skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> such as not bothering to study female animal models for a majority of pharmaceuticals over decades

I thought gender/sex was a social construct and had no rooting in reality. /s

> fighting various aspects of reproductive rights.

Like the inability of a man to abort a child without any input from his partner? Shouldn't a man be able to disavow any paternal and financial responsibility if he doesn't feel like being a father?
>The totalitarian ascent to power was applauded by the armchair revolutionaries of the left wing intelligentsia in South America and elsewhere.

Don't forget former US President Jimmy Carter, who rubber stamped Chavez's rigged[1] elections and even wrote an obituary gushing with praise and admiration for the evil tyrant.

[1] There's better ways to rig an election than stuffing ballot boxes. That's so primitive and risky. The modern way to rig an election is to control the media, force or entice them to say nothing but positive things about you, while burying your opponents with false or misleading claims.
Can you formulate an argument for why course material collected, published, and shared for free--with no tie to actual courses that provide graduating credit--by large institutions should be subjected to accessibility requirements which does not extend to an attack on freely sharing information everywhere?

EDIT: For online course material that is offered to enrolled students and required for the completion of a degree, I do not believe anyone is arguing in opposition.
I think your auto correct fucked you up here.
To be fair, even leveling charges against her and arresting her has a chilling effect on the Press.
Good passkeys also should only exist to be checked on the device. Fingerprints can be in databases and on the device itself. Not sure how fingerprint scanners react to replicated fingerprints, but the right people can probably replicate them pretty well. I would only consider a fingerprint a more secure authentication measure because it can't be recorded by cameras.
The point is that as you get used to reading them, you will recognise the complete glyph as a hex digit, without puzzling over the binary details. Just like reading any other script.

This does not work for quartets like 0100
> the only reasonable thing for these organizations to do is stop giving it away for free

Yeah, it's not like MIT and Harvard have spare money lying around to spend on captioning (apart from the $13.5B and $37.5B, respectively, in their endowments). Let Big Deaf use their deep pockets to pay for captioning, if that's what they want!
Given, QNX never really caught on in the wider field of computing AFAIK. This may lend credence to the Godot team's theory that public visibility is based upon how big you are (https://godotengine.org/article/godot-aims-mainstream).
Interesting time for them to be pushing this, considering the EU thinks it may take business from London due to loss of passporting over Brexit. It could now reverse with firms leaving the EU to avoid the transaction tax.
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How about the prime number problem. It's simple enough to understand.

"A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. There are infinitely many primes, as demonstrated by Euclid around 300 BC. There is no known simple formula that separates prime numbers from composite numbers."
Umm, are you an MRM markov chain?
That would be ineffective for a number of reasons - chief among them being that shotspotter is largely ineffective, and that substations are often located in rural areas where gunshots are both common and expected occurrences.
Nowadays half of what I want to protect are browser secret (AWS IAM credentials and the likes), so this doesn't really help.
> So where are they?

There are two questions here, I think: are there a proportionately greater number of people in the world today with Shakespeare-level talent for language; and do those who exist now have the same chance of being recognized and lionized as Shakespeare did?

I don't know how we could answer the first question, but I assume it's roughly correct, just on faith in the statistical likelihood of the normal distribution of IQ/talent holding true. The second question maybe gives us some way to account for why we don't seem to see them, though. For one thing, people with that set of talents have a much wider set of fields to go into, now: in Shakespeare's time, people with literary talent could write poetry, or plays (or, as he did, both), and not much else. Today, both of those are sub-divided into lots of sub-genres, and prose fiction exists (and is also highly sub-divided), and prose non-fiction, and song-writing, and journalism, and writing for tv and movies, etc. We wouldn't expect to see every current Shakespeare working solely as a playwright: we should be looking across all the fields that need literary talent, if we want to accurately count today's Shakespeares.

And we need to consider whether a Shakespeare-level talent today has any reasonable chance of getting Shakespeare's level of recognition and admiration. There is so much more content today that any one person's output can't get nearly the attention and focus that the smaller world of Elizabethan England could give to Shakespeare. Achieving 'legendary' status probably depends less on absolute talent level than on how much one stands out from one's competitors - that's much harder to do in a larger, more sophisticated world. You would probably have to be significantly better than Shakespeare today to stand out as much as he did in his time.

Going back to the sciences, the situation is a little different because it probably is the case, as you suggested, that the field is finite and there will probably come a time when there is nothing significant for a new Newton to discover, and thereby be recognizable as a Newton-level mind. That's less the case for the arts - the working space there is much larger, possibly infinite. But the increasing sophistication and the growing number of fields to work in is the same in science as in literature, and so is the consequent dilution of attention and recognition. I'm not sure that conditions now allow us to reliably recognize our geniuses.
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Can someone explain reasons for not having a FTT? I mean, there is no reason for Company X to move their trading to another country as the (non-hedgefound) owners of it do not gain anything from it. I mean the financial industry does not create any value through high volume trading, so while there is much to gain for the individual, for us as a society there is nothing positive about it at the risk of higher volatility and rapid market reactions. Or to phrase it different: why should I as someone with 100 GE or EADS shares be against a FTT?
I guess it's convenient when you've eg. fixed an issue at 3AM in the morning to send an email to affected people right away (so you can focus on the next thing) instead of remembering to send the email in the morning.
Everything about this article is rubbish.

1) As has been mentioned by many before the US is not and never was intended to be a Democracy. A Constitutional Republic is the form of government in the US, those who choose to call it an actual Democracy are either placating the plebs with a buzzword which makes them feel enabled, or are ignorant of the reality of the representative nature of our our government.

2) The paper goes all the way back to the 1980s to draw upon its conclusion, ignoring the way political appointments, selection of senators and voting in general were conducted during the first two centuries of the US.

3) The source is talkingpointsmemo.com which is literally a site of talking points for the left, who are constantly abusing the word "Democracy"
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Their dataset reeks of startup hustling.

I just downloaded the training set [1] and plotted some of its descriptive statistics [2]. It looks that all features are uniform distributions and the response variable is Bernoulli coin-flipping. In layman's terms, you can't really come up with a good predictive model with this training set.

I give them the benefit of the doubt that they wanted to have something in place to push the website live, but I cannot imagine any serious data scientist not noticing this.

[1] http://datasets.numer.ai/57feb95/numerai_training_data.csv

[2] https://cl.ly/051G3Y2Z2O0W
> we both think that Democracy Now is pushing an extremely strong agenda and is not objective journalism.

Well, I don't specifically think that, as I have far too little information to make that judgement. I have very little exposure to Democracy Now (like a couple minutes of one episode, then the occassional snippet repeated elsewhere over the years) . What little exposure I have had had a feel of being a bit less objective than it could be, but I specifically was not trying to make my point dependent on that, as I think it's important and should stand on its own. It should make sense without Amy Goodman or Democracy Now taken into consideration at all. Journalism needs protection, some people profess to be journalists but aren't by any stretch, it's a slippery slope to go after them since we don't have an objective way to qualify journalism, nor a legal framework that I know of to make it workable without trampling rights.

> where you lightly add "though not legally" ..

I don't think that was lightly added. That was the point of the comment. Journalists are protected because they provide a vital service, and while it can be confusing and subjective as to whether someone thinks some piece of writing qualifies, the fact that it's so subjective and yet journalism in general is so important means we should not try prosecuting people for it in any except the most egregious cases (such as where the reporter is later on record saying they were purposefully misrepresenting the situation to cause a problem). Anything else is an erosion of our rights as a people, since journalism is for our benefit.

I think you may have been looking at my comment as though I was someone agreeing or disagreeing with you specifically, and that may have colored your interpretation slightly. My intent was actually to make use of your pulpit to make what I thought was a related point, and wasn't specifically meant as a direct response to you. I mention this because I'm not entirely sure the point you are trying to convey in the last couple paragraphs, and how it relates.
If you think a Green Party vote is going to change anything either, you are also mistaken. :(
I hate to respond to myself, but it is interesting how you can get down-voted simply for providing a reference to man's own words.
No one is coming for anyone. No one has said a thing about American citizens. Your comparison is unfair. Comparing people whose policies you disagree with to Hitler is McCarthyism.

Hitler:

Before he even gained power, he said he wanted to gas the devil jews. Before he won power democratically, he tried to seize power in a violent coup that left 15 people dead.

Once he gained power, he quickly imposed a series of laws that made it illegal for jews to work in academia, own property, work as judges, work as doctors, etc.

Trump:

Enforce immigration laws that are already on the books, provide extra scrutiny to Muslims ("most of whom are wonderful people") before they are allowed into the country.
Actually, it is. Prove that Hillary's 30 years of being a political stooge qualifies her to lead the largest democracy in the world? When has she ever created an actual job? How did she make her hundreds of millions of dollars? Did she produce anything? Did she build a product and sell it? Did she build a company? Did she follow through on her promise to create 200,000 jobs in New York as a Senator? How have her foreign policy decisions impacted the world in places like Libya and Syria? How did spending $500 million to train 60 Syrian rebels end up? The left is so hyper-focused on trying to assassinate Trumps character that they can't even talk about her dismal record as a career politician and complete lack of real leadership skills. Pathetic.
For static files:

1. Mimefy plug: check

2. Gzip feature: check

3. HTTP/2 new protocol: check

4. Auto SSL: check

5. Cache static files on memory to avoid reading then on disk, then Mimefy, then gzip on eveeeery request: MISSING <- this plug would be nice to have it to reduce disk I/O and CPU.
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Well, I'm personally funded for the next 3 years, so as a one-man shop, I'm fine for awhile. In terms of actually getting funding, that's another question, but my university has a fair amount of startup development including a network of alumni who act as angel investors for in-house projects. There's also a local startup scene that I could conceivably look into.

As far as publishing goes. I've got papers that I'm working on now, and I've got several collaborations going that extend beyond my current program to faculty in other universities. So I'm building a network of people who are interested in the kind of research that I am doing that I could potentially facilitate.

The bottom line is that if I'm sitting on data or access to data, I'm going to have no shortage of academics who would like to get involved. They don't need to be superstars, just researchers who publish, and I'm doing pretty well in that department already. My immediate well-funded faculty supervisor's eyes light up when I talk to him about the kind of datasets I could potentially get for him. So there's potential funding on the academic side as well, at least on small to moderate scales.
> AMONG number systems, the hexadecimal system of counting (or 'radix') has a special place in the hearts of programmers, being closely related to binary, the fundamental number system used by all modern computers.

Could somebody explain how hexadecimal is more closely related to binary than any other base is? My only conclusion is that one hexadecimal digit is equivalent four binary digits.
I agree MXML and the Flex Component model feel very similar to JSX and the React Component model. For example take a look at the way the MXML Component Lifecycle worked: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2588503/mxml-component-li...
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I loved diving into these as I was first learning Python. It's like a much more interesting version of those silly string manipulation tasks you get in CS101, except that instead of passing a course you break harder and harder crypto. Great fun :)
In sorry, I can't let such obvious bullshit pass unchallenged.

There are many thousands of people who are being richly rewarded for supporting Trump, including members of the media like Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity, Corey Lewandowski, Bill O'Reilly, the entire staff of Breitbart, the entire "alt right" media ecosystem, etc.

In addition there are many thousands more who benefit financially from the pervasive coverage of Trump, like Jeff Zucker and other media executives.

Trump is polling above 40% nationally; he is not some secret oppressed political minority. He has received more benefit from media coverage than any other candidate.

However he is almost certainly going to lose, and that is because it is obvious that he would be a terrible president.
Actual tl;dr: Founder built a webapp for streamlining music submissions made by artists to music blogs. One important element of success was having a popular music blog himself.
I wish someone would tell this to UK politicians/media, where MPs are constantly being "bullied" by their constituents who said a mean thing to them on Facebook.
They should say whatever they want, but remember that silence looks an awful lot like assent.
I wanted to remove the login (or set up a dedicated demo page) when I planned on posting it in a week or so but this seemed like an opportune time to drop a link.

I assumed someone just changed the guest password, but it appears the database got in some strange locked state over night. It's sqlite since I want this to be as self-hostable as possible. Not sure if I somehow created a deadlock.

It should be fixed now. I'd never seen this lextutor site, I find it very interesting, it looks like its they've got very similar ideas, I found this on the research page: "One ineresting use of VP (I believe the main one for users of online VP) is to evaluate the suitability of reading texts for various levels of learners.".

That's basically what I'm doing at the moment. I'd also like to add an estimate of how many of the unknown lemma's i'm showing that you'd need to learn to get your comprehensions to 98% (or something like that) so that you'd know how much pre-studying might be worthwhile before diving into the text.

I haven't done much research into it but the 98% number gets through around a lot as an ideal place to be to pick up the remaining words through context.

edit: ah, just a few sentences down: "As a rule of thumb, learners can not do much with a text if they know fewer than 90% of its words. From 90% to 95% the text can be used intensively (for dictionary work, contextual inference, re-reads, etc.). From 95% to about 98%, the text can be used for fluency building. Above 98% the text can be used for 'reading to learn' rather than 'learning to read.'"
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The features are all encrypted using homomorphic encryption, which ends up mapping the overall distribuiton uniformly onto [0, 1]. If you play with the dataset, though, you'll find there are some significant correlations between the different features and you can make a model that does substantially better than chance.
At this point the "come work with Elm" only works at places that have long-term Elm experts and fans (e.g. No Red Ink which hired its creator, has their lead evangelist, and probably more than half the top Elm people in the world).
Depends. Is the post I responded to a product of a SJW markov chain?

Also, please add something to the discussion. You simply made an ad hominem attack and didn't address my points at all.
Utility to create jira tasks in toggl from issues and sync time entries from toggl to jira issues work log.

https://github.com/angusfretwell/jiggl/blob/master/README.md
You want to tread very carefully and consider what action to take, if any. If it is a major international ring, they will have no problem with "silencing" someone who threatens their operation.

If it is a major international ring, then it's almost certain that they are being assisted by a corrupt official. I would steer clear of contacting any federal or state level agency. If you value your safety, DO NOT contact the local police. Again, DO NOT contact the local authorities. Police are often some of the worst abusers of trafficked prostitutes, looking the other way in exchange for....favors.

If you feel compelled to do the right thing, I would contact a local advocacy group, This allows you to stay truly anonymous since they will not ask you try to identify you, interview you, require you to come in for a court case or further interview, or put you on some record whether official or not. Also, if you go to the authorities, you are definitely going to want a lawyer, which can be expensive. This is a good example of an organization to contact: http://www.womenslaw.org/gethelp_national_type.php?type_id=1... Furnish them with evidence, and let them contact the local authorities. This keeps you anonymous and off the record, don't have any chance to be called into court or the station to provide an interview, etc.

Good luck to you, would-be Elliot Alderson :)
Octal is 3 bits per digit, hexadecimal is 4. Either was / is widely used wherever you need to interact with bits (eg embedded development). But 10-based cannot be easily mapped to binary, so does not work as well.
When I was growing up it seemed to be common knowledge that substantial pieces of work take time, and therefore it isn't likely for one to produce many substantial pieces of work during a lifetime.

It remains to be seen if this unmanageable pace that we as an industry have adopted will make us crash and burn hard enough to not repeat our mistakes but as a species, we seemed doomed to repeat ourselves so I am slightly skeptical.

I'm glad to hear that you have works of pride.
The people who benefit are those who can raise funds/support for the next round.

It is more difficult to obtain objective evidence about biological sciences and its subset, medicine, than other fields such as maths or chemistry. This is due to the inherent complexity and poorly understood processes by which living organisms thrive, or not.

So, there is abundant interest from non-experts (i.e. potential investors or market analysts) in gaining a slice of attractive markets such as currently unmet conditions e.g. lung cancer or Alzheimer's disease. Such people are sometimes more easily swayed by the proclamations of "famous professors" than graduate students might be.

So, yes, there is in effect a lot of "vapourware" in the drug business. And much of it succeeds precisely because there is insufficient expertise on the behalf of investors, who get their knowledge of the underlying science third hand, or worse.
Why would it do that though? I don't really care for Tor, but private network? That's a bit strange to me. Can you or someone explain? Seems like it has no regard for privacy by the sound of it.
yet this law was made for identification purposes, not unlocking safes.
Which translates to "after years of work to establish a brand, this founder turned that brand into a successful business opportunity."

A great story and excellent business sense, to be sure. The "10 months" part is typical headline speak.
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I would say your conclusion is right. Some bases don't really make sense to use in conjunction with binary (5, 7, 10, etc.) but any power of two "works". I prefer hex to octal because a byte splits nicely into two hex digits.
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A quick look through Google Maps leads me to believe that this is most likely the substation where it happened: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Page,+AZ+86040/@37.1431342...

There's no perimeter security there to speak of - just a chain-link fence, and no bollards or anything else to keep someone from driving over it.

There are plenty of attack vectors available for this sort of thing, though. I'm not sure it's even possible to effectively protect something like this.
I don't see how Numerai can avoid the multiple comparisons problem [0]. If people submit thousands of random models, then some subset of them will do a fantastic job in predicting prices in historical simulations but do poorly under real market conditions. As long as the models are black boxes, there's likely no good way to distinguish them from noise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
Yeah, Elektronik is a direct loan from English electronics.

The language nazis are complaining we already have the word Elektrik for that because in German that apparently includes what is colloquially called Elektronik.

It's mostly an argument based on word origins (i.e. they say Elektronik would have to be similar to Mechatronik in that it would specifically refer to electronic motors and such rather than typical consumer electronics).

Of course Elektronik does have a distinct meaning separate from Elektrik and the entire argument is based on a simplistic understanding of how human language works.

But like many of the more outlandish arguments this boils down to "foreign words are corrupting our Germanic language and ultimately destroying our culture" -- which of course is insane.

The entire "Germanize the German language" idea was pretty popular in the Nazi era, btw, giving rise to many failed word creations as well as a few that stuck around (I think "Bürgersteig" successfully replaced the French loan word "Trottoir").