skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The truth is absolute, it's not some fuzzy thing. Your knowledge may be a fuzzy thing, but the truth is not. The problem in the social sciences is that they often ask questions that may not be well defined. So sure, then you end up in fuzzy half truths land, but only because you haven't defined the problem well.

To take a very simple example, let's take "intelligence." Almost immediately we can start arguing about what intelligence is, how to measure it, and so on. Notably, all the participants won't come to any meaningful conclusion because it's a poorly created human construct.

In contrast, the "hard" sciences like physics often deal with something much more clear cut: can you predict the future? If the starting conditions are X, what are the conditions at some time Y?

Can this be applied to the social sciences? We don't remotely know enough about things like the mind to be able to do this. Hell, even in biology the systems are so complex that we are still at the point of mostly guessing.

It's just not the same. Not by any fault of the people trying to study these extremely complex systems of course. Still, at the end of the day we should be honest with ourselves and recognize the differences.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12118683 and marked it off-topic.
In that case we have a problem with the law or the court. We should change what matters, instead of quibbling with word choices.

Rapists also frequently get away with a slap on the wrist. However, (hopefully) no one will suggest that the word "rape" means nobody's at fault.
Doesn't everyone have their IDE turn tab characters into some number of spaces by default? Easiest way to deal with this.
> the largest corporate acquisition in UK corporate history

I think this is BG Group.

Edit: The parent edited to "one of the largest". Thanks!
The Guardian is a scaremongering Remain-ing rag. London property is way overpriced and it's good for the housing bubble to burst - especially in Hampstead and Islington, home of the Guardian-reading champagne socialists.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12118547 and marked it off-topic.
Has Uber Made It Easier to Get a Ride in the Rain? [pdf]
Good point; my bad.
This person claims she got into MIT in 2006 with a SAT a 1430 SAT I (which I guess would be, say, a 2150 or so now)[1]

[1] http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_to_do_everything_wr...
After using https://github.com/inconshreveable/log15 for Go, I become sold on structured logging (read more http://gregoryszorc.com/blog/category/logging/ and https://kartar.net/2015/12/structured-logging/).

I've decided that Rust must have a strong structured logging solution, and so I present: slog-rs. I believe it reached a level of usability justifying sharing with a wider audience.

See slog-rs features: https://github.com/dpc/slog-rs#features

Happy logging!
> typical 20 year generational divide is broken

I completely agree. Born in Zimbabwe in '87, where things (including culture) have always been a little behind - up to and including my childhood including rotary telephones, watching 9/11 on a black-and-white TV and a VIC 20. Keeping in mind that poverty is distinct to debt, I haven't been directly impacted by the debts on the previous generation and genuinely have no idea what other millennials are going on about (although I am slowly warming up to their struggle).

At the very least the formal ranges of generational divides seem to only strictly apply to developed countries.
> You misunderstand. The capabilities ISRO demonstrated today are for developing a reusable first stage (booster), not a reusable second stage.

How is a winged space plane, complete with heat shields and everything, a first stage booster design?
Fiorina certainly wins that matchup at least. Mayer arguably took over a no-win kobayashi maru situation and managed to at least not have it go up in a fireball. But, personally, I'd settle for a significantly smaller payday than Mayer simply to not make a further mess of a company going down the tubes.

Fiorina, on the other hand, caused active damage to HP and had at least some role in the evolution of what at least became probably the most dysfunctional board in a large tech company ever.
More likely in my experience, the senior member feels valuable for being able to answer questions and help others.
Would the following be common risk factors for a child becoming future criminal? Would it not be cheaper for society to invest in this risk children early on rather than dealing with their actions as an adult? Minority report. What are your observations for risk factors? Has there been Social science any interviews of prisoners and their background feed into classification engines?

Classification ideas:
* Bad parents not raising their child
* Living in a poor neighbourhood with lots of crime
* Going to a bad school
* Parents who are workaholics.
* Single parent
* Parent who is in jail
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Yahoo: still no buyer as losses widen to $440m
aha, they intend to keep the ARM HQ in the UK. Well ... let's see what they say in 10 years because you know, once a company is sold, the buyer can do whatever the fuck he wants with the thing he just bought.
When reading the article I was remembering the words of Dominique Vidal, former Yahoo MD Europe, quoted by Criteo's cofounder Rudelle in his book: "Yahoo had everything to be Google. But when we reached a peak of users, we stopped investing in R&D to focus on other expenses. That is the most terrible mistake we did". When you look at Google or Facebook and their R&D investments in non core-business projects, I am definitely thinking that someone got Yahoo's lessons right
The Tea Party didn't get a legislative hold until the mid-term elections, when Obama lost his Democratic majority.
> map it to a double-tap space

How do you do that?
Brexit was partly about the EU's sclerotic lack of democracy and partly about failure to control immigration. Since this touches neither of those, I don't see the irony.
Skift Mentions Custom Travel Clubs as One of the 5 Best Travel Startups
Skift mentions Custom Travel Clubs as one of the 5 best Travel Start-Ups
http://customtravelclubs.com/skift-mentions-custom-travel-clubs-as-one-of-the-5-best-travel-start-ups/
ProtonMail looks interesting as well. They recently added support for custom domains.
Synopsis:

In New York City (NYC), it has been a common complaint that it is difficult to find a taxi in the rain. Using all Uber rides in NYC from April to September 2014 and January to June 2015, we show that the number of Uber rides is significantly correlated with whether it rained. The number of Uber rides per hour is about 25 percent higher when it is raining, suggesting that surge pricing encourages an increase in supply. During the same time period, the number of taxi rides per hour increases by only 4 percent in rainy hours. We then show that the number of taxi rides per hour decreased by approximately 8 percent after Uber entered the New York market in May 2011, confirming that Uber is depressing taxi demand. Last, we test whether the total (Uber plus taxi) number of rides in rainy hours increased since May 2011. Our estimates suggest that the total number of rides increased by approximately 9 percent since Uber entered the market and that it is relatively easier to get a ride in rainy than in non-rainy hours in post-Uber years.
Ugly and unportable code. I can't see practically any benefit.

#ifdef __GNUC__

value = c->kind == Volvo ? ({
struct Volvo* it = &c->Volvo;
itoa(it->x, temp, 10);
})
: c->kind == Ferrari ? (void)c->Ferrari.model, c->Ferrari.brand
: c->kind == Fiat ? c->Fiat.model
: union_fail("Not a valid car type");

testCar(c, value);

#endif // __GNUC__
}
Isn't that the same for Nginx? You still have to compile when you add new plugin?

Caddy is very easy to use. You can download the build with what you want from their download page.

The nicest thing about it is very simple config file, TLS out of the box, automatically renew as well.
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Home ownership is a great asset if you're using the home yourself. On the other hand a car is a actually a liability that depreciates over time requiring inspections in regular intervals, compulsory car insurance and a parking lot at both the departure location and the destination.
I looked at SpiderOak...but their mobile apps really need some work..that's the only thing holding me back. How's your experience using SpiderOak?
I have authored a book for Manning (Java testing with Spock) and was approached like you are (they noticed some of my technical articles)

My advice

1) Unless you are going to write a big hit, you are not going to earn match. You write a technical book for prestige, not money.
Writing a technical book for money is the wrong reason to write it. Stop now.

2)You should really know your topic well. I mean REALLY know it.

3)The amount of effort it will actually take will be 6x the effort you think it will take.

4)Make sure that you have enough free time and you have discussed the matter with your significant other (and that she/he approves)
I have a T440p and dual boot Win10 and Ubuntu. Everything works out of the box, except the Nvidia GPU. Switching between Intel and Nvidia is possible, but for some unknown reasons I can't boot with Nvidia activated. Configuring the Xserver was not straight forward for my use cases (dock with 1 monitor/laptop only).
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Amazon has hasn't had any serious competition in the US for many years, yet it still offers great customer experience.
>Isn't that the same for Nginx? You still have to compile when you add new plugin?

nope. That has been fixed with recent development versions that support loading plugins as shared libraries. For distros, that's very important because it allows them to ship much more configurable nginx packages as now plugins can be added as-needed.
Do you know who owned ARM before? It certainly wasn't some nebulous cloud named "Britain". It was mostly large institutional investors in the US.

You don't buy a company the size of ARM at such enormous expense intending to ruin it.
> With editor support better than ever, using spaces isn't something you think about when coding; you just hit tab to indent and it inserts the number of spaces configured

You mean like those times I would have to configure my editor so it inserts the exact amount of spaces required by the project I'm working on, for the project maintainers prefer 4-width to 2-width or 8-width? :)

You talk about typography but this is exactly what I underline in my article: Your preference is not everybody else's and I personally find 2-space code absolutely unreadable... while some companies adopt it as their internal codestyle.

My eyesight has been deteriorating for the past 10 years and I've had to increase my font and zoom sizes as well as line spacing every now and then. Compact 2-space code truly is a strain on the eye for me. If you're using tabs, you don't have to care about my eyesight, just like you don't care about my font size.
Listen to this guy, he's done wonders with both R and Python. Great blog dude!
Not after twentieth question of similar construction and similarly easy to be answered by the one who asked if he actually read the friggin' docs.

Seniors like to help learn, not to be used as a walking manual.
got a link to a non-paywalled source?
I couldn't disagree more strongly.

I agree that human judgement is often flawed and biased. This particular algorithm appears to be always racially biased[1], and wasn't even tesed for it. Substituting flawed human judgement for systematic bias is a bad, bad idea.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
Of course trade protectionism is good for the protected industries. That should be self-evident.

The more important question is whether the benefit to domestic industry offsets the harm to consumers. Traditional economics would say no and I'd be inclined to agree.
Indeed, column alignment is just about the only reason to prefer spaces for indentation. If you use column alignment, then indenting with spaces avoids the question of "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment."

But I'm with you: that kind of column alignment is harmful to maintainability, and I find it much less readable too.

Some time ago I posted a few examples of column alignment gone bad, from the Servo source code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9469713

and also discussed alignment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9469713

Once you give up column alignment, there's no longer any real reason to prefer spaces, and you can gain the benefits of using tabs. As a side benefit, when you give up alignment, your code becomes just as readable in a proportional font as a monospaced font.

More details in my previous comments linked above, so I won't rehash them here. :-)
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For those who haven't read it, Propublica article on this is even better (and scarier): https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
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> Entrenched companies like reliance/tata are known for that

Tangential to the topic, but can you point out where has Tata been found to have been indulging in that? If I recall correctly, Tata has refused to work with the Government when it required them to do something illegal on multiple occasions. This is why Tata went out of the airline market.
The original Sid Meier's Pirates would ask you when with Spanish treasure fleet or silver train would arrive somewhere on some date. If you answered wrong, the game would still play, but you would begin at a distinct disadvantage. A skeleton crew and a leaking pinnace (the smallest ship) if I remember correctly.
Bigger drawback is that it's bloaty, I have a mix of Chrome apps and Electron apps, the Electron are big (40+ MB) and take much longer to start because they have their own Chrome to open, while the Chrome apps just use the global Chrome instance that's already open.

I wonder if we'll someday get something akin to the JVM for Chromium-based stuff. We'd finally have a single install that could be updated and every app being kilobytes instead of megabytes.
Good question. It's not yet deployed to generator.swagger.io (used by editor.swagger.io).

Will keep you posted.
ever declining.

As someone who stopped his electronic engineering education in no small part because all the engineering jobs ran away to places like south korea in the 80s and 90s. Now the guarantee that the uk will join ttip since uk elites are all for it and they dont have the eu technocrats slowing them down. The only jobs left in that hell hole of a country I was born in will literally be call centers and shop floor retail.

Yup. just a sad day in a long list of sad days.
The tea party was energized by 2008, they had to wait until the next election to take power.
See also: Cadbury's.

Fuck you, Kraft.
It's simple. Europe has no money. The middle class has no savings and the investment sector is far too regulated, confined and incapable of looking at a multi-year timescale.
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Prices have steadily crept upward, especially since Amazon started to branch out into video streaming. Prices have become so bad that I am discontinuing my prime membership when it runs out in 6 weeks.

I am consistently finding things cheaper on any of eBay, jet.com and Newegg. With shop runner from my Amex card, I often get free second day on Newegg. Then jet.com gives second day for free. eBay does not, but unless the seller is in China, I get fairly quick shipping.

In any case, monoprice and newegg are consistently cheaper on their main items (cables at monoprice and computer parts at newegg) while jet.com and eBay often beat Amazon by incredible margins on just about anything. I recently brought a Xeon E5-1670 for only $40 and 5lbs of paprika for only $10.49 a lb from eBay. Amazon's pricing was far higher.

I also purchased various pantry items and bananas from jet.com. They were not only cheaper than Amazon, but they were cheaper than the best brick and mortar store deals (which are also consistently better than Amazon), in one case being better by a factor of 2. The bananas were also packaged with reusable refrigerant packs that would have likely cost me more than the $0.81 each of the two banana bunches cost.

I am at the point where I am ready to stop looking up prices on Amazon because I expect one of the other sites to not only have the item, but sell it for significantly less. If by some miracle Amazon does sell it for less, it ought to appear in a search on Google shopping or pricegrabber.com.

I feel like Amazon has started taking its customers for granted. It is like they no longer feel compelled to compete on price because they expect people not to compare under the now false assumption that Amazon's pricing is good. Getting good pricing from Amazon requires using a side like camel camel camel or price zombie and playing a waiting game with them when the price is high, which is almost always the case.

Also, unlike Amazon, you can often stack cash back sites like top cash back, be frugal and fat wallet with purchases at other sites thanks to their affiliate programs. There are even comparison cashback sites like cashbackholic and cashbackmonitor. eBay is the only notable exception in making cashback limited to a small number of categories at most cashback sites.

If you have not noticed a change, you do likely not do comparison shopping to be able to have noticed.
It didn't, Brexit made it 7% more expensive for SoftBank https://twitter.com/jamestitcomb/status/754966707769315333
TABs vs. Spaces
It's different from the reactor pattern. They raise the concept of an event stream to the first level, which is then used to compose message protocols.
No "high-anything" would mean something very different to most parents :)
Except the EU isn't undemocratic and immigration is good the economy.
The post in question currently stands at 31 points. One quick downvote and all up from there. You are right that for most people earning more isn't feasible. But I wasn't speaking for everybody. Specifically for the upwardly mobile. If you aren't in the position to increase your income then you by definition aren't upwardly mobile.
Isn't it a bit of a stretch for Hermann Houser to say ARM 'sold' 15 billion chips last year and compares ARM to Intel? Technically it was ARM licensees that sold those chips, not ARM.

Quote from the article: "The man [Hermann Hauser] who helped spin ARM Holdings out from Acorn Computers in 1990 also said the technology firm had sold 15 billion microchips in 2015, which was more than US rival Intel had sold in its history."
Hah, those are beautiful examples, thank you! :) The latest I encountered was a few days ago in the allauth codebase, where I found several instances of things like these: https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/blob/07d70fd68c4c...

I remember that page, actually. It's a really good point that code alignment breaks proportional fonts, I never considered it. More points for accessibility I suppose!
Quality of life seems to increase monotonically in the states. The relative social status does not, on average. Considering happiness seems more based on the latter, this seems to be intractable.
When I'm talking about offline-first progressive web apps I'm not referring to something that would load data from a file system.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-start...

As it is though, the API for file system access in JS might not be standard yet (and might never be) but it works well in Chrome: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
If you can curate the top talent and address trust + quality issues then there's something. Perhaps even borrow from Andela's models of continuous training for the talent.
Can Caddy work as a reverse proxy to other backend services? And if so, can I use QUIC for the backend and plain TCP for the front-end? Would that give me any benefit?
How is ARM "our national asset"? It was owned by pension funds and institutions, both at home and overseas. It's now owned by a different, but also publicly traded company, which is also owned by pension funds etc etc you get the idea.

Many people work at ARM, some in Cambridge UK and some abroad. Those people - some of the smartest people I know - are still around, and even if ARM were to dramatically collapse under the new management, they would get jobs elsewhere very quickly. Perhaps they'd join start ups developing RISC-V chips, which would be a net benefit to everyone.
I wonder now if Softbank/Japan is going to be brought into the "five-eyes" agreements somehow, now that they'll have control over all the ARM processors we'll be using on the planet, and thus will also inherit all the backdoors put there for that bastion of British Pride, the GCHQ ..
Never happened in my company.
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almost all tax policies are unfortunate.
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"The middle class has no savings"
=> France saving ratio is 15% vs 5% in the US, so that's definitely not the point.
Pretty much all of Apple's hardware is amazing. If you try and evaluate them on specs alone then sure, they fall short - less RAM in their phones, slower clock speeds, whatever - but the vast majority of people don't buy hardware because of its technical specs, they buy hardware because it looks gorgeous, makes them feel special, and performs the tasks they need it to perform. Nobody ever lined up for a week to buy a ThinkPad.
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Compiling a Go program is really quick and painless! Nothing like a similar C/C++ project.
In vim, adding the following to your .vimrc should do it:

inoremap <Space><Space> <Tab>
Adding to what others have say, in my department the choice would have been a no-brainer for the guy that has proved he can self-teach and do independent research. There's nothing faculty loves more than motivated people that can do a lot by themselves with just little directions from them!
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Making money online on affiliates program
Hey guys,

I just released an affiliates program, though I'm not quire sure how to promote it, I heard posting here could drive some interested people so here it is:
https://thathostingforword.press/affiliates-program/

We don't have many clients so I thought an attractive affiliates/referrals program would boost traffic a bit.

Is there any one here specialised in that kind of thing? I'm really more looking for any potential suggestions than anything else
Nice experiment, but anyone writing such code in production should get his fingers chopped.
> but I don't think it really was elevated to the collective conscious because of that.

It was elevated because of the massive PR push by Theranos itself. I never even heard of Theranos until they did a massive PR push in 2013 or 2014. That, combined with the fact the company is valued at $9 billion, apparently has no actual working product and numerious other interesting facts about the company including it's well-connected-to-Gov (and large) [former?] Board of Directors, co-founder who committed suicide, at least two-large corporate partnerships that blew up (Safeway, Walgreens), etc., etc.
That's funny. I spent the weekend making a Mandelbrot set renderer using the same tutorial:

https://github.com/andrelaszlo/webgl/

It needs a little refactoring, and probably only works in Chrome.
If it is Symfony/Laravel it will not be step back. I prefer Symfony myself :)