skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the parent is asking/claiming that public options are almost universally less desirable than the product of self-interest in the presence of competition, so their main effect is just to ensure that the private would-be monopolies need to actually provide a good service.

In domains like Internet infrastructure and health insurance which are empirically pretty terrible when there's no public option, I think there's a lot to be said for that argument.

Is it "fair" for a monopoly to have to compete against an organization that has nearly infinite resources but terribly inefficient operating ability? I don't know. Maybe yes, maybe no. Is it fair to huge ISPs to impose net neutrality on them? Maybe yes, maybe no. But it's no less fair for them than not having net neutrality would be for companies who want to use that infrastructure. It's certainly no less fair than life would be for a child who can't afford access to health care in a black market-like total laissez-faire economic system. I'd prefer to live in an imperfect implementation of capitalism that tries to regulate out negative externalities when possible (despite often failing) and provide as much fairness for as many people as possible, to one that provides so much "fairness" to certain corporations that they can make the game unfair for everyone else, people and companies alike.
'colo[u]r' is merely a spelling difference. 'irregardless' is a double-negative to some people, and not to others. It's an ambiguous word.
> Of course, anyone powerful enough to protect you in the absence of the state has no reason to work for you rather than enslave you.

I think the libertarian point is that this same logic applies to states themselves.

Note how recently polities have taken away the freedom of restaurants to choose to allow smoking, selling certain sizes of drinks; the freedom of parents to choose their children's education and so forth.
Good article, but I still don't understand why they're suddenly popular again. So processing is faster, but is there some development in processing which has improved this domain especially? Developments in "big data" processing? Concepts like mapreduce? What's with the resurgence :S
Bitcoin’s Plunge Bites ‘Miners’
You'd be surprised of some policies shelters adopt for their service areas.

It's possible that a shelter will only accommodate you if your last known address was west of X street within Y county limits (cities can span counties) and an odd numbered house.
Women at work – a guide for men
Hopefully it stays around and isn't axed like Arch was :)
Silicon Oxide Memories Catch Manufacturers’ Eye (2014)
> If this is not possible, we have app-level locking to avoid conflicts.

app-level locking is a recipe for disaster if data matters and more than 1 process/user/client/etc can access your data. if the data doesn't matter then I guess you can do whatever you want.

web "developers" have a bad reputation for a reason. so many amateurs amongst web developers...
Wow your site has some great resources, thanks!

He's not really a sales guy, most of our sales are high touch, and very technical. So I am the guy that handles all of that.

I would put him more on the marketing/strategy side of things.
There was no private investment in the 'internets'

No? Then what were CompuServe, Tymnet and Telenet, for example, all of which started their network businesses without using the Internet/ARPANET protocols?
I found three papers on the topic authored or coauthored by Charles:

Iron content of Cambodian foods when prepared in cooking pots containing an iron ingot
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011....

Iron-deficiency anaemia in rural Cambodia: community trial of a novel iron supplementation technique
http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/1/43

Women's nutrient intakes and food-related knowledge in rural Kandal province, Cambodia.
http://apjcn.nhri.org.tw/server/APJCN/23/2/263.pdf

(I'm not logged in, so it should be public, I hope)
It's a shame the parent is being downvoted, as I read it they're not condoning that reaction, merely commenting on it. And they're right: that's exactly how the masses react to things like this. I wish more people reacted like you did, and I want to help build a world where that's the case.
Real-time updates to queries looks awesome. Way simpler than doing pushing updates through pubsub. Great work, guys!
You would be amazed at the difference in reaction time if someone steps out of a car with a weapon drawn and the time it takes to bring up your own weapon.

If the US police were so gun happy I would expect way more people to be shot per year/day.
Yeah, previous post have been about the move but it hadn't been done yet.
Given Carmack's view of JS, I am surprised he was so positive. Good for him!
In the video he calls changes() on a query that has an orderBy and limit filter. In the description for Changefeeds (http://rethinkdb.com/docs/changefeeds/javascript/), it says this is not possible. Is this new functionality? If so, that's pretty great. Using the diff format makes that pretty intuitive (even if the client will be slightly harder to implement).
I would count Iraq as a conquer and pillage situation -- see, for instance, _Pay Any Price_ by James Risen.
> Because unlike companies, governments¹ can function long-term even if they don't balance budgets.

Except that shouldn't matter if the private company can compete on technology and service.

If your opponent has unlimited funds but the customer service policies of the DMV and the technological acumen of, uh, some very-non-technical government office of your choice, shouldn't you win?
Can you name some of these exceptions?
Internet in the UK has downsides too (I learned when I moved here). BT lets all these other ISPs use its infrastructure, but the actual installation is still BT, and they've no incentive to do it in a timely manner. It can take weeks or months after requesting service before you get connected.

In my case it took three weeks after signing up with an ISP, despite living a stone's throw from London. Especially bad for foreigners because in order to sign up, you first need a UK bank account, and to get that you need things like electric bills to prove your address (the apartment lease paperwork isn't enough, at least at Barclays). If you're moving here, be prepared for over a month without broadband.
> ebay

Same thing, how do you ensure the Gold is authentic ?

> jewelry stores

That is true, but you won't buy Gold at a good price in this way, there is a premium on jewelry versus gold coins in weight, for example.
So 19 days straight up on the wall?

How do they get supplies and food etc? I guess other people let it down to them?

Do they just go to the bathroom into the wind or is this controlled?

I feel like many questions about climbing a wall for 19 days are not answered!
or move to america and change your name? how many bilingual international assassins are there, anyway?
Anecdata. Like my tech-naive mother who bought an ipad due to all the hype, determined to use it exclusively. She never does; it just gathers dust, and she does all her stuff (mostly social media) on her desktop.

Or in my house, I use zero tablets, and my housemates only use their one tablet for casual games and watching youtube. Anything else, from facebooking to creating invoices for contracting, is done on a desktop. Phones are used as a social device, or for googling/wikipediaing away from home.

Desktops seem to be dying out in favour of laptops, but desktop OSs aren't being replaced with mobile OSs in my experience.
If all the gas stations in an area are owned by Exxon & priced too high, the customer drives their car elsewhere. There is a very, very high capital barrier to entering the market, but customers still hold choice.

You can probably observe some region-locking effects short of monopoly by relate the cost of gas in come areas with ability to choose alternatives. e.g. Driving in the middle of nowhere, there are few gas stations and the cost of gas is high. Redundant stations aren't built in competition to one another along those stretches because the volume of traffic isn't high enough along the 'network' of the road, but within the range of the typical car, some will drive on and others will be forced the stop. So even that isn't as airtight a natural monopoly as last-mile internet.
Is computer gaming really sport?
Good points - I had the impression Roberts was not involved in direct development anymore, that is reassuring for Star Citizen I guess.
Know what's funny? "This is fucking funny!"

(try it)
Are you saying that the suits would decompose while inside the station? Where do they store them? Outside?
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> Note how recently polities have taken away the freedom of restaurants to choose to allow smoking, selling certain sizes of drinks; the freedom of parents to choose their children's education and so forth.

Any policy related to the things you've mentioned were or were not enacted by popular support, on those issues in particular. Brutal slaver warlord can take away restaurants, high fructose corn syrup, and your children with a single vote.
> I think the parent is asking/claiming that public options are almost universally less desirable than the product of self-interest in the presence of competition, so their main effect is just to ensure that the private would-be monopolies need to actually provide a good service.

Well, actually, I'm claiming that a Free Market alternative should be able to win even if the Free Market includes the government.

Nobody is guaranteed to win, and I don't think a public option would necessarily be odious, but if someone's so gung-ho about competition, they shouldn't be scared of competing with a government.

Edit: OK, yes, I was mocking the Free Market Fundamentalists in my post. Fair's fair, they mock the government and the moderates, often using japes invented by Ronald Reagan (peace be upon him).
It's time to help patients in need!
Yes, this is new functionality that will be released as part of RethinkDB 1.16. RethinkDB 1.16 is expected to ship in a couple of weeks.
The logistics were pretty insane as you can probably imagine and for that reason alone this ascent probably won't be duplicated for many years. There were sponsors, film crews, friends who ran up supplies, etc. Lots of questions remain unanswered because lots of logistics are involved in such undertakings.

Bathroom is "controlled" as you say. Solid waste is packed out.

Tom Evans posted daily updates here with a lot more detail: http://www.elcapreport.com/
Check it out
Www.greenmiles5K.com
Www.caniliv.net
Most military rifles are semi-automatic. Even with a fairly tame AR style rifle using automatic fire makes it a little harder to quickly engage targets and the recoil can be a little un-predictable even when just using burst fire.

In short most military rifles are single shot due to the fact that you may engage targets out to a few hundred yard to a couple of meters.

tldr; Automatic rifles for military applications, not all that great.
Hidden-city ticketing
That would be OK if my cellphone usage was "free". But it's not. I'm paying Verizon hundreds of dollars a month for me and my family.

I wonder if an MVNO would be less creepy than Verizon? Probably not, I'd bet they're even sleazier.
I've still not found anyone who can explain to me why galaxies aren't simply considered large (and 3 dimensional) accretion discs. In that regard, why would it be weird that "arms" of the accretion disc might not wrap completely around the drainspout anyway?

I guess it's not romantic to think we're all just circling a very large drain...
You could email him or ask the question on the python-dev mailing-list which he reads

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-September/...
1. As the state slowly becomes encumbered by politicians who are controlled by a tiny minority of individuals who control key sectors of the economy, and the influence on policies from the democratic majority is reduced to zero, a 'country' controlled by warlord factions and private armies may be closer to the 'market' equilibrium by eliminating the waste of the bureaucratic middleman. No need to use roundabout ways and Kafkaesque policies to dominate the people and compete with other factions, just do it outright. You can read an example here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Era As you can read in the article, private armies are cheaper and just as effective (Possibly due to government overpaying weapons manufacturers controlled by friends or relatives of public bureaucrats). This efficiency may in the future outcompete public armies.

2. Eventually conflicts between warlords lead to increased inequality between various private 'states' and thus consolidation - and from this monopoly of private armies a state emerges. To maintain this monopoly and to maintain stability and create a sense of legitimacy (and thus preventing new competing warlords from arising) it introduces policies like public bureaucrats only indirectly controlled by the individuals who have actual power, who act for the benefit of the public; and depending on the era, an emperor that governs for all, or allow the public to elect some officials, - the economy prospers and generate more taxes for the rulers.

3. This morphs into a more or less fair and democratic and equal society that may last for several decades or even centuries, as the economy booms, inequality is introduced. More affluent individuals are able to afford better education and better connections to their children, who are more able to compete for positions of power. The state slowly becomes encumbered by politicians who are controlled by a tiny minority of individuals who control key sectors of the economy. Go to 1.

"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been" - Romance of the three kingdoms

With a couple of exceptions, I have thus described the revolving history of China from the Zhou to modern times.
<sarcasm> Ah, like the military, and any number of other similarly wasteful government projects? </sarcasm>

There will always be things the government buys that you won't particularly want or feel are necessary.
That was pretty awesome. It's basically a doom remake, tearing everything down to just the basics, but executing really well on them.
Deep neural networks are quite powerful because they don't require someone to design the network specific to the task. Large deep nets will generally be able to learn feature representations by themselves, which makes them extremely powerful for tasks where we aren't quite sure of exactly what features we want.

However, deep nets require large amounts of training data and computational power. The fairly recent widespread adoption of general purpose GPUs has allowed much faster training. Combine this with the popularity of "big data", and you've got a perfect storm for deep neural nets.

Of course, the hype may be overvaluing deep nets as the future of AI. DNNs work well in practical applications, but they're poorly defined theoretically and the AI community suspects that we're still bad at training them -- a recent paper showed that a simpler shallow net can perform as well as a deep net if a deep net is trained first[1]. We're also fairly certain that deep nets are not how the brain actually works, and thus we'll need a different architecture in order to achieve human level performance on some tasks.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6184
I'm not saying people are uneducated, I'm saying most games are made nowadays for the mainstream and I don't think you can argue gamers back in the mid-80s were more likely to be more of the college types of folks who happened to be early adopters in the days. Nowadays even 10 years old play on PC and that completely skews what games you make for that market.
Really wish they'd support IPv6 in all of their datacenters. Comcast and T-Mobile universally support it, why don't datacenters?
Amazing feat done just because it is there. Kudos to the climbers and their support team.
Ask HN: How can I find IAP package prices of a game in different currencies?
Title says it all. I need to check the IAP package prices in Euro, USD and GBP for some mobile games. Is there an up-to-date table for popular games?
Www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0fkEMf9u58
Check out this awesome psa!
> is there something fundamental about text recognition that it can't be done client-side?

Since the blog post talks about how Google Translate now does client-side text recognition, I suspect the answer to this question is "no".
SSI and SSG, good call, I forgot to mention them.
Just going by the quotes in the article, the judge was concerned. He concluded that the search warrant was valid (because the threats came from the woman's IP address), but the SWAT raid was unreasonable and excessive.

> the Court also concludes that the EPD’s use of force “so clearly exceeded the bounds of reasonableness in the circumstances that it cannot be said to lie near the ‘hazy border between excessive and acceptable force’ along which qualified immunity shields officers from liability for their snap judgments,
Great idea, I will add it to the list.
I think we agree with each other. Words like "ain't" entering the common lexicon (usually in spoken english) is fine by me ie. Words formed out of contractions of other words/phrases, or entirely new inventions.

What I mostly get riled up about are words or phrases that are just plain wrong, but that have been used so widely that some dictionaries have accepted them as correct.

Eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
Keep your head out of the past. The internet is becoming the way we do everything now; it's a necessity.
In addition to what others have said, they maintained a base camp at ~1200 feet, where they would repel to after each climbing session. I presume they raised and lowered food/gear to there.
I'm sure the estimated cost for the Iraq War was significantly less than what it ended up costing. I'm thinking the estimated cost for Obama's community college initiative will far too low as well. In fact, I'm willing to bet community college costs skyrocket over the next few years in response.
Because people like to debate on HN? Your "idiot" comment adds less value than the OPs.
> I'm struggling to think of a stereotypical desk job that can't be done with a browser and perhaps rdesktop on the side. The exceptions I can think of like 3-D cad would be a problem, but that's not stereotypical desk job work.

Totally agree. The situation has improved so much in that regard - even if you don't have native apps for your platform, there is good chance there's a bunch of online services that can help you do the very same thing.
Is it really possible for someone to find motivation to risk their lives to fight for a paycheck? It would definitely motivate a few but can it motivate a large enough population making private armies feasible?
This article (which is linked from that page) answers many of your questions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/sports/on-el-capitans-dawn...

Short answer is they returned to their base camp every day, and then went back to their previous progress via ropes.
And when you can't afford the insurance for the fire department?

I would assume it would be the same if you couldn't afford your property taxes in today's system. You don't own a house?
I took a couple math courses (discrete math and differential equations, I think) at GCC and MCC while attending ASU for Computer Engineering, and I thought the CC professors were more helpful and more passionate about teaching undergrads than the profs at ASU. In my experience the university professors were more worried about their own projects and acted like teaching 20 year olds was above them.

As far as the material goes, the curriculum of the classes I took was nearly identical to the ones at ASU. The diffeq course actually had a higher workload than the ASU version. It's interesting that CC/university experiences differ so much even among students of the same school.
Would you agree with me, when I say, that all these things are nice, but secondary for a business? I am with Adam Smith, who said, that these things follow naturally.
State-sponsored defense spending of the kind the US government engages in is safe from being replaced by the private sector, ever. The cost is astronomical. Individual units like carriers, submarines, and bombers cost hundreds of millions up to several billion. The author of the article (and maybe the book?) don't make this distinction.

Instead, these private mercenaries raise the possibility that non-state actors of great means could accomplish minor military objectives using small amounts of conventional force. And I doubt very seriously that American private military firms can take action without the tacit approval of the someone in the United States government.

I'm much more worried about the possibility that these firms are being paid with laundered tax dollars to accomplish objectives that I don't know about or wouldn't approve of. See the Iran-Contra affair.
Snapchat Is Asking Brands for $750,000 to Advertise
This is terrific. Thanks for doing it! The responsive design works great. It's simple enough to figure out with cold fingers on a mobile phone or in a public library -- which is where your target audience members most likely are.

Some suggestions.

Do you need a "we don't track you" statement, so the youth feel safe? (Or is it better not to bring it up?)

Somebody else mentioned that you have a geographic service area. It might be helpful to mention that, or to somehow geofence requests, for the sake of people in need from other geographies.

I wonder if "outreach worker" should say "somebody to talk to." Poor folks have a lot of bureaucracy to deal with, and it might be nice to offer the value proposition rather than the job title. Plus, it's a way to connect with folks who might be suicidal.

"Parenting" -- maybe "Taking care of kids".

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Promotion: Stickers and signs. Bathrooms, in the stalls, are especially effective places to put them up. Youth with trouble don't want to be seen copying stuff off signs on bulletin boards (social stigma).

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Is this available to be replicated in other geographies? If you want to try it in MA, I can work with you.
This article does a good job at pointing out how hard this is. There are harder individual segments (two in the world go up to 5.15c) but this has multiple 5.14 segments, and nothing below 5.12. 5.10 used to be consider impossible, but better equipment and planning have allowed increased difficulty in climbs.
Biweekly means every two weeks. Semiweekly means twice a week. (Fortnightly doesn't mean anything outside of the Commonwealth.)

Please keep (politely) correcting people. It's only us against the hordes!
I feel like cloud technology may be a contributing factor as well.

At the same time, once Geoffrey Hinton used a deep neural network and participated in the ImageNet contest (2012: http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2012/results.html), his results beat the next best thing by a full 10%. The results were so astounding that many people immediately began re-visiting neural networks. Shortly afterwards, people proved it could beat the current technology for language processing and more. Now a days, it seems like a major leap has been in real-time translation with Skype and now Google launching machine translation applications/functions.

Side note, in my opinion, start-ups that are looking to compete with large giants like Google will have a pretty hard time. In the end, implementing deep neural nets that work is still extremely hard. The companies that do it right usually get bought up by one of the giants. Google has some of the leading researchers in academia on its side as well.
The USDA.

Food database: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/

Daily recommended intakes: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/DRI/DRI_Tables/recommended_inta...

Someone built this webapp that uses all that above data: https://cronometer.com/

I don't eat this exclusively but when I would otherwise be too busy to eat or shop properly, this is an easy solution.

Beware: I'm not a doctor or expert