skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subjugating people is bad. Outright genocide of massive proportions is even worse. The common factor here is empires, not religion. The Roman Empire for instance brutally killed many people. The Byzantines killed eg nearly all the Samaritans. The Spanish conquistadors brutally killed and destroyed entire civilizations eg Cortez and the Aztecs (who by the way were an empire themselves). The British and French were slightly less destructive than the Spanish but wound up taking the entire North American continent from the natives, whom they either killed by the sword or disease. Same with the aboriginals in Australia and Maori in New Zealand.

True, religion can play a big part. The Ottomans massacred the Greeks and Armenians, together with some Kurdish help. The Crusaders massacred everyone including Christians and Jews.

With Mao, Lenin, Pol Pot etc. you had a Communist revolution that was basically a mind virus which didn't care about the human population nearly as much as its own propagation. Most people died from the collectivization of farms, however many others died from political repression.

So no, it's not just Islam or religions. It's ideologies and empires.

Look today at how ATHEIST China's government persecutes Falun Gong and carries out extrajudicial killins and torture. That's not in Stalin's time, that was a couple years ago. Are you saying atheist governments can't have a terrible human rights record?
Utterly wrong ('76% democrat') for this British 'small c' conservative.
Really, you can't think of any places where there's sunlight and water but no crops are grown?
Not a troll
This website seems to be intended for an American audience. As someone not from the US, it would be great if they changed the last page to say "Your brain is more Liberal" or "You have a liberal ideology" instead of "Your brain is a Democrat"

All part of that i18n!

I come from a country which is considered socialist by American standards, and I find I don't even relate to US Democrats because they're too far right. Even the most conservative party in my country is more left than US Democrats are.
Fair point. I wasn't aware you had to register a full account to start a trial. That definitely seems a bit much and I don't see the usefulness as getting the user's email would be just as effective for conversion.
I think I've been pretty clear that I don't know why FreeBSD users are on the high end of the knowledge scale, and that survival bias is a plausible explanation.

And, yes, Windows users, taken as a whole, do average out to be (very) low quality users. Linux users are somewhere in between. I'm not making a argument about causation, merely one of correlation and probably something about the mean level of knowledge.
I use Feed Wrangler (https://feedwrangler.net) as my RSS-service of choice. I use Reeder on my Mac and on iOS (http://reederapp.com) to get at those feeds.
Certificate pinning does prevent an important class of MitM attacks, though.

I think some applications use certificate pinning when validating a certificate provided by a default certificate authority, but, if you manually install a root certificate onto your device, the app will accept the override. That's one possible middle ground.
It's not really comparable to stan if you're not computing gradients for HMC. Of course maybe for these models you don't need to.
> It seems like you're painting the picture of yourself as a sort of heroic sage. That's alright, I suppose, but it smells funny to my (admittedly skeptical) nose.

Having an online persona called "TaxiCabJesus" led me to make an extra effort. Some of the company's other taxi drivers have gone the extra mile to do nice things for their passengers too. But it doesn't pay the bills. Or it gets complaints filed against you, when people take it the wrong way.

There are around 44 diaries, written over the course of about 4 years. So that's less than 1 a month. For most of my tenure, I drove 4 12-hour shifts a week. There was nothing special about most of my fares.

> In every story I read, you seem to offer sage advice which people are almost immediately receptive and responsive to

The early diaries were a little different in tone to the later ones. Very few passengers were receptive... they'd think something I said was "interesting", then they carried on as before, as I expected - free advice is usually worth what's charged. Every once-in-a-while I'd get someone who appreciated my efforts - these passengers made it all worthwhile. I haven't written about most of them.

> Also... Mitt Romney as a freedom fighter from the future who can help us stop Amazon's Skynet? Okay. Maybe I skimmed too quickly by this point, or I missed the metaphor, but this seems a little whack.

This was mostly written as a tongue-in-cheek exercise to apply the 'skynet' metaphor to Amazon, and to the political system we find ourselves subjected to. Corporations and the political establishment make more sense if you figure they're run by autonomous war machines.

(EDIT: I enjoyed writing 'Humanity's Second-Best Hope' more than anything else I've ever written.)

> But this smacks of self-promotion to me.

'Who Are Your Lifelines' is a public-service announcement that I hope helps people think about who they'd call if they needed to get bailed out. People who are stuck in jail are helpless to do anything to defend themselves.

'Electronic Taxi Dispatch v1.0' points out that the 50-bazillion dollar "ridesharing" company is only selling a reinvented wheel.

Right now this is just about pointing out the fallacies of the status quo / 'conventional thinking'. At the start of my little journey, all I knew was that some things weren't quite right in my understanding of the world. Because I spent three and a half years in a taxi, dealing with all sorts of people, I think I've figured a few things out. This is my effort to share my experiences. It's on Hacker News now because another user here said they'd appreciated what I'd written on Kuro5hin.

Thanks for your comment.
Issues I can see here as an outsider:

Comparing a giant vacuum chamber with a tube. The pressure on the tube will be spread better since the tube itself is so small. No need for huge thick concrete walls

Expansion:
6000 vacuum seals doesnt sound too bad... Just do regular checks on them

Pipe failures:

You could have airlocks every so often to seperate pipe segments when not in use
Double (or even tripple) walled tubes, detect failures and shut down segments and conduct regular tests on segments
Use strong enough walls to resist vandalism damage ("What happens if someone shoots a hole into it?") - Thick enough steel walls should probably do it, everything else is just a risk to be accepted (see terrorists on planes or any other thing ever)
Not like you have to run the thing on a full vacuum either, partial atmosphere would help immensely too and will minimize the issues

"When it fails and you somehow survive the crash you will be stuck inside a tube with a diminishing air supply"

Again, there could be o2 tanks or filters in place to purify the air in case of an accident. Its not like it is impossible. It wasnt explicitly mentioned but he makes it sound like it is impossible to solve and there's nothing one can do except letting everyone inside the capsule suffocate to death and having them stuck in the tube for eternity

I can very much agree this is way too early to say ANYTHING and media shouldn't be hyping it as a ready made product, but please - its not like there won't be engineers to figure all this stuff out before, there'll be countless security tests and measures in place before taking it live.

It's not like they're trying to steal money off of people like the solar roadway guys either (unless I missed something?)
Cold, water, sunlight, no crops, existing infrastructure for moving fuels. Alaska? There's even high CO2 there from wood stoves (Alaska is 4th per-capita).

http://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/state/analysis/
Please point me to models that absolutely need HMC, and I can try to see how Bayadera fares.
We want specialized processors and we have them and going to have them even more, in many flavours. GPU is there, FPGA is on the way ([1],[2]), network IO is half-there (look at Solarflare NICs).

[1] http://www-304.ibm.com/support/customercare/sas/f/capi/home....

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/14/intel_xeon_fpga/
What other personality traits are correlated with political ideology? Are these studies worth taking seriously?

For example, according to the (corrected) study [1] conservatives are higher in "social desirability and neuroticism", while liberals are higher in "psychoticism".

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12216/epdf

Related article: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/436424/presenting-one-m...
I'm not sure Marx would have agreed that capitalism was good, but rather that it was necessary for society to pass through a capitalist phase in order to get to the really good part, communism.

The sad thing is, most people who graduated high school in countries other than the United States know this stuff. Considering the impact these ideas have had on the world, they are worth learning about. I had to explain this stuff to a lot of students when I was in academia, except the foreign students.
Thanks! About the quil utils - you mean get rid of them, or you think that they would be useful on their own? Btw, I only use quil for the sketch setup, the plots are done in low-level Processing. Quil does some(un)boxing, so It would be a drag when plotting millions of sample points.
AFAIK microcode is the big part of zCPU, that allows reconfigure the way how zCPU works internally, despite the fact on precise hardware level it's still the same zCPU.
Companies with outlandish dotcom boom valuations have lost much of their worth
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The Great Leap forward created a famine…

In remote villages bystanders were sometimes allowed to cut the flesh from the dead and take it back home. - See more at: https://www.historytoday.com/frank-dik%C3%B6tter/looking-bac...
Good point! I like the idea of using a wavy red line. Thanks!

Yeah the user interface is pretty budget right now. :) I've been teaching myself Swift and Cocoa programming, and still have lots to learn. And I've been concentrating more on the "under the hood" pieces of Barliman. But I do want to explore new interface and GUI ideas.

I suspect the interface will change completely in the future. Tom Gilray, for example, has suggested using just a regular editor window, which Barliman would parse to find the definitions, examples, optional type annotations, etc. This would be closer in spirit to the XCode interface.

One interface question is how to best specify the semantics for the language under interpretation (for example, "miniScheme"). Currently the semantics are specified by writing a "relational" interpreter in miniKanren. This is pretty low level, though. I'd like to have a much high-level specification language that looks closer to the math for operational semantics.
> Channel I/O-like model where a dedicate CPU manages all that with apps just handing it off asynchronously in a high-level way

Wheels being reinvented for some time now in high-load world. Polling drivers instead of IRQ-on-every-packet-arrived, smart NICs, CPU-pinned queues and processes. Looking at e.g. DPDK architecture, it's almost mainframe type of Channel IO actually.
"real programmer". I have no clue who you are or what is your level of programming.

But I am a product of the school of thought, where the moments you feel like bashing-up your machine or banging your head against the wall while debugging is when you grow as a programmer. The vital part of debugging is understanding what each line does when it is especially a logical error.

I did occasionally train developers and I too followed the approach of not scaring them with the details, but I found the few truly capable and interested programmers among them only when there was an error and they had to get into the details. Now I figure why waste my time & that of the student by sugar coating the mess. Instead of teaching a huge crowd, just focus on the few who will actually benefit and let the rest find their interest elsewhere.

Programming is a mess and you need a ton of patience and willingness to assume that everything you know is wrong and look at the problem in a different light.
Good point, but personally I think it's a breath of fresh air that not only has the author elected to forego the doublespeak on describing this tool, but they also sparked a discussion on the ethics of using it.
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I skimmed the video because this is obviously very childish not really worth half an hour of my time.

That being said, I did not see him perform any kind of rigorous numerical or theoretical analysis of the problem, which would be the first thing an actual engineer would reach for. No finite element simulations, not even empirical napkin math: nothing. He didn't even analyze pi groups involved in the problem to prove similarity between his scale model and an actual functioning hyperloop. The end result is a for-your-entertainment-only youtube prop that has no bearing on the performance and reliability of the actual functioning model.
Yes, my prose was a bit less clear than I had intended. You can oxidize the CO and be carbon neutral or sequester it and be carbon negative.
Thats really what I got out this particular segment. Religion to the individual is more important than the political implications. Theres an argument to be made about what the human mind is more likely to latch on to and what is worth having faith in. But here we see that it is a stronger power than those who try to abuse its name. And that in itself is rather beautiful in my opinion
Wait is this meant to link somewhere?
Difference in this case is there's actually evidence rather than hearsay.
Stan 's developers in particular use it for hierarchical models, but it general anything with highly correlated parameters works better with HMC than MCMC, IIRC.

Michael Betancourt (à stan dev working on the HMC parts) has a pair of YouTube videos which go into details.

That said, I switched to pymc3 so that I could compute logp via opencl more easily and if there were better ways to do this, I'm happy to see them.
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I'm using Newsblur (http://newsblur.com YC S12), mostly through its Android application which works great offline in the subway.
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12180547
But there ARE hierarchical models in the examples. One is 158-dimensional. With highly correlated parameters. Works like a charm in Bayadera.
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Except the Regressive Left is doing a good job proving they aren't all that open minded. The new liberal coming out of college campuses from safe spaces is not open minded at all. So perhaps in the past Liberals could make the claim of open mindedness, but not today. Especially when conservatives are banned from speaking on college campuses, not to mention being banned from social media.
Thanks. I doubt that XeonPhi would be any faster than my old AMD R9 290X, and the 10x price tag is also not inviting.
There are some phenomena which allow good remote assessments of properties, based on various interactions. Cephid variable brightness, for example, serving to validate the expanding universe theory. The stellar Main Sequence gives a good sense of stellar masses. Spectroscopy works pretty well across a wide span of the Universe (several billions of light years). Etc.

Since these operate in concert across the observable universe, and themselves involve various other interactions (elements, strong and week nuclear forces, gravity, speed of light, rates of hydrogen fusion, etc.), we can conclude that either there is no appreciable change in any of the underlying fundamental constants or that change occurs in a compensated fashion such that no net change is detectable.

The second fails Occam's Razor. The conclusion that the laws of physics appear to be similar throughout observable space seems robust.
Motorola has a patent—asserted in the Microsoft case—on a specific number used as an error correcting code.
I don't think that's true. I think there are phenomena like scattering and the diffraction limit that come into play that keep you from doing that.

Unless you're watching one of those stupid TV shows where they make this look easy. Just call up something on the screen and say "enhance". Then zoom in again and "enhance". Until you get the result you want. The problem is those scenes are written by liberal arts TV writers who didn't even pay attention to science in grade school.

It's not real world physics as I understand it. But, as Dennis Miller used to say, "I could be wrong". I'd welcome a pointer to some scientific explanation of how it is possible.
And I promise that there are fail overs, simulations, testing, smaller issues, moving loads around, etc happening all the time behind the scenes. Getting caught out is no fun, but it's a very low percentage of the times when changing the tires on the bus driving down the freeway just goes [mostly] without a hitch.
There was a nice article on the beatport tech blog. I didn't manage to find it when I searched yesterday. Basically what they suggested was applying a low pass filter to isolate the base drums, then count the most common intervals between peaks (basically some kind of transformation) and then reconstruct the BPM from there by applying a range from 80-160 or similar. Hope this gives you a rough idea.

I implemented and tested it and it worked quite well with electronic music.
This was all about disgust and a lot of these questions were about blood, guts and death. So, I guess it would rate doctors in general as liberal?
Appellate courts get to make such considerations, but not the lower court. The lower court judge can say "I believe the facts say X and therefore law Y should apply" but the appellate courts can say that the interpretation or Y or even law Y itself is incorrect and tell the lower court judge to reconsider the outcome of using law Y in that manner given facts X.
it was their previous try. It probably contained legitimate claims mixed with stuff that fit their agenda. Now hopeless, they tried their last chance and failed miserably.
An clever-enough emulator can just lie to an application and say, "You're running on a stock device. Everything is fine".
Absolutely. Abuse of a name that anyone can claim will often attract ambitious people with intentions that dont coincide with what was intended. Jesus is particularly interesting because he practiced love and forgiveness yet people still use his name to justify actions.

Atheism is perhaps the scariest form of this as it often intends to supplant hope with the desires of the state or a leader. When looking at christianity it fractured from Roman Catholic and took forms in what usually best fit fir their specific regions. But the message remained the same and a church likely can be considered a safe haven despite alternative interpretations. With atheism there is no code of ethics abd as a result there is no way to predict their behaviour except with they are likeky to be elitest and insistant.
While the privacy concerns are more than valid, reverse engineering is common practice in trying to copy your product.

Reverse engineering isn't inherently good or bad, it's just a tool. That tool can be used for both good and bad.

I always recommend certificate pinning in order to prevent MITM attacks. I also recommend it if you're backend API gives out a lot of information about your product's "secret ingredient".

That said - certificate pinning can often be bypassed:
http://blog.dewhurstsecurity.com/2015/11/10/mobile-security-...
> That's okay. A procedure that returns the system date will never be referentially transparent, yet such a procedure is a necessity in any programming language.

As long as it accepts a Universe or State parameter, a system time function is referentially transparent. This is rather like how every query in a database can be seen as implicitly depending on a transaction ID parameter.

One intuition that falls out of the Church-Turing thesis is that there is no routine in C, Pascal, &c that has no referentially transparent equivalent.
Here's a few other ways as well:
http://blog.dewhurstsecurity.com/2015/11/10/mobile-security-...
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To be clear, I mean "good" in a relative sense. I mean--like, capitalism, to Marx, is if not a strict positive development, it's real, real close to that relative to the alternatives at the time Marx was writing.

Also, yes, that this is obvious to people who didn't have a K-12 education in the United States is...troubling. But so are a lot of things about K-12.
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Does hyperloop require innovation ? Yes it does. If we just stopped innovating because the problems were tough, we would be stuck in the stone ages.
I have heard that some sites reported a 30% decline in ad revenue as soon as they started using HTTPS. I don't know the reason for this, tough.
Ask HN: How to recover from being overworked in the past?
Let me set the stage. You've worked at a startup for multiple years. This startup has worked you pretty hard, 65-80 hours a week, 7 days a week, etc.

You've left the crazy startup and you've joined a new company.

How do you become "normal" again, without feeling like you're under working or not pulling your own weight?
Why would you want to confirm a transaction before you know how high it is? Maybe the cashier made a mistake and scanned your milk 20 times.
I do, thanks for correcting.
You mean growing trees for wood fuel...
Thanks for this list, the MIT review looks great.

For ACM, I'm a bit confused, for the basic subscription they offer 1 publication (like a magazine) or you have to pick up a topic? They offer dozens of publications.
"The Forever War" was my first introduction to this form of time stretching. I actively search out authors who incorporate it into their storytelling, so I was thrilled when I stumbled across Alastair Reynolds' writing.

I think I have all of his books now.
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They are both the same, you need to remove:

MonadCatchIO-transformers,
monads-tf,
bytestring,
text,
uuid,

I'm testing that and updating the post now. Thanks for your feedback, let me know if that works for you.
Beazly is a genius and a huge boon to the community. Check out curio: his answer to relatively slow asyncio https://github.com/dabeaz/curio
Would love to see this for the US debt
Yeah, Tiny Tiny RSS is pretty good. It's reliable, it never chokes on a feed and it has a decent Android app.

I've been using it since before Google Reader shut down, and I'm quite happy with it.
You need to radically simplify regulation for that to work.

One way is to just regulate banks like any other business without any special laws for them.
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As long as I have my engineering hobbies, I need a house. Trying to do anything non-trivial to a car without a garage is impossible, as is having more tools than a toolbox.

Even so, finding a house that is amenable to my activities is hard :-(
Also, you look the other videos on the channel ? There is a few where claim that "feminism" is stupid.