skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately, everyone (you, your family, that egg on Twitter, most pundits, and at least one organization purporting to be doing exit polling) has no fucking idea how exit polls are conducted and why those initial figures are a steaming pile of crap until real figures on turnout (i.e. the votes themselves) have been tabulated.

We do, don't be so condescending and expletive. The popular press just wants some cheap sound bites to get more views / clicks. They do the same with academic research, in which they mistake economic significance for statistical significance, ignore any shortcomings, ignore non-rejected hypotheses, and project the findings outside of the (often very limited) scope.
Why isn't LuaJIT instead? If they both get their speed from JIT, isn't LuaJIT faster than Julia?
"Dumping in real estate" will require the seller to "convert" that money which isn't trivial, keep in mind the seller himself would be trying his best to get it converted. Will it completely solve the black money, probably not, but at least it is the biggest step towards any kind of a solution in future.
I don't know. Sure Google has axed a lot of projects, but how many have they axed the size (and investment) of Google cloud? Just on HN you'd think they have hundreds of people on it just from the "-source work on google cloud" comments.
Previous comment of mine about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12744624

As for what to offer I think CRO is a pretty good option. I don't know the rates for that kind of service but it seems much more specific than "I can build websites.". Everyone and their dog builds websites these days so you'd probably have a hard time finding a competitive advantage in the website building space.

Ideally, find the most specific, valuable niche you can think of. CRO for a specific industry for example.
Marco Polo is $9m per episode.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/netflix-marco-polo-tv-show-bud...
1 USD is ~Rs 66. That is a staggering difference in purchasing power! I would guess that the only note in the US with a similar reputation which is still issued would be the $100. Notes larger than this ($500, $1000, $5000, and $10 000) have been discontinued since 1946 and actively destroyed by the Federal Reserve since 1969.

Isn't there a concern that those who were using these high denomination notes just switching to other currencies? Bhutan has a currency that is pegged 1:1 with the Indian Rupee and will (presumably) still issue Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. Sri Lanka is another possible candidate; and of course there are the standard global reserve currencies - the US dollar and the Euro - whose notes worth over Rs 1000 are relatively common place.
What does this have to do with anything? Are the gamers political dissidents?
The problem described by the article seems like a case of violating dimensional analysis, rather than Simpson's paradox. It might be more obvious if we use clear units: 50 scores voted for A in West, and 80 dozens voted in East.

The article talks about "weighting" the results, which is exactly figuring out the conversion from "democrats in West" to a common unit, "single person", to allow proper arithmetic operations on them.
It's an article more or less about his personal experience with Depression and OCD, on his personal blog, where he mentions several times angsty/sad songs were his escape, especially in his teens. It seems silly to pick apart who he quotes to me.
Meanwhile you only need three 500€ bills to make up for the average European income.
(And 500€ is 36651 rupees.) Those 500 and 1000 rupees are the largest denomination bills in India, but you need almost 10 times more of them to make up for the respective average income.
There is a fine balance between clickbait and honest lengthy headline. Very few are able to do walk that line.
Don't worry. I don't foresee much of an ad gap developing any time soon.
For me as old-time perl'er in Europe the birth of the web was PHP, not perl. I started using perl with perl4 to support my lisp programming. Yes, the relevant xkcd has some moments of truth.

perl CGI scripts were always considered to simple and insecure, and mod_perl in Apache too hard. This totally changed with PHP. Every webhoster offered PHP support but rarely proper perl CGI support with all the needed modules. PHP had everything included, was faster and had basic web support, esp. sessions and many core modules included.

Perl was a good hacking tool but not good enough for the web. I heard in the US this was different.

With Plack/Catalyst/Dancer this became different, but now also PHP7 matured to a proper language, ruby and rails came up, while perl stagnates since decades. perl6 is not the solution as the change is too disruptive. With my cperl, a perl11 (5+6) with classes it might get better, but there are no classes yet.
At least my perl compiler is now stable and offers memory and startup improvements, and easier deployment. Which is important on the web.
So you admit that Signal is insecure by design. All it seems like you're trying to do is distract from these glaring issues. If OWS was legitimately interested in security and anonymity, they wouldn't be including proprietary components and shutting down other open source projects that take matters into their own hands.
>is it the intimidators or the fearful?

Just regular people scared by media propaganda. That would be my guess. Exactly like the other items in the list. 'Long lines' doesn't mean people forming long lines are searching for it.
You seem to have strong views about the matter. Homebrew is open source after all; why not submit a pull request with the changes that you propose?
That's the kind of stuff I was getting on TextSecure and RedPhone. Many people refused to use it after it happened enough. Just the tech types that are hardcore about privacy.
I am personally not sure about the impact of this. I am hoping it will bring some positive change, Indians do have a habit of hoarding huge amounts of cash. It's not something specific to "black money hoarders".

Anyway I pity the bank employees for the coming few weeks!
It isn't. It's part of the Analytics 360 Suite. Other products in the suite being: Google Analytics, Google Optimize, Google Surveys, Audience Center, Google Attribution and Google Tag Manager. It's a very similar set of products to the Adobe Marketing Cloud.
"Lovas adds that currently, the de facto standard numerical programming language when talking to banks and other finance firms is Python/NumPy."
This is a fair point actually. I switched to the Mac a decade ago, but Mac hardware free-rides off the PC hardware market all the time. If we're honest, so does Linux. If Microsoft hadn't supported and grown the PC hardware industry for decades the whole desktop ecosystem would be a lot poorer.

Personally I'm very happy with the hardware options available to me on the Mac, but there's a whole world of hardware options over there in PC land I'll never take advantage of. Conversely Linux graphics card driver support is still woeful, but that's really not Microsoft's problem and if Linux didn't have the PC platform to run on it's hardware costs would be much higher. What would be the alternative, Sun-style workstations? It's not that Microsoft did this on purpose, but it's still a fact.
it's almost the perfect language. The breaking issue for me was the choice to count from 1 (yes, I know there are pro arguments for counting from 1, but every other language I use doesn't do that).
I tried the i3. It has nice acceleration. Inside it's about the same size as a BMW 3 series.

It is very ugly, however. The mix of materials used... yuck!
End of Rs. 500, Rs. 1000 Notes
What is the world going to do?

Boycott Chinese goods? That would entail massive economic pain.

Do a UN resolution? China is a permanent member of the Security Council with veto power.

Launch a military intervention? This would make people wish for a low casualty war like WW2.

Secretly arm a Hong Kong insurgency? No matter what arms Hong Kong has, China could destroy the rebellion with an army armed only with sticks due to the massive population difference.

There honestly is pretty much nothing Hog Kong or the rest of the world can do except whine.
Yeah, I was noticing that too. 150% spike in voting machine problems at 8:30 EST in Seattle.
You don't get the option to vote in person. We don't even have voter booths.

Instead, the state mails you a voter guide and a ballot that you fill out in the convenience of your own home. This allows you to review the candidates and new proposed bills line by line.

Once filled out you simply drop it off at one of the hundreds of drop-off locations and you're done (or mail it in if you have time). This can all be done weeks ahead of November 8th.
I disagree with that. There is a certain socialization (and mimicry) involved. However, if you were to strip out the socialization as well as strip out the pattern of physical sensations that arises, there will still be something, which is the emotion.

I am not speaking metaphorically. I'm talking about using your own consciousness as the laboratory and your awareness as the instrument to examine and experience this directly. It is possible to concentrate on an emotion as it is being experienced, and mentally distinguish between what is the socialization and what is not. The same with distinguishing what are patterns of physical sensations related to the emotion.
I have used both in the science context and found Julia much better suited for mathematical problems. Matrix/vector support built into the language is a huge advantage. On top, running code in parallel environments is better supported by Julia (Macros, scheduling, etc...). On top of it, Julia has an excellent Python interface which makes it possible to also use this huge ecosystem of libraries. Makes it easy to use matplotlib out of the box.
Totally - I used to work as quant for a boutique asset manager and the whole business was running on spreadsheets.

Insane.

Ended up putting it all in a database and developing an excel add-in to pull it from the database as array formulae. Used a great library called Excel DNA to develop the add-in using C# if anyone is interested.
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> that I couldn't WILL myself better (not for want of trying I can tell you).

Trying to will myself better didn't work for me either. But medication made things so much worse. I was emotionally numb for a decade because I bought into the thinking that the medication was helping. It allowed me to get back to work, but I lost 10 years in the prime of my life that I'll never get back. Ironically, having so many regrets for those 10 years clued me into the damaging thought patterns that were causing my depression. My mind was spending too much time thinking about the past and visualizing the future.

A conscious emphasis on being present and living in the moment has done wonders for me. And I only mention this because your comment felt like willing yourself better was the only way to think your way out of depression, which is absolutely not the case. Sometimes perspective matters more than determination.
Yes, there's been some scientific workloads that used Julia/MPI to great effect. I don't think the paper is out of review yet, so probably can't link to details, but expect news on that front very soon.
I came from the complete opposite direction. I actually learned programming in BASIC on an Apple II computer in a community education course at my local middle school back in 1980. Programming was a big part of my life for the next 5-10 years, until I fell into other career and education opportunities. It went something like this...

Drafter --> Teacher --> Education in Industrial Design --> Ux Designer --> Teacher --> Ux Designer --> Programmer.

During this timeline of about 30 years I never stopped programming as a hobby. I HATED the politics of teaching (which I did for nearly 20 years) but it paid the bills. Ux...well, everywhere I designed, I felt expendable and, like education, it was highly political. For many decades I felt like there was a big hole in my life. I wasn't happy. Then...I decided "F it!" and dropped it all to pursue programming as a career. While it hasn't been bliss, I am much happier. I am not inclined to slave away as a hired gun. Programming has been a way to express my ideas in a way that I was never able before. At 47 years old I feel like I'm preparing for a trip to the base camp at Mt. Everest. I figure that by time I hit the summit I'll be ready to retire, but I WILL retire on such a high note. Maybe I'll die on the summit :)
Hmm, I'm not sure where you got these numbers, but none of them are correct. Ten hours of downtime a month? We measure this pretty obsessively, and haven't had that much downtime in a three year period.

I appreciate the sentiment for what you're saying, but our direct user growth has surprised even us (again, not sure where you're getting your numbers), and Signal Protocol is now on over two billion devices.

If your major concerns are reliability and user growth, I think federated protocols are likely to exacerbate rather than improve those conditions -- as we've seen with XMPP historically. However, I would love it if you proved me wrong. Signal can be deployed in a federated environment today, let me know if you need any help setting it up.
A combustion engine is not quiet when compared to EV.
Besides, the Volkswagen scandal has erased a lot of goodwill and eroded trust in Diesel technology.
If you need performance on these kind of structures, you can use structured arrays in python.

The main reason I like the idea of Julia is that I don't see the problem of parallelism being addressed in python, at least not without cumbersome libraries (disclaimer: I haven't tried dask yet). If python had an equivalent to

#pragma omp parallel for

I wouldn't have Julia ready in mind for my next project that requires creating a high performance algorithm.
One of the main points developing this was making it flexible on the back-end so adding new networks is a breeze. I am considering options for https://comments.network/ future, since I would love for it to grow. Would you pay say 10-15$ for making it all open-source so you can install it on your own server?
That's why I said, "Trickle down".
Chrome will officially support headless mode: http://crbug.com/546953
Biased article. Apparently some people can't grasp the fact that being isolated from the world is the least of China's worries.
Oregon and Washington are both vote by mail states, so no polling places on the day.
Speaking as an ex-film producer - nope.

It's tremendously difficult to share the problems inherent in most showbiz professions.

That's partially because they tend to be very complex and counterintuitive. If we wanted to have a conversation about my problems selling a feature film (assuming I was currently doing so - thankfully I'm not), I'd first need to give you a 90-minute seminar on how selling films works in 2016, unless you're also in the business.

It's also partially because people are usually very jealous of you working in such a cool profession, and thus any problems you have become "complaining about diamond shoes pinching".
So how did you approach it?
That's why I'm becoming increasingly skeptical of the usefulness (in the scientific sense) of complexity theory as it's currently laid out.
We already know that instances of NP-Hard problems are either easily solvable, in poly-time, or take exponential time, depending on the location of the instance in the problem space.

For example in SAT, the distance of the instance to the critical clause/variable threshold.
In subset sum, the density of the instance.

It's not the problem class that matters.
A really nice thing about it is that you have the same top-notch IDE support as JVM-based Scala. That is what I find lacking when I want to try other compile-to-JS functional languages (with the exception of ClojureScript, which also has excellent IDE support).
"Rural Right Wing Nuts Challenging Voter Credentials" , "Urban Left Wing Maniacs Handing out Booze for Votes" and "Voting Machines Problems" are staple news stories on Election Day in America.
I don't think Hyperloop is going to result in anything particularly useful. It seems to have a lot of fundamental problems. I'm sure it's no coincidence that Elon Musk tossed the idea out with minimal support rather than having one of his companies build it, or founding a new one.

However, it seems a bit premature to say that it's too much saying and not enough doing. It's only been out there for about three years. There have been scale-model pods built, and test tracks are under construction. If anything, progress seems remarkably fast for such a radical machine.
It was openSourced as OpenRefine. https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine
Any good references to gathering stats using debugger and visualizing with Python?
This is not as stupid an idea as I thought from the headline, but it still suffers from the problem that (for good reason), there is no way for a position to prove who they voted for. As such, both parties are strictly better off cheating by saying they want to trade and voting for their own preferred candidate instead.
Just a question-did you ever consider using Jupiter Notebooks? Or RMarkdown Notebook?
The moment of truth arrives for the USC/L.A. Times tracking poll
Great, taxpayer subsidized click bait.
Depends on whether you're optimizing for latency or throughput - and of course, in some systems, that decision changes on an instant-to-instant basis. For throughput, indexing and shuffling is probably going to be the bottleneck, and that's dependent on network and filesystem I/O. But for the low-latency path, choice of language absolutely matters, so if you want to be able to share code between the two you end up needing both a fast language and fast architecture.
Come on, Trump very deliberately made voter fraud, of which voter intimidation is a big component, a major campaign issue.
India scraps 500 and 1,000 rupee bank notes overnight
You are misinformed. They are priced pretty much identically. I can get a new BMW i3 for 36.500€ here in Germany. I bet the Model 3 will be just as expensive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/business/international/ecb...
Janjosh Hindi News paper
No, you have factually incorrect information. OWS shut down this fork because it removed Google Cloud Messaging:

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal

In what way is it out of bounds to point out deeply suspicious behavior?
What aspects of orbitals do they get wrong?
Python numerical libraries links to LAPACK/BLAS/etc because that's how people used to do scientific computing before Python. Also for scientific computing you're mostly CPU bound which means that no one would use Python if the libraries were slower than Fortran or C. But big data problems are different in the sense that you're typically bound by IO, so while it certainly helps to have fast code it wouldn't be the first problem you'd want to solve.
It depends on what kind of data you're working with and what kind of operations you perform on it. If protein folding, then that's computationally expensive and the language will matter, doing mapreduce jobs, language matters little as the network overhead is going to be your bottleneck in a distributed environment.
IIRC, Standard Chartered achieved this by initially adding Haskell interop to Excel[0] and then moving to a custom GUI solution to replace Excel altogether.

[0]- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgOzYZDrXL0
It's not quite an evacuated tube, which makes it different enough from the old concepts to be interesting. The pressure in the hyperloop tube is very low, but it's not a vacuum. This means that the tube can be relatively leaky, and the air that it does contain is also used to lift the vehicle.
Chrome works pretty well on Linux.
I work in aerospace engineering, and it's definitely the same here. In scientific research or engineering these days, there are a lot of potential steps up from excel spreadsheet hell or spaghettified MATLAB code.

Bonus points for the facilitation of any type of documentation, automated testing, or version control.
Obviously they are talking about projects going forward. The article makes that pretty clear.

"Microsoft is now open by default and you actually have to make a case on a team/peer review level if you feel something needs to be closed,” said de Icaza."

Should they stay guilty forever for the things done in the previous regime?
I hate the name, but the diffing capabilities are really awesome - something I've struggled to get right in my work flow.
Which Americans have been arbitrarily detained or disappeared due to criticism of the authorities?
Well, nothing like having to “log in” to a product to make it feel “open”, or have it randomly prioritize verifying its own license for 60 seconds over letting you launch and begin your work.
2,000 rupees is 30 USD at today's exchange rate.

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to exchange them at a money changer wherever you happen to be now, but for that amount it may well not be worth it.
by searching "voter intimidation"
Yeah, and you never die in SMB. Your hands just go up, and your character bounces off screen.

/s
No, he's not missing the point. He was already elevated thanks to SpaceX and Tesla by the time he described Hyperloop.
I finally realized I was depressed when I couldn't remember a time I wasn't angry. I didn't know that constant irritation and low-level anger are also depression symptoms. I remembered trouble sleeping and no energy and sadness, but "anger" was new to me. When I started getting pissed at other drivers and couldn't be patient with my son, my wife said, "Are you okay?"

I wasn't. I was depressed. I started taking medication and I slowly got better. I still had a lot of the mental habits of depression ("How long has it been since I've showered?" and "Why aren't I telling my friends what I'm going through?") but I worked on those. And I asked for help, from everyone who loved me. And they helped a lot. Who knew! ( =
Ah, you've played it!

Do you feel like a hero yet?
> If they taught you that, they are most definitely wrong, it sounds loosely like induction, but with two strange names instead of "electric" and "magnetic" :-).

I don't think "definitely wrong" is a good description. electrostatic and electrodynamic are perfectly good, if somewhat archaic, terms for the electric and magnetic fields. (E and H fields)
File syncing should not be confused with file backup. You should leverage both as apart of a comprehensive solution.

https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/dat...
Always fun to point out is that the NY federal reserve switched their full scale model of the economy to Julia last year[1]. It's also open source, so data scientists interested in macroeconomics can feel free to play around with it.

Moreover, quant-econ, an academic entity dedicated to scientific programming in the social sciences has a few notebooks in python and Julia [2]

[1]https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl

[2] http://quantecon.org/notebooks.html
Except with amazing pay, serious benefits, and better working conditions.
IMO this is more just that people are really bad at reading themselves. With someone else, you can see the body language and know that they're upset; but with yourself it can be harder to observe body language and other clues.

Most people walk around unaware of their mental state on a minute-by-minute basis. I'm one of them -- I didn't believe it until recently, but once I started unraveling the anxiety I'd been walking around with for years, it became obvious to me why most people thought I was just a grumpy jerk. Other people don't perceive you the way that you do; and in many cases they may have a better perspective.
I'm favoriting the post just for this comment. Thank you kind sir.