skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then your answer to peteretep's question (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9188477) "Would you have rather the commenter have said 'their'?" is 'yes', which is fine.

I agreed with what I took (emphasis: my interpretation, not endorsed by peteretep) to be the subtext of that question, namely that the use of 'their' in that context is undesireable, and argued that it was not the only alternative to a gendered pronoun.
How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets – Salon.com
Slow Down, for Productivity's Sake
High end watches are about either status, or bought because they're mechanical art.

That's why some cost more than your house or car... Its not about 'function'.

A Picasso doesn't compete with your TV, nor does Viannay Halter or Felix Baumgartner compete with Apple.
Replace Broken Image with a Default One
Great blog post! Jaron Lanier has a few essays on humans adapting themselves to algos, which are even more annoying if you are capable of writing algos.
The author is Rich Hickey. This was a project of his before Clojure, and he just never updated the page after Clojure became available for the CLR.
He presented no evidence at all for any of his examples. If you want backup, you ask for it.

I have no idea why you think your link is showing "unions getting out of hand". It shows people being hired at a certain pay for certain hours and then having this retroactively changed. Why would you think this is even remotely acceptable?
While I don't disagree, it's worth noting that any minor official at any airport -- and this very much includes the US -- has very, very wide-ranging powers over non-citizens traipsing through. Sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar

Singaporean officials are also very keen on following the letter of the law, and in Singapore that letter happens to state that unauthorized possession of ammunition is a Very Big Deal.
Funny how the globalization stick has two ends, isn't it? Who'd a thunk it!
Creator here. This is my first project with the Uber API, which is really nice to use. This is all in a WebView so iOS is coming soon as well. Would love feedback on any part!
Paper ballots tend to work. There have been significant screwups though: http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2014/02/wa-senate-re-ele...

Given that we're generally happy to trust online banking, my feeling is that there is a way to make electronic voting secure enough. Where you want to draw that line is subjective though!
You made the comparison, you can't say it wasn't meant to be a comparison.

Strip away the jingoism, and I really don't see how the USA is any less of a police state than Singapore. From stop-and-frisk to civil forfeiture and the TSA, the United States is every bit a police state with just a thin outer layer of constitutional democracy.

I've lived in both countries for extended periods, and I know which I'd prefer to live in. (Though if we look at California in isolation, I might prefer that, but only for the nice weather and cheap cars.)
Error 404 for PHPMyAdmin Upon Updating PHP in Localhost
This hasn't been updated in nearly five years. That alone would make me hesitant to install it. can anyone confirm if it even runs on Yosemite?
You should ask support to escalate your request. To someone in marketing.
Similar story for me. I pretty much started with joe on Slackware and later switched to jed as my main editor where I learned and wrote a lot of C and C++ through college. Of course there was always a sprinkle of vi in there for systems that just didn't have other options.

Earlier in my professional career, I resisted IDE's in favor of a customized nedit. I have since moved on to Eclipse, WebStorm and Sublime Text.

I do have fond memories of coding with joe and jed on VT terminals, though.
NASA – SDO: Year 5 (time-lapse of the sun) [video]
Asshole's dead. Good riddance. Stole power on a platform of communism, moved to totalitarianism / familial nepotism, set up his 'wealthy, modern' state by money laundering for Burmese junta, struck up a cheap friendship with US (easy sale: naval positioning for the straits, cable taps on comms, aggressively purchasing regional comms providers in places like .au), did a PR job on .sg's great 'democracy'. His biography - Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going - is a disgusting exercise in narcissism attempting to rewrite history. Dirty man, dirty state, dirty legacy.
Make sure to account for medicare and social security. That's an additional $10K-$15K in "expenses".
Polyglot program
Switzerland and Singapore aren't actually all that different here, although I'll readily admit Sg is more draconian -- eg. government permission is required for a Work Pass holder to marry a citizen!

But both make it very difficult for "unskilled" people to acquire residence or citizenship. This avoids the need to provide an option for social mobility among the lowest earners by ensuring that they get shipped out to become someone else's problem before they have kids, and some undemanding fresh meat is imported instead, because life as a maid/construction worker in Sg is still more lucrative than toiling in the fields in the Philippines/Bangladesh/etc.
I's always surprising to me when doctors treating "bad guys" are asked about how they feel about it. Some kind of revenge mentality I guess is to blame.
Based from your experience as an advisor for a VC group, how will a graduate degree be helpful in founding a biotech or nanotech firm? Do you think an undergraduate degree is enough to found say a company like Hewlett-Packard? My opinion is that, with an undergraduate degree, it seems more possible to start a software/internet company than in any other high-tech industyr. Thanks!
Out of curiosity, how would you rank Singapore against its neighbors Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia?
Oh, that's really cool. No, I'd not heard of those shaders or DisplacementMapFilter - but it sure looks like they could do what I need. My current method (as you can perhaps tell) is to split the (non-relativistic) image into a bunch of thin triangle fanning out radially from your character, then redraw those images onto triangles with modified angle/vertices.

It works pretty well, but I imagine using one of the methods you listed would be a lot faster. Thanks for sharing them, I'll keep them in mind for a possible upgrade to the game.
@azeirah Just talk to this dude he helped me when I had questions in the past. gh: <https://github.com/thelinmichael email: <thelinmichael@gmail.com>
As far as I know you can't radiocarbon date anything that has been soaked in water.

That would explain the discrepancy between 3,500 and 10,000 years.
Or you could host all your books on your home web server with an ad on your empty bookshelf or above your TV?
On another note, imagine a metalanguagey language in which every in which every function could be written in a different language.
It could then all be "simply" translated to the same executable code, OR it could be distributed among different (virtual) machines...
Repeated statements without enumerating all the other statements... Weight your randomness son!
Lacking the time at the moment, but I've been meaning to hone my C skills and Hacking on OpenBSD seems like the best idea. Hopefully, I can finish this M.Sc. soon :)
This reminds me how senior pilots will vote against raises for junior pilots so the senior pilots can preserve or increase their pay[1]

[1]http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
Now movie The Internship is starting to make more sense. I was always wondering why would Google accept watch salesmen as interns.
Spotify's most recent update has ruined a lot of things for a lot of people - you're not alone. I've had repeated conversations with Spotify Support about the various things the update destroys, and they have made it clear they will not escalate any requests in a way that involves letting me (or anyone, presumably) speak with an actaul developer - though they will say they've "forward[ed] your ideas to the dev team" if you complain enough.

Sorry :(
Vancouver is surrounded on three sides by the sea, snow-capped mountains, and the U.S. border. Copious amounts of prime real estate are also set aside for Stanley Park, UBC, and the airport. There's some sprawl toward the South (right up to the border) and East (inland), but the downtown core itself is physically incapable of getting any bigger than it was 100 years ago.

It's somewhat like downtown San Francisco, except Vancouver is even smaller. No point in downtown Vancouver is more than 1 mile from water. This helps keep everything within walking distance.

Compare this to, say, Los Angeles, where there's not much to stop the city from expanding in every direction.
and in addition don't do the work. Hire people to do the actual work and just project manage it.
> I'm not a Lisp expert. Helpful suggestions are always welcome.

> ©2003 Rich Hickey, All Rights Reserved

I was amused.
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If the attempt is to understand the roots of homicide, rather than just bash one nation or another, it's more instructive to look at homicides [0], rather than homicides of a particular flavor. A careful look at that list will make it clear that elevated homicide rates are a legacy of colonization, at least as much as legal policy. Those in the Americas or Africa can't really be blamed that they were colonized by Europeans. Therefore, nations in the bottom, say, third of the table for those continents really aren't doing such a bad job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
> There's a distinction to be made between "stereotypical nerd" (Poor social skills, good with computer, basement dweller) and what I consider "actual nerds" (those with a passion or deep interest in something that they then attribute an ungodly amount of time to).

Isn't that what most people consider the difference between "nerd" and "geek" to be?
I'm not sure about high-paying jobs (during my search, I've found the average salary to be in the same ballpark for Vancouver vs Toronto). But in terms of sheer number of interesting companies and opportunities, I've found Toronto to be superior by a large margin.

If you take a look at the AngelList jobs board (https://angel.co/salaries), you can see triple the number of postings in Toronto vs Vancouver, and more than triple of those that pay 60k+. This is by no means completely representative, but I believe it's good indication of a much more vibrant startup scene, and my job search experience so far seems to confirm this (despite being biased towards Vancouver due to personal preference).
Highly skilled workers lose out too. If you bring in several million dollars in value and you are working for a large company is your pay proportional to the amount of value you bring in? This is a common reason people leave in the tech sector, you have a major breakthrough or a wildly successful project and you get a pat on the back for it while the shareholders take the lion's share. Ever tried to negotiate a raise and find you are getting less than 10% of what you bring in in revenue?
Whoa. And a picture of an astronaut on a space walk, taken from the ground.
Switzerland doesn't import unskilled workers directly, they just get them as refuges that they accept. They do not take them in as short term residents, that would be very unswiss.

(lived in Switzerland for two years)
Just scanning the beginning, parts of this are pretty misleading.

For example:

"... if a database row contains 100 bytes,
and a B tree such as InnoDB employs 16KiB pages [11], then the B tree may perform
16KiB of I/O to write a single 100-byte row, for a write amplification of 160, compared to
a write amplification of 30 to 70 for the other data structures."

Reading this gives the impression that the only way pages are updated is by writing the page in whole. Storage engines commonly use a slotted page layout to avoid this. That is, variable length records are stored contiguously from the start of the page, and are indexed by an array of fixed sized offset entries that grows up from the end of the page. Inserting a 100 byte row will append it to the end of data area, then prepend a new offset to the slot array. On spinning disks this is typically two 512 byte writes (assuming page size is decently larger than block size, as is common). On SSD's it's more complicated due to the FTL, and state of the art systems tend to use a log structured approach. See the Bw-tree paper from Microsoft Research for example.
> a mostly complete Emacs experience (sans scripting ...),

That is mostly not like not Emacs? Or did Zwei and other emacsen had the same key bindings as emacs and gnu's readline?
Far more totalitarian.
Datalog is a query language, but I haven't found good libraries for the "connector" pieces of translating prolog/datalog predicates to SQL, constructing or syncing schema definitions, and database migrations. It seems like if you want to use Datalog, Datomic is the best option. (But datomic is sort of pricey for commercial use relative to SQL databases like Postgresql.)
ah, whoops - that was quite a mistake on my part!
I recently went to Peru for a trip. We stayed at what a really, really nice hotel. It was kind of jarring, because in the Sacred Valley, you could look across the street and see the hovels where the locals lived -- brick houses with no windows or insulation, no heat or air conditioning, and sometimes even no doors. But my hotel had nice sheets, windows, heat, air conditioning, Wi-fi, and really, really nice food.

We got to the hotel after sundown, and it's so remote that you can't really leave. Fortunately, they had a restaurant. The waitress there was a young woman, mid-twenties. She was extremely nice and helpful, though her grasp on English was tenuous. By the time we finished our meal at approximately 10:30pm, we were ready to go to bed. She waved goodbye and say "See you in the morning!"

We were up bright and early at 7:30am, and we went to get breakfast. Sure enough, the waitress was there. Needless to say, after an extremely long day of sight-seeing, we returned to the hotel and the girl was still there and served us dinner.

Long story short, this woman was working 16 hour days, and she was happy to do it. The job she had was one of the nicest, cushiest jobs you could get in her region -- by far. I didn't ask, but if I had to guess, I'd say she sends most of that money home to her family so that their extreme poverty won't be quite so bad.

I spend a lot of my time reading Hacker News and other non-work related websites. I can justify it -- my happiness is important -- but I'm loathe to say that I work too much at 40 hours a week, especially when I know what conditions are like in Peru and other third-world countries.

I get it. I understand the argument for shorter work weeks, and I agree wholeheartedly. But my sympathies go out to this nice waitress in Peru before they go out to Joe Brogrammer who "works" 50 hour weeks or Sarah Hedgefundmanager who has 6 minutes of bathroom time a day.

Then again, maybe I'm just a monster with no grasp on how hard life really is. :)
This could be an interesting way to see the software, and there is an error in the translation.
You know, I forget now. It was a trivia question at Clojure/Conj 2012.
Think of it like a drug trial: the control is the stock market, the drug is your strategy.

If (somehow) beating the market was a 50-50 chance (which is like saying a randomly written chess algorithm has a 50-50 chance of beating Kasparov), the chance of 40 years of gains is 1/2^40, which is less than 1 in a trillion.

I'd say that's sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis, that the drug is no better than placebo. Just because we don't understand the mechanism doesn't make it chance.
Yeah...I wanted to disclaim it, but that would have defeated the purpose of the post. :-)
1. Tramp.

2. Emacs daemon - as many suggest, why would you ever quit emacs?

But if you do find you shut Emacs down...

3. Slimmed down alternative init eg. https://github.com/ocodo/.emacs.d/blob/master/emacsq & https://github.com/ocodo/.emacs.d/blob/master/emacsq.el (note this init could be even slimmer, but the start time is about 2.5 seconds, which is fast enough, and I get a very well configured environment)

Or just ...

4. emacs -Q - no init.

One of these are going to solve your issue, without having to interrupt your emacs flow.

You could also look at your init for bottlenecks and have a secondary script. Which you can optionally run when you want those features. Keep the real init minimal.

There's many strategies.
Here's an example: The Screen Actor's Guild.

Matt Damon is a SAG member but he does not get paid scale. Scale is a minimum wage set by the union but if you're a big enough star, you negotiate your own wages.
Interesting topic. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia has been looking into the usage of aquifers for water storage in urban areas for some time now (the most recent project was
Managed aquifer recharge and storm water http://www.csiro.au/en/Research/LWF/Areas/Resilient-cities/U... from 2010 to 2014, though I remember reading reports about some research around 15 years ago).

I think it is particularly interesting that their research is focused on urban areas, where all the concrete and bitumen results in huge runoff. This creates risk of flash flooding, wastes a useful resource and even causes problems for marine life. So if it can be stored underground in natural aquifers and utilised locally that'd be quite an improvement. Apparently the cost of treating storm water for drinking is similar to treatment of water from reservoirs. No doubt there'd be a pretty big saving infrastructure needed for distributing water over long distances as well.
The situation's changed post-Schengen, but Switzerland traditionally did have a guest-worker program, focused on short-term and seasonal workers who wouldn't gain any kind of rights. These were mostly from Europe, not refugees from elsewhere (the vast majority from Italy, with smaller numbers from Spain, Turkey, and Portugal). Under pressure, some were subsequently given residence rights, or (for those from EU countries) gained them later as a result of the Schengen treaty. See the section "Post-war labor migration" here: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/switzerland-faces-com...
I would never use Tag as the benchmark of mechanical watches--in terms of aesthetics, nor machining(they use ETA movements).

That said, after getting into repairing watches, a well made mechanical watch is something to admire. Plus, it's the ultimate recyclable. It is something you can pass down to your kid. A rose gold Rolex bubbleback from the 50's looks and feels great on the wrist--even if bought second hand off ebay. My only concern when wearing a nice watch is theft these days. I guess it's like driving a Olds 442 convertable
vs. a Tesla? I can't compare the two. (I have never driven a
Tesla though, but I have been in expensive cars)

That said I don't see much difference between the quality of older watch movements. I can honestly state that I can't see any difference on quality of a Rolex vs. Benrus from the 40-70's.(comparing just movements, not the case or straps)
Best case scenario just happened.

Gotta love that.
I've measured the bullet speed by syncing the raptor with the bullets and it seems that Newtonian bullets go 2 mph and relativistic ones (level 35) only 1.4 mph?
Except that it is. How likely are the current rules going to be completely revised? It would probably takes countless years for anything to change.
If you are interested, I have been playing with some of these ideas here: https://github.com/mvr/cf
I should clarify my comment here. Not that I've never seen it. I've never seen it done well.
No, there's no real consistency in what people see the difference between those two being, or even in which, if any, has the more positive (or less negative) connotation.
Given how much effort you have to go through with etcd and discovery, why not use an MQ like RabbitMQ, that will take care of replication, etc as well?
What is it like to have been programming for the past fifty years?
> Bothell

As a BHS graduate, this kind of got me. We are clearly "north" of the lake, and more apart of Everett than say Bellevue.
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I don't think the two are equivalent. I'm not saying I necessarily think it was a good idea to make the sacrifices that he made. But that can't be changed now and I appreciate the amount of effort that was put in.
No, not really. The externalities of the plastic is inconsequential. The externalities of glass are probably higher. Have you calculated them?
Hi vital, I've just fixed 1 bug for Firefox. I recommend using Chrome/Safari for now until bugs on other platforms get fixed.
CMS-2 / An Early US Navy Programming Language
It should be ok for a busybox.
I can't get past level 12, because I can't pick up the key although it's correct color.
Here's a live table of what parts of WebCryptoAPI your browser supports:

https://diafygi.github.io/webcrypto-examples/
I'd be happier if it just had Zap to Char.
If everything else fails, maybe add support to last.fm? This way the user could just scrobble directly from Spotify to Last.fm and you get the song from there.
I don't think that's accurate. Many democratic countries are run in a fashion that reasonably approximates what is good for their electorate. Yes, they don't match it perfectly, but compared to any other form of government that has ever been implemented on a large scale, it has worked very well.
It will be difficult, because their strong economy is directly tied to the fairly non-democratic society. Its main competitive advantage are the large quantities of cheap labor it is surrounded by, which it manages very carefully with a top-down system of residence classes. A Singapore with more equal rights would be a very different one economically.
I'd love something like this that works with the ZSH + z fuzzy folder matching
I've seen numbers from 30 to 120. I think GRACE says 53 per egg. American water says 120. Orange county water says 36 gallons, etc. It's all over the board and it depends what they're including. For straight up water, I've heard an individual hen is probably a bit less than a pint of water per day. They then start including things like how much water is used to grow the grain they feed the birds (about a half cup day per). It all depends on what's _actually_ included (as well as things like egg laying / lifetimes (hens don't get into the thick of it until probably around 6 months in)).

Unfortunately I've never been able to find a _real_ number which is indicative of the food cycle, etc.
Do not worry when you get down votes, especially not if you do a second look at your text in a calm state and you think that it contributes.

There are times when you unfortunately will get stuck with down votes - but most times, there will be plenty of people who will read your comment even if it's grayed out - and then vote it up.
Correct me if I'm reading this incorrectly, but this is what the article says:

"The Nicholas Fund, which he has run since 1969, has topped the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by an average of 2 percentage points a year for the past 40 years and has beaten it every year since 2008."

Does this not mean that it has not, in fact,
"been beating S&P 500 for 40 years"? Very misleading title if this is the case.

And a lot of the comments I'm reading here seem to have indeed been mislead into thinking that it has beaten S&P consecutively for 40 years.

That said, index funds' popularity is part performance, part cost. Were costs factored into these performance metric? If not, I wonder how much of the 2% gains would have been passed on to the individual investor, if any at all.
Pretty much all the unions in industries where there are recognized hyper-elite workers work this way (SAG s mentioned in a sibling comment, most of the major professional sports players unions, etc.)

Most other unions don't work that way.