skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember, in court we're not talking about logical proof (eliminating every alternative but the desired conclusion), but statistical proof (eliminating alternative conclusions with 51% or 95% certainty). Given an assumed or established statistical model of the probability of related events (e.g. knowing that a secretary at a business makes a log entry 99.9% of the time when she sends out a mailing), a non-happening (say the absence of a log entry) can easily establish a conclusion to the desired level of certainty.
AI and automation (here and now) are probably a lot more beneficial to me than GMOs are (looking at Spain and Frances respective cereal yields, I'm not seeing a pressing need for GMOs). Yet I don't think it would benefit the discussion to start calling you anti-science just because you think the AI apocalypse is a threat while I think there's little evidence to show that it is.

What purpose would calling you anti-science serve, other than throwing an ad hominem attack at someone who I disagree with?
Sounds like FF can't handle gifs, but Chrome/Safari do a good job. I've disabled the gif on the main page just to be friendly to FF while I figure out a better approach. Thanks for the report.
Thanks! Time sink for wasting time on finding the perfect font? I think it's worthwhile. Programmers spend so much time looking at their font
Why don't you just continue to use the terminal font then? That Quora link ^ made it looked like you could get a copy.
Consider the development of Microsoft's attitude regarding software patents. There's no reason whatsoever to think these patents are in good hands with Google, especially considering that their Android licensing policies seem to be carbon copies of old Microsoft tactics.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2007/03/analysis-microsofts-...
Thanks there's some strange font rendering issues. Will fix!
edit: now fixed.
Could you possibly submit the gif in a bug to Mozilla? They’d want to fix that…
You're committing the balance fallacy. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy

I think that it's only in a few tech circles that being anti-GMO is immediately dismissed as anti-science. Living in Seattle, I run into a ton of anti-GMO people who don't have their false beliefs challenged. (And really, I can only do so much before I grow weary.)

The anti-GMO crowd takes a strong and extreme stance. They are against all lab-modified organisms! As someone with a biochemistry degree, I see that GM is a tool. Yes, it would be a bad idea to put proteins for peanut allergens into soybeans. Yes, the overuse of pesticides are a problem. (Although, GMOs probably use fewer pesticides: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/fewer-pesticides-fa... )

From my perspective, it's the progressives that are hysterically lying about GMOs. So I punch back firmly! Most of these people don't have a solid understanding of the central dogma of biochemistry.

If we were more rational beings, we would observe that whether we should use GMOs or not is simply an engineering problem.
This is a worthy goal, but is it a good thing to have 100% voter turnout? Every direct democracy has failed since the time of Socrates. After several generations, direct democracies turn into a mob with the majority voting themselves benefits while minorities become permanently disenfranchised. At least voter disinterest allows minorities the possibility of voting as a block and gaining influence in off-year elections. In my opinion, sometimes too much so.
Perhaps wealthier whites are more informed on average? Why does race or class matter?
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Which is kind of the opposite experience many people have who work at a company that has its 'company font' which they are supposed to use, but nobody likes to, because it's just print-optimized for design etc, but not screen-optimized for normal work use, and thus makes it a pain to edit documents.
I am inclined to agree. During election days, I struggled to get time off from my retail job to go vote. If young people are encouraged to vote, they should not be financially penalized for doing so.

Also, you have to go to a polling place next to your neighborhood. Most of the time work is not anywhere close to just take off during lunch and get the vote out. It almost ends up being a hassle.

Sundays would be better, but there is still a substantial part of the population that works on Sundays.

Additionally, the "closed" primaries vs "open" primaries are bullshit. As a citizen I should be able to go to a polling place, choose a candidate and get out.
It is a new syntax for OCaml but OCaml can compile to JS really well so Reason can too.
It loads for me but it's so slow it's unusable.
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OCaml can be compiled to JavaScript. Therefore, so can Reason.
Looking at http://facebook.github.io/reason/mlCompared.html it looks like regular OCaml, with a sprinkling of JS syntax.
Looks like their plan is to reuse the ocaml compiler backends that output javascript; but it doesn't sound like they're doing anything explicit to promote Reason -> Javascript compilation.
I don't think this is a feature flag in the same way the rest of the discussion is using the phrase.
Just tried, it's still not working well.

edit: Fixed now.
It plugs into the existing OCaml compiler toolchain [1], which is quite smart. So it's basically an interface to OCaml that shares the stability and features of the OCaml compiler and runtime.

[1]: http://facebook.github.io/reason/#how-reason-works
Think of Reason like "CoffeeScript for OCaml"—a nicer surface syntax for the same underlying language. With CoffeeScript, it's a nicer JS. With Reason, it's a nicer OCaml.

OCaml can also be compiled to JavaScript, like pretty much every language can these days.
It's a time sink because I can never settle on one I like. See my other comment in this thread about searching for that perfect Bloomberg terminal font replacement.
the contained waste material recovery is a nice touch :) now, where did I put my piggy bank...
Since they don't have repercussions from hitting people (like losing their job, etc.) and since they might be sadists and enjoy it (like tons of them are openly racist and sexist), it's not really the length of their training that matters...
You think more than 50% of the people using Firefox or (especially) Internet Explorer deliberately sought it out and installed it after making an informed decision?
And plenty aren't... Many companies actually respect that every single company I worked at in the 10 years I've lived in America respected Christmas and New Year Day for example. I don't get your point, your situation is not the same as everyone else.
There's also a DAW called Reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_%28software%29
Tax errors can, and are, routinely corrected. There's an error tolerance for taxes that is way, way higher than for voting. What if you realize three months after the fact that your taxes are off? Might be a big problem, but not as big a realizing three months after the fact that election results are wrong.
Unlikely, given that many states have an absentee voting option, polls are long enough in a day that if someone really wanted to vote they would, etc.

Also heard it's the time of the year, but fact is that there's only so far that you're able to go before you corrupt or bias the system.
It's still hanging firefox for me. You can install firefox and try it yourself: https://getfirefox.com
Does anyone Else's Firefox absolutely slow to a crawl on this page?

Edit: just doesn't load at all on Edge. Does load in Chrome/Opera and surprisingly IE 12 but doesn't load the logo's font.
If a Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee presidency would change your opinion on federal control of education, perhaps you should reevaluate the underlying principles.
Ask HN: Lots of non-traditional work exp – Pimp my CV?
CV: http://justus-moeller.rhcloud.com/

I'm doing a pretty bad job of presenting my experience here. I have been "self-employed" my whole life. I simply don't know how to write this in a way that doesn't scream "loser". The question is: How do I improve my CV?

Hidden in my CV are, essentially, roughly 10 years of software development ranging from low level C (and the occasional messing with Assembler) all the way to front-end web dev.

On top of that, we are looking at at least 7 years of data science, some of which predates the very name.

The formal Math/Physics education.

A successful, albeit low, start-up exit.

Please help me pimp my CV.
I think I misplaced this comment, sorry!
If you want to see a bridge that is a real marvel you should see the Millau Aqueduct in France. It's considered the tallest bridge in the world. And at 400mm€ it wasn't all that expensive. I don't consider France to be a superpower and they didn't need to rely on anyone else to get it built.

The difference between that project and the bridge in Cuba is more likely expertise. After the revolution loads of finances, academics, engineers, and doctors left the country. Cuba has plenty of medical expertise, so much so that outside of US and Canada, they are the developing countries' hospital. But I don't think anyone is going to them for civil construction projects. They just don't have that expertise.
Since when is that the Copenhagen school? I think there are people like that in every school, but the specific claims of the Copenhagen interpretation (like wavefunction collapse) are not the simplest.
I've considered doing just that, but it wouldn't be the right thing to do. I don't want to make money using something that technically isn't mine to use.
The obvious solution to this is online voting. This also removes any hope of a fair election, so expect this to be pushed pretty hard in most locales soon.
This page is completely unusable due to lag. From the other comments it seems this is FF specific. One would think FB would have the resources to test new pages at least on common browsers before publishing.

Edit: The fix came quickly though.
What's the point in karma if not to blow it on bad jokes now and then? I'd completely missed the electric trucks angle, but that could work well assuming they can master hit swappable battery packs.
>He was investigated, nothing was found, and he was released. He wasn't arrested, charged, taken to jail, let alone "guilty until proven innocent".

The docility with which the american public takes those abuses (in a country with record police shootings and a wholly disproportionate number of inmates) always amuses me...
I've setup background workers that connect to a firebase DB to perform business logic / backendy type stuff. It works rather well and they even have a queue collection specifically for this type of thing. You could even setup a daemon on a VPS / EC2 that would in turn fire up AWS lambda procs (node or w/e) to perform w/ your firebase data.

Regardless, I'm very excited to play around w/ Horizon as well.
I think the goal was to establish a base from which all the other comparisons could be reasonably drawn. Humans don't generally think in fractional seconds.
That Kern Ave Fry's site was actually the second location for Sunnyvale Fry's. Fry's Electronics began in the building of a former Fry's Supermarket on Oakmead Ave. east of Lawrence, a bit to the northeast. It looked more like an electronics warehouse inside than a retail store.
Everything reads like double talk.
Not sure what I would want to use this for.
Not just hard-drives, but a lot of electronics. Smartphones are a huge issue as well. There are sellers, selling counterfeit androids phones or refurbed phones as new. It's very disturbing.
yea, open page, lag, close page. kthxbye
People can vote by absentee ballot. They have plenty of time to do it.

It's a consistent pattern that in places with frequent elections, turnout is low. There is a form of voter fatigue. Switzerland votes every six months, and has very low turnout.
Pretty font but looks like shit in Visual Studio 2015. I blame VS though as it only seems to render Consolas well which has pissed me off a lot since the switch to their WPF-based editor in VS2010. Sigh.
It's one of those rare situations when programmers can benefit from the development of a product meant to please an entirely orthogonal audience: uber-picky finance professionals who stare at screens all day. Life is fascinating, isn't it?
This. I love FF and use it wherever I can, but there are small tricks in Chrome that make it seem much faster in normal use. No matter what you do, action feedback is instant. Firefox should really imitate this.
Oh, come now...if it were that certain, the article wouldn't have gone out of its way to explore the question. There's actually no guarantee at all that the markets for high-end and low-end goods are linked.

The price of Lamborghinis doesn't have much to do with the price of Kias.
I disagree. You can't meaningfully separate technological progress from societal sophistication. Developments in one drive the other forward.

For instance, the concept of private property promotes the invention of productivity-enhancing capital, at the expense of tribal cooperation. Computerized automation drives the proliferation of unnecessary jobs.
>A lot of missteps in the early days of web technologies have made stable URLs impractical, unfortunately.

Preserving URLs across technology migrations is always possible (assuming the old documents or at least a rough equivalent still exist in the new system), and usually not even hard, to achieve. Rewrites are not rocket science.

Assuming short-sighted developers put .php on the end of all the links, migrating to a better system can use rewrite rules that trivially remove any .php ending from a URL, or that remap old folder layouts to new folder layouts.

Even if you can't use mod-rewrite because of complexity that it can't handle, all you need is a server with a hash map (or equivalent) that responds with 301 redirects [1] from the old poorly designed link to the newer, cleaner link.

The other problem you mention (no deep linking at all) is its own form of stupidity in design, but since the deep links don't even exist, that's a separate issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301
that explains the interference pattern, but not the 2 clear bands you see when you measure it one slit (or am I wrong here and that never happens?)
Originally 2006, then 2008, then 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015... It was officially canned (and by that I mean moved from memristor based to traditional architecture) last year.

RIP HP Labs being an actually interesting place for computer architecture research.
Agreed, unfortunately Slant isn't really designed perfectly for this sort of question. We typically deal with things with more emphasis on the Pros/Cons like comparing Linux distros.
So, let's see how content with you'll be with technical platitudes if it happens to you...
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Here too, completley killed Firefox (FF46 on Win10) with an unresponsive browser window.
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Why does this concern you? Mozilla, isn't as cavalier as Google as far as releases are. I remember a time in chrome's beginning it was horribly unstable but patched often. It was the lure of constant quick updates that kept a lot of people eager for the "fixes".
I wonder if the people at Propellerheads will sue Facebook for using the name of their software https://www.propellerheads.se/reason
It is a waste of energy. Yes it is quaint that people actually fought for this right, now logically, you should realize this is unnecessary duplication of efforts, and you have suggested that there should be no problem increasing that unnecessary duplication of effort.

Some people, and their entities, are more influential than others and will always be. The popular vote has limited utility.

This observation has nothing to do with alternative forms of governance. This observation is simply that here and now, there are better rules you can play by than even caring about the popular vote one bit.
I always thought the "multiple universes" theory was just a convenient way to explain particle interactions that occur outside of our observable universe. They may very well be in the this universe but because they're not observable it's presumed that they occur in another universe or many universes simultaneously.
For now, that's somewhat accurate. If you check out the JS comparison page, you might say it looks like JS with OCaml's influence.

The point of the syntax toolchain is actually not to get it right on the first try but to make something viable that is easier to learn/read, avoid bike-shedding, and put all the right tooling in place so that we can very seamlessly upgrade after taking in feedback. It's pretty liberating to know you have that ability to move forward rapidly and automate all of the upgrades.
Yes, it's very much bs, also take a look at the way districts are laid out in America for congressional and presidential races...

It's just A LOT OF THINGS are a little fucked up with our voting system and the combination of ALL OF THEM makes it a HUGE MESS!
> What does Google gain by monopolizing?

I would guess control. Owning the dominant web browser allows them to:

* Softly guide front end web tech in a direction of their choosing

* Ensure the supremacy of Google the search engine.

Also if things ever really come to head between ad-blockers and ad-providers owning the dominant platform the former runs on would be very beneficial to the latter.
This looks very interesting. I've always had OCaml in mind but never actually got around to using it in a project. Facebook could have done a better job describing what exactly this is, but they do provide a good overview at the end of the page (strangely!) [1].

In summary, Reason [2] is a new language (correction: interface to OCaml) that shares a part of the OCaml compiler toolchain and runtime. I don't know of any language that uses a similar approach, that is, plugging into an existing compiler toolchain. I guess a reasonable yet inaccurate analogy would be Reason -> OCaml is like Elixir -> Erlang or Clojure -> Java.

I hope Reason can provide OCaml with the extra push needed to bring it into the mainstream PL space and more widespread adoption.

[1]: http://facebook.github.io/reason/#how-reason-works

[2]: https://github.com/facebook/reason
> You don't need the day off if you vote by mail.

Many (most?) states don't allow voting by mail or absentee ballots without a bonafide reason. "I'm busy that Tuesday" doesn't cut it.
Because the main talking points against GMOs ignore the science around them, and are often antithetical to science itself. It's an accurate label. Regarding AI and automation, no one has made specific arguments, so it's possible the specific arguments could be anti-science.
Because it wouldn't matter and it would set a horrible precedent. Who's going to define and enforce what a "reasonable expectation of safety" is? The government, who has a revolving door with the same industry it's expected to regulate?

I prefer the system we have in place now, which is for the press (alternative, professional or otherwise) to alert people to a problem and they can decide how much risk they're willing to take.

Although, I do admit that approach won't work with Monsanto. They don't technically have a monopoly, but they're big enough that a reasonable alternative doesn't exist. But, they're big enough that attempts at regulation or law enforcement won't work either. One of the conundrums of our day, I suppose.
While not cool, that's a pleasant surprise to see something made-first for FF! Glad to see people still fighting against browser mono-culture.

Disclaimer: This post was written in Chrome.
I refuse to participate in a process I know from personal experience to be corrupt at the local level. When the people responsible for investigating are the same people responsible for the illegal acts and the state and federal agencies tasked with enforcement won't even take the complaint -- well, there's nothing that's going to convince me that there is any hope for this county's process.

In 2004, our ballots had the presidential candidates as the first item. I personally witnessed ballots being sorted at the polling location and placed in different boxes based on that first item. The boxes were identifiable as to which was which ("GWB","JK" and "AO" - all others), placed into the back of a sheriff's car, and driven to the election board's office. The "GWB" box remained in the back seat of the car while the "JK" and "AO" boxes were taken in to the office to be counted. Since I wasn't blessed as an "official" observer, I was not allowed inside. The "GWB" box was never counted, driven back to the Sheriff's office, and was discarded in their dumpster, locked and unopened. Anyone in that particular batch who voted for GWB had their votes, not just for president, but for congressional office and local issues, thrown out. Every single official -- county, state, and fed -- I tried to report the issue to responded with some variation of "mistakes happen, it's not an issue we're going to look into". Party officials didn't care -- D's votes got counted, R's didn't care because the D's had solidly carried that county for decades and more-or-less written the county off, and no one else had the manpower to do anything about it. My vote (in the AO category that time around) was counted, or at least made it inside to be counted, but it still bothers me that things are so corrupt that there isn't even an attempt to hide the corruption.

Fix the absolutely blatant corruption, and I might, possibly, be motivated to vote. I don't mean charging people with little misdemeanors and letting them plead out to fines. I want to see felony charges and jail time for those participating, furthering, and knowingly benefiting from the systemic abuse of our election processes.
Similar to the point that I'm sure it is a subconscious plagiarism. In other words, the person who created the logo had seen Reason magazine's and unintentionally channeled it when creating the new one.
>I work at a startup and nobody went to vote, everyone has work to do.

Indeed, everyone has work to do. It does not absolve us of our civic responsibility. I don't live in California, but would be surprised for anyone at a startup here in Atlanta to have significant problems taking a couple hours out of their day to go vote were they to want to. Apathy is a definite problem however.
As someone who's come from a third-world country to the USA, I have great respect for the quality of roads in America. The fact that we have thousands and thousands of miles of consistently well-paved roads, such that no matter where you are, you can expect the same high construction quality in freeways and city roads is something people here probably take for granted, but it is no trivial matter.
Subway line 14 in Paris is fully automated, has trains arriving every 85 seconds during peak hours, and has an hourly capacity of 30'000 - 40'000 seats/hour.

https://www.systra.com/IMG/pdf/metro_meteor_en-3.pdf
Sorry to hear that! Can you give me some info on which browser/OS you were using?
It's also about as similar to the common representation of ruthenium on the periodic table.
Not every piece of evidence (in the Bayesian sense) is admissible in every court though, polygraphs being an obvious example. That is why courts get all pissy when jurors go off the reservation and start doing their own research. I'd be a little surprised if the judge in this case enthusiastically endorsed this sort of analysis going on in jury deliberation, but given your background - I'm interested to hear if I'm mistaken.
I basically only see to-do list apps for new frameworks. So therefore frameworks can only make to-do lists.
it loads but the scrolling is at like 2 fps. thank god for reader view.
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Interesting but since they are designing a revised syntax, I wish they had got rid of Ocaml's semi colon. These stand out in 2016.
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