skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno. I still mostly follow actual blogs (Armin Ronacher's is one of the best), even as most people consign RSS and Atom to the bitbucket. I only read medium when there are articles posted on HN from it: The signal:noise ratio on Medium is pretty high.
> Random thought: Why are we communicating almost only on the release of CO2 and not of the burning of O2?

Because global warming will probably kill us before oxygen deprivation or the health impact of reduced oxygen.

Also, this is perhaps nitpicky, but O2 does not burn.
I don't understand mapped vs unmapped io in terms of Hyper-V. Does that mean that io from a user process goes directly to a paravirtualized io device and bypasses the freebsd kernel?
It seems reasonable to me that the major burden fall on the lenders. After all, they are the ones tasked with due diligence, credit rating, etc.

I can ask my bank for a $100million loan. If they judge me worth of that, and then I fail to pay, yes, it is my fault for losing the money, but their fault for misjudging the risk. The lender has the majority of the power in the relationship until the loan is given, so it is in their court to make sure that they do their research.

It appears that the crux of this article is that the IMF didn't do the research, or did it wrong, and badly misjudged many risks and solutions. The IMF had reasonably good information about the situation in Greece, and still didn't see the warning signs.
This verifies my plan to write-in Bernie Sanders. Good idea.
Go ecosystem is a complete mess. I understand what Go maintainers tried to do, but Go isn't like Gnome lib,or Linux core lib where dependencies are stable. And the "just vendor" stuff pushed by some Go pundits is stupid. Clutter or Gtk don't vendor Gdk or Glib. So Go right now is about everybody reinventing the wheel, because you can't write reproducible build with 3rd party packages thus create an ecosystem with Go get. The solution ? deprecate Go get in favor of a new tool that supports at least fetching tags for packages. Project based build Tools (like Gb) work for apps, they don't work for libraries. Glide and co have a big problem : everybody is using a different package manager that is incompatible with others.

The question isn't being solved yet because to solve it seriously it would require to change how the language works at first place.
The key here is we need a culture of skepticism. That's the fundamental core philosophical trait of the enlightenment: not belief in what anyone says (just 'cause they say it or have authority to say it) but doubt in claims until they are rationally proven, and proven again, and proven again. Skepticism builds on itself because a culture where everyone is skeptical is a culture where the burden of proof lies with the claimant. This applies to science as well: whether an experiment is repeated once or hundreds of times, the real measure is to what degree it convinces the winnowing number of skeptics aligned against the idea.
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Has Peter Norvig retired?
One of the issues is that if your laptop goes to sleep your linux container becomes out of sync on the time. To fix this you have to restart docker.
And Dart :)
I don't mean "respect for minorities" in the sense of policies for disenfranchised groups. I meant in the pure numerical sense, i.e, "people who voted for the other guy don't get to lose their rights".

But I think we are just using different names for the same beast. "Liberal Democracies" are "Democracies as we'd like to understand them in the western world".
What are some of the proposed solutions other than vendoring, which tends to be very difficult for large distributions such as Fedora. I was just reading a few days ago about some of the extreme challenges Fedora is having packaging the golang ecosystem.
> I disagree strongly here and see this attitude a lot. It's easy to say "not my problem, you fucked it up, you fix it" but that is a very customer-hostile attitude.

Very in agreement here. Almost without fail, if they knew enough how to 'fix' it, they wouldn't have fucked it up in the first place.

Much of this attitude depends on org structure. Are you talking about paying end-customers? Or joe in accounting 3 doors down who consistently never follows any directions you give him re: data?
I've read several Stephenson novels and the only one that didn't follow the pattern of:

[great, great first 3rd]

[2nd third: OK, this isn't as good, but I think he's setting up for something in the last 3rd so I'm still on board I guess]

[last 3rd: oh f_ck you this is awful.]

Was Cryptonomicon.

The one that did it the worst was The Diamond Age, which followed that pattern so strongly that it made me swear off Neal Stephenson forever. At one point he has to have one character tell us what another character's motivation has been, in a conversation with that character, in a scene that exists solely for that purpose, because there's no possible way the reader could have puzzled it out otherwise. And that's just one of the problems. What a disaster, and what a great first third. Still makes me mad.

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No problem, I'm sure I could have been more clear. Glad to settle into agreement!
A lot of mathematical notation is optimized for hand-written algebra.

One of the main things you "do" with expressions like these is to transform them into equivalent expressions that have some desirable form, or examine special cases that allow simplifications, or examine the result of applying some additional operation.

Compact symbols and single letter variables reduce the amount of writing you need to do for each step of such transformations, but they also make the "structure" of expressions more visually obvious.

Programmers also spend time transforming programs into equivalent programs (aka refactoring), but refactoring isn't quite as important to programmers as algebra is to mathematicians and physicists, so (popular) programming languages don't optimize for it to quite the same degree.
All users of an open source program would benefit, if more companies would contribute to that open source program.

Trickle down freedom.
Thanks for explaining that and for the reference. It seems like a lot of overhead for a protocol that is designed to be cheap...
I think you're mistaken. My reading was that he thinks that rather then receiving the subsidies his companies receive, people who emit a lot of greenhouse gases should be taxed. He's not calling for both subsidies and a carbon tax, he's saying a carbon tax makes more sense and is more fair, because the average person already has to pay money for global warming. Fossil fuel companies have an unfair advantage, because they damage other people's property and the people foot the bill.
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>A better metric

Metric of what? As far as I can tell "bookstores per capita" is a pretty good metric to measure bookstores per capita. If this is a good proxy for something else, that I don't know, but it's certainly interesting.
There will always be people who take great pleasure and submit extraordinary effort to accumulate massive wealth. These efforts cannot be ignored in the prosperous society we have today. We take refrigeration and electricity and indoor plumbing - unheard of for the Founding Fathers - for granted, and perceive those without it as living in extreme poverty.

It is only when the pursuit of individual prosperity comes at the expense and suffering of others that limitations - regulations, taxes - are warranted.

It is a good thing we have a system that incentivizes the creation of wealth. But when the wealthy pull up the ladder, they sow the seeds of their own destruction and suffering for themselves and many others.

One need only look at the history of Venice to see how greed and selfishness can turn a once-vibrant and upwardly-mobile society into a permanent has-been.
In the DNA for Microsoft the company has long felt that it isn't a hardware company and the sole reasons for Microsoft to do hardware are to act as a leading beacon for its hardware partners to follow (Microsoft made mice to help spur the adoption of the mouse wheel and keyboards to spur usage of research in ergonomics; the Surface line explores interesting form factors outside of the "PC norm"). From that standpoint it is unsurprising that Microsoft hasn't seen a need for most/all of the hardware business they bought from Nokia.

Maybe Microsoft doesn't see a need to try to be a "leading beacon" in the phone hardware space because there isn't interesting innovation to be had there right now.

It does not seem to mean that Microsoft is out of the Phone software business. (It may even mean that they've found new hardware partners they are excited about working with.) A lot of the effort into Windows 10 and the UWP app platform has been to bridge the gaps, merge the teams, and make sure that Microsoft can continue to run the Phone software business even as a "low margin" business unit (even with relatively spare hardware sales), and leverage synergies between phone software work and other semi-related platforms like HoloLens and Xbox.
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What are the by-products of manufacturing and maintaining batteries and solar panels? I'd like to learn more about the inputs and outputs, then maybe I can learn a better comparison between fossil fuels and solar.

What are we transforming in order to create, store, and consume solar energy and fossil fuel energy?
> I think we need to foster a culture of honesty and rigor. Of good science. Which is decidedly different from fostering a culture of "repetition" for its own sake.

That is not sufficient. Honesty and rigor is of course required for good science, but it is not sufficient.

Even if honesty and rigor you WILL still get false positives. Statistics is used to measure how likely this is. Statistical methods do nothing to tell you if any particular case happens to be a false positive. For many studies a confidence of 95% is considered good enough to publish, but if you do the math that means a honest researcher who publishes 20 such studies has probably published one false result! If there are 20 studies published in a journal statistically one is false. Thus replication is important.

It gets worse though, the unexpected is published more often - if it is true it means a major change to our current theories and this is important to published. However our theories have been created and refined over many years, it is somewhat unlikely they are wrong (but not impossible). Or to put it a different way, if I carefully drop big and small rocks off the leaning town of Pisa and measure that the large rock "falls faster" that is more likely to be published than if I found they fell at the same speed. I think most of us would be suspicious of that result, but after examining my "methods and data" will not show any mistake I made. Most science is in areas where wrong results are not so obvious.

> It's impossible to re-verify every single paper you read

True, but somebody needs to re-verify every paper. It need not be you personally, but someone needs to. Meta-analysis only works if people re-verify every paper. Note that you don't need to do the exact experiment, verifying results with a different experiment design is probably more useful than repeating the exact same experiment: it might by chance remove a design factors that we don't even know we need to account for yet.

> And I'm pretty sure literally no scientist takes a paper's own description of its results at face value without reading through methods and looking at (at least) a summary of the data.

I hope not, but even if they check out, it doesn't follow that things are correct. Maybe something wasn't calibrated correctly and that wasn't noticed. Maybe there are other random factors nobody knows to account for today.

The above all assumes that good science is possible. In medical fields you may only have a few case studies: several different doctors saw different people each with some rare disease, tried some treatment and got some result. There is no control, no blinding, and a sample size of 1. But it is a rare disease so you cannot do better.
Can anyone eli5?
In that case, macro-economics is simply disqualified from being scientific. It's almost impossible to repeat large-scale events, controlling for all variables. Have to say I'm not particularly impressed with the quality of Nautilus's analysis.
Hmm. I was hoping for things a little more advanced than "how to use EXPLAIN and CREATE VIEW". The various embeddable languages for Postgres (e.g. PL/R, PL/Python, etc.) would be a good topic for more discussion, IMHO.

Stored procedures in a proprietary language are irritating, but migrating a commonly used scripting language into the database can sometimes boost performance massively. (Nobody would have ever used PL/SQL or the like if not for the speedup and hygiene benefits of SPs)
That's assuming that the creators of the self driving car technology don't decide to operate their own network of cars and cut out the middle man.
Even if that's true, they are one auto-update away from adding a key exfiltration routine.
Broadband industry tries again to kill net neutrality and Title II
After consulting with a large retail chain that also has a decent sized web presence, I've found that IT can be an adversary to getting things done quickly. The web team commonly needed new domains set up, IP changes, SSL certs and other related tasks done and IT would take days to complete them. The web department ended using other domains for things like job postings and marketing so changes could be completed in hours.

My guess is when you see things like this, there is an adversarial relationship between departments.
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I'm pretty sure they don't mean that, or they would have said that it was still in Beta.
You don't need all that to create SPA app. it's bloated framework.
For me the most interesting parts are the first (comprehension) and the second (reasoning). The third part "doing of the math" sounds more of a procedural thing, which is important for exams but otherwise very meh.

What would be really cool though is if we could see more details about whar happens in the second phase. When does the correct solutino "click" into place? What happens before (are many hypotheses begin explored in parallel (BFS-like), or does the brain follow one track at a time (DFS-like)...

Also interesting would be to quantify the metabolic cost (in watts) for different types of problems. Does "thinking hard" really require more energy or is it an illusion?
Thanks for the detailed correction.
Speed. Zero learning curve. DYI rather then searching for thousands of playbooks. Sup is meant for developers and plays very well with Docker.
FreeBSD running on Hyper-V (Microsoft's virtualization layer) was slow; now it's faster thanks to code Microsoft contributed (EDIT: or simply sponsored, it's not clear).
Vast majority my arse. Erdogan won the last election in 2014 with less than 52% of the vote [1] on less than 75% turnout and he has only been so successful in his career because of a quirk of demographics. Turkey has been slower than other countries in urbanization and the rural Islamic majority has used their very slim majority to wipe out democracy and institute their policies at the expense of the urban secular minority. Just look at the distribution of protests in the country and you see a very clear pattern: the cities are very different from the rest of the country.

Putin is someone who has the support of the vast majority of his constituents, even despite the hardships and corruption, while Erdogan is just another opportunistic authoritarian who abused a faulty system to become a "democratically elected" dictator. In the eyes of much of the rest of the world, he has no legitimacy and is a pariah whose only leverage is the migrant crisis and the conflict with ISIS.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_presidential_electio...
This is like the programming version of sarcastaball. We'll make up the stupidest possible idea, and then our bosses will find out and think they're brilliant.
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Learn both then decide for yourself which one you like better.
Yea but... the explanation that it was just a bug makes sense.
The idea that there is an organizational conspiracy at Google to make DT not show up in search is much harder to believe. Even if there are SV leaders who don't support him (and I am assuming for good reason), the idea that they A) someone are convincing an entire company to put their credibility on the line and B) actually think that DT not showing up in a "presidential candidate" search is ACTUALLY going to sway some public opinion, are both crazy assumptions to me.

I mean it isn't like people don't know DT is the GOP nominee, why would they see that search in the article and go "Well, shit, guess he dropped out!"
Call me a pessimist but this is one of the main reasons I'm really disappointed about Brexit, whatever the EU's drawbacks.
It's alleged:

>Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar, testifying as a plaintiff to Ankara prosecutors, said while he was held hostage by pro-coup soldiers, Gen. Hakan Evrim, the commander of a main jet base, asked him to speak with Gulen.

>"Hakan Evrim said they could put me on phone with Fethullah Gulen, who he described as their 'opinion leader'," Akar said.

>"But I refused the offer at once."

http://www.trtworld.com/turkey/turkish-top-general-was-told-...
Independently verified and repeated I would add.

After all any scientific test that fails when somebody else repeats it is not science but the domain of magic and religion, so clearly not science.
How about the Earth is warming, we don't know by how much, but likely not nearly as much as we previously thought, and we are missing crap tons of data and understanding about how different systems work.

https://home.cern/about/updates/2016/05/cloud-shows-pre-indu...
Precisely. Cartels don't require a government to exist, and the absence of government letting them beat you and kill you and take your stuff makes them easier to entrench. Some of these cartels may even claim land as theirs and exact payments from those under their "protection". We might call them "barons", say, and their henchmen "knights". And these strongmen might, due to relative imbalance of force, have to swear fealty to "counts" and "dukes" and "kings", and whoa I think I just had the weirdest dream, that ancap is an undisguised pathway to corporatist feudalism. Weird.
I was recently at an applied maths seminar. The speaker had been working on the main "over the horizon" radar in Australia for over 40 years. It was amazing to me that he could map ocean currents with radar!
> may be trying to abuse the legal system in an effort to stifle free speech

I'm not a lawyer... but doesn't this open Yelp up to allegations of libel?

As a side note, I am really starting to be irritated by confirmation buttons that say things like "Got it, thanks!". Stop putting words into my digital mouth!
If Musk only cared about money he wouldn't be spending so much money on aerospace, automotive, and solar industries. None of them are great money makers.
Are you fucking dumb? It's white text on an almost black background. That's about 100% contrast. Have you never seen a dark website before? You must be new to the internet...

If you are using Firefox, they have a 'read' button in the address bar if you have difficulty reading a page. I don't see how you could possibly have problems reading it given that it literally has higher contrast than this website, but...
Yes. A standard insulin pump only has insulin which is designed to lower blood sugar. These pumps would have both. Insulin to lower blood sugar and glucagon to raise it incase it's trending too low.
There is a whole set of laws and regulations regarding it, queue the FTC. That's why we have a consumer protection organization.
having the option to precompile your framework to 20kb file size which is smaller than some libraries feels like a great feature
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I think there is something to do around the concept of a smart mirror, because we have been introduced to many prototypes in last 5 years. It's like people want to have it, people want to build it, but no one is sure what it is about. Maybe it should be conceptualized more like a decoration/fashion item...
Not looking for a debate: Why can't you use it everywhere you could write or compile Go code?
The conclusion at the end is that car manufacturers are better suited to benefit from driverless cars as Uber is not in the business of building or maintaining a fleet of cards. But by that same reasoning, manufacturers are not in the business of dispatching taxis.

I'm skeptical that manufacturers would be that nimble to capitalize on the inevitable. That's also not their business model. Building out such an effort in such a large organization would be a challenge. It would be much cheaper for car manufacturers to partner with or buy a company like Uber.

In regard to Uber not having data to create the machine learning models needed for self-driving cards, they could buy that data or start building it up themselves. Google doesn't have a monopoly on strapping cameras and sensors to cars. And Uber certainly has enough capital required. Besides, this is a core strategy for Uber while it's still a moon-shot for Google.
This. In the end both work similarly, but with React you have to shop around to decide what to use. With Angular things are a bit more strict and directed.
Whats worse is the waste left over after a battery is past it life span.
> the discrepancies shown in all of the above final results have been consistently larger than the MoE in favor of Hillary in 11 of the 26 primaries. The probability of this happening without fraud is 1 in 77 billion

Can someone with a stats background say if this math (and the rest in the first half of the article) is correct?
Most people who identify as libertarian (little 'l') do not identify as Libertarian (big 'L'). When someone makes a libertarian argument, it's generally not intended to be a Libertarian argument, in the same way that someone making an argument based on democratic principles is generally not making an argument based on the platform of the Democratic party.
> Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.﻿

Excellent advice... except that it isn't built that way. The tool that someone else built reads a JSON configuration file instead of a "JSON-after-running-through-JSMin" file. I can't change that. So I either have to build some complex deployment tool that reads config files from somewhere else then copies them over (piping through JSMin) to the server to be executed, OR ban comments. And the second one is much simpler.
What you describe related to government debt is a really big problem. The eco/land use thing is less so, although constructing an administrative apparatus to implement that seems horrendously expensive. So enter Pigovian taxation.

My very informal and unreliable impression is that most libertarian writers ( who are worth reading ) embrace a Pigou regime as a pallative for managing CO2 in the atmosphere.

Some libertarians espouse land taxation. This exploits the symmetry between the role of government as protector of land ownership and how this is to be paid for. Tax land rents.

And I think there's an argument to be made that income taxation is both a poor proxy for rents and very invasive.
SwiftKey user here. Their technology is great. I've always been wary, though, that it's basically a keylogger.

Just checked... crap, I forgot to turn off the sync feature.