jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>I think that big part of Jewish...populations comes from ex-Soviet republics.

I'm not sure about this. Most ex-Soviet Jews went to Israel, I believe. I think the vast majority of Jews in America have west-European roots.
Thanks, that does improve jlouis case quite a bit.

(And makes me sound a bit uncharitable too. Merry Xmas!)
Despite much effort from some Debian maintainers, packaged Ruby remains hopelessly broken on those systems. Some of the breakage is deliberate because Debian's policies.
On Festivus Day too, the nerve!
Interruptions are to developers what kryptonite is to Superman—they kill productivity and there’s a significant recovery period.

I hate to break it to you but this is not a problem unique to developers. "Flow" is not exclusively the domain of developers and basically every workplace I have been in has had this problem in some fashion.

Here is a list off the top of my head of groups of people who hate being interrupted:

Writers, musicians, artists, academic researchers, potters, watch makers, statisticians, athletes, gardeners etc...

Developers aren't the only ones who should be free from interruptions while working. My feeling is that the majority of problems that developers think are unique to them are just classic bad management.
Thought I'd chime in and mention em-synchrony, EventMachine(Reactor Loop) + Fibers(coroutines).
I could see that being annoying. VsVim and Viemu both support a vimrc.
This is obviously as meaningless as it gets, since it's an average on really a random set of benchmarks. But it generally means we're getting faster (with number 7 not meaning anything in particular)
Infantile? Maybe.

Infantile == bad? No.
I'm sure Google would have been devastated to find out their joke answer wasn't properly animated in their recipient's inbox.
You know that you can tell it not to do that, right? drop=FALSE
Most people here will tell you without hesitation the Chinese government is doing the same thing, and worse. It's common knowledge that Chinese aren't number one when it comes to human rights.

It's an interesting comment though because it reminds us we tend to be more suspicious with other governments than ours. Most americans don't see NSA activities as an issue. After all, they're the "good guys".
That sufficiently intense sound waves can have fire extinguishing properties is unsurprising enough, but what I'm curious about is, how does it not blow out the eardrums of everyone in the neighborhood?
Can we use this to extinguish cigarettes too? :)
The basic logic is simple: the league makes vastly more revenue per viewer from people in the stadium (ticket sales, concessions, etc.) then from people watching remotely (TV, streaming, etc.), so it can afford to lose lots of TV, streaming, etc. viewers if doing so avoids losing a small number (or a small share of the revenues from) in-stadium audience.

> If a company (in this case the NFL) doesn't want me to be their customer then I simply won't be.

Sacrificing low-revenue customers to preserve revenue from high-revenue customers isn't exactly a novel business model.
Daniel Spiewak has written a fair number of Scala articles, and I've found them to be quite helpful:

http://www.codecommit.com/blog/category/scala/page/10
"It is just one out of literally dozens of available text messaging apps"

It baffles me people are still saying this.

You can only message people that are using the SAME messaging app as you. I can't just up and switch apps and expect my 30+ friends and relatives and housemates and coworkers to switch with me!
1 on 1 can be done. But group communication? They will leave you out and it will be your burden to get the info using another channels.
If you want to build a large scale, real-time simulation with many participants, you might want to check out some paradigms being used in the game development arena. Particularly concepts like Unity's DOTS/ECS approach.

Ultimately, the task is producing a good model of your domain and then organizing the data in such a way that you can quickly mutate a very large number of instances with each tick (if you are seeking real-time).

If you are not seeking real-time, you could probably do whatever the hell you want.
Even if they physically had the bill and ensured it was in circulation in the city, the chances that someone has it and is listening to that radio station is so small. The radio station had to know it was an unwinnable contest. Why anyone would think they could win the contest is beyond me!
Very wholesome. Makes me realize it'd be useful to make an intercom system for my home.
Rough Calculation:

11.7 billion one dollar bills are in circulation today

100,000 / 11,700,000,000

Every Day 1 in Million Chance of Winning

The guy was seemingly clever why not take the 5mins to find the odds or a few hours to ask the local math teacher...
Are you genuinely arguing that the show of force displayed here was greater or more disproportionate than that displayed last summer?
Yes, the TSA's policies cause somewhere on the order of 100 extra road deaths each year.
Touche. On the other hand he calls Common Lisp one of "the few acceptable dynamic languages."

http://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2010/07/c-40-industrial-respo...

In other words: CL sucks but all the other dynamic languages suck more. My semantics don't label that as "detraction" but yours may differ.
Interesting piece, I definitely think that there is a wussification of America, but I think that it is political wussiness. I see stories of entrepreneur after entrepreneur risking all to attempt to innovate, change the world, and succeed. I see people dropping out of school to create the next billion dollar companies.

What I don't see is a leader from either political party willing to possibly address the long term debt problems, job losses, or general solvency by making the hard choices to cut something somewhere! Instead, we have pathetic politicians pandering to one group or another afraid to make the hard choice and say "No" to something. I hope the Ed Randel can use his position to address that wussification, not just people who don't want to play football in the snow.
I actually know these Birds and Cadet handlers well, they stay in my home in Utah when Air Force plays Utah, Or BYU. It is cool to here the stories of how they are trained and the traditions.
and only a tiny, tiny bit of world events.

I don't think articles about world events are bad -- but the way they're done in most of the media is: country x is doing y to country z. Who cares? Standard international bickering is just that: standard. Relatively few articles go beyond surface phenomena to figure out what's really going on, and those are the ones of interest that, as you point out, will sometimes get voted up on HN.
They pretty much did. Not in so many words, but that was much of the point of their rebuttal.

They charged that Greenwald didn't do basic fact checking, got the facts wrong, didn't disclose his own conflicts of interest, didn't even understand basic journalistic ethics, etc..

Not to mention their snide, condescending attitude towards him throughout their whole rebuttal.
CBM BASIC V2 on a VIC-20. 1989, at age 9.
While we're here talking about physics: another big reason why buses are safe are because of their high mass. I was in one accident while on a school bus - another car hit the bus head-on while the bus was stopped. The kinetic energy of the 1 ton car travelling at say 30 mph - 1/2 * m * v^2 - was absorbed by the bus. I won't step through the math, but because of the high mass of the bus, the resulting velocity of the bus+car was quite low (it also helped that the change in velocity was mitigated by brakes/tires/friction, as the driver was ready for the impact).

In any case, as a passenger on the bus, the result of the impact was quite minimal - there were no injuries on the bus, and the bus actually drove off afterwards (with no passengers and a bit of sheet metal scraping the pavement).

Granted, it's a different story if the bus hits a tree or is hit by a tractor trailer doing 70 mph.

Another reason why buses are safe? The bus is operated by a trained professional, most of which have years of experience driving the bus for hours every day.
Findler was my Intro to CS prof. http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~robby/uc-courses/ Great teacher.
1 and 2 are counterexamples to something nobody really argues for, even in case of UBI. 3 is a more general problem, and a social safety net is one example solution here.

WRT 4, regulatory intervention ideas like minimum wage only work and derive all their power from being universally. Even if, as in your example, my product jumps from $10 to $50 (which would be something unprecedented), all my competitors (within the country) face the same issue too! Their prices will have to jump by roughly $40 as well. The overall demand for the product category may go down, but my position relative to competitors remains unchanged.

This may not work well for goods that can be easily offshored, like manufacturing plastic widgets. But (with the caveat that I'm not an economist, and didn't study this in too much detail) it seems perfectly matched for physical-space services sector - something, which by very definition can't offshore, and also resists automation pretty well.
A concise resume is very appreciated. I normally have a recruiter filtering resumes for me, but when hiring for a data scientist role I went through the list myself. There were almost 400 applicants. I could only spend max. 30 seconds per resume to keep the task manageable. A few candidates bolded key words in their experience section, which made it very easy to scan.
> Good recruiters are worth their weight in gold, and then some.

Can't agree more. That said, there are so diminishingly few good recruiters, that it seems like we all would have been much better, if there weren't any recruiters at all.
Just on a random VPS I have via a cronjob. Ideally I'd run it as a Lambda job and then I wouldn't have any infrastructure at all. I just didn't get round to it after prototyping.
Or go to the dark side and install Wordpress.

It’s actually not as bad as I thought it would be. I modified one of the twenty-x themes that come with it and installed a few plugins to make a decent personal site. It took less time that it would have to create anything with remotely similar functionality.

I run it off a single vps that has no other purpose. If it gets hacked, nothing of value is lost. I can revoke the api keys for the external services I use and restore to a new server from my backups.
Why is making a materialized view for reporting hard? Shouldn't components be aware of what they need to enable analytics?

I don't see how adding logic to a service at runtime is any different than fiddling with queries and optimizing them
It’s “no” on all of them except hobbies - I do have one (but it’s fairly recent).

Thanks for this. I guess the common thread in all of that is connecting with others. I’ve always been a loner. I don’t know anyone I like spending time with. I don’t know why is that.
Your argument makes sense when you view such transactions as a decision problem with a single actor and no temporal element.

But such transaction happens within a lifelong game with at least two players. Changing the rule of the game can influence their game tree and their behavior, far before they get into a situation where the change applies.

For the kidney trade, banning it might discourage potential organ-buyers from 'check-mating' people into selling their kidneys. It also might nudge parents to work harder since they have one less things to sell off.

I acutually have no opinion over banning organ trade. I'm just saying that it could make some sense.
Sorry to pick nits but the clojure example could be:

(reduce + some-numbers)
There was a blip of news last week or so when Obama said that somebody would be appointed to provide oversight over the NSA programs, and that thing would become more transparent. I don't think anything has happened since except a slow trickle of news that paint a picture that gets worse and worse.

The closest we got to any change was the vote in Congress lead by Amash, which failed. People are getting disappointed, more people are wanting "out" in various ways.
Diet is the most important aspect to healthy people.

The saying “you are what you eat” has much deeper meaning.

Just look at the obesity levels in US. The millions of people with heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Looks at pictures of people from 1930s depression era, when lots of people were broke and down on their luck. The people look better and healthier, even with eating the meager food they ate with depression era economy.

The food back then were truly organic and natural, real meats and fats. What we call food now are processed blocks of chemical concoctions with added sugar.
Even if this were true, it would be better if the archives were not available for some decades after the original posting. I’m OK with my content being analyzed by historians, but the definition of “historian” presumes some professional detachment that is not available short years after the post was made.
Unfortunately they are US-only, have small funding and deliver little publicly available results.

And sometimes they do nasty stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Engineering_Institute...
Is that really true though? Men are overrepresented by multiples among the Homelessness, prison sentences, assult victims, suicides, gun deaths. Often by factors of 2-3x

They're also deeply underrepresented in college, and the gap between men and women going to college is growing. Among young people, especially in cities, women actually out earn men.

Figuring out who's "better off" seems to be entirely dependent on what ruler you're using to measure "better", and which subgroup you're using to do the measurement.
> They worked with 11 patients, all of who had obesity and type 2 diabetes and take an oral drug that helps control glucose levels, called metformin.

This is such a tiny and specific sample compared to the unqualified claim they make in the title. Unfortunately, this level of rigor seems to be par for the course in the world of nutrition.
What prevents Google from creating its own version of this product one day and destroying yours in the process?
The book makes multiple claims in multiple directions, such that you can cite somewhat contradictory statements. I choose to criticize the least measured ones, You choose to ignore them.

> I'm sure the version Murray's message you have in your mind is highly racist. But that is a very different message than the one that exists in reality.

I haven't yet claimed he's racist. I've claimed he's wrong about measurement of cognitive ability.

That said, since you bring it up, I do think he's racist. The book itself isn't about race, per say, it's a Social Darwinist policy-paper aimed at reducing welfare on the argument that welfare for childcare encourages low-income (and, as the book suggests, presumably cognitively-lesser) women to have more children.

It also, plainly a succinctly states that immigration is bad, and that modern immigrants are "less able":

> The other demographic factor we discussed in Chapter 15 was immigration and the evidence that recent waves of immigrants are, on the average, less successful and probably less able, than earlier waves.

This is blamed on the low cognitive ability of modern immigrant populations compared to previous ones, and not structural and systemic factors that make it more difficult for immigrants to be high-achieving.

So I find it highly suspicious that the book lays out policy suggestions that will predominantly harm low income black women, and prevent immigration, and that he complains in particular about the harms of nonwhite immigration when he says "Latin and black immigrants are, at least in the short run, putting some downward pressure on the distribution of intelligence.", and then proceeds to suggest that we should reduce immigration from Africa and Latin America to address this.

Tell me how that isn't racist. I mean in a sense you're right: whether or not one believes that these policy proposals are based on a genetic or environmental understanding of cognitive heritability isn't really relevant. They're still pretty racist. And they get even more racist when you recognize that there are flaws in how Murray chooses to measure cognitive ability, flaws that systematically favor those with significant exposure to Euro-American culture.

Choosing to measure people's athleticism solely on their powerlifting ability, and then proposing to ban anyone who doesn't perform well enough is fairly prejudiced against long distance runners.
Quite shocked to see cloudflare mentioned here. Godaddy may have more sites pulled in the news, but cloudflare pulls sites too and worse.

Surely there are more abuse hardened registrars than these two.
Not exactly Python bindings but there is a package called Xlwings that provides a Python<->Excel interface.

Somewhat clunky and slow but it does work.
I had recently been evaluating JavaScript charting packages, and ended up moving forward developing with HighCharts, just a couple days ago. The demos for Echarts are impressive, so when I saw this today I spent a little time trying it out.

If you want to use the standalone single JavaScript file, their complete "all" build is 910k. That seems a little large, but their full package includes map data and lots of chart types you probably won't use.

They do have a tool for making a custom build, but I just got errors when using it. Google translate helped with their documentation, but even when I followed their exact steps it didn't work. This isn't a big deal though, as a Makefile can be thrown together quickly.

I have been working on a site that is heavy on charts, and I decided to switch my pie chart generators to Echarts as a test. I can't pinpoint all the reasons, but I felt like it was a little awkward to use, though it didn't take long to get through that. The documentation was helpful, but not great, and certain parts of it were not available in English.

There were some oddities that confused me at first, though in some ways they make sense. For example, the DOM element that contains the chart must have a CSS height defined, or you get an error. And, the legend seems to require you to provide a redundant array of all the labels that appear in the series. Nothing too bad.

I don't know if it is just my chart, but the default colors came out awful. I'm sure that can be changed, so it isn't too concerning. I noticed a few other rough edges, for example the save image control saves the exact view into the image file, with the controls included as well.

Mobile worked decently in my test, though charts with the legend enabled often resulted in bad overlaps between the legend and the chart.

I tried messing with maps a little, and that was my favorite part. It was very smooth and easy to get going with. I have been looking for a good JavaScript map package, and this seems to have some potential. (Anyone have recommendations on choropleth maps in JS?)

Overall, I'm a little scared to move forward with Echarts. Searching online makes it seem difficult to find answers to many problems in English. Also, difficulty in modifying code quickly when the comments are not in a language I understand is also worrisome. Still, I'd definitely keep my eye on this. Without too much trouble I was able to convert charts to generate with this instead of HighCharts. It is unquestionably the best JavaScript charting library I have seen with this type of license, and I'm sure it will get even better.

I feel like if I moved forward I'd be spending too much time figuring things out, and so despite really liking the idea of open source charts with no licensing fees, I'm going to play it safe an stick with HighCharts. I'd rather pay the fee for a quality product than spend time trying to get all the features I need working. At the same time, I imagine many others out there with different needs may find that Echarts is a very decent option.
They pretty much are as without sequencing you can only do the most trivial thing (a single IO action). Most interesting programmes are going to need at least two IO actions.
Most of what you need to build an autonomous air vehicle is already in your phone: https://code.google.com/p/andro-copter
What are you going to do, restrict brushless DC motors, LiPo batteries, carbon fiber tubing / ABS plastic, and small propellers (they still use wooden ones on some planes, which would also work on quads) ?
Well, if I remember correctly, all the Winkelvii Bitcoins were bought for under $70, I'd say the average price is around $35-40, so no, they're still trading at 300-400% above what they bought them for. Not bad for a 2 year investment.
I did something similar in Ruby but using GCC as a "JIT" compiler for image processing (software [1], thesis [2]). I can really recommend JIT compilation for doing array processing.

[1] http://www.wedesoft.de/hornetseye-api/
[2] http://www.wedesoft.de/downloads/thesis_wedekind.pdf

EDIT: In my approach I didn't go through the Ruby AST though. Rather I used the approach of injecting "GCCVariables" which emit C code instead of doing the actual computation.
There's one thing that should be mentioned here: you can easily compose these things. You can do:

echo = forever $ getLine >>= putStrLn

This also works with do notation, if you'd want to make the greet example looping.

greetLoop = forever $ do
name <- getLine
putStrLn ("Hello, " ++ name)

This is a very powerful concept. In mainstream imperative programming languages, you can't assign "statements" to variables or return them from functions or pass them as parameters.
How would they enforce this without tracking everything larger than a small bird via radar or satellite?
Are you implying that this should happen overnight? over the course of 2-5 years? over the course of 20-50 years?

Because I bought a pair of Sennheiser headphones from a local audio equipment selling website and this in bumfuck South Africa we're talking about. I doubt the merchant is even aware they accept Bitcoin as "legal tender" since it happened through PayFast and was completely transparent to them. The point is _I_ could use it as legal tender. So from my point of view it has incredibly amount of value.
Genuinely one of the most interesting things I've read in a long time.
I feel that if the absence of a kill switch is a deciding factor for you when choosing a smartphone then you shouldn't be using a smartphone in the first place.

Also, interestingly enough Blackberry isn't a part of the Group which aligns pretty well with their image.

http://www.cio.com/article/2370034/smartphones/blackberry-no...
If you intentionally file a false claim, you can be liable for damages under the Act. But that's not the same as perjury. See 17 U.S.C. 512(f).
I think detecting Ctrl+Tab or Alt+Tab is a good enough ballpark way of detecting if users are viewing a video ad.
So crackers use JavaScript to extract data from smartphones ?
Floppies are plastic and vinyl. Flash drives require an entire foundry worth of heavy metals and exotic compounds. I doubt it is the clear win you think.
TBH, early adopters have no problem giving their email for these kind of stuff. Even weirder is your conclusion that if you give someone your email he can spam your contacts, which he obviously can't.
Do you find it useful / helpful for the engineering org to do this in a rigorous fashion? Seems like it could be misused very easily. Just curious.