skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, what appears to be the context ProPublica (a source I generally like; I'm a civil libertarian) and more especially the submitter has stripped out:

(2) When a component applies an exclusion to exclude records from
the requirements of the FOIA pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552(c), the
component utilizing the exclusion will respond to the request as if
the excluded records did not exist. This response should not differ
in wording from any other response given by the component.

And so now you're wondering what 5 USC 552(c) is:

(1) Whenever a request is made which involves access to records
described in subsection (b)(7)(A) and -
(A) the investigation or proceeding involves a possible violation
of criminal law; and
(B) there is reason to believe that
(i) the subject of the investigation or proceeding is not aware
of its pendency, and
(ii) disclosure of the existence of the records could reasonably
be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings,
the agency may, during only such time as that circumstance continues,
treat the records as not subject to the requirements of this section.

(2) Whenever informant records maintained by a criminal law enforcement
agency under an informant's name or personal identifier are requested
by a third party according to the informant's name or personal identifier,
the agency may treat the records as not subject to the requirements of
this section unless the informant's status as an informant has been
officially confirmed.

(3) Whenever a request is made which involves access to records maintained
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation pertaining to foreign intelligence
or counterintelligence, or international terrorism, and the existence of
the records is classified information as provided in subsection (b)(1),
the Bureau may, as long as the existence of the records remains classified
information, treat the records as not subject to the requirements of
this section.

By my reading, the three cases are:

(1) Ongoing criminal investigations that could be disrupted by disclosure

(2) Criminal records pertaining to confidential informants

(3) Formally classified counterintelligence documents.
99% of people would tell you they don't find other peoples' children cute or darling, especially when crying in a restaurant. The whole point of the article is to explain that when it's your child, it's completely different. It's nature in action. Suddenly, you're a fucking silverback ready to rip the head off a jaguar for your baby.
Don't mean to be sound bad here but it does.

Imagine this - if this was Steve Jobs asking for help, what do you think the response would have been? Versus, someone like me who is vanilla software engineer.

Trying to give an extreme example to illustrate this.
It rather sounds to me like he just wants all cars off the road, and I'm not sure how you could arrive at a different conclusion without applying liberal amounts of conjecture.
i also want to note that the statement you quoted (and the entire article) should not be used as a guide for those diagnosed with sleeping disorders. in their case, they may be required to take melatonin to fall asleep.

i also recommend getting diagnosed by your physician before taking melatonin supplements; it works differently for everyone.
Or it only works in societies that are egalitarian enough to prevent an oligarch like Berlusconi or Thaksin Shinawatra () from using his wealth to incite the poor to become his foot soldiers.

() or Julius Caesar
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This claims too much. Differentials in power may always exist, but that doesn't mean power has the same distribution in all systems.

Social democratic systems coupled with vibrant civil societies lead to societies where power, though still distributed unevenly, forms a more interconnected and open network, instead of one centralized institution or small set of institutions that dominates society.

It's a bit unclear, though, which one leads to the other. Or if they're simply the same.
You can't make such a strong and almost offensive statement without at least elaborating a little.

As it stands you're adding nothing to this conversation.
I'm willing to admit I'm wrong, but I scoured those comments and I'm really not seeing it. If it's there, please, quote it, and I'll own it.
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From his Minimum Wage chapter [1]:

> It is unfortunate for clarity of economic thinking that
> the price of labor’s services should have received an
> entirely different name from other prices. This has
> prevented most people from recognizing that the same
> principles govern both.

If a given theory treats wages as merely prices, and ascribe them no role in the theoretical model other than that of a price of labour, then it's perfectly reasonable to protest or at least question their getting a special name.

But he gets everything wrong in his second sentence. There's a word for wages as opposed to prices because of how language evolved: put simply, we intuitively perceived wages as something different from prices and felt the need to give them a name of their own. This has nothing to do with science.

So in fact, when we're confronted with a theory where two concepts turn out to be the same thing, that can mean one of two things:

- IF the theory is sound, and grounded on enough evidence as to demonstrate that our intuitive perception was wrong all along, THEN indeed wages are no more and no less than prices. That would be an "aha" moment worth a prize or something.

- ELSE, if the theory isn't sound enough, or doesn't have enough evidence as to defend the notion that wages are merely prices, THEN we're forced to conclude that the theory is merely construing that, and opt-into that belief at our own discretion.

So far we see no theory, so his argument that the two names have "prevented most people from recognizing that the same principles govern both" wages and prices has no meaning whatsoever. And where is his theory? Nowhere to be seen, he's using some commonsense assumptions about prices [2], but he doesn't establish anything scientific enough to defend the ambitious notion that wages are no more and no less than prices. In fact, whenever he applies those vague notions he has of prices to wages, he's begging the question that this gratuitous cross-application of concepts is sound.

Now, since the whole chapter is based on an assumption which the author fails to defend and the application of that assumption to a number of discrete case studies which don't paint the whole picture of what happens once a minimum wage is established (betraying also the much defensible premise of the entire book that we should look at all the consequences of policies to all groups of people through all time)... then I can only assume that the whole chapter is scientifically worthless, and whatever resonates with me in it has to do with my ideologies and not with evidence or soundness of reason.

[1] http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/chap19p1.html

[2] Which might as well not hold against evidence on their own, come to think of it.

EDITED for clarity (as this is a long comment), added a new thought as footnote #2.
Yeah, but would you be willing to read and develop, say Cassandra, in ed? I, for one, wouldn't. One more thing: would you be able to?
That seems like a conflict of interest for the publisher. For every article filtered out, they lose money?

Or pay to submit and risk not being accepted anyway? Kind of a 'poll tax', where you have to have money to be heard. In principle its shakey either way, though if the fees were low enough...
For the record, and because it is not obvious to me from the article, this seems to be mainly a move from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice.

A few French administrations have been using OpenOffice, since back in 2005 ([0] has a few figures, which add up to at least 200,000 installations), and USB keys with OpenOffice (and a set of other free softwares) have been distributed to high school students since at least 2007 (the articles at the time were planning only initially 173,000 keys, though. Edit: it's 800,000 keys on 4 years, which explain the numbers).

[0] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.or...
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You can dictate to Android phones as well, just push the mic button on the standard keyboard.
They do get built, though, so they are profitable enough apparently.

It's funny, neither article nor any comment mentions the subways in NYC, which are excellent. That would seem like the no-brainer choice for navigating Manhattan; it certainly is when I visit. That this guy must visit Manhattan locales by cars is... I dunno, perhaps being too picky? Anyways, if people want to keep doing it, parking will surely pop up at prices the market can bear.
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I'd expect the correlation to be significantly less strong at the lower end of the market, particularly in a service-based economy like the US; worker productivity has a pretty minimal impact on number of burgers flipped per hour. They're minimum wage jobs because virtually anyone can do them, but unfortunately for people in low wage brackets there isn't an infinitude of unskilled employment opportunities to go around. It's pretty basic microeconomics that labour markets don't clear.

Sure, intuitively you'd expect some very marginal employment opportunities to disappear, but the empirical evidence shows that companies prefer other options; raising prices, cutting profits or non-labour costs, increasing worker productivity where possible adjusting opening hours etc. so the effect on net unemployment is often minimal or non-existent.
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I suppose I can start capitalizing my "i's" :). regardless, thanks for the feedback.
Great products, Poor designs. The last part takes a lot away from the first, making it almost look as if this is a side project. Just saying.
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> Sorry, I'm really confused. Is this supposed to be "O(M/L)"?

No. As soon as you need to read more than <cache line bytes>, it no longer matters that that the the fields are near each other. So, e.g., if your record is 128 bytes but your cache line is 32 bytes, you have 4 cache misses per record. If you use only 4 fields from the record, you have 4 cache misses per record -- so, we're on parity.

As M increases beyond the cache line size, the advantage (compared to column major) no longer increases. So it is at most a constant in practice.

> The big thing is that their access patterns are rarely random.

That's true for almost all programs, almost all of the time, actually -- which is why I was willing to be the other side of your original wager.

> They aren't so fast if you need to find a specific entry. For maximum speed there, you need a dedicated index, and then it doesn't really matter whether the data is stored row-major or column-major.

And again, that's true for many workloads as well.

The main advantage of row-major is simpler appending; if you write a lot and read little, row-major is faster; this is usually the case for e.g. audit logs.

In most typical cases, column major is equal or better.
Since an SPF record is actually a TXT record, they already support SPF
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One thing you miss here is the asymmetry of risk. Cyclists are at highest level of risk while on the road. They're moving at enough speed to cause serious injury to themselves, but they're still usually about half the speed of cars. Modern automobiles have excellent safety characteristics and pedestrians have more of an ability to take evasive action.

A mistake on a bike is going to almost always be a life-or-death situation as just falling onto the road puts them at extremely high risk for injury. The cost of errors made by car drivers has a huge impact on the morbidity of cyclists, while the opposite doesn't hold true. Even if cyclists were an order of magnitude more dangerous than car drivers, their poor decisions would have negligible impact on car drivers.
Cyclists don't just conflict with cars, they conflict with Pedestrians.

I've been hit by cyclists more than once. (And OK, I hit a pedestrian when I was riding a bike back when I was a teenager too.)

Walking in L.A. I experience near-misses with cyclists riding illegally on the sidewalk about as often as I experience near-misses from people running red lights when I'm in a car.
I felt _exactly_ the same way as you before we had our son 15 months ago. In fact, I felt _exactly_ the same way as you until he was about 6 months old. I'm not exaggerating — it's painful for me to say, but I cursed myself every day for not being able to bring myself to tell my wife that I didn't think I wanted kids. He was just a helpless baby, but I was convinced I'd never feel any kind of strong connection other than a sense of duty to him.

However, around six months, when he started to be able to actually do things for himself, like hold his own bottle, I started to feel a shift. Now he's 15 months old and I completely understand what everyone means when they say "you'll never love anything more." Being with him is the most heart-breakingly beautiful part of my life and I wouldn't have it any other way.

All that said, I firmly believe that kids aren't the only, or even best, path to fulfillment for everyone. In fact, I still don't really get the same sense of accomplishment from raising him that I do from my work. And I'm sure if we didn't have him, I would be able to do some other amazingly beautiful thing that helped other people or just made me happy.

This is all to say, don't write anything off, even if it feels like a mistake for far longer than you think it should. Sometimes doing something just because someone you love wants it so much more than you can turn out better than you expect. On the other hand, finding someone who wants the same things as you can turn out just as good. Be open, that's all I'm trying to say.
Here's the thing though - all the data should already be available as a free database, just like all NASA photos are public domain.

Then let people mine it on their own dime for waste.

The problem is they'd react to this by finding ways to make more and more stuff "classified" to claim it cannot be released.
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Ecological pedantry: no apes in the americas, nor jaguars in Africa.
> Yes, we are predisposed to enormously love our children. But it's just a massive bias, not an absolute requirement.

You're not getting the entire point of Jeff's post if you are saying something like this. If you aren't a parent, fair enough, you simply don't understand. No disrespect intended but this is the truth.

If you are a parent, we should clarify that "unconditional love" doesn't mean no complaints or downsides. Nobody here is suggesting that.
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For those of you how are intressted in austrian economics. The Mises Institute has lots of free stuff (books, audiobooks ....) online.

http://media.mises.org/mp3/audiobooks/
www.mises.org
I think this got buried
Much as Berlusconi sucks, he'll be gone some day, and people will pick up the pieces, and things will still be an awful lot better than in places run by real dictators. I'm still free to call Berlusconi an asshole without secret police swooping down and taking me away in the night.
Those cities are the exception, not the rule. Just off the top of my head, Manhattan, Chicago, Denver, Miami, Boston, Dallas, LA, San Diego, Atlanta, D.C., Phoenix are all flat enough for a person in decent shape to get around by bike. I think the winter is a bigger issue than the terrain, but overall I think most Americans could be biking most of the time (given a lot of changes in infrastructure, policy and public health).
Wow! You're very smart. You know multivariate calculus (which is much more complicated than solving quadratic equations) and the Lucas critique. You went to Chicago.

You're much smarter than the average reader of Hazlitt, who is dumb and idiotic, so much beneath you that you can't reason with them, so you prefer to slowly back away and run for the hills.

Hazlitt is an absolute genius but at the same time incredibly naive, plain silly, and quite stupid, to be blunt. His main lesson is also vacuously empty. You read his book a hundred times.

Thanks for the helpful post. I'm convinced. There's no need to get into specifics as to where specifically Hazlitt went awry.
> I guess I cared a little about my own survival before

After kids, I suddenly became much more conscious of my mortality than I ever had been. Intellectually, we all know we die. But seeing my kids, I suddenly internalized this fact much more. Perhaps it's the thought of the things I won't be around to see or help with once I'm gone.
> it really upsets me when I see fellow cyclists
> acting like dicks

Too many people that drive cars ignore cyclists, and I think that the 'dick cyclist' to some extent stems out of the need to be seen on the road. I've heard people say that it's better to have a driver think you're an asshole, because at least that means that they see you.

In general, I find it really odd that people in cars think that cyclists need to watch out for cars and not the other way around. The person driving the car is the one holding the deadlier weapon, why are they not held to a higher sense of responsibility?

As an anecdote, one of my friends was hit by a car, and ended up in the hospital. She had the right of way, but that didn't stop the lady that was driving the car from calling her up to complain about the fact that her insurance was going to be more expensive after the accident.

Let that sink in. Someone driving a car, disobeyed the law, and put someone in the hospital, then called up that person to complain about their insurance increasing. I'll bet you that the driver wouldn't have called up to complain if the person she hit had been in a car rather than on a bicycle.
Can Wikileaks simply release the leaks via BitTorrent? Sign the distribution with a crypto certificate and let BT take care of the distribution.
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The thing I find amazing is not so much that they were able to use colour refracting to overlay invisible messages on bad LCDs... it's looking at the problem in "creative-reversedness" (yes I just made that up).

We all would look at the limited viewing angle as a problem. Not enough people can see the TV, colour is bad, blah blah. But if we were to look at the problem in reverse - Too many people can see the screen from all angles, colour acuracy is not that important for all applications, and so on... we actually define a product that we can fit in the banking, HR, etc roles.

The next feat of genius was looking at what was causing the original problem and then leveraging it to create the new fuctional solution. Many just use the polar lenses, now you can just create a app that overlays invisible ink.

Great job.
I've just emailed the email from the contact page, have a VPS which is doing nothing. I would be happy to help her get her website up and running again.

Also, noticed this was posted on Reddit and a few other places so its probably being hammered.
> you still are susceptible to your heap becoming fragmented and run the risk of requiring a full GC to compact the heap.

But isn't the heap fragmentation a much bigger problem with malloc style memory management?
I think you can get closed to accomplishing all your testing needs by relying on qt-webkit now, alhtough for unit you may still like a simple js interpreter. phantom.js is the main qt-webkit tool.
It's not just lying to the public - in one case, they lied to a judge handling a FOIA request case (to be clear, the article does not suggest that this would be legal under the new rule):

> In a recent case brought by the ACLU (...) the FBI denied the existence of documents. But the court later discovered that the documents did exist. (...) [the] Judge (...) wrote that the “Government cannot, under any circumstance, affirmatively mislead the Court.”

It's pretty clear that a select few documents should not be released. It's much less clear that they should not even be released to the judge.
Same here.. our baby has been pretty easy once we got past the first couple weeks. He's 3 months old, and sleeps 9+ hours straight at night, he almost never screams unless there's a reason, etc. I kind of worry that we're going to think, "oh, babies are easy!" and the next one (if there is a next one) will turn out to be terribly hard, but....

Also totally agree about "caring for your own survival". Not that I didn't before, but it's suddenly so much clearer.
I am actually just finishing writing an article with all the details, I will post a link as soon as it is online :)

We are not using any middleware and all our queries are hand-sculpted to make sure we are never causing more I/O impact than we need to.

I am sure everything we do could have been done with mysql/pgsql with enough consideration for the performance characteristics of either database.

Ultimately, a document-based storage was simply a better, more natural fit for us.
I didn't make myself clear, I think.

Praising your kid in front of your kid, in public, when he deserves it, for example at the end of a game where he played well: that's good, that's just... normal.

Talking about your kid, when he's not here, and presenting him, or your relation to him, in such a way that you benefit from the exposition: I don't think that's ok. Abuse is certainly too strong a word, but it's related.
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There are numerous ethical issues surrounding the commercial/free-market trade of human organs.

Most simply:

- There is, naturally, demand for bone marrow transplants in India. What are the moral and ethical implications of denying someone there (of presumably lower economic ability) a transplant so they can supply someone in the US (of presumably much higher economic ability)? If they were swimming in an excess of willing donors, perhaps this would be less of an issue, but I don't know any country in the world where there is a surplus of bone marrow donors.

- What incentive structure does this create, and what does it mean for us if we legitimize commercial organ trade? How many donations will be voluntary, or will we see an explosion in "donations", forced upon the disenfranchised and vulnerable?

I'd be very wary of walking down the path of commercialized organ trade.
Which bank representative told you that this was the reasoning? Or are you just making things up?
Nothing wrong with this reporting.
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>he just wants all cars off the road

Personally I think he was using hyperbole; countering the suggestion that cyclists shouldn't be allowed on the road and questioning the assumption that the solution to cycle-auto conflict had to fall in favour of the car.

Conjecture? Indeed.
Yes, these are very useful features!
I just registered for a bone marrow match drive tomorrow at OSU. While I'm 100% sure I'm not a match for Amit, I hope that many people show up, and that I'm a match for someone.
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When Halo is a game that is "being adapted for a broader audience", I think we really have a problem.
But the problem with this code isn't that there is too little duplication! The trouble wass that your grasp of the language wasn't that good and didn't have any idea of how to organize the code.
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I run this exact same rigging, and it's best solution I've found. Outside of the cost, no complaints.
How do I run tests locally without using this service? If I could run these same tests most of the time with qt-webkit (phantom.js) and then run on testling before deploying I would use this.