skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a big element of it.

I'm trying an experiment (and am way behind schedule) at /r/MKaTS and /r/MKaTH along these lines. There's a private and a public subreddit, one for more closed discussion, one for more open. The idea is to build these out.

Using flair, you can get something like the related-subtopic discussion. See /r/dredmorbius (a solo bloggy effort) or any of the big subs with flaired discussion (/r/AskHistorians or /r/AskScience) for examples -- you can look at the full sub, or dive into a specific flair's topics.

A significant problem with Reddit is that establishing these structures is difficult. Setting up post flair -- the names, the styles, the sidebar search, etc. -- is a major PITA. FSM help you should you want to revise the scheme later.

And you're still stuck with the problem that it's not possible to filter out a flair to report only posts above some arbitrary cutoff (you can sort by "best" or "top"), not that the moderation system gives you any particularly good mechanism for doing that in the first place.

Reddit (as with many discussion systems) is a bit too focused on the now and not sufficiently on the good. I'm particularly annoyed that it's not possible to revisit old posts for discussion (the six month comment freeze), a feature of G+ which actually turned out to be really useful.

There's also the whole Notifications dynamic which ... simply doesn't work well. Yes, you see if someone's mentioned your name, specifically, but you can't get a general notification of discussion on a post (unless you've specifically subscribed to it, and that only for 48 hours). That's utterly unworkable for larger discussions, but works well for small ones.
People would vote out politicians that put in place such obvious frustration-increasing measures.

IMO the "solution" is necessarily holistic and incremental. Create a fast intra-city link, and you've effectively increased the density of the two areas joined by the link. If you think about space in terms of time required to go from point A to point B using a given subset of transport methods[1], fast point-to-point links warp space and cause it to overlap. Density is the lifeblood of cities, just as lack of density is what hollows out cities. Increased density means employees and consumers can live closer to businesses and entertainment. Increase the density enough, and private transport isn't required as much.

Anti-car policies aren't going to increase this time-to-destination-as-a-measure-of-space density much. In fact, without something to replace them, they will decrease effective density.

[1] See e.g. https://petertrotman.com/special/london-underground-travel-t...
"> Also - they don't have horrific winters in which walking/biking is a pain.
As someone living in the Nordics, that's news to me"

A) Biking when there is snow on the ground is not something most people want to do.

B) Nordics have pussy winters ... you're on the water and it's fairly mild. I'm from Canada where we have real winters buddy. Weeks of -30C, blizzards, often snow up to your waist. Not only is it 'very uncomfortable' to bike in the winter here in Montreal, on most days it's impossible.
How are people going to leave cities if that's where the jobs are and you can't drive there from outside because there's nowhere to park?

We've already had shitty mobility for multiple generations. We can and should build transit much more quickly than we are today, and we could if we were actually willing to commit to redesigning our cities.

People want to live in walkable towns and cities. People have done so, happily, for much, much longer than cars have existed. Set aside the environmental and economic concerns: studies of show that walkable communities are much more conducive to human happiness. The world of freeways and suburbs that we live in isn't a natural human pattern of development; it's a futuristic dream from the 1950's that turned into a nightmarish reality. Half a century of irrational exuberance over the invention of the automobile is a mistake that can and should be rectified.
But as Haskellers we _are_ concerned about unsafePerformIO et al. -- this is why we have the SAFE pragma.
>Something this powerful

You'd be surprised. Watson is nothing to write home about, it's an umbrella term for various disparate technologies (the chess version is not the same as the Jeopardy version, etc) and most of them are not that impressive in the first place.
Yup. Don't trust the commies. Trust the NSA instead.
You're not wrong about the economic utility of certain languages. However, every language lost is a tragedy. This obituary explains it better than I could.

Marie Smith, last speaker of the Eyak language. http://www.economist.com/node/10640514
Is this true? Probably, I don't know the math.

Do we, as Haskell programmers, need to care? No. If you want to learn Haskell, forget Category theory, until you want to learn the theoretical underpinnings of it. Focus on learning how Haskell ACTUALLY works, not how mathematicians want it to work.

In short, learning category theory will likely help you learn Haskell about as much as learning lambda calculus will help you learn Lisp. Maybe a bit less.
For those who work at corporations with password rotation policies, it may actually be a good way to get creative. This guy changed password rotations into a lifehack:

https://medium.com/the-lighthouse/how-a-password-changed-my-...

Previous discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8015470
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Dan Piponi wrote an article about this: "What Category do Haskell Types and Functions Live In?" (http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/10/what-category-do-haskell-type...)

He says that the more fruitful connection between Haskell and category theory goes in the reverse direction. Rather than trying to define a category Hask, which would contain all Haskell programs including exceptions, "undefined", out of memory, and so on, and then see if there are any general theorems in category theory which would help us understand Haskell, we should do it the other way around. Look at a particular small Haskell program, consider all the different categories it could be interpreted in, and see if this gives us a better understanding of category theory!
and the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fWN0FmcIU
Bullshit: http://cdn.torontolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Transi...
When I participated in the Local Motors LITECAR challenge I believe a good 50% of the entries said "USE GRAPHENE!" as a premise for their entries. Sure, graphene shows merit in a lab in perfect conditions, but when I suggested using organic based composites to rival aluminum for chassis &/or body panels / components I got jumped on for being impractical. Yes, I'll admit I'm still sore about the whole thing.
You're thinking of the Argonne research from Jan, that used iridium to create a closed lithium air battery. They used the iridium to prevent lithium peroxide from forming and clogging the pores of the electrode.

http://www.anl.gov/articles/stable-superoxide-opens-door-new...

This research from MIT is entirely different. It doesn't use iridium at all.

It's actually quite interesting how they solved this problem (in comparison to Argonne's approach). To quote the press release:

The secret to the new formulation is creating minuscule particles, at the nanometer scale (billionths of a meter), which contain both the lithium and the oxygen in the form of a glass, confined tightly within a matrix of cobalt oxide. The researchers refer to these particles as nanolithia. In this form, the transitions between LiO2, Li2O2, and Li2O can take place entirely inside the solid material, he says.
The nanolithia particles would normally be very unstable, so the researchers embedded them within the cobalt oxide matrix, a sponge-like material with pores just a few nanometers across. The matrix stabilizes the particles and also acts as a catalyst for their transformations.

http://news.mit.edu/2016/new-lithium-oxygen-battery-greatly-...

http://li.mit.edu/Archive/Papers/16/Zhu16KushimaNatureEnergy...
I'm not having nearly your experience but I just want to say I'm agreeing 100% to you conclusions based on my experience. We ran at Uni a Hadoop Cluster that had disks slowly dying (some bad sectors every few days, but otherwise fine) and lacked the money to replace them. We replaced ext4 with ZFS (no raid, just plain zpools with failmode=continue) and ZFS ran mostly fine and scrubs kept the metadata sane. Never had data loss (HDFS has it's own replication and checksumming, we just need sane metadata for Hadoop to run and intermediate MapReduce outputs where send to directories with zfs set copies=2) and we only replaced the botched disks that had longer scrub times or couldn't survive a scrub. I'm still surprised how ZFS managed to pull that off. Only bugs I've found where related to ZoL at this time but could be worked around.

btrfs switched to readonly as fast as ext4 (which is probably the correct thing to do) but was useless for this problem.

On new hardware with new enterprise disks we choose btrfs and we had a painful tour of crashes, data corruption, metadata corruption (undeletable files), deadlocks until kernel 4.4 where things got a little bit better. Here disks and server where enterprise class and fully working. Just btrfs bugs. Also no RAID. I'm not doing that anymore so I don't know if any new bugs appeared but the whole experience will keep me from ever using btrfs. This was ~2years ago and you could easily find lot's of slides Fujitsu or Suse that btrfs is stable and you can use it (around kernel 3.13-3.16).

It's probably fine for your notebook or even your backup HDD but don't think you can stress it without experiencing pain (be it corruption, hangups or dataloss) or just abysmal performance.

That beeing said ZFS on Linux is also a far cry from rock solid but I'm optimistic that they flesh out the problems and tackle them in a solid way.

As a Linux fanboy for years this gave me some solid appreciation for Solaris engineering.
It's a new company but it's a caricature of Google or Alphabet and Alphabet has a link to Hooli hidden on their page source https://abc.xyz/ as if they acknowledge it or as a joke.
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Being stoned on pot makes me feel stupid as houseplant. I prefer to feel smart.

I'm not criticizing it for others - do what you want with your life, but I like feeling smart and that's what I need for programming.
Wouldn't a large monopoly just swallow the competition, and the competition would be internal? Its competition between humans that makes companies see success.
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> almost never abuses of power or denial of rights.

Here is the modus operandi of the FBI. They bring a person in for an interview. Two agents interview a person. One agent asks all the questions, while the other keeps a written record of the interview. No audio tapes of the interview are made. At the end of the interview, the official and only record of the interview is the written account prepared by the FBI agent doing the recording.

None of the above is in dispute. Now for the part that you are free to ignore.

The FBI will then interview the same person at a later date, using the same method. They will then comb through the two accounts of the interviews, looking for discrepancies. Amazingly, they will find discrepancies. They will then bring the subject back in, tell the subject that he or she has "lied" to the FBI, a federal offense with non-trivial punishment. The subject will then be "invited" to work off this infraction by becoming an FBI informant.

The FBI does this again and again.

Maybe it's just me, but that's not cricket, my good man.
Maybe can be re-framed as how much has been lost?

If the change is performed, the time gained by absolutely everyone making use of more saner unit system could offset the cost? maybe just by avoiding errors?

This are ideas that has to be transformed in order to be shared with mostly everyone else.

Shameful confession, I do use pounds for weight.
what did you expect from the title?
WinRT XAML is much faster than WPF ever was, it's just that they've started using it in very performance sensitive places where they never used any form of XAML before, like the calculator and start menu (the XAML calculator definitely doesn't take several seconds for me BTW, more like one second, but that's still too slow IMO), and it's still slower than the internal frameworks and bare Win32 calls they used to use. If they were WPF they'd be even slower.
wrk has included corrections for coordinated omission. It is a different implementation, not sure what all of the differences are.
Neat, but incredibly OO focused. What about us C, Haskell, and Lisp programmers?

...Than again, we should all know OO. It's just that a lot of design patterns work more simply using other paradigms and higher level languages. Strategy is barely worth mentioning, for instance.
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I would imagine the gains would be extraordinary - the deadweight cost of interacting with the metric world must be huge. The needlessly complicated calculations involved in dealing with things like fractions of inches impose their own subtle tax on productive effort. And let's not forget the avoidance of occasional catastrophes like space probes doomed by a conversion miscalculation or an airliner running out of gas in the middle of nowhere for a similar reason.

Having said all that, I'm not sure whether this is really on-topic. The original article is very interesting and an example of American measurement system that improved on an imperial precedent.
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Yes that's the story as told by the government and the state funded media like Telesur, your source.

They wouldn't say anything about how the food imports are controlled by the military and the government and how they've stolen more than $50 billion, as admitted by Chavez's former economic minister.
Thanks for all the great feedback everybody. We are still looking at pricing. Obviously with all the signups today we will honor original pricing forever if we do decide to make any changes in the future.
arxiv link at the bottom:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08583
Also missing is how timeouts can cap the latency distributions.
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I disagree, although I personally don't believe in the death penalty. He wasn't advocating vigilantism. American states that have the death penalty do so lawfully, in part as a deterrent.

Perhaps you should have asked him to clarify under what circumstances he would support the death penalty rather than admonishing him.

I don't believe in censoring opinions I don't happen to agree with. I think that is one of the ideas of the original article.
That's pretty cynical of you. Perhaps you should give credit where credit is due instead of attributing it to just PR. Watson diagnosed an illness that was undetected by her doctors. This happens all of the time and people die because of this or live in misery because of it. If Watson can prevent even a fraction of the rampant misdiagnoses and aid in the actual determination of the illness then it's in our benefit to use the information it provides.
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The English system of measure is based on offsets to make retooling factories easily done in house. It's very similar to metric paper sizes.
Look into the history it's actually quite logical.
I just checked wrt and as it turns out, they did indeed add it in the meantime.
Wrt2 was about the only one when I need it a year or two ago. Most people here seem to be working with so much traffic that they primarily care about throughput, but I live of about 300 pageviews/day. With the way that people and google react to latency, it's a good day when I can shave 10ms of every request.

(Can't wait for ruby->elixir transition to be complete. So far it seems to safe about 100ms).
So, whistleblowers would really, really need to be very very sure that some shady behaviour will be ruled unlawful before telling people about it...
The ability to boot from the network has been there for traditional BIOS too:

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

http://wiki.osdev.org/PXE
I think Wikileaks is an important organization that's done a lot of good. I just wish Julian was more grounded and pragmatic and less of a narcissist.

He's been pretty insufferable every time I've seen him speak.

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Radical transparency is a beautiful idea. It deserves a better advocate. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
Of course, just like monkeys picking stocks with darts can outperform the best traders on Wall street.
The price of new technology can be much higher than the conventional alternative. Products, where the higher energy density battery allows for the manufacturer to make the money back through higher volumes or price, will start switching over.
How does one use a binary reverser commercially?
One of the developers here, been planning on doing some coordinated posts about it, just been super busy at DEF CON this week. Happy to answer questions though.

If you do happen to be at DEF CON we're actually having a meet up this evening: https://twitter.com/vector_35/status/762050462195396608
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Appelbaum: So the people blocking adoption of the metric system weren't backward-looking traditionalists, but cutting-edge industrialists?

Mihm: That's correct. While the anti-metric forces included outright cranks, including people who believed that the inch was a God-given unit of measurement, the most sophisticated and powerful opponents of the metric system were anything but cranks. They were engineers who built the industrial infrastructure of the United States. And their concerns, while self-interested, were not entirely off base. Whatever the drawbacks of the English units, the inch was divided in ways that made sense to the mechanics and machinists of the era: it was built around "2s" rather than "10s," with each inch subdivided in half and in half again—and so forth. This permitted various sizes of screw thread to have some logical correspondence to all the other increments. The same was true of the sizes of other small parts that were essential modern machinery.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/06/whos-a...
Based on the size of the app and the interface, it's not native but some sort of webapp bundled with it's engine which means they could have done a mobile website, but my guess is that they know that if they do this no one will download the app atm.
Well, it isn't the 70's anymore, even if you had an IRB that would let you induce burnout in a randomly assigned experiment you couldn't publish it.

I don't see how the study you linked is "hypothesis-based," exactly; it's just an imaging study and thus is likely wrong because of the fMRI bug.
anti-virus development, just to name one...
Don't know about Hyde park, but all these small distance problems can be solved by bike, which is way faster then car in this range. Don't see a problem here, really.
My truck has a towing transmission (SM465) with a low "granny" gear in the tradition 1st gear position. I never use that gear unless I'm hauling felled tree trunks around the property or something like that; it's needed to get the truck moving under such a load. I've heard that rock crawler types like to put that tranny in old Jeeps for precise control during four wheeling, and I can believe it. In that gear, I've crawled up a hill with a moderate load in the bed, with my foot off the accelerator.

Mostly though, I just enjoy the nearly zero maintenance (check fluids regularly of course, change clutch every 10 years or so) that a manual provides on an older vehicle. On newer vehicles like my Crown Victoria or my wife's Nissan Versa, the automatic just makes more sense. It's just as dependable as a manual, and only slightly more frequent maintenance (60k mile service intervals on both cars).
Their argument is that this haircut is pretty much what would happen if they went into insolvency voluntarily. But now they are opening an avenue to redeem themselves and stay operating.

It makes some sense. I don't know whether I think it is a good idea, but it isn't without sense.
What are the connections between machine learning and signal processing
Not necessarily. The (design) collision energy of the SSC was 40 TeV, about 3x the LHC's. So it is still conceivable that it could have found something genuinely new which is out of the LHC's reach. I guess Lisa Randall is getting really worried now [1].

[1] https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23840
>Have you considered how much it would cost to change units, and how absolutely little would be gained?

Nearly all of the world and most science and engineering measurements in the US have managed the conversion, so why not the rest of the United States?
It's been known for quite a while that Haskellers live in a make-believe world where totality is taken for granted, and Hask is morally the category of sets.

One possible fix is to read the call-by-push-value papers: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pbl/cbpv.html. The danger is that they might want to switch to a strict language.
That makes no sense. Why do you think motorcycles are called "crotch rockets"?
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I thought it had been conclusively shown that stress reduces the ability of our immune system to fight off disease. Start looking for another job, take some time off or spend more time on a hobby if you're able. Easier said that done most of the time but you owe it to yourself and those close to you. Hope you pull through.

Here's a link I could grab before the edit window closed; http://www.apa.org/research/action/immune.aspx
I think my case was an isolated one. I had a Java package that wouldn't start in Tomcat because I had to merge trunk into my branch - Was very annoying and made me hate seeing java exceptions with a 100+ call stack.
It's important to clarify whether you mean to change just the units used to describe the standard wire sizes, or changing the standard wire sizes themselves. No logarithmic scale is going to be easy to express precisely and concisely using a unit for diameter or cross-sectional area, but changing the standard sizes to something with convenient numbers in a new unit system would break compatibility with a massive amount of infrastructure.
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EFI was intended to solve the problems with the BIOS and ACPI and the custom module hell but vendors haven't really adopted it so much as tolerated it. They use it to just load their legacy BIOS and ACPI implementations with all the nasty custom modules.
From late October through late May (I am not exaggerating that much) bikes are a pretty bad time here.

Maybe a problem global warming can solve!
Luckily they did give me an offer for an internship. I thought it was probably a strange question to ask. It was in my third interview they asked, after I already passed the phone tech screen and programming challenge. Maybe they were already set on hiring me, and wanted to ensure I was drinking age?