skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
p.s. I edited the earlier response too many times already...

But my point is that I think a key epidemiological variable should be the age of peak incidence. This has been largely missed due to various common practices like:

1) Binning into 5/10 year age groups
2) Looking at age adjusted data
3) Truncating the age-specific incidence data at 70-85
years old because the later data is deemed unreliable
Ratios change too. PCIe / NVMe are better than SATA.
Italy is a bit too far :(
Remove all the whitespace, and then add spaces and newlines in legal positions to make the wave pattern.

Edit: It also seems to add escapes to the text to make it a bit neater than what I suggested.
How many prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

No.
As a freelancer/contractor 'getting paid faster' definitely appeals to me, but this doesn't really tell me how Billme does that.

It's cool that you can send SMS invoices, but how is this much different than say Quickbooks or Xero?
You're missing the most important difference: Taxi market is regulated, and numbers are controlled. This keeps some degree of profits backed into the market.

The number of medallions (ie, jobs) is controlled, which means their owners reap those profits, not the drivers, who must compete with each other for access to those medallions. Uber's breaking of the monopoly expanded the market and created more jobs.

The other difference is that taxi drivers have generally stable work. A guy can drive a cab consistently for years. The pay is not good, but the economics have to work out.

There's no stability, the cost for leasing a medallion was constantly increasing, as was the number of people with licenses to drive (competitors).

Cab companies and owners have enough wherewithal to make long term decisions, moreover, the 'drivers' - the ones on the end of the chain - if they are not owners - are not responsible for the fixed costs of the cars etc..

Where do you think the money comes from? Not being responsible just means they don't get to make choices - they're forced to accept whatever the car owner says.

Finally, cab companies are by nature, small - and don't have hyper-leverage over drivers. Cab companies have to compete efficiently for talent among their drivers. If you can call it talent.

Then why was medallion ownership the single best investment in the last 30 years? Compete for talent? Where?

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This article from the NYTimes is rather informative, and being from 1995, it's not a submarine for Uber et all: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-di...
Seemed to have happened. I guess diet's not something you think about when otherwise distracted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314804
I don't think the prison superintendent will enjoy that last paragraph.
Christian Rudder doesn't normalize his dating data. Take what he says with a grain of salt.
Simple!

1. Abondon SystemD, while there is still time! (that ship is sinking. Rumor has it many of the SystemD tools develop by governmental agencies for offensive hacking, are focused on the numerous problem with SystemD.

Just 'emerge' the best parts of OpenSuse into a Gentoo Fork.
Gentoo is being raped by CoreOS, rackspace, google and a hoard of other commercial interests. So, OPenSuse could easily become the best (secure) distro on the planet, and bring a robust installation semantic to Gentoo, that is so desperately needed. Change 1/2 of the folks on your Board of Directors:: align with the little people.

Gentoo severely needs a robust installer. Then focus on UNIkernel solutions for the cloud that are secure (very small attack surfaces.

Dirt Simple:: Make money off of corporate consulting
Amazing! I hope you don't mind but I cross-posted to /r/artifical. Thanks for the videos! This will make sure I get nothing done tonight but I should be smarter in the morning!
Is there a definition of temperature that someone can share that would be relevant in this context?
'The army to set our nation free'
Maybe the HN crowd should just make a dating app that doesn't suck? Pretty much all the existing ones have some really bad biases behind them and run on appearance. Message boards and video games still beat them in that department for the more specialized types, which is silly.
"Western culture, for example, has this innate fear of death. This is not a fear that other cultures share." This seems incredibly broad and...just very off.
One can easily control type of pics and text you write on your profile along with type of messages one sends.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s1lbjmiZ1p0w-OjQLc9iQmR5...
Do you actually think these documents remain destroyed for technical reasons? Of 90.000 official and 200.000 unofficial employees of the Stasi (secret police of the German Democratic Republic), a whopping 20 have been convicted. Do you think that's because the powers that be couldn't do better?

The official excuse is that whatever the Stasi did was lawful at the time. The same logic would have made the Nuremberg Trials impossible, but it wasn't applied. That's not an accident.
> Heck, the U.S. government has behaved so outrageously over the last decade that U.S. citizens are likely to blame their own government when drone strikes happen on U.S. soil!

Nah. We respect Hanlon's Dodge. Our government is a tool of the shadow government. It's a dirty mark on Americans just like the Jihad is a dirty mark on Muslims. Balkanize all the things!
Erlog is an actively maintained option for using prolog from erlang. It's maintained by Robert Virding, who also maintains Lisp Flavored Erlang (lfe).
So you are using a fluorescent fiberscope to identify tumors.

So you are implementing some vision library. How is that a hard engineering problem?

> So yes, I feel that I am.

That's the crux of the issue. You are doing exactly what you find so distasteful about web development: implementing existing algorithms to solve a specific problem.

Unless of course, your team is actually inventing new vision algorithms that somehow changed the field, which I'd love to see the paper on.
Hi! We're currently limiting users to 100 with a view of taking up to 250 users in the future if we feel there are enough leads. -James
Part 1: 50% applies, RAM controllers now part of the CPU, deprecating half of what’s written, also some CPUs have eDRAM.
Part 2: almost completely applies.
Part 3: 70% applies, hardware SLAT (Intel EPT / AMD RVI) deprecated what’s written about virtualization.
Part 5: 90% applies.
The rest of them — don’t know.

P.S. What’s I dislike most about the article, it fails to explain why L3 cache is 10-20 times slower than L1 cache, while they both made from SRAM.
> Intelligence officials told Reuters that all Yahoo had to do was modify existing systems for stopping child pornography from being sent through its email

It's such a convenient wedge for getting the technical capabilities and laws in place, isn't it?
One major issue I see with free: there's no implicit contract and thus no expectation of long service life. Which is a real biggie when it comes to hosting.

Even paying a nominal fee for hosting (see https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net) is better than paying nothing. Because the exchange of money creates the expectation of services rendered.

The issue is security. Not in a technical, hardened web-server sense. But in the legal sense. A shared web host has root access to your databases. It has access to your API keys. It controls what files are served for your domain name. Paying for a service creates a business relationship, and at least the expectation of liability should a web host act maliciously.
Aggregate Visual AI Data from Google Vision, Clarifai and Imagga in Go
What's more horrible about it is that the simpler sh constructs are somehow not respected in bash culture.

In sh, each function has a local array, and you use that array with "$@". And typically you can get along with only that array. Not so bad.

my_b() {
somefunc foo "$@" bar
}
probability of bouncing out of a local minimum
It doesn't work, plain and simple.

Never mind what many others have said, that a greedy algorithm might work, that you can reduce it to TSP and apply heuristics, etc. The application of simulated annealing is also crippled: Suppose you reconstructed two slices of the image. To improve it, you have to take a column from one slice and move it to the other---but that doesn't lower the energy! What would lower the energy is to take one of the slices and attach it to the other, possibly flipping it in the process. So while it says "simulated annealing" on the lid, it's a random walk for the most part.

The idea is workable, but it needs a different primitive operation: pick a range of columns, attach it in a different spot, possibly flipping it.
> Learning to code without a computer is what we all did, 40 years ago!

Comments like this reminds me of how much of a difference is to live in a 3rd-world country compared to a 1st-world country. I am still on my twenties and I can still relate to what the parent comment says, I learned the basis of my programming skills reading books around ~8 years ago because during that time having a personal computer in my home country was a luxury. Very often I joke with my friends that most of the innovative things that we find in the market are already +3 years old. I still remember the popularity of the BlackBerry when it was already obsolete in the US because of the iPhone.

One thing I did during that time to learn some algorithms was to buy a deck of cards — which I suppose is allowed in jail — which allows you to understand sorting algorithms and some of the basic data structures like queues and stacks. Writing things on paper might also help to visualize and memorize some concepts (I know, memorizing is not the solution, but what else can you do when you cannot run your code in a computer).

I hope it helps, and good luck to @givinguflac 's friend.
What is the premise of your argument here? That bad things happened in the past so there's now no such thing as too much regulation?

Because child labor existed we should now consider independent contractors employees...?

Care to actually provide a somewhat coherent response instead of baselessly denigrating the parents ideology and implying it represents forced child labor.

I find this kind of cheap, tangentially related strawman so intellectually lazy it's actually offensive.
Many alleles does not imply more variability if there's a chance of some of those alleles cancelling out.

Think about it in terms of coin flips. One coin flip is random: you get heads or tails with 50% probability. A small number of coin flips can lead to large swings. However, many coin flips reliably produces a Gaussian, with only small statistical fluctuations.

Now imagine that you decree that for the first ten coin flips, if the result comes up tails you'll ignore it. With many flips, you will still get a (somewhat smaller) Gaussian, but with the mean # of heads shifted over by 5.

This is what natural selection & assortative mating does: it doesn't prevent the millions of coin flips from happening, but it eliminates some number of "known bad" outcomes, which will shift the mean over by some amount even as variability remains roughly constant.
Let's not disclude Microsoft or AOL in this either. They are both large email providers.
The Haunting Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times
Lee Smolin credits this monoculture with the lack of progress in the field of physics over the past decade, and the popularity of string theory, in The Trouble with Physics.
It's certainly been started. She posts screenshots on Twitter every couple weeks with progress updates.

https://twitter.com/therealeloraam
Yes, but how many people will be OK with the idea of paying someone to choose what to say and what to send to a potential mate? I'm guessing more than I think (after all, people pay to learn from "pick up artist").

What I like about real life dating and meeting is that if something goes wrong, at least I know what it was (for the most part, definitely not always). I've had friends who don't reply to messages because they simply forget about them or are busy, or decide to not do online dating any more without telling anyone. Maybe that's less common than I think, though.
The problem is that he told a story of cataclysmic proportions, but did not report that story. Whether his story is true as he framed it remains unknown.
Also try Jelly no Puzzle: http://qrostar.skr.jp/index.cgi?page=jelly&lang=en
Before I rebut any part of this, can we level set a bit? Have you read the original stories, any of the 90's takedowns of the story from the NYT, the WaPo, or the LA Times, or any of the recent takedowns?

In other words: am I rebutting your specific opinions about Webb's story, or am I rebutting your core belief that the CIA is responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic?
Assuming the worst is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It destroys any incentives these companies may have not to cooperate.
I think you can make a strong case for this.

For example, Western culture lacks ritual suicide outside of possibly the idea of a captain going down with their ship. Though this is more utilitarian as the assumption is insufficient lifeboats. Other forms of ritual suicide are fairly common across most cultures.
Look at the picture. The billboard is reflecting just a part of some bigger desktop. It can be that some real user who used that desktop got careless, moving some opened notepad file with the login details to that area. Even if it wasn't too long, enough for that "hacker" to make a photo with his phone.

Then the "hacker" later logged in himself, and also, being presented with the full desktop (over the VNC, probably?) but not seeing that part of what he does is also continuously reflected on the billboard, but seeing that he has full internet access (or maybe just the access to the local mp4?) carelessly clicks and watches. There's Chrome bar on the billboard, again just a part of the desktop. And he watches more. And doesn't get it at all what he's doing all that time: according to some reports, it lasted 20 minutes(!) until the power was cut to the billboard. Of course, a lot of photos with the phones again.
Eli is right.
Isn't a huge chunk of that "grayness" caused by the CIA et al. in the first place? I would much rather see all that effort put into meta-societal research, in the open, to try to figure out how to make the world's people want to converge to stability naturally instead of constantly creating and trying to control instability.
I miss the enshrined martyrium element. Cultures that have that have a tendency to bring forth innovators who keep going against all odds. Shia-Islam as a example.
I have a family member that was a police officer in a rural location. They have often had cases of farmers who kill themselves with shotguns, and it surprisingly often occurs that they have to shoot themselves more than once in the head.
Send him the turtle game to play
If you check the paper, you will see it describes a scheme that minimizes the number of generations while maintaining the observed rate of cell division. The average rate of division across tissues isn't really at issue here, tissues that require fewer cells will just have a shallow hierarchy.

>"it does not operate with such efficiency"

Most likely it does not operate at max efficiency. However, since most mutations seem to occur during mitosis, it would make a lot of sense for natural selection to optimize (number of divisions)/(generations from zygote).
That was the point I obliquely tried to make.
> People are more likely to recommend based on what they know

True, but very sad. I am given to understand, from an HN thread months ago, that the state of the art in school graphing calculators now is the HP Prime. But that never even gets mentioned in recommendations, because no one's ever heard of it. (And there's very little incentive to learn what to recommend, because the only value of a graphing calculator is that it's permitted on standardized tests -- the HP Prime is $165; the HP Prime software for your Android phone is $10.)

> I was envious of my friend's 89, but my parents wouldn't pay the higher cost.

Also sad. I read the manual for my TI-85 cover to cover; it taught me about polar coordinates and euclidean vectors before my school covered them. For a child interested in math, these calculators can be wonderful.
I've hacked on this interpreter some, it's pretty nice to read! It implements a very limited subset of JavaScript, something like ES3.

I'd be really interested to hear about other similar implementations of JavaScript in JavaScript. I stopped working on https://github.com/thomasballinger/hotswapping-js-interp#js-... partially because copying the state of the interpreter was relatively slow. I'd be interested in implementations that would handle this better by using a more bytecode-like VM or immutable data structures.
“I spent 3 days critiquing 50 portfolios on Reddit. Here’s what I learned”
Yes exactly, I was not expecting a deeply useful life lesson at the end of a random AI lecture I found on YouTube.

Really stands out as one of the best lectures I have had the pleasure of watching.
Wow, there's something funny going on with HN search there. There's a quite a few discussions about ConceptNet.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fnews.yc...
What Chinese corner-cutting reveals about modernity
I wonder why a company like homejoy doesn't become a flat cost subscription platform where they offer scheduling, organizational, and billing tools for the particular on demand service.
Presidential Avengers: Uncivil War
> Competition within the rail industry? I doubt it.

Not within the rail industry---ownership of the track network makes that impractical. I'm saying DB was protected from other modes of transportation, which ensured their monopoly. The service being sold is not rail transportation, it's transportation.

> The vast majority are bottled by either Coca Cola or Pepsi.

Looking from Germany, there are Vita-cola, Afri-cola, Fritz-kola. All independent from Coke or Pepsi, and that's only the colas I can think of. All sorts of lemonades serve the same market.

> See above

What?! Deutsche Bahn is a (near) monopoly precisely because of support from the police state, Coke/Pepsi is not a monopoly, not even close. Neither of these are examples of a monopoly that developed in a free market!
At it's core, Buddhism is about learning non-reaction to both pleasure and pain, treating both as mere sensation. I suppose this practice could be defended in that vein. However, it reminds me more of the Buddha's early ascetic practices, that he himself renounced, declaring that there is no point in actively harming oneself, and that one should instead work to reduce craving and aversion (the two fundamental types of reaction).

There was another article about a small sect of Japanese Buddhist monks that had some horrible practices, like screaming at each other in the morning, and so on. Even stranger (and more horrible) practices exist. But I would not call them Buddhist.
There are still companies involved with "roads, electrical supply, water", even when they are part of the public infrastructure. It's not like there are no drug or medical companies in Switzerland.

The evidence doesn't need to be "super clear." The numbers are pretty solid that universal healthcare is more efficient than the current system the US has. That is, the US government spending alone, on a per capita and GDP basis, is higher than the combined public+private spending in most countries with universal health care. Yet the public+private funding in the US doesn't result in a higher quality of health care, by most measures.

Even sticking to the US, we can get an idea from Medicare and the VA system of the advantages to single payer systems.

Those comparison numbers don't exist for the proposals you mentioned, and there is no reason or experience to suggest they make sense in the current market. (But, consider France's Minitel in the 1980s, when it did make sense.)

Also, the failure costs in health care are much higher than the failure costs in choosing the wrong mobile OS. The worst case for the former is an nation-wide epidemic. The worst case for your company is ... you run out of money and need to get a job.
Yeah, C++ seems to have happily taken over the "write-only language" trophy from Perl. That's not a compliment.

And, I don't think I have ever seen a language mutate so much over time. C++ from 1996 looks nothing like C++ from 2006 which looks nothing like C++ from 2016. Also not a compliment.

I just simply no longer care to allocate the brain space for a language that buys me so very little in the embedded space. If I could find a decent interpreted language for the embedded space (256K flash/16K RAM), I'd never touch C++ again.
SQL Injection Attacks
Three Minutes to Midnight
I think pmoriarty's point is that, while they are programming games, the programming is abstracted and obfuscated into puzzles in a way that puts it a good distance from how practical programming is done these days. You have to admit that the type of accumulator-based CPU architecture used in these games is archaic and only found in the smallest microcontrollers today. And the multi-core structure and other constraints bears only a passing resemblance to how real systems work.

None of this detracts in the slightest from their being great games but they're no more related to actual programming than Starcraft is related to leading actual troops into battle.
> it fails to explain why L3 cache is 10-20 times slower than L1 cache, while they both made from SRAM.

Why is it? Is it because L3 is usually shared?
Race conditions actually seem pretty rare in this game, because the CPUs run infinitely fast, relative to the SLP clock.

If two CPUs get out of sync with each other and try to communicate via XBus, the simulation just halts.
Can confirm. Currently scrambling to finish up code for school, and the additional synchronization involved in false-sharing is killing me.
You've either gotten lost in your own useless metaphors, or you're trying to be clever and failing. Either way, this is no longer really a discussion.
"I truly wonder," doesn't strike me as a declarative statement, but I can appreciate your confusion.
I agree a company like Uber and their workers' incentives do end up misaligned in certain ways, and when that happens the contractors often end up losing. But that is all because of this system that we continue to perpetuate, for really no good reason imo. As I heard it phrased by an economist once, why do we look to the government to create jobs and look to private corporations to protect workers? Surely the incentives & competencies would be better aligned the other way around.

If all of the basic, expected workers' rights that we've come to expect were decoupled from full-time employment, surely removing that friction from both workers and companies would be beneficial to the economy.

A couple years ago I left a full-time job to work on a new startup and the overhead was surprisingly stressful - making sure to set up COBRA correctly because it's all but impossible to find good health insurance as 3-person company, and if you do the process wrong you just won't have health insurance for the year. Your 401k was tied to your job so you can't keep contributing without setting up some other system. And this was just transitioning to a new, funded company, I imagine quitting to become a freelancer or independent contractor would be even more confusing.

I suppose it's in companies' best interests to keep this stuff convoluted and keep themselves in the position of power by having built up the knowledge of understanding this stuff. But if we passed laws to change these expectations (Obamacare is at least a step in this direction) so that companies just paid cash and it was reasonable to set up these things yourself, it would make workers' lives so much simpler. And our society wouldn't have to keep having this argument, plus all the lawsuits that stem from it, about whether or not Uber or anyone else should be covering more of these "benefits" for their employees.