skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very vague statement which doesn't explain why it's a phenomenon frequently occurring with republican accounts.

Well if we put aside conspiracies and the like, then the answer is because there is a correlation between antisocial behavior and “prominent Republicans” on Twitter. I don’t know if that’s the case, but based on who calls me a “spic” most often when interacting online I wouldn’t be shocked.
I think you need one more piece of information which is your monthly income/debt ration. Putting all your savings into a downpayment could be "ok" as long as you have something to back it up. Enough extra money you can save every month to feed your savings account + retirement, etc. If your down payment was 20% of your wealth but you end up with 50% debts per month then it's obviously not a smart setup.

Try to combine both in making a smart decision.
I just prefer cash because it's easier to keep me to a weekly budget. And, because it's weekly, I'm not walking around with a terribly big wad (I'm not crazy).

The privacy benefits of cash are a bonus as far as I'm concerned.
How is it any different in Europe? They make the exact same decisions.

US insurance companies use treatment guidelines issued by organizations like NCCN (oncology). If they stray too far, they get dinged for not meeting "medical necessity" requirements.

If anything, you're more likely to get an experimental cancer drug in the US than Europe since US insurance companies don't like bad press.
They may have changed that behavior recently. I was trying out pipenv last week and running `pipenv run script.py` in a subdirectory printed a message along the lines of "Courtesy notice: no pipfile found in this directory. Using pipfile in [project_root]. Behavior can be customized by specifying a pipfile with [some_flag]". I'm fairly sure, but not positive, that I also was able to install modules from subdirectories into the project venv like you want.

On mobile; I may be misremembering some details. Would encourage you to check new version behavior if you're interested.
“Managing Upward” is part of just about every job I’ve ever had or seen. Influencing what your manager (or their manager, or their manager’s manager) needs to know, needs to decide on, or needs to escalate further is a critical part of getting things done in any hierarchical organization. When you work for someone, they are relying on you to apply a sane filter/judgment over the details coming up, just as much you rely on them to filter the shit that’s coming down. They also rely on you to “own” and take bold action on those things that are in their blind spots. The other comment about Jobs “not seeing obvious things and also seeing things nobody sees” is exactly right and applies to all good leaders.
> there's a version where you go all the way down to int1 (bits)

There's also a Zen version that uses just 0.5 bits. </joke>
I'll throw my hat into the ring as well. I have also recently been building a small signal AC analysis circuit simulator [1]. The main idea behind it is to convert a closed source tool that has been around for years within the LIGO scientific collaboration to one that is open source and implemented in Python. It's almost functionally complete, can simulate transfer functions and (accurate) noise from op-amps, resistors, capacitors and inductors in circuits with current or voltage sources. There is a library of popular op-amps for which we've measured the noise, open loop gain and various other parameters, available to be simulated with.

[1] https://git.ligo.org/sean-leavey/circuit
Keepvid was always perfectly usable while it was still going.
I wonder, given there are about 3 millions deaths each year in USA, why isn't there some kind of government sponsored research to collect death people's genomes?

Every year, there would be 3 millions more genomes in database. People already dead don't need to have data protection or insurances risk, and there would be a full health historic and cause of death available for each genomes.
You have that problem with any theory, not just religious ones. You could argue that God was created the same way we were - by another God. Which eventually leads to "Gods have always existed", which is similar to Big Bang's problem of "matter has always existed".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_why_there_is_anythi...
Another thing that would be useful is for your version-control systems (git/svn etc) to be able to say precisely who made which changes. That gives you proof of who did which work. Even if your company/org does not use version control, you can use it independently as an individual, and have a complete development history of your own which documents your work.
It would be harder for someone to claim your work if you have a ton of incremental check-ins and they don't.
Thank you your reply made me feel confident. I think it was an initial shock, I haven't had anything happen like this since university CS.
I.e. all the things you would get from a proper package manager if there was one for C++.
Great article. As most of us know, the last words to the national anthem are "Play Ball!" ;-)
Not implementing IMAP because it's a poor fit is a fair excuse. It's not like they could've took some pre-existing imapd implementation, slapped a few lines of glue code and called it a day. It would've probably required a fair amount of engineering time, which is better spent on something more productive for their declared goals.

The problem I see is not that they're not providing IMAP access, but that they're not providing any alternatives except for their product. Would the attitude be "here is a living API spec we currently use, subject to changes without warning, some endpoints not really documented (documentation PRs welcome), and some endpoints require paid account - but that's the best we can afford to provide" - I would've felt very differently about them.
I'm a big fan of Zotero. One of the greatest features is that you can use your own WebDav-Server to store and sync PDF files. There is also this tutorial on how to install your own Zotero server [1], but I don't know how to config Zotero to use it. Anyone knows?

[1]: http://git.27o.de/dataserver/about/Installation-Instructions...
And the App Store as well, Steve thought it would be best to do deals n an app by app basis. However note that in both cases he did relent. For all the stories about his intransigence he didn’t hire yes men and he did listen to the people he trusted.
More proof that crypto is bad
> Chrome has supported "U2F" (the first FIDO spec) for a while and all support for Security Keys in the last few years has been via this protocol.

Google U2F to their sites only works in Chrome. You can't use a Yubikey in say Firefox (FF supports it). They way they are making this all work isn't using open common cross browser standards.
Unfortunately this type of training is like advertising- a good chunk of the money spent on it is wasted, but they can never figure out where or how large the percentage is (or needs to be). But we still have, and even live by, advertising.

You can't say it never worked even once for a trainee. It probably works with some of them. But for some it also kills productivity and incentivizes job flight when your trainees could be working productively and enjoying their jobs.

It's a bit like the death penalty- say for the sake of argument that having a death penalty on the books, in locale X, deters 10% of all murders there. Is 10% enough to call it a deterrent or not?

In terms of my personal experience, I learned some things in the compulsory sessions I've had to attend in various workplaces, but I don't suspect I'd ever have been a problem to my employers without them. A few people I've sat next to in this training still "offended" even after attending (or signing in then leaving) the courses.

In the end, I suspect it's mostly a cost-saving CYA measure, which mitigates damages when the company is inevitably taken to court ("You mean to say, Ms. HR director, that you never created a mandatory training program, not even a handbook?" "This is why, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client deserves 3x $50M instead of $50M, for the horrors he/she had to endure working at company X")
Except our postal codes are A#A #A#. I've definitely had trouble buying gas at American pumps before, and the staff couldn't figure out a solution.
There wasn't collaboration other than plugging it into his code. It was not an oversight it was very clear he claimed to have written it all.You are correct though, partly my fault, why not mention it first myself, why wait for someone else to.
Why does this article look like it's mid-edit?
I dare you to write 100 lines of useful code without a bug in it.
Do you legitimately believe there is no issue with allowing people to pay assassin's because it's done in the framework of a market?
haha, production in my case was sending $3k to China for 100 units ;)
> Also, It's clear that much like economics, technology doesn't inherently trickle down.

The problem you're identifying is completely independent of exploration. If we spent more on cancer and nothing on space then we would have more medicine-related technologies and fewer of these:

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

But that doesn't have anything to do with what you're objecting to. Look at the HIV drugs the west has access to and Africa doesn't.

And even if the benefit goes 90% to western countries and only 10% to poorer countries, how is that not still better for everyone than using the money to build military drones or ad tracking systems or something equally useless if not actively harmful?
ahead

For varying definitions of "ahead" in this context.

Being monitored, followed, tracked, tabulated, bought and sold doesn't sound like "ahead."
I agree, both that it is absolutist and that we've spent more on preventing murder. What is the common thread to both of these absolutist comments? Both cancer and murder are systems in crisis, not 'things' in their own right. They have the same questions

1a) What causes a cell to decide live forever (metastasize)?

1b) What causes a person to decide that killing another person is the solution to some problem?

2a) How can we detect a cell that is about to metastasize? How can we stop it?

2b) How can we detect a person that is about to murder? How can we stop them?

3a) What would have to be true for cancer to never be the cause of death ever again?

3b) What would have to be true for murder to never be the cause of death ever again?

See? Both are systems where individual elements within the system have decided to work against the system rather than within its constructs.

There is no drug, no treatment, that will 'cure' cancer until we understand exactly what is going on in a cell that knocks it out of line. And there will be no end to murder until we understand exactly what is going on inside a person's head when they decide that is the correct course of action. Everything we do on these two fronts (cancer, and murder) are delaying actions to minimize their impact on the greater whole.

The other part that some people have assumed (but the GP did not) is that spending this money on Mars exploration would reduce the amount of money that is currently allocated to cancer research. It wouldn't, it was specified as 'new funds'.
Given that tontines are illegal in the US and much of the world, this seems risky even if you’re able to ignore any moral dimension.
This is true for health insurance; not so for life insurance.
Everything is more in Valley compared to Toronto, including the absolute dollars you save per month. Unless you're saving $0 per month, then you benefit from the higher salary, even if adjusted for cost of living.
I've been starting out with electronics tinkering, and this looks awesome! My username is jmgao.
As the others have said, they absolutely low balled you. I got a higher offer for a company in Burlington, which is ~1hr outside of Toronto as a new grad.
Or, just get 2% over 5 years from top 5 ranked nations by GDP for both endeavours ? Doesn’t seem ridiculous to me?
unlike the rest of the western world the US is far from being able to go cashless

That's a good thing. As people are learning in other countries like Sweden.
This Toronto Tech startup is changing the way money moves
I version control everything, but my boss is not technical so this all seems like magic and you can make something simple a big deal easily.
>paying a typical 2.9% + $0.30 per charge

that's for paypal/square, which usually mean card not present, low volume and flat (fee) rate. bigger merchants usually go with a payment processor that offers interchange+, which significantly reduces the fees. a quick check of https://www.adyen.com/pricing/full-list?navItem=northamerica says that visa cards only pay $0.12 + interchange (1 or 2%).

edit: visa interchange rates https://www.helcim.com/us/visa-interchange-rates/
You do realize this is there to amortize the free actual service usage?
Programmer’s discipline
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Cool article, but yea...this^

It has potential corrections and such just sitting there
Except they did invest the time. They have a bridge software, but it's proprietary and locked out for free users.
Because technologically savvy senators are a rarity.
> And the author of "Coming to Understanding" is clearly identified as Marc Sanders.

The Slate article is a republishing of a Lingua Franca article from 2001. Author identification was presumably only added after the author's cover was blown.

The 2000 and 2007 versions of the document don't mention his name. The acknowledgements in the 2010 version mention his brother, Dr. Michael Sanders, and the included review by Zimmerman mentions the author's name.
The more I read about him the more it feels like he had some sort of extremely high functioning borderline personality disorder. I know how unacceptable it is to label people as a layperson, but all of these articles where people were great friends then suddenly dead to him, and the stories of his rage events fits with a few people I know who suffer from this. It is such a strange disorder as some people are complete failures who fall into suicide and drug addiction, yet others go on to lead extremely successful projects and develop a cult of personality around them.
It's easy. The reasoning goes like this (I don't agree with this reasoning, I'm just spelling it out).

It starts with a perceived axiom, or an intuition if you like: People are very different inside. Although the difference between the best people and worst people is very large, anyone can improve themselves through reflection and thought and listening to the ideas of people better than themselves.

But logically, not everyone does so. Some people are much smarter than others. And some are much more moral than others. Also, if listening to good people can make someone better, then listening to bad people can make someone worse.

This makes certain kinds of people very dangerous. Smart but immoral people can easily influence less smart people and convert them into immoral people too. In fact this is almost sure to happen if smart+immoral people speak and are listened to, because the vast majority of the population is pliable and easily persuaded. They decide how to vote by reading newspapers and even tweets. If bad people have access to a platform like Twitter, then their badness will spread like a virus.

But we don't want people to become bad. We want them to become good. That means it's important to ensure that only good people have platforms on which they can speak and be heard. If we don't deny bad people platforms, then that is itself a form of immoral behaviour, no better than not washing our hands and spreading germs that way. We wouldn't spread physical illness so we shouldn't spread the mental illness of immorality either.

What is immorality? Well, a strong sign someone is a bad person is that they argue against obvious and simple solutions to important problems. They dissemble and prevaricate and may even try to block implementation of solutions. Republicans seem to often deny and fight against solutions to important problems like healthcare, or the plight of refugees from the third world. Whilst they have justifications, they often seem indirect and slippery, like "this change will make things worse rather than better because government is incompetent", although that's hard to believe because smart and moral people are often attracted to public service (smart and immoral people are in contrast attracted to profit-seeking endeavours).

Therefore Republicans seem immoral, but they keep winning elections so they must also be smart. Smart + immoral = dangerous. If they can speak, they might brainwash good people like my friends into becoming Republican too, and that would be terrible, because how will we cure cancer and solve hunger with Republicans in charge?

So - the only good and moral thing left to do is find ways to suppress their speech. It's for the greater good.
> It has the advantage of not relying on the Certificate Authority system

I wouldn't say it's an advantage, while CA system has many flaws at least it's monitored somehow (for example via Certificate Transparency) while putting keys in DNS would require the app to validate records (does GnuPG do that?), not to mention the queries are not encrypted (so are visible to any hop) and could be transparently replaced by your government or TLD operator. Many DNS providers do not allow adding "exotic" records.

For further info see e.g.: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2016/10/27/14-dns-nerds-dont-con...

> and not requiring a full web stack (which some email clients and servers wouldn't want to open themselves up to).

Email clients and servers that do PGP usually have "full web stack" already to connect to keyservers.

Additionally while DANE or PKA lookups can be enabled in GnuPG only WKD is enabled by default ("auto-key-locate" is "local,wkd").

Nice nick by the way :)
> That creates cache time discussions, storage quote discussions, etc.

why cache time discussions, after initial download there is no need to download it again, email is not the browser, there is no expectation that the image in email will be the actual at the time of opening, the expectation is that the image is actual at the time of sending. and for storage you can use hash to not store duplicates, and probably save bandwith with optimization.
Discontinued doesn't mean out of use. But I get your point. Maybe it doesn't work on ie7 either. I should just "get with the times" and move to android or iOS. But we're taking about text not rendering correctly on a PWA that otherwise works well. I don't see the harm in reporting it because maybe its one tiny change the author needs to make in order for it to be usable.
You seriously attribute forks not being searchable normally (which has always been the case) to some long-standing planning with Microsoft, all the while Github was also talking to Google and other buyers? Looks to me more like you went looking for bad things cause you wanted bad things to have happened.
If I cared about privacy I wouldn’t have had 23andme and the Personal Genome Project do my genotyping. While it may affect me negatively in the future, the net positive (in aggregate with all participants) will exceed that negative value.

I’m dead in the long run regardless, and would rather find every way I can be impactful with the time I have left, even in these small ways.
And there is an opposite anecdote. Twitter was horribly architected early on, wasn't scalable. and was always displaying the "fail whale". They got users, kept the VC's happy, made money and rearchitected the entire system.

You'd be surprised how many companies survived without great engineers but with great salesmen.
Free speech not being a legal requirement doesn't mean it shouldn't be a goal strived for by private companies creating critical communication platforms used by hundreds of millions of people. There were very good reasons why humans started championing free speech and free press. The utility of those fundamental ideas isn't limited to just governments, so I don't know why we should give Twitter a pass simply because the constitution only applies to government...

Not all good, valuable ideas have to be enforced by law either. We can create strong social pressure and promote ethical company culture in silicon valley and push (legitimately) liberal values. We can also make market alternatives, delete accounts, push for boycotts, investor activism, create value-based industry organizations, etc to put pressure on them economically.
At the Reddit talk at Google Next, the VP of Engineering noted that they moved to BigQuery and saved in both performance and cost.

We at BuzzFeed have seen similar results for migrating to BigQuery (and we did a talk about it at Next too, although it’s not online yet)
That was really cool, thanks for the pointer. I also found the behind-the-scenes stuff for the video to be enlightening: http://nigelstanford.com/Cymatics/Behind_the_Scenes.aspx
You're right about the usability difficulties of syncing local keystores across devices and with the server. Fortunately some good work has been done in this area recently:

https://autocrypt.org/

This stores the private key as a password-encrypted file in a specified location on the IMAP server. It already has multiple interoperable implementations, by the looks of things.
Your entire argument boils down to "billionaires know better because they're billionaires." You completely ignore the whole, "Working on the problem for far longer" part, and assume that charities themselves are an appeal to authority. You're not discussing things in good faith.
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Thank you!
Some digging by a lay-idiot

>> The Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) has built one of the world’s most comprehensive genetics databases, pairing the sequenced exomes and de-identified electronic health records of more than 300,000 people so far.
https://www.regeneron.com/genetics-center

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe - users 5 million

My understanding is that you are saying 23andme's 5 million records are less useful for drug discovery than 300,000 records with

1. more detailed / reliable medical records
2. they do the wrong type of genetic analysis (which i don't fully follow)

Could you expand more? Can they re-use their genetic material if it was all stuck in a fridge and do the "better" sequencing?
It was a little strange, I was in Stockholm for two weeks and would have not have seen a single paper bill except for the glance I caught of one as a older man got in an argument with a bar owner, who "made it right" by quickly handing him back some cash.
The essay is full of slippery slopes. It advocates against "government monopoly of medical care", arguing that if the government knows everyone who's getting care it can discover you. This applies to essentially every government service: social security, taxation, driver's licenses, regulations on utilities, etc. etc. etc. It's not a dissimilar stretch to say that because murder investigations have led police to develop sophisticated forensics departments that the author would be against murder laws as well. After all, if the government can discover you were at a crime scene, couldn't it also know who was in your attic?

It's just a blatantly terrible test, wrapped up in faux wisdom and scare tactics. Balancing of rights is far more complicated than this and deserves better treatment. In fact, _most_ issues are complicated and don't readily yield to this kind of simple test. Frustrating though it is, it's a reality we have to deal with if we want to be at all fair and truly address complex issues.