skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't particularly flattering to Wellington.

Wellington isn't as windy as our reputation states. There is generally a breeze and one or two big wind events every year. But like much of North America and Europe getting snow, and much of Asia getting the monsoon, Wellington is built to handle it. Buildings are designed to provide wind breaks and even get tested in wind tunnels to make sure that they don't act as a funnel. Generally the weather is pleasant, in Summer it doesn't get above 25 too often, and in winter it's seldom below 10 in the days and 6 at night. We get a frost only a couple of times a year.

Wellington has a large inner city mountain bike park, one of the largest inland ecological islands within the city boundaries, and a much more convenient access to nature and the outdoors than probably any other city in the world.
It's amazing to get a 90s perspective on the "information highway". Besides advanced home automation, self-driving cars wonder what types of immature technology we're working on today will just be mainstream in the next 2 decades.
The veterinary business has a huge problem with dishonest upselling and recommending unnecessary treatments. "A vet recommends X" doesn't care the same kind of weight as "a doctor recommends X", and won't until the veterinary profession gets real ethics standards imposed.
More like "thanks for going to Iraq with us".

Either way, us Australians are certainly lucky to have this visa.
This is very interesting. I recently moved from San Francisco to Pittsburgh and I've noticed that there aren't as many homeless people in this city (Although to be fair; Coming from San Francisco, I feel you can say that about almost any major city in the US). Two things that do exist in Pittsburgh are a ton abandoned homes as well as a declining city population[1]. If the pattern of what is described in these articles are true, I'm wondering if some of the city residents are taking advantage of old buildings as dwellings?

What also throws another question my curiosity is that the city of Pittsburgh a number of tax abatement programs to spur on growth to rebuild many areas. I'm wondering if these programs will trigger a similar effects as the orders put in place in Seattle?

[1] - https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_#...
Yeah the Opium wars, where Britain arguably got a whole nation addicted to Opium in order to secure better trading conditions for the East India Company.
It's generally accepted that any intelligence that isn't from a living being is artificial. Global Civilization isn't living, per se.
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> the Free Market Fairy

That's a straw man. Markets have lots of failure modes, this just isn't one of them.

It's like an underpants gnome plan. Maybe it looks OK on paper, but it falls apart under any outside strategic pressure.
You don't "wisely ship an MVP" when lives are at stake.
On reading just the abstract, there does not appear to be any control in this experiment. I'd have expected them to mention inclusion of election results known with certainty to not be fraudulent.

Likewise, I'd expect there to be proof of fraud by other reliable means in order to validate this method. It is not enough for them to just assert that there can be no other explanation for this data, so these were fraudulent results, so our method must be working.

Absent a control, the strong conclusion that fraud can be detected this way seems unsupported.
>it is not a huge surprise that there has been large vote fraud in Russia

Russian elections for statistics have become like "Lena" for image processing. Typical "camel-double-hump-Gauss" of Russian elections - polling stations without observers at Fig 2. at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3545790/pdf/pnas... ("United Russia" is the Putin's party).
And that's where they lose me. It's my job to curate this thing? Meh.
I was an AFOL but stopped cold turkey because of this reason. Vote with my dollars and all that. Lego can keep their one-time special pieces.
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Refuted? Which instance? There was so many of them. Go check out this series of posts to see corruption in action:

https://electionfraud2016.wordpress.com/
I originally assumed this was about how heavy metal contamination affects natural language processing.
> The problem here isn't just homelessness, but acceptance of bad behaviors and almost no penalties for crimes committed by those without means -- citations are ignored, many arrests are catch and release.

I couldn't agree more. I wish this opinion were more widely held. Yes, we should work to create social programs that help people who have nothing. Yes, these people are hurting enough and it's sad to just pile on the trouble.

But we encourage this behavior every time we allow it to happen with no consequences. There's a guy who's been living in a tent on my block on Folsom longer than I've been living in my apartment. What the fuck? The police don't care when I call, even though there are laws in place about this. I'm a monster if I walk over there and rip it down.

There need to be consequences, but how do you discourage someone who has nothing? They're almost inherently unpunishable.
Do we give homeless people money to help them or because we want them to go away?

I feel like society puts up a facade of "social justice" trying to help the homeless with one arm while taking away from them and dehumanizing them with the other. Some examples of taking away from them: health care and criminal laws that indirectly make their lives harder over time, the VA, and societies continued criminalizing views on mental health issues such as substance abuse.
Don't forget the clickbait headline.
The Sanders movement, even though I disagreed with his platform, was true grassroots democracy: Common people getting organized and trying to make a change.

I don't care if I get down voted into oblivion for saying this next part: When looking at the spread between the types of polls, there is a massive difference between the voting elite and the people's will. I don't advocate against the electoral college, but what was supposed to be system that prevented buyouts has proven to be completely forsale by the Clintons. I didn't see massive pro-Clinton rallies. We had quicker investigations into Samsung VS Apple for inconsequential things. No one has been held accountable and no explanations have been given for massive breaches of protocol other than its a plot by the Repuglicans.

I'm tired of everything from the Clinton family. My state KS has a good chance to throw electoral votes at Gary Johnson. Please California if you are listening, don't reward this family for their actions.
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Yes, but it would hardly be unexpected, and though this gets into iffy and boring questions around definitions, I don't think it's a side-effect either.
That I don't necessarily expect from a JIT in real time. I'd expect it from any half-decent optimizing compiler, but I'd expect it to likely be the result of several interacting and too-expensive-for-real-time optimizations.

I mean, if the JIT works that out, great, and if someone wants to show off performance numbers that shows one can do that I'm interested in the information, but I wouldn't in general discard one for failing to notice that optimization.
Exactly, I said the same thing in my comment below (only in a somewhat more exotic way..) but it was just misunderstood and pushed down. :)
>And when their auto-pilot actually becomes an auto-pilot they can remove those checks.

And then they can call it autopilot again...

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla get slapped for marketing it as an autonomous driving system. Musk has publicly said their autopilot is twice as safe as a human driver. That is misleading at best considering it should never be used without a human driver.
Apologies to rain on the parade, but this sort of argument is very well known and commonly used in number theory. Since these techniques don't lead to proofs, they may not get as much attention in standard math education, but they are still well-known. Many number theory papers use this technique (often with more refinements) to estimate the number of expected solutions. I would be stunned if it wasn't used on Fermat's last theorem long before Feynman did.

For an exposition on some heuristics mathematicians use, https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/254a-supplement-4-... is a good read (although it's aimed at readers already having some background in number theory).
Can you say more about this? It looks like "branding" to me. Any marketer/pr/growth slacker will have a social media footprint full of stuff that fluffs the personal brand.

I am surprised that nobody told the author about small claims court[1], really easy to file they could ask for $5,000 easily and probably $10,000 as contractors working for this guy's company.

However, I agree there are way too many people "faking it until they make it" with an external facing PR which doesn't match reality at all.

[1] http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/small_claims/basic_info.s...
FreePascal has indeed a lot of good stuff.

I wrote a ton of Pascal a long time ago and always liked OWL for Windows development. Compared to MFC, well, that was much better to they eye.

The main issue to wider adoption is that there are lots of integrations to do in modern applications and I am not sure that FreePascal can catch up.

Still, it is great for coding, as compilation is super fast and one can pretty much understand what's going on.
No, I'm fairly sure this saying is used in the context of the implementations actually being slow. "You're always in IO" is a different defense used for the slow languages, one which I have also found is overstated, for what it's worth. I have found in practice it isn't that hard to build even a simple-looking REST interface that has non-trivial amounts of time spent in non-IO code in Perl or Python. I think a lot of people would be shocked if they sat down and really worked out just how little Python/Perl/etc. code they can run before they webserver noticeably starts slowing down at even small scales.
As the NYTimes article points out, a discrepancy between exit polls and results (the main claim of the article you linked to) is not evidence of fraud, rather of the quality of exit polling, which is subject to a number of biases. If those biases are not correctly eliminated, the results will differ. Also, with due respect, that blog looks rather crackpotty.

As if anyone should be surprised that a leftie social democrat wouldn't do well in a US election.
This sounds a bit "Rick Steves" to me. Europe has a violent past, generally fueled by antagonisms with roots in the even deeper past. The 16th C bridge at Mostar, destroyed and rebuilt in the last couple of decades, is an example of built heritage as a hostage to violent forces in the present.

Tangible heritage of all kinds is at risk (of rising sea levels, of war) and it doesn't mean a lot to most people because they have no direct involvement with it. There's an increasing awareness that it is the intangible and living aspects that really must be preserved:

http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/
I'd argue that Global Civilization is nothing but living!
Most of my Prolog experience was in academics - for my own research as well as for maintaining some existing packages. But I did get to use it outside as well. There are many cases where a controlled language is needed or comes in handy and solves a lot of issues. This is where Prolog shines - plus you get to use a lot of the previous stuff you developed as well.

When it comes to an "AI" language vs. typical language with an "AI" library, I will just repeat a phrase that is often used in the field: what you thinnk of as an AI problem today will no longer be considered AI tomorrow, since it will then be well-understood and implemented in many places. People used to say that in response to the (seeming lack of) progress AI had made to date. A good example of that is Siri or Amazon Echo. Not many people consider it an AI problem anymore, or so it seems.
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if you can even replace two int variables with one bitfield, you may shrink your datastructure enough to have it fit within a CPU cache line.

But the way you should do that is by declaring an integer variable of the exact size you anticipate requiring to store your bits, and set/clear/test those bits explicitly with Boolean operators.

C bitfield semantics have always been far too hand-wavy to use for anything important. This is a perfect example (not that a separate variable will necessarily save you from a compiler stupid enough to write to adjacent structure members for no reason).
>They don't try to cover up train accidents, though. Nobody would even have this idea, I mean what the?

They didn't try to cover up the train accident in China either. The accident was a major news event for days, there was big rescue missions, etc. They also did an investigation on the causes, down to the design, creation and operation of the trains and lines: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/world/asia/design-flaws-ci...

What they also did, which was hasty, and people called them on it, was trying to bury the broken carriages afterwards -- not to somehow hide that the accident happened (that was major news everywhere anyway), but as a clumsy "move on, nothing to see here" gesture.
The nerd in me wants to build my own Hackintosh.

But I know I can't waste the time with an unpredictable OS when there is no large ROI. Especially when there is a predictable OS is available...albeit at a premium.
It's interesting how we conflate self-awareness with true intelligence. It implies that something cannot be truly intelligent until the point it creates a personality for it to identify with. I'd argue that a better indication of intelligence is self-directed learning, even if the seed of that desire to learn is programmed in from an outside source. I don't think its necessary for an AI to need to form a narrative of self.
I'm saddened, though not surprised, with how many people are so quick to come to Tesla's defense here.

Autonomous cars will have issues. But we should hold the software makers accountable for those issues the same way we hold airplane makers / maintainers responsible in the rare event their planes crash.

As other commenters pointed out, Tesla likely released a half-baked technical solution too early, and created misleading (and in this case dangerous) marketing to go along with it: calling it "autopilot" and not requiring hands on the steering wheel. Tesla screwed up here, and shame on them.

This is not a binary world: I'm not saying that they should be bankrupted or the autonomous car industry shut down. When a plane crashes due to poor maintenance - I want that company to suffer market+legal consequences, I don't want the entire aviation industry to be shut down.

White trucks on a sunny sky are not rare enough to call this an anomaly. If Tesla had installed sensors on their cars to collect data but not enabled autopilot yet - would this man still be alive today?

The MVP model is great, but not for things where life is on the line. Google seems to be doing this right.
Let alone "thought leaders", like the ad says they're expecting to recruit at that range.
It seems most of the fixing is done by removing old parts and putting on prostheses. When a root is inflamed they just take it out. No antibiotics or whatever. There is not much they can do when your gums recede.

This is definitely an area where I expect to see a lot of progress one day. It looks very hard though.
I'm with you buddy
They include Poland, Germany, and Spain, see page 10, Fig. 3 and the discussion next to it. They also say the elections prior to 2004 have no such anomaly.
Seconding the Hacker's Delight book.

I think you'll probably enjoy it more if you do low-level programming, but there's a lot of cool mind-expanding stuff in there--the treatment of Hilbert Curves is quite fun.
Rallies aren't a very good indicator of popular support. Having 4 million or so more votes is.
> Many things can't be stockpiled

Right, and there are other responses in those situations, as described above.

But even if you retreat to the position that dumping is really only feasible for goods that can't be stockpiled, then you already agree with me in enough cases for this to be moot.

Almost all public concern about dumping is directed at things like tires or concrete or steel that could be easily stockpiled if it were really a dumping strategy, if prices were returning to monopolistic high levels after reduced competition.

What's usually happening is that the other region simply has lower costs of production or is selling off overproduction at their own loss.
At the same time, Bezos became enamored with a book called Creation, by Steve Grand, the developer of a 1990s video game called Creatures that allowed players to guide and nurture a seemingly intelligent organism on their computer screens. Grand wrote that his approach to creating intelligent life was to focus on designing simple computational building blocks, called primitives, and then sit back and watch surprising behaviors emerge.

The book…helped to crystallize the debate over the problems with the company’s own infrastructure. If Amazon wanted to stimulate creativity among its developers, it shouldn’t try to guess what kind of services they might want; such guesses would be based on patterns of the past. Instead, it should be creating primitives — the building blocks of computing — and then getting out of the way. In other words, it needed to break its infrastructure down into the smallest, simplest atomic components and allow developers to freely access them with as much flexibility as possible.

https://stratechery.com/2016/the-amazon-tax/
You should try building a toaster from scratch

https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toas...
The electoral college plays no role in the primary nominating process.
I had not seen some of that Volvo tech, thanks for the link. Ultimately the radar portion is going to be more three dimensional tech still in the bumper. It's a struggle financially to get a single one of these sensors on a commodity vehicle, so the tech is focused on how to do more with that. Still, what Volvo is doing with the technology available is very interesting transitional technology.
>I think you're ignoring the difference in scale between corruption we see and hear about in most of the developed world, and the rampant corruption we see in China.

I'll take any major difference in scale with several grains of salt, as I believe the developed world is just more sophisticated in hiding that corruption.

>but its own mix of hyper-developed and third world.

So like New York and Mississippi? Or California and South Dakota?
Truly, you and I operate with different definitions of "peaceful coexistence" if yours has room for tribal discrimination and sectarian violence.
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> being able to go to a park, sit down and not run the risk of someone mentally ill screaming at you, trash and human waste strewn about or needles, really is a treat. ... I enjoy visiting some of those places mentioned on the east side.

This, right here, is what makes me want to stand out in the street and scream like a banshee. It's not that this happens in Seattle with regularity, at least for me. But that it happens more than very occasionally is bad enough for a city's reputation. I happen to really enjoy living in Seattle and I'm tired of seeing my city be (literally and figuratively) shit on by the nose-in-the-air suburbs because we refuse, either out of compassion or indifference, in Seattle to shuffle people off onto someone else.

> acceptance of bad behaviors and almost no penalties for crimes committed by those without means -- citations are ignored, many arrests are catch and release.

In Seattle's case, it's "catch in the suburbs, release into Seattle" and that only compounds the problem. My blood pressure is starting to build so I should really stop replying, and so I shall after this: I'm PISSED AS FUCK that Redmond gets to have a reputation as a leafy suburb with well-groomed bike-and-walk trails and amazing parks while Seattle also has those things but there's a non-zero chance that you'll also witness some taking a bath in the nearby fountain so we get the rap as a run down, dirty city that people rush to escape once the workday is through. (Even though 97% of the city is just as nice and usable as the 'burbs. Our "local paper," the Seattle Times, really seems to enjoy perpetuating the stereotype.)

I'm just ranting at this point and maybe irrationally defending my city so now I'm going to go hop on my bike and enjoy some of those parks and trails and nice weather and pick up my dog from the doggie daycare and have some cold brew coffee or something.
Contrast that with Spotify, which when given a song or artist that I like goes out of its way to recommend music that is superficially similar but that I hate. Or how it can recommend 80 songs to me a week based on things I have listened to and end up recommending me nothing that I like.
> But we encourage this behavior every time we allow it to happen with no consequences. There's a guy who's been living in a tent on my block on Folsom longer than I've been living in my apartment. What the fuck? The police don't care when I call, even though there are laws in place about this. I'm a monster if I walk over there and rip it down.

Yes, you are a monster if you rip down their home.

Encourage this behavior? How do we encourage homelessness by locking people up for having nothing? Do you think by putting someone in jail or forcing someone with most likely no income to pay a fine that it will all the sudden hit them that homelessness might not be the best lifestyle?

These people are doing what they must to survive. Do some of them have mental health or substance abuse issues? Probably, but the solution to those problems isn't punitive. The sort of issues require counseling and access to health care and most importantly shelter. Trying to combat homelessness by stepping up police efforts (which brings in host of it's own problems) is short sighted and wreaks of NIMBY-ism.
Based on Josh's past comments he appeares to work for tesla on their radar systems.
I have seen Benford's law applied to voter turnout, where the distribution could be expected to be closer to exponential (but still not truly, due to districting practices).
> Without subsidies the government in S.A. will fall.

Would you agree its not a matter of if, but when the failure occurs?
> Cavities are formed when sugar reacts with bacteria in the mouth.

The link provided argues otherwise:

"Bacteria cannot damage the enamel (calcium hydroxy phosphate). There is no such thing as decay of the enamel since bacteria require carbon and hydrogen to live. Billions of human and animal remains show teeth and bones are resistant to earth-bound organisms."

and

"acids alone eat the enamel..."

- http://www.fixyourteeth.org/Gerard-Judd/summary-teeth.htm
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If we all started to speak the same language, it would make most of the world's novels, short stories, poetry, song lyrics, and movie dialogue inaccessible, and different ways of looking at the world would be lost. And which language should be chosen? English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Esperanto, or something else?

Ask bilingual speakers if they'd prefer just to speak one language and to forget the other one. Knowing two languages gives you access to two cultures, even if one is dying or dead.