skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That works fine when you have classes with 100+ students. In the ones I attended, it would range from 15 to 40 (the latter being considered high). Lower numbers tend to be impacted more by noise.

>Consider an employer or graduate school admissions committee that needs to decide who to interview. Looking at curved grades makes it easy to pick the top X% of students

As an employer, I'm not interested in the candidate's ranking in the class. I'm interested in their skills. While one is often used as a proxy for the other, I do not.

As a student, I want feedback on how much knowledge I learned, not how I did in comparison with the class. This was the original purpose of scoring tests.

Having gone through the PhD route, I know that "A" grade students who were always focused on the metric of relative ranking rather than knowledge acquired eventually were more likely to do a poor thesis or drop out, compared to "A" grade students who were focused on acquiring knowledge.

This was more acute from students who came from top undergrad schools: Very competitive background with heavy curving - and they would take their A as a faulty indicator that they were "doing well". In grad school, even though the courses are more challenging, most professors give A's and B's. Only rarely were C's given. The professors want to focus on learning and theses - grades are a distraction. Suddenly these students were getting A's, thinking they were doing well and not learning much. Their internal barometers were measuring the wrong thing, so their research suffered.
I'll also admit that a big reason I had middling success on keto was that I had no idea how to cook for myself without relying on a source of carbs. Learning how to cook fat-heavy, low/no-carb meals is something that I've never learned, and I'm stumped. I'd be interested in resources on cooking for keto!
I think you're overestimating the relative glamour of waste disposal.
This declaration of being measles free seems premature when there are still cases occurring and when such a highly transmissible disease is still common elsewhere in the world.

http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html
>I can't for the life of me understand why that experiment isn't being tried hundreds of times, all over the world. Learning how to create sustainable sealed ecosystems is one of the most important things we can do.

Apparently, after giving it one little shot here in a convenient location and failing miserably, we think we can just skip straight to Mars and be successful there.
It's not all black/white. Nobody is immune to this problem, even with best efforts/practice, saying "let's sue to death small vendors so that big one react" is kind of ridiculous. Again, it's hard to draw a line.
If only Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau et al. were around today..
Hey, I noticed a couple of things you might wanna improve in your leanpub profile page:
1. The first sentence has the word "Consultant" twice in a row
2. The first paragraph mixes first and third person, i.e. "Mark Watson is an awesome programmer. I use a bunch of techs"
3. The profile pic is stretched horizontally
Yes, and much more than 2 per instance of a service.
It's always great to see effective incidence response and proactive employees. Congrats Coinbase and thank you for sharing. Your experience will make the rest of us more aware.

Two months ago the NIST announced that SMS for out of band authentication was deprecated. It makes sense. Phone numbers have a much bigger attack vector compared to Yubikey and Google Authenticator. This incident is a perfect example.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/25/nist-declares-the-age-of-s...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12163046
The ego hit risk is only an issue because you have mentally internalized them as being on a pedestal.

Don't do that. They are not final arbiters of either talent or success.
There is different types of keto diets, and the ones recommended for "non-sick" people, does not asks you to restrict your protein intake.
You should still consume around ~1g of protein per lb of lean mass, probably even more if you are an intense bodybuilder.
Only carbs are restricted (often <25g/day), and then fat become inevitably your de facto energy intake.

I also recommend the `Tim Ferriss - Dom D’Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and the End of Cancer` podcast, and as you will see, being a bodybuilder on keto does not seems to be an issue. Not for him also.

There is another podcast with him `Dom D’Agostino — The Power of the Ketogenic Diet` but I haven't got the chance to listen to it yet.
The nice thing about having money and freedom at the same time. She gets to choose what to do based on what she wants to do not what other people thing she should be doing. Within the bounds of the law, hopefully.
When countries do this it is either a war or nothing.
>> The way I read it the parent comment portrayed all abortions to be of this type.

Clarification since there is a misunderstanding about my understanding: No, I know most of them are not this type. I also think there is a difference between late and early although I personally would advice against both. I am not a lawmaker though.

A little background: yes, I grew up in a pro life family and while I was always personally against I didn't really start bothering until that piece of news struck me from one of the major newspapers that day. Knowing this kind of cruelty actually happens on a more or less regular basis (well known by nurses even in the small country I live in) and on the scale of 88/day * botch_factor it is now hard not to care.

That said, yes, from a pragmatic perspective just getting rid of most of those 32000 late ones would be mighty good. I would believe a number of you could agree with that.

There is now and has been for some time a somewhat healthy debate around death penalty. Unfortunately IMO it seems that the right to kill innocent children before (or, if necessary because procedure failed, after ) birth is somehow sacred and cannot be discussed publicly.
... until it's not again: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/measles-outbrea...

The perils of easy global air travel.
It's probably personal preference like putting or not putting quotes around a book title, movie title, etc. They're not scare quotes but rather quotes to highlight.
Genetics plays a very large factor in fat and cholesterol metabolism, and one that I think explains the variance in success with the ketogenic diet.

e.g. FTO, PPARG, APOA5, FABP2, and APOE.

Essentially, not everyone processes fat the same way, and for some, especially those with APOE4/4, a high fat diet may actually be deleterious to health.

People with the right genes will have great success with ketogenic diets... but convincing their friends to join in might not have the outcome they expect.
I have over 3 dozen private Git repos for personal amusement or utility projects for stuff that professional consumer software doesn't work as well as what I want. Then I have almost at least 10 repos on GutHub (not this userid). At my last work, 9 month contract, I had 4 I think, aside from our main team repos just to manage personal info documents, my bin folder, etc. It's easy for one developer to have several. On my Linodes I keep /etc in its own repo as well, and my VirtualBox and VMware VMs then inside those I keep several Git repos.

Edit: I remembered more personal projects, make that almost 3 dozen personal Git repos.
I set up Worksonmy.computer to do the same yesterday
"I wrote a lane follower by taking 20-30 lines of pixels off an NTSC frame grabber on an Intel 486. The core algorithm was on the order of 100 LoC, and we took second place. Super simple algorithm, hardly intelligent."

How is this relevant to self driving cars in 2016 and the following decades?
He's extremely up-front about things, good, bad and ugly, and it's so refreshing.

As much as I love Elon Musk as well, I have to admit that some of comments around Autopilot and the accidents and possible problems surrounding it have had a distinct whiff of corporate new-speak to them.
On July 14th 2014, just three days before the MH17 incident, an Antonov AN-26 Ukrainian military transport plane was hit at 21 000 feet altitude, so there was a strong indication that SAMs were available to the seperatists. According to the Dutch Safety Board, the airspace should have been closed [1].

[1] http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/dutch-safety-board-u...
Not sure why you're getting down-voted - if the market is set up to incentivize a certain behavior, then someone will do it eventually. People can get mad all they want, but they should be furious that the government has laws in place to incentivize that type of behavior (or at least allow it to happen.)
Did she put the interests of the _customers_ last or first, though?
I appear to be one of those weirdos who reacts to something in bread but not celiac.

I was watching that Michael Pollan series and he was talking about his theory that industrial bread was the problem and everyone would be fine if we went back to sourdough. Well this feels like one of those things that sounds good but has no substance, but clearly at this point I'm willing to try anything. There's a little bakery on my way home and they're open late. I've had half a loaf of sourdough bread in two and a half days and other than burping more, I feel no worse than I did last week.

What I wonder every time someone posts about ketosis is just how bad are sugars and starches for us, and how did we get this far without figuring it out?
Using the C.H.I.P. computer and React to help kids get chores done
Also that the missile was transported from Russia shortly before the shootdown, and the launcher and remaining missiles were transported back to Russia. They mean "came from" in a more specific manner than just that it was made there.
>I'll offer the counter position to "move to a startup hub" namely "move to a place where you expect the highest density of your customers" (which should help with chance meetings as well)

Based on empirical history of how successful startups have turned into $1 billion companies, it looks like the density & quantity of the hiring pool and investors are higher priorities than location of customers. In SV, you get a pipeline of fresh Stanford grads and also the ex-employees from Apple/Google/Facebook/etc. For investors, you have a bunch of them clustered on Sand Hill Rd. For B2C consumer facing internet businesses, there are no geographically concentrated customers to move to.

The prioritization of proximity close to the customers may make more sense for a lifestyle business[1]. E.g. you're developing a SaaS cloud service for surfing shops to manage their inventory of surfboard gear. In that case, it might make more sense to locate the headquarters in San Diego and it's a calculated tradeoff to rely on the smaller pool of programmers in that area. The startup CEO physically visits each surfing shop to see how the software is used and gets real feedback for new features. Investors would also be less of an issue because a lot of lifestyle businesses are bootstrapped to profitability. That said, YC and VCs don't invest in lifestyle businesses so their bias towards SV wouldn't apply.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business
I used to slip in words like 'awesome', 'clever' and 'amazing' when talking to colleagues from other teams about the work that I was doing in the hope that it would influence their perception of the work. I've no idea if it worked though.
If we're sharing anecdotes here, I've also tried a ketogenic diet for about 2 months. I wasn't trying to lose weight, I was just curious what it was like. The only change I noticed was I became slightly weaker, lifting only about 90% of my previous weights. But this might have been placebo, because I had already heard that it could happen. I stopped the diet because it made cooking and eating difficult for no obvious gain.
Mega Drive Cartridge I/O and Sega's 'Lock-On Technology' for Sonic and Knuckles
This is my thinking as well. As a Chicago driver I have to admit there's a great deal of fuzzy logic in driving. Considering the last high profile crash was Tesla saying "Whoops, I guess we never tested blue trucks driving against a blue sky!" If they can't handle simple cases like this, how can they handle pedestrians jaywalking, cyclists doing dangerous end runs around your car, black ice, inches of snow, etc. I have little faith that this is a simple computer science problem that will be solved "any day now." Hell, looking at what passes for production code generally is scary. I really don't want to have as many real life crashes as software crashes on my PC.

I think the typical low information futurist brigade is driving this narrative and they haven't critically looked at what fully autonomous really means. The hype will wear off soon as we keep seeing crashes and other issues. I think the idea that cars will go from dumb to autonmous overnight is foolish. We'll have years/decades of smarter driver assist and maybe someday allow autonomous after a very long process of working out the kinks, certification, regulation, etc. Even then it'll probably only be highway driving or in low congestion areas far from pedestrians, strollers, and cyclists.

There are probably other use cases that'll be approved sooner than later like slow moving garbage trucks with autonomous robot arms picking up trash cans. Or autonomous street cleaning cars. That's assuming the crony public sector unions allow them.
Highly recommended video.
Lots of stuff he spoke are very relatable. Like having many repos , storing configs as a separate repo, politics by people, having a tracking system
Server Monitoring Software
That Terms contains some interesting junk.. for example is a webpage considered "software"?

10.5(f): No incorporating Google software into other software. You will not incorporate any software provided as part of the Service into other software.
Arduino ESLOV IoT Invention Kit (Kickstarter)
Yeah, I am not having any trouble with it outside of SV. Employers see 17 years of experience and trip over themselves to hire me (and my peers, some of whom are older).

The just-out-of-college kids can build you a website, sure, but they don't get the fun (or well paying) jobs.
They will develop resistance, but that is not a reason to not do it. I fully agree with you that reckless antibiotic use is the core problem, but public health solutions are slow and not sexy. It reminds me that Everyone wants a pill to treat for obesity--hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent chasing that dragon. in reality, lifestyle choices would be more effective, but habits like Big-Gulps and Couch-sitting die hard.
You know that you do not need to use that naming convention, right?

You might as well set up domains for www.pocalhost, files.pocalhost, doc.pocalhost.

Or, why even have that part at all? You can just as easily set up the hosts record in /etc/hosts for www, and then visit http://www/ and it should work just fine on both Windows and Linux.
> The main problem I have with ketogenic diets is that it's actually quite difficult and sometimes expensive to eat a 90-95% fat diet

From what I've seen, your diet should be ~60-70% fat, 5% or less carbs, and ~25-35% protein. Definitely not 95% fat.

> I had several instances where my dinner in a pinch was melted down cheese and half-n-half. Your diet basically becomes cheese and avocados with some, but not too much, salmon or chicken

What about vegetables? I ate a lot of salads when I did keto. I also ate a lot of fattier meats, such as cured italian meats and ground beef. No reason to eat super lean protein when fat is most of your calories; buy the cheap fatty stuff and enjoy it. Also, eggs? I was having an omelette every morning.

> I also wonder if it's possible to work out while doing keto

It's very possible: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22835211 but I doubt it would be if you're not eating any protein...
No need for a new expression, latino/latina covers both of them. Commonly, you use "latinos" if there is a mixed group (which is valid in the language, no sexism here). I also remember something about a institution saying something about that it's still valid to say "latinos" for mixed groups, but if there is more than 50% females in the group, you can also use "latinas" for the group.
Silicon is Just Sand
That's always been true, it's just now moreso. This is why creators of content that is offensive (The Jimquisition), niche (Longer videos from people like CGPGrey), or that just want less strings attached are flocking en masse to direct sponsorship (a very old idea, common in the podcasting world, and perhaps most famously enacted by Rhett and Link), or more often to a donation/membership model à la NPR (typically through Vessel or Patreon, this is most successfully done by Crash Course, a show that has a massive budget and is largely payed for by viewers), or to other websites and networks (NormalBoots, HiddenBlock, Channel Awesome (formerly TGWTG) - anywhere that can get other advertisers, or pay the bills somehow).
The lack of train automation has more to do with public sector unions protecting jobs via crony politics than human comfort.
Oh, yes. It is definitely not uniformly integrated. If you took a census, I suspect you'd find that the distribution of racial diversity in Oak Park is a direct reflection of the distribution of racial diversity plotted against income level, consistent with the geographic area distribution.
http://github.com/ant-design/ant-design/
Oh, I read it as "plan you career as programmers" :)

Good to hear you're finding other passions. Software is my second career BTW, I only started professionally at 29 (I've been programming since age 10).

I know what being trapped in a job you lost your passion for, and can't get out of, feels like. And I feel very blessed that I found my professional path. I do know that it's not for everyone.
I wasn't painting with any brushes, just expressing optimism and hope for a good solution.

Any Linux user is free to use whatever distro they want. Once you've chosen a flavor of Linux, in theory you could even run your own apt/rpm repository. There is no requirement that a Linux user must trust some third-party or their system won't run. Let's keep it that way :)
How did you end up meeting your mentor exactly?

I'm interested in hearing some more details.
Honest question: If a pixel is a point sample, why do all the down-sampling algorithms that look good involve some form of averaging the values of neighboring pixels? Wouldn't it be more accurate to pick one sample and throw away the rest?
I totally agree with you. No one really seems to be able to explain this.
I just returned from DerbyCon. An amazing security conference that covers both attack and defense. All talks are on youtube. Here is a good summary of the powershell talks. Really good stuff.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/09/27/power...
> but as lua never provided a mainloop, then we're it along with glib if you want and/or libuv.

In lua it is customary to bring along your own main loop.

People often start with one based on select, but later move to libevent, libev, cqueues, luv (libuv), glib or others.

> for lua there IS not native mainloop

Neither is there for C.

> as there is no native lua runtime (beyond a sample lua cmdline)

The 'sample' lua application is quite often used as a runtime; if your library can't be used from it, it won't be useful for the majority of developers.

> we provide one (elua) that will load in the bindings stubs for you and thus work

In elua you still have to load in the bindings yourself (via require).

> there are very good reasons for this for the future, like being able to package up applications into archives (like .apk for android, .jar or java etc.)

I have no idea how this is related. lua already has tools to pack resources into one executable (e.g. srlua). but you can use any tool/method you want. This doesn't dictate the main loop used in any way.

> how do you run things "by default" and know it will work and which one will be installed?

you just use #!/usr/bin/env lua. Which will pick up whatever the user/distro has picked (e.g. a user might use debian update-alternatives). If you need a particular version of lua, use `#!/usr/bin/env lua5.1` which is the generally accepted shebang.
> Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X.
> If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

This is a reasonable expected value calculation - and not really that controversial. The real issue is that the model for cost isn't quite accurate; if you ask an actuary, whose livelihood is based on accurately measuring and accounting "risk," he/she will tell you that you would need to account for the probable loss in future revenues due to negative customer sentiment. Once you account for that, the cost of recall is a _much_ better proposition.
that's a question for lawyers out there. im sure there are precedents in our history.

Track down who gave the order and sue them! Does not matter who it is - P. or his buddies.

Otherwise what is the point of this "investigation"?
And a bunch of other airlines are not diverting from Iraq because they disagree about the danger.

At the time of the MH17 shootdown, some airlines were already diverting around eastern Ukraine, and many others were not.

A reasonable assessment of the danger was made, and they decided that it was safe enough to continue flying there. That assessment turned out to be wrong, but that doesn't mean the it was "reckless."
> Woman have certain standards they need to live up to that aren't necessarily expected of men.

Could you name some? I have opposite experience.
Note Section 8 and 9 are about uBeam.
The technology to put people on Mars is not fundamentally new. The technology to make such a colony self sustaining is. We've never built any habitat which is entirely self sufficient even just in food, water, and air. Even the ISS needs resupply to generate breathable air. Even simple problems like "how do we replace failed bolts" will require resupply from earth for a long time.

I'm also dubious of the economics of this venture. I simply don't understand how living on Mars is advantageous for anybody. Mr. Musk is welcome to set his money on fire if he wants, of course, but I don't see a Mars colony ever being a rational investment for those of us on Earth, nor do I see paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to live a hard life and die in a frozen wasteland to be rational. I suspect after the initial enthusiasm dies down, very few people will choose this.
Visualizing the Entire Sequence of the First Presidential Debate
Can you elaborate? Do you have any personal experience that makes you say this?
I suspect this is driven by women's culturally-conditioned lower belief in their own ability, as well as men's conditioning to believe they must go to college.

The women who would fail have already self-selected themselves out of CS due to believing they won't be able to hack it. Therefore women who actually do start a CS program are likely to be the most driven ones with the greatest likelihood of success.

Whereas men are conditioned to have more belief in their own ability and to see college as non-optional, so they're more likely to commit to a CS degree (or any college degree) without realizing they won't be successful at it.
This must be a reference to Mendelssohn's Songs without Words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1uvYdW8MSk&t=1880
im sure you are kidding. no one is going to war with Russia anytime soon! lol

..so it is likely to be a nothing.
I did keto for 4 months at the beginning of this year, and I did lose 40 pounds, and generally felt great. But then I started getting more active and picked up tennis. I found that after 30 minutes, I was completely out of energy. It wasn't that I was tired, it was that I literally felt like I was out of fuel. Taking a swig of Gatorade immediately picked up my game, and so I had to introduce carbs back into my diet just to stay active.