skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're completely correct. We depend utterly on a lot of basic products of small towns and rural communities.

That said, just because food and lumber has to be grown somewhere doesn't mean it has to be grown in American small towns and rural communities. My wheat and rice can come from Mexico and Thailand and my beef from Argentina.
If allegation of a decades old crime at an unspecified date, time, and location, and with no corroborating evidence is enough to block a Supreme Court nomination then we're not going to be nominating new justices any time soon (Democrat or Republican).
Plenty of economists push that idea. The way to make people richer is to move them to rich places. (Even more so internationally.)

Your point about politicians stands. That's a great assessment of the tension between the two worldviews.
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My definition of unit vectors is the same as yours. However, the book does not say there are only N unit N-vectors. It says there are only N STANDARD unit N-vectors.

In math, “Adjective X” usually means something more specific than “X”. “Prime numbers” are a subset of “numbers”, and so on. Just like in this case, “standard unit vectors” are a subset of “unit vectors”.
Median income in, for example, Detroit was $58,411 in 2017. Post-taxes that would be $45,484. $3300 is about 7.3% of that so, yeah, that's a pretty hefty bite.
But in this case they were blocked due to government regulation.
That's great, but "Microsoft spying" is something that most people don't care about and those that do are more likely to switch to Mac rather than even think of much less tinker with linux.
Most of the comments below are echoing the statement "jail time for bugs!!!!!" and similar sentiments, and therein lies the problem.

"bugs" is a catch all word, it covers everything from a pesky typo in UI to bugs like this, severe security issues, meltdown/spectre, VW bugs, and so and so forth.

Of course no jail time for a typo, but why not a jail time or severe financial and career consequences for severe bugs especially when it can be shown that a bug was caused due to intentional decisions, malicious intents, sloppy testing, rushed product etc. and not due to genuine mistakes - similar to medical malpractices.

Of course lawyers will love it, but it can improve the overall situation.

And yes, I'm a software engineers and do know what I'm talking about.
"Aaron knew he was literally stealing, according to the law"

He was? I may be misremembering, but I don't think that was the crime he was accused of. I believe the crime was bypassing access control systems.

And even that accusation seriously stretched credulity.
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An opinion that is politically fueled should not allow this form of "shaming" unless we want to throw free speech out the window. Our small church was "Targeted" because I gave some advice to a gay woman who asked for it about her kids. She then tried to wreck our lives over the asked for advice. You can read the account here: https://www.scribd.com/document/389212460/Antisemitism-in-We...

Others got on the "Band wagon" at different intervals. Whatever the justification is for such behavior, ultimately there is no justification.
This is from my Oxford concise English dictionary, 9ed (1995):

> sic usage: the word sic is placed in brackets after a word that appears odd or erroneous to show that the word is quoted exactly as it stands in the original

There's also this part of the entry in Wikipedia [1]

> A sic may show that an uncommon or archaic expression is reported faithfully

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic#To_denote_archaisms_and_di...
progressives have taken us back in time to the days of the inquisition where heretics must be removed from society. These beliefs have absolutely taken on a religious fervor

James watson, the man who discovered DNA structure, has been excommunicated for saying intelligence could be genetic and that would ruin the equality movement so he had to be removed

It reminds me of galileo and his imprisonment related to heliocentrism

"and yet it moves"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11261872/James-Wats...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves
They're not getting rid of 44k employees; they simply offered the voluntary separation package to 44k employees. Of them, around 11k opted in.
>So, the fault here lies with the politician.

No it isn't. Though DNS hijacking is certainly compatible with the text of this law, so is email communication. Century Link isn't stupid.
Unfortunately with your plan, you still end up with a two party system. Just one of the current ones has been swapped out.
The secret to learning snowboarding is to wear HOCKEY PANTS. You might look ridiculous, but you look ridiculous anyway because you don't know how to snowboard. So add the hockey pants and save you bum. The confidence of protection will eliminate the fear of constantly falling.
This is just a hunch, but I feel like ownership produces more debt than renteirship
Most of the things you claim that he says he never did say. The idea that he claims that he invented the electric car or reusable rockets is utter nonsense and you will not find one quote that makes that statment.

Claiming that he is not an engineer is just more nonsense. He is the chief engineer of the falcon rocket and many people inside and outside of SpaceX have said to be highly impressed with what he does.

If you don't like Elon that is fine, but this post is just nonsense.
The central story is about how a conservative author was publicly shamed by her conservative ex-boyfriend, so I'm not sure how illuminating your link will be.
It's weird that it kind of makes it a small town vs big city discussion. I think most of the big tech sectors seem to spawn near good universities. The universities supply the highly educated workforce for the businesses and the size of the city seems to play less of a role.
The only difference between the free (Starter plan) and paid version is that the free version limits you to sharing one prototype at at time.

Thats it. Otherwise, functionality is the same.
If only gopher had forms :(
Are they ever?
Maybe not their literal salary, but Congress is heavily lobbied and can be incentivized with other perks and benefits to look the other way.
I think that the actual issue is the collective desire for punishment, and our inability to forgive others. From what I can see, forgiveness is something that we should strive to achieve as soon as possible after an offense. It's far too easy to hold people in public contempt, or prison, far longer than their just deserts.
Show HN: yt – Minimalist YouTube
Now it's been ages since I dabbled with neural nets so this might be completely silly, but can't a change in dimension be thought of as forcing the weights to/from certain nodes to be zero?
It some cases, that is true; in others, it is not.
You learn on 2, then move to 1 aka slalom as you have far more manuverability.

Wakeboards and skurfers (if those are still around) are wider than a slalom ski and don't have both feet facing forward. They are closer to a snowboard.

But I find the most fun behind a boat is on a regular surfboard.
I build this minimalist youtube client to make my YouTube experience a little bit less distracting. My idea was that you have a relatively simple user interface that you can configure to suite your needs. Feel free to add features to it that you want for yourself [0]

I build it in PHP with a similar bare bones approach as yt’s UI so it is relatively easy/cheap to host yourself.

One thing I like to do is block YouTube on my devices (except the embedded URL), disable the search on yt, and block the settings page. This way I can only watch videos that are embedded on other sites or if I know the video id.

yt was inspired by https://tube.quinzel.tech [1].

0: https://github.com/doodzik/yt

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16832438
You're absolutely right. Incentivizing remote work could definitely help!

With that said, it may be worth considering that there is some subtlety here. It's surprisingly difficult to integrate remote workers into a company that has and uses offices. A lot of communication is lost when people aren't regularly sharing the same physical spaces, and cultural practices and technologies to date are mostly limited to mitigating this loss slightly. There's a drop in productivity, and it appears to be (in general, at scale, individuals can and do vary wildly) inevitable. Building a small company entirely from exceptional individuals is workable, but as a model it can't scale.

Right now the major incentive is that remote workers can be paid the local-to-them pay rate. This is a problem, as it rarely matches the model of remote work that smaller towns and would-be remote workers have in mind.

There's also some major wins that individuals gain by congregating in urban areas with their industry. It's harder to replace these with remote work, as much of it depends on concentration enabling serendipity.

Again, you're completely right. Remote work could definitely help! There might be some subtleties worth considering is all.
Facebook doesn't individually contribute much but it did contribute a total of 7 million over 12 years. If they were smarter they would kick in more.
If the politician does not take responsibility (accept fault) who will? Taking responsibility for the text of at least the law the sponsor has proposed and helped pass is the minimum responsibility I would expect from a legislator. What else do we elect them for? The legislator wrote a law that allowed too much interpretation, that is the fault of the legislator.
> If the law maker had written a more narrow law

It shouldn't be the lawmaker's job to specify how businesses go about doing their business. The law was written generically enough that any sensible option would satisfy it; email, postal letter, addendum to your bill, or some other "electronic communication" that the lawmakers aren't qualified to specify. This is how laws should be written.

There's absolutely no justification to CenturyLink choosing DNS hijacking over a simple email in this case, and "the law made me do it" is a particularly weak excuse.
Initially the 3% can be paid by RobinHood investor money (they'll make it up on volume, like Pets.com did shipping 50lbs bags). But tomorrow? Maybe offer a x year guarantee
Depends on what the meaning of "is" is...
The large majority of the time that someone doesn't exist for anything outside distribution repos.
> 20. Alternatively you can also alternate between "he" and "she" and toss a coin to see who goes first.

Please, don't. Pick a single pronoun and stick to it. The alternating between he and she has left me confused for a minute on more than one occasion.

If you must be politically correct, why not use 'they' instead?
No need to tag, just facial recognition will get you from previous tags and other metadata
I think all Adobe tools can save .png, except for Audition maybe. Just talk to the designer and ask for .png?
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I have a pretty simple algorithm for articles about the dangers of public shaming. If they fail to catalog GamerGate and the online shaming of Zoe Quinn as an example of the problem, they are probably not a balanced look at the phenomenon. I find Justine Sacco's case is a reasonable metric for the other half of the equation.
People drastically understate the infrastructure and other issues you note in places outside of major urban centers of technology. My children do not have a net benefit from a huge home on a huge plot of land if the schools are garbage, there are few or no parks, the politics are very conservative, and diversity is lacking.
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How is this relavent? This story is about licensed professions in the US
By reducing politics to a celebrity obsession, the media misdirects us
I used the word "should" 4 times, never stating any expectation. What is naive about that? I realize how fucked is our current system of laws and lawmaking.
He killed himself because he was threatened with life in prison. He may have been particularly vulnerable to these threats, but that only makes them worse. If they had just called him mean names, maybe you'd have a point.
His attitude while defending himself on the stand is the basis for which I would rescind his nomination. His behavior was not befitting of someone who is about to be conferred lifetime appointment to the highest court in the country. I don’t want him crafting laws and making decisions that impact huge groups of people.
Agreed, it is CL's fault for choosing the option the choose.

It is the politicians fault for writing a law that was so broad that it allowed CL the potential leeway to be able to choose the awful option they selected.
Telling someone they are using ad hominem is a specific relevant criticism, not dismissing you because you are just an intrinsically bad person who has wrongthink. Ad hominem is something specific, not just a catchall for disagreement, despite the popularity of that interpretation.
You’re willfully misrepresenting the accusations, and completely ignoring the reaction to them that many considered to be even more problematic. But let’s not rehash this particular flamewar.
> With 12,000 kb/s the user will hardly notice the difference.

Regular users enjoy only a fraction of those rates, particularly mobile users.

I really hope FE developers in general don't target such unrealistic rates.
OpenStreetMap custom tag map (with RiotJS)
> under cover of being within the wording of the law.
> then CL using this method would have been in clear violation of the law

DNS spoofing by an ISP a clear violation of the law? Since when?

Just because the law makers don't say email doesn't mean they mean to hijack DNS.

If someone asked you to pick up some food for them on the way home, are you doing to bring leftovers from two weeks ago because they didn't specify from where and exactly what they wanted?

Blaming this on the lawmakers doesn't make sense. ISP had a broad way to use "electronic communications" and they chose a HORRIBLE one.
It's hard to make heads or tails of this without a better definition of what constitutes "doubling down" or "working quite well".

The example that comes to mind is James Damore and he "doubled down" in the sense that he stood by his original statements (which made sense because his original memo was clearly and explicitly not endorsing the things he was accused of endorsing). It "worked out quite well" in that he _only_ lost his job and endured a lot of harassment, abuse, and slander (although who knows what kinds of psychological scars this treatment could have left him with), but probably didn't have a hard time finding another job and the mob did eventually (mostly) move on.

So either the Damore example satisfies your definition of "working quite well" but not mine (or probably most people) or this example illustrates that your prescription doesn't always work. Perhaps it is exceptional, in that most mobs aren't marshalled by major publications nor do they conspire with the CEO of one of the most prominent companies in the world.
You can buy index funds in Robinhood. That's how I use it. Just a simple, to the point, interface for buying and holding index funds.
The site seems to be for a print magazine so this article is slated to appear in the January 2019 issue.
Ok, do you need to maintain 1,000 military bases around the globe? 500 wouldn't do it?

What about the F-35?
This may change when lives are actually lost. Self crashing cars have the potential to destroy the potential saving of life by intentional or accidental software bugs and security vulnerabilities. A congressman I was speaking with rephrased my statement and said that I was suggesting that self driving cars be treated as medical devices. I wholeheartedly agreed with his wording.

That said, the same changes won't likely occur with sites like FB unless it can be proven that the data leaked lead to loss of life or physical harm. They create incentive's for people to happily be the product. How do we prove that damage has occurred to the product? Have any forums popped up where people share stories of harm to their family as a result of data leaked from FB?

I can imagine GDPR being useful in the EU for corporate FB accounts. Wasn't FB working on a work-specific version of their site? If so, corporate legal teams would get involved in leaks, I would imagine.
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Who would be held responsible? Coder? QA? Code reviewer? PM? person putting pressure on PM?
Look at the picture. Something punched a sizable hole in the nose. That plane hit something much harder than a bird.
Vegetables and raw chicken is very cheap.
I'm particularly interested in trying out Wandercode. What's a good way for me to follow its development?

Wandercode looks very similar to an idea I had for navigation while working on a task that was 100% code review and comprehension. I wanted similar graph displays for inheritance, and data flow through variables. I envisioned all of this displayed together in a large window, basically with multiple DAGs overlaid on each other in different colors. Now, seeing Wandercode, I imagine a handful of small, "localized" displays, focused on a selected function/class/variable. Any thoughts on that? Or are function calls more interesting for you?
This is the exact same thing for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Half the guys at my gym (in a random town in South Florida) are engineers or doctors.
There's a meaningful difference to where a particular calculation happens. Even if the exact same steps are done, it's more efficient to look at 10 items in the database, pick 1 item, and transfer it out to the application rather than transfer 10 items to the application and then pick one item there; doing the calculation close to the source data enables ways to do it efficiently.
I wasn't so much asking about relational databases vs key/value stores, but rather why should I implement things like advanced sorting, mathematical formulas, etc in SQL rather than in the application code that fetches data from SQL?
Few doubts given their benefactor's unlimited resources, but it's worth remembering how unexpected SpaceX's successes were.

I'm mainly pointing that it's odd to compare aspirations with accomplishment. I've thought about climbing Everest, and even planned a route and bought some gear, but that doesn't put me in the same category as Norgay or Hillary.
Because they are likely working for institutions that are committing IP theft, in this case it's better to keep them honest, they don't have a culture that respects the rules and customs of other cultures (common law, contract law).
I think it just depends on what we’re talking about. It seems like you’re ignoring the total cost of ownership. Yes, you can drive your own car across town without paying a corporation....as long as you do your own maintenance with parts you make, refine your own gasoline, have your own insurance company, and can park without paying. And it still may take longer and be more hassle (depends obviously). It’s not like we all were born with infinite-lifespan cars that run on fairy dust. When done well, public transportation is vastly cheaper and more efficient. It’s fine if you want to drive, but don’t pretend like it’s not costing you as much or more (again, assuming you have good public transit as an option).

Let’s take music as an example. Yes, listening to my music on Spotify may theoretically somehow someday result in a loss of music diversity, or result in music being lost because no one owned it, or may result in me losing access to all “my” music if I stop paying, or the artist yanks their music from Spotify, or if Spotify shuts down. That all may happen.

But if I go for the pure ownership model of music, it will definitely cost me more in time and money and hassle. I’ll also have to worry about backing up these files, having enough storage for them, protecting them against file format changes over the coming decades. And it’ll cost me a lot more too!

Why? I just don’t care that much. 99% of what I listen to is personally ephemeral. Listening to it in 10 years would be an interesting afternoon of nostalgia, but that’s all. It’s the same for movies and tv shows.

Books are a little different for me, in that I’d probably be interested in re-reading 30% of the books I read. And I’ve started buying my favorite books in paper for this reason. But I always buy in digital first, because the pros for me vastly outweigh the cons.
They're not. That's why purchase price and book value are often different. Goodwill is the difference between the two in order to make the purchaser's books make sense.

Let's say you're buying a trucking firm. Their only assets are 10 trucks worth a total of one million and they have no liabilities. The book value of that firm is one million. Let's say that the firm is one of the few with the specialized knowledge required to ship radioactive waste. They make quite a bit of money so you buy them for their market value of 10 million.

If we look at your books, it looks like you just spent 10 million for 1 million of assets. In other words, your company just lost 9 million dollars. Obviously that doesn't make sense. The accounting way out of that is to add in 9 million dollars of goodwill. The transaction is then 10 million for 1 million worth of trucks and 9 million worth of goodwill. So now you're paying 10 million for 10 million worth of assets and don't show a loss on your books.

Say a year later due to some safety issues you lose your license to ship radioactive waste. Now the trucking company is just a regular ole trucking company and worth a lot less. So you write down the value of the goodwill so your books reflect reality and use the write down to offset profits to lower your taxes.
No, he killed himself because he was depressed and had suicidal thoughts.

> Swartz declined a plea bargain under which he would have served six months in federal prison. Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself.[15][16]

So, he was facing potentially 6 months in prison. He rejected that, and then killed himself.
The usefulness of useless knowledge (1939) [pdf]
>The REAL reason American's are broke is cost of living. Rent and housing costs have skyrocketed and wages have stagnated.

Inflation adjusted housing costs have not risen much over time [1].

If you don't account that housing now is vastly bigger than before you lose this fact.

Here's [2, Figure 5] a shorter timespan, showing that the ratio of income to housing payment has remained essentially flat 1985-2005.

Nothing in any of this data supports skyrocketing costs. If you're going to claim it's skyrocketed in small pockets, then yes, it has, but over that same window it's crashed in some pockets.

[1] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/pdf/Trends_hsg_c...

[2] https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/pdf/Trends_hsg_c...
One risk is that the other investors might suddenly decide for some reason (say a sudden wave of panic) to cash out their holdings in the fund. This would force the fund manager to immediately sell some of the bonds, perhaps at an unfavorable price. Bonds (safe ones) eventually pay out at their full value, but their market price fluctuates before maturity, and a sale forced by other investors could stick you with a loss.
I tried calling Earthlink about this once, back toward the beginning of the DNS hijacking craze. He didn't seem too familiar with it, and eventually matched it up in his script to something about redirecting web pages on typos. I tried to explain that I don't want to talk about the web, I want to talk about problems with their broken DNS servers, but it didn't really work.

Annoying and pointless conversation. I just cancelled.