skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Granted, they killed a whole bunch of people for e.g. the medical advancements. And the advancements are at least of dubious value[1].

And other advancements were... not as impressive as elsewhere. See e.g. nuclear science.

But the upside of science under a dictatorship is that you will publish lots of papers claiming successes, for personal health reasons, so you've got that going for you.

[1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199005173222006
The startup scene tends to be more foreigner friendly. For corporates/enterprises it's a mixed bag because some of the rank and file locals view foreigners as people who have taken jobs/opportunities away from locals.
3D content is an order of magnitude harder to build than 2D content

Not really. It requires a different process and a different training regimen. ZBrush makes 3D content creation easy enough that you can be done with the dog model in the video in a matter of minutes, but only if you're trained with ZBrush.
I wonder if some day Microsoft will stop being stubborn, and make Visual Basic 7. A lot of people would be very happy.
> EDIT: Btw, wasn't this posted a few days ago? Can't find it, but I'm pretty sure I saw this around here. (Then again, maybe I saw it on reddit.)

I think a bunch of folks have submitted this one (yep, click past on article).

Lost Memories https://vimeo.com/49425975 and its sequel https://vimeo.com/152889154 are also pretty good and focus a bit more on the human side.
While that's a nice way to approach a mathematical problem, it does not take into account the social aspects of the problem. For example, it used to be (and perhaps still is?) quite common for families to aspire to have a boy and therefore have another child when they have a girl, but not when they have a boy.

Interestingly, these sort of things are much easier to model empirically the way you did (all you would need is a small tweak to the "haveAKid" condition in the while loop around line 35), whereas the math gets pretty complicated fast.
unless our health is damaged by an external factor (a hammer, a bigger hammer, you get the point) all diseases are internal reactions of our bodies (caused by outside or inside interactions) which unbalance our whole being and eventually can kill us if we do not restore the balance in timely manner.
Besides, being out of the EU, Rotterdam port wouldn't be as attractive as an European entry/exit port. Taxes and tariffs would make it less competitive.
> What would be the goal of that?

You should ask the parent, not me. I do not advocate taxing getting an education, whether you do it directly on indirectly.

Besides, in either case, such a tax would infringe on free speech.
Not only that but the man did so after two family businesses failed as a consequence of the 2008 housing crash. He had a family to support and had gone through bankruptcy. A lot of people would have given up because it is very hard to regain faith, more so when you get older.
Actually VB is dead. VB.net isn't VB any more than JavaScript is Java, and we shouldn't let Microsoft's marketing team pull the wool over our eyes by pretending there's continuity between the two.

VB.net is (modulo a few unimportant exceptions) just C# transpiled to a more annoying syntax.
> Why does everyone try to solve this problem from first principles?

Trying to solve the problem from first principles is probably how a lot of the posters came to the conclusion that it wasn't possible. If the problem were possible to solve from first principles, it would have been a waste of time to find/create data, so trying to solve it from first principles is the correct approach given no prior knowledge of the answer.
Reminds me of good will hunting, where he was a janitor but was smarter than professors and really good at math.
America’s Heinous Commutes, Mapped in Pretty GIFs
We've banned these accounts for repeatedly breaking the HN guidelines.
I would argue that a study of history which neglects "the physics" is hardly an education of history at all.

World War 1 would not have been the same without machine guns and chemical weapons. How was it that these manufacturing processes scaled up to meet the needs of major national warfare? What was it about mustard gas that made it such an effective tool? Why was it not used more widely? Why was it used just as much as it was? Why use that and not a different kind of gas? How did they acquire the resources for, process, and send this deadly substance miles and miles to the front lines where it could be used without erupting and killing one's own troops?

To truly understand these kinds of questions, a scholar must take into account the entire scope of history, not just the narrative. History is everything.
It's because of the hammock time.
For anyone interested in those markers on the side: These seem to be AprilTags (http://people.csail.mit.edu/kaess/apriltags/). They are optimized for this kind of application.
That's because VB.net isn't VB; it's C# with a different lexical syntax.
Seems unaccessible, archived copy: http://archive.is/Zqo56
No. If you buy a downloads pack, you have to use them within 12 months. After that period, they expire.

But once the illustrations are downloaded, you can use them as long as you want.

edit: for clarity
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Data-shows-heavy-airl...
Might be at a gaming convention. He has seemed to express enjoyment of variously complicated strategy board games.
But by the wording, however, it seems different. (I really, really suck at this stuff though.) If I have 50 men and 50 women in a family, the men each have 49 brothers, and the women each have 50. The coin-flip comparison would be "how many heads are there not counting a particular head" or something.
I really don't know what to hope for.

All that I do now that I really enjoy watching what looks like a full on feature battle between GitLab and GitHub going on at this moment. As a guy who uses both (GitLab for my job, GitHub personally), I feel like I'm getting the best of both worlds.

Although, to be perfectly honest, it feels to me like, at this point of the "feature battle", GitLab started embracing and actually improving every single thing I liked about GitHub to the point where I'm questioning my stay on GitHub for personal projects.
The map allows anyone to look at commutes to or from the county of their choice. Once you set a location, sit back and watch the sea of dots flow back and forth. Evans embarked on the project after seeing similar project mapping the hellacious reality of commuting in the Bay Area. The entire thing took him about 40 hours, he says. Even his dog liked the result, staring at the computer screen and all but falling into a trance.
5.5h is nothing. It's not long enough that you can use it the entire day, it's not even long enough in a work environment. 5.5h may be enough for gaming or something but apart from that, it's just too limiting.

Additionally to that the Hololens is also quite bulky, so it's not like you can sacrifice on the design to create more battery capacity. It already doesn't look like something anyone would want to wear outside.

Even if you improve the battery capacity, increase efficiency of the hardware and software and you still have something you can't really sell anyone as a AR-utopia level device, just on account of that design.

I'd expect it to take at least a decade until you'll see regular people wearing AR glasses regularly as a personal device during their daily life.
That's sort of like applauding your neighbor for training his dog to always shit on your lawn
In 1996 a friend demonstrated to me how to write an calculator in VB 4.0, I was immediately hooked. it opened the GUI world to me. at that time I couldn't read English and all I could was trial-and-error. Couple of weeks later, I coded a traffic simulation and show off to another friend who studied chemistry. Guess what, the guy learnt programming and became CTO of a Chinese internet giant.
It bears repeating that privilege generally sees fair treatment as a step down.
Countrywide Mortgage Hustle Turns Out Not to Be Fraud
Bill giving the first demo of VB 1.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMz2Mgs7UU0&t=2m8s
My vote is for UnicornPoop. Anyone have that?
I've done numpy, pillow and scipy from scratch. Note that numpy+scipy is too big for 50MB zip file, so I had to prune out various sub packages I didn't need in order to keep the size done.
My mom was one of four daughters (no sons), their mom was one of three daughters (no sons), two of my cousins only have girls, and my sister only has girls... my brother is the only one of myself and cousins that have any sons.
Unfortunately jabaco is both closed-source and dead

http://www.jabaco.org/board/1411-jabaco-lifetime.html
VB 1.0 was a revolution, really. I went on to buy Delphi and Paradox. Delphi was really something but the nod has to go to VB for the massive leap it took.
It's not just 25 years for VB, it's 25yrs for all those GUI developers who grew up starting with VB. Now we're on Qt, JavaFX and React but as I write this I can't help but think - VB is more productive than React ;-)
Well, it was posted in probability and not is some social science board. So I thought it was safe to assume a purely mathematical question. Not that I can answer it...
It's like a conspiracy to annoy the hell out of the average consumer. I'm not sure why Netflix would be proud of this.

How about we also get Spotify, iTunes and Google Play to step up the exclusives on their music services so I can never have a single place to go to listen to music.
Ok, we changed the URL to that from http://learninglaravel.net/upcoming-changes-in-php-71. Thanks.
> There's also the problematic government support of corporal punishment for children..

There might have been implicit government support in the past, but today teachers are not allowed to hand out corporal punishment to children.
Ask HN: Will everyone but Docker make money off of Docker?
There is a lot going on in the docker landscape and especially around container management, monitoring etc. I seem to see more innovation around docker coming out of companies other than Docker.

Will Docker be another JVM where everyone but Sun made money on Java?
It's not quite right that he shows no correlation between race and score. There is a strong correlation between race and score. This correlation is caused by the fact that blacks have a high recidivism rate (p = 4.52e-6).

What the analysis shows is that once you know the predicted score of the algorithm, using race doesn't give you extra information. If the scores were biased then you could correct them by using racial information to undo the bias.

For more detail on that last bit, read the "What if measurements are biased?" section of my blog post: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/alien_intelligences_...

(The details differ a bit - I describe linear regression rather than cox models. But the basic idea is the same.)
I'm sorry you had such a hard time getting into Elixir. Dave Thomas's book on Elixir is a very good introduction and there are a few other Elixir books out there that can get you started really quickly.

The issue really starts when you start writing web servers. I always advise that anyone who wants to start using Phoenix learns how to use Plug first. Phoenix is very macro heavy which can give that magic-is-happening feeling when you run your app, but looking through the Phoenix source code and using Plug is a great way of getting your head around what is actually happening behind the scenes.

Elixir is incredibly powerful and I find myself being more productive with it than with most other languages. TDD and integration testing is also surprisingly easy.
They should make a movie where the professors are smarter than the janitors.
Agreed. Coming from the military though, it was actually somewhat reassuring. It was like going back to my old job: crisis becomes the daily grind.
This summer: [A bunch of films you've already seen]

From September onwards, Netflix will become the exclusive US pay TV home of the latest films from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar.
Ah right. I forgot that someone with a PhD in history is also a doctor.
> There is literally nothing wrong with studying the humanities.

There's a lot wrong with going deeply into debt to study the humanities, though - especially when you wind up surprised that you can't make enough of a living to pay off your loans.
You are probably missing the point of this exercise.
Hm... I'm not sure you're answering the correct question.

Assume you're a man and you have a sister. Your next sibling is about to be born.

There is a 50% chance that it's a boy! In which case, he will have one brother (you), you will have one brother (him), and your sister will have 2 brothers. She wins.

There is a 50% chance that it's a girl! In which case, both she and your other sister will both have 1 brother (you), whereas you won't have any. You loose again!
Yup. You've heard of defense in layers? Well, VB is a leaky sieve that you can try from different angles as each layer fails.

So... you didn't hear this from me. This certainly was from some other engineer tasked with getting $THING done in a corporate environment where everything was locked down and noone had admin. (Never mind that anything on the floor had to have the password taped under the keyboard - or to save time, monitor.) I mean, someone had admin, but it wasn't really obvious who in the plant did and the ones who supposedly did had bad privileges set.

So you try to do something absurd like copy a log file automatically in the event of a line crash to a network store. But you can't run the nice application that shadow copies without admin. So you try a batch file, but no dice. Then you try VBA via Excel, and that sorta works, but now you've got to keep Excel running as a monitor, and that garfs up occasionally when the operator alt-tab-resets-power-to-everything. So you try a VBscript, and find that you can plonk that down in the Windows Startup folder and it sorta just works and thank god that's not an issue anymore we can just get back to fixing the line.

Every time it fails you can try again from a slightly different vantage point, retreating further as it fails, perhaps appropriately, you need to spend a day on the phone with tech support and get the damn thing done right.
not even the web is web-scale
OP points to SPARK-12795 [0] and is all open source. They generate Java source code. You can read more at the prototype pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/10735 (I couldn't find a spec doc). If I understand correctly they insert a `WholeStageCodegen`[1] operator into the plan:

/**
* WholeStageCodegen compile a subtree of plans that support codegen together into single Java
* function.
*
* Here is the call graph of to generate Java source (plan A support codegen, but plan B does not):
*
* WholeStageCodegen Plan A FakeInput Plan B
* =========================================================================
*
* -> execute()
* |
* doExecute() ---------> inputRDDs() -------> inputRDDs() ------> execute()
* |
* +-----------------> produce()
* |
* doProduce() -------> produce()
* |
* doProduce()
* |
* doConsume() <--------- consume()
* |
* doConsume() <-------- consume()
*
* SparkPlan A should override doProduce() and doConsume().
*
* doCodeGen() will create a CodeGenContext, which will hold a list of variables for input,
* used to generated code for BoundReference.
*/

[0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12795
[1] https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/0e70fd61b4bc92bd744fc44...
Future Android versions will improve battery life by killing background services
Peter Thiel's Commencement Address to Hamilton College 2016 Grads
It's dumb, but monopoly is another way to have everything available at the same place.
But will that degree help him find a job? And will he get any tangible payoff from the thousands of hours of class & studying (even if it was "free")? (I get that the degree has intangible "I put myself through college!" benefits, but if he was trying to better his situation, was the degree the right choice?)

What's the job market like for newly minted mechanical engineers? Does he now face years of apprenticeship to earn his PE so he can really take advantage of the degree?

He ran a plastering business for 24 years, would he have been better off taking some business courses to learn how to grow his company and then putting those hours into his business as the economy improved?
Oh I see: http://filmmakermagazine.com/142-gaspar-noes-enter-the-void-...

Check out the book, "Vistas of Infinity" sometime.
but only if you're trained with ZBrush

Only proving my point - but not really taking it far enough. If I asked the average designer to give me an image of a dog for my website/app etc... they could do it incredibly easy. Either get a dog and take a picture with a regular camera, maybe crop and edit or find/edit many of the ones you see now in well known software.

If I asked that same group to make me a 3D model of a dog it would be literally orders of magnitude more complex. Knowing a 3D interface takes quite a bit of time. Building the model, especially if you want any kind of accuracy, even moreso.
I have some sympathy for Microsoft on this. Some of the changes could have been backward compatible (like making "set" optional). But some breaking changes had to be made. Like making all function parameters byval by default. Having everything byref by default in VB6 was just a bad initial design.
> From September onwards, Netflix will become the exclusive US pay TV home of the latest films from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar.

Does that mean we will have to pay to watch them? Makes sense from a market standpoint since they are likely to be highly sought after but this pay per movie looks like new turf for netflix.

Perhaps it shouldn't be too surprising given the ongoing spat between Amazon and Disney. Sad to see we are at a place where competition is high but rarely makes the best decisions for users.
"A small community also comes with some upsides: people are more motivated and willing to help, centralized tools like forums and IRC channels are still manageable"

I recognize the benefit here but I have a strong aversion to this line of decision-making. "Current thing is maturing and becoming popular, now the community is unwieldy and full of riff-raff-- on to the next thing!"

I'm in the JS community and it is suffering terribly from this line of thinking-- every time something reaches any sort of scale & there are new, bigger organizational challenges, Thought Leaders jump ship to some newer, cooler, smaller project (or language). Lather, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.

Online communities are like this as well (see Reddit, Hackernews, Twitter, etc.). Only difference is the cost of moving from Reddit to HN is minimal for the user, the cost of learning a new language or rewriting an app on a new platform is HUGE for developers and organizations.

So I don't know elixer & if it's cool and worthwhile, by all means let's encourage people to use it, but NOT because it's new and the community is small! Beauty fades and if you're moving on to the next thing because it's young & doesn't have any warts yet, mark my words-- you'll be moving again soon enough!
It's a conspiracy to extract as much profit from consumers as possible. If everyone has Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Prime Video, YouTube and iTunes subscriptions then large rights holders extract more money. It's been said before, but the premium cable TV channel model is what they're going for.
This was the title I wanted, but alas I was limited to 80 characters.
Great article thanks. One of the things that helped me learn Elixir was to play Elixir golf - it gives you a feel for the language and strengthans your thinking in a functional way.
Anyway check out http://elixirgolf.com

Disclaimer I wrote a Udemy course on Elixir too, so if anyone wants a 30% here you go...
https://www.udemy.com/elixir-for-beginners/?couponCode=Save3...
Definitely reading too much into your comment and not responding just to you but the hiring post trend, but IMO all of those scenarios are conflating mismanagement with bad hiring. Have a rock star coder who can't communicate (I'd challenge whether or not that was possible another time)? Put them in a position that minimizes the amount of communication they have to do or set up a structure for their inbound/outbound communications that works for everyone. Great communicator? Have them figure out how to facilitate that person who can't communicate. Great team player? Have them work with the team and don't make them outbound.

Point is, effective team building doesn't end at offer letters. Hire for fit, then fit the hire. Train up. Just because someone is weak in some area doesn't mean they can't contribute meaningfully given the proper resources and support, nor is a strong hire going to succeed without the same carefully tailored support.
I'm now old.

VB actually got me into Windows development - coming from C & DOS, at the time the message pump was difficult for me to grasp.

For LOB apps, VB1-6 was the most productive language by far.
The scifi-cyberpunk-geek in me can't wait for wearables like this! This is an exaggerated view of what can happen but also not too unfathomable. And yes there we'll be ads and unnecessary gamification, but like you noticed in the video, there will also be very useful technology as well.

Some positive things I took away from this:

- Real-time language translation

- integrating map and directions into your view

- (as you mentioned) clear and evident warnings that you couldn't cross the street

- be able to add more information about products at stores. I know this similar to advertising, but if you're at a grocery store and are able to get more info about products immediately, I see that a plus.

- The fact that you have an HUD for all your apps helps reduce "text-neck" sprain and also allows for ease of walking and and being on your device.

- Fashion. The one person who attacked her, while that part being a negative experience, her body was covered in videos. I can foresee the fashion industry becoming more involved with this tech. (I think Snow Crash dealt with this in the virtual world part of the novel)
You're still erasing people from the gene pool.
It's going to have to be phrased better than that, because (for the same age), the person who stopped at high school has more experience.
Shhh! Don't give them any ideas!

Still it's not much different from Hulu having exclusive rights to stream airing episodes of television shows. Someone has to be paid for all of this work.

Besides, ITS NETFLIX. Everyone has a Netflix account or a family member's login. If this were done on some other kind of service, then we might reasonably expect a backlash.
I am curious, which internet giant?
Why do I do it?
Also, due to the rise of the bedroom producer and available software we've never before had so many UNtalented sound engineers.
"Assume you're a man and you have a sister."

You just put your finger on the scale. All you can assume is that you're a man, not that you have a sister.
This is probably why they started blocking proxies all over the world in the last couple of months, after years of not caring.
Stupid question: We are trying to train the network how to calculate modulus of division. Of a binary encoding. Why should we expect this to be learnable in only two layers?
They're also working on a cure for cat allergies, which is currently in Phase 3 trials with results due this quarter. It's 4 treatments over 12 weeks.

http://www.circassia.com/pipeline/product/cat-allergy/
Oooh, this is nice. While learning ML, I was stumbling a bit with python, wishing that Ruby were a good language for working with datasets.

For all the faults people find with ruby's performance, I don't think much can be found wrong with its syntax; it is such a wonderful language to code with.

Might I suggest aliasing `<<` to `add_tuple`?
> Fuck off.

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