skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you weigh something like the burka?

On one hand to reject it, you would be intolerant of hundreds of years of tradition.

On the other hand, to permit it is to accept the idea that men are incapable of controlling not sexually assualting a woman and that women ought to be blamed for their own victimization. This is clearly intolerant of women being full members of society.

Either way, permitting or banning the burka is intolerant.

Then you arrive at that whole legal concept of reasonable discrimination, because property laws discriminate against thieves. But what is reasonable here?

I'm fond of the idea of only tolerating tolerance, but how do you deal with these edge cases? If you rigidly adhere to that tolerance-uber-allis belief, how long until you end up jailing people for following ancient but intolerant traditions? How long until you end up with Chinese style muslim re-education camps? This isn't a troll, this is actually one of my own philosophical conundrums. I believe in a vacuum that people would be happier not following those ancient intolerant schemas, but I don't see that as the situation in the present day.
"Marketplace" refers to 3rd parties selling on the platform. Until recently, Walmart.com was exclusively products sold by Walmart - now they let 3rd parties list and sell products too (just like Amazon).
No one is going to build a base in Taiwan. This is not 1985. China is way too powerful and advanced militarily now for the US to provoke them so directly.
There are plenty of good reasons why China deserves tariffs, why not start there as the root cause?

Protectionism, IP theft, banning or heavily restricting US tech firms from operating in (aka exporting to) China, the list goes on.
Scientists develop 'artificial tongue' to detect fake whiskies
I follow the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent on nsidc.org:

Arctic warms the most when the climate change happens, it is expected that we'll see there the most of records most often broken.

Overview:

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

The interactive charting:

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...
Can one still be fired after already having quit (I suppose that might vary from state to state)?
You would have to completely rewrite employment law - there are better achievable things to work for (banning abusive non competes, an all non competes for all workers paid under 75% of the median salary) and I say that as an Activist.
I'm assuming this means they did a risk analysis, and have planned appropriate controls to mitigate the risks they found.

A risk and a vulnerability are not the same thing.
I'm glad this works for the people who live there and makes them happy. As for myself, I refuse to live in any city dense enough to even have a public transportation system.
I know it was a rhetorical question but of course not. This a pretty clear cut case, if you break the law you while you are doing an activity, you deserve to be kicked out from any platform you use to promote your work. Threatening people should be taken very seriously.She should be thankful she embodies the right demographic so authorities were very lenient.
The curve inversion forecasts the hit to be a year or so from now, so if you really believed in the yeild curves you'd still be in.
Then, wealthy people tear down the functional public transportation between the urban city and the rest of the metro (mostly roads and freeways), and replace them with pretty but function-less "public transit" (mostly buses in the midwest).

I don't understand... you are saying they replace roads and freeways and replace them with buses?

That's like replacing a glass with water. It makes no sense.
> It's not just the narrowness of the streets: they're also short and not on a grid.

The US suburbs with their hierarchical residential < collector < highway system were designed for cars, however most networks in the US city centers were designed before the invention of the car.
Decentralization is tempting for anti-censorship advocates, but the thing to remember is that freer services only win if they're also better for people who don't care about censorship, which means most people. Decentralized services are easy to demonize to the extent that they allow non-approved matters. The only way to escape that is to be so much better that it doesn't matter, like the web was in the 90s.
I think Michael Feathers explained it the best. He likened unit testing to clamping a piece of woodwork while you are working on it. The bits you are working on need to be in motion because you are working on them. The bits you are not working on them need to be clamped in place -- you don't want those things moving while you are working on some other bit. A "unit" is anything you might want to be clamped in place. It can be a function. It can be an object. It can be a subsystem. You want to unit test at different levels of abstraction so that you can "clamp" those levels of abstraction down.

One of the things I've found people get confused with is that they see unit testing and integration testing as orthogonal. They think a unit test should exercise a small piece of code in isolation and an integration test should test examples of real collaborators. Frequently they mock out all their unit tests and write a few integration tests. Then their unit tests become brittle and annoying and so they delete them, leaving only a few integration tests. This leads a lot of people with the impression that only integration tests are useful. If we can back up and redefine "unit test", then the problem disappears.

I read your "rant". Don't even get me started on BDD :-) Originally people had problems understanding the purpose of TDD because the word "test" had them confused. They would think, "I need to write tests to ensure that this is working". They didn't think about it in terms of clamping the behaviour so that it doesn't change when you are working on another part of the system. For that reason, a lot of people discussed changing the word "test" to something else that truly embodied what TDD was all about. Many people hit on the word "behavior" -- you want to document the current behaviour of your "units" (at different levels of abstraction). Somehow this got totally confused with automated acceptance testing! Now we have things like cucumber (which I don't actually hate, but it accomplishes a completely different goal than TDD!)

What really frustrates me is when I talk to people about this stuff and they think I'm a complete lunatic :-)
I'm not buying toilet paper from Amazon or searching the internet with Apple!
Banks, for instance...
Eugene Wallingford at the University of Northern Iowa recommends "My First Fifteen Compilers"

http://composition.al/blog/2017/07/31/my-first-fifteen-compi...

I haven't tried it yet, but it's on my list of "someday" projects
Measurements and reviews are only valuable relatively to some goal(s). The question is how to decide on those goals objectively.
Every country would prefer to devalue their currency relative to others in order to increase their trade surplus (or cut their deficit). Mathematically they cannot all succeed, so it ends up being a slow motion race to the bottom.
I really doubt China cares a bit about the agreement signed with the UK. They are more concerned alienating HK people which is hard not to do unless they put the integration with the mainland on hold for a few good years.
couldn't it be 1) configured that way or 2) oversubscribed (or 1&2)
The US would just need to cut off a few banks to trigger a credit crisis in China, they are already bailing out banks.

Who knows how this all will play out, won't be pretty either way.

I bet this is all empty brinkmanship.
See 35th Ave NE in Seattle.
That would also do crippling damage to US and other foreign companies doing business with China. Even the current tariffs and counter-tariffs have cost US companies many billions. Qualcomm alone is estimated to have lost about a billion dollars in sales.
What you're missing is that the tariffs are meant to make the local manufacturers's similar product being sold at $1.25 more price competitive to you, but the devaluation will nullify that.

So it's a war between tariffs and devaluation.
The U.S. govt from the top down, and even state and local governments will create a LOT of bureaucracy that provides no added value. Beyond that, they create purchasing systems that force higher spending. When states have tried to create different systems to stop corruption in those lines, the corruption just shifts and it winds up about the same.

There's a good episode of the West Wing about this. Everyone thinks that all of the government bureaucracy is useless until they confront the reason that it exists: to deal with specific issues within the government's scope of authority. Some bureaucracy is wasteful/far outlived it's purpose, but that is the exception not the norm.

I'd rather see the gov't cut most programs, and allow taxpayers to take roughly half of their own tax burdens and direct them to charities directly. Let people fund what they actually care about directly and advocate themselves.

If you think government is wasteful just wait until you see how much administrative overhead is wasted at charities and (for-profit) companies. You'd immediately demand for all of that spending to go back to the government.
So, really, is there any doubt that this is true? China's currency exchange rate has been abnormally stable for a long time, and the Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Reagan administrations all knew it was the result of currency manipuliation. They just found it politically unpalatable to admit it out loud.

The real question would be, why is the U.S. finally admitting this out loud?
1) amping up a trade war
2) decoupling U.S. economy from China
3) trying to leverage China into doing something differently, perhaps regarding North Korea

Some of these, of course, would interfere with others, for example you can't use it as leverage in #3 if China thinks you'll keep pursuing it anyway no matter what, due to #1 or #2.
Recent developments made me realize that we need to add cloudflare to this list.
Get something started ASAP.

I left a job when I was 28 with a depressing $21k in 401k. After sitting there for 16 years, it's now... big enough where it lost almost that much this last week.

Compounding... really... works...
If this was true then California would not have any gun violence and yet it's a gun violence ridden dystopian nightmare. Take out the 10 most gun controlled cities in America and suddenly 90% of all gun violence is gone.
How much impact have the Hong Kong protest had on trade? If I had to my guess, exactly zero.

And more weapons to Taiwan because of that? What for?

Maybe I'm being cynic but I don't see the needle moving here.
I mean, there's a problem in that borderline people generally know what to study for with these kinds of interview questions nowadays, hurting accuracy, but HackerRank is still great because it lets companies filter out dumb people and recognize smart people more efficiently. It also means that the few intelligent students at second-rate universities like SJSU, Drexel, Howard, etc, have better access to the job market instead of just being ignored by everybody who wants anybody good.
> So Trump is the manipulator, not China?

"currency manipulator" is a legal designation, not just an insult. It has 3 requirements (someone linked to the Wiki in another thread).

I'm pretty sure Trump wants to weaken the USD to increase US manufacturing and make our exports more competitive with the world, but I don't see that he has a plan to do it. He seems to be grabbing for any kind of leverage he can get to bully other economies into making promises to increase their imports of US exports.

It's just giving false hope to US industries which no longer have a competitive advantage in the world market... long enough to last through the next presidential election.
German internet didn't seem so bad to me, and I suspect it is because I am Australian. The parallels between Telstra and Telekom were uncanny.

In Germany eventually I ended up with 50mbit VDSL which was fine, but having to get Telekom out to connect a phone line in a new building was not fun. Lots of hoops had to be jumped through.

Coming back home to Sydney, stuck on 3mbit ADSL2+ (4km from exchange) was also not fun, but at least it was upgraded to HFC NBN a year later. We're making progress... but as in Germany, it all depends on where you live.
The solution to Burqa is not to make it illegal, but to educate future generations.

Burqa wearing woman don't harm anyone but themselves.

I don't understand how wearing Burqa is different from something like being Amish.

Should we make that illegal too?
Pretty sure it's within a year/year and a half. There isn't a safe run up where you should be in.
>Do you think you could elaborate a bit on how you believe the linked examples are equivalent to his without saying "the left"? Like, specifically, which of the linked examples do you think is most directly comparable to this, and specifically, which of the threats would you ban if you controlled YouTube and those threats were made on YouTube?

A non-response isnt a response
That may certainly be the case. In fact, I sure hope so tbh. But who knows at this point really. The decisions seems so arbitrarily made. One could easily argue that the same agency should have asked CF to do the same with 8chan. But we get this asymmetrical decision making which leaves us wondering.... why?!
As an aside, that is a refreshingly simple blog theme.
Such a sad story. Not unique but sad none the less.
China sets the price of its currency directly.

QE indirectly affects the price of your currency by manipulating the price of your bonds.
A thought in the back of my mind is fear of government oppression in a world without prevalent cars.

If you have a car you can travel hundreds of miles with few limitations and it's particularly hard to quash this even in an oppressive state.

If you only have your feet and public transit you are very limited to distance and location and tracking movements is an easy feature of the system. Things going wrong? The government can shut down the trains at whim.

A car grants a whole lot of freedom that many progressive people are really excited to give away.
A cynical person might say that it is meant to work exactly like this. Killing off older companies seems likely to be a service to progress and the economy. (not to the employees, which is a reason why I'm not a genuine advocate of pure capitalism). nevertheless, There are organizational, bureaucratic, and process debts in addition to technical debt, and I think capitalism acknowledges that in the end, those debts never get paid. Borrow against the future and burn out bright and fast. The good news, is except for capital itself, borrowing technology/process/and bureaucracy against the future is borrowing from yourself, not creditors.
The chances of that happening are really close to zero though. The world economy (and specially US economy) badly relies on Chinese.
>The standard does not guarantee that this gives you an array of double-float: it may (if the implementation provides them), otherwise you get an array of element type T. This turned out to be a major difficulty for implementing portable scientific code in Common Lisp.

Well, so? Just use a single CL implementation that does give you the guarantee.

After all you are now switching to use a single Julia implementation (there's no other anyway).

If portability is a concern, at least with CL you can always port 95% of your code to several implementations, and then write special code those kind of incompatibilities. With Julia one platform is all you get.

So how's that better, from the point of this complaint?
Unique electrical properties in quantum materials can be controlled using light
Or an episodic series where every episode has a new main character inventing time travel and then accidentally destroying the conditions that allowed then to invent time travel.
This is rich, considering just how reliant Federal Government agencies like the Department of Defense are on contractors.
Boohoo, poor corps. Should we sell ourselves out entirely to China to satisfy the corporate profit motive?

Personally, I rather Qualcomm goes bankrupt entirely than see Chinese global hegemony.
She had a period in her life where she did nothing but browse /pol/ all day cus she has some genetic immune system issue.
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Have you tried Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs)? Most implementations allow use to name arbitrary sub-parsers, often using the programming language's native variables.

See for example Peg.js, LPEG (lua), etc. However, PEGs don't natively permit left recursion (note: some PEG implementations do add that on). If that's a problem, Earley parsers are a nice alternative.

Example of a calculator using Peg.js:

start
= additive

additive
= left:multiplicative "+" right:additive { return left + right; }
/ multiplicative

multiplicative
= left:primary "*" right:multiplicative { return left * right; }
/ primary

primary
= integer
/ "(" additive:additive ")" { return additive; }

integer "integer"
= digits:[0-9]+ { return parseInt(digits.join(""), 10); }
That itself, is a morality fwiw, plus plenty of cops absolutely do not enforce laws they feel are wrong/stupid/pointless.
Exactly, it would have been fair game to ask why I used a window function instead of an aggregate function + subquery joined back onto the main result set. Or, to ask if I could rewrite the query another way which would be more efficient.

However, the interviewer didn't simply insist the query does not do what was asked (when it did indeed return the correct results).

Instead, the interviewer actually insisted it was an invalid query which would not run at all.
Why not try to apply that to taxis now? Alternatively: why would the government care that a new monopoly replaced what is essentially an old government-approved one?
What is this nonsense? First you bet I won't respond then claim I haven't? You're not discussing this in good faith.

> specifically, which of the threats would you ban if you controlled YouTube and those threats were made on YouTube?

I answered that. I personally wouldn't ban any of these including the 14 year old in question.

> specifically, which of the linked examples do you think is most directly comparable to this

I don't think any of them is "equivalent", but a policy that bans one should ban the other. I'm not in favor of "rules lawyers" constructing an elaborate system that bans some threats and depictions of violence but excuses others.
I have a recurring notice every 3 months to remind me to check expirations. Takes a few minutes each season and hasn’t failed till now.
This brings me a thought: What if I someone created a service that channels Amazon Mechanical Turk tasks as CAPTCHAs so that you(r website) could make a buck of those people solving captchas?
Yes, I bought an Elgato Cam Link 4K recently, and I could do it with CamTwist. I'd rather reduce the lag though, and the physical size/complexity of an extra computer.
I saw someone on Twitter post that this was a real life “Not Hotdog” from HBO’s Silicon Valley, though ironically this company doesn’t actually use AI or ML at all it’s just scaled human contract workers.

There’s some social commentary in there somewhere.
Printing alone is not manipulation.

Now, if the US were to print a quadrillion USD, and then flood the Yuan-USD market with printed USDs...
A few cases over years? US cops kill over 1000 people every year (https://killedbypolice.net/), so a few prosecutions is more like bad luck than real punishment.
That’s really not true. Being able to buy up goods and assets abroad for cheap can also be highly desirable. The evils of foreigners despicably trying to sell you their goods at cut rate prices are often exaggerated.
Yes. This is done either for public use (tearing out a lane of public travel, and replacing it with a lane for buses only) or privatizing the street altogether (tearing out a lane, and replacing it with front yards, or restaurant seating, or whatever).
I take the OP's original point to be that far-right ideological extremists have targeted, injured, and killed orders of magnitude more people than far-left ideological extremists during the last few years, which seems to me to be incontrovertible without resort to sophistry. Also, given that the larger context of this discussion is terrorist attacks rather than political confrontations that turned violent, it's relevant to ask "how many random bystanders have been killed when self-identified white supremacists opened fire on crowds vs. bystanders killed when self-identified 'antifa' have done so."
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Greenland Lost 12.5B Tons of Ice in a Single Day
Hey everyone! I'm Alex, CEO/founder of Scale!

I just wanted to chime in that we're a YC company as well (S16), and I'm thankful to the HN community for having been supportive through our whole journey.
In terms of universities, I'd agree the US has a very competitive edge, but in terms of the equivalent of K-12 I've seen a rather alarming lag across multiple states compared to the education I and my siblings had growing up.

Every openly socialist country in the world is the size of a small state or middle-sized US city. You're literally comparing apples to carrots.

If you were to name the country, I could pull the same type of statistics showing how bad the schools are in that country, how poor the roads are, how long the wait is for medical treatment.

And in the elementary schools I work with (and mind you I live in a district with a good reputation in the region in a relatively wealthy area), I'd say it's less than 10% of the kids are reading even close to their grade level.

Going to call bullshit on that one. My district wasn't all that great growing up and it was embarrassing when only 70% of my 5th grade class was reading at grade level. There are a few school district where less than half of students read at grade level, and they're almost all urban school district with large % of poor, ESL, immigrant student populations.