skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But remember, the implementations come with a license agreement, that you may not find acceptable.

Here are an example of licenses, the book has some others, but they are not hugely different:

http://numerical.recipes/aboutNR3license.html
Book ordered. Thanks for the suggestion. Out of print, so a second hand copy off Amazon had to suffice.
White House response: “Publicly affirm your support for strong encryption”
Similar in Seattle. Good luck getting Google Fiber here.
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Certainly the risk of $X0,000 is here.

"Valued" has no meaning unless the company is publicly traded or there is a qualified exit.

There must be a marketplace to "sell" tax bills for a chunk of options?
What's probably happening here is there are company-selected vacation days being left out of the number. You get to choose 10, but another 10 are picked by the company.

I worked as a programmer at a big boring company which did this - 10 days of company holidays, 10 days of you-get-to-choose. It's a month off total, but you only have control over 2 weeks, so it's presented as 10 vacation days.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/
good for them to do a major city. i'm still waiting for pdx.
Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing was always my go to reference. It's a classic.
Absolutely. I don't see how this is an ad. It's the one and only feature that the plugin itself provides -- pin (as of recently) an article to read later. Just like you can pin pictures.

Isn't this precisely why you'd install the Chrome plugin in the first place?
It also parodied Ex Machina.
it will also lead, hopefully, to less grainy videos of cops shooting fleeing suspects in the back.
Generally speaking people make the argument that maximizing individual profit is inevitable. Socialist systems simply make the group of people that maximize individual profit very small.

In reality the difference between capitalism and communism has nothing to do with money, it is about control. In capitalism those with money (who made previously successful economic decisions) mostly decide. In communism the government (who are people too) decide directly.

The problem with government decisions/communism is that people always seem to refuse to accept reality in some way. Something must keep existing, and damn the economic impact. Then the impact becomes significant compared to the size of the economy, and the system dies.

Capitalism forces governments to accept the confines of reality (mostly), communism does not. This is unfortunately exactly the problem most socialist thinkers have with it. For example, climate change might be unsolvable under capitalism. What you don't realize is that this is a good thing, not a bad thing, as the only alternative is to expend all resources we have in a failed attempt at achieving that. The only thing that would happen if we did that, of course, is the collapse of our society. (just using this as an example, I'm not saying preventing climate change is unachievable)
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Math Quartet Joins Forces on Unified Theory
Of course. And my conclusion is that, while the problem is hard, it can be solved. That it's not solved is either a lack of skill or a lack of will (or some combination thereof), not because it's an impossible task.

On Apple's side, they don't care in the least about the poor experience of third-party developers, as has been proven many times throughout the years. They're also struggling to keep a massive system going which has diverged substantially from its original scope and purpose as the iTunes Music Store. Combine a hard problem with zero motivation to improve it and you get what we have.
So it is a sheet of pinhole cameras? And the images are focused by selecting from various diameters of pixels behind each pinhole? It looks like a great idea, but some of the descriptions make it seem more than it is.
> You are being overly pedantic when it comes to _science_ and I say this as a trained scientist.

Reckon you're part of the problem, then. Appeal to authority and a refusal to hold research to a high standard.

> They should at minimum lose their jobs, have any research redacted from journals and possibly face jail time.

We agree on this. I don't even see how it's controversial. I'd just like to see the other 99% of crap science handled the same way.
Their code can be kind of buggy and often does not handle corner cases well, however. I've had some of their iterative solvers iterate forever when the initial iterate is the solution, etc.
Generic in the same sense as this quote:

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” -Toni Morrison

So maybe white, but possibly not. It is a personal decision. It is a statement about one's personal politics where one sees their identity as either apolitical or that it ought to be apolitical. Perhaps even that identity politics itself should not be a thing. A politics of generic identity.

I said 'men' because I was referring to Stone and Parker. Their politics epitomize genericity and a politics of being apolitical which is functionally a reactionary politics.
Any comments on Sony's tablet line-up? I'm looking for a replacement for my now EOL Nexus 7 (2012 edition) tablet and looking for one in the 8-9 inch category, mainly for off-line reading (ePUB files) and web browsing.

My main requirement is an OS that is getting updates on a semi-regular basis.
I've long felt that a lot of software companies are keener on interviewing than they are on actually hiring. There's got to be a breaking point somewhere where too much time spent interviewing is actually a net loss even if you end up finding good hires, and I wouldn't be surprised if many companies are beyond that threshold.

The company I'm at doesn't employ any magic voodoo in our hiring methods, but we somehow manage to find great people without being a revolving door for interviews. Many places are proud to say that they only make offers to 1% of the people they bring on-site, but I'm proud to say that our ratio is probably more like 25% or even 50%.
You're right. Python is definitely useful for more than 'trivial applications'. My statement was more a matter of subjective personal preference.

The emphasis on package management isn't so much about building non-trivial applications as it is about deploying non-trivial applications.

My ideal is a system that can be built in a composable manner using the standard tools.

A deployment would include:
- cloning the source
- installing dependencies
- setting env vars
- running tests
- launching the application

It should be trivial to repeat this process to deploy to multiple targets as well as automate continuous integration testing.

With the current tool chain there's no clear path to accomplish this without relying on a higher level abstraction like Docker.
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If this is true, then it's pretty substantial evidence that this guy is a hoaxer.

But can you really tell when a key-pair was generated? This would make for a fascinating write-up if you could please spend the time to explain.
I'd love comprehensive labeling requirements like this. It always makes me deeply suspicious whenever such requirements are opposed. See for example the recent controversy over labeling GMO food. The resistance against that was insane.

However, labeling doesn't really help people exposed to second-hand whatnot. The smoker/vaper(/perfume-wearer) may find the ingredients to be acceptable, but what about all the people around them? And unfortunately, smokers are not the most considerate bunch.
I do have to say, having visited Stockholm recently, it does have the vibe of simultaneously seeming cool/trendy and yet relaxed, which I think helps startups spring up
Does it allow uploading without logging in?
I agree with you about Clojure in particular.

I did do some non trivial work in Lisp in a graduate class, but its not the same as using it all day. I don't believe I would seek out an opportunity where a Lisp dialect was the programming language of choice, anyway...

(I found ML to be easier to work with than Lisp. I guess it's technically not a pure functional language though).
Personally, I doubt it's a marketing thing. Apple do sometimes restrict software features to specific devices (Siri when it launched originally), but this is rather oddly processor-dependant. So I assume it's a performance thing.
> How about a $10 light repair ... assuming you don't want a real electrician.

Well damn right, if all I want is a bulb replaced I don't want some jerk insisting it takes a ticket to read the spec on the bulb.

I want liability insurance for the driver, etc, but all the value-adds that Taxi companies claim to have (see posts in this thread) aren't, to me.

I want to the freedom to choose any qualified driver.
We're not really in a peak or valley of any kind at the moment. If evolution pushed us to a zero-point in the derivative of any kind of imaginary fitness function, it was probably a saddle point in which some mutations fall right off and others could rise high but would require more environmental resources.

But otherwise we should assume that zeroes in the derivative are uncommon, and thus we're probably not at one.
An Unexpected Effect of Ultra-Marathons: Temporary Brain Shrinkage
My kids had virtually zero screentime before the age of 6. I really think all parents need to try to do this. Limited media is fine for older kids though.
Ah, phooie, no instructions for the Architecture Studio :-(

Edit: okay, they don't have a PDF, but they do have page by page scans. So that's something, at least.
The top comment is a (seemingly half or less than half-) joking comment about corruption in Chicago.

I have another, related thought:

These two cities are, without any reasonable dispute, centers of horrific police brutality.

Will Google Fiber drive down internet prices (and promote more public wifi) so as to cause a measurable increase in reporting and uploading of high-definition video of incidents?
From the OP >>> But in a way, its project and theirs are the same: to deal with tensions by prescribing more conversation, even if it’s uncomfortable, not less.

Why do reviewers always assume that because a show uses controversial content that it must have some sort of sociological agenda? They are making a show that is funny so that people watch and they can profit. The author strikes me as the sort of person who would describe Howard Stern as a troubled artist, rather than a talented entertainer. Some people are out there just to make people laugh and bring home a few bucks while doing so.
Very few people devote 4-8 hours a day to chess. In fact, if you're willing to devote just three hours per week to target training, you'll quickly improve relative to others.

The important thing is to divorce your enjoyment of the game from the purely competitive aspect of it. This is admittedly hard to do--part of the reason I quit competitive chess was because I got burned out. But I plan on returning soon, because the time off has helped me rediscover my love for the game and I don't think competition will ever remove that from me again.
That is because so few parents do the right thing.
> I really like the simplicity and efficiency of Guaranteed Income. Social welfare is one of the 'costs of doing business' in a modern civilization. Cut the crap and just give everyone basic resources without reservations.

The problem is it simply is not possible or feasible.

https://aspe.hhs.gov/2015-poverty-guidelines

Poverty line is $11,770.

I'm pretty sure any reasonable person doesn't want to live on that amount of money because it would suck!

So how much does it cost to, say, give everyone $10k/year and thereby guaranteeing everyone who can work would want to?

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

23.1% of the population is under 18.

So .769 is 18+.

318,857,056 is the total population of the US.

(318,857,056.769$11700) = ~2.9 trillion US$

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

We have about $3.8 trillion in federal revenue.

$985.74 is the cost of Medicare.

$985.74 billion + $2.9 trillion = ~$3.9 trillion

This leaves a $0 budget for literally anything else. To be reasonable, we'd probably need to raise another ~$1 trillion in taxes to sustain something vaguely resembling current government functions [remember, the existing expenditure is already over $3.8 trillion]. Even then, it'd be really iffy.
>DNA is like a programming language for a biological computer, a living cell. However, we don't know nearly everything there is to know about a living cell. We can't predict its mechanisms. There is no debugger. The compiler didn't come with an instruction manual. The code bootstraps itself into its own machine and runs in an environment we can't predict. And the syntax has been obfuscated and optimized by a genetic algorithm that's been running in parallel on quintillions of cores for a billion years.

And, just to finish off, the machine is stochastically nondeterministic.
It could run a local proxy on the device itself, perhaps. I know iPhone apps can expose HTTP servers to other devices on WiFi for file sharing, so I wouldn't be surprised if you can expose it to localhost too.
His mom is a Moroccan Jew
What about the high levels of diacetyl in cigarette smoke?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24635357
Incidentally, I launched a pastebin (https://ghostbin.com/) some time ago, used Persona for authentication, and absolutely loved it.

Pastery looks awesome. It appears that you're using Pygments server-side?
The TMT, the only telescope of the three that is trying to go into Hawaii, got a major setback days ago when its building permit for its site atop Mauna Kea was denied by the Hawaii State Supreme Court (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8a57f575c6ed41958de678ade72bc...)
>It's for entertainment, and the viewer ship knows this.

That's not true at all.

Edit: I'll expand on this since it's getting downvoted.

Most Americans have absolutely no idea what "satire" is -- so they can't "know that South Park is satire". I think they know south park is funny, but in the same way a bully making fun of a nerd is funny: the bully is hilarious because the nerd is pathetic. South Park is funny because "social justice warriors"/Al Gore's insistence that climate change is an urgent problem/gun control advocates are wrong in their position.

The cool thing in millenial culture is to not care about anything. Having a cause of any kind makes you an SJW or a nutjob and that isn't cool. Liking what you do for a living makes you a nerd and that isn't cool. Being genuinely in love with your partner makes you whipped and that isn't cool. The only thing people aren't chill about is the need to be chill. All the time.

South Park captures this very well, I think. Caring about anything, having any hobby, South Park shoots it all down. It even shoots down itself -- notice how after every moving monologue from Stan or Kyle about how we all just need to stop caring about something, we get a nice comic relief of Cartman calling whoever just poured their heart out a faggot and does something vulgar? We can't even care about not caring.

Because of this, South Park was pretty regularly referred to as a moral and ethical guide by most of the friends I made in college. Who, like most people, have no idea what sarcasm even is (it isn't cool to pay attention in AP lit, you just do it for the grade and move on).

(I would even say that South Park isn't sarcastic or satirical and is instead flatly advocating utter nihilism. This seems to fit with the creator's styles and I think is a major contributor towards this cultural impulse towards nihilism. But that's another comment.)
I think that's 21GBytes / month @ 70Mbps = 2,400 seconds.

Honestly, if your options are share a 3Mbit connection with a few people or have a fast connection limited to 21Gbytes / month I could see paying for that out of pocket.
Couldn't that be the heart of why Seinfeld doesn't play university campuses anymore and Bill Mahar's critique of us millennials as pampered p%ssies? An inability to hear differing viewpoints without them being shouted down and Yale Halloween costume girl screaming at guy she helped elect? It cannot be a legitimate, honest academic environment when the groupthink, thoughpolice are in charge, or when students are merely customers to appease at every moment... respectful debate and challenging of views, assumptions and ethical rationale gets lost.

Doesn't it seem currently (as also dramatized by SP) to be a war of emotional extortion of whom can most, disproportionately bully others with their micropain and force the rest of us to change our language every other week and walk on eggshells? (Sure, real sensitivity to prevent actual offense; and address actual bullying.)
I'm a bit curious what people's opinions are after reading this http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/08/breaking-greenpeace-co...

Seems like there is some info being left out. Both sources seem to be hiding things, why not publish the entire e-mail exchanges?
They can't learn empathy until their brains develop, definitely. However, they can model the behavior they see around them—and by "can" I mean "do, constantly, whether you want them to or not". So showing them a positive role model for them to learn behavior from is still beneficial, and they'll pick up on the other things—like empathy—as their brains develop.
Yes, it's hard to show off your superfast 64-bit chip performance and incredible LTE bandwidth when the browser is bogged down by loading several megabytes of JavaScript from 76 distinct origins. And the user experience isn't great when half the screen is ads.

(Hyperbole, obviously, but.)
If you have personal grievances and you choose not to lobby for your self-interest then you've deemed those grievances as unimportant, or subordinate to some personal principle of yours. I'm sure because it is a tautology that if you have a compelling enough self-interest to advocate for yourself in some social context, be it the workplace, school, the household, local government, national government, social media or any place really, you will. Because that's what any rational human being would do.

What you are implying is that those other people are valuing their grievances incorrectly: They aren't as important as they think they are. After all, you don't value your own grievances as much.

I think that's a logical error.

And rooted in all of this, and I am not accusing you of doing this because we haven't brought up any specific examples, but there's a cognitive bias that people have where they think they can judge other peoples' life experiences just as well as those people, and that their value judgments are in some way objective and do not depend on the differences in social context between them and those people.

Most modern ideologies that aren't some authoritarian or paternalistic drivel soundly disagree with such fallacious reasoning.

My point of view is that I'm not as smart as I think I am about other people, and if I had a tv show I could use as a bully pulpit I wouldn't be using it to say "lol what a bunch of s aren't they so stupid and absurd"?

Because I think that's gross.
So you claim, but it is the sort of thing people would like to be able to rely on and the sort of task they opt to delegate to government. It's nice to fantasize about a libertarian society where markets are unrestricted and consumers have total freedom to buy and sell whatever, but in practice it ends up with people dying because they unknowingly bought shitty products, and demands for effective regulation to ensure some quality control. You can see that happening in china right now with increasing demands for accountability to do with quality-of-life issues rather than just maximizing economic growth.

If you think this assumption leads to bad outcomes, pick up a tort law book and read the details of historical cases from when an 'anything goes' mentality was predominant.
I agree with your point but framing things as war instead of defense spending is leading and politically inclined.
I don't think you disagree with me. Of course people have every right to deny climate change or whatever else they want to deny.

His original view, if there ever was such a thing, still matters because many of us would like to know whether he changed his views after accepting the bribe. It doesn't matter if he changed his views from right to wrong or the other way around, what matters is that a scientist might have changed his public views based on something other than evidence.
To all the people that are somehow saying that this isn't all that bad, you seem to be missing the point. The problem isn't that these professors are taking money to support something they already support. It's that they are taking money and then going to lengths to avoid disclosing the funding OR to make it look like their papers went through a real peer review process...

I'm utterly shocked and disappointed by how many people on here are saying things along the lines of "what's the big deal?"
Neuroscientists find new support for Chomsky’s “internal grammar” thesis
For tech people, Mozilla makes sense. But your average user's probably only heard of Firefox.
To me that seems an especially profound analysis. It aligns with my experience very well.

I can't figure out a good way to use Twitter. Follow celebrities? Seems cool at first but as much as I like Steven Fry's work, his hourly musings don't add much to my life. Coordinate with friends? Why wouldn't I just text? Keep up with news in areas that interest me? Hacker news and Reddit cover they pretty soundly, and it's much easier to read and participate in discussion. Perhaps professional networking is where it would shine, but emails and mailing lists feel like a better fit to me.

I keep an account because I hear it's good for building that "personal brand" that I think I'm supposed to build at some point.
I once watched every episode of every season back to back consecutively (over the course of a month and a half) in order to test a thesis that I have about the long term themes in the show. I and a friend of mine had an informal theory that there was along term plot line involving the cows of southpark and the aliens, and that in the end each major character's story line will wrap up in some way that brings closure to their particular character story line.

tldr if there is a long term story it is very loose.

There has been long term development of some themes, each of the four characters has a key characteristic that I do think develops over time, but not with the same hidden strong continuity that I expected to find when I set out on this journey.

Most notably Randy's deteriorating marriage to Sharon, Stan's loneliness and insecurity about his family, (and Shelly) progresses from season to season

Cartman's relationship with his mother and his coming to terms with his weight, possible homosexuality, and finding his father progresses from season to season.

I looked to find development in Kyle's moral compass but could not discern anything.

Kenny overcoming his identity as "the poor kid" for lack of a better term seems to progress as well.

I watch the show less often now because that sprint was enough South Park to last a lifetime but I look forward to seeing how the show wraps up and if there is any closure instead of just ending in a fart joke.
See also (in the UK): Spitting Image, Drop the Dead Donkey (sadly both long defunct).
It's important because he can potentially impact bitcoin prices. It's like asking why it's important to know who is the head of the FED.
I remember a stat where they still have 2.1 million dialup users (this was from May/June 2015).
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>That's a $550 opportunity cost

The typical cost of hiring a programer is way higher than that, more like $30k I'd guess so they could always try paying you $550 to do something semi real? I'm not experienced but I've got a friend who hires remote workers and he says the only way to tell if they are good is to actually hire them to do a small job.
I misunderstood your comment by reading it in an incorrect context. I'm sorry about that.