skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your characterization of events seems to be a bit of a simplification: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/dprkchron, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreed_Framework

Major reasons for the breakdown of the Agreed Framework was that DPRK was never abiding by it to begin with. I mean it really shouldn't be up to the United States to bribe DPRK into not pursuing nuclear weapons; North Korea should just respect its preexisting agreements with South Korea and rely on its relationships with China and Russia for nuclear deterrence the same as South Korea relies on the United States. It's no coincidence that talks broke down at around the same time that the North Korean famine started to subside.

That speech by Bush, foolish as it was, was not given in a void. It was a response to decades of belligerence by the DPRK. The reason Saddam got invaded was because he deliberately mislead people about his weapons programs. If North Korea was a less belligerent entity, they would be having a much easier time dealing with the United States.
I've been working on something related to 7. Something your company needs that doesn't exist.

I built FormAPI [1] because I used to work at a company that needed to fill out a lot of forms. (Gusto [2])

Turns out there's not a huge number of programmers that need to fill out PDFs. But there's a big market for things like online forms and electronic signatures, so I'm looking into some different directions. But I think 7. is a great place to start.

[1] https://formapi.io/

[2] https://gusto.com/
Ah, I thought you meant something specific about living in an apartment/condo in an urban area with things in walking distance, vs. rural/suburban. I consider those somewhat orthogonal, but I see your point.
The nation that thrived by 'nudging' its population
%userprofile%/+workspace/projectName

%userprofile%/github.com

%userprofile%/Downloads - symlink to Desktop

../Desktop/+Archive - for old stuff

Everything older than 3 week gets moved automatically to +Archive to keep Desktop clean

%userprofile%/+workspace/ZimWiki/notes > with more tree structures

/work/jira/item.txt
/work/releases/version.txt
/work/deployment/sql
/work/appraisal/20180208.txt
/work/backup/sql
/personal/events
/win/backup
/unix
/web
/edu
/app/sql/data
/app/data/sql
/tec/sql/backup
/journal/2018/02/21.txt
/journal/2018/02/sqlBackup.txt
...

First create anything in a /Journal node on that /month, and later move to a more appropriate /node, after I understand where that is.

I can have multiple nodes to deal with same thing or similar. I can easily swap nodes parent with child.
How does one get into robotics? I have not looked much but none of my local schools seem to have "robotics".

I tinker with electronics and make some remote controlled robots for fun (internet controlled, live video with multi user input, sort of crowd controlled). I am now trying to self teach myself about kalman filters and control theory and want to build more autonomous robots.

But any info on getting into robotics for a day job would be nice.
The person in question is a project manager and may be using something other than linux or mac.
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Gotcha, I wasn't too clear on that from the post. Quality philanthropy.
I think the simple answer is that ICOs are too risky and involve too many unknowns.

By the way, were you actually associated with Mt. Gox or is that account name just for kicks?
what’s insane is that you just rounded off an amount roughly equal to the combined budget of:

- department of energy ($24B)

- department of education ($45B)

- department of transportation ($73B)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_execut...
That's what high schools are for (at least in theory).
I clicked on the link.. Napoleon going around Europe slaughtering is somehow "how we got meritocracy" and a "goodie"? Um. I don't see it. (I'm not an expert in these areas.)
It feels like you're ignoring the biological realities behind some mental health conditions. In this case, ADHD. You can't just dismiss deficits in executive function as "not caring". This lecture is a great one on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmV8HQUuPEk&t=13s

Or less specifically you can read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivit...

The reality is that the circuits in the brain that manage things like impulse control and attention don't work as well in some people.

One of the primary treatments for ADHD is stimulant medications... and yes, as a coping strategy, getting panicked to the point of adrenaline spiking. Both of them activate norepinephrine. But it has limits. I cannot be a panic about leaving for work every morning, or every time I meet with friends.

Medication helps tremendously; planning things in the morning before the medication has kicked in leads to problems.

When I have worked at a job that requires me to be in at 9:30AM every morning, the result was a ton of stress and constant friction. The solution is to schedule that meeting some other time; when I've worked at places that didn't have that requirement everybody has been happier.

I can assure you that I never say to myself, what's more important: being at this meeting on time or spending 10 minutes searching for my phone? Or responding to this reddit comment? My understanding of time is not nearly good enough to make those kind of choices. Watch the video I linked; it's not intention that is the problem.

Knowing the current time is not the problem, but being reasonable about how long things will take is extremely difficult.

A lot of my life is organized around the knowledge that I am this way. I simply can't have friends who are going to think I don't care about them every time I'm 15 minutes late. For some people, that might be the case, but it's not for me.

FWIW, my BMI is 21; appetite was never a problem for me. But I know a thing or two about excuses and getting out of my comfort zone; I'm trans.
Congratulations to moxie and the Signal folks from the Matrix.org team :) The world wouldn't have the increasingly pervasive E2E encryption we enjoy today if not for the double ratchet algorithm, and it's fantastic that they can continue that work as a 501(c)(3)!
It seems odd that the key feature of Naive Bayes (conditional independence of individual features given the class) is only mentioned in passing (and never explicitly that they are conditionally independent).

This feature is then used when transforming probabilities to log-probabilities in one go without any mention which would make it particularly confusing for beginners.

I would recommend decomposing p(x|C) before applying the log transform for clarity.
I store most my files in ~/Documents. I have among other various folders a folder dedicated to code, to pdf books and to my school work as well as work. My code folder is separated by language and in each language folder I have a folder named bins which holds various one off experiments. Within each language folder I also have various long standing projects and such. My school work is separated by semester and then within those by course Identifier. My pdf books are separated by topic. Usually I tend to nest things in somewhat deep hierarchies. I can still quickly navigate by terminal because I use z.sh [1].

[1]: https://github.com/rupa/z/
Same, I type on my phone with two hands. My experience typically has me going back and correcting words a whole lot more often with gesture typing, which kills any time savings and speed I may have initially gotten.

Typing one or two letters then hitting the suggestion has always been way more consistent for me.
Im still wondering, weather the recent progress did not render aircraft, tanks and carriers sort of obsolete alltogether.

Imagine a operation team, that rents a house, carves it out, and installs - delivered in 3 or 4 container- a explosive drone factory, generators and some material supply silos.

Once the conflicts start, the factory starts out churning kill vehicles like there is no tomorrow- attacking vital infrastructure, public transport- and in addition depositing droves of "fallback" mines, activated after years of delay.

The result is a instantly collapsing society, without even a aggressor visible. And who was it? Anyone could have done this- its a low cost attack. Low tech, once you have the auto-factory line up. Anyone having just one of those terrorizing a city has a plausible denial.

Meanwhile out on the oceans some subs and ships have a cruise with noone to strike at.
Noone to strike towards, a redundant a force as a battalion of cavalary at Verdun.

Its nice and shiny new toys for the not yet big boys, but the great scott help us, the day they face a dedicated advessary forced to go cheap.

That would be actually a nice little addition to the mil-industrial complex- a branch forced to develop assymetric attacks, with a very low budget. That way, if you allow that branch to conduct its own exercises and manouvers - you can actually look ahead to find out what those mysterious machine guns are- before you try to solve the excession by sending in wave after wave.
Yes yes a thousand times yes.
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Well, I think it would be neat if package managers would utilize it. From my experience, it's rare that a company creates their own mirror (repo)... Especially if they're workstations.
> Consider indefinite loops, which require someone to reason about potentially infinite executions of a block of code.

What if we didn't have them? I've been thinking about making a language that's primitive recursive, and not actually Turing complete. This doesn't even have to look particularly alien: all the looping constructs are for-range and for-each style, recursion (cycles in the function call graph) is a compiler error, and otherwise it can be a typical programming language. The majority of code can be ported to this world just fine.

Graph searches don't naturally look like for-each loops, but they do iterate over each element in a domain at most once. We can add a for-search loop which iterates over a domain in an order that's determined mid-loop (looks like a for-each loop plus a queue command, the compiler generates the visited set and queue/stack/priority queue). That can be used (a little awkwardly) to do binary search as well, which is the main place people actually use recursion. (I think this is worth stealing, btw.)

Some programs like games and web servers are built around an intentional infinite loop. Having more than one infinite loop on the same thread sounds like an error, so let's say there's an actual infinite loop construct, and only the main method is allowed to use it. This plus generator functions allow dealing with input streams (though somewhat awkwardly). (This makes the language as a whole Turing complete, but most of the code is still not.)
this reads like propaganda. sorry
Not at this point, but it's something our team has some experience with, so don't be surprised if we add it in the future.

If you're doing 360 streaming right now, shoot me an email (jon at mux) - I'd be curious what you use today and/or how you want to use it.
eBay has become actively hostile for individuals selling. All their policies now heavily favour the buyer, and the scope for getting scammed is too high to make it worth the bother. Little wonder it's becoming more a marketplace.

Oh and not forgetting their 10% + Paypal fees, which makes them damn expensive.

Think there is a lot of scope for someone to do it better.
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Especially in contexts where there’s more then one hierarchy along more than one axis. UIs where you have content in the middle with multiple columns and sidebars and toolbars turns into a mess with the no borders flat design approach.
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Kudos to Signal for taking this approach and not jumping on the sketchy ICO bandwagon.
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This is why I take issue with the way link aggregators handle title rules. The title of a popular article is usually written by someone other than the article's author (by a headline writer instead) in order to provoke more of a response. I think we should make an effort to reflect the content of the article, rather than take the misleading headline.
> A great many of Apple's customers care a lot about this kind of thing.

For my own sanity, I'll assume this is sarcasm.
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I agree. I am working on an Arch distro (may roll my own for containers) that includes secure decentralized storage and configuration by default, and a federated marketplace for sharing your own local and server resources.
I'm happy to get on board with you regarding pointing out the shameful hypocrisy. I'm less cynical about the apparent bait and switch, it seems to me that a lot of people were either naive about the realities of running an "open" platform, and/or are just caught up in this new age of hysteria. It seems like almost everyone has lost the concept of nuance.
Quality philanthropy in the tradition of Mitch Kapor (EFF).
Thanks for pointing out! This is a blog post for people that know already a bit about the theory and are interested in a possible implementation. But I see your point and will add it.
What is Signal Foundation's vision for interoperable, open-standard E2E messaging between different central services?
Can you give some examples of regulations that are counter-productive, where their suspension presents no ethical challenge?
Ah, a crop of drowning lawyers, needs more water, their nostrils still have air...
It is on the main page under the "Frequently Asked Questions" section.

> What language are your solutions in?

> Our solutions are in Python. We think it's the best language to use for interviews, as it's well-known and very similar to pseudocode. However, we're looking to expand to other popular languages like Javascript, Java, C++, and Ruby!
I think those of us who frequent Hacker News have issues with pop-up email subscription forms that the general population does not.

My guess is that they see it as "oh I like this a lot, I'll sign up for more so I don't have to remember to come back and check this site."
Why do you think strong encryption will have an export problem now when it hasn't for decades? Keep in mind that Signal is already open source and the algorithm is already widely distributed. Any restriction on export at this time would be closing the barn doors after the horses have all escaped.
I really love how they've expanded on the idea as well. Obviously once you have cinder blocks you need mini pallets and mini traffic cones...
Supreme court narrows protections for whistleblowers
Search for Start Small, Stay Small. This book is full of truth and wisdom, and has excellent insight on building and using a mailing list.
We had a relatively small footprint: 4 offices (2..3 desks each), a conference room + projector, 10 dedicated desks, plus some shared space for up to 10 more people. I wanted to focus on tech startups, so we also had a small datacenter on premises, VPN, and everything was wired with subnets etc. I also made accelerator deals with Google, Microsoft, and Amazon so we could award cloud credits to those who needed it. Additionally, we got some lawyers to provide legal advice to members for free. We wanted to provide a good environment for building and launching an MVP (and beyond) [1].

What actually happened:

* we did attract a few startups, and we helped them launch

* many people were so early in the process, they had no use for cloud credits (or on-site infrastructure)

* we did a series of free events (with pizza and beer), and those attracted a lot of people - but did not convert to memberships

* we were hoping to get some interest and support from the state (CT) at least in terms of visibility and potential grants for members - but that didn't happen, as the State only wanted to invest in their official incubator in Stamford (which they sank a lot of money into, and ended up evicting the people who ran it [2])

* most trials didn't convert

* several more coworking spaces opened in the area, so people began hopping around

* attracted a few dreamers, who were constantly in pitching mode - and had no desire to actually sit down and build something (also usually the ones with money problems)

Overall, this was a great learning experience.

[1] a writeup someone did in on us back in 2013: https://www.smallbizdaily.com/so-youre-thinking-of-starting-...

[2] the State-funded "competitor": https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Old-Town-Hall...
Yes and the full ride scholarships(scholarships in general) are that much more difficult to give. My father got a full ride to a state school back in the 80s but today with his grades it wouldn't happen.
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Bingo. It's an 80% solution that you can keep 100% of the time, instead of the other way around.

The No-S Diet and "eat food, not too much, mostly plants" is the way to go.
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"The vegetarian is being served beef even though they ordered a vegetarian entree from the waiter."

No - you accessed the website with a personal expectation that the author adhered to your standards. The web is free, developers and designers can do what they want. If it's not what you want then go somewhere else.

Similarly, the vegetarian ordered "the special" and was befuddled when they received a dish with meat. There was no expectation of a vegetarian dish except by the vegetarian.
Downvoters care to explain? We always say diversity is good, but when somebody provides an example of why it is good, they get downvoted?
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I'm sure there is nothing that will convince you at this point, however, I'll offer a final set of links.

In 2013 the "conservative" Brookings Institute seemed to agree that there is an economic advantage to a college degree.

see:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2013/11/12/the-eco...

and

https://www.brookings.edu/research/where-is-the-best-place-t...

If you feel like they have it wrong and that the last five years has resulted in some sort of sea change then so be it.

Good luck with your kid's high school diploma.
I would also bet nobody publishes research on games AI didn't perform well at.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, because it probably does, but it would be a surprise to me if using child labour is really cost competitive. I'd expect a couple of small and desperate suppliers. Do you have a link handy?

Mining for bulk materials (iron ore, coal, copper, aggregates, etc) is going to be 100% mechanised at the scale that big buyers are interested in. If cobalt is still mined by the vein then maybe child laborers get used because they are smaller, but as battery production is getting serious child labour just won't work.

Take gold; you couldn't supply gold to a bullion bank with child labour because they do not produce fast enough. Big gold suppliers are happy with an orebody with grades measured in parts per million, and child cannot move a tonne of dirt as quickly, cheaply or consistently as a machine.
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Compare a Li-Ion battery from 1992 vs now and you are easily talking 2+x recharge cycles that's huge on it's own. But, you also get lower weight, lower volume, increased power, and lower cost. You can even get a vast array of form factors not just little cylinders.

Granted, their are trade-offs and I would love to have 10x the power. Still, 2x energy by weight and 1/3 the cost
means I have no problem saying batteries have gotten dramatically better.
Is it me or did the article not provide the answer promised in the title?
No 1 isn't a startup problem: it's regular political corruption. An industry cartel looking to preserve or expand on billions in revenue paid politicians to ensure that with stronger copyright laws. That's on top of their business practices they control. The combination keeps them rich on monopolies in an industry they control rather than the artists the laws are supposedly there for. Similar claims can be made for US patent system as well with big companies suppressing innovation with them or trolls draining the economy. Similar concepts. The people did nothing to counter these with many not even knowing companies were paying for these laws or with what effects. One result among many on copyright side is the legitimate buyers of content might have to deal with the experience in the link below since it can be a felony to do otherwise.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1ToS1gYD3wQ/TlxUHSp-uKI/AAAAAAAAFw...

So, the solution to this very political problem might be one of the following:

1. Creating non-profit organizations that collect dues to lobby on behalf of voters against corporate interests. They'll need to have focused legislation and marketing to reach a lot of people. They'll need a lot of money to outspend the plutocrats who have piles of money. The competition will at least be happening where the root problem is to eliminate some things like bans on reverse engineering, the severity of punishment for filesharing, or changes to copyright itself that limits labels control over business models. The rest will follow after root causes are solved at level of corrupt politicians introducing them.

2. They eliminate all politicians doing that in ways that cause consumers harm. This might take a combo of political campaigns for replacements plus media campaigns about harms predecessors were/are doing. Copyright/patent system would be but one. Might also try to get the new politicians to pass laws limiting donations by private parties with corporate ones eliminated entirely. Taxpayers themselves will pay whoever wins a fortune plus subsidize various stages of the election process so they work for us. Bribes will be felonies leading to life in prison.

This is all kind of like how we say certain things like governments banning encryption are political rather than technical problems. The people's action in legal system and media are needed to solve them. Lawmakers that will constantly do what's in incumbents' interests, even imprisoning innovators making alternatives, have to be fought at their level for best results. I mean, do combine as many methods of resistance as possible. Just startups or tech alone aren't the solution if problem starts with laws paid for with bribes.
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One semi-real problem with `Arbitrary` is that quickcheck itself can only define a fairly small set of instances since it doesn't want to incur a dependency on all of Hackage. Likewise, other packages are unlikely to bring in quickcheck as a dependency just to define the instance.

This means these instances must be defined in standalone packages where they're necessarily orphans. The cultural prohibition against orphans means there aren't as many of these orphan instances packages as you'd like so you can end up redefining instances in every consumer project.

With the Hedgehog approach, there's no problem whatsoever with creating separate packages for these instances.