skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the bus to work: 45 - 60 minutes to travel around 13 kilometres. I bough my two bedroom apartment for around 1 million aussie dollars, if I choose to live further away, I could have got a 4 bedroom house with a pool for $700,000, or a 3 bedroom house without a pool for $500,000. The prices are driven up as everyone wants to be as close to work as possible.

For my million dollars I get to hear upstairs go the bathroom, my child gets woken up in the early hours by upstairs walking around in high heels after a night out. Every building on the street has a minimum of 6 - 8 apartments within so there's never any peace and quiet. Sometimes the bus has so many people I have to stand for nearly an hour.

Sometimes someone will crash on the bridge which will make me an hour late home which means I miss my kids going to bed. Mental health issues here are through the roof, the stress of high density living is literally killing people through depression and hypertension.

My child doesn't even know what a back yard is, that's a foreign concept to her. The only saving grace is that we're near to two beautiful beaches, without that I think I would have had a mental breakdown.

The whole "it'll only take a minute" issue that you seem to suffer from goes back to my cultural changes, one the culture has moved to work from home, the current working from home complaints will mostly be addressed. Also, let's not compare being in an office to going out for a drink, you can still go out and drink in your town with your friends in your community, again, cultural changes required.
> Can you elaborate on that?

By "constant-vector-forward time-dimensional context" he essentially means causality.

> Seems to me there must me a creationary force that is uncreated.

That is not strictly true in the larger context of physics. Emergent phenomena do not need to be explicitly created, they can arise spontaneously based on simpler parameters.

The (religious) idea that higher-order concepts beget lower-order concepts is true almost nowhere in nature. It's just "a thing" for humans, since we are tool creators and our tools are generally less sophisticated than ourselves. In nature, higher-order things grow out of lower-order things by mere virtue of their properties without any creative act being involved.

For example, a collection of atoms will form molecules, not because someone has intentionally designed those molecules, but because the atoms' properties allow for the formation and interaction of molecules.
And Australia.

Plus transfers are free... and appear same day in the other account.

The US is a different kettle of fish.
As I mentioned in my other comment, we may be fooling ourselves by judging Facebook through the lens of old media or old corporations - there's been a paradigm shift and it needs to be appreciated and judged as such. A free, borderless and global communications platform and service used by 1.5 billion people simply doesn't fit into our classic models of "free speech" and "corporate personhood". I'm not sure what the best approach will be to ensuring their neutrality when it comes to their algorithms, but I think that assurance should exist, ideally in a trustless, provable fashion.
How do they ever expect to sell an audio generator, without publishing a sample of the audio it generates?
Possibly unrelated:

Anyone knows if confidence intervals can be estimated on probabilities for neural nets?
It's almost as if though there's a pattern in your activities that naturally gravitates towards more urban areas like 'downtown', 'hood', and 'the mall' ...

So the article is exactly correct.
By that argument, Uber and Lyft can demand any change to the law they like and if they care enough about it to pull out of areas as a negotiating tactic, any government that doesn't immediately give in is causing drunk driving deaths.
Can assert() actually function this way? Can you use assert to tell the optimizer it can assume something is true?

Yes, but it would have the potentially surprising behavior that compiling your release version with -DNDEBUG might slow it down. We ran into this a couple years ago: https://plus.google.com/+DanielLemirePhD/posts/BTSams19Ero

Recent compilers support some extensions that can do it better. GCC and CLang use __builtin_assume_aligned(), and ICC uses __assume_aligned() (haven't tested the synonym).
Caltrain modernization is already under construction with full electrification and new train sets expected to be complete by 2020 [0].

[0] http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/...
We'll certainly get more data on what works and what doesn't.

The implications of that statement, however, are not pleasant.
For what it's worth, from your original post and comments, I couldn't tell that English isn't your first language. At least in written mediums, it seems you've got a firm grasp of the language.

About the job, I'm not sure if the issue is the type of job, or more just the particular workplace and workload. Is it possible that the same position elsewhere wouldn't come with the same "constantly fighting fires" type of issues?
I'm not familiar with Dr. Sarno personally, but I am familiar with New York's PM&R scene. I'd be mildly skeptical about things coming out of there. Not very skeptical, they're excellent doctors, but there's a strong strain of very-alternative medicine running in that particular sub-culture.

On the other hand, if you want a really mind-expanding read about the fuzzier edges of medicine, you might want to read Daniel Moerman's "Meaning, Medicine, and the 'Placebo Effect'." Don't let down your skeptical guard, but it's worth a read.
Houston is a lot closer to what everyone seems to claim that they want: it is pretty easy to live close to work with small local businesses that service the local community. The heat keeps the city from being walkable.

People from other cities tend to complain about the local of zoning. Zoned cities usually seem very organized and lack the funky house-business-house layout that Houston has. I prefer the lack of zoning, but it isn't for everyone.
The problem of evil is difficult to answer in an emotionally satisfying way to someone who is hurting. Why did God let this evil happen?

Dispassionately, though, the broader problem begs the question. If humanity is jut a product of time and chance, then evil is as much an illusion as any gods are.

But, that being said, some theists see evil as the absence of good. Murder, natural disasters, etc. all result when God leaves the world to its own devices.

To some degree a "good" answer to this question is very reliant on emotional and aesthetic components, so it's extremely fair to call it a hard question to answer.
No no, it works differently. The concept of weekly shopping is completely alien and baffling to people living there.

This is the way it works:

Your wife/mom/yourself want to cook pasta today, but some ingredient is lacking (say, tomatoes). So you go to the store and get some tomatoes.

On your way you might grab two or three other items, but that's it.

There's no such thing as weekly shopping.
Talk about judging a book by its cover. Did he say anything specific about the source of his discomfort? If I'm looking for a text editor, I'm not sure how it matters whether or not its web site is full of images, fonts and colorful reactive javascript modern HTML. All I need is a download link.
The argument is that God exists outside the laws of cause and effect and was never created.
Like I said, cultural changes required. Urban sprawl is currently worse for the environment than high density because people can't work from home. Urban sprawl happens around cities because people want a house and want to be as near as possible to work.

Imagine if we moved from having large cities that people lived around to a series of smaller towns. The urban sprawl that we currently have would not be a problem.

You need to stop thinking in terms of how things currently are and look at how they could be. Your social centre could be your town, your work would mostly be remote, no more urban sprawl just so everyone can be as near as possible to one square mile of central business district.

If I didn't have to work in the city, I wouldn't be living anywhere near the city, I'd pick a nice town in the north near to some excellent surf breaks; why would I even be living within the urban sprawl if I didn't need to be in the city? We're killing our planet, destroying our families and ruining our mental health. Do you think the urban sprawl around london (known as greater london) would exist if people weren't forced to commute into London everyday?
Indeed; we learned this the hard way when I was growing up, in a graduate student housing complex consisting mainly of foreigners.

The one thing that dozens of nationalities could all agree on was their presumption that their ten year-olds can get home from school and fend for themselves for a few hours. Everybody knew everybody (quite literally), there were always adults out in the enclosed backyard, and there were periodic security patrols. I could think of few safer places to leave a child home alone. Until the harassment from the police started, it would have never occurred to any of us that this constitutes child neglect.
But they are. It might be OJ's glove, but "we found it in his glove compartment" is a fabrication. It has nothing to do with guilt.
Maybe it's the same as a missile spontaneously becoming a whale and a bowl of petunias.
..What does a god need with people?
This is a likely way that I die. Other option is ran over while riding my bike by a SUV or a giant pickup truck with a lift.
I really like how freebsd does it, nixos has me interested too.
The Zero-Bug Policy
> We had to write in the most passive tense possible. That’s why you’d see headlines that appear in an alien-esque, passive language.

I was just thinking that the Facebook summary headlines are surprisingly journalistic compared to Buzzfeed, Upworthy, etc. Seeing somebody complain about that explains why their title is "news curator" and not "journalist."
If the author sees this. How long did it take to put this together?
Probably paredit. It's really so much better than non-structured editing. That said, there are structured editing plugins/modes/editors for other languages too.

However, looking back at Lisp/Clojure now I really don't like the syntax anymore. I don't care about the brackets, it's absolutely true that you learn to look past them in a matter of days, but the homogeneity and the "denselesness" really impact my ability to quickly parse an expression. Infix syntaxes make reading code much easier, imo.
It's true in most places now. The suburbs are getting poorer as cities are now too difficult to build in and inner suburbs won't allow density, so the poor must go out as gentrification happens. The problem is transportation costs are very high in car centric areas vs. in cities so the poor get even fewer job opportunities.

We could easily solve this by removing the 1950s zoning laws as the poor would not move far, housing prices would be lower, and more walkable development would occur.
The Royal Society for Chemistry ran a competition to come up with an explanation: http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resource/res00001018/the-...
If every Pizza Hut had its own DNS server (kinda expensive and impractical), and each location was guaranteed to respond fastest based on your location (which it won't today), then it would work.

Decentralized Pizza Resolution.
> even if it's irrational or not constructive or useful

But it can be both rational and constructive/useful if it reminds us of what we're capable of.
I'm reminded of a principle from aviation, "always fly the plane". Student pilots are taught to never allow their attention to drift from the basics of flight, even if they're dealing with mechanical failure or confusing instrument readings. The first priority is always to maintain situational awareness. A large subset of aviation disasters could have been prevented if the pilot had simply looked out of the window.
A lot of buyers would too. Overall price premium, but lower immediate costs to keep up with the latest fashions.

See: H&M, etc.
It's the return on going to uni. If you just want to learn stuff, go read a book.
I was using Google Maps to take a shortcut through Kathmandu on foot. Just as I commented on the amazing accuracy of the map, I found myself approaching a dead end that the map showed continued onwards.

I turned around and several small dogs were in the road behind me. No big deal I thought, I walked past them as they barked at the intruder.

I continued in the most promising direction, which turned out to also be a dead end. Behind me the small dogs had been joined by an enormous fierce dog so angry his hair was standing on end. And the only path out was past him.

I stayed calm with my eyes on the exit, walking wide of dogs who were drooling and livid.

Better lucky than smart, I guess. I've never been cavalier about following Google maps since.
> Interesting that the sign was in German while you were on the Hungarian side.

It was at the border to Austria, technically on the Austrian side. It was just standard street sign seen across Austria that says no heavy vehicles.
> But he was born in the wrong country, and his best job offer is for a position that asks him to do 10+ hour days, rotating into the night 1'3rd of the time, all for 850 euros a month. Welcome to a country with over 20% unemployment.

Why not move?
“Ask 'why' five times about every matter”
I finally had to kill safari on my iphone 4. Which is admittedly old.
Chicago has basically two of those. :)

But if you relax the public transportation constraint, I agree: the list of Chicago suburbs that defy most of the characterizations in this post is pretty large.
Wow that's as close as it gets to the original article.

I was thinking of something more general like:

foo = foo.foo("foo");

(And yes the reassignment is intentional as the returned object isn't necessarily the same as the caller.)
I guess such things are not very widespread, but there is an Astrophysics Source Code Library[0] that is citeable. I am not sure how hiring/tenure/promotion committees weigh those citations, though.

http://ascl.net/
The author refers to African-Americans as "blacks" numerous times. In my experience, the only people who use that terminology are racists. I can guarantee you the author is a huge fan of "The Bell Curve." This anecdote is clearly troll bait.
Not where I live. My brother has a house in a neighborhood that's full of young families, but if you walked through it you'd think it was a retirement community - not a kid in sight. All the children are carefully shuttled from one supervised activity to another.

I'm not really sure why that is. Crime is almost nonexistent, and the weather is nice.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11096978
It seems pretty clear that China would like their standard of living to be higher, and in fact it is rising at almost unprecedented rates [1] which have been sustained for over a decade. I'm sure they could do an even better job but I'm not sure I see how tariffs would bring that about.

[1] https://www.eca-international.com/news/november-2015/chinese...
Structural editing, paredit, 100%.

I say that not being particularly accomplished with it. 15 years of programming Java, now 3 in Clojure, would dearly miss slurp and barf, the lesser appreciated virtues of homoiconicity.
Houston could be walkable, despite the heat. Its lack of zoning means mixed use is more frequent, but Houston has parking requirements, setback requirements, minimum lot sizes, max floor area ratio (which defines the max density), etc. The CBD however has no requirement for parking now IIRC so it will become more walkable over time.

Houston will never be Manhattan, but it could be way better.
> Are you listening to yourself? You just compared 20 years to 2 months, and they were approximately equal. That's terrible.

You compared them, and your comparison was technically incorrect, so I pointed it out. Price discovery in new class of asset vs the premeditated inflation of a centrally managed fiat currency are different, but it was not I who nominated the two things to compare nor the two periods over which to compare them, nor made a technically incorrect statement about the result of such a comparison.

> Currency is not supposed to behave like an investment. For it to be useful to real humans that depend on it for living day to day, it cannot behave like that

A cursory glance at the historical ubiquity and utility of non fiat currencies would suggest that this is not correct. A simple observation that the inevitable fate of every flat currency that has ever existed has been demise would do so more strongly.

> You don't need to pretend that it takes a very complex understanding to recognize an unstable financial instrument. Also, trying to insult people into accepting your views very rarely works.

Giving me a source for a narrow singular slice of data on the bitcoin price does not negate or address the core point I made about the long term trend being dramatically upward, not allowing for cherry picked time window periods in which things did not align with that trend.

I do not care that you don't accept my views, I care that you make flatly wrong statements based on shallow knowledge and smugly pretend towards understanding and in so doing contribute to the ridiculous smokescreen regarding this particular topic in this particular forum.

Frankly I don't care if people like or dislike bitcoin, I'm simply sick of the lies, falsehoods, and other generally misleading junk that passes for information on it here. Perhaps I should attempt a technically correct assassination of the project simply so people who object on other grounds can at least avoid parroting flat abject falsehoods.

> If all currencies collapse, there is little evidence anyone would accept bitcoin instead

In all the aforementioned cases of the inevitable death of fiat currency, trade and commerce did not simply cease, non fiat currencies took over. There is no reason to assume a change to this pattern.
What do you think about the intelligibility of the world? If the universe was not created, why can we predict it with such accuracy? Wouldn't it just be random? To me, the fact that science even works is evidence for creation.
Sure, but if they're fully satisfied by that then they're not the ones advocating structural change, so they're not counterexamples to the OP's claim.

(Arguably changing an individual's role is still restructuring, but I think the OP was talking about more comprehensive restructuring suggestions.)
In at least some religions, [part of] the definition of God is that he is the uncaused cause. Thomas Aquinas spends a lot of ink talking about this (there's a more accessible explanation at http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/first-cause.htm, but I'm pretty sure you can find the originals on the Internet).
> It bypasses SIP

No it doesn't. Why are you claiming it does? /usr/bin/git and the other shims are behaving precisely as expected. There is absolutely no violation of SIP. Someone who is able to muck with DEVELOPER_DIR or install a fake xcrun does not gain any privileges by doing so, and they're already in a position to do whatever malicious act you're thinking they'd trigger by invoking /usr/bin/git.
It would benefit many from a standards of living perspective. The lack of high density housing and removal of urban sprawl would mean that your child will actually know what a nice back yard is rather than having to live above one family and below another; rather than having to hear upstairs use the bathroom at 2am. I didn't care about that when I was 22 and living full on party / work lifestyle but I do care now that I'm 30 and have a child. I really don't like missing my daughters bedtime just because some idiot crashed his car on the bridge (at least once per week) on the way home.

By not adopting work from home, you really are making peoples lives worse, just because that;s not you today, doesn't mean it won't be you at some point - wait until you need to buy a house within a reasonable commute to the office; a whole lot of money for no space and living with people banging around above you!
Following the GPS has two benefits: assure the passenger they aren't being ripped off with dubious/scenic routes, and remove the mental load from the driver on each intersection. Any single trip could be faster by couple minutes of done by a local, or longer+pricier if done by a crafty taxi driver. The GPS narrows this variability, pacifies the passenger, and let's the driver focus on the driving vs the routing. But yes, this sound general strategy can be frustrating in a local-maximum situation.
> TSA has been making their way into train stations for a few years now:

Yeah, 'Amtrak police' are now also doing their own 'random' inspections and swabs, etc. Last few times I took the Amtrak from Penn Station they were doing this.

Yet another reason for me to take the bus (which is 80% cheaper, as long as they're not sold out).
A couple questions.

> OLS works fine in classification problems. And it has advantages.

Do you have more explanation of these advantages? I read through the link you sent, and a bit more about linear probability models. Such things were never discussed in my statistics curriculum (BS, MS, PhD), except for motivating why logistic regression was necessary. I'm not sure I understand the economist's arguments in favor of LPM. Both the interpretation and the distribution of the test statistics will be totally different with OLS versus Logistic Regression, and the overall probability of a defunct project is pretty small ( \hat{P(y=0)} = .07 )--enough where there would be pretty big differences. To be clear, my reservation is with the p-values in the OLS model, not the predictions it generates. While the models agree on the direction of the covariates, the magnitudes are quite different, even when you convert logit/probit to be on the same scale as LPM.

> Multicollinearity refers to perfect multicollinearity.

Perfect multicollinearity will definitely mess up the estimation, but even if Score and Comments are not perfectly collinear, it's difficult to talk about each one's effect on the probability individually, as is the interpretation of coefficients in a (logistic) regression. What does the VIFs look like for Score and Comments, in particular?

> I mention R² as one measure of predictive power.

But the outcome is binary, so you'll have a similar issue as Minimaxir's first point about OLS. If you wanted to talk about prediction accuracy, what about a confusion matrix, misclassification rate, or specificity/sensitivity/F1? Granted, you'll not want to predict on the same tagged examples that you trained the model on, but maybe you could split it 80-20? Or tag another 20-50? There are also R²-like measures you can use when the dependent variable is binary (a whole class of pseudo-R² measures).

I would be curious to see the relationship between these predictors and the response. It's usually been my experience that linearity is a strong assumption to make, and that I'd expect for something like comments or score that once it reached a certain threshold, there was no extra value added by getting more comments/score. Are the log-score and log-comments linear over their entire support?
> Can assert() actually function this way? Can you use assert to tell the optimizer it can assume something is true?

Trivially.

#ifdef NDEBUG
# define assert_and_assume(cond) if(!(cond))
__builtin_unreachable((cond))
#else
# define assert_and_assume assert
#endif
I would normally disagree on the equal time rule because they are a private company, but Facebook recently built a data center in my town, took all of our municipal water supply, won't pay taxes for several years, and is only creating 4 jobs. And we allowed it because of some weird obsession our town had with having a data center here. Democracy...yeah!!!

Screw 'em. If they want to play the corporate welfare game, they can abide by the equal time rule.