skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't. The operation I suspect you're thinking of is division, not comparison. Division of capacity by consumption gives range, whilst a comparison leaves me scratching my head for a meaningful interpretation. I'm afraid this analogy appears to reinforce the point rather than challenge it.
>Time to read up on some British History. The last time this happened

No it wasn't. This has never happened.

It's really hard to conclude that anything so tangentially related and which happened such a long time ago could possibly be relevant.
Yeah there's a question here that isn't being asked (probably many really):

Are people feeling that way because of the interaction, or because of buried bias or unresolved emotional issues?

I'd rather we advocate for improving our mental health benefits and access, and really bring these things to fore front.

Not have armchair experts in the topic peddle half felt/considered examples simply because they want to be left alone to focus on their fetishes.

These sort of things feel like a "us v them." Corporate wants to make money, so corporate is going to push casting emotional non-conformists aside.

That might help corporate operate more efficiently, but it's not helping humanity.

IMO, as a non-expert in mental health kind of disappointing that Brendan Gregg is saying these things.

All these wonderfully successful people who have society as a whole to thank for a lot of it, want nothing to do with a conversation on improving society if it is a distraction FOR THEM.
This criticism also applies to unemployment benefits in western European countries. If a large chunk of the population suddenly becomes unemployed, then the gov has less tax revenue but more employment benefits to cover. Unemployment benefits cannot be guaranteed without either expanding the national debt or printing money.

A sane government behavior would be to spend in year n the known tax revenue of year (n-1), and nothing more.
> Facial recognition is absolute garbage.

The problem is that people believe it isn't garbage and give it more credibility than it deserves.
I dislike articles that allude to wrong doings, but when pushed for more details on rather harsh allegations, refuse to state it. I have no way to verify it happened, and I have to take someone’s possible lie as the one sided truth.

EDIT: I'm referring to: "Around the same time, Eben made legal threats towards another project with ties to FSF."
New reason: press releases that fail to include links to papers :-p

https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2017/papers/imc17-final1...

https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2017/slides/IMC%202017.p... << slides
Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan)
Stormlight Archive; Mistborn (Brandon Sanderson)
Belgariad and Malloreon (David Eddings)
Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
Sword of Shannara (Terry Brooks)
The government manages to fund the military and social security and medicare despite the fact that tax returns vary from year to year. It can deficit spend and inflate the currency as needed.

In the very long term, nothing is guaranteed, but there is no basis to believe that the tax base will drop by 50% next year, and ample reason to believe the contrary.
yeah, this is old guard trying to put up barriers against up-and-comers in tech, under the guise of sticking it to the elites (ironically).

equity compensation has plenty of risks, which is why the timing of taxes gets complicated. the value of the underlying asset needs to solidify enough (meaning there is a liquid enough market for the equities) that it can be (partially) liquidated and used to pay the tax. but the variance in the liquidity over time is so high that it's nearly impossible to properly predict when the tax man should come knocking on the door.
Putty for Mac 8.7.0 released adds macOS High Sierra support
Wine Reviews released Putty for Mac 8.7.0 for MacOS today. Putty 8.7.0 now has full support for macOS High Sierra.

https://winonmacs.com/2017/11/10/putty-for-mac-8-7-0-has-been-released-with-macos-high-sierra-support/
What’s the best way to learn algorithms for programmers?
Main take-away summarized in the closing paragraph:

"...if anything is to be learned from the Cherokee experiment, it’s this: To imagine that a basic income, or something like it, would suddenly satisfy the disillusioned, out-of-work Rust Belt worker is as wrongheaded as imagining it would do no good at all, or drive people to stop working. There is a third possibility: that an infusion of cash into struggling households would lift up the youth in those households in all the subtle but still meaningful ways Costello has observed over the years, until finally, when they come of age, they are better prepared for the brave new world of work, whether the robots are coming or not."
You were downvoted, but I rather agree. I saw the picture of the turbofan diagram, with pointers to arbitrary parts of the engine and naming them as parts of the "Quantum Engine", DOM, CSS, etc.

Tufte referred to chartjunk - that was graphicjunk.

However... I love the browser again.
I think tolkien is a good option for "new" stuff, since there are many written stories in this universe about other characters and the created world by him is massive. There is also a possibility to start with his oldest book "silmarillion".
Would be interesting for someone to make series out of Silmarillion. It would probably work better than a regular film medium.
That sounds a lot like Otto von Bismarck [0] . Fearful of the socialists, he tried banning them, but that didn't work. So, instead, he introduced "Soclialism-lite" with improved worker conditions, social benefits, and semi-public medicine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Socialism_(Germany)
> Which everyone will tell you not to do.

Why?
Dear Bill, to spend money wise and efficiently I suggest that you look at the work of Dr Dale Bredesen. Dr Bredesen has fantastic results with his Alzheimer treatment and has published about it. In short, his treatment cures 9 out of 10 patients with mild Alzheimer. His scientific work is solid and a larger study is currently done. Check it out!
Links are provided. For example, the SFLC trying to invalidate SFC's trademark:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2017/nov/03/sflc-legal-action...

This is bizarre to say the least.
In time this annoyance API will be seen as equivalent to the blink [1] tag.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element
This HN story gave me an app idea, discuss
I take the city bus a lot. I like the price and I like the culture. You can be silent and anonymous on the city bus. In uber pool you have to be a little "on" when you get in the car and be polite that's very taxing when you are tired and just want to move from point a to point b.

Seems like Uber/Lyft (or some new player) could launch a new bus app that has:

Anyone can buy/rent an old airport shuttle bus and start earning money right away

Users of the "bus app" would walk to a stop, enter where they want to go, and get a instantly reply of something like "for $1.55 you'll have a 7 min wait and walk 450 ft." or "for $2.35 you'll have a 3 min wait and walk 1,450 ft."

The backend algorithm can route the shuttles more effectively than traditional bus routes and compete on price with city bus system.

Original story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15676682
I found the Runelords series by David Farland really enjoyable and cinematic. Great exploration of a fascinating magic system, with some very memorable characters to boot.

For Sci Fi, Netflix is currently making a series based on Altered Carbon which I'm very excited for - I love that series to death (Richard K Morgan, author).
I can assure you that at least "some" people at Google care.
You can automate this by changing the query line to : sqlite3 data/ChromeHistory "SELECT datetime(last_visit_time/1000000-11644473600,'unixepoch','localtime'),url FROM urls WHERE last_visit_time > 0 ORDER BY last_visit_time desc" > data/hist.txt
Without knowing what the parent really intended, I assumed they were talking about the difficulty of deploying the same application across platforms rather than with desktop development on any single platform.

Different system libraries, different window management environments and user expectations for layout and interaction, different handling of hi-dpi displays, different filesystems with different filename restrictions and different handling of filename encodings, different application packaging, different code signing and sandboxing requirements, different package distribution mechanisms. I've probably missed a few, but those cover some memorable enough annoyances for me in recent years.

I don't enjoy web development, but I do enjoy web publication and distribution.
You get what you pay for.

California is able to spend my state taxes on things that I want, and the federal government gets to not pay for those things.

Texas has to spend federal dollars if they want similar things. Their options are either to not have nice things, or to spend more federal dollars than California does.

That's what the deduction attempts to account for.
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I'd like to see a version of "basic employment".

Can't find a job? The government will guarantee you some baseline pay and give you a job and healthcare benefits almost unilaterally. You've still gotta show up and do your work, but you are guaranteed something to do.

It might be cleaning up roads and parks, building trails, washing streets, and planting trees, but it's a basic job that will provide you with enough money to get by.

There would be career counseling, skills-based training, and opportunities to manage other workers. Essentially, an Army without the guns; a group focused on not only improving the public environment, but also the part of the public employed by the program.
> So we have to start paying people in actual shares if we want to give equity.

People wouldn't want that either; they'd still have to pay tax on shares that were, for practical purposes, worthless at time of issue (and time tax due) and would statistically probably always be worthless.

Under this system, you'd really have to abandon compensation with stock of any sort for non-publicly traded entities.
I used to feel that way too until I tried it multiple times. All of the startups I've been involved with have been buried or purchased with deals that made my options worthless or effectively worthless (i.e. needing to come up with enough capital to execute the options for such a meager gains that it was hardly worth the effort).
Try Sapkowski if you didn't read The Witcher yet.
It is only odd in that it gives a leaving member that changes it mind some leverage against the EU, an escape hatch effectively.

The author of the document and others have also admitted that nobody thought the document would ever be put to use - it is not a battle tested document. And it's silent on whether it can be unilaterally revoked or not.

But as a matter of law the weight of opinion leans in favour of the option of unilateral revocation as long as it meets the principle of sincere cooperation. Unilateral revocation as a means of extracting additional concessions runs foul of that, so it really only works if it is part of a genuine u-turn.

Imagine though if the leaving member decided to revoke A50 as a means of resetting the negotiation or forcing the EU into concessions: it wouldn't work. Any subsequent attempt to withdraw by the member will be met with a much harsher EU. No additional legal devices are needed to drive this home. The EU can decide to impose bigger concessions, more conditions and higher costs to any future agreement. The leaving member needs a deal at some point, so the EU will always have the upper hand here they are just more likely to raise the costs on the leaving member if it engages in such shenanigans.
If there is any author who has fleshed out their world enough to have an entire TV series focus on minor characters it's Tolkien.

Personally, if they include Tom Bombadil in the show it will be entirely worth it for me.
This is sort of my concern. I had extremely low vitamin D, so I started megadosing on the advice of my doctor (50000IU/week). The problem is, without regular tests, I don't really know when I should be stopping. Vitamin D is fat soluble, and at some point, I'll in theory have levels that are too high.
Shameless self-promotion. There's a high performance C++ (with neon simd acceleration) implementation at [0]. Note, this also compiles cleanly to wasm and runs in the browser (see the "webaudio" branch). This code is also the basis of the reasonably popular free "dexed" vst. Some of my analysis of the DX7 is on the associated wiki as well.

Not to take anything away from the original posting, but if performance is a goal, this may be interesting.

[0]: https://github.com/google/music-synthesizer-for-android
Can anyone explain why the helicopter (which exists IRL) is not considered a flying car?
With power comes responsibility. The flip side of suffrage is responsibility. Abstaining from (or casting a blank ballot in) an election or referendum is, practically, dividing your vote amongst those who show up.

(Someone who is not eligible to vote is not really one of a country's people. They're its visitors, children, felons, what have you.)
15,000 scientists give warning about fate of the world in ‘letter to humanity’
Amazon is making a ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel series
How can there not be a Snowcrash movie, right?

Maybe its because of the cell phone problem.
Found it:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW...

Section beginning, "My next linguistical suggestion is more rigorous"...
Both him and Eben are well known. Why should I listen to one over the other?

"You can't trust him. Trust me."
When people talk about this package benefiting the wealthy, they mean very wealthy people. The upper-middle-class would probably take more damage from it than most.
Most of the "Alice" types I know come from a background in academia, which strongly selects for these types of people who can leave their emotions at the door and iterate on ideas quickly and rationally. None of the complaints raised in this article apply to teams composed entirely of "Alice" types (and the most productive labs I've worked in demonstrate this; and towards this goal I actively practice to become more "Alice"-like)
One day we'll discover socialism.
Examine.com offers a good roundup of research on Vitamin D, see https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-d/
Presumably, a traitor within the NSA or a contractor.

See: https://medium.com/@thegrugq/the-great-cyber-game-commentary...
Could be. I'd be interesting in knowing if there's a big difference between sub 3.0 STEM GPAs and humanities.

The problem with humanities is that there's just no need to consider you, they are already going to reject a large number of people with high grades and test scores. I suppose if you were a STEM major, the schools might need consider applications that aren't perfect if they want a decent representation from the sciences and engineering. I'd be interesting in seeing some data on this.

At a place like Berkeley or other difficult STEM programs with low GPAs, I'm prepared to believe that a 2.9 GPA doesn't indicate someone would have any trouble with law school. It's very different from running this GPA in history at a top private.

It's also worth noting that elite law schools have vanishingly low attrition rates - Columbia, for instance, has a 1L attrition rate of 0.3%. Yale often has no 1L attrition. Although I don't have data by engineering schools, my experience in a grad program at Berkeley is that such low attrition would be inconceivable in STEM, even at the MS level (and without question at the PhD level, where attrition can be as high as 50%, really, over 100 times higher than at an elite law school).
I completely disagree. I care a lot about privacy, but I've been unable to use Firefox for a long time now because of speed. Up until now, Chrome has just been significantly faster, to the point where I couldn't justify Firefox for everyday usage. I think a lot of people feel the same, especially those who know less about privacy. I hope the situation changes. If they were in the same ballpark in terms of speed, then my choice would be clear, but they haven't been.

It would be like using Tor all the time. You know it's better, but the difference in speed is so great, that you have to make a conscious choice. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that I want the benefits _without_ compromising speed.
This is exactly why nutritional science is such a dumpster fire. It's not a problem with the rigor or talent of nutritional scientists: it's just an almost-impossibly hard task. Medical research is hard enough, and when you remove the feasibility of RCTs for the most part...
Most bikes in US and Western Europe are made in China. Then they get shipped in parts to US and Western Europe and the bikes are assembled there. Often enough such small tasks count to label it made in xy.

Only smaller volumn hand made premium bikes are made locally.

Also bikes get imported from low cost countries with cheap labor like East Europe and China since at least 1990.
C# and its world might as well be a foreign language to some here...
There's been some renewed interest in this direction, at least on Android, in the form of GeckoView: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322573

Servo, Mozilla Research's next-generation parallel browser engine, also has embedding as an explicit top-level goal: https://servo.org/
I hope its not the same characters.

Its hard to drum up tension for a battle when you know the hero/ine will survive.
> But having everyone in the society spend a significant amount of time and stress on a handful of particular standardized tests is IMO a huge waste of collective attention and focus

This reminds me something that happened to me in college.

I was playing with neural network controlled rat in a maze.

I was hoping it will discover right hand rule. But the mazes I used for testing were small and randomly generated so sometimes rule 'just go staright ahead' worked perfectly because exit was facing entrance.

I solved it by removing such simple mazes from test pool.
‘Haptic Shape Illusion’ Allows VR Controllers to Simulate Feel of Larger Objects
This is a brand recognition play, and LotR has huge (general audience) brand recognition.
Google has an interesting philosophy on this:

"""
Cosgrove asked them to elaborate on the idea: "exile the knaves, but fight for the divas."

Rosenberg said maintaining Google's collaborative culture requires weeding out and getting rid of the knaves: Employees who lack integrity, who are jealous of their peers, take credit for others' work, and think only of themselves. "Nice humble engineers have a way of becoming insufferable when they think they are the sole inventors of the world's next big thing," they write in their book. "This is quite dangerous, as ego creates blind spots... Nip crazy in the bud."

Divas, on the other hand, display "high exceptionalism," Rosenberg said. If the divas are brilliant and doing a good job, they should be valued and allowed to do their jobs. "As long as ... the divas' achievements outweigh the collateral damage caused by their diva ways, you should fight for them."

"They will pay off your investment by doing interesting things," they write. "...Remember that Steve Jobs was one of the greatest business divas the world has ever known!"
""" [1]

[1] http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/10/googles_...
Fantastic news. I dropped Uber because of how they organize their business. My experience with Lyft in US cities has been fantastic.

Uber could use some competition in Canada as well (outside of our generally terrible taxis).
Vindication of my long-held opinion that the skin cancer groups, with their very extreme advice befitting milk-white Victorian ladies or photophobic vampires (always cover all skin at all times, avoid going outside whenever possible, wear a thick layer of sunscreen always), were taking things way too far.
Bitcoin Cash has Surpassed Bitcoin in global hashrate [Nov 13 2017]
The landmark case is the GE-Honeywell merger, which the EU blocked after the US DoJ had already approved. In it, the Commission said they had the authority it involved at least two "companies with a combined turnover worldwide in excess of €5,0 billion and European sales of at least €250 million".

I'm not sure what would be the procedure if they went ahead anyway, but when you control €500M+ in sales in your jurisdiction, you have a strong position.
> Its not the 40 hours.

Perhaps, but the ridiculous and disproportionate controversy over Cuphead makes me think otherwise.

There's a fine line between "achievements" and "play to win", and I'm sure this is testing this boundary. I just think the response is ridiculous. We're talking about entertainment, not health care.
Eben Moglen also has some very real credentials, I don't think that makes it reasonable to take someone's claims at face value. I, too, would like some more details on the issues. The interpretation of the GPL around ZFS is something I believe reasonable people may disagree upon. The claim that he has harassed and threatened people is much more serious, in my opinion, and deserving of some real evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen
Nonsense, only the ECJ can rule on this and it can only do so if a case is brought.
If they can double that kind of salary that easily there's something off. Assuming you're not the world's worst negotiator, why couldn't they afford to pay you more before? $100k is a lot of money. Doubling that without so much as a thought seems pretty frivolous to me but it doesn't necessarily mean they suddenly value your work more.

If you take their offer in the best case the deal will amount to golden handcuffs. Worst case, they'll try to extract all the domain-specific knowledge you have and you'll be let go on the next possible occasion.

Assuming your prospective consulting / contracting deals are more or less certain then you have a fairly safe platform to start a consulting business from. You'll have revenue right from the start, distributed among 2 clients, which significantly reduces your risk. Most importantly, with 2 clients lining up you already have the promising foundations for a potentially prosperous network, which arguably is worth a lot more than the money alone.

If you deliver high quality results and continue to expand your network and market your business $150k certainly isn't the ceiling for what you can achieve with a consulting business (while $200k in your current job might be).

Finally, depending on your location and on how close-knit your particular industry is burning bridges with those 2 clients might very well mean you'll have a much harder time starting your own consulting business later on.

Oh, and doing something for the money alone, particularly something shady like accepting and then moving on after 3 months anyway, is never a good idea.
Why not counter with ~100K USD or so? Squeeze more out of it, might settle negotations around 75K.

Then you can make another similar site, maybe for books or video games. :)