skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The magic is very old: in the earlier generations, from the students of my university, some never had the opportunity to actually run their programs directly on the university computer. They just punched the cards, gave them to the "operator" and received the resulting printouts.

That were the old times: as the "bandwidth" was limited, everybody was motivated to check as much as possible before executing only once. "Processing in your head" was very important and people were really careful. It was nevertheless, or maybe exactly because it was so, "addictive."

Richard Feynman, about one early example:

"“Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.

After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.

Absolutely useless. We had tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the delight in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.”"
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It's not 100% clear to me that this is directly compatible with the graph reference, but if it isn't, that seems like a simple matter for Batzoglou & co. Those guys are really, really good, and the multi-reference target is a type of graph anyways, so I imagine it's just a bit more generalization (if any) to make BWBBLE work on a graph-structured reference assembly as implemented (there seem to be certain inconsistencies about how to represent structural variants that differ between implementations).

The other thing that would be neat is that then you'd have a direct tie-in to ancestral recombination graphs and could, in principle, get IBS/IBD for the same cost as high-confidence genotyping for any two individuals. Come to think of it, there's probably a way to recast this as shortest paths and get all admissible traversals between a population of genotyped individuals (given an ARG) for the same price as any two. Hmmm. This is a little disturbing.
You responded to a strawman of what I said, made no points that even remotely address or refute what I said, and further, decided that you were going to personally attack me. In fact, your link generally agreed with my point! (In summary: traditional reading and lecture methods have benefits; videos and other newer media can help (some) people, and give a new perspective; computers have a few useful behaviors; engaging imagination and exploration are better than rote learning.)

That's really kind of pathetic, and a disservice to your view.

I'd be happy to speak with you, though, if you want to actually read my comment and address a (charitable) interpretation of what I said, rather than your strawman one.
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This idea is DANE with DNSSEC, and it is unlikely to be adopted. tqbf has a good blog post[0] about why it's probably not a good idea (disclosure: I agree).

[0] https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
Could have said that as hacking is 6 years max while porn is 12.
> In an ideal world.

You mean, every other country in the Western world, except the USA.
> This means a perfectly fair selection process will select 90 men and 10 women for every 100 jobs, or at least in this ballpark.

How does one know what the correct target ratio is for their field?

You have blind faith in market mechanisms. I have blind faith in the general equality of the sexes. I'm not saying I'm right, I fully acknowledge it's an article of faith. I'm just hoping I can get to acknowledge that your belief in male superiority in certain fields is also an article of faith.
There's probably an age-of-post component as well so new content has a chance to be seen.
> Withdrawing Uber won't put me in a taxi, it'll put me in my own car, occasionally public transit, or more likely staying in and ordering delivery.

This is my experience as well. My wife and I have traveled from our inner suburb into the city for dinner and drinks far more often than we ever did before Uber. Because of convenient and reasonably priced transportation, we've spent more money overall in the local dining economy.
Quite impressive karma count for only having 10 comments. A zillion story submissions of which almost all are from nautil.us though. What's going on here?
I'm not sure, but I think that for HN it would be better to have the explanation about the generation of the gif in the top of the page instead of the bottom.

> Thank you for going through the whole forest! These trees were generated procedurally in Pico-8. Here is a demo of the cartridge I coded in order to do that. This little application randomize all the parameters so that you’ll be able to generate an army of misfits if you want to! It’s also my participation to #procjam, have a look at the other softwares made for that!
Yeah, great. Seems like I'm always processing distraction and there's no cycles left for anything else. Try and avoid those types of places.

I don't have much middle ground either, and knowing I depend on external factors for motivation is why I like small groups. The peer pressure of 3 others having a quiet productive hour is assistive. The natural rhythm of breaks gives plenty of chances to ask the nagging question about the API you're writing etc. Meds mean I can be productive in that, not pick up every distraction, and I'm not depending on locking myself away behind headphones and tunnel focus on screen. I could be wrong, but it feels most productive for everyone.

I've found the distractability, and lack of patience with interests a huge help over the years, so long as I don't get carried away. Ended up collecting a bit of knowledge of a ridiculous range of fields and IT sub-niches. Lost count of the times it's helped me see the big picture, or the question no one else knew to ask. The downside is I've probably had more hobbies and interests - for a month or two - than everyone else in the office put together. :) Yep, for when you need to just produce, when the world and phones are quiet, nights are excellent.
In addition to all the other answers, doing some procedural thought exercises may help. He can practice breaking down complex actions into more basic instructions. For example, thinking through what steps he takes to walk to a meal. He can start at a high level of just the turns and distances to walk, then think through what he actually does to take a step, or make a turn, or sit down or stand. It may not seem like much, but it will train him to think about how to build out instructions at different levels of abstraction, which will make a significant dent in the learning curve once he does gain access to a computer.
Not the dominant strategy, unfortunately.
> 5 minutes.

Yeah, 5 minutes of cooking and 20 minutes of cleaning.
This is the problem with using a relative measure rather than an absolute. There can only ever be 20% of people in each relative quintile, but the percentage of the population above and below a given wealth line can change dramatically. If through some social magic, everyone was elevated above the poverty line, you'd still have a lowest quintile.
If it's "unlimited everything for free", then what sort of things could be upgradable with a fee?
If you can get us a list of personal items that he's allowed inside, maybe we can help you figure it out if it's possible to build a tiny computer ;)
>So is there an ideally sized choice set when it comes to dating—one large enough to include variety and depth, yet small enough that you can fairly weigh each prospect’s potential without tripping your brain’s overload switch? [...] Fisher puts people somewhere in the middle of that range. “Once you’ve met nine people who are vaguely in the ballpark, choose one and get to know that person better. If nothing works in that nine, go for another nine,” she says.

The article talks about simultaneous choices (choice overload). A related concept is serial choices and the "when to stop looking for The One" dilemma. That's been modeled as The Secretary Problem[1] which calculates a 37% stopping point. It also has been discussed by several authors: [2] [3] [4] [5]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

[2]https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...

[3]https://youtu.be/OwKj-wgXteo?t=10m12s

[4]https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Love-Patterns-Ultimate-Eq...

[5]https://www.ted.com/talks/hannah_fry_the_mathematics_of_love...
It would take me 10 minutes to prepare what you just described, 20 minutes to eat, and at least 20 minutes to clean up.

Some people don't afford to spend one hour for this, especially in the morning, and some people find 20 minutes of mandatory cleanup exhausting; both physically and mentally.

I love to cook and to eat good food. I cook real, elaborate, dinner at least 3-4 times a week. However, I can't affort to spend one hour every day for breakfast. That being said, Soylent is... awful. For me the alternative is not to eat soylent for breakfast, but to skip breakfast.
This seems almost completely useless. I tried ten questions, and only one was answered, incorrectly (Moby Dick question misunderstood, answered as "novel by Herman Melville"). I think even Ask Jeeves back in the 90s had better performance than this. Questions tried:

how many lines of resolution are there in an ntsc television signal?

what is the melting point of tin/lead eutetic solder?

what species of whale was moby dick?

what grain is most often used to make beer?

what is the boiling point of water?

how many chromosomes does a normal human have?

what animal is known as "man's best friend"?

what fps did id software release in 1993?

what is the largest known prime number?

what is the clock rate of the arduino uno?

As a comparison, Google gives 8 correct answers directly (either as an special info box, or as highlighted part of a web page), 1 correct answer as the 2nd search result (Doom), and 1 incorrect answer (largest known prime).
Nice work! You said that you avoided machine learning because labeled data is hard to find. What about unsupervised approaches?

Frankly speaking, I am a bit skeptical about pattern matching algorithms for answering questions. It would help if you showed some kind of stats about your algorithm's performance on a diverse question set. For example, you can scrape simple quiz questions (and answers) from quiz sites [1] and report back on the performance.

[1] http://www.quiz-zone.co.uk/questionsbydifficulty/1/0/answers...
A more accurate title might have been "before NSF."

The practical effect of the shift from patronage to grants is a transition from multipolar to unipolar science. Any one rich patron may or may not have an instinct for what research deserves support, but their collective judgment should be a fairly wise crowd. Few rich people were born yesterday.

In a grant-funded ecosystem, even multiple funding institutions which are branches of multiple governments tend to merge into one big meta-institution, with one big opinion. This is how we get intellectual monocultures across many fields, especially fields without practical feedback from a commercial application. One big opinion is hard to change. Unfortunately, science is kind of about changing our minds...
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Econtalk ( http://www.econtalk.org ) is an amazing resource for understanding economics and the theories and incentives at play within it. The guests have a wide array of perspectives and the host does a good job of letting them talk so they can truly express their opinions during the hour conversation. It's so refreshing compared to the 2 minute soundbite theatrics you'll hear from "experts" on the tv news.
> Just ignored by mainstream like a lot of good stuff for various reasons. ;)

This paper introduced Monitors. It was of course hugely influential.

Mutex and condition variables, the building blocks of monitors made their way into posix threads and from there into C++11.

I believe Java is a much closer realization of Hansen model as every java object is a Monitor.
Man that's on my bucket list! The hacking a billboard part that is. Where should I start?
The opposition was not scientific. Read the book "The War on Science" and keep thr enlightenment from slipping away.
Could you please provide evidence/calc to substantiate this claim?
Now if it was substantial, it wouldn't suck so much, now would it?
That's only funny once.
Because the cost to Uber of reclassifying these contractors as employees would end their business.
Just because it allows them to function doesn't make it correct.
Write error == (fixed) base pair mutation. A classic example is a methylated cytosine spontaneously deaminating to yield thymine. Our DNA repair enzymes can't tell the difference (in terms of which is the "right" base) between the thymine and the guanine left behind, but since they don't match, one of them has got to go. Thus there is a 50-50 chance that the mutation will be fixed. That's the easiest example because it's not an "error" per se (rather a thermodynamics problem) but genuine proofreading errors also occur. The net rate is about one in a billion bases.

These estimates ignore indels and SVs but empirical evidence suggests that the "everyone over 50 has a 50/50 chance of at least one adult stem cell harboring a mutation in at least one interesting gene". My personal favorite is

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/abs/nature13...

but Druley's follow up was equally awesome:

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12484

and the recent survey of adult stem cell mutations is nice:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

One take-away from all this is that, while 95% of a sensitively surveyed population of 50-60 year olds had at least one stem cell with at least one known preleukemic mutation, it is equally clear that most people aren't walking around with anything resembling an acute leukemia. The natural conclusion is that in individuals with a competent immune system and diverse enough pools of healthy stem cells, it's not that big of an issue. Only when bad luck and/or stresses to which the mutants are adapted (e.g. TP53 mutations in therapy-related leukemia) afflict people, or the natural diversity of their stem cell populations collapses (as with really old people and individuals whose immune system actively attacks their stem cells, as in severe aplastic anemia) do you see the sort of massive, life-endangering takeover that we recognize clinically as disease.

Furthermore, nearly all of us are born with 5-10 predicted-to-be-lethal variants in our genomes. Clearly, we're also not dead, so our conception of "lethal" can't be quite right. There is an enormous amount of complexity in how real live multicellular organisms deal with variation and mutation, something we're really only just starting to grasp, and of course all of that then interacts with the person's environment to manifest (or not) their genetic tendencies. We build models of reality because the actual thing is too complicated to be tractable; it's important never to confuse the two :-)
It's not as nefarious at it seems. The guy/girl just submits three or four stories a day from nautil.us / new york times/ phys.org mostly.

And over time just built up some points.
Probably just shot up because of 4 upvotes at the same time.
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I did 6 years in Texas, but I was already a developer before I went in. That said, I had some books sent to me to try to keep my mind fresh. I also helped someone else who was released a few years after me get going and now they're a junior dev.

Emphasize learning that will serve freelancing, since someone with a criminal record will run into issues with traditional employment. (I've been out since 2009 and done very well) Ruby, PHP, Javascript are some of the best bets.

I'd recommend O'Reilly's Head First books. Even if they're a few years old, really doesn't matter, given the situation. I think Sandi Metz's Practical Objected Oriented Design in Ruby is great - she does an awesome job of explaining OO principles even if you don't end up writing Ruby. The Manga Guide to Databases is another good read that explains concepts well.

I'd also consider a book that shows a quick way to build web apps, like Agile Development in Rails or maybe a book on ColdFusion. Without the ability to write and run code, it can help plant seeds for those "aha!" moments for understanding the code -> web request lifecycle without getting bogged down in ceremony.

In Texas, the books had to come from a bona fide bookseller, so don't go to B&N and try to mail the books yourself.
This is not a moral issue, ambiguous or not.

CIA and its counterparts elsewhere will be here as long as there are nations. Event if every countries were on friendly terms, which won't happen, there would still be conflicts of interest, and hence the desire to gain the upper hand via intelligence.
cf. The Stuff!
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another un-fun comment: our government has a habit of murdering inconvenient journalists, which far eclipses any academic qualms regarding incorrect details amidst a morass of intentional deception on the topic of government sponsored drug trafficking.

when systems are designed to operate far outside the fold of the acceptable, they tend to attempt to be inscrutable. it's no surprise that a journalist couldn't crack the case with 100% accuracy, given that his adversary worked actively to prevent outside knowledge.
Please name one technology that wouldn't exist without TDD.
First: "Is the billboard still live?" "IDK just log in and change the ad I wanna go home"

Second: "Cool a billboard password let me - whoops, forgot to close the porn"
Yup, retrying PUT/POST is a bad idea unless you're really careful.
I think I played this IRL.

It would be nice to be able to use the keyboard to play, clicking the screen with the mouse is too difficult (I don't have a touchscreen.)
I think most men have opposite experience. Only a celebrity can choose from hundreds of potential mates.

It is almost impossible to find a good partner for starting a family (healthy, bellow 26, no debt, family values).
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The game logic is held within the CSS, which has a rather beautiful obfuscation/formatting applied: http://kong.xn--8ws00zhy3a.com/kong.css
Indeed, that's what people would do back in the day when, between the wait to get an available computer and the time to compile, it could take days to find out the result of your code. Can never be sure it works until you run it for real though, can you?

Unless, by chance, you were suggesting he set up some kind of turing machine where running is a different matter than reading your program over in your head?
But they don't feel obstructive: allow me to put it like this:

With many games of this sort, or with INTERCAL and Befunge, you are asked to build a device with broken, strange tools that don't work properly, and are designed to be as annoying as possible.

The TIS instruction set, OTOH, is perfectly well designed and clear in how it works, it's just very primitive. This is akin to BF, but BF is so low level that it's far more irritating.
Accounts with good reputation used specifically for posting links are not uncommon on any popular forum.
That's the coolest thing I've heard all day.
We used the CARDIAC as an intro to programming in my high school Computer Math class (Fall, 1980). Nobody that I knew in class enjoyed it, so I wouldn't recommend it.
In a nutshell, it feels like they continue to exert force on the stick / yoke without ever getting to a balance point where the aircraft settles to a desired speed / AoA.

This applies even with various FF sticks that I have tried and discarded over the years.
I came across this article the other day for the first time and started to read it. How much still applies to today?
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He will get 24 years for piracy - mass broadcasting of the show he had no rights to. Surely the owner of the video will sue him into oblivion.
Is force feeding graphene to silkworms unethical?
Start with digital picture frames and work your way up.
great, now the mouthpiece of the state department is finally coming out against torture, long after they cheerled for the entry into the war which provided a stage for such torture. bravo.

the fact of the matter is that we're long overdue for prosecution of americans who supported, knew of, trained, or tortured others. obama cut them a free pass, which makes him complicit.

heavyhanded sentences against the perpetrators (highest leadership included) will do much to rehabilitate america's ruined reputation.

my prediction: moral cowardice among our government and citizens will continue because the effort of cleansing evil isn't understood to be worth the purity afterward.
I'm just going to preface this by saying I'm a fairly physically unattractive man (short, Asian, assymetrical face with no strong jawline).

The quality of the women (based on intellect, personality, accomplishments, and appearance) who I've met in real life first before dating have been vastly superior to the women who I managed to find a date with through online dating.

Besides the restrictiveness of the online dating medium, specifically its inability to capture personality or warmth, I think another reason is because the women I meet in real life are able to evaluate me individually for who I am whereas in online dating you're practically always being compared to dozens of people.

I also think that people are overly picky in online dating and treat their specifications as sacrosanct instead of something to constantly self evaluate. For example, it's fairly common for people to specify a preference for a single race, usually their own. When I used to go on match.com I saw plenty of white women who explicitly noted they only wanted to date white men. Fair enough. And you know, a lot of white women I know in real life might have the same preference given the nature of growing up in small towns dominated by a single ethnicity and having consumed culture that largely glamorizes white men. But they also ended up marry Asian men, not through online dating but perhaps because they got to know them in college or at work or through friends. Likewise I'm certain that some of the women I dated in real life wouldn't have given me a chance in online dating. Perhaps it's because we could share laughter and gain trust in one another before even considering the concept of love. I'm sure there's also studies that show repeated exposure of a person has a positive effect on their perception.

And if you read the story in Aziz Ansari's Modern Romance, he mentions a similar anecdote where he met two Indian dudes, one who was struggling to meet anyone through online dating, and the other who exclusively just met women in real life and had no problems in that realm.

I guess my unscientific observation is that while online dating is certainly gaining in popularity and can be successful for some people, that it can sort of be misrepresentative of reality.
Start by not planning to do it in a Muslim country.
Wait, you threw that demo together in under 20 minutes? Wow.