skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure most people would not deny this mechanism exists. The distinction is whether one focuses on this mechanism (correct Bayesian inference) or the various biases and feedback loops described in the article. Personally I believe that progressives miss the forest for the trees: there is a huge gap between White and Black crime that encompasses almost every kind of crime[0]. While I am against any policy that exacerbates this gap, or otherwise discriminates against Black people, I feel that there is a huge effort by the progressive movement to promote an understanding of these subtleties, while at the same time actively repressing general knowledge of the basic facts about race and crime. For example, progressives like to point out that for drug charges this gap could be explained by uneven enforcement (though I don't know if this claim is accurate - the evidence is somewhat indirect) but fail to mention that for most other crimes this claim is not tenable.

And fyi, a very basic fact[1] in the field of criminology is that being black is predictive[2] of crime even after controlling for income and education. I'm not criticizing you for not knowing this since this fact is considered "racist" when expressed by non-experts, and experts only refer to it among themselves, in order to avoid the fact being misinterpreted.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S...

[1] It's not entirely uncontested, but it certainly represents the majority belief in most social science disciplines. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S....

[2] "predictive" is a term of art, meaning that it has a positive coefficient when used on the right hand side of a regression where "crime" is on the left hand side, along with other right hand side variables which depend on the context.
I disagree. I can know various decision behind various designs from reading what's going on github. And i know some of those decisions in different languages other than Rust, which doesn't indicate that I am involved with them.
Some kind of adjacency list combined with a standard container?
Which flaw does it indicate? It seems like there is nothing about the solution that contravenes the design goals of the language.
But widgets do have the same type: Widget, which the author already uses as a trait object. I think he was getting confused by mixing &Widget and Rc<RefCell<Widget>>. Just declare a type alias for the latter, use it everywhere, and it should work. You would do the about the same thing in C++, I believe.
Then why is it classed as a munition? Check mate.
"The Servo team really wants GCed, safe pointer support in Rust, and design work is well underway. But it's going to take a while to stabilize."

Any details on this? GCs and finalizers don't really work well together, which is why I gave up on my cycle detector implementation.
> sucralose (Stevia)

s/Stevia/Splenda/ (stevia is entirely different from sucralose).
> somebody will love even Go
You can open a secured credit card, never use it and after a year convert it to an unsecured credit card, getting your deposit back.

And you would never have been in debt.
But that's not what Clojure did. In clojure, cons cells aren't cons cells: they're a cell that can point to a sequence of some type, and contain a pointer to arbitrary data. They also do not make up lists, and have weird equality rules.

Racket's conses are merely immutable.
There's an element of doublethink, yes. But the entire system pretends to be about rehabilitation. The language is everywhere. Even prisons are "correctional facilities". It's troublesome because it makes it difficult to have a conversation about actual rehabilitation.

Interesting question - why is the "political wordplay" even necessary?
I hadn't considered paying people to fly out, good idea PR wise.

I was thinking more just refusing to sell to any dealership in a state that doesn't allow Tesla to make their own. That way no new sales of Teslas would happen in that state and Tesla could show stats from their stores in neighboring states near the border showing how many people from the Tesla prohibition state are crossing over to buy. Considering this is one of those black and white cases where one side of the legislators(those who oppose direct to consumer sales) are against it for purely corruption reasons, it should take long or be hard to get the public to turn on the idea and demand the law act in the interest of the people as opposed to artificially jacking up prices for kickbacks.

Then again they could just set the price for their cars at one value that they will sell it for in all of their direct to consumer dealers. They should then make ads using this value so that everybody knows damn well that the latest Tesla costs $X. Then they could simply work with the middlemen dealerships but jack up the price they sell to the dealership for so that the dealerships have to charge a very noticeable amount more than $X. Then everybody sees the ads, which btw should mainly be played in states that are fighting Tesla and realize the dealerships are screwing them. Imagine seeing ads that clearly say a big mac is $2 yet when you go it actually cost about $3.50 in your state because your gov't gets kick backs from big beef to have a law that keeps it that high. Again the public will turn since they want the cheap Teslas that come from the official source rather than the expensive ones from some worthless middleman.

Which strategy is better I don't know for sure, but the former is what I hope they do, it seems more respectable and more effective since in the second way the corrupt states still get some revenue from the overpriced sales.
I wouldn't say that 174g is low carb.

On Keto, for example, low carb is < 40g, but ideally < 20g per day. The macros, while different for everyone, are more like 75% fat, 20% protein, 5% carbs.

Your personal macros will be dependent on your exercise levels, BMI, and calorie intake though.
Yet another alarmist article that ignores the fact that China, Russia, and the US could never engage each other in any meaningful capacity without sparking global nuclear armageddon. No, we do not need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fix this "problem."
If actually knowing what you're talking about is a harmful form of 'bias', pretty much any informed post on HN would need a disclaimer at the bottom.

Then again, that'd make it easier to filter out all the uninformed/overly cynical/inflammatory posts!
Apple just quietly announced its next big wearable device
Actually, talking is not the only way. Were 19th century factory workers content with talking? No: they initiated the labor movement and conquered the modern social state.

The fact that so many people talk about BI without leaving their job, raising funds, going on strike, founding unions, etc., is proof in my eyes that we're having an intellectual discussion, not waging a political battle.

The one precedent of authentic political action in the current context, the foundation of the Freelancers Union, was meant to fight for health coverage for freelancers, not a monetary benefit.
Those are all part of your credit score as well. Er, rather any late payments that get reported may be a part of a credit score.
That's definitely true too. Being able to accurately assess whether that need will ever exist (or not) early on is invaluable.
In what conceivable way?

Safe Rust allows one to do an incredible amount of things whole providing strong guarantees against the sorts of problems that plague lower level languages. Since this isn't suitable for absolutely everything, we have unsafe Rust to fill in the gaps in the small areas it's needed. Unsafe Rust isn't "bad", it just doesn't provide the same guarantees as safe Rust. And if something goes wrong, you can at least narrow down your search to unsafe areas of the code.

This isn't the sign of fundamental language design flaws. It's the sign of a phenomenally well-designed language, where the downsides of seldom-needed yet powerful features are limited to only those areas where they're used.
Stress can really put the zap on even those at their reproductive peak. It is a very common experience for men going through USMC bootcamp to not have a single erection in the 3 months they're there. Same story during combat operations. I fought in Fallujah for 7 months and I can tell you that sex was near the bottom of my list of concerns. Sure the number of opportunities were low, but even pornography held no interest. The tales of sex on deployment occur in very low stress environments: Navy ships and mega-bases, between personnel who don't see combat and have ice cream socials...

I imagine a Martian outpost would initially be pretty stressful. Once it becomes safe enough, and the stress levels decrease, sex won't be a mission-success/safety concern any longer. That isn't to say that there shouldn't be a plan in place, but it isn't as big a deal as folks make it out to be.
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Tourists do visit archeological, ruins, & historic sites in the United States. U.S. National Park Service statistics report over 307 million people visited sites in 2015, ~24 million of whom visited National Monuments [1]. Travel & Leisure [2] lists three of those Monuments among the top 38 visited ancient ruins in the world [3]:

#19. Canyon De Chelly, >800k visitors
#25. Montezuma Castle, >500k
#26. Mesa Verde, >500k

[1]: https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/SSRSReports/National%20Reports/An...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_%2B_Leisure An American travel magazine published since 1937.

[3]: http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/worlds-most-visit...
The only real difference between a weak and strong pointer is that weak pointers are less prone to leaking memory (in exchange for the possibility of "sorry I'm dead" being a response to accesses). As soon as you upgrade such a pointer you've created a cyclic graph.

He only way for Rust's type system to understand these kinds of access patterns in a way that doesn't require the insertion of "shared mutability" types (e.g. Mutexes) involves mutating the tree during traversals.

A simple version of such a pattern: a "doubly linked" list which is actually two singly linked lists. One "traverses" this list by popping nodes off one and pushing them onto the other. The user has easy access to the heads of both lists. You could probably do the same with trees but this is a pretty unpleasant pattern.
The fundamental flaw being the lack of a GC?
"Could"

But they won't. MAD is alive and well, no matter how insane it is.
From Part 5 (Doing a demo):

> The stories should roll off your tongue since you’ve done it hundreds of times...

If I were a VC (not that it is likely to ever happen), and if your stories rolled off your tongue, it would set off some alarm bells ringing for me. If the stories roll so smoothly, just how many times have you told them before (apparently, without success)?
It's true, but those two arguments exist only on paper.

In practice, my guess is that it wouldn't be long before UBI is converted a means-tested benefit, for both financial and political reasons.

As for advantage number 2, yes you're not told how to spend that income but chances are that income is far from enough to pay for proper healthcare / childcare / elderly care or well-located housing.

The history of the social state shows us that transferring money to people is not enough: you also have to supplement the market and correct its imperfections.
Indeed you don't need to know much vector calculus for machine learning. Stokes theorem and the like are mainly relevant for physics, but the Jacobian and Hessian are good to know.
> Why hasn't the same thing happened to social security

I think the reason that social security survives while welfare benefits continue to be slashed regularly is perfectly clear.
I am well aware of that and I never claimed it did. I wasn't talking about credit history but about history as in, a customer in a bank for years. These are also factors for how easy/hard things like this is.
Thank you for dispelling the woo-woo.
I'd be curious to read what article is better, so you who search, please share your findings
Pursued it with relentless focus and drive

This is what separates successful from struggling.
The first paying job we ran through our Hadoop cluster in 2011 had 12 billon rows, and they were fairly big rows. This was beyond the limit of what our proprietary MPP database cluster could handle in the processing window it had (being fair the poor thing was/is loaded 90%+ which is not a great thing, but a true thing for many enterprises). We couldn't get budget for the scaling bump we hit with the evolution of that machine, but we could pull together a six node Hadoop machine and lo and behold, for a pittance we got a little co-processor that could. One other motivation was/is that use case accumulates 600m rows a day, and we were then able to engineer (cheap) a solution that can hold 6mths of that data vs 20 days. After 6mths our current view is that it's not worth keeping the data, but we are beginning to get cases of regret that we've ditched longer window stuff.

There are queries and treatments that process 100's of billions of substantial database rows on other cheap open source infrastructures, and you can buy proprietary data systems that do it as well (and they are good) but if you want to do it cheaply and flexibly then so far I think that Hadoop wins.

I think that Hadoop won 4 years ago and has been the centre of development every since (in fact before when MS cancelled Dryad) I think it will continue to be the weapon of choice for at least 6 more years and will be around and important for 20 more after that. My only strategic concern is the filesystem splintering that is going on with HDFS/Kudu.
It's infinitely faster if you have control over the data layout in your application - which most likely means your are developing your application in C/C++, or maybe Rust. In the case of JS you don't have, so accessing and writing the data is slow (since you would need [de]deserialization there to write it in a byte array). In fact any serializations in JS are slower than JSON, since this is natively implemented in the JS VMs while others are not.
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Classical Greece is arguably a poor example for reasons outlined elsewhere in this thread.

My argument against is this: professional politicians and bureaucrats often have a hard time governing a nation, what makes anyone believe the aggregate decisions of the crowd would do any better. Admittedly it'd often be hard to do any worse, but make no mistake we are as, and probably more so, fallible and as easily influenced as any politian.

At least with representative democracy we, the crowd, have someone to blame / prosecute / shame / hang. And we probably secretively want that.

I guess I just don't believe that salvation from our own follies can be found in one political system or another. Politics is a shitty abstraction built on top of shitty people like me, what with my unconscious biases, prejudices, and personal preferences. I don't know what's best for other people, he'll I don't even know what's best for me. I mean, I have trouble deciding what to have for dinner let alone what is good economic or environmental policy for the next x period of time.
Why do you think it would be fair? Are you implying he is biased? But aren't we all biased for our own pet technologies we advocated, use and convinced others to use?

To put it another way, is his argument or point invalid somehow? But then it would be invalid regardless if he worked for Mozilla or Microsoft or Google
Many thanks to you as well as wycx, cperciva, and mirimir for engaging in the conversation. I learned a few things from you all!

I must confess: after my initial comment started gathering downvotes I was on the verge of deleting it. I'm glad I didn't, since it led to such an interesting and informative discussion.

I've seen this fairly often on HN, where someone posts a comment that is either factually wrong, off topic, or just something I strongly disagree with, and then a very interesting conversation follows from that. I make a point of upvoting the original comment along with the replies, since after all it was that comment that sparked the discussion.
Everything that has an off switch has an on switch. Attacks against the power grid are weak because, in almost every scenario you can conjure, the remediation is just disconnecting the network and flipping the on switch.

The things to look for are asymmetries. What is something that is very easy to do but very hard to un-do? What is a very important thing that would impact lots of people that is very easy to do or set in motion, but much harder to un-do or stop?

Look for those and you'll find actual problems. There are far fewer of them and they are difficult (requiring creativity and domain expertise) to find, which is why no one talks about them...
Why is AKS only of theoretical interest? Isn't it proven to be a deterministic test of primality?

Also, what is the fastest way to test for primality that's practically feasible?
Tesla Autopilot 8.0 uses radar to prevent accidents like the fatal Model S crash
I grew up in Farmington. We had a fake archaeological dig at my elementary school growing up, and we actually found some legitimate artifacts, namely some pottery shards.

They also found quite a bit of stuff when the Pinon Hills Golf Course was built.
I didn't say it was noble, only that it took courage. It takes courage to rob a bank.
Does playing Go and beating world champions count? That seemed a creative endeavor to me.
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Ocaml has a GC and supports class based inheritance, right?
"sorry, 'average American' doesn't live idyllic RV lifestyle ."

I think this comment ignors a huge swath of people living in RVs. Most of the people living on BLM and National Forest land in RVs do so as much out of necessity as desire.

Living in an RV is cheaper than living in a house or apartment, and most of my friends who live in RVs are extremely poor; well below the poverty line in many cases.
Why can't regular crystals survive the heat death of the universe?
Not sure about earmarks but for your second point, you're ignoring the possibility of the third alternative, which is really the alternative because superpacs are unlimited donations effectively. The alternative is really no unlimited donations.
I agree also wanted to post it when I saw the article. Absolutely mesmerizing to watch.
Yes once you start paying with your credit card that's not the discussion here. The discussion is how to even get a credit card to begin with.

Being non-american I went trough this and have a pretty good idea on how it works and some of the myths.

I guess some of the confusion is around the before/after a card.
> In terms of frequencies, if the drive frequency is f = 1/T, then this system responds at a frequency f/2, whereas normal systems can only respond at frequencies f, 2f, 3f, ... that correspond to harmonics.

Interesting. I heard it described once that a particle with spin of 1/2 is like a particle that you have to rotate twice (through two 360 degree rotations) before it's in the same configuration. Wikipedia actually has a visualization that seems to depict this reasonably: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin-%C2%BD

Anyway, your description makes it sound like this system by responding at f/2 might have an analogous property with time. Is this at all a reasonable or correct analogy?
A network should be no more complex than it needs to be. If you're not pruning spurious interactions then you're implicitly assuming that each interaction is information bearing. If you're not pruning spurious interactions from holographic networks then you're assuming that they're all functionally relevant. I promise you they're not.

You're also assuming that holographic networks are somehow necessary for most of the tasks we require. The human brain, while having billions of neurons is still quite sparsely connected.
I had the same need, so I created a zero-install, client-side encrypted, browser-based editor using SJCL+CodeMirror in Vim mode: https://github.com/srpeck/encryptedgist
> GUI libraries are an interesting special case

> traditional object-oriented GUI designs may be awkward

For example, Qt has moved that tricky part into a specialized language. I think that it's the way to go.

So it's okay if a low-level language is not designed to do that ancient stuff with pointers to widgets.
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Welcome to America!

I hate it too but I got a student credit card in college and never let it go late. That has paid off many times over the years.
> We need .gov smartcards. Or at least a .gov OAuth provider.

That's not really a good solution either, though, because that requires trust in an essentially unverifiable system and the entity producing it.

> banks should be shipping hardware tokens, for example.

No, they absolutely should not. That's like saying banks should send out staff to take care of signing stuff for their customers, and then insisting that the government should enforce whatever their staff signed against the customer. That's a completely broken security model.
"Direct democracy's historical performance in this respect is abysmal, which is why we have representative democracy instead." <~ I think there have been reasons other than that, which led you to representative democracy. Can you present evidence of the abysmal performance of direct democracy? Well, may be Scandinavian tings do not scale for nations size of the US, but look, Switzerland has direct democracy since 1291, being formalized in the 19th century system of referendums and that works just fine.
> I've read a lot of the scientific literature on human creativity (there isn't much) and it is quite clear that we don't understand it at all.

I don't agree that this is true in any way that precludes the creation of "true, autonomous AI". We may not understand the specific mechanisms of how our brains give rise to creativity and the resulting "implementation artifacts", but the fundamental part of creativity (and I'd argue, the part that's relevant to AI) is the ability to efficiently search huge but structured hypothesis spaces and inductively learn new structure (very likely with some stochastic element involved).

That is something that we not only have an understanding of, but have implemented, more than once. By way of examples:

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-04/john-koza-has-...
http://aliciapatterson.org/stories/eurisko-computer-mind-its...
https://psmag.com/triumph-of-the-cyborg-composer-620e5aead47...
Scouting for Boys is basically what he started out with. He then lived on to nurture the organization into something else. Other life outlooks than his own, including atheism, was never really problematic. Otherwise it wouldn't have spread to muslims, jews, atheists and so on. All of this matters very little however, as Baden-Powell's ideas aren't gospel. The organization doesn't exist to teach hundred year old ideas about how boys should behave. (It's important to know that the national organizations have a lot of leeway in shaping their own program and the BSA is unique in a number of ways.)
Sorry, I'm not sure what you're advocating for. Are you looking for ways to cut the pay of government contractors?
I am out of the loop but since the DAO hack does anyone really trust ethereum anymore?
but since you don't have an expectation of privacy when a third party cloud service handles your data, according to the law, why would you have an expectation of privacy for letters handled by third parties... for example, the Government can legally read all your emails hosted by a third party if they are 6 months or older (http://www.businessinsider.com/when-can-the-government-read-...)