skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sentiment about the harms of long duration wars is echoed in the Art of War. When I read that book, I wonder if our politicians and military leaders have bothered to (not Trump or the Republicans, that much is obvious). Astute thinkers have existed in all generations of humanity. Many of the principles that were mentioned in past are relevant today. We just have a bad track record of following them.
The same cannot be said today. If you even hint at non mainstream idea about gender or race in the Silicon Valley, you'll be shunned immediately
It's also very soft
Flint: A New Language for Safe Smart Contracts on Ethereum
FWIW, a lot of people have been discussing the decline in reading skills for a long time: https://jakeseliger.com/2008/02/13/reading-anyone.

That being said, I teach English and thus have rare, direct knowledge regarding the situation. Pretty much anyone who doesn't read, at least somewhat, for pleasure (or on their own time) won't develop good reading skills: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/24/twilight-of-the....

IMO, too many students who dislike school and abstract symbol manipulation are funneled into college, where they fail or barely succeed (https://jakeseliger.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-party-eliz...). We should be working towards more apprenticeship programs: http://seliger.com/2017/06/16/rare-good-political-news-boost... that are both congruent with the labor market and with student interests.

Attempting to teach in an era of "college for all!" has shown me many of the shortcomings in that program.
This is awesome. I wish someone will implement this as a piece of open source software. Imagine the potential!
A lot of people at the time were likely first or second generation immigrants and the tyrannies of the "old world" were still experienced either first-hand or through the eyes of their parents and grandparents. I think, this, in a lot of ways, influenced the founding fathers. And similarly, I think this is why many immigrants in this country become successful people in the modern times.
In my opinion, the safe thing to do is probably not to "stop very suddenly", but to "pull over and stop in a safe manner, and have the blinkers on".

I think it would also be possible to mitigate this problem by not driving on the freeway at all for the first iterations. (Feasible if you only drive within Mountain View, and not e.g. MV <-> SF.)
Same problem. I don't think it could be in orbit.

Someone else mentioned the objects we've placed on the moon. Seems to me that those would last the longest. The moon gets hit by small meteorites daily, but nothing that would destroy what's up there.
Correct. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip/10.0.0 lists "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7".

2.6 was released on 01-Oct-2008 and the last security-fix release was on October 29, 2013.

Humorously, https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ says "Python 2.6 has been replaced by a newer bugfix release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.7 instead."

Following the link to 2.6.7 says "Python 2.6.7 has been replaced by a newer security-fix only source release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.8 instead."

Following the link to 2.6.8 says "Please download Python 2.6.9 instead." Which finally took me to the final release of the 2.6 series.
Interesting that the one that won NT2 (conspiracy to intercept communications) looks like one of those dodgy PI's that the tabloids / News international uses.
But, where does the next wave of innovation come from? More startups?

Just seems like China's steal/nationalize everything doesn't create true innovation centers.
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I can attests to this. My parents would allow me to read as many books as I wanted before bed each night, and I would often pick out 4-5. I could read much earlier than most other kids, and my reading/writing skills are excellent today.
Your builder isn't really using types to guarantee safety. You can write untyped programs in a strongly typed language, by just coercing everything to strings, but this isn't what I mean when I say 'type-safety'.
"Airlines are very much currently burdened with a legacy that was cemented in sometime in the 50's."

Personally, I find this common observation off base. Most airlines have pushed the legacy TPF layer into a sort of nosql data store. Both Sabre and Amadeus have been able to pull the business logic out of TPF.

Any sort of lagging technical progress seems more related to either thin margins, or the complexity you point out.

There's certainly room for innovation and improvement. I just hate the framing of the problem being tied to "old systems". It is mostly not true. Varies per airline, and res system, of course.
Yes, I'm quite aware of his attitudes to war itself—he's certainly not someone who wants to avoid it. I'm simply quoting him as someone who understands, very clearly, what's good for individual soldiers. No one better understands how America slaughters its own people than the man making sure he's on the other side of the knife.
You're kidding, right? I'm getting Joe Rogan podcasts, channels like "Atlantis in the Java Sea", "Joe Rogan University" (...). I'm not watching any of that shit. I feel dumber just for knowing that "Joe Rogan University" exists.

Point me towards something that isn't part of the Kook Productions Network please.
All tech companies need to re-think manufacturing in China, it was always a risky proposition, but not, you'll really be handing your IP over to the Chinese Government, and they'll be collecting IP from every company.

It's time for tech manufacturing to move.
The game theory is indeed complex.

> offer compensation equal to the reservation price of the customer

It's a little more complex than this. It's highly feasible to offer compensation higher than than the original purchase price of the ticket while inducing passengers to move to a different flight, meaning they're effectively being "paid to fly".

In many cases, customers are actually not on their preferred flight in the first place, but merely the one that was cost-optimal at time of purchase.

Changes in market demand in the intervening 3-6 months can easily mean that many passengers on an aircraft can be compensated above their original purchase value to move to their preferred flight.

The above case is an idealised version, but the equilibria is complex and difficult to intuit without experimentation (which is primarily what we're working on).

More news as it happens :)

Sameless self-promotion (I'm cofounder/CTO): We're also hiring (https://angel.co/volantio/jobs / https://www.workatastartup.com/directory/270)
"The Founders of the republic originally wanted to force Congress to vote every two years just to keep a standing Army; these days Congress won’t even permit a vote to replace an Authorization for the Use of Military Force that was passed prior to the Iraq War and that we are now using to justify fighting against groups that didn’t even exist back then."

This sounds like it would be in violation of a parent statute of some kind. Or maybe the Authorization was deliberately left open ended. Which should also be illegal.
21-Year-Old Quit College to Rate Dogs on the Internet. Now Making Six Figures
This is referring to one species of yeast, whereas yeast in general is many millions of years old. This only applies to what is called the Brewer’s Yeast. Yeast as a kind of organism is at least hundreds of millions of years old. As such the title should include the species name, or common name to make clear the truth of this, and prevent confusion.
Wittgenstein, Gerry Weinberg, Korzybsky, and The Systems Bible by John Gant. Gregory Bateson.
Statecharts: Updating UI state
A low level BG check costs that but that's probably just checking they are on the electoral register an don't have any outstanding judgements against them.

Also spending money externally appears to the company to cost much more than using internal resources
Gmail is a for profit unit of Google. They'll do what they best think they can monetise.

Given the surfeit of standards compliant email available, switching to another provider is trivial
The more I learn about this project the more I like it.

It would be amazing to see Hackett implemented in miniKanren, I think that would really bring us a big step closer to "compiler as a conversation" sort of programming. The combination of relational evaluation and the Haskell type system should be really powerful.
I personally found the article very interesting, but I'm with you that it will entice political comments.
I actually spoke to them because people at my company were using Grammerly, and every bit of data that was typed into a browser is going right to them and they in fact do have a sub-license to the content.

It's not joke. Any company that has employees using Grammmerly is pouring data out of their company, and what's worse is that nobody knows it's happening.
No, they didn't. They had some good ideas inspired by the Enlightenment and by Romanticism, but quite a few expressed the idea that the Constitution should be reviewed regularly and updated and adjusted for changing conditions. The issue is that many "conservatives" believe the Constitution was perfect from the get go.
> "armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few"

This reads as profoundly anti-statist. Can somebody clarify the context please?
> The latter becomes easier when you realize it’s not money out of your managers pocket, just a spigot guarded by HR.

Hah, I like this characterization. I've often walked away from lowball offers only to be contacted by hiring managers with much better offers. I can't say I agree with a company's policy of trying to bring in engineers at the lowest rate possible. I'm still somewhat Mid-Level though, when I do get to play a more important part in hiring decisions, I will most certainly try to change these shitty policies.

At first I kinda felt that I deserved the higher comp. because of how firm I would be in asking for what I wanted, but lately I've come to realize that most engineers don't really want to negotiate hard but they do need a good compensation to be happy (lets not fool ourselves here).
The article.

“For example, the oldest large-scale stretch of ancient surface lies in the Negev Desert. It’s “just” 1.8 million years old—older surfaces are mostly visible in cross section via something like a cliff face or rock cuts. Go back much farther than the Quaternary and everything has been turned over and crushed to dust.”
I don't have kids, but there are three things I really wish my parents had done:

1) Require that I take piano / guitar lessons for at least a few years. I know I'd hate it as a kid, but as an adult, the ability to read music and create music is magical to me. I wish I'd learned. (I've been "playing" guitar for 20 years, but I'm _terrible_ at it and not likely to get much better.)

2) Make exercise a family activity. I've been running for about 7 years now, and I'm healthier, stronger, happier, and more confident than I've ever been in my life before. I see my parents aging and getting older and fatter and having more and more health problems, and I wish that had been something we'd started off with a whole lot earlier.

3) Teach me a second (or third!) language. I took four years of Spanish in high school, and I can sorta-kinda-not-really read and speak Spanish, but I wish I were fully fluent in Spanish as an adult.

I'm fortunate in that I had a great childhood and great parents, and I wouldn't change much of anything else. But those three are things that stick with you for life, and as a bonus, they're things you learn better, faster, and more easily as a child.

If I have kids, I'm going to be doing all three of those.
What if past civilizations exhausted their naturally reachable energy deposits, like we now do with oil, so we can't even guess what did they use as we won't find it on Earth anymore?
> The examples in the article seem more punk, if anything.

Some of the websites linked in the article remind me of dada collages (Hausmann's "ABCD" for example[1]), which are a usually lot more chaotic and free-form than brutalist architecture.

[1] "ABCD" by Raoul Hausmann (1920). https://i.imgur.com/ksHst2C.jpg
This is very dependent on the type idea you have, rather than the fact that it may be non mainstream.
Sorry, I possibly stated that poorly - what I meant was: The current state of duopolistic airlines technology suppliers means that there may not be sufficient motiviation to evolve the capabilities of the old systems.

Case in point: Regardless of whether Sabre/Amadeus have replaced their legacy layer with some sort of nosql, I can absolutely guarantee you that many of their primary APIs are literally screen-scraping terminal sessions and returning the screen as XML.
In a survey of people I know, 0 out of infinity kept their Facebook accounts deleted.

But lots of people told me they did. Probably 30% of people I know.

Some actually deleted.

Some said they did and didn’t (really weird since you can see their account).

Some thought they did, but screwed it up.

Some said they did but switched to Messenger, or WhatsApp or some other part of Facebook.

Over the past 5 years, not a single friend has stayed off Facebook. Although it would be cool to install an app that actually tracked this to see people who stay off.

I was hoping that this article would talk about how they did the survey through Facebook :)
Newton was a mathematician, but he was not a scientist. John Maynard Keynes opined "Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians."

"Scientist" is a modern term and I would grant historic figures only that label, if they (disregarding if their conclusions were right or wrong) tried to reason about the world in a systematic fashion and according to empiricism and logic.
Nothing wrong with being cautious, especially with something as foundational as a language feature.

It's quite hard to remove a feature that turns out to have unforeseen indirect consequences.
Yes! Very excited about this as it really feels like pip 9 was long overdue for an upgrade. Now if we can get the rest of the packaging story down for python it’d be great :)

On another note: I thought Pipenv was going to supplant pip? https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/managing-dependencies... It felt like they were gearing up for it to be that way anyways
We know much more than the people before us, not the other way around.
As someone fairly disassociated from the US armed forces, I wonder how much impact the confirmation that all WMD-related rationale for the Iraq war was fabricated had on troop morale and faith in stated goals.
Markdown and mock = textmock
Ants pass the mirror test, which is something very few animals are capable of.
Apple wanted to use it as a vehicle to compete against Spotify. Which ironically just meant people didn’t cinder it a competetor to google home and Alexa.
I don't think that those two things, "agreement" and "authority" are actually very different at all. And "Fiat" as opposed to Commodity-backed is not something that is subject to fine slicing like that, lest you beg the question, "what commodity magically came into being to back it here?"
Might want to consider updating the mobile view, it's not completely responsive
Interesting. I guess you’re closer to the action than I am. I didn’t participate, but liked the proposals I read (I think I saw a lot of them by way of core contributors.

Would you mind sharing some of the proposals you thought were dangerous and whether you felt like they were close to being adopted?
> It's a little more complex than this. It's highly feasible to offer compensation higher than than the original purchase price of the ticket while inducing passengers to move to a different flight, meaning they're effectively being "paid to fly".

> In many cases, customers are actually not on their preferred flight in the first place, but merely the one that was cost-optimal at time of purchase.

You misunderstood.

The original purchase is no longer relevant. The airline and the passenger are now in a new game. In this new game, the passenger has a reservation price. Your goal is to estimate that accurately to transfer all surplus from rebooking to the airline and to another passenger.

The passenger is not harmed by this per se. They are indifferent between taking this flight vs taking the compensation and flying on another.

However, in the real world, people don't really like being driven to their reservation prices in your quest to assign all surplus from this new transaction to the airline and a third party.

This is not a new idea. Priceline comes to mind.

You could have chosen to work on a decent auction application for this purpose. Instead, you choose to collect data that is unnecessary to solving the actual "overbooking problem", but has the benefit not leaving any surplus from the rebooking transaction to the passenger.

PS: Just as a side note, I tend to be very understanding when things go wrong when I fly: http://www.flyertalk.com/the-tarmac/the-2013-tarmac-awards.h...
As a high school student at a relatively high-performing school, I see this all the time. Many people even skip reading the book entirely and write an essay based solely on online summaries of the book. It’s quite disappointing, as the literature we read actually holds some cultural value. For example, To Kill a Mockingbird highlights racial tensions in the 60s and Animal Farm highlights the dangers of an authoritarian society.

I also could get into studying a subject for the sole purpose of passing a test and then forgetting the content after (meaning the topic held no significance to the student). This is a huge problem in high schools all around the US.

Edit: fix mobile formatting
The most violent city in every US state, according to the FBI
"I can absolutely guarantee you that many of their primary APIs are literally screen-scraping terminal sessions and returning the screen as XML"

True, but TPF is scalable enough that it doesn't matter. The API is responsive, flexible, and handles the traffic. The ugliness isn't limiting new functionality, etc.

We spend very little time talking about the cruft at the bottom. The business complexity is more important.

Things like fare classes, discount codes, availability, fare basis codes, reaccommodation, and so forth. If it were all written in rust or Go + microservices it wouldn't be any more straightforward.

Your product seems to confirm that. You aren't reducing that screen scraping any. But you're adding value.
Just watch this video when you get time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCMbSyngXB4
Doctors Battle Drug-Resistant Typhoid Outbreak
As far as geo-engineering goes, I think what they'd be wanting to do is cause a super-volcano or three. You really don't want to be pulling asteroids down - just a couple of finely place nukes will do. Get a volcano going, put a few tons of sulphur in the air and you have a nice cooling effect. Just be careful of the unintended tsunami. Should probably just evacuate Iceland and keep popping the volcanoes until it's cool again.
Works fine in Firefox Beta (and normal Firefox) on my Android 8 phone.
I would appreciate a blog post or article on this topic. I asked for an explanation because I see a number of serious obstacles to implementing a solution of this kind. A more complete explanation would give you the space to lay out the proposal in a way that might answer my objections.
FYI - I work in the environmental field and so I am genuinely curious about the specifics of your proposal. If you do write a more complete version, please let me know .

haZard_OS@protonmail.com
Madison was a Federalist and after the War of 1812 he advocated for a stronger national government and military. He was not anti-statist.
Structure from motion is an existing technique. What is the contribution of ML in this case (it seems like joint positioning maybe?)?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_from_motion
Hah, when I skimmed this all I thought was "neat visualization." Then I came to the comments...

It must be a real high as an author when you see your site is getting a flood of traffic from hacker news - then a hell of a crash when you check it out and all the comments are torching your work.
Another fantastic book on the subject: Excellent Cadavers. Amazing story of the rise of the fascists and their transformation into the modern day Mafia. And the infiltration into the highest levels of the Italian government is riveting and telling about all governments.
I graduated with a GPA so low recruiters used to ask me whether it was on a 4-point scale, but I got a job at Google and eventually led a team there. Probably shouldn't freak out over one test.
Well some of us "europeans" and I would bet 99.9% of Americans have issues with the Napoleonic political inquisitorial based systems
I'm not talking about size versus the Europeans. I am talking about the attitude of the founders towards a standing Army and a Navy. Just buying the original 6 frigates was an total change in attitude. The war before the Civil War, the Mexican–American War, is a perfect example of the change. It was also the training ground for the Civil War generals.
Building Sustainably with Compressed Earth Blocks
My understanding was that the "d" is an operator, and there are notations in which an operator on an operand is notated by just putting the one before the other. Also, the dx corresponds to delta x in the limit definition of the integral. One reason for keeping it, is that it makes the units of measure work out if the integral involves things that have units. So, notational consistency aside, it saved my arse when doing physics problems. ;-)

(even in my pure math classes, I sometimes imagined that the variables had units, to help find mistakes).

But your point is well taken about the consistency of math notation. Math spent most of its history being scribbled by hand and read by humans. It got the job done. And it was not uncommon to invent a new notation on the fly to replace an abstraction with a single symbol. That's the precursor to the subroutine.

The need for perfect formality of notation is a new thing, brought on by the computer age. This may illustrate the point that programming is not "just math," and math is not a form of programming.
Thanks for the perspective.
Why do they not need the safety driver? i’m sure google can afford them. i just don’t see the benefit of no safety driver. especially living in mountain view and seeing the recent tesla crash.
Isn't it price-stabilized via arbitrage?
Also Amadeus, and Man On The Moon.
Not gonna sugar coat it. HTML and CSS are basically Bootstrap for me. I know how to tweak it and make responsive design with it. It is functional for my own projects. It is easy to tweak it to at least give a little distinction to my UI. I know the basics of UX and it's easy enough to do. Why spin my wheels dealing with going deeper when I just want UI that works as a non-designer.
It's easy to speak against government funding with a $40 billion endowment, which is higher than the GDP of some countries.
The Fossil distributed version control system
While I do like the aesthetics of this, as others have mentioned it is plain wrong.

Any explanation of resonance should deal first and foremost with a physical system, not a signal. Having two signals 'resonate with each other' does not make a lot of sense.

Not sure what is meant with multiplying because the author then goes to mention integration which in essence, is adding, not multiplying.

A physical system is able to store energy at specific frequency -- a pendulum will swing for a long time, energy slowly decaying. But if the system is excited (imagine a kid on a swing), with each push, we will add some more energy, which will accumulate each time adding to a large response (resonance). The key part is, we need to add energy at the right frequency, push at the right interval, sing with the proper pitch.