skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is the whole point of having armed forces! Armed forces exist to provide achieve foreign policy goals (deterrence, coercion) through the credible threat of its lethality.

WTF? No, just no. The only foreign policy goal the armed forces exist to serve is defense of the homeland. Everything else is a misuses of the military. Just because it's commonplace in this day and age doesn't mean it's OK or that anyone should accept it.
Agreed; though that must be actually a choice. There have been cases where governments have made the alternatives worse to push people into "progress".
> The biggest reduction in global poverty we've seen is due to outsourcing to China. Don't you care about starving Chinese peasants?

Chinese peasants were starving because of bad Chinese domestic policies, not because of a lack of globalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine.
Saying that value is expressed in dollars is not the same as saying that dollars are the only thing a company should ever seek. That's not how it works.

If every company sought only money for money's sake and did nothing else, then they would all act like Oracle.
Your comment seems to suggest that there's just extra money in a budget for whatever. After years of slim budgets the easy things have already been cut out of budgets. At a state level with switching state governments, the new people are always looking for waste to hold over the heads of the incumbents. After a while there might not be much left to cut.
In Germany it's like this.
Love it!

I implemented something similar in Mathematica:
http://blog.benwiener.com/programming/art/2017/08/24/lewitt....

My friend implemented it in Elm:
http://www.philipzucker.com/elm-eikonal-sol-lewitt/
There are a lot of comments in here saying instructors spoon-feed content.

I attended a bootcamp, and maybe other bootcamp grads can back up my claim here but...

Instructors don't spoon-feed material.

Curriculums are set up to be project or goal-based, kind of like being given specs or requirements in the working world.

What instructors do is teach you HOW to effectively learn. They also explain some of the more complicated nuances of a language...spots where a learners mental model typically struggle, that aren't well explained in Stack Overflow or MDN. And that's probably where learning gets expedited.

I don't refute self-learning as an effective means of finding an engineering job, but if you're starting with zero programming background, your only feedback loop is the compiler or interpreter giving you a result you didn't expect.

Sure, there's definitely some curated content. But it's not the job of an instructor to diffuse every API or system design needed to stand up an app into a students brain.

There's a difference between being told what to do, versus being coached how to do something effectively. And I think the two are conflated because of the perception or marketing bootcamps offer.

Any other bootcamp grads with the same experience? Or am I alone here?
And also the original article.
Still.. Wtf Obama, why couldn't you fix this?
There are many who don't want the government involved in 'net neutrality.' The FCC under Obama was acting in an antidemocratic manner when they claimed authority to enforce net neutrality. The executive expanding its power without the interaction of congress is far more anti-democratic than a vote that turned out a way that you didn't like.

There are many who think the net is evolving in a great way and want to limit government interference until their is a real problem. If there's a real problem then pass a law and deal with the problem. Often times these harmless laws have terrible consequences and are difficult to undo.
My biggest turnoff with OpenBSD is the more complicated package management if you want to have new versions and security updates beyond the versions packaged with the release. As far as I know you either have to stay on the bleeding edge with -current, build packages yourself, or trust a third party (M:Tier) to build for you, who last I checked were behind on firefox builds. I'd love to someday run it on my laptop though.
That “allow notifications” popup is way too small... instead, it should pop up in the middle of the screen, have big bold letters, and gray out the website in the background. Then wevsites would be much more careful about asking you about it...
We can't say for sure how the charts are being gamed, but there is strong evidence that its related to a pay per play scheme to pump subscription numbers in a small time window. The implication of the graph visualization is that the same iTunes users are subscribing to all of the suspect shows, and all on one storefront (the U.S.).
You can use pip-install from within a conda environment. Conda isolates better than virtualenv does, IMHO.
I’ve never actually seen such a competition where all previous champions must be defeated. Sounds like a much more robust system- any examples of such?
I share your view. I believe it was during the industrial revolution where the family was redefined from an economic unit to a loving unit. Kind of strange how nowadays it feels like it has always been this way.
Serious question: was liberating Auschwitz a misuse of the military?
You might be shocked to learn that many people do not consider Jordan Peterson an authority on philosophical questions like what the good life consists of.

Also, minor etiquette point, many of us block YouTube, so for people like us, providing a link that forces us to open a separate browser that doesn’t block YouTube so that we can figure out who you’re quoting isn’t the ideal way to convey your point.
It is pervasive in our ecosystem. There is no escaping microplastics if you are part of the human experience.

It is in the air you breathe:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246858441...

I wonder about our insect friends who have been recently disappearing:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2018/09/29/microp...
I lived there for years and loved it. It makes for an incredibly vibrant neighborhood feel. Everytime you go for a walk there's someplace new to stop.

Yes, lots of places don't make it, but lots of places do make it and stick around for awhile.
TFA indicates rock salt also contain microplastics.

If you're really paranoid, I'd suggest buying salt with sizeable crystals, and then rinse those in a saturated salt water bath. It seems to me these microplastics are not included in the salt grains, but rather dispersed among them. So they would float up.

You could also check for microplastics in the salt you usually buy. Just dissolve 100g in 10L of water, and filter that through a dark finely woven cloth.
Gentrification of the wealthy?
SSD vs HDD may be?
I think the real question is, which is more cost/time efficient:

a) Hire someone or a company skilled enough to whip up some classifier that can count these from some accuracy, level, which entails paying a developer, and probably 5-10 graduate students to sit around and count dandelion bristles on a good number of dandelion seeds to create a training set.

or

b) Just have 5-10 graduate students sit around and count dandelion bristles on a good number of dandelion seeds

Given that a is a super set of b, and the extra portions of a are likely much more expensive than all of b, I think the answer is fairly clear...
I really find it odd that all of a sudden tech employees are resistant to supporting their own government.

Nothing sudden about it. If anything, this trend is a return to normalcy. Hackers have traditionally been fairly opposed to authoritarianism, including - but not limited to - that expressed through the mechanism of governments and nation-states.
Got a citation?

Even better, you could put your plastic where your mouth is and try a diet of washed microplastics every meal to see how it affects you. It’s not immoral if you do it to yourself!
I thought that technically the LL then owes the IRS in imputed income? (Income based on market-rate rental values)?
Posting from a throwaway account for privacy on this one.

For me personally it's never seemed worth it, even though I am well off and healthy. I've never been with a man I trusted enough to feel safe with, like he could protect me or take care of me while I was in the vulnerable state of pregnancy / early motherhood. Partly this is emotional and not rational, I'm capable of taking of myself. The men, on the other hand, have all had chronic depression.

I told each of them fairly early on in each relationship that I did not want to have children, but I never told them why. It's a harsh thing to say, right? "I don't want to have your children because you have depression and so it'd be worse than raising kids alone."

But I would rather never have children than try to raise them with someone who can't get themselves to work on a regular basis. My partner right now already needs so much from me, if we had children there'd be nothing left of my life.

He is a brilliant, loving person, but if it weren't for birth control I'd never risk a relationship at all with someone like him.

All this exposition is for my point: which is that even if you have food and shelter, there's reasons to not be willing to bear the responsibility of a(n additional) child.
Hackernews, Wikipedia, issue trackers are all web apps and not documents even if the primary function is to show documents/text. They all have functionality to add/edit comments, etc.
That is not an exception. The 13th Amendment prohibits the government from legally classifying a person as someone else's property (with the one noted exception). A private citizen treating a person as a slave may be guilty of kidnapping, assault, battery, or any number of other crimes, but they are not violating the 13th Amendment—only the government can do that, by granting legal recognition to the victim's status as a slave.

If a private company is acting in ways normally prohibited to private actors, on the state's authority, then they are effectively acting as an extension of the state. The state obviously cannot grant a private company the authority to do something which both private actors and the state itself are prohibited from doing. However, it's still the government, not the private company, which is bound by the Constitution.
You could solve that problem pretty easily by requiring the next champion to have to have defeated each of the previous winners
If you are thinking about the MB Air, I would also consider a chromebook (like Google Pixelbook). Lately enabled Linux app support makes it best of both worlds.
Hey, that's me! Thanks for pointing it out!
More than just an engineer
A lot of officials have official salaries lower than median incomes, they just have expense accounts for up to a megabuck for a provincial level position, and more for ones in Beijing.
Sorry, go ahead and delete it if you want to
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Is it incorrect to believe that there’s more telemetry sent to Google on an Android device vs an iPhone? IIRC, Google specific cookies in Chrome desktop can’t necessarily be turned off by typical methods so can we infer that a device running Android has more monitoring a la that vein than an iPhone?
There have been efforts and negotiations to get the UPU to reclassify China from developing nation status for quite a while now, to no avail. This is the final gambit in those negotiations.

It’s best if you don’t let your hatred of an administration color your perceptions such that you choose not to look at facts.
Reading your post reminded me of this link (found on HN last month): http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-proble...
Guido wrote Python in 1990. Did you use a package manager back then? I didn't.

Part of the issue is how well Python integrates with non-Python dependencies. Before conda, when I wanted to upgrade some Python projects, I'd get errors complaining about my Fortran compiler. These days, most of the major projects upload precompiled binaries for major platforms to PyPI, but when it was just source code...
At most the subsidy reduces prices by 0.1% for goods from China. If all foreign packages only cost the US $300 million a year (from article), China's portion has to be less than that. We buy $462 billion in goods from China.

It's also worth remembering that the subsidy goes to both the American consumer and the Chinese supplier. Eliminating it helps the American supplier and hurts the Chinese supplier and American consumer.

Probably no one bothered to fix it because it's such a minor issue. It's also difficult to change treaty agreements, oddball stuff tends to stick around for awhile just because the cat herding is so difficult.

It's reasonable to remove this subsidy, and probably good to do so before more people take advantage of it.

This is a big emotion story but it's not that important.
I think it’s more of a result of absentee landlords building a real estate portfolio that they don’t really give a fuck about as building managers. They’re flipping these buildings just like houses were being flipped before the financial crisis. Having renters in there just complicates things.

There’s a metro stop out here in northern Virginia that has a beautiful office building on top of it designed by a top architect and it’s _empty_. For at least a year now. And they’re building two more office buildings in the same location. They’re probably just all going to end up being managed by WeWork.

The whole thing reeks of a bubble to me.
Most plastics contain flame retardants. These compounds are known to cause health issues.

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/flame_retarda...
If it helps you persuade them to drop the non-compete, when I worked for Google in 2011-2015 and in my earlier internship for them in 2006, Google didn't use non-competes for any of their employees anywhere in the US.

This was probably for consistency across the country, since many of their employees are based at their California headquarters where all non-competes (except for a small edge case in the context of selling a company) are disallowed by law. The same law applies to Uber's California employees, which includes those at their HQ.

I don't know if they've subsequently added a non-compete for US employees outside of California, or if they have ever used one for their international employees, but I honestly doubt both.

I wouldn't be surprised if their contractors and vendors have worse legalese where the law allows, though.

Glad you followed up, interesting data point!
In most developed countries there is no easy way for man to "opt out" of responsibility for an existing pregnancy. The argument goes that women can have an abortion or give the child up for adoption if the pregnancy is unwanted, but men have no guaranteed say in what happens. One slip up and they are on the hook for child support, etc.

Basically, some people think men should have a right to abdicate responsibility for a pregnancy at least up to a certain point.
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One might also choose not to bring in a BigNum library if you don't need to find every anagram. Here's an exhaustive list of anagrams I found with sorting and comparing that a quick Fundamental Theorem implementation missed:

[ 'basiparachromatin', 'Marsipobranchiata' ]
[ 'configurationism', 'misconfiguration' ]
[ 'constructionism', 'misconstruction' ]
[ 'pericardiacophrenic', 'phrenicopericardiac' ]
[ 'anatomicophysiologic', 'physiologicoanatomic' ]
[ 'petrographically', 'pterylographical' ]
That's a GNUism, so you won't find it in BSD tools.
> if you're not a good one, you can't discern between the good and the bad.

I'd go even one step further - even if you are a good programmer, it's hard to discern between the good and the bad hires. The reason for that is that you can check for technical proficiency, but it's very hard to assess someone's long term motivation levels. There's plenty of candidates who are strong programmers, but are just not motivated and will go to great lenghts to do the bare minimum to not get fired. I think that's BTW why the large corps insist on things like high GPA - not neccessarily for the knowledge gained, but as a proof that you were able to consistently motivate yourself to a high degree over a period of a couple years, doing the work which you weren't neccessarily in love with - which is exactly what they need.
2.7% is not enough.
Explain the problem and the benefits. You will hear back about the costs and other arguments. From there you can start convincing them that balkanization might be a problem.
I know that plastics leach chemicals into water, but I have never heard of "water cleaned" plastics no longer leaching chemicals.

It's also worth noting that consuming microplastics doesn't result in them being bathed in water, but rather our acidic digestive tract designed specifically for leaching chemicals out of things.
i've worked for a lot of different kinds of bosses/owners, and the "check-writer" philosophy, stated so unapologetically, has often been most closely aligned with the worst bosses, with the unhappiest employees.

so yes, he can, and no, it's not, IMO, on the more effective end of the scale.

saying that, in and of itself, is often a barometer of a shitty boss.

the good bosses might have a bit of that in them, but they have other values ahead of that statement that lead them to be better bosses, and IME, more successful in their given organizations.
The problem is that smaller businesses in particular may well ask you if you have a non-compete and will simply pass if you do because they can't afford to get into litigation. I worked for a small consulting firm for a number of years and we basically wouldn't touch anyone who had a remotely applicable non-compete. It just wasn't worth the risk.
The problem is so few startups IPO and instead organize around becoming acquisition targets for "huge companies" that would theoretically now be in deep with the defense and law enforcement.
One of the issues with this is that bosses (or their lawyers) just google search for contracts, paste them into a document, and then have people sign them without considering whether or not they are enforceable. The proliferation of these kinds of contracts also makes them less enforceable. Noncompetes are supposed to be for executives and to prevent people from sales roles from just stealing their employer's customers and bringing them to their new job.

It's not supposed to prevent the sandwich guy at Arby's from getting a job at Subway to earn an extra $2/hr. Were those kinds of contracts to be enforced consistently, it would bankrupt state courts and create a lot of confusion.
The US can still choose to subsidize certain types of shipping if it wants to, but if this negotiation tactic works it will no longer be forced to.
I think Conda is the way to go, because:

- there is Miniconda that doesn't force you to install all PyData packages.
- virtual envs and needed packages are all defined in simple yaml file.
- it works well with pip. So if a package isn't in Conda repository, you can install from pip. The annoyance here is that you must try conda, fail, and then try pip.
- you can easily clone envs. So you can have some base envs with your usual packages (or one for Python 2 and another fo Python 3), and just clone them to start a new project.
> ”Many people will get the infection and very few will get the neurologic disease”

A line that’s somehow both frightening and comforting. The environment we grow up in increasingly looks like it plays a role in certain neurological disease progression. (See lack of infection playing a role in childhood leukemia [1])

>”Infectious disease tracks with poverty,” he said. “The problem is not infection. The problem is lack of infection.”

> There is a similar story at work in type 1 diabetes, Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple sclerosis and allergies, he says.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/21/most-common-...
> When someone asks you "What type of door you have?" we don't say "I have an open door", rather "I've a timber door" or "glass door".

I like analogies, but I don't think bringing the real world into this helps – irl, "is a" relationships are pretty fuzzy and arbitrary. What does it mean for something to "be" a door? If I'm using a window as a door, does it become a door? "Being a door" is just another property. And if I have a door and start chopping away pieces of it, at what point does it stop being a door? "things" often don't have well defined boundaries, so even the notion of "objects" becomes meaningless. (see also: Ship of Theseus). A lot of it is up to a person's perception too... So in general, I think it's better to keep the real world separate from formal/mathematical concepts.

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Encoding some "properties" in the type system is a tool for ensuring (some degree of) correctness. Sometimes, a property is
important enough that you want to put it in a type variable, as in `data Connection (status :: ConnectionStatus)`. But if you'd prefer your properties to be "disconnected" from the actual type, you might enjoy dependently typed languages[1] like Idris, where you can have statically enforced "proofs" that a value has some property. In such a system, a function `readData` could take a `Connection` and a proof that the connection is open. It'd look something like this:

readData : (conn: Connection) -> IsOpen conn -> Bytes

Note that the proof, `IsOpen conn`, refers to the value of the first argument.
How do we obtain those proofs is up to the connection library. For example, `openConnection` could return a connection along with a proof that the connection is open:

openConnection : Address -> ((conn: Connection), IsOpen conn)

The library could also supply a "smart predicate" function that gives you proofs of a connection's status:

status : (conn: Connection) -> Either (IsOpen conn) (IsClosed conn)

Take this with a grain of salt though – I haven't actually used Idris, just read a few tutorials.
What would requirements.txt even _do_ in a library? AFAIK that file isn't even read when packaging, distributing, and installing libraries.
WebAssembly and PWAs are only going to make this worse, as they give browser vendors an excuse to give websites full access to the user's local machine.
There's no shame, but it is still a signal.

Similar to the study a while back of whether VCs would rather fund someone who's a "natural" at what they do or someone who's had to work hard to reach that "natural" level. (It's the former.)
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> That doesn't sound like it's within the current state of the art

> about two Falcon Heavy trips

This does sound like it's within the state of the art! The mirror doesn't have to be one solid piece, it can be assembled from many smaller-ish satellites.

Of course you have overhead, so ... 5 Falcon Heavy trips? This is still very fine, if you're willing to put in the money.
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mypy's response to that code:

error:invalid type comment or annotation
note:Suggestion: use intBit[...] instead of intBit(...)

So what's really happening is the type expressions are pretending to be "just everyday python", but actually they have arbitrary restrictions (cannot be functions? need to work via overriding `__getitem__`?) that neither you nor I were aware of. This is probably the least "pythonic" implementation possible.

And even if the code were valid, it's relying on N being a statically known value, which is a bit off because sure, you could have N be some global const config variable, but it would be very weird for configuring the value of the variable to require you to also go into the code and change things around to work with bool's or None's instead of int's.
> and that valiant gunners were doing something useful for their comrades (when data showed that stripping out the turrets + guns + gunners, and flying higher and faster would decrease losses).

For the British, in particular, the (unarmed) Mosquito bomber loss rate was one tenth of the Lancaster loss rate, needed 2 crew instead of 7, cost about 1/4'th of a Lancaster, and carried about 1/3 of the bomb load.