skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplest example I can come up with is the weight - the density of humans is probably constant for practical purposes and therefore the weight must be positively correlated with your body dimensions. It is also pretty obvious that humans, or tissue for the matter, does not grow in a strongly directional manner. If you gain weight more or less all dimensions not constraint by your skeleton will increase, i.e. you will probably not end up with a wide but flat or narrow but thick belly.
What frustrates me most about Comcast is that so many common tasks that one would think would be solved by checking a box on their site requires making a call to customer service. They are not incentivized to provide decent self-help options because they WANT you to have to call, because phone support is another sales channel. I don't think I've ever called Comcast about anything where they didn't make me listen to (recorded or otherwise) pitches about other services you could sign up for.

My few experiences with live chat weren't much better. It was always a 45 minute ordeal, where 90% of the time was spent with me staring at the chat window waiting to move on to the next step of the process, with periodic assurances from the rep (or a bot, who knows!) that they were still there and were just waiting for some request to "make it through the system" or whatever. Meanwhile there was a constant stream of Comcast marketing messages and, uh, "special offers" being presented to me in the chat window.

If they had more useful self-help options, it would reduce phone support calls, which would reduce their ability to leverage support as a sales and marketing tool. If their phone support system was more efficient with fewer transfers, shorter hold times, etc., it would also reduce their captive audience for sales and marketing.

I'm not so cynical as to think it's all a conspiracy, but they do have an incentive to not improve customer service, and when it's been so comically terrible for so long it's hard to not think that some faction within the company has the power and motivation to hobble their support offerings in the interest of generating some teensy amount of additional revenue in exchange for customer frustration.
Is this an issue with Windows itself, or with developers poorly supporting Windows? I've had similar problem with installing stuff, but it's always programming related stuff. Most software just works, but try installing pip and you need to set aside the whole day for reading bad documentation that just assumes you use Linux.
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This paper by the guy who runs Mailinator is really interesting: https://www.mailinator.com/tymaPaulMultithreaded.pdf

It's about Java, not C++, but it's still relevant.
Contrary to one of the quoted researchers, it is perfectly possible to do rigorous testing of diet as an adjuvant therapy for cancer patients. One team is doing this for calorie restriction and fasting, and is putting a defined fasting / fasting mimicking protocol through the FDA process.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/uosc-fts06021...

http://michelsonmedical.org/2014/12/26/igf-1-fasting-discuss...

https://news.usc.edu/82959/diet-that-mimics-fasting-appears-...

That said, it is quite true that most of what is said and done in connection with diet is some variety of nonsense, driven by self-interest on the part of market participants. Cui bono is the watchword. This just makes it more important to learn how to tell the difference between good research and junk science, however.
> Why dump it for a newer 'better' model?

Because no PPC release of OS X receives security fixes.
"there's a lot more not-modern-C++ than there is modern C++."

I'm not sure where this statement belongs. In a decision about which language is best suited for a project?
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> Greg Maxwell gave up his commit access for "optics" - to make BlockStream look better.

My reduction in involvement was not related to blockstream and wasn't discussed in the company in advance. I can't personally take the toxic environment created by people like you and it has been adversely impacting my health.

Unfortunately, even when I have nothing at all to do with Bitcoin for long spans of time people continued attacking and threatening me and my family.

> Blockstream burnt through $10m+ in 12 months

No we didn't. We have most of our seed money funds available after two years of operation.

Blockstream has never paid Peter Todd or Bram Cohen (but sure, Luke-jr has been a contractor, a publicly known fact all along).

Bram Cohen followed the same path as many other technical experts-- he considered it implausible, and then after understanding it better considered it implausible but super interesting. There is no sin in thinking that Bitcoin is a long shot: it's a fantastic, exciting, potentially world changing long shot.

> from Blockstream such as RBF

No one at Blockstream had anything to do with opt-in RBF.

But the functionality-- user selectable replacement for unconfirmed transactions, something that the original releases of Bitcoin had until it was disabled for DOS reasons-- was discussed for months without a _single_ person speaking out in opposition while it was proposed. Only after it it was merged and slated for release did a number of throw away accounts begin a misinformation campaign about it (conveniently arguing that it was a reason to switch to "Bitcoin Classic"). Subsequently, many others in the industry like Stephen Pair at Bitpay have spoken up in support of it.

> segregated witness fee discounts which are controversial

I'm not aware of any controversy there. There appears to be universal agreement in the technical community that UTXO bloat is one of the larger problems the system has which would be exacerbated by bigger blocksizes. At scaling Bitcoin Montreal there was widespread agreement that new costing mechanisms were needed to make fees better reflect UTXO carrying costs. The way segwitness costing works achieves that; by making removing UTXO entries more equal in cost to creating them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room
How is Clojure's interning of keywords different to this ?
> aptitude -y safe-upgrade

Interesting. My use of aptitude is limited to "search" so far.

Did you see that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230828
This also looks pretty similar to the pre-war Tatras — which I believe influenced the VW — and the communists didn't seize power in Czechoslovakia until their coup in 1948.
I can't speak for the entire military[1], but I've known a few "brilliant military minds" and they rarely, if ever, talk in terms of killing. The military's goals are usually things like area denial, disrupting lines of communication, limiting access to materiel and supplies, degradation of morale, etc.

These aren't just euphemisms. If you're trying to win a war solely by killing the enemy, you're going to be in for a looooong and bloody war. In fact, there's long been a thinking in the military that "a dead soldier removes one soldier from the field, but a wounded soldier removes two".

What makes the military, and war, seem "outdated" or downright "despicable" comes down to, I think, two things:

1. War is often what happens when two sides have let long lingering issues fester to the point that dialogue is not possible. In other words, the only thing anyone wants less than to throw the first punch is to be unable to throw the second.

2. Yes, military industrial complex. Specifically, the MIC has muddled the "goals" and abstracted them away behind many layers of "weapons systems" and "advanced tactics". That is, if you're a general attempting to disrupt lines of communication, and you have to decide on committing the lives of your soldiers and potentially taking the lives of your enemy, you might consider a battle plan that minimizes loss of life. If you're that same general and Raytheon (or Lockheed or Honeywell or...) offers to sell you the CommsRuptor 7000 that will take out enemy communications at the press of a button (and a signature on a check for $300M), you might not adequately question the impact on lives. War used to be about loss of blood and treasure. Lately it seems to be more about treasure and blood...

[1] Especially not the "grunts" that see front-line action. I've heard, anecdotally, that enlisted soldiers are often trained in such a way that they enter war zones with raw blood-lust. Whatever your opinion on this practice, I took from your question that you were more interested in the thinking of the decision-makers, i.e. commissioned officers.
Many people at Tatra would get upset for calling them 'the communists'. If anything Communism killed this car (no exports). Latter it practically killed the company by merging them with less advanced Skoda.
I asked about this and some Rust folks were kind enough to mention that Dropbox is one company that publicly has a large Rust deployment. Further, I think the main (huge?) advantage of Rust is it was designed to allow in situ replacements of pieces of a large c++ codebase. This really is a killer feature for lots of folks who simply can't afford to rewrite tens of millions of lines of tested c++.

previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10890310
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I have my bitcoins over at Coinbase.

Please transfer your money back under your control. That's the whole point of bitcoin. You won't be able to do this when problems happen.

I mean, if it's only a few hundred dollars in BTC, it doesn't matter much. But it's a terrible feeling to lose way more than that.

Here's a recap of Coinbase's problems over the years, in case it matters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8947926
when you say "not an English native speaker", is your native language also having a non-Latin script?

Most (not all) european languages (e.g., French, German, English, Spanish) have same or almost similar script, making it easy to pickup words and phrases of an another language with the same script.

Agreed that you are cutoff from the rest of the world's documentation on the topic, I do see your point there. But, without this bridge, people who dont know how to read/write/understand latin/english script, they are cutoff from the world not just on the topic, but everything else.

Here's why that is important to know:
By some estimates, about 10% of Indian population can speak english. Even if you were to consider 20% can read the english alphabet, thats still nearly a billion people who will have difficulty in getting started with programming, because all they know is a Tamil, Kannada or Telugu script (all quite different from each other and from English).

having a localized programming language can enable lot more diversity in the field of computer programming (especially in countries like India).
Alright, alright. I'll tell my wife I'm going to jail.
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The idea that killing a person's friends of family turns them into a terrorist, and that this is the ultimate source of terrorism and terrorists, is an oft-repeated but highly unsupported claim. It's ultimately a cudgel wielded by advocates of particular political ideologies, not serious students of terrorism and counterterrorism.
Wow! This has implications for human genetics (a study that originated partly in considering human body size measurements like those described in the article) that I think most popular writers on human genetics have not taken into account. There was an article posted to Hacker News earlier this week that suggested, surely falsely in my opinion, that human genomes can be optimized for intelligence to such a degree that we won't even be able to estimate IQ scores for future individuals with the same kind of tests that we use now. I rather doubt it. Because of pleiotropic effects of genes, almost surely there isn't a gene shuffle that will massively increase human intelligence, but rather just strategies (as likely to be environmental as genetic) to improve average intelligence within the range already found in the worldwide human population.

Similarly, imputation of "race" by genome testing depends crucially on assuming that the average genome is informative, but for any trait of interest, a person who by both genome testing and known historical ancestry is categorized in some "race" category might have any degree of variance from "average" in the trait found in the whole human genome. It will be exciting to follow up on larger and larger data sets on these issues as human genomics projects continue.
Looking right now at work in Edinburgh or Glasgow. Sounds like I'll need to make a move to London if I really want to earn the big salary.

I work primarily in native mobile. I'm working for Amazon right now and I've worked for banks, government as well.
What exactly is the reason for leaving Oracle? Seems like an exec. at Oracle, Cameron was forced out. OK. Not sure what the background on the departure is. Everyone knows Oracle is evil. So that can't be it. Is there some reading between the lines here? Maybe somebody embedded in the Java ecosystem can shed light.
Really? I would have expected social proof to play a significant (maybe not huge, but measurable) part in valuations of companies, no different to valuations of most other things.
Site is down so I cant comment on content from the article.

As a working programmer here are some things that I consider to be C++ virtues

a. Control over memory layout

b. Control over allocation policies

c. Deterministic deallocation of objects on scope exit

d. Generics and specialization of generics

I am always mystified how many languages miss out on item a.
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The decline of the number of people employed in agriculture is certainly due to increases in productivity (small family farms giving way to industrial-scale farming). But much of the decline in the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs has occurred due to these jobs being moved outside the country, where labor is cheaper.
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I don't think that's quite correct.

Recommendation engines normally work by taking the things you favor, then looking at who else favors those things, and deducting that you're all likely to have shared interests.
You may be right that a lot of software has some CPU bounds parts but I would argue that most code is IO bound. Usually there is a only a small kernel in a program that actually does heavy computation and this is the only place you should use threading.
Presumption of innocence is only a thing for criminal cases. Civil cases use the balance of probabilities. To win there, you don't have to prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt, just that your version of events is more likely to be true than than your opponent's, however slightly.

Requiring plaintiffs to maintain a budget to pay fees would shut a lot of people out of the legal system, like individuals, for example. It would make it easy for large companies to violate the rights of IP holders.

And if a lawsuit really defames a defendant, after winning they can always turn around and file a defamation lawsuit.
Or as one of my professor would say (after showing the calculation for n-dimensional spheres): "and that's why infinite dimensional oranges are all skin!"
The more important question is: How long until they can control tanks?

I, for one, support our coming simian overlords.
if you think that’s bad, don’t go reading about states and prosecutors that oppose wrongful conviction payments, you’ll be seeing red

one off-the-cuff sample: http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132262
Hence, my suggestion that the product department be used to inform the programmers so they make wise feature decisions. It is not appropriate, however, for product to be in a management position over engineering.
As a point of fact, he wasn't fired, he resigned.

Aaaand, resigning of your own free will because your employees don't agree with your politics (and may no longer want to follow your leadership) seems like a consequence you should be ready to accept when you engage politically.
if you want isolated directories, install to /opt then. that's what it's for.
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The Retraction Watch website kindly links to several blog posts and articles discussing the findings of this article, which itself comments on an article previously discussed on Hacker News. Are most published findings in psychology replicable? There is still back-and-forth about what attempts to replicate the studies actually show.
Yes, Oracle benefited from Open Source, but it also invested into Open Source and others benefited, too. That's the real key: Most people get out more than they put in by using Open Source instead of supporting proprietary software from few proprietary vendors for programs many people need.
High star generalship is more politics than military ability at this point.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/general-... for one discussion of this.
> An investor shouldn't be judging you based on the judgement of another investor.

You are of the opinion that this should not be the case, which may be correct. Nonetheless, this happens all the time.
I believe HOCON has these features: https://github.com/typesafehub/config/blob/master/HOCON.md#s...
Could you point out where he said that? I mainly noticed him saying that few people had the necessary experience to work on the code, not that nobody else could possibly understand some core concepts.
As someone who believes in localization, especially in every Indian script (if not the language), I love this initiative and would like to see it succeed.

Many people who have been exposed to many languages, but only one script through out their lives, may not appreciate the significance of such localization.

Its easy to onboard and educated person in his/her language & script. Infact, just doing it in devanagari script (used in Sanskrit and Hindi) can help many native Indian langauge speakers get on the programing bandwagon.
Do you trust these people?

Austin Hill, CEO of Blockstream, admits to committing fraud to scam people:

http://betakit.com/montreal-angel-austin-hill-failed-spectac...

Greg Maxwell, CTO of Blockstream, vandalizes pages on Wikipedia for fun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Adminis...

Patrick Strateman, co-founder of Blockstream, has been accused of fraud/theft:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159071.0

Luke-Jr, consultant to Blockstream claims the sun orbits the earth, slavery is okay, sodomy should be punished by death and that gay marriage is a logical impossibility.

http://forums3.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?p=203850#p2038...

https://np.reddit.com/r/bitcoin_uncensored/comments/492ztl/l...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/48avz0/inform...
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Wow, that's a quotable story, and says a lot the status of our field as a whole.
Respecting legacy decisions is very important. Often in software design there are many ways to do the same thing. Unless there is an important reason to favor one of the possibilities, the correct answer is almost always to pick the legacy version.

Comparability is important, and not just for existing tools. Choosing something different has a learning cost, and if you have to care about both versions you have ongoing mental effort costs as well.

There may be better names for "/etc", but it's not worth the effort.
http://bugreport.apple.com/
Is this the same site linked in the article?
With chargebacks, you're missing the bigger picture. If someone mugs you and steals your credit card, you call the bank and your stolen card's cancelled, plus the mugger now has a paper trail. Bitcoin, someone mugs you and steals your hardware wallet, well, sucks to be you.

Regarding PCI, a lot of the things that are mentioned are things that you should be doing anyways. Walling off your billing network, getting a third party to audit your systems, testing your systems. I've been with a company going through a PCI compliance audit, and I think the only thing that really needed changing was making a few configuration changes to the web server to disable a few legacy defaults. Perhaps I'm just too old for the break early, break often scheme that most teams want to run under, but having certain areas of code need a bit more diligence before being pushed out is not a terrible thing.
Meanwhile, as you wait for Google to do the walking, and stitching and to keep the images and rights to themselves you and your friends can grab Mapillary on your phones, do it yourself and get the photos as CC-By-SA for use elsewhere and use the photos for mapping within OpenStreetMap.
I've always assumed something like the above is slow due to the terminal blocking the program to perform updates to the display.

Whereas a status indicator isn't exactly pushing much data to the terminal. So, It shouldn't impact run time.
Green account. How brave of you.

You are aware that sociological and gender studies factor into notions of “genius” and talent? Good.
Which means you will have one choice which has a 50 50 chance of being crap. We really need a single way for all compositors to delegate this functionality to a trusted application.
For those who didn't get the reference:

https://xkcd.com/327/