skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to elaborate on that point. You are completely right.

There are laboratories measuring that stuff from urine and saliva. They are expensive and the results also need to be controlled for things like normal thyroid function, so you can map properly derive levels in the brain. Also the tests need to be done at different times of the day.

The test-results include ranges. Interpreting and correlating the values and if they are problematic is the work of the few doctors who work with these labs. A bit like with cholesterol levels in the blood.

A doctor once told me that you can't tell for sure, and there are complete surprises, but normally, if she sees a result-sheet she can give a relatively accurate guess about how the person "generally feels" over the day (tired, happy, hungry, anxious, stressed, relaxed, trouble sleeping or not etc.)
Quantum Cybernetics
P. Diddy has been known to go for 4 days without sleeping, seemingly with no ill effects according to assistants who have had to stay awake and by his side during these times.

I'm sure this self-reported N of 1 study is extremely relevant to sleep researchers all over the world.
The Real Cost of QE
The IP probing is an interesting methodology, although it would not work for GCE as VM IPs are entirely virtualized[0]. That said, the methodology's biggest flaws (even with AWS as I see it) are that they don't know the machine-count of individual racks (and this number can vary more than you might expect) and, more importantly, they don't know the sizing on individual hosts.

Putting my original point differently: DigitalOcean may be big or small, but counting physical hosts is a terrible way to estimate its size. Better would be to count available cores and RAM, but of course those are much harder numbers to pin down as cloud providers tend to go to some lengths to abstract away the details of physical hosts.

[0]: Supporting live migration for individual VMs mostly necessitates that the IPs within a virtual network be meaningless w.r.t. the physical host locations -- also GCE advertises a /32 subnet via DHCP and requests the guest route all packets to their 'gateway'. Handling actual routing (to avoid a needless extra hop) is done via the Andromeda SDN.
> We keep trying to make a world that is completely fair but as long as we have freedom it won't be. I think it's more important to have freedom because it drives progress.

Why do you make the issue into a bizarre dilemma between freedom and fairness?

> People don't want a chance at a ride, they want a ride. And that desire is the fuel that drives us.

What does this have to with anything? Not everybody can have a ride in this situation. The question is only about the system you use to attribute rides.
Off-topic: the link is https://github.com/yegor256/tacit?oct

Is the `oct` url parameter significant or just a typo?
> She didn't look like any nerd you might think. She just looked normal. Great fun to talk to as well.

Looks like you're projecting your own ideas and complexes to what I said. Guess what - I look normal as well! But still, my interest in computing goes deeper than finishing class assignments and longer than 3 years.

Most lawyers and doctors don't build stuff. Those that do (do new medical research, or write new laws), I sincerely hope and expect that their knowledge and understanding of their profession goes way beyond an average coprofessional's.
"Don't you know who I am?! I was on The Simpsons!"
Yes
Edit: I also hear it frequently from parents of children who have been referred to psychiatrists by their schoolteachers for (in my opinion at least) fairly minor disruptive behaviour in class; they are repeating what the psychiatrists tell them. The psychiatrists also quote statistics like "half of Swedish inmates are adhd, so if you don't treat your child's adhd there's a good chance he'll end up a criminal (yes really). Here in the UK the diagnosing psychiatrist is also the one that the child must return to twice a year for a checkup at 500 pounds per visit.
Their download speeds are often bad sadly, they really should provide a torrent. But it's free and they have some really interesting datasets, so it's worth the wait.
More racially diverse than other high-paying industries in the US, which I'm guessing sre mostly dominated by white people (except basketball).
Blizzard DMCAs “Show HN: HTML5 Version of Starcraft” from Sept 2015
Sundar Pichai Assigns Hiroshi Lockheimer as Head of Android and Chrome OS
Eclipse WindowBuilder
The Republican primary is competitive and the Democratic one is not. It makes sense that there would be early money being pumped in on the Republican side. In 2012, both sides basically raised the same amount of money by election day: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance
Major new insight into the biology of Infectious Alzheimer's Disease
Indeed... no better way to piss me off and detract from a good article than by forcing smooth scrolling on me when I specifically disable it...
Yes, most measures of productivity correspond to profitability, as there are few other measures, so this is a big issue, especially in service industries (eg finance, where productivity has fallen since the crash as measured, but how work is done has not changed, just because volumes of sales have fallen).

It is clear that some firms are drastically less efficient than others though.
It's not a problem of "doing more" or "doing less". It's that, based on the available choices the actor has ("aid"/"don't aid"/"aid conditionally"), the actor picks the outcome which disproportionately favours him, while the other actor has a limited range of strategy available.

If your house is burning and the fire brigade is too busy to help, and your neighbour Bob comes with a fire extinguisher and a smile on his face, and proposes to give you the fire extinguisher in exchange for your new car, I sure hope there won't be any hard feelings next time Bob drives past your house.
Luckily, we have a 4th amendment to stop people from seizing property with impunity on personal whims.
You can't look at ethics that way.

The general rule about "improving things a little is better than doing nothing" would philosophically require you to take a much broader view of the improvements you think you do and see if they affect other things causally. If you do that you quickly run into problems and things become much more complex. Yet thats what you do when you look at ethics.

For instance:

"Now instead of having no taxis at all, people can choose between an expensive taxi or no taxi at all – a marginal improvement. Needless to say, Uber has been repeatedly lambasted for doing something instead of leaving the even-worse status quo the way it was."

From the perspective of those who can afford surge pricing this is an improvement not for those who cant.

Uber is planning on making cars automated, thats great for the consumer but not for those driver who suddenly find themselves out of jobs. People who helped pay for ubers automation of their fleet.

The more correct "interpretation" is to not call it ethical or non-ethical. It's both correct and not correct.

In other words from an ethical point of view and to stay in the quantum theoretical jargon — it's not been observed.
That was part of it. The Soviets had put an immense amount of money into their Strategic Rocket Forces, and even a modest implementation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, let's not use the name chosen by those who attacked it) would have negated it, because a (first strike) attacker can't chose which warheads get taken out.

We also hit them hard in the pocketbook: convinced OPEC/the Saudis to lower the price of oil, directly sabotaged their gas exports to Western Europe, otherwise denied them technology that would have improved their economy, and made Afghanistan their Vietnam.

And then the moral aspect; I haven't read the fine article, but Reagan wasn't afraid to correctly refer to the Soviet Union as an "Evil Empire", told Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!" (separating East and West Germany). I've also read from accounts inside the Iron Curtain that our invasion of Grenada was a massive shock, this was the first time ever that the West had taken back a Communist nation, explicitly denying the Brezhnev Doctrine, which we also attacked in many ways in Eastern Europe.

Bottom line was that Reagan was the first US President to decide to destroy, rather than merely contain, the Soviet Union, and despite the wavering of George H. "Chicken Kiev" W. Bush, succeeded shortly after leaving office. This, without massive bloodshed, is hands down the greatest geopolitical achievement in post-WWII 20th Century history.
Can we please have plumbum-contrib named plumbus instead?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE
cough https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352001 cough

we're in the process of getting all the zone files we can to reduce the amount of DNS requests we have to do, but the real kicker is whois databases, for example AFNIC asks for 10K€ to get access to a copy of the database...
The way I've seen described most often is that you stick your arm in the oven and count the number of seconds before it becomes uncomfortable. Early cookbooks used this method to describe various oven temperatures.
Well to be fair it is only a wat if you don't know about floating point imprecision. Because that is exactly what is causing this contrary to what is stated. Also python just gets this behavior from C, so the other claim that this is a special case of python is also not true.

Since the 1 is shifted 53 bits to the left the number is right at the start of the number range where only even numbers can be represented.

You get 900719925470993 as the decimal number which you cast to float : 900719925470992.0

Then you add 1.0 and get 900719925470992.0 because of floating point imprecision and rounding. The next floating point number would be 900719925470994.0.

92 is less than 93 and this gets you this seemingly weird x+1.0 < x = true.
It was, but not because it did not industrialize. It did build the railroads and factories, of course, and it was at the peak of economical power by 1913, we all know that. It was a backwards country because of 99% of population still living in extreme poverty (the level of social and political inequality that noone these days can understand or accept), corruption and incompetence, which lead to defeat in war with Japan 10 years ago, and backwards political system, unable to solve challenges of the time. The Empire was doomed, and noone should cry about it.
Because you haven't looked?

Pick any subject where men are under-represented and you can find, if you look for it, groups who are (rightly) trying to fix it.
I'm totally fine with pretty much any voluntary agreement between individuals. As for Uber, raising prices is the utility-maximizing choice (across riders, drivers, and Uber), so the burden is very much on the other side to show why it's a mistake.
China asks world to impose 'code of conduct' on Internet
...and that it does "break" sites, but most of the time in a good way.
No, scientists have not found the gay gene
Reflexive downvotes are kind of out of control on HN now (parent was gray)...

For those who don't understand, gasoline taxes provide a large portion of highway maintenance revenue (often most). Electric cars have as much wear-and-tear on roads as gas cars, but avoid that tax right now. At some point we will need to figure out how to shift taxes from per-gallon to per-mile, or add an equivalent surcharge on electric chargers.

Since home chargers are just electrical outlets, there's no real way to tax just the "highway electricity" there. So we either have to increase income/property taxes across the board, or have a mileage tax. Most of HN would't like option (1) because then everyone who bikes/takes public transit is subsidizing all highway transit.

So yeah, it has to happen eventually.
Secretive courts are unaccountable courts.

Let's say an arbitration court lawyer made a billion-dollar judgement in a corporation's favour, then the corporation offered the lawyer a position as an "expert legal advisor" paying a million dollars a year for very little work. I wouldn't turn down that offer if I was the lawyer, and I wouldn't hesitate to make that offer if I was the corporation.
What's justice got to do with anything? Insurance is a service, offered by a private entity to a private entity. You pay more in insurance than you're expected to pay for damages over a lifetime, but you get the peace of mind that comes from knowing you're not going to be bankrupt by an accident.

Sure, most industries benefit from a bit of regulation, but from that to "justice" is a long road.
I don't think adblockers will be so naive as to block anything that contains "ad" in the URL, but then again, there's a name for the bug caused by this particular type of matching:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

...so maybe some of them do have rather silly rulesets.
Kiddicraft, The Company Lego Ripped Off To Make Plastic Bricks (2014)
A good example of a completely useless comment.
Yes, this is a real problem! I learned testing in a waterfall environment (basically followed IEEE standards, ISQTB processes) and now work at a company that is more Agile. So many of the skills/techniques are fundamentally incompatible.
Ahh, this is the kind of thinking that frustrated me in my time as a software tester.

From a functionality perspective: maybe, but if the developer needs to explain the intended functionality of the application to the business end of the product then something has gone horribly wrong.

From a sheer "finding bugs" perspective: If you knew what would actually expose buggy functionality to the extent that you could write it down, you wouldn't have written that in the first place!

I encourage you to teach him the way that your specific language makes things happen on the machine and the way that software in general works (boundary conditions, etc). But I don't think that the above way of doing things, ESPECIALLY for a 2 man outfit, is a good idea.
Given the amount of absurd laws in modern democracies, I'm sure they have broken some laws. However, as they're prosecutors, i.e. part of the establishment, noone will charge them with crimes, as opposed to Aaron Swartz or weev himself.
A couple of months ago I processed all metadata from the Common Crawl project for all indexed domain names. This was about 10TB of metadata and resulted in 26 million domain names. EC2 costs were only about 10$ to process this. If anyone is interested, let me know.

edit: available as torrent here: https://all-certificates.s3.amazonaws.com/domainnames.gz?tor...
Netcraft have a somewhat vague article on their methodology on their site eg.

>By arranging for a number of IP addresses to send packets to us near simultaneously, low level TCP/IP characteristics can be used to work out, within an error margin, if those packets originate from the same computer, by checking for similarities in a number of TCP/IP protocol header fields. To build up sufficient certainty that IP addresses on the same computer have been identified, many visits to the sites in the Web Server Survey are necessary, which takes place during a period of over a month.

>Informal checking with two of the largest dedicated server companies suggests that the survey counts about 2⁄3 – 3⁄4 of the machines in their datacenters.

http://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/hosting-provide...
Couldn't you just raise the yearly tax on having a(n electric) car in that case?
> Should we avoid criticizing brutal dictatorships because they are an improvement over anarchy?

No, and only an incredibly uncharitable reading of my comment could suggest otherwise.

What is it about this topic that makes people go crazy? The examples in the article involved: donating to the homeless, paying people's water bills, and taxi pricing. The comments here have brought up slavery, selling drugs to addicts, and avoiding criticism of brutal dictatorships. Please, try to retain a sense of proportion.

It could be argued that outrage over PETA brought more attention to the problems of Detroit. I didn't know about the water shutoff until my Facebook feed was full of PETA hate. But it doesn't matter. People didn't get angry at PETA for "diverting attention." They got angry at PETA because PETA only helped a little bit.
Which is what every language with a C inheritance does. += has always mutated the original value, I don't know why you expected it to be different.

To me the real wtf is the second, where python creates a variable with the same name and discards it.
"Reagan wasn't afraid to correctly refer to the Soviet Union as an "Evil Empire""

I don't think that affected inter-country morale long-term. What mattered is what happens inside, what we do to each other, how we live. That's true even with immense value that soviet mentality always gave to outside views on it.

"our invasion of Grenada was a massive shock"

I was born in 1985, ostensibly, but I've never heard of this and don't even know where that Grenada is.

Frankly, what you wrote doesn't sound very important to the issue.
Agreed. Netherlands here, definitely went to school, sports and friends by myself before age 10, not sure how you exactly. Can recall getting lost once for hours when I cycled back from a friend who lived about 30 minutes away from my home after declining their parents' offer to drive me home, but after an hour or two I found my way back. If I had to go somewhere that was far away from home that I'd never been before I'd usually be accompanied, but to cycle the same route to school or football practice every day with my parents beyond age 8 or so? No way.
Someone would then argue that that "isn't C".
I think that GitHub would love the publicity personally. They strike me as being very savvy regards this sort of thing ;)
> It makes it possible to work on stuff you don't particularly enjoy by focussing on an expected long-term reward.

In that case i must be severely dopamine deficient...
That's fantastic - good work, love the stripped down nature of this too.
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PHP does few things right, but it provides an `empty` function for documenting this use case - it will return true for empty strings, null, empty arrays, and unset variables, among others.
Predictably the concept of testing in an agile environment has also been been explored, even if not in the core syllabus:

http://www.istqb.org/certification-path-root/agile-tester-ex...
Which is what multiple commenters said would happen, in the original thread.
Yes. But first Germany and the Soviet Union jointly kicked off World War II.
Citation needed.

Certainly for "99%" + "extreme poverty".

Most of other claims are weasel-y. You could say the same about a lot of countries who then figured themselves out.

"the level of... political inequality that noone these days can understand or accept" is especially fun to read for a citizen of Putinist post-Soviet Russia. I not only understand political inequality but also experience levels of it that exceed what 1914 had to offer. For example, they had real Duma with real parties! That didn't always vote the same!

Hundred years passed and yet today we are far worse off.
I agree, lumping all of Canada into a single 51st state is absurd.
> Cannabis blunts motivation

perspicacious diction
I can probably count on one hand the number of advertisers who respect "performance, security, and privacy."

Fine, then Mozilla's argument is that we should block everyone except those. And that we also should block trackers not in ads as well (e.g. Analytics).

I'm don't see why this is so contemptible a statement, or why we should call a person a "PR drone" for writing it.
The thing about being wrong is interesting.

It reminds me of something i read about a bright young developer that joined a company, got assigned tasks, completed them brilliantly, until the day that one stumped him.

Afterwards he claimed that the experience had been the best he could have, because until that day he had not really faced failure.
When reading the title, I was thinking more of real-world applications. For instance, the Cantor-Schröder-Bernstein theorem or the "Knight tour's" problems seem like rather abstract problems.
I would not recommend this as a default choice if you want to benefit from the security aspect of adblocking, as otherwise you might become too easily deceived into turning it off - along the same lines as those fake error message ads.

Since I have JavaScript disabled by default, I encounter plenty of such messages; but almost all of them I can safely ignore. It wouldn't surprise me if there are messages to the effect of "This site is not compatible with adblock, turn off your adblocker for a better experence" - and upon acting on such a message, the poor luser gets bombarded with all manner of popups and other crap. Incidentally, that's a similar experience to when I first started browsing with disabled JavaScript, and made me become much more wary of turning it on just because some site wants me to.
Also really cool are the first pictures from Venus from the USSR Venera missions: http://www.space.com/18551-venera-13.html

The environmental challenge here was of course far greater than for Mars.
Oh I missed that. You're doing good work there!
Apart from that's obviously not going to happen because of this:

self-servicing the receiving process.

We don't tend to actually pay for delivery costs any more, so when a company suddenly starts asking me to come down to the street to pick up the delivery, where's my benefit?

You're just going to lose business, for a saving of a couple of $.
Yes, go with Jekyll and use this 'Clean Blog' theme: https://github.com/IronSummitMedia/startbootstrap-clean-blog...

There are probably multiple ways to do it given Medium's clean design and popularity, but that's the way I've done it and I can recommend it.
> ... DNA from the crime
scene was matched to
his client with a
certainty of more than a
million to one. That
is, you'd have to go
through more than a
million people to find
somebody else who'd
match the sample.

Nope. False. Grotesque,
outrageous, brain-dead incompetence.
Instead, even with the "certainty"
of one million to one, might
find a "match" in the next
person or not in 10 million people.

Also, where'd they get this certainty
stuff? I have an excellent background,
thank you, in pure and applied probability,
and we don't use certainty like that
or, really, hardly at all.

Police work with DNA and
associated probability calculations?
This is from a Saturday morning
TV rerun of some old movie of
The Three Stooges, right?

With me on a jury, as soon as the
prosecutor presents
evidence from a police
lab and/or collected by
the police, especially
DNA evidence, I'll be
tempted to stand in
the jury box
and call for
acquittal via acclamation,
dismissal of the prosecutor
and police for incompetence,
and their prosecution for fraud!

As soon as a prosecutor presents
DNA evidence, I know he's talking
total nonsense and, then, tough to
get
a conviction.

Or, commonly a prosecutor will
want to show that the defendant
has a background of lying, etc.
Well, as soon as a prosecutor
presents DNA evidence, I have
to strongly suspect that he
is lying or at least incompetent.
Can't convict; have to acquit.

(1) Police departments? (2) The
biochemistry and probability
theory of work with DNA?
Two things that should never
be combined!

Police? Working with advanced,
delicate topics in science
and math? What a joke -- what
The Three Stooges could make
of that. Now definitely material
for SNL!