skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could understand that evolution, but I have become convinced that this particular developer simply worked with negative logic in his brain. Even the configuration files will have:

Feature1Disabled=False

Feature2Disabled=True

Feature3Disabled=False

Instead of using feature flags to enable a feature, he used feature flags to disable features. He was very consistent and the logic is all correct, simply inverted.
I looked at Prophet a few months ago because we needed a fire-and-forget library similar to 'auto.arima' (R "forecast" package) for Python, but no good candidates existed.

However I found Prophet to be computationally a little heavier than auto.arima because it uses "stan" (Bayesian) underneath, which in turn uses an MCMC type approach and has quite a few dependencies. We needed fast model retraining as well, and at the time, it didn't seem like that was something it excelled at. (might have changed, I'm not sure)

I ended up putting together a simple ensemble forecast model class with "statsmodels" which automatically selected/averaged the best models over a collection of model types via heuristics and cross-validation. It works ok, but I'm still waiting for someone to port the R auto.arima over to Python. (I tried rpy, which in theory should have worked, but I struggled with the impedance mismatch)
IANAL, I can only go by what the article is saying. The article explicitly says "a U.S. corporation resides only in its state of incorporation".

"Residency" in this sense is evidently not the same as "having an established place of business". Apple is avoiding having an "established place of business" in the eastern district.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-...

the participants audit each other real time, one party cant cook its books, if youre all writing one shared book. both parties agreeing to work being done and pressing "this work was done" or a camera watching for the work being done, would be a prerequisite for the task being marked as complete in the system.

things like enron/toshiba happen when companies are maintaining multiple sets of books, one they present to the public, and others hidden in private.
> you're wrong about the rest

It says "in the Earth's crust". That indicates to me that the biosphere and the oceans are not being counted. Also, it's giving abundances by mass, which is not the only way to do it (I was actually thinking of abundance by atom count).

Later in the same Wikipedia article, the top eleven abundances by mass for the ocean are given: oxygen and hydrogen are the first two, carbon is #10, and silicon doesn't even make the list.

No figures are given in that article for the biosphere; my statement of carbon being the most abundant for that is based on the fact that it forms the "backbone" of all of the main types of molecules in living organisms: proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids.
Is this because of the latest JRE podcast?
Is the 15% adjusted based on salary? Because right now you it looks like you would take a $6,000 pay cut to go from $39,999 salary to $40k salary
Or if they are anti-vehicle, they are not set off by dismounted infantry.

They are more effective against the intended target.
> No country on earth with single payer or other universal coverage has anywhere near the number of citizens nor geographic or social diversity as the US.

This argument is so bizarre. Larger population sounds like better economies of scale to me. And social diversity? I mean we're talking about Homo Sapiens here. A kidney is a kidney is a kidney, no matter your cultural background.
I've been meaning to look into F# and this post gave me the motivation to do so again.

However, trying to get up and running on a Mac, the documentation is horrible. I looked at several of the official guides, including the Microsoft site on how to get running with VSCode, and none of them worked without having to search for the error messages.

Now that I'm up and running, none of the docs I could find would tell me how to build/run a project.

It appears you to install the .NET Core SDK, and now trying to build a project gives some ".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1" error.

What a nightmare. I almost expected this since this is a .NET/Microsoft related project.
For considerably extra lulz, I have added GPT-2 text snippets with an anime plot prime.
This looks like some heavy spin. The only reason why those stores were there was to put a positive spin on Apple in the minds of potential jurors. Same as the Samsung ice rink. The stores don't have a purpose now that reforms have been put in place to inhibit shopping for favorable courts.
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> Good points, as it were, in 10 years when your "Falcon Wing Door" breaks because it's got a fraction the engineering time and lessons learned over 100 years of car door mechanisms you're going to be envious of people with those boring old regular doors.

Yep, which is why I've even given up on these newfangled door things and got myself a motorcycle -- there's millenia of "technology" behind (dis)mounting horses so I should be safe during the car door apocalypse.

And, honestly, Tesla doors are probably as technologically advanced as a minivan hatchback.
"Staying true to yourself" isn't about knowing what or who your "true self" is. It's really about seeing who/what you are now.

Here's an example. You're looking at a job offer. You think you can probably negotiate to get a higher base salary, but you don't. Why not? One answer I've heard in the past was "I believe that if we have to negotiate money, then I'm not joining this startup for the right reasons." There's a kernel of truth there, but I doubt that person really believed this point. This person was more likely averse to the discomfort of negotiation.

Staying true to yourself in this situation means acknowledging (to yourself) that you are showing a conflict avoidance behavior. Once you acknowledge it, you are halfway to deciding to do something about it. But as long as you rationalize it away, you would not know how to stay true to yourself.

Other posters have covered other dimensions of this question and also advice for working on this specific issue, but this is my take on something related to understanding your "true self" that shows up on a daily, hourly basis.
Because it is a racial issue. Arguing otherwise is just advancing the standard "all lives matter" response— telling the occupant of a burning building that "all houses matter" as the firetruck busily sprays the building next door and ignores the actual inferno.

There's a pretty widely-cited and thoughtful rebuttal to the Fryer paper, which I'd encourage you to read in its entirety: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/blog/roland-fryer-wrong...

"Even if one accepts the logic of statistical discrimination versus racial bias, it is an inappropriate choice for a study of police shootings. The method that Fryer employs has, for the most part, been used to study traffic stops and stop-and-frisk practices. In those cases, economic theory holds that police want to maximize the number of arrests for the possession of contraband (such as drugs or weapons) while expending the fewest resources. If they are acting in the most cost-efficient, rational manner, the officers may use racial stereotypes to increase the arrest rate per stop. This theory completely falls apart for police shootings, however, because officers are not trying to rationally maximize the number of shootings."

"It is a failure of journalism that the New York Times heavily promoted this study without seeking critical perspectives from experts in the field. Fryer makes basic methodological errors, overstates the quality of his results, and casually uses the term 'racial bias' in a way that is nearly guaranteed to be misinterpreted by anyone who isn’t an economist."
Playing quake 3 arena in the office with 30 other engineers after the work day.
My son's 2, I just tell him I'm reading. Unless there's pictures he isn't really interested.

I'm not sure I could get into much more detail than that, perhaps a library metaphor?
Well he didn't.
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My take.

Universities do a better job of tech transfer in agriculture than they do anywhere else. Cornell has innovated with everything from wine grapes, barbecue sauce, and free literature for researchers in third world countries. The endowed schools at Cornell are excellent, but the ag school and vet school rock the world. The agricultural extension office is taking it to the streets in 50+ counties in the U.S. but other researchers are doing things elsewhere in the world.

Compare that to the computer science department where you see PhD students who are about to give their job talks at CMU, Stanford, Google, Facebook and... that's about it.

Is the bay area really right for this? I don't know. It seems to me that somewhere in the Fresno direction you could find people who are 100% serious about agriculture but still have some access to Bay Area robotics expertise, assuming that is what you are going after.

I think of this marketing success story:

https://www.lely.com/us/solutions/milking/

These machines are being installed in dairies everywhere because farmers recognize the value.
I grew up in Plano too! Closing the Willow Bend location could be a death knell for the mall - it brings substantial traffic to the property.
Ya it's kind of weird he talks about how stuffing a beige box PC in the corner was the impetus for X86 servers. But the modern day equivalent of that is either a cheap $5/month VPS, a RaspberryPi, or an OpenWRT router, any of which could compile/run ARM code.

I think fundamentally, the error he's making is comparing the current market to the late 90s/early 2000s market. Back then a RISC Unix machine cost thousands of dollars. It was cost prohibitive to give one to each dev/admin. Nowadays a RISC Linux PC is $5.
From non-dual teaching (Francis Lucille), you know it by being it and you are it when happy. In a different aspect, the answer is the same as to the question "how do you know you are aware?".
The American phrase for this is contract-to-hire. You hire someone on a short-term hourly basis, with the understanding that this is a trial period that can be easily terminated by either side.

The huge downside for the employer is that you're never going to hire away anyone from another company, so you're pretty much cutting out anyone who isn't very junior.
> I'm from a small mining city in Canada (Sudbury, Ontario).

Yet you got fibre optic to the home (with phone and tv) years before those of us in the south.
No, I mean I don't get promoted for trying to hear what other people say, while managers can't say enough nice things about the hipster-ass who breaks everything he touches trying to turn it into GraphQL no matter what.

But I didn't write that very clearly the first time.
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No, haven't heard of it.
Thanks for the assist!
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So much potential here.

A few years ago I put together a project overlaying aerial photography of Denver from 1933 on modern satellite imagery.

Check it out if you're interested https://oldcity.io

Edit: I have the imagery to do the bay area in 1939 too, just have not gotten around to it.
Interesting that you brought up this treaty because I believe none of China, Russia or US has signed it...

[0]: http://disarmament.un.org/treaties/t/mine_ban
Example code that goes with the book is also freely available:

https://github.com/cloudnativedevops/demo
Hah! This fits with the point of the article I guess.

I mean, I started with Pascal, then C and C++, then PHP, then Ruby then C# and some Java, then Scala, then JavaScript, and now Elixir and TypeScript. Of all those, I like TypeScript the best (barring the NPM / deployment / transpilation / packaging mess, that is). I mean, I like it the best by far. It combines functional with OO much like Scala set out to do, but in a much simpler and more accessible way. I really love it, I think in its structures. All JS I write feels like TypeScript. Even a lot of the Elixir I write (for better or worse) feels like TypeScript with a funny syntax.

I now feel like structural typing is the big missed opportunity of most statically typed languages. The fact that I can define a type simply by writing, say, an object literal, continues to make my day.

let a = { name: "Pete", age: 6 };
a.nmae = 7; // type error!
a = { nmae: "Mike", age: 7 }; // type error!

or even

function moo() {
return { name: "Pete", age: 6 };
}

const a = moo();
a.+---------------------+
|name string |
|age number |
+---------------------+

Stuff like this feels so normal so quickly that I feel like I'm using yesterday's tools whenever I either don't get the autocomplete/type error (hi Elixir, Ruby, Python, PHP), or I have to manually add a `type Moo = yada yada` declaration above my function (hi Haskell, Scala, C#, F#, Java, srsly all of them).

I'm not claiming any of this is new. I mean truth is I haven't seen any Haskell or F# or Scala code that does this, but I bet that's just my limited exposure to functional languages. I've heard these languages are pretty powerful, so sorry if I insulted your cult there :-)

Still, I've used no other language that enables this ability to write code the way one would write dynamically typed code - head-first, straight down into the operational stuff, and finetune the data structures as we go along - while still getting type checking and all the confidence and tool support that comes with it for free.

I agree with the OP. TypeScript is my cult. <3
Node and Ruby applications do fail on ARM though, when it comes to native libraries and extensions. And now your whole distro is different than your development machine, which adds complexity.

Do I really want to be debugging why node-gyp fails to compile scrypt on the ARM distro on the new Amazon A1 ARM instance (which it did in my case)? And if I solve that, what about the other 2451 dependencies? Let's pessimistically say there's a 1% failure rate, I'll be stuck doing that forever! Nah, I'll just go back to my comfy x86 instance, life's short and there's much code to write :)

I think I'll side with Linus on this one. I saw first-hand how non-existent the x86 Android market was, despite Intel pouring megabucks into the project. If the developers don't run the same platform, it's not going to happen, no matter how great the cross platform story is in theory. Even if it's as simple as checking a box during upload that "yes, this game can run on X86", a huge chunk of the developers will simply never do that.
Beyond that, I have taught theory of computation in the past, and I think the rest of the article is a solid writeup. The DPA section might need another pass; that felt the most uneven. Things that jumped out at me:

- If the audience if programmers unfamiliar with automata theory, I am not sure how many would know what a Turing machine, von Neumann machine, or even a program counter is.

- Clarifying what is meant by "internal" and "external" state.
Except, of course, that as the article points out, the courts provide virtually all the value in preventing clients from cheating the auditing systems, or ensuring that a correctly delivered package actually has contents fit for purpose.

And if your contract is only the code, you've got a big problem in making your case that tampering with the oracle or sending an empty box is an act of bad faith on the other party's part, and much more expensive lawyers to interpret it...
> And when the Supreme Court overturns them, the next case relying on Supreme Court precedent inevitably goes to the Federal Circuit, which has proven very willing to engage in sophistry to issue a new binding precedent that clearly is the opposite of what the Supreme Court meant.

I get what you're trying to say, but I think your point at the end regarding the Federal Court trying to go behind the Supreme Court's back is false.

The Federal Court's decisions often propose a framework for patentability, then the Supreme Court rejects the framework without then building one of their own. When the next big patentability case comes up, the Federal Court tries again with something new, then the Supreme Court says "No, try again".

The Federal Court frameworks are often pretty mediocre, but if the Supreme Court had an actual policy direction in mind, it is fully competent to just develop and state the test and put this area to rest. They haven't because they can't. Every framework sucks, because the patentability concept is way too broad to be addressed in a single test. So then the USPTO puts out their internal instruction, and after we've had a 4 link chain of broken telephone, we hit the point where 'stupid patent x got in under the new "Case X" framework and the Supreme Court feels the need to tell everyone they're stupid, without proposing a solution.

Functionally, all this game of framework tennis does is make the field absurdly complicated, but lets not blame that on the Federal Court alone. There's plenty of other things we can blame them for.

Like how the fuck did the former chemist judges on the court not know what covalent bonds were? !@#$!#%$@#$%
https://codecleane.rs/

It's a blog I write with my brother, dedicated to topics regarding working in a legacy environment while applying agile and software craftsmanship principles
It's just as easy to file in other districts as the Eastern District. Trolls like the Eastern District because of the judges currently sitting on the Eastern District, as well as the caliber of juries in the Tyler area. They're not super educated, easy to manipulate, and have a "well, they wouldn't have filed if they didn't do something wrong" attitude.
> In return graduates pay us 15% of their income for 2 years if they are earning over $40,000.

How do you enforce this? I.e. what stops someone from simply lying about their income?
This article operates on the invalid assumption that a T-Bill (aka Treasury Bond) and money are the same thing. Which is the equivalent of saying a car and money are the same thing. A car might be worth a certain amount of money, but it isn't money. Of course I can buy a car or T-Bill, and my net worth stays the same, but I have less money and someone else gets more.

The author's assertion is that the government can borrow money, spend it, then print money to pay off the debt and somehow not increase the money supply. The government would have be better off just printing money rather than borrowing it so they don't have to pay interest. Either way, the money supply in the economy is increased which will almost certainly lead to inflation.
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> For example, if I hold the political view that working more than four days a week is inhumane, that carries just as much as protected class status than if I believed Sundays are declared by god as the day of worship and rest.

It's true that in some jurisdictions (including CA), political affiliation/activity is a protected class, meaning employers cannot discriminate against or refuse to hire people because of these affiliations/activities.

But that doesn't necessarily extend to political beliefs. Otherwise, employees could just say that any of their beliefs (I should have a 2-hr lunch; employers should provide free breakfast/lunch/dinner) are political in nature and then get whatever they want. Unlike religion, which may not be the basis for discrimination and must be reasonably accommodated, I'm not sure that any of the political stuff has to be accommodated. I think employers just can't discriminate on this basis.

I could be wrong here, and am happy to be educated. But I'm a former lawyer and have followed this type of things somewhat during the last decade.
That's true: you will have deniability. To begin with, all autonomous sysems will also be able to operate as remote controlled, or semi-autonomous with human triggering. If you are the kind of state that will, say, repaint military vehicles before sending them across the border to a country where you "have no military engagement" - you would also no doubt operate autonomous weapons and call them remote controlled.

Still - using what amounts to a nuclear first strike is a dangerous game to play, so it might at least make superpowers think twice if it's made clear that this is how it's seen. Russia wouldn't try to use a bioweapon or tiny nuke and claim it was conventional, because it's a risky gamble.
Hmm, sorry about that, I'm going to reword this and hopefully clarify my thoughts. I wonder about the limitations of us humans, as a species, and what we do when we ask about things.

I wonder if there are constructs and frameworks more advanced than "questioning". Is "questioning" that we, as a human species, do something that is just one primitive part in the scale of evolution?
> All the big players have got real-time feeds they're sharing with each other to keep track of who's made what transactions, and they're constantly reconciling them against each other, to make sure that everyone's looking at the same picture.

That is exactly what blockchain is. It is literally doing that.

> None of this is strictly necessary, because there is a central source of truth that you can rely on.

But who is running that? And why do you trust them not to change things around every so often?

> it works a lot like how a blockchain would work

Except there's no central source of truth because no one trusts anyone. Which is why its so strong. There's no need to trust.

> The only difference is, nobody's bothering with all that crypto stuff, because all it would do is make the whole thing more expensive

That's what makes blockchain immutable. You can't alter it without an enormous amount of resources. And even then, the actions of the rest of the network work to discourage that sort of thing. In PoW, everyone else is checking the non-altered data, and in consensus, everyone else has already agreed on non-altered data.
the problem right now is, let's say you are earning 80K as C# dev, you take 5 months to learn front-end but you don't get a front-end job.

So you take another C# job that pays you the same.
But now you have to give Modern Labor 15 % of your pay.

You are taking a chance that the new job will pay you at least 15% more than your current one after 5 months.
> With that password, even if the phone number get reassigned, they can't have access to your account.

I wonder what happens if you acquire that phone number and decide to make it your main one. Hopefully support staff have a way of checking if the old user's active, and asking them to change their account to a number they actually have access to.
Our focus is on paying the students a livable wage to have time to learn. We want to pay as much money out to them as possible. Most of our work is self-paced or project-based, and while their are people to help guide them, we want the maximum amount of money going to students. Lambda is a great program but a lot of money goes to more attention from mentors. They are experimenting with stipends, but overall it's more expensive. We think there's space in the (growing) market for different models.
Hi everyone,

Bitcoin Script is the programming language used in bitcoin transactions. BitAuth IDE is a new open source project for designing advanced authentication schemes in this language.

BitAuth IDE includes a compiler with an entity/variable system and an interactive, "omniscient" debugger to view the entire execution of the program as you are typing.

You can learn more about the system in the link, and there's also a video walkthrough at the top of the article.

I'd love to answer questions and hear your thoughts! You can find the project on Github here:

https://github.com/bitjson/bitauth-ide
> Yeah I don't know if I have autism or whatever but I do know that I can't fucking concentrate with a dozen people having loud conversations 5 feet away from me.

It's not autism. Ignoring a stimulus takes effort. It diverts resources that you could be using for something else.