skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's this kind of nonsense that allowed abominations like Prop 13 in CA to pass.

This particular fallacy is a classic false dichotomy. It's not an either-or situation. In CA the incumbents voted themselves a massive tax break ("because retirees") when, if retirees were something you really cared about, you could simply give them a lower rate of tax or no tax at all for their principal place of residence while still collecting taxes from non-retirees.
I grew up in the U.S. We were taught to use the metric system throughout my schooling and used it (metric) for all science courses in university.

But in my university engineering labs on machining and machine tools, it was all taught in inches and feet. Not sure if that's because that's what industry used. I never entered my career as a manufacturing engineer.
The primary casualty of using SVG animations is IE/Edge support; SMIL is not currently planned: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor....

It would be good to adjust the failure mode so that if SMIL is not supported then at least a meaningful frame (probably the last, though scrolling makes it difficult to decide!) is shown, rather than just a blank rectangle.
This was what I had in mind when building the tool. Thanks for sharing this link.
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6% of purchase price is nothing :). Welcome to the US North East where 2-3% of current value every year is now standard.
Interesting! I figured the `as` in a `with` statement was handled uniquely, but I learned something new about Python today:

x = open('filename')
x.closed # False
with x:
print(x.readline())
x.closed # True

I think you're right. I prefer the `as` variant for readability.
First they are students, not surgeons. And we've likely been passing over the most brilliant, most talented, most likely to succeed because of biased application processes.

There's no mention in the CMU process of being 'passed along'. In fact, its all about them standing on their own merit, and not their alumni-parent nor influential uncle.

I'm so glad to hear 'your bias' is right in line with the new CMU process!
How do you measure "only merit" in a way that cannot be gamed by parents paying for prep courses, practice tests, expensive tutors, mentoring, etc.? That's the problem - it's entirely too easy to conflate actual merit with opportunity, which is the driving force behind diversity under-representation.
I'd also recommend "Magic Ink: Information Software And The Graphical Interface": http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk
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It's sort of an interesting tradeoff. On one hand, it's not desirable for most people to rent longterm, and owning property is an important way to store and grow wealth. On the other hand, you don't want a few well financed investors sweeping in and buying all the available housing just as a kind of depository for funds.

Texas has an interesting setup. Property taxes are relatively high, but you can choose one house that you occupy to get a "Homestead exemption" that brings the taxes down quite a bit. This doesn't prevent you from owning say, a vacation home, but does make it quite a bit more expensive (which seems to be fair).
They can tap into the equity of their home to pay the taxes. Some jurisdictions allow for a property tax deferral until sale to avoid even this.

Property taxes fund the society they benefit from so it's only fair that they keep paying them.
>I'm willing to be it has less to do with pre-disposition, and more to do with inherent inequality in an adversarial and unevenly distributed socioeconomic system.

Wouldn't it be best to start at the root of the problem then, rather than merely patronizing?

If someone does not meet the high standards of an "elite" institution but are admitted anyway, aren't you setting them up to fail?
Some of MB (E-I axis) correlates with Big 5, which is the golden standard for personality trait testing. Dismissing MB as complete voodoo is a hipster affectation.
doesn't the smart queue feature reduce the maximum bandwidth the router can handle?
Can you give more details because I couldn't find much by searching for "VG-Wort printer fees" and "Germany annual printer fees"?
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The dystopian scenarios are fun to think about, but realistically speaking what happens is your data is used for market research. The vast majority of it is used to curate your advertising profile more effectively or to generate financial insights about companies based on consumer habits.

In my experience anonymization is hit or miss, but ostensibly always in place.
I think it's arXiv:1804.06355

"An Exponential Speedup in Parallel Running Time for Submodular Maximization without Loss in Approximation"
> Perhaps, but if anything the UK's own government and press were major offenders in this regard.

It's quite possible that this behaviour by the UK political classes is what hastened to movement towards Brexit. I personally think that many people in the UK were aware of the behaviour, by both major parties, of using the EU to impose laws for which they lacked democratic support technocratically. Since there was no electable party that stood in contrast to this, the electorate took its opportunity by evicting the EU instead. Seen in this light, Brexit is as much a reflection of a failure of national politics, as it is of continental politics.

The mantra 'taking back control' of many Brexit supporters is perhaps better seen as citizens wanting to stop their government from acting in ways they don't vote for, than as the government taking back control from the EU.

The dissembling (as I see it) of politicians from across the EU on this law (and others before it) indicates that this is not a problem that is restricted to the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoscale_vacuum-channel_trans...
Tldr for the lazy?
If you want just one server, minikube is probably the way to go, even if it does run in a VM. Otherwise, use https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-... to set up a cluster (one node or otherwise).

I used flannel as pod networking, as it's really simple. If you want to run app pods on your master node, remember to untaint it. ingress-nginx is probably your best bet as an ingress controller, especially because of the amount of support given it by the k8s Slack.

It is a non-zero amount of work. If it sounds like too much work for something you're throwing together, it probably is. It is generally unnecessary.
It samples from the data randomly, which can be massively parallelized. As it runs, it adapts the distribution that it samples from, which is similar to pruning.
To say this is vague would be an understatement.

As for "adaptive sampling" - by definition, if some paths are being discarded without analysis, then there's no guarantee that your selection is truly the best available.

I'm tentatively labeling this as "hype and marketing" unless I see something more detailed and accurate.
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Having a hard time discerning your point.
Yes it can be done, but the probability of malicious players finding someone competent enough is quite low. It's unlikely you would help a shady organization when you have a high salary and a nice life.

However this also means that security relies on the state of the market rather than on good code.
I'm glad that workflow works for you.

I'm curious though - What about it is better than turning off automatic updates for addons?
I didn't realize that, sorry. But 1 billion released each month still has to have a huge effect on and kind of supply/demand.
> It samples from the data randomly

If this is true, then it's not an "optimization algorithm" at all.
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That’s literally how so much bullshit in the US gets passed though. It’s a universal problem.
It would be nice except for the areas they suddenly choose not to serve.
There's an annecdotal quote from an evening standard journalist

> I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. 'That’s easy,' he replied. 'When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.

He may or may not have said that, but what's clear is the perceived power of the UK press to manipulate governments. UK PM in the 90s, John Major, told an inquiry that Murdoch had demanded he change his position on Europe otherwise lose support. [0]

He didn't change, and Murdoch supported his opponent in 1997 (who then went on to win)

20 years later, Murdoch executives met with the UK PM or Chancellor (the second most important person in government) 10 times. [1]

So while perceived EU lobbying may have contributed to brexit, far more likely was 40 years of proven newspaper lobbying.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18405629
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/05/rupert-murdoch...
If the rains often start in June, why do the signs say July?

There may be plenty of blame to go around, but I don't think blaming an inexperienced caver is very useful.
A lot of the problem is that originally the developers of Python made it absurdly difficult to transition from Python 2 to Python 3, and thus the costs far exceeded the benefits. It was historically difficult to write code that ran in both Python 2 and Python 3. If you wanted to transition to Python 3, you had to simultaneously transition every file in your program, every library you depended on, and all libraries they depended on transitively, to Python 3. The "2to3" program was supposed to automate, but this never worked reliably, and cannot work reliably - to do that reliably requires type information that is typically unavailable in Python.

Things have gotten much better, thankfully. Python 3 (and 2) have been tweaked over the years to make it much easier to write code that will work on both Python 2 and 3, and to make it easier to tweak existing code so that it will work on both. As a result, it's possible to transition code a file at a time, or even a portion at a time, instead of the impossible "all at once" transition. Almost no one used Python 3 after it was released, or for a number of years later. Now that the developers of Python have started to make transition practical, people have started transitioning.

Still, it takes real effort to transition to Python 3, and many people have "real work" to do instead of transitioning language versions without any real benefit. "3 is larger than 2" is not a real benefit. A real benefit is something like "this transition will radically increase performance" - and no one is claiming that Python 3 has a real-world advantage like that over Python 2. "Python 2 will eventually be unsupported" is a problem, but no one is providing free money to do the transition, so for many people it's just a fact.

Historically Python has been very good about supporting backwards compatibility and smooth upgrades. I hope that the Python 2->3 transition was an anomaly. You can make changes to languages, but you have to make it easy for users to do the transition.
I was until recently one of those people who insisted on finishing any book (or movie or TV show, for that matter) they started. Otherwise, I wouldn't feel closure. I dropped a few books (Lolita, The Pragmatic Programmer, Kitchen Confidential etc.) but kept feeling guilty later on. I am glad to hear from so many people here that dropping in between isn't such a bad thing after all.

Related question: do you guys have a similar system for research papers? I've tried reading them a lot but have successfully made it through only a few. At this point, I even question if the effort in getting through their drudgery is worth it.
I guess the money you make replaces the need to have morals or values.

Cunt.
I don't know about the others, but you can't really say that HoloLens has "surpassed" Glass, because they're very different products.

Still, HoloLens works much much better than Glass.
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>> If I can't adjust the air conditioning while looking at the road, I don't want it.

Is this even a problem on a Tesla? My 2005 Honda with climate control can do this. I rarely adjust my a/c or heat. On a super hot or cold day, it will simply try its hardest at the beginning to reach the desired temperature before settling down.

I would think a new car like a Tesla would do it even better out of the box than my aging car.
The example recording renders super smoothly in FF v61.0 and Chrome v67.0, but stutters in Safari running on an OS-X 'High Sierra' machine.

That said, I'm absolutely loving this as the file size and the memory footprint of this SVG is super-small relative to what a .gif of the same content would be. Great work!
Ya in gaming we usually have 2 packets. Synchronization that must occur and then visual fidelity sync. First one is small bw and less latency. The others can even be dropped with some minor visual desyncing.
I was trying to say that high fees for the consumer are the profit centers for the banks. (Which is why in my opinion the banks would never use Ripple.)
Cunt.
>performance and optimisation are evil and useless; now let us ship our 12MB webpage please

Web 2.0 in a nutshell
I've only received this from higher up in our organisation, but it appears to be something to do with § 54c of the German Copyright Act (UrhG).

Edit: this seems to be because I am at a research institute.
That isn't the GDPR, although it is related.

The GDPR is UK law automatically because it is a Regulation, not a Directive (which needs to be transposed into national law).

The Data Protection Act 2018 implements the Law Enforcement Directive (as the GDPR excludes that from its scope) and a couple of minor derogations (such as changing the age of consent for children to use websites by themselves to 14).
Your bit about executive perception is a great point. I think that's a huge reason why our offices and workdays look the way they look, why we spend so much time in meetings, why WFH has so much resistance.

The executives tend to be extroverted and at the top of the primate social-power higherarchy. Much of this is unconscious, or at least un-admitted, but the people in charge of our offices get a rush when their subordinates visably do the work. They enjoy people gathering around them and telling them about the issue of the day. To an extrovert at the top of the ladder, that power wouldn't feel as good if it was manifested solely as Jira tickets, slack pings, and performance dashboards in a home office. They would not feel nearly as important.

One open office I worked regularly flew in parent company executives from around the world so they could watch all that geeky brainpower under their command grinding away at our Macbooks.

I think this psychology has had a cumulative effect on creating our work culture. Did an individual executive decide to build your office based on how it made them feel? No probablly not, but when you take the psychological profiles of all business leaders together you get the open office, the business trip, and the all day meeting.
He understands that the laws are what publishing companies are paying him to support.
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Same here, had my own office at first job - late 90s, East Coast.
> “The quality of the touchscreen is my fault”, he admitted, “we never tested it on the road”. Apparently the management was so convinced that the entertainment system’s blue-tinted, rectangular touchscreen interface was “the future” that the company didn’t even bother using it on the road before releasing it. After all, Tesla had recently debuted (to much acclaim), its first model which boasted a similar touchscreen system. Now that this new company’s own car was in mass production, it would take many years to undo the damage.

So management (of the car company) pushes through a choice they don't understand, without understanding the implications ... and the problem is touchscreens ?

Sorry. That's not correct.

Tesla's interface has a good cpu and is quite usable (knowing EU car manufacturers my bet is that the first problem is woefully underpowered cpu). I wouldn't say it's at peak performance yet, but it's certainly as usable as a first stab at lots of buttons would be.

This is in fact the entire premise of the entire article. Management blindly doing things because "they're the future" ... sucks.

But we all know what the real problem is as well. The opposite attitude in management ("stay with the classics") also doesn't work.

You NEED management to know the business.

No exceptions !

This is yet one more example of total management failure. It should not reflect badly on any particular interface design principle.
> it feels like a trip to middle ages reading about 'furlongs', 'hogsheads' and 'pennyweights'.

I've lived in the United States for my entire life (43 years) and have never come close to ever seeing these units in use. To be honest, while I've heard of them, I couldn't even give a reasonable definition. I'm pretty sure the primary modern use for these units is either as a historical curiosity or as a way to pass judgement.
You can click each number to see which sources are used.

TVs numbers are from Display Search, which is the "worldwide leader in display market research". [0]

Phones numbers are from Gartner [1] & IDC Telecom and Networks [2].

[0]: http://www.displaysearch.com/cps/rde/xchg/displaysearch/hs.xsl/reports_tvs.asp
[1]: http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp
[2]: http://www.idc.com/prodserv/idc_telnet.jsp
I'm the maker, and listening to any of your questions here!
Car people would kill me for saying this, but look at Kia and Hyundai. I drive a 2015 Forte and I think its touchscreen system makes a lot of sense. It has physical volume and seek knobs, buttons to change audio sources or show the map, and physical climate controls. Their steering wheel control layout is also one of the best I've seen.
There are plenty of very good functional programming languages. If you prefer Haskell to Python, just go ahead and use Haskell. Python has a very specific design philosophy which is a focus of readability and the "preferably only one obvious way of doing it".
I all I eat is potato chips, I am both overweight and undernourished.
But maybe old people shouldn't be living alone in a giant house. Maybe we need to establish rules where their children - or a community - are more incentivised to take care of the elderly than the elderly are incentivised to isolate themselves in a home they will be increasingly unable to take care of...
Worth being said we're talking about access to education here, not serious job.

Maybe the world's best surgeons are actually within a traditionally marginalised group, but their skill and talent isn't developed because they're denied access to quality education because their previous levels of education were of lower quality?

The best way of finding that is to have access to proper education to develop that talent. Proper education is currently a myth. Education is unfair.

If the best surgeon is out there, but has had every barrier to educational success thrown in front of them (inner city school, poor parents who can't pay for tuition to improve your grades, who can't help you access support for university applications, where there's no expectation or ambition for success, where teachers have no investment in seeing you succeed, where you see another group repeatedly, systematically preferenced because they got the birth lottery to have access to all of the above), is that the right outcome for society? To preference one group just because it's always performed reasonably as a result almost solely of their privileges?

To be clear, it's not PC culture. Noones saying an underrepresented group has to be shoehorned in to make up quotas - but seeing the context of candidates, to put weight to performance that's not just proportional, but outweighted to their background (even if it means the overall performance at the previous educational level was lower, the markers of their ability to outperform their "position" mean that given access to the top tier of education, they'd outperform).
What is this? Adaptive Monte Carlo simulation or something similar? Randomized algorithms are great but generally they do not offer consistently repeatable results which can be problematic.
Right, that's definitely the intent of shorthand, but it works better when you have someone dedicated to processing the captured conversation.

If I tried to transcribe my notes from every meeting, I would end up working on it for more time than the actual meeting took at this point.

I have thought about the exact same app actually. Being able to photograph my Gregg outlines and get an English transcription would be the dream.

Gregg and many other shorthands are purely phonetic. There's no difference between to, too, and two. You would need to do OCR on the outlines, map those to sounds, and map the sounds to possible words, then assemble a meaningful sentence based on what meanings make sense in context. A neural net could probably do a good job of mapping from outlines to possible words, and you could use NLP tools to try to choose a sentence from the possible outputs. It would be tricky to do well, for sure.

For now, it's vim for my meeting notes :)
A free VPN on a browser owned by a random group of Chinese investors? Probably not the safest idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

> Although popular in the business sector, the MBTI exhibits significant psychometric deficiencies, notably including poor validity (i.e. not measuring what it purports to measure, not having predictive power or not having items that can be generalized), poor reliability (giving different results for the same person on different occasions), measuring categories that are not independent (some dichotomous traits have been noted to correlate with each other), and not being comprehensive (due to missing neuroticism).

An inaccurate measure like this being used for things like career tracks is worse than nothing.
You are correct. China only tax when you sell / buy property. The porperty tax "reform" should be in place by the end of 2019 though.

I think house prices in china can't really be compared with other country for lots of reasons, eg: they don't own their homes (70y lease), very low interest on loans (1-2%), real estate is seen as a very good investment in china, etc.:)
Excellent, thank you!

> This algorithm therefore achieves an exponential speedup in parallel running time for submodular maximization at the expense of an arbitrarily small loss in approximation quality.

Based on this, it seems that this isn't so much a better search algorithm as much as it is a means of finding the optimum tradeoff between accuracy and speed in situations where processing the entire dataset is computationally prohibitive.

I'm no computer scientist, and algorithms in generally aren't really my area, so take this with a large grain of salt.
Demonstrated interest in CMU isn't the same thing as demonstrated interest in STEM.
I’m only productive WFH when there’s no one else home.
In a previous job I once had a VP make a quick run-through of the office to make sure everybody was at their desks doing something, anything. The reason being that they were about to walk clients through the space and wanted the appearance of hard work being done. The VP was very open about this reasoning with us as he was herding people into place. I believe a few people sat at different desks because their regular desks were away from the path.
It doesn't say a thing about the characteristics of this supposed silver bullet.
> I wish someone would make a language which took the best parts of both.

https://dlang.org/
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
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liquidity? Ripple owns most of the XRP in existence now anyway and could just flood the market.