skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so my vote means nothing

Illinois has elections for things other than the US presidential electors.
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Glad you liked it. I use a cheap $9.99 1080p manually zoomable camera and a 20 foot USB extension cable routed under the chair mat and up a 5.5 foot tripod to the camera. Having the camera taped to the tripod (no proper mount on the USB camera) makes it super easy to use the tripod controls to pan, tilt, or lock in place. Due to a conveniently located shelving unit, the tripod's legs are not fully spread out, reducing the tripping hazard. A simple loop of paracord and a knot 'secure' the tripod head to the shelving.
"The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgements. Naturally, the machines were destroyed."

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

Seriously though, how is this not the crudest sort of cargo-cult machine worship? I'm not paying taxes to be judged by a goddamned machine. It's crazy. If the people we're paying to administer the system are so degenerate that they would delegate their most essential function to a machine then we need to vote them out in favor of sober, responsible, educated adults. It's like they're admitting that they can be replaced by a script!!!

Knowing what I know about computers, and computer modelling, I'm appalled that people would make, buy, and employ these sorts of "voo-doo" machines.

(Thin sans-serif body font means you hate your readers, and making it grey means you really hate them.)
This sounds so ... American ... to me. I've spent over a 100 days camping in the backcountry (and many more day trips) and never once carried a gun. Only once have I seen someone carrying firearms and it was a ranger specifically tasked with destroying a problematic bear.

It just seems so much easier to just avoid wildlife in most places.
The factors are, in decreasing order of weight:

- Credit card utilization (balance as a percentage of available credit at last statement close)

- On-time payments (you just have to pay the minimum required by the date specified for it to count)

- Derogatory marks (collections, bankruptcies, foreclosures and liens)

- Average age of accounts (this favors older people who have been using credit a long time but not opening a lot of accounts recently)

- Total number of accounts (also rewards a mixture of types - car, student, credit card, mortgage, etc)

- Hard inquiries (very slightly dings your score if you're currently looking for credit, punishes you harder if you're desperately applying to everything you can find because this indicates financial emergency and therefore high risk).

https://www.creditkarma.com/article/credit-score-factors

If you use CreditKarma, it'll explain all this and how the values on your credit report fit in to the averages.
> If you think about it, any molecule that isn't sugar but tastes like sugar will have a similar molecular shape to sugar.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and propose that you may not be a professional medicinal chemist.

Many theories conveniently support your position. Of course, many theories conveniently support the other side. How can we objectively determine who is right?

Well, let's look at (among many, many other experimental studies) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25786106 which is a recent study of metabolic differences between self-reported aspartame sensitive and non-sensitive individuals. Double-blind, randomised crossover study -- the gold standard. Any differences in metabolic profile between either control/aspartame or sensitive/not? None seen.

However, perhaps all non-nutritive sweeteners are not alike. The same senior author as above ran a separate study in a small sample of athletic males where aspartame in addition to carbohydrates resulted in lower insulin response during exercise: https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1550-2783-9...

Meanwhile, and in a different (grossly obese, NNS-naive) population, sucralose (Stevia) appeared to do the opposite: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/30/dc...

> Many of these questions can be answered without slow, hard science

Sure, if we don't care whether the answers are credible.

Proof by analogy is fraud. If we didn't need evidence to make decisions we wouldn't bother accumulating it.
I end up trying to reimplement the whole notebook from scratch, deleting all the code cells from the original notebook.
The BBB is not a government agency, it is a private company that works for large businesses. Members of the BBB (such as Comcast) can pay the BBB to mark complaints as resolved, without resolving them.
Thousands of customers, millions of rows, 0 DB issues. All bugs are mine. And the damn thing even does JSON querying now.
"I personally don't vote because I live in Illinois so my vote means nothing."

So you only vote in presidential election years, and only fill out the ballot for the presidential candidate? I think you might be doing it wrong.
The problem is of course that these decisions have to be made consistently across the country, and the banks don't want to try on the "gut feel" of some random bank manager. Of course the system/criteria could be improved, but wanting consistency is not surprising.

Anyway, I had a similar issue with car loans when moving to the US. I've since realized that it's pretty trivial to increase your credit score if you pay a small amount of attention to it. Simply sign up for credit karma, get a few no annul fee credit cards, and put a small purchase on them every few months so that they don't get closed due to inactivity. Within 12 months your credit score will be stellar.
annualcreditreport.com takes you to the credit bureaus' websites, which themselves have the problem he's talking about.
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A 48-bit size_t like I suggested could address up to 256TB of RAM. All modern x86_64 cpus are limited to 48-bits of address space, you're not losing any portability here.

Also consider my strlen example. Say you compute strlen by iterating through the whole string until you find a 0, then you return a size_t for the number of bytes you iterated through. That operation is O(n) in the length of the string. If you were to use my strlen function on a string whose length is greater than would fit into a 32-bit integer, say a 1TB string or something, then the function would take so long to compute it that it would be useless. To be efficient, you'd probably have to redesign your program to do some special things to handle 1TB strings, maybe some special algorithms, or some kind of indexing. Returning a 64-bit integer type does not mean that the function can actually handle working with 64-bit sized quantities. So if you have a lot of datastructures where you keep string length, why store them as a 64-bit size_t when your application would be completely unable to handle strings of that size without keeling over?

Of course you wouldn't really use a 48-bit size_t, because x86_64 cpus don't work well with 48-bit quantities.
I recently evaluated the two and went with FlatBuffers, largely because its Java support appeared to be more mature.

The FlatBuffers encoding is based on vtables and is relatively straightforward (the runtime library is tiny). This also means it's inefficient for small messages, but in my testing its vtable deduplication worked great for my use case (~100k messages of the same type per memory-mapped file), in that the vtable overhead tends quickly to zero.

Cap'n Proto has a more complex encoding that is probably more efficient in terms of wire size, and particularly for small/standalone messages, but the runtime is larger as a result.
How Apple impact environmental other than negatively?

- Need to replace battery? Poof, new phone.

- Need to replace screen? Poof, new phone.

- Need to replace... ANYTHING? You guess it, a new frackin phone!

How the hell is this environmental friendly? (obviously enough, I'm talking about the _official_ solution of these issues; I'm aware that you can change mostly anything)

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PS: long time iPhone user here; next phone(s) will surely be another iPhone.
Hey thekevan,

Thanks for the feedback. I agree that these are pretty major caveats. Hopefully you still found it interesting or useful.

This is my first public release of this visualization and I plan to keep improving it over time. If it were a traditional software project I would probably categorize it as 'beta.'

I've been spending a lot of time working on this in my free time and was curious whether it was something people would even be interested in.

Seeing the positive feedback on HN and other sites has inspired me to put a larger focus on solving these problems as well as adding new features. (Analytics are showing about 1500 people have viewed it since I began sharing it a couple hours ago. Thanks everyone!)

EDIT: up to around 4,500 hits as of 12:50 PST
The latest versions of office support open XML formats(docx,xslx etc) which are XML files basically. It's not mentioned in the article but using open XML SDK is the supported way for working with office docs
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/bb448854.asp...
A lot of problems in Rust seem to involve replacing (smart) pointers with handles. Sometimes you really do want to do that, but it's bad if it's a necessary kludge.

Like someone else said recently, it's a problem if you can't reasonably teach a basic computer science course in Rust.
Here is the stanford cs229 course, which is a proper deal more in depth: https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS229
> Compulsory voting is incredibly important, because it ensures that everyone is represented.

So let's assume that voting in compulsory in the US this year, and everyone actually shows up to vote. After the election, results come up:

XX% Clinton
YY% Trump
Z% Johnson

The results obviously would be different if voting haven't been compulsory. That would be:

AA% Clinton
BB% Trump
C% Johnson

I fail to see how this ensured that everyone is represented.
> inter dimensional travelers

I hate this name guts. Where those travelers came from? From the width or from
the length?
This was a super fun read, and it felt nice to take the time to carefully read it to understand the very complex processes it was describing.

That said, can someone explain how the pigtail accomplishes the following?:

> "The crystals grow in a straight line in the direction that the mould is being withdrawn, but because of the pigtail’s twisted shape, all but the fastest-growing crystals are eliminated."
Nice building, looks very Scandinavian/danish to me for some reason :)
Anything by Charlie Stross, especially Accelerando (great futurism)

Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz (reading this book WILL make you feel like you're on drugs)
no what djrogers says is that the Democrats will never move it to sunday, or make it a holiday, because (rightly) that's terrible for a lot of people who work shift jobs and work in the service industry.

You should be careful - your presumptions of fairness betray your own privilege in a way that make hypocrisy of your own political predilection.
> This is why it's easy to lose the ability to produce something e.g. the big rockets that NASA used to make.

IIRC, to avoid this when they shut down F-22 production, they crated a huge number of DVDs documenting every step of the manufacturing process, so that knowledge wouldn't be totally lost.
> It's absurdly backwards because it's asking you to create debt which normally is the opposite of showing you are good with money

Citation required because debt is not the same thing as money, so associating them together like you do with your assertion requires something more than just your illogical statement.
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> Ok, poor example, and I made it up.

Why does this not surprise me?

Outside of mathematics, there really isn't anything resembling proof. There is the weight of the evidence, and the weight of any substantive critiques of bias in said evidence. That's about it.

> But there are many research articles out there that look impressive because of all the tools they throw at the problem. Under the surface these studies are bunk.

On this we can certainly agree. However, the replacement for a bad study is a well-designed study, not some statistical hocus pocus (1) or "going by your gut".

If your position is sound, there will (at some point) be someone bold and independently-funded enough to torpedo the status quo with a properly designed experiment. It may not happen as fast as you'd like. But there is nothing that academics like better than turning their rivals' sacred cows into hamburger. Of this I can assure you.

(1) I am a statistician, both professionally and by graduate training. I have no qualms about dismissing poorly designed studies regardless of post-hoc jiggery-pokery. A shiny autopsy won't reanimate the corpse of a dead experiment.
It sounds like you are at least ten years out of college. Federal regulations have changed and now it is more difficult for a college student to access credit cards
I hadn't heard of DedupePlugin for Webpack, but it strikes me as a potentially dangerous idea. If there's enough duplicate code that using this plugin actually makes a meaningful difference, then I think you have bigger problems.
I think "accessible" was the important part of that comment. People with limited mobility may not have the privilege of having a pee outdoors; at least, not comfortably.

While I love to hike, including way off the beaten path, it's worth recognizing that not everyone is able-bodied enough to take advantage of those aspects of our parks. So, it's totally cool that National Parks provide a means for folks with limited mobility to safely see some of our nation's most beautiful places. And, it's a valid reason to visit the obvious parks rather than going off on your own in lonely places.
While disclaimers are common (for some reason), it has no effect on the virtue of his points.

It's just fluff.
>Ultimately that means cheaper stuff and higher wages.

There are bunch of historical examples where this does not hold true. It has been relatively common that the "new colony" pays all the taxes while the mother country reaps all the rewards. This was the case with UK occupying Ireland, Soviet union occupying Estonia, Germany occupying France and northern Italy occupying kingdom of Sicily. Only exception that comes to mind is east Germany, but there is exceptionally strong cultural affiliation.

You should be able to gain all the positives with free trade. Without any of the negatives.
The opposite, actually.

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/30/dc...

Beware of small sample sizes in these sorts of studies. Until you get up into the hundreds or thousands, I personally would expect regression to the mean. Just FYI.
I think pcwalton's extensive knowledge on not just how to program in Rust, but the rationale behind various design decisions should indicate to a careful reader that he is involved in Rust.
I've never had any issues with it myself.
Not to take away from the engineering marvel that these parts and process represent, but the timing of this article is interesting - seems PR related. I recently read about problems ANA faced with Rolls Royce engines, specifically the turbine blades failing. There have been at least 3 incidents of engine failure, flights have been cancelled an all 787 engines have to be retrofitted with new blades.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ana-rolls-royce-hldg-boein...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-05/ana-said-t...
Though sometimes nicely written, nautil.us articles basically always disappoint in terms of actual substance. Not sure why they're on the frontpage of HN so often.
Its an interesting question. One reason is Wolfram is extremely talented at language design, which is necessary to build an artifact of this size without self-immolating. Another is that it is a commercial company following a plan. A third is that few people have learned the lessons of Mathematica enough to apply them.
Credit scores are not a charity mechanism; they are a way of estimating someone's default risk. People with low credit scores don't get high loan rates because their credit scores are low; they get high loan rates because they're probably extremely risky borrowers. If you want to help poor people, the way to do that is not to ask banks to take on irrational risk for no good reason. In fact, making loans more accessible to people who are in bad debt might actually be actively bad for them.
You can usually make up a bunch of conflicting stories about how some chemical will affect the body. For example, I could claim that there is an evolutionary basis for the body to assume that the taste of sugar means that food has been successfully obtained, and to react by being less conservative with calories, and reward us with a dopamine rush. Sounds like a great time to exercise!

Anyway, we can be lost in a sea of doubt with all our pet theories, or we can look at the available evidence.
They don't care if you're "good with money". They care that you can demonstrate a habit of making payments on time.
Mark has a bit of an agenda. He is not nearly as full of shit as many others (to include many in academia) but he nonetheless has a financial conflict of interest due to the way he makes a living. I'm not saying he is wrong, but I am saying that you must think critically in the presence of COI.
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> Also, how Ukraine, out of all countries?

I think the Soviet Union physically based a good chunk of its military industry in Ukraine, which the country then inherited when it became independent. So when we talk about Ukraine in this context, we're talking about a former superpower.
Paul, I made something similar - http://bardagjy.com/?p=1639

I had the same problem with Javascript so I used I used Selenium to drive Chrome to take a screencap of the page. Then I used K-Means clustering with EM to convert the pages to their constituent colors.

I scraped 100 and 1000 of the Alexa top 1M. Cool to see another approach, great work!
I really wonder why farmers don't run their equipment on biodiesel or bioethanol.

(Actually, the answer is bloody obvious. Admittedly somewhat off-topic, too.)
ESPN Fantasy Football Data Down on Opening Sunday
It may not have a huge following on HN, but this is a big time outage affecting millions of people. It was reported in 2015 that 75 million people play fantasy football, 54% of which are on ESPN.[1]

Their new mobile apps already received the obligatory push back, when they rolled it out, but this opening failure has made it much worse. For over an hour all of their fantasy systems have not had data available, and they've yet to make any kind of status update or comment.

1. http://nypost.com/2015/09/05/nearly-75m-people-will-play-fantasy-football-this-year/
I don't think it's correct to criticize your line of thinking as "heretical", but I would criticize it for being overly simplistic to how policing works in the real world.

For easy starters, as the OP itself mentions, while the people (via government) define what is unlawful behavior, the incidence of crime is defined by police, who choose to observe and act on alleged law-breaking.

The obvious example are things like rape. When Baltimore's number of rape cases dropped 80 percent in a 15 year period, was it because Baltimore city had made stopping sexual assaults a priority? [0] When Florida police claimed that a viral video of an excessively-speeding off-duty cop was just an anomaly, and according to their traffic stats division, the number of police officers who speed (outside of work) is far, far lower than it is among the general population, who could argue otherwise? [1]. And what should we make of a department that disagrees with the non-harshness of its own audit on felony statistics? [2]

But even if we move on to crimes of a more concrete nature, such as homicide and shootings, the case that the OP argues is that predictive measures that aim to interdict these serious, unambiguous crimes not only are questionable from a civil rights impact, but seem to fail at having a significant impact in the crime rate.

We don't even have to think about particularly sophisticated models: the NYPD justified its stop-and-frisk policies, which disproportionately targeted blacks, on the generally agreed upon assumption that blacks make up a disproportionate number of suspects in criminal cases. The Adrian Schoolcraft tapes [3] revealed how the department's unquestioning interpretation of data that, regardless of the validity of the foundational statistics, resulted in extremely unfair quotas, the kind of practices that make obvious the NYPD's unwitting collaboration with the black population to create a culture that is hostile towards police.

(And how is Officer Schoolcraft doing? He recently settled a lawsuit against the NYPD for committing him to a psych ward under false pretenses. [4])

But hell, let's think of the most accurate and simple-to-explain crime-detecting algorithm there is: red-light cameras and radar guns. I'll assume I don't need to provide citations for how this form of policing has been criticized over the years, or how the loudest critics aren't all just black folks, as it's pretty easy enough to find stories and documentation via Google.

[0] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-city-rapes-gal...

[1] http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2013

[2] http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-lapd-audit-assaults-20...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/stop-and-frisk-policy-n...

[4] http://gothamist.com/2015/09/30/whistleblower_cop_adrian_sch...
I spent a couple of years in Beijjg. I think most Chinese people in major cities are fully aware of the brainwashing goal and agendas of the media and would even consider CCTV1 to be funny. Young people create memes and satires on news content all the time. The thing is, CCTV1 has quite literally evolved into its own genre and it is therapeutic to listen to when you feel unsatisfied with your life.
This is the under-reported story of the year. Everyone's heard their share of conservatives screaming bloody murder about all the Syrian refugees coming into the country, but when you find out who is bringing them here, guess who it is! Those same people's churches!

The Southern Baptist church community has two options regarding Syrian Muslims (who happen to make up over 98% of these refugees), and no third:

1) They either believe the propaganda that Islam breeds terror, and are knowingly importing potential terrorists in the country, then cutting them loose after only three months, therefore putting their fellow Americans' lives at serious risk for their religious mission,

2) Or they are knowingly supporting a presidential candidate who has built his campaign on unjustly spreading fear and hatred against the very same "sojourners" they are claiming to "minister" to!

The hypocrisy is stunning.
> what IS the idiomatic Rust way to do a cyclical directed graph?

That's a great question! So, uh, what is the answer?
No, pretty recent. After the regulation change.
In South Africa, elections day is always declared a public holiday. Only essential services workers like healthcare, military etc work on that day. Essential services workers vote before elections. Rest we get a day off. But then again, some people still abstain from elections.
This brings to mind how quantity will always beat one super power.

Example one bee will not kill a large predator but a swarm will.

One termite is joke but thousands will bring down a house.

I suspect one antibiotic will never beat bacteria in the long run.
Looks to me like it's a never ending battle. I hear about the post antibiotic era like we had won the war at one time. What we won was a battle in a never ending war.

We hear about technology fixing all and jobs ending. Here's an area where there will always be a need for research and solutions.
Dolphins recorded having a conversation 'just like two people' for first time