skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article is saying that had he received a loan at a 4% rate for 25 years he would paid the same amount toward the bill as he is currently doing for loans at a 7.25% rate with loan forgiveness at the end. The 4% is a hypothetical rate, not a real one. Though he did have at least one student loan at a rate of less than 5%. Most student loans are made up of smaller loans. For example, my wife's "student loan" is $100k, but it is made up of 8 loans of 4k to 30k with varying interest rates of 3% to 6.5%. Rates increase every couple of years. To be clear, federal loans are fixed rate loans, but each year you are in school, you may incur new, higher rate loans than the year before.
Most users on the internet are completely incapable of understanding what tracking even means. Those users, therefor, can not consent to that tracking in an informed way.

Those users need to be protected.
Yes, we're technically subtropical in Houston and get a decent amount of rain, but that hasn't stopped subsidence: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/...

Here's an interactive site from Texas' state water plan that has a really really great breakdown: https://2017.texasstatewaterplan.org/statewide

Texas has virtually no natural lakes, we have to construct anything we want to drink from (or pump it from the ground). Actual billions of dollars are being poured into these drinking supplies, and I can't even count how many times election season includes a "water projects" ballot measure.

We're very fortunate to live on the coast of a very warm body of water. I foresee more water projects to capture the moisture from the gulf here, but yeah I have no clue what the dry states are going to do.
CMS...You don't need it
Your radio has pictures?
> Do you think it's somehow bad for a car manufacturer to not want to go through the hassle of making their cars conform to the safety standards?

Ah yes, the old "all regulations are equal" argument. It should come as no surprise to you that people view safety regulations on automobiles as vastly different than regulations on what a company can do with data about you.
It astonishes me how rapidly San Francisco has mobilized to get the scooters off the street in comparison to how little they have been able to accomplish to get the poop, needles, and condoms off the same streets.

I know which I would choose, if I was told to pick one or the other to be removed from city streets.
Everything I've heard suggests ReasonML is targeted primarily at developers currently using NPM and working in that stack. I don't think creators of a tool have a moral obligation to make it easy to use for everything. Most things have an intended focus, and some happen to be really good for all kinds of other stuff too. That being said, it does sound like it would be cool for it to be easier to install without that dependency.

FWIW, Scala and Clojure require the JVM to work at all, and both are pretty popular.
I read the book. It was a sarcastic comment. My point is that the reason why he died doesn't necessarily have to be linked with the Mucusless Diet Healing System, especially knowing that he didn't follow all the recommendations from the said book.

The reason I made my original comment is because the benefits of fasting described in the submission are known for almost 100 years now (to a certain extent) and one may find it interesting to know where the roots are coming from.
So https://netplan.io/ was invented to replace them right?
Nature 0. Nurture +1.
The problem is not with the spirit of GDPR. I am totally with that. The problem is the liability of it - as a small startup it is seriously scary to think that all it takes is one insane customer to pull the fire alarm and we'd have regulators and fines raining down on us even if we believe with all of our hearts we are doing it right.

Hence, the blocking of the EU - its better to block at the beginning and then expand to the EU once we have revenue to support someone handling this as an employee.
This comment doesn't really make much sense for me, especially since none of Pearl's techniques have been convincingly demonstrated to work in real situations. It's one thing to take pot shots at practical engineering problems and point of flaws and locations for improvement, but it's quite different to claim that a new framework would solve them when (a) elements of that framework have already existed a while and practitioners knew about them, and (b) the framework hasn't been shown to give state of the art performance or to actually solve cases when algorithmic decision making made improper judgments.

Do you have examples to dispute this... actual examples where a causal inference based model was used for large-scale deployed machine learning problems and demonstrably fixed some type of judgment error that had previously been leading to bad outcomes for people?
How is it "no longer relevant business model"? Youtube Music would not exist if Vevo ended up being a separate destination that all the main music publishers endorsed.

Of the top 100 most viewed YouTube videos, only 6 are not music videos.
--single-quoted-strings would be a really nice option for the vast majority of python programmers that use single quotes by default.
We'll call them "Scooter Medallions" and they will be an investment property!
You could say the same thing about CA

Earthquakes, fires and mudslides but it's ok because "surf and ski in the same day bro".

Something something glass houses, stones, pots and kettles...
I have used an ad blocker for the last 10+ years. I don't know how Adsense has improved my internet experience, and I suspect it has had no effect.
This makes sense if you group scooters and docking bicycle share programs into the same category. Most US city bikeshare programs include deeply discounted (like $5/mo) access for the poor.
Ask HN: Do you have wrist or hand injuries?
I'm curious how prevalent wrist and hand injuries are amongst programmers. I haven't come across good statistics on this, and it seems like it could be a moderate professional risk. It's hard to tell who has hand/wrist pain but doesn't talk about or just ignore it, who's had corrective surgery, etc.

Also, do you use preventative measures like ergonomic keyboards and mice?
Cryptocup: March Madness-Like Brackets for the World Cup (built on Ethereum)
I love my AirPods. The Apple Watch is green with jealousy ...
Time to shut down DNS!
No, that's just a word game. In order for me to get up from bed, I have to want to get up from bed, then I have to want to want to get up from bed, then I have to want to want to want to get up from bed. You can make anything absurd with that.

The question of free will is whether I want to get up from bed, or I have to get up from bed. It doesn't matter how the mind works, it matters whether or not the choice is freely taken or is coerced.
I'm new to python, I didn't realize there's a difference, can you help me understand the benefits?
Blocking by IP is okay, logging it is the only violation. And why on earth would you have to log those blocks?
Glad you like the ad-free, high quality content. How would you like to pay for that?
Related: "Hype driven development" https://medium.com/@ozgurgul/hype-driven-development-2196a8b...
Not since Nietzsche. Every philosopher afterwards has merely been quibbling over semantics. It’s a dead field but one whose proponents as a side effect tend to be good enough at rhetorical tricks that they still get funding. If every university philosophy department were to be abolished overnight nothing of value would be lost.
You've misinterpreted me. I'm not saying that having immigration restrictions with disparate racial impact necessarily mean the policies are racist (or otherwise immoral). I'm saying that if we thought nations had rights the way individuals had rights, we wouldn't be so accepting of individuals having racist preferences and so against nations having them.
> My biggest take-away though is that fasting has helped me practice self-denial to the point where I can handle my sweet tooth very easily now.

Interesting. One of the benefits I've found from occasional food-abstinence is that I start remembering the distinction between (a) true hunger and (b) craving.

IME (as a male), cravings are almost always for carbs. It takes days of limiting my carb intake for the cravings to subside.
I have a suspicion, which I don't really have the training or references to back up, that what happened to philosophy is related to the self-destruction of Art as a direct result of the World Wars.

Before 1914, it was still possible to be naive in the West and believe that everything happens for some sort of supreme purpose. Then we saw the mass destruction of humans on a society-wrecking scale, senseless deaths among the shells and gas; an entire generation returning with unacknowledged PTSD. Then this power got turned on civilians. The only possible response artistically to Guernica was a sprawling, fractured, ugly painting. Inevitably the catastrophe scaled up: everything "traditional" was appropriated and turned to Fascism, and Fascism destroyed everything that it could reach that didn't support it. Finally we built the Bomb, and realised that there wasn't really anything standing between us and the power to destroy entire civilisations in an afternoon.

We were standing in the wreckage of our own ethical systems, and have had to gradually rebuild them. This gave us the principles of human rights, and the realisation that equality of respect was the only real moral imperative. If we allow humans to deem other humans to be inherently inferior, this will be used to justify mass atrocities. Nobody is coming to redeem us and there is no final judgement to look forward to; we have to liberate ourselves in this lifetime.

In the face of this challenge, philosophy could either collapse into post-modernism, an endless hall of mirrors of signifier and signified; or it could mobilise and be used to deconstruct power relations and correctly label injustices. That gave us post-colonialism, queer theory, multiple generations of feminism, and so on. We have to live with the Other, and the question is how.

(The question of consciousness will be solved by the first AI to win a Nobel Prize for writing in defence of its own consciousness. I have no idea whether that will be next century or next year.)

(Please insert references to Derrida, Foucault, Butler, Lacan, etc as applicable; I don't see too many other people referencing modern philosophy in this discussion? Or you could downvote as well, I guess that's a philosophical argument?)
The article says that audio alone causes kids to struggle harder with understanding. The whole point of what he is asking is to meet in the middle where kids can understand and get the most out of the media.
~220 engineers, salespeople, and content folks:

http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/snap-snapchat-layoffs-7...
Hey! Loved the article. I am currently employed as a scrum master in a scrum environment. About your proposed "fix" to management: even with the light pairing you recommend, wouldn't kanban eventually cause siloing? Even using scrum at my job, we have individuals becoming the "Feature X" guy or the "Feature Y" guy. This person then essentially disappears into a hole perfecting that one feature for weeks/months, even if there are more pressing/interesting matters. I don't see how kanban wouldn't increase that even more.

Also, how do you estimate? Individual or group? Does everyone on the team possess the skills to estimate every story?
FAZ, like many other German newspapers and magazines, uses ad-blocker blocking. Disable scripts for the site and it works.
There’s a big difference between sending people out to investigate an untrusted report, and going in guns blazing because an anonymous voice on the phone said the situation was dangerous.

You act on the information but you don’t trust it.
Philosophy i think is the same question and message repeated in each era in the language of that era. (Modern lingo and memes and such)

The question is “what’s the point”.

Philosophies that get overly powerful turn into religions. Original questioning rooted in science (refusal to look away from reality) can become dogma. Yin becomes yang and back again.

Dogma, while safe, doesnt evolve and eventually is disconnected from modernity. (Not using the right memes and lingo anymore)

The same message can be right or wrong depending on how it is said and in which cultural era it is said.

A strong belief in having already gotten the point or belief that execution is the only thing left leaves no room for philosophy which is about the wiggle room of constant flux.

The current era is a bit strange in that science itself has become a sort of dogma. “scientism” masquerading as true science is another way of putting it. There’s a belief that certain people, idiots and infidels hold back everyone. The yin blames the yang and so becomes it.
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I like the idea of digging more into real business requirements, but I'd question one thing.

>You'll never hear Apple announce a product until it's actually ready to ship.

Apple is a consumer tech, flagship-product-focused company. B2B timelines, contracts, and deliverables work somewhat differently. Apple can always "miss" a deadline and just choose not to debut the new product yet (worst case). Many B2B contracts hinge on explicit future product deliverables, because there is a TON more power on the buy side when dealing with business clients as opposed to individual consumers. Do you have experience with these estimation issues in a B2B context, any flavor you can add there?
For a lot of applications you can already just give it some waypoints and forget about it. What would the AI actually do?
It doesn't. Use `git hyper-blame` or `git blame $REV^ -- $PATH`.

Sure, there is an additional step but we feel this shouldn't be a blocker for significant workflow improvements.

In fact, a single big "reformat all" commit is better than a bunch of incremental ones that reformat areas that you also change semantically. That is harder to filter and makes diffs harder to follow (which changes are logic and which are just style?).
At risk of going off thread and offering more anecdotal advice, I’ve switched my habits around so I eat carbs at night (mostly berries, vegetables.)

I also do the Saturday cheat day thing.
You don't have to convince me that the US tramples on the sovereign rights of other countries just because it can.

The tax situation is a good example. Historically, sales tax has not been able to be levied by states against companies just because they have customers in that state. They have to have physical "nexus" in that state as well. There are a number of states trying to do an end run around that right now with "economic nexus", which will probably end up in the Supreme Court at some point.

Many countries try to say that VAT is due, but their ability to enforce is pretty limited. If you run a small business online and you WANT to pay attention to every single global tax jurisdiction and send them whatever tax they say is due, go for it. But if you don't, the practical reality is that there's nothing they can currently do about it.

I do agree that these issues are complicated and that the Internet has thrown a monkey wrench in a LOT of legal precedent in ways that will need to be sorted out.

I just don't think the GDPR is the right framework. Data privacy may be a human right, but so is democratic representation, and having governments all over the world pass laws that they say apply to my company is unjust.

EDIT: looks like economic nexus is being decided now: https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2018/apr/supreme-c...
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Are you disputing that GDPR disallows you from retaining visitor IPs, especially without explicit consent?
This is not an issue exclusive to the US. Simply look at all the back room sweetheart tax deals made in the EU with government officials.
> What I noticed in Germany though, is that many store clerks insist on taking your card...

That's a service. You'd be surprised how many people are unable to insert the card into the reader correctly.
Modern electronics have an effective limit of ~100 deg Celsius, which makes them unsuitable for some uses.

Fluidics are order of magnitude slower and larger, but proper material selection can make them withstand very high temperatures.
So do we know enough at this point to confidently recommend a fasting schedule that ought to be safe and worthwhile for most adults?

Or are we still bathing in incomplete/flawed studies, bad reporting, and the promotion of diet-fads?

This sounds like something I'd like to try if the reported upsides are real, but I don't have a lot of time to filter out junk science.
If I were running my own company right now, this is probably the approach I would take. I'm a big privacy advocate, but I'm also anti-authoritarian and don't like being forced into things by overbearing laws.

Blocking Europeans sounds a lot more reasonable than having to hire a lawyer and spend double the time and effort just to be compliant while writing a new JavaScript MVC Todo List app.
I don't think anyone is trying to run a poop-sharing business that the city can go after.
That sentence of mine was intended as normative (and disputed), not empirical. So I am indeed criticizing the right to self-determination as confused.
> black doesn't even seem to comply with PEP-8

That is just not true. Where does Black not conform to PEP 8?
In my very limited experience, the few philosophers I've known are teachers or earn their living doing something else. This tells me philosophy is not terribly practical, at least as it is being taught now. It is my impression that they love debating between themselves about the most impractical subjects, writing their thoughts in long form, and being extravagant.

I am most likely prejudiced because, as an engineer, my education has always been utilitarian. Maybe we really are in an anti-philosophy era and I am just one more ignorant.
The big improvement to Gym Retro is that it now supports Nintendo systems by default (it used to be Atari 2600/Genesis only), with a pretty impressive library of configurations included. (https://github.com/openai/retro/tree/develop/retro/data/stab...)
Why would it astonish you? The posted article is about proposed regulations, not resources for enforcement. Is it the case that San Francisco has no laws regarding littering and public defecation?
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Agile methodologies are weird. They seem to go directly against the manifesto, particularly "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"[1]. Yet Scrum was created by two of the manifesto signatories.

Still, a lack of a strict methodology doesn't necessarily make it waterfall.

[1] http://agilemanifesto.org/
Because the scooters were already clogging sidewalks and aggravating people. The limit prevents that. Otherwise VC's will invest in ten of these companies like lemmings, kind of like how we have so many food deliver apps. At least this way we'll only have five. This doesn't seem too crazy to me but maybe that's just me.
Or how to pay the people who create the content
> There's a human cost to declaring people to be "illegal"

Who's declaring this? Nobody's declaring a human's existence to be illegal. They're humans who have broken laws -- that is done something illegal. It feels like a willful attempt to control a narrative by warping semantics.
This comment thread [1] is a pretty good indication of why I don't think Jordan Peterson is worth listening to. He has no interest in answering the question he's being asked and instead throws out a single study to defend his position on something. Exactly what I would expect from a random person on the internet. Not what people should expect from someone they consider to be an intellectual.

Self-help author or bullshit artist would be a better description, depending on how strongly you feel about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8m21kw/i_am_dr_jordan...
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Flac/Opus may have benefits, but I think the Free Music Archive is optimizing for accessibility. Pretty much anybody can play an MP3 out of the box. I don't think one can say the same about Flac/Opus.
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How about dealing with the human feces on the sidewalks and rampant homelessness instead of stifling innovation.
I put it in the README. Let me know if anything is unclear.
>It doesn't appear that there is any consensus that he is a "self-titled chauvinistic pig".

He literally called himself a chauvinist monster in that joke. Hence self-titled.

My point is that people in his position are held to stricter standards. The standards include carefully choosing what to say.

Sure, he'd make a great babysitter for your kids - he just didn't make a great public person.
I concur with your assessment of MSNBC, etc. I still think your original statement wasn't quite right, but not enough to warrant argument.

I stopped even following HuffPo links many years ago. It felt like too many opinions pieces dressed up as news, and with a business model based on getting people to write for free. (Could have changed in the last 5 years.)

Democracy Now is viewer/listener funded. They use the phrase "corporate media" instead of "{main,lame}stream media", and (in that respect) are aligned with Zinn and Chomsky.
> If someone in the EU puts some personal info in an envelope and mails it to me and I never get around to opening it and it just sits on a stack with other junk mail, am I now violating their human rights by keeping the info they voluntarily sent to me?

Everyone I've tried to make this point to has ultimately said something to the effect of "yes, you're violating their rights by not throwing out the letter." It's baffling.
There are more ways to define semantics for formal languages than you suggested. What you described seemed to be mostly operational semantics where each term (or statement) ultimately causes some memory to be referenced or changed or an operation carried out. It is quite possible to define the semantics denotationally where each term (or statement) simply becomes an element in a domain. Its ultimate meaning can change depending on which domain you are using.
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I paid 2k for 2 wedding photographers and they definitely put more than one work day into it between meetings, planning, actual day of work and photo editing.
Retweets don't necessarily mean endorsement.

Adams frequently pitches his book "Win Bigly"...marketing himself as one of the few people to predict Trump's rise, due to his rhetoric. Showing examples would just be marketing for Adams.
Oh, so you don't use services of a company which has to comply with EU authorities? I am pretty sure, they can freeze your AWS/GCP account.
I also found this quite humorous.
It's a pretty easy n=1 trial -- stop eating at 8pm, and eat again at noon. Maybe exercise in the morning to accelerate the glycogen depletion. Try it for a month, report back!

There are many studies on this, the literature seems to suggest it works, and I can say it worked for me.
just discovered it this year; cannot believe i went this long without knowing about it.

also the web 1.5ish site and comments board brings me a lot of joy, reminds me of the spirit of the earlier web, in keeping with the free form
nature of the programming itself.

everyone should donate if you listen!
Bookmark this PDF: http://homepage.smc.edu/morgan_david/cs70/ip-cref.pdf
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In my company everybody goes over spec sheets and endless meetings to determine the right approach instead of just sitting down and using the time to try things out. A big problem is that there is also no culture of being allowed to say that an experiment has failed and we'll either cancel or try something else.