skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of places to live in most cities that are within the reach of middle class folks, but they might entail living next to some people with a different skin color, and that frightens people.

Or living in a neighborhood with gun violence and rampant drug abuse.

I don't blame them for not wanting to live there.
HDF5 is actually a pleasure to work with in python due to h5py - and it's quite an efficient data format.
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Sarcasm my bro.
I would be in full support, too, if inmates received more than $0.21-1.23 per hour: http://drc.ohio.gov/web/drc_policies/documents/25-OPI-11.pdf
Kudos. I wish this point of view was as commonly accepted as you present it.
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Monogamy is a meme that has been propagated to preserve property rights and rules of inheritance. To make moral judgements of artificial constructs is invalid. Human beings, specifically women, are hypergamous. So the most logical regime is actually one of polyamory and polygamy, rather than monogamy.
People like Swisher and Sacca are trying cast Dorsey has Jobs 2.0 and they are dead wrong. Jobs was a extreme outlier and there is no pattern matching on that.

I hope they realize that Twitter is a software company. There is very little cost to making changes versus the changes A hardware or hardware/software company would have have to do.
>Perhaps its because I've always leaned a bit to the left, and have reached the end of my rope with conservative crazies.

It's also because Bernie is one of the first candidates in recent years to build his campaign entirely on a policy platform. If someone asks him a leading question to get him into personal bickering for the sake of a sound bite, he tells them to go away until they have a real question. All he wants to do is debate policy issues.

So anyone can go ahead and disagree with him, but his meta-level goal is a fucking necessity: make politics be about policy again.
I'll give ranges when applicable. The challenge is getting the candidate to understand that there is a high and low end of the range, and the high end is reserved for a certain level of candidate. Some candidates assume the high end of a range is their true market rate, and consider any offer below that to be a snub (even if the offer is above their market value.
This is called abductive reasoning, FYI.

I sometimes joke Sherlock Holmes is really all about "The Science of Abduction" not deduction; a rather more threatening tagline.
Thanks for the link! I think we'll have to add a new events table to track things like how long it takes to move from "Tasks" to "In Progress" to "In Review". It shouldn't be terribly challenging, and I love me some analytics.
There's the problem right there. The secret is: don't give them anything to hang a hat on. Anything you say will trigger a scripted response and argument.

Just keep repeating you want to cancel; don't give any reasons.
By default, Firefox with noscript, ghostery, and firemacs.

Increasingly, Chromium with different "person"'s to sandbox social media sites that track obnoxiously [e.g. Facebook, Linkedin, and Google]. Tracking is one of the motivations for noscript and gohstery on Firefox. Chromium handles that with less friction.

Someone told me about Chromium person's here on HN.
I don't think you can do this with Global Capacity directly, but if the bill goes to a collection agency, it becomes easier. You just dispute the debt. Lots of pages online show how to do this and provide sample letters. You dispute the debt by sending a letter, then the debt collector has to respond within.. it was either 30 or 90 days. If they are unable to provide proof of the debt within that time, the debt goes away (because it's invalid).

You might be able to do the same with Global Capacity, but I think the majority of these rules apply specifically to debt collection agencies.
could you go into detail about what you mean with "associated quality"?

These are lossless compression algorithms that are being compared here. The only other pertinent details regarding a lossless compression algorithm are the Compression Ratio, CPU usage, and Memory usage.
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I used to think the same until I used Plan 9 with its rio windowing system and Acme editor revolving heavily around mouse chording. I no longer hold prejudices for preferring cursor movements over keyboard shortcuts, unless it's obviously more inefficient as opposed to more of a subjective grayness.

In fact, it's quite tragic how the mouse is somehow seen as a "luser" tool, in favor of keyboard manipulation-driven interfaces being seen as more elite. No one writes mouse-driven interfaces for programmers anymore, which is a sad waste.

By the way, none of this is basic computer skills. It's purely arbitrary UI convention and nothing more. Someone decided to bind certain key combinations to reflect a particular semantic action, but it is by no means fiat in the slightest. You're confused.
Snall screens dont always have small resolutions. There are more pixels on an iphone than my laptop!
As a German - you know the country the word Kindergarten comes from - I'm always amazed that people consider Kindergarten to be a school of some kind.

Kindergärten aren't schools in Germany, they don't operate like schools, you don't learn to read or write, there is no math, in fact there aren't any classes nor classrooms. A lot of the time you spend in Kindergarten is purely socializing and playing with other children.

If there are groups, then only so that the educators (not teachers) don't get overwhelmed. Children are grouped randomly and stay in one group for as long as they go to Kindergarten, so you have children from 3 up to 7 in one group.

The activities that are organized or structured in any way are eating, sleeping, singing, getting told stories, making things out of paper like lanterns, a few physical activities and of course activities that happen outside of the Kindergarten.

Kindergärten exist and are important not to learn math but to learn to interact with other people, to make friends and to be a child until you are mature enough to handle a school environment. That means that while typically a child is enrolled in school with 6, some also enroll a year earlier or later depending on the child.
Thanks a ton! Going to try this over thr weekend~~
New features are good, but so is fixing existing ones.

Many of the problems I had were trying to get readme.rst to work on bitbucket, readthedocs, and pypi. You all use different syntax to markup syntax highlighting! Even though you all use python! To my knowledge that hasn't been fixed, but not entirely sure because I gave up on it years ago.

Here's an important one for hg:

https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/6705/cant-create-pu...
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There is a reason BOFH is a term in our industry...
Thank you for this one, that's new to me.
LinkedIn? Get with the times! Anyone who's anyone uses Peeeple for all their opt-out social networking needs.
I use MIT because I want the license never to be an issue to somebody taking it an using it for their own needs. Do you know of any reason why people would object to MIT, or is that the best one for a plugin/library?
Yes, that is an impression that is held by people who don't live in such places. In reality, it's not the wild west with daily gunfights in the streets and junkies passed out on the sidewalk. Like the vast majority of human beings, even poor people mostly just want to go about their business and not be hassled.
If you think you're a jobs, youre not.

If you think you're a musk, youre not.

Let him make/find his own mold.
Pay / authwalled. Google the URL to bypass.
He's Jobs 2.0 if we decide he is.

As much as he accomplished and talented as he was, there was nothing magical about the man.

But, admittedly I'm among a very small minority who finds the cultural trend towards people-worshipping tiresome.

So, dare I blaspheme and say such a thing.
I'm a co-founder of BuiltWith. It's doing well but not $1.2M revenue per month. Full details here: https://medium.com/@andrewjrogers/the-story-of-builtwith-e3b...
Ask HN: As a first-time founder, where should I be spending my time?
We've just launched and I find that there's so much to do but I'm almost paralyzed by it all. The obvious answer is to spend your time where you'll get the largest return right? Well, how do you know where this is when you have little data?

To be clear though, it's a marketplace application http://www.venuevortex.com - we've built the product, we've launched it, I've on-boarded 50+ venues (supply side) now I need the demand side (users) in order to create value for the venues so they continue using us/paying.

I've tried Facebook ad's targeted in Ontario as we've launched locally, to certain demographics and folks with a proclivity to book events, and interests in weddings, business etc... With low conversions, and no sticky users.

The goal is to get even just 1 person to send a request to a venue right now. If I can get 1, I can get 1000.

So the question is how do I get that 1 user to send a request? And where do I find them organically?
I would love to read his book about his view on life, if he ever writes one..
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Where I live in the US you can send a child to a good daycare for about ~$350 per month.

What causes daycare to be so expensive in Australia? Wages, regulation, not enough supply, something else?
That's how Cheeseman Park in Denver was created, too
I couldn't get in, even after starting an incognito session and googling either the headline or the URL.
I don't think stuff like that became popular until BitTorrent and other distributed filesharing protocols and clients came about. Lots of people were tricked into installing malware while trying to download warez and porn, though.
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A fields medal doesn't indicate general authority in mathematics, only authority with regards to what was necessary for getting the medal.
That massive image confused me for a bit. Once I figured out I should scroll down I was annoyed enough to hit the back button.
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Scientists pooh-pooh plan to stop piping sewage into the ocean (2012)
Strange. I would assume it lets you through based on the referer; you may want to make sure that you allow that when clicking through the link from Google.
> Dorsey supposedly got back to work later at night, but people didn’t know that. So at Square, Dorsey made a point of arriving early and staying late, especially when his employees were grinding away into the evening.

If only there were some way to give a reliable impression of everyone going home at reasonable hours.

Such as: having reasonable working hours and enforcing them.
Toll free customer service numbers are free calls in Skype, but Verizon Wireless doesn't accept Skype calls anymore. For them I've switched to using Google Hangout. This wound up with the bonus of supporting including my parents in the conversation (adding the phone call into a normal audio group chat).

Sitting on hold isn't so bad when it's free and you can focus on reading Hacker News or whatever easily while you wait.
I thought this was a joke, it takes a moment to get the focus right but suddenly all of the differences appear. Thanks for sharing your childhood hack!
> No one serious is seriously saying that the military shouldn't be funded.

Sure they are - at least some elements of it. And they have been for 200 years.

The constitutional specifically prohibits a standing army; one of the biggest jokes in the contemporary political condition is that the USA doesn't have one.

I want the military defunded in its entirety, save the divisions of navy which protect coastal states from attack.
Canada, Netherlands, UK all have very multicultural societies. All three consistently outrank the US.
I think you're misunderstanding. Standard basic (measure-theoretic) probability theory is designed to handle common non-discrete real-world cases: continuous random variables like height, temperature, etc. They're not approximated by something countable; instead theorems proving that they have the sort of behavior you'd want are established by proving them for a countable approximation, then taking limits. It is exactly like integration: prove things for step functions, then make the steps infinitely thin. The theory is clean and straightforward.

Here's where it gets less basic: say you want to look at temperature over time, but you don't want to model temperature as a variable that's measured daily, or hourly, or even every second (secondly?), but you want to model it as a process that evolves in continuous time. That's where the theory gets messy. Not necessarily at the level of a user of this theory, but definitely at the level of proving that the math you want to use is allowed.

If you actually need an introduction to that sort of probability, Lawrence Evans (Berkeley) has some old lecture notes aimed at undergrads [1] that he turned into a book [2]. If (more likely) you want standard measure-theoretic probability theory (as opposed to what's taught to undergraduates), David Pollard's book is pretty good [3].

I'm sure that @graycat will scoff at those recommendations, but his reading list would be considered excessively hardcore and time consuming even for a graduate student in math, which I'm assuming you're not.

[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.416...

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/An-Introduction-Stochastic-Differentia...

[3]: http://www.amazon.com/Theoretic-Probability-Statistical-Prob...

ps: after looking at it again, the intro in Evans's notes is as gentle as it's going to get, so start there. And (as you'll find out, unless you're some sort of savant) this shit's hard. If you actually want to understand this stuff, graduate coursework is probably the only practical way to do it.
Anyone have suggestions for other features I could add?
imagemagick also has `compare`. I wouldn't be surprised if Perforce uses that under the hood
You can factor out their test scores in places where they aren't present, for example, and see that we still fall below our multicultural peers in the OECD.
I think he has a more sophisticated view of what's happening in Europe right now.. Don't mix him up with your everyday red neck anti-immigrant American.

Marx's theory of History states that after workers gain consciousness against their capitalist bosses they are going to revolt (figuratively) against the system, capitalism will collapse and we'll end up with "the fifth stage of the history". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_history

Native Western European working class almost is at this stage right now, they have really powerful unions, high wages and big corporations pay high taxes.. There is a fair distribution of wealth. But an influx of cheap labor (refugees and immigrants) distorts this balance, and prolongs the transition to Marx's fifth stage of the history 'Socialism'.
Ironically, Chicago's road budget is almost entirely funded by yearly fees on automobile owners. It's just everything else that's a mess.
Here's a suggestion:

Whenever I go to a new health care provider (or even, often, a health care provider that I have an existing relationship with), I have to fill out those silly medical history forms, and I'm like, "Dude, shouldn't you know all this stuff already?"

It would be nice to be able to say, "Hey, here's the doctor's office where I have an upcoming appointment. Find out what mundane paperwork they expect me to fill out, and fill it out for me." (Many offices now put the forms online so you can download them and fill them out ahead of time.)

Granted, it really only works if I can enter the info once and have you save it and regurgitate it as needed, and then that gets into tricky territory because you're storing sensitive health-related information. But it really would be a valuable service.
Oh, I think it's possible to be inundated with virtually anything, including relevance. Yes, I may find a product relevant, but there is some threshhold past which I'd be sick of having it pitched to me.

Retargeting is a perfect example of how a relevance beatdown can occur. Yes, I put those shoes in my cart because I was genuinely interested in them. But, I don't need to see them popping up on every site I visit thereafter for a week. Neither do I need to keep seeing the Softlayer Cloud ads, etc. It's a turnoff to be hounded like this, and even distasteful at a certain point.

To your point, though, perhaps part of the problem is the current ad formats.
This is also an interesting and a much more recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX4wlMQAK8o

>Blaise Thomson speaking at Playfair Capital's Machine Intelligence 2015 in London.

>Blaise is co-founder and CEO of VocalIQ, the world’s first self-learning dialogue API, putting real, natural conversation between people and their devices.
I would be more impressed if the massive form didn't "have an error" after I filled out the whole thing.
Those are nice. The exponential backoff is the exception: it was the cause of much degradation in TCP. Just left unnecessary holes in service. Amazon ditched it in exchange for jitter for same reason but different problem. If using backoff, I suggest doing non-exponential where you tie it to likely disruption times w/ some error margin.

Another commenter mentioned testing. That's a good idea. Here's two articles on that:

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2800697

http://www.drdobbs.com/testing/testing-complex-systems/24016...
For FT.com to get around the paywall search for the title on news.google.com. They're more restrictive than NYT and WSJ which let you in through normal Google search.
This picture is lucky to have sunshine. Without, "it can be very depressing" (c) Eurotrip
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World-class companies (Apple, Mercedes, Nordstrom to mention a few) use Medallia to create awesome customer experiences. Our platform already includes a mobile solution covering both Android and iOS users, providing them the ability to engage with customers in real-time, share aggregated data, or analyze customer feedback on-the-go.

We want to take this platform to the next stage, by increasing the social aspect of our application to make it a vital part of our client's organization, and by increasing its the personalization capabilities, so each one of our users can tailor it to their particular needs and goals. We also want to experiment on innovative ways of capturing customer experience information, and on helping companies to engage their employees on a customer oriented culture.

For that we've started playing with new frameworks and technologies such React Native, Flux and Graph QL in order to make our development more agile, extensible and simple. This is posible given that we won't need to recompile every time after a change, that we can have a server with the app's content (we don't have to wait for apples review) and that we can reuse existing javascript libraries that work great.

Please contact me at jmrodriguez@medallia.com if any of the above sounds interesting to you.

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Clever hack.
It's nice! I'm setting up a new Linux install on my workstation, and I found this really useful.
Another paywall workaround is to use/spoof Google search as your referrer.

In Chrome, for example, install the "Referer Control" extension and add an entry for "ft.com", select the "Custom" referer setting, and paste "https://www.google.com/" (without quotes) into the textbox for that entry.
That one is important. I give details in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10322298
The site claims that CISA would "give them total legal immunity when they get hacked, as long as they share your personal information with the government".

Here is the text of CISA: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/754...

What specific sections of it support that claim?
Having spend the last 3 months in Australia I would guess it is regulations,security and liabilities.
> You can deduce formulas for every single step of the process, just like with CSS!

You can deduce the formulas, but can you make the formulas self-deducing when driven only by a mechanical clock like a steady mouse-click? Or will it require constant adjustment and intervention by the operator?

> But I'm sure we can all agree that this is not Turing completeness

I'm not sure we can. TC can be tricky. That's why people try to give constructions rather than just claim something or other is TC.
I think the motto of Sys Admins is something like "all your successes occur in the dark, and all your failures in the harsh light of day".
Thanks for your references. I have always thought that many statistics/probability based explanations are adhoc. They are adhoc because they explain pre-selected facts; and their predictions are just a confirming instances (cf. positive vs confirming instance from Larry Laudan, a philosopher of science). Your point "definitely at the level of proving that the math you want to use is allowed" hints in that direction.
I've heard this before and I have to wonder, do stop signs also seem insane to you? Because right on red is no different. You stop, look both ways, and go if it's safe to do so.
Hm, especially the risk-aversion seems very similar to Germany. And the effects on the startup culture are interestingly the same.

It’s interesting how unicorns are only possible in countries where no one cares about consequences of their actions.
> or at least couldn't be deduced to be p-zombie because of this behavior.

But that's rather the point of the p-zombie concept: Anything you can do, they can do just as well, to all outwards appearances, it's just that they don't have the true deep awareness of doing that you do... You do have that, right? You sure? Really sure?

So there's no objective test which can distinguish between you and a p-zombie, but there's still a difference. Poking into the nature of that difference is either blasphemy or contrary to the spirit of the thing, your choice.
Worked for me here without clearing cookies or anything, even after having first hit the page.
If England hadn't kicked off the industrial revolution it might have taken another few centuries to start and you'd be shitting in a hole in the ground in the dark right now. So be grateful for the huge gift they gave all of us.
other countries have done stuff that isn't quite what he proposes. They have very high taxes on the middle class, relatively low taxes on the rich ( via various loop holes and investment tax breaks ) and restrictions on who can go to free college. So, if you want to copy German or Swedish system, then be honest that it will require middle class taxation double of what it is now. Otherwise, Bernie's whole campaign is nothing more than a more civil version of Trump's "we'll be winning so much you'll be tired of winning" schtick
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