skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have installed Breeze which seems to be very similar. But I rarely end up using it. Its top-bar menu is too slow to use, and I can never remember the hotkeys for positioning.

The interesting part of this solution is realising that for terminals, using the mouse nor long complicated keyboard shortcuts are needed. Terminals have text input, you can type where the window is supposed to go. There commands can be memorable, and there is no risk of collision with other global hotkeys.
Econometrics sparked my interest in statistics in general. The field has really spent a lot of time working on problems of "serial correlation," (basically dependencies in time-based measures). One of my former committee members wrote a great introductory text to econometrics, I highly recommend it: http://principlesofeconometrics.com/
Different limitations (source vs compiled file size).
That's the way he decided to do it, your opinion of it doesn't matter.
be there for 1 day in Friday. I'd say it is worse than I thought and it is on the way to death.
Specters of a Civilization
"I couldn’t do laserdiscs because no sane person has a laserdisc player these days."

I guess I'm insane because I still own a laserdisc player and three laserdiscs: Episodes IV, V, and VI.
Reaching the Mach layer
Most anthropic arguments are also based on an equivocation. William Lane Craig has some good work on this, using an analogy (which he admits he borrowed): suppose you are tied up and brought before a firing squad consisting of 100 expert marksmen. They all load, aim at point-blank range and fire... and then you open your eyes and see they all missed and you're still alive and unhurt.

(1) Anthropically, you should not be "surprised" to observe a world in which 100 expert marksmen all missed from point-blank range, because the very fact of your being able to observe anything at that point makes that world necessary.

(2) But you nonetheless should be "surprised" that such a low-probability event has occurred, and you would be justified in wondering whether some as-yet-unaccounted-for factor meant that the true probability was not what you would have estimated it to be.

Anthropic arguments, in this view, slyly try to switch between different meanings of "surprised" (or a variant, depending on the level of formality and the particular terminology chosen) to make it look as if (1) actually answers (2) when it doesn't.
This is excellent. Interview going over more here:
https://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/lee-smolin-an...

"As Roberto Mangabeira Unger and I argue in our new book The Singular Universe, the most important discovery cosmologists have made is that the universe has a history. We argue this has to be extended to the laws themselves. Biology became science when the question switched from listing the species to the dynamical question of how species evolve. Fundamental physics and cosmology have to transform themselves from a search for timeless laws and symmetries to the investigation of hypotheses about how laws evolve."

and

"Neurosciences are a fabulous area to work in, ripe for great discoveries. I’ve always felt this and indeed the only alternative to a career in physics that ever attracted me was a brief flirtation in college with neuroscience. But that is a field which is as bedeviled by outdated metaphysical baggage as physics is. In particular, the antiquated idea that any physical system that responds to and processes information is isomorphic to a digital programmable computer is holding back progress."
This whole meme is tired. The whole south, southwest and west 3/4 of the city are family friendly, less expensive and devoid of dot commers. And for the most part, very livable.
other results: http://archive.assembly.org/2015
Show HN: GoTTY, Share your Terminal as a Web App
When you try to transfer, your boss puts in a report to HR about how you're such a bad employee (clearly the bosses are incentivized to do this, to keep employees from internally transferring.)

Once that happens you're on the clock- you're going to get fired, and they are just building a case against you.

Your boss and HR will become increasingly hostile (while HR pretends to be there to "help" and "mediate" but actually is working against you filling your file with bullshit that comes from your boss)

HR will start actively gas lighting you. The negative reports that are suddenly appearing in your file (eg: a previous boss who gave you a good review suddenly has criticized you in the file that only HR can see... why would he lie to you?)

They want you to think you're at fault for anting to work for a non-abusive boss.

Eventually they fire you and give you a meager severance check which is attached to a contract you sign where you promise to never sue them.

I think it's only a matter of time.

But it is a hostile work environment, my rights were violated regularly, and as far as I'm concerned, the company should be shut down.

No engineer with self esteem should work there. But people seem to think that it's glamerous because of the name and they don't know that it is better elsewhere.

I think their hiring process is tuned to find people who will fall for their mantras.

The culture is VERY cult like. Much more than Microsoft or Apple in this regard.
See also Martin Gardner's defenses of mathematical realism for counterpoint.
See glycemic/insulin indexes.
It's true; the more-affordable housing corresponds with the empty areas of this map:
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/105/2/4/San_Francisco...

I think techies just have a stronger desire to live near transit than the previous generation of San Franciscans did.
And I think the grandparent was saying that any such discussion is incomplete without referencing the value provided by the sharing community.
You really should look at the PE and grwoth of Amazon vs BH.

Amazon is a shell game, it is not really growing. It's a boring retailer... yet it is using PR to pump up its stock.

No way to know how long it can do this, except to know it can't do it forever.

Meanwhile Berkshire is a well managed company that actually turns an operating profit.
Keyboard layout is independent of the locale used, and so are the directionality of the text which is a property of the characters themselves.
All teams do it, it's part of the stack ranking, my-team-vs-other-teams culture.
PHENOMENAL ALGO FOR FOREX MAKES 60% IN 3 WEEKS
"the contents of mathematics is far from arbitrary -- while an infinite number of mathematical objects might potentially be envoked [sic], the few that prove interesting develop a very small number of core concepts. These core concepts are not arbitrary -- they are elaborations of structures which are discovered during the study of nature. There are four of these core concepts: number, geometry, algebra and logic."

The fact that Smolin thinks these are distinct things shows just how out of touch he is, and is ironic given his hatred of mathematics.
kevin_pet's coin would still be biased if it were caught. The article contends that you can bias the bouncing part of a coin flip, but not the falling part - GP proposes a coin with a biased falling motion.
I may be in the minority, but despite some groan worthy aditions (jaba the hut in mos-isley, stupid busy backgrouds), I thought the special additions looked and sounded better.

The minor changes to the story didn't upset me. Han is totally getting his gun ready, but looks lamer because he survives on luck (missed shot).

There are photos from a couple scenes described in my StarWars Story book (from the 70s) that just aren't in the movie, so maybe the whole thing was a little shaky to me anyway.
Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times
Login.farm, a centralized, OTP powered, Cloud System for login managemen
It's quite a feet indeed, especially on large surfaces areas. The Hassan II mosque is absolutely gorgeous and a testament to a long tradition of this artisan craft.

I've seen it make its way into Europe here and there as some other Moroccan styles have over the years, but virtually 100% of it is either made in a factory or worse, mere wallpaper.
No blog/cms. No Drupal.

Actually Drupal feels ancient and archaic at this point. I wouldn't recommend it for anything.

If it was strictly a blog I would use Wordpress.

Plus using a framework like Drupal or even Wordpress you're opening yourself up to lots of security issues.

For any type of web application beyond a blog that is PHP based I would recommend going with Laravel.

Not only is it a great framework there are lots of tools to make it easy to use.

Develop locally on Homestead (Vagrant)
http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/homestead

Deploy easily to Digital Ocean or AWS ($10/mo but will save your hours and hours of time)
https://forge.laravel.com/

Critical App?Deploy with no downtime
https://envoyer.io/

Laravel Spark (SaaS out of the box, Coming Soon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOU_N8PNOD8

Laracasts
http://laracasts.com
Great place to learn Laravel.

At least checkout Laravel before committing to doing this project in Drupal.

I would charge 3x if he insists on Drupal. = 0

Good luck with your project.

(btw, I'm just a fan of Laravel.)
That's interesting - it sounds much bigger than this mention in an anthropology textbook from 2014, I wonder if it has grown so much or one of the counts was far off? https://books.google.fr/books?id=mcaiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA270&lpg=P...
> My first thought was why would a professional, statically typed language have var.

It might be because C++ has auto. Kind of related Java has Object.

I haven't figured out if people want languages like C++ to be a loose typed language and just be able to type cast anything to a single type. Boost does introduce the variant type - but it's usage seems very unintuitive. I kind of get what they were trying to do - but overall Boost libraries seem overly complex for what they are trying to solve.

I wrote my own variant type based on Ptype's variant [1] [2]. To me a variant shouldn't just be a container for any object - it should have some basic intelligence for built in types (like what to do when adding a string and an int - the result should be a string. Conversely - when adding an int and a string the result should be an int.).

[1] https://srchub.org/p/cppvariant/source/tree/tip/variant.h

[2] https://srchub.org/p/ptypes/source/tree/tip/src/pvariant.cxx
Could the actual physical infrastructure be decentralised? At least in Citys?
From the title alone, I knew it was going to be Gelman. I guess I have strong priors.
Proximity to transit options raises prices, which when you need "at least two" bedrooms is a sizable increase. Like pbreit said above, there are much less expensive parts of the city, but people mostly decide to leave once they feel they "must" have a 3 bedroom place or a private yard.
The whole south, southwest, and west 3/4 of the city are zoned to only allow low density residential, have poor access to transit, spend huge amounts of space on roads and parking, and basically require car ownership.

If there were better mixed use zoning (think 3–6 story buildings and looser parking requirements) in those areas and others throughout the Bay Area, and better transit, the whole region could fit many more people and reduce the stress on overall housing supply. Plenty of folks who live in low density residential areas don’t necessarily want to drive everywhere or live a suburban lifestyle, but are stuck there by housing prices in more urban areas. There could even still be a large number of single-family houses once you get 3–4 blocks away from transit stops, and they would be cheaper than they are now, because there would be less demand on them.

The whole city (and the whole Bay Area) has absurdly priced housing, and even in the southern/western areas of the city ($1500+/month per bedroom), rents suck up a huge proportion of people’s income and middle-class folks are priced out. Young people who aren’t in the tech industry can only afford to live in the city if they cram several roommates into a tiny single-family house or flat and spend 50% of their income on rent, and many service workers in SF are commuting in from far outside the city. The middle-income people I know in SF are mostly still there through rent control, wouldn’t be able to afford it if they were just moving in, and are stuck in their current house/apartment unless they want to completely leave the city.

As someone who grew up in a suburb, my personal opinion is that suburbs may be friendly for “families” but they suck for people aged 9–25, 65+, anyone single, or anyone who can’t get around by car or doesn’t enjoy driving everywhere. Luckily the low density parts of San Francisco are still pretty navigable by bicycle, and have reasonable access to downtown, so they’re not as bad as many other suburbs.
Facebook Cancelled Student’s Internship After He Exposed a Massive Privacy Leak
The Moroccan government is actively investing in preserving and promoting Moroccan crafts all over the world[1]. They helped design Walt Disney World Resort's Morocco Pavillon in Florida.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6cTlwBTrk

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco_(Epcot)
Totally normal behavior if you ask me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9899237
I wonder if the bad performance is due to the <1kb requirement.
Indeed, astonishing how that fit all into just 1kB (plus a copy of Microsoft Windows).
"less expensive" http://imgur.com/I9KYO4Z

If you can afford any of these homes, you're in the far right of the income distribution. And this is the 'less expensive' neighborhood that has lousy transit.
The special edition VHS tapes from the 90's are unedited from the original. It's surprising he didn't have them if he was such a big fan of the re-release since they came out close to that time.
Interesting, I have been using mjolnir for some time for basic bindings (window resizing, jump to named windows). What does hammerspoon offer over it?
I put in the effort to disagree with you politely and provide a detailed
explanation with references. Though it seems you've written off my
response as trolling, I hope you remember and reconsider it. You'll be
better off in the long run if you do.
Django Tutorial: Create a note taking app
>Again in the gospels, we read Jesus ruling it is lawful to do good on the sabbath - if he was aiming at abolishing sabbath, why talk about what's lawful to do during sabbath?

He was claiming to be God

>Then, in the epistles, the author of Hebrews writes, "There remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God."

The point of the book is to say that all the things of the old covenant (the priests, the sabbath, the commandments) are inferior to the new things. In the new, the 'sabbath' is Christ himself. We are to labour to enter into this rest.

That being said, I honour the original (pre-Sinai) shabbat by getting out and enjoying nature, thus honouring His creative acts. It's exhausting, not restful at all. I'm thankful that I live in a culture where I can dedicate the Sunday entirely to worshipping the risen Christ and rest, but as a believer I'd have liberty to do it on any other day if Sunday was not workable.
It's a 9-5 job if you check out or are on the way out. Many people are on the way out and don't even realize it.
Almost certainly.
It would be tempting just to pre-render this to an HD video otherwise.
My understanding is that Hammerspoon does not require one to use luarocks for all of the extensions. Basically, more batteries included...
Driving in the Bay Area is much, much worse than it was in 1998 when I moved here (and it was already pretty bad compared to the 80s, I imagine). I just spent seven months looking for a house within half a mile of a BART station because minimizing the need to drive is extremely important to me.
> The whole south, southwest, and west 3/4 of the city are zoned to only allow low density residential

Correct, pretty much. Everything yellow in this map is zoned 40-X, a.k.a. buildings taller than 4 stories are not welcome: http://i.imgur.com/Tn7CSTX.jpg

(You can make maps like this at http://propertymap.sfplanning.org/)
You think VLC pulls the VP8/9 version instead of the h264 version? I seriously doubt it. Why would it? It would make no sense. Most devices have h264 hardware decoders. Most don't have VP8/9 decoders (though they exist).

I also have no doubts that an Athlon64 could decode 720p h264 completely in software. You'd be pegging that single core pretty high, but it could do it.
Wait, so the authors' method is only a tiny fraction faster than the parallel version of the more general Rao-Sandelius method, and uses more random bits? But they claim it's "very fast" and "extremely fast"? Am I missing something?
True. Also, many parts of North Bay are fairly affordable, but commuting time may be as much as ~1h with no public transportation.
The parent comment was probably asking about some specific advantages.
I am sure there was no malice aforethought in his words. I also am well aware he is a real mathematician and serious educator. He spoke in his own defense very aptly.

I am aware most people here will understand his side far better than mine and will generally be more sympathetic to him than to me. Let me suggest he understood my side far better than you did (and another who came to his defense, then deleted the remark) and his reply was far more respectful, diplomatic and appreciated.

I'm sure you meant well and I appreciate the good intentions behind your words.
He refers to it at the end of that video clip as tossing. looking closely that's pretty much what he is doing. it looks like he might be flipping it once during the toss for effect. Such a slow rotation allows him to easily catch it at the right moment.
Great attitude: "I Am A Winter Cyclist" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiBuh74wHHk
Beyond risky: "I Want To See The World (The North)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0wAPztOO2U
I remember going there in High School, and the Morocco part of Epcot was the only part I even remotely enjoyed. I wonder if the government's attention to detail played a part in that.
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If only people's income had a direct correlation with how much value they produce[1] and how hard they work. Sadly its mostly about power and scarcity. Why should the secretary make so much less than their boss? Why should a person who assembles cars make less than the CEO? Scarcity (lots of people could be a secretary) and power (The CEO has ascended ranks and built up power within a cohort) .

Re: Lotteries.
Many lottery winners are bankrupt in a short time because they become a feeding ground for wolves too. Its not just the winner, but their friends, family, charities and the other sales targets they become. Thinking you have unlimited money and having a specific income ($1000 a month) are two very different things. Yes they may "Run through" the $1000. But there will be another $1000 next month.

When the money is dilute and universal there will be no reason to "feed" on any individual. so really you're comparing apples and oranges.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/16/the-highes...
I use SizeUp as well. One really nice feature is that there are keyboard shortcuts to move windows from one monitor to another. I tried some other OSX window managers but they were buggy, SizeUp ended up working the best.
I think it's more that they must have proximity to transit, and the ones who can't afford that figure that if they're going to be forced to live a car-centric lifestyle, they might as well move out to the suburbs where the prices are somewhat cheaper than SF's transit-poor neighborhoods.
Axiom is a relational algebra library it doesn't abstract an rdbms at all. The way datamapper 2 worked from my understanding was virtus was a property like api e.g. a back end agnostic schema that describes the data, axiom takes the relations (if any) from virtus then hands off the relations to a back end such as SQL, mongo, graphql query generator and optimizer. Datamapper 2 from looking is a much better structure.
Human-Machine Interface Keeps Robot Balanced with Human Reflexes
San Francisco has 50% more land area than Manhattan, 15% more area than Paris.

It has half the population of Manhattan, and roughly 1/3 of Paris. SF is mostly low-density houses, with a small mid-density area in the east 1/3. It could be easily converted to a mid-density city with widespread public transportation by opening west of Van Ness for development, while charging development fees to fund expansion of public transportation.

But there are way too many entrenched interests preventing that. Guess that the only way out is to wait for the next big one.
Try this: Is Financial Success a Product of Inherited Genes? [0]

[0] http://ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/is-financial-succ...
Oh wow, blast from the past. I remember rating hundreds of movies on this back when collaborative filtering was fresh and new...
> This whole meme is tired

But finding out that it goes as far back as a 1981 NYT article is interesting in the plus ça change department.
Here is the UNPACKED source.

function u() {
requestAnimationFrame(u);

for (g = p ? B.currentTime * 60 : (B = 'RIFFdataWAVEfmt ' + atob('EAAAAAEAAQAAeAAAAHgAAAEACAA') + 'data', b.style.background = 'radial-gradient(circle,#345,#000)', b.style.position = 'fixed', b.style.height = b.style.width = '100%', b.height = 720, h = b.style.left = b.style.top = A = f = C = 0, 6177); g > f; h *= f % 1 ? 1 : .995)
for (s = Math.pow(Math.min(f / 5457, 1), 87) + Math.pow(1 - Math.min(f / 5457, 1), 8), f == [b.width = 1280, 1599, 2175, 2469, 2777, 3183, 3369, 3995, 4199, 4470, 4777, 5120][C] && (C++, h = 640), f += p ? (c.translate(640, 360 + h / 45 * Math.random()), c.rotate(A / 5457 - h / 5457), c.scale(1 + s * 8, 1 + s * 8), 1) : (B += T((1 + s * 8) * Math.random() + (1 - s) * (h / 45 * (f * (2 + C / 3 % 1) & 1) + (C > 3) * 8 * (f * (2 + (f / 8 & 3)) % 1)) | 1), 1 / 512), i = p.length; i;) y = p[i -= 7], x = p[i ^= 1], r = p[i + 4], l = p[i + 6], s = 2 * Math.random() + 1, t = s * 4, a = 122, 640 > r ? (640 > Math.abs(p[i ^= 1] += p[i + 2]) || (p[i + 2] *= -1), 640 > Math.abs(p[i ^= 1] += p[i + 2]) || (p[i + 2] *= -1), t = Math.random() > p[i + 7] || p[i + 7] == '22312131212313' [C] & h == 640, w = x - A, p[i + 2] || r * r / 3 > w * w && (t = s * (r - Math.abs(w)) / 45 + 2, a = 2 * Math.random() + 5, p.push(A, 0, s * Math.sin(a += 599), s * Math.sin(a - 11), s * t, C + s, 640, .995), s = 2 * Math.random() + 1, a = 2 * Math.random() + 5, p.push(A, 0, s * Math.sin(a += 599), s * Math.sin(a - 11), s * t, C + s, 640, .995), s = 2 * Math.random() + 1, a = 2 * Math.random() + 2, p.push(A, 0, s * Math.sin(a += 599), s * Math.sin(a - 11), s * t, C + s, 640, .995)), a = p[i + 2] * y / 45, l = p[i + 6] = t ? 640 : .9 * l, t = r) : A = p[i] ++, g > f || (s = r, c.beginPath(), c.lineTo(x + s * Math.sin(a += 599), y - s * Math.sin(a - 11)), s = t, c.lineTo(x + s * Math.sin(a += 599), y - s * Math.sin(a - 11)), c.lineTo(x + s * Math.sin(a += 599), y - s * Math.sin(a - 11)), c.shadowBlur = r, s = l, x = s * 2, a = p[i + 5], c.shadowColor = c.fillStyle = 'rgb(' + [x + s * Math.sin(a += 599) | 1, x + s * Math.sin(a += 599) | 1, x + s * Math.sin(a += 599) | 1] + ')', c.fill());
p ? c.fillText('BLCK4777', 90, 99) : (B = new Audio('data:Audio/WAV;base64,' + btoa(B))).play(p = [f = C = 0, 0, 0, 0, 180, 2, 0, 1, -360, 0, 0, 0, 99, 1, 0, 2, 360, 0, 0, 0, 99, 1, 0, 3, -2880, 0, 0, 0, 1280, 0, 1280, 0])

};
Which of course does not really compare to the C=64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAsiHY1VCs

Arbitrary limitations, art, it is all very subjective in the end.
Bedtime phenomenon: scientist develops book to send children to sleep in minutes
Impressive team effort. Near, perfect. I hope they can find new sources. Some times I wish I could digitize the '90 FOX box set Vader brought home. If the tapes are still in working order.
Is Financial Success a Product of Inherited Genes?
Is Old Man Minsky the only one who still thinks that machines should do AI instead of machine learning? He certainly seemed to believe that in 2007. Who is still on his side?

http://snarkmarket.com/blog/snarkives/societyculture/old_man...