice alternative, and has a much more pleasant userland than macOS. You have nothing to lose but your chains!
The same reason most people back multiple browser rendering engines, or multiple car manufacturers, or multiple CPU manufacturers.

Competition is good, and having 2 implementations of the same basic idea that each prioritise different things means that more people can have their cake and eat it too.

Having one tool that has hundreds of flags to enable different use-cases is an anti-pattern in my opinion, and a fantastic alternative is to create multiple competing tools that each handle those different use-cases. It's the unix philosophy taken to the extreme, each "program" should do one thing, and do it well.
That's a great back-of-the-envelope calculation. Main takeaway is that it is probably solveable, but only by government-scale efforts (philanthropy can't cover it).

The real problem is that it costs a lot and captialism shows no quarterly gains for preserving humanity. The best bet would be to have an international contribution agreement that ties something like defense spending to CO2 reduction. Fat chance of that happening, but it could really improve two situations at once.
The researchers invented a way to construct quantum computers that is both less prone to noise (that limits the computer size), easier to set and measure, and easier to manufacture when compared to the state of the art.

They didn't build such structure in practice, but got some very comprehensive simulations.
I really enjoyed "A Tour of C++" by Bjarne Stroustrup, which is a short book giving an overview of C++ features. It sticks to modern C++ practices from the very beginning.

Unfortunately, the book is C++11 only and correspondingly does not talk about C++14 or C++17.
>Why should those who CAN afford to pay the higher prices be discriminated against by fixing prices and creating shortages so that it's first-come-first-serve instead of the supply being sold to the highest bidder?

Look up discrimination, you're abusing the word. For example why should those who are poor but live close to the store be discriminated against by price gouging? Under first-come-first serve there would be no shortage for them.

Also wealth is not a moral virtue and the wealthy don't deserve to survive disasters any more than the poor.
How to Build a Company Where the Best Ideas Win (Ray Dalio @ TED)
>Of those who began their opioid abuse in the 1960s, more than 80% indicated that they initiated their abuse with heroin. In a near complete reversal, 75% of those who began their opioid abuse in the 2000s reported that their first regular opioid was a prescription drug.

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/1...
What is your definition of violence? You'll have to explain how voluntarily buying water and then selling it to a willing buyer is violent.
Google launches Drive File Stream desktop app
I totally agree, but any discussion of approaches that might improve the efficacy of the spend, e.g. more competition via charters/vouchers, or creating a merit pay system for teachers, is not permitted in polite society.

The only solution in elite policy circles is to spend more. The reality is we spend plenty, but we have a structure that makes it difficult to experiment. The problem is exacerbated because the most influential members of the upper classes can bypass the problem by either paying for private schools or by taking advantage of our neo-feudal school districting system and buy into exclusive neighborhoods with "public schools" — which are open to anyone who can swing a $1M mortgage!
Very cool, thanks for mentioning.
Building my first SaaS: A Disqus alternative – The research
You'd need an elaborate operation involving hundreds of people to tamper with paper ballots in a meaningful way. There's no way such operation would go unnoticed. How many people are needed to hijack e-voting system?
Facebook appears to be testing a new Messenger feature that looks like Tinder
The US prescribes far more opioids than any other country.

http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/WDR2011/Sta...

In 2009 0.57% of the population between 15 and 64 took opiates (products of the poppy such as opium or heroin) and 5.9% of the same population took opioids, of which 5.6% were prescribed opioids.

It's got much worse since then.

Roughly 10% of people taking opioid medication will become addicted to them. (Mostly people taking it long term).

https://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2015/hq110415.shtml

> Since 2002, prescription drug deaths have outpaced those of cocaine and heroin combined. Abuse of controlled prescription drugs is higher than that of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, MDMA, and PCP combined.
It also ensures that poor people can't afford it. For many, even normal prices can be difficult to afford.
The 18th-century man who sliced his best friend in two
he/she means that knowing something isn't valuable anymore. maybe that's true but I prefer this to guilds and gatekeepers.

also that's not a cost but an externality.
Bubbles are not by themselfs a problem. The property bubble in the US started collapsing in 2006 and by itself had no impact on employment or GDP.

Just as after the great depression when everybody believed overspeculation on the stock market had been the problem. Economist have studied this for 70 years and the practically universal conclusion was that montary policy errors was the real problem.

In Australia montary policy did not fail and they did not experiance a recession, the have not had one since the early 1990s. Whatever housing prices might do.

Simularly the stock market crash of 1987 (just as big as the one in 1929) did not even cause a blip in GDP.

Montary policy might have caused a little boom between 1926-1929 but if you really believe that the reslution of that boom required the US economy to contract by 30% then you are totally misguided. The problem was a contractionary montary policy.

The same goes for 2008, montary policy was the problem. Its the same story, everybody blames bubbles and speculators but economist have increasingly rejected this view.

Your story of 1926-1929 is basically the Rothbardian story, even his the majority of his studends and others influenced by him have since rejected this story. Its an intellectually dead idea that refuses to die because it perfect for the political left to demand control over all markets. Exactly what you advocate.

An independend central bank focus on macro economic stability should only have one job, stability of nominal demand.

Outside of that we can have political debates about how much banks and markets must be controlled.
> getting your compound to cross the blood-brain barrier in correct therapeutic quantities is extremely difficult.

It's well-established THC crosses the blood brain barrier due to its mental effects. Here are some more evidential links to support this:

http://profofpot.com/thc-blood-brain-barrier/

http://www.leafscience.com/2013/11/03/harvard-researchers-ex...

http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/marijuana/marijuana-and-th...

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/01/why_smoking_pot_feels_so_goo...
It will be exceedingly interesting to see how the relationships in the mobility space develop and evolve. And of course the details would be interesting to know (e.g. who has access to the driving data, service data, etc.).

More broadly, however, we'll likely see many more relationships develop between:

1. the multitude of smaller and relatively less capitalized self-driving companies (Drive.ai <i>only</i> raised ~$50 million in its last round) who may be more challenged to collect / simulate driving data

2. the better capitalized competitors (GM, Waymo/Google, Bosch, Tesal etc.) who have more means to collect / create data

3. those who have access to consumers (Uber, Lyft, Google/Waze/Maps, Ford/Chariot, GM cars & Cruise building it's own ride sharing app)

4. fleet service companies (commercial and rental)

5. freight services (UPS, Fedex, etc.)

6. OEMs / Tier 1s / manufacturers with different strategies (Ford, GM, BMW, FCA, Continental, Bosch, ...)

It's a wild, mixed up, confused world out there. Very interesting to see from a business strategy perspective.
Looks like it. https://twitter.com/marshallofsound
Here’s how Alphabet’s self-driving cars learn to navigate a tricky intersection
arxiv link https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01412
No, that's simply 'market'. It becomes black only when you outlaw it in an attempt to enforce perceived fairness† but not backing the supply side.

[†] we can argue long and hard about morality of "first to grab wins" vs "deepest pockets win", but let's agree in most societies neither is seen as a virtue.
> Progressive islands in conservative states is pretty much all there is, with the exception of California and New England.

California is hella conservative the second you get out of the major cities...
Sounds rather like brainwashing honestly. Even if it's for a good cause I'm not entirely comfortable with that.
One hypothesis is that there was a movement out of restricted unemployment programs into disability support programs and that would potentially provide funding for opioids ..

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
It's also very affordable, with public transportation.
Google retires Google Drive software
I guess I don't like being slowly driven insane wondering if some degradation is just in my head, jiggling the wire, etc. Maybe just me.
Ever place your phone on a table or bar, and there's gunk on it, and now that gunk is all over your phone? Nothing better than just being able to go to the restroom and rinse it off.
Cryptographic vulnerabilities in IOTA
Why not in the D.C. area, perhaps near Amazon's own data centers in Ashburn? It's one of the richest, most educated places in the U.S., has huge quantities of technical talent and plenty of high quality nearby schools with strong technical programs and lots of people looking for opportunities outside of the Fed space but don't want to move to the West coast. It also is within the D.C./Baltimore/Philadelphia/NYC mega-city/region.

Ashburn hits pretty much all of their RFP requirements right away with the development of the new metro line as well.
True, if Apple wanted to they could have changed the design. But, if we're going to talk about what Apple could have done with the design, I'm sure that we have many more grievances than the headphone jack. Thicker body for more battery is the classic complaint that comes to mind.

That being said, the iPhone 6/6s are the same size as the 7 from what I can see. The only obvious changes are waterproofing, headphone jack, taptic engine, and lack of physical home button.
I'll bite: What is wrong with the headphone jack?
> Who knows why, maybe he feels there are too many asians working at Facebook so he takes it upon himself to play games with applicants who have asian names

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence/stupidity"

Hanlon's Razor definitely applies to your theory!
In a way it is a race to the bottom when it comes to quality in articles
Is utf-8 significant here, as opposed to the ASCII subset? It seems like it's an ASCII encoding, and it sorts like ASCII.

I think that utf-8 sorting may depend on the locale. But here you're not depending on that -- you're just using the subset that is ASCII sorting, no?
I don't think it would work as well as we'd hope. Our projects aim for ever-increasing code coverage; it seems silly, esp as we get closer to 100%, but it seems to be pertinent here.

If I were to refactor some function to no longer be used, one would hope/expect that code coverage for that function would be missing, and thus we'd realize (or at least be able to notice more easily) that it was dead code.

However, unless your code is all tested via end-to-end tests of features and capabilities, it's _very_ possible that I (or a teammate) wrote some test of our dead helper function, verifying that it handles its edge cases correctly, as a unit test. In that case, we'd still see our code as "covered".

I think we could work around that by making the function deliberately raise an exception, and see which tests break, or commenting out the unit test of that function and see if it's still used. If the code is being exercised in any way other than its own unit tests, it ought to raise an error (or show coverage, depending on tactic). However, this requires us to _already_ suspect that function is dead.
WikiLeaks reveals CIA's Protego project: a PIC-based missile control system
Shape (YC S15) Is Hiring a Computer Vision and Mechanical Engineer
You've made a few mistakes in this post.

The first, and perhaps most important, is that you think opioids are a suitable treatment for long term pain. They aren't. There is little evidence of efficacy of opioids for treatment of long term pain. Your suggestion - that we treat pain using opioids - i) doesn't treat pain, and ii) creates addicts.

More information here: https://www.fpm.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-aware

> "live with the pain" treatment you get from Government run care where they refuse to provide pain killers unless you are screaming in pain

Quite clearly nonsense.

> The artificial limits

No, these are evidence based restrictions.
Letting the price increase to incentivize companies only makes sense if the government subsidizes the difference. Otherwise, more people that need the help suddenly can't pay for a resource that used to be affordable, right when they need it most.
Thats a tu quoque fallacy[1] and also fails on a couple levels to address what I mean.

First off I'm not making a moral judgement, and I'm not talking about actions at all. I'm not even trying to judge them at all. They made an assertion about humanity and i find that assertion alarming, but i didnt try to reflect it on them and stayed as impersonal as I could.

Its the intentions i was concerned about, not the effects. They were describing people who dont even care intellectually- thats freaky to think about.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Amazon has a small, but growing technical office in Minneapolis, as well as a DC in the suburbs.
Atlanta is also subject to the whims of a state legislature that passed a "religious freedom bill" that required the governor's veto as recently as last year.
Building a 50,000 person campus in the Boston area would be challenging and expensive. Areas that have the space are very, very pricey, and they're all outside the city. Public transportation is on the poorer side, and once you're out in suburbia many streets are too narrow to comfortably fit a bus, so the logistics just get harder.
UTF-16 is a right choice if you are in asia or outside of the west. UTF-8 is the right choice if you are in america or using the internet.

> A better solution is to allow programmers to specify string encoding and default it to UTF-8.

Agreed. UTF-8 is the sensible default for most people.
I'm not defining violence, I'm not even posing an answer to the question. I'm suggesting that you go ask some survivors what they think. I'm sure there are a few hard Mises-lovers who may agree with you but I think the vast, vast majority is going to disagree with you. Maybe you can tell them that government is violence and that all liberty is economic liberty and that $100 water during a disaster is proof that they live in a free society and maybe you can record it because I'd really like to see the responses.
I make sure that the people manager of the junior engineers I mentor know that my view of the productivity they are evaluated on is that it's related to the quality of their engineering, not output quantity, or even output per se. A significant part of engineering is bringing clarity to a problem, usually by engaging in a proper process of requirements analysis and design. Time spent slapping code into an editor ought to be less than the time spent doing other engineering tasks. Frequently it ought to be much less.
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No, there is too much frictional loss.
This has been going on forever. It is a natural consequence of free people acting in their own best interests. Giving an employer $1Bn in tax breaks knowing you will get more than $10Bn in increased tax revenue is good for the government and good for the employer.

Is it fair? No. But liberalism doesn't aim to make the world fair; it aims to make it free.
At the end of 2014, I was in a solid ~40 irc channels and active in maybe 15 of them.

Today, I'm in 10 and active in none. All the channels I left, even some of the ones I'm still in now, have switched to Discord, Slack or Matrix. The two only channels I care about are actually both mirrored on Discord using the excellent Matterbridge (https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/).

I was a heavy IRC user. The audience is gone.
w.r.t. empty space: I once met an RF engineer that specialized in cell antennas. He said the first 1/4 of the project was doing complex RF simulations of many design iterations. The last 3/4 of the project schedule was spent defending the empty space around the antenna that enabled it to work. Said in jest, but I suspect it contained a lot of truth.
I find this very useful. But also surprising that Patreon is how he makes most if his money even with 2 million subscribers!
Aren't all headphones better than the Apple ones? I certainly hope the airpods aren't as awful as they ones they pack in with the phone.
> Where do they get the money to afford all those opoids?

They can't afford them forever. When the money runs out, they switch to heroin which is MUCH cheaper than the abused prescription drugs which got them addicted in the first place.

"Shelter", when someone hits the bottom, consists of a flop-house or couch-surfing.
You don't.
First, if your QA peeps can't figure out an OS package manager, they need training. It's also a one-liner.

Without a package manager it is only a two-step process. 1) download get-pip.py from the source 2) run it with sudo
Yes, this usage of UTF-8 is limited to the ASCII subset.
Note the qualification "after energy costs and tax credits". There's definitely cheaper roofing material (our house has a flat rubber roof--much cheaper than tile). Tax credits, of course, vary by jurisdiction, and may not always be available.

It would also be useful to compare the cost to more traditional sorts of solar installations.
They are great! Where have they all gone?????
While this is awesome I'm personally wondering when big companies like FB and MS are going to standardize on a format for predictive models in general. [0] PMML exists but there are very few companies that are standing behind it.

[0] http://dmg.org/pmml/v4-3/GeneralStructure.html
To me, he's suggesting that the prevalence of general anti-men sentiment within the culture at large is partly responsible for men dropping out of society. College campuses declaring that all men are rapists until proven otherwise is symptomatic of that culture.
Microservices is just SOA rebranded for the cool kids. The fact that modern orchestration and tooling makes it easier to have more granular services changes the equation for how you factor the services, to be sure, but it's an evolution not a revolution.
> Progressive islands in conservative states are almost worse. They just get diced up and have no voice in state or federal government

Not always. If it's a small area, sure it may get split apart, except packing is a thing as well and just as big of a deal. But Austin proper has nearly a million people. The metro area is more than two million. You'd need to split it into 6-8 districts even to have a shot at creating solid Republican representation for Austin. There are 4 districts covering the city, and you'd need at least 2 for equal representation.

I'm not saying gerrymandering isn't an issue, I'm just saying that any implication the people of a city like Austin have no voice at the state or federal level is flatly wrong.
The article mentions that the ship may have participated in the Battle of Oliwa, though there is no mention of it in the manifest on Wikipedia[0]. Regardless, the battle (and the Polish-Swedish Wars in general) are historically very interesting in themselves, esp. given that they -- the Deluge in particular -- were a contributing factor in the fall of Poland.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Oliwa
It seems like the ideal solution scales the price increase to an individual's income. A flat $200 increase does not impose the same burden on everyone, and only helps out company profits.
> Removing dead code from your codebase is a simple process at its core: find the dead parts, prove that they’re dead, and delete them. The tricky part is in that second step, but after a little trial and error, we discovered a couple tricks to speed up the process.

The tricky part shouldn't be the second step. The second step shouldn't even exist. How is it that in this day and age, your compiler can't tell you definitively if a block of code is dead?
There may be people who aren't concerned with rational arguments / are close minded / fixed in their own beliefs, who then have an experience that rattles their perception, and shows them that their perception is only that - perception. And how loose/fragile perception is. And often they will pause and question things a little more, think for themselves a little more. And this is usually for the better and will open them up to more rational points.

That said, despite my fondness for these experiences, I do personally know 2 people who experienced prolonged (1-2 weeks) psychotic episodes after taking LSD. So there is more risk associated than many believe or want to accept. I haven't heard of this happening with mushrooms.
Arduino Scavenger Hunt
The Lounge works rather nicely for non technical people, https://github.com/thelounge/lounge

ScoutLink uses it for kids with great success.
I have mixed feelings about this for Pittsburgh. The main con is 50,000 tech jobs in this city means a lot of new people. Being conservative, we can call it 30,000 new families. I think that will cause chaos in the housing market and increase the cost of living. I'm not sure about it.

There is real estate downtown that (I believe) is still undeveloped and unplanned where the Igloo was. The biggest issue I see is travel. There are no direct flights almost anywhere from PIT.
Nova Launcher is already compatible with Android Oreo