skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a common case in helpdesks I've collaborated with to fix corrupted Excel files by opening them in LibreOffice and resaving them to Excel. Also, Excel's practice of munging CSVs requires an initial read in LibreOffice sometimes and then saving to Excel when Excel simply can't handle the file format.

LibreOffice is slow but it is often more correct.

Update: Over the years, it seems to me that the MS formats are incented to be as incompatible as possible with other formats to lock folks into their format. It enables them to say that they are the most "compatible". . . but it really means the most "ability to read their own format" even though compatibility is better across the board with alternatives.
A great paper if you haven't already seen it:

https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/A%20History%20of%20M...
When we had to choose a few months back, we picked Cap'n Proto over flatbuffers mainly over the fact that we liked the API better. I couldn't retrieve my notes from back then so I sadly can't point out. In any case, we never looked back.
Of course they are. People continuing to get diabetes is how they get funding for their organization.
Hope you don't plan on using the ones in the box with any non-apple product (or even any apple product without a lightning port)
I live in a rural area, so I'm used to seeing the Milky Way at night. But the night sky at Chaco Canyon still blows me away.
>Keep the BSofA for the people who want that sort of thing

Things like

>Selecting a campsite, leaving no trace when you leave, water purification and management, building and containing campfires, land navigation with a map and compass, how to safely use a rifle, knife use and maintenance, first aid... I learned all of these as a kid.

I suppose.
You can get 128GB DIMMs these days, so 2tb is easy to fit in memory. 130tb, yes that's a different story.
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It's not just rebuilding engines it's returning their weight that's a problem. The high temperatures are a result of pressure not friction. A smaller and or less dense craft has a vastly easier time during reentry.

A shuttle actually works fairly well at around 1/5 the size. Lower thermal stress means no tiles. It would have a single ideally swappable engine large on board fuel and no external fuel tank. Still needs SRB's but those actually work fairly well.
I found your comment constructive and I don't want to start an off-topic debate, just open something up to private contemplation. You, of course, have a right to your own opinion.

Many (all?) libertarians lean left on a great many social issue and consider the social part of libertarianism as important if not more important than the right leaning economic part. I think the term "libertarian right" while not an incorrect term at face value -- there are in fact right leaning Libertarians just as some Democrats are further left than others -- is miss-leading and can potential lead to misconceptions about Libertarians as similar to Republicans. I for one share much more in common with the Democrats but I am very definitely a Libertarian.

I think many of us would prefer you just use the term Libertarian and leave off left or right.

Edit: or perhaps if you were in-deed referring to the conservative party, add some clarity and say "Republicans that lean Libertarian"
"abs are made in the kitchen" is a silly thing to say. If people just follow it blindly they will be disappointed
That risk is sorta what I was bringing up: if it only counts the top person then people have to vote strategically and hence will not be voting in the same manner as in IRV so we still wouldn't know who would have won by IRV.
Because there is none as far as I know.
Or just use bleach.
This particular aircraft ain’t economical by today’s standards.
Here’s some comparison to a popular modern cargo plane, based on public data: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AKpTxXHPN4XIj9tN

As you see, fuel economy is somewhat worse compared to that Boeing.

I don’t think the main problem is size or weight. I think the main one is age. AN-255 is 30 years old, Boeing 747-8 is 6. That’s almost 25 year or progress in aerodynamics and engines development.
High desert, like much of New Mexico. Chaco Canyon is at 6200 feet.
I live in the SW (in the Rockies), which is the summer home of many RV-ers. At this point in the year, many people put their RVs up for sale. Just this weekend, I saw 3 used RVs that looked to be ~10 yrs old (1 looked 3 yrs old). All were about ~30ft in length w/ the side slide-outs that allow for more room. I'd check craigslist in these RV-heavy areas first.
Agreed - The arrogance in the article really turned me off to what might have been some valid points. I read it as: "You simpletons don't have a clue. I know the answer to all the problems". This guy is probably a real "joy" at cocktail parties.
> My favorite high-tech product marketing book was written in the 1980s...

What book are you referring to?
Agree but for clarity "people" = "people far from the equator". If your ancestors are from those sugar islands it's a bit different.
https://github.com/movitto/omega

A physics/universe simulator, space RTS in Ruby. Would like to continue developing it at some point but am focusing on other priorities
> But it is not yet clear that the disruption of the auto industry will lead to the shuttering of dealerships the way digital sales of music and books led to the death of record stores and bookstors.

This is a completely unfair comparison. Book and music stores were everything dealers were not. They had marked and easy to understand prices. They were knowledgable and interested in spreading knowledge about their product. And they were very low pressure. They just couldn't compete on price.

Dealerships can go burn in a fire as far as I'm concerned. They hustle you with information asymmetry and use high pressure sales tactics. And they provide no value for information or knowledge. They exist solely to skim as much money as possible from a sales transaction that they provide no value to.
This misfeature is also locale dependent. It's impossible to know how your customer's Excel will behave, unless you test every possible localization.
Every app, for some unexplained reason, wants full access to my phone. This is a huge security/privacy problem for me. I think web apps can solve this problem.
My dream would be to create something used and enjoyed by a lot of people
There have been multiple comments here calling out drinking specific quantities of water.

I am not sure about the scientific validity of the advice and hence not going to comment on that.

But what I do have realized is (atleast is my case) often we mistake thirst signals from our body for hunger signals or rather as cravings and grab a snack. This idea was suggested in one of the n number of resources I read online about weightloss, so I am not able to cite the exact article.

Consciously noting craving signals and just substituting water often made the cravings go away. When it doesn't, obviously I am hungry :)

Now we are venturing deep into the land of extrapolation. So, take this with a huge grain of salt. I suspect that in our hunter gatherer days (or earlier0, water was not readily available at hand. So humans, then, would have depended on fruits and leaves as a source of water as well as food. Hence why atleast some of get our hunger and thirst signals mixed up ;)
I was in body pump class, and the instructor said 'show us those guns'. after class, one of the attendees told the instructor they were pro gun control and were offended by his comments, and asked that he didn't say it anymore.
Tyler Rogoway (formerly of Jalopnik's FoxtrotAlpha and now writing for TheDrive.com) had a take on China's goals(1). He seems to think that the plane's ability to act as a launch craft is a notable. I've found Rogoway to be a pretty good source of digestable and non-sensational military tech info.

1. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/5083/why-china-wants-to...
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Can you post some kind of evidence to support what you are saying? Because I have done keto (under 30g net carb a day until your body enters ketosis) while doing an exercise routine and after the first week or two to adjust, found no problems with energy levels.

The downvotes come because you are making assertions that have no medical support.
I recently had occasion to compile a table of general election turnout for different countries, the results may surprise you:

Austrailia	91%

Brazil	78.90%

Britain	66.4%

Canada	68.3%

Finland	70.1%

France	79.48%

Germany	71.5%

India	66.3%

Israel	72%

New Zealand	77.90%

Russia	65.25%

United States	54.9%
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In your experience, what personal characteristics, educational background or personal trait did successful individuals have?
>On one side, it's economically unsound

Actually, it is more economically unsound to maintain poverty in the midst of plenty (i.e, in the US there lies ~6 empty homes for every homeless person), if you consider the external effects. Poverty inevitably leads to violence, drug abuse, disease, overpopulation, war, and other erratic behaviors.

How much more do we spend on bureaucracy in vain attempts to mitigate these resulting effects? Prevention is far more cost effective than maintenance in this case.
Some back of the hand calculations show it would take about 3 days using the article's method and a 2gbit pipe.

Out of curiosity, how long do you take to process 130tb on hadoop and where/how is the data stored?
They can still test drive at one dealership and buy at another.
Fair enough! I was just surprised by the ending - I agree with most of what you wrote though, and I enjoyed reading the article.
This idea was the subject of a paper at a major systems conference. The paper is called "Scalability! But at what cost?" - It goes well beyond this simple example above to explore how most major systems papers produce results that can be beaten by a single laptop. Here's the paper and the blog post describing it.

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/assets/COST.pdf

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...
robots are far from doing art interesting to us, but what's exaggerated? "singularity" is only mentioned in the title...

We would need to define interesting art too though. Robots can draw likable patterns and flowers, just not the more intellectual or personal stuff.

For my personal definition of interesting art: most anyone can do it, even some robots, but only few can do it on purpose. Like the difference between accidental, surreal moments in strangers conversations and the dialog in a Kaurismäki movie.
Personal experimentation is great. Try and see instead of following bad science and dogma.
Well, that's one way to solve the problem. However, I think your "religious right" could maybe be convinced to fund space missions to support the survival of the first whoopsie space baby. Some of the major churches pull in a billion/week. A guy can dream....
> Universal basic income is a reform that satisfies both the left and right. My conservative brethren are totally on board. Not perfect, but good enough, and better than what we have now.

Economists will undoubtedly turn up their noses when not so well learned people like me start explaining our position because it is clearly too stupid for them. If we have $100 available and three people: one who doesn't need any money, one who needs $20, and one who needs $50 to survive, clearly it is best to give nothing to the first person, #20 to the second person, and $50 to the third person. Look, we were economically efficient and now $30 can go towards maintaining the system! What I propose is that the $100 should be divided more like $33 each with just $1 going towards maintaining the project itself.

This came up before when talking about college education and whether the government should subsidize college education for the wealthy. My answer is yes! Of course, the government should pay for college for everyone, even if that person is Bill Gates' son. Similarly, should the government pay for Bill Gates' health care expenses under a single payer universal health care system? I say again Yes! We should not discriminate against the wealthy. Sure, it might result is less care for the poor but at the end of the day, I think it is better for everyone.
I'm not convinced that Betteridge is right even 50% of the time.
Beware sharp practices sailing under the “tech” flag
The careless errors of credit reporting agencies
My understanding is that it got fatally compromised as either a 3 letter agency or the pentagon wanted to use it for satellite maintenance/retrieval. Never happened, but it still resulted in a hybrid design that was basically suitable for neither. In the end it may well have continued flying as a kind of "national pride" issue.
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Totally feeling the same frustration here. The only projects I have worked on that have stood the test of time are my own side projects.

This has led me to conclude that most forms of employment in the software industry will leave you with little to speak for. You have to create your own thing if you want to make an impact.
https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-High-Technology-William-Dav...

Now, granted, this is about technology products as opposed to consumer facing apps: think Intel vs. Motorola CPUs back in the day or the various TI-vs-everyone DSP tangles. It's still very applicable to any number of technologies in robotics, energy and even things like MRIs.
Thanks, we updated the title from “Before You Spend $26,000 on Weight-Loss Surgery, Do This” to a representative phrase from the article.
is is great. thank you.

are sources for this type of documentation in github? I would like to get a PDF to facilitate the reading.
Hashing definitely is a coarse filter - and it is still useful, because there is still a lot of low-effort garbage that can harm your org.

But about IPv6, the smallest subnet is a /64. So if you're getting hit by an IPv6 malicious host, block the /64. Depending on the provider and known allocation, it could be a safe bet to block as far up as /60 or /56, even. That, along with the fact that only a tiny fraction of IPv6 is allocated at all yet, and it's not /as much/ a problem as one would think, given the "more addresses than atoms" line people hear.
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My hadoop experience is dated (circa 2011), do the work nodes still poll the scheduler to see if they have work to do? If so, that's still a giant impediment to speed for smaller tasks. Especially if poll times are in the range of minutes.

If hadoop put effort into making small tasks time efficient, I think your argument has merit, if there's a reasonable chance of actually needing to scale, or to pick up ancillary benefits (fault tolerance, access to other data that needs to be processed with hadoop etc)
if

It's unlikely a seatbelt will save my life, but every car I go in has multiple.

The original argument presented here is equivalent to arguing it's too expensive and useless to carry enough lifeboat capacity for everyone on a ship after the Titanic sunk. It's extremely unlikely that I'll ever impact an iceberg.
Most "big data" problems are really "small data" by the standards of modern hardware:

* Desktop PCs with up to 6TB of RAM and many dozens of cores have been available for over a year.[1]

* Hard drives with 100TB capacity in a 3.5-inch form factor were recently announced.[2]

CORRECTION: THE FIGURE IS 60TB, NOT 100TB. See MagnumOpus's comment below. In a haste, I searched Google and mistakengly linked to an April Fool's story. Now I feel like a fool, of course. Still, the point is valid.

* Four Nvidia Titan X GPUs can give you up to 44 Teraflops of 32-bit FP computing power in a single desktop.[3]

Despite this, the number of people who have unnecessarily spent money and/or complicated their lives with tools like Hadoop is pretty large, particularly in "enterprise" environments. A lot of "big data" problems can be handled by a single souped-up machine that fits under your desk.

[1] http://www.alphr.com/news/enterprise/387196/intel-xeon-e7-v2...

[2] http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/hard-disk-drives/...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12141334
I completely agree. It was also very well balanced between theory and practice.
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I'll hop on the bandwagon attacking you, at least a bit.

Food, water, and shelter are plenty for car camping in most places.

Car camping in Death Valley in August? Or in the Colorado mountains in January? Of course not.

Know the environment, have some lighting, and go on. You're not wrong, but you're overselling the danger. Common sense and a general awareness of the climate will be enough to make a judgement on safety.
Mail and e-mail are legally distinct.
The Chinese buy plenty of U.S. manufactured planes. In fact, in order to convince China to buy large aircraft like the 777, Boeing was more than happy to sign offset agreements[0] that sent a significant portion of manufacturing of smaller aircraft to Chinese subcontractors.

Lest you think I would only throw stones at my former employer, Airbus has been doing that and more. They are actually doing final assembly in China.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_agreement
I defined the same macros but with different names, back when I still coded in C. I still think it's a good idea which tends to get reactions like "Ew! Wash your hands."
http://www.ncahf.org/articles/o-r/pcrm.html

The guy on that video is well known by Quackwatch. He is a vegan evangelist, and also teaches that proteins are not required in the diet.

It's motivated nonsense.
I'm testing my knowledge a bit, but this looks like it has 2-3 layers? One input, one hidden, and one output? (nn.py) When might you add additional layers to this particular problem?

Would turning the results into a probability be useful? (e.g. "how likely are we to get a customer based on this description?") Your staff could generate test data for that.

Thanks, great article!
My understanding is that while a barrier may be feasible (but still very expensive) somewhere like Boston where there is already a lot of natural protection, NYC's island nature, along with being at the junction of multiple estuaries, makes building barriers there a uniquely difficult challenge.
Journal of Cardiology maintains a full-time statistics editor who reviews every single paper before publication. They routinely catch basic stats errors and send the papers back with a number of repairs required for the paper to be published.

That Nature and Science and other prominent journals continue to publish statistically invalid papers without verifying them (and this isn't even peer review, it's just technical validation) amazes me.
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>I think elections should be held on weekends giving the maximum number of voters the opportunity to vote.

Nearly one third of the American labor force works on the weekend [1].

Also,

Overall the authors note that night and weekend work tends to be less desirable, as it is often performed by people with fewer skills and employers typically offer a premium wage for it.

1.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/08/nearl...
Investors in social capital, in conspicuous consumption.

Stereotypically the locals don't visit nearby touristy areas because if the whole point of the activity is to brag that you are in the social class that gets vacation time and can pay a lot for travel, driving fifteen minutes from home proves nothing. Its a human thing not rural/urban... plenty of places in great cities where no locals will visit.

Being sweaty is not high social status, which explains why the parking lots and roads are bumper to bumper but the hiking trails are near abandoned.
This is fair comment. I'm also a libertarian and wouldn't really consider myself to be "right". I suppose most Americans would consider me to be left on social issues and somewhat right on economic issues.

On the other hand, in my experience, libertarians are pretty far from being liberals, and even farther from being typical Democrats. Personally, I share even less with typical Democrats than with typical (non-Trump and non-Evangelical) Republicans. I do share a lot of social beliefs with people who consider themselves to be liberals first and foremost, and agree with them about some of this nation's greatest challenges. I've found typical Democrats to be against drug legalization and only with great hesitation have started supporting LGBT rights, when most libertarians were supporting gay rights 40 years ago (in the sense that gays rights mean that gays have the same rights as everyone else, because what people do in the privacy of their homes is not the government's business).

Anyway, I think it's fair to say that there's support for BI from two different parts, if not sides, of the political spectrum.

But fair point about there being left libertarians and right libertarians, I don't really disagree. I mean, Chomsky calls himself a libertarian, but is definitely "of the left" (and I happen to disagree with him on a lot of issues, yet share some of his core beliefs about the dangers of government and authoritarianism). I'll take more care in the future.
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Neat. My dad was the Editor of this journal until a couple of years ago and I've worked with the people who work on it.
Thank you for your response. I wrote this article because it seems to me the basic income discussion is orchestrated by people, notably in technology, who are unaware of politics and reluctant to get their hands dirty.

I know that UBI, on paper, looks like it’s a good answer to many of the challenges listed at the end. But I don’t think that UBI, once put in place, would be as strong, politically, as other universal programs such as universal social insurance:
=> Round #1: new left-wing government enacts UBI with appropriate funding.
=> Round #2: left-wing government loses elections, new right-wing government decides to target UBI on the poor in order to master the costs. UBI becomes BI without the "U".
=> Round #3: the rich find that their taxes are too high and denounce the BI-claiming poor as welfare queens, contributing to the right-wing government winning reelection and weakening BI even more.

There are two kinds of universal benefits: the rich (and the middle class) all need universal health insurance (in case they have cancer), but they don’t really need UBI because they earn enough money from other sources.

So I’m not sure why, even if they’re supportive at the beginning, they would keep on supporting UBI under the inevitable ideological and financial pressure that comes with a polarized democratic society.

Considering this perspective, my understanding is that all the energy thrown in BI-related discussions is wasted while it could be invested in favor of universal health insurance for instance (which the US still lacks even with Obamacare, and which could benefit for the attention and design skills from the tech community).
You know that discussion that comes up when people confuse Climate and Weather? Similar thing here.

Dietary recommendations are population level tools for improving health.

Individuals can benefit from taking an engineering approach and figuring out what improves problems they are having.

Which is not to say follow every faddy diet, but just get used to experimenting gradually with your meal planning.

And whatever you find, does not invalidate population studies, any more than snow in your city invalidates global temperature rises.
I dont understand, what significance does this star has? Why was it upvoded to front page? What was the original title? Now it only says "Przybylski's Star"