skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a further point. The question with Plato's dialogues is not whether a personal dialogue with a philosopher might be the way to go, but rather is a published dialogue better than a published work of straightforward exposition.

The fact that people disagree so much as to Plato's ideas, but far less over works of straightforward exposition, would seem to indicate that, when it comes to written texts, the latter is far superior.

In fact, the dialogue boosters actually seem to believe this. I say this because when they are writing their interpretation of a dialogue, and they get to a point people disagree on, they don't write more dialogue, but rather use a series of propositions to present what they think Plato actually meant.

Beyond that, my impression with the dialogue boosters is that at least most of them are more devoted to the idea of promoting the superiority of dialogue than to rationally determining if Plato's ideas are actually correct.
My name is Ask and I am one of the co-creators along with Vineet.

Thanks for pointing this out. Fixed the links. You can also find the docs here: http://faust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Faust uses Kafka for message passing. The new messages you create can be pushed to a new topic and you could have another agent consuming from this new topic. Check out the word count example here: https://github.com/robinhood/faust/blob/9fc9af9f213b75159a54...

Also note that the Table is persisted in a log compacted Kafka topic. This means, we are able to recover the state of the table in the case of a failure. However, you can always write to any other datastore while processing a stream within an agent. We do have some services that process streams and storing state in Redis and Postgres.
There have been several. Saudi Aramco is one right now (and has been for some time), but it's not publicly traded.

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-valuable-companies-all-...
I highly recommend everyone give this a read if they haven't. It's probably the best post on Slate Star Codex.
I had pretty severe dysgraphia throughout childhood and teens. Completely unintelligible. Couldn't draw simple shapes. For whatever reason I kept taking notes and doing drawing exercises. Got to a point where I can finally read my own notes months down the road. I can draw a circle that's actually a circle. It's still terrible but it's nothing like it was before.

Switching hands helped a bit too.
Train there though.
> these bad actors are clearly non-partisan

There is no [citation needed] big enough for this claim, since it flies in the face of all available evidence so far.
In the full context of the article it's clear the $90 billion number is referring to retailers in general and not Kroger specifically.
two of several appeals of Linux to me are the fact that it is free and modest on resources.

from that angle it seems slightly ironic that all those great Linux laptops leave the 1000 usd mark way behind them.

thing is, I'm actually intending to buy a laptop and have Mint run on it.

any suggestions for a laptop cheaper than 1k?

I'm eyeing Dell latitude 5480.
If I owned a big auto insurer like Geico, I'd be interested in diversifying into other kinds of risks. Of course Berkshire does have a broader insurance portfolio but still I wonder if this is part of the motivation for them to team up with Amazon and JPM on a new approach to health insurance.
Ragel was designed to do #1 and #2 to make network scanners easy to implement. It technically doesn't do #4 because it only generates DFAs[1] And it does #5 because it doesn't have any concept of strings, per se, just sequences of integers. (The pre-defined named patterns assume ASCII encoding but you don't need to use those.)

Saving state (#2) is trivial because the state of the DFA is a single integer, `cs`. Ragel scans input through a very simple interface--in C it uses just three pointers, `p`, `pe`, and `eof`, that are expected to be in scope and valid when its generated code block is resumed. (It pauses when p == pe but p != eof, allowing you to yield and resume when you have more data, and only halts when p == eof. Can you also explicitly exit at any point while keeping state consistent.) You can save and restore these however you want, and you can even change their names or how the generated code dereferences them (e.g. so they're dereferenced directly through your state structure).

[1] It only does DFAs but you can support more complex matchers by employing specialized constructs for tracking state transitions (allowing you to capture match positions), conditional matching (using user code to dynamically test if a character matches), direct branching to another DFA (fgoto), and recursion (fcall, fret). The latter (recursion) also requires that the user save and restore a stack of `cs` values.
Well I love Celery, so I'm even more excited to learn more about Faust now :)
How America Uses Its Land
To be clear, the $90 billion is what all companies pay combined. It's the total market. It is not what Kroger themselves are paying. I imagine that Kroger is paying between $2 and $3 billion for credit card processing based off of their revenue.
But they are not "winners" in that they would have lent the money at even higher rates, if they did not obtain lower-cost funding themselves. The lending rate is subject to supply-demand competition. If there was less supply of capital then the lending rate would be higher since demand did not change.

On the other hand, the banks did redeposit much of the money back with the Fed. If that were the argument then there could be a more fruitful discussion.
This. Anti anxiety medications work. Save your self-behavior-altering energy for things that matter more in life. Xanax will also help you sleep on flights.
None of the features you mention have any but the weakest relationship to the intellectual quality of Hacker News.

Take all of them together, you could describe Reddit before the rebuild. Minus the nested threads, you could be describing 4chan (which, despite being an imageboard, has a lot of textual content.)
Me too.. but mostly just personal stuff. I use DarkTable and Gimp for that. I did this on a 13 year old machine running Linux. It is still running but I got my hands on a cheap NUC that I use nowadays. My machines are pretty much running 24/7 all year around..

My impression when it comes to Mac is that people don't want to pay ludicrous prices for repairs e.t.c.. anymore. Also that they can not upgrade because their current machine can't handle the new OS e.t.c..
I loved flying as a kid, and I loved being high in the ski lift. But as soon as I had my young kid on me on the high ski lift all rationality left me completely.

I am not afraid of much, I have sky dived (freaky but sooo fun), rock climbed (scared spitless, but did it) and crazy roller coasters (love the thrill). But as one of my kids was on a crazy coaster I was as afraid as they were.

Maybe seeing them being safe and feeling safe themselves, and seeing them in control (as they got older) is what helped we deal with the uncontrollable terror that struck me when they would shake the chair or lean over the edge.

My own fears, not a problem, I can face them all day long, fear of my kid getting hurt? Logic over emotions, just gotta face it repeatedly until it goes away? (that's the only thing that's ever helped me truly get over fears.)

Edit: This is a trite phrase, but... "the difference between fear and excitement is a smile". It's a little lame, but some people are adrenaline junkies and going to the edge is actually "fun" for them. When I "know" everything is ok, but don't "feel" it, I remember this phrase and try to channel my inner adrenaline-junky. It work often than not, and at least gives me something to do.

I have learned to actually enjoy some things this way. Silly, but when you are out of options, sometimes the ridiculous becomes the only option left.
Here's a little gif Waymo posted, showing how they use Machine Learning techniques to filter out noise from snow that their sensors pick up:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Waymo/status/994091703379415042/v...
A square mile is referred to as a "section" in the parlance of the public land surveying system. That is also 640 acres. (260 hectares for those of you without acres)

I looked at buying 1,000 acres of wooded land in southern Colorado (at the time it was selling for $240/acre or just under .25M$ during the dot com days) It was part of a 60,000 acre sheep ranch that was being broken up. I could easily spending years exploring a parcel that size.
Also, landing on an aircraft carrier, flying the space shuttle, and piloting the SR71 are pretty dangerous. All of which have nothing to do with OP's flight anxiety.
> America has a rich history in interfering with the elections of other countries. It (possibly) happens to them, and suddenly it's like "how dare they!".

I don't understand this line of argument. Isn't it clear that the people condemning election interference in the US are also against election interference perpetrated by the US? It's like saying that it's silly for Americans to be upset that they are being bombed by a country, since America bombs other countries.
In some countries, especially in Europe, there are even tables ranking all journals and essentially assigning a point value. Whether you get promoted or fired depends on how high your score is.
Hey really cool. I like what and how you did it, it is appropriate level of storing data.

Few years ago I made a html version, so people can create number of canvases. Gitignore ignores anything starting with model- and you have business and lean canvas examples.

https://github.com/desireco/BusinessModelCanvasTemplate
AFIAK that kind of "money from helicopters" approach is something I've heard discussed by progressive economists, but until quite recently it was not technically feasible to do this fairly. It would still be pretty hard to implement.
I agree with all of this and just want to add that, for every developer who will speak out and crusade against "webpage pollution", there are about a dozen who will not and are viciously seeking employment. I'm often terrified of this.
Has anyone started an implementation of this yet in python, go, rust, etc?
I've found it very difficult to try to explain this well to people who aren't financially/numerically-inclined.

The latest fad in Canada seems to be Paytm, which lets you pay (among various bills), your property taxes with your credit card.
Well, academic societies like this are the problem.

When high journal fees are talked about an often over looked fact is that scientists chose this model. Scientific journals were originally run as non-profits by their members.

I guess it was considered too much hassle, and they decided to move production too an external company... that’s when all this rent seeking behavior began.

My opinion really, is that scientists themselves should move back to the scientific society runs the journal model. It doesn’t make much work to publish a bunch of PDFs in an archive anymore.
While not incredibly high-resolution, ground penetrating radar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-penetrating_radar) is often used in archaeology to try and find buildings/artifacts without digging anything up.
Q3 2018: 41.3 (0.7%)

Q3 2017: 41.0 (1.5%)

Q3 2016: 40.4 (-15%)

Q3 2015: 47.5 (35%)

Q3 2014: 35.2 (13%)

seems pretty flat to me
Actually, many journals require you to give up to five names of possible reviewers, so the authors are somewhat responsible of this task too. And it can be quite difficult if you are in a niche field and you have been there for a while, because you cannot suggest any colleague or anyone who has published with you, neither you want anyone with whom you may have a conflict of interests.

Anyway, most of the journals I know use unpaid editors, that do it because of prestige. That does not make the journal articles any cheaper.
> Figuring out how to pay for a single-payer system remains a serious problem for supporters of the idea.

Figuring out how to pay for something that saves a huge amount of money is difficult? I'll gladly put the whole thing on my credit card and pocket the difference.
In what way? Organizing protests?
Because price controls lead to shortages. Econ 101.
Yes you can define reading comprehension to mean that. But that's not what the SAT is measuring. Reading comprehension as measured by most tests is largely about background knowledge.

https://www.education.com/reference/article/prior-knowledge-...

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/building-background-kn...

Here's a few articles on the topic with very relevant reference sections if you'd like to know more.
FWIW Trinity Alps has some pavement-grade approaches as well, for instance you can get onto the PCT right off a fairly major road (Sawyers Bar, which is not bad for the area -- although to be fair you've described 299 as a bad drive, which I didn't find it to be, although it's two lane undivided highway for most of it and maybe city-folk aren't used to that). However forest roads are a given for most trailheads as you've described, at least in all the California wildernesses I've spent time in. I haven't taken the road you're describing, although it sounds a lot like a forest service road I ended up on to see the eclipse north-west of Bend, OR. That was fun. Also you should probably never take 101 up to Trinity Alps: take 5 up to Redding and then cut west on 299 instead of going up the coast and cutting east.

I enjoyed spotting all the places I've been in this fun guide, and the other thing I want to impress on people is that these "distance from road" measurements are crow-flies distance from the closest "road". You've done a good job describing how bad the road might be. People who have no experience with this kind of wilderness will have even less appreciation for how much work might be involved in actually getting to that the center point. It will _never_ be a 12 mile hike or whatever the distance they measure is. In many cases it's twice that, in some cases it's worse, and the trails (if there is one) are in some fairly steep terrain, so you can expect to do 15 miles on a strong day in good conditions.

I went looking for my favorite wilderness and was surprised not to find it, because I know how remote it is and Trinity Alps feels significantly smaller in comparison. In looking at it, I realized they've combined the contiguous region north of Yosemite Park as the "North Yosemite Complex", which includes Emigrant (my favorite), the northern part of Yosemite, etc. I was there for four days a week ago and after I got off the main trail I saw one person while I was hiking out. The rest of the time was spent off the trail and with no sign of another soul.
Has anyone just farted around self published books or fanfic a bit?

Let me tell you: there's a lot of writing that is nearly unreadable. Sure, you can do it. It's probably best written down and then gently carried over to the archives, only taken out for a good laugh down the road.

Writing well is like programming. You have to spend some time doing it before its really ready for public consumption. Then you get to be educated in how the sausage is made and then you have a start.

The marathon example is a good one. You need to put in preparation, work, training, sweat, and then you can do the finished product.

Writers have workshops and critiquing circles. They have editors. Review, review, review. Draft, draft, draft.

The author is critiquing the idea that some genius will hike up their skirt and drop out a diamond, which the agent will then pick up and make the genius rich. Takes ten years of sweat to have a 3 minute hit.
Gimli Glider more like.
Animation: HTTP 1.1 vs. HTTP.2 vs. HTTP/2 with Push
I bought a used acer from 2012 and the only bad thing is battery life of around three hours. Can't imagine paying for a new laptop
My Windows PC is from 2012, works great.

$1200 in parts total. When (if) GPU prices go down I'll throw a new one and be good for another few years.

I expect hardware failure of the CPU or Motherboard to do the machine in before it becomes obsolete.

Put all my money into RAM and SSD, upper mid range CPU, mid range GPU, life is good.
I do like the explicitness of marking recursive functions with 'rec', however. What would the syntax look like if it was no longer required?
You know how the account, transit, and check numbers along the bottom of a paper check use that weird OCR font? And are printed with magnetic ink?

That's what we should do with road signs and lane markings. Make them resemble the current ones somewhat, but also be optimized for a computer to recognize them even in extreme conditions. Not only with wider differentiation between signs of different types, but also using radio, UV, infrared, or magnetic cues. Lanes could be painted with metallic pigments for example. Even when snow covers the edges of the roadway, the car could read those lines and center itself.

All of this would be a change to what we already do. No need for extra equipment or drastic changes in infrastructure. Just update how existing signs and road markings are made.
What makes you think the social media landscape of almost any country in the world isn't dominated by US-based services? They only need to provide a localized version to get into a market, which they then end up dominating through international network effects.

The only country I'm aware of where domestic services are dominant is China, and the statcounter data does reflect that. They are conspicuously missing WeChat and QQ, though (which are messaging applications and probably hard to track for a third party), so maybe there's some local service in Myanmar that similarly falls through the cracks.
> you eventually realise that nobody is interested in what you are interested in

> Talk about computers, person gets bored and goes away.

Ah, yes, that sounds more familiar!
So you hate getting something back for choosing one payment method over another when there's no indication that retail stores would lower their prices if credit cards (and their transaction fees) were wiped out?
The author's last name gives some credibility that they might be good with strings.
That’s available in many places in USA as well though everywhere I’ve seen charges a transaction fee which nets it negative for the consumer.
I’ve had two Mac Minis. The higher spec G4 Mac Mini and the first Intel Mac Mini - a Core duo 1.66Ghz. Apple abandoned it relatively quickly but I put Windows 7 on it and my mom still uses it to this day as a secondary computer when she tutors.

I also recommended Mac Minis as single purpose computers. A non profit I volunteer for uses one for live-streaming with WireCast and s Black Magic box, one to control lights, and a third for Propesenter.

But when I spec out a Mac Mini with a decent processor and RAM, I’m paying as much as I would for s low end 21” iMac with much better specs.
I am from Minas and typically people are 15-45 minutes late to things. Mostly social events though. It’s not considered rude though because that is the expectation when these kinds of events
I think this is a common thing in therapy against fears;

the fear will decrease once the thing you are afraid of becomes more clear/detailed (as opposed to vague.)

Like in all thriller/horror movies, the less you see of the "scary creature" (in a dark place, behind other objects blocking your view, etc.) , the more your imagination will process the scary thoughts and amplify things.
National security reporters have credentials, Constitutional protection and a working relationship with the military and intelligence, often coming from that world. Wikileaks is considered an espionage organization and Julian Assange is hiding in an Ecuadorian embassy, probably avoiding the windows.

I don't think he or his organization gets the same leeway as, say, CNN or Reuters when it come to that.
Chrome itself doesn't have these issues. In particular it doesn't support features that would raise these kinds of issues. For one it's not supporting all of desktop opengl it's only supporting the subset that needed for WebGL. All of if is massively validated , shaders are rewritten, bound checked, memory cleared, clamps added, etc...
Questions require a questioner. The normal scientific view is that the world, in part through Darwinian evolution, produced beings that can ask such questions. To have the questioners exist first and then create the world assumes they must be non-material spirits.
> [W]hen faced with an opportunity to post the equivalent of the Podesta emails on the Trump side, it appears that Assange decided not to do it.

The Podesta emails were from the personal email account of John Podesta. Many of the emails were used for professional purposes. By contrast, the emails here are from Paul Manafort's daughter's account. In the first, Podesta is both the owner of the email account and the subject of interest. In the second, the subject of interest is not the owner of the email account. The two cases are not "equivalent."
And then there are people like my girlfriend who avoid getting ubers/lyfts by themselves for fear of being attacked/groped/harassed by the driver. My girlfriend just told me she would definitely pay a few dollar premium for the self driving car because of that.

Shit, I would gladly choose the self driving car if the prices are the same just so I can avoid any awkward conversations the driver tries to make. I had one uber driver who was pitching me his idea for a military themed wing of chicken sports bar IN SEATTLE! He was so caught up in this pitch (which I had no interest in discussing at all) that he missed the exit off of the interstate and so I had to sit there listening to him rant for another 10 minutes while he turned around.
Depends on what you mean by "pre-print". If you mean a copy of the paper before reviewing, etc., then there's a considerable difference.

On the other hand, all of the instances I'm aware of, the authors can send out copies of the paper after reviewing changes; i.e. the same content that will be (or was) published. It may or may not have the same formatting, but it's the same text.
I can't speak for the author, but I bet he would accept Pull Req if you made one :)
it befuddles me that they didn't do this after the success of the 2012 13in macbook, which soldiered on for YEARS of the retina models. They kept the 2015 15in pro for a year or two, but i really wish they'd actually just UPDATE the old style of machines and keep one around as a basic model.

i wonder if they think, unlike the SE, that it would actually vampire off too many sales from the high ticket models. what i wouldn't give for a 2015 style 8th gen CPU machine.
U.S. Adults Now Spend Nearly Half a Day Interacting with Media
I think "1MB as video" actually _hugely_ overestimates the size that file could be if it were just e.g. mp4 with the same frame rate, quality, etc.
And how would the central bank discover the money in every single person's account? You do not have an account at the central bank, FYI. But yes, yours are essentially arguments for a national(ized) bank for depositors, with various issues that come with that.
Depends on your horizon, but if you look at how fast humanity progressed in 2,000 or even 500 years, I think a recovery from a million+ people in a few thousand years is very realistic, especially if knowledge is adequately recovered through books.