skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see this post pre-edit, so I'll assume that it wasn't too bad. If you were suggesting some kind of affirmative action (as someone hinted), then that really wasn't the case.

The reason I applied to the Foreign Service is because it is a meritocracy. It all came down to how you did on the test, and later the interviews/case studies.

It's unfortunate that it's your dream job and you didn't get it, and I sympathize, but the Foreign Service admission process is one of the most transparent ones I've seen. The first step is passing a test, and anyone above a certain threshold moves to the next step. There are more tests, and anyone above those thresholds gets on the list to be accepted.
Not as it relates to the purpose of a flight regulated under their jurisdiction. A pilot and plane only licensed for personal/hobbyist use would not be legal for commercial flight.
Office politics for engineers
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Inspiring!
Here is mine: http://i.imgur.com/HICxcIs.png
The blog post is a couple of years old, so it's probably worth noting that PLaneT[1], mentioned by the author, has been superseded by a new Packages[2] system. PLaneT is still operating, however, and libraries hosted there can be installed with raco[3].

[1] http://planet.racket-lang.org/

[2] http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/

[3] http://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/index.html?q=
Imagine if you gave money to Warren Buffett to invest and he turned around and invested it in a company started by one of his own cronies?!
Subversion & Mercurial? Then actually just RhodeCode (https://rhodecode.com) is the only alternative since it supports Git, Mercurial and Subversion.

Disclaimer: I am RhodeCode's co-founder.
I would have said, "Mother flipping macros." I think, historically, it's the closest reason to why Lisp stuck with S-Expressions, rather than continuing to develop M-Expressions, as was originally the plan. Homoiconicity makes it easier to develop more advanced macro facilities than in, for example, C.

Once we got to see just how powerful macro programming could be, the S-Expression syntax was here to stay.
It's like they're trying to create an unregulated grey-market drone economy. Not the best idea from a national security standpoint.
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That's assuming everyone's in the same spot. But if there's an Uber driver closer to a Lyft rider, combining would have a non-negligible improvement on wait times.

Also don't forget the carpooling service (Uberpool/Lyft line). The network effect is super strong there.
If the entrepreneurs, venture partners and investors are fine with it then who are we to argue?
Ah I saw that but didn't know what it meant. Personally I like boundlessdreamz's idea :)
Do you think the theory would bear contrasting to passionate college dropouts who have not become successful, comfortable software engineers? Because we need to consider those too, to avoid the survivorship bias. Unless you believe there simply are no such people.
Google made this decision a long time ago. Try searching Google for "flash player". The top two links are malware. Google knows their AdWords are used to slip malware at the top of download searches for major products, but has never done anything about it, like say, disabling AdWords on a term like "flash player" where any paid ad is basically guaranteed to be malicious.

This is a twofold benefit for the sleezy company: Google gets paid directly by malware developers, and the added malware on people's computers helps drive consumers to switch to Chromebooks. The "rampant malware on Windows" problem is largely a Google creation, and of course, Google advocates their product as the solution.
>Is there such an amount?

You could possibly use minimum wage as a threshold for whether something realistically counts as commercial. That might be too high though.

Would it be inappropriate for the FAA to make up a line below which things are blatantly not real income in their eyes?

Who would be responsible for a national guideline anyway?

But I wouldn't imagine huge objection to saying that anything below a tenth of minimum wage per hour of work is a noncommercial hobby.
I don't think it is fair to compare it with Arch packages in numbers. How many of these are really usable? Cygwin is a limited environment per se.

In this sense, it is better to compare msys2 with Arch packages, since msys2 uses pacman.
The rules say they can't block lawful content. If the content is questionably lawful, then they won't block it, for fear of being found to have blocked lawful content.
That's a rather unfair characterization. The FAA keeps very tight reins on commercial operations, with damn good reason. Why do you think commercial flight is so safe?
Speaking from my home in Budapest, I can tell you with utter confidence that if you don't consider Hungary a developed nation you need to do a little more research.
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What I'm saying is that you cannot, across all sectors, in all areas, in all ways, claim that government, every piece of it, has jumped the proverbial shark.
> and a half-decent terminal emulator in which to run the shell.

On Cygwin, try MinTTY. The default cmd.exe console is horrendous. This is derived from PuTTY and much, much nicer.
Because it makes it more convenient for people to voluntarily add the malware to their home screen and later voluntarily launch it?

Sorry, not seeing the malware connection. There's no extra permissions granted here.

BTW I agree Google should do more to improve the security model of extensions and apps on the Chrome store. I shouldn't have to grant the right to see all content on all pages just to pretty-print JSON responses. But don't confuse today's announcement with Chrome Web Store apps or extensions. There could be convergence later, but so far it's just a rev on the Install To Home Screen feature that's been there on iOS since it began.
My point is pretty simple: different people value and respond to different things. Eliezer Yudkowsky, as a generally competent person, will produce something that some people like without needing to devote any effort to making his writing "good". I specifically stated that the passage I quoted was great in my own eyes. There's no objective Greatness. (And, for the message "here's a passage that's meaningful to me", I got downvoted. Classy.)

On a different note, here's an example of a shout-out (actually, two) in HPMOR:

> "Since you became Headmaster forty years ago, there've been eleven students to graduate Hogwarts who became heroes, I mean people like Lupe Cazaril and so on, and ten of those were boys. Cimorene Linderwall was the only witch."

Those names, Lupe Cazaril and Cimorene Linderwall, add nothing to the story and don't appear again. They're an out-of-universe signal from the author to the reader that you're both familiar with the work of Lois McMaster Bujold and Patricia C. Wrede.

The passage I quoted is in-universe characterization. (Characterization that I particularly like.) It can't be understood unless the reader is familiar with Ender's Game, but it's clear, for example, that Harry, not Eliezer Yudkowsky, is also familiar with that book. Compare the other example, where it's clear that not only is everyone unfamiliar with Dealing with Dragons, it doesn't exist at all.

It's fine if you see nothing of value in a moving scene of a little boy getting to recapitulate, in real life, one of his idol's greatest moments. I do see value in that.
Thanks for sharing! Interesting how we went through a lot of similar steps. I'm glad things worked out well.
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The entrepreneurs who are fine with it are likely, for the most part, the ones who actually get funded.
1) If you're an LP and you think this type of thing is a really big deal, don't put your money in a fund that does it.

2) Even if they didn't invest in themselves, they could just as easily give your idea to a more competent entrepreneur and invest in her instead. If you're really worried about your proprietary idea being stolen, you shouldn't be in these meetings.
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Sure, we do. They take advantage of the vacation policy just like the rest of us.
What?

How is making it easier for developers to distribute apps on the open web "malware + cash"? It's more like balancing the risk of malware against the benefits of openness and encouraging web app development.
True, but still give two weeks notice. Yes, it's a courtesy you extent, not a legal requirement. Do it anyway. Be courteous.
> ideas are worth exactly nothing and execution is worth everything.

there is 3rd component - money. You may have good idea and be executing it well. The VC has money, has your idea and in this situation hey have choice - your execution or to implement their own. Due to money asymmetry, even having somewhat worse execution, they may still do better than you.
The "winning" is in creating a successful company, and VC tries to pick those winners. Getting VC funding isn't "winning" at all, and the author seems to conflate those two together.

As a LP, I would actually think that my GPs have a fiduciary duty to fund companies started by their partners if they thought it is a great investment opportunity (and ultimately VC partners are only beholden to their LPs and their own performance. Goodwill and good faith are valuable for achieving that end, not in itself)

Also,

>Now, in the most competitive start-up environment in history, these founders no longer just have to worry about being beaten by other start-ups in their space. They have to worry about potential investors picking off their ideas and using them for personal gain.

You've always had to vet your investors like this. Nothing has really changed.
That makes sense. If people ended up not liking them or they broke easily developers could fall back to using the d-pad instead.
It's not corruption, just 'more of the same' nepotism. If you're shocked by this, you haven't really been paying attention.
I, for one, sincerely hope the semantics of truthy/falsy operations of which I've grown accustomed to these past 19 years don't change. I tend to appreciate these expressions in JS moreso on actual user input operations.
Even those in the 'backroom' (like me) are typically under some fairly agressive non-disclosures with the VC themselves to avoid leakage of company info. That won't stop jerks from trying to pump people for information but I have yet to see someone get any mileage out of that. I have seen a reputation or two being destroyed that way (of the person trying to get information in such a back-handed manner).

VCs are very image conscious, if they lost their influx of potentials because their reputation took a hit because of a real or perceived hi-jack of someone else's idea then they would suffer immensely so they are very protective of this channel.

I'm not sure if it would be an existential issue but I'm definitely sure that it would hurt badly to be known as 'the VC that you can't pitch to because they'll rip your idea'.
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You are talking about statistical measures here, yet seem blind to the underlying principle that whatever the statistical measure, there are more than enough outliers for a count of 0 ought to be surprising, particularly in an area like this where any relevant gender variances are so dwarfed by individual variations.
We certainly want to make sure that it leads to a great experience. With the browser controlling the heuristics of when then pop-up fires I think we can mitigate some of the risk.
Actually,Math/Physics, along with Econ,Philosophy as well as International Relations majors score higher than Engineers on the LSAT.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1430654
You're saying every pilot whose flown a small Cessna where a passenger writing an article for a magazine took a photo or two was commercially certified?

" In general, whenever we receive a complaint about an unauthorized UAS operation, we contact the operator and educate them about the regulations so they can comply,"

It seems to me that the above is more orientated towards repeat offenders than for a couple one-time pictures.
I really love the branch-level access control on Bitbucket. Being able to say that developers A,B,C have access to the repo, but only A can push to master, is incredibly useful.
Two folders?

Spam For Sure

Spam Maybe
Well sure but nobody is owed a chance to get venture funding from a particular fund. We are really stretching to find victims here, no?
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I doubt that would be the question of law the appeal hinged on, but some of the procedural issues with the case. The government never fully explained how the evidence abroad was legally located or acquired, which could unravel the entire case.
Tell that to the RIAA and MPAA.
It depends. Learning Racket and the design methodology taught by Felleisen, et al. could help you become a better programmer in general, and thus significantly further your career.

How to Design Programs, Second Edition

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
Ross Ulbricht did skip out on the rent, after all.
Is Lisp anything like Lambda Calculus? If so, then I should get in on that, since I taught myself LC in a day. I saw the sheer power and beauty of it when I had "programed" ternary logic operators on paper with it. The only issue I had was the excessive use of parentheses. If there is a way to structure LC like Python (replacing the syntactical function of parentheses with space/indents), then I'd be sold on that for sure.
It would be a bit hard to have tested an 850 for 18 months, you know, what with time travel being what it is.
We are not letting developers to control when the prompt shows, other than to stop it from showing.
>Unfortunately, it became a "mere" tragedy that I fear will wind up doing far less to solve the problems he wanted to than if he'd stuck it out.

This reads as victim blaming to me, perhaps you didn't intend it such but the rest of your comment also sounds like whitewashing to me:

"friends do time...wasn't horrible" thanks for your anecdote, most people find being stripped of their freedom and locked in a box horrible.

"no doubt the prosecutor was overzealous...but..Swartz...ham-fisted and a bit unhinged", way to make light of Swartz's mental condition and suicide.

"actually guilty...however absurd..it's law", so the law is always right no mater how absurd? How grotesque.

"six-month term would have been the best thing that could have happened to his cause", how about you volunteer to be a felon then?
OP's concern isn't with network traffic, it's with GAE compute time. Googlebot keeps causing instances to run.

If requests initiated by Googlebot were free to run, you could make a giant website full of garbage and use each free request to spend 50ms mining bitcoin.
Installing ffmpeg and convert on Windows (without cygwin even) is trivial.

It looks like PowerShell even has kill (as an alias to Stop-Process) and ps (as an alias to Get-Process).

I don't like PowerShell, but I certainly wouldn't be quick to suggest that it is missing features.
Heh, wow, I actually wrote that blog post. That's kind of a weird feeling :)

That post led to a big discussion on the Racket mailing list. And the suggestion for this came up: http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

A 3D game engine for livecoding worlds into existence.

Fluxus is a rapid prototyping, playing and learning
environment for 3D graphics, sound and games. Extends the
Racket language with graphical commands and can be used
within it’s own livecoding environment or from within the
DrRacket IDE.

I've not used Fluxus, but I think this is probably the closest thing to what you want. There is the Turtle graphics API that comes with Racket, but it's not really meant for animation.
Ok, url changed from http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2015/01/peta-ferguson-j....
I'd be suspicious, but then again, since his reputation is based on past successes, I'd still be okay with it.

The corollary is that the crony's company did fail, his reputation would suffer, and he'd lose business!
That sounds like it means it's a security issue. All the browsers do this (the ones with open issue trackers, at least)
Are you familiar with YouTube monetization? You have to specifically enable monetization on a video by video basis.
Don't judge me, but during a coding session, I got caught up watching "Gold Rush" on whatever channel it comes on.

After sort of passively watching it while doing other things, one of the episodes in the marathon was a "behind the scenes" sort of thing, where they showed that drone cinematography is used, basically, in like 80% of the filming done for that show.

They send the cameramen out in two-person teams, one to fly the drone, and the other to operate the camera, with an Oculus-looking visor on so that they can simply see the camera as through a viewfinder.

The "intent to generate income" is not only there, it's at some point in the past.
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Sales taxes, VAT, etc. are used basically everywhere, so "non starter" is a strange label to use. Regressivity is a problem, but that may be ameliorated with measures like EITC or guaranteed income.

It's not clear that inheritance taxes are easier to circumvent than capital gains taxes, which certainly are easy to circumvent. Capital moves at the speed of light, to whichever locale offers the best return. The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more numbered accounts will slip through your fingers. Investment is not like cigarettes; we don't actually want to tax it out of existence.

OTOH, old rich dudes die eventually no matter what. The death of a wealthy person would be a difficult event to conceal, even if potential heirs wanted to do so. At that point, Caesar can take his portion. Trusts etc. are fictional entities, created by the state. If there is some problem with these entities that prevents the levy of tax, the state may modify them to solve that problem.
I agree. The Death books are by far my favourite ones of the Discworld series.
As far as I remember the oldest attempt to create something like that was http://theinternetwishlist.com/

These sites always seem to suffer from the same problem - not enough contributing members. It's quite understandable - what is the incentive to post a problem? What is a chance that someone will solve it? When will it happen? How will I know about it? etc. All these factors result in a situation in which people rather treat such sites as an entertaining curiosity.

My suggestion to improve it is: make it an inverted Kickstarter - if I've got a problem I pledge X dollars for someone to create a solution for it. Other people with similar problem add their pledges. When the sum starts to look tasty developers pick up the challenge and compete (?) for the bounty. The backers get the solution at discounted prices. Everyone's happy and live long ever after ;)
Couple apt-cyg with a batch script to install updates unattended - this made cygwin much nicer:

cd C:\distr\cygwin
setup-x86_64.exe --no-desktop --no-shortcuts --no-startmenu --quiet-mode
What if the footage was shot of the drone, not by it?

Suppose I go to a local RC meetup with a camcorder, film some people flying around, then upload it to youtube and monetize it?

What if the RC plane I am filming is owned by me, and flown by one of my friends?

What if the RC plane is a drone owned by me, and is flying itself while I film it?

What if the RC plane is owned and flown by me, while I film it?

What if all of these tapes are 20 years old, and I am only now digging them out of my attic to digitize and monetize them?

It seems to me there may be a decent amount of gray-areas around this whole concept.
I don't know, I'm pretty sure he was referring to himself as the third type of person when he wrote that:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett...
>So basically, to rephrase, the existence of the law is what makes the law necessary. It's almost tautological.

Not quite. The law against production is what makes the law against buying and selling more relevant. What makes the law against production and sales relevant is different reasoning (I am neither defending nor attacking that reasoning as that would be a long discussion either way). I wouldn't consider it tautological nor circular reasoning, but it is stacked, and if you were to legalize production, that reason for the ban on selling and buying would no longer apply. The stacked reasons, now without their base, would no longer be supported.

Are there other reasons, especially for certain drugs that are more dangerous? Maybe (once again, it would be a long discussion if they are justified or not).
> I feel like that's a very simplistic way of evaluating progressiveness.

It is incredibly simplistic.

> A board of a well known tech company is composed of 3 women, and 6 men. By your metric, that's progressiveness.

No it is not. I made no assertions about that context. My assertion was that when there are NO women in the room, that is an indication of a _lack_ of progressiveness. Even that has some obvious caveats, as for small numbers of people (like say... 1), it wouldn't mean anything... but my assertion already concedes that you could have half or more than half the room be made up of women and still not be at all progressive.
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You have several ways to address grievances. You can speak to your local representatives. Write to the local press. Contact your State and National Representatives, and then contact them again when a staffer takes your call the first time. Write letters, e-mails, radio ads, television interviews, poems, songs, plant trees in the shape of your own face, you can use the power of hate on 4chan or the hug of death from Reddit.

You can protest, is what I'm saying.

I'm not saying that a few bad apples spoil the bunch. What I said was that it isn't true that all parts of every government office are abusive. I implied that issues in Idaho's state government aren't the same as those in Miami's Precinct Alderman's offices, and those are different than those in Washington, D.C.
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There seems to be a big gray area with "pure hobbyist" on the left and "commercial drone operations" (let's say Amazon's hypothetical delivery service by way of an example) on the right. This particular case would be one tick from "pure hobbyist".

More concerning to me are those small-scale "commercial" operations that I'm seeing more and more: wedding photographers using quadcopters, or realtors taking "eagle-eye" photographs. These are "commercial" operations (even though by every other definition they would fall into the hobbyist definition[1]), so according to the FAA, they need one of two things[2]:

1. A section 33 exemption, of which only 44 have been granted.
2. A Special Airworthiness Certificate (SAC) from the FAA.

Maybe the Small UAS Rule will change this for the better, but right now, this seems ridiculous.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/uas/model_aircraft/
[2] https://www.faa.gov/uas/civil_operations/
> So really, Lisp has almost no syntax at all, and a Lisp program is nothing but a big tree of actions that start at the top level and work down (sort of).

I've heard of it described as, "programming in the AST." You don't have to think hard about how an expression will be interpreted. In fact you can get very far with just the substitution model of eval and apply as they started off with in the SICP lectures.
Because GitLab is open source, and the alternatives (GitHub, BitBucket) are not.