skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called a spectral method and is widely used in numerical codes.

I highly recommend Spectral Methods in MATLAB by Trefethen (who someone mentions above) for a very good tutorial. You can freely ignore the MATLAB part and use whatever programming language you want, as long as you have an FFT routine.
>I just feel like this is the one
thread where there are much bigger
things at stake.

I have no objections to your cause but your current headline is, whether on purpose or not, clickbait. I clicked it because I thought it described an usual event that already happened. I would guess most did for the same reason.

You can't justify clickbait headlines with them having noble causes behind them. It's how you end up with Upworthy.
I was talking to someone just out of college the other day and she was adamant that reverse racism doesn't exist. To her it isn't racism unless it happens to a group lower in a power ordering. The exact position of groups in that ordering wasn't clear but it was clear that Asians were higher than other groups.

Identity politics is a very dehumanizing philosophy. It tells us that we must be seen through a label we can't change: our race, gender, or orientation.
Perhaps both things will remain: providers of fixed resources to be consumed (the space that the article points to, where I can find more content than I can consume in my lifespan), and services that provide curation (as facebook), that have a more tangible need for that bidirectionality.

At the beginning of the web, the emphasis was more in the share-all-resources side of the equation; whereas now, "you need to have a platform, content is provided by users" is the norm.

This does not need to stay like that, and as authors and users in general wise up about how content is created, who owns it, and where the value is, perhaps, there will be a comeback. We are seeing an increase in walled newspapers, for example(1). There are initiatives to support creators, as kickstarter or patreon. Social networks "gentrify", and younger generations show that having a large user base has a lot of inertia on cohorts, but perhaps not so much across generations. Why shouldn't Facebook pay the promqueen that drives hundreds of new users into a platform?

So perhaps that's a trend that will reverse itself.

(1) Not a very good example because traditionally papers are both curators and creators, but still. Also, all creators decide what to create and what not, to a point.
I abandoned Mendeley back when I realised I could not use it whilst keeping my reference collection synced via Dropbox.

That led me to try Zotero, and I have not looked back. Though I wish the Zotero devs would just hurry up and give us an editable bibtex citation key field!
Tragic, really, that US foreign policy is so willing to snuff out such visionary leaders.
So I got this email, so I'm probably eligible. But, I was wondering, do you think being part of this settlement may affect my professional career? Like, making companies avoid me since I may be a lawsuit-hunter?
Wait? Are you saying that affirmative actions are discriminating high performers in favor of lower achievers? Holy shit, I didn't see that one coming.

"The higher socioeconomic status of Asian parents provided part of the explanation, but only a small part. Their data suggested that Asian outperformance is thanks in large part to hard work."

So Asians' higher socioeconomic status only play a small part in their success, but Whites' socioeconomic status is the only explanation for Whites outperforming other races in academia (thus justifying Whites being the target of discrimination via affirmative actions). Boy, don't I love it when liberals try to make up some double-think to reconcile their crooked ideology.
>It may not be the most harmful drug, but it's certainly not harmless

I'm no advocate of the claims that marijuana is "harmless" or, as some even claim, "good for you". But harm is relative. Sitting in your chair all day is harmful. Eating half the food we do is harmful, as are most medications.

Arguing that marijuana is "not harmless" isn't much of an argument at all.
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I'll be very happy when everyone can just stop worrying about what race everyone else is. I understand the issue, but at what point does it sound ridiculous to even use the term minority when there are 1B+ Chinese and not much less Indian descendants around the world? In the tech world it is certainly ridiculous. Trying to micro-categorize who is a minority in what context has to qualify as some sort of vanity.
Xerox didn't do it all by themselves. Listen to one of Alan's talks and he'll tell you about they stood on the shoulders of guys like Doug Engelbart and Ivan Sutherland. Xerox didn't invent the research atmosphere to facilitate giant leap innovations, they brought in people from DARPA/SRI who were already doing it.

Don't get me wrong, Xerox deserves a lot of credit for making some huge contributions to that sphere, but we know they didn't do it all by themselves.
It lost all credibility at "thusly".. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thusly
No-one uses ALT-TAB? Really?
Thanks for the detailed reply! I mentioned the PopSci article to an acquaintance of mine who is a New Testament scholar and he brought up Busa, although could not recall the name offhand. I took a closer look at your Punched Cards reference and it was quickly clear Busa was the person he had in mind.

I'm somewhat surprised this sort of interesting early work on coding and natural language processing using mechanical and electronic devices with very limited online storage (not to mention speed) is so seemingly obscure.
Nobody talks about dosage when they talk about cannabis, why is that?

For example, downing a bottle of Jack vs. having a couple of beers. Unless a severe alcoholic, no person will be good for anything after the former (health risks not even included), whereas you are not really impaired after the latter.

Dosage matters, and that's true for cannabis as well. Most people won't be very productive/active after hitting the bong or whatever, lightly vaporizing some sativa strain, different story.
Actually, plausible threats that are carried through are usually quite effective. What kind of similar experience are you suggesting everyone else has to compare to this?
When I read the headline, I couldn't for the life of me remember what Ctrl+F does — because I use it without thinking! Since remembering the hand movement, I've almost forgotten the description.
My opinion is that when you're using something like AirBnB, you can't expect hotel level service when things go wrong... instead of making last minute decisions, research the place a bit - look through the comments, start up a thread of conversation with the host to make sure they can communicate in your language...
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The BBC did a real-world driving test and directly examined the exhaust for NOx emmisions and they were exponentially worse than the lab results.

If the exhaust was going into your car, you'd be fatally poisoined in short order.

So thanks for the cancer you've given to all the pedestrians and cyclists VW (and all the other lying corporate a-holes).
You have it backwards - just because others see us through a particular, limiting lens, doesn't mean that we are defined in that way. Understanding that these stereotypes exist is in no way dehumanizing.
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My fingertip takes care of A. As for B, I do use pressure variance when writing and sketching diagrams, but I'm certainly not very good at it. It's useful for me, but not essential.

All I was really pointing out that pressure sensitivity isn't an unusual concept. I'd be quite surprised if people didn't use it in a variety of situations each day.
This is just gold:

view-source:http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html

:-)
"Since the Ivies will not stop giving places to the privileged, because their finances depend on the generosity of the rich, the argument homes in on affirmative action"

I was surprised by the paragraph before this, when it claimed affirmative action was holding back Asians, when immediately after it listed a whole bunch of less deserving groups that were taking up spaces. At least this line acknowledges it, though I'm not sure fatalistic acceptance of the status quo is much better than ignorance, both seem driven by cognitive dissonance more than logic.
Once again with mysql you can:

MYSQL_PWD=password mysql -uuser db
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PGP is not supposed to be TOFU, friction to adding/trusting keys is part of the point of PGP -- verification of trust.

If clicking a prominently placed button to lookup a key is not intuitive, then how do these users manage the just as unintuitive process of finding, verifying, and installing an application on their device?

Keys are searchable over HTTP/HTTPS, and the HTTP derived (insecure) hkp and TLS-secured hkps protocols. The whole point of PGP is that you don't trust the source of the key without verification, so the protocol over which you receive the key doesn't matter.

There exist a plethora of implementations that hide the trust-building exercise from users, and they're all for instant messaging. You can shoe horn that into email, but why? PGP is based on the web-of-trust principle of verification; if you just want the attestation that UserX probably owns KeyX, use a service that's tied to your phone number or email that doesn't use PGP -- i.e. textsure, telegram, whatsapp, etc.
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Thanks for pointing to the right direction in case I want scratch that itch more. I am not surprised though that this has been done, expected the same. From a quick look, no one seems to suggest reflecting the original analytic function to get a periodic function, I guess some caveats lurk there.

Does other integral transforms work better than Fourier ?
I find it hard to appreciate these inventive types of API design. Something more traditional and boring, like Celery's crontab[1] or dateutils rrule[2] seem quite sufficient. For example:

crontab(hour=18, minute=30, day_of_week='*')

[1]: http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-t...

[2]: https://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-470fa22b2db72000d7abe...
For awhile.

Xerox didn't realize the potential of what they had--it took time to realize their vision, by which time it was too late for Xerox. They failed to capitalize on their entire portfolio.
There is a time interval larger than 0.000000000 seconds between the start of a mysql process and the process overwriting its argv :)
What makes you think we don't?

Most innovation is coming directly from the OS community: hardware, software, systems, etc.
Some employers have deals with banks to vouch for you when you don't have a score. I got a US credit card when I moved here and bootstrapped my credit profile from that.
Psychologists and pharmaceutical companies don't have any sort of inside knowledge of how statistics work.

> Before you comment I would urge you to go find some reporting by the NYTimes of something you know a lot about - your favoured programming language or a company you work for, and see how well their reporting matches your understanding of the topic.

This is an argument against all reporting by the NYT, based on a hypothetical shared feeling. This may be an obvious thing to say, but the reporting of many newspapers (including the NYT) about things that I know more than most about has often been right, and sometimes been wrong. They have sometimes been right in a frustrating way (I felt like they missed a deeper point), or wrong in an incompetent way. I'm saying this not because it is interesting, but because it is boring. Making an argument that since everyone who has some expertise has at some time felt like a story was wrong, therefore this story is wrong - is noise, not signal. The NYT is not making the case, it's showcasing the arguments of experts who share a particular opinion.

I'm struggling to figure out how your list speaks to their arguments in any way. 1) and 3) seem like question begging, to a non-psychologist, and I don't know what 2) is an argument for, against, or about. What does effect size matter if the effect over placebo may not even exist?

This is more like reading an article about some issue in real estate when you, and/or many of your friends and family partially make their living from that issue.
I'm not sure why, given two equally flexible designs, we should choose the least expressive. The fact that cron is sufficient doesn't mean I don't still have to google how to run things every three hours every second Monday, for example.
Yeah. The ultimate goal of such redefinitions is to imply that some groups' problems are inherently more important, more worth addressing. But that's not true. All suffering is suffering.
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OP's position depends entirely on being regarded as trustworthy. And in the first 11 words, OP lied to us in a pre-meditated fashion.

The clickbait headline is inappropriate and makes me (and I presume many others) much less interested in spending any time on this issue after being duped.

"One weird trick to get someone out of a life sentence..."

"5 things wrong with this case; you won't believe #4!"

This one is no better. Flagged.
From my experience in Finland kids very rarely have been taught to read before school, and typically just a few kids on a first grade can read. Of course, having phonetic language helps, as once you know all the letters you can correctly write almost any word hear.

The views of the value of studies also differ quite a lot, but luckily it's way more common for uneducated parents to value a better education for their kids than the way around. It of course helps that all studies are free and students in universities are actually paid to attend (though less than they would get for being unemployed).

What average uni students want to study actually does not affect the quality of teachers as much as you suggest. In 2014* a total of 1649 applicants took the entrance exam for becoming a class teacher in Helsinki University, and 146 were selected among them. I don't believe many of the 146 best applications would rather study engineering or biology.

http://www.studentum.fi/Kasvatustieteellisen_paeaesykoe__d62...
Another interesting HDF wrapper in Rust: https://github.com/aldanor/hdf5-rs
I was wandering the same thing. It takes only few lines to set this one up: https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#FileServer
Netflix approach this with their "chaos engineering" -- characterise fault behaviour by triggering known faults.
Comes across as pedantic and somewhat bitter, possibly after having read Neil deGrasse Tyson's comments on philosophy.
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As much as I despise "flatness", it could actually now serve as a good way to distinguish regular-touch-only from force-touchable. Basically, they could introduce a 3D-ish button style that means "this can be push-previewed", that is not shared by buttons that only press normally.
Whether viruses are classified as life or not doesn't matter and wouldn't change anything. The important and interesting thing is that viruses probably evolved from cells.
>* Wouldn't it make more sense if my bank automatically diversified my currency holdings to insulate me from international fluctuations?*

Sure. You can do this. But why would you rely on or expect your bank to do so, unless you wanted to pay for the service?

>that's a mix of the top 10 most traded in some suitable ratio.

The problem is there is no "suitable ratio". You're always speculating on the future value of currencies in the basket. Sure, the diversification will likely dampen the fluctuations, but you're equally likely to miss out on upside as downside.

But again, countries are free to do this right now if they want to. In discussions like this, there's always some implication that the US is asserting some authority to force countries to use the dollar, and if they could somehow just get off it, everything would be grand. In reality, it's a conscious economic decision to use or peg to the US dollar. Sometimes it's great, other times (like now, with the EMs hurting and the US economy relatively strong) it isn't.
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Yeesh. Lay off the Nietzsche.
You are archaic. I _almost_ said 'your archaic' there. Grammar, spelling and punctuation are often arbitrary rules that are difficult to grok, except with extensive experience with them. One of the best ways to discourage that experience is to make everything about everything and mark down an otherwise-excellent essay due to spelling.

Note that I am not saying that we shouldn't teach those things (and schools do teach those things), but that teaching them in a lower-stakes fashion where people are able to succeed at the core learning goal (argument in this case) without bouncing off of the Wall Of Spelling is a much better approach.
You are making two assumptions that are arguably false:

1) That it's an either/or. The question of whether viruses are living can be both philosophical and scientific.

2) That if it's philosophical, there's no (empirical?) evidence that can bear on it.
which.co.uk has guides for virtually everything. A UK publication but there must be similar elsewhere. And brands are usually fairly easy to match across countries.
Americans view everything in life through the race and skin color lens. It's becoming really exhausting and frustrating to deal with.

The other day I was watching a video on YT for the Daily Show after Trevor Noah took the helm. While all what I was just concerned about was the possibility that Trevor not to be up to the job and not to be able to fill Jon's shoes, in other words, he might not be funny, esp. since Jon was exceptional in this regard and superbly funny, unfortunately a great deal of comments on the video were about his skin color and ethnicity and whether he was black, bi-racial, mixed-race, coloured ...etc.

It's really nauseating and disheartening.

Americans need to be de-sensetized about this immediately because their heightened sense of awareness regarding this issue is getting to an extremely ridiculous level.

Back to the subject, America could be considered a relatively meritocratic economy compared to others but in general can't be viewed as such in absolute terms. There's a pecking order in businesses and while they love to blabber about diversity and inclusiveness esp in tech companies, this only applies to the lower ranks and if anyone wants to make his way up, they get to deal with the ugly reality and real strata that make up their organizations or the society as a whole.
"That’s technical speak for, it’s rock solid, it’s
totally accurate. You probably could build a sail
using that stuff." - Georg Petschnigg, CEO of FiftyThree

Can anyone explain that quote? I don't understand the "build[ing] a sail" part. I've never heard that before.

Is building a sail some kind of delicate, nuanced process? I guess it relates back to pressure somehow?
A bit off-topic but on US tv shows is ridiculous how actors (esp. main characters) are usually white or black, little or no Asians and Hispanics. "Friday Night Lights" is about teenagers in Texas (1/3 pop. Hispanic) and they are all white or black (they even had an episode or more about the divide), not a single Hispanic or Asian ever (only one secondary character for a bit).

EDIT: Also we laugh now at stereotypes like the token cool/funny black guy in shows form the 90's or so, but now it's about the super aggressive female black lead ("Suits", "Scandal", "How to get away with murder" etc).
A bit off-topic but on US tv shows is ridiculous how actors (esp. main characters) are usually white or black, little or no Asians and Hispanics. "Friday Night Lights" is about teenagers in Texas (1/3 pop. Hispanic) and they are all white or black (they even had an episode or more about the divide), not a single Hispanic or Asian ever (only one secondary character for a bit).
A really good point noted in this article, and ignored in the comments, is that of the 'bamboo ceiling.' Yes, there are lots of Asians in tech. But they are generally programmers and rarely in managerial positions.
I think the Australian system is fairer, where university entrance is determined almost solely by the results of our SAT equivalent and our final year of high school in a largely automated matter. Universities don't even know the race of applicants (although they do know if the applicant is a member of the underrepresented Aboriginal minority).
When you use this method you are implicitly making the function periodic. I can give you any function on some interval (sufficiently well behaved) and you can compute the Fourier series of it. Even though it's only defined on the interval, if you plotted the Fourier series you would still find it to be periodic. The same idea carries over to the spectral derivative. Even if the function isn't periodic, the method still works, it's just that the numerics near the discontinuity are going to be crap and can affect things further away. But if you are sufficiently far away, things are kosher. Note there are ways of dealing with this using Chebyshev interpolation (see http://math.mit.edu/~stevenj/fft-deriv.pdf section 6) which Trefethen's book also discusses.

And no FFTs are the only transformations I am aware of. I've never heard of anyone using other transformations in a general numerical context, outside of specialized problems.
I thought something looked "off" but it may just be my memory lying to me - I'm pretty sure the default (or maybe just the trend) in the mid-90s was for gray backgrounds rather than white. I see from the source that this page is a straight copy with no background set so in modern browsers it defaults to white.

Or perhaps it's just me? I would've been 10 at the time but we did have internet access at home (Dad needed it for work) so perhaps I'm mis-remembering.
If you are left only with some of your brain cells and some of your heart cells and if your are a woman your egs, are you still an aware human being?

You and other people are missing the point of the perspective and on top of that you are even admitting that even what you claim is constant isn't really when it comes down to it (matter popping in an out).

The insight is of course that things are always in flux and that they are much less "solid" than they might look.

You are obviously free to dismiss this as interesting but I find it hard to swallow this kind of "the hole in the cheese" comments. It's everything thats wrong with critical thinking.
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So all you have is speculation based on your convictions. Yet you feel that is enough to form a strong opinion and more over, express it with unshakable confidence. Attempting to persuade the public with argumentation based not on sound reasoning, but indignation. Shame.
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