skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same as any nationality, ever.
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I think the argument is that people were only willing to use the Android device because it had the large screen they wanted: as soon as Apple entered that corner of the market, so now, "with a large-screened iOS device available, consumers have turned away in huge numbers from high-end Android manufacturers like Samsung, with devastating results".
Sculpture Sells for $141M, Picasso Painting for $179M, Both Records
The article presents a really dumb argument: that because CAP only proves it's impossible to have CP and AP for a single record, and we care about more than one record, we shouldn't use the CAP impossibility result.

> The CAP system model is a single, read-write register – that’s all. For example, the CAP theorem says nothing about transactions that touch multiple objects: they are simply out of scope of the theorem, unless you can somehow reduce them down to a single register. [WHICH YOU CAN. DUH. SINGLE-REGISTER IMPOSSIBILITY OF CONSISTENCY APPLIES TO ALL N>=1]
I thought https://www.docracy.com was disrupting that space. Isn't it?
Read the essays that Musk's ex-wife writes about him.

She does a good job of explaining how to be a billionairre but she makes it clear that she wouldn't want to be married to another one.

Not long after Jobs came back to Apple, my company - Life Picture of Scotts Valley, California - hired a bunch of former Apple employees who had resigned. One of them told me that "Steve Jobs made it easy to quit."

I'd rather be a character in the lord of the flies than ever work at Microsoft again.
Go and Rust are almost entirely orthogonal in their best use cases.

I disagree. I think in many (but not all) use cases, Go and Rust are direct competitors. However, they embody a different philosophy. It's New Jersey (worse is better) vs. MIT style all over again.

One can read Gabriel's[1] descriptions of both styles and they map exactly to Go and Rust. Given Go's heritage this is, of course, not surprising.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
I love this for a development VM! I wanted this for a long time: an ubuntu-based linux that doesn't have the non-development application. Thank you for creating this!
there are certain rights that one cannot sign away.

On the other hand, she wouldn't have had to uninstall the app were she to have left her phone at work.
Yeah, I think it might be better to say "quickly, cheaply, or something that can be improved on in the future without starting again", because at least that way they're all at the same level.
Not a many years back one could easily include an office suite and usual round of apps in 600 MB. What's up with the bloat?
Could somebody confirm that SQLite is used to the course? By the way, this seems great!
It seems like you have a few options:

1. Get your financials together very quickly, and go down to every credit union and bank in your city (asking for a collateral-backed small business loan). A week is plenty of time to write these things down, you don't need a fancy powerpoint, just numbers.

2. Sell 115k of the assets quickly, keep 78k of them, keep running the business (on a smaller scale) and slowly build your assets back up.

3. Declare bankruptcy to get a stay-of-execution from whatever liability is coming due in 2 weeks. This would, at least, but you a little time. Not sure of the bankruptcy laws where you are, but in the US, your assets would either be auctioned off, or you'd set up some kind of payment plan with your creditors, depending on the type of bankruptcy you elected... and then you'd slowly work your way out of it.

4. Open up a line of credit for the business, or get a line of credit on your personal assets (like a HELOC on your home). I'm not a fan of either option, but if you're in need, you might want to resort to those.
Another interesting one: https://www.judicata.com

I think this is by the guy that posted those great class notes originally for Peter Thiel's Startup Class (which then became a book I believe).
Does anyone have an inside scoop as to whether there are political causes, given the rising tension between China and South Korea?
Extremely cool. It'll be nice to see it catch on.
I know of one in Australia
https://lawpath.com.au/

The other area to disrupt IMO is accounting services.
> And it is possible for someone to enter the market using a different algorithm.

By the way, I think this often happens in the real world, where some person irrationally (from the economist's point of view) provides a valuable, yet underpriced (with respect to the real demand curve) service, because he is just being misinformed, idealistic or is interested in success for its own sake, not for the sake of money. Or it's just that the product is new and actual demand curve hasn't been established yet.

Absurdly, this is then hailed as an example of market efficiency, while there is nothing rational in such behavior from the game theory perspective (unless you consider much wider frame of how human morality evolved etc.).
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(Disclaimer, I work for Microsoft, but on nothing at all related to Windows, so all this is my own opinion from having used computers since I was 5 or so :) )

> Copying and pasting text causes weird characters to be carried around (e.g. emdash), and I haven't found a reliable way to sanitise it.

That is by design. The Windows clipboard is insanely powerful, it'll paste the best representation of your text in that your destination buffer can handle. If I copy a code segment from Visual Studio (or Notepad++ with the right plugin!) I get to keep syntax highlighting if I paste into a program that can handle colored text. But if I paste into Notepad, all formatting gets cleared.

Pasting into Notepad BTW is the standard way to clear any special formatting. Although an emdash isn't special by any means, it is just a normal character that has a specific use in the typewritten English language.

> Apps that minimise to the small-icon part of the start bar (next to time) don't go to the back of the alt+tab stack.

By design, and 100% up to the app creator. Alt-Tab switches between things on the taskbar. Things are minimized to the tray to keep them out of the way!

> They should bundle a python API to windows and a recent version of python also. Make it easy to create and ship python on Windows. A community would just grow around this, with no further effort from them.

IronPython? :-D

But I know what you mean, Python is fun.

> Weak scheduler, init mechanisms. (from user perspective)

On this I disagree! Windows exposes its startup routines in a very user friendly manner. On top of that, the way Services are initialized actually works w/o worry or concern. End users don't have to deal with it, which is a blessing IMHO.

> There's no nice IPC mechanism available for casual development. Cmd kind of has pipes but they're horrible.

Windows has a plethora of IPC mechanisms available in native land, and .NET add in a few more!

Start off with the old time favorites like TCP/IP loopback and named pipes (both of which are pretty darn easy to get up and running) and go on from there.

But yeah, every OS has its oddities and warts. Heck if you write a clean room OS, by the time you are at version 1.01 cruft will have accumulated!
"Therefore, most of the time, banishment did not lead to starvation or even necessarily isolation. One just walked for some time, until one was alone or in more accepting company, and then started hunting and gathering wherever one found oneself."

Where danger can be found, banishment is death. Consider this quote from Sebastian Junger:

"What all these people seem to miss isn’t danger or loss, per se, but the closeness and cooperation that danger and loss often engender. Humans evolved to survive in extremely harsh environments, and our capacity for cooperation and sharing clearly helped us do that. Structurally, a band of hunter-gatherers and a platoon in combat are almost exactly the same: in each case, the group numbers between 30 and 50 individuals, they sleep in a common area, they conduct patrols, they are completely reliant on one another for support, comfort, and defense, and they share a group identity that most would risk their lives for." [0]

There is a lot of anthropological studies that confirm this observation.

[0] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/05/ptsd-war-home-sebasti...
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This is interesting to me. I'm a nurse who recently made the transition to developer and I think others could benefit from my experience.

Did you validate a need for this book prior to starting? Do you see an exodus of lawyers leaving the profession? I ask because I don't necessarily see nurses leaving their professions although most everyone I know is unhappy with the job.
Loved this. Some really interesting design ideas there - I quite liked the icon-driven one with the week's worth of timelines. Since I don't lead a very busy life (at least with regards to events) I think something like that would work quite well for me, but I get how it would turn into a nightmare quickly for people with busy schedules.
I don't agree by any means that programming is not a craft.

He gives the example of plumbing; if you don't think that plumbing is a craft, try spending some time in a building that was installed by plumbers who were not craftsmen.

The author is mistaken about the notion that software craftsmanship is a waste because the users don't notice it. Users without a doubt can tell the difference between well-crafted software and that which is not.

In my specific case, I rescued Working Software from certain bankrupcy, by fixing my predecessor's broken code in QuickLetter.
I had the same feeling about Clojure, but it mostly has to do with non-standard libs. It's forced me to rely on reading source code a lot more than I did in other languages, so I'm not entirely sure that's a mark against it. I'm curious why you think that about Python, though. Care to illustrate?
It is because this (small) aspect of the US economy is so corrupt. There are a handful of other sectors characterized by this kind of economic rent, but they are generally uncommon here compared to most economies of the world.

So yes, it is a form of corruption, but it is not fair to characterize the entire US economy this way.
My solution:

0: Z 2
1: Z 3
2: J 0 2 -> 4
3: J 1 3 -> 7
4: I 2
5: J 0 2 -> 4
6: J 1 3 -> 7
7: I 2
8: I 3
9: J 1 3 -> 7

Handles the zero case. Only uses 4 cells total.
Both communities are heavily moderated
It seems like the explanation is pretty simple - Samsung's competitors are delivering an extremely similar product for half the price. As these Chinese OEMs expand into other markets, Samsung is going to see this same trend happen worldwide. Apple takes the high-end, image-conscious market segment, and huawei and xaomi take the low end, and there isn't a whole lot of room for a high-price low-prestige product.
Exactly what I was thinking. Did Ubuntu stop shipping their OS's on 700 meg CDs? When did that happen?
I agree with the SQLlite recommendation.
Certainly not everywhere. In many nations people scoff at their local brands in favor of international ones, and people tend to buy what is popular and offers more features, regardless of where the company is based.
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Okay, good to know it's just normal market dynamics.

Thanks.
This intersection crash footage scares the fuck outta me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZG1HgOyFkU
Yyyyup. And this time too big for even a titan like Google or Apple to kick-start :-(
I find myself reminded of an article about a German town that stripped out their lights and signs and just had everyone drive by basic priority rules. Apparently this sharply reduced incidents.
Jurisdictions change.

"Ukraine’s Parliament Votes To Open Soviet-Era KGB Archives To Public"
http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraines-parliament-votes-open-soviet...

In "The Internet With a Human Face", Maciej Cegłowski asks:

"What happens if Facebook goes out of business, like so many of the social networks that came before it? Or if Facebook gets acquired by a credit agency? How about if it gets acquired by Rupert Murdoch, or taken private by a hedge fund?

"What happens to all that data?"

http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm

That's just one of the problems we're facing.
A lot of things at once. I'm finally committing to finishing them in order.

A) My personal CMS. Standard CMS but outputs a static website. Kind of a static site generator without going through all the "put file in folder run [jekyll/bootstrap] whatever to generate site and upload via ftp" hassle. Just blog like you normally would if using wordpress or medium.

B) A couple of SMS applications to generate some money on the side for me. Junk apps along the lines of "send 'quiz me' to 7890 to get a new quiz everyday". They are big (huuuge) in some parts of the world still.

C) An android app to create a single image from two images. This is just to learn android development.

D) A firefox addon for...

Sigh. I should probably shut up and go back to working on this stuff.
C++ doesn't cover the full extent of safety Rust offers at all, but there is a fair bit of overlap in how the functionality is packaged up WRT ownership types.

I checked the docs and it looks like at least http://doc.rust-lang.org/0.12.0/guide-lifetimes.html#named-l... is covered which was one of my objections. I still don't like that I can't design my own linearly typed constraints, but it appears that was never a goal to begin with. Not surprising given the lack of emphasis on expressive types.

As it stands my only options for linear'ish types are indexed Monads in Haskell or building a model of linear types in a proof assistant or DTPL.
Taxi medallions are the biggest cartel racket out there, and they're inordinately powerful in city politics.

You want to regulate taxis? Great. I'm a liberal. I love that. Regulate the everloving #$%& out of them. Require absurd safety and environmental features. And then let the market decide how many taxi cabs the city can support.

Even a bleeding heart leftist like me will say there are things the market is really, really good at, and deciding how many service providers a sector should have is absolutely one of them. Set standards -- set them high, for that matter -- but for God's sake let anyone who meets them participate in the market. Otherwise you're just a protection racket.
I would think that the risk of concentration of the artifacts in one place would cause concern. Consider what happened at the Library of Alexandria.
You also might want to check out Whetlab: https://www.whetlab.com/.
It's more like if the stream was flowing in short bursts. One second a little water would be flowing, and then the next it would stop, and then it would flow again, and so on. As opposed to a continuous stream.
Anyone get this running in Ubuntu 14 desktop? I have a ton of dependency issues.
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Based on what you've said about your current situation, I definitely think that you'd be better off staying on AWS.

Have you looked into using reserved instances?
Océ does 3D scanning and printing.

Here a Youtube movie of the process: https://youtu.be/EXRt64HEBrk

Edit: this was only printed by Océ. More info can be found here: http://www.timzaman.com/2013/09/3d-scan-and-print-paintings/

Interesting quote: We noticed that things like glossiness and transparency that are in each painting are very distinguishing in the original, and we are not yet able to reproduce.
Yep. But medallions themselves are a deliberate market distortion. And I'm not a Milton Friedman "market distortions are always bad" person, but this distortion is definitely bad. Artificial scarcity is a stupid way to achieve whatever goal you have.

Set regulatory standards. Set them as high as you want. But then let anyone who meets them participate in the regulated activity.
> If you used different HTTP methods, you'd already know which one to use, and don't need the action parameter.

But the examples given by anilgulechas were 'action=draw' and 'action=shuffle'. Neither are idempotent, let alone safe, so presumably the only method to use in either case would be POST (notwithstanding anilgulecha's suggestion of a PUT).

So we need to distinguish between POSTs requesting a draw, and POSTs requesting a shuffle. Two options:

a) indicate it in the POST's body

b) indicate it in the URL.

If we go for (b), the query string seems as good a place as any.

What have I got wrong? Where would this violate REST (or the HTTP spec)?
And we can't simply dump the whole v4 range into a sub-section of v6 and call it a night either.

While it may work for the v6 side, the v4 side will have a hell of a time talking to anything on the v6 without some kind of network level NAT going on...
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Thanks! Looking at implementing something similar as a week view for the app.
> (you did pick a good one, right?)

So, the immediate costs to use are that you have to research a bunch of parsers to see which fit your needs and are 'good'. Then you have to write the code to use them, which depending on their interface may itself add a significant number of lines of code with potential for their own bugs (given a simple enough example, the integration code can be larger than the code you would have written). Then you have to include not just the library, but all its dependencies in your codebase. You're then committed to keep track of the library and all its dependencies, and updating them if and when dangerous bugs are discovered. This means that your code now has a reason to change or rot (API changes from upstream) that has nothing to do with you or any feature or bug you've written. If your requirement is later found out to be slightly unusual and not exactly covered by the library, you're in for a world of pain working around that too (e.g. in the example given, this probably isn't a valid xml file because it doesn't have a single surrounding tag and there may be other nonstandard issues in the input).

The amazing thing is that this actually is worth it in many cases, but people often underestimate the cost.

Sure, the poster you're replying to isn't a special flower that can write a better parser for whatever format, but he's saying that in this case he doesn't need one. A number of other commenters have pointed out that requirements change and the generic parser will be a better choice than evolving your homegrown simple code into a poorly thought out monster. This is true, but it's also premature optimisation.

The right time to pull in those libraries is on the first non trivial change, not at the beginning.
No. I knew nothing about computer science when I got that interview. I had programmed (self-taught) but knew nothing of Big O and had never heard of Dijkstra or the Dutch National Flag problem.

These questions were less about testing my knowledge more about testing my ability to figure stuff out. The latter is highly prized in my experience by Oxford.
Another one that was posted on HN recently was https://www.lawgeex.com/
It's not just Googlers who might do that.

Google's been attacked by national intelligence agents. Notably from China, targeting emails of Tibetian activists. With potentially life-ending condequences.

Hackers and theives. Corporate takeovers. The NSA, or GRU, or Mossad, or MI6, ore any of the other various state intelligence agencies throughout the world. Drugs gangs throughout Central and South America. Rogue contractors have been known to walk out of Google with gigabytes of highly secure information. Oh, my error, that was the fucking National Security Agency.

If Google can read your email, anyone can. The only question is how the dice roll.
I'm intrigued by the 42%+ marked as 'Other'?
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This is really great and excites me both as an RC/HS alumnus and a (quantum) physicist that loves Nielsen/Chuang's book on "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information". As an experimentalist that book helped me so much in understanding quantum state/process tomography and quantum algorithms. Today it is still the go-to reference for "practical quantum computing" and (IMHO) by far the most accessible and thorough reference on the principles of quantum computing.

What I find even more exciting is that he wants to work on improving software development, something that I'm trying to do as at withquantifiedcode.com .

I guess I have the perfect excuse now to apply for another batch of RC :D
That should likely be a post in its own right.
It could be seen as a political profit move though. I've once heard someone describe the whole university system (or what it's becoming) as a clever way to hide unemployment. Even better, you're making the unemployed themselves pay (loans) for the privilege of not being technically unemployed!
And some countries(Austria!) are actually making them illegal. Utter lunacy.
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Here's some more, from this pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/kXQDhQEr

Also Googled and found, thanks to TJjokerR on steamcommunity forums, that the list is in "main_out.js" in the source code.

Alphabetical order:
2ch.hk, 4chan, 8ch, 9gag, argentina, australia, austria, ayy lmao, bait, bangladesh, belarus, belgium, bosnia, botswana, brazil, bulgaria, byzantium, cambodia, canada, chile, china, cia, confederate, croatia, denmark, doge, ea, earth, estonia, european union, facepunch, feminism, finland, france, german empire, germany, greece, hitler, hong kong, hungary, imperial japan, india, indiana, indonesia, iran, iraq, ireland, isis, italy, jamaica, japan, kc, kingdom of france, latvia, lithuania, luxembourg, maldivas, mars, matriarchy, mexico, moon, nasa, nazi, netherlands, nigeria, north korea, norway, origin, pakistan, patriarchy, peru, pewdiepie, piccolo, pokerface, poland, portugal, prodota, prussia, qing dynasty, quebec, reddit, romania, russia, sanik, satanist, scotland, sealand, sir, somalia, south korea, spain, stalin, steam, stussy, sweden, switzerland, taiwan, texas, thailand, tsarist russia, tumblr, turkey, ukraine, united kingdom, usa, ussr, vinesauce, wojak, yaranaika

Order in which skins were added:
poland, usa, china, russia, canada, australia, spain, brazil, germany, ukraine, france, sweden, hitler, north korea, south korea, japan, united kingdom, earth, greece, latvia, lithuania, estonia, finland, norway, cia, maldivas, austria, nigeria, reddit, yaranaika, confederate, 9gag, indiana, 4chan, italy, ussr, pewdiepie, bulgaria, tumblr, 2ch.hk, hong kong, portugal, jamaica, german empire, mexico, sanik, switzerland, croatia, chile, indonesia, bangladesh, thailand, iran, iraq, peru, moon, botswana, bosnia, netherlands, european union, taiwan, pakistan, hungary, satanist, qing dynasty, nazi, matriarchy, patriarchy, feminism, ireland, texas, facepunch, prodota, cambodia, steam, piccolo, ea, india, kc, denmark, quebec, ayy lmao, sealand, bait, tsarist russia, origin, vinesauce, stalin, belgium, luxembourg, stussy, prussia, 8ch, argentina, scotland, sir, romania, belarus, wojak, isis, doge, nasa, byzantium, imperial japan, kingdom of france, somalia, turkey, mars, pokerface

P.S. This game is going to be huge!
I saw a TV show once about a painting that is suspected to be by da Vinci. Various attempts to authenticate it have been made, and so far none have proven it is not a da Vinci. Whether it is or not is a factor of 100 in the amount it is worth.

But it's still exactly the same painting either way.
Yep, confirmed. Here's a blog post by Brian who implemented the SQLite support in our editor: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/168/sql-on-khan-academy-en...
Can't they use the standard single quotes then?