skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DMV is a great example of efficiency, they're just optimizing for monetary-cost-per-transaction instead of client-time-per-transaction. You could move people through quickly, fill out the forms for them, and provide helpful and polite service, but all that costs money: it's just cheaper to make clients do all the paperwork and have massive lines so you maximize the work you get out of the few DMV workers by never having them sitting with the line empty.

There are certainly ways they could make the DMV more efficient, but don't mistake the almost universal unpleasantness of DMVs for inefficiency.
Over the past 5 years I’ve seen too mans PaaS provider shutdown. Every time those affected ask why and my answer is the same: PaaS is a great tool but an awful business. We studied many PaaS providers and their business model and I believe there are fundamental business issues with a PaaS provider that provides infrastructure as well as the platform. The only way to survive the market is to have a rich owner (like Heroku / Salesforce), be a cloud provider (GoogleApps), run it yourself (DIY Kubernetes like solutions) or use a service that manages a PaaS on your own servers (Cloud 66).
No need to be aggressive, as I am not being cynical. I am genuinely asking, because I couldn't see any immediate need for it in their main product.
The military needs steel needs coal. This does appear to be a signal that Germany is letting down its guard.
Let say you're correct, then it's all the more reason __not__ to over-subsidize something. It's one thing for a gov to toss some money at something to encourage R&D, the growth of a technology and/or market, etc. That makes at least some sense in some cases.

The problem is these "temporary" gov programs never end. And then eventually they live long past their prime.

Furthermore, as the become the new normal they tend to create unintended consequence. For example, farm subsidies for corn drove down the price of high fructose corn syrup. That made the sweetener ubiquitous.

Similar can be said for home loans and student loans. Once these programs take on a life of their own, the market becomes distorted and eventually bad - unforeseen - things happen.
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> [...] trying to determine what a bunch of dead white guys in the 16th century -meant- when they wrote it

You are two centuries too early. (I agree with your post overall.)
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Is there something interesting about this list other than its entertainment value?

Comments have to be submitted it looks like, so this isn't even Reddit providing the actual list.
I wonder how all these open-source releases happening this month [1][2][3] are related to improve team morale internally...

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/DeepFocus

[2] https://github.com/facebookresearch/nevergrad

[3] https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytext
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You mean TacoCopter isn't real, either? ;(

http://tacocopter.com/
Yeah I have a Subaru too and I've always thought that was silly. In their defense though, it's not just something they made up for marketing.

Rather, it's a term for a silly thing California allows automakers to do to get around the requirement of selling actual zero-emissions vehicles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_zero-emissions_vehicle
>To speak nothing of the professors...

This probably had a lot to do with it. Schools like that have huge endowments (Princeton's is north of 20 billion dollars), and as such can afford to attract very good faculty. Very good faculty can lead to very bright students.

Princeton is also going to have a lot more defense dealings than something like a state school and where cutting-edge tech is being researched, OGAs are guaranteed to be sniffing around and weaseling their way into the research with funding.
We are moving that way and fast:

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-ev-oil-crisis/
Amtrak doesn't ship cargo, only passengers. They don't own most of the railways either; they lease them from the cargo railways that own them, and Amtrak trains have lower priority than the cargo trains, causing scheduling problems and delays.

It'd honestly be easier to just shut down Amtrak and do without rail service. As a nation, we simply are not willing to do what it takes to have a decent passenger rail service, and that isn't going to change.
I've worked in both. And i've got an economics education :P

My experience tells me entity-scale is the main variable that determines efficient use of resources (all other things being equal), rather than private/public sector divide.

Which makes sense if you think about it: once you get away from small groups and sole individuals being able to give all things their attention, a private company has to effectively re-implement a form of government to operate internally.
Whatever they do for 10 hours, will be automated in 10 years, by people who work 4 hours or less.

My opinion of course :)
Ooh, what, we're talking about epistemology and science, my favorite subject? Why, yes, it turns out that all observation is an imposition onto the world, starting with our lyin' eyes, which can only see in a narrow band and don't even pick up UV. To some extent this is what "science" is - you create a new kind of instrument which you purport produces a specific kind of observation, you collect those observations and make claims about reality, summarily ignoring all of the ways your instrument leaks, breaks and fogs up. This is true whether the instrument is a Western blot (is your extraction reliable? Is your antibody specific? Did your gel break) or a microscope (is there out-of-plane light in your image? photo-bleaching? Are your fluorophores working?) or a thermometer in a bucket of sea-water (is your thermometer calibrated correctly? Is the water artificially warmed by your boat?).

Et cetera. To some extent the ability to do science consists of saying, "Oh, this is good enough to go on," ignoring the bumps, and being mostly right about that.
Energy is strategic, you have to maintain an indigenous capability just in case you ever need it, same with steel production, shipbuilding, etc.
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I saw that as well. But I would think, that if you're going to pick a market to distort then renewables (i.e., the future) makes more sense than keeping coal alive. Also, as the article mentioned, there were political overtones to cutting out coal.
Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (2016)
Search on this page for the word "fraud". Here's what I'd do in your position: remove anything on the internet which personally identifies you as an employee of your company. Nobody knows what is going to happen next, but be prepared for it.
I really enjoyed this. I'm not a shooter, but it's hard not to be excited by the analysis you've done. I learned a ton.
Then you didn't tried recently.
Recently i get 30+ fps and the game is playable.
Interesting to see Kabyle as the language with the third most validated hours at https://voice.mozilla.org/en/languages

Kabylia is a region in the north of Algeria mostly inhabited by Berber people who are bilingual in Algerian Arabic and Kabyle. In recent years, an independence movement has developed that emphasizes Kabyle over Arabic for reasons of internal cohesion. To confuse matters, there's also a pan-Berber movement denying the existence of a separate Kabyle language, classifying it as a dialect of Berber/Tamazight instead.

Those heated politics have led to a large number of Kabyles contributing to various linguistic corpus projects to gain visibility for their cause. E.g. trying to overtake Berber on https://tatoeba.org/stats/sentences_by_language (As far as I know, Mozilla's Common Voice shares data with the Tatoeba project.)
That is an interesting point, and even if that is true, it still means adding generics would be a detriment.

I do wonder if that's an inherent property of languages with a more expressive type system. Many would blame it on OOP, but I think Haskell also suffers from it. Haskell that is written without using typeclasses is much more readable than Haskell that's written more plainly, at least to me.

It might be a unique property to Go, which other language is strongly typed yet with such a basic typesystem, lacking inheritance or even generics?
That would make a fun experiment.
Yes, GDS have plenty of full-time employees - actual geeks, not just managers.
It's not 'scary'. The term Europe has become a metonym for the EU[1]. In the media and in public discourse.

The EU parliament is elected and have the final say on laws. While I agree it's way too bureaucratic, it's still a voluntary club and there are check and balances.

The simple fact is that the EU is a remarkable achievement. That Europe could emerge from the smouldering tribal ruins of the early 20th century and build a continent-wide union of prosperity and peace is incredible. It ain't perfect but it also ain't the boogyman some morons make it out to be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
I am not saying that the grand-parent is on to something, but I would be careful when calling anything done by them as "nonsense conspiracy theory". They have proved these "conspiracy theories" to be true quite a few times.
I mean, the wiki page itself notes that multiple involved in making it support the idea they were creative leads in section 4.2[0], and they’ve been the front of every interview and on the game’s splash... if they weren’t actually doing much, this would’ve been in a controversy beginning in 1992, not today

But I haven’t taken a look at the lawyer commentary. (I don’t know that I care enough to). But outside of the lawyers and stardock’s ceo commentary, I haven’t seem anything to imply they weren’t in charge of the whole thing.

But anyways, I didn’t care for the stardock’s game, so it doesn’t matter what the truth is for me. I just want a proper sc3 (though I’m expecting they’ll still try to “modernize” itand toss out all the fun with it, as most decade-apart sequels go; but a man can dream, can’t he?)

[0] http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Stardock_Systems_Inc._v._Paul_Reich...
As someone behind a corporate firewall on a Friday, thank you
If the DNS client has a pinned certificate/key this would break the MiTM/Middleware.

But remember that you're only using the TLS connection for the DNS question and answer, so if you choose something like cloudflare/google/opendns then they'll configure their frontends/termination points with the respective pinned cert.

Once the lookup has taken place, the connection is made with the proper endpoint and a new TLS connection takes place using traditional mechanisms.

I feel that that most major providers have had enough of broken PKI infrastructure and bad uses that exposing DNS over TLS without something like Key pinning would be wise.
I think you have this backwards. All data is "unstructured", until you choose to find some structure in it. Deciding a bunch of points fit a line is entirely your call, after all. Until you are there to declare there's a structure, it's just a bunch of dots.
I thought Joyent had a container service that used the Docker Remote API?
"not just managers."

That seems to be the real problem of orgs who do a lot of outsourcing. They have a lot of managers who can't really judge the work and not enough experts.
Maybe, but if the alien wants water, the easier path is to just go to Europa, which has more water than Earth, plus a lower gravity well. We have no way of stopping them from harvesting resources from anywhere in this star system.
Baldur's Gate on the Apple ][ was cutting-edge at the time... I played it for hours on end.
I like to take recordings of my thoughts on my cellphone similar to Dale Cooper. Unfortunately, I do not have a Diane on the other end to translate my thoughts to text, I have to do that myself.

I've been looking into things like mozilla/deepspeech and other open source libraries for automatically converting my messages to text. I'll have to take a look at this project as well!
Governments have a mandate to regulate what happens in their own country. It’s how the entire world functions. And so it makes no sense that enforcement should be considered a land grab from other international bodies.

And we don’t control crimes like murder by allowing people to break the laws and then testing them in court.
The main variable that determines efficient use of resources all other things being equal, you say?
D:OS 2 improves on 1 in many ways, especially in story.

They created characters with plot lines instead of relying on player-generated characters. It's not Shakespeare, but with Larian Studio's humor it is definitely worth playing.
That's not exactly symmetric with the policy for creators... You guys screwed up on this issue, and you need to stop everything else you're doing until you figure out how you're going to fix the screw-up and apologize. Until then, posting here is not helping your brand image. Maybe if you don't understand what you're doing wrong you could re-read this thread until you do, but really you should just hire a CPA. A bank is not allowed to commingle deposits with its own funds. You should not keep money that is intended for creators.
> we don't want to let someone other than you pass themselves off as you

Wait, but that's exactly what you're doing to Tom Scott by collecting money in his name after he's asked you not to.
Not specifically. But yes, fellow people should be given the benefit of the doubt in my opinion. I was asking if Brave had done something to merit not getting that.
Never got one in the first place FTW.
fraud implies intention
Neighbors know when you're home or not better than anyone.
I've been running Firefox Nightly, and it's way faster.
Perhaps you could try assuming that I knew about the null hypothesis already and still wrote what I wrote.
I think this is also a good representation of why its quite misleading: https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1076218351486087168
If anyone who has tried Modula-2, Go appears to be very close, at some core level, to m2, but m2 has a cleaner syntax, IMHO?
Search "evolutionary dynamics" and "complex adaptive system".
speech recognition system is becoming fundamental for all kind of software these days. speech to text input, speech navigation, etc
> few (er)

heh. fewer, yes. few, no.

My favorite were the "why am I underneath the ground" or the "why is my screen now red until I reload the game?" bugs that happened all the time.
It does kinda support Pdf out of the box but is currently broken. there's an open issue. The last working version with a PDF viewer is 2.x.
I suspect that the manufacturing costs for many medical devices are quite low, e.g. stints, but this is not public data to my knowledge. But the manufacturers make a killing because they charge a high price.
Lower collective IQ though.
When did they restart development?
This is a risk for systems deployed only on Google hardware, but they can't push a button and make the gccgo source disappear.
I think you should consider it ethical to do ethical things using a tool created by unethical people. Consider for instance Fritz Haber, the so called "father of chemical warfare" who contributed to the development of the Haber–Bosch process for artificial nitrogen fixation, that facilitated the mass production of explosives by Germany during the Great War, but also provides as much as 50% of the nitrogen in the body of an average human today due to it's role in the production of fertilizer.

Whether it's ethical to contribute back to the project knowing that the unethical creator might derive unethical utility from your contributions, is perhaps slightly more complicated. However the same could be said of any open source project, you could create something new wholly from scratch and if you release it publicly, somebody else could use it for something unethical.

I commend your consideration of ethical concerns, which I think is lacking in the tech industry today. But in this particular case I don't believe there is too much cause for concern.
What's the real deal breaker for me is that I can't use iOS adblocking with 3-rdparty browsers.
I quote your own terms of service:

For each Publisher URL receiving votes during a Calculation Period that is not a Brave Publisher by the end of that Calculation Period, the BAT corresponding to its votes will not be distributed at the end of that Calculation Period, and will instead be held in an Uphold omnibus wallet for no less than ninety (90) days thereafter. At that time, the undistributed BAT may be sent to Company’s user growth pool, which is a pool of BAT that Company administers to incentivize use of the Platform [..] Publisher Contributions will be calculated solely based on our accounting. Solely as a cost-recovery measure, we may allocate a certain amount of BAT contributed by Brave Contributors each Calculation Period toward our reasonable expenses incurred in facilitating Publisher Contributions. (https://basicattentiontoken.org/contributor-terms-of-service... section 4 "contributions")

Sounds very much like "we can redirect this from escrow if we want to".
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Well, really, it's more like O(n) cutting, O(m) sweeping (rather than O(1)) in the largest value m we are trying to sort, and thus the time it takes for your hand to go from the highest spaghetti to the table, and O(n) picking spaghetti out. In that sense it's like radix sort, but you could make a similar point for comparison-based sorts as well, e.g. sorting 1024-bit numbers on a certain-width architecture will take longer, because you need more operations per comparison. I think the point of the example is that lining the pieces up so that they can be picked out is constant-time, because they are physical objects and all either being pushed or falling under their own gravity. That's a good point, though, it assumes arbitrarily large (Andre the Giant?) hands.
A friend of mine's grandad used to comment that in the second world war, as British infantry, the one place you didn't want to be was anywhere near the Americans. They were just as likely to drop bombs on you as the Germans were. And they had more bombs and could hit the wrong target with much greater reliability than the German's could hit the right one.

I am greatly warmed to see that this friendly tradition between us is still in effect and that you have thoughtfully extended the favour onto everything else that moves or looks like it might do.

I do wonder however if there might be a slight commercial conflict of interest going on. Tell me, do the people who make the computers that tell you when to fire the guns and missiles and stuff, also sell you the rather expensive ammunition and missiles that then get fired? As perhaps the computer might be more reliable if they were two separate companies and couldn't hold shares in each other. Not trying to imply that a weapon's manufacturer would be as immoral with their consumables as an inkjet printer manufacturer, but it never hurts to be careful and could even save some of those all important tax dollars in the long run. Or the brass could have even more Hungarian prostitutes and novel infections for the medics to coo at, either way.
A Tale of Two Attributions
that would be a bit creepy and opportunistic if fb did that. Yt videos are by and large uploaded for profit. Fb videos are uploaded for storing birthdays and family vacations.
Memorable quotes:

'I doubt Mark would be staging things. He works for Nasa and worked on some big projects there and is a pretty smart guy. I can't see him being the kind of person looking to just make some viral fake video. But up to you to make that call if you want to think that. This is one case where I doubt it's staged.'

'Given who made the video, I'd give it about a 0% probably of being staged. That's not Mark's gig.'

'Well one, he's not a prank channel. He's a serious professional that even showed video of people stealing his package that started the whole idea. He then went as far as to machine parts, have a custom pcb manufactured etc. Then he contaminated cars and residences with glitter, yeah good luck talking random friends to let you bomb their cars and houses with glitter.

I mean, the dude worked for JPL for almost a decade and has his work on Mars, he already gets tons of views and has a history of deep-diving projects. He's also a tv host. He's also a former TED speaker.

Guy has better things to do than stage videos for YouTube.'

If I'm not mistaken, this would be a good example of the halo effect.
But also remember that accessibility for visually impaired folk is often. A regulatory imperative in those product lines.
I suppose bravery is somewhat akin to chutzpah...
>One got kicked out after doing a 'mason in distress' sign at a judge to get his drug trial stopped.

But has the signal worked for others?
You keep attacking the use of the "promise". I don't know if English is your first language, but people making this claim in the thread aren't using the word in the sense of a pinky promise. They don't need to say "we promise to ship this, for real!" If a game developer says a game will launch in 2016 and provides publicity material such as posters implying this fact, then they are "promising". If I tell you that I will follow up on an email you sent me, I've made you a promise; if you set an expectation, you've made a promise to someone.

For the record, I've only heard of Star Citizen and never funded it, played it or engaged with the community.
Why? Creating coins and transferring coins are completely separate things. They're intertwined, in bitcoin, because bitcoins are created in transfers. But there's no fundamental reason for that to be the case.
"For example, available data suggests P/R didn't actually substantially contribute to SC1/2."

That's a pretty wild claim to repeat. Not a single person on the original team agrees with it, and they've filed the copyright registration in court[1]. There's basically no evidence at all for that conclusion, except that Stardock made the claim (not supported it, not provided evidence of it, merely made the claim)

Even if you do believe it, it's legally irrelevant as the team has signed the copyright over to them[2], and they released The Ur-Quan Masters back in 2003 using that copyright.

I was a member of the community back in the lat 90s/early 00s and this was common knowledge even back then.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6239751/71/6/stardock-s...

[2] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6239751/64/5/stardock-s...
Great article, shared it with some friends who are geeks and shooters.

The presentation of the information was well done, I'd say.
It's very nearly a proper paper, if you ask me.

Thanks for sharing!

I especially enjoyed the pictures of the arduino and gear setup.
You're taking money for people without a good way of getting it to them (or ensuring that they want the money at all).

My friend Mark had an accident and I think he needs help paying for it. Would you give me some money to help Mark pay for his medical bills? Thank you, I'll just put it in my bank account until Mark asks me for the it.

Trust me, I'm trying very hard to let Mark know I have money for him. I'm going to send a letter to his parent's house so he knows that I have money for him, but only when I get $100. In the mean time I'll just hold on to the money.

Oh Mark never got the money you gave me to give to him?

Well, you only gave me $75 so I never sent him a letter.

Well, it turns out Mark isn't on speaking terms with his parents, so he never got the letter.

Well, he has health insurance and didn't need the money after all.

Where's the money now? I guess it's still in my bank account. No you can't have it back.
My "learn react" project has been http://hasgluten.com.
It's the react tutorial backed by a google spreadsheet and hosted for free on github pages. Then I added a bunch of stuff, wikipedia embed, translations, etc.