skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then it got even worse with some guy who couldn't leave well enough alone and felt compelled to point out nitpicking by nitpicking and then making a wrong assumption! Quick! Somebody on the internet is wrong!

And true to form, I'm going to be 'that guy' who says: I care. I too felt weird about the author using the term 'text editor', I too needed a sense of nitpicking comradery that I found with others pulling apart the semantics.

It's not that off-topic and we're safely in our own little thread here, so instead of being a jerk and downvoting, just collapse the thread.

But whatever. Downvoted ;)
I was curious about who did vote for the bill so I took a look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...

The bill passed in the Senate by 60-39 with all republicans voting against except for Jim Bunning who did not vote. With 58 Democrat and 2 Independent votes the Republicans weren't able to filibuster. After the bill passed the senate a special election to replace Ted Kennedy in the senate was won by a Republican, so the Democrats no longer had a super majority in the Senate, and so the decision was made that the house should pass the Senates bill as they didn't think voting on a house bill would pass the senate now that the Republicans had 41 votes which was enough to filibuster.

> The existing policy is a compromise that liberals signed off on to improve the conditions of the worst off

The only compromises happened between members of the Democrat party, between moderates and progressives.

> I agree with you that blaming Obama for a failure of leadership in this situation is borderline absurd

I agree that there are likely a lot of compromises that happened behind the scenes that we didn't see, but there has to be some ownership of that bill by President Obama. It was his marquee bill at a time when some Democrats were urging him not to tackle it, he had a super majority in the senate and the house. He signed it into law, he set the agenda, I think it's fair to hold him accountable for the outcome, even if it's not exactly what he wanted, it's still what was passed and if he didn't like it they could have scrapped it to try again.
Not exactly. TPROXY is designed for transparent proxying, but by way of the mechanism it works, can also be used to approximate binding to all TCP ports. The latter use case is a bit different.
Next to no customization is what I want for something like this. I want to be able to mindlessly drill for a few minutes a day, not spend a lot of time fiddling with my decks to get them perfect.
Some transhumanists have done thought experiments and research on it, and I would say that the most digestible version of the "morality-as-law" system is in the Eclipse Phase RPG.
Programmers may hate writing test cases and generators and proofs, but one thing they all seem to love is some good optimization. Flip a compilation flag and your program is smaller and faster!

And I think that is the key to solving this whole dilemma. Optimization and Verification, in terms of what they require from a program, are best buds. Quite a while ago, John Regehr wrote a blog post on the future of compiler optimization, where he suggested that verification and optimization will join forces, as well as some reasons and examples for why that should be [0].

Get people into languages and frameworks that are pushing the boundaries of optimization, and you'll find not only infrastructure that is ripe for correctness research, but large codebases solving real world problems. For example, Rust's MIR is a fully typed intermediate language that bridges the gap between LLVM-IR and Rust. It was created to help solve some ergonomic issues that made writing rust programs difficult, as well as for future optimization potential. And its existence should be a goldmine for correctness researchers. You have large open source codebases like Servo, written in a strongly typed language with a richly-typed intermediate assembly-like language that is just waiting for verification systems to be built on top of.

[0] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/247
Still doesn't explain why they couldn't just release a statement warning people not to rely on the autopilot until the authorities have completed their investigation.

That avoids prejudging whether it was primarily a defect with the vehicle, or driver error, or both.

Above all just respect the process. It's important to yield to an impartial entity when people have been hurt or killed.
Yeah, if Starlink merely breaks even (and continues to grow), they will have pushed the commercial launch market potentially one or two orders of magnitude larger (in terms of mass) than it is today. It'll help pay for BFR, their Mars rocket.

Therefore, if Starlink suffers the same fate as Iridium (but without damaging the rest of SpaceX), that would actually be a big net win. Iridium emerged from bankruptcy, turned a profit and launched replacement satellites and is now in the process of a huge constellation refresh, using SpaceX's reusable rockets. If that happens with Starlink, that would be a complete success for creating launch demand.
Not that Amazon needs the help, but isn’t the purpose of the postal service to support commerce and not make a profit? Make it’s time to rethink that, but I have little faith this is anything more than a political stunt or personal grudge.
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I do believe many of the people there believe in some form of ethics, but are blind to others. We know that Google has more information on people than FB, but this is irrelevant to most googlers because they believe they are good custodians of the data.

Back to realpolitik. These capabilities will be developed by someone. Unilateral retrenchment is ineffective, so if they somehow want to stall the US gov't (because they think google would give the gov't a leg up) all they are doing is giving our competitors in whatever area a nice handicap.

It would have been like the people working on the Manhattan project saying, no, this is unethical, while Germany and Japan would continue the effort unencumbered --leaving the US at a tremendous disadvantage.
I doubt zestimates are really a core of their business.

Try to use a zestimate to negotiate the price on your next home. Watch how quick the experts laugh you out if the room.

The zestimate is just a nice quick way to get a ballpark value of a home. But I don't think they are playing any significant role in affecting market prices.
People don't seem to want to consider that prohibition of these things is exactly the measure that creates violence around them. This is exactly the thing that sex workers are opposing this law and the destruction of Backpage for.

I'm not saying make it legal and I'd happily throw the switch on any human trafficker or child rapist myself.

The point is not to take people who are already in a desperate situation and put them in the way of more harm. That's what this does. It's an easy win for whatever politician is pushing this but does next to nothing to combat the real problem.
From what I know, contractors for questionable activities with Russian govt mostly live abroad, so much for social cohesion. No idea what they do in China.
Revolutionary system one step closer to saving children’s lives
The Democrats passed the bill in the senate 60-39, with 2 independents voting for, and all Republicans voting against. Then that bill was passed in the house with a vote of 219–212 with 34 Democrats and all 178 Republicans voting against it. This wasn't partisan, this was Democrats passing a bill without any Republican votes. The band-aids were to get moderate Democrats on board.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...
I second using quill. It's really modular and the code itself is so clean.
The reaction here is interesting, but it won't change my opinion without concrete feedback. Please tell me why this opinion is wrong.
Raping a child is violence. Kidnapping is violence, as is trafficking humans for the purpose of being raped. These are inherently violent acts. You cannot take the violence out of raping kids or sex trafficking them.

Prohibition measures are all about restricting the availability of something to curb the desire of it.

No one thinks that you’re reducing demand for raping children by cracking down on child rapists. People think that they can reduce the rates of child rape by arresting people who rape children, and facilitate the rape of children. They also think that it’s worth saving some people from being raped, even if it’s a given that you can’t save everyone.

Murder is just about the freest, easiest thing you can do if that's your desire. Murder rates are on the decline because it's just something not that many people want to do anymore.

What? No. The risks of being caught for murdering someone have increased, so it’s far from free and easy unless you don’t care about losing your freedom or life as a result. The same applies for trafficking children for sex. You reduce activity by increasing the cost in the cost:benefit relationship. While people driven to murder will still do it, you reduce things like casual killing, or murder for hire. While you’re not going to make pedophiles lose their desire to rape kids, you can reduce the willingness of the people supplying them with kids to try and profit from those urges.

Prostitutes were so much safer when they had pimps and had to stand out on the street and hop into peoples' cars, right?

I question both your reasoning and your motives, given that you’re switching between talking about child sex trafficking and prostitution.
Sharing percentages are interesting. 33% seems just too high.

That is why I wonder, if these food delivery apps are actually going to be a boon or bane for small mom and pop shops. Sure, they bring in customers but if it comes at the cost of reducing margins it is not good.

Many of the smaller shops might end up going out of business - either because of reducing margins or because they can't find customers later - all their customers might actually expect them to provide service through these apps.
Watch our for circles of reviewers who are not capable, but are willing to act as reviewers on each other in a network to validate their group. Far fetched??, not at all, it had been done and continues to be done.
Elsevier et all, did a good job with their peers and glory reward method, so a system that replaces it need to be well thought out in depth to stand permanently.
Elsevier just sucks and sucks and sucks, like US drug makers
The sentence is only relevant if it carries information content about whether the driver's hands were in fact on the wheel—the reliability of the hand detection system is not believed to be relevant to the crash in any way.

So, if the statement is actually carrying more information about the reliability of the hand-detection system when it sounds like it should be a claim about the driver's hands (the subject of the passive-voice sentence), it is misleading.
I've been wanting to get into Elixir but my work has been building web apps using SaaS starter kits that come with billing, account management, social logins, multi-tenant and more out of the box. Are there any SaaS starter kits in Elixir? Examples in other languages include aspnet zero in .net, bullettrain in ruby and laravel spark in php.
>That’s civil disobedience.

no. To me it looks more like RICO as Uber leadership never risked to be subjected to any punishment. The rank-and-file were actually violating the local laws and were caught/cited/fined.

>They had a terrific record of reimbursing drivers who got fined for taxi violations.

"your family will be well taken care of" :)
Prostitutes were so much safer when they had pimps and had to stand out on the street and hop into peoples' cars, right?

Yes, let's put them all back to doing that to pretend to save a handful of kids.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/11/us/backpage-ads-sex-traff...

We could make a bigger dent in child prostitution if we dealt with income inequality along racial lines than by closing Backpage, but nobody really gives about giving poorer people the same opportunities they have.
This is very interesting! In fact, I think NSA TEMPEST standards already protect against this kind of attack. For example, here is a TEMPEST certified powerline filter that protects against conducted emissions that this paper relies on: http://apitech.com/products/tempest-sdip-27-level-b-6a-ac-in...

I would love to hear more about this from someone who has experience in this.
Use C#.
There definitely are people who would not feel allegiance, that's true anywhere. But, by and large, Russians knowing Putin is not a good guy, etc., will still do things for Russia and in Russia's interest --even if that for now benefits Putin. Russia, much like China, is a society that is multi-generational in purpose. That is, they are willing to sacrifice their own generation for the benefit of a future generation --hence Putin somewhat irrelevant in the course of history of their country, when it comes to deciding what side to fall on.
Your anologies are all wrong.

Its like trying to kill a fly with a sledgehammer.

It's like a grocery store being closed because one of the manufacturers products was bad.

Its like burning down a house to kill a mouse.

Its like if someone created ads on Hacker News for prostitution and the government shut down the entire site.

Its like targeting the INTERNET instead of the actual HUMAN TRAFFICKERS....

These sensational news reports are a distraction from SESTA a really freaky law that allows the govt to bring criminal action against a sites owners for content they deem innappropriate...its already affected numerous sites beyond backpage.

Our civil liberties and the internet have been grossly eroded by SESTA and its sad to see the day when the government can shut sites down at their leisure.
Yeah, but where does the listening device need to be in relation to that property's power lines? I'm sure you can't listen from, say, across a city...

If this is really what you want to do, you'd probably be better off siphoning power from properties that are within range of public WiFi (or semi-public, like Xfinity hotspots).
If information is power, then that is like asking if having more power is more profitable than having less power.
You can sync as many playlists as you want.
Its honesly the best way to put music into the device.
Slow Wave Activity During Sleep Boosts Cognitive Function
Doing Duolingo well just makes you better at doing duolingo. In real world, even in your native language, there are certain situations that can make you tongue tied. The goal of practicing with teachers from sites like iTalki is to get you comfortable opening your mouth and spitting out something, anything. To get past the fear of saying the wrong thing and just saying something. However, if you want to say the right thing and just spit it out, there is a way...

For most people learning a second language, one of the fastest ways to learn can be the most painful way for some of us to learn. Rote memorization. Bor-ing. Methods like Assimil and Glossika and others use this as their core method, with some tweaks.

By memorizing grammatically correct phrases, you will know that you are saying something correctly. I've heard saying that some incorrectly things is literally like I just wrote - your brain processes based on patterns and when you say it in the wrong subject-verb order or even phrase cadence, the person listening gets confused and sometimes irritated.

If you are musically inclined, this can be song lyrics. Or you can hire someone to translate things that you would like to say from your native language into your second language.

You must memorize phrases because memorizing single words without the context of an enclosing sentence can create bad habits that have to be unlearned later.

Like learning violin, mastering the fundamentals are important before you can learn to play music. For learning a language, the two most important things are speaking with the right accent and speaking like a native speaker would in a given situation (which is usually grammatically correct but smooth).
A lot, if not most advanced driver trainings recommend 9/3.
I guess I lurk on different type of classic forums. Most of them focus on generating long-standing content on-the-spot chat is just a byproduct.
Theres literally infinite number of places on the web human traffickers can start a market place.
Alright so how do privacy minded individuals prevent being identified this way? Browser add-on to randomize inter-keystroke delays?
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I get lost with all the Microsoft / data modelling terminology, it doesn't have much to do with software I've ever had anything to do with. What is all this "data-access layer" abstraction stuff about anyway?
At a previous job I inherited a steaming pile of legacy that needed improvement (it was broken and clients were complaining) I went with an approach of being explicit about new layers with classes like CompononentV2. This is an often maligned approach but I found it works quite well.

Basically all new code get's written against V2, old code get's slowly migrated as requirements or opportunity allows and sooner or later you hit a point where only a few places are referring to v1 so you can bite the bullet and remove them entirely.

Semantic versioning like this within a project get's beat out of us early as something source control should handle, but source control doesn't handle long slow migrations of code to new layers.
Terrible article, the wikipedia page is much better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grünberg

The man was a Nobel Prize winner and instrumental in bringing about gigabyte harddrives.
Try PureScript(http://www.purescript.org/)
Exactly. Because breaking the law really shows your integrity.

Especially regarding food intake, where one un-hygienic perdon could endanger the lives of many.

Personally I like the idea of regulation to ensure a minimum level of quality and security. Look at the aviation industry. Just as an example. What do you think makes flying one of the safest methods of travel?

It is easy to dismiss regulations as hindering. But be prepared to have the consequences dealt with.
I really don't think intelligence is the most important part of innovation. That sounds silly, and you obviously need some baseline of intelligence and having more certainly helps. But insights come from context and having the right dots to connect. Talking to the right people, knocking the right rocks together, reading the right books, and having the courage to act on the insights that show up.

Context and action seem to be the most important parts of innovation to me. The reason mathematicians come up with incredible and novel mathematics isn't because they were just more intelligent, it's because they were the ones looking and the ones who had spent time building up their knowledge around mathematics. They could have been just as intelligent but raised to work on a farm instead, having none of the dots, context or impetus to make novel connections in fields that seem driven by intelligence.
That's not even funny (I'm Russian). There was zero allegiance while mass media was even half-free. After 15 years of state monopoly on TV most people are actually frightened into allegiance. Have a read: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/29/24-hour-putin-...

Edit: wrong week of watching Russian TV, correct one here:http://www.businessinsider.com/russias-showdown-with-west-wi...
In the US, Facebook makes $27/user/year. Worldwide it's $6

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/facebook-earnings-q4-2017-ar...
> As far as life-hacks go, I generally seek to run my domestic operations like an OS scheduler - start background things first (get that kettle boiling, get that washing machine running, etc) and then proceed to interactive chores that need direct attention while other things are happening in the background.

I too try to do this as much as possible. But I find that this is only possible with tasks that follow a specific pattern every time. If I try to change even a single thing in the background task, I have to interrupt interactive chores because I will have forgotten something else. To remedy this, I always take 5 min to mentally list each step before starting.

People recommend listening to podcasts/audiobooks in the background while working. I would recommend against that. Eliminate background distractions - reddit, podcasts, anything. If I browse reddit while I wait for something to complete, I waste a lot of time by finishing the article/thread before taking action on finished items. This makes a lot of difference when time is limited, especially in the morning when I'll be running to catch the bus on time. If I listen to podcasts, I miss some information in the podcasts, and I miss some things on the tasks I'm working on.
99.9999999999999 % of ads were for legit prostitution on backpage. There were also many other uses for backpage.

You think if a child trafficker posts a single ad on Hacker News...that the entire site should be shut down?

No this was heavy handed and a huge step towards censoring the web as we know it.
Here’s some more trouble with that: if startups only solve problems that scratch a personal itch, we end up with 20 chat apps, 10 food delivery services, 5 bicycle rentals, Uber for maids, mobile dog shampoo services, basically startups that solve problems for 20-something urban tech workers. As others mentioned, better to find other people totally not like you and figure out what problems they have to solve. They may be boring problems too, but maybe you’ll stumble onto a totally unaddressed niche.
This only applies to US and a bunch of other countries that would bother to enforce the law regarding cooking regulation. Most countries wouldn't really care as they have more important issues to solve than clamp down on innocent people making informed choices about their lives. So the idea isn't really bad.
This is very interesting.

Would you kindly point me towards any project/ research paper/ blog/ web site where I could learn more about this, right from the basics?
TIL

BTW another breakage is no comment "delete" link; need to switch back for that.
Normal matter loses energy through self-interactions (collisions), which is radiated away. Because the emission is isotropic, angular momentum is conserved even though the total energy isn't. This tends to make the normal matter collapse into a disk, which must rotate faster than the original halo to conserve angular momentum. Dark matter, which hasn't dissipated any energy (gravity is conservative), can move around more, never decaying into the orbits that the normal matter does.
> Moving goods from the train to the truck is not a negligible cost.

Really? I was under the impression that this was one of the primary benefits of standard shipping containers.
While Putin did suppress the opposition, opposition figures readily admit that had there been free elections Putin would have still won, just not by as much.

I like the guardian somewhat, but you gotta know who the guardian are.

Not disputing your take --but you and I must know a diff set of people. [Should Russia return Crimea, should they give Japan the Ryukus --some small insignificant islets]

Also, amongst Russians, there are different waves of emigres. Some waves forsook everything upon leaving, those emigres by their nature, have a different view than other waves.
Appreciate the lengthy response!

Are you still in the industry?
They are supposed to, but if flight control doesn't help them do it, pilots have only very little time to react to what they meet. This was demonstrated in the Hughes Airwest collision with an F-4 in 1971.

Since then, air traffic control procedures have been improved to avoid these situations, but nowadays e.g. over the Baltic Sea, Russian military planes are routinely flying with their transponder turned off so that flight control does not know where they are. So, this risk is still there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706#Prob...