skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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However, as whatever they're looking to buy has dropped as well they're no worse off, and given that they've almost certainly still made a tax free killing (unless they're very recent purchasers) they're probably still ahead.
It really doesn't matter what your group does, it matters how the public views your group.

If your group is actually violent or not doesn't matter at all.

I think for the intents and purposes of the dicussion, when mentioning BLM it can be safely assumed people usually refer to the violent part fo the group and not the non-violent, peaceful/pacifist part of the group.
`gits`

also

`gitv` = git diff

`gitvc` = git diff --cached
Hi there, I'm the creator of rise. I've been using a number of tools to help perform text substitution and interpolation (eg: envsubst, m4), but I wanted something that provided me with a lot more power and was easier to get going with. After using terraform and reading through their hil and hcl libraries, I decided to create rise.

It's early stages in the projects development, but I am rapidly adding interpolation methods. Thanks!
It does seem like they could capture the profit (and split it with consumers in the form of lower rates in a bid to get market share?) of simple dr/urgent care visits. Have a cold? Visit a CVS walk in clinic, get tested for flu/strep, and pick up any prescriptions all in the same visit.
The best balance of policies to deal with fair & equitable housing supply has been the subject of vast tonnages of reports and research over many decades. It's hardly going to be resolved in a comments page.

That's a different topic from what I was commenting on, ie. NZ's putative duty to write its laws for your lifestyle convenience.
Isn't it called "burqua browsing mode"?
More seriously, of course it's harder in the offline world, I agree.
> even if you intend to die in your current home, increasing property values are great if

Exactly, certain things can be argued to be either advantageous or disadvantageous, depending on mindset/worldview, focus duration (long-term vs short-term goals), focus population (single individual vs average/median of population), etc. and these are core to public policy making.

And that is my point: attempts to maximize quality of life for a single individual/family for a few years naturally lead to NIMBYs. And they are not inherently wrong - annoying with different focus (e.g. median citizen after few decades), but not wrong.
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And Massachusetts, especially Boston, is insanely east in the same time zone. Hence the discussion. Not as Far East as the upper coast of Maine but relatively few people live there.
I agree. Speculative land purchasing by wealthy boomers at the expense of their (grand)children is just as bad and much more common.
If I'm fluent with virtualenv and already use it for all of my Mac OS X Python development, is there a reason I should still consider trying Anaconda?
How far away are you from the nearest house w/ NBN connectivity?

Second important question: do you have fiber to the premises, ie an NBN box on each house? If you do...

Remember that the NBN box (unless they changed it) has 4 data ports, each of which can be associated with an isolated ISP plan. Presumably your neighbor is only using Port 1.

If you're close enough, you could probably get away with a couple amplified 802.11ac dongles. A Pi3 or modded router could handle the Wi-Fi point-to-point setup at the remote house.

If that wouldn't quite work, point to point microwave links (which don't require a license, and are basically a pair of boxes that you stick on REALLY tall poles, and which have Ethernet ports on the back) are around $450 a pair. (For example, http://store.freenet-antennas.com.au/product_info.php?cPath=...)

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If you have fiber to the node (ie the street), I have no idea if extra connections can be added for a house NBN-box-style or what that looks like. It probably means provisioning an extra phone line, which obviously wouldn't work.

But you could viably rent the neighbor(s') actual bandwidth in this situation - in fact, if you can successfully describe and sell a "0% QoS" structure, where whatever bandwidth is not being otherwise used at any given moment is allocated to you, you could probably get away with paying very little. :P

You could also rent from multiple neighbors, too. Supposing an ideal scenario where you rent from 10 neighbors which have 100Mbps each (I know, I know...), you could get a VPS with decent bandwidth in a Real Country™, connect to the VPS from each borrowed connection, bond the resulting TUN interfaces together at both ends of the link, and hey presto - absolutely disasterous ping and jitter, but 1Gbps throughput at 1 o'clock in the morning.
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My Twitter feed didn’t become something amazing like this one seems to have, I’m envious and wondering if it was a lack of discipline on my part.
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Trump delays release of some JFK assassination documents
It has those things and if that’s where he conversation starts, it’s good. It’s better than no conversation at all. Hiding things is not the answer.
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Yes. In each case I was refunded the item's costs but still annoying. Their customer support has been okay.
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> Successful dating services don't necessarily cannibalize their market.

GP is clearly not suggesting that a dating service can be so effective that it depletes the market of single people. They're suggesting that a successful dating service won't retain customers, insofar as customers who find their life partner no longer need dates.
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Hi HN,

I'm looking for resources (books/blogs/websites) to learn about Windows internals and/or system administration.

A bit of background:

I'm an experienced programmer (mostly backend). But I've never seriously worked with windows.

Now I need to work with windows sytems, mostly Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012. Most of the time, I need to do sysadmin type of work. For example, I often need to figure out why some app cannot connect to some SQL Server. I would also like to understand how to secure a windows system and how to properly manage VMs.

I'm familiar enough with linux that most of the time I know what to google/stackoverflow for to find whatever answer I need when I'm stuck.

I want to get to this level for windows too. To have enough knowledge about the system internals in general, that I know what to search for.
I thought he was going too hard on Turnbull (current PM). What has he done that justifies your appraisal of his brief term?

People seem to be forgetting about Abbott, who in my opinion did indeed fuck around with rubbish policy his entire term (helped into the grave by treasurer/idiot Joe Hockey).
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They still run Senate candidates (in Victoria at least) but as independents because they lost party status. Not sure if they can be resurrected though - I think their good people all went to Labor and the Greens.
They speak of the Philsophy of Mathematics. I typed a lot out and chose to delete it. In short, it is considered the highest order among Mathematicians. However, us Applied Mathematicians just get on with the real work and have pretty much figured out that they are insane.

It's a bit like true random and infinity. It's best not to think about it to much and only useful for post doc bar conversations or impressing stoned Econ undergrads of your preferred gender. Even then, it's best not to think about it too much.
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Live in Fairbanks, Alaska. There is no way this system would be feasible at northern latitudes. The days get longer/shorter at a rate of ~7 min. a day. Instead of an hour time change twice a year, it would be equivalent to an hour time change once a week. (and in december, it would get dark at 11:30am)
You did not answer how long does it take to do that.
Company A grows revenues at %5 per annum. Company B grows revenues at %4.9 per annum. In both cases the trend is equally likely to continue in perpetuity. And neither company is expected to ever pay dividends.

Which stock are people going to buy? _Everybody_ is going to buy Company A's stock and _nobody_ is going to buy Company B's stock. P/E doesn't matter because 1) no dividends and 2) it's not a proxy for relative risk (we established risk is identical between the two).

Amazon is special because it's potential for revenue growth is believed to be nearly unlimited. As long as they're not losing money, and as long as they have enough profits to continue growing revenue, people will keep investing. Once the specter of stagnant revenue growth appears, Amazon's stock will probably come crashing down.

Basically, investors chase revenue growth, not profits. Berkshire Hathaway works the same way. Buffet might be a value investor who buys companies that can grow profits, but the price of BRK.A tracks the revenue growth of the holding company, not its profits.

Conversely, Wal-Mart's revenue growth has completely stalled. In fact, the stock price plummeted the year that revenue decreased slightly.

This is how things look as far as I can tell. I'm not a financial professional, and even if I'm right I'm sure there's a far better way (more technical, more comprehensive) to explain this dynamic.
I think rather than being broken, captcha models are just going to be made more complex. Maybe they'll start asking you to write a poem or play a mini problem solving game.
Tokyo is a case study in how zoning and deregulation on developments in urban centers has created a healthier real estate market:

In Minato ward — a desirable 20 sq km slice of central
Tokyo — the population is up 66 per cent over the past 20
years, from 145,000 to 241,000, an increase of about
100,000 residents. In the 121 sq km of San Francisco, the
population grew by about the same number over 20 years,
from 746,000 to 865,000 — a rise of 16 per cent. Yet
whereas the price of a home in San Francisco and London
has increased 231 per cent and 441 per cent respectively,
Minato ward has absorbed its population boom with price
rises of just 45 per cent.
And this is for a particularly popular part of Tokyo.

In the 1980s, Japanese cities were experiencing the same
inflated housing bubbles that U.S. cities are today. Their
planning methods, moreover, were rooted in Western notions
about separating uses and limiting density. The federal
government recognized that these regulations were the
problem, so in 2002, it passed the Urban Renaissance Law.
The law stripped municipalities of the ability to control
private property. As a result, owners can build a variety
of uses on their land, regardless of resistance from local
bureaucrats or neighbors.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.for...
Here's Woodin talking about his work in this area on a more technical level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVF4N1Ix5WI
On a similar note, most Iranians blame the British, who were occupying the country at the time, for the Persian famine of 1917–1919. It is by some accounts estimated that up to half the population died in the famine, while the British were using the agricultural output for their war efforts and enacting policies that made the situation worse. Its portrayal in Iran is like a more aggravated version of the Irish famine.

However, outside of Iran few believe this accounts, precisely because there are few written documents available about what went on during the famine and what role, if any, the British government had in it. If the documents were released, we would have a definite answer after a century, but I don't think they will be declassified and released anytime soon.
Vicarious demoed cracking captchas at least 3 years ago.

Dileep George, cofounder of Vicarious, is the former Numenta CTO, and claimed to use probabilistic graphical models as a basis for their tech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H185jPf-7o
Do you have any links to the party?

I’ve never really got the impression that Sustainable Australia (or any of its previous incarnations) was really anything more than an anti-population growth single issue party.
I just finished the show (season 1 and 2) and it’s the best sci-fi I’ve seen. I find it more epic than BSG. I’m so happy I watched it. I am considering picking up the books now. The science is on point. Flip and burn baby!
Good use of his time clearly...
Largely true, though at fine enough resolution, noon shifts a bit as well, for various reasons (I believe it's precession, inclination, etc.).

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/38270/why-is-the...
Yes I'm aware of that document. From your link:

> Because the English and Māori versions of the Treaty differed significantly, there is no consensus as to exactly what was agreed upon.

So it does little to clarify. The Maori are a minority now. Anyone arguing that some of the land of NZ should not be sold to the highest bidder may want to explain how that relates to the not-so-ancient trade of all the land in NZ for compensation of a disputed nature and extent.
For some purposes yes, for others no. The state has jurisdiction in matters not involving the tribe that take place there and the residents can vote / participate in civil government as Arizonians. However, the nation does have sovereignty in tribal affairs on the reservation and a few outside it.
Shadertoy, be prepared to lose a few hours.

Very demoscene.

It's wonderful that many of these load in the blink of an eye and run silky smooth even on a 2 year old iPhone.
No, he's calling his users "entitled brats" because they come into his channel and bitch and whine and demand he support them... for free.
There are plenty of far more brutal methods of suppression used long before the Industrial Revolution, unfortunately.
Blockchain is not necessarily the only answer for everything. The important thing is that the voting scheme is end-to-end verifiable. Even paper would work, although less efficiently. But there are plenty of other technical solutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
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> None of them represent the citizens. They represent their own grasping self interest

That is a false and dangerous overstatement. I have met many parliamentarians in 3 nations. They have pretty much the same mix of ethical tendencies as in the general population. They higher they rise, the more compromises are forced on them, but they're no worse in general than their electors (many of whom are also entirely self-interested and grasping).

> I'm a committed capitalist AND green and they is no political party aligned to that

Most Green parties have been suckered by the long-discredited 'natural capital' story, so are unfortunately heavily committed to capitalism. Ipso facto, there are few genuinely Green parties, as capitalism is clearly incompatible with the continued healthy existence of a living planet.
I am curious and not sure what to search for. What are you referring to? Link?
I think it's perfectly understandable (and perhaps even useful) to lose your composure when you have a bunch of users who act entitled and complain about your (free) software being "broken", when it's the fault of their GPU vendor, who makes a ton of money off their user base.
You sure about that as most other websites are touting it as cash back: https://thepointsguy.com/2017/10/barclaycard-uber-visa/
Negative result is still a result. I sometimes use `grep -r` to check whether "does this set of files contain this particular string?" and "no" is a useful answer :)
http://www.chpc.biz/uploads/9/7/9/5/9795010/chart-canada_10_...

I would love a portal to that universe in which Vancouver housing prices are dropping.

There was a short drop due to uncertainty around the tax and the elections / new government, but it is over, and it was tiny compared to insane price increases that immediately preceded it.

I don't know why you keep saying things that aren't true and yet can be checked online in under a minute.
> I'm a committed capitalist AND green and they is no political party aligned to that.

The Greens have an unofficial right faction (pro-capitalism, pro-green). Most of the recent Greens internal tension has been between this faction (which has a lot of ex-Liberal environmentalists and ex-Democrats) and the Left Renewal faction (many of whom are openly anti-capitalist). The pro-capitalism faction is certainly very strong and seems to control the party leadership at the moment.
He was before he lost to Tony Abbot for running the LNP. As it stands he's a far cry from what his ideals once where.

I'm not informed enough to see how this came about but if I had to take a guess I'd suggest the influence of the Nationals on the LNP has taken it's toll.
How would countries like the U.S. implement something similar to this?
I strongly disagree: It is not nearly true that all knowledge, including all history, is ideological and false.

All knowledge is biased to some degree, just like all people are dishonest to some degree - but to say you cannot trust anyone at all or that everyone is equally trustworthy would plainly be a misapprehension of reality.

A good education teaches people to treat knowledge skeptically and develop judgment about it, but to dismiss it all is as ignorant as believing it all. As someone once said about IT security, 'there is no wisdom in trusting no one'.

I'll add the controversial (on HN) statement that such skill is what a liberal arts education teaches, and I believe it is the most valuable skill to learn.
Most boxes start in ~30s on reasonable hardware. I don't know how long the box will take to download because I don't know what box you might use, what vagrant provider (e.g. parallels boxes are usually a little bigger than vbox ones), what your internet connection speed is.

If your entire decision making process is "I only run things that take two seconds" then I don't think we can have a conversation because honestly I don't even think about the time vagrant takes to start.

My computer does multiple things all at once. It takes longer for my IDE to start and be usable than it does for Vagrant, and funnily enough computers can run multiple processes at once, so this whole "omg 30 seconds is too long to wait" argument doesn't fly for me.
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Yes, there is, and it ties into a whole mess of interrelated standardisation, information, and control capabilities. Beninger's book is a fascinating exploratiion of this.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674169869
This is crazy. How about just doing what maths does anyways - state your assumptions?

Prove stuff with V=ultimate L? Great, slap a "V = ultimate L => ..." on it.

Prove stuff with forcing axiom? Cool, "forcing axiom implies ..."

The entire premise of asking "whats the one true axiom?" makes no sense. Its not like the real world places any restrictions on math - its a self-contained universe. So obviously you are free to pick whatever imaginary universe you would like to study. If we ever get to a point where we can directly test which of the 2 axioms leads to more useful theories in the real world, great, but that seems pretty unlikely given they come up when talking about infinity. The obvious truth seems to be that infinity could have a few subtly different meanings depending on how you define it - and thats totally fine because the real world does not contain infinities, its a purely mental construct.
I think the current mindset of taking data layout as fixed is a big illusion that we just haven't broken out of. Optimizers should make data layout optimizations. For example, a JIT could do AoS->SoA optimizations on an array containing multi-field objects and vectorize loops that manipulate a small subset of the fields. Or replace object representations with limited, live data-specialized versions that consume a fraction of the space.

There may be some changes to language semantics needed of course, but doesn't preclude Smalltalky languages.

Another property of the current software/hardware world is that the vast majority of programs don't care about performance at this level. There is a vast size difference between the oceans of production code in the world, and the amount of "hot" code that people pay money to make faster.

(And the levels of "make faster" are usually more low hanging fruit than switch of programming language)
What do you mean by 'less capitalism'?
It's both north and east. And I think that was the point of the article, that New England has it particularly bad for this.

Most people think that east coast cities are on a north-south axis, but as you go up I-95 (the major highway connecting these cities) you are actually traveling northeast. It was a head trip for me being from DC when I realized I could drive straight north for 5 hours and end up in Rochester, NY, or drive "north" on 95 for 5 hours and end up in New York City, but the distance between those two points was also itself a 5-6 hour drive.
Due to todays events the former Democrats leader (Andrew Bartlet) will probably be replacing Waters.
I generally agree with you. Honestly, I'd largely argue that the difference is a population that isn't both insular and predominantly white.

Election results, obviously, are not the full story, but they do provide a glimpse of the divides present within Georgia.

If you look at non-urban counties that voted Clinton in the last election[1], you'll find that the consistent theme is a substantial black population.

But even within cities, I'd argue diversity plays a role. Fulton and Dekalb counties were most heavily in favor of Clinton in the metro ATL area, and they're both majority-minority counties.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/georgia
I never understood Han's contempt for Jack Dorsey. He built two multi-million dollar companies. Very, very few people can say that.
Australia has had a very similar rule (foreigners can only buy newly built property) and prices kept soaring. The problem in Australia (and I suspect in New Zealand as well) is that the offering is limited due to regulation.
Blockchain would definitely solve this: Traceability, verifiability (no double casting). If you dont trust the counters (which no1 in america should) you can also use a form of Secure Multiparty Computation to hide the outcome from the counters until the last ballot is cast. So ya.
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He started a company to research making friendly AI, so he wants you to be scared of AI that isn't his.
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