skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Very small children understand and recognize property, since it is a natural right. The toy in my hand is "mine," and when some other kid comes along and takes it, I get upset.

When a very small child in a poor family looks at what is under a wealthy family's Christmas tree he's also going to be upset. Does that make a relatively equal distribution of Christmas presents a natural right?

I see no basis for decrying all coercion and mandating transactions be voluntary yet also overlooking the biggest contributor to coercion: property.
Pandas has much more breadth than depth. The first few months I used it, I felt the same. At some point it all just clicked and I more or less knew where to look for stuff in the docs.
Again, that argument doesn't work.

Let's look at an example of Bill Gates - if instead of investing any money or time in Microsoft, he gave away everything he could, he would not help as many people in the end. Again, you need money to make money. Of course you need to also consider the other effects of Microsoft in the calculation, which is no easy matter, but the general point is that investment by him eventually led to greater helping of those suffering injustices.

This does not consider that subsidizing someone's current lifestyle doesn't nearly have the impact of helping them develop economic means. It's a classic give a fish versus teach fishing.

And again, someone being hypocritical is not an argument against the logic. It just means that person is selfish and hypocritical. I don't claim that solving these problems is easy or not in direct conflict with human instincts.

There are also issues of fixing injustices justly. It's hard to give up x% of your wealth for a good cause when others are not. I would love to see something like a global 5% reparations tax (scaled by income, benefit from injustice, etc) that I would happily pay because it would be just for all. Of course, getting that to happen is kidding yourself at best.

All of your flawed arguments are still based on you assuming that I'm a hypocrite and no information that I gave you. I would call double BS on your reasoning for disagreement given that you had no knowledge of it when you took the position. Your argument neither had the knowledge nor logic to stand even with the knowledge present.
This website is total crab on my Laptop. The font is huge and zooming with ctrl +/- doesn't work (firefox 57).

Edit: Sorry for my harsh words. I just get kinda angry when I come across websites that don't allow me to zoom in or out, especially when the default font size is way off the standard.
The downside there is that you're then forced to build your application as a completely separate service and static site. With this approach, you can stick single page app where the UI needs to be more stateful and then use traditional server-templating for other things. I'm doing this w/ phoenix now and its nice because my typeahead search is done as a JS component, but the corresponding index and show pages are still mostly the same as what was scaffolded.

Not to mention, the combined approach is 100% necessary if you are going to require a server render for your react||vue|ember stuff.
Portugal is a contry with only 92.212 km². MT state have 9 times that.

Brazil has 15735 km of land frontier with the biggest cocaine and marijuana producers in the world.
One thing that can take a while to remember, if you've generally ran with the "gifted" crowd in school (Read: top 10% reading comprehension scores on the SAT), is that most people are just uncomfortable reading, it takes them a lot of time, and they don't like doing it. It's almost always a good idea to shorten/simplify any text meant for an unknown audience.
That makes everything make so much more sense. I was a paraplegic for a short period. In my case, I had virtually zero feeling below my chest (T5) and no ability to move any of it. I, too, thought quadriplegic meant no function in any limbs. There is a huge difference between no motor control and reduced motor control, and between no sensation and some.

If a woman told me her husband was quadriplegic and I still thought that meant zero sensation and no motor control, I could not help feeling pity. I know what that's like. It's awful. And while I know that doesn't mean the marriage is comfortless, I do know that it makes things very, very hard. But once you say that he has motor control and sensation - well, that's a completely different ball game. Pity is no longer my reflexive response. Now you are just a person with a different set of challenges in your life than most, and a different set of joys to complement them.

Great to hear that you and your husband are doing well. Glad I learned today that quadriplegia doesn't mean what I thought it does. Best of luck!
For years, I maintained my own python tool for loading/saving CSVs from numpy formats. It was slow, buggy, constantly hitting edge cases. When `pd.read_csv()` and `.to_csv()` came onto the scene, it was like the clouds opened up and a chorus of angels sang. And then you have all the other `read` and `to` functions, it's glorious.
To your first point, you can still server side render if you use an API by serving your frontend through a server that fetches data from the API before rendering
There are differences, but that is too be expected if one views morality as just another human abstraction. There are different human cultures, and people are raised with different influences in varying environments.

I find changes in morality as somewhat analogous to changes in language. They are both messy, ambiguous, chaotic, emergent processes that don't result in a single output.
> The difference of speed between cars is what causes accidents.

A cause, but most definitely not the cause. There's the not-so-trivial factors of reaction time (separation / speed) and breaking distance (proportional to the square of the speed) too. And many other factors too, of course.
Back in the late 80's and 90's I used to download programming manuals from BBS file hosts (using a self-built 300bps modem, patience being a virtue) which I then printed out on a dot matrix printer (Panasonic KX-P1080 on a C64, later modified with an EPROM from a KX-P1081 to be compatible with the PC clone I got my hands on). The printer used chain-fed paper which I first fed through one way to print the odd pages after which I swapped it around to print the odd ones. After that I took of the chain-feed edges, separated the sheets, made a cover (first on the C64, later on that clone using Harvard Graphics - I had modified a Hercules-compatible graphics card to double the vertical resolution, 720 * 768 pixels of green on black...) and finally - which is the relation to this article - combined the whole stack together into a book.

I did not bind these books though, instead using a press I made from some 2*4's, threaded stock, washers and nuts and a piece of heavy plywood. I put the whole stack into the press, clamped them tightly together at the back end (just above the 'binding', doused the edge in PVA wood glue and overlaid the back with a strip cut from some old jeans. This way I ended up with a whole shelf of blue-jeans-bound books. It might not have been as classy as a 'bound' book but it certainly had style...
I don't like this trend, that would be like me calling all SNES games "SUPER Games" because most of them were prepended with the word "SUPER", but it's not a descriptor of the genre, just the nomenclature.
Unfortunately, it hasn't been possible to mine Bitcoins on a regular computer (even a powerful one) for many years. If your laptop joined a mining pool in 2014, you would have earned around $0.20 USD per week, and you would spend much more than that on electricity. It's some tiny fraction of a cent now.
I avoid the four horsemen of the diabetic apocalypse (bread, rice, potatoes, pasta), no desserts, no dried fruit or fruit juice.

When I was at school, we were taught, by full-time, qualified educational professionals, that if you were hungry you should bulk up your meals with these 4 because it's impossible to eat too much of them.

I totally get the willpower argument but I am also aware there are many people who try to eat right who are simply acting on bad information from supposed authority figures.
"The man behind Pandas, the most important Python tool in data science"
This is precisely what was always wrong with the “Rails philosophy”. Front end should be completely independent to any kind of backend. The level of integration proposed here is an absolute nightmare to maintain and extend.
Absolutely! For example: https://github.com/discordapp/fastglobal
Thanks for this.. will be a great read even tough i'm more of a systems user space type of person.
Anybody here remember the pet rock fad of the 70's? The more interesting question to me regarding silly fads like pet rocks, droopy pants, and "Baby On Board" stickers is how they begin.
thats a lot more volume than i thought based on the comment i read yesterday. also just found this site https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/price/6m/USD?c=e&t=l which has historical price and volume data. looks like 24 hour volume has generally been around 100-150k BTC / day

could still manipulate markets with 40% concentration and that much liquidity, but would be much harder than if the daily volume was on the order of tens of millions like i mistakenly thought
As they say, Beyond Meat is Beyond Unhealthy. Man made lab food.
Please go read the guidelines and then start commenting civilly and substantively, or we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"The libertarian position is that human interactions should be voluntary, so the coercion problem is where libertarians find issue first."

So basically everyone should be armed to their teeth? Because, if there is no state to impose control, a warlord will emerge who will. Or is there some other solution to the problem that humans have known tendencies toward violence and power hunger?
Imperialism is the final stage of capitalism.

> but the extreme poverty has been shrinking

Indonesian 12 y.o. who makes Nike sneakers for 1$ a day will probably disagree. Humanity as a whole have made tremendous advancements in medicine, engineering and agriculture, technology as a whole have been advancing in giant leaps, yet benefits of those advancements are largely felt by 10-20 countries and 3-5% of the population. Even in the US some people cannot afford insulin and other types of basic healthcare. Workers's wages are stagnant for the past 50 years, while their productivity was steadily rising (https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/why-the...).

> And now we have the mechanisms for almost anybody to get out of it. I grew up very poor

Survivorship bias, "if I've made it, then anyone can".
Ah makes sense and I see that in the legend now.
? Your quote doesn't claim Bitcoin doesn't need servers.
> The libertarian position on wealth inequality is that as long as the distribution of wealth was determined voluntarily (without state privilege, in particular), then there is no problem.

Buuuuut, they bought it with fiat currencies, in many cases USD. So... right there the entire idea breaks down. Still, maybe that's unfair. A valid criticism of this argument is that it's a variant of the the serf comic argument (or genetic fallacy) in which those embedded in a bad system may not question it because they benefit from it.

The real problem from a libertarian perspective is that bitcoin (and really all PoW blockcahins) just encodes how a new State, a plutocratic one based around processing power and energy availability, is formed. This is in a very literal sense what bitcoin encodes, with the miners being the only folks with any real votes (in that if miners as a group refused to mine other currencies and actively discourage others from doing so, other currencies cannot scale and are locked out).

Not that bitcoin is scaling all that well. Or eth for that matter.

As we've seen from recent research, Bitcoin is slightly better than existing systems at discouraging monopolies (because even accidental misuse could crash the currency), but I seriously doubt a mining duopoly dictating most of the future of bitcoin is something that any libertarian actually calls a positive outcome, other than a snarky nod to damaging existing states.

The long term evolution of the system is pivotal on some new, non-PoW scheme. PoS is the major contender right now. There might be other methods as derivations (e.g., PoW coupled with physical location, PoS with term limits, PoS with accreditation, etc). Non-PoW systems will also scale much more effectively than PoW systems, as well.
I wonder if you can change the pricing plans and language around them a little. What happens if I'm going along happily on the 2500/day plan and suddenly I get hit with a traffic spike and need 20,000/day for 3 days until things calm down? If you're going to use pricing buckets like this it probably needs to also come with an automated way to bump the plan if needed.

Someone else in the thread suggested Maxmind as an alternative. Their prices seem to be several times higher than yours. Can you double your prices? It seems really cheap. Too cheap?

Also, the location identified for me was off by 60 miles.

On your Documentation page you've used 8.8.8.8 as an example IP address. And 1.1.1.1, and 2.2.2.2... I'd rather see you use the IPv4 address blocks reserved for documentation by RFC 5737 [0]. That's what they're for! Unfortunately, they probably don't have any actual data associated with them so the examples would need to be fabricated...hmm.

And it looks like actually using one of those results in some output that does not conform to the format on your documentation page, so you'd best also add documentation about error handling.

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5737
Using a phone for ddosing when it's charging and connected to wifi could be feasible, though, given a large enough infection rate.
How do you compare to Maxmind in regards of data quality?
One of the posters below pointed out that coinbase is FDIC insured (fiat) and insured in general (crypto). What's your take?
You can afford Melbourne? I grew up there but there's no chance of buying a place now.
Fair warning: Jamie doesn't appreciate the discourse this crowd brings to his site. Visit this URL without a referrer for the best results.
I didn't see any reference to Gingrich in the article, just that the Congress wasn't passing lots of legislation.

I expect the Washington Post to be much more accepting of a Congress that does little to advance the President's agenda for the next few years than they were in 2014 (but they may remain critical of the process).

The American republic is structured to enable people holding minority opinions to be heard and to restrain the excesses of majority factions.

Sometimes that works in one's favor, sometimes it doesn't.
Stealing CPU cycles for mining, password cracking, captcha solving, etc?
That's basically the same thing as selling the corporate bond and buying a government bond of similar maturity and coupon frequency in the same currency.

Though I don't get why you're puzzled on synthetic derivatives, since what you've proposed is a synthetic instrument itself. It's an exchange of upfront payment for an annuity stream.

And it's basically the opposite sign of the off-market swaps people in this HN community have already criticised banks for providing as a means of off-balance-sheet funding to some clients. (Eg, Greece and Italy entering into off-market swaps with banks, which is what your proposed contract is, except receiving upfront cash in exchange for the liability of a stream of future payments).

Separately, the bank could wrap your annuity stream as into structured note to make it seem more like a cash bond. But then you're back into something even more bespoke and financially complex than a standard contract CDS.
Very cool. As someone who wants to begin learning how to use ML and who enjoys clojure as a hobby language...this is great. Gives me an excuse to use Clojure more :) I hope you decide to continue working on it!
What is a "natural right?" How is one identified? How is it distinguishable from a right that is not a "natural right"?
This is hyperbole. It's not all hype. A lot of it is hype, yes, but there are many examples of great value being derived from advanced analytics.

The real issue is setting expectations with those on the outside trying to get in - a 3-month boot camp with no prior programming or statistics knowledge is just not going to get you to the level of competence required for this type of career. All of these MOOCs for ML/AI/DS are bullshit if you haven't the foundation underneath, which, based off of those people I know who've taken those courses, doesn't exist for many MOOCers.

The fact of the matter is that most companies don't need "artificial intelligence"; they need intelligence - people with domain and statistical knowledge and enough programming skills to be dangerous. As cool as some AI/ML tech is, you could get so far as a data scientist with great knowledge of a few statistical approaches and above-average programming skills.

You're right in one sense, though: there are a lot of data science practices/applications that aren't worth the value they provide. There are others that are worth exponentially more than their operating costs. As with most things in statistics, whether data science is effective "depends."
> Indeed. I almost wonder if it can be proven that thermodynamics is in fact the only possible way to verifiably make something take considerable time and energy, i.e. actually cost in resources that we have no way of faking, especially time.

This seems intuitively correct. So much so that I'm sure there's a paper that either confirms or denies that this is the case (perhaps in information theory). I also wonder how quantum computing affects this idea.
> The toy in my hand is "mine,"

Then the stronger kid comes along and takes the toy away, because he is stronger and now it's in his hand and he says "it's mine".

Would you find it coercive to forbid the stronger kid to act this way by means of a law (enforced maybe by the teacher) that forbids stronger kids to steal from smaller kids?

edit: oppressive -> coercive, sorry
I think you're right. There are many, many things I have come across which I search stack overflow excessively because I am overly surprised there isn't a better method of achieving the task. Try and do a cross join in pandas, it's deeply dissatisfying.
Not to directly answer your question, but to elaborate slightly, many political philosophers would draw a distinction between natural property (e.g. land, natural resources) and 'made' property. They would say that in the case of found property (land, natural resources), property rights are indeed artificial and coercive. But the value that has been added to those natural resources by the efforts of a person is theirs. This is, in part, the justification for the Land Value [1] tax. It's an interesting question where Bitcoin ownership may fall on that spectrum. I'm not sure, to be honest. But I think that might provide a framework for thinking about the issue.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
I'm not arguing that AMD's new open-source drivers appear to be pretty good, but you can't use them on current RHEL 7 since the RHEL kernel is frozen on the 3.10.x line, which locks out a lot of people from using AMD GPU hardware on Linux.
Very small children also constantly think they own things that they do not. They are also quite fond of stealing things that they want to have (the opposite of property rights).

The small children argument in general is a super poor one, I don't know why anyone would ever use it. People are naturally bad at various things, and children are almost definitely bad at those things (due to a lack of experience/training). There are few things that children are better at than adults, and the most important thing is that they're better at learning and/or otherwise being adaptable and dynamic.
Yeah. Academia doesn't care about interesting applications, they care about novel methods.

"I made a huge difference for the business by being thoughtful about feature selection and then applying a bog-standard regression method" isn't appealing to the academic mindset.
The private directories is the way Android does it. It is a good idea, provided you can easily allow access to other directories (as you suggested). Unfortunately they missed that second point.
You run red lights and think it's a "money grab"? And are happy about non-enforcement?

I believe you lack the maturity to operate multi-ton vehicles on public streets.
I have slow Macs that I share with family.

I've seen similar behavior when switching users. The full-screen password entry login comes up, but focus is still on regular apps.
What wallet are you using?
Apple has a bug bounty program where they'll legitimately pay you to report bugs directly to them. What's with everyone reporting them to Twitter instead and forgoing the extra cash?
I get a totally blank white page, though the source is there. It's rare a page doesn't work at all from PrivacyBager/uBlock.
Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

A really interesting dive into looking at common apps and industry problems from alternate perspectives, as well as how bias affects technical and design decisions in software. Not super technical per se, but it's pretty short and raises great and timely questions.

https://www.amazon.com/Technically-Wrong-Sexist-Algorithms-T...
I worked in a mixed shop, and when my Linux box showed the BSOD screensaver, my Windows-aligned co-worker helpfully rebooted my machine for me.
on .2 already. Never had an unwatch to unlock. The ghost typing happened to me yesterday. I never found out what got my password. hopefully it wasn't slack. I assumed it just went to the "root window" (does quartz have the same concepts as X?) of the lock screen

I usually press control key to wake up every computer (shift doesnt work on some). that one time I woke it up by tapping on the touchpad.
I've found this to be very true. I've got friends who were hired as data scientists, paid a great salary, and are finding themselves doing basic reporting and SQL querying all day. No statistical modeling, and certainly no building anything.
Learn to sell
Glad to hear you like the rhymes. Your right, some of the words are a advanced for a little kid. Many of them were just so I could tell my son "The Garbage Collector was too slow today"(I work in Java) or "I had to shave a yak today."
A lot of value from Data Science comes in large non-tech companies. It's not the super glamorous type of DS. It is about using data to drive optimizations, process improvements, manage supply chains, instrumenting alert mechanisms to monitor key mechanical and software components etc.
> People buy AMD cards just for its excellent native/open-source driver support.

I can confirm this being my main reason for going with AMD. They have discrete GPUs which meet my performance requirements, and the Mesa-based drivers perform very well, with very few issues (none on my own workloads). There has been a bit of a gap in display output features, specifically FreeSync support, but that's coming along too, and should be at least of "experimental" quality in Linux 4.15.
Submitting a bug bounty takes time. Also, informing people of security issues can be a virtue which is its own reward.
I'm sympathetic to the inflation argument, but it doesn't seem to match what actually happens. For example, Bitcoin inflated by about 20% in a 20-minute period yesterday. The theory doesn't seem to match the practice here.
sam hyde is rolling in his grave
Not even. That's unarguably NumPy.

.. Followed by Scikit learn. Then, huge projects like {Tensorflow, Pytorch}. Only then, Pandas.
how are you using ( or plan to use) Idris?
for Javascript, C ?
can you put some practical examples?