skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered using a client that doesn't stay scrolled all the way to the top (TweetBot has a toggle for "pin to top" for example)? I would find what you're describing pretty much a deal breaker in my use of twitter, so I use this feature and literally read every tweet from everyone I follow. When I open twitter (and it syncs between desktop/mobile), I'm at the same spot I was when I opened it last.
Yes, the point is that the ranking would look very different if it were based on the ease of long term residence instead of a short visit. Going from the US to Germany for a short visit is basically the same as going from the UK to Germany for a short visit, but going from the US to Germany for long term residence is much more difficult than going from the UK to Germany for long term residence.
Why so bitter and angry? As far as I can see, his calculations make sense and lead to interesting results. Instead of philosophical nitpicking, why not help him improve his understanding by explaining how you would have calculated/formalized/modeled this thing, so the scare-quote data "scientists" can learn something?

By the way, we definitely don't hear all words that these characters speak in their lives. It's implied in the story that there are conversations that we don't get to see in the actual episodes, but nevertheless these imaginary characters speak a lot more. For example we don't see each and every breakfast, lunch and dinner discussion, we don't hear all their words in the classroom etc.

Now of course the sampling isn't random, because the creators obviously "select" the more interesting bits of the characters' lives, but in statistics we always make assumptions that simplify the procedure but are known to be technically wrong.
Yes, form 8938 is for FATCA. I'm addressing the parent comment regarding filing for FATCA. I guess the parent had FBAR and FATCA confused.
Thanks for the elaboration! Having read only a single book on the subject, I figured that my account would be somewhat biased, even though I tried (through googling) to verify what I wrote. I'll refer to your links and try to widen my perspective!

Having said that, I think Kinzer do your view more justice than I did in my summary. I do apologize for over simplifying things.
> why so quick to bill me but ignore my refund request

Which direction do they want the money to flow?
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Well no. First rats aren't same as humans. They share certain qualities but not all. Second we don't have a good replacement (and for a while we did allow children to work).

The models aren't there yet, but once we develop those, we could try phasing out lab studies.
Top contributors to Perl, PHP, Python in a bubble charts
The total US lead emission from general aviation is about 500 tons per year, which in 2002 was about 45% of total lead emissions (which is higher than I'd thought). One caveat is that is an upper-bound number, not all 100LL fuel has the maximum quantity of lead additive. It's fine if it reaches 100 octane on a smaller amount. It's also a historic number: the industry is shifting towards 100 Very Low Lead type with a 20% lower TEL limit. And general aviation has been in decline for about two decades due to spiralling cost. So that number is probably on the high side.

Most of the fleet (~70%) would be OK switching to 94-octane unleaded. The biggest problem is that Congress/states have made it extremely difficult to source this type of fuel, because the overwhelming majority of fuel is produced for automotive usage. Ethanol and other mandated additive blends are unacceptable for aviation usage, and we're talking about 0.1% of the fuel market. Congress/states have put up barriers that impede a shift and they need to do something to help that overcome those barriers, not just ban 100LL.

Also, due to the nature of general aviation this is a very distributed problem. Most general aviation occurs at relatively small airfields/airstrips and there's many factors that make it difficult for GA pilots to use large airports (limited access to those airspace types, high traffic levels from commercial aviation, high ramp/fuel fees designed to discourage refueling, etc). So you've got to get 92UL available at a large number of small sites. Most small airports will carry at most two types of fuel, 100LL and Jet A1, and many will only carry 100LL. Most airports are running on super thin margins and adding 92UL would mean not carrying 100LL.

That leaves the 30% of aircraft that can't use 92UL pretty high-and-dry. Some can be modified, some will need engine replacements, a lot will be out of luck. Unfortunately they are likely concentrated at the affordable end of the fleet, and that translates into more cost increases in a sector that's already dying due to a cost spiral.

General aviation is a feeder for commercial aviation, and that's going to become an even tougher and more expensive path to follow. Going commercial requires a large number of flight hours which are typically accrued by getting an instructor license and training casual pilots - so cost increases that reduce casual pilot time percolate very directly into a reduced supply of commercial-eligible pilots. The only other route is ex-military pilots, or paying >$100k through a university (which is not commercially viable due to the ~$20k average salary of an entry-level regional pilot).

General aviation is also a neat cultural touchstone that I am sad to see shrivelling into nothing :(
I honestly doubt that you have no problem with a heinous murderer living comfortably in his mansion and never serving time in prison.

I'm not talking about taking limbs and eyes here...
Nah. They were providing "dvr as a service" at a reasonable price. The "fat cats" are the cable monopolies that lobby to protect their unfair positions while drastically overcharging and providing poor customer value.

Aereo made it easy to take advantage of something that is already free (and free by law). That was going to cut into the fat cats margins, so the fat cats got them shut down.
It's a valiant effort, but there's really no way they'll win this battle. The client simply has too much control.

I was toying with writing a chrome extension for sites/videos that behave differently when adblock is running. It shouldn't be too hard to make the site believe that the ad content is running, when it's not actually running.

Not a perfect approach, but if bandwidth / compute / memory is not an issue, it could be a novel way to respond to more sophisticated ad block detect mechanisms that come out.
"People ask me sometimes, when — when do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is when there are nine." -Ruth Bader Ginsgurg
on a larger scale if you can convince companies to move outside seattle, then sure - but seattle was planned with 3 north-south highways in the city, and the commuter-based congestion is a result
Coverage.py with Ned Batchelder
Fairly certain golemotron is being sarcastic
The biggest part of that genocide was accidental, and accomplished before the first permanent European settlements were ever established in North America. The story of Amherst's "smallpox blankets" is widely known, and deplorable, but the worst of the epidemics had raged through and decimated native populations in the 250 years prior since first contact.

It seems to be conveniently forgotten that many tribes were complicit in aiding and abetting Europeans in exterminating their rivals as well. Cortez conquered the Aztecs with 600 Spaniards... and 200,000 Tlaxcalans. The Iroquois confederation did most of the work of exterminating other native populations throughout the Great Lakes region.
A book review of Justin Peters’ new biography, “The Idealist”.
Oh no, people aren't buying enough stuff. Let's penalize them for saving money to encourage them to buy more stuff.

What's the impact on the environment?
Sure you do not need to refer to it as a programming language. But:

1) Doing so is not technically wrong

2) For a certain (non-technical) audience, "programming language" is something that "tells the computer to do things"

So, it is both correct and a helpful description for the target audience.

Nitpicking is out of order here.
Web Scraping Finds Price Fluctuation
>Almost every western country does, and none of them tax their citizens abroad.

This is certainly not limited to western countries, to underscore your point. Even India evacuated its citizens from Yemen, while the US did not. [1]

On that note, India also organized the largest-ever civilian airlift to evacuate tens of thousands of citizens from Kuwait during the Iraq invasion (1990). [2]

[1]: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/4/7/us-among-26-c...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_airlift_of_Indians_from_K...
If YC has a similar success rate with strategy innovations as it does with companies, it will be succeeding enormously.
"Faster, Higher, Stronger" book showed a study where athletes were asked what they would give up for an Olympic gold medal and from what I remember a good portion would give up their lives in 5 years for that (or some other crazy time), the pressure and willing to win for professional and aspiring professional athletes is incredible.
I don't (currently) have a need for this so I'm not going to play with it right now, but I like that it looks idiomatically like Plug. Pass a struct through a pipeline until it's ready to go.
Commented above, it's a cool project, but ultimately I wouldn't recommend spending too much time trying to fight a war against browser clients.

Unless sites/applications are running their own thick clients, there is ultimately no way that they'll ever be able to ensure ad content is displayed.
They could be; its just difficult to conclude that based on observing that they play with weapons, since obviously they must be taught what weapons are, and along with that who (men, women) should use them. Pinker makes little effort to account for such problems and often makes the "widely observed == genetic" fallacy.
Mathematicians Devise Formula for the Perfect Pancake
Putting the cloud on a diet, for security's sake
For example, what if she was given 216 phones to fix per week, and she fixes 46 per day? The formula would be the same.

So the formula doesn't give enough info.
Yeah sorry about that, it's not a referral link -- It didn't even strike me to remove the referral query params until after I made the post, then I couldn't change it :(
That's sorta the point. Expats aren't using the roads those taxes are paying for. That's why every other country in the world, aside from Eritrea, doesn't tax you when you're living abroad.
This is exactly one of the things I have been hoping would get started in Elixir. I would really like more helpful documentation though.

I'm imagining an entire ecosystem will begin to show up inside Elixir (and phoenix) as people realize how powerful it can be.
Another scenario:

US Citizen living and working abroad buys a house for X in local currency. Later sells same house for the same amount X in local currency. That local currency has appreciated by 20% against USD in the timeframe. And the IRS computes capital gains in USD, not in local currency.

Net result: the seller owes IRS "capital gains" taxes on 20% of the value of a house that was bought and sold for the same price.
A simple search would lead you to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Raahat_(India)
Knowing the terrible privacy- and tracking-issue history as related to the Amazon app, I would never install it for any reason, much less just to check prices.

In fact, after reading this, it makes me wonder if the real purpose behind these stores isn't simply to force people to install the app.
you get a hang, happened with Win 10 on overclocked G3258. Win10 ships with mcupdate_GenuineIntel.dll containing microcode that ... disables Overclocking

Workaround is renaming/deleting mcupdate_GenuineIntel.dll and not updating BIOS ever again to avoid new microcode, all to keep cheapest 4.4GHz single thread cpu money can get.
The irritating thing that happens when you add #growthhacking to your tweets
"We’re constantly dividing people into “us” vs. “them.” And once we put someone in the “them” category, it can open up the floodgates for violence and is the root of a lot of human misery and wars."

Some may call this naive, but this is the reason we need more unity in the world. Less division. More us...less us and them. The media seems to do a great job of pitting one side against the other. I think many of our attitudes and perspectives are learned and perpetuated by the media.
negative rates won't happen in the retail market. it's fed to banks to enforce lending (and "economic activity").
India had a more vibrant scientific society than the West. While the West was still figuring out if the Earth was flat or not, Indian scholars had already established that the Earth was not only a spheroid but also determined the age of the Universe (See: https://www.quora.com/What-does-Hinduism-say-about-the-shape... and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_units_of_time). We even had Metallurgy working way before Britain learnt about working metals. I can go on and on about Indian intellectual life way before Britain came to colonize India but it makes no sense in today's context because most of these facts are either unknown or is of little interest to the West. See what Professor Dean Brown (a scientist from the United States) says about India, Sanskrit and India's Scientific heritage in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Brv2FaOluU
Take a loan, convert to cash, heat your house with the cash. Rinse. Repeat.
User Experience Principles with Billy Hollis [video]
SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans
Well, looks like it's opt-in at least for now, so probably your timeline will not be reordered at all if you don't want to during this week.
Passion ... such an unfortunate word choice. Or perhaps not - perhaps this tells more than meets the eye: http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/passion
The fact that those search options are available is fantastic.

I find phpBB-type forums almost completely unusable. Pagination made for 1998; large, intrusive signatures; confusing timestamps (person's last location and login time more prominent than the timestamp of the comment), etc.
Love:+Look+At+The+Two+Of+Us
I wouldn't say easily. Keep in mind that checking if something is "unique," it needs to be checked against every other character as well.

For example, the Top 5 Unique Words for Randy Marsh per the analysis are:

stan, stanley, lorde, shelly, son

I downloaded the dataset and quickly calculated the Top 5 Most Frequently Said Words for Randy from the entire population. Those are:

what, stan, yeah, ok, huh

All characters on the show are saying those words (Except "stan"). That's why log-likelihood/tdfif is used on a per-character basis.
Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics
I remember Reid Hoffman talking about some of the mistakes he's made as an entrepreneur (http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts)

He said one of the big ones he made was in times of frothy capital markets when all your competitors are well capitalized, its was a mistake to be frugal and not take as much investors money as they could.

We are currently in a time of very frothy capital markets. Money is just being given away. This is going to lead to, if it hasn't already, a big jump in the gap between the rich and the poor.

These lower interest rates are allowing hedge funds to make money via currency carry trades (http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currencycarrytrade.asp) while the average person is unlikely to be able to take advantage of this situation, if anything it make sit harder for the average person to save for retirement due to the paltry interest rates that are being paid on the products available to them.

I don't know what the solution to this is.

I guess if there is any good news in this, its that every single government who matters has already forced their bansk to go through some pretty strenuous stress tests wrt negative interest rates and there hasn't really been alot of bad news to come out of Europe, Canada or the US.....yet
nah, they advertised Pentium G3258 as overclockable and later killed OC with microcode (on non Z boards)
I'm no economist, but with 0% interest rates and nonzero government bond rates banks have been able to do essentially this for years - get money for free, loan it to the government, call that a good day's work.
Yes, this is what I meant but phrased it poorly above. I guess a better way to say it is that almost every child has had blood work done an annual basis. But it reads like kids get a full blood workup every year, which is not true.
Lake Poopó, Bolivia's second largest lake, has vanished
Bitcoin is on the verge of splitting in two
I like to say that in NIFs (and port drivers) all the bets are off anyway, most notably process isolation and fault-tolerance. The guarantees such as "preemption" and fault-tolerance happen in the layer above (i.e. pure Erlang), and can only be satisfied if the underlying layer behaves properly.
How  You Win When Developing Your Idea in Scrum
The premise is wrong:
"constructing a larger string out of multiple smaller strings is a pretty common programming task"

No, it's not.

"strcat(strcat(strcat(strcpy(buf, "This "),"is "),"a long "),"string.");"

Just checked 20 years of C/C++ repositories ... not a single strcat.
Actually I can't remember ever using c-strings for more than args parsing or debug logging.
Opera to Be Sold to Chinese Tech Companies for $1.2B
Don't go out to the bar with Intel. They are total clock-blockers.
People have been using bows for 500+ generations and ranged weapons for even longer. That's plenty of time for a preference for ranged combat to show up (ed: become frequent).

The Atoal is believed to be ~30,000 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower And spears are ~400,000 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amentum is rather hard to date, but it's simpler than an Atoal.
Well we didn't want to pay for journalism. This is how we pay now.
You're assuming that all twitter users are constantly online, and constantly checking tweets. I check twitter once or twice a day. I don't care about their algo, I treat twitter like a mailing list (follow few people, read all their tweets).
Can Wall Street Solve the Water Crisis in the West?
If you borrowed $100 but kept it in a bank account, then you'd be losing to the negative interest rate on that sum too (and friction of having to make regular payments).

The only way to benefit is to borrow and invest that money, which is exactly what the fed wants (with the expectation that productive investments will boost economic growth).

I think the real issue is that if you're paying -5% for a loan. It's rational to invest that into something that returns -1% (and profit by 4%). This means people are incentivized to invest in unproductive resources... Which might be a bad thing in the long run.
Perhaps one is an oft-used, polished and automated course of action, and the other doesn't happen that often (one would hope), and/or needs manual approvals.

Edit: not even acknowledging your issue...now that's fishy.
Some of these aren't conspiracy theories. The Soyuz 1 pilot knew he was going to die and, well, he did. The 1960 R-16 rocket explosion at the Baikonur Cosmodrome killed something like 200 ground crew. This was covered up for decades and only officially acknowledged as the USSR was beginning to fall apart in 1989.

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

I also believe the Polyus anti-satellite weapon platform intended to militarize space was a secret to the West until it failed to achieve orbit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_%28spacecraft%29

Pretty much every space mission in the USSR was a secret. The West would detect a launch, or sometimes be told in advance a launch was happening to lower nuclear tensions, and then days later we'd see in Pravda what mission it was.
I was wondering the same. What are the odds of two very similar projects with nearly identical headlines appearing on HN at nearly the same time?
There have been wordpress plugins that do this for years. What is surprising is that one of the largest media companies in the world just figured this out, when internet marketing shmoes have been doing this with $20 php scripts for years.
I hate to break it to you. But behavior and gender is determined by genetics. Therefore gender identity is not just a social construct but a biological one as well.

Take for example the correlation between feminine behavior and two X chromosomes (XX). There is high correlation between these two factors. Additionally examine the correlation between masculine behavior and XY. Again another high correlation implying the possibility of a causal connection between gender and genes.

Though correlation doesn't imply causation it lends more credibility to the hypothesis. What if we were to raise a child, born a boy, as a girl? If gender were truly a social construct there would be no issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
the article proves the author has zero knowledge and is just dozing on the subject when it doesn't contest that yahoo having no mobile effort was not bad product managers/execs decision, but instead goes on agreeing with the point-haired boss idea that it lacked mobile engineers. as of some engineers were born to work exclusively on mobile.

what a load of bs.
Is your robots' score signed or unsigned?
It's a deposit rate, no? i.e. you can pay the ECB x euros now and they'll pay you 0.993x euros in a year's time.
"I was responsible for the majority of the Air Force's software programs" - as a former Computer Systems Officer in the US Air Force at a pretty high level operations center, this seems pretty hyperbolic, as no person is in this position. Maybe majority of the software for their area of work.
Does this support Elasticsearch?
Project 1 is submitted and trending, someone thinks "Oh, I have/have seen something similar, let's submit it while people are thinking about the topic?"
The Empty Civ Experiment: Learning about How AI Thinks
The hot water test is actually one of the nicer tests.

120 F isn't that hot, it only hurts after a while, and the mouse can take its tail out at any time. That's how they were able to detect the effect; the mice that saw the other mice do the test took their tails out faster because they knew it'd eventually hurt based on the prior mouse's reaction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_sec...

The authors decided to redo the underlying library. And change the user interface. And go cross platform. That amounts to a virtual rewrite from scratch.
What the heck is an "important tweet?" Isn't that like a dry raindrop?
Negative rates, maybe not. 0% rates, perhaps.
My point isn't a us vs them as much as it was showing that the early Soyuz program did results in fatalities and as such posting a curt "No, this is wrong" is fairly disingenious.

Also, the USSR engaged in cover-ups fairly routinely. The Nedelin disaster was covered up for 39 years, for example. This cost nearly 200 ground crew lives.

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

>The Apollo program killed three astronauts before they even left the pad.

Again, this is public record. Again, the USSR was very dishonest with its space program. Having people still parrot their propaganda is ridiculous in this day and age. There is still a lot we don't know about the daily ins and outs of their program and pretending none of this happened is extremely disingenuous.
Google Cars Just Got a Major Boost from U.S. Vehicle Regulators
Same here. I've used it to find the source of sentences for referencing in my academic papers. And read a page either side to make sure the context is appropriate.
Distraction Blurrer. Hardly usable at this point but neat