skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure that the convenience of a single application is attractive, but it doesn't seem to be worth it. With standalone applications, I never need to worry about a company yanking it out from under me, or forcing an update that I don't want.
A large number of e-commerce shops still rely on heuristics (rules of thumb) to manage their fraud risk. Accertify is a major software vendor in the e-commerce space and their framework doesn't incorporate machine learning. Their sales pitch is that they give tons of flexibility to write a rule that adds or subtracts point from the score. My response was always how do I know how many points this rule should be? Once you look under the hood at most shops you see that everything is + or - 1 million and essentially the scoring engine becomes a simple pass/fail engine.

The super-majors like Amazon are heavy into machine learning and rebuild some of their models daily. But even with their prowess they still had a thousand people doing manual investigation a couple of years ago. One subtle signal that you have triggered their fraud system is that they will ask you to renter your card number.
Presumably this is the job of browser vendors.
There are apparently two videos being uploaded per minute, so it's almost certainly something automated. No human being would sit there and upload videos every 30 seconds all day.
Not to mention, African Americans play a lot of basketball because Americans in general play (or view) a lot of basketball.

In Europe, say, Africans play a lot of football. But there's also just as many whites who do- so are African Americans only endowed with the kind of genetics that help them play good basketball? Or are Africans in general endowed with good _basketball_ genetics, but not good _football_ genetics?

And what about European basketball? Why are basketball teams in Europe not predominantly African American?

[Where "football" read "soccer" if you're on the other side of the pond, please]
I totally not feel that way. I've had more fun playing Fire Emblem games lately than I had with any game released in the past 5 years.
More than the presence of other people, I find the noise, the chatter, distracting. OTOH, there is some truth to the "collaboration" argument, IMO.

So, what we have done at our office is to just have to more or less equally size open spaces: one library-silent, one meeting-room-noisy. It's not perfect, but cheaper than individual offices, while still allowing you to concentrate when you most need to.
What on earth is this about? zero backstory, one out of context comment.
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

-- Dorothy Parker (attributed)
Why I’m Buying a House Without a Family to Put in It
Well, we are in a simular, or maybe better position then desktop was 10 years ago. So yes, it might not work, but I would not wave the flag yet.
I recommend https://ilovecoding.org/ There are lots of awesome answers there, do read books and watch Javascript tutorials but don't just read or watch them. GO AND WRITE CODE. Don't procrastinate, just do it. You learn by doing it.
have a look at the second post, i address that.
Just like the other user said, go for a mobile as it's the least expensive option you have
Not much help if the device giving you the error is also your primary means of looking up error codes.

Would much rather the "more details" pattern where you have a link/button at the bottom of the error which actually explains it or gives access to the original error they were covering up.
I get your point, but Detroit is a really bad example. Who would want to live with undrinkable water and the highest murder rate in the country, with essentially no municipal services, in a house so run down that it'd be condemned in any other city?
Homeless flock to SF because it's very tolerant of them relative to many other cities (some of which actually bus their mentally ill to SF), and the conditions are moderate enough that they aren't fighting off hypothermia. It has nothing to do with their desire to live on the curb in front of expensive real estate.

I don't know that you understand the problem at all if you refer to it as a choice. Particularly if you think the alternative choice is home ownership in abandoned areas of the country's most troubled city. Owning some empty, stripped-apart house in Detroit doesn't solve anybody's problems and certainly doesn't eliminate the cost of supporting the downtrodden. Many people in Detroit who have skills aren't finding employment and are barely surviving. A property title doesn't fill your stomach day after day. And the 4-figure houses you refer to are that way because they represent more liability than asset. They need massive investment to make them liveable.

Your comment is frankly ignorant.
It doesn't help that the government is literally disallowed from funding any gun related medical research. My girlfriend does rural health related research and this fact always infuriates her - I never even knew this until she had explained it to me.
Yahoo ruined tumblr by putting loads of ads on the website. I would take the cash and invest in tumblr rather than making it look trash
Don't worry, they're working hard to change that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11048523
Because for many non-technical users, using a computer or anything
computer-related automatically disables thinking. Using a computer boils often
down to waving a magic chicken, performing a ritual, and then the computer
does what it was istructed to. (Or not, and this is where people call support.)

I actually saw this several times on myself with regard to something I knew
I know nothing about, i.e. power tools. I avoided them like a plague, because
I knew I don't know how to use any of them at all. I needed to be taught
a little how to use power tools (mainly: how they cause accidents and harm).
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https://www.drupal.org/node/1874530 everything in this (short) issue is a lie: submitted as "Proudly Found Elsewhere" when a significant portion of the code was written by the author of this issue, just submitted upstream and then pulled downstream (check @author tags, it's right there but https://github.com/symfony-cmf/Routing/commits/master?page=9 also here for the sake of archives, commits start at 3b152c4) to avoid usual scrunity by downstream (ie the normal Drupal core review process). To avoid anyone catching this (and I haven't caught it for a very long time) it was submitted on Dec 26 when everyone is obviously away.

"I don't believe CMF is as stable as Symfony core" this is at best FUD, Symfony CMF won't see a stable release for another ten months http://symfony.com/blog/the-symfony-cmf-released-its-first-s... Symfony 2 core had several stable releases http://symfony.com/blog/symfony-2-1-3-released by this point.

I have no idea how the core committers didn't catch all this -- but you can't really blame them, there was a gigantic pressure to move ahead. And then based on this foundation, everything link related, inbound and outbound was converted to route names instead of paths which is a) absolutely unnecessary b) destroys performance.

Of course, there was history and reason trying to avoid review of this pile of code. Symfony, in general, is an extremely poor fit for Drupal: Drupal was a convention based system and Symfony is very heavily a config based system. The most obvious and very glarring misfit is hooks vs events and despite hooks being the central Drupal building block there never was a fundamental, through research as to what if anything to replace them with. Compare the scrutiny Symfony Foundation received in https://groups.drupal.org/node/167299 to how Symfony HTTP Kernel got added: via an admittedly "off-the-cuff" prototype https://groups.drupal.org/node/198538 . Note that I was trying to push back on this immediately with little success then or ever. So after shoehorning HTTP Kernel in over some bitterness and fighting it stands to reason the architect wants to avoid any scrutiny this pile of code would receive.

Ps. Events have so much overhead that by now Drupal only uses the interface for them as we rewrote the dispatcher to scale. Benchmarks at https://www.drupal.org/node/1972300#comment-9216069 .
I think that if you ignore classic post war economic orthodoxy[1] there are offsetting economic benefits to a declining population. Such as every year you don't need as much infrastructure. The number of children that need to be educated goes down. The ratio of the countries carrying capacity vs actual population improves pushing you farther away from the Malthusian limit.

Maybe not so good if you're in the drywall business.

[1] The kind that focuses on aggregate money flows and spending to the exclusion of everything actually important.
DNA 'Trojan horse' smuggles drugs into resistant cancer cells
Nope, only the CDC can't, and that was after serious abuse in both science and in violation of their charter.

You want some money for that? Billionaire Bloomberg's pockets are wide open right now, and are funding a lot of "research".
All of the statistics are misleading. The third one is particularly so, because they are weighting by s$population * s$homicides_per_100000, i.e. 100000 * homicides which makes it completely meaningless).

Starting from the data defined in that article:

> d$homicides = d$homicides_per_100000 * d$population / 100000
> d$firearms = d$firearms_per_100 * d$population / 100
> summary(lm(formula = d$homicides ~ d$firearms))

Call:
lm(formula = d$homicides ~ d$firearms)

Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-12851 -2081 -1841 -978 50042

Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 2.114e+03 5.592e+02 3.780 0.000231 *
d$firearms 9.142e-05 2.253e-05 4.058 8.18e-05 *
---
Signif. codes: 0 ‘’ 0.001 ‘’ 0.01 ‘’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 6561 on 141 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.1046,	Adjusted R-squared: 0.0982
F-statistic: 16.46 on 1 and 141 DF, p-value: 8.179e-05

> s <- d[d$gdp_ppp_per_capita > median(d$gdp_ppp_per_capita),]
> summary(lm(formula = s$homicides ~ s$firearms))

Call:
lm(formula = s$homicides ~ s$firearms)

Residuals:
Min 1Q Median 3Q Max
-4509 -2097 -1997 -1747 50543

Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 2.096e+03 9.202e+02 2.278 0.0258 *
s$firearms 6.158e-05 2.739e-05 2.248 0.0277 *
---
Signif. codes: 0 ‘’ 0.001 ‘’ 0.01 ‘’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Residual standard error: 7591 on 69 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.06827,	Adjusted R-squared: 0.05477
F-statistic: 5.056 on 1 and 69 DF, p-value: 0.02774

In other words, the most obvious analysis to do shows strong evidence for a positive relationship between total homicides and total firearms - the link is in the same direction but much weaker when you only look at the upper half of countries by GDP.

Correlation doesn't imply causation - it could be that in some countries, people obtain firearms because the homicide rate is high, or there could be some other confounding factor not even in the data that drives both.

If this had been an experiment and each country had been assigned a firearm ownership rate, it would have been safe to conclude that each million firearm owners cause between 55 and 68 homicides (99% confidence interval).
> They simply cannot take care of themselves.

And no one else wants to, which is part of the problem.
The most visible homeless and those we consider "the problem" certainly may be those who "cannot take care of themselves". However, the majority do not fit this category.

I may be naive but I think we should be tackling the homeless with mental problems first. While I certainly have more empathy to those who have "lost my job, lost my apartment, and hence am homeless", I am unconfident that traditional support services can put them back on their feet without drastic improvements to the housing crisis in San Francisco. Furthermore, the mentally ill make everyone (especially those homeless who have fallen on hard times) less safe.
I think the reason people are so willing to stick around is 1) I don't think they really know what the norm is for compensation in a startup, 2) the others seem to have been friends with him previously (usually a bad idea to go into a startup with friends, but I digress), and 3) to your question, he was once the CEO of a company that made the same product, so he has connections in the industry, relationships with distributors, and quite honestly, he's a sales animal. He has already pre-sold a shipping container of the product (far, FAR before us engineers will have it ready - a pending potential trainwreck of its own).

In that previous CEO role, as I understand it, he left on bad terms over some kind of compensation disagreement (ironic?).

A red flag in the beginning was that one of our engineers still runs an authorized service center for that former company's returns. Yet, when the CEO started our company, one of the first things he went about trying to do was to smear the last company in the press (which would have been technically hurting part of the business of the engineer I mentioned, who still made income servicing that company's products). The guy just doesn't think about other people, yet he's good at bringing in the dollars.

I think people are seeing the sales and letting that put off their concerns (if they have them) about whether they will be compensated and when. I have to be honest - I have seen him get us out of some sticky situations by pivoting at the last minute. He used his industry experience to do that, which also contributed to the ability to even do that. It gives him a perception of knowing way more than anyone else, and so they are inclined to trust him when he says this compensation strategy will be acceptable. With this experience, he has an aura of wisdom that makes people feel almost foolish for broaching the subject of pay (I know, I've tried it).

What's doubly ironic is that he insists on air-tight contracts with suppliers and customers, and mentions it being okay to "bend them over" once in a while, since we're paying them and they're locked in. Yet, for an employee, I had to fight tooth and nail just to get the lame contract I have with him for pay.
When you're limited to 140 characters, aesthetics become essential for communication.

This is Twitter's blessing and its curse: It's a game we willingly play to communicate within its limitations.

Even the greatest artists have to paint within the canvas. By making the canvas ludicrously small, limitations become a democratizing force.
> You are making the case that intraracial facial structures all resemble each other

No, my point is precisely the opposite. I'm making the case that facial structures are a crude approximation for genetic classification because it's not true that all "black" people have a dark skin complexion, not all "black" people have thick kinky hair, there is genetic diversity within the "black" community because the definition of "black" is fluid and based on an amalgamation of regional, political, cultural and apparent (as in apparent to the naked eye) genetic factors.
Thanks for sharing those links. I'll definitely look into them in more detail. At a cursory glance I'm not sure that the data necessarily contradicts 1024core's statement. A disturbingly high number of respondents cites having one or more health conditions, such as Drug or Alcohol Abuse (37%), Pyschiatric or Emotional Conditions (35%) and PTSD (27%).

At the same time, to your point, the number of people on the streets due to evictions has also markedly increased over the last years, so there are probably multiple things going on.

I'd imagine that (as usual) the problems are complex. For instance, respondents say they're on the street because they lost their job (25%) or because family or friends asked them to leave (12%), but it doesn't mention if there's an underlying reason for that. For example, some of these people might have lost their job due to substance abuse. I'm not saying that's the case for everyone, just trying to say that the situation is complex.

Similarly I'd imagine there's a vicious cycle where once you're living on the street it's difficult to break out of it. Living on the street makes it difficult to get a job, which in turn makes it hard to get a home. Substance abuse is probably more likely if you're living on the street, again making it more difficult to get a job and a home. If you have a mental illness and you voluntarily sought mental care, it's difficult to stick with it if you also have a drug addiction.

Again, thanks for posting those links. I also live in SF and I find the homeless situation tragic. It saddens me that very few people seem interested in discussing the problem beyond black and white opinions and simple soundbites.
In theory yes, in practice that's usually not the case in my experience.
> If it's admitting women it would not otherwise in order to meet its CS quotas, then it is lowering the standards.

I disagree. Say your standard is "I will only date people that are over 6 feet tall". Statistically, there is a smaller percentage of women who meet that standard than men. However, there are more men over 6' tall than you could date in a single lifetime. There are also more women over 6' tall than you could date in a single lifetime. So if you choose to date 50% men and 50% women, you're not "lowering your standards". You're just using additional criteria -- like the idea that you might want more variety than only dating people of one gender all the time -- to weight your decision making beyond drawing random lots.

You can say that the analogy doesn't apply. "I don't want to date people over 6' tall -- I want to date the tallest people". I challenge you to apply "the best" to academic criteria that are available during the admissions process. There's simply not enough resolution available to construct an absolute ordering over all applicants, so you have to bucket people somehow. And the top bucket contains more than enough people to select from without having to lower any standards.

You're right that I can't conclusively show that standards weren't lowered using coarse statistics. I'm working with the numbers that I have, and with the knowledge that Maria Klawe and the professors of the HMC CS department are acting in good faith. Their end goal is not "get more women into our CS program". Their end goal is "make the CS profession a welcoming place for everyone", and bringing more women into HMC is a stepping stone towards that goal.

> spending something on the order of $100k per additional woman in their CS program

I would love to see that piece. It goes against my expectations, but honestly you might be right. Can you try to dig it up again for me?

> randomized experiments (who is better placed to try that than Harvey Mudd?)

Actually, Mudd isn't well-placed to do randomized experiments. The population is too small. Also, you're suggesting conducting sociological experiments on sentient populations without their express knowledge or consent. That's something I -- and the school, I expect -- would like to steer clear of.
>Dogs and cats are unique amongst animals. These animals have guarded our doors since before we had doors to guard. Their language is universally understood. Play a bark to a person in china or france, everyone understands dog. It's in our genes. Mistreatment is bad, but eating is something worse. Those who turn on dogs turn their backs on humanity.

Nonsense. That is 100% specific to your culture. In a lot of places dogs are livestock. In others people revile you for eating beef. Or pork.
That the court order stems from a student loan debt is not beside the point. It is the exact point.
Any person with a brain knows that Russia won't invade any country. NATO just needs an arch enemy to justify its existence and it seems everyone want to believe that the Russians are still those evil commies of old.
Can an Android user explain what this means to me? Why does storing log files on an external storage device require access to photos? That makes no sense to a user.
Nope. Eating dog is a line in the sand for me. There is no "but the children". Killing dogs, as killing people, has a time and place. Eating them does not.
Nvidia is proof of this. They tried to sue Samsung for some GPU related patents. Samsung countersued and pulled some basic patents out of their war chest. Samsung was found to not have infringed Nvidia's patents, but in the countersuit it was determined that Nvidia infringed on Samsung's patents. Nvidia was the instigator and not only did they lose, but they must now compensate Samsung for using their IP.
You don't think people complain about people dealing drugs out of their neighborhood? 80-90% of people support keeping all drugs besides marijuana illegal.
I live in SF and the problem with housing here is that although the residential neighborhoods are very extended (think of the Richmond), most of the residential buildings are 2/3 story houses that cannot accomodate many people.

We need to start replacing these little residential houses with 10 story buildings. There is nowhere else to build, we need to start upgrading the existing buildings.

Will that change the city? Well yes, but cities evolve and some of the houses built after the earthquake are anachronistic and of out place in this time.
> Hint: if the first notation is so superior, why don't math papers use it.

As a mathematician I'd love to use it in my papers, but no reviewer would accept such a paper.
That's why I force all fonts to be comic sans.
What serious problem is that? In a shrinking labor market maybe you don't need the jobs. If Japan's shrinking population is such a terrible thing, why is Japan's per-capita GDP rising and why is Japan's unemployment rate 3.1%?
Here's an opposed piston 2 stroke diesel. Basically the "Super Engine" that the article describes built in the 1930's, except it runs on diesel instead of gasoline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuvJIoUTA8k
Surprised that nobody has yet mentioned http://chains.cc

Free and works well.
This is the worst case scenario from the NSA mass-surveillance debacle.

I could plausibly justify it when the NSA (a department of the DoD) was solely focused on national security (assuming the NSA's self-imposed controls, protocols, procedures, etc were implemented and executed as the NSA Director claimed).

Now national security resources are being retasked to fight another failed prohibition. The US Federal Government's failed drug policies are as much a threat to US national security as foreign drug cartels are. Re-legalize narcotics, redirect enforcement and imprisonment funding to rehab, education, abd.
I love the open office concept. As someone who has a distraction free private office, it gives me a competitive advantage. :-)
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If I were going to implement my own client for a subset of Peergos, is the protocol format documented somewhere?

Is it a priority to encourage this kind of developer participation, or are you going to focus on your own implementation before encouraging participation? (Bonus points for demo minimal implementations.)

As another commenter said, I'm also more excited about a social network "protocol" than another social network.
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