skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A counterpoint: I moved to France with my family this year, and work as a self-employed developer while bootstrapping my own company.

- our landlord wanted to see a tax return from the previous year and three months' bank statements. No guarantee required. Our tenancy is for three years, before which the landlord cannot terminate it, but we can with 3 months' notice at any time. Renting was easy and cheap, and comes with a great deal of security.

- our new bank wanted a LOT of information about us, and some 70 pages of documentation. But now it's set up I can email or phone them and get an instant response from someone that knows me and my family (and speaks fluent English to boot). Their online systems are considerably better than my previous UK bank's.

- Registering for self-employment was entirely online and took 20 minutes.

- I fill out a social security return quarterly, which takes ~45 seconds, and all of the calculations are handled for me.

- We pay more tax than in the UK. But the state also pays for 85% of our childcare costs, and credits half of the remainder against our income tax bill.

- When I needed to check on our residence tax status, I rolled up at our local tax office where I was seen within 2 minutes by a friendly official who had immediately called all our details up on his computer, showed me what I needed to know and told me everything was in hand. (It was.)

It's not perfect. Being an employer is seriously not fun. Self-employment has its issues too. But it seems to be getting better, and by and large the systems work. (Probably because there are huge numbers of people running them.)
It's interesting that the particular way these sorts of people are loud is enabled by the proliferation of social media. A side effect of society being more connected.
> It all seems so low tech.

This is because the alternative is very high tech. A living part of the body that isn't self repairing needs to be regenerated somehow. The tooth -under the enamel- is a complex living structure that doesn't self-repair. Much of our medical practice, esp. w.r.t. trauma, is based on the premise that the body can repair itself if perhaps given some assistance. But that premise fails with cavities.

At first blush, I was hoping that this work was going to be an advance that would promote repair in the deeper layers of the tooth. Sadly, we're not there yet.
Sharepoint cannot even be referred to as a wiki (at least what I've seen, it's an MSOffice document store with some clumsy shared-edting kludged on).

Confluence used to have regular wiki syntax plus WYSIWYG for non-geeks, but the non-WYSIWYG appears to have been killed off completly. It's till a wiki, but barely.
Great job guys!
How about building it, then inviting only people who you trust not to put nudity or bad things in general, and thenm if it takes off, making the website accepting only users who have been invited by current members?
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I don't know. But some people find it to be crossing a line. I don't get it, but I'm also not in a particular minority group (religious minority in my area, but I don't get upset about sexy nun costumes) that's commonly discriminated against.

Some people might see it as cultural appropriation. But it's a fictional character. Similarly, my ex-girlfriend often (with the approval of her Taiwanese and Chinese friends) dressed in some traditional Chinese outfits for Halloween for several years. None took offense, they encouraged it!

It's really hard to tell what's going to offend and what's not.
No, that's clearly nonsense.

Can you hear the difference between 16-bit audio with dither and 16-bit audio without dither?

Most people can. Now consider - that difference is created by adding a noise signal which is more than 90dB down compared to the maximum possible level.

By all reasonable expectations that difference should be completely inaudible under normal listening conditions.

But the effect it has isn't inaudible at all.

When you understand why, then you'll understand the difference between peer-reviewed and objectively tested psychoacoustic theory, and hand-waving about numbers.

You'll also understand why it's trivially easy to tell amplifiers and converters apart even when they have distortion products well below -90dB.

That aside - you're making the usual mistake of confusing dynamic range with resolution.

What's the effective bit resolution of a -48dB signal on a 16 bit system?

What's the resolution of the same signal on a 24dB system with the same output level?

What's the minimum number of bits needed to make quantisation noise inaudible? (Clue: rather more than 8.)
No surprise that literally the worst article on the Yale race issue would be the one that shoots up HN.

> Erika Christakis' ... message was a model of relevant, thoughtful, civil engagement.

That is a parody of bullshit.

She refers repeatedly about "censure and prohibition but do read the email she is complaining about [1] and tell me where the requirements are:

[1] http://pastebin.com/TLGSdaTg

> Yale is a community that values free expression as well as inclusivity. And while students, undergraduate and graduate, definitely have a right to express themselves, we would hope that people would actively avoid those circumstances that threaten our sense of community or disrespects, alienates or ridicules segments of our population based on race, nationality, religious belief or gender expression... There is growing national concern on campuses everywhere about these issues, and we encourage Yale students to take the time to consider their costumes and the impact it may have. So, if you are planning to dress-up for Halloween, or will be attending any social gatherings planned for the weekend, please ask yourself these questions before deciding upon your costume choice

From the genius annotations to her email [2] by April Joyner:

[2] http://genius.com/8083098

> it is hard for me to give credence to a claim that there is something objectionably “appropriative” about a blonde-haired child’s wanting to be Mulan for a day

This is an example of a straw man argument. The original email from the Intercultural Affairs Council said nothing about blond-haired children wanting to be Mulan—or children at all. The email listed “wearing feathered headdresses, turbans, wearing ‘war paint’ or modifying skin tone or wearing blackface or redface” as examples of Halloween costumery that could be culturally insensitive. Christakis also likens college students, most of whom (legally speaking) are adults, to young children.
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I read the context for the article in several other places, and the original Christakis mail, and I think you're incorrect.

There was apparently a racist incident at a frat house, but Christakis had nothing to do with it. The ire Christakis faces appears to derive entirely from the email Erika Christakis wrote. When the girl in the campus quad screams at Christakis that he's disgusting, should resign, and should not be able to sleep at night, she's yelling because he refuses to apologize for the email.
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Good, I hope they'll pay as much money as it gets until this is removed. FB is a sleazy company by its core.

In other news, their FB Messenger app will scan the phones Camera roll for new photos, recognize faces and offer sharing to your friends it recognized. In certain regions only for now and of course it's opt-OUT by default [1].

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2015/11/09/facebook-messenger-photo-magic...
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I think it's the wrong question. Sure, I'd love to work on the hot new app that everybody has in their pocket and can't live without until next week.

But more than that, I want to work with as many smart people and as few assholes as possible. I've found both groups in startups and enterprise. I also want to make good money, and I want to feel supported in my career development.

The rest, as they say, are implementation details.
Yes.

The rare moments where my mind stays quiet and there isn't a garbled mess of audiovisual thoughts are bliss.

Most of the time it's painful hell, which I sometimes drown with various drugs.

So, screw this new research, wandering thoughts are horrible.
Jira 3 was an okay issue tracker. Jira 4 is a SLOOOW issue and a terrible agile planning tool.

Much happier with Trello and a zero bug policy.
A lot of untested rape kits are untested because there is no actual controversy over whether or not sex happened or with whom, just over whether it was consensual.
That was my reaction too. Over 80% of the company is still in the hands of the executives, directors, etc. That is amazing and even a relatively modest (by current standards) IPO will mean a huge windfall for many of them.
In the sense of not being able to concentrate as well as I want to, yes.
I don't think the fact that liberals dominate the ranks of most universities is actually related to this phenomenon. Faculty liberals are from the time of student activists favoring free speech, not opposing.

Though maybe that is part of the problem: it's harder to have a coherent argument when two very different camps both use the same overarching ideological name to define their diametrically opposed views.
That's an interesting synergy, I think you're right. I think it explains a lot about why I do not do well at SC: I am poor at most of those other games, so a union of those seems especially daunting.
There are plenty of things in Erika Christakis email I disagree with too. But the student protesters aren't demanding that their disagreement be heard. They're demanding that Nicholas and Erika Christakis resign from their position over it.
I imagine the majority of people on this forum are pressuring themselves to focus on something, a project, work, or relationship. Inevitably you'll have to battle a wandering mind. Maybe that's where burnout comes in, not letting your mind wander anymore.
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Make the data collected and the means of collection entirely open to me as an end-user, and I'll have a lot more trust in providing said data.

I don't think many people object to the idea of Microsoft collecting crash reports and such. It is the types and amount of data that they have access to with the new telemetry reporting, and the overall privacy concerns that arise as a result.
me too. _nine_ years ago.
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> vitamin C has no side effects

I'm not aware of evidence that this is true for megadoses (e.g. 10g per day, as you mentioned).

Given that you are making a claim not supported by mainstream medical consensus (that megadoses of vitamin C have positive health effects), you are essentially arguing that megadoses of Vitamin C have a different effect than regular doses. Given that you admit that megadoses have a different effect to regular doses, what is your evidence that megadoses have no side effects?
Why is alphabetical order great? It just only means that people with last names starting with z will get penalized every single time because of choosing wrong parents! I would think randomized order would be chosen - especially if you were mathematician.
Doesn't it depend on the circumstances? Sometimes the kit might not reveal any useful information. You assume because it is some sciency sounding thing it will give you 100% information, but what do you actually know about those kits? They might also just yield some likelihood or even false pointers. Why do you automatically assume the police chose to ignore important evidence? The article doesn't tell us anything about that.
For me this is one of those things that I would definitely spend $800/hour on! Not to mention that the drugs they use to put you under are amazing.

Ironically I had my 4 wisdom teeth pulled without it - wasn't even offered to me at the time. I only had the anesthesia once for a minor dental procedure.
You won't find many unbiased native english speakers who agree that the (some) is the implication there. It's just not how the language is used in every day speech for exactly the reasons I outlined previously.

At this point there's no reason to continue with this conversation. The basis of your argument is flawed, but you're not likely to see it, and I'm not likely to give you any leeway with respect to the (some) interpretation.

So lets stop here.
Been in NZ for just over 4 years. The AU/NZ banking system is way out ahead of the US in my experience. Instant acct-acct transfers even on weekends. Hourly posting for bank to bank transfers. Better online experiences. Most of the big banks, and kiwibank, offer good free expense tracking and budgeting software ala mint.. I really hate having to deal with my US accounts :|
Actually, I do think it is an essential clarification. Both groups claim to be "liberal" but they often have dramatically different interpretations of that term.

> If you took a survey of the groups described in the article, 90% would self-identify as liberal.

This same statistic probably extends to the faculty and administrators trying to maintain a semblance of intellectualism at universities. They identify as liberal and came of age in a time when that actually meant supporting free speech.
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Having moved to the South mid-career, I have to agree that there are lots of jobs here, but most of them are undesirable for one reason or another. For most of the tech jobs in the region, there will be plenty of competent co-workers, but your lords and masters will be mostly clueless.

But I also have to correct your knowledge of airports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham%E2%80%93Shuttleswor...

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

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

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

Of the list you provided, only Knoxville does not have an international airport.
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Very droll. That photo was taken in West Berlin and the car in question is a BMW 600[1], built between 1957 and 1959. (Oddly enough, I saw its little sister[2] not far from that spot a few days ago.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_600

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta
That idea is nowhere in evidence here.
The sweeping generalization that college students are liberals is completely warranted.
Math works the same way. Have you heard of the Ham Sandwich Theorem[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem
Maybe the kits don't really "make you sure". What do you know about them?
For some people, altering what other people do by acting super offended is the only power they will ever experience. The text of the offense is not important and does not have to make any sense to you.
He addressed Brython at PyCon '15. I don't see the slides online, but the video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBfOFqDIAI.

Abstract:

> PyPy.js is an experiment in building a fast, compliant, in-browser python interpreter. By compiling the PyPy interpreter into javascript, and retargeting its JIT compiler to emit asmjs code at runtime, it is possible to run python code in the browser at speeds competitive with a native python environment. This talk will demonstrate the combination of technologies that make such a thing possible, the results that have been achieved so far, and the challenges that still remain when trying to take python onto javascript's home turf.

> We'll cover: an overview of PyPy and why it's a good fit for this type of project; an introduction to asmjs and the rise of javascript as a compile target; what it looks like when you smoosh these two technologies together; a comparison with other approaches such as brython and PythonJS; and some concrete suggestions for how the result might be useful in practice.
based on the length of body parts and sticks or the volume of some arbitrary measurement cup

Let's not forget the weight of a stone!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(unit)
Their products are well designed but often sluggish which ruins the experience. I stopped using them because of that, unfortunately. It created a barrier in my head and made me hesitant every time I wanted to interact with their software.
The USPS isn't mandated by the Constitution, it is an exercise of discretionary powers granted the Congress by Article I, and Congress could, Constitutionally, choose not to exercise that power, just as it chooses not to exercise its power to issue letters of marquee and reprisal.

Its not going away because while members of Congress who would have liked to have killed it could sell quasi-privatization, various accounting mandates, and other hostile policies to their constituents as efficiency measures, they can't take the political backlash they'd expect from killing it outright.

It doesn't take a Constitutional Amendment to kill it, just Congress deciding that they want to badly enough to actually do it and take the political heat.
Hmmm, so "knowledge" in this case means having access to the intersection between two sets of information that allows you to hone into the solution? That's an interesting way to think about knowledge (and confidence intervals).
Eve isn't pay to win. The ships that are actually expensive are basically flying coffins, they're useful for large scale activities but you'll die if you try to fight alone with it. Most large groups will have doctrine ships that are essentially free.
I, too, read the letter, which was my impetus for doing further research of my own. It seems pretty benign and progressive when read with no surrounding context, so I found it hard to believe that some of the smartest students in the country would have such a poor reaction towards it.

This was the big deal, apparently:

"There was so much coded language in that e-mail that is just disrespectful," said Ewurama Okai, a junior.

I'm not arguing against free speech, but it seems like many interpreted her comments to be accepting of a pervasive and ingrained culture of racism at Yale.

It's unfortunate but understandable that some students got so worked up that they behaved poorly and acted on emotion, rather than rationally, which they later did with the petition and various letters/articles addressing the issue.

We should be focusing on the overall themes of the argument rather than the specific anecdotes of what one student said or did which may not be representative of the entire body.
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As descriptive rather than prescriptive. And certainly not naturalist.
Many many thanks in advance to anyone who answers:

I've futzed around with ML docs (dataquest, random articles, first 3 weeks of andrew ng course on coursera) & what I don't get about this (http://tensorflow.org/tutorials/mnist/beginners/index.md) is how to actually make a prediction / classification on something that is not "test" data. Can anyone point me in the right direction of how to "use" a model once I have it validated, like we do at the end of that tutorial?
> The Christakis family is quite powerful at Yale, certainly in comparison to the students trying to get them replaced.

From what I can see, it does look like he's an outstanding academic. But unfortunately that doesn't help much against an angry, offended mob.

> some backwards, incompetent administrators

Which part of the polite email that was sent would you describe as "incompetent" or "backwards?"

It's a sad day when you see students petitioning for professors to be removed for treating them like adults.
Care to elaborate what the techniques your current dentist taught you?
If we're arguing based on time, we might as well say that the tides are changing the amount of land available in any given geographical region. The only difference is scale (i.e. Toyota won't be putting out new vehicles forever)
To me, it sounds like it's a crime to be wrong about something regarding racial issues at Yale.

The Genius annotation of the letter makes a lot of totally reasonable arguments, reasonable enough that I would characterize the whole letter as "somewhat wrong-headed" now. But so what?
The foul odor may well have been from an infection.
I would join everyone, but given the stories I'm hearing, I wouldn't feel safe without afirearm ready and California has repealed open carry [ 1 ], so we'll just have to let this one go to the town.

[ 1 ] http://www.shouselaw.com/open-carry.html
Did you try taking zinc right after an onset of symptoms? I experimented with that one and had like 50% probability of getting over some common viroses within one day.
It may help that I'm using over-ear closed headphones that have a really good seal and block most outside noise.
If they're not useful then don't collect them. There's no circumstance where it makes sense to collect them but not test them. I don't think this dichotomy rests on any assumptions about how they work or what information they give.

I'm sure there are some circumstances where testing the kit is completely redundant. But how often does that happen? If it's rare, why bother carving out an exception?
Browsers have evolved into exactly what people wanted Java for all along. Except it evolved from the wrong base. Kind of like if an elephant evolved to have intelligence and communication like ours instead of monkeys. That's pretty much the DOM & JS.
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Well for one thing, in the Old McCarthyism, you could be called to testify before HUAC about your communist links, and there were industry-wide blacklists running.
All too true at times.
In its Pycon 2015 presentation, the main author (from Mozilla) answers why isn't so simple to just include python in FF: https://youtu.be/PiBfOFqDIAI?t=1611
India is doing something similar on a village scale?

http://www.ecotippingpoints.org/our-stories/indepth/india-ra...
When I reviewed the comment, there were no responses. It would be so much better if this was expressed as a comment. I was genuinely curious about the downvotes, not because of the score but because I wanted to understand the sentiment!

FWIW, the GP didn't make a sweeping statement that all students were liberals, but that it was reported that student administration is largely composed of liberals.

Now that is a bit problematic, because a. It doesn't state where this is reported so it's hard to counter, and b. It doesn't define what is meant by the term "liberal"... But these are all things to ask for clarification on.

If we could ask for clarification in a respectful way (I'm guilty of not being respectful I'm afraid) these threads would be a lot more enlightening as the discourse would flow more freely and clearly.
You may be thinking this map shows the same patterns you would see in
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another article of theirs about an earlier study:
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I would recommend listening to this sometime: http://www.maximumfun.org/sawbones/sawbones-vitamins

I'd be curious to see if you still hold the same opinions. (It's a very entertaining podcast too!)