skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I looked at how much the exact same procedure using the exact same equipment would cost by a doctor in another state who made the pricing relatively transparent.
I think you are misunderstanding mtgx. He says that Putin has already suceeded in becoming a dictator (hence the past tense). If he has already suceeded it should be easy for Xi to become a dictator.
> What problems has the fed caused since the 1980's? Prices are stable, employment is good.

Which prices have been stable since the 1980s?
This is a good question and the fact is that regardless of its formal organization there are still many factions who disagree with each other, even though the expression of that disagreement doesn't look like a western presidential/parliamentary democracy.
How does this compare with typical branch-free programming? The kind that’s so latency-sensitive that we don’t even trust the branch predictor and don’t want to pay for mispredictions?
Don't tell me, we are waiting for EKS. Is there anybody out there who has actually seen it, or has access? Is there an API or Swagger available yet?
My intro to the series was Kings Quest VII, my sister and I loved it. It inspired is to buy the collection set with all the previous games. I think Kings Quest VIII was the death knell for that series. They attempted to make a 3D action game out of the series but it wasn't well executed and it meanwhile lost the charm.
I doubt the US would actually go to war with China for an invasion of Taiwan. We happily gave Taiwan’s UN seat to China to establish relations and no longer have official relations with Taiwan at all. I don’t think we’d sacrifice the relationship with our largest trading partner over Taiwan. Nor do I think our politicians would sign up for a war against China except in the face of an existential threat.
This does not bold well for the world (and Chinese citizens) - China is becoming Nazi 2.0. We need to stop buying their stuff. Can't YCombinator come up with a hardware alley in US?

- China 'holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-12000...

- Report: China still harvesting organs from prisoners at a massive scale https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/i...

- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/opinion/in-china-the-brut... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/opinion/in-china-the-brut...

- Furious China lashes out at US over North Korea sanctions
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/us-sanctions-ch...

- China threatens Taiwan INVASION to 'unify state' https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/890698/World-War-3-Chin...

- China triggers new storm over military build-up on artificial islands http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/09/diplomatic-protes...

- Behind China’s Waltz with African Dictators: Why does China Invest in Oppressive Regimes?
https://www.africanexponent.com/post/7490-why-does-china-inv...

- Chinese Censorship Moves Into the American Workplace
https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/chinese-censorship-moves-int...
That's indeed the first thing I thought of. The problem with the Pi0 was that it doesn't have a Display header, so it turned out to be very messy. The 7-inch touchscreen is very big anyway, so the Pi3 actually isn't that big and bulky. I'm sure if ideas like Crankshaft take off, there will be people who make the suction cup structure for you. For now you can buy the touch screen cover for the back, but it doesn't have the suction cup.

PS: If you really hate the bulkiness of the Pi3B, you can try the Pi A+. I haven't tried it because I don't have it, but it should also work.
Personally, I think it's pretty cool, for pretty much all of the reasons you list. Clearly it's not to you, and that's okay. I suspect you were down voted perhaps because your comment comes off the same way as when someone comes up with a new app or service and someone else says "oh, I could whip that up in a weekend", particularly as you didn't provide any support for it initially. The fact that someone put all of these things together to solve the problem in and of itself makes it interesting to me. A pretty successful hack, in my opinion.
SVGO has a option to drop script tags, thought it's not enabled by default.
Labor is taxed year-by-year so inflation does not have much influence on it. Capital gains tax taxes the sales of things (capital) that might have been held for decades. Buy a piece of land and hold it for 20 years. If inflation is 3% then the dollar value will go up by a factor of 1.8 without any real increase in value but if you sell it you will get taxed on that inflation created gain. Some see that is not "fair". That is the spin, anyway.

I think the way to mitigate this problem is to index capital gains to the CPI and then tax gains like income. This cleans up the tax code quite a bit, stops favoring capital over labor, and balances out the pressure on the CPI with having a powerful group of people wanting to have it go up. At the moment CPI is probably under-reported and keeping social security and other inflation adjusted things lower than they would be otherwise.
Since '81 it's actually exactly 3% per year, and since '90 it's 2.36% per year. The variance is around 1%, I'd call that pretty stable.
> All this does is show that maybe there is something to look at in a more well funded study.

That's what lies at the start of almost all knowledge in science.
As far as I know sadly there is nothing comparable to Lenovo today in the market.
This does not bold well for the world (and Chinese citizens) - China is becoming Nazi 2.0. We need to stop buying their stuff. Can't YCombinator come up with a hardware alley in US?

- China threatens Taiwan INVASION to 'unify state' https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/890698/World-War-3-Chin...

- China 'holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-12000...

- Report: China still harvesting organs from prisoners at a massive scale https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/i...

- Chinese Censorship Moves Into the American Workplace
https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/chinese-censorship-moves-int...

- In China, the Brutality of ‘House Arrest’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/opinion/in-china-the-brut...

- Furious China lashes out at US over North Korea sanctions
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/us-sanctions-ch...

- China triggers new storm over military build-up on artificial islands http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/09/diplomatic-protes...

- Behind China’s Waltz with African Dictators: Why does China Invest in Oppressive Regimes?
https://www.africanexponent.com/post/7490-why-does-china-inv...
Is this compatible with Spark 2.2 version? What are the storage options if we don't want to use HDFS?
OK, fine, so you don't think it'll work. That's a whole different story from "we shouldn't want more, we're already well paid".

If I'm going to be an Adam Smith-style rational economic actor, I'm going to seek to maximize my profit. If I don't, I'm leaving money/time/autonomy/working conditions on the table, and why on earth would I do that?

If the most effective way to do that is to organize and negotiate together with my fellow workers at Megacorp X--which is both ethically permissible (freedom of assembly, etc) and our legal right--why wouldn't I do that??

If your answer comes down to "you have enough" then you're already behaving like an irrational economic actor and I have no idea why I'd listen to you.

If your answer comes down to "it's hard," well, buck up, kid, life is hard.
You're missing several important things:

* The amplitude of a qubit is effectively a complex probability instead of a real one.

* Don't think of an n-qubit machine as having n instances of qubit. The representation you want is essentially:

struct quantum_state {
uint64_t bits;
complex_t amplitude;
};
struct quantum_register {
int num_bits;
size_t num_states;
struct quantum_state *states;
};

(quantum registers are usually emulated as sparse vectors for space efficiency).

From a simulation perspective, quantum computers are just linear algebra operations, albeit over the complex field instead of the reals. The difficulty is that the equivalent vectors and matrices are of exponential size (2^n for an n-qubit computer), and the interesting operations don't exhibit regular patterns that permit aggressive optimization.
I'd argue that countries who've experinced hardship have a tendency to favour stability and economic prosperity.

Pretty sure Putin stays in power because people still remember Yeltsin. Today's Russia is a massive improvement on 90's Russia.

As for Xi, China isn't exactly doing poorly. Not sure why anyone would want to shake things up now.

Americans should understand, Obama would have beat Trump...
"What day is it?", asked Winnie the Pooh

"It's today," squeaked Piglet

"My favorite day," said Pooh
+1 for EKS. Is Azure ACS still there? We use AKS on Azure, though it's preview but apart from some limitations (and odd cluster delete stuck) it works well for us.
whenever that question gets brought up, I'm always confused why the laws allowing the leader excess power aren't written to expire when that leader loses power.
Thanks Greg. Moved comments thither.
Indeed. Then it's restored to previous state (which could be "on" or "off"), not reset to "always on." Even my computer's BIOS could do that ("on power restored, turn on if that was the previous state, otherwise keep off") in 2000, is the smart lightbulb dumber than that? That's a very unfortunate level: smart just enough to be annoying, but not enough to be useful.
Worry about that after 30 years then. I don't pretend i can predict what's going to happen at that time frame. Isn't AI supposed to take over everything by then?
It's an interesting question I know a lot of people for whom desire to unseat MS was a major driver in the amount of effort they dedicated to various open source proj. Would truly be interesting to see how things would look if MS did not reach it's dominant position. (One possible outcome could have being that IBM would've remained in it's dominant position).
The Fed has used both lack of employment growth and lack of wage growth multiple times to explain holding off on raising rates.
I’d go a step further and classify income as:

1. Earned income
2. Investment income
3. Gambling/lottery/short term income

Tax rate should increase as you go down that list.
BadgerDB: embeddable, persistent, simple and fast key-value database in pure Go
This is a pretty common trend in lots of places. These kind of decisions are driven for things other than computing needs. Maybe to look cool/cloudy/nextgen ...
> This can also provide a simple "upper bound" on how differentialy private your model is.

This is a very interesting idea. Are you aware of any resources that go through the mechanics?
I doubt the US would not actually go to war with China over an invasion of Taiwan. At the very least, there would be huge consequences in the very quick remilitarization of Japan and the start of a new cold war.
It’s at best a passive aggressive solution to the problem. The assertive solution is to tell the manager of the group that if they don’t find some humility quick then they’ll be finding a new job.

It seems like this problem happens in organizations that equate headcount with power. Which I guess makes some sort of sense but doesn’t feel right. Plenty of companies do not have the majority of their employees working on producing the goods they sell. Especially if they’ve started automating.

But as I said above, this is an ‘asleep at the wheel’ situation. It seems like it’s often not the biggest problem these companies have with their vision.

And, it sometimes happens that actual tech companies start outsourcing their tech, which is a whole other troubling pattern.
Drugs are not that expensive, but not everyone is so curious to try them.
"Suicide" is simply too rare, and too broad a category. Is not using a seat belt suicide? Is a heroin overdose? Is standing on a cliff to estimate what it would be like to jump and loosing ballance at the thought of it?

How many suicides were there in the 60000 studied, perhaps 10? That's not enough to derive a meaningful result, I think.

Edit: My estimate would be roughly correct, sad enough, ignoring my doubts on suicide as a cultural rather than medical category: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5297916.stm
>They don't always work perfectly, but they sure can compete or are even market leaders.

Most of the time it's because these companies are government-approved monopoly (no other company can enter the market) or because they're heavily subsidised using taxes (no other company can enter the market practically because competing against someone who you fund at the same time is impossible and because the prices are below the actual expenses) and are actually losing huge amounts of money. Typically railways all around Europe are not profitable at all.

Volkswagen is a very special case, but you're partially right. I'd say it's an exception to the rule though.
No. Just no. I have been there to clean up the mess that results from this methodology.

A certain recipe for disaster in any development project is having no one who thoroughly understands the business and no one who can make a decision as to what gets developed and what does not. What this article is describing is just such a recipe.

Any significant development project which is attempting to address the needs of the enterprise needs an enterprise architect, and a project owner who can say no. If these can be the same person, all the better.
Communicating complexity difficult.

I recognize the feeling when tasked with bringing a new developer up-to-speed. They don’t know anything about our environment and the brilliant decisions that led us to our utopian way of working. They ask an honest question and I, having forgotten the ingredients, brush off the question because I don’t have time to explain. Welcome to the team noob.

I also recognize the challenge when speaking with practically every CEO, COO, EVP, VP, and Director in a mid-sized organization. And the challenge can grow exponentially when the business involved views technology as an expense. Somewhere in the building there are a number of idiots who think a pointer is a device used for whiteboard presentations. How is this company profitable?

But solace comes when I realize the issue is my own.

Technical expertise is not the only expertise required by a company. It is highly likely that your organization has executives that don’t need to understand the productivity differences between vim and emacs. Imagine how frustrating it would be when attempting to ensure the company has enough funding for the next four quarters and you can’t get a single developer in the world to provide a reasonable estimate that doesn’t have a sixty-percent margin of error. I dare you to argue the benefits of a scrum master.

Your manager is just as anxious about having to talk to you. Give them a break and help them do their job. They’ll appreciate it and may care to understand your concerns moving forward. Who knows, they may be willing to help you do your job better (as if that's possible). Communication will be less frustrating when you stop viewing others as inferior. They feel the hostility.

The most successful amongst us are those that communicate by simplifying complex subjects down to an intelligible analogy. They sell. The world rewards those who sell. Just find another way sell your complexity, patiently, and with a touch of empathy. The rewards will follow.
My only experience with the Clip+ was as a runner, but I switched away from my phone because I was terrified of breaking it. But the downsides of the Clip+ drove me back to my phone and a good, hard case for it.

- had to hook it up to my Windows computer and download songs instead of just making a playlist on Apple Music or queueing up podcasts in Overcast

- if the sun was out, I had to hold the Clip right against my eyeballs to make anything out

- no 30 second skips, no chapter selection

And honestly, I'm not sure why you'd give up on the phone altogether without researching other podcast apps. Overcast is the best.
I am wondering whats the difference. So far I was able to find this explaining the flags:

profile-directory: // Selects directory of profile to associate with the first browser launched. [1]

user-data-dir: // Specifies the user data directory, which is where the browser will look for all of its state. [2]

But to be honest I am not sure I understand that completely. I mean there is also some documentation stating that the user-data-dir contains profile data[3]. Does anybody what the actual difference is?

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/chrome...

[2]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/chrome...

[3]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...
Sure, what do we label Donald Trump?
An interface and safety. In C++ the template's arguments are directly copied into it's body. A module can only be accessed via its interface. This in turn allows for a typechecker to guarantee the absence of certain errors. It also enables separate compilation that you do not have for C++ template's. The downside is of course that a C++ compiler can apply more optimizations.

As a side note: the argument, I can do X with Y so why use Z is somewhat misleading, when Y and Z are both Turing complete ;).
> Who is going to buy $1 trillion of new US debt every year? Sooner rather than later, nobody. That's nearly equivalent to the sum that Japan and China are each holding.

One problem with this narrative is that the vast majority of US government debt is owed to US citizens.
There is no abstraction in C++, you can always poke around the memory layout of what you are given, and change your behavior depending on that.

For example, let us say you have a module satisfying this signature:

module M : sig
type sorted
val import : int array -> sorted
end = struct
type sorted = int array
let import = Array.sort
end

In OCaml, if you have a value of type `sorted`, you know it's indeed sorted. In C++, as soon any code external to the module had an handle on it, you don't know! It could have modified the array behind your back, since it can look directly at the definition, or worse, poke in the memory layout.
I think the bigger problem with conflicting goals is that we want each small district to have its own representative for its own unique local interests (that’s the only reason to have per-district legislators), and we also want the entire legislature to represent the interests of the entire population. These two desires are, in some cases, fundamentally in conflict. That’s why we can and often do observe very low approval ratings of the entire legislature, despite each district presumably having higher approval of its own representative.
Since people are disputing it, we took that bit out of the title above.
Ruby 1.9+ uses the YARV VM which is a "direct threaded" VM and on a similar level to the standard Lua 5.3 interpreter. It's obviously not as fast as the hand rolled assembly of the LuaJIT interpreter but Mike Pall basically designed Lua from scratch to be easily optimised. Ruby does not have that luxury.
> I was all-too-frequently chosen to go bang the chalk dust out the erasers, becoming coated from tip to toe in said dust.

Our teachers had a small bucket of water and simply cleaned the sponges themselves, if we had to do it it was fun rather than a health hazard.

> Not to mention the need for a deep cleaning of the board periodically

Again wet sponge technology comes to the rescue, plus window cleaning thingies to get the blackboard to dry before the next lesson. That school was ass backwards in so many ways, but even they didn't manage to mess up using blackboards.

> the moment it starts to crap out it's tossed and replaced from a backup container sitting nearby

How does all that plastic compare to some colored chalk and water though? What's involved in producing colored chalk versus producing whiteboard markers? It's a honest question because I have no clue, but of course the implication is that it seems likely to me, not having looked into it at all, that chalk is way more environmentally friendly.

I also think the skill ceiling for chalk, and the possible range of styles, is greater, so to speak. But I never really saw gifted whiteboard use, and did have some teachers who had beautiful handwriting on a blackboard and used little tricks to make neat graphs or images, who had a real sense of craftsmanship if not artistry about it, so I'm probably biased in the other direction.
A one term president.
Reminds me of Barlows Guide to Extraterrestrials which is an awesome sci-fi companion

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/940230.Barlowe_s_Guide_t...
> every time you trick someone it ekes away at their trust and happiness using your platform. But this occurs over many such interactions so it won't show up in your metrics until much later

Is there any way to prove when this is about to happen, or has happened? Otherwise it seems just as likely that users could have less distaste over time because the site has optimized to show them what they like.

If analytics can't measure it, and users dont notice it, how can we know if its real? Does every site that does a lot of a/b testing have this happen, and if not, what are the objective conditions under which it happens?

(disclaimer: I just launched a split testing product offering.)
It's called "computer display" nowadays; the so-called TVs only have extra a RPi compute module and a DVB tuner ;)
How did this pilot estimate distance? In clear air with nothing to give you perspective an object can be close, small and slow, or big, fast and distant; there is simply no way to tell the difference visually.
Was a nice post about badger talking about their motivation of moving away from RocksDB due to cgo issues. Not a fan of `cgo`
This seems intuitively correct. Neutrotisicm is associated with risk-averse behavior and thus less likely to engage in risky life-threatening activity. A highly neurotic personal can be paralyzed by enumeration of every conceivable outcome, and as such not ever do the dangerous thing. There seems to be a positive correlation of intelligence, so the individual may make long term conservative bets that further increase longevity.
Whether Taiwan's democracy is "functioning" is very questionable
I only skimmed the article, so sorry if I'm mistaken, but it's weird that under such conditions she remained there from 2008 to 2016. Other than that, if even some of these claims are true, then this is not merely sexual misconduct, there's something broken about the company's way of working, and the kind of people it tends to hire. Most of these probably qualify as sexual harassment, but also are very childish, immature kind of behaviours. Work must be serious and professional, it doesn't work otherwise, and more so as the scale of the company grows. Throwing things at coworkers or putting whiskey in their drinks for a prank? What's Google, a kindergarten?
Well, if Linux developers are better paid this will naturally increase supply. And this happens, of course.

But why should pay companies more for Linux when they can develop stuff on Windows, and pay less? Wouldn't it be dumb to use the more expensive resource, and have less gain? The reason is that Linux developers are more productive - they create more value, and the decision of companies to pay them more is all rational. Of course the detail picture is more nuanced - it makes a difference if one develops a boring PHP app, or makes complex embedded systems for sectors like HFT, defense, embedded medical devices, or similar. But chances are that a lot of the latter use Linux, too. They just don't advertise jobs on HN.
If that interests you you should take a look at https://github.com/PLSysSec/FaCT
I guess so. It runs Android Auto.

But does that mean it's any good?