skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fundamentally, git is a tool for manipulating directed graphs.
How so? They're easy to set up, especially with a compatible router.
I honestly don't care about anything a news rag says about our nebulousy defined dire economic prospects unless they've taken out an appropriate corresponding short position against the market and have a record of making winning forecasts.

To be fair, I used to play poker professionally, so my disposition to this kind of talk is that it's useless bathroom chatter unless the writer(s) are willing to make a quantitative prediction about the distribution of likely market futures which they would make a corresponding non trivial bet on (which market anyway? The article doesn't really operationalize anything).
We didn't decide it; it just happened. The intro to "The Big Short" covers this quite well - Lewis S. Ranieri, all that.

but what can I say? We're a culture that in 1969 went to the moon, but by 1974/5 we were cutting everything we could.
A bit like how the iPod would never have a radio because Apple knows what's best for people... and then it did?

Or how the iPhone was the perfect ergonomic size and all anyone should need or want... and then they embiggened it?
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That is absolutely amazing.
Could you wrap your web app with a thin Mac app, like Kiwi for gmail?
Hah, yea, good point. Honestly though, I live in northern California, and I have climbed a good handful of the 10k peaks around here, but there are just so many more I have not had the time to visit. So many parts of the Pacific Crest Trail that I havn't been able to hike. And that's just stuff in a 2 hour drive. I've climbed a few dozen of the Tahoe peaks, but there are so many more to do. Over the past few years, I've probably gotten to a mountain top once every 4 weeks. Some months I go every weekend, other months I get busy with other things. I never want to do Everest. But, there are some 14k in Denver that might be fun. Believe me, I'll hike more trails and mountains than most people, but there are just so many hikes, and not enough weekends.
Is there a dataset somewhere with sentences/paragraphs labeled with cognitive biases? The idea of a machine learning program auto labeling college essays with faulty deductive logic is enticing. Then run the system backward to generate logically sound arguments like the yahoo Nsfw detector post recently.
No, hell no. Desktop UIs — whether macOS, Windows, or any of the Linux environments — are not suitable for touch. They have to be gimped or uglified in some way to be touch-friendly; just look at the Windows 8 "Metro" disaster.

They are certainly not comfortable to use for long periods; just try using the Windows Classic Desktop with only touch for an entire day, without reaching for a mouse or trackpad whatsoever.

There is also the notion of active/focused windows in desktop OSes; on an iPad you can simultaneously interact with and truly control two apps at the same time, using multitouch in side-by-side split-view, but on Windows/macOS/Linux this creates some hard problems:

If your fingers are each on different window, over a different control of different apps, which apps receives keyboard input? Which app should get to display its menu? Which window is foreground and which are in the background?

If you need to draw in desktop apps, you're going to need a dedicated drawing tablet anyway, or you could use an iPad Pro + Apple Pencil with AstroPad [1] or Duet Pro [2].

[1] http://astropad.com

[2] http://www.duetdisplay.com/pro/
Seems like exposure to mild stressors would be a good way to cause senescent cells to go apoptotic. Calorie restriction, exercise, hypoxia, heat shock, etc.
Software that impersonates me? I already have enough people putting words in my mouth already thank you.

If only if it were so effective and publicly available as they were saying. Why should Facebook have all the good stuff?

I'd love a chat-bot that sounds like me. Answer e-mails do errands, etc. Face recognition technology sounds promising too.
You don't need a $25 adaptor, just a $25 cable!

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0X2AM/A/usb-c-to-lightni...

Seriously though the next iPhone/iPad will surely going to use USB-C also and ditch Lightning, which will dramatically simplify the connector situation going on at Apple.
I'm kind of surprised this sort of spectacle no longer exists. Considering the enormous popularity of depictions of violence in mass media, sports, and video games, real gladitorial games would probably be pretty popular. You'd think at least some third world country without much concern for pesky thinks like morals, ethics, or human rights, or animal welfare would have them.
> ...and milk is always pints.

Returned milk is (you know, in dem bottles). But milk you buy in the store is 1L, 2L, etc.

> Oddly just about everyone still uses feet and inches for their height.

True. Probably because of the recognition of the 6' centering measurement. People know that if you're 6', that's kind of the cut-off for what is referred to as 'tall enough'. Over that, you're generally 'tall'. Under that, and you're average height.
If it's just the age of the kernel worrying you, have a look at the backported kernels for debian stable.
A proxy between you and your ISP? How do you talk to the proxy?
our best students to really well. our average students are doing poorly / lagging behind. the US also has an anti-intellectual bent to it. You can be smart, but you can't be too curious or question anything.
Relating to tech, it's definitely significantly harder to raise series A and beyond then it was a year ago. Seems like a lot of companies aren't getting the next round they were expecting to and as a result there's been a focus on building profitable businesses rather than investing hard in just user growth (eg. snapchat).

You can see this trend by the significant uptick in acquisitions and layoffs lately... If founders can't raise they have to look for an exit or downsize.

Feels like the market is still pretty spooked from oil and China in Q1 and then Brexit in Q2. Will be interesting to see what happens next!
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My personal favorite is not listed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

M2V is the velocity of M2, roughly: How fast money is changing hands via transactions.
So if Redux sux now...how bad was Reflux and Flux?
I think rote learning is a really really important thing, perhaps the most important thing, in math. Math is like any sport... you get good at it by practice practice practice. Check check check check. You have to train your brain to be good at it, and it can be hard, just like anything you train at.

> Many of the more "fun" math techniques rely on knowledge acquired through rote memorization

I wasn't aware of this. I have a nine-year-old. Are there any examples of this?
I was only able to get past the login page once I cleared all nytimes cookies from my browser.
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My guess: Adventures in Time and Space

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_in_Time_and_Space

My absolute favorite book growing up. Re-read it countless times. Highly recommended.
The best ( biggest impact ) ways in which human suffering has been relieved have largely been A Whole Lot about people accumulating imaginary play chips. An example - Alexander Fleming and penicillin - getting penicillin to large scale production and to market was a huge task. Most things are like that.
> I'm just saying if you're looking for a cheap solution here you're not going to find it.

That's a given. I think in this context the user was asking how to meet performance goals with cost possibly secondary or not a concern... and in that case BQ has proven to be incredible at churning through large datasets within seconds.
I'd argue the iMac was a different situation because there was an immediate upside to using USB peripherals, namely they were much cheaper than Mac proprietary stuff. For example HP had a popular inkjet printer, the PC (parallel port) version was $150, while the Mac (serial port) version was $300. The floppy wasn't a huge loss either as most Mac users were using Zip disks.

There's no real advantage right now in using TB3/USB-C, because pretty much nothing else uses it. And I'd bet that, in 2020, USB-A, HDMI, DP, and even VGA will still be in common use, so I'll probably be using dongles forever.
> "The country’s pre-eminent newspapers, including this one, have long been controlled by families who have understood that the press is not just an ordinary industry, but a civic calling."

Doublespeak at its finest. Love it.
It was kind of a vague notion of slavery; you could use population to hurry production. But, there are many things that cause population loss, and so it looked kinda like any other mechanism that lost population. Then again, one could say that every element of civ is just some number in memory being assigned meaning.
"wild-beast killings until the sixth century"

I guess 21st century bull-fighting fits in here somehow.
One advantage of closing the lid is that whatever you had open on the laptop will then “jump” to the big screen and may even figure out that there is more screen space and resize automatically. If you just open the lid and plug it in, everything you had open on the laptop remains cluttered on the small screen and your big additional desktop is just blank.

I’ve occasionally used both at once (e.g. E-mail in the small laptop window, everything else on the big screen) but that is generally for when I don’t plan to move for quite awhile. If I am constantly grabbing my machine, coming back, etc. then closed-lid is less of an interruption.
Obligatory meme.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkCVg49VEAE-zku.jpg
> Firefox is way slower when it comes to Javascript execution than Chrome

If you have specific pages where you're seeing this, please file bugs on Firefox and add "bzbarsky" to the cc list for the bug!
I know a lot of people who use hg with github; I don't personally so I'm not sure how it's setup.
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I've found Sierra to be very disappointing. A few new features I'll never use, and things I do use everyday are now broken, e.g., the new PDFKit broke Skim annotations. Sigh.

The new machine actually looks ok to me, though I agree the advance over the previous model seems very incremental.
could it be that Free Basics is itself a dictatorship? run by none other than Mark Zuckerberg himself?
>how can they get away with claiming to be from the IRS and demand money?

I feel like these sorts of scams increasingly involve calling/emailing people in one country from a different country. This is presumably because enforcement within any single country is becoming more and more effective. By targeting people in other countries you create a situation where multiple police forces need to cooperate which presumably means you are able to operate for longer before arrests start happening.
At first I thought the article was going to explain why it isn't worth pursuing agelessness, but I'm impressed at how well it wrapped everything up. Great article, thanks.
I hate to bust yer bubble :) , but the Founders were largely deeply indebted aristocrats who felt mostly a slight to their honor. That is largely why the Revolution happened.

The British Empire continued into the "sun never sets" level. The effects of the British Empire on the colonies has been a mixture of good and bad. They thought about it hard, in a John Stuart Mill way about it. They were often wrong, many were horrifyingly venal about the colonies and it all ended soon enough.

The fundamental problem is that the ability of people to be terrible is a real challenge to counter. It's simply not easy. And the classic Conservative trope is that we really don't know how we got here in a comprehensive fashion.

We live in an utterly amazing time.

I'd also dump Maslow soon. There's too much hubris amongst the rich and powerful for it to work well.
This is true. Also uncertainty around the US election.
I've used vorlon.js to debug web and Cordova / Ionic mobile apps.

"An open source, extensible, platform-agnostic tool for remotely debugging and testing your JavaScript. Powered by node.js and socket.io."

http://vorlonjs.com
Good fucking God, a company that hasn't made a profit in ten years is paying their CFO $70M? I hate Silicon Valley so much.
> Only Congress can.

Sorry, I should have said 'government'. There are three branches of the US government : the legislature, the judiciary, and the executive. You have a say in all of them though. Don't you vote in your congress-people and senators?

So...

They can. The government can always modify or repeal the act that defines their constitution and authority. They're your representative. If you don't like an act, get them to change it.
>keep the "secret recipe" to ourselves
>Everyone will have a list like that

You and/or your publishers are terrible human beings.
I think it's been two or three years since I've plugged my iPhone into my computer to do something besides charge it. Good riddance! iTunes in the later years felt awkward and hard to use.
How many of the people involved in those accomplishments are boasting American middle school education?
I mean that's really the problem. For some reason we think things will just make sense once we are taught the lesson and we try an exercise. But that's so often not the case. Accept you'll never be the genius who creates new things - maybe you will but put that aside. Focus on trying hard and committing yourself. It doesn't matter if it's math or cooking food, the more you try it and think of it and accept failure the better you'll be. Accept your limits as a creator but never accept that you can't understand a concept if you spend the time you personally need at it.
"Real estate share of output near an all-time high" indicates that a new real estate crash is likely.

Median house price / median income is getting high again. Historically, that's around 2.2. Much higher, and people can't make the mortgage payments.[1] Then the mortgage default rate starts climbing. Then the bubble pops.

But it takes a long time. The time constants in real estate are many years long.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/08/daily-c...
They'll lose to Twitch long-term.
You understand that your point is flawed? Compromise isn't always necessary! The OP was looking for innovation in this space, similar to say what Tesla did for autos.
Who did they rank instead of ProtonMail?
I agree with you, but I don't understand which point you are making. Are you saying it is a default human behaviour to be the loud person or to be the quiet person?

Loud people disrupt the quiet people, and quiet people can't work with loud people around. Either kind of behaviour makes the system not work.
It's probably folly to expect games, even very rich history-based games like Civilization, to be accurate on every detail, even big details, like slavery. Everything gets boiled down to a number (+2 culture, 15% combat strength in friendly territory, etc.), anyway, so it's kind of arbitrary which real world elements find their way in as one of those numbers. Slavery has been in Civs in the past, where it could be used to trade population and happiness for hammers (rushed production).

That said, I miss some of the mechanics in earlier Civ games. Civ IV, with all expansions, is still my favorite of the Civs (though I haven't played Civ VI, yet, and won't until the Linux version arrives), partly because it was so complex. On the whole, Civ games are far more educational than the average video game, even "educational" games. If you dig into the Civilopedia and look past the numbers in memory (e.g. Stonehenge is +5 faith, and pyramids are free workers and faster tile improvement, but also have real world history).

But, I don't expect Civ games to be "realistic"; I mean, I wouldn't suggest that pyramids were used to store grain because I saw that pyramids in Civ II/III and FreeCiv provided a granary in every city (effectively providing food storage in every city). Though I guess if a presidential candidate can make that mistake, it's not so unreasonable to think people are considering Civ games a reliable source of historic information.
Are you saying that more out of being upset that someone rich would dare to give average people advice about happiness?

Or are you actively positively suggesting that wealth makes you happier, as in having more positive emotions, and therefore to be happy we ought to seek to earn more?

Taking your comment at face value, I think this latter statement hasn't borne out to be true in the psychology literature. Wealth doesn't correlate strongly with positive affect, especially after a point.
If the data is collected at all, it can be collected incorrectly (e.g. stored in such a way that it is stolen eventually, “permissions” be damned). Still solving the wrong fundamental issue.

We desperately need to work on reducing the importance of data itself. We must assume by default that all information will be improperly handled pretty much anywhere (or, that the task of keeping it secure indefinitely is just too hard).

That means: data whose usefulness expires extremely quickly (with corresponding protocols), and the complete retirement of stupid bits of information we now carry like social security numbers and credit card numbers that can instantly screw you in the wrong hands. In fact, we ought to have proxies for EVERYTHING; I don’t know why I even have to hand out my home address, for instance, when in theory I could give a company some temporary proxy address that routes to my house only as long as I ALLOW that forwarding; after that, it becomes meaningless and cannot be used for junk mail.
> Instead of "FCC voted today on a new ISP resulations..." it would be "Today President Obama approves new FCC recommendation...".

Again, how could that be done realistically? The President would do nothing else and still have no chance to keep up. They could print the statement the way you describe, but it would be deceitful.

Also, we want to depoliticize regulations; I'm not sure I want the President involved in every one.
You could have just said java ;)
Lately I've been experimenting with comonads to structure stateful code. The idea is that a comonad describes the interface for a state machine, and you can convert any comonad in Haskell into a monad transformer which acts as a restricted form of the state monad. The state monad describes expressions that can arbitrarily manipulate a state of some type. The monad you derive from a comonad does not have direct access to its state, the comonad describes all the allowed manipulations and queries.

This is all described and implemented here: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/kan-extensions-5.0.1/doc...

In particular, the type:

data CoT w m a = CoT { runCoT :: forall r. w (a -> m r) -> m r }

Let's unpack this. The following type represents a state machine whose nodes are labeled with a continuation demanding an `a` and executing an effect:

w (a -> m r)

The forall quantification in CoT means that it does not care what the result value is. It will take a state machine, manipulate it for a bit, produce an `a`, pick a continuation from the state machine and execute it.

That's a lot going on! I don't have time or space to explain how this is actually useful but here's a handy approximation:

- `w` is an interface

- `w s` is a model labeled with a value of `s` for each state it can occupy. These labels are a sort of view.

- `CoT w m a` is a controller that can manipulate a model and compute in some effectful context.

High powered MVC. The upshot is that because we're leaning on Functors, Monads, and Comonads there are extremely well behaved and natural composition operations. For example, `fmap` allows us to change the view of a model by applying a pure function. The fact that `CoT` is a monad means that we can run controllers in serial, as well as combine our controller languages in sensible ways. The fact that `w` is a comonad means we can reason about the behavior of models equationally. This lets us transform, compose, and compare models with mathematical precision.

This is a project I only seldom work on in my spare time. I have already applied it to writing GUI's and game logic to good effect but I'm still exploring the design space regarding reactivity and temporal behavior. This has led me to reading the mathematical literature pertaining to products of comonads/sums of monads (they're dual).
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I just can't see an ai getting offended. It seems in my opinion to stem from status seeking behavior in humans, which I think is baked into us via evolution. Better status = better outcomes with wealth, children etc. If you threaten that status, offense is taken (perhaps by insinuating you have some sort of genetic or character flaw). If a computer doesn't care what people think, or how many children it will have, why would it get offended? I feel like people ascribe a lot of human emotions to ai which I think is detrimental.
That's not a self-driving car. A sometimes self-driving car is going to get people killed.
Halt production? It seems these soylent formulations are versioned. So can't they revert back to an older version till they fix the issue? Or its not as simple as this?
Not at all. Just pointing out the inconsistency in recommending that people avoid social media sites like Facebook... and use a tool that's owned by Facebook, and which shares account information with it, as a replacement.
Fair enough, you need the RAM, but you should probably realize how atypical your usage is. 16GB is more than enough for 99+% of people.
Is it the version or the process? This isn't software, you have a lot of mechanisms & parties in play.

The biggest thing at risk here is reputation. Let me draw a comparison: how much worse would it have been for Samsung to just halt production of the Galaxy S7 then to race forward and produce a new, still-exploding version?
> But they shoulda kept a standard USB port.

USB Type C is standard and far more powerful than Types A or B. The ecosystem is still maturing, and I hope this drives it forward as Apple's switching to Type A on the iMac did so 15 or so years ago.
> “Our tests all came back negative for food pathogens, toxins or outside contamination,” the company wrote.

If that's true, then it could be part of the formulation that causes a small percentage of people to get sick. Maybe it's akin to how cilantro causes some people to have a very alkaline taste when they eat it.
Probably because it is the phone UI.
Not intending to debate anything here, just framing the FMLA requirements. The mother and father are allowed 12 weeks of combined leave. If they both take off, it's 6 weeks each. And businesses are not required to pay you while you're off. They just can't fire you.
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It's an intriguing theory and worth bringing up, but it's also a conspiracy theory in that it's impossible to substantiate or disprove, which is a little too convenient.

I'm sure it happens to some degree, but perhaps Chomsky is unhappy that most people disagree with his views and attributing it to some hidden force.
I think its much more important to implement the things you describe to protect us from humans, rather than ai.
Still waiting for the facts, but I'm pleasantly surprised and impressed by Soylent's response. I think they're doing the right thing.
A typical user needs the screen but will never need more than 16GB of RAM.
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