skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The benefits of switching from the painful Sholes (QWERTY) layout to anything designed for comfort are huge.

Are there really? I find relevant studies lacking, not to mention this: https://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html

Also the whole DVORAK vs QWERTY thing presupposes we are all 20th century secretaries or novel writers and english at that, when in reality, we as programmers:

1) Have different patterns than people writing text in English (for us .,{}():- etc can be as common as A and E for example -- plus several common shortcuts.

2) Belong to different cultures, not all english. So, when we DO write text, studies rarely say how good an alternative layout is for typing German, French, Greek, Chinese, Russian, etc.
Writing maintainable tests using the data driven approach
What Happens When Big Data Blunders?
What do you think the time delta would be between building it in JS vs Clojure would be? Just curious.
>Your analysis is correct - once Japan lost its supply chain supremacy they were never likely to be able to win back the advantage by producing higher quality goods and services.

Would you say the Chinese are somewhat different in this regard?

I have a feeling they can have more knack for this going forward.
I remember learning that this was how things work in the US, too.
You could have had a repl going in about the time to took you to compose and write this statement.

I'm not saying that to be snarky, but I'm just pointing out how quick it actually is.

brew install leiningen

lein repl

<begin learning clojure>
Bravo. On a different note. Why is your username is displayed in green ?
The idea being presented is obviously nonsense. I don't mention their mental health as an attempt to discredit their idea; the idea itself is not credible enough to be worth arguing about.

It's not the idea that made me question their mental health. It's the sheer incoherency of their presentation, e.g. on their website (http://legalnamefraud.com/). The style strikes me as the written equivalent of a schizophrenic person standing on a street corner shouting inanities at passersby. You wouldn't want to have a shouting match with that person on the street and draw a crowd around them, and I don't think we should do the same here.
Someone from Germany please correct me, but aren't you required to keep the street in front of your house clean? I was amazed at how clean Germany was, then I went to Switzerland, even cleaner. Amazing.
Yeah I'm not a fan of SF mostly because of it. If I wouldn't want my wife to walk around by herself, then it's a no go for me.
Yeah, i was thinking that they should have a different template pdf where the letters are not shown in the boxes, but perhaps beside or underneath the boxes. When you're writing over those typed letters, you're more likely to trace them, resulting in a less natural handwriting.
About Drake's equation: https://xkcd.com/384/
Historically, Transnistria in USSR was used as military foothold, to capture Moldova, pretending that this is just a conflict or a civil war. Russian Empire/USSR/Russia used that trick many many times. For example, Ukraine was captured by USSR using "Kharkiv People Republic" controlled by Moscow. Today, Russia tries to capture Ukraine again using "Lugansk People Republic" and "Donetsk People Republic".

Transistria is at border of Ukraine and Moldova, owned by both, with roughly equal populations, but both Moldovans and large part of Ukrainians were at same side. For example, leader of separatists was captured by Moldovan police in Ukraine capital city. Why "conflict" happen if both native nations were at same side?
The paper seems to have been removed, but here is a set of slides that seem to be related to the paper.

https://intelligence.org/files/csrbai/hadfield-menell-slides...
While we're having the super broad brushes out: People who DON'T ask for evidence and due process are part of a stoning for which they think have plausible deniability.

https://twitter.com/Shidash/status/741259721756319744

This your world now. This is what you wanted, whether you admit it to yourself or not, this is what it means. Not having the courage to hear what oneself is saying does not mean one is not saying it, also see http://warprayer.org/

So enjoy it, because you're stuck with. "Respected people" pulling all sorts of obvious, low shit, unable to answer the most simple questions without straw men about all those women haters and rape apologists, and a whole lot of other "respected people" keeping their feet still. Who respects these people? People who don't mind lynch mobs, and don't even lose respect for people in them. Let me add that up and weigh it real quick -- oh look, it adds up to nothing.

They came for someone, they did something to them, and you are complaining about the precious few people who were and are not complicit. The nerve! I wouldn't normally say but just think this, but considering your comment, I'll say it's only fair.
You could do worse than learning modern php. Esp. if you have some experience with it and as long as you are ready to leave bad habits behind. (Going for a full stack framework might help here by more or less forcing you to do things the right way.)
See Slide 4 for why it's important to be open source.

TL;DR: Researcher A finds things he wants improved in Magma (closed source) but can't. Researcher B tries to write improved FOSS implementation, but lost his job, likely in part by spending too much time writing said code and not doing other things like writing papers. Researcher A moves on and has a successful academic career. Moral: writing FOSS can cost you your academic job; it's safer to find something else to do.
You are of course completely right. Almost everybody who works on Sage does so as part of some research mathematics project, often in their spare time, and they just don't have time do the massive amount of work to bring the documentation to the same level of user friendliness as Mathematica. I hope SageMath, Inc. will be able to makes strides to improve documentation for open source math software. Also, this by Greg Bard is a bright spot: http://www.gregorybard.com/Sage.html
Google cache of the paper: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PTNMnz4...
Well, I think there's something deeper going on here; the strength of the nation as a juridical entity has been seriously weakened; rich multinationals - corporations and individuals alike - are no longer bound by it, refugees are an obvious exception to it, and since the neo-liberal revolution, legislation also tends to be mostly global-minded; which leaves the normal citizen - now a "prisoner" of his or her place of birth - with few options. It seems only natural that new forms of existence in a post-national world would slowly come into being (instead of a naive populist, nostalgic ultra-nationalist turn).
> Physicalism of the mind isn't unanimously accepted in philosophy.

Sure, and nonphysicalists believe in magic.
9front runs on virtual machine and on hardware just fine.
>hearing that programmers can't program, especially in such a high number (199 out of 200).

Fyi... that 199/200 quote came from J Spolsky that he got from D E Shaw.[1] That's a hedge fund and like other computational finance firms, they would look for strong programmers who had very good math skills (statistics, probabilities, etc).[2]

Therefore, the typical web programmer who knows the difference between HTML tags and CSS selectors, or knows text slicing with Python/PERL, will not pass the rigorous interviews. Using that criteria, it's very realistic that less than 0.5% of applicants would be hired.

Another way to put it: those trading firms are looking for math nerds who happen to know how to program more than programmers who happen to know some math. Including them in the general discussion about "what's wrong with hiring" will skew the discussion. Most everybody else is just looking for CRUD/web/iOS/etc programmers.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._E._Shaw_%26_Co.

[2]http://www.streetofwalls.com/finance-training-courses/quanti...
The whole basis of these sovereign citizens/freemen/reichsbürger/similar-thing-in-other-countries seems so odd to me.

The state can impose laws on you, because in the end, the state wields physical power.

While true, imposing laws by exercising supreme physical power is not a unique feature of states, and is a matter of degree. For instance, in a state that doesn't maintain that level of power, such as Afghanistan, someone else will fill the vacuum, such as the Taliban. And there could be states that are even less tolerant of those movements than the liberal democracies where they seem to flourish. There are no such billboards in China.

So I think those movements are to some extent a product of situations where a state wields supreme physical power but does not exercise that power in totality.
I thought the same thing - weird way to start off.
In a way, I think you just described the fundamental difference between "intelligence" and "very advanced applied statistical analysis." :)
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As a dev programming in Clojure professionally day to day this complaint (core team not fixing/prioritizing bugs) seems absurd to me.

The only example given for a bug is not even a bug but undefined behavior triggered by undocumented API usage.

If the author means clojure.spec by "greenfield development" (I don't see what else he could mean) he should really reconsider his complaint since clojure.spec is going to do what he is asking for (throwing a runtime error during development if you use clojure.set with the wrong datatypes).

My impression over the last few years is that the core team became truly excellent in reacting to users needs and reports often instantaneously, especially Alex Miller and David Nolen on the CLJS side.
Don't let your players go
> It’s surprisingly dark, too. For decades, Intel’s cleanrooms have been lit like darkrooms, bathed in a deep, low yellow. “That’s an anachronism,” says Mark Bohr, a small, serious man who has spent his entire 38-year career making chips, and who’s now Intel’s top manufacturing scientist. “Nobody’s had the courage to change it.”

Wait, what? Isn't that UV-free light? Ultraviolet light is used in the mask exposure step, so using normal light in the room would basically remove all of the photoresist before photolithography.

I guess they've automated the process to the point where the wafers are never exposed to light even when moving between steps.
Unfortunately with coursera-dl it didn't work.
But consider the University of Calgary's actions in response... they publicly announced the outcome of these events in the interest of transparency.

Wouldn't it be more transparent to just allow their files to be published?

Surely there are damages that could be caused, but as a public institution, I feel like this is the way they should operate by default.
Cursive IDE also does this quite well.
From my current understanding, that's not how other devices work.

If you go and buy a 30$ BaoFung and operate it on bands that the device is not certified to be used under ( CB/MURS/wakie talkie bands) then you can be fined for using it.

On the other hand, if you are a HAM then you have full access to do whatever you'd like in that regard. It doesn't even need to be for within your license class. So long as you are legally allowed to transmit on that band, you can do so as a HAM.

This was done because lots of us HAMs build our own equipment.
As I read the article I kept thinking "Toynbee Tiles" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles) over and over.
Interesting! Made me wonder - how would we compare the data that neural net receives with the data that toddler's visual cortex is getting?

On a purely visual level - let's say we have 10k of static 32x32 images defining a class of cat. Or even more of them plus some negative examples. Each image is a different cat, in a different position (they're incredibly flexible creatures). Having so many cases we should be trying to make some kind of a generalization of what 1024 pixels of a cat should look like.

A family with a toddler has only one cat. From that one example, he learns the concept of what a cat is and is able to generalize it when in different situations. But a toddler has 2 eyes, his visual input is stereo. Even if he sees just one cat, it's not a static image interaction. The input is temporal, he can see the cat moving and interacting with the environment.
It's a false analogy though. Brains don't run software the way computers run software. The brain's behaviour is emergent from its physical structure.
And hundreds of thousands of lines of new code not available anywhere else written by over 500 mathematicians over the last decade...
I'm not at all defending these peoples opinions - just pointing out the unwarranted hatred they attract as a result of having an idea that is not mainstream/not supported by establishment politics.

The speed and ease with which someones' mental health is called into question is just as alarming and .. frankly .. disturbing, as the idea that we are not subjects of the States in which we dwell. "That person is mentally ill" is the clarion call of establishment doublethink, and I put anyone who uses it as a means of justifying their bigotry against anti-establishment thought in the same bin as the loonies who think they can change their name to get out of a parking ticket ..

Alas, its quite acceptable behaviour to call into question someones mental health if they propose an idea non-mainstream/aligned with establishment ideals. I think this, in itself, is a more destructive social response which, unfortunately, doesn't require expensive billboards to propagate throughout society ..
I was looking for a cool new language to learn in the holidays and hopefully do something with it web related. Like a back-end. Nothing serious though. Elixir seems way different from the languages I am used to maybe that is good.
So, according to the tech spec, it has 0.075 W output = 75 mW.

A single 1.5V AA alkaline battery can provide the same output (50 mA * 1.5V = 75 mW), and it can provide up to 2600 mAh, which equals 52 hours, or almost a month if you need the light on for two hours every day.

So a family can simply buy a (very small) LED light and a single rechargeable AA battery. They probably could find a shop to recharge the battery once every month, with minimal fee. Sounds much more reasonable than buying a 12.5kg pulley that needs to be reset every 20 minutes.

* The fact that I've never heard of these amazing "single AA battery powered lights" sweeping through African homes makes me doubt your claim that it's "sufficient for reading and other activities". (Many Africans have cell phones; many more should be able to afford an AA battery.)
CarpalX has a rather thorough exploration of this sort of thing: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/
> It could be a great area of research on how to reduce the amount of data it takes to train the network.

This is typically referred to as "one-shot learning" in the literature -- and people certainly work on it!
The programming language of Sage is Python, which is a better overall language than the custom math-only language of Magma. Also, there are over 80K packages for Python on Pypi compared to a handful of packages for Magma. Ecosystems...
This is an excellent point, give priority to unique events over rare events when choosing what to display over a longer time interval
DoD is the only organization that is currently providing me with grant funding... (and not much). Microsoft also donated some money to Sage this week! And of course there is Google Summer of Code, which is sponsoring many students to work on Sage this summer.

[Edit: Added Microsoft/Google.]
Congrats. I have mixed feelings about Sage. I regularly shell out to Python for many of the underlying libraries, but I rarely use the Sage GUI.
Reproduction is not the only cost. There is also a large cost in actually making the thing in the first place.

"Remember, today, there are millions of people using their computer to voluntarily and entirely charitably give away information for free, that other people want to stop them from doing. That is so absurd and insane."

Only until you remember that what they're trying to share wasn't theirs in the first place.

If you create something, great, share it with everyone you want. But don't you dare force others into doing the same thing with what they created.
Wait, so will Sage still be open source?
Interesting contest, but it seems that the organizers and participants might have overlooked that an active group of RC hobbyists completely reverse engineered the Syma X5C protocol and several other protocols for other popular toy drones already.

https://github.com/goebish/nrf24_multipro/tree/master/nRF24_...
They will delete photos synced to their servers, and only the copies on their servers. And only photos that were synced automatically and not posted.

Most users have no reason whatsoever to worry.
This is so weird and arbitrary. Of course if you accept any random person who applies to any job, sometimes because they have to apply to jobs to keep their benefits, yes, you'll see a lot of people who have no clue.
Piggybacking on this: anyone has good ideas/sources for mechanical parts like gears and stuff?

My hobbyist alternatives right now are lego or pulling stuff apart.
William and I both presented at a RethinkDB meetup this last fall (SageMathCloud leverages RethinkDB changefeeds in awesome ways) and I got to talk to him a bit about some of these frustrations. It really is a rough spot to be in and I wish him all the best.
Stop sending people to war would help
"Coursera is entitled to do X" is not meaningful criticism, though, when you are responding to a moral argument. It's like when people respond to "you are being an asshole" with "it's my right to." Well, sure, but you're still being an asshole.
Anti-science is not an exclusively right-wing phenomenon. The left has their own bastions of anti-science beliefs (GMO and anti-vaxxers come to mind first and foremost).

The reason that the anti-science right-wing comes to the forefront is most likely that intellectual faculty at universities are heavily left-wing. Most social sciences display a distressingly high degree of correlation between research findings and prior political belief, but this is masked by many of them being overwhelmingly left wing: anthropology and sociology have a 30:1 and 28:1 left:right ratio, respectively. (cf. https://ideas.repec.org/p/hhs/ratioi/0053.html ).
it's too bad the JVM inlining budget isn't configurable or hintable, that seems like a poor design decision to have to work around. Then again, the JVM probably wasn't originally intended to be the foundation for a dozen other languages
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How is that not exactly how it is today? Those people uploading torrents don't have any of the costs of creating the work.
That link went straight to malware for me on Android; downvoted.
Great resource! Thanks for the link.
Uh, what did you expect? If you turn off notifications to an application of course you won't be notified, regardless of what communication tactics are used in the app.

That seems to be your fault for assuming otherwise. Unless there was specifically a button in the app for turning off notifications only for texts.
Right - would you rather rely on a theorem which the author claimed is true, but won't let you see the proof, or one where the proof is published and reviewed? That's the choice between closed and open source math software.
I saw one at 3rd and Pike about two weeks back.
Not having time left for your family?

My work day is from 7:40 to 16:20 so that I can spend time with my kids.
> questioning the very legitimacy of the exact jobs

This argument has been dispatched so thoroughly, for so many centuries that what you really did there was establish that you haven't been doing your reading. But rather than just refer you to Plato, let me address your exact situation, and we'll do it with a nice particular-general-particular teaching strategy.

The US military could lay down its arms. Likely we would need all of the peoples of the earth to lay down their arms. I assure you, no one wants peace more than a professional soldier. Lets assume it happens. But there will still be people able to rally the masses with nationalistic messages. Even if we burned every book on the making of guns, arrows, missiles, guidance systems, deleted all the information from the collective conciousness, we would still have these bad actors. And their followers would be incentivized to develop means of carrying out their nationalistic ambitions. And then there will be war. Even if it's with stones, they will make spears, arrows, crossbows, grenades, muskets, rifles, rockets, guided missiles and drones.

This generally comes down to simple engineering at a world scale: a prestressed sysem is more predictable than an unstressed system and often requires fewer resources to maintain. The threat of violence is more persuasive than violence itself.

So, onto the closing particular: the NSA. Someone will collect signals intelligence. Are you seriously asserting your government alone should abstain? Do you assert that the Germans, French, Chinese, or Pakistanis, Indians, Russians, Brazilians, or Laotians aren't clever enough to do sigint or don't have the incentives to engage in it, given the insane gradients of wealth and power across national borders?

So, yes, regulation is key. And the social outcry sends a strong signal itself. The regulations are merely an attempt to condense the social consensus to paper. The people who work at the NSA read the headlines. They read blogs. They read a lot. right? They're in sigint. They read a lot. I'm fairly certain there's are many very active debates within the NSA, at every level, about just exactly what is it that they should be doing.

Does that mean society should give them a pass? No, of course not. Holler loud. But next time, before you holler, maybe read up on Plato or Epicurus or Kant or Bertrand Russell, or somebody. And holler something new.
Six orders of magnitude does give a little bit of an insight into reliability.