skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have no competing group of people who are on welfare yet still CHOOSE to work to better their lives.

I think we do, every state has a Vocational Rehabilitation program that attempt to do just that. In fact, I became disabled at the age of 22, and could have lived the rest of my life with full disability benefits, But instead chose to use one of these programs. I have since payed back in taxes to the state + more that what I most likely used. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA/UCM277757...
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Again, how are those "the first" after people stopped tolerating new unsafe languages?

We hadn't had a new memory unsafe language catching on (or released from some major vendor) since what? C++? It was pretty much standard by the time Java was out. Heck, there were mainstream Smalltalk in the 90s, with IBM support, IDE's et al.

So Smalltalk, Java, VB (up to 6), C# and others all all languages that predated Go and Rust in memory safety, and came out in an era memory safety was de rigeur.
I have, on several occasions. It's probably worth trying again, but TBH it would probably sound better coming from someone else.
> take money from the people, run it through the giant bureaucracy machine, and magically produce a net benefit to the people is both logically impossible and naturally never going to happen.

Seems to work in late stage free markets dominated by 2-3 large-scale players.
I'd like a better understanding of why this is better than an ordinary RGB camera sensor by itself, at least as far as visible light is concerned. What would be an example of a wavelength that couldn't be disambiguated from some other wavelength by looking at its relative amplitude through R, G, and B filters? What do the extra degrees of freedom afforded by the quantum dot filters buy us? Could adding a fourth color filter to some of the elements in a CCD sensor accomplish the same thing?

Is it just a matter of the line width of a typical color filter being too broad?
And after that will be named `AnotherBrandNewOs`.
I think he meant that the shareholders will replace the senior leadership because of short term volatility, unless you only sell a minority to the public.
Like the other comment said, this is not about being dumb. It's about human psychology: you'd rather not be wrong, so you jump at the possibility of being right, and "forget" to take the logical step of actively trying to disprove your rule (1 2 5 can be disregarded because you weren't trying to disprove the rule).
Why not just ask them?
For the purposes of European research funding it effectively is.
A couple of areas to consider in making your decision--

Which opportunity presents the bigger professional stretch?

Given the pace of this business-- people change jobs/companies every few years; which experience do you anticipate will give you the best leverage and most options?
Tesla has already won this war by providing parts to Toyota. The only winners in war are the weapons factories.
Interesting point re:commercial usage. If a user of a social media site posts an image not for their own profit, it's still contributing to the social media network's profits in that it's keeping users engaged with the site while the social network runs ads.
thanks - drop me a line and I'll reply, this thread is getting old and deep. thanks for your thoughts though and hope you do write.
I don't understand what background application you're referring to. If I have an app that reads and writes to a bunch of CSV files how is that any different from using libsqlite3 to read and write to an sqlite file?
> It's not unreasonable to assume that the difference of £85bn would essentially pay for itself by increasing the tax revenue from people spending their basic income.

If the idea is to give everybody money so that you can tax it more, you're engaging in economic waste. Without being able to increase productivity in other areas to cover the lost value, you will, hopefully slowly, but eventually trend towards zero, and a failure of the system overall.

Encouraging economic productivity in an environment in which nobody has to be productive may or may not be possible, I honestly haven't any idea, but its certainty doesn't seem terribly obvious to me.
Looks really useful, we are looking at some working with contractors and this could really help us out.
I don't think that's how rent is set right now. I believe people charge rent based on what people can bear to pay - so as long as another person with BI comes along willing to pay the higher rent, the landlord will sell to him instead!
It's impressive, really. This is the year that I've really started to see Teslas around here (Boston- there's a showroom in the Natick Mall). On the one hand, the car is risky: expensive battery, limited range / charging options, luxury car service cost. On the other, they found a niche: the coastal rich who are willing to use them as their daily commuting car.

They are cheaper than Maseratis, which I've also been seeing a lot of lately. When looked at this way, people are willing to take the risk on the cheaper car. Even so, if car sales are a zero-sum game, I think BMW is the one being hurt by them the most.
Everything takes trial and error to develop.
You're allowed your opinion. I think the "majors" are too bloated to produce anything other than a mass produced clone. I unfortunately bought one of these cars recently, only because the Tesla isn't quite ready for me or my area yet.

When it is, I'll happily drop the majors for a Tesla.
>HTML is a language to mark up documents.

That train has left the station over a decade ago.

>Now that you know what kind of thing HTML is, you probably have a feel for what kind of thing the web was meant to do. That's one reason HTML based web apps will not be a decent replacement for real applications.

They have been good enough for people to adopt them over desktop apps for tons of things.

>There's a more fundamental reason: it increases the work you have to do on the technology stack involved. When you make web applications, you are essentially pretending the web browser is an operating system.

We've been increasing abstraction and doing the same thing at various levels ever since we invented computers.
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This and passwordstore.org are neat. I used to do one-password-per-gnupg-file with plain GnuPG commands, and liked it quite a bit. Lately though, I've been using passwords in plaintext in a AES256 disk image with a shared long passphrase. The main advantage so far is that other family members can use the disk image work flow easily. The main disadvantage is that the disk image format is OS-platform specific. I know that KeePass probably works best for family, so we may switch to that in the future.
Tesla is a taxpayer subsidized wall street scam that is going to blow up sooner or later.

As opposed to any car that runs on petroleum? That's not taxpayer-subsidized at all, I suppose.
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Why, power would then be concentrated in the hands of those who display pertinent genetic "superiority"! Since we find little pertinent genetic differences between populations and huge variations in concentrations of power, we learn that power is not (mostly) a consequence of genetics. That is the only scientific way to interpret the facts[1].

Some people, however, do the unscientific thing of deducing backwards: they pre-suppose "innate" superiority, and then project backwards from power to superiority. Not only does this contradict scientific findings, it is a very familiar psychological phenomenon, as people who do that invariably include themselves among those they consider innately superior. The effort to ascribe power to innate properties is another well known, well studied sociological/socio-psychological phenomenon[2], whereby seats of power do not want to yield any, and therefore claim an unchanging "nature" (against all observations).

[1]: Even if the most, how shall we put this -- nature oriented -- of studies is to be believed, no finding of innate ability has ever found effect sizes within orders of magnitude close to power distribution observed in society. If you then try to claim that the function correlating power to innate ability is super-linear, every small variation would be so magnified, and taking into account that in-group variance is larger than inter-group variance, you'll see a people-to-power function that behaves almost like white noise -- also not what we see. The only way to explain the observed power distribution is with local effects whereby power breeds power in its immediate vicinity, and dampens it at greater distances. Social interaction is by far the most likely explanation of the observations.

[2]: there are experiments that create artificial "racism", or ingroup/outgroup differences in children and observe this.
> so financially ignorant

I agree, and specifically I think of the confusion between gross profit margin and net operating cashflow. Tesla makes money on every car sold (as they actually have a gross profit) but have been spending cash really fast (as they have a negative cashflow). All this really tells you is that Tesla is investing a lot of money, which is to be expected for a company that is trying to spearhead a paradigm shift within the entire automotive industry.

Also, since one big weakness in Tesla is whether it relies on government subsidies and loans for its continued survival. Thats something I don't understand and if I had a horse in this race, I'd be weary of a company that relies on the whims of political support in order to survive.
Sequentially.
I had made a comment on twitter that the ref: concept basically throws json off the indecidability cliff in terms of parsing. They opened an issue for it apparently, but you can see the graphql rfc has specific anti-cycle checks, which is super important.
It's amazing how stealthily common that is.

"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you." --Bad Street Brawler

"What a country! In LA everybody is looking for party; in Soviet Russia, party comes looking for you!" --Yakov Smirnoff, vaguely echoing an even more famous Soviet personality:

"You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you." --Trotsky
As a related aside: Does anyone know why arXiv has no system of public comments or (even better) a public peer review system built in? Whenever this topic comes up at a (CS) conference, everyone is for that, and yet, arXiv is functionally the same for quite a few years now.
'Grok' usually has a stronger meaning than the words/phrases you mentioned. It means to comprehend something deeply, gain intuitive and thorough understanding.
Speaking as someone who self-identifies as a pragmatic libertarian, if I were in charge, the way I would try to help the 99% would start with getting rid of a lot of ways the law supports rent-seeking behaviour by corporations and the wealthy in the form of things like enforced noncompete agreements, zoning laws, licensing and bureaucracy that hurt small businesses more than big ones and reduce competition among employers, credentialism et cetera.
Original article that this is made up of quotes and pictures from: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-04/welcome-to...
This has nothing to do with Gödel's incompleteness theorem. It's much simpler than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein_on_Rules_and_Priv...
I buy tables, bikes, and beds solely second hand (oftentimes from an individual not a store). If I had to buy new it would destroy the second hand market and encourage massive amounts of waste.
Good points, although I don't mean different ways of google breaking URI's like #!. IMHO the net is much nicer to use without JS. Rather, I'm thinking about a blockchain replacing DNS. Couldn't agree more that obfuscating information behind code you must execute first is bad.
Why? A new kernel config doesn't change the fact that I'm running <insert distro here>.

edit: the joke flew over my head.
Web interface for Google's DeepDream
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As far as I know, all dark net markets (including Silk Road when it was around) strongly recommend that you encrypt all text containing sensitive information using PGP.

They don't force you to, though.
> The monetary system is pretty well understood. Basic income just becomes another input for money to enter the system.

I'm no fan of basic income however basic income comes from tax. This is redistributive, but not expansionary.

You say it's well understood but you seem to think that central bank issued currency is the cause of inflation. Most "money" is created as credit from private banks (against land).

Again, basic income is not creating money. Read up on money creation, you will be surprised and then perhaps see how you are being fooled on much of how your entire world works with regard to democracy.
Commenter said "before SQLite". Pay attention.
Oh come on, "hail-mary grepping for words of interest" is my first strategy when navigating a new code base, and in 90% cases it led me to right places. If the code you wanted to find uses a synonym, you expand your search. So for example, if "shotgun" doesn't bring anything relevant, search for "weapon" to find a weapon list and learn how the shotgun is called. Running recursive greps on the codebase is a quick and effective way of finding things you need.
WikiLeaks releases core text for TISA, largest 'trade deal' in history
So in the end he didn't actually explain, why he chose AGPLv3. "Because I think it is the right license for this project". Of course he does: otherwise he wouldn't chose it. Essentially it translates to "I chose it because I chose it".

But why? If I would participate in the voting I would probably skim both, look at Wikipedia and some of these "license explained" projects, but I doubt it would be enough to be sure my vote is the right one whatever election result will be in the end. What it actually means for the project to take this or that stand?

I wonder, how many people who actually voted where thinking something like this? Maybe it would be better if anybody who knows for himself which decision is right would share his opinion explicitly. Who knows, maybe the voting result wouldn't look so "divided" after such a discussion.
Postgres vs. MySql Over Time in `Ask HN: Who Is Hiring?`
keyword appearance count for HN hiring threads

period postgres mysql
-------- ---------- -------
2011-05 4 13
2011-06 7 29
2011-11 7 32
2011-12 10 19
2012-06 12 23
2012-09 8 13
2013-04 23 34
2013-05 22 39
2013-10 32 44
2014-04 40 41
2014-05 34 36
2014-08 44 59
2014-11 47 35
2014-12 58 68
2015-02 63 42
2015-03 47 47
2015-04 65 57
2015-05 65 53
2015-06 64 38
2015-07 57 46

source: https://gist.github.com/cieplak/97ac11ece84e4528e1cf
Winston Churchill, Security, and DevOps
Arguing for suppressing the Western working classes on the basis that this will somehow help the working classes in the developing world doesn't make any sense. Labor is labor, around the world. You strengthen the working class in one place, and you've strengthened it everywhere. Pay a basic income in the West, and consumer spending can rise, aiding a rise in demand, leading to a tighter hiring market for developing-world employers who make the stuff, making labor actions for shorter hours and higher wages more successful.
If someone identifies themselves as an 'Otherkin' then I feel the most humane thing to do would be to help treat them. Playing pretend only worsens their condition and reinforces the behavior. Regardless of the size of the population ("other people believe they are dragons too!") doesn't make it "right" anymore than a majority of a population being bipolar means we should stop treating bipolar disorder. Same goes for gender dysphoria.

To me, "basic decency" would be helping to treat their gender dysphoria and not encourage it. Gender reassignment surgery (encouraging gender dysphoria by helping them "become" the other gender) leads to an increased risk of suicide and depression, with regret of the surgery itself not being uncommon [0]. Even in areas where the social stigma of being transexual isn't anything near what is in the US (ie. Sweden).

That isn't helping these people, it's hurting them. Basic decency tells me I shouldn't hurt people - I should help them. Even if they don't "feel like I'm helping them" (eg. intervening for a drug addict). Sometimes what is in someone's best interest isn't necessarily what they think they want as sometimes what people think they want or say they want isn't really what they want; as UX research alone shows [1].

"They are judging the evidence presented to them based on a model of reality, a map that they’ve used their entire lives, and you can’t just tell someone that his or her map is of a fantasy realm that doesn’t exist and expect them to respond positively. You can’t just ask a person like that to throw away that map and start over, especially if they’ve yet to realize it is just a map, and their beliefs are only models." - [2]

Links are to blogs - as the blogs link to a multitude of studies/sources themselves:

[0] http://waltheyer.typepad.com/blog/2013/11/20-regret-changing...

[1] http://uxmyths.com/post/746610684/myth-21-people-can-tell-yo...

[2] http://youarenotsosmart.com/2014/09/30/yanss-podcast-033-the...
They are in a lot of pain right now. Something like 25% of the float is short interest and the stock keeps going up. It may not matter that the price is so divorced from the fundamentals because people are buying it for the long term gamble.
Given that this is only posting, I didn't think it was too risky. Rate limiting for what I'm doing is based on user auth rather than app limits.
With such high numbers going to the Caribbean and Brazil, were these just holding ports before the slaves were moved onto their final destinations?
Ha, well they also got rid of `id` on nil altogether, so it stopped being a common bug. (I didn't know that its object id is actually 8 now though, so thanks for the useless-knowledge-nugget.)
I've heard of intelligence failures to explain the Iraq war, now this author says it was confirmation bias which caused a completely erroneous justification for the invasion of Iraq. I think the author has confirmation bias in too easily using the term to explain government and corporate policy choices which have been based on false justifications.
I'll give my +1 vote to Facebook in this hard competition.
After swinging your hammer several times you hit the nail on the head with the final word.

We should have land value tax which will eliminate land hoarding, reduce rents and replace income tax. More incentive to work, less incentive to speculate.

You'll never get this in the UK/US as the last thing the elite want is a level playing field where you get to keep most of what you contribute.
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>For example, indoor plumbing was considered a grossly extravagant luxury for almost all of human history. Within the last hundred years, the richer societies have made laws (building codes) that have switched it to a "NEED". The same thing happend with indoor heating systems.

Yes, we rather do like preventing dysentery, bubonic plague, and flu epidemics. Public health is indeed a necessity rather than a luxury.
European registered UpCloud opens datacenter in Frankfurt, Germany
Yep, I use it to provide passwords to my shell scripts, for example. security<->pass integration is precisely what I'm looking for, I get the feeling I'm going to end up having to implement it myself.
Because the recruiters may not know and give him a bullshit answer or may intentionally misinform him.

For example, I worked at a company last year. During the application process I asked about working on my side projects and about contributing to open source projects. After I signed my offer my recruiter let me know that she had received a response from the legal team. The consensus was that I'd be able to, but my code would have to be reviewed before it was released to make sure it didn't conflict with my work. I was content with that arrangement since the NDA was pretty restrictive.

When I started working I contacted the legal team to ask about the process, and I was told that my recruiter was incorrect, I would not be able to work on side projects or contribute to other open source projects.

In retrospect, I wished I'd asked engineers who worked there, not Human Resources. It probably wouldn't have changed whether or not I applied, but it was incredibly disappointing to be told I could do something, just to be told I couldn't actually do it once I started working there.
But he did explain it :-

The AGPLv3 on the other hand, is a political and ethical line in the sand.

And so is Mailpile.
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