skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is a person's personality ultimately what we think of as "them"?

I would pull up a huge debate right here. Who's perspective are we using? What if people have different perspectives even after knowing the person in the same capacity? What about what the person is biologically dispositioned towards? What about mental illnesses? The list of questions goes on, none with good answers I think.

> Generally, I think people just don't want to change, but they use the argument that it's impossible to change these things as a defense. Then they fall back on "well no one should need to change themselves".

This is again proving the original comments point. In order to make this claim true, you have to assert that you can change your personality. We first have to agree on what personality is, and then see if we can change it. We do not really have good answers for either of these. This paper is an attempt but as summarized well, far from conclusive or without flaw. I would argue that people are changing their actions, not their personality.
Do you have anything to back up that belief? That's an incredibly strong unsubstantiated belief as presented.
I was curious on what personality traits are and found this: http://nobaproject.com/images/shared/images/000/001/623/orig...

From that, it's obvious that some personality traits can be changed (e.g. being punctual and neat) but others will be very hard (e.g. curious, imaginative, self-disciplined, feeling inadequate).
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I can only assume that a significant goal of the Netflix interface is hiding what they don't have and making it less obvious when things go away.

Even basic parts of the UI like "My List" or "Continue watching" aren't reliably available in the same places.

It is somewhat funny to see, for many years now, recommendation and ratings take such a heavy back seat when they were previously one of Netflix's most famous features.
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> gdax limits you to 10k/day of withdrawls from the exchange (be it usd or btc).

That's just the default limit. You can ask for increases.
> Or maybe I'm trying to consider the whole context of a nuanced and complex topic before reaching a conclusion. Dishonest, idiot me for not taking every discrete input as an absolute determinant in order to keep the argument "simple" for your benefit.

I'm still not sure if you do this on purpose or not, but you again answer a question that was not asked. I didnt make any conclusion in the previous post, so you are responding some question about conclusions that is not relevant to the context.

> Damore does not provide proof of anything like that happening. His biggest gripe is that Google is proactively reaching out to minority groups in order to try to get more candidates from that pool. He also mentions a "high priority queue for diversity hires", but I haven't found any evidence of that and he doesn't provide any.

I dont work at google, but i have never heard any of the rebuttals or official statements by google saying that it's not true they benefit minorities in their process. In any case, if Damore claimed that was happening and it isn't, then everyone can be happy, because Damore was asking precisely to stop doing that, and noone needs to feel attacked.

>So, let me get this straight: you are criticizing my analysis of a manifesto you haven't read

I think you haven't read my first post at all ,where i start by saying it haven't read it. Talk about accusing people of not reading the source!

> Your criticism is not based on published statistics, academic studies or any other kind of hard evidence, but rather hearsay and anecdata.

My criticism is based on the most classical anecdotal case, that Damore made an essay, there was a shitstorm and he got fired. That was my original topic. I have made no opinion on the contents of the essay , because i haven't read it nor its a topic I find interesting.

> That has to be the most Argentine behavior I've seen in a while.

Thats xenophobic. Bear in mind that if you had made this comment on twitter, you would run the risk of being fired and also become unemployable.

I think this last comment is enough. You sounded sour for a lot of your exchanges, but when you start insulting I lose interest. Hope you enjoyed the conversation.
Julia allows you to be a little closer to the math and use a lot of the math symbols directly. For example, you can write `if 6 ∈ A` (https://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/collections...), and you can use greek symbols for variable names.

Probably more useful for mathematicians implementing their papers than the other way around, but I find it kind of a nifty language feature and makes it easier to verify that your program matches the math.
> Good ORMs help tremendously with maintainability and security.

ORMs don’t help with security compared to query builders or even typed text.
Temp workers are W2 employees of temp staffing agencies.

How about let's provision healthcare, retirement, etc. directly to all citizens, instead of getting angry at/banning jobs that don't provide them.
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Those that are sensitive about such things shouldn't post such details online, and having that veil of secrecy penetrated and posted publicly might be a wakeup call.

There's no point in protecting someone's imaginary privacy, if their personal details are a google search away, they have no privacy and if that's important to them, they shouldn't post their private details in their profile.
> The relational structure maps cleanly to badly designed objects

If you are exposing base tables to the application instead of appropriate views, which as much a violation of good RDBMS design principles as what you describe is a violation of good OO design.
We received one last Christmas. Use it regularly for beans and pot roast. The suggested cook times in the manual were a little too long though--and that matters in a pressure cooker. A couple minutes can make the difference between success and slop.

25 minutes for dry beans and 30 minutes for a decent-sized roast is more than enough time to get the job done.

Fantastic job, Mr. Wang!

edit: I'm just doing black beans. Larger ones may need more time.
while ORMs can do quite a bit of optimization, they're still general query builders and can't construct the optimal queries for your use case. if you don't know SQL, or you don't know what's going on behind the scenes, your ORM could be performing much larger queries than it really needs to, costing performance and time
What a lousy article.

"Most Java web servers work by starting a new thread of execution for each request that comes in "

Nobody who has a performance critical application starts a new thread for every request.

That would be beyond stupid.
There are such things as micro-ORM as well, btw. Still an ORM though.
But why do you need these containers of data, when you could have more direct access to both the data itself and the whole set (not individual objects, nor collections of objects)

I dont like ORMs but did struggle some years trying to use them which imho was a detour. SQL and stored procedures in plpgsql is so much better, easier to maintain, easier to reason about etc.
1. Pedantically: it's GloVe, not word2vec. 2. Nilsimsa or any locality-sensitive hash detect changed messages, too, be the changes synonyms or not. 3. I don't think OP's GloVe contains words like v1agra.
> that's the very least we should expect from anyone who has negative personality traits

Who gets to decide the class of negative personality traits? Is there some objective measure of this "negativity"? It seems there are some gaping holes in your position which are probably impossible to fill.
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A great article.

One interesting link within led to http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Girls_suck_at_Python which contains the phrase "admittedly rather silly) code snippet"

But the code snippet not only is not silly, it is a known pitfall of Python's rather loose typing with regards to booleans!
Many posts say that an ORM is a good idea for the type safety / vulnerability / composibility / portability aspects. But that’s actually independent from the object mapping aspects - e.g. web2py provides all of the above in its DAL without the object mapping. It does sort-of abstract over SQL variants with Python query syntax, but no objects are involved.

Nim’s Ormin is still in not fully functional but is providing the same in a static language with straight up SQL.

My experience is that the O aspect of ORM is where it doesn’t help (and often gets in the way); if that’s your experience, consider DAL and Ormin
Yes. You could be be born with pedophilic tendencies, but through active effort, avoid harming children in any way.

As for changing your personality, it's extremely hard and frustrating even if you're not a criminal, and your traits are, for the most part, harming only yourself. I've tried an extensive array of approaches... Nothing has been able to fundamentally change who I am in a way that will lead me to a happier, more successful life. Having done all the "right things" that people say are supposed to work and having them all fail, it then gets very tempting to go down a darker path.

I fucking wish it was as simple as just making a decision to change, carrying out some well-defined plan, and arriving at the destination. It is definitely not.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF BITCOIN WALLETS?
I feel tricked by this article.

Me: Kafka? Okay then...
Article: "no. redis"
We're talking about stored procedures, which are executable code/business logic.
What if a taxpayer could care less? Is it fair to take their money to build something they don't want/need?

If the network build-out was completely supported by people that were going to buy service I think that's awesome.

I think in the case where it's subsidized by non-participants or non-subscribers there are some moral and ethical issues about using taxpayer money.
Problem is that self-driving company would get blamed for accidents for all of its cars. So imagine if you had 100,000 cars going around and you got sued for accident on every one of them. This aggregation of blame is core issue which otherwise gets distributed among millions of human drivers. This invariably requires that self-driving car must be many many magnitudes better than regular humans.

Even if companies figure out way to not get sued, its only matter of time until some very serious tragedy happens such as pregnant woman wearing same dress as color of sky crossing the road getting killed or car running in to school kids. Then there are obvious malicious usage such as modifying car sensors to fool self-driving system and purposely run in to people (cars as weapon scenario). One such thing and it could likely be the trigger for large public outcry, heavy regulations and finally game over for self-driving cars.

I think it might be more desirable to approach self-driving cars in more evolutionary fashion. We can start with self-driving only in less than 25 miles/hr scenarios such as heavy traffic OR sunny days on highways. Then we can start equiping our road networks with dedicated self-driving lanes, supportive beacons on roads and so on. Then gradually move towards make all lanes self-driving.
Not particularly mysterious, but I got quite a jump one day when I keyed up my 50w VHF mobile in the garage and instanly every single fire alarm in my house went off.
>What if people have different perspectives even after knowing the person in the same capacity? What about what the person is biologically dispositioned towards? What about mental illnesses.

I would include all of these things under my definition of "personality".

>I would argue that people are changing their actions, not their personality.

Yes, you're right. I'm thinking purely in terms of internalized thoughts and externalized actions. Going from "I want to do X but I will be punished for it even though it's my first inclination, so I will do Y instead", to no longer thinking of X at all and your first inclination is Y (the "right") thing. To me, your internalized thoughts and the decision-making behind your actions are part of your personality.

The realized actions that actually occur are separate from that. Changing your personality means removing branches from your internalized decision-making that would have existed previously, so they're no longer considerations.
"For US customers, your USD balance is covered by FDIC insurance, up to a maximum of $250,000."

You literally didn't even bother to click on the one link in that comment.
It works great! I had that on my desk for quite a while. Eventually it gets beat up and starts to wobble a bit, so wood or acrylic last longer, and in fact we still use some of these at my office years later.
I own an Instant Pot and I wasn't impressed. The rice sticks unlike a real rice cooker and the pressure cooking was slow. I followed some normal pressure cooker recipes and I had to double or triple the time.
1) You didn't explain where the dollars come from, while the country is under sanctions.

And my billion dollars example was just an example, Russia needs hundreds of billions.

2) What do you mean by "sell stuff to Russians for BTC"? Did you mean buy stuff with BTC? What stuff is that?
Why? Will that increase their profits?
Tethers are total crap, please do an article about them.
thats so funny, i was just considering buying one of these after learning about their existence earlier today. these things are great because you can make rice, beans and baked potatoes. if you buy a nice bread machine too, all the essentials are covered and you are all set up to save a whole lot of money. after reading this article and these comments, i will definitely pull the trigger on one of these. the only problem is that there are so many models, i dont know which one to get.
China since 2001 here. Most of the early rice cooker type pots didn't do 'pressure cooking' but obviously rice cooking in a confined space does have a pressure element potentially so it's not a huge leap. Not sure when the first ones with this leap appeared. Definitely before this guy named it in English. Given that he didn't have huge capital it's 99-100% likely he just rebranded and/or slightly modified an existing device and paid to get safety approvals for North American markets, thus making it import-capable. Note that they had a recall in 2015 which sort of implies they are not engineering in North America for the North American market. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2015/Instant-Pot-Pressure-Cooke...
This type article of article has come up countless times before. Why not both? Using both, you let the ORM handle regular, boring CRUD, validation, repeatable exercises, and write tricky joins, aggregates, function calls that ORMs don't do well in SQL. Every decent ORM supports dropping to SQL.
No. You should really wind up with a DAL. Define some stored procedures for accessing and working on the data and use only stored procedures.

No need for ORM, and no inline sql logic in your application code.
This sounds like a big number, but consider this - if less than 10% of Americans are millionaires then this means that millionaire parents are more than twice as likely to have millionaire children as non-millionaires.

This shouldn't gel well with someone who values meritocracy/social mobility.
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>Who gets to decide the class of negative personality traits?

In this context, negative personality traits are generally decided based on group consensus.

>Is there some objective measure of this "negativity"?

Sure. Do people like you? Do they like to be around you?
I replied to the argument. mnm1 agrees that car culture is a problem, so we're on the same page there, but they conclude that the problem is impossible to fix so we should all just stop trying and embrace it, which makes no sense to me.

And, living near Seattle as I currently do, the notion that we'd need to completely rebuild everything for public transit to work at all is not accurate. Plenty of major cities have decent public transit already. There may be a few cities that are beyond saving, and it wouldn't work in small towns, but that's true anywhere; no one in rural Germany is taking the bus to work, no matter how great it is in Frankfurt.
Probably want a (2013) in the title. JS GC is a lot better now than back then.

There's 2 main challenges to a pool based approach

1) Knowing up front how much memory you'll need
2) Complex DOM object pooling

In practice 1 gets solved by growing your pool, this also solves the problem with startup delays due to pre-allocation, but you need some way of knowing when to stop growing the pool and potentially evicting/re-using pool members. You can easily find yourself simply having written a much worse garbage collector of your own.

#2 is the realm of things like React-Virtualize. You need to be cognizant of acquiring handles to browser resources, and how to manage those life-cycles. You can end up in a case where your pool is 95% properly managed, but the leaky 5% still makes costly GC pauses.
Living in Austin, TX I don't think we're any better than SF: Sure things are still cheaper here and we got live music venues (that are dying out) but from a tech perspective we're lagging behind. Additionally, the
transport infrastructure here is poor, the gentrification is out of control and what once was a warm and welcoming community for creatives is turning more and more into a pay-for-access sh^tshow
There's some interesting stuff in the .NET-on-hardware space, CUDAfy [1] has been around for a while and I recently stumbled upon Hastlayer [2].

[1] https://cudafy.codeplex.com/

[2] https://hastlayer.com/
The amount of corruption I’ve heard against US Senators is staggering. I had no idea stuff like this was done except maybe in some cartoon version of the 1870’s Gilded Age.

Good example, Max Baucus shorted various financial companies for petty/risky wins as he was helping construct the 2008 bailout. He then later became the ambassador to China :(

> Financial markets were experiencing the greatest volatility on record. Trillions of dollars in stock profits were being washed away. But for Bachus it was different. According to his financial disclosure statements, Bachus netted as much as $50,000 in capital gains by aggressively playing the market during this volatile period. And he netted tens of thousands more in early 2009, when financial reforms were put in place. What makes these results impressive is the fact that options trading is extremely risky. There is a rule of thumb in the financial industry that 75% of options are worthless when it comes time to redeem them, and that 80% of options traders lose money.

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/excerpt-peter-schweizers-bo...
That's a much harder decision for the state to make -- the state has to evaluate business plans, determine the financial health of bidders, oversee implementation and monitor the business forever to ensure it's meeting the terms of the deal.

While if they give access to local governments, the state only needs to install the fiber -- it's up to the local government to determine how to use it to best serve the public. And in this case, the local government intends to lease the infrastructure to private businesses:

the city would build the infrastructure and lease capacity to private internet-service providers
High pressure and heat capable seals in either rubbers or silicones do leach chemicals when new. Once 'cured' they are OK.
another cool kitchen appliance with a cult following is the panasonic flashxpress. its a toaster oven that uses ir light instead of typical heating elements and convection. there are really good, cult-worthy toaster ovens and pressure cookers but unfortunately there are no such bread makers. we really need a better bread maker on the market.
The segregation happens on more than just class lines. People segregate based on culture and values.

Despite there being many poor, segregated communities in the USA, crime is perpetrated by and happens in only a few select communities. In fact, many poor communities thrive because of segregation. In an integrated society, members of the poor communities would be marginalized due to language and cultural barriers because there would not be a support network of people from similar cultural backgrounds. (although the communities where crime is commonplace would benefit from integration by spreading the crime around to different communities instead of keeping it within the community)

Japanese culture and values across all groups are much more homogenous and conducive to a civilized society. People look down upon crimes and value hard work and education.

On the other hand, there are communities in the USA who have values that are not conducive to civilized society and that glorify crime and hedonism and look down on the educated. Coincidentally, these communities also disproportionately contain the perpetrators of crimes.

On the surface level, it appears that the value system of the disruptive groups are the problem because many segregated, poor groups can live in civilized peace. Segregation itself is not a problem.

Everything points to the malfunctioning culture and value system of specific groups in the USA. Integration may help in so much as it dilutes the toxicity of the culture and value system of these groups.
> It is also a testament to the enormous power of Amazon, and its ability to turn small businesses into major empires nearly overnight.

Lot of people say that Amazon tends to move in on a product which they think has been doing well and start selling Amazon branded stuff. Is there a reason why Amazon hasn't done the same to Instant Pot?

> Sensing viral potential, Instant Pot sent test units to about 200 influential chefs, cooking instructors and food bloggers. Reviews and recipes appeared online, and sales began to climb.

I wonder why does the article keeps framing the company's growth as something which spent almost nothing on advertising, and achieved enormous size primarily through online word-of-mouth?
In machine learning cost of going from 90% to 95% is typically same as going from 0% to 90%. This is why every little percent point gets celebrated wildly after you cross 95%.
Just Google up database theory. You'll find a lot of lecture material about it with often references books.
What a refreshing letter that serves as the perfect counter example to the above. Thanks for sharing.

Just reading this kind of letter makes me have so much respect for this guy. This is the kind of human being and leader we should strive to be. Not because he failed, but because he showed humility and humanity and a touch of humor in his departure. If that isn’t the ultimate human response, I don’t know what is.
No worries, the "great hope of socialists worldwide" is quite safe. Just look at the pictures !

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/06/lifestyles_of_ri...

Luckily, after a decade of singing the praises of Chavez, Maduro and "the Bolivarian revolution" the left is well on the way to "explain why", once again, socialist interventionism has failed yet again. You see, Venezuela isn't, and never was, nor ever tried to be socialist.

It absolutely is not a case of, yet again, that socialists are just like everybody else, and cannot be trusted with the power they want, and therefore the decentralization of power that the right wants is still horridly bad. That's not it.

You see, it's a conspiracy against a "left-leaning" government by "capitalists". Refusing to sell everything one has at below cost prices, clearly, in reality, is a sustainable and profitable business plan that they're refusing to adopt only because they hate socialists (sorry, the "left-leaners" of the Venezualan government, not socialists, sorry, sorry).

(linked from r/socialism) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_JhRVlIR-c

https://www.socialistalternative.org/tag/nicolas-maduro/

But no worries ! This is all, and I do mean ALL of it, Trump's fault:

https://reddit.com/r/socialism