skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Now that is an example of a good study. No "take an existing dataset and do some basic statistics" here.

Extensive research had to go into finding the right questions to ask, research to get the data, cleaning and organizing the data, and then finding the right analysis to answer the questions. As a non-expert in this field, I'm impressed by the readability of the paper.

To be honest, I'd be surprised if similar results were not found in other fields.
I'm glad you asked. This is exactly what the essence of my philosophy is all about. I believe that each person's opinions (and each person's existence) are valuable in and of themselves - no need for any further arguments. You either agree with someone (as some people agreed with my original comment, judging by the number of up-votes) or you disagree - and, in my experience, there is NEVER any value in trying to bring those from one camp into the other. Arguments are always a waste of time. Sharing stimulating ideas is a much better use of time and language.

So, no, this is not about "convincing arguments". As with all of existence, this is about making a statement of who you really are and inspiring others. There is intrinsic value in that. I believe in leadership by example. I do not believe in leadership by "convincing arguments".
This link is quite safe, actually.
When I asked, I got the answer that I could chose an arbitrary 16 character long user name, that the password may contain special characters, that the number of allowed failures for logging in is limited and that any actual money transfers are protected by a TAN. So it may not be that bad, given that the PIN for my EC card has only four numbers.

Still, I agree that this scheme is somewhat odd and no limitation on the password length would be preferable.
Its as if people have forgotten about infrastructure or something.

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

Spend a few billion on a 3 Gigawatt plant (roughly 30-Gigawatt hours of energy storage). Large-scale infrastructure projects are going to be cheaper and more efficient than most direct-to-home solutions.

The economies of scale, and the innovative designs that exist at the large level (CAES: Compressed Air Energy Storage. Redox-Flow Batteries, Pumped Hydro, Flywheel Energy Storage) are superior to the designs that exist at a micro-level (Li-Ion Batteries)

The new infrastructure projects are occurring all over the place in the US.

* http://www.energy.ca.gov/tour/helms/
* https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/texas-calls-for...

Etc. etc. These infrastructure projects are the future (and past). They're proven, reliable, and there are tons of engineers with decades of experience on these sorts of projects.

--------

Tesla needs to try to make a Utility-scale 500 MW plant.
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It's sad because that's an obvious hypotheses (IQ correlates to income and is hereditary) and they don't even put it an the table, at best for fear of being treated like pariahs, at worst because they have internalized the absence of genetic effect on intelligence and poverty as some indisputable axiom.
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Rebol with a cause.
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Google doesn't return a lot about any "non-compiling Java interpreter in Netscape 1". Anybody has some source?

Also, thinking like that makes more sense about the naming of JavaScript.
>"This directive, the regulation and the recently agreed passenger name records directive were effectively bundled together as a package of laws."

With one hand they give, with the other they take.

To be fair, I'm happy that outsourcers will feel a bit of heat - their practices are mostly terrible. On the other hand, it's more red tape for an IT sector recently saddled with VATMOSS and cookie law.

And of course, securinazis always get what they want, because terrorism.
Like Tor and other security/privacy measures, it only really works when it's generally adopted; otherwise people in the style will stand out on their own.
Well, you may be the one of the few that like improving the same project, day after day, until it's good enough to get some money out of it.

Most people get bored, and will only create something for themselves if they act responsibly after a while. Unless what you call "responsible" is working for other people, instead of the more usual "hey, I don't want to do this right now, but I'm doing because I know it's good for me" meaning.
Perhaps true - but the advantages/opportunities associated with higher wealth/social status are significantly more likely to balance out sub-optimal personal development.

It's hardly a new idea, but one of the greatest advantages of wealth is the opportunity to take risks without feeling the true punishment of hard failure (regardless of whether those are professional or personal).

High water makes navigating the boulders a lot easier, so even if we assume that rich kids are less prepared to face challenges in life - on balance - that simply doesn't matter as much.
If only ads were an opt-in kinda deal (which with a blocker they of course are). I'd be happy to give you a short list of things I might be interested in if you'd stop tracking me.
He's referencing the book Freakonomics. One thesis there is that higher abortion rates lead to lower crime rates.
As a believer in Weak AI the Chinese Room argument really gave me more understanding of my position. His argument is based on the concept that interpretation of symbols is not the same as the understanding that we do. As an example, say that a person learns 1 + 1 = 2. Because that person understands the concept, he can then go apply it to other situations, and figure out that 1 + 2 = 3. Whereas because the Chinese room is just interpreting symbols, so when the computer is asked the question "what is 1 + 1?" and can answer "2" via lookup table, but the person inside the room has gained no understanding of the actual question so he can't then use that knowledge in different circumstances and know without looking up that 1 + 2 = 3.

The Chinese Room argument is that because computers can't "learn", everything has to be taught to them directly, whereas humans are able to take knowledge given and apply it to other situations. While some computers can "learn" enough rules to follow patterns, the argument is that computers can't "jump the track" and that humans can.
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I wonder if places using systems such as this will have to declare it plainly?

If they do, seems like there might be some backlash, with people preferring not to go to businesses starting down the path of using this sort of tech and spending more time in those which could, but choose not to, use it.

Assuming of course it doesn't end up just completely ubiquitous like web ads etc, the market could force tech like this into the high-risk margins, i.e. high-end jewellery shops etc, rather than it eventually popping up in every pub and high-street shop.

I will say though, having written that, I do think it's likelier it'll just end up ubiquitous.
it's VAT. It's up to EU country if they are doing VAT exemption for charity.
After thinking like a statistician about thinking like a statistician, I thought about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...
I'm rather tired of hearing that people are a product of their environment. "Its not your fault you dont do anything with your life, its what you were born into" is dumb as hell.

Also, this study doesn't look remotely thorough. Correlation does not imply causation. Explain the test parameters better, etc, etc.

People are responsible for their own actions and own lives, not their environments. Lets move on
Classical OO inheritance is the right answer in a language that supports it, though. There may be equally ergonomic ways of doing it in languages with ADTs.

(Which may or may not be the case here, depending on extensibility)
I don't know Swift, but the problem seems to be that you can't do

extension ListItem: Hashable

where ListItem is a protocol. That's a little irksome, sure, but why not just do

struct ListItemBox {
var item: ListItem
}

func ==(lhs: ListItemBox, rhs: ListItemBox) -> Bool {
return lhs.item.id == rhs.item.id
}

extension ListItemBox: Hashable {
var hashValue: Int {
return item.id
}
}

var stuff: Set<ListItemBox>;

Of course, you should be very careful about cross-type equality here. But that's no easier with any other model either.
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Exactly. These people are all from the first-world countries, they have plenty of opportunities to get hired so eventually they do. I was rejected by dozens of "cool" companies, almost never even getting to the technical interview, because they'd rather not hire a foreigner. I had to find a local job which pays me a wage most people here would consider laughable.
Sure, and then you redefine it so that it can handle protocol objects (where a things of different concrete types are inequal). You may need a new Equatable/Hashable-esque protocol for this, but it should be doable.
Reminds me of the joke:

"If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... wait a second, he does!"
> Kinda sad situation with the alternative energy source.

I find it kind of sad that the only way people will consider alternative energy sources is if it's significantly cheaper than the existing, embedded, kill the planet options.

I find it sad, but I'm not surprised. People in general don't actually give a shit about anything around them.
Word can work in the same formats LibreOffice uses. Microsoft even provides a chart so you know what to expect based on your choice: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Differences-between...
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I don't see how one professor makes the entire program.

FWIW I did my masters there and in my opinion the way they evaluate students is suboptimal anyway - but I don't know if that's a TUM thing or a German thing.
The article makes no reference to how the positive result may be used. For all we know it might only be used to allow shop associates to further monitor certain individuals.

Although I'm sure some local corner shop will try and "ban" a positive result and make the headlines. That's inevitable. But for the larger shops, I doubt they will make it known that they know.
>"Companies that don’t abide by the rules will face fines up to 4 percent of global sales."

Ouch!
Wait we are talking about, data that could be easily manipulated because "I don't like him" ?
> “I understand the state-of-the-art papers,” he says. “The math is simple. For the first time in my life, I’m like, ‘I know everything there is to know.’ ”

Yep, he's still in his twenties.
That was a good read. Does anyone know how these things compare in the Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland?
Noticed the same bug using Chrome and MS Edge
How is giving them a unique ID any different than the current situation? They can just as easily take a video of themselves voting as proof for these purposes.
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There is only one true match. So the system will always be generating false positives. This technology is not an authority, but a filter. Yes, identical twins will both be identified if they are both in the system and no additional biometric measures are included. Identical twins still have different retina, and due to lifestyles identical twins beyond age 30 can be distinguished apart fairly easily.
Umm, the GoF Design Patterns book was not published in the 80's. Design Patterns were not all the rage on Commodore 64's and Apple II's.

1994, so well into the 90's decade. OP, if you're reading, this is a big blunder that takes away from what is otherwise an insightful post.
George Hotz, iPhone jailbreaking pioneer, is making a self-driving car
So basically, the way to convince Searle (not that that is a real goal) is to build a robot automaton which passes the uncanny valley: very responsive eyes. A collection of tricks. Clever responses.

Searle would look at that and conclude it had consciousness.
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I passed 3 interviews with 6 interviewers for Booking (they even flew me to Amsterdam for that). 1 of them didn't seem to like me, even before I answered his questions. The rest were very impressed (as stated in the feedback). Got rejected.
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There sort of is. In HTML5, text-based form elements have a new "pattern" attribute which takes a regular expression that matches valid input, so the browser can do client-side validation without using JavaScript to intercept the form before it's posted and such. Assuming the site developers have bothered to implement it on their site, then theoretically a password manager could use that to determine valid characters for generated passwords (or, at least, invalid ones). I don't know if any of them actually do this, though.

http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/input/password
> I wonder if places using systems such as this will have to declare it plainly?

There is a lot of law about data protection in the UK & EU. So, yes.
So Whoopi Goldberg might be some master thief and there is nothing that can be done?!
Setting

media.mp3.enabled = true

did it.
Agree, pretty much zero useful / insightful / thought-provoking ideas in that article.
You should cheer up. Rational people (like gp) only care about what's around them. Why should he waste money on solar instead of sending it to charity, etc?
848 kWh sounds a lot.
For a 4 person house in germany you have a yearly usage ~1800kWh.
You have the same amount in a 1/3 year. That's a shitload.

Currently I'm single and use 848 kWh for a whole year.
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Excellent example! Customers figure out what works for them as individuals all on their own. Chrome works best for one person due to superior integration with Google's services. Another person trades that integration for the convenience of Firemacs. A third person finds the identity management of the Chromium Browser advantageous.

And all can search with Google!
Interesting, I wonder how much of this is an artifact of podcasts oriented more towards a hobbyist audience vs. a professional audience?

Podcasts aren't expensive to produce at a basic level, it's mostly just the hosts sitting around and chatting on skype for an hour every week or two. I'm only aware of one podcast I listen to that frequently asks for contributions, and that's mostly because the hosts have found they work best when they're physically co-present and have to fly one of the hosts out every month to record a bunch of shows all at once.

> I'm not too bothered with these, as compared with the type of adverts you'd find on commercial television or radio

Yeah, I agree. When the parent discussed adverts before I was thinking of the more commercial radio type. I think it's an effort to try to monetize podcast audiences, but at least for me I'm able to find more content than I can listen to, run by hosts that aren't all that interested in turning their hobby into a money making venture.
From the article:

> "The people who are on the list are not guilty until they've been prosecuted and taken to court, and the system makes that very clear", Simon says - and under the Data Protection Act "if anyone misuses that data there are very significant fines".

Probably someone will follow you around the shop or ask you if they can help you instead of you not being let in into the shop. Those are already pretty common tactics.

Those tactics also don't feel nice though (I experienced them first hand, when I was in a foreign country and was a bit nervous in shops - not because I was shoplifting but because I wasn't sure wether I would be understood by the cashier).
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I have not found responses to CreationWiki's responses. Talk Origins doesn't have to respond to CreationWiki since it's not well known. There's no need to respond if no one knows there are responses. Either that or both sides rest their case.

We would need a publicized tracking system for debate arguments to know whether that's the case.
I think it's reasonable to say that it's a subsidy to tax everything except one thing, since it makes investment in that one thing relatively more attractive than it otherwise would be.
OK, but really, who is going to buy this? Reddit did something similar and it was a disaster.
> If the applicant pool is large enough any quick way to discriminate that skews positively for applicant capability is going to be used.

I think a lot of self-taught developers (myself too earlier in my career) fail to realize this.

If you've got 1,000 applicants and your job is to schedule 10 interviews from that pool, you will do anything that won't absolutely destroy candidate quality. It's not about the finding the best, it's about finding someone who wants the job and will be able to do it. The name of the game is not minimizing false negatives (disregarding good people), but minimizing false positives (interviewing shitbirds).

So if you work for BigCo you say the person need three years of corporate experience. You're down to 800 applicants. One year of experience in the JavaScripts. 750 applicants. Maybe the phrase "SQL Server" has to be on their resume. 400 applicants. College degree. 320 applicants. Computer Science degree. 120 applicants. Maybe you want to filter by your preferred recruiter, because they only charge you 11% of base salary instead of 18% like that other firm. 22 applicants. Now you can actually read the resumes and pick the top half to interview. Anyone who actually wrote a cover letter and is in this pile is pretty much guaranteed an interview.
It's giving me what look like quite unlikely wind conditions (FF42/Linux) : https://imgur.com/QejZqTY
> Widespread facial recognition is going to add a whole new slew of data for GCHQ/NSA to data mine.

Less than you think.

We're all walking around with beacons in our pockets already. They already have the ability to "follow" a person to within a square mile, and that individual is far more knowable (i.e. less false positives) than facial recognition.

Between IMEI spotting and license plate readers surrounding central London, they have a real time SimCity-esk map of the city. The facial recognition stuff might be the cherry on top, but it is hardly going to be a major gain.

PS - And as far as I know they already have facial recognition cameras as most major tube stations.
I get motion sick doing that and struggled to find something to pass the time with for years. Podcasts seem to work well for me, but I used to try music and even old classic radio shows for a while.
I believe someone working on Tor (or similar privacy tool), said that a privacy system is only good if it's used by people to share photos of cats.

If a tool is only used by shady people for shady means, then the tool itself (and use of it) is suspicious. But if it's used by many average people to do mundane things like sharing photos of cats, then subversives can use it too
Post-Mortem on Moving from RequireJS and Grunt to Webpack
AMD is playing a fair field, but they aren't innovating. Their top of the line processors haven't received changes in 2 years.
If a "reformed thief" is in my store, I would love to know about it and provide him a friendly escort. All the way to checkout.

He's of course welcome to never come back again. Seems like a fair trade off. Not my job to feel bad for criminals, it's my job to put food on the table legally.
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Works similarly in Germany, with the difference that 4.0 is the lowest passing grade and 1.0 is the highest.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_Germany
> People are responsible for their own actions and own lives, not their environments. Lets move on

I also think that correlating income with the shape of the brain is not really the case here. Link bait maybe? But the real question is not if you can blame the action of one on another, but why people act as they act. To downplay the role of environment, upbringing and even income (and how if affects the social life of a kid) seems just as wrong.
There was an interesting debate about this on Radio 4 the other day > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bxk7l

I'm not sure I was fully swayed by the arguments made, but certainly the current Gift Aid scheme in the UK is not ideal.
When I was working for electrical utilities and tracking climate data over a service territory a service like this with an API would have been invaluable. I would have thrown money hand over fist at them. Particularly if I could predict accurately micro-conditions within the next 12-24 hours.
Sorry but I don't know how that helps me?
That's a contraction.
" . . . the formula’s publication in 1973. Within several years, the formula came standard on the calculators held by every options trader."

What calculators would that be in the late Seventies?
You might want to use some color scales that are perceptually uniform. Right now you are using the bad kind of rainbow for many.
Is it in the interest of grocery stores to exclude customes without a good reason?
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Quote from Wikipedia page about the OS

"At first, Symphony OS was based on Knoppix. Since its May 2006 release it is no longer based on Knoppix, but rather on Debian unstable, and features a functional hard drive installer."

Debian Sid is viable as the basis for desktop use, but there can be issues now and again and they can persist for a week or two. Just wondering at the target market for this one.

Always fun to do a dist-upgrade on anything Debian derived to see what happens...
Not bothering to test and actively support devices from other vendors would be reasonable, but customers have the expectation that a product does a decent effort to respect the standard; whitelisting a subset of Philips lightbulbs and deliberately refusing to work with anything else means giving users a bad product for the sake of anticompetitive business practices.
This kind of deliberate, obviously harmful abuse is worse than merely reckless behaviour like the Superfish scandal or the Windows 10 update that uninstalls user software.
This is why the EU courts have a "right to be forgotten"
"with each code point having 1/#code_point entropy."

That requires that users be uniformly-randomly selecting Unicode characters. There's a number of problems with this idea, most notably that the resulting password would have an insanely high "difficulty to type"/"bit of entropy" ratio. By the time you're through your third keyboard mode switch or third character typed in via generic Unicode hex entry, a 4-word passphrase user already has logged in and opened their browser.

Mixing in a single Unicode character into your password might be sorta clever, but you probably shouldn't rely on getting a lot more "bits" out of it.
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Are there any videos of the new Mezzo in action?

It occurs to me that my post was unduly dismissive. I totally believe that most modern UIs are horribly broken, and I completely sympathise with the 'burn it all down!' approach. But forcing everybody to change their workflow because reasons is, I believe, not it. (Though I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise.)
Look how the light catches the delicate pubic hairs. The skin dry from too much air-con and not enough moisturiser.

"I want a naked coder calendar" said nobody ever.

A better idea would have been to photograph coders at their messy workspaces, or portraits of coders taken immediately after resolving a tricky bug. Or just something that won't scare little kids.
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