skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm working on the Telepathy integration for it myself on weekends in a sketch repo.

I'm super interested in this - do you have the repo posted anywhere?

I love Telepathy and its native clients, but it doesn't support things like remote history retrieval... I feel like that would have to be done before a Matrix CM could work really well.
This is a pointless statement. Nobody's going to stop being offended just because you said so. It's as effective as yelling into the wind.

Instead, one has to ask: why is this happening? At least from where I'm sitting, it's clear that a lot of these recent flare-ups have been caused by previously disenfranchised groups finally getting their voices heard in the popular media. Sometimes they go too far, but there's a lot of repressed anger in the air from years and decades of mistreatment. If your solution is to yell at them to shut the fuck up, it will backfire. Horribly.

Also, not all cases of someone insulting you for being different are equal. Some are in-the-moment, sure. But some carry the weight of decades of hatred behind them. Equating the two invalidates the severity of the latter and keeps marginalized groups marginalized.

I think reaching for the "PC culture" argument is the easy way out. It would do us all a lot of good to try to put ourselves in the adverserial party's shoes, even if we might (vehemently) disagree with their actions.

The topic has to be approached with extreme sensitivity.
I agree that frequentist methods are more amenable to teaching students to apply rote formulas that they do not understand.

I do not agree that this is a feature. Quite the contrary.
> And allowing politicians to choose which scientific research is published is catastrophic. It invalidates everything published by government scientists because the political filter biases the published results -- intentionally. It would be better that the research not be done at all than that it be published only if it aligns with the political goals of elected officials.

Indeed. There are already enough problems with publication bias -- adding further bias is not helpful.
I have the same problem. I improved upon it by writing recall notes in a word processor - with diagrams, code, explanations - every 3 or 4 weeks. I do this for every topic I'm having difficulty with. It has improved my recall and understanding.

I did try Anki for a while, but I was unable to get comfortable with its user interface or workflow. This is possibly because the topics I'm learning are concept and math heavy like ML and image processing, and unlike spoken languages, don't lend themselves easily to rote memorization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsteroidal_anti-inflammatory...

Basically anyone with any sort of GI issue, kidney issues, or heart issues. As well as alcoholics.
In particular, I like that they produced a random tie knot generator: http://tieknots.johanssons.org/
How to get Doze on earlier version of Android
Today’s app pick we are back with one of the most awaited and tempting feature: better battery life. http://goo.gl/1gSwc3
It's a very punchy, very energetic fill or break that's just proven extremely versatile and great sounding, especially for drum and bass. It just sounds good! There are some other very famous breaks too, the Funky Drummer for example.
Agustus is referring to the nearly complete suffocation the SF housing situation currently finds itself within.

Here's a data-driven post about it: https://medium.com/@sirwart/the-future-of-housing-in-san-fra...
G20: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin Agree to Syrian-Led Transition
Yes, yes, it's very cute to couch a belief in imaginary worm holes through dimension X behind bland jargon like variable scoping.

And yes, just last month, incontrovertible evidence that with the knowledge of a particle's spin at site A, I can instantaneously infer another particle's spin at site B and always be correct. So magical.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7575/full/nature1...

But not because the particle landing at site B had already possessed a spin we could not measure at the time of emission. No!

The spin was all things to all people when emitted, and would remain as such until after we so courteously ask site A's particle to reveal its spin!

Bell says that the spin instantaneously traveled through a worm hole, across space and time, whispering in the ear of the site B particle, so that it could poof! Change it's mind!

Bell says no unknowable secrets allowed.

Bell says everyone can have everything.

Bell says it's not because of something we can't determine.

Bell says it's because of a special message transmitted in a way no one can intercept. Not even him!

Bell says we must have our love notes dictated to us after they are sent, and only then may true love be known! Until then, the notes are written in all languages, as both hate and love, war and peace!

Bell says Bob won't love Alice until Alice loves Bob! That Bob's note re-writes itself before his love can be unrequited because Bob refuses to get dumped!
My company's dev team is on Slack, so I log in there whenever I need to talk to them--unless we're doing a video conference, at which point we switch to Google Hangouts. Most of our clients prefer the phone, email or SMS/iMessage, but the ones that don't use Skype. If I'm chatting with friends it's probably on Facebook, unless it's on Hangouts. Any video chat my family does is over Facetime.

These services are never going to inter-operate, and I hate it. Imagine if we had to maintain different telephone numbers or different email accounts just to communicate with different groups of people. It's almost unimaginable, but that's what we have now with text and video chat.

This is core communications infrastructure. These segregated private networks have begun to displace the public telephone network in terms of popularity and importance. These are also the platforms over which video communication is being rolled out--not the public telephone network, as most people would have thought twenty-five years ago.

The FCC needs to step in and set some inter-operability rules for the major players here. I have mixed emotions suggesting this, considering that I'm generally opposed to regulation of the Internet. But unless the government steps in, can the situation ever change? Doesn't it need to?
Ask HN: “CoffeeScript for Go”?
1. Is there anything out there that provides a "syntax-sugary" language very similar to Go which compiles to Go, kind of like CoffeeScript for JavaScript?

2. Would any Go developers be interested in using such a language?

I've always thought it could be a cool idea and is something I personally wanted. I've been considering hacking together something like this, but I'd have even more incentive if others were interested.

I don't think I'd do away with braces and use significant whitespace like CoffeeScript does. Rather, just provide sugar for many common operations, probably with a Python or Ruby feel. Things like negative indices, something to reduce repetition for the most common cases of error handling, and one-line anonymous function shorthand.

Obviously this conflicts a bit with Go's fundamental principles of simplicity, but I'm wondering who would consider it a worthy tradeoff and use such a language.
I wonder if a suitably minimalist C compiler (along the lines of C4[1] or C4x86[2], although perhaps a bit more featured) and/or assembler to go along with it would be a neat idea too - now you can have a complete self-bootstrapping OS which one person can easily understand.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8746054
ActorDB: Distributed SQL database with linear scalability
Samsung made the world's largest hard drive, with nearly 16TB of storage
Of course, the problems you solve for a transient resident that's required to be employed (by the company that runs the town) and is only going to spend one year of his/her life there are much different than the problems a real-world city faces.

It's easy to make a town that's livable for those that are relatively affluent and relatively young.
From your comment history you appear to have some background in statistics, but what you're written here is curiously missing the fundamentals. It's not exactly clear what you're arguing, but I am definitely curious because I must be missing it!

To answer your last question directly: nobody argues that there are zero differences between groups in an experiment, but rather that the central limit theorem applies, which is a statement about the distribution of means in particular circumstances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
Once we have nanobot cameras we can send them in through the cracks. All the more reason to invent nanobot cameras.

Well, that and the amazing medical imaging they could be used for.
Ask HN: What is the best book to learn probability through self study?
Hi,
I am using Introduction to Probability by Joe Blitzstein and Jessica Hwang to learn probability by self study but I would like to have an additional book for problems practice. Can you suggest one that has solutions available for students? It would be nice if it is free but it is ok otherwise.
Best thing about this is that it runs in Bochs.

As useful as it is, especially outside of i386, QEMU has grown to be a massive program with many dependencies that requires GB of RAM/swap during compilation.
I used Prosody. It's pretty simple to setup. You can get free certs from StartSSL to make it secure.

I shut off my server just recently, because no-one uses XMPP anymore.
Sounds like how i watched a local IRC channel wither and die once PCs with Windows XP started shipping. This because XP came with a aggressive marketing for MSN Messenger.
Nonsense. If we didn't have greater security for air travel aircraft would rain from the skies. And the sheer devastation to global economies would have no imaginable measure. Is security perfect? Far from it. But it is far better than doing nothing.

I think you might be blind to a whole layer of the infrastructure because you never have visibility into it. I do. I own a company that conducts business internationally. Passenger aircraft don't just carry passengers. Before the extensive security measures implemented progressively after 9-11 taking down a plane with cargo would have almost been child's play. Today, not so. I don't know how much you travel. If you do, be thankful there are people who did their best to ensure someone isn't shipping an incendiary device on the same plane you and your family happen to be on.

The business of attempting to create equivalency between deaths due to smoking or heat disease and terrorism is simply laughable at best. There is no equivalence and nothing prevents anyone from addressing them as the separate and unrelated problems they are.
Do you think that it might be possible that different inputs to a situation could lead to different likelihoods for various outcomes?
Random Forests are part of how the LHC found the higgs, based on my armchair understanding of the slide decks.

Measurement, Monte Carlo and Machine Learning form an interesting triangle. My impression of the LHC pipe is they used monte carlo model sims to train up classifiers that would flag the data relevant for distinguishing alternate models.
I worked hard to get my family all on XMPP and succeeded. The problem is, they all want to be on iMessage as well, because of course that's what everyone else in the world uses. Eventually iMessage became the de-facto default even inside my family, and there was just no reason for XMPP to exist.
Just because they found grain silos which were not pyramids doesn't mean that they pyramids weren't also grain silos. Duuuuh.
Are Japanese kids as enamored of Pokémon as American kids are?
This is old but it's a good example: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/how-israel-saved-intel/

Israel is very very very focused on high technology, much more so than the US. It's the reason for their economic success, and they have the human capital to be good at it.

Since the US (people in the US) can do lots of things for income, it doesn't have that hyper focus and strong need to be great at tech.

On top of that Israel has a huge need for technology for defense which is an even stronger motivator (for example every military vehicle sold by the US to Israel has no electronics, instead Israel puts in it's own custom stuff).

It works out for the US anyway because the US is such a great ally to Israel that virtually all the tech is immediately shared between the two countries (and that includes the military with secret stuff - people think US aid to Israel is a one way street, but nothing could be further from the truth).

> but their economy just isn't big enough to be ahead technology-wise.

First the economy is shared with the US in many ways. Second technology is all about brainpower, and Israel has that. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.
"what already I know about other similar people"

But it doesn't work that way. Some properties get associated to members of a class, while others do not.

Let's take discrimination on the basis of blood type personality theory in parts of Asia. Many people in Japan believe that one's personality is strongly affected by one's blood type. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_personality_theory :

> Many people have been discriminated against because of their blood type. Employers ask blood types during interviews despite the warnings they have been given. Children at schools have been split up according to their blood type. The national softball team has customized training to fit each player's blood type. Companies have given work assignments according to their employee's blood type.

Yet all evidence is that there is no basis for this form of discrimination. It's pseudoscience akin to discrimination based on one's astrological sign.

So it's clear that discrimination can rise even without a meaningful prior for a given attribute.

We can also look at left- vs. right-handedness for an example of varying levels of discrimination even when the underlying genetics and thus putative justification for discrimination hasn't changed. To copy a quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl... :

> "I was educated in the USA in Catholic school in the 60s. My left hand was beaten until it was swollen, so I would use my right right [sic] hand" ... "I had a teacher who would smack my left hand with a yardstick every time she caught me writing with my left hand" ... "My fourth grade teacher [...] would force me to use my right hand to perform all of my school work. If she caught me using my left hand, I was hit in the head with a dictionary. It turned out that she believed left handers were connected with Satan."

Since we know that discrimination can arise without a prior, and the level of discrimination can change even the prior does not change, it's not clear that Bayesian reasoning is a good way to understand the issue.

In addition, it doesn't help understand why some factors are used to define 'similar people' while others are not. Men are far more likely to be involved in crime in the US, including domestic terrorism to white collar crime, but aren't universally discriminated against for being a member of that class. Or on the topic of white collar crime, editorials like 'Wall Street Criminals Are Still a Protected Class in America' at http://www.vice.com/read/wall-street-criminals-are-still-a-p... highlight how the Bayesian prior is outright ignored.

Thus, I'm not convinced that humans really use Bayesian reasoning as the basis for -isms.
Not sure how you can say this after claiming something so completely stupid as claiming muslims were provoked in the early middle ages into starting their expansion wars. History is not on your side, so you're now making the claim that history itself is ridiculous and worthless ? And even on those terms you cannot stop making the moronic claim. Whatever happened in 1800 did not provoke muslims into expanding, as muslim expansion wars and genocides predate the very nation you're talking about.

But that's not what you're doing at all isn't it ? You're just so terrified by the simple explanation that it must be wrong. And damn causality, damn rational thought, fuck sanity, we can't be in this situation ! Any explanation is good enough just to think it's not true, any at all.

You must make a great atheist.

My claim is simple: it would be that the ideology itself is aggressive, and that friday's attacks and the original expansion wars, and all the wars and genocides committed by these people in between are all the result of this. This is the claim all of these terrorists make themselves, it is a claim you will find in plenty of history books, and it is what everybody would think if you merely erased the word "religion" from the question. Nobody would find this claim the least bit controversial if it were about a dozen political ideologies, but somehow this one ideology needs to be exempt, because it "hurts people's feelings".

Like all terrorist organisations, the military arm of isis is tiny relative to the total organisation. Attacking that is useless, it's like attacking one of Goldman Sach's cleaning staff hoping it'll bring down the organization. In reality, of course that person will be replaced before you can blink. 99% of ISIS is in the west, in mosques in Holland and in Australia. Those need to be attacked if we're to stop this.
This is the latter. There are a lot of reasons you would not want this for accurate simulation, one being that you basically prime your simulation on your training data. The other one being that SPH is already quite an approximation of Navier Stokes.

But for real-time animation, this is very nice. The problem with particle fluid simulations is that everything scales linearly, but only in the number of operations per particle per simulation timestep. But the more particles you have, the smaller the timestep needs to be in order to not let the simulation explode. And this is a real problem, because you want multi-million particle simulations for realistic water, but then the number of steps you need to compute per frame increases.

They managed to do a single simulation step per frame.
For anyone else who got excited about basketball...this isn't about the NBA :(
Paris, Surveillance, and Political Expedience
Amazon using it's strategies to grow and if local business can't do something to tackle these, they are ought to perish.
From customers point of view cost and quality matters. Low cost will always be preferred.

And off course not everyone will be receiving a $75 gift.
Also spying on everyone.
So what you are using an unbelievable number of words to say is that "The US gave the nuclear material to Israel on purpose and other countries better realize that and be warned"?
The University of Toronto used to use OS161 as well. The OS161 code contains lots comments, but xv6's textbook [1] covers things in more detail which is sometimes useful.

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2014/xv6/book-rev8.pdf
I tried to use JsPlumb and it was a nightmare. I think there is a lot of documentation for JsPlumb, but it's structured so poorly that it makes it hard to use. I'm pretty sure I had an unpleasant experience with JsPlumb mostly because the framework behaves much differently than what the documentation suggests.

You should still check it out though. It might work for you.

https://jsplumbtoolkit.com/
Brazil mining flood could devastate environment for years
I'd say D3 is a super set of the features in SigmaJS. D3 is more comprehensive in the sense that there are so many types of visualizations you can make using just D3.
Can you show or explain how it does? Welcome to the world of belief systems and preferences.

The lightening is not "searching" anything. Inequalities within the system are resolving to destinations and expending themselves. That energy is discharged into many endpoints merely indicates that the amount of energy on one side of the inequality can overflow many receptacles on the receiving end, before overflowing all the way to the ground state offered by the earth.

Is this really so hard to comprehend? In a non-vacuum filled with charged moisture, why should it surprise anyone that mid-air electrical arcing should take curious paths? Why must the lightening be anthropomorphized, such that it "thinks" and then "chooses" the "best" route to the ground?

If the static charge had been less intense, and satisfied an equilibrium before even reaching in the ground, would it still have "chosen" anything?
Regarding Docker: You can easily run your own Docker container registry. The DockerHub UI isn't open source, but the underlying server and protocol for fetching/uploading images is.

See:
https://hub.docker.com/_/registry/
https://github.com/docker/distribution
https://blog.docker.com/2013/07/how-to-use-your-own-registry...

There are several companies that have implemented alternative container registries. Google (Google Container Registry), CoreOS (Quay) , and JFrog (Artifactory) all come to mind.
We need to do a better job at integrating them (both from social and policing point of view). This is an expense but is less an expense than doing war at foreign country.

Unfortunately, multiculturalism has often been used as an excuse for not doing enough. Many times I have heard police to say (about some atrocity that happened in some subculture) that this is "how they do things in their culture/community". It's unacceptable excuse for not doing the job.

Appeal of radicalism is ultimately a social issue like many others (say, appeal of drugs, appeal of violence), and it should be dealt with as such. People on the right don't like the idea of telling somebody what to do at someone else's expense, but I am afraid that good prevention (access to education, having good job) is the only thing that really works here.

Whether citizens will accept the above is of course up to them, but I am convinced (from empirical evidence) that this is the best way to handle the problem in open society. If, on the other hand, the goal is to remove as much terrorism as possible, then the open society is perhaps no good. If you close off borders, have isolationist foreign policy, and establish a semi-totalitarian regime, you will probably get less terrorism (this was case of Czechoslovakia in the past). But this strategy probably comes with its own set of disadvantages (according to this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_immigrant..., the only country that seems to be worth immigrating into with low amount of immigrants is Japan).
I really want to do the same trip they did! With less challenges and smaller souvenirs of course.
Many people would parse this as "I'll listen to you, but only if you behave how I see fit."

Their response would be that they definitely don't have to ask you for permission to speak up.
Doing this requires taste, and taste doesn't seem to require an arts degree (on the contrary, what I see arts department producing nowadays is basically making a point through lack of taste).

BTW. My knowledge of typography, as well as data-related graphics design and organizing skills have improved quite a lot just a year or two ago. It was not because of going to an arts school, it's because I stumbled upon Tufte's books while procrastinating on HN. The point being, learning random stuff is random.

(If we want to improve it, then maybe let's introduce a "quick overview of a lot of completely random stuff" course in STEM classes.)
How Terrorism Works (2013)
this is pretty cool and I think you are on the right track here. but here's the same question here - are you making the process of package creation much easier ?

Because I suspect until you acquire mindshare among the academics (who distribute their research as R code), this will be difficult to scale.