skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody will answer your question.

These commenters and down-voters know how to pattern match “he said a person is not a victim” with the knee-jerk response of “you’re bad.”

They don’t know how to articulate a sensible argument to back up their reaction though.
The article, written in the early 20th century, has nothing to do with sad songs in the, "sad songs hurt so good sense", but rather in the African American's shared pain (from slavery) and catharsis through music.

I suspect the same holds true for the American Indian, Jews, and any other enslaved/victims-of-genocide peoples.

Not that all humans don't suffer, far from it, but the article in question is decidedly not about that sad song on the radio.
As I understand it, this would allow you to create a level of a game like Super Mario Brothers as usually and then it could use that to generate additional levels that work in the same way with the same set of rules.
Only whites care about schools?
Too bad they rejected bus-rapid system. They seem to be cheap, effective and actually working really well. We have few lines here in Auckland and they are about 2-3x faster than taking a car at peak times.
A lot of these companies are government (or at least government-backed) projects: VW, Embraer, Antonov, Airbus, SEAT, etc. And Japanese situation after WW2 was special.
It's like saying that healthcare.gov is a new upcoming web giant.
Speak for yourself ;)
Hacker News is not a battleground for tediously dumb ideological skirmishes, so please stop commenting as though it is or we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree. I'm an independent (American) who leans left. Those quotes stood out to me too. The quotes to me signaled that the USA is literally everyone and no one's country. Just a free for all and while I'm certainly not against immigration, you can take it too far. Part of the consequences of going too far is that you end up with Trump and iterations of him thereafter. That's not good either.
The goal is to simply be sensible and only allow in those who will be a significant positive benefit to our society.

Yes, our society. The people already here. People seem to have a hard time grasping that the culture who founded the modern US gov't are indeed those people, or it's somehow become offensive. Even a 1st generation immigrant would agree with that, but not some revisionist who brings up the American Indians as if fair amends haven't been made there or somehow a new government completely void of their influence is somehow not the founding of the country.

I hope these same people go around the internet beating the drum on east Asian immigration policies and immigrant acceptance along with Israel. You'd think this country is evil and I completely disagree we're as bad as these finger-wagging liberals insist we are with their scare quotes.
Men at Work Wonder If They Overstepped with Women, Too
Headphones are the universal tool for open floor plans, it’s the best way for developers to (try to) focus. The ubiquity of headphone watering in open floor plans makes a lie of the whole idea it helps with collaboration.
Why I’m Ditching My Tesla Model 3 Reservation
A lot of these companies are pre-FB (or right around the same time): PayPal, Craigslist, eBay - those are much smaller than the three giants and on a slight decline curve over time. Yelp was started around FB times and growing sales are not an indicator of the actual growth.
Reminds me of the moral of "that alien message":

> Riemann invented his geometries before Einstein had a use for them; the physics of our universe is not that complicated in an absolute sense. A Bayesian superintelligence, hooked up to a webcam, would invent General Relativity as a hypothesis—perhaps not the dominant hypothesis, compared to Newtonian mechanics, but still a hypothesis under direct consideration—by the time it had seen the third frame of a falling apple. It might guess it from the first frame, if it saw the statics of a bent blade of grass.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
> Snaps core demo likely doesn’t have the discretionary income to pay for a social network.

How valuable are a demographics with no discretionary income to advertisers?
The log is mapped onto a distributed storage system, so fitting it in memory isn't a concern, though effective caching is important. The index / database also doesn't need to fit into memory. We cap memory utilization and resolve pointers within the index down into the storage system. Again, caching is important.

If I understand Datomic correctly, I can think of the time dimension in the triple store as a sequence of transactions each of which produces a new state. How that maps onto real storage is flexible (Datomic supports a number of backends which don't explicitly support the notion of immutable database).

So what would a key-value-time store be useful for? Conceptually it seems that if Datomic triples are mapped onto the key-value database then time in Datomic becomes transactions over the log. So one area of interest is as a database backend for Datomic that is physically designed to be immutable. There is a lot of hand waving, and Datomic has a large number of optimizations. Thanks for answering some of those questions about Datomic. It's a really fascinating system.
Chinese has a lot of tricky ones.

荼 vs 茶

日 vs 曰

已 vs 己 vs 巳 vs 巴

士 vs 土

水 vs 氺

人 vs 入 vs 八 vs 几

干 vs 千 vs 于

天 vs 夫

... the list goes on.
Not just psychology, look up the linguistic turn in philosophy in the 20th century.

There is support for a weak version of Sapir-Whorf, but in general any time someone says "the limits of your language determine the limits of your thought" I just s/language/culture.
Approvals were supposed to be a gigantic barrier, but...

> Administration officials said they will treat the hyperloop like a utility, and permitted it in the same way the state allows electric companies to burrow beneath public rights-of-way.

>“We have all sorts of utilities beneath our roadways,” Rahn said. “In essence, this didn’t need anything more than a utility permit.”
I always wish we as riders could set a "preset" for what we'd like in a ride.

Most times I take a lyft/uber I have something else to do in the car ride + rarely want to talk to the driver. Maybe that's rude, but if I take a taxi or a bus, I just want to get somewhere, not have a conversation.

With the advent of "tips" and "compliments" - I've noticed how much more drivers talk to you just because they think it will help with tips, when really - I'll tip them more if they get me there faster w/ less hassle.

Maybe this makes me a bit cold, but I feel like it could be a trivial thing to fix considering each rider has their own preferences. Seems like you could set a default on your profile "I like chats", "just business" etc - and let your driver know ahead of time and avoid the "I don't really want to talk right now" type of chats that have no way to not come out rude.
UberAir: Flying taxies by 2020
Great article. In Canada a lot of people don't know about the injustices the government has inflicted on the Inuit and other indigenous people. It's all conveniently left out of the school history curriculum.
I've examined the same issue between reproducible builds vs semantic versioning while relating it to Nix. This post also shows how to use Git submodules to achieve something similar. https://matrix.ai/2016/04/04/content-addressed-dependencies-...
My impression of the article is that the person has some semi serious mental health issues. Their anxiety is getting in the way of their life.

But they are spinning it as something wrong with the system.
In college, my Japanese teacher told us that a lot of foreigners get these characters wrong, but if you know the stroke order then it's easy to see the difference.

シ (shi) is written top to bottom. You can see that all the starting points for the strokes line up vertically on the left. Also, the last stroke curves from the bottom-left to the upper-right.

ツ (tsu) is written from left to right. You can see that all the starting points for the strokes line up horizontally at the top. Also, the last stroke curves from the upper-right down to the bottom-left.

ン (n) lke 'shi' is written top to bottom. The starting points for the strokes line up vertically on the left. It also uses the same direction for the longer, final stroke as 'shi'.

ソ (so) like 'tsu' is written left to right. The starting points for the strokes line up vertically on the left. It also uses the same direction for the longer, final stroke as 'tsu'.
That was an unexpectedly dramatic story. With his Patton-like determination and complete unsubtlety, he was very lucky that didn't get uglier! I was really afraid for him by the end...
ulaw isn't all that good, but EVRC running at full rate, nevermind how Sprint and Verizon ran it at much less than that just butchers voice calls.

Opus will hopefully end the mish-mash of codecs that currently permeate telephony, as it is much higher quality at lower bitrates, and unlike GSM, ulaw, and even G722 (which some call HD Voice) it can handle packet loss gracefully. Makes all commonly used codecs look terrible in comparison.
What You don’t like the blight of the homeless smacking you in the face in San Fran? I guess it’s in Nashville (I never saw it while living there for 3 years from Baltimore) too but it’s not a lifestyle there or a city other cities dump their homeless problem on.

I loved San Fran on my first visit then I stayed at a hotel on Market st and visited Haight Ashbury..omg!
Lyft is a good example for startups that are 2nd or 3rd place (or worse) behind a competing market leader. Perseverance can pay off tremendously. You never know what the market forces will dictate, when your competitor will be tied in some massive scandal, when the #1 market leader will get bought out and have their primary product shut down a short while later, etc.
If I need to work or nap or just think quietly, I just tell the driver upfront. Never had anyone take offense or bother me after that. Not sure why that needs to be automated.

People tend to talk out of social anxiety or the perceived need to entertain a passenger who looks bored. I do not think the majority of drivers talk as a mercenary plot to try to get a bigger tip - simple human sociability seems just as likely an explanation.

Also, Lyft’s “thing” from the very start was to be a more friendly ride, with drivers encouraged to offer bottled water/snack/phone charger and chat.
All hail Discordia!

I really put a lot of effort into becoming a Discordian pope, so I'm all for it. fnord
A whole third of a market where no one is making money, and hasn't for a decade now? What a great achievement.
"I don't want to live in a society where people have to $thing, so let's ban $thing and punish the companies involved in it" is approximately the most destructive fallacy of our time. Making upper-middle-class the minimum allowable lifestyle doesn't give everyone an upper-middle-class standard of living. It just punishes those who don't already have it.

We're going to keep ratcheting up the minimum allowable job, housing, food, etc. until a tiny minority of liberal elites are congratulating each other for having eradicated exploitation and all the liberated victims of exploitation are unemployed, homeless, and starving.

I don't want to live in a society where people have to live in RVs and work in Amazon warehouses. But banning Amazon warehouses (or RVs) isn't going to help.

We need redistribution, retraining, a real social safety net, healthcare, etc. so that people actually have better options than exploitative employment situations. Then it isn't even necessary to ban them, because no one would want them anyway.
Unreliable, easy to break, no way to contact a user back if they navigate away. Plus most small/medium business websites are simple, static pages currently, with no interactivity, let alone TLS to protect their users conversations.
Messing with exchange accounts and buying BTC seems unnecessary. Just take your 51% and mine a dozen blocks privately with no transactions repeatedly and replace the head of the blockchain with them. Suddenly everyone else does the double spending for you, which apart from making it less work, will do a lot more damage to trust.

To ruin trust even more effectively sell double spending as a service. Let people pay you to not include transactions in your split chain.
I like how he then proceeds to enumerate all the things which, if they weren’t doable, no one would really care.

Cardinal rule of drug dealing: never get high off your own stash.
Yup:

> The ampersand is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters et, Latin for "and".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand
Theming your Ionic 3 App
I agree that just saying you want to work is totally acceptable and I've never had an issue, but I think it's naive to think driver's don't strike up a conversation, at least part of the time, as a way to build camaraderie and generate tips. This is a ubiquitous technique in the service industry and there's nothing wrong with it.
There's a lot more to in than that in practice. For example, in a language with function overloading and implicit conversions, adding an overload may silently change the meaning of existing code.

Sometimes, this can get very gnarly. For example, C# has overloading, and it also has type inference for lambdas; and it tries to make these two work seamlessly. So, consider something like this:

int F(Func<int, int> g) => ...

string F(Func<string, string> g) => ...

This is perfectly legal - just a couple of overloads. Now, suppose we call it like so:

F(x => x.ToUpper());

There's no type for x here, so compiler has to infer it; but it also has two possible overloads to deal with. The way it goes about it is by considering both, and seeing if the lambda "makes sense" - i.e. if the body compiles, and its result type (accounting for possible implicit conversions) matches that specified in the function type being considered.

Now, when it tries Func<int, int>, it doesn't work, because if x is int, it doesn't have a method ToUpper, so the body of the lambda is ill-formed. On the other hand, given Func<string, string>, x is string, ToUpper() is well-formed, and returns a string, matching the function type. So that's the overload that gets chosen.

Now consider what happens if someone adds a method called ToUpper to int: now the code that was compiling before, and that was calling ToUpper on string, will suddenly fail because of ambiguity.

In more complicated scenarios (e.g. involving inheritance), it is even possible to have code that silently changes its meaning in such circumstances, e.g. when overloading methods across several classes in a hierarchy. It'd be rather convoluted code, but not out of the realm of possibility.
Doesn't have to be per user. You and your closest friends could split $20 every month. Per circle pricing.
That you had some luck being removed from some legitimate call lists does not mean that you can dismiss these extremely common tactics as "Internet myths." There's a whole spectrum of spam callers that ranges from respectable businesses all the way to outright scammers. Some use illegal tactics like the ones you're trying to say are a myth and literally everyone I've ever talked to in person about the issue has had a similar experience.
Note that Dhall language has an interesting take on dependencies where each module can be a content addressed code supplied via ipfs https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang
Minor quibble but Chicago's elevated and commuter rail systems are all heavy rail, not light rail.
Discordianism has always been serious, even when it's not. The end of the Principia Discordia even tells you to go back and reread it if you thought it was just a joke.

Subgenii annoy me, because they do tend to make everything a joke, and for some reason it reflects on those of us in Eris' Apple Corps. Like no, we have a serious philosophical point to make here (don't take everything seriously) that really needs to be taken seriously.
I’m from Baltimore yet graduated from MTSU and indeed the traffic in Nashville is nuts! Also racism like different cafeteria sections for whites and blacks exist not by signs but by time/attitudes not changing as quickly as they have elsewhere.
Like any societal wide witch hunt, this one will blaze hot and fast until it burns itself out. It's been started in response to very real problems but when companies can't hold holiday parties or men begin to overanalyze every single interaction with women, things have gone too far.

Just need to use common sense. If someone asks you to stop doing something that makes them uncomfortable, then you stop. There is a time and a place for harmless flirting, just don't be creepy.

We need to make sure our power structures are regulated in such a way that people in power aren't able to abuse their power.
No, no, no. Jetpacks, controlled fusion and flying taxies are always 10 years away, not less than 3. Nobody believes that radical changes like jetpacks or flying taxies will show up in 3 years or less: heck, we know there'll be another presidential election in 2020, that's not The Future.
I love Monoprice, but in this case, it's going to be another $2.49 in shipping, where Amazon and Aliexpress prices above include shipping.
If you don't want to be bothered, just turn off your ringer and notifications. Don't try to invent non-existent social norms. Part of the reason I have a phone is so people can reach me.
The NixOS community is building towards this with hydra, ipfs, nixpkgs.
Maybe they should just romanize (switch to Latin script) the way Vietnam did.
Wow, what an uncreative attack. Let's say you control decently over 51% of mining power and want to destroy bitcoin. What do you do?

Keep in mind that this gives you two significant powers. First, you can more or less unilaterally dictate the new consensus blockchain, subject to the usual constraints that you can't create transactions that weren't appropriately signed. That is, you can't spend other people's money or directly destroy it. Second, you have a limited ability to replace the consensus with something else.

The first power, by itself, allows you to block certain transactions from ever occurring. You could pick some subset of coins and prevent them from being spent. This could be targetted against exchanges, random users, or maybe even be based on geography. The goal (according to the article) is presumably to undermine confidence.

The second power can be used a lot more insidiously than just double-spending your own coins. How about tracking all inbound transfers to some exchange over some period of time and then undoing them? Now that exchange is out a lot of coins. For extra fun, could use your consensus-choosing power to effectively lock down the coins that you just stole from the exchange so their original owners don't have them either.

There are probably even more interesting things you could do, too.
Banks Enforcing Lower Security for Profit
There's an easier way to destroy the value of Bitcoin (temporarily) if China wanted to : pass a law banning mining.

I don't think China would risk trying to carry out a 51% attack though, what would the economic fallout of that be long term? Would any country or individual trust China after such a public attack? Worth noting that a lot of US based companies are built around Bitcoin (exchanges, payment processors etc) and the US government won't sit around watching billions of dollars being destroyed. Compared to the US, China is not known for being an aggressor in matters beyond it's borders so this behaviour would be pretty shocking to the rest of the world and will affect the perception of the country. The cons outweigh whatever little benefit destroying Bitcoin would bring, so that's not going to happen.
Trump News Today: Diverse Feed of Trump Headlines, Tweets, and Video
They aren’t inherently unsustainable except when they’re underfunded. A solvent pension is essentially just an annuity.
These guys doesn’t seem to understand capsule network all the much, they had a translational image showing a rotated cat, now modified to properly show it translated
I've essentially written Facetime off at this point, between firewall issues, hit and miss support among my contacts, and multiple frustrating attempts to use it with my mother, it just isn't worth it. Easier to throw her on Signal and use that, plus she can join the family group chat then.
I thought CNN was also translational invariant, why are they saying it’s not?
Coding on a phone is very doable if you have decent eyes. There are a number of good editors and ssh clients available. The real problem is the input. You can really get a near laptop level of productivity if you have a good keyboard. The best, far and away, is the ThinkOutside/iGo Stowaway. Luckily, even though it's discontinued, over ten years old, and was originally made to connect to PDAs before the iPhone even existed, the Bluetooth version works fine with modern phones. You can still find them on Amazon and Ebay. (https://www.amazon.com/Stowaway-Ultra-Slim-Bluetooth-Blackbe...)

What makes it such a killer product is that it's:

1. Small and light enough to carry in your pocket, folded
2. Almost a full keyboard -- it's got all of the modifier keys, arrows, and symbols you need for programming. You do need to use a modifier to type numbers, but this is easy to get used to.
3. Very comfortable to type on, good sized keys, good action and travel
4. Possible to use on your lap. The folding mechanism locks into place, and there is an attached stand for the phone. Other keyboards are nearly as good, but have to be placed on a hard surface, or they'll fold up.
Was on call 24x7 for several years, took me 10 years to recover. I still hate getting called with no prior warning, can't help it.

It messes you up.
Hmm, I think the assumption that consciousness is wrapped-up in language is justified.

Language involves representation. "self-consciousness" as generally expressed, is one's representation of one's self.

Obviously one can have visual or spatial representation of one's body. But the unique quality of language is that it involves an easy shorthand for the manipulation of representations. "Who am I?" is the standard question of consciousness - as language, it has a thousand shades. I don't know if it can even be meaningfully expressed in other modalities but if it could, it doesn't seem like it could be easily manipulated in the fashion of language.
Presence or absence of a state income tax doesn't imply anything about the business climate. States without income tax typically have higher sales and/or property tax, which aren't necessarily better.
This isn't a guide for implementing an actual modern particle system, but rather the author's learning project/proof-of-concept for WebAssembly. The presented effect itself trivially translates to a fragment shader.
Some of your examples are private companies so saying uber and Airbnb have a 100 billion dollar market cap is misleading. Private valuation is one thing and may be equivalent at IPO but is not a market cap and they don’t disclose revenues.
How much will they need to raise for this kind of infra?
Mammals Literally Came Out of the Dark Once the Dinos Were Gone
The illegal tactics aren't what I am calling a myth. It's the idea that asking illegal callers to stop doesn't work that I am calling a myth. Even scammers are concerned with efficiency.

I mean, I get ~1 unwanted call a week across a couple of phone numbers (that I answer and ask to stop). Other people are saying that they get a dozen a day and giving up on their phones. My anecdotes work for me.
It is scary as heck. I could be behind a desk and almost certainly would overlook this, or the mic I saw online embedded within an Ethernet cable the other day.
At least in the US, hiring lawyers for a transaction less than US$100K is very problematic and generally does not make sense.

There are some other legal options (like those express legal advice websites, or places where they proofread the agreement for US$200).