skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's an awfully longwinded way

Of you dodging such a obvious truth, I agree.

> If your argument relies on the edge case of a country doing the conscripting being a liberal democracy thousands of miles from the actual fighting

Yeah, only the wars my liberal democracy has participated in, all of which have been thousands of miles from home. What an edge case!

> countries where the civilians are based not to have any natural refugee escape routes

By your reckoning there were escape routes from Vietnam so nobody was actually killed!

> I'm pretty sure that even then the average American soldier's experience of combat was more unpleasant than the average Vietnamese civilian's wartime experience

Even if you were right the point is the soldier's agency in choosing a better future. Peasants have very little, the soldiers have much more at every stage especially the beginning.

An american soldier could choose to go home at any time "simply" by refusing to fight and being sentenced to, at most, twenty years in prison. Their family wouldn't be face retribution or anything. Ask someone about to be burnt to death with their family which they'd prefer.

> I'm pretty sure I've listened to and read more Vietnamese accounts of the war than you.

You can't read the memoirs of the dead.

> because I'm still none the wiser

That would require not trying to dodge the point.

> as to whether your argument that soldiers have greater agency

Draftees, particularly before they become soldiers. And it's a fact, not an argument, in all modern cases in my country.

> actually intended to be taken seriously

Oh gosh, of course not. It troubles you so of course it was meant for you to dismissively chuckle at in passing. No more.
I think what the article meant to say was that, for the same number of samples, the p-value when you have delta=50 (the difference between groups), stdev=10 is the same as the p-value of delta=0.5, stdev=0.1.

Depending on the study, finding a delta whose p-value is significant does not necessarily mean that the size of the effect (i.e., delta) might be significant enough to be useful.
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> I was claiming you didn't read the bloody article mate. I am not trying to be rude

Then you should read what people post. Perhaps then you won't sound like a rude person.

I diddn't said anything about the 90% market sahre, I asked about your accusation of price dumping

And until now you have provided 0 proof of it. Amazon was selling some books at a loss but the whole division was profitable. Amazon was investigated by the DOJ and they didn't found anything

So yes, I will ask again, what is your source for the price dumping accusation. And, no, something said by the publishers accused is not proof of anything.
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> With ZFS you could theoretically implement the same thing only better.

OpenSolaris had that as part of its Gnome file manager. It's even open source.
In Finland the highest category swear word is "Perkele" which they call "the P word".

It translates as "devil"
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The Google workaround no longer works for the WSJ.
This reminds me of the paw paw. Apparently they grow wild near where I live. I keep telling myself that this will be the year I go find some.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/29/140894570/the...
I really like those themes. Academic work is often left untouched for decades, so there's definite value in simple pages that look good.

I don't see a license mentioned anywhere, though. Can I use that code on my sites?
Have you looked at the wages of Indian labourers versus American construction workers lately?
I used oracle a lot a few years ago... When I was getting used to it I would compare it to a neighbor that is usually really helpful, but on occasion when you asked to borrow something would hit you with a bat first...
You could guess that, but with no real expectation that it's right either. E.g. for a global service I'd guess it's better viewed as a sum of three offset distributions, one per continent, but even then the individual distributions are unlikely to be gaussian.

Having run global services myself I can tell you that the shape is usually no standard distribution. Peak/trough depends on the exact usage demographics, but the one I have on hand has a trough of ~1/2 peak, and an average of ~3/4.
Obviously it doesn't because it means allowing the innocent to be jailed without trial, not OK.
You know this is what I was thinking. HN is such an arbitary measure to gauge whether it's a vitamin or a painkiller. If one of their other idea suddenly got a ton of upvotes, they might have ended up with a different product.

In my honest opinion, the product really doesn't matter when there's money being thrown around. Any of those previous 'bad' ideas he posted if enough money was raised for it, you bet your ass professors and students began demanding it.

I'm just realizing this more and more that most of the shit we read are exactly that bullshit because the contextual experience is missing. It is only reading the comments and realizing that 'wow I'm not alone and maybe im not crazy' building shit and trying to get people to pay you for it can take a long time a good 24 months which is ironically the point at which I'm thinking of calling it quits a while ago.

Unfortunately, segment.io is a vitamin not a painkiller. The problem that it solves is a 'nice to have' imho.

For instance, at first it seemed like a great idea. One single point to send all your analytics to and then plugin bunch of other 3rd party SaaS. Sort of like Zapier.

But unlike Zapier which is a great pain killer for non technical users, segment.io is sort of a vitamin at best at the problem it solves and the target but hey this is just my take on it.
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But they could terminate your instance at any time...

Usually, training step is the one that takes the longest and that can take a whole day. Evaluation step can be done on CPU usually almost instantly. Not sure what the utility of spot instances is in deep learning. Not to mention code complexity and Dev-Ops investments to run on very transient hardware.

Finally, you can't haggle with AWS, but you can basically name your price with private dedicated server providers like that.
I believe sourcegraph[0] is doing something similar, they don't have support for c++ yet though.

[0]https://sourcegraph.com/
This is only loosely related, but does anyone else have a problem with the new standard of a left-pointing arrow on the top left of a screen with a label? The label tells where you are now but it's presence next to the arrow makes it appear to be where you are going. Every sign in the real world with an arrow and a label means the opposite. I find myself often confused.
Not practical for most patients in the real world. Insurers won't pay for redundant lab tests. Getting blood drawn multiple times is painful and logistically difficult. For patients with clotting problems just getting blood drawn presents some risk. And there often won't be 3 independent labs in the patient's area.
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Google for "The Mystery of When to Stop Antidepressants" and click through there. Didn't work for me in 'incognito mode' but it did when running normally. YMMV.
Because plagiarism is stealing ideas or words that someone worked hard to create. It's dishonest, among other things. Also, if you're interested in why we quote and cite sources, I recommend reading Anthony Grafton's history of the footnote!
But that is actually one of the worst truths I've ever learned. I know several people who have this problem to various degrees. And yes, they don't really seem in control, at least not all of the time. Even if they are consciously aware of what they're doing and taking control of it, it takes years for that control to become a 99% thing.

I even think it's true that I wouldn't know these people if they didn't try to fix themselves, because otherwise a job would be out of the question, and without a job, they'd never be near me. I wonder how many there are that are just sitting by themselves, sinking deeper into problems and never even try to save themselves. I imagine it's a lot.

But there it is : people who get/got abused do not want the abuse to end, they want to become the abuser. This means that a significant fraction of them is dangerous. Lots of people who try to help are destroyed by this effect.
I'd be very curious to know if it actually increased WSJ subscriber revenue? Because I doubt it decreased their hosting bill.
The human genome project. Their goal when starting was "this will take 15 years", they completed it in 13. The Apollo program: goal of less than 9 years (end of the decade) when it was proposed in 1961 to land a man on the moon and return him to Earth, completed in 1969.

If you go back quite a ways, I'm willing to bet at least some of the innovation-required Castles and Cathedrals and Pyramids of history were completed "on schedule" with it known up front that they would take many years to finish.

I suspect a lot of projects are accurately classified as 10-30 years away, given a certain level of funding and a dedicated team. Absent that, they may very well take twice as long or more. I always like to see what these long-term oriented institutions like SENS and MIRI say they would do if they had x times more money, to see that they've got a plan -- fortunately those ones do give that information.
I appreciated the article more for its style than its content. The author does get into some specifics later in the article, although it gets lost behind the imagery and ecstatic prose. I think the author chose to exaggerate his frantic hand waving to try to convey the degree of his terror.

Cruz pulled it off because he is very, very smart. But
never at any moment during his Senate campaign — nor at any
moment during this presidential primary race as far as we
can see from here in Texas — has Cruz ever once given any
indication that he does not believe in and hold to heart
every single word that comes out of his father’s sorcerous
mouth.
...
He means what he says about pushing 11 million people back
across the Mexican border, about using the government to
hound, harry and herd human beings based on their sex
lives, about stripping women of their physical autonomy,
and about all of the superstitious claptrap that issues
from his old man’s mouth on evolution, global warming and
science itself.

The Ivy League took none of that away from him. He held it
dear then and holds it dear now. It’s all right there in
front of you, not a millimeter beneath the surface. His
only bluff is that he shows you less than his full hand,
not that he fakes having more.

I don't actually know much about Cruz's beliefs. I watched a few excerpts of his father's speeches, and they were about what you'd expect from a Cuban-American fundamentalist preacher who was tortured by communists. This appears to be a more impartial summary of his positions: http://presidential-candidates.insidegov.com/l/62/Ted-Cruz
Maybe this is the mechanism behind homeopathic putrid water memory.
You could even add driving a car to that list as well.
Recently talking to a student of Electrical engineering in Australia I was dumbfounded when he failed to answer simple divisions like 95/2 or 80/3.

It is saddening that the newer generation is relying on calculators and phone. I remember back at my school in India I used to spend time calculating tremendously complex problems in mind. I always argued that it takes more time to fetch the calculator then come to an answer.

I have seen this everywhere petrol stations, McDonald, labour jobs where people are now relying on machines to tell them my change.
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just for the record -- i'm not in favor of wacko pc crazies either.
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The article tends to imply P-value should not be used at all, rather than misused. P-value definitely means something. For example, if the p-value is 1e-10 (which is often possible), you know for sure that the hypothesis generating has been disproved.
So let me rephrase the title of the article - "It's time to use P-Value correctly."
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So probably not ifconfig...
The actual purpose of the web link is to check if an article is original.
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Huh. Could have sworn it worked, I honestly tested it.

Whatever, the same news is available elsewhere anyway. The Web button does that too.
Very interesting link. I at first wondered how such a thin film would be strong enough, then realized they intend to have both sides of the window in vacuum so there is no pressure differential, and no need for strength. (Which should have been obvious since air is opaque.)
I'm the author of Peewee and I've been running my blog with Flask, Peewee, gevent and sqlite. It's a very low-impact combination, lightweight and fun to use, although I'm a bit biased.
My brother found a basically-new memory foam mattress on Craigslist years ago - it was someone's guest bed. He had just started medical school, and quite proud of his find.

This mattress has migrated to his guest bedroom - he'd replaced it with a larger spring mattress. I've slept on the foam mattress a few times. After I sink in, it's like I'm frozen in place. While not the worst mattress I've ever slept on, I wake up 'stiff'.

When I was mattress shopping last fall, I got an old-fashioned spring mattress and a cheap ikea bed frame [1]. The frame was instead of a box spring, so I could store stuff underneath. (The one with drawers would have been cool... But my father pointed out that I was about to move, and it'd just be more work.)

[1] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S49007528/
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My plan: don't rely on the secrecy of anything encrypted now with RSA to remain secret in 20 years, and never use it for encrypting data-at-rest. Hell, Schneier already increased his PGP key size to 4096 bits, I don't think it's a stretch to think 2048 could be broken classically by USA-level actors in the not-too-distant future. But since you're not using RSA for data-at-rest, more for transient "messages", hopefully the value of anything intercepted and stored for 20 years will be relatively low.
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I've had a similar experience with venlafaxine (Effexor). I feel no need to go off the drug. I don't care if it's addictive -- I'm able to function and feel happy. That far outweighs $60 every couple of months. I wouldn't want to risk losing my stability and capacity to enjoy life.
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If you're taking Warfarin, you have to get your INR checked every two to three weeks. It's really not practical to do that at three different labs every time. Also, this isn't some exotic edge case that only applies to a few people, but an extremely common medication. We're talking about huge numbers of patients here. If all their tests had to be triple-checked, the costs would be enormous.
As the other comments have stated - this isn't about valuation. This is a medical company that can, and probably has already, endangered patients' lives through its failings.

There is a reason why certain industries are scrutinized so closely because of the effect they can have on people. Being in those industries, even as a startup, means you must follow the rules.

Or are you fine with your doctor using some "unauthorized" random equipment the next time you need critical tests or surgery?
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postgres is still a "proper" database.
This like most problems is yet again a lack of leadership. Lacksadaisical govt when simple regulations voiced by the people could be easily met. Bnb is like an ostrich with it's head in the sand and should follow the law even if one has to be made.
There is more to a SQL server than the language.

For example, OLAP, distributed transactions, cluster scalability and so on.
or "octoporn"?
> North American emissions are going down, but world emissions are going up.

That is correct, I never claimed otherwise

> the population of North America is growing much more slowly than the rest of the world (virtually unchanged from 2008-2013 at 530M).

The growth rate itself is immaterial: this proves my claim that CO2 emissions can be (and have been) reduced without any reduction in the population.

> reducing per-capita emissions has a direct impact on standard of living

This relationship is not a universal, unbreakable rule of the universe, the two can be decoupled by investment in clean energy ("good management").
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It's possible to run a node in pruned mode, where you set the amount is space which is used by blocks. Older blocks are then pruned to stay within the space limit. You can run a node in this way for $5 a month.

If you support Bitcoin, much in the same way as people support many open source projects, this isn't a lot of money to fork out. Compared to the amount of time contributors spend writing software for free for the good of the world.
Nothing wrong with thought experiments and philosophical arguments, as long as you use them properly.

Proper use goes like this:

1) Identify some area where theory does not match experiment or other theories (in Einstein's case, there were known experimental issues involving the speed of light that were the basis for his work on special relativity, for example).

2) Use thought experiments, philosophical arguments, divine inspiration, inspired guesses, random guesses, etc to produce a theory that accounts for your known experimental data. I expect all of these have been used in the past, in fact. Einstein used thought experiments and philosophical arguments for special relativity but an inspired guess for the photoelectric effect.

3) Use your new theory to make new predictions about experiments that have not yet been performed. If there are no such predictions to be made from the theory that step 2 produced, then the utility of that theory is pretty limited, obviously.

4) Perform the experiments whose results you predicted in step 3 and see whether you predicted them correctly. It's important to publish the results of these experiments, especially if the theory did NOT predict the results you got.

5) Keep repeating steps 3 and 4 as much as possible, ideally with a variety of different predictions produced in step 3, to gain more confidence in the new theory.

These are, of course, all "doing science". And insofar as they can be done by different people, one could spend all one's time on step 2 and be "doing science". But the scientific community as a whole is only "doing science" if it actually goes through all five steps. If it stops after step 2, that's not called "doing science".
> A Symposium in Honor of Victor F. Weiskopf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Weisskopf
You can vendor your dependencies inside a proper OS package as well. Write an rpmspec that creates a virtualenv, runs your setup.py with the virtualenv python interpreter and boom - your dependencies are bundled without needing to go through acrobatics with manually vendoring them.

If your application isn't able to be installed at the system level I would really recommend this for handling deployment, regardless of whether you have full access or not - deploying tarballs with configuration management tools like puppet are hackish at best, RPM's/DEB's really are the best way to roll your software out.

EDIT: As an alternative to virtualenv which is actually a PITA since --relocatable is always broken, buildout works great.
you can copy elements in interface builder, iirc. you can't copy their constraints, which makes sense because the copied instances necessarily have different constraints. otherwise the copies would just stack on top of each other.

in my personal opinion, IB is great for layout of one view or screen, especially with the new IBDesignable and IBInspectable features.

doing app navigation in a storyboard is a terrible idea and will lead to a monolithic storyboard file that is very annoying to work with.
>It sounds like you haven't used MSSQL in quite a while.

You're wrong.

>The 2012-2016 editions have progressed significantly

Instead of saying "it progressed significantly," why don't you list these features that are so great? Come on, sell this product that you like so much! Help us understand why you like it!
They've literally recklessly endangered human lives. This isn't a game.
Read your sibling comments. voguchv is just trolling, and is not even complaining about regulation. He's complaining about a post mortem..
People make slow bloated compilers because they get arrogant and add optimizations that only a bad programmer would trigger.

For TempleOS we want to evaluate the compiler on how fast it compiles itself running code from itself.

God says...
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Neither of these numbers is equal to or greater than 20. 20 is a "I don't know how to do this" number of years. 10 is building a dam. Quantum computing has already been "a thing" for longer than 20 years; careers have been made ... people have retired. Today we get news of 1 bit worth of progress made since 2001. Now we can factor 30 instead of 15....
Interesting. I didn't know much about rkt but this was helpful. I like the fact that it's based around existing tools (bash commands, bash scripts instead of a proprietary Dockerfile is nice). Though I'm guessing there will be little to no support for Windows?

Either way this is interesting. I've been using Docker but I could see using this down the road.
Easy there McBain...
While I'm a fan of Go, I don't see it as a low level language. I suppose in terms of language features you could argue that simple/small is low level, but from a machine point of view, I feel like anything that doesn't let you manage memory manually can't really be considered low level.

I'd probably throw my vote at C for a low level language. Even if you never actually write anything in C, being able to understand the massive amount of code out there in C is a definite plus, and it gives you a good understanding of what's happening at the machine level and underneath the abstraction of other languages.
emcq is sort-of right, that for buy-and-hold investors a small tracking error is OK, as long as it does not accumulate over time.

But once you have the nice deposit/receipt system set up to incentivise people to trade the tracking error away with arbitrage, you get a smaller and smaller tracking error for free.
Be careful. I am no expert, but do know that at least some people will have bad influences from antidepressants.

(An ex gf was dependent on antidepressants years after the reason she needed them. She was quite messed up, until she started to quit very slowly. [Details might be sensitive, comment if you want me to email details.])
There are over 2000 known edible land plants.

So everyone is missing out everywhere