skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I'm assuming is that building a road is a highly scalable operation, and it seems evidence backs that assumption up. There are an incredible amount of machines that are highly specialized in laying roads down. Does it require more than a residential driveway? Yes, ok. But why does it seem like costs rise exponentially with project size rather than logarithmically?
"We diluted the formulation 5,000 times, and some of the embryos died and some of them became malformed. I decided to inject pure glyphosate into embryos and we got the same result."

If you try both baseline concentration and 5000X baseline and get the same results, that would seem to indicate that glyphoshate was not causative in that experiment.
The conclusions about financial aid are specious to me. Increases in Stafford Loan limits shuffle the deck chairs. Students and their families just borrow less from other sources, e.g. loans without subsidized interest deferrals. Never mind that treating loans as financial aid is somewhat dubious in the first place -- otherwise we would count credit cards we're the universities sitting in the application pipeline.

A similar dog wagging tail is equating the expansion of athletic staff as adding essential personnel. People who are not teaching or researching are administrative in a world where TV sport contract revenue is not a core university function.
I think weed is fine for normal people. They seem to enjoy the experience.

I'll admit, I don't think I'm normal. I've had horrid, debilitating bouts with anxiety. Never been clinically depressed, but dysthymia fits me on most days.

That said, I've tried weed at different points in my life. I've tried the weed that's good for pain, low in something? I've tried the uplifting weed. Except for a few times on high school, the experience wasen't that good. I would always need alcohol to counter the negative effects from the weed.

That said, weed didn't work for me. I really wanted a safe drug, I could take daily.

I will add this for the, "Put it through a double blind study, and then I'll discuss the clinical benefits of these drugs?" I'm all for that, but they need to design these double blind studies better. Until they design them better, legalize these drugs. Better? Don't get me started.
This is most likely still true. Safari only supports h.264 which has better hardware support than VP9 just now.
If you have been following the recent advances in AI (and are not clueless) then it should be getting really REALLY obvious that most coding and design tasks will be automated within three to five years.

AI will eat your career.
A case built on circumstantial evidence is the very definition of reasonable doubt and should be tossed out! I don't understand why so many people think the purpose of court is to convict people! You're question could litterally be reduced to "But how are we supposed to find them guilty if we don't have evidence?"
It almost certainly uses black ink. All parts produced with the machine they have now are to be black. It technically doesn't use beads, it uses plastic powder. It works exactly as you described though.
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This looks cool. Congrats on the launch! Is it a project or a business? Do you intend to make money from hosting? Or something else?
Yes that's right.

I think rich people are well aware of the problem (appeals to superiority) in a way that most people aren't. They are constantly in contact with people trying to butter them up. Gradually they develop a sense of detachment, not really believing they're that awesome as they're being told but searching out independent metrics since the human feedback has become unreliable. Or they go batshit into fantasy land.

I may be biased myself but I honestly believe the middle class is responsible for many of the problems we see. They have been constantly buttered up by sycophant politicians and media sources.

I have even seen statements in the media to the effect that the middle class can do no wrong. Recent complaints about the reduction in size of this class often have this thrown in. It is never considered they might NOT actually be God's gift to planet earth but part of the problem.

Is it so surprising that the government has elected officials in western countries that are almost universally doctors and lawyers? Two groups of people who famously have no time for understanding anything other than their field of study because they spent the better part of their lives absorbed in that intense study. Maybe we can't be saved by lawyers and doctors, no matter that they have high IQ, because they are attracted to work on the wrong problems for society.

Consider how different a Congress of computer geeks and scientists would be. I also believe there would be substantial problems since our group also has failure modes like any other. But to say the least it would be different to what we have right now. To be frank I suspect the denizens of HN are more aware of their failure modes than present day Congress. It is not about IQ, it is about the problems you process.

There exist whole swathes of problem areas I see exactly nobody addressing! But by all means let's cross our t's and dot our i's in trade agreements and constitutional amendments.

I vote for the Brain In A Vat things I saw in Psycho-Pass. They had at least some handle on the distributed nature of knowledge and understanding.
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Let's say hypothetically your two options to vote for have the same motives but take different stances on relatively unimportant issues. The issues that actually matter aren't discussed. The only issues that are discussed are the ones that stir up people's emotions. By voting you are just supporting this system and saying everything is okay. "Oh, look. 90% voter turnout. Everything is great."

I'd much rather not have my vote counted then vote for someone I despise. "Hmm, 10% voter turnout. Something must be wrong."

Encouraging people to vote for a person they don't like just because they don't dislike them quite as much as the other person sets a very bad precedent.
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Another site that is useless with JS disabled. Nice work.
> What is your go to answer to people who say they don't vote because in the state they vote in, they believe the candidate they want to win will be elected without them making the effort of going to vote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11715896
> Are those FPGAs big enough to support RISC-V

RISC-V is a flexible and configurable architecture, with support ranging from small MCUs to 128-bit ISA which nobody else have yet (for a general-purpose ISA) to tagged memory (which failed to rule the world in 1970ies but now might be just used when gives benefit).

Those FPGAs of course run an MCU variant of RISC-V (as we started with talking about Arduino), e.g. https://github.com/cliffordwolf/picorv32
Because it was trying to identify that type of file by looking for a particular full date string (bizarre in itself) and the wrong syntax was used to specify the string (unescaped spaces).
2PC is a nice algorithm for it.
Not a great solution but I got a bookmarklet that removed any fancy css rule (shadow, alpha, ...).
I agree except that I don't see why dramatic changes are necessary after any such experience.
Which is fine, but the posts I was responding to were labeling people critical of GMOs in general as anti-science, rather than labeling a particular argument as anti-science.

But even if you limit yourself to particular arguments that are contradicted to available evidence, the "anti-science" epithet will gets applied to the anti-GMO bunk ("GMOs cause tumors"), but not pro-GMO bunk ("without GMOs billions would have starved to death") or bunk about automation ("automation is happening faster than ever before").

It doesn't tend to be used to generally describe people who are making claims that are contrary to available evidence. It tends to only be used to attack people who disagree with the user on certain specific issues. It's more posturing and veiled insult than legitimate argument.

Then again, even if it was used in a intellectually honest and consistent way (which, again, it almost always isn't), it wouldn't be particularly useful. If someone is doing something that flies in the face of the underlying philosophy of science, address it directly ("How can we verify your claims?" "What evidence would you deem sufficient to decide that this is incorrect?"). Saying something is anti-science isn't useful; it only tells us that the speaker disagrees.
> Why exactly is democracy the best, or shall we say "least bad", option?

Because government is fundamentally, inalterably whatever the citizenry decides to accept. Providing feedback on what the citizenry is willing to accept through elections and aligning government with that minimizes the frequency and degree to which the feedback from the citizenry on what they are willing to accept is provided through violent and/or destructive means.
However worse that installation may be on Linux compared to your Mac, it pales in comparison to the atrocious Windows experience.

"Download this .ZIP file from the Brother website. Then unpack it somewhere. Go through these dialog boxes from the Devices and Printers control panel. Be sure to uncheck such and such before clicking next in such and such. Then at this point, choose "Have Disk" and browse for where you unzipped the drivers and find the ".inf" file in there somewhere."

If the printer is on a dynamically assigned IP address, chances are that the port created for it will use a hard-coded entry like "192.168.1.13" which will break. The DHCP host name requested by the printer can be used, but you will have to manually enter that. It is some awful serial number: a mixture of random digits and letters. It's better to navigate to the printer's web firmware first, and rename it to some human-readable name, then edit the printer port to match.
Multicore support is progressing nicely. Only earlier today I made a PR for adding nativecode compilation for multicore: https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-multicore/pull/47. A lot more information about the multicore OCaml project can be found here: https://ocaml.io/w/Multicore
> I would consider working with density matrices, Lindblad equations, and more general Master equations to still be covered under the Copenhagen interpretation

Yes, but neither of those solved the problem of how to describe macroscopic measurements that result in definite outcome (eigenvalue of some operator). The collapse is still needed to continue the description after the measurement, only instead of psi function that should collapse, it is the density matrix that should collapse.
All voting jurisdictions here use prepaid-postage mailers. Perhaps that is not the norm.
I agree, but this is all we have to work with in 2016 ...
I'm not disputing that intuition can be a driver for empirical science, but that's different from asserting that intuition overrides observable results. If we do see multiple experiments showing that the world is non-deterministic, trying to shoehorn it into a deterministic box because it "makes sense" to us (which is really just a roundabout way to say that our ape brains are wired to think that way because the portion of the physical world that we deal with has that nature), and rejecting theories and interpretations on the grounds that they are "troublesome", is not really science.
Stuff like this is why I find "Synthetic Biology" so fucking scary.
Out of curiosity, is it a very lucrative trade anymore? My dad has always wanted me to learn the trade, I've always assumed it's that paternal 'pass the baton to the seed' instinct, and I've never bothered because I've always been afraid that most shops wouldn't give any real consideration to a millenial who says he can program mainframes.

Has this been similar to your experience? I'm just curious because it's not a very typical thing, square peg in a round hole sort of situation.
Front end engineer here, practically zero chance of that happening. At least on my side of the fence.
So let me get this straight, you are trying to encourage people to vote but think your vote here on hacker news should be worth 1,000,000 times more than others?
Out of curiosity, what are some of these new facts about the world you've learned? I'm in my early/mid twenties and I've suddenly become disillusioned with a whole slew of things, and disgusted by things that didn't use to disgust me, it would be interesting to see if some of our discoveries are similar or if they're really different.
Being owned by the government by default sounds reasonable.
>Lets leave race out of such discussions and stick with how we could make an unbiased solution (race/class blind qualifier tests or whatever).

2008 voter turn outs: whites = 64%; blacks = 60%; Asian = 32%; Hispanic 31%.

education: 9th grade = 23%; High school grades = 50%; some college = 65%; BA = 71%; advanced degree = 76%.

Income shows the exact same, that as income goes up voter turn out goes up.

In theory I would agree with you that an unbiased solution resulting in 100% voter turn out across the board is the way to go. However, until such a solution manifests itself, how can race or any other existing bias be left out of the discussion? Isn't addressing existing bias in voter turn out part of the solution?
For now:

- Teaching new programmers how to use ML, and OCaml in particular.

- Keeping consistent formatting rules among a large team or project and automating that within your editor.

- Benefiting from the comprehensive pattern matching checks provided by the OCaml compiler.

- Benefiting from faster compile times of `ocamlc`, or faster native execution time of `ocamlopt`.

- Benefiting from Merlin, and the new version of Merlin with support for Reason - I cannot overstate how important Merlin is to my daily development.

Soon:

- Having conventions for forming namespaces within packages.

- Making it easier to share and connect many small packages into a a larger application, and develop those packages locally.

- Having "just works" support for the REPL, so that it's one fast command to start the REPL with all your dependencies loaded and autocomplete would just work.

- Having a "just works" debugger loader that maps all of your source files and compiled artifacts so you can instantly start debugging your app.
One thing I've never been clear on is whether this is empirically the case, or theoretically the case. That is to say, is it theoretically possible that someday we may find evidence that supports Bohm's interpretation and falsifies the others? Or are they truly mathematically equivalent theories?
But why is it so? Why is Flash so much faster doing video?
However, the members are anonymous, so it may be impossible to track down 100% of participants.
I've built a plug & play app for Web Push Notifications. It comes with an analytics dashboard and an interface for users to manage their subscription. If anyone is interested to try it, you can see the demo at https://www.pushroll.com
See the other replies above, but: the logistic has heavier tails than the normal, so might do better in cases where we need robustness, where unexpected outcomes remain possible even in cases where the linear predictor is relatively big, and we want to avoid drawing extreme inferences from them.

Probit might lead to more efficient inferences in cases where the mechanism is known to become deterministic relatively quickly as the linear predictor gets big.

You could go further in either direction too (more or less robust) by using other link functions.
> I'd much rather not have my vote counted then vote for someone I despise. "Hmm, 10% voter turnout. Something must be wrong."

Empirically, low turnout as a signal that something is wrong which provokes some kind of change to correct it doesn't work very well.

> Encouraging people to vote for a person they don't like just because they don't dislike them quite as much as the other person sets a very bad precedent.

Encouraging people to not vote because eventually that will signal that something is wrong and produce positive change is a lot worse.

Vote-for-one voting is still a ranked-preference method, its just one with only two ranks, and a restriction that only one candidate can be put in the first rank. It provides some (though often less than you'd like) input into social decisionmaking.

Abstention, in any voting system, is simply expressing absolute indifference between the available options -- it doesn't mean that you dislike them all, you could just like them all equally. It provides no useful signal into social decisionmaking. If you are actually indifferent, that's fine, but signaling indifference when what you really want to say is that you are not indifferent, but also not happy with your choices, is probably not what you want.

If you don't like the choices you get at general elections, there are ways to signal that that are far more effective than not voting. (The weakest and most basic of which is voting in primary elections or whatever the equivalent is.)
> i consider voting a duty, not a right per se.

Could you clarify? It's somewhat shocking to hear the Vote.org representative say voting is not a right in the U.S.
Or I come over to your house and tell you I'll give you $10 to vote for my candidate. If you had to go to a voting booth it might not be worth the effort.
One may consider it an ethical duty without agreeing that it should involve coercion. And in the end, you can force people to put a piece of paper in a box every few years, but you can't force them to care about what they're doing.
When talking about a piece of software as complicated as a modern browser, “became faster” is too broad to have any meaning at all — you can find specific features where almost any browser is faster.

In the case of Chrome and Firefox, they're competitive enough that you really need to say both what you're measuring and how you measured it. People tend to say one is faster than the other when they most commonly mean “the set of extensions I installed in A slowed it down more than B”.
What about `verb noun verb noun`? Is the second verb a parameter or is it being invoked on the noun?
I'm not worried about SF. The boom will be over soon. After the last dot-com crash, about 40% of the twentysomethings left.
"public higher education in this country no longer exists."

I graduated from a SUNY school in 1992. My tuition was $675 per semester. Fees were minimal. Especially if you lived at home and commuted, or had an apartment. The minimum wage at the time was $3.35/hr. You could work all summer and pay for your tuition and books, and work a part-time job during the semester to pay for your living expenses. I paid for college myself (with help from merit scholarships) and graduated from college debt free. That's nearly impossible these days. I just looked, and my school now costs $4690/semester in tuition and fees. That's an increase of almost 7x.

We really need to increase public funding for education.
hey all. it's been great chatting with everyone. i have to go offline for a bit to eat dinner and talk to potential partners, but happy to pick this conversation back up later tonight.
Can you articulate this in the form of a binary outcome? If so, I will happily make a $N00 sized bet (odds to be negotiated) on the false outcome with anyone who is interested.
>> "Dogs can be made to learn things - doesn't mean we allow them do surgery."

(Years from now) ..."humans can learn to be surgeons, but that doesn't mean they should be allowed to do surgery."

For example:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/medical-robot...
How about building functional operating systems and unikernels: https://mirage.io/. Since Reason is fully compatible with OCaml, you can build your own Reason unikernels on top of MirageOS libraries. Here is a list of mirage OS pioneer projects: https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects
Big second for Quake's Fast InvSqrt, that is a really cool story.
I think that software developers are going to become one of the few professions left and will be massively productive because they just have to hook up the AI training and they're basically done. Anyone who can hack this stuff is going to be able to be on the other end of the wealth divide real quick.

Transfer learning is a beautiful awesome thing. You can download ImageNet models trained on huge amounts of data by GPU farms and suddenly you've got a world class image recognizer running on your very own GPU.

Reinforcement learning is totally off the hook. You can make a bot for a random board game that you barely know how to play.
Chrome's share is a Firefox's reward for making their browser indistinguishable from Chrome in every way except for the fact that their entire UI freezes every time it hits some bad javascript. Great choice, to go from being a great Firefox to a crappy Chrome clone.
Thanks evincarofautumn! I'll take a look.
The smaller the userbase, the more likely the code is to remain in service forever. The oldest code I've written is http://www3.amherst.edu/~scrutiny/about.php, which has gotten a facelift since I wrote it in 2004, but otherwise seems to have the same functionality and code backing it.

Pretty much everything professional is gone...hell, the only employer of mine that is still in business is Google. When I left them in 2014, about 3% of the code I'd written for them was still in production, and following the rule above, it's silly stuff that nobody ever sees, like https://www.google.com/search?q=deubogpiegpj&tbs=qdr:h (that's the no-results page when a tool is selected).
It's inspectors all the way down. Recursive inspection.
I went and looked up the 990s for Long Distance Voter and you are manifestly not drawing a large salary, but it's quite possible for a 501c3 nonprofit to be a pretty swell deal for the people operating it, even if they have to pay income taxes on all the benefits they receive from the work.

Which I apologize for not finding a more elegant way to phrase it, but the distinction between dividends, capital gains and ordinary income is not really that interesting, it's a detail of taxation.
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I just got a Brother LED printer: the HL-3170CDW. Very nice printer. Works fine on with one 64 bit Win-7 system. With another system, a 32 bit Win-7, it won't work at all. Printing a test page fails with 0x000000D, and no application can print. (The printer is seen, and its status can be monitored and so on, but Windows just won't print!) This is whether or not it is on Wi-Fi or USB. I tried three versions of the drivers, and every possible remedy: I applied a Microsoft HotFix for repairing Win7/SP1 systems. I ran sfc /scannow. I run chkdsk /F on the C: drive. (The machine is an older system, but the SMART info shows that the drive is in perfect health: low temperature, no bad sectors.) I reset Windows Update and got it into a sane state. I went through every possible trouble-shooting procedure that could be googled up that could be related to the issue. Fixed things in the registry according to various steps. No dice.
Funny enough, these autonomous anonymous corporations will require the exact opposite to carry out many trust-required operations
At last, a real rival to the wildly popular Cobol on Cogs project: http://www.coboloncogs.org/
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