skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who currently have these jobs are generally too busy to spend all day wargaming through a simulated pandemic. You’d be lucky to sit them down long enough to play the board game Pandemic. What probably ends up happening is that this gets turned into a written report that some staffer has on hand to pull out and brief the key decision makers on. As the article points out, the learnings from these exercises sometimes get turned into actionable policy, e.g. Bush implementing continuity-of-government plans.

The most similar thing I know about personally is military contingency plans. My dad was a Marine Corps officer and, among other things, worked on contingency plans in the late 1960’s. There are standing contingency plans for almost every conceivable military operation the US might perform, ranging from amphibious landings on the fjords of Norway to capturing any given small Caribbean island. The plans don’t always get followed, though. My dad spent a lot of time developing a contingency plan to capture the island of Grenada, and he spent the rest of his life bitterly insisting that his plan was far better than how that operation actually turned out!
That's fair enough. Maybe stupid is a better word than corrupt. The "bridge to nowhere", grants for absurd causes, that kind of thing. They might seem stupid, but if they would allow a fix to Obamacare to pass (say, smoothing out rough edges, rather than a repeal or nothing) then the bridge is just a monument to getting things done.
Between 2003 and 2015, the worldwide internet penetration rose from 12% to 44%, that's 2.4 billion more internet users, but somehow there is a "conservation law of speech"?
Matlab is good for non-software engineers and scientists to explore and solve problems. Once you have a solution there, write it up in some proper language.

I don't think it is likely for a software engineer to understand Matlab's niche and effectiveness. It comes from a different direction.

A ball point pen, a paint brush and a piece of drafting graphite all have their uses.
> if you can't handle that in words, I doubt you could live much, regardless of your identifiable characteristics.

I really cannot wrap my mind around the lack of empathy required to say "if you can't handle it" to people being called racist slurs. I presume you have never been called a racist slur. I presume you have never been demonized for your skin color - how can you even begin to know what that's like?

Ignoring the hatred that people on 4chan have for black people is not trivial - obviously this is more affecting for a person if they're black.

Have you read any testimonials about racism, or how it's made folks feel, or anything like that? There's many books out there, and I think your lack of empathy comes from ignorance. Reading some first-hand experience may make it more clear.
Please read and play with the graphics on this page, it explains it all:

https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
A correction: The house I was referring to was not actually an inheritance. It was a leftover from an abandoned house building business, funded via the usual business means (some personal money, lots of loans, etc.), acquired prior to 'retirement'.

It provided 5-6 years of rental revenue and a $400,000 final payday.
"destroys trump", "Reaction", "surprise egg"
> It's just that there's no indication of what's a premium feature and what's not

This behavior drives me nuts, and I leave anywhere I see it and I can. It is just so hostile and obnoxious. I don't mind people wanting money for things, but this sort of thing immediately gives me the feeling of interacting with an adversary, that I need to consider implications and watch for double-crosses.

It is really weird to me that people design their stores to feel untrustworthy and sneaky, but I guess it works well enough to keep them at it.
Not so much defeatist as it is being a realist about the threats facing you, and the world.

Maybe we could spend our resources building systems that destroy drones instead of an arms race.

That's just another ... weapon ;)
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Seems to be something people repeat for the 'anarchic creativity' narrative rather than an actual truth.
Thank you for this. This fact needed to be pointed out.

(Edit: This wasn't sarcasm... Not sure why all the downvotes)
You didn't read his last sentence.
In Brazil top youtubers are outperforming television stars and traditional entertainers in the celebrity game. Books featuring these people are always in the best-seller lists and live appearances draw rock star-level crowds.

Most interesting: these people are appealing mostly to the sub-14 crowd. Children find about youtubers by word of mouth but also by fumbling with tablets and cell phones.
I don't know! I'm wondering! Because weak-form efficient means something different than strong efficiency, which is what you say when the market perfectly incorporates all data. Just out of curiosity, if the data doesn't go into the market, where does it go? Strong econ minds believe that prices do incorporate all the data necessary for valuation
Run it in daemon mode. startup time is not a thing for emacs.
On the other hand, having nothing but career politicians running the country, and a high barrier to entry for your average citizen to get involved with politics isn't exactly going to work out long-term either.

What we need is completely socialized education so that the population doesn't get so dumbed down that they vote the loudest, least professional people into office.
People (both individuals and as groups such as corporations) have freely decided that they do not want to donate their resources to providing a platform for people to advocate genocide or to systematically denigrate 50% or more of the population. What's wrong with that? If those are the ideas you wish to freely exchange you're welcome to set up your own site, but I am not going to pay for your bandwidth.

Everyone "signals." Signaling is a fundamental aspect of social behavior. I don't care much about signaling and tend to ignore it as background noise. It's the real ideas that matter. The dominant ideas on Voat and /pol/ are political totalitarianism, dogmatic biological determinism, hatred for huge groups of people, and even advocacy of slavery and genocide.

There are toxic "left" communities that advocate totalitarianism and are full of hate as well, but they don't seem quite as common or as popular.
An arcane new accounting standard is helping reporters follow the money
>GDPR doesn't in any way protect people from data leaks.

Article 32:

Security of processing

Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controller and the processor shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including inter alia as appropriate:

(a) the pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data;
(b) the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services;
(c) the ability to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident;
(d) a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organisational measures for ensuring the security of the processing.

Recital 83:

In order to maintain security and to prevent processing in infringement of this Regulation, the controller or processor should evaluate the risks inherent in the processing and implement measures to mitigate those risks, such as encryption. Those measures should ensure an appropriate level of security, including confidentiality, taking into account the state of the art and the costs of implementation in relation to the risks and the nature of the personal data to be protected. In assessing data security risk, consideration should be given to the risks that are presented by personal data processing, such as accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed which may in particular lead to physical, material or non-material damage.

GDPR also mitigates the impact of leaks. Art. 5 requires that data is stored for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. Art. 33 requires that the supervisory authority must be notified of any data breach within 72 hours. Art. 34 requires that data subjects be notified of any breach without undue delay. All of this is enforceable with heavy fines.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-32-gdpr/

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-83/
> many situations where prices are not negotiated but are set by markets (easiest being eBay)

Market is not a third party like Uber. Market is a collective name for the body of the dealing parties. Specifically, prices on eBay are set by sellers for fixed price offers, and by buyers for auctions.

> I used to do a bit of contracting and I always set a price with my clients as part of the contract. That didn’t make me their employee.

Exactly. But if someone else would set your price with your clients, and your only options would be to agree to the price or quit the job, I would probably say you’re an employee, and that third party who set your prices is your employer or manager.
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I'd argume that's true, but that earmarks are part of the cause of the less strict party lines. "Sure, I might be moderate. But you can be sure that year in and year out, I can bring West Eastport the bacon."
It's really exotic for me :)

I always thought so funny the american TV shows depicting a 16 years old fighting his parent over his/her first car, and finally getting it.

My brother and I, we shared one small motorbike ^^
Yes I am aware. It's a rhetorical device. As in, "you're forgetting about all the women and black people who use 4chan" - because they do use the site, and their opinions about being called the n-word or "bitches" or being asked to show their breasts matter as well.
I know some of those words. (I'm an embedded programmer)
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In pol-lingo, a nigger is not a black person. It’s, you know, that kind of black person. :) There is other politics board, int, which is not dominated by the right wing.

There are many boards in 4chan, though, and in many of them it’s not acceptable to use the word “nigger”, and using it will get you banned.
Those standards have nothing to do with Tor's speed.
First, thanks for all the great advice. Very relieved to know that I'll be on the hook for at most some taxes on a really low salary.

To clear up uncertainty:

- This is in California.

- Pretty sure I signed over IP in the term sheet when the VC deal became official.

- In the month before VC investment, someone else did write code with me: a lot of infra work and the push notification code.

- It was a $several MM round but the company hasn't made much progress since then, so don't know how much value the company still has.

- To add to the fraud, the academic also rigged a study at a top university that the product bases its efficacy on.
Candidates who don’t take strong stances or don’t take stances at all are unlikely to be acceptable to many voters. A consensus candidate of the kind approval voting would prefer is not the same as a candidate who fills the lowest common denominator.
Of course, they are taxes. Also the weighting need not be linear - it could be a log scale.
Bias toward moderation is a trade-off. Attempting to minimize it seems naive.

At the extreme end, a legislature consisting of communists, anarchists, facists, theocrats, and hippies wouldn't accomplish anything but igniting civil war.
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Just to clarify, Rob is the Director of Research at the nonprofit, 80,000 Hours, whose aim is to help people have high impact careers. There is no organisation called Effective Altruism. Effective altruism is a social movement in the same way that environmentalism is a social movement, made up of many individuals, nonprofits and even for profits, working on different things, of which 80,000 Hours is just one. The podcast is excellent though and I second your recommendation.

http://www.robwiblin.com/
https://80000hours.org/podcast/
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Upvote because I think this is the 1st time a posting from the ucc website has made the HN front page.
/pol/ is also filled with black nationalists, like NOI/Farrakhan supporters. That's the enigma of 4chan is literally everybody from every group is posting there instead of censorship that ensures only one ideology. By 'ignore what doesn't interest you', I assume that means don't visit the containment boards filled with rampant racism and trolling, you won't find holocaust denial or persistent racist threads on the other boards. It's the same how newsgroups work or discord chat channels work, some are moderated better than others.
Walking faster could make you live longer
In investing, as in poker, following rules works best
Reading this comment thread is hilarious to a degree. I think that it really highlights how much noise gets thrown into a discussion when your naming becomes too relatable. Essentially bike shedding of theory discussion. If the Efficient Market Hypothesis has been called the “Fundamental Market Property Hypothesis M = H” or similar I doubt most would have made the comments they made. But because “efficient market” sounds to relatable most feel that they can comment without even knowing what the specifics of the EMH are.
You can calculate the numbers as soon as the data about visits come in and then immediately discard all data. You certainly don't need to store the browsing history. You need the payment amount though and even that you can discard after a month. I am going through this at work right now where we are working data collection about a medical device. First we wanted to suck up all data and figure out what to do with it later. Now we have to think about the data use upfront and get that data in the least intrusive way. I requires more thinking but we get the same benefit with only a fraction of the data. GDPR is a good thing because it causes companies to rethink their data collection strategies.
Emacs is in no race with text editors. If Emacs was a pack of a dozen of eggs, text editing would be that one egg on the corner with the fragile shell. Mr. Java can beg all he wants, but one thing people don't get is that Emacs is not a text editor. It has one, yes, but it's a program where the user can interactively manipulate data presented in buffers via Lisp, and keys bound to some Lisp. Thus, it is in a league of its own. The only modern player that tried to enter was Light Table for Clojure, but it did not hold on, I guess. Then there is Climacs, Hemlock and Edwin, but they don't have much or any adoption.

I have not used one program til this day that is easier and more optimised for user customisation than Emacs. And if not much people will be using it in the future, be it so. But it will be around as long as computers with physical keyboards will be (and will probably adapt if they ever become obsolete).
>Traffic has probably been at stable levels for years, while the price of traffic has fallen.

Absolutely not! Please take this the wrong way, but I don't see how an old friend could have not noticed the MASSIVE increase in traffic (and the problems it brought).

Here's some official 2005-2013 traffic statistics from the 10 years anniversary panel I compiled just to prove you wrong: https://i.4cdn.org/s4s/1527869817275.png

Cheers.
There is a method of solving an NP complete problem with millions of companies participating in stock markets?

Your question is not related to my point. And you'd have to at least answer it for markets first before I would bother to try. My point is that it is an interesting area of research, we should answer both questions and their interrelationships.