skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think RMS is correct here.

Corporate membership in an organization whose purpose is to impose market and private mechanisms on whole populations by writing these into state and local law (this is precisely what ALEC does) should be interpreted as an irrevocable announcement that the management of the corporation does in fact endorse imposing its interests on whole populations using state and local law.

Amazon left ALEC but did not also replace its leadership at the same time, so its leaving can't be construed as a change of perspective on the imposition of legislation as a business strategy. At most you can say that Amazon's execs decided that the costs of openly associating with those aims were high enough to end open association.
Thanks for sharing that! I've been learning French for the past two years and it's really opened my eyes to some things. I am already a native bilingual English/Arabic speaker, and thought Arabic was a very heavily-structured language, but learning French has made me realize that more than anything it is English that isn't. Discovering the French Anglo-Norman influence on the language I speak most often has been a very introspective and eye-opening experience for me.
Microscopic black holes scares me. I once heard (entirely anecdotal - I'd love it if someone more knowledgeable on the subject could comment) they had calculated the probability that the LHC would create a black hole that consumed the Earth. The result was more likely than SHA1-hash collision, and was deemed safe enough to try. Somewhere between humorous and scary.

edit: did some Googling and found some documentation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_high-energy_particle...). It cites an estimated upper limit of 1 in 50 million and references the book in which that estimate is made.
But it is an operational stumbling block when subtraction gives negative results. It may lead to calculation errors otherwise avoided. In a pedagogical setting like this one error sources should be minimized.
The malware is probably using our add-on ID

551f2920-3c19-11e1-b86c-0800200c9a66@jetpack.xpi

and may have a filename such as that, but may not be called Ad Limiter. Google searches for that ID are not turning up anything other than our own stuff.
Good for you buddy. The ocean is more beautiful than the grandest of Silicon Valley office space. And startup CEOs usually don't get the time for walks down the beach, so enjoy it!

I'd go for a walk by the East River but I'm at work and I don't want to get MRSA from a radioactive sea creature.
#WeRobot 2015 on now in Seattle
This is why, despite growing up a Commodore kid, I've never really sat and wondered about the "could have been" very much like some people have... even if Commodore had survived they would have been in ever-growing trouble with their architecture and there's no reason to believe that whatever they put out in, say, 1995 would be any particularly better or worse than what we really got, because it would pretty much be a full rewrite anyhow.
> I would otherwise be interested in having a discussion about static analysis and hearing why you think it would not solve the problem

Stack allocation isn't in the semantics of Go, so that's a pretty weird thing to use a basis of a static analysis. It's also not sound because of interfaces or closures. You would want something more like "fully by-value data with no pointers in it, no interfaces, no closures".
what's "older"?

I've been sitting at computers about 20 yrs, but I'm not 40 yet...

I run, bike or swim. 1 or more of those every day. Looking into yoga, and some additional strength training (pushups, pull ups, core exercises)
Why didn't this work out for high-end Android handsets? They are in a similar situation.
I think it would be helpful to be clearer as to why you disagree with the analogy rather than simply calling it stupid.

If I had to guess, I would suspect that your real issue is that you do not find the things being restricted to be comparable (i.e., human life/will vs. the use of software), rather than believing that the comparison is somehow invalid for other reasons.
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My new meetup for Brands and bloggers / influencers. Input is directed into an email where the spark between a brand and blogger could make magic happen. Any thoughts on the site? no logins and really no platform.
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I like to use FluentNHibernate. It is just GREAT!
> You can still distribute your code under whatever license you want.

That actually isn't true.

> You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy.

You are required to distribute it under GPL v3. I don't know enough legalese to determine if distributing the modifications alone as a parallel license is allowed.
That's a bit cynical. I think at least a large portion of it is that people tend to believe that whatever skill sets they have are important.

So a plumber thinks that basic plumbing knowledge is something everyone should have. Chefs think that everyone should be able to cook the basics. Programmers think that programming is valuable knowledge that everyone should have some familiarity with.

If confronted with this, all of them will be able to rattle out perfectly rational arguments in defense of their positions. They aren't wrong. It is just that what they prioritize or think about most often is influenced by what they know and do. Basic plumbing knowledge is useful for anyone who owns a home (or just uses a toilet, sink, or shower), but how often do you see chefs advocating for that sort of practical education? Being able to cook a nice meal for friends or family is a great skill with a lot of social value, and cooking your own food can be very economical, but how often do plumbers advocate for that?

We see a lot of people advocating for tech education and extolling the virtues of tech knowledge because we surround ourselves with people who are already in this field.

This said, I think there is some truth in what you say. I get pretty suspicious when I see national campaigns for tech education being pushed by the elite. Business leaders or politicians; people who have made something other than programming their profession. Maybe there is a plumbing equivalent of things like code.org, but if so I am not aware of it.
Yes they were on the latest version of Mono, which in my experience outside of web programming is just as fast as the JVM. I think the gap has more to do with the libraries than the VM, but I'd be willing to wait it out to see. I'm not migrating soon anyway...although it would be nice to know how far out it is.
That is probably one of the most reasonable disagreements that can be made.

Take some random person and say they use to be a member of some bad organization. Let's pick the WBC (but you can pick many others). Now, say they quit, not because of a change of heart, but because of political pressure that was costing them money. Is this someone you would consider a decent person? I wouldn't.
This is a fair assignment of responsibility only in a world where corporate representation does not extend to that regulatory sphere. But it absolutely does. There is a free market for political results and favorable tax code edits are the deliverables in this cash market.
How do laws against gay marriage not restrict freedom?
It is possible that future servers might be connected to the network backplane, power, drives, and pretty much everything else by multiple USB-3.1 type connections. The bandwidth is there.

Just imagine racking in machines like that which take N USB connections, where that's 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or whatever is necessary.
> 8:30pm
How long is this before you go to sleep?
We are only available in Berkeley right now but this is what we have https://www.parachuteup.com/
The V-E+R follows the pattern of zero-dimensional, one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and this alternating sum formulation continues for the Euler characteristic in higher dimensions. So that is one reason to keep V-E+R.

Another reason, however, is that although some negative numbers show up, the numbers are all very small, and this could be a good opportunity to introduce some exposure to negative numbers.
Right. And that is the most terrifying piece of it all. Most of the people I know either don't think about it or think the magic of science and innovation will rescue us. But if we fall below a certain level of expertise, we will be gkbers. You can't make solar panels with charcoal fires.

I keep thinking of us as mice munching on grain from an overturned truck. Life is great (and the population explodes) until the grain is gone. Then woe to the mice.

Of course, people point to other great challenges we have overcome as a species. But is this time really different?
I may be missing something, but how do you format data associated with a schema defined this way? Do we assume it will be just a 2D json array? Or is that outside the scope of this project?
Technically, byte-strings (and nested comments) mean the lexer is not regular, but the grammar is still context-free. But anyway, parsing is not typically the bottle-neck these days.
Would you say strength in general would be a better (more healthy in the long term) goal than just endurance/condition?

Training to be strong improves every component of fitness: ... and coordination

Do you mean eye-hand type of coordination? Anyway it sounds a bit odd to me: training coordination (as in a basketball shot, a frisbee throw, a bunnyhop with a bike) to me always seemed to be pretty much seperate from training strength/muscle volume? Sure strength would allow you to throw a ball/disc further or make you jump higher, but not necessarily with better accuracy?
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The challenges to NATO are mostly that the threat (as you so well document and argue) it was originally conceived for is no longer something strong enough to sustain it - it is being perpetuated beyond the context that birthed it. Today's challenges to nuclear proliferation and of globalization and revisionism call for something other than NATO.

The US is by essentially every account not in a stronger position. Perhaps we should belabor this disagreement with more discussion. You might have some more to say - let me know if you would like this proposition defended.

But getting back to the point, how do you feel this informs an EU headed towards being a United States of Europe? Do you feel that it is a nice addition to an unchallenged Pax Americana? Is it a threat? Can it exist alongside NATO or will it supercede it? Is the USE a bunk idea?
"Seems like the benefits could go beyond aesthetics."

They do. Volume, usually defined using tonnage (weight x reps x sets) at a certain intensity (% of your maximal strength) is the main predictor not only of hypertrophy but also of strength gains in training. That is why all of the strongest powerlifters, who are only interested in moving as much weight as possible, train in that way (medium/heavy weights).
Coach/powerlifter Greg Nuckols has written two books on the topic (The Art of Lifting and the Science of Lifting) which are sort of summarizing the literature on the subject, but you can find a lot of the content for free on his blog strengtheory (for example this post: http://www.strengtheory.com/more-is-more/)

Two other web pages offering meta analysis of the literature are http://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/strength/#3 (about strength) and http://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/hypertrophy/#... (about hypertrophy)
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However, this model assumes that the people are actually sincerely trying to help you. In practice, any use of the wisdom of crowds really boils down to dealing with abuse/trolls/spam.
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Might have fared exactly like Apple in the 90s? Trying to push a 80s architecture and system in 1999?
I started use Circus. New and in active development.
Greg Young mentioned at GOTO talk last year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JKjvY4etTY&t=2712)

https://github.com/d60/Cirqus/
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ArchLinux wiki has a great overview and comparison of disk encryption methods available to Linux:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption#Data_en...

In addition it compares encrypting partitions vs specific data.
Regardless of the outcome today, simply going through the exercise of completing the application is valuable. For us, we have been reminded, very clearly, "WHY" we took this risk in the first place. No matter the outcome, keep building!
Agreed. I was going to put something in my post like "and that's why a good argument will make it clear which one you're talking about", but I ended up forgetting to put it in.

Also, tax avoidance is just plain smart. Any for-profit business that doesn't practice tax avoidance is just throwing away money.
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Reminds me https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

SaaSS and SaaS:
"... the term “Software as a Service” doesn't explain why the practice is bad. So we coined the term “Service as a Software Substitute”, which defines the bad practice more clearly and says what is bad about it"

Bare in mind the FSF is poor, it doesn't have a marketing department behind.
I'm not sure, but I think semantics shifted throughout the years. I think it used to be
"gegijzelde(hostage)" versus "gijzelaar(hostage taker)"
now it's
"gijzelaar(hostage)" versus "gijzelnemer(hostage taker"
or, to be absolutely unambiguous:
"gegijzelde" versus "gijzelnemer".
ATS is another language that uses linear types: http://www.ats-lang.org/
"For example, if you start dismissing ideas or stop listening because someone is a ‘Millennial’ then the title Millennial is getting in the way"

I don't think this happens that often. More often, bad and naive ideas are dismissed and the person giving the idea wants to have a reason why they were rejected. Younger workers have less experience and many times propose ideas that just won't work in the long-run or have been tried multiple times and failed. But that doesn't mean all their ideas should be dismissed.

"Employees need to feel their opinions are heard and valued, and this is especially true for Millennials."

"In other words, we have recognition insecurities and sometimes wonder if the appreciation we receive is as artificial as our boxes full of trophies still sitting at home."

It's so funny how years ago when I heard in school that everyone got a trophy and competition was pretty much banned in many schools that everyone said it was for the better. Now, we have a generation of workers that need to be coddled throughout their adult life. This doesn't surprise me in the least.

Not all bosses will be "visionaries" and work won't always be fun and exciting.
I'll give you one very specific example from data that I crunched myself.

A friend of mine has run an Oscar contest for about 25 years.

Everybody picks their choices in the usual manner. In addition, he has a score for "consensus"--which is a virtual contestant which predicts each category winner based on the most popular pick. For example, if 30 people picked Birdman and 20 picked Boyhood, consensus would pick Birdman.

Here's the thing. A few people usually beat consensus in a given year. However, over the course of 25 years, no single person has a better average score than consensus and, in fact, not even a small panel of those who (retrospectively) were the best pickers do.

As others have said, in contests like how many jellybeans are in a jar, the median or mean tends to do better than the vast majority of individuals as well.
My anecdote: I've been eating a vegan high carb diet for the past 8 years and, even though I exercise a lot less than I used to, my health has improved dramatically in terms of not getting sick and feeling more energy. I also never had to worry about constipation or being overweight anymore.

Before changing my diet, I used to get sick at least 4 times per year (sore throat, sinus infections, headache). Now it's extremely rare. In fact, since 2008, I got sick only once, which I attributed to stress, since it happened a couple of days after I broke up from a long term relationship.

The core of my diet consists of beans (mostly black beans, Brazilian style) and brown rice. I add potatoes or sweet potatoes for certain periods of time, specially when I'm working out consistently and want more fuel. For breakfast I have either a simple smoothie (banana, peanut butter, spinach, almond milk) or oatmeal with berries.

Since I'm vegan for ethical reasons, I don't obsess over what I eat. I eat what I eat because it's convenient (my batch of black beans lasts 5 or 6 days), inexpensive and tastes good. I do eat some processed comfort foods, mostly on weekends, like vegan meats, pizza, ice-cream, veggie burgers, grilled "cheese", etc., but I don't notice any negative effect when I do.

If I'm out of town and eating on restaurants a lot, I notice that my energy levels drop and my BMs get messed up.
The GPL is not ouroboros. Restricting the freedom to restrict is not at all comparable to the PATRIOT Act. It is more akin to the Bill of Rights, or other such laws preventing certain types of laws from being made.
Note to developers, exclude similar letters from your alphabet when generating passwords or spell them out phonetically.
Some did use the 160x100x16 graphics mode (using some of the same techniques in the OP) but one drawback is that they didn't always look 100% correct on clones, and some eventually broke when VGA cards came out.

http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/09/cga-16-color-rgb...
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Theory of everything?
VBA. It's nice to be able to write somebody an excel macro that they can run without having to install anything. Sue me.
Very detailed. Thanks for your input.
Fair enough: it's definitely not a good idea to promote something half baked.

It actually took me a while to find the link there just now. I don't think "External Documentation" really imparts the right meaning. Perhaps something like "Other Guides and Resources" would make more sense?
A totally neutral decentralize network run on closed software run by a corporation? Forgive me if I don't buy into it.
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I mostly know about the linear logic side of session types; I'm not super familiar with the older line of research starting with Honda. I'll have to read up on it!

I'm not sure what the equivalent in my world of "session initiation" is. If by "replicated inputs" you mean what in linear logic is expressed by the "!" connective (often called "replication"), it's definitely possible to have ! without deadlocks or any observable nondeterminism. See Caires & Pfenning, "Session Types as Intuitionistic Linear Propositions", for example.

I already listed a few of the limitations of this approach (limited process topologies, and no `select()` analogue). I'm not sure whether these qualify as "completely inexpressive", but I do think the lack of any `select()` analogue is pretty limiting in practice. I'm not sure how hard it might be to remove that limitation, but it wouldn't surprise me if that were a major sticking point. Still, overall I think I'm more optimistic about the possibility of capturing most reasonable forms of concurrent programming in a deadlock & race-free manner.
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I don't believe we can escape it. Surveillance technology becomes cheaper everyday, in the long term tiny automated drones with cameras will be cheaper than a steak from a real cow. Even if you limit the government's power, there will be private surveillance everywhere. Even if you stop companies in your country from making them, some other country will.

Our only hope is to better align our laws with our beliefs. Removing victimless crimes like drug laws will redirect this mass surveillance machine toward violent criminals. Full transparency in the government will prevent government officials from using the surveillance for personal gain or to harm political opponents.
Not charging sales tax is technically legal but certainly a grey area.

Since almost every state that has a sales tax has a use tax you are just shifting the burden of reporting onto your consumer.

The reality is most people don't report (or under-report) their required use tax so you are really assisting them in committing tax evasion.

So while not directly illegal, certainly not fully legal.
If one were bugging a telephone line, I think they'd use something far less conspicuous
heavy lifting is inherently risky. there is little evidence that "correct" form will protect you from potential injury. there is also no real reason to do a strength focused routine if your reason for going to the gym is to improve your health and/or body. don't listen to the starting strength cultists!
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Ask HN: Do I have any chances to get into YC if I submitted late application?
I submitted my application few days ago. I was really late. I didn't know for this session. Do I have any chances to get my application reviewed?
Beans or lentils with rice is an excellent staple meal. Easy to cook, cheap, lasts a long time, can be done in many flavorful ways. You can cook red beans in a cajun style, many sorts of lentils (dal) in an Indian style, lots and lots of different ways to do it. I used to be a vegetarian when I was younger, and I still cook something along these lines very often.
I have been at my computer almost exactly 20 years. Most of that time I just sat there, hacking away. Granted, I did things outside of work that necessitated staying healthy, but for the most part I avoided it when I could. These days, I meditate as often as I can (I try to daily), I run a 10k every other weekend, and most significantly, I lift weights pretty intensely. My brother has been a bodybuilder for years and years, and finally got me on the boat to getting big. I made a comment elsewhere recently that this has made me significantly more effective as a programmer. I'd venture between 15% and 25% more effective in my day job due to my lifestyle, which is and has been a daily habit for a while now. I'm not sure exactly what mechanic precisely is responsible for making me a better programmer (though I guess each activity plays its part), but it is noticeable in my commit history: More commits of higher quality since I got into the habit of working out and meditating daily. Nobody was more surprised than I.

Edit: The points here about eating a regular, healthy diet and sleeping enough each night could not be more salient to my own regimen. I have been experimenting with sleeping six hours a night with a nap immediately after I shower after the gym to some success in saving me a tiny bit of sleep while not running on fumes during the day. Regardless, you need seven, eight or nine hours to be healthy. Every night.
Interesting that calling the Kindle a “Swindle” is vilified, yet an entire generation of techies called the TRS-80 the “Trash-80.”

My conjecture is that if you are inclined to agree with someone’s negative point of view, rhetorical tricks like insulting nicknames will be well-received and will help frame the idea emotionally. But if you already disagree with someone, you’ll be even more annoyed by arguments that aren’t really arguments at all.

My guess is that his nicknames won’t pay well to this audience, and also that they do better in some places than others. For example, blog post titles are usually so bad that people have very low expectations.

“The Great Kindle Swindle” would probably fly as a post title, while calling the device an Amazon Swindle repeatedly might not.