skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assuming there is a minimum threshold so people don't lose their family home t

There is no minimum that satisfies both. What's a house cost in San Francisco or LA now anyway?

If we set it too low, people lose family homes/farms, if we set it too high the rabble-rousers bitch. There's no value that works.

>Keeping necessities in life equal access. As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools

I'm not sacrificing my children to the public school system. Sorry.
I have no specifics, but I can make a few guesses:

1. They are stockpiling cash to afford lengthy, costly, legal battles for their business model. Although there is a huge potential this could backfire entirely and investors will be out millions.

2. They are stockpiling cash in expectation of having to pay drivers as employees and provide benefits, etc... to those drivers.

3. I am sure there is a good amount of money earmarked for marketing/sales efforts to take on new markets.

4. I would expect that they have several "on-demand" products in the works (i.e. same day/hour delivery service) that will require upfront capital.
There are two cited that way, and neither appears in that link. I don't think both were coincidentally deleted, I think that's just the wrong comments page

Besides, he has to have fetched them at some point and he should have taken the cites at the same time. "I found it somewhere on reddit" just isn't enough. It makes me wonder where he stole the other ones labelled "anonymous"
It's too bad that there's no standard way to flag part/all of a URL as secret as a hint to caching engines and the like.
Keep in mind any tax on non-liquid assets that don't generate a lot of free cash flow can be very burdensome to those who control those assets. I believe this is why some states have moved away from death taxes....family farms were being sold off to pay taxes from the previous generation.
I wish there was a community that use the Principia Cybernetica project (PCP) as it's core foundation:

"The PCP philosophy, which we call "Metasystem Transition Theory", is systemic and evolutionary, based on the spontaneous emergence of higher levels of organization or control (metasystem transitions) through blind variation and natural selection."

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/NUTSHELL.html
A major problem while discussing inequality is that many lose objectivity and start blaming X/Y party.

Whether right or left, I can think of a dozen issues both could work on: end lobbying; lower taxes for, at least, the middle class; ending/avoiding malicious international trade deals; end bureaucratic BS,...
i tried q. i answered a couple questions. people then tried to discredit my answers, but i'm pretty experienced in my field so i dropped longer explanations, more logic, refereces. ok, everythings calmed down now.

then it happened again. i don't have time for that. people were serious about putting down good answers, i assume for selfish reasons. i deleted all my stuff and haven't been back since.

i think it works when celebrities use it, and fans can feel closer to the people they look up to. but its just a totally diffent crowd than say stack overflow and i didn't realize that when i joined.
A native-ish backend like TkAgg is valuable because it instantly pops up an interactive plot, which I find really useful for the quick-n-dirty data exploration tasks I usually use Pandashells for. You don't need the interactive backend and can use the --savefig option on plots to save images or html, but that takes time -- and I usually want my results now!! :)
Well, these people have been living up to their 65 y/o pension. They really live up to it when 50+ and when it finally happens...
> As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools and hospitals

Ehh, I mostly agree with your first point but I think it's kind of a pipe dream to think it could be otherwise. Go visit a public school in a place like Greenwich, CT and then go visit a public school in the Bronx. Both technically public schools, but students have a clear advantage in one vs the other.

Sure, Bill Gates's kids aren't going to public school probably even in Greenwich. Still, let's not pretend that the elite only go to private schools, or that they wouldn't congregate in wealthy areas to make public schools essentially private.

Inequalities will always exist as long as people can use their assets to gain advantages for themselves/their families, and trying to force it otherwise against an unwilling populace is likely to just exacerbate the problem in other ways (see: Suburban flight).
Sounds like they need a loyalty program, so customers have an incentive not to simply take "Uber or Lyft, whichever isn't surging right now."

So: UberMiles -- earn and redeem miles when you take an Uber. And there can be Gold, Silver, and Platinum levels you earn for taking more Ubers -- at the higher levels, you could get complimentary space-available upgrades, special discounts, or insulation from surge pricing. And they could partner with a bank to market an UberMiles credit card (earn one mile for every dollar you spend), and with Hilton to offer Points&Miles™ to hotel guests. And the miles can expire if there's no account activity for 18 months. And people can rant and complain and swear they're going to take all their business to Lyft when Uber inevitably changes the miles redemption chart to become more profitable.
I love Fermat's Little Theorem, both for its own sake and because it's an intermediate step in proving the Two Squares Theorem. My equivalent to "counting sheep" used to be to review the proof of the TST.

The simplest proof I know of Fermat's Little Theorem is induction, assuming that we already know the Binomial Theorem. Suppose a^p == a. (== is my symbol for "is congruent to mod p" in this post.) Expand (a+1)^p, and note that every binomial coefficient except the first and last has p in the numerator but not the denominator. Hence (a+1)^p == a^p+1 == a+1.

Cleaning up the proof from there is trivial.
Downvotes??? ... Oh, I see, it's because I followed the parent in using the abbreviation "SJW". It's not one I normally use; I will avoid it in future.

However. I have read in the news about parents being arrested for allowing their children -- 9- and 10-year-olds, not young children -- to play unsupervised, or (in one case) to hang out at a mall while their parent was at a job interview there, for what some busybody thought was too long. 50 years ago, one could never have imagined the police being called -- or if they had been called, actually arresting the parent -- in such a situation. Whatever label one puts on it, there has been a change in American culture that I think is not entirely salutary. Protecting children is important, but people are jumping to conclusions that are not actually warranted by the facts and nuances of the situation.
Sounds fantastic for your extension, but it would be too heavy for Kiwi. The entire Reddit, HN, and Google News data sets would (easily) be too large
My best friend from graduate school (which was the Harvard Math department at a time Wiles was an assistant professor) used to stay with me when he visited his employer in NYC after moving to Israel. He would take an overnight flight and arrive, quite blearly, early in the morning. The day of a visit, the NYT had the story. And so I greeted him at the door to my apartment, not with my usual warm hello, but rather the words "Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem".
At least it is not as bad as banks. I wonder what would happen if for profit banks did not have interest bearing savings accounts.
The author has accurately summed up what I despise about modern P.C. (I guess youth?) culture and my main source of aggravation when trying to have a conversation about basically anything these days.

"A matter of how they were raised — everybody’s special and everybody’s point of view is valid and everybody’s feelings should be taken care of"

"Today’s polite, pleasant personality is, above all, a commercial personality. It is the salesman’s smile and hearty handshake"

"bland, inoffensive, smile-and-a-shoeshine personality — the stay-positive, other-directed, I’ll-be-whoever-you-want-me-to-be personality — that everybody has today"

"this is why, unlike those of previous youth cultures, the hipster ethos contains no element of rebellion, rejection or dissent"
It looks like a good start.

I see why the performance section might not cover everything under the sun, but given how little it currently covers, I think that a link to some of the classic tuning resources would be very helpful. At the very least, mention that there are entire topics of Postgres performance that are not covered: For instance, per-table statistics targets, or tuning the database configuration to matches the available hardware and database size: If a DB has a lot of memory and is backed by an array of SSDs, the optimum settings will vary wildly from those of a small machine with a hard drive using platters (or, as some "interesting" people have done, hosting the actual database files in a network file system. shudder)
While I never tried to join their community proper, several years ago I did send them $36 to get a lifetime "ARPA" membership. The service is, as you might expect, old fashioned: you get a grand total of 600MB of storage and access to a regular user account on their NetBSD servers. Meanwhile, for a few dollars per month from umpteen VPS providers I can get tons of storage and the ability to virtualize just about any operating system - and like many, I don't expect to get to a financial state where that would be a significant burden anytime soon, hopefully ever. But dealing with billing requires some level of active maintenance, however small, and in the long run providers come and go. SDF requires zero - I can have paid zero attention to the service for years, but if I suddenly need to do SSH forwarding to get past a firewall and don't have anything else handy, the shell is a few keystrokes away; if someone chances upon an old link to some basic web content I set up on it years ago, it will work. They've been around for close to three decades, and as a small enthusiasts' group (which survives despite having long had very uncompetitive prices for their higher-level services, which unlike ARPA have periodic fees), they're not as vulnerable as your average big company to going out of business when industry trends change. Personally, I'd have paid a lot more than $36 for that quality of guarantee!
Actually, casting between void * and void (*)() is not legal C. You can convert between pointers of different object types, and you can convert between pointers of different function types, but you're not allowed to convert between a pointer of object type and pointer of function type (c.f. N1570, §J.5.4 (which makes it explicit) and §6.3.2.3 (where it's implicit by omission)).

This is however a very common extension allowed in most compilers, since most processors that people encounter keep code and data in the same memory address pool. But on DSPs, it's common for data and code memory to be distinct address spaces, and the two pointer types aren't necessarily the same size.
Thanks for the feedback, when initially creating the performance area there weren't a lot of great references. There's now one really great set of slides from a talk that gives you the basics of configuring your own postgresql.conf, I'll make sure to add it soon as an additional reference - http://thebuild.com/presentations/not-your-job.pdf
That makes sense, as a radio play is probably heard by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude more people.
Rands?
I always appreciate these kinds of references. Thanks for the material. A couple small items: 1) Some of your links under further reading, don't go anywhere. 2) I'm confused about the Joins section. The second sentence under Tables, says you will cover joins later, but I'm not sure when that happens. Otherwise, helpful material. Thanks again.
I think I like web message boards more than Usenet too, but they're only now coming into their own.

In what way? From my perspective, web message boards have been steadily eroding. The signal to noise ratio of most discussions has gotten out of control.
If it's any help, the I've uploaded the Notes from the talk (mentioned in the podcasts), complete with speaker notes, here: https://speakerdeck.com/chantastic/inline-styles-react-europ...
Even if you think the wasted ram and the security issues isn't a problem, why is that an argument especially for Go, when almost every other language can be built into a single static file as well?
According to the theory of evolution, why do we die?
God I hate arguments that resolve to "well that's the way it is."
Don't think old people retiring and making place for younger is going to help much with the diminishing job market anyway though. However, wether that is true or not, it is very important for anyone to develop some kind of passion / hobby / interest next to / instead of work.
This guy writes an amazing blog. I've been following him for years; http://randsinrepose.com/
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#content { height: <defined>; top: 0; right: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; position: absolute }
The Task Manager in Windows 10 is pretty cool
The Task Manager in Windows 10 shows great detail about what is and has been running and who is running what, clearly in real time.
This is so cool! (but I can't help but be a little disappointed that there are no image resources include - even some low-res thumbnails would be great!)
Capturing people doing wrong things by doing wrong things. Strangely consistent.
There's no evidence of this ever happening.

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/the-estate-tax-...
At which point you use a bootstrap jumbotron like 2/3 of the sites I see.
Thanks for the report on the broken links, should be all fixed.

As for the section on joins, it's definitely not well labeled, perhaps I'll churn out a page on joins tonight :)
Both technically public schools, but students have a clear advantage in one vs the other.

Funding schools through property taxes is an easy explanation for that one. There are other factors, of course, but are there any other industrialized nations where public funding of education is directly tied to parental wealth?
That was the "Joe the Plumber"/"CRA caused the financial crisis" story of estate tax.
I've only briefly perused the dataset...but there is a URL data, and many of the works have this filled in. The MoMA has always had one of the better structured websites, so it wouldn't be hard to write a scraper to grab the associated image.

e.g.

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/101730

http://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxNzgzOCJdLFsicCIsImNvbn...

(I guess one thing the MoMA could improve on is moving their image assets to a CDN...that thing took awhile to load)
I am aware of this study. Funny, how they show expression in deltaCT to make it appear higher in cancer ;). But regardless, the marker has a specificity of 0.62 - really that excellent? Such a high false-positive rate does not belong anywhere near a patient sample.
Masons have the same problem with youth.
Explain?

The most common usage of const in library code is for function parameters:

Iterator find(T const& value) const;

The const actually _helps_ callers: find accepts both const and non-const references. A non-const argument will be implicitly cast to const by the compiler.

Compare that to:

Iterator find(T& value) const;

This function signature accepts only non-const references (unless T is const). A caller must const_cast a const argument to use it (bad).

Return values are occasionally references:

T& front();
T const& front() const;

But "auto" makes the code shorter when the return type is const or unknown:

auto& v = c.front(); // overload is deduced by the compiler based on the constness of c.
So this new book is little more than slightly-updated version of a 1997 novel:

As the author concedes in a note to readers, “This book does not fully take into account the results of the past 15 years of international research on the historical dynamics of inequality.”

What was the point of publishing this on the heels of "Capital in the 21st Century" then? Trying to cash in on the newly minted Piketty brand?
I've always thought Macaw (http://macaw.co/) to come very close to this.
Verlet physics and time travel
This is an example where the headline on Hacker News is 100x better than the original headline. I do wish Hacker News allowed these kinds of headlines, which draw out the parts of the article that are of most interest to the Hacker News crowd.
Yes, thank you, I almost forgot about how it really began with tweaking the code for the game itself! Great memories. Reminds me of how so many old games had .dat files (or something similar) that you could mess with initial settings or screw with the sounds.

This gives me a good idea for teaching my kids to program. Why start from scratch? I'm going to give them a game like this, with code, and see if they can do something crazy with it!

P.S. For me, I became the computer lab teacher's assistant in order to skip recesses or other activities in middle school. Fixed printers, made .bat file menus, good times.
Actually, it used to be called Frontpage. It was pretty workable, but if you were able to figure it out, you were probably better off just learning HTML and CSS anyway. Creating anything beyond a really basic table layout was pretty maddening, IIRC.

The typical problem with WYSIWYG webpage builders is that the web is not a printed document. If you don't know the underlying concepts of layout you expect things to behave much differently than they actually do. Or at least, that was how it was for me.
I upvoted based on the headline before I even started reading, which I rarely do.
From C11:
If the member used to read the contents of a union object is not the same as the member last used to
store a value in the object, the appropriate part of the object representation of the value is reinterpreted
as an object representation in the new type as described in 6.2.6 (a process sometimes called ‘‘type
punning’’). This might be a trap representation.

union {
int x;
float y;
} b;
b.y = 10e5;
printf("%x\n", b.x);

That behavior is legal and well-defined behavior (up to the implementation-defined nature of representations) under C99 and C11, but not under C89 and earlier. Unfortunately, although it was made legal in C99, C99 did retain the program as an example in its (non-normative) list of undefined behaviors, which doesn't help clear up its legality.

Its status under C++11 and C++14 is much more debatable. I recall (I may have bad memory) that an early draft of C++0x had incorporated new C99 text on unions, which would have made it legal, but the wording of unions changed dramatically when unrestricted unions were introduced, which means that assessing its present legality relies very heavily on how you extend initialization to types like int and float.
There are plenty of senses in which infinity IS a number -- or rather, many numbers. See e.g. the Wikipedia articles on cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers, hyperreal numbers, and surreal numbers.
I thought the css-tricks page did an incredible job of both explaining the concepts and laying out the information in such a way that it makes a great quick reference once you've gone through it.

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
On the contrary, it buys you much more. The final keyword in Java will result in compilation errors if you fail to assign it a value for all possible branches within its scope. And it's 5 characters to prevent a whole class of errors for free (erroneous assignments to method parameters), so why not do it?

As for "visual noise," I find it helps to highlight variable declarations and results in more readable code, but we're firmly in the personal opinion area here.
Show HN: Js2glsl ShaderToy – Source to Source Compiler from JavaScript to GLSL
The scrapyards that have gone out of business aren't paying that. Their competitors, finding themselves in a more monopsonistic situation, might not be either.
It appears that the Querying content is in the Joins section.
A site that ships an inconspicous package containing a Rick Roll
Beautiful. Reminded me of the evolution of a haskell programmer http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
What needs more documentation is the highlighting of sections where Postgres does differently from say, Oracle, MySQL or SqlServer...

e.g., If you are used to do X this way with MySQL, here's how to do it in Postgres.
display:table and its kin are the greatest thing I ever discovered in css. No more centering problems and easy to reason about. I'm not sure if people just don't know about it, or there are use-cases where it doesn't work for them. I'll definitely use Flexbox when its more widely supported, though.
The problem with meetings is that they are often interminable, with too little accomplished. That's what needs to be fixed.

I've never had an opportunity to try it, but long ago someone suggesting that everyone needs to remain standing at meetings, to help expedite them. This would also make it more difficult to e.g. use a laptop to read HN instead of paying attention. :)
Fair enough. I haven't tested either one recently, but here is a dump of some past notes I took about improving the other one, as food for thought.

* put focus on submit button

* offer option during creation to auto-sumbit the form. trigger click event on the submit button.

* detect wrong form and alert user something like "This form does not seem to be the same form that was saved. Try anyway?"
yeah, i was thinking of the sport, not the ridiculous (but awesome in its own way) entertainment. :)
I'd submit the answer is actually a firm "no"... it just moved into dimensions you can no longer see. Open up a modern car. See that square latch of stuck-on foil with some padding under it that looks pointless? It kills a sound that you never noticed, because the engineers already killed it for you. Noticed how the modern car runs more smoothly down the road? A lot of that comes from endless days of supercomputer simulation that told them where to place the engine mounts. Those engine mounts look displeasingly asymmetric, you say? Turns out that's a feature, not a bug! Symmetry introduces noise modes.

Yes, there are absolutely ways that modern cars shave pennies in the design... my Dad (recently retired test engineer) and I often converse about how to spend $100 more at the factory to get a much nicer car, but in ways that don't or can't affect sales, so they don't happen. But at the same time, they are marvels of engineering that simply blow away what we had 50 years ago on almost every meaningful metric. (Maybe price... for better and for worse, the legally-mandated minimal safe car is pretty expensive nowadays... they'd love to offer you something cheaper but it can't pass safety tests.)
Some more examples from here: https://github.com/jdavidberger/js2glsl/blob/master/readme.m...

Saving creates an anonymous gist for the shadertoy, if you run into any issues please do report them with the url! It is all in early stages, so I'm sure bugs abound.
The problem with (1) is that a large amount of inheritance taxes are taxes on illiquid assets. So if you inherit a $10M business, the only way to pay your tax bill is to liquidate the business. Needless to say, it's bad for society if a business is shut down simply due to the death of a founder.

The way to resolve (1) is if the IRS allows you to pay taxes on in-kind receipts with in-kind payments. I.e., if you get a business that the IRS claims is worth $10M, and you owe $3M in taxes on it, you can pay your tax bill by handing the IRS $3M worth of shares.

(This would also fix a major problem that startup employees have, namely that if they quit their job, they need to exercise options and incur a huge tax bill. But they can't actually sell the shares to get money to pay the taxes. Not a problem if they can give the IRS some of their shares.)
"If I'm not mistaken, enjoying the process of creativity without any results is an obvious sign of mental illness."

Well fuck you too.