skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be useful to have words that distinguish direct "government writes you a check" subsidies from the more subtle kind. But it's useful to discuss the more subtle kind too, and I don't know what else to call it.

I don't think looking at direct cash injections is useful here, because they tell such a small part of the story.

For an example, consider the case where the government takes your money and gives it to some company. That's an obvious subsidy.

Now consider the case where the government doesn't take your money themselves, but rather declares that the company has the right to come into your house and help themselves to $AMOUNT. It's no longer explicit, but it's still pretty clearly a subsidy.

Now let's say that they're in the business of disposing trash, and the government has declared that they can dump trash on your lawn for no compensation, when normally it would cost $AMOUNT. Ultimate effect is the same as above.

Now let's say they're in some other business, that just happens to generate a lot of trash. The government declares that they can dump trash on your lawn for no compensation when normally it would cost $AMOUNT, making their other business much more cost effective. Again, it's ultimately the same as above.

This last one is the fossil fuel situation. The government has decided that certain waste generated by burning fossil fuels can be disposed on other people's land, air, and water without compensation. The costs involved are enormous, but the users of fossil fuels don't pay. The end result is that fossil fuel prices are effectively subsidized by the population at large.

I'm sure the enormous increase in the human quality of life has more than compensated for this damage. But that's not an argument for ignoring the externalities. If it's a net benefit then the total benefit will exceed the total cost including externalities. If the total benefit does not exceed that total cost then it's not a net benefit.

It's especially important now when we're looking at transitioning to other sources of energy. If fossil fuels are only cheaper because of these externalities, then that means the net benefit to humanity is higher with alternatives.
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This post is Nim specific, but the key ideas for getting to a small binary (optimize for size, remove the standard library, avoid compiler main() / crt0 baggage by defining _start, use system calls directly) are the same in C, C++, Rust, etc.
One thing I could not quite understand, is why people stay in poor area with little to no opportunities?

Some people may want to stay close to family and friends, especially when they need their support. That is understandable, but then it's their own choice, and they are probably content about it.

For those who are unhappy about their situations, why don't they just move?
I was referring to transaction volume in Dollars which seems more relevant to me. If Bitcoin is adopted and people use it more to buy stuff or transfer money the Dollar volume should go up because Dollar prices are more or less stable. But it is an interesting question why the number of transactions keeps rising.
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Encrypting and uploading code offsite, that you know is proprietary and against your employment contract should be a pretty clear black and white issue of why it is illegal, especially in the surrounding context of this case.
Don't want to get motion sickness in a self-driving car? Take a nap
Is it OK for Employers to seek out employee they want? Yes, their business, their decision.
> It became clear he had no concept of the ordering of statement. He wrote them like math formulas, and didn't understand that they got executed in order.

That's not an ability issue, just a knowledge issue. Coming from math, you'd assume there is no evaluation order.
As I understand it, this comes with the drawback of separating people from the communities they came from. For better or for worse.

In public policy, that's going to be a killer.
They know Facebook but they don't know pointers :).
Looks like it's back up, but with new and improved English copy-editing. :)
Take the meds, Take the meds ........

Well that's what people (specialist or not) told me.

But that were my worse mistake

Anti depressants may not be too bad (they are said to even increase gray matter) but a year ago, I was prescribed antipsychotics by injections (because I had some paranoia against cigarette smoke) and those have been the worse thing I had to live, basically it deconnects your brain. So be happy and think there's worse, much worse elsewhere. Also sports helps, do 40 minutes of bike everyday (like going to work by bike), this must be the best medicine
Granted device manufactures are pushing devices out every year or two, and it's in their best interest to offer the longest battery life possible, there is no incentive or evidence present that manufactures are limiting the maximum charge to prolong battery life.
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Life is long and hard. This rarely goes over well online, however, if you have never read the bible, this link helps sketch a rough outline. I no information other than what you offered, I hope this helps as you gather support.
http://www.matthiasmedia.com.au/2wtl/2wtlonline.html
From the comment on Amazon:

> Mac McAleer: The author deliberately stretches the definition of "invaded" to include short military interventions and actions by pirates, privateers and armed explorers.
Good to know, I used to believe that deep discharges were good for the battery ... I wonder who told me that!
If Mr Doob is impressed, drop everything and go look at it.
Not really. Think what you will of the merits of the article, but it makes specific reference in the opening sentence to the fact that "digital native has been used to refer to a member of the younger generation weaned on the web and immersed in the language of digital technology," and the example it signifies is an employer ignoring older applicants because of their age rather than their skillsets.

I'm not sure how I feel about the issue, but it seems fairly appropriately titled and asking a narrow question. If I clicked on an article with the title you suggest, I'd expect a discussion of broader issues – manual labor's physical requirements as job criteria, for example.
Sometimes you gaze into the abyss, and the abyss goes "yeah, that seems fine."
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Hey man, thanks for sharing! A lot of us have battled with depression at various points so you're in good company.

Depression used to be an annual appearance for me, like allergy season, and even when I knew I would become depressed and could feel it happening, one little change in attitude let me take advantage of my depression and harnass its energy instead of feeling like a tidal wave crashed over me that I was helpless to hold back.

When I'm not depressed, some things like getting out of bed or getting out of the house whiles its still light out come easily. When I'm depressed making it out of the house at all is an achievement in itself.

The thing that flipped it around for me was one time while I was depressed I was also job hunting. Normally, I get anxious and nervous when applying, and rejection often stings. But when I'm depressed I'm just numb to that. I don't care, and tbe sting of rejection bounces off me.

So now I split things between "This works better when I'm not depressed" and "Save this for when I feel depressed". When I feel myself slipping into it I'm not afraid or disappointed anymore, I think "oh, I unexpectedly have temporary thick-skin super powers" and think through all the things that need doing that non-depressed me was scared of that depressed-me can get through no problem.

That shift was like a surfboard that let me ride that tidal wave and navigate until the season of dspression was over.

Instead of giving voice to your fears, doubts, and failures - let depression be a shield allowing you to fearlessly embark on edifying activities that will make life for future-you better! This depression WONT last forever, capitalize on the time you have left and pretty soon you'll find yourself not-depressdd and it will go back to the old routine!

Surfs up! See you on the beach :)
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Fjords are 'hotspots' in global carbon cycling
I was in a CA high school as it fell apart (Benicia High in the North Bay). The district was in the hole to the tune of millions and cutting everything they could. Multiple teacher walk-outs a year, terrible morale. An administration more concerned with protecting their own asses than doing anything about education.

The school had two copiers on the entire campus: one for the teachers that was always broken, another for the administration that was magically in great repair. I had a french teacher who finally flipped and stormed the admin copy room, refusing to leave until he'd made the copies he needed to teach his class. They put him on leave pending a psychiatric review.

Buildings falling apart, bus service discontinued. Violence and an attempted shooting that was only thwarted through sheer dumb luck.

I was fortunate that my family moved to Texas between my sophomore and junior years so I was spared the worst of it. Just after I left, the school ended all advanced classes and extracurriculars. AP classes gone. The band only survived due to a strong booster organization.

A complete disaster in what was once the heart of America's dream. I was practically in shock when I started at my new school in Texas where the district seemed to have unlimited funds: I was in the first graduating class of the most expensive school ever built ($77 million).

I told a teacher there that copier story and he couldn't believe it.
My team just got a Cordova app through the apple review process as of yesterday. So, data point #2! I think as long as you try to adhere to Apple's app review guidelines it doesn't matter if you used Cordova or developed natively
See a professional and do what they say. It can take years to get sorted out, so don't expect it to work quickly.

In the meanwhile, exercise routinely, get outside and get sunlight, force yourself to hangout with people and do activities. Find thing you like to do that aren't your day-to-day life and do them and enjoy them. Build positive feedback loops in your life so you always have things to look forward to.

There's no quick solution, only retraining yourself to understand how valuable and important you are to your world.
It may be instructive to consider what exactly you mean by "correct unicode handling".

What would you say is the length of the Thai word ปฏิบัติจริง ?

What does Python 3 think is the length? What does Perl 6 think is the length? Can you explain the difference? And what do you think are the practical implications for code in Python 3 vs Perl 6 as it relates to "correct unicode handling", shorter code, and robustness?
my macbook 2008 running os x 10.7.5, 128gb ssd and 4gb ram is still fast enough and gets the job done. It's even faster than the latest middle to low end windows PC's (dual boot with windows 7)
> This has the definite advantage of limiting fear of being 'locked in' in deploying into Microsoft's Azure cloud - you can always run your application on your own Azure fabric.

This lock-in is no different than the fear of being locked in into Amazon's AWS, Google's or Rackspace's services (even App Engine has open-source source-compatible equivalents out there). With the right tools (and there are open-source ones), you can deploy your applications to machines (real, virtual, containers) mostly anywhere.
I've posted this elsewhere before. I hope it helps.

The truth is there are no real fixes in our lives. Everything gets worn down. This is pretty much a central concept in many philosophies and religions through the ages. Fighting burn out, re-energizing, being unsatisfied for while, being satisfied for a while, etc is just going to happen to you. Work with it. But don't be short sighted to think "Oh its my career, if I was instead $some_other_job_youll_hate, things would be perfect."

Personally, I follow a lifestyle of relatively low materialism and focus on engaging experiences instead of chasing products or salaries. This mostly translates into traveling instead of buying. There's no way to win this game, you can only occasionally step off it. I also find side creative side projects help as they take my mind off work and remove work from the "fulfillment" side of my life. Who cares about bullshit at work when I have a robot to build at home or when Im trying to finish the game I'm writing or the basement remodeling I'm planning.

I also have a lot of success with meditation, being slightly more compassionate and tolerant (even of things I know are wrong), and living a slower paced/low drama life. I try to think about the right things, not the default things. I try to not let the world get to me. I'm not often good at it, but at least I'm cognizant of trying. DFW talks a bit about this here if you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

I found bringing these attitudes into my work life helped a lot. Its hard to explain, but I think when you get your ducks in a row in a general they naturally get in a row at work as well.
I feel like his point was that OP needs to make an effort to find something that works and that no amount of online advice will likely help.
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You've just described my girlfriend and I with uncanny precision
It costs money to move. If you're poor, it's unlikely that you have the resources to move to a place that's better. Many poor people don't have the time to research the optimal county in which to live either. They probably have more pressing issues like this month's rent.
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We're seeking an infrastructure/DevOps engineer. Your job will be to keep FutureAdvisor running smoothly. It might be deploying and maintaining server clusters on EC2, building tools to automate our deployment pipelines or designing and implementing a new piece of the request pipeline. Your job will be to make FutureAdvisor as fast and reliable as possible. You'll work on building out more tools to manage and track our server cluster using AWS technologies like EC2, S3, OpsWorks, and VPC.

Skills you'll need:

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Ok. Could you please disagree in detail?
That depends on the phone system. Asterisk isn't particularly reliable; it actually crashes at 100 concurrent calls.

If you're talking about a good CO switch like a 5ESS or DMS-100, they're extremely reliable, well engineered machines. They consistently meet and exceed five nines reliability.
As I understand it, if he didn't clear the history,sensitive information (password?) would be readable/available. He probably did this pretty much every day he worked at G.S. The narrative that "he tried to cover his tracks" was meant to make him look guilty.
I've called this concept in teaching "remembering the struggle". If a person is so far removed or such an expert in a field, they may not even remember what a person trips up on when they first get started. They may even have been so talented they didn't even been tripped up at all. Lacking this ability to empathize and relate can make teaching very difficult.
I have this as "conservation mode" on my Lenovo Yoga Pro 2, and probably all new Lenovos.
Here's a meta analysis that says:

http://www.cochrane.org/CD004366/DEPRESSN_exercise-for-depre...

> When only high-quality trials were included, exercise had only a small effect on mood that was not statistically significant.

> Exercise is moderately more effective than no therapy for reducing symptoms of depression.

> [...] The reviewers also note that when only high-quality studies were included, the difference between exercise and no therapy is less conclusive.
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Generally true, but state law and federal law are considered "dual sovereignty".
> I don't know why seeking a connection even with anonymous people online is necessarily bad.

How many of these people are professionals? depression IS a mental illness, and must receive professional care, not random opinions by people who did not make a proper diagnosis of that person's condition. Finally listening to someone is different from advising him about how to get better. I'm all for listening but not for people playing therapists.
Would love to hear peoples thoughts on the connection between the absorption spectrum of water and the suns blackbody diagram. Never realized that before researching the article.
When Darwin "solved" the question of evolution, he did not solve it for good. There has been a lot of work to make it a better, deeper, and more powerful mechanism for understanding biology.

This is true for just about all research.
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Done well, yes, it does. Just about any corporate call these days is going to be going over VoIP because it provides so much more flexibility. Just because a cheap ISP provides crappy VoIP doesn't mean the system is fundamentally flawed.
Wouldn't there cranes make a vertical data-center (which, I suppose, would be very efficient, as the height of the warm air column would drive exhaustion) easier to build?
Digital natives do not exist in numbers you think. Fewer than 1 percent of entering freshmen have ever edited a wiki:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hghekXykt-k&feature=youtu.be...

EDIT: Totally misremembered, its more like 17 percent.
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>They are operating from overseas and can’t be traced.

Not to ad-hominem, by this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. (I've seen his posts before.)

The real problem is that no one cares to push any investigations. I've had many many cases of customers sending "illegal" calls through my network. It's not my customers, it's someone down the line. I'm not going to do anything without a warrant. And when an upstream vendor gets a complaint, you know what they ask for, every single time? "Please block this traffic."

I've even written back and told them, hey, if this is oh-so-serious, please have your customer follow up. Have them get a subpoena, court order, etc. They never do. No one cares.

Even with fake IRS calls, the "investigator" wouldn't bother doing the paperwork. The FCC doesn't seem to care either (look at their moronic anti robo dialing contest). The FCC has teeth, they're just very selectively deployed.

Oh, you can't go back to knowing who is allowed to send what number. Things are too mixed up, and it'd break many services. Including many uses of 9-1-1. It's far more difficult than, for instance, preventing spoofed IP source addresses.

If the FCC really wanted to fix it, they just need to do so. Start fining and being aggressive. Actually go after things, hunt the money down.

Finally, if you're relying on caller ID as anything other than a weak hint of authentication, you're doing it wrong, full stop.
> What if instead of downloading the code on his last day of work, he had downloaded it a few months earlier? What if he hadn't erased his shell history?

It doesn't really matter. By uploading the code, he committed numerous violations: breaking copyright, breaking confidentiality agreements, breaking the CFAA, etc. In his case, there is no valid copying.

That he zapped his shell history is just a bunch of sugar showing that he knew what he was doing was wrong. That he did it upon the day he left for a new job gives him a financial motive for doing what he did. Both are just the icing on the cake; even if he didn't do either, he'd still be in deep shit just for uploading the code at all.
Simply wow.
Do you have some directions on the WinAPI in Nim?

I felt a bit overwhelmed with the whole wrapping thing.
>Brains are complicated, and there is a huge amount of heterogeneity in how people process information and think about mathematics (and indeed all topics, but it is clearer in mathematics perhaps). Some are very visual, some are big on calculation.

What do you mean by "associative model"? That doesn't map to anything I've heard of in cognitive science, statistics, machine learning, or Good Old-Fashioned AI.

But actually, I would expect different behaviors from an animal that learns language via a purely correlational and discriminative model (like most neural networks) versus a causal model. Causal models compress the empirical data better precisely because they're modelling sparse bones of reality rather than the abundant "meat" of correlated features. You should be able to generalize better and faster with a causal model than with a discriminative, correlative one.
IMO, I dont really care about it that much. You will probably want to change laptop after 2 or 3 years anyway, during this time battery degradation should not be a massive issue.
Websites always know your IP address. Some forums show you when you post. But mostly they don't let on.
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Exactly, I hope the fairness enforcement lawyers don't get hip to the band listing I saw seeking people under 25—presumably for their drug tolerance?
Yeah my thinkpad did this from the same vintage but that was only on Windows. I think quality of battery management on other Operating Systems is varied...
1- Remote

2- No Strict TimeZOne/Working Hours.
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What if you're mostly using the laptop near a power outlet? Wouldn't it be better to keep it plugged in to avoid charging/discharging the battery at all?
New C keywords now use a leading underscore (_Atomic, _Bool, _Static_assert, ...) and come with a header file you can include to get a more friendly name (stdbool.h, stdatomic.h, assert.h, ....).

As to not keeping your C code C++ clean: Just use a dedicated C compiler and link the object files.
RC planes have always culminated to this point.
I need to get my battle drone ready for competition....
A good handful of the larger telcos don't bother with least cost routing tables, and will instead just send all their domestic traffic straight through their own networks. The route quality tends to be much higher when they do that.
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I'd be horrified if anyone receiving a pitch like that didn't utter a bark of derisive laughter and add the person to their spam filter. Those are 'I can't get a job anywhere else' sort of terms.
CDRs are kept for quite a while, so it's possible/easy to track these calls down. There are a bunch of intermediaries (I ran one), and each time you need to get them to release customer information. The FCC doesn't care enough; no one investigates.