skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual title is "If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?" which I think is a much more useful title and question.

I think that you can answer that. Science is not a series of isolated experiments that stand or fall based on their particular data. Instead, all of our judgments of causation depend on a series of nest broad and narrow assumptions about the world. The broadest assumption is perhaps that we have a material world whose substance lacks the ability to intentionally sabotage our experiments and from which we can generate uniformly distributed random samples from. But there are whole range of assumptions below that.

From this view, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", essentially things are consistent with our existing assumptions still need evidence but not huge amounts. Things that are sudden changes in our whole understanding of the world require much more change. The faster-than-light neutrino experiments, in isolation, were probably a lot more convincing in just their statistics than a lot of experiments that get accepted without comment. But because such other experiments didn't contradict very established positions, their results weren't gone over with a fine-toothed comb. And that's how it should be.

Edit: the thing with a "calculus of casual inference" is that it also would have to include a way of taking into account the range of indirect assumptions that a given casual deduction depends on, so one would something like a knowledge-database.
Don't be disappointed. If you don't need the performance Rust offers, then use another ML-ish language. More expressiveness, none of the ownership issues (just GC).
SEA? I've never had a problem with customs/immigration, 5 minutes tops. Security getting in is a long line but nothing horrible. All in all, a dream compared to Beijing capital airport.
I can believe them when they say they don't keep data. When I got a new phone (the old one broke), I was expecting my conversations to be in the cloud somewhere so that I could recover them. Nope, I lost everything that I hadn't backed up.

I don't see what they can gain from storing masses of old chats and then not allowing users to download them onto new devices. If they kept chats to do analytics on, there's no reason that they wouldn't expose it to users too.

(This may also explain how they survived as a company for so long with so many users and so little revenue. All they're doing is running a few fast servers to shuttle messages back and forth, no storage requirements at all).

On the other hand Telegram does seem to store conversations - if you log in using a desktop app, it will pull down your recent chats.
If WhatsApp is unable to comply with Brazilian law, should it be allowed to operate in Brazil?

I think this is a bad law by the way. Hopefully the clearly negative impact it is having will lead to it's reform.
It's kind of funny seeing this on a day when three traditional news outlets are screwing the pooch on the whole Craig Wright/Satoshi debacle.
> The density is caused by people wanting to move to SF. High rises are a way to deal with the reality, not providing housing isn't going to solve the problem in any way people are going to be happy with.

Quite likely, just as many (if not more, in both absolute and proportional terms) people in SF will be unhappy with adoption of high-rises as the solution; the lack of availability under the current regime constrains some of the problems because it limits the ability of people to move in regardless of their desire to do so; relieving that constraint -- especially if the problems besides finding places to store the bodies aren't addressed -- just makes all the other problems of density worse.
cold, heavy breathing, all silliness because you won't be able to maintain the lifestyle

find changes you can live with to shave 400-500 calories per day and each week you'll lose one pound which is a reasonable method that can be maintained
It's more a boundary for the browser not to pass because it has no business. I've seen an alternative approach which used a separate user account for Firefox and then SSH forwarding of X.
And Lake Michigan.
This is going to sound flippant, but think about it, it isn't.

What lackey is going to want to fly to a hostile country where the government is battling your employer?

I don't want to spend any time in a foreign prison. Who would?
Got no reply for my email on ~march.
Get a grip on reality and attain an understanding of how these communication systems work, then move on to other avenues of investigation
> Imagine if everyone (and I mean everyone) collectively said "This is bullshit.

You miss an important concept (that I used to see all the time from administrators in India): Divide and Conquer. They will target some groups of people individually, and dangle some carrot/stick (Free/ Extra Harassment/ you don't have to stand in line with "them"). That's how "everyone" stops calling bullshit.
Tokyo International Airport at Haneda is the main airport for international flights to Tokyo -- at least for Japanese carriers. Foreign carriers are exiled to Narita -- a US$200 cab ride away -- as a protectionist measure.

Haneda is right next to downtown Tokyo.

---

The price difference persists for connecting flights from airports outside MEX and to destination airports outside NRT and Shanghai so it isn't based on direct flights.

Though SkyTeam partnership connections in Asia are much less useful now that Delta has abandoned the NW network and most of its own intra-Asia network.
> Alternatively, repealing Prop 13, so that property taxes rise with the value. Or increasing property taxes as you get more homes. Both of these would decrease housing prices significantly.

More significantly, they would mean that the increased demand for property driving prices would also result in increased public resources to deal with the issues produced.
Sometimes the problem with Stack Overflow is different: the question has been asked before and there ARE valid answers... for several years ago, which are no longer correct (or the "best" answers).

I think they're over-moderating the site. It's a shame because it's MUCH better than what was before.
I don't know about DTrace, but perf is a sampling profiler, not an accurate call tracer.
That is the first thing that came to mind when I read this headline. The BBC article this morning on Craig Wright was embarrassing.
You are continuing to confuse GDP and GDP per capita
I know, I meant for other tasks (people mentioned DSP like logic).
The schools in Los Angeles are terrible unless you live in an insanely expensive part of town or send your kids to an insanely expensive private school.
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> Given that the supply of land cannot be increased

Supply of land can be increased, but its expensive (and, for geological and hydrological reasons, particularly so in the SFBA.)
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you did it right - pound per week - it's a lifestyle change you'll be able to maintain

just shave 400-500 calories per day and sure enough, each week on average you'll lose a pound

hmm spaghetti squash, I'll have to try that
Sounds Telegram is the type of messaging system that the judge would like Brazil to use.
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It seems to me that they did comply with Brazilian law. They handed over all the conversations they had — zero. Is there a law that says they have to record all the conversations?
No, judges need to notice when a law creates a contradiction or a stupid scenario and not make such rulings. Judges are supposed to have "wisdom". Pointing at a broken law, then breaking communications for everyone hardly seems wise. Unless he's secretly hoping this will force a big change in law and government.
The only people that say there is no coup going on are people supporting the coup. Please get informed about this discussion.
Sounds like obstruction of justice.
> what other reasons could there be for his support?

The most obvious reason is simpler: Wright and those who accept his claims are "big-blockians":

https://cp4space.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/is-craig-wright/

"Matonis, Andresen and Wright are all big-blockians. Having the esteemed creator Satoshi on their side would help their argument, and it is entirely plausible that there are several large organisations who would benefit from having more control over the regulation of Bitcoin."

The same fact is also alluded to in the OP Economist article:

"It pays, too, to bear in mind that Mr Wright’s outing will most likely be of benefit to those in the current bitcoin civil war who want to expand the block size quickly, whose number include Mr Matonis and Mr Andresen. Mr Wright says that if he could reinvent bitcoin, he would program in a steady increase of the block size."

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https://vid.me/FhZu
Totally agreed. When I left college I was convinced I'd never work for a startup because of the terrible stereotypes about startup culture. I love programming, but there is nothing I love so much that I want to do it all day every day and never do anything else. Even if you're a founder and would actually make a life-changing amount of money if the company was acquired, I really believe it's counterproductive never to take breaks. That's how you end up with code you take one look at and rewrite the next morning.

Ironically I work for a startup now, but one with a shockingly sane approach to working hours. I specifically asked about that in the interview and it turns out they were telling the truth, they really do care about work life balance.
Thank you for warning us, it's awesome that you posted this, so other people don't waster their time with them.
After a year of using Node.js in production
I didn't downvoted you, actually, I agree with you. GDP is not the best way to measure or have this type of discussion.

GDP proves to us that the "country is rich", HDI tells us that "this richness is not distributed" which means that we have an endemic and self-perpetuating problem with wealth distribution and access to infrastructure, which I believe you'd agree.

I completely agree with your statement that we have a rampant and systemic corruption scheme in place here and that makes solving all of this mess an extremely complex problem.

Being the seventh world economy is not meaningless, it proves that with the correct measures in place, we have the economic power to move economy/jobs and wealth forward. If we could pair that with proper access to education and opportunities then we'd have a really marvelous place.

All the criticisms you made there are true and still, we're in a better place than 20 or 25 years ago, specially when we're talking about the low-income classes and impoverished. Lots of advancements there but nowhere close to solving the problem...
The Constitutional right to not incriminate oneself was originally intended to prevent the government from engaging in Star Chamber-style interrogations, i. e. using physical force to extract information from a person. This case frankly doesn't seem any different from such forcible extraction.
Formerly of the NYTimes, he's now full time at Vanity Fair. This is the guy who wrote the book (literally) on Twitter. Quite legit.
I don't disagree that there exist a good number of people making $WAY_MORE, but it certainly seems like that number of people is greatly overstated - as in, for every such senior engineer I personally know, I know probably 10-20x making (much) less than that. In fact, I know senior engineers who aren't pulling that much; granted they aren't at Google/FB/Apple/Amazon.

Even the senior folks making bank aren't necessarily all willing to plunk down $2m for a crappy house in Cupertino. Simple economics will disperse at least some of this talent pool.
try!/? doesn't seem to really do much to solve the clunky ergonomics around Result/Optionals because, while shorter, it also creates an enormous amount of "upward pressure" for Results: to use try!/?, your method has to return an Result, which puts pressure on the caller to use try!/?, which then has to be defined to return an Result, which then puts pressure on...etc

So now instead of dealing with errors or none "at the boundaries", the codebase is shot-through with uncertainty just to get access to a less-clunky syntax.

It also doesn't solve silly things like io::stdout().flush().unwrap(), where you have to unwrap an empty return value, because there's nothing sane to do if it's not Ok(()) other than panic. But the only thing that would really solves those ergonomics is proper exceptions.

edit: And if every function is just going to be defined as returning Result<foo> instead of foo it feels like the language might as well bite the bullet and add a fn definition syntax that sugars the endless repetition of -> Result<foo> just for readability's sake.
Don't forget, a lot of diseases are hereditary, so your children are screwed as well.
I think the parent commenter was using "dropout" as an adjective, not a derogatory term.
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Unfortunately, that's how all discussions of Soviet technology inevitably end up: but ooh it's space or ooh it's military. This mindset is well captured in the famous track "Аквалангисты" by Mango-Mango.

Most of it was pretty mundane and touchingly backwards, just less shoddily built than civilian equipment. I took apart a fair quantity of BMP-2 and T-72 instrument panels; call it my contribution to arms reduction and the world peace. My first joystick was converted from an ATGM control station. I've been with ZGV in East Germany while it's equipment and supplies were hustled away by entrepreneurial NCOs and officers. I worked with some of the guys who copied ЕС ЭВМ series from IBM products with cracking stories about realities on the ground.

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Yahoo is also a participant in PRISM, and fought as hard as they could against it in secret court.

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/feds-yahoo-fine-prism/

I think it's safe to assume that all companies involved in PRISM aren't happy with it and tried their hardest to fight it.
>>No country actually has the appetite for the amount of warrant-less killing that Imperialism creates

The US drone war has been killing hundreds and thousands of innocent people so I wonder if perhaps we do have an appetite for that sort of murder.
The articles you are citing are from comp.lang.lisp newsgroup. I'm a regular there roughly from 1999 to 2010.

I didn't buy a domain to put a rant. I had a website since 1995, had domain since 2000, and my website had several thousand links from math department of universities, educational institutions, printed books, math journals.
It's not just the safety features; it's the syntax, the build system, the numerous kinds of strings, the difficulty of finding up-to-date documentation, etc. Rust just has a steeper learning curve than many newer languages. This is not to say that the learning curve is unjustified; only that it exists and is significant.
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Value to a private entity != value to me, society or entities that matter to either.

Especially when that private entity gains more power through my data and tries everything from questionable business practices to lobbying to make sure they, and only they, reap the benefits.

People value chemical weapons and forced labor as well. They're willing to pay a lot for them, too.
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I think the complete opposite would be true.

If there is an official narrative establishing a fake satoshi, the real satoshi would be over-joyed because this would basically ensure any further inquiry into his identity would be in the realm of conspiracy theory... leaving media unwilling to touch it.
They dont have to fly anyone down to brazil. They had someone there. He was arrested a few months go for not fulfilling the request. Its all in the article we are commenting on.
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My "extremely expensive" was unfair. Some quick searching suggests ~$650 for the transmitter ~$100/week for sensors. "Not cheap" would be more accurate.