skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No I think that medical research can now be preformed by anyone."

They should have at least some knowledge of how research works. Whats the point in experimenting if you aren't adding a control group for example?
When I code, headphones block out distractions and music gets me in the right mentality.

When refactoring or debugging code, I like fast paced with action-packed lyrics. Dragonforce Through the Fire and Flames, Darude Sandstorm, Linkin Park, Eminem Til I Collapse

When writing new code, I like slow paced with thoughtful or romantic[1] lyrics. Joni Mitchell, Mozart, Carpenters

I've also started to put the song on repeat on the background. I recommend ListenOnRepeat.

[1] http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/psy-methoden/methodenlehre/Lov...
Exactly. When I write my code I am aware of a high number of things that could go wrong, and that I deliberately don't check. If it goes wrong I'll let it crash, or I make the deliberate decision too see if that condition ever actually happens in the real world. I'm not talking about security! It can be things like only checking if function parameters are what I expect them to be for some functions where I think it's important, or being aware that if some functions are called with other timings than I expect something could happen. The problem is I'm not writing the final app, I'm writing some sort of library (sort of), so I have no control over how it is going to be called in the end. I'll just add it to the documentation but I make few attempts at catching all or even a lot of such errors.

If I would blow up my code at least tenfold if I tried to take care of all the possible conditions - creating a lot more of them in the process. Writing code feels amazingly fragile to me, and yet it works well. Note that that code has had several reviews from other developers, so I'm not talking about really bad code.

After having delved deep into medical topics out of curiosity - hundreds of hours of anatomy, physiology, neuroscience, bio-chemistry, lots of statistics, I'm even less concerned. The ways things go wrong in a biological system are orders of magnitude more numerous, and the approach of nature is "fix it when it happens" (or start by creating a new instance).

I think the more complex our own human-made systems become we'll have to use more and more of the nature method. We are already doing it everywhere, electronics or software.

I see two competing forces:

a) The human attempt to make systems more "provable", for example by formalization/"mathematization",

b) Nature showing us that complex systems can only be done with a relaxed and laissez-faire attitude ("shit happens") after putting in a reasonable effort.

The balance shifts towards b) for systems in rapidly changing environments, and to a) for systems in static conditions.

So discussions about the subject should never be just about the system (piece of software) itself, it must include the environment it is to operate in.
Because it was his fault. It is written in manual to be ready to take the wheel and he was given warning about increasing uncertainty, yet he kept hands off the wheel at a canyon. The only way he could be more guilty if he was drunk.

Blaming autopilot for crash is akin to blaming guns for murder.
How long do you think they're going to be allowed to call it "Autopilot" when it's clearly not, and that confusion causes customers to trust it in ways that they shouldn't, and end up dying?

I'm not saying Tesla should be stopped or that Elon should go to jail. But I think it's a clear case of false advertising, where lives are on the line.
I'd like to see a high-level overview of the kind of problems that can be solved by the different kinds of ML, and their applications.
Do you think the American political regime is worse than Venezuela's? Vietnam? Thailand? Brazil? Libya? I think the majority of people would argue the list of superior systems is 90% shorter than the list of inferior.
IIRC, they used to have a requirement that devkit stuff be kept in a locked, dedicated space, like an office, and a "home office" room supposedly wasn't good enough. Did they get rid of that?
The people using the site would most likely be abusing kids anyway.
I'd say that split is VERY regional dependent and that you are likely overestimating the percentage of podcast listeners as a whole.
I listen to podcasts usually, makes my bike commute of 25 min seem to go much faster while I'm listening to No Agenda or the Linux Action Show.

I do notice though that whenever I take them off, usually because I already have a head full of thoughts, there is a soothing effect. I think the constant flow of information is nice as a distraction but makes one much less mindful of other things. The brain does not seem to get the periods of wandering thoughts it craves from time to time. Constant information intake seems to make me less friendly to people, makes me stare and smile less. It makes me enjoy the beauty around me less. So I started to take them off more often, but it feels like I'm fighting an addiction when I do.
Oh yes, sorry.

It is water retention that often causes plataeu, which admittedly, is where the exercsie does factor in.
zsh plugin for doing exactly the same, but not bound to GOPATH only:

https://github.com/seletskiy/zsh-favorite-directories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg
It's junk for a lot of use cases.

1. As another user mentioned, more tweets are from bots.

2. Lots of sarcasm and rhetorical questions in tweets.

3. Nobody tweets about their hemorrhoids. Or abortion. Unless you're GoPro, good luck finding insights.
Okay, you want to see a fight?

Sharing an image of abuse does not inflict more violence against the victim. What's the old line? "What they don't know can't hurt them."
Totally anecdotal but I had the same experience. Playing Pokemon Go prompted me to go on a nostalgia-fest and purchase red and green on VC for my 3DS. I wouldn't be surprised if the core game sales are seeing an uptick from the interest around Pokemon Go if for no reason other than it reminds those of us that were around for the original Pokemon surge.
> The BMW, Volkswgen and the likes of dirty-gas-guzzlers-producers would be chuckling now.

Why? Autonomous cars =/= electric cars
Reminds me of the seashell ear-thimbles from Fahrenheit 451.
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Why is the stock up following news of a layoff?

(Honest question, I'm clueless about the financial market)
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At some point over the past 4 months or so, my battery performance started to degrade from about 4 or 5 hours to about 2 or 2.5 hours. I figured it was just the realities of a 3.5 year old MBP Retina.

But I was debugging an application locally (on Ubuntu, I dual boot) for performance and I noticed that one of the Chrome processes was sitting at 150% CPU, after some testing I determined it was the Gmail tab on Chrome. Now, by keeping Gmail closed when I'm not using it, my battery lasts almost as long as it used to.

I know I'm not the only one that primarily works from coffee shops and libraries, plus I figure the Gmail team might be on here, so that's why I'm sharing.

Plugins installed: HTTPS Everywher, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger (turned off on gmail.com), Ember Inspector.
> I would say the American polítical regime is the worst in the world

But not for the people living there.
Yet the wardens seem desperate to keep those items out of prisons...
Amanda Petrusich is a woman.

I'm more surprised that podcasts and audiobooks aren't mentioned.
I only listen to music at the gym and at work.
When I'm travelling I like to listen to stuff that will push me but when I'm working I just use music to block the noise.
I have several firearms (here in the US) that were made in the Philippines. I'm not so sure they're not a net arms exporter.
Yes, one doubts the author would prefer it if we all traded in our headphones for boomboxes.
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You have to buy Oracle VM VirtualBox (i.e. the enterprise version) to use the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (USB 2.0+3.0 support) commercially.
Umm never? That's not the point. It's not changing (coercing) the type of anything, it's just allowing the call without flagging it as an error. The call at run time might still get passed an undefined and fail. It's like choosing an unsafe partial function in Haskell rather than using a total function that forces you to deal with Maybe.

At least that's what it looks like. I've never used typescript or I'd test it right now. I'm on my phone and haven't tried it.

(Edit: my answer didn't quite make sense! It's different since without ! it compiles as an error because, in this case, you can't map over undefined. With !, it just ignores that possibility although it could still happen. The compiler cannot verify all run time possibilities since your sum type says it really can be undefined.)

(Re edit! Verifying the types vs skipping that verification is not the same thing as coercing the types)
> Really, possession and distribution of these images should be legal.

Strongly disagree.
tl;dr: They backported an existing kernel feature (per-cpu syn cookie generation) to 3.x using iptables (rather than just maintaining a patchset) because they didn't want to run a current kernel or maintain a fork.
Cruise control is supposed to control the speed of the car. If you set it for 55 and the car accelerated to 90 it would be considered dangerous and defective.

The steering control is supposed to control the steering of the car. If you set it for "road" and it decides to steer for "hard fixed objects" how should we regard it?
He is idiot if he does not achieve his goals. If his goals are western democracy - then he is indeed an idiot.

If his goal is strong Philippines under El Presidente that conveniently shares the same name as him ... he is on the right way.

I know I am cynical as a person nearing the age of 350 but after the drug dealer "threat" is dealt with, the corrupted (and his opponents) may as well be his next extrajudical targets.

In every impoverished area there are some local feudal bigshots that do what they please and can get away with anything. Give the poor licence to kill them ... and they will elect you to your grave and beyond.

Democracy does not mean human rights or rule of law ...
Of course, the people with guns will kill the people who doesn't have guns. Since drug dealers and drug users never have guns, it's easy.
See for yourself - like toomanybeersies says, they should have an orange roe (boys and girls both have them - scallops switch sex as required), attached by some stringy material.

The roe has a flavour and texture different to the white meat of the scallop, which is the muscle used to open and close the shell.

The white meat should have a firm and homogeneous texture - fakes tend to have textured lines through them, but not always.
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Does stakkr.io or any of the Buffer alternatives being hyped lately support anything other than Twitter? Buffer has separate queues for Facebook and LinkedIn, too.
> Is the ubiquity of headphones just another emblem of catastrophic social decline, edging us even deeper into narcissism and unsociability?

No.

* closes tab
Bias–variance tradeoff
I might just not like to hear the loud outside world and block it with headphones.
Agreed. For the large SYN floods (X Mpps hitting a single machine) syncookie solutions don't work. What works is identifying the SYN flood itself and filtering it.
You're right,
i've try to make a small donation. I'm curious to know more about it.
Now i'm the 2th :)
Once you start ignoring basic human rights, due process and the rule of law, it's pretty difficult to re-establish a functional society.
And, even once we get to self-driving cars, it changes the ride-sharing service's economics greatly... those self-driving cars aren't going to buy themselves.
Well, first note that you have to compare the current costs of scanning to the counterfactual where there is no scanning and terrorists know it. I'd wager we'd have at least a few bombing per year. (Planes seem to be a high-visibility target, and the US gets various random bombings on a yearly basis.) The cost of a downed passenger plane is of order $2 billion, using the statistical value of $10 million per life in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#Life_Value_in_th...

The TSA's annual budget is $7.5 billion, of which only part gets spent on checked baggage screening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Admini...

So those are some very rough numbers, but I think they will come out favoring screening. I'd be very interested in the calculation if you'd like to try to be more exact! The hardest part will be estimating the counterfactual bombing rate, but I bet the FBI has expert estimates of this somewhere.
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The Bach data consists of 5727 notes from Partita No. 2 [11],
with all notes mapped into a 12-symbol alphabet
consisting of the 12 half-tones {C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B}
with all timing, volume and octave information

discarded.

I was good until the last part.
This "game" would have no end to it, if played for real :)
>Portable audio, then, is likely more a reflection than an engine of our egotism

I'm just going to leave that brilliant observation right there. :^)
There is lots of ambiguity here. Depends on how you hit it, etc.

Roof landings don't always end well -- my Civic was trashed when a deer basically bounced up and collapsed my roof on the passenger side. My head would have been trashed as well had I been a passenger!

In general, if you cannot stop, hitting something head on is the best bet. Modern cars are designed handle that sort of collision with maximum passenger safety.
Similar feelings. Podcasts in particular are tricky because they do require active participation, in a way. Even if it doesn't feel like it, parsing and paying attention to what people say is work

I've found that listening to random music ("I'm feeling lucky" on Google Music) is much more soothing than listening to any podcast...

But walking around and listening to your surroundings are a good way to cool off, and kinda forget about difficulties. Listening to the traffic go by can be hypnotic....
"In 2012, the headphone industry saw a quick thirty-two-per-cent leap in revenue "

And once Apple removes the headphone jack, the revenue will spike again.
This sounds like more Keynesian style delusion to justify the elitism of central economic planners. For instance the comment about economists 'realising' that individuals are not perfectly rational and markets are not perfectly efficient is a classic Keynesian misunderstanding of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, which says that markets approach efficiency, and the individuals that shape markets approach rationality, over time. The theory is a logical extrapolation of the effect of evolutionary processes on market behavior.
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Unsure, but I have a friend who had a Wii U devkit and they just kept it in their apartment. This was part of an indie developer outreach program.
My brother says the key for him is to stay focused on the victim and what he's trying to accomplish: stop the abuse or find them and stop the abuse, find their abuser, convict their abuser so it doesn't happen again.

If you constantly get angry or upset, you'll have a very hard time doing it for long.
Definitely true. I didn't read the article, but it sounds like an annoying extrovert asserting the virtues of extrovertism. As an introvert, my mind may have came to that conclusion by paranoia.
That line of reasoning is very dangerous. The police have been successfully sued [0] in the past for using innocent people as bait to catch suspected predators. The argument that catching the criminal prevents future victimization does not excuse the act of allowing innocent people to be attacked without their consent.

[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jane-doe-wins-case-against-pol...
Or at least try it (the download is free) :)
I often listen to FM radio, BBC Radio 4 which is primarily speech.
Thanks! It's a built-in theme which I chose carefully :-) (and actually & afaik, there is no custom theme support at the moment in that app).
Well Filipinos voted for this President who was very clear on his policues and they got him and he is doing what he promised. Democracy right though perhaps not to everyone's taste. What is then the objection?
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I unfortunately think that the reason why programming has been accessible is because we didn't know better. The standard for what can be publicly accessible on the Internet or what will compete for users attention is much higher today. I think for programming to remain open there must be formal ways to acquire knowledge or knowing the quality of a piece of software.
Lets go one step further. Some man was convicted for serious crime and sent to jail, shortly after that in parallel case investigation comes up with very strong evidence (like videotape) that actually this person they are trying to convict here is responsible for both crimes. What judge should do? Overall point, if we throw away illegal evidence for conviction, can we use it for proving not guilty?
> 3. Nobody tweets about their hemorrhoids. Or abortion.

There's an informal support group that tweets about perinatal depression, OCD, and psychosis. This includes people who've taken the choice to have abortion (or even sterilisation) rather than go through what they went through before. ((Watch out, this is just an informal group and there's not much in the way of clinical or data governance.))

https://twitter.com/PNDandMe

Here's a british men's health magazine advertising itself with advice about hemorrhoid prevention: https://twitter.com/MensHealthMag/status/752076400102895616

I pretty much only tweet about treatment for mental illness.

I'm not sure how useful this kind of stuff is to other people.
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Missing the link to said reasoning or said reasoning from you.

The top comment reflects the heart of the issue. Being logical about it, reasoning your will on others, etc. - won't change the world - that's unreasonable.
Because it is a cost cutting measure they are assuming that after the layoffs the company will be selling just as much product but will have 6,500 less salaries to pay making them more profitable.
What it is:

Freely editable google spreadsheet with information on where tech is happening in Scotland. Currently lists >300 companies and 90 groups/events.

What it's not:

- A startup/VC map.

Challenges:

- getting people to add/curate existing content (current theory: I think people browse mostly on phones, and can't edit without installing the Google Sheets app), as I can't put a lot of time into it.

- better quality categorisation of companies

- finding dev teams within organisations like local government

- identifying what's missing (my gut feel is there's easily another 300-1k companies to add, but most existing entries have come through business directories or searches on twitter for "developers/python/java/etc near me").

How it began:

The wikipedia article on Silicon Glen is short and out of date.

I was finding out about companies geographically near me in similar industries that I just wasn't coming across unless they were hiring.

I heard of Eden Shochat, who successfully crowdsourced the Israeli startup scene in a Google spreadsheet.
If the company is having difficulties, which we'd expect with the advent of SSDs as at least in part a disruptive innovation, it can be a sign that management and the board are at least acknowledging the problems. Better than a controlled flight into terrain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain).
> because we don't mourn criminals, thugs, people who reach for guns when confronted by police

1. 1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed [1].

2. In the current example, the black victim didn't resist arrest.

3. Those 500-600 weren't criminals, because you can only say they're "criminal" after a fair trial (oh, sorry, that's something to do with "human rights", if only you could understand what that means).

4. "Not mourning criminals" or not treating them as humans is the primary reason why USA is not compliant with human rights. The reason why it is important to treat assumed criminals as humans is in my point #5.

5. The reason why people resist arrests is because they have absolutely no trust that the judiciary system will judge them fairly. Today, an innocent would rather die than enter the judiciary system [2].

[1] http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/

[2] Innocents are cornered into plea bargain, which is 90% of the criminal cases in USA - It means for 90% criminal cases, there was no formal proof that the accused was guilty. I know, they're black, male, muscular and poor, right!? But that doesn't mean they're guilty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargain

So, once again, you "don't mourn criminals, thugs and people who reach for guns when confronted by police", except you ought to mourn the innocent, the weak and the people who are mugged by police, and you should do that because the police also does it to white people, and you have even fewer organizations to defend against that.
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I think the argument is that earphones could be used as a garroting device.
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The problem is that if it's legal, people will pay for it, which creates a financial incentive to create it.

>I think the "reasoning" stops right there.

Have you read the Supreme court cases where this issue was debated? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_v._Ferber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Williams

See also https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/supreme-courts-child-porn...

I feel like if you're going to say things like "75-80% loss rate" you should at a bare minimum have read all the relevant rulings.
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I remember way back when a lot of stuff was forums.

I think the communities are the most important part of these networks, and even if they all have feature parity, it's 100% fine for them to still exist independently.

I think Facebook and LinkedIn are a good example. You could basically do everything you do on LinkedIn on FB, but the communities are different so they stay different. Of course, LinkedIn accentuates different features, but both are mainly "Walls" with some messaging features and community building.

Though, I think you're very right in that Twitter is its own beast. Namely for the semi-public nature of it all.
Makes me wonder if it is purposely misleading.
I'd rather not die in a car crash, but that doesn't mean I'd pay an extra $10,000 for a car that reduced the risk of dying in a crash by 1%. You can't avoid putting an effective price on life, and in the US it's about $10 million.
> Please show me a source for the claim that they're "implying far more automation"

It is literally called "autopilot."
Lua as mentioned before is very suited to run in an embedded environment because of it small size (both when executing and the actual source code size) and its modules, which makes it trivial to remove everything except the core language (IO support etc).

I'm running Lua on a DLX like processor implemented on a fpga, in this context Lua performs the same role as Basic did on many home computers in the 80's, a small IPL is setting up the machine and loading Lua on boot.
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You should probably read the article before commenting, especially if you're going to use insults about the author.
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