skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was merely commenting on the usability of "style sheets" in Word, not arguing that one thing should replace another. For instance, I can easily imagine that the run-of-the-mill "markup" WYSIWYG workflow in Word is an excellent fit for writing a short formal letter.

Although, a few years ago, a couple of friends of mine were working on their masters theses in non-computer related fields (literature and biology), they complained about Word and its tendency to get somewhat "wonky" when working with very large documents (I am glad I have never had to experience such a task). I talked to them about the basic ideas behind the LaTeX workflow, that writing the text and doing layout/styling are straight from the start intended to be two separate concepts--you're either working on one or the other. And how the text content is also just that: a plain text file with a few document structure-related codes in it. A plain text file doesn't lose whole sections or mangles up chapters for no apparent reason.

I was surprised to hear their reaction, they were very intrigued and would have been readily prepared to learn the basics of LaTeX, if it meant getting that peace-of-mind: that writing a large chunk of text means that it is there, without a program doing behind-the-scenes modifications on it if you decide to move parts around, or so. I say "would have been" because they were already quite far in their theses so it would've made little sense to make the switch still.

Because that's really the point, isn't it? That's what annoys me about Word (and a lot of other word processing software btw), it just won't keep its fingers off my document, and all sorts of things happen under-the-hood. With LaTeX (and similar solutions, perhaps Markdown) the whole workflow is different: first you write the content, with some minimal markup and structuring codes, and that's a text file. It's yours and nobody, no software is going to touch it. It's source code. And only then you apply a program to it, in order to compile it to a display format. But that program will not touch your source.

I really like it that way. I understand it's not for everyone on the consumer market, but it's interesting to consider how different that paradigm is.
You have not got a clue what you are talking about.
I fell under the spell of ORM, and used it until I had to generate an xml product feed from a large, complex CRM database. It didn't take me long to throw out Sequel and write a gigantic SQL query for huge performance gains. You can do joins in Sequel, but it's a pain in the neck.
"For improved pilot survivability the Ka-50 is fitted with a NPP Zvezda (transl. Star) K-37-800 ejection seat, which is a rare feature for a helicopter.[17] Before the rocket in the ejection seat deploys, the rotor blades are blown away by explosive charges in the rotor disc and the canopy is jettisoned." - wiki

Besides the risk of the explosives failing, I don't see a problem here.
It's more than that. It's actually a lot like distributed version control (a la git). When you ask the connection for the current value of the database, you get back a real value that will never change out from under you. This is very much akin to making a clone of a repository in git. This gives you the enormous power of speculation and experimentation within your application. You can do whatever you want with this database value and it will never affect anyone else nor be affected by anyone else.
Looks above the cost of living everywhere except SF. And there you just have to knock it down to one kid and you are fine. I don't think the equivalent of a bus driver should be able to live in a super over priced city like SF and still be able to have a bunch of kids. It's not a big deal to commute in from Oakland and other areas.

Should they be able to afford their own Manhattan apartments for a bunch of kids too next? Or should they get cheap shared accommodations and limit their number of kids if they want to live in the super rich city area instead of the burbs like everyone else does who starts a big family? I think it's fine if you have to make sacrifices to live in the city.

Personally, I think BART just needs to automate the trains and fire them all.
Just generate random UUIDs. The probability of their colliding is negligibly low.
I don't think you actually save any money on Ting. Their biggest data plan is 3000M for $55 (with no text messages and no phone service), compared with T-mobile's unlimited everything for $70. The innovation they offer is that if you don't use anything and know you never will, you only pay $6 a month. But then again, I could get you the complete lack of calling, data, and text for $0 a month. You don't even have to buy a phone.
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My_Op => prob huge neg val even thinking about this.

Long Term: moral reasons aside, its simply highly unlikely to net add personal value.

Short Term: payoff is blindingly quantifiable, but lots of hidden costs easy to overlook => not a good likely outcome situation.

Ex 1: "not wasting energy with lawyers" is a luxury, both massively positive value and systematically + tragically under-valued by general people
Needless to say this is becoming a hot area due to distributed database research. Everyone is talking about the CAP theorem. Those that picked the AP side are trying to have their cake and eat it too. INRIA has been sponsoring a couple of papers in it (here is a popular one by Mark Shapiro: http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/RR-695...).

The idea is to have auto-convergent types in an AP database cluster. There are some datatypes that can do this: max function, set union, boolean or. [Say one node union-updates set {} with {'a'} and the other with {'b'}. The two operations will both auto-converge so to speak to set {'a','b'}.

If you can detect conflicts (divergent data, aka "siblings" in Riak-speak, ), you could also build you own, app specific, conflict resolution for your application. It is nice if you don't have to and your db provides it by using auto-convergent types.
BART picks up more of the healthcare tab than most employers do nowadays.
Does the proof of a million dollar math problem matter?
A lot of "voucher systems" (a) impose overheads, which are generally paid by the donor and not the participating company or (b) use hidden, non-open-market (and potentially higher) pricing.
We worked with single steps of 1024x768 pixels size with a center part of 50% left out. An illustrator would either work inwards or outwards of the existing portion. Outwards that would give a photoshop document of 1024x768 with the previous step locked on a centered layer of 512x384. Inwards with the upscaled previous image of 2048x1536 as the frame, and the respective centered paintable area of 1024x768.

The illustrators then could easily blend their work into the other peoples artwork. The whole thing evolved very un-planned. There was no guideline as to what should be depicted. Illustrators just had to pick up what others have left for them. Best part of the process for me.
Virgin Mobile USA is owned by Sprint and only works on Sprint towers, roaming is explicitly non existent.
> Soviet space program was the safest one

I've always had a similar perception. Incidentally, Soyuz is considered the safest craft with only two accidents (Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11) in 46 years.
Clojure is closer to Python, thus more comfortable. The macros, persistent collections and core.async are a nice bonus. Also, in extreme cases I could relatively easily monkey-patch things, just as I can in Python.

F# (and particularly Haskell) are one extra degree of separation away. I love useful type systems, but I haven't been able to practically use one so far.

Typed Clojure looks like I could start using it piecemeal, but its type inference is very limited (much like Scala), so I'm not sure of its long-term usability.
On one hand I think this is an innovative presentation, and I enjoyed the creativity. Also I like fonts.

On the other hand, (and this is a critique of scrolling/parallax navigation in general), as a user I always feel like I'm doing this wrong. It feels like I'm a cameraman with one of those old-timey hand-cranked movie cameras from the Charlie Chaplin days where the skill was in keeping the shutter speed constant but I'm doing it wrong and everybody is walking around at a weird speed.

The ability to reverse the animation by scrolling up is novel, and maybe going at my own pace is the idea. But personally I would rather click next and let the transition happen normally. Maybe Powerpoint has made me lazy.
What strategy would you employ to accomplish this? Cut everyone's hours so there are never enough people? Hire extra people, thus incurring additional overhead regardless of hours worked? (And you'd still have to pay them; do you really expect to have people on-call without incurring any costs?)
T-Mobile simply doesn't have any data coverage outside of major metropolitan areas. If you're someone that travels outside these areas, you will be unable to use your devices for anything but calls and texts.

That's a big caveat that should be mentioned.

(If you never leave the Bay Area, for example, then T-Mobile is a logical choice. It works well for me 98% of the time here.)
It can easily be more effective to pay for some overtime.
For two adults, >0 children, I think childcare should really be excluded from costs. It's not accurate for most any family in that position.

Though I understand figuring out the second parent's income is difficult, I think it's more dangerous to entirely exclude it. To me it comes off as misinformation (especially when combined with the childcare costs).

You can consider a hideable layer that allows the user to put the second parent's income, and default it to the average Bay Area income. I'm guessing that even if you defaulted it to 20-percentile for income, cost of living would no longer exceed household income, which is extremely important information in this discussion.
This result is right in line with the observations of people studying the evolution of lactose tolerance [1].

Lactose-tolerant middle-easterners (who had long been eating lactose-free fermented milk, until they developed lactose tolerance) moved in to Europe and took over, and rarely mixed with the native hunter gatherers. Instead, they simply outcompeted them and largely wiped them out. It is estimated that lactose tolerance gave them "up to 19% more fertile offspring" than the indigenous hunter-gatherers.

That makes me muse: Maybe the two groups didn't mix because the hunter-gatherers couldn't survive on the high-milk (and high starch?) diet of the agricultural people. Lactose intolerance can be quite violent!

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-the-milk-revolution-1...
Obligatory link to Jared Diamond's classic essay "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race":

http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
F# depending on Mono is no worse than Clojure depending on the JVM, really.

The Haskell community is very friendly, actually. I've always received useful advice.
Have a look at 'Powers of Ten' by Ray & Charles Eames (1977)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Trevolta - Crowd-funded Travels
some conflicts of interest are viewed as obvious. If I publish a journal article with my affiliation being Genentech, I don't have to state that my work is owned by Genentech. If I am employed at UCSF and list my affiliation there, but hold significant equity in a spin-off that is commercializing the published technology, then that's when I declare a conflict.

Everyone knows Nature is not an open access journal. Putting a sentence that states that at the end of a news article written by their staff is pointless.
Actually, no: we're not talking about privacy here. I was asserting how incredibly boring privacy is today, and how we should stop talking about it because it's boring (except to me and you and our small cadre of crypherpunk friends) and we're locked out of understanding it in practice:

If you don't own the software (no one does), don't have control over it's behavior (no one does) and cannot see it's data (no one can), grappling with and understanding control over the channels can only be done in the extreme abstract. Sovereign computing proposes reversing the former, and giving people direct systems control, sharing, and orchestration capabilities. Ubiquotous computing proposes taking these exposed raw capabilities, and making them broadly and generally machine-to-machine.

I hadn't mentioned that cypherpunks have been extremely in the spot light, c/o anonymous (w/ major recent busts), silk road (busted), and that guy no longer in America; all of which are keeping cypherpunkery in the spotlight of late. I hadn't mentioned privacy; PGP, TLS, OpenVPN, & the only new and shiny on the block onion routing. Because I don't think privacy will have the public consciousness. Because privacy today means turning over whatever rocks Facebooks decides to leave out for you to turn over, and that's not useful. If crypto wants focus, it needs to actively support a counter SaaSS world, it needs to focus on creating new capabilities directly usable by individuals for interacting with other individuals.
The are a few types of standard UUIDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID

UUID1 and UUID4 are common. UUID1 are the ones that use machine id and timestamp. UUID4 are supposed to be randomly generated. UUID1 can be traced to a machine that created them and are sortable somewhat, UUID4s are nice because you don't have to worry if machines somehow ended up with non-unique machines (bad VM cloning can easily do that).

I would just use UUID4 for example.
Any ideas as to what the true market rate for these types of jobs is?

Theoretically, if BART did not have a union, would we expect it to be filled with minimum wage or $40K type salaries.

Any other thoughts into how much labor costs as a proportion of their total expenditure. Is this where BART needs to decrease spending the most?
since when is SSL a cypherpunk success story?
If it's anything like Africa has been over the past 100 years, agricultural tribes and hunter-gatherer tribes simply don't mix.

You are missing the point IMO. Back then, it wasn't like today, where you check their LinkedIn profile, FB pictures, date them a few dozen times and then decide.

Food, shelter and protection were even more important than now. And 2000 years is a long time not to mix, imagine what the world goes through in 2 millennia.
"Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice. It's the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow-holes that gives the world a shove ahead, and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it." - John Graham
Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again
Wow, such a one-week-late news.
Yeah, unskilled, replaceable labor doesn't get paid much. That is how it always has been, and I don't see it as a huge, immediate problem. These folks are already making way more than people of similar levels of skill in other parts of the country -- in fact, they are double the median income in the US. There are plenty of other essential services, like garbage people, chefs, janitors, cabbies, etc. that get paid less and require similar levels of education.

I mean, when we remove scarcity, sure, give all the BART workers mansions. But until then, I think this is a fine wage for doing work that's on the block for being automated in ten or twenty years.
I'll agree to my optimism and it being a claim. Its untrue in Germany due according to the article but is the problem legalization or the laws trying to promote said legalization?

Criminal organizations seek out areas of gratification like this and once in their clutches it seems next to impossible to remove completely. Prohibition patently isn't working but instead of seeking any possible alternative, we stick our head in the sand and continue business as usual.

My problem is I see inefficiency. The war on drugs or terror are both incredibly, woefully inefficient and nothing is changing for the better, only the worse.
> More than these peasants deserve, right? I mean, why should people providing a vital service to a city feel entitled to live amongst the betters they serve?

No kidding, this is highly skilled labor we're talking about. Not to mention the years of schooling and study required to excel at the profession. These jobs aren't easy to fill.
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Tech is a booming industry, and there aren't enough people with the skills to do the work that needs to be done so high salaries are common.

It is unclear what the supply and demand curve is for public transit employees, but it will be skewed by labor contracts. The issue is that a lot of people don't make as much as BART employees (or have nearly as good benefits). If their salaries of BART employees are higher than they could be to keep the BART running, and they can upset the lives of hundreds of thousands by striking to get even more it makes people concerned.
Startup compensation is weird. Pretty much everyone makes about the same amount (currently, $100-150k for engineers and executives) but equity allotments are massively skewed. Equity in the VC-funded world exacerbates inequality monstrously, because management often takes 10-100+ times more per person.

Personally, I don't think it's worth taking equity seriously unless (a) it's public stock, which has a published value, or (b) you know the cap table. If you don't get to see the cap table and term sheets, that employee equity is pretty meaningless-- not worth taking a pay cut or working typical startup hours.
The lack of freedom to do what you wish when it concerns your health has always baffled me.
I've been part of some of large scale setups where usually location (even numbers = DC A, odd nubers = DC B), operating system (linux/aix/win etc.) and machine type (physical vs. virtual) are encoded in the hostname.

It can only get error prone if you have two hosts with similar names in the same project (made up example: lnx4739p34 vs. lnx4793p34) in the same project, i've seen hostnames getting reassigned because of regular mix ups.

If you happen to do ssh logins and manual troubleshooting, to make sure you're not messing with the wrong machine it's great to have puppet maintain CMDB data like service level, machine purpose, owner and open tickets etc. in a nicely formatted /etc/motd file, along with a autmatic "who" output in .bashrc to see who else is logged in.

Another question regarding hostnames is the use of (sub)domains. I find it highly annoying to deal with hosts like "mysql04.customer.vlan33.berlin2.intranet.my-company.com" instead of "lnx4739p34.myco.net", regardless of the global location.
Definitely interested in how you did it. Also any thoughts on how you think it can be improved in the future
UT-Dallas Has Purged Alleged Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht from Its Website
If you think the fact that she's a woman is what matters here then it's you who's being exclusionary.
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"This is misleading. His compensation may have been effectively $10M last year, but it's almost certainly based on a stock grant several years in the past."

They hired him this year.
Here's an interesting essay that expands on this exact point:
https://medium.com/armchair-economics/ec6139b54795

it's written by a collaborator of this project and a transportation PhD student at Cal.
click on the unmarked background to the right of the slide.
> F# developer by trade

I thought F# was quite a niche language and there weren't any "F# developers", just .NET/C# that also know some F#. How did you end up on this career path?

About grafting features onto Python: most Python guys come from the Linux land and have quite a problem with using a .NET/Mono language, and Haskell is/seems too intimidating and complex. Most also seem to dislike/fear the JVM. So there's only OCaml left and this is even more of a "niche language" than F#. Only viable option is extending Python, unfortunately Python is such a pain in the ass to properly extend so people just make libraries to "ease the pain".
I realize guns aren't allowed in hand luggage, but they should be - there's nothing actually wrong with them. It's no more inherently dangerous than having them in the luggage one takes on a bus or a train or a ship or a private car.

I can't speak to "people in many countries", but if you think having a gun on a plane is "batshit insane", my guess is that you've been fooled by Hollywood into believing a few false things. (Perhaps you saw Goldfinger but never saw the Mythbusters episode debunking it?)

A gun fired on a plane can't cause "explosive decompression". No, not even if fired through a window. The pressure difference isn't large enough to be "explosive" and the air pressure is continuously maintained - planes are constantly leaking quite a lot of air by design so leaking a little more wouldn't hurt anything.

The 9/11 gambit could work ONCE but can't work today - the front doors are locked and the passengers and crew know to resist. Committing any sort of deliberate crime on a plane is infinitely stupider in terms of likelihood of getting caught and ability to get away than committing one on the ground.

The TSA "protects" us from "movie plot threats", not actual threats. We would be on-net safer if airport security were entirely eliminated - far fewer people would die than do today as a result of it.

(TSA kills people today by making travel by air more expensive in money and time. This causes people to drive on long trips instead of fly, leading to extra deaths in auto accidents.)
Beeminder (https://www.beeminder.com/) and similar, based on "social contract". Basically, you stick to your plan or you pay money.
A genius man. Too bad haven't such people as politicians.
Particularly thankful I am for his contribution too CDs and DVDs which I upcycle once used to flowers and jewellery.
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Thank You Mr Ovshinsky. I will bring you a golden one when moving to US after applying to YC.
What am I missing? I don't get it. I clicked all the links and all I saw was some shit flash around. What?
Are you willing to do the work? And who cares if it's highly skilled? Isn't price decoupled from cost? If you're going to argue from a capitalist perspective, be consistent.
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Maybe you could try using XBindKeys to configure a hotkey that toggles the backlight on.
Reproducing those would also be a big step towards understanding them better.
Historical note: Launchd might have caught on if Apple had open-sourced it sooner.

The author of the Upstart init system, Scott James Remnant, wrote in 2006,

"How does [Upstart] differ from launchd?

launchd is the replacement init system used in MacOS X developed as an “Open Source” project by Apple. For much of its life so far, the licence has actually been entirely non-free and thus it has only become recently interesting with the licence change.

[...]

Had the licence been sufficiently free at the point we began development of our own system, we would probably have extended launchd rather than implement our own. At the point Apple changed the licence, our own system was already more suitable for our purposes."

http://netsplit.com/2006/08/26/upstart-in-universe/