skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the first two, humans are pretty capable of providing for these themselves. Having the government provide it alone is a single point of failure, and simply adds cost and complexity where it isn't necessary.

Healthcare is definitely something which could benefit from subsidy, considering how advancements in it often require large coordination of R&D, manufacturing, schools/practice, etc. Communication is just not necessary at all to live.

Transportation, energy, and education are also necessary to enable a means of production, trade, and basic self-sufficiency of living. Paying for these individually is not only less efficient, it hampers the ability of the economy to grow by limiting who has the means to contribute to it. If you can't get to work, you can't do work, and you're basically a burden on society. And having to pay for the energy needed to do things like cook your food and heat your home is just another thing which is inefficient, especially considering different parts of a country may have different access to energy resources.

I'm not well read on tax policy so I don't know the best way to fund these ventures, but it would be obvious that one group would need to be taxed heavily while the other was taxed lightly, due to the difference in the use of or contribution to subsidized resources.
This may be reasonable advice for extreme extroverts, but many humans value stability and predictability over new experience, particularly when forming families.

The majority of lifestyle-oriented media is produced with an extrovert bias and we tend to define happiness in extrovert terms, but for those of us inclined towards introversion much of this advice would make us miserable.
No surprise. Thiel is a grade-A asshole who appears to be amoral.
I'm from Quebec, I can nearly never play contest for a simple reason, if I win, they have to pay taxes over the winning for me. That's not much and the likelihood that I win is still low, yet that amount scared them enough to ignore me in most contest.

I feel like that's going to be more an incentive to ignore EU resident if the fees are that high. Even with a huge security budget, mistakes are made, is it worth it to risk that much cash? Check any gaming console, they have a pretty big incentive to keep the security pretty high, yet failed to do it so often.
Is there a way to print this out?
Read page 8 [206] of this paper to see the numbers they're providing. The PacBio reads are listed at up to 15% error rate. Their experiments were synthetic data from 15-40% error rates.

A few comments:

1. This was published in ASPLOS, not a comp bio journal, which should raise some eyebrows.

2. As another commenter said, error correction requires a reference, either by alignment, kmer filtering, or consensus. However, this is usually part of any assembly pipeline.

3. Like you said, they failed to compare to actual state of the art alignment tools. They do cite Canu, but they don't use it as their baseline. The issue here is that the current best long read assemblers use locality-sensitive hashing. The Canu paper even states that miniasm can produce a higher-quality assembly for CHM1 in 1/400 the CPU time (though their discussion of the table selectively ignores this fact). Considering that a combination of algorithm and implementation is able to provide a 400x speedup makes this result seem significantly less impressive, and that a comparison of CPU time is slightly unfair to miniasm considering how perfectly it threadscales, which would make the other tools look even worse by comparison. Additionally, for problems where you really need the improvement in performance, the GPU RAM limitations and communication overhead would likely incur significant penalties to their method. It's not simply a matter of how many reads a second you can process because it's a quadratic overlap problem.
Cool.This is something new.
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Often times when I've seen this discussed, the reasoning behind straight cash vs just necessities, it often has to do with overhead. If you just give people money, its easier to administer, everyone in the program gets the same cash, theres no inventory to administer, theres nothing to check. The other thing often discussed in the same manner is help that has certain "morality" clauses, such as welfare or help, but only if the poor person makes certain decisions. As far as total impact, you can do more by just giving money, and not spending any of it policing behavior.
>Therefore, the dye can be collected either by "milking" the snails, which is more labour-intensive but is a renewable resource, or by collecting and destructively crushing the snails. David Jacoby remarks that "twelve thousand snails of Murex brandaris yield no more than 1.4 g of pure dye, enough to colour only the trim of a single garment."[14] (from Wikipedia, Tirian Purple //

It's my understanding that it was a badge of the senate, so wearing it would be like impersonation of a senator. Or worse, impersonation of the Emperor.

Snail Milker isn't a job one hears much of.

Many people will have heard of Lydia from the New Testament of the Holy Bible, who is referred to as a seller of purple, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_of_Thyatira.
There's a medium-sized market for processor modules like this, as they're plenty good enough for quite a few applications.

For example if you need a big PCB, cheaper to make a big 2- or 4-layer PCB and put a module on it than to make your entire PCB 10 layers so you can break out a tiny BGA.
Palantir is private sector, but they sell to governments.
I second Sikuli and recommend Sikuli-X. In the end though the company I work for wanted to use a corporate supported solution so I now use UiPath. It is allowing us to automate repetitive tasks in a Win32 application that uses shdocvw.dll as the shell for Silverlight components, and an embedded TTY emulator among other things. Pointing Spy++ at it revealed an almost infinite event model. Automating with Windows handles just wasn't possible, so the OCR of both Sikuli and UiPath came in handy.
I try to imagine the help coming out of a printer ten lines at a time. In my imagination, it's a daisy-wheel printer and makes a heck of a racket.
More like one package per person. Of course that's still trivial to provide, as you say. You just give everyone a fixed set of points they can allocate to the options available according to their needs. I propose to call those points "money".
It is unfortunate that the URL that loads after following the link does not actually direct to this particular flowchart. Makes sharing difficult.
I mean, if you want to get into it, you're both right and wrong.

The second largest cases are typically against hospital chains that encourage (read: basically force) their coding teams to use particular billing codes. It's easy enough to model this from claims data (and we did). When a chain buys a new hospital, suddenly patients that present with the same diagnosis codes are all getting extensive exams that ostensibly require 45+ minutes of a physician's time and cost 4-10x more.

Again - the large operators (hospital chains) absolutely dwarf individuals (doctors). DOJ barely has the resources to prosecute the largest offenders, and have faced repeated budget cuts. Wasting time on individual doctors or private practices (beyond maybe making examples of a few egregious actors) would be an inefficient allocation of their resources.
Are you arguing for reducing aviation safety, or a massive investment in road safety like places like Sweden have done? I honestly can't tell.
Oath revamps Yahoo, AOL privacy policies to allow email and photo scans
Very informative, but what does any of this have to do with Facebook?
Medicare fraud is estimated to be around $60B per year or 10% of the whole budget. So if Palantir can decrease that rate by 1 or 2% then it's tough to call that overkill

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/medicare-funds-totaling-60-bi...

>Going even further back, in 1998, a Senate investigation into Medicare fraud found $6 million in payments to a “business” whose fake address would have been smack in the middle of the Miami Airport.

>The report released today shows no improvement, but investigators say it is not that hard to fix the problem.

>ABC News went to one of the locations listed in the report that was on Chicago’s Southside next to a porn shop, with no doctor’s office evident, where Medicare sent nearly $600,000 using an ineligible mailbox shop location as a billing address until 2013.

Seems like exactly the kind of problem Palantir can solve to the advantage of taxpayers.
Planet Money recently had a podcast about the growth and overreach of NDAs:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/04/06/600412430/epis...
He is the main developer on the Linux Window Manager I use
https://github.com/swaywm/sway
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I agree with you.
Allegations against Centra and implications for self-governance
Many applications of Graphene are already on the market (ex. lighter and stiffer bicycle frames, bicycle tires, sports equipment, electronic inks and paints etc). However, these are based on lower quality Graphene powders or nanoplatelets (essentially a commodity at this point) which are used as an additive to a starting epoxy or resin material.

Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) is the method used to produce the highest quality graphene (usually on Copper). Several companies (Graphenea etc) have scaled up CVD and continue to work towards much lower $ / m^2 targets in the near future.

The main challenge in the industry is currently the transfer step. Current methods to transfer Graphene from growth substrate to target substrate are inefficient and not amenable to high volume manufacturing.

"Roll to Roll" (what the paper is referring to) aims to solve this - companies like Samsung, LG, and Sony have been exploring Roll to Roll systems for flexible electronics/display applications.

After flexible applications, the next step is to enable CMOS compatibility / transfer to Silicon wafers. I'm the co-founder of a company in Austin that is working towards this.
So every other reviewer is not using those patches (isn't Windows installing them automatically?), and the performance impact is that huge that it completely negates every performance advantage Intel had for now almost a decade?
MySQL 8.0 is now generally available
As an aside, education does not scale with the ever increasing number of ways that personal information can “get online”. Additionally, it assumes some degree of privilege as more and more of everyday life moves online. Not everyone can afford to care for their own privacy, and those that do must pay the time, money, and convenience costs associated with it.
Technical balance
"Attrition is a group statistic. It doesn't apply to me"

https://josephwalla.com/attrition-is-a-group-statistic-it-do...
It sounds like they are preparing themselves to the wave of EU class action law suits about privacy, that the US won't be able to do, by limiting the number of users under EU scrutiny. Haven't we seen that sort of move by Google earlier before they got slapped in the the same way facebook is probably going to be?
> As a non-EU entity I legally can not collect VAT on behalf of EU customers because I have no way of paying that tax on their behalf.

That’s not how this works. You are required to collect VAT and use the MOSS system to pay it quarterly.
I could be mistaken, but I recall seeing benchmarks that came out during the whole meltdown/spectre fiasco showed that the effects on games were pretty negligible.

I thought it was mainly workloads relating to virtualization etc... that were effected significantly
If my bike can't use the road, I dismount and walk it. Riding on the sidewalk is illegal. I don't begrudge anyone who does it perforce - say, if there are no alternative roads and they need to get to work - but I do begrudge cyclists who seem to forget that dismounting is even possible.
The decision points have bad names. How can "When it was exaclty?" or "how satisfying it was ?" have a "yes" "no" answer?
GIMP 2.10.0 RC2 Released
The article is a bit misleading since AFAIC there are no agreed plans yet on the next steps. The title implies that the project is totally cancelled, but all of the major political parties in Finland are proposing their own solutions for replacing it. Because of upcoming elections, this is a fairly hot topic.
Not drinking too much. Regular exercise at the gym, three days a week.
Per User Encryption in Elixir I
Do you know of specific demand? Would you mind contacting me (gs @ my HN username .com) to chat about this? Thanks!
Pro tip: put the toolbar on the left side of the screen rather than the the bottom location.
I think it's a question of how those things are "laying around".

In Paris this is a relatively new development, but what I take issue with is where they are left by the users, which is usually in the middle of the sidewalk. People really don't care where they leave them since there's no consequence for them.

I ride a motorbike around town. In Paris it's legal to park motorbikes and scooters on the sidewalks if the sidewalk is wide enough as to not bother pedestrians. If the police walks by and thinks your vehicle is bothering, you get a ticket or could even have your bike towed. This has a direct impact on the owner.

If you park like a d... you risk your bike being tipped over, scratched, etc. Again, direct impact on the owner.

However, with a rental scooter / bike, you won't get any fines for parking in the middle of the sidewalk, most people won't care if something happens to the bike, etc, so they just don't care. Of course, if the company is getting the tickets and has to repair the bikes more often than otherwise necessary, the cost will be transferred to the users, but not in a direct manner. So in a society where people are on average less and less civil, I think this kind of development is to be expected.
It doesn't, it's background on a side-thread response to "just following orders". The reference to WWII Germany being because the usual origin is that this was used as a mitigation by those involved in the Wehrmacht.
It's important to remember, because someone might propose a law against a social network selling data. It could be heralded as finally giving users privacy. And Zuckerberg will be very happy that this PR mess has gone away
The chances of it happening while the 2nd amendment remains in place are far below .1%. .00001% Maybe? Disarming the public is not a sufficient step for authoritarianism (obviously, there are lots of countries with hard gun control that aren't authoritarian). But disarming the public is a necessary step for successful authoritarianism. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Hugo Chavez... all had disarmed populaces when they committed their atrocities. Yes, atrocities happen even when the populace has some access to small arms but it is dramatically harder to wipe out an ethnic group when they are armed.
Is anyone else kind of skeeved out by this site and the elektrec.co? Sites that are 90% worship of corporation X really rub me the wrong way, even for the companies I am a fanboy of.

I suppose there are similar sites like macrumors, but they seem to be independent and often critical. But these Tesla sites only push out the same positive, glowing stories over and over.
We get about $1000/year, and the cost of living here is higher than just about any other state. You can't really compare the Alaska PFD to a UBI.
Facebook almost certainly has servers, and subsidiaries, and staff in the EU
German Federal Administration relies on Nextcloud as a secure exchange solution
Mind expanding on your use case for Butler for Trello? Their landing page is a little unclear on specifics.
I have a consulting business.

I have a few basic zaps, like sending myself an email reminder every Monday to review goals.

FreshBooks for automating recurring invoices and payment reminders.

This one has saved me a lot of time: Calendly to let people schedule meetings on my calendar. I’ve set a very narrow availability window so that meetings are grouped into one afternoon.

aText app to create shortcuts for long strings that I use often, like my Zoom and Calendly URLs.

I also developed Standard Operating Procedures for my business to “automate” certain decisions or protocols.

I try to eliminate before I automate. Does the thing really need doing, or can I find a way or reason to never have to do it again? For example, instead of routing Slack messages (I am in ~5 Slack orgs at any time) to my phone or email, I just set the expectation early that I will not check Slack frequently so if they need to reach me they should use email.
and for Firefox?
Thank you for pointing this out, I forgot this specificity of duplicacy. I added a disclaimer: https://github.com/christophetd/duplicacy-autobackup/commit/...

Regarding the license of my code I'm unsure what to use. The license of duplicacy (https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy/blob/master/LICENSE...) states that "Modification and redistribution are permitted, but commercial use of derivative works is subject to the same requirements", so it seems to me that as long as I include such a disclaimer, it should be fine. I opened an issue on the duplicacy project to ask the author his opinion.
Support is coming very soon: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=120015.15

https://twitter.com/gonzopancho/status/953758906689388547

https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/7rat4n/pfsense_on_...
Very much this. The real problem is getting the message to the masses when the message platforms that they use are controlled and censored.
GitPitch Audience Surveys for Presentation Authors
That why I lied to Facebook about all the profile info.
Supervised Word Vectors from Scratch in Rasa NLU
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That doesn’t work well for toolbars which have text labels ( like bookmarks or a windows style taskbar).
Not as dumb as screen real estate when need to cut code, monitor logs and compare on multiple terminals.
Hey, I was simply throwing out a suggestion that it would be nice to have a quick, quiet, and general way for everyone to deal with the problem.

If you like the current solution, and don’t see a problem, carry on.
Proof of History – A clock for blockchain
I think you are over-interpreting.
Flexible Billing: the Dragon
you could use emscripten to compile to wasm as a target https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/compiling/Web...
I think it's also important to remember that the effects would be wildly different between countries with big social safety nets (such as Finland), and countries withouot.

For countries with lots of extensive welfare programs, a small UBI is shifting money from various programs into UBI, thereby removing administrative overhead - rather than "new money".

For example: every parent in sweden gets $160 child allowance ($320 for a single parent), regardless of income, and with no application required. We don't have dental included in the universal health plan - instead there is a subsidy of $70 per person per year. Students get an allowance of nearly $400 a month (allowance, not loans)

And so on and so forth. There are lots of these allowances and subsidies that under a UBI system would just disappear and be part of the UBI in the nordic countries.

That's why I don't see it as such a massive step. First you go to an enormous welfare state, then you change that to a UBI system. It's then less of a leap.
I find rclone much better (https://rclone.org/docs/)
Yeah, replaying requests is a feature request we get often. I’ll add your comment to the tracker.

I haven’t heard of that problem with push notifications. That’s not our area but I’ll forward it to the Chrome team.
And except when companies use deceptive tactics to extract information and photos that you thought had a presumption of privacy. People were alarmed to see Facebook had a log of all their calls and text messages.
Here are two benchmarks supporting this: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-does-..., https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-performance-melt.... I remember it like that as well.
It's a parsable format. Not some arbitrary stream of text, like what UNIX streams deal with...
Thanks. Could you please explain in a little bit more detail how it works for Java GAE Standard and not Python?
With linebreaks:

* Overview: https://netflix.github.io/titus/overview/

* Prerequisites: https://netflix.github.io/titus/install/prereqs/

* Building Code: https://github.com/Netflix/titus-executor/blob/master/README...

* ACM Queue Article: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3158370

* License: APL 2.0
I do not disagree, but I think it's also interesting to consider the following: currently there's a lot of suffering caused by poverty. Or by the frustration derived from the need to get/keep a job to avoid poverty. Those economic needs might have some positive effects, but they also push the society in very wrong directions. Also, for many people the reality sucking so much is exactly the reason that leads them to become NEETs, addicts, depressed, indifferent, conformists, etc.
Facebook Is Trying to Exclude 1.5B Users from Stricter Privacy Regulation
I have to say, I really miss the 4:3 ratio on tablets, as I do most of my reading there. I've been trying to read now via landscape orientation and scrolling down the page.

It works (kinda) but I miss having the whole page at a view...
"A more productive answer to someone saying something you agree with is “I agree”, not mistakenly berating them for not agreeing sooner."

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16627766)
Are there options to restrict search space (i.e. limit data sources that could potentially contaminate an investigation)?

And if so, is that a common practice, or is it more typical to search through all avaliable data for anything potentially useful and weed out later?
Well, I really like being able to put a code editor on the left and then a browser, terminal, document, LaTeX output on the right of the screen without them becoming too constrained horizontally. But probably this is a very particular use case?
If you are still on this thread - check this video out at 28:56

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4inIBmY8dQI&feature=youtu.be
I first heard of the fading red problem on a luxury yacht show, where the clients' new cushions kept fading in the sun, which was a bit of a problem for the outfitting company.

It's amazing what random facts you pick up wherever.
You are moving into metaphysics and including stuff that is not covered by Null Hypothesis Significance Testing. But on the original point "Likewise, in the long run, using a p threshold of 0.05 (which many journals do) will generate 5% false positive results" is just plain wrong. P(A|B) != P(A)
depends how tall the screen is.
Other than Zapier, Slack reminders are a huge help to us. We have reminders set up for all sorts of things, both recurring and adhoc. If you use Slack and don't use reminders, look into how it works, they are fantastic.

We also use https://sweep.cards/ which is from Amy Hoy, who many of you may know of. It's basically for things that don't go in a calendar but which are recurring in some fashion, such as doing payroll each month, weekly reviews, or even minor daily tasks you need to remember to do. It has group workflow for this stuff as well if there are multiple people who need to do a single piece of a recurring task.
"Making the best person possible out of a child" is not motivation, it's the goal.

In other words, it's not the "why"--it's the "how."

What parent does not want the best for their kids? The question is, how to do that? There are informed answers to that question.
LSP converts a M x N problem (M editors, N languages) into a M + N problem.