skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they say that if you die alone with your dogs, they'll guard your body. But cats, they'll just eat it ;) In fact, your dogs will too, if they get hungry enough. But they'll be guilty about it, for whatever that's worth.
They actually did something kinda clever. They were able to calculate/model a false positive rate by looking at the homozygosity of the X chromosome. Since the samples were male, there should only be one X, so any heterozygosity would have to be errors.

Not saying this is an absolute correct way of going about this (no one really knows), but it shows they did at least thought about this issue.
It's not a completely unreasonable thing to say, at most it's phrased a bit sloppily. As far as I remember, when you set up the graph there's nothing guiding the user to use limits for the graph that result in a proper 1:1 aspect ratio. Instead if you e.g. want a graph from -3:3 on the X axis, you probably also set up the Y axis as -3:3 too. Since the real screen isn't 1:1, this will result in the graph being squashed down.

And except for the special case of lines that are parallel with the screen edges, a stretched or squashed aspect ratio would indeed distort the angles such that you can't tell which angles are perpendicular and which ones aren't.
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The default range for graphs is (-10,10) in both dimensions, while the screen has a 3:2 aspect ratio. The default makes perpendicular lines that aren't on the axes stretched horizontally and appear to be at non right angles.
There are a few things that I see as less than ideal with IPFS, so I recently set myself the challenge of designing a better system. I really like the way IPFS breaks down the problem, so the components remain the same.

Regarding incentivization, looking at the literature, you can split existing incentive schemes into two camps, local and global. Tit-for-tat would be an example of a local scheme, currency based systems would be global.

Neither of these types of scheme really work, with local schemes, you have no way to use accrued reputation with new nodes. Global schemes require too much coordination and overhead to be suitable for small 'transactions'.

As I understand it, IPFS deals with the problem by having a local scheme, but with a get out clause. If you want something you may have to do work on behalf of the node you want something from, but that work should be easier if you have a good reputation with other nodes in the network.

Under my proposed system, nodes keep track of how much they are in debt or in credit with the nodes that they are in contact with. The amount that you can go into debt with another node is limited to 1% of the amount of useful data that you have transferred to that node. (This way, if a node terminates a connection whilst it is in debt to another node, that loss, amortized over the useful data that you have received is very small). Nodes are incentivized keep connections open, since short lived connections have very tight reins on how much debt/credit can be accrued.

As this stands, this doesn't solve the problem. It's entirely local and there's no way to initiate connections since nodes, by default, don't trust each other.

The solution is two-fold: credit transfer and proof of work. I have designed a protocol that allows nodes to transfer credit to cancel out 'cycles of debt'. Nodes can also gain credit with other nodes by solving pointless problems. The innovation here is that when confronted with a puzzle, a node is able to delegate the work to its debtors. Proof of work is useful since, given the choice, a node would probably prefer to use its upstream bandwidth than burn up CPU time.

There are more details to this, like: the specifics of how to discover and execute a credit transfer along a long chain using only local interactions, how to incentive routing as well as data transfer and many other things.

If I had the time, I'd implement it.
The Taming of the Shrew riffs on a similar theme, right? I find that play fascinating, partly for the unresolved play-within-a-play setup (when the inner play ends, we never go back to the container play..) and partly for the similarity to the 1001 Nights story[1]. Any speculation about the relation between the two works?

1: https://1000into1night.wordpress.com/26-the-sleeper-and-the-...
the texas instrument is also a great tool to start programming (TI Basic and then assembly), start understanding basic concepts of what a computer can do, it is a gateway to a whole new fascinating world and i'm pretty sure that it is due to the limitation of the machine that many will want to program. sometimes old is better.
I think that the reason nobody's built a curses word processor is that if you're not getting a WYSIWYG editing experience, you may as well go all the way to a full markup language.
http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/ looks like a pretty cool word processor
There is a huge difference between social pressure to quit for believing some humans are worth less than others, and the Government forcing you to quit because you made a minor comment on the stock exchange crash.

Do you think that it would somehow be better if the beliefs of people with power were not questioned?
I don't know. But where I'm working, I have to register my company's VPN traffic (DST IP addr) to pass their (state owned company) filter. Edit: Not in China.
I don't get that. The TI nspire is way improved from older calculators. It has a color higher resolution screen and a ton of functions and apps.

Unfortunately they removed the BASIC scripting. And there are a lot of features removed from it to keep it approved on standardized tests, like the ability to automatically solve equations and a QWERTY keyboard. But it's really good at graphing things and I loved it when I was in school.
I used a Casio FX250 scientific calculator, which I purchased for about $5 on sale in 1998, all the way from middle school through college, including not only high school calculus class, but also a large number of college math, science, computer science, economics, etc. courses.

For anything it couldn’t handle, a PC running Maple or Python was a much better tool than any pocket graphing calculator could ever hope to be.

Insisting students (or their parents) shell our $100 for graphing calculators is a scam, and spending class time teaching students to punch formulae into TI calculators is an immense distraction from learning mathematics.
In addition to what TeMPOral said, we could ask for more balance in access to information. For example, why couldn't everything that the producer knows about the product (results of internal testing, how it was produced, what were the costs involved) be available to the customer? It seems only a fair deal to me. And it could be done in manner of not "forcing" anyone to do that - for example, only companies that do that would be eligible for government subsidies or contracts.

(Ironically, the optimal price by free markets is only proven when access to information is perfect and actors are rational. But then you don't really need the price to make the decision, do you? You can already calculate everything in your head.)

But in general, there is problem with complexity of things getting out of hand. It's impossible to ask the customers to rationally evaluate everything, experts need to do that anyway.

And I think, similar to what Chomsky said in "Responsibility of Intellectuals", I believe there should be a moral code for engineers to provide good solutions. Today, technical experts to often wash off their hands by thinking that the customer knows the best (usually in indirect way - by not pushing enough against businessmen, by believing too much in individualism).
It's not misleading, because Rust focuses so little on -O0 performance that it's often not plausible to use a Rust build with that optimization level. We can't have it both ways.
Thanks. I'll test.
How will he "prosper"? You mean he will have a "job" because he's preventing deception.
Looks interesting for Europeans that don't want their servers accessed / seized by the FBI, but they should clarify if they own the servers or rent them to an US cloud company (Amazon / MS etc).

On their data-center page they just show a map with their 2 data-centers (both are in France, they might use OVH).
I’ve been playing with microcontrollers for the last few weeks, where debugging typically involves reading data sheets more often than Googling, and I could definitely see myself integrating this type of workflow into my day job.
Fetch doesn't actually make an HTTP call - that's the thing :) Fetch boxes a value so that the _platform_ can make an HTTP call.

You couldn't implement `fetch` yourself without platform APIs and you certainly couldn't do it in JavaScript without the DOM. The second suggestion you pointed (from Twitter) is exactly what you'd do in Haskell (you'd pass an IO from somewhere else). You can call it "pass an effect" if you'd like but it's the same thing :)
I don't know. I used to think WordPerfect 5.1 was pretty great back in the day.
I'm not sure there is a huge amount to be learned from asteroids unless we plan on bringing stuff back with us. We are certainly going to try to do that, and we have also landed a thing on a comet obviously which will teach us much more.
This assumes you know that they are deceiving you. If the company is successfully deceiving you, then you will not know it.
How is this related to Dropzone? http://www.dropzonejs.com/
>"We could, for instance, start punishing marketers and salesmen for lying."

We already do, and it's called misleading advertising, or plain out fraud.

Edit, I see someone else also pointed this out.
Not the author of previous comment, but my main problem is inability to limit time of job execution in APScheduler.
Of course it's possible to say it's a "pure artifact of regulation". It's also meaningless.

It seems to me that anything making the broad claim that this generic is a 'pure artifact of regulation' must also be against patents, trademarks, copyright and other similar monopolies backed by the power of the state. Are these not also all pure artifacts of regulation?

But perhaps those regulations are somehow "natural" or "fair", so I'll put that argument aside. This piece says:

> which he cleverly amplified by sharp practices described by Ronald Bailey: “First, he apparently talked Impax [a predecessor holder of the sole FDA rights to market Daraprim] into starving the wholesale market of the drug, so that when Turing completed its purchase of the rights there were no extra pills floating around. Next, he set up an exclusive distribution network as a way of preventing potential competitors from obtaining enough Daraprim to conduct [the equivalence] trials for the FDA” necessary to develop an ANDA so as eventually to challenge his regulatory monopoly.

See that part about 'exclusive distribution network', which is praised as a 'sharp practice'? How did that get to be there? If the FDA prevented closed distribution, then other companies could get the supply needed to demonstrate that their copy was sufficiently similar. While that wouldn't prevent price jacking, it would lower how high the price could be jacked.

So long as companies are required to demonstrate biosimilarity and have no way to get access to the materials needed to demonstrate biosimilarity, then there's a problem. If you think demonstrating biosimilarity is the problem then you think regulation are in the way (and you're fine letting people distribute snake oil as a replacement for a tested drug). If you think that restricted access to the drugs is the problem, then you think that the regulations we have should be tweaked.

This piece only looks at the former, and praises the latter.
Relay is basically the framework that brings everything together. Relay handles data fetching, storage, and mutations using a central store and GraphQL. If I'm understanding it correctly, Redux is replaced by Relay.
In the zoom menu there's an option ZSquare (or such) that'll correct the limits to make it fit the aspect ratio.
China always expecting revolution makes sense. It was founded by revolution.
>Register to read the article

Actually, I didn't even care...
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I wrote my first "game" on a TI-83. Tictactoe. With an unbeatable "AI" (hardcoded if/else lookups for every possible move. the only "intelligent" thing about it was that it could "rotate" the board to minimize the lookups).

Then I downloaded some games from the internet and simply gave up on my TI-83 game dev dreams because I saw no way to compete with these "3d" games that are out there... Still a fun little experience.
You may be interested in Mark Blyth[1]'s take[2] on this, in which he also blames the seductive quality of mathematical models. Math can give an illusion of accuracy, when the real world is chaotic and often has far more confounding variables than you know about in something as complex as "the economy".

Treating "efficient markets" as if it was a law of nature is probably inevitable when you combine a trust of bad models with the greedy side of human nature (Moloch) that is biased to overlook the differences between reality and a model that tells you what you want to hear

[1] Prof. Econ. at Brown University, who is probably most well known these days for his warnings about the dangers of "austerity" (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vV8_uQmxs#t=673 )

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWbkPezgtU
Maybe this is due to a lack of proper widget toolkits. Curses is a real pain to program, and creating sophisticated UIs with it is borderline impossible. Things like dialog are not very flexible, and TurboVision (the best looking CUI ever) never took off, probably because of the lame C port.
> "question for the anti-free market people: how do you centralize the production of things like toilet paper? How do you decide how much toilet paper to make, in the absence of a free market?"

Why do you have to centralise it? You could split the task into regions. How many regions? Enough regions until it becomes efficient at measuring and responding to needs.

To use a phrase... think global, act local.
I don't know if is related, but it remembers Valve to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation#Organization...
Try GeoGebra (it also has a full CAS View if you need exact calculations)
"sometimes old is better."

Still costs 100 dollars though.
In France there's no such thing as the credit score. Of course banks probably (certainly) have something to rate their customers, but it's not public.

And from what I can read about the credit score, I don't think we're missing much.
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Hi bateman.

Thanks for taking the time trying out our product.

1.The product so far is in its early days. A better overview across projects will definitely be developed.
2. In the backend, a project is based on a template system. It's not visible to the user yet as this concept further needs adjustments before we can roll it out . In fact the current project design is just our first "plugin" of how a project can look. We hope to offer multiple ways to visualize a project in the future.

The state field is a system state (not changeable) that is used for triggers and in the future reporting. When you tick of a Task as finished, a trigger occurs that will look up the column with the system state "Completed" and move the task there. It's a bit rough at the moment, but could be a handy way to automate certain tasks later on and provide reports across projects.
Can you please add some additional information for the URL you have provided?
> Can anyone suggest a viable alternative for the TI graphing calculator?

It's not cheaper, but while taking some nightschool math classes a couple of years ago I bought an HP Prime[0], which was new on the market then. It's a truly excellent calculator which puts the TIs to shame. It's a calculator with a modern multitouch interface so you can use pinch-to-zoom on graphs, etc.

It uses the xCas engine[1] as a backend and has a spiffy calculator frontend, so you can write formulas as they would appear in a textbook.

EDIT: It also has an ARM processor, IIRC around 300MHz. It really shows when graphing complex equations, where the TIs take forever. I hear the newest TI nSpire ones have a slightly more modern CPU, but I really hate the interface there (it's no longer really a calculator for me, but a shitty tablet).

If you want an actual physical calculator, I strongly recommend this one.

[0] http://h41336.www4.hp.com/hpprime
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcas
Note that bitswap isn't purely a tit-for-tat system, but will also include a credit system like you suggest.

> I have designed a protocol that allows nodes to transfer credit to cancel out 'cycles of debt'.

Awesome, sounds like if Filecoin were based on Ripple instead of Bitcoin. Ideas are always welcome, so please share yours either via Github issues or IRC (freenode#ipfs) :)
Can anyone compare and contrast flux, reflux and redux?

I have got the hang of writing flux stores - and like the uni-directional dataflow model a lot. I also evaluated relay/graphql - which unfortunately is missing backend support for my relational db for the moment.

It feels like I need some experience with all the patterns/frameworks before it's possible to be confident about choosing and investing time writing code.
It's not really related. YouTransfer.io uses DropzoneJS as the file transfer UI for javascript enabled browsers.
Yep, you're right, we'll clarify that: we're renting bare metal servers from a french company which is not OVH http://www.agora-hosting.net/
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The counter argument to this is that advertising serves useful discovery for new technologies.

Which is of course 99% bullshit since the vast majority is emotive and manipulative.

But to avoid this you could make advertising regulation 'white list' style. Only text based, only non-emotive descriptions of product function.

I mean take cola, their adverts are largely around the subtext of 'if you drink this you will have more friends, if you do not drink this you will be more lonely.' Of course this is never stated openly it's all in the subtext which given Colas efficient market defying profits seems to be incredibly effective.
id rather buy a 100 dollar ti than a 700 dollar NSApple iphone
Original article by Frederic Jacobs: https://gist.github.com/FredericJacobs/b1b518125b7066880359
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>A typical analogy for the sort of model people wanted to build was focused on household tools: if you own a drill, you likely don’t use it 364 days of the year; why not let others use it in the meantime?

>In its purest sense, that is the sharing economy. But it very quickly ran into an issue: while some people act out of altruism, most don’t. My drill is mine. Why should I share it with you?

> [...] And so “sharing” became “renting”.

Quite great summary how socialism (at least the utopian kind) implemented at large scale, while a beautiful idea, still remains an elusive dream.
I understand the HN-YC dynamics and know enough about YC to have a specific opinion on them that overrides the herustic described above.
> i had to get one too for high school in Denmark.

Was it a requirement, or was it just that the teacher recommended it because it's what he knew?

In my experience in a European school, the teachers generally recommend a specific model they're familiar with (usually casio, with some preferring TI) so they can answer questions easier. But I had no problems buying and using a different one (HP Prime) for the classes.
Has anyone used scalingo? How has the experience been? The pricing is favourable but I've never heard of them.
Hi arsalanb.
Thanks for giving it a try :-)

The product is indeed very basic at its current stage. We wanted to do things right and design it beautiful before we jumped onto more features.

Thanks for commenting on the element:focus button.
Work life integration... Shudder. I like 6 hours a day of ruthless, compartmentalized efficiency (think mental sprinting) and after that, forget about it. Only if you give me significant equity in a rapidly growing company will i do work life integration.

Interesting quote "When the deadline arrived on the last day of April, 14 percent of the company, 210 people, took the offer. Twenty of them were managers, I was told, out of a total of 246. It was a difficult day. Tear-stained faces replaced the typical smiles on the Zappos campus." People want to be managed!
So, how do banks decide how much to loan you, if you want a loan, or at what interest rate?

My history of being responsible with debt enables me to borrow large amounts of money while putting a small percentage down, and paying a small percentage interest (3.375%) on the principal. Banks can compete to offer better rates or terms on a loan like that (home mortgage, USA).

Some notion of a credit score, or a person's general creditworthiness is necessary for there to be competition in the loan market. Otherwise how would it work - banks are equally willing to loan to all people, despite their income, savings, and history of paying back loans reliably?

It can be abused but it generally seems to promote an efficient marketplace for loans.
I'm not sure what you think the display aspect ratio means, but a 2:1 aspect ratio means that the horizontal axis of a graph will get scaled by a factor of 2 if the window is displaying a square section of space.

The lines y = x and y = -x are perpendicular. 2:1 scaling means the line y = x will appear on screen as y = 0.5x . A line perpendicular to that would have slope -2. But the line y = -x, which is actually perpendicular to y = x, will instead appear on screen as y = -0.5x .
Please be aware that we don't have (and probably will never have) any kind of pricing based on user slots, since we are launching a dedicated VM for each user server.

Basically, you can let as many users joins as the virtual server can support them, until it starts swapping when RAM is exausted (and performances will fall down).
The New Atlantis is one to keep an eye on. The articles are deeper and more insightful than most. It makes the Economist look downright shallow in comparison.
Otherwise, article makes also a good point about services like Uber, that they are not really about sharing anything.

A "sharing economy" version of Uber would be more akin to a car-pooling service.
And it's done. The 1.0.2 hotfix is now available with the token generation fix as well as 2 other enhancements.
I really expect a live demo for such things these days.
Building a bridge between Japan and Silicon Valley is a great idea
They adjust their strategies to local conditions. In EU they can do little. Elsewhere, they actually sue countries[0] to keep their rights to advertise death.

[0] - https://youtu.be/6UsHHOCH4q8?t=486
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Don't worry, it's not critical or anything. JupiterMoon just seems to be a bit of an entitled *ss.
At the time that comic was written, the TI nspire was only a few years old, didn't have a color screen yet, and was way more than $110 (still is, btw). It had almost no presence in the market because it wasn't yet being adopted wholesale the way the TI-83 family was.
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WFIW, in Luxembourg a TI V200 is required as part of the final secondary school exam for maths and economics. The V200 being one of the most expensive models.

Why that specific model was chosen, I am not sure, but I guess that for exams they want to have something standardised in order to avoid people cheating (all calculators are reset at the start of exam) or being at an advantage/disadvantage due to different feature-sets on different models.
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