skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me algorithm is simply an explanation/strategy of a list of steps needed to implement some logic and/or solve some problem. IMO it can even be a paper with IKEA instructions how to assemble a desk. Might not seem so, but if you'd tried to program a robot to do it, you'd probably call those steps the desk building algorithm. However I wouldn't call every css selector an algorithm on its own, just like print() function is not an algorithm - but if we have a routine to print say only odd numbers, that is definitely the (very simple) algorithm. Equally if you come up with a recipe how to combine css selectors into a series of rules to select e.g. N particular elements in an arbitrary list of DOM nodes, in my mind it's the full-blown algorithm too. Just my $.02 of course...
No more than violence never solves anything.

Which is to say that it's a false aphorism.
> There were multiple wars, involving the death of many millions, and that's just the last hundred years.

Of which the EU has existed for just 27 years.

For the 70 years of its existence NATO has been a strong bond and influence, with the exception of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus it has prevented violent conflict between its members. And it didn't require integration of forces; it published standards for commonality and each member nation determined the nature of its own implementation and declared its contribution to collective defence.
The indie lives if the industry dies. The industry will not die but it may evolve.
Wouldn't this completely screw over corporations? Or do we have some other mechanisms that will continue to protect them from these abuses them but not other types of "persons"?
The game is somewhat simple to beat. Just pick the quirky face -- i.e. the one couldn't realistically be generated using a combination of a collection of faces. A blurrier background is sometimes a giveaway too.

The game would be harder if the real faces were less asymmetrical in detail (no hats, etc.). And a lot harder if you needed to pick all of the real (or fake) faces, rather than pick the real one knowing the other is false.
When someone says "reject labels", I basically hear "don't think primarily in terms of them". I didn't take it as "don't ever speak it", but more "don't put it front, middle and last, 24/7". I can imagine it can be annoying/exhausting, part of feeling welcome is the understanding that it's perfectly normal for one to be there, I think.
What is the purpose of an online feedback system then?
The USA is a common-law jurisdiction which means that convention and "how things were always done" have outsized significance when compared to civil-law jurisdictions like much of western Europe. Civil-law jurisdictions tend to rely more on statute, but they also have legislatures that can actually get things done, rather than cultivate this bogus adversarial relationship between the people and the government wherein the government is obstructed or hindered from getting all but the most critical and unanimously supported things done.
Germany provides many Basic Rights to everybody.

Others are only for citizens (and EU citizens, but via a strange legal method), but the most fundamental ones state "Everyone", not "every citizen".
^That profile was created a few hours ago. I've often seen this happen when people create profiles to defend this employer on social media.
If I was a betting man I would say that in 50-100 years it will be recognized as one (obviously it will still be illegal to act on it, but it will at least be scientifically regognized). So far scientists have found it just as hard to categorize neurologically and genetically as sexual orientation. There are some themes, but nothing obvious enough to justify its current DSM categorization. Prejudice is what keeps this from happening and will likely delay things for a long, long time.
The Amazon HQ2 search was a huge con game. They did not award NYC a second HQ of 50,000 jobs, the prize, but only a large satellite of 25,000 jobs. This is called bait and switch. An unanswered question is "where would 25,000 new families live?"

A large tech company will suck the life out of the startup environment due to better pay, benefits, technical challenges, and prestige. New York state allows non-compete agreements, so it is hard to change tech companies.
Never heard of Lojban's vocabulary - thank you for a very interesting read!
I am not sure what best means in this context..?

Most utilitaristic? Best in stealing public resources while being seen as a philantropist?

What the best is, depends on the incentives, the goals and the company culture. The best Mafioso in a group of the best mafiosi will be without a doubt a damn good Mafioso – but what does this mean for the rest of society?
>The court had, however, previously ruled that most protections under the Bill of Rights apply to the states

>...the Indiana Supreme Court ruled against Mr. Timbs, saying that the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of excessive fines did not apply to ones imposed by states.

Does anyone know which rights people assume they have but don't because the protection only applies on the federal level?
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Amazing story!

Congrats to founder!
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> I'm afraid I'm going to have to be a little rude here.

No, please don't. On HN, it's necessary to make your points respectfully and neutrally, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are. If you can't or don't want to do that, please don't make them here. We certainly did not need the dozens of comments' worth of petty bickering that this thread devolved to.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19210528.
That's generally true, although forces today are trying to dismantle the Bill of Rights to suit their own agendas:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/clarence-thomas-...
My wife is American, she came to study in Sweden, I'm a native. She lived in Sweden for 7 years and was struggling to learn the language, people are very insistent on speaking English if they hear that's your native language. That's nice and all, but it makes it hard to fully become part of society. The biggest issue is the individualism bordering on egotism, people just don't want to deal with strangers.

Being half-Spanish I often compare to that culture. Over there you'll see kids, teenagers, adults and old people hanging out in bars together at 1am on the weekends. Over in Sweden you're supposed to stay locked up in your apartment after 6pm once you're past your 70s.

If you're seriously considering moving away from the US I'd suggest looking at Norway, which seems like a much friendlier place to me.
The executive branch can also help here. Someone can run for district attorney, say "my office won't use civil forfeiture", and it's gone.

What is scary is that that's not the platform people run on, or win elections by running on.
i get red eyes even from my shower, unless there is pee in the water pouring from the shower head, I dont know what to say.
There will be some cases where that's likely to be a slam-dunk. IIRC there were some cases in the western states some years back where relatively small amounts of drugs (personal-use levels) were used as reasons for seizure of some large farms or ranches.

In at least one of those cases I think it would have to be the estate pursuing it though.
It's not fair to compare this to a water fountain, which is unfiltered and fairly disgusting. I lived in South Florida for 17 years and I don't think many people want to drink the (tap) water there. This is probably a good idea.
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is it possible that this is simply sweat instead of actual pee?

serious question - I thought sweat is mostly comprised of the same excretion. just surprised 'peeing in the pool' is so normal.
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I'd really rather do that anyway than put up with Signal's self-updating nag-screen process.
Your position seems to boil down to suggesting since the problem cannot be fixed perfectly, nobody should even try, and meanwhile those who do try are "hysterical".

I read the position as: "The problem can be mitigated, but we shouldn't go so far as to actually try to police people's internal thoughts and feelings. There are some who are so overcome by emotions with this issue, that they would even advocate going that far."
Seems like a good approach, if you use asymmetric encryption. Keep the private key in a safe place, and the public on the machine; then you can store new codes (by encrypting them with the public key) without having to access the safe place.
Unrelated to CPAP, but alcohol is a strong suppressor of REM sleep (cf. Walker, Why We Sleep).
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>ApneaBoard community made a "1.1.0" release of "SleepyHead" without the author's approval, rather than forking it and calling it something else

So Mark says. The ApneaBoard folks say that it was released by Mark's chosen right hand man.

As far as I can tell the ApneaBoard folks have yet to release their own version or fork the code. They seem to be organizing to do just that which is what set Mark off.
"Even middle-class families are finding medical school hard to pay for"

Why should families be paying for this at all? Shouldn't I be able to fund my own education, especially higher degrees? Most parents don't expect to still be shelling out 10s of thousands of dollars to their 26-year-old offspring. It's insane how normalized these astronomical tuitions have become.
What you are looking at are the views of the MEPs. MEPs represent specific people living in the country, not the country as whole. This statement was issued by the countries, meaning the representatives of the governments currently in power in those countries.
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See the thing is that YouTube (and every other company whose business model is “serve ads next to user-generated content”) will let pretty much anything go through unless it is something that will generate huge fines, or will get advertisers to walk away. They are aggressively amoral corporations whose only motivation is profit, and they will promote anything that results in people seeing a lot of ads, regardless of whether what the ads are being placed next to is healthy for the viewers or for society at large.

Saying “hey big advertisers do you know your ads are showing up on this hideous thing” is one of the few ways available to try to get some sense of moral accountability to one of these platforms. Reporting individual pieces of content or individual users does nothing, if it’s drawing paid views there will be another person doing the same thing that the system will be quite happy to start promoting until they, too, get reported.
It depends of what you mean by state, I was talking about internal state in the application. Your example is about network state like websockets not REST APIs ( what 99,9% of people use ), even with that it's easy to rollout new connections with canary deployment, and with a load-balancer in front of that your replace old instances with new one with no disruption and you can drain your old instances.
Even if the connection is cut, in your client logic you should have a proper reconnection mechanism.

Hot code reload is imo a bad practice and should be avoided.
>The car is potentially proceeds of crime

Then the state must prove that case rather than it being in implicit assumption.
What I find especially amazing is that doctors have to refuse anti-vaxers as patients since they put their other patients at risk. Which means they’re trusting the doctor, but at the same time think the doctor is wrong on an major fundamental issue. Normally you’d not go to a doctor that you think has a major flaw in their medical practice.
Alternatively, just wear goggles while underwater? My eyes get easily irritated swimming as well but goggles are a godsend.
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> proper editor like nano

Not sure what your point is (well ok, I am, and I agree), but you just lost
When I jailbroke my iPhone 3G back in the day, Cydia was chalk full of amazing, useful applications that extended the capabilities of my phone. I was actually able to run Pandora in the background while using other apps. At that time, background apps would not continue playing music, and probably could not do much else either. I had dashboards and quick launchers at the time when Apple didn't allow those things. I didn't pirate a single piece of software. It did let me use free software and apps that were not in the App store.

It's well known that there were some sketchy apps in there. But how was that any different from having a Linux or Windows desktop where in you can install whatever you want? I believe that the financial motivation (the walled garden) is the biggest one, but maybe not the only one.
What? Enterprise profiles are only allowed the set of entitlements that they are granted, similar to the App Store.
It would be good to let folks scribble on the tells. I had to resort to earring comparison a few times to break a tie on facial features.
I've heard this pretty often, and intuitively it sounds like it might be true. However, do you have any references about that?
The readme specifically says "undefined medium is a free and open-source pixel grid-based monospace typeface suitable for programming, ...".

I agree it's decorative, I love the style, but the docs are implying there's a reason you might want this for practical use.
Yup, this was an interesting read as well - http://www.apneaboard.com/forums/Thread-SleepyHead-version-1...

I respect all the work and dedication it took him to build what he did, but from the reading I've done on the forums, it does appear that he is the primary source of all this drama. There really isn't any competing interests, and no big corporate takeover.
Or catfish as a service
> This is why I don't swim in pools.

Meaning you swim in lakes/rivers instead? I doubt animal waste and decay products are better. At least the pool has chlorine.
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That's even more arbitrary, and won't solve the problem, as the next administration can reintroduce it. It's a temporary patch of the problem, and is technically also an abdication of the executive from their assigned role.
Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft etc seem to prove your argument wrong.
While your first paragraph is apposite to the post:

> Sorry if this sounds rude, but this was a surprise to you? I thought everyone in Europe realized how bicycle/pedestrial-hostile US cities are. Did you not come here first to check things out before committing to a cross-Atlantic move?

surely the proper answer to:

> And seriously, Sweden is one of the top countries on the quality-of-life indices. The US is definitely not. Why would you leave there to come here?

is "none of your business", and the answer to:

> That's like me leaving the US and moving to El Salvador, thinking it'll somehow be nicer.

is that the grandparent didn't say he or she expected the US to be nicer than Sweden, only implied an expectation that it would be less cyclist-hostile than it (the US) actually is.
I read this as "which France is real" and was slightly disappointed when I wasn't able to test my incomplete knowledge of European geography against a neural net.
This is an interesting set of arguments, I hadn't considered the efficiency of service delivery before.

Do you have any way of estimating the magnitude of these effects? I don't on my side, unfortunately, but I'd love to see some more detailed analysis either way.

I could believe that the positive utility from the effects you describe is higher than the negative utility of some industries being automated away, but it seems equally plausible that it's the other way, too (indeed from my naive non-economist viewpoint it seems like those effects would be second-order effects to the job-destruction ones).

> the minimum wage influences what jobs will be interesting under UBI.

I think there's a pretty watertight argument for abolishing the minimum wage if you're in a UBI regime, right? I certainly haven't heard an argument against, but perhaps you have one. I would have thought that the UBI would provide the "pinning" effect that you refer to, and then we could simplify the wage regulation by dropping the minimum wage, to give people more options on what to work on.
I agree. Unfortunately I'm not on the Chrome team.
I have suffered from chronic depression since I was a teenager. I have been on anti-depressants for the past decade, although I am about ready to start weaning myself off of them (under a doctor's supervision of course).

It sounds like loneliness is one of your core problems. My guess is that you have difficulty forming and maintaining personal relationships. I would give group therapy a try. It can be awkward and unnerving but it teaches to you how to be part of a community and how to interact with others in a meaningful way.

With respect to the symptoms of depression that you are experiencing, your first move should be to see your primary care physician. There are a variety of physical ailments for which depression can be a symptom. For example, hypothyroid, diabetes, vitamin D deficiency, low testosterone, sleep disorders, etc. Get some lab work done.

If you do end up deciding to take anti-depressants, make sure to continue therapy. Medicine alone won't fix your life. The goal of anti-depressants should be to make you feel well enough that you can start to fix your life. Also, if you decide to take anti-depressants quit drinking, smoking pot, or any other recreational drugs you may dabble in. They do not mix well!

Stay active. Sitting around the house is like suicide in slow motion. Go out a do things. Even if it's just running errands or taking a walk in the park you will feel much better than if you are sitting at home wondering if life is pointless. Get in shape, too. Find some activities you enjoy. Ideally, they should involve some form of "play." Whether it's basketball, surfing, snowboarding, or whatever, you need to have a way to experience being in the moment.

I also suggest reading Joseph Campbell. Start with The Power of Myth. The original PBS documentary series of the same name is available on Netflix as well.
There's certainly the dead bodies/waste products of fish in natural water, and there's no chlorine to sterilize them.
That's like saying a table is actually a chair, we just find it hard to categorize it as such. It's saying nothing.
What I'd like to know is if private property that was seized in the past will be returned?

One of my friend's dad had a hip surgery and was bed bound for a few weeks. The family had to be at work so they hired a live in helper who was an older woman in her 60s.

This older woman's story was a tragic one to hear.

She had immigrated from Asia to US with her husband and family and had managed to buy a 3bed house. Well life happened and they ended up divorcing in her 60s, and she ended up as owner of the house.

With no income and no real skill, she rented out rooms in her house to pay bills. One renter was a drug dealer. When he was arrested, somehow the lady was dragged into the case and she ended up losing the house to the police, due to this seizure of private property. This was the first time I heard about such practices.

With no house and no other choices, she had to turn to working as a live-in-helper to avoid becoming homeless.

I hope all properties seized through such cases are returned.
In today's world, a status quo improvement is revolutionary, because the default is for everyone to seek to create nothing but revolutionary products.

In other words, you might say OP is disrupting the disruption industry.
Mark Rober (glitter bomb) did a video on this. He also did a test on the "pool smell" if it really caused by pee reacting with chlorine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S32y9aYEzzo
> No country on Earth affords equal rights to citizens and non-citizens.

That's fine, but affording no rights to non-citizens would be highly problematic. Some argue the Constitution doesn't protect the rights of illegal immigrants, for example, but it makes clear distinctions by using "persons" in some spots and "citizens" in others.

Persons have a right to due process. Citizens have a right to vote. The difference is very important.
It appears that the picture with a detailed background is the picture of a real person. I choose a sequence of pictures, without looking at the faces, and I was able to use only the background correctly answer each time.
I was curious, so here's a source for the Michael Phelps tidbit:

https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/08/06/breaking-news-fro...
You can definitely afford one in a few days.
> chlorine itself is pretty much fine for you

It's difficult to imagine a context that would make this sentence reasonable. Chlorine is a light halogen. It's fine if it's bound to something stable, like in salt. It certainly isn't fine by itself. It's literally one step up from fluorine, the most horrifying substance known to man.

The safety diamond for chlorine rates it a 4 for health: "Very short exposure could cause death or major residual injury".
I'm happy for people who find personal success according to their own value system, but my personal measure of self wouldn't increase if I spent my days expanding the amount of email advertising in the world.
Java hasn't found a proper way to support something comparable to Swing. :)

If Java's standard library is reasonably sized, what is your idea of a bloated standard library? How often do you use SOAP? Applets? Open MBean? CORBA? Relation?

> Naturally turning into name calling is easier when running out of arguments.

I like many of your posts. This one is just gratuitous ad hominem.
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@billconan is right. Another reason is that it's a lot easier to access individual transactions if you can separate them somehow. A block acts like a page in a physical ledger and makes it easier to find a specific transaction to separate it from those that came before and after it.
Power users tended to use shortcut keys which are STILL (Office 2016) supported. Want to add an image from a file? Alt, I, P, F and you have a file picker on your screen ready to go.
Hi Colin,

It appears I didn't identify that "Reflections ..." is the calculus version. I was looking for a section header along the lines of "here's the calculus version".

BTW thanks again for e-mailing me, very nice of you!
Consider if you're looking at each piece of news with this "sketchy" filter in mind. Lots of things can look sketchy. But there are alternate explanations for lots of things. For whatever reason, we're better tuned for continuing a bias than we are for breaking it when we see the right amount of counter arguments.

Before you go too far down a rabbit hole, do a quick reality check. Major news sources are now reporting that she _appeared in court_ to deliver this. If this is a lie, it would take an absurd amount of coordination by the media, the other members of the supreme court, perhaps even members of the public in attendance. This should overrule any sense of sketchiness, however all the dots seemed to connect.
They are required to, to prevent cybersquatting.

If companies such as Facebook, or Google itself, had to wait until the EAP, then Anon (Unrelated to company) could have the Facebook.dev, or Google.dev domain; leading to confusion, and ultimately lawsuits for the domain.

I'm 90% sure there is a rule with IANA to allow companies to claim their brand before it goes public.

Speaking of public; the EAP is nothing but a price gouging scheme. Since anyone could join the 'EAP' it is public, but they are structuring the fees such only those who have enough to throw away can use it... The fact is, the .dev TLD is GA...