skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like a great fit.

A few weeks back I used the tool to help a friend decide which mortgage option to take for his house. One house has a slightly lower APR than the other, but was a had a higher assistance fee.

After fiddling with it, it looked like the one with the lower assistance fee was the better option. But perhaps more important, it didn't seem like it made a big difference; perhaps around $200 after 10 years. This was a good indication that the choice didn't really matter; that it wasn't something to spend over a few hours worrying about.

http://getguesstimate.com/models/100
It's a good point that "continue" is a wildly bad keyword for what it actually does. It only becomes appropriate when considered as augmenting a silent "break", i.e. "break, though continue looping".
In the big number game, you have half people dumber than average. In a system where the majority wins, that's self defeating.
No, it's not correct. You have insufficient information with which to render an "individual or specified judgement or outlook" on this matter. What you've done is provide your guesswork as if it's based on meaningful information. You have no data supporting your claim that Murdock's head trauma caused his erratic comments on Twitter. I don't believe it's even known whether he had meaningful head trauma.

This isn't pedantry. You are basically lying. What you've done is present one of many possible explanations as if it is the correct one, despite having no data to back your claim. This is like claiming that a rogue Chipotle employee intentionally introduced e. coli into their food supply. This is a possible explanation, but it's just wild conjecture. Presenting it as "your understanding" would be to present it as if it were a factual claim.
After moving to Azure Websites for hosting, I started developing my web app in Win10 and so far it has worked great for me. My app stack is -

* ReactJS
* Flask
* SQLAlchemy
* SQL Azure

My dev tools are -

* Atom for JS dev
* PyCharm for server side code
* SQL Express for dev db

All the CLI tools for both React and Flask (and Python in general) work pretty well in Win10 PowerShell.

Note, my main dev environment is Ubuntu with scipy/scikit-learn in Python but I have always been pretty comfortable with Windows and PowerShell.
This is a good reference to many existing discussions. While I will likely not have time to contribute to Swift it's cool to be able to look at these and see why things are the way they are.

> Replace {} Brace Syntax with Python-style indentation: Surely a polarizing issue, but Swift will not change to use indentation for scoping instead of curly braces..

I'm happy this won't happen. As much as I like Python the scoping based on spaces messes me up far too frequently and I yearn to be able to use braces to define my blocks. No idea if I'm in the minority or majority here but I like the explicitness of my braces :)
who's going to dust the sand off the panels, with what energy though?
It's amusing they don't want government involvement with personal affairs, but they have to deal with endless private companies meddling in their lives, taking tons of money, denying their claims, denying them coverage, etc. etc.
Looks like the site is being hugged too hard; I'm getting 503s.
Wow. I feel like an abuse victim that has just had an intervention. Now that you mention it, I've seen this phenomenon at almost every open source project I've peeked into over the years. I need to sit down for a bit.
Guacamole 0.9.9 Released
I just filed a bug: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/10999

I guess I'm not sure what level of non-determinism they expect, but on this page: https://docs.npmjs.com/how-npm-works/npm3-nondet it appears to make the claim that the only effect is on tree structure, not the actual versions of packages that are picked up. And in fact in their example this IS the case. I think this is fine btw.

However, I have found edge cases where install order actually changes the versions of packages that are picked up, and in ways that make it very very difficult to work around (basically you will be forced to manually edit a shrink-wrap file -- so it is necessarily on the end user not the package writer).

Basically, if any package lists and absolute dependency (vs a semver range), it will affect ALL the packages alphabetically later than it and FORCE them to take the same dependency.
> Money buys advertising, but the people still have the power not to listen to advertising.

Quite true. However, considering how the financier of these advertisements can be obfuscated or just not reported period, you're basically asking people to ignore all political advertising and be suspect about just about everything they read, hear or see.
Medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S.

http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/health/medical-bills/nerdwall...
The Social Network movie shows some classic screwings in this case.
The Year Ahead: What’s in Store for Machine Learning in 2016?
React as just a view layer is amazing, but I agree that Flux/Redux + React Router etc. feel like they're reinventing Angular.

The two-way binding is definitely a feature that needs to be used cautiously. I'm not using it in my current project, but it would remove so much boilerplate for us, when it comes to forms. I would only use it for complex controlled forms, never to control application state.
CISA, for all its importance, is a niche issue. Most Americans don't care. Some of them are all for it.

The only groups who have a problem with CISA are the technical community and some civil liberties advocates.

CISA is not an example of a law passed in the face of popular opposition.
I would guess the number of people who accidently enter "password " is far greater than the number of people who have "p " as their password. Plus, for the people who do deliberately input spaces they will just have a weaker password, not issues logging in.
>if public healthcare was wonderful, there'd be no private insurance business in Germany

Private insurance companies exist in Germany, Australia, Canada, etc. because it's about choice. If everyone was given a perfectly functional Toyota Camry, people would still buy Porsches and Ferraris simply because they want the ultimate. Healthcare is no different.

>it baffles me that people think the same government that pisses away billions on big digs, pointless fighter jets, and whatever else would magically save us billions on health care

And yet Healthcare costs more in America than any other developed country. So the evidence is clear that when the government does it, it is cheaper.
What the fuck is wrong with these GamerGate idiots? Is it a mental illness or something?
Well I'll stop this thread, though I don't agree I've attacked him at all; I've done no such thing and while I'll respect your wish to stop, you're wrong to claim I've attacked anyone as no such thing happened. If fact please point me at the guideline you're accusing me of breaking because I just reviewed them and I don't see anything that violates them; I am being civil and saying exactly what I would say to him in person. Pointing out bad behavior like arrogance and superiority is not a personal attack on the person, it's addressing the person's behavior.
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I like it. I had to do a strategy session with a client a couple of weeks ago and we needed to estimate how much the strategy was likely to cost over the next few months the. We had quite a few variables to work with though. This would have been handy in such a scenario I presume? We knew what are components and the ranges were.
Japan Releases Fully “Functioning” Female Robots
You don't think there exists a middle ground between a minority of the rich running our country into the ground and running the country like American idol?
There's a good reason to keep the {} syntax beyond polarization: it enables you to programatically change/fix indentation, because the supposed levels can be recognized by the level of {}. That's something you can't so in a Pythonesquely structured code.
Thanks - pop your e-mail on the thingsclick.com site if you haven't already and we'll let you know when it's ready. We just found the existing testing tools (I'm looking at you Selenium) to be very powerful but too cumbersome. We've built something that anybody can use to create tests and re-run them as frequently as necessary.

We're already dog fooding Things Click internally and it's saved us a bunch of time, especially around regression testing. I'm looking forward to seeing how other people find it.
> Rewrite the Swift compiler in Swift: This would be a lot of fun someday, but (unless you include rewriting all of LLVM) requires the ability to import C++ APIs into Swift.

Or write thin bindings exposing a C API to the bits of LLVM you need to invoke to drive the backend. I believe that's what Rust does[0], because you definitely can't import C++ in Rust, rustc is written in Rust, and yet it uses LLVM.

[0] might be in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/rustllvm though I'm not quite sure
Are there any plausible theories for how dark matter would generate positrons?
I don't know if "lots" is the right word, but ULA pretty much depends on buying RD-180's. If it wasn't for Congress lifting the restrictions they'd be out of the game.

If you ask me, if you are a rocket company and don't make your own engines you are not a rocket company. External forces can instantly turn you into an expensive fuel and liquid oxygen tank manufacturing company that can't launch a paperclip into orbit.

The smartest thing SpaceX has done, perhaps by accident or genius, was to design and manufacture their own engines. Well, their own everything in their case.

ULA charges USD $400 million for a launch and SpaceX under $200 million (I think it's $160). One is a perfect example of what happens when private enterprise and capitalism go to work and the other is representative of anything government touches, funds or insists on keeping alive despite reality. The same mechanism that gives you billion dollar websites and a myriad of programs that do nothing but burn money a N times what a more effective private effort could accomplish.

You can launch three SpaceX rockets for the price of one ULA. And now that they are landing them and will start to re-use them the equation might approach a ridiculous case of perhaps 10 launches for every 1 from ULA.

If you want to really understand where things are, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HADsoywAEuU

You really have to grok this before understanding the entire picture.

What Russia does doesn't matter any more. Nobody is going to be able to compete with what Musk and his team have created. I am not sure most realize how much of a game-changer this will be.
I found SailsJs unfit for any projects that had even a moderately sized set of business rules. Partly due to Node's lack of threading and partly because SailsJs feature set was a weak or incomplete copy of 'real' frameworks which failed to meet needs once they had to offer anything more than an extremely light CRUD wrapper.

I agree with fideloper that it's better not to use NodeJs or any of that mess of an ecosystem for projects more complex than 'plumbing code'.

Saw this comment and it reminded me how Waterline ORM became a running joke at my office. Save yourself a headache and avoid these JS backend frameworks:

> I can chime in on Waterline since everyone keeps mentioning deep populate! The PR for the polyfill is pretty much ready to go, it's a recursive query runner that will run queries until the results are completed. This will increase the query count in sql adapters until the adapters understand how to interpret and build these join queries (nosql adapters don't have joins so those will work).

Who needs N+1 select issues when we can have recursive queries baked right into the ORM! smh
People in Australia are considering a commercial plan to build a solar power to liquid hydrogen plant, possibly converting the hydrogen to LNG or ammonia, and then shipping it to Japan.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-12/renewable-hydrogen-...

The mere fact that LNG (liquid natural gas, at -180 degrees Celsius) is already being shipped across the worlds oceans today, supports the notion you are questioning.
Previous discussion (earlier version - 1.5 years ago) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8166388
Whatever the reason, they should fix it - I spend all day fighting through vast numbers of problems and errors in all sorts of software systems but nothing ranks as high as "npm install" for bad user experience. It's the one thing that browns me off more than anything - I dread having to type "npm install" and its my number one gripe in a world of broken software which is really saying something when so much software is broken.
Except that isn't actually true. Irish subsidiary revenues include payments from the parent that subtract from recognized US profits of sales made in the US. They're moving profits from US sales to Ireland.
The languages that you mean probably have this information somewhere, just buried in some mailing list archive instead of compiled like this. Not that people would stop complaining even with such readily available information.
Aerogel is lighter than feathers and more insulating. There was a kickstarter this year for a jacket using aerogel as an insulator.

http://www.orosapparel.com/pages/technology
Also makes for easier code generation. Generated Haskell code often uses braces-and-semicolon, whereas almost no hand-written code does.
Navy seals discuss toxicity of ego [video]
I've been thinking about this lately, and there might be a great advantage to modern democracy even if it is a sham run by oligarchs. Unlike an old-fashioned monarchy or dictatorship, if you want to take over the country, you just have to pay a bunch of money to take control of legislative seats and/or the presidency. This is way less disruptive than having a civil war with armies rampaging about.

It may be nowhere close to the popular ideal of democracy, but the reduced violence and destruction would probably make it a worthwhile innovation anyway.
Building an Asynchronous C++ Addon for Node.js Using Nan
Most people will never be aware of every minor or even most major issues. I think the majority of people who were aware of it were against it.
This situation exists in most so-called "democracies".
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There was obviously the big wave of privatization and corruption after the USSR fell, but lately it's been re-nationalization and pseudo state corps financed by state banks.. The companies take large loans from the government banks, steal most of the money through contracts with various shell corps and then get bailed out. A wholly different but very serious problem.
Packaging for Performance
Male Hunger for Endless Shallow Relationships Is a Symptom of a Broken Society
Anyone wondering why this store didn't open in times sqaure? The evidence that the US is becoming an afterthought in the global innovation race. We lost the fusion power race, and the revitalization of fast food. Rough.
Each essay contains advice that is insightful depending on what stage you, the reader, are at. Did you just discover startups, or did you just present on-stage at Demo Day? Are you struggling with co-founder issues and how to get started, or how to scale to your first 100 employees?

Somone may eventually classify them in a reasonable order. In some sense, this is already what YC's startup guide did: all the advice, sorted in a logical order.
You might also find LiquidPlanner (http://www.liquidplanner.com/features/#why-liquidplanner) interesting for software estimation. The scheduling engine built entirely around the notion of ranged estimates driving probabilistic schedules.
Algernon's law essentially says that biologically simple, major changes to human intelligence are very unlikely to have been strictly better in the ancestral environment, or else they would have happened already. Let's look at Wikipedia's article on the Flynn effect and go down the list of major proposed causes:

> Schooling and test familiarity / Generally more stimulating environment

This one doesn't postulate an actual improvement in intelligence, though it might explain why the test scores are rising.

> Nutrition

Better nutrition has not been easy for most of human history, so this one is fine.

> Infectious diseases

Shifting childhood metabolic effort away from fighting off diseases is one of those tradeoffs mentioned in more detailed discussions of Algernon's law -- if you happen to be in a low-disease environment then, sure, that frees up resources for other things.
A number of people got screwed six or seven figures in the early 200s dot.crash waiting the year for LTGC tax rates or during the sales lockout. There were a lot IPOs in the late 1990s and a lot of worthless stock a year or two after that.
Thanks for the enlightening comment; i wasn't really trying to offer a definition of OCD. Yes , it's common that people talk to OCD to refer to this thing specifically: "Compulsions are repetitive activities that you feel you have to do.", even when the action is not repetitive.
She's talking about some guy and his "campaign to legalize rape".

I thought she was exaggerating or maybe misunderstanding something. Sure, this guy is probably an asshole, but legalizing rape, come on!

I followed the link and... it is kind of almost entertaining. He means it. Literally. You can't stop reading that trainwreck of an argument, because it gets worse and worse.

And then you've lost all hope in mankind. I thought I knew what misogyny was about, but that is absolutely breathtaking.
Given how much policy-making is specific to particular industries, is there anything wrong with the players in those industries having a big say in policy? I'd love to see what the "1,779 policy issues" that the study considered are, but I bet the average person doesn't have much to say about most of them.

The goal is not to pit people against corporations. Those corporations are just the economic vehicles through which people act. Fishing companies are clearly going to have a lot to say about fishing policy, and are going to provide better input to Congress than I ever could, since I know nothing about fishing other than a few sound bites like "we're overfishing the seas". I don't know what that means for particularly fisheries or whatever other considerations there are.

Take a more controversial example, banking. Most people don't know a thing about banking. They've heard sound bites about "greedy bankers" and "inefficient regulators", but they probably don't even know what fractional reserve banking is, let alone what the effects of regulation on it would be. How is it a bad thing that bankers have a large amount of input into these policies? And it hasn't stopped the government from passing policies that they oppose. Look at the animosity toward Dodd-Frank on Wall Street.

Social scientific research can be twisted to support any conclusion. It's typically dressed up in the legitimacy of statistical analysis, but the underlying data is usually weak and their conclusions involve a lot of narrative-writing on the part of the authors.

Also, you have to consider what the goal of democratic institutions is. Is it accountability or representation? Representation means that Congressmen would mirror the opinions of the public. Accountability means that the peoples role is to vote out bad leadership. Both are important, but I think accountability is typically the better goal.
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Neat writeup. Discogs is great. I've bought a ton of records there and plan to continue to.
I agree. We've inherited a country that has, by and large, completely abrogated any responsibility to educate our citizens. As such we've got a growing education gap at least as wide as our income gap.

The result is that a lot of stuff that would have to be more subtle or more carefully timed just works in the US. But we're seeing similar conservative playbooks on Hungary and Poland on an incredible timetable. The EU isn't well equipped to deal with countries that cheerfully dismantle their own constitution.
I believe it would be handy, but it depends on the size. Right now I think it's reasonably fast and intuitive for models of around 3 to 40 metrics(variables). If you have more it could get slower, especially if many of them have to be recalculated at once.

I suggest trying it out. If nothing else, you may be able to begin with very simple models of the most important variables.
Because the likelyhood of cheating is low, largely because there is a legal recourse to recover the costs of cheating.
There is no underwater because employees don't pay anything for their shares.

So there's still risk of owing tax on equity worth less than the current valuation at the time of their offer, right?

Nope. Because of the 83b election, they pay no tax as the shares vest and pay no tax until they sell their shares.
Edit: I wrote prior to this edit agreeing with alot of what you said. However, I mostly wanted to say that providing an explanation that people may be able to understand more easily doesn't necessarily make a scientific conclusion less scientific.
For such pure democracy to be useful and desirable, the units of governance should be reverted to city-states, in which the citizens share common traditions and common problems. The European national state, or the US and alike are just too big for this. I live in a national state, and even after ethnical cleansing about the beginnings of 20th century, and years of fascism and social engineering, the state is too big to be able to peacefully agree on sth. in a way that nobody will feel out.

Now, I'm in favour of city-states, but I do know that it's only a daydream.

Postscript: I think that the US is sort of like the continuation of the Empire. D.C. is the new Rome. And it is indeed sort of a Senatus populusque americanus, in that people rule the state. But as Aulus Gellius says, here, people means patricians.
Very sad.

Jon Postel has RFC 2468: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468

It would be nice if Joyce got something similar, although I guess it's trickier now.

Joyce is mentioned in RFC 1336: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1336

Her section of that is nice, she worked on stuff we've all used a lot.

Ms. Reynolds has contributed
to the development of the DARPA Experimental Multimedia Mail
System, the Post Office Protocol, the Telnet Protocol, and
the Telnet Option Specifications. She helped update the File
Transfer Protocol. Her current technical interests include:
internet protocols, internet management, technical
researching, writing, and editing, Internet security
policies, X.500 directory services and Telnet Options.

This is what she said in 1992 for that RFC.

It has been interesting thirteen years in my professional
life to participate in the Internet world, from the
transition from the TENEX to TOPs-20 machines in 1979 to
surviving the NCP to TCP transition in 1980. Celebrating the
achievement of the ISI 1000 Hour Club where one of our TOPs-
20 machines set a record for staying up and running for 1000
consecutive hours without crashing, to watching the cellular
split of the ARPANET into the Milnet and Internet sides, and
surviving the advent. All in all, my most memorable times
are the people who have contributed to the research and
development of the Internet. Lots of hard, intense work,
coupled with creative, exciting fun. As for the future,
there is much discussion and enthusiasm about the next steps
in the evolution of the Internet. I'm looking forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_K._Reynolds