skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phrased more optimistically, they're axioms: assumptions underlying all the research, such that if you did change them, your own hypothesis wouldn't be able to lean on any of the existing research for support—because your hypothesis would exist in a different axiomatic universe from everything else.

That's not to say you shouldn't; the axioms assumed in the model might not be the same ones that actually apply to our own universe. But frequently, the only thing that studies like economics care about is whether something is true or false in the model, rather than whether it's true or false in reality. In economics (and in many other disciplines) the model is an idealized universe we're interested in studying for its own sake, whether or not it is a perfect (or even close) description of reality.

In other words: while we may never learn whether there can be such a thing as an efficient market on Earth, we will be able to know decisively whether there can be an efficient market in the nation of RationalActoria, a land-plate resting on a giant spherical cow. And knowing that can actually be helpful! Especially, the knowledge that something can't be true, even under those conditions, can frequently tell us a lot about whether it can happen in the real world.

And that's the real concept to learn there, I think: that even a stupid, low-dimensional model that doesn't have much precision in reflecting the real world can very effectively answer real questions, especially questions about what can't happen—because if it can't happen in "ideal conditions", it certainly can't happen in real ones.
1) I didn't say it was a conspiracy.

2) An agreement between multiple major employers does depress wages. It is precisely why it was banned in the first place. It wasn't just Google & Apple.

3) It has nothing to do with your personal history and I am tired of citing articles from the Fed, etc basically saying there is no overall STEM shortage nationally.

4) The reality is the shortage is an illusory, regional effect largely due to pricing and isn't a US wide phenomena. The average salary is below $100k according to the BLS and in line with other engineering/technical professions.
If by conservation of energy you're referring to the first law of thermodynamics, then it's completely inappropriate to invoke as an argument for "no energy is free".

The energy in solar power is coming from the Sun. While there are various costs in capturing the radiation, converting it into some other form (like electricity) and shipping it around the globe, those costs have nothing to do with the first law of thermodynamics.
This is a really great interface, and cool idea.

You might consider upping the run count, or maybe narrowing your bins for the visualization. Either way, it's great to see more tools embracing probability and uncertainty like this.
Thanks for the substantive comment. I mentioned in my comment that I know many first-generation immigrants to the United States, so evidently it is still possible to immigrate here with various statuses. I have lived overseas in one other country, for two three-year stays, once in the 1980s, and once spanning the turn of the last century, and then it was harder to settle there to work and MUCH harder to become a naturalized citizen there than it has ever been in the United States, although I hear that now immigration is becoming more liberalized there (Taiwan).
Oh yeah, for sure. This is a terrible place. You should go somewhere else.
Randi brought it completely upon herself with her insane radical feminist bigotry and disgusting identity politics.
Dig a bit further and you see a deeply troubled narcissist.
The community is so much better off without her.
Um, that's just a fancier way of burning coal.
It was around 6-8 metrics so i guess it would be fine?
I love the tool and tweeted about it yesterday. It's brilliant, I love it, excited to try some more complex probabilistic distributions.

Only request would be to allow for private spreadsheets. I can download and run the code locally but this would help many people who are less tech savvy.

Great product - looking forward to seeing how it evolves!
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The generation that cut their teeth on 128kbps MP3 actually prefers that sound to the "fidelity" of CD, according to Stearne in his book "MP3: The Meaning of a Format." In some ways, the labels are giving people what they ask for. While I certainly prefer the dynamic range afforded to "audiophile" or older releases, it's a war already lost. I'll happily support the labels that press my kind of sound, of course.
I wrote a tutorial about statistical bootstrap resampling w/ animations, which is similar/related to the Monte Carlo method: http://minimaxir.com/2015/09/bootstrap-resample/
It's a shit storm, which might have had meaning at some point but it's now mostly a way to grab attention by a group of people, mostly looking for ways to make money out of it.
Does the app include everything so it can run offline?
What does this have to do with GamerGate? This is a feminist talking about an MRA, neither of those things are GamerGate...

I feel like you have conflated the issues a bit maybe?
5,000 tests is more than enough for most general use cases. (i.e. data that would be able to fit into browser memory, anyways)
The problem is wikipedia is wrong and/or incomplete more often than a general knowledge encyclopedia.
Solar panels still work in cloudy weather, though the efficiency is reduced. Transmission losses are huge over long distances, plus you would have the added problem of securing the panels and transmission lines against sabotage -- and the Sahara isn't exactly the most politically stable part of the world.
Ironically, that's almost certainly not attributable to Socrates (or Plato), but instead from a thesis written in 1907:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children...

Maybe if we had all had better humanities classes, we'd know that :)
Money is power. It always has been, and it always will be. Sure, votes are powerful, but voters can be influenced by money, so it's prohibitively difficult to get elected without the approval of capital. As a result, capital can band together as a class and purchase politicians to enact policies that are against the interests of people who have to produce for a living.

Our political system is not democracy. Our political system is capitalism. It is occasionally tempered by the possibility of a popular uprising, so you can find democratic aspects if you look hard enough.

How, then, do we prevent capital from ruling over labor? We must understand how exactly money works in making capital our kings. Money gives you the ability to compel almost anyone to produce for you. Producers agree because the money you pay them can be used to compel almost anyone to produce for them.

In these terms, our goal is to eliminate the ability for capital to use money to compel individual producers to act against the interests of producers as a class. When capital attempts this, we want producers to refuse not out of principle, but because the incentive has been eliminated. If producers can't compel anyone to produce for them if their money has come from capital's attempt to rule as tyrants, then capital loses its ability to rule as tyrants.

If this is the solution, then the problem is that money is anonymous. When someone compels me to produce for them, I have no idea where the money came from. If I did, I could refuse the tyrannical money while accepting any other money they attempt to pay with. Our money needs an auditable record of how it has flowed through the economy to allow people to exercise their inalienable right to reject the tyranny of capital. This requires sacrificing financial privacy, which sounds bad, but it's worth considering whether this 700 year-old concept should be as sacred as it seems.

How do you build an auditable record of how money has flowed through an economy? Blockchains give us such records without needing to bestow power to any central authority to maintain the record. Blockchains will let us build a political system where capital still directs production, but the producing class has veto power. Capital alone isn't enough to rule; merit is also required. This is merit capitalism, and I think it could work better than not just the charade of democracy we have today, but also the ideal democracy that we thought we wanted.
A website for testing your app ideas
An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks
Here is a video of the robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvbJGZf-raY
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Healthcare is not a finite or tangible resource, it is a service provided by medical professionals. It isn't possible to run out of healthcare. It is possible to have a healthcare shortage, but as long as there is money to pay for running hospitals and training doctors, that won't happen. You might think that the amount of money it would take is impossibly large, but other nations provide free healthcare to 100% of their population for less money per person than we spend in the US already. If you disagree with the fundamental idea of taking money (taxes) from some people to pay for services used by others, than you may actually disagree with the entire concept of government.
It's a natural alliance between people who want to cause a reaction and people who react to anything.

It was pretty much inevitable that these two groups would become the Middle East of the Internet.
For the record, I said your assertion that Apple's cash position was due to Double Irish tax maneuvers on US income is wrong, and that net cash (once you account for debt issued to pay dividends) is significantly lower, both in absolute terms and in the disparity between overseas and onshore holdings. Before the initiation of the 140bn capital return program, relative balances were less skewed and more reflective of where profits were generated.

I won't respond to you again in this thread because I can't deal with people who lack basic reading comprehension, logic, and fact-checking skills.
In practice, 5000 was basically the number that wouldn't slow it down; this represented around 20-30% of the rendering time (react components were the main bottleneck, surprisingly, though I could still optimize them more).

I think that this works fine for small models, which is much of what exists now. As there are larger models, I'd eventually like to offload calculations to AWS Lambda or something similar, so we can do far more.
I live in Texas, and I am increasingly seeing that argument applied to education was well.
What did she contribute to FreeBSD? It appears she was involved with marketing and after bullying a bunch of nerds who fought back FreeBSD didn't want her using their trademark.
"Randi wanted a person crucified…"

I didn't see that in the article, could you point us to that information?
You see behaviour you dislike and don't understand and you can say either "they are unpleasant people" or "they are unpleasant people and they have a mental illness".

Probability tells us the first is more probable.

This is the conjunction fallacy, and you need to address it because stigmatising people with mental illness causes those people harm, and doesn't help address the actual problem (which is that some people are arseholes).
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OK, so if that's true, then by treating him as a legitimate member of the community and not making any sort of statement against his views, the FreeBSD project is giving him attention, and they should stop doing that. Which is exactly what Randi asked for.

It's one thing if you keep your horrible-person persona separate from your technical one (as e.g. the Strange Loop thing earlier this year), although I still think it's legitimate to say that's too much. But when someone is deliberately tying their work in a project with their views that drive out other people from that same project, it's not giving them attention to kick them out. It's giving them attention to keep them in.
I think this line of reasoning just confuses the argument being made. The law of conservation of energy and the idiom that "nothing is free" are not the same. I believe the argument being made was that resource extraction and manufacturing for the machinery required for generating renewable energy causes as much damage to the environment as using non-renewable sources of energy. Im not sure if that is true, but I don't have the research to support either way. I do think that with more adoption and development of renewable energy, the extraction processes themselves could be made more environment-friendly.
I went back and counted, there are 6 mentions of GamerGate (not including the tag) and all of them are anecdotal references by FreeBSDGirl. In fact, the primary article in question (the guy that wants to legalize rape) doesn't mention GamerGate at all, or even remotely allude to it.

P.S. Thanks for the downvote rather than a reply. It really shows your willingness to talk about issues and not just jump to conclusions...
>Do you expect someone to move from Michigan to Louisiana to perform unskilled labor?

If it doesn't make sense to move from Michigan, how does it make sense to move from Guatemala?
While this is a generous offer, a $36k salary equivalent for full-time programming work, with no other job for external income, isn't feasible.
Definitely. Here's one in that range as an example. http://getguesstimate.com/models/163

Feel free to play with it. You can edit it, just not save it. (I recently realized this was not obvious to most people)
Did you read the article? She says she was a committer.

> Eventually, with the help of the dev community answering some of my basic questions and with Colin reviewing my code, I finally found my place in the project. I was still a senior sysadmin, but I got really angry because I couldn’t install FreeBSD from a usb thumbdrive. This seemed so easy. So, I drank some scotch (probably too much scotch) and started digging through sysinstall code. I didn’t really know C at that point. I learned C just so I could fix that. Then I started working on a few other things with sysinstall, like autodetection of network devices that have an active link.
Well, if you want to stay ahead then you should definitely get started with beta
15k impressions per month on average.
I agree with you, but I think they were talking about past events maybe? Their is a history between FreeBSDGirl and the roosh guy. (By history, I mean going back and forth online, not a personal history).
FTA: "He highlighted how complicated history has woven the borders in the area close to where Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany touch, leaving enclaves and strangely twisted borders"

Hah, that's one way to describe it. There are pieces of the Netherlands inside pieces of Belgium inside the Netherlands, e.g.: https://www.google.com/maps/place/51%C2%B026'55.8%22N+4%C2%B...
Not that it's worth a whole lot, but Mr. 'legalize rape' Roosh and the person being discussed in the OP are separate persons. The latter is explicit friends with the former.
1.0 was released in _November_, it's not even been two months.
This is quite discouraging
Google commit bit...
No. It needs to be online at this point.
Picking lettuce is a skill believe it or not. I know because I've worked in the industry. I don't agree with shady tactics (newspaper ads in other cities etc, I've seen those too). I also know many big farms are often one step away from slavers and abuse laborers for a small profit.

That being said, it's sad but true that foreign laborers do have the skills and desire to do things Americans for the most part don't and won't. You can argue this and claim it isn't so.. it very much is so and I've seen it over and over and I know for certain that it's the case. I wish it wasn't. I don't know what the answer is. I'm not for slave wages. I'm not for importing lots of cheap foreign labor. But I don't want to pay $6 for a head of lettuce either. Maybe you and I don't mind... but for many people that kind of raise in food prices would be catastrophic. Hopefully robotics solves some of the problem shortly. Which of course introduces a whole new set of problems.
I'm betting whatever comments end up on this post will be used as ammo for further drama.
Not in the United States, and especially not in the SF Bay Area...

But it's more than acceptable in many parts of the world.
He should have been expelled the second he was harshly transphobic to me, e.g., calling me a "tranny." I'm the trans woman Randi talks about in that article. There were many times he should have been kicked out, but in the end nobody cared enough about women's issues, or there was no real recourse for such.

But since that didn't happen, Randi is trying to bring attention to the fact that the above isn't how things work.

EDIT TO CLARIFY: the man I'm referring to is the FreeBSD contributor Randi Harper speaks of in the article, not the voosh guy.
Nah, one has to learn to stop caring about downvotes that much. You can very well express contrarian views on HN, and yes, you sometimes have to pay the price in blood^H^H^H^H^Hkarma. Like with all worthy causes. What matters is that people will engage your argument constructively, if you write it in a substantial and civil way.

Case in point: only yesterday 'miguelrochefort had the guts to post advocating a completely contrarian view on privacy[0]. That particular comment, predictably, got downvoted, but it didn't stop a thoughtful discussion from spawning. As long as this happens, HN serves its purpose.

--

Also, how do you know that people who downvote you are "JS hipsters" and not someone else? :).

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=miguelrochefort
Citation needed. I've never talked to him (or, for that matter, the person that said they know all the parties involved).
I don't follow you on that last bit, about noticing how she didn't mention the username. I feel like you mean to imply something, but maybe I'm not following?
Have you seen or were you at all inspired by Analytica from Lumina Decision Systems (http://www.lumina.com/why-analytica)? It's been around for about twenty years and is often used in the field of policy analysis when you need you to quantify messy things like human lives in dollars in the face of massive uncertainties.
Allow all the characters that are supposed to be valid outside of quotation marks. Letters, numbers, .!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~

That way if you don't mind letting through double periods or domain segments having more than 63 characters, you can validate an email with two character classes separated by an @. The basic regex looks like [xx]+@[yy]+
The article mentions the first human-to-human heart transplant in these words: "It wasn’t until 1967 that the first human-to-human heart transplant took place at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, where a young surgeon named Christiaan Barnard was experimenting with pioneering surgical procedures." I still remember the day when his heart transplant operation in South Africa was front page news in Minneapolis. I told the news to my mom, a nurse, and she startled me by saying she knew Dr. Barnard.

Christiaan Barnard did his surgical residency at the University of Minnesota in the 1950s, the same time my mom moved to Minnesota to work on the pioneering open-heart surgery the university was famous for in that era. A science writer, Leonard Engel, wrote a book about the heart surgery research at Minnesota called The Operation,[1] mentioning many of my mom's acquaintances by name. It was frightening to do any kind of heart surgery in the 1950s, when heart-lung machines to sustain a patient's circulation while the patient's heart was stopped were still new and in development. Barnard, on his part, used to tell the Minnesota surgical teams about his research in South Africa before coming to Minnesota. He was curious about how giraffe circulatory systems could boost blood up the long neck of a giraffe to the giraffe's brain, which requires some amazing adaptations of the usual vertebrate circulatory system.

Dr. Norman Shumway, the third doctor to perform a human-to-human heart transplant, described as the first successful heart transplant in the United States, did his internship and residency at Minnesota.[2] He then moved to Stanford University and performed many dog-to-dog heart transplants before he first had opportunity to transplant a human heart. All the pioneers of heart surgery started out with animal experiments and worked for years on "simpler"--but still amazing, for the time--operations before their first human heart transplants. There was an international effort at the time to figure out ways to treat heart disease surgically. To this day, heart disease is still a leading cause of death, but age-adjusted death rates have dropped a lot in my lifetime,[3] in part because of prevention and in part because of successful surgical treatment.

[1] http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006711200

[2] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2006/02/norman-shumwa...

[3] https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/research/2012_ChartBook...
> interesting novelty, to a incredible community, to a petty > bureaucracy.

One line summary of the history of the United States ?
>>Basically, literally, to treat others as they themselves would like to be treated.

So if I enjoy being hunted with high-powered assault rifles, does that mean I should also do the same to others? :)
> "It's bizarre."

I agree, but I can see two good things that came of the actions taken to protect the ROMs.

1. A company that supports the Amiga could sell the ROMs for use in emulation.

http://www.amigaforever.com/

2. It helped to push for an open source version of the ROMs (AROS 68k).

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=56211
Same here. Every time I download it, the API is totally different.
On an unrelated topic. Anyone else experience the inability to scroll properly on that page? I am on mobile but even requesting desktop version didn't fix. There are a few seconds of full scroll then it locks into a range. It's not even necessarily the beginning. One time it locked in some middle portion. Is this the fault of poor web design or is something wrong on my phone? Thanks!
Am I the only one not finding the connection between the Anthropic Principle and the Sleeping Beauty problem completely obvious?
Reading offline in batch mode
>> This is different from Apple with OSX and iOS how?

I'll never run "npm install" or "gem install" or what have you on iOS, Android, etc. Proprietary OSes come in all shapes and sizes, all bringing their own pros and cons to the mix. I just happen to be focusing on a very large con of Windows at the moment.

As for OSX, Redhat, Debian, etc. Sure, they're all different, of course. But generally speaking, at least when it comes to Node and npm (and as far as I know, Ruby, Clojure, Python, etc, please correct me if I'm wrong), these OSes tend to get along pretty OK. Windows, does not.

>> And for crying out loud, file separator issues? That's not even a hard one.

And yet how many times has that problem been hit over the decades? I mean heck, look at the commit message, "Another Windows path issue". And yeah, it's not even a hard one, it just gets worse from there.

I came to that issue from here (which is my project): https://github.com/city41/reagent-breakout/issues/11

So for "not even a hard one", still took me 20 minutes of digging to find out what was going on. X minutes across all developers across how long Windows has been around really adds up. For just one of Windows's differences.
> Do something positive like encourage that girl to make her contribution to FreeBSD regardless of what words are slung around.

This is the attitude I'm talking about in my other comments.
I assume you mean an amendment to limit free speech so you can stop people from advocating for causes you don't agree with. That's what overruling Citizens United would be.
How is this about making money?
The guy that wants to legalize rape and the person the article is mainly about are not the same person.