skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fallacy here is that you are acting as though these things are all fungible.

Would you rather be a random American today who is unable to form satisfying emotional relationships because of the lack emotionally available parents during development or would you rather be a random American 50 years ago who has warm loving connections?

That's what's being compared here.

Why should we have to trade one for another? This should make us recognize that there is a problem. Otherwise the apparent celebration of progress is actually just a defeatist 'be grateful for what you have'.
A Google friend with Polish-American accent pronounces "the DOM" as "the Dumb", and I agree. Don't fret about usability of future DOM APIs in an evolution of SoundScript. I'm 100% sure they can be as sweet as Dart's Dumb, er, DOM. :-)

/be
Working on adding that shortly. In the meantime we do email you a proof of your design before we send it for print
Setting a maximum experience requirement isn't legal in the US because it has a disparate impact on older applicants.
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From the photos and Wikipedia description, I'm in love. I want to move there.
I think there's a gray area. Certainly most of the companies I've worked for have turned a blind eye to people 'stepping out' to make appointments or take a phone call on a personal cell phone.

But to post about the company on a site like Glassdoor, on company time (which was implied) and using a company computer and network, seems foolish to me. After all, you are at work, no?
This is capitalism failing humanity.
There may be some truth to that but look at a city which has a large number of taxis and car services like Manhattan. It's not exactly a car-less paradise.

This is one of the things I find somewhat strange about how so many people go gaga whenever optimistic dates for self-driving cars get thrown out. If you live in a city, you already have a "self-driving" option. Maybe someday it will be possible to create autonomous cars (that can put all those drivers out of a job). But basically the only thing that you're doing that you can't do today is dropping the price by, I don't know, $10/hr?
Machine learning is a hot topic today, like AI in general.

Facebook and Google use Machine learning algorithms to increase Ad revenue and serve more relevant information to the user.

Machine learning is also used in health care to predict Emergency Room wait times for example.

Many banks and big online retailers use Machine learning for fraud detection.

And of course Machine Learning is used in the stock market.
This is neat stuff, and I've looked into it before. One question I have, though, is regarding interoperability with C#. If I have a units library that is in F# using what's shown in OP, would I be able to use the UoM in C#, or would I have to revert to unitless values on the C# side of the interface?
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@Mashape we're fan of Greg and Gabriel since long time now.

They have done an amazing work with very limited resources. If all you need is a Documentation w/ Support they are the faster/cheaper solution for you. And the GUI is details oriented, unlike other complex/heavy Enterprise solutions.
... or dual-boot if you've the hard drive space. Mint starts up in literally a few seconds on my hardware (a several year old ThinkPad L520).

Personally, I found that going cold-turkey worked for me when I switched from Windows for C development back in the day. Every time I ran into the "oh, I need a Windows app" problem, I'd stop and learn the Linux equivalent.

Fortunately there were no road-blocks; literally everything I needed to do as a developer could be done on Linux, and that was back in 2001 or so from memory.

These days there's little I can't do on a Linux box. There's an old Windows laptop knocking around the office to run Niagara Workbench; I suspect it'll work on Linux through Wine but due to licensing complexities I haven't tried. Probably will when that laptop finally shuffles off this mortal coil.
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I used the http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ repository in a pinch for ffmpeg recently. Third party repo aside, what criticisms are there for this ffmpeg compared to a compiled copy?
This article seems to miss a few important points. The people who have lived in a city make that city what it is and you can't just switch in new higher bidding tenets at every juncture and expect that community to remain. In particular, the people in the middle who could pay higher than rent control rates will still move away more frequently if you increase their rent by a couple thousand to get it to (somewhat reduced) market rates. For example, when they have kids and need more space then they won't be able to afford it but with rent control they could have already locked in housing costs. Just as their landlord was allowed to lock in property taxes so they wouldn't lose the property due to tax increases.
> A speculation: the US still tortures people directly in addition to third party torture.

Gitmo?
Well you can never be sure you improved without measurement of some sort.

But maybe you're right in the area of emotions and feelings. I think humans know inherently what is optimal when it comes to social situations, but we're still trying to codify exactly what that is. For instance, we know that people work better with sunlight and plants in the office. We could do an informal measurement of sorts simply by asking around, do you like this?

But ultimately I think that's what they are doing here, trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.
> any area where they have an expectation of privacy

Can you expect privacy in a box with clear windows?
Marc Adreessen came up with <img>[1], not TimBL.

[1] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...
My point, on the other hand, is that this one-instruction atomic increment and test, with a conditional wait call is a semaphore (though perhaps a faster one than the underlying semaphore). Whereas the point of the article is that semaphores are very flexible and can be used to implement other primitives.

This could be repaired by reframing the example as "look, slow semaphores, together with an atomic increment/test operation provided by the processor, can be used to implement faster semaphores!"

This is actually a useful case that tends to be overlooked by "primitives X, Y, and Z out of semaphores" tutorials.
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Hey guys,

We are looking for some feedback on our website and products. Do you understand the message based on the information on the website? Would you want to download the products when first viewing the site?

If you have downloaded our products, what is your initial impression?
Maybe I'm wrong, but by checking the "redundant" atomic counter before trying to acquire the semaphore, he's saving up a system call, which would imply making (unnecessary) context changes.
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A little bit of searching shows that this is entirely in the compiler and the CLR never sees it.

I did find an exploration of this topic at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/348853/units-of-measure-...
The choice of using Facebook or not (or any other similar "product") is basically a prisoner's dilema, with millions or billions of prisoners instead of just two.

So indeed, doing the right thing will be a seemingly losing proposition, but the right thing is still not to use those "products".

Objecting to Stallman's objections will lead to no good. Only informing and teaching people, and transmitting Stallman's message, can eventually lead to some good.

Saying that Stallman is wrong is therefore wrong and bad.
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Economics is even more complex than physics in this regard, because in physics there is often a "right" answer. In economics, there may or may not be a right answer depending on the subject, but it's impossible to know if you've achieved it in most cases anyway.

And what investors try to do would be akin to asking a physicist to examine two cars before a Nascar race and tell you who was going to win the race.
Do you believe that our population would effectively self-educate without gov't funded education?
Molecular Gastronomy - every time hear this buzzword marketing comes into my mind.

"Food chemistry" is not sexy enough, a already occupied and defined by scholars.
Are you asking in good faith? You seem to assume right off the bat that anybody who is skeptical is irrational since there is a "massive collection of solid data pointing towards this conclusion". And yet I disagree. I think that the warming estimates were grossly overstated, and I don't think it's difficult to justify my position. I must be crazy, right?

For example, relating specifically to the article, I could simply point out that the REGIONAL Western Antarctic melting is most certainly due to volcanic activity and that Antarctic ice levels were at all time record highs for much of last year. The article doesn't even mention the recent record-breaking ice levels?! Doesn't that seem strange? It seems any information that doesn't confirm the prevailing view is neatly filtered out. It's bizarre to watch, but strangely fascinating.

I could show you that the lynch-pin of the CAGW argument is simply assumed in the climate models. It is highly uncertain, unproven, and is not born out by observation. It's easy to do and relies entirely on mainstream climate science.

And for all this I get called a "climate denier", a term that is meant to associate me with "holocaust deniers". From your article: "DH0. Name-calling. - This is the lowest form of disagreement, and probably also the most common."

Yes, it is the most common response I get from CAGW advocates. Ironic, isn't it?
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>Misunderstanding when models should and should not be applied is one of the core reasons we got into an asset bubble in the mid-2000s. Banks were pricing financial products using models whose assumptions did not hold over the long-term. They didn't understand how their models were wrong until it was too late, and it ended up losing them (but ultimately the American taxpayers) a lot of money.

I don't think this is true. Plenty of smart people who worked with various models knew their data wasn't solid and reflected just a few years of a benign market, and plenty of people understood the rather obvious idea of a Black Swan.

The reason they kept at it was systemic: they were paid to sit and cheer the market up, continue to sell product, and generally not question the business model.

The people who made a lot of money off the crash tended to be people who were able to sit out the upswing in some way, without being punished too hard. Hedge fund managers with either new funds or long track records, like Paulson and Andrew Lahde.

The crash was always coming. I remember going to a luncheon at GS where that was the major point. This was in 2006, and they predicted it would start in 2007 and culminate in 2008.
What you are calling 'simple' is actually an absolutist position based on neoliberal principles that serve those with power and capital. That's far from the only way to think. By introducing terms like "Blood Right", you are also exaggerating to create a straw man.

Being part of a social fabric is a basic human need. In the past the strong would displace the week from their communities through violence. Now we do that through the law, which seems like a great improvement.

Nevertheless there is no getting around the harm that you do to someone when you displace them from their community and support networks. This is why the law is not as absolute as you and others with your viewpoint would like.

By all means let's consider by what means we can balance this against other important human needs, but I don't think it's reasonable to claim that the freedoms to deploy capital without restriction trumps the need of humans for stable community.
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They don't think it's a new encounter. FTFA: "Ancient texts mention encounters around 1,000 years ago between Scandinavians and members of the Islamic civilization, which stretched from West Asia to Mediterranean lands. Archaeological evidence supporting those accounts, though, is rare. "
But we've had thousands of years of testing of your hypothesis, and no, individuals do not step up in any great number to solve massive societal problems of poverty.

Which is why we invented governmental action to solve them. Which has proved extremely effective.
I know that story just gets weirder as he goes along. The part about them telling him to pack a poncho because it was going to rain was too good.
I haven't been involved in the C++ world in a long time. However, I'm a huge fan of Python. So as long at C++ still has the ability to be granular, and step back, using things like 'auto', I see the steps as good. Honestly and admittedly, I haven't had a chance to review the C++!4 release in detail and I probably won't, since I just use Python. If there are no serious performance tradeoffs, and I was forced to use C++ for work, I'd be excited about any changes that make C++ more pythonic.
This report is false. While Hamburg does plan for a "Green Network", there are no plans to ban cars or become "car free".

Official statement from the city of Hamburg (in German): http://www.hamburg.de/pressearchiv-fhh/4257482/2014-01-24-bs...
No, I really do not think going to EC2 could be beneficial in any way in terms of improving resiliency compared to Softlayer. SL allows you to control which VLANs your box will end up on. VLANs could be treated as racks (since they do not allocate more than one VLAN per rack). Then you have multiple DCs in one region (e.g. DAL01, DAL05, DAL07, etc) and you have many different regions (DAL, SEA, WAS, AMS, etc).

I'd be very interested what problems you were having with them and at what scale. If this is a private topic, we could do it over email or some other medium if you like. You can contact me by any of the means listed here: http://kovyrin.net/contact/
> "AES-256 in CBC mode" is not a confidence-inspiring description of a cryptosystem

I'll second this, although knowing the author, my concurrence doesn't add much weight.

To wit:

* Encryption is not authentication. CBC mode in particular is vulnerable to
bit-flipping attacks.
* The password KDF is an important implementation detail that needs to be
considered.
* Browser extensions and node-webkit > browser JS

OP: Let me know if you'd like to know more about these details and/or advice on moving forward.
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Steps are certainly being made, but I don't think anyone in the field said any of the technology that exists today can be iterated upon to get even close to the kind of AI that would eventually become superintelligent. But yes, I do believe that with the amount of people working on these problems, we may very well "hit gold" and come up with something that does have the potential to become superintelligent, before we get there through brute-forcing means.
It's not relevant for less crowded areas but friends who live in NYC (or SF, without rent control) often see 20%+ increases amounting to at least a few hundred dollars per month. That's pretty rough after you found a place to live and spent a year setting it up.
You're right to a large extent. This king-of-the-hill attitude towards property is exactly what you see with Prop 13, rent control, severe building code restrictions, etc.

Prop 13: The long-time home owners get to put a disproportionate amount of the tax burden on newer buyers.

Rent control: long-term renters put a disproportionate cost of the rental prices on newer renters, and landlords.

Building code: Land owners want to be able to build when it's their turn, but as soon as they build they want to restrict others for obstructing their view, or changing the character of the neighborhood.

Public transportation: Residents who don't use public transport have typically fought against it coming to their neighborhood to keep the undesirables out, then find out that their property values are lower, or shops aren't doing well, because of this 30 years later. See Georgetown, DC.

Basically, everyone wants to lock in their position, then keep everyone else out. That's really only rational, so I can't fault it that much. Where I personally get annoyed is when those motivations aren't acknowledged and also get paired with complaints about super high rent and property prices.

The "rush to grow" is simply the reasonable response to skyrocketing prices. If the city doesn't want to grow, then it should be ok with those prices. What's not reasonable to want to be a desirable place to live, not grow, and have stable, affordable prices.
That's hardly a debunking of the thesis that violence has decreased. It cites no data, but simply declares in vague terms that some parts of the world are still violent and the sum of those parts is non-negligible, which is completely unrelated to the claim that violence has decreased.

The notion that fifty years ago "even starter jobs offered comfortable salaries" will come as a shock to people who lived then, barely getting by on piecework or similar marginal occupations. There were certainly classes of jobs where entry-level positions paid "comfortable salaries" but those jobs weren't much use to you if you were non-white, female, gay, or even from the wrong nominally-white ethnic group.

Things aren't as good as they could be, but they are still a lot better than they were by many, many measures. They are worse by a few measures, and we should be concerned about that, but in general the trend is in the right direction.
Not related to the post, but after going to the main Yeller page, I noticed that at the bottom one of the features listed is "HTTPS Everywhere (we don't even allow HTTP over our API or website)", yet the site is not over SSL at all. In fact manually entering HTTPS in the URL shows that the certificate is not valid.
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Did you reserve your instances? Were you using current generation instances (c3, m3, etc). Did you try to take advantage of traffic patterns to scale up and down the number of instances you were running?
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Minimum parking requirements subsidize car users at the expense on non-car users.
Car2go records audio, which should be more disturbing, but most people don't seem to care.
So that Hertz can show that the driver abused the rental. Perhaps they smoked in the car, broke interior parts, had someone not on the contract behind the wheel, or other reasons. Live streaming isn't required for this - it takes a snapshot when the car is started, when g-forces indicate it's been in a crash, or even every 2 minutes "just in case".

So yes, it's for insurance reasons -- theirs, not yours.
With the automobile came the invention of 'jaywalking', and the idea that the street belongs primarily to cars rather than people. The nature of public space changed fundamentally.

Many European cities are heavily pedestrianised, with large areas of the centre accessible only for deliveries. There are big public health impacts - walking and cycling becomes more popular, children have safe spaces to play, accident rates fall and the air quality is drastically improved.
I don't understand why this point isn't obvious to people. If I have a "driver" (actually doesn't matter if it's organic or electronic), of course I'm going to accept a longer commute if I can put my feet up and read a book or work on my laptop. There's a limit of course. At one point, I sometimes had a (long) commute by train and it just ends up being a big chunk out of your day. Likewise, if my driver can deal with city driving (and parking) I'm going to be much more inclined to take a car rather than mass transit unless congestion or other fees really tilt the cost balance.
Society, in general.

This is perhaps one of my favorite Bittman quotes. I can't remember it verbatim, but it was essentially lamenting how we have devalued working in your own home. In his case, he was referring to cooking, but I feel the overall point is rather relevant.
How often do you rent a car.
why not take a poll :

On a scale from 1 to 5, how much value do you derive from the use of a 1 to 5 scale?

True or False - it's OK to limit subjective questions to Boolean responses.
Is there any depth to your assertion? Or is it just a passive-aggressive swipe to denigrate Europe(ans) while derailing deeper discussion about critiques of the United States?

I will give you credit for acknowledging the "backward"/"modern" difference. The most important difference is that in the European "client regimes" (to use your language), they at least purport to maintain a semblance of democracy and human rights standards for their constituents. In that respect, call the convergent evolution towards the American-style government policy, a "client" or "vassal" state type of relationship if you'd like, but at least it's one in which (at a minimum) a superficial level of fairness is maintained (i.e., in contrast to sharia law countries).
More amazing to me is the 6th century bronze Buddha statue found in a pre-Viking era trading centre in Helgö, Sweden:

http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki...
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I don't think better trains would necessarily be the result of merging. There is a good chance we'd just expand the 101 and build new Interstates through neighborhoods.
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What kind of rental car costs $50k.

(I tend to get stuck with Ford Fusions and other shitboxes)
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One of the developers tweeted this, see https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/577534426004897792.

The explanation is that some nodes will allow you to replace older transactions (not mined yet) as long as the new one has a higher fee. This tool lets you double-spend with a higher fee, and if the newer one happens to get into a block, you were successful.
If you like speed as much as I do :

1. Total Space. Setup shortcuts and disable transitions

2. Disable (or speed up) OSX animation (I don't have the commands on my phone, just Google it)

3. iTerm and window splitting (Cmd d) and switch (Cmd [ or ])

4. And The REAL time saver : Keyboard Maestro
Create at least one macro per app. I assigned shortcuts like

Cmd Shift L - iTerm

Cmd Shift / - Atom

Cmd Shift ' - Chrome

Ctrl Shift < - Finder

Ctrl Shift M - Mailbox

And so (Xcode, Slack etc.)

Then I pur each app in fullscreen (Ctrl Cmd F).

Now I have O(1) access over my computer \o/

Edit: disclaimer I'm a vim user
I bet this will be used by the FBI in the short term. They secretly track cars. A camera in the car would make this even easier.