skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I completely agree. It's important to be critical. This is why there are several branches of economics. It's just that if someone unfamiliar with the field wanted to know about economics in general, I wouldn't have them first read Das Kapital or start by showing them papers from the Heritage Foundation or CATO. This sort of reading comes later. Build a foundation first before building a house.
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like 20+. That seems hard since you'd have to make sure the keys didn't show up in any of your logs.
There is no coherent view at all. Bytes still have methods like .upper() that make no sense at all in that context, while unicode strings with these methods are broken because these are locale dependent operations and there is no appropriate API. You can also index, slice and iterate over strings, all operations that you really shouldn't do unless you really now what you are doing. The API in no way indicates that doing any of these things is a problem.

Python 2 handling of paths is not good because there is no good abstraction over different operating systems, treating them as byte strings is a sane lowest common denominator though.

Python 3 pretends that paths can be represented as unicode strings on all OSes, that's not true. That is held up with a very leaky abstraction and means that Python code that treats paths as unicode strings and not as paths-that-happen-to-be-unicode-but-really-arent is broken. Most people aren't aware of that at all and it's definitely surprising.

On top of that implicit coercions have been replaced with implicit broken guessing of encodings for example when opening files.
I had fun reading - thx. I found the solution of "requesting workers" interesting. My first reflex to the round robin argument was - a better load balancer but the requesting worker made that totally not necessary! I wounder what negative sites sutch architectures may have?
Do you really want to know or are you just asking because you don't believe me?
In a chaotic system, arriving at abstractions of the forces at play often gives a more illuminating picture than trying to model those systems from weakly-linked data points.

It's not that Austrian economists can't find their own data models to defend their positions, with an area like economics finding data to support your opinions is the easy part.

Rather, we've found that obsessing over the data provides very little understanding of the underlying cause-and-effect of economics.

It's like neurology. Yes, it's a terribly interesting field, but you'll learn more about the human mind from reading Proust.
My complaint is primarily that there's no mechanism to let you know "hey, there's an update to this" in the same way as apt, yum, and other systems do.

It's not about trusting a 3rd party with the maintenance and security of your production environment as much as it is "Docker should provide a way to let the people handling the maintenance of your production environment to know shit may be happening". Rebuilding from the 'latest' tag is great. If you know you have to rebuild, and that there's an update available.
A lot of it is cultural. Is sales job to hit the number, or is it customer success? It has to be the latter if you want to grow a reputation and in turn increase the level of relationship with your customer. This is the difference between selling a $400k one off, a $2m "mail the CDs and run", or a long term relationship that nets you $10m or more and multiples of that in benefits for the customer themself.

Also, some (most) places do not have very good lines of communication between sales and R&D, while others do. I'm lucky to be in a place where I can submit a PR on Github if I need something yesterday, or can file feature requests / fixes that will get looked at within the week.

My view is generally that the relationship with a customer is where you make most of your money over 5+ years, selling them an opportunity once by promising the moon and delivering a paper plate is in no one's interest. Lots of sales people act that way but that's not going generally going to be your leaders.
> Obj-C C++ Javascript CreateJs/EasyJs Processing Actionscript 3 JSON Raw Beizer Points

Why do we have a bunch of languages/technologies listed as one of the first things on the page with no explanation?
This has nothing to do with escaping death, aging is only one of the causes of death, making life longer will just expose you to more risk of accident, suicide, or illnesses, this is not what makes you immortal. There are other more philosophical problems with the notion of an ever-expanding life length -- your brain will probably not remember everything, so after a while it will only remember a part of what you have been, so is it really you? and if it is no longer "you", what is the point, you are not extending "your" life, you are extending the life of the person you will become after you have forgotten who you are. Same applies if you "upload your consciousness to the Internet"

Reversing aging will improve your quality of life, but will also force your death to be brutal, since the only cause of death is now accidental or some illness. So you'll die not wanting to peacefully go away as people aging in good condition do, but you will die wanting to live, hurting badly. I'll stick with buddhism.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if you paid people for appearing. It costs a lot of money to jail someone (NY spends $60k/yr per inmate or $164 a day!) which is currently the only alternative if they can't pay bail.
Your numbers aren't quite right.

The first $6000 of income is the standard deduction and is taxed at 0%. Then, the next $10,000 is taxed at 10%, and the remainder up to the next $30,000 is taxed at 15%. You have substantially overstated the amount of taxes this hypothetical person is paying. And that's not taking into account that they probably qualify for the earned income tax credit.
What happens when your simulations are inaccurate?
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Tangential pet peeve: but this kind of thinking, while noble in principle ("let's not waste resources / brain power on what doesn't matter"), tends to lead to stagnation, not innovation.

I don't think, in this case, it's a "let's not waste resources" argument being made. The GP post wasn't saying "Hey, cancer! AIDS! Lazy non-cancer/non-AIDS scientists!" but rather, "Fixing aging will give us the time and resources we need to do everything else."

In other words, investing in a cure for aging will pay huge dividends in other areas of research. It's like earning $0/yr going to college for four years so you can get $100+k/yr for the next 60, instead of $50k/yr.
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"Eliminate tenure track positions and replace them with tenure track position"

Eesh, right there in the 2nd sentence. WTH, people, why are you upvoting? I'm never going to learn to proofread if you'll even give me karma for a train wreck like that.
I'd heard speculation of 10 years, and further speculation that it would be a repeatable treatment. Essentially it would be a vaccine that we'd take like a tetanus shot.
Glad you enjoyed it! Synthesizing cymbals is hard, but not impossible. I admit, I did "cheat" a little here, but at least it gave me a chance to talk about sampling. If you're interested in cymbal synthesis, this article is great: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Jun02/articles/synthsecrets0....

Should keep you busy on your commute!
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> ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Æ’ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚Å¡ÃƒÆ’Ã‚â€šÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â the future of publishing at W3C

That is an amazing example.

It's not even "double UTF-8", it's UTF-8 six times (including the one to get it on the Web), it's been decoded as Latin-1 twice and Windows-1252 three times, and at the end there's a non-breaking space that's been converted to a space. All to represent what originated as a single non-breaking space anyway.

Which makes me happy that my module solves it.

>>> from ftfy.fixes import fix_encoding_and_explain
>>> fix_encoding_and_explain("ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Æ’ÃƒÂ¢Ã‚â‚¬Ã‚Å¡ÃƒÆ’Ã‚â€šÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â the future of publishing at W3C")
('\xa0the future of publishing at W3C',
[('encode', 'sloppy-windows-1252', 0),
('transcode', 'restore_byte_a0', 2),
('decode', 'utf-8-variants', 0),
('encode', 'sloppy-windows-1252', 0),
('decode', 'utf-8', 0),
('encode', 'latin-1', 0),
('decode', 'utf-8', 0),
('encode', 'sloppy-windows-1252', 0),
('decode', 'utf-8', 0),
('encode', 'latin-1', 0),
('decode', 'utf-8', 0)])
> technologically

Seems many invent at an old age. Also seems that some few are responsible for great many breakthroughs, only stopping at their death beds...
It's all about execution. :-)
I got it from one news blog or another. What makes you describe them as protective caps? Do they physically encapsulate the chromosome?
When I interview candidate I make them fix a problem in our real system. First by just talking it out (interview, unpaid) then I have them build it. Or what they can build in the time allotted. I pay for this time. Its basically hiring through short interview then real work on 1099style. Interviews you should do for free but fixing my real problems I pay for. I can decide who to hire with less time invested and know more about my new hire. #winning. Built a web-service/ATS to help me manage the while things
Self-selection bias
If you can communicate with someone who jumped in one second after you, you could communicate with your younger self via a gravity-warped path that has the same distance as the direct distance between you and the second jumper.

There are no one-way trapdoors with massless particles. If a photon can get in, an anti-photon (aka a photon) following the reverse trajectory (including moving backward through time) can get out. It seems almost tautological, but the photon doesn't really care which way the time arrow points, and can't tell whether it is coming or going.

The warping of spacetime is such that no photon crossing the event horizon from the outside can return to the outside. All straight light paths between any arbitrary point on the event horizon and any arbitrary point inside it do not intersect any other point on the event horizon. If your point of origin is inside the event horizon, you can fire a photon out of it. But you literally need a perfectly accurate and perfectly predictive model of all mass in and around the black hole to make the shot. A single neutron unaccounted for could bend the spacetime that the photon traverses in such a way that it misses the event horizon. So for all practical purposes, you cannot ever be certain if your photon made it out or not, especially after your first second beyond the event horizon.

There's also the little matter that your photon, if it does make it out, may have done so billions of years later, and possibly with a wavelength longer than the diameter of the event horizon, which might make it appear as though it were radiating from the event horizon itself, rather than somewhere inside. It would convey no information across. It would probably look exactly like the Hawking radiation.
It's Riak Core.
>Plea agreements and their relationship to public defender's workload are another massive problem.

Whether a case is criminal or civil more than 9 out of 10 times a case will not go to trial. This is not necessarily indicative of any problem in either criminal or civil...in fact in most contexts it makes a lot of sense.

For example, as a criminal defense lawyer, if the Gov has a really shitty case against my Client (not saying they are necessarily innocent), guess what it will never go to trial, b/c either the case can be won on pretrial motions or I can have a case broken down to a lesser charge and it makes sense to work that out (plea) rather than risk the conviction on the original charge. Further, your statement "no innocent person would ever plead guilty", also inaccurately depicts a system where there is only two options guilty/not guilty, over looking a withholding of adjudication which is going to be applicable in the majority of misdemeanor cases and even some felonies. On the other hand if the State has a slam dunk case against my Client, it again makes no sense to go to trial and expose my Client to the maximum sentence when I can work out a plea at the minimums (or close to) under the law, this serves the interest of my Client as much as society (saving tax payer dollars on unnecessary trials, think arbitration/mediation in the civil context). Only in those cases where the plea offer is equal to the maximums under the law, or where the Gov has a shitty case but the facts are so egregious the Gov would rather take it to trial and lose than give a minimal plea does it make sense to go to trial.

Unfortunately the World is simply comprised of haves and have-nots, where the poor (as you call them) get the short end of the stick...certainly this is true in the justice system as you note, but it is no more true in law than anywhere else (medical care, transportation, education, employment, ect...). Only the potential Gov abuses in the justice system have higher consequences, and that in part is why in 1963 SCOTUS ruled defendants have a Constitutional right to a lawyer who otherwise could not afford one(establishing the first PD office). Talk about scary...we have a Constitutional right to a criminal lawyer, but not to see a Dr. if we are sick.
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It's unfortunate that the F35 boondoggle is now also pulling in and sinking the Navy.

I am curious about phrases such as "interfering with its ability to meet emerging requirements and threats.".

After all, has the mathematics of force projection and enterprise-scale conflict changed that much in the last 40 years?

I could see the argument for, for example, reconfiguring carriers to be just drone carriers (starcraft, lol). But, I'm skeptical that somehow the job of take off, fly, loiter, bomb the shit out of something, return, refuel, rearm, repeat has changed that much.
Another option, which is used in production by cloudflare:

https://github.com/cloudflare/redoctober
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The standard deduction is $6300 and you missed the personal exemption at $4000.
Many states do just that. This is called the "Grand Jury" system. Every case is brought before a Grand Jury to determine if enough evidence exists for the case to go to trial.
It's not that surprising. Serving static files is pretty easy and lightweight (part of why I like the movement towards SPAs), and there's been 20+ years of work done to make it fast. We've been conditioned for years by dynamic application servers that perform multiple DB queries, external service calls, etc per request. It doesn't have to be slow or inefficient.
The non-existence of supernatural free will is largely irrelevant; despite it not existing it is abundantly clear that we can modify expected behavior by offering rewards or punishments. Supernatural free will is not necessary in the slightest to explain this.

> "severe punishments to little to deter crime."

I have seen some evidence that this is the case specifically for the death penalty. I've seen little to suggest that it holds true throughout more general cases.

Nevertheless, even if we rule out deterrence as a possibility, we're still left with incapacitation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incapacitation_%28penology%29). That undeniably does work, and it works damn well. The thought of being locked up in a cell may not deter a free man, and it may not cure a captured man, but it will prevent that man from victimizing innocent members of the general public again.

You don't need silly concepts of supernatural souls or good and evil to benefit from incapacitation. No matter what we think of any of these issues, the fact of the matter is that Ted Kaczynski is unable to mail a bomb to people like you or I.
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"Most people's ideas and worldview get basically frozen in time when they reach 25."

Not by choice, in most cases. N.B. There's also a lot of research on restoring neural plasticity.
The first comprehensive book on child-computer interaction (Free download)
Ask HN: How to find dev work before starting University
Hi, I'm trying to keep it short. I've finished a 6 month (Front End) internship and they offered me to work there part time, but for the last month they didn't had any work available, so I've started to look for another job. I'm going to start to study CS in October and I want to get more experience till then.

The jobs that invite me for an interview are agencies that work with WordPress or simple static sites. I don't feel that this is going to push me to the edge where I have to learn new things and improve my skills.

And real IT companies just reject me, I'll show them some small projects (e.g. Node and Angular) but they just don't consider me. Mainly because I don't have a degree or not even a little formal CS education (In Germany they're pretty conservative in this point).

Do you guys think it would make sense to try to apply for a remote position? What is my best way to try to get a job at a company/startup where I can work with a team on one project?

Thanks in advance
This seems pretty similar to XML
Wikipedia also has a good discussion of the basics as well as some generalizations:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_derivative

Turns out there are even some applications, albeit rather esoteric ones.
Indeed. I don't mind it much :)

Also trying to not meta-comment too much ("I know I'll get down-voted but...")
Butterick's Practical Typography http://practicaltypography.com is a must read for anyone in design or UX field.

Everyone should read and take to heart the condensed version http://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.htm...
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With respect to xxHash64, the closest (and slowest) algorithm is Metro64. I just ran it on my laptop using SMHasher for comparison purposes.

- Metro64 is about 10-15% faster for bulk hashing

- Metro64 is about 2x faster for small keys

- Metro64 has better statistical quality

These days, most people should be using 128-bit hash functions. Not only are they more collision resistant, they also run faster on modern microarchitectures.

Measuring CityHash at 32-bits is not a realistic measurement of its performance. Its structure is optimized for 64-128 bit hashes, which it actually does quite well for some types of keys.
Just paint the missiles with reflective paint.
Jonathan Riddell forced out of Kubuntu against the Kubuntu Council's wishes
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My complaint is not that I have to change my code. My complaint is that Python 3 is an attempt at breaking as little compatibilty with Python 2 as possible while making Unicode "easy" to use. They failed to achieve both goals.

Now we have a Python 3 that's incompatible to Python 2 but provides almost no significant benefit, solves none of the large well known problems and introduces quite a few new problems.
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I don't know that this is uniquely American, but I agree that this happens and I think it's pretty scary.

For example, in the discussions about recent high-profile police shootings, a lot of people just dismissed the whole thing once they found out about that the victims were themselves criminals. A disturbing number of people immediately stopped having any sympathy the moment they found out that e.g. Michael Brown had just robbed a convenience store or that Eric Garner was selling cigarettes illegally. They would generally not come out and say that people deserve summary execution for these crimes, but that is essentially the argument that they end up making.

If you can't even convince people that small-time criminals deserve to survive an encounter with the police, then good luck convincing them that they deserve fair treatment in court....
Thanks, this looks useful.
This is a free book and the first comprehensive book on child-computer interaction. This is written by my former grad school advisor/mentor. He is the smartest, humblest guy that I know. I am pretty inspired that he compiled and summarized the state of child-computer interaction and is offering it as a FREE book.
The term "WTF-8" has been around for a long time. Here's an example from 2008:

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/qsmtp/draft...
Rust is currently backed by Mozilla, Samsung, and an expanding coalition of startups. There are other large companies experimenting with Rust at the moment, but I'd rather wait for them to come out with their own announcements. The community is hugely active and growing at an increasing rate. There are four Rust books in the publishing pipeline and Rust's first conference will be held this year, with at least two conferences already planning for next year. I wouldn't worry about the state of Rust's ecosystem in five years. :)
That's not enough, as the behavior can be updated by Chrome to a new version without noticing me the user.
Hey, never meant to imply otherwise. In fact, even people who have issues with the py3 way often agree that it's still better than 2's.
> After all, has the mathematics of force projection and enterprise-scale conflict changed that much in the last 40 years?

Perhaps not, but the article notes that there was plenty of skepticism about the survivability of the carrier force 40 years ago, too:

Soviet Adm. Sergei Gorchakov reportedly held the view that the U.S. had made a strategic miscalculation by relying on large and increasingly vulnerable aircraft carriers. The influential U.S. Adm. Hyman Rickover shared this view. In a 1982 congressional hearing, legislators asked him how long American carriers would survive in an actual war. Rickover’s response? “Forty-eight hours.”

(Of course Rickover was the father of the nuclear submarine, so his opinions on the relative superiority of carriers may need to be taken with a grain of salt added. He certainly wasn't alone in that opinion, though; Elmo Zumwalt, for instance, wanted to move away from a few big carriers to larger numbers of smaller ones -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Control_Ship)

Arguably a flattop-heavy force was even more at risk back then than it is today, because back then there was a real risk that an attack by the most likely adversary (the USSR, obv.) would be centered around nuclear weapons, and it's hard to see any scenario where any surface fleet could survive in the face of that kind of attack. Today's anti-ship missiles and torpedoes are faster and stealthier, but they're also much less likely to be nuclear-tipped.
One step is to teach people to see groups of others as individuals - looking into a rioting crowd, and seeing a sea of individuals who each have wants and dreams that are being trampled by something.

Too many people get stuck into "grouping" people because it's cognitively easier. This makes it easier to strawman and hate a group.
> The risk from Pertussis is greater than that of DTAP by a lot

The risk from Pertussis TODAY is greater than that of DTaP.

But when aP was first introduced the risk of pertussis was LOWER than the risk of the Pertussis vaccine, for the simple reason that Pertussis was almost unheard of, but bad reactions to the Pertussis vaccine were quite common.

There's a reason they switched to aP you know, it wasn't in order to weaken the vaccine.
What is PL research and how is it useful?
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The technology required to cure aging is more difficult than the technology required to build food factories. The earth can support many more billions of people on far less land than we use today if there are investments into architecture and war/corruption is mitigated.
Younger people who were more technical in the early 00's are not moving up into management and decision making positions in companies (buyers). It's requiring a more technically savvy sales force in return.

The market is providing.