skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Celebrity is lumpy. Bowie, Prince and Cohen were big lumps.

- The lumps are distributed unevenly. Baby boomers are dying around now, and they created their own culture.

- Celebrity itself only became big roughly (very roughly) as these people came of age and did their great works.
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If you're basing the claim that they discovered America first on the book 1421 (which many people do) then you should know it's generally considered to be very poor quality historical research by most historians.
That's a serious flaw in their program. Wonder what it would take to resolve this.
You may be underestimating how difficult it is to make good and correct strides in social science, compared to hard sciences.

To a large extent progress in sciences like sub-atomic physics depends on ability to (1) simplify the problem down to mathematical laws, (2) conduct repeatable, randomized controlled experiments to rule out hypotheses about them.

Social sciences deal with phenomena that are extraordinarily complex, so hypotheses usually have to be qualitative rather than mathematical, and devising good experiments is very hard. Falsification is hard. Most hypotheses can be "generally true" yet have specific counterexamples in some times and places.

As for empirical data, you can use data to tell a million plausible stories, and many of those probably have some nugget of truth. But without randomized trials, how do you falsify any of these stories? It's hard.
What else was it based on though? Honest question, to my knowledge there was never ever any similar issue raised for any president before and there seems to never have been any really good reason to doubt he was born here, no you, except that one. So I don't really think it's just opinion but the only logical conclusion to why this was started, no?
That's a serious flaw in their program. Wonder what it would take to resolve this
IIRC LLVM's functionality for JIT is new and/or experimental (patchpoints).

Sure, LLVM can literally compile just in time, but JITs need much more than that.
"We used variables collected at the appropriate sweeps of the NCDS to control for childhood factors which might affect...."

... snip ...

"Family aspiration was estimated from parents desire that their child leaves school at the minimum age, asked at age 11."

There was no judge of parental involvement beyond whether parents had a desire for their children to go to university or get A-Levels.
Grubhub CEO tells pro-Trump employees they have ‘no place’ in company
The people that would most benefit from that plugin wouldn't be the ones to use it. If you are aware of your media bubble, you probably have the cognitive tools to do something about it.

If it isn't solved at the root, i.e. at the Facebook level, it won't be solved. However, since Facebook's commercial interests are aligned against it, I am pessimistic it will be solved. Maybe Facebook's successor can solve it.
Better and easier to do a Google News search for the link itself. If the link doesn't show up in news search, it can be considered a less credible source. If the link shows up, it'll be accompanied by follow up sources
He was merely demonstrating the contrast between two people and doing so politely and in an eloquent way, whether you agree with him or not why should the mods be involved? And why should he be ashamed of himself/herself..
Literally everything in my life is more important to me than any aspect of your mother
PHP 7 is the next upgrade from PHP 5? I am very new to PHP and learning from a book which is PHP 5.
`?` will convert the original error to the one the caller returns so you can implement the decoration in the conversion if that's suitable, otherwise `Result#map_err` lets you convert an error "at the callsite" (and is a noop if there was no error). Alternatively, you can use error_chain: https://brson.github.io/error-chain/error_chain/index.html.
Lets do a fusion kickstarter. All reward levels can be "carbon free energy".
The real bubble is the press. Their unsustainable model of patting themselves on the back and getting in bed with the politicians they're supposed to be shedding light on has them in a downward spiral. Case in point: the front page of the NY Times the day after the election.

The false narrative in tfa is another example of denial. How could Trump win unless everyone in the midwest is a racist homophobe?

The fact is, Hillary was such a poor candidate that even Trump was able to defeat her. Just accept it and move on. Accusing people in the midwest of being racists just makes you look like a fool. Take some constructive action like making sure the Democrat party has a less corrupt nominating process.
The Manhattan Project cost about $26bn in 2016 dollars, while ITER is expected to cost over $20bn by the time it's done.

The problem with trying to solve something like this by throwing money at it too early, is what if the technological approach chosen doesn't work out? The more money you put into it, the more you would waste. Right now there at least half a dozen possible ways Fusion could be achieved commercially, but we don't know which one(s) will pan out. Even then, to be viable some of them may require the development of enabling technologies we haven't even thought of yet. So yes they are worth pursuing, but on the basis of a measured assessment of cost and benefit.
I used Scala for a few projects.

I won't do it again.
I have the feeling fashion entered the IT world in the era of the first tech bubble when being a geek suddendly became synonym for being rich, and open source technologies started to do marketing instead of white papers and specs. Not sure it's the best thing that happened to our field.
Yeah if we just spin things the right way that'll fix...something.
It has very different semantics in Rust than it does elsewhere though.
The author may be right about the cultural factors he talks about, but the economic issues, which I suspect are much more significant in the midwest's decision on Tuesday, are being seriously understated.

One sentence only, and a major understatement at that: "Change has not been kind to the Midwest and rural America."
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"If we pin this election on coastal elites, we are excusing white working-class and rural Americans for voting for a man accused of violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent apartments to black people."

This sentence alone illustrates the very membrane at work that holds together the "intelligentia" bubble. Accusing the dummies of immorality while just employing more advanced tools for your deviseveness does make you the bigger bigot.

When your mind starts copy pasting headlines from the "accusational BS by trolls" folder to your personal "trusted facts" folder thats stupidity at work. But if the passing BS is just allowed if its coming from inside your echo chamber that doesn't make you more elevated. It just elevates your ignorance.
> People listen up until the point you prove to them you're not worth listening to.

And they decide that based on emotions, which marks them as not being capable of rational discussions.
I was able to convince several people to move from windows to GNU/Linux. In some cases, it didn't took more than 2 minutes!

Case 1: Religious/moral people: If you are using unauthorized (pirated?) copies of windows, isn't it like stealing? Think of the amount you are stealing just by installing M$-something, Adobe something, etc.

How can you wish that your money/wealth shouldn't be stealed when you steals somebody else's money?

Case 2: Business people: Have you ever contacted M$ for support? Then why would you pay them, just for something that runs viruses smoothly, and occasionally having blue screen of death?

Case 3: Personal: I came to know that I was like a frog in a well when I was introduced to GNU/Linux. Thanks to Microsoft for wasting my 10 years of time. Now I know about windows, may be more than some windows admin would do, just because I don't use windows anymore!

Serious GNU/Linux users may not have a solution known for an immediate problem. But they know how to find a solution or where to look for it.
Maybe for a side-effecting function which would only return an error?

edit: nope, fails with "err evaluated but not used".
Funny, the picture instantly reminded me of the Shinra and its reactors in Final Fantaisy VII :) [1]

Regarding Mars, I would love someone who knows to tell us how this would compare to raw sun energy exploitation. Each time I think of solar energy, I can't help but think it's a waste to try to collect it under the atmosphere, given one of its useful properties is precisely to protect us from the sun. My thinking usually then go into thinking a solar farm would be way more efficient in space, or on Mars. Could someone debunk or confirm this?

[1] http://www.playersc.com/midgar_big.gif
> The argument stays at the high level of "how could you vote for someone who said that", "he is a monster", etc. It is "I don't want to listen".

>> And what Trump said showed he's a liar, misogynist, tech illiterate, arrogant and overall a disgusting human being.

And Clinton is not a liar, not a tech illiterate, not arrogant, and not disgusting human being? On misogyny - she has never attacked a woman's character before?

Bias, bias, bias, and bias.

> People listen up until the point you prove to them you're not worth listening to.

Do you believe you are rationale. Everyone is saying that you lost the election because you didn't listen. This has real consequences. ACA will be repealed. Etc. Etc.

And you still have the attitude of: "I don't want to listen". All I can say is thank you - because now it doesn't matter anymore.
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He was using a man's death as a soapbox to criticize Thiel's political leanings. If you don't find that problematic, I'm not sure what to tell you.
> It is obvious that men are more intelligent than women and the few studies that dared experiment on this proved this right

That goes against my/common knowledge. Off to Wikipedia [0]. The higher variability of intelligence for males is undisputed. If there is a difference between the averages is an open discussion. A revealing quote:

> Most standard tests of intelligence have been constructed so that there are no overall score differences between females and males

So genders have equal intelligence by definition. It seems consensus that men have better visual–spatial abilities. Since tests can balance this out, women must be better in other areas (which?).

Ultimately, the problem is the definition of "intelligence". Just like with AI.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc...
I've lived in an older but expensive (even by Vancouver standards) neighbourhood with larger houses and lots most of my life, and many of our neighbours have been replaced by mainland Chinese with absentee husband/father.

I'd say the effects are overestimated by locals, but they are definitely around and easily observable by those who live here, and since they buy housing at the top end of the market, they skew the average home sales prices significantly upward. Realtors also espouse a "buy now or be priced out forever" which scares locals into borrowing way beyond their means, and banks in Canada are happy to loan them the money when taxpayers cover the mortgage for them (but not the home owners) through CMHC. Household debt in Canada is at record highs, worse than the US in 2008, and Vancouver is by far the most extreme example especially given that our average incomes are significantly lower than the other major Canadian cities.
Yes, but more or less everything you know about PHP 5 is still true and will work just fine in PHP 7.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6#historical_context

http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.incompatible.php
There are some JITs that used (tried to use) LLVM but eventually stopped using it, see HHVM or Apples JavaScriptCore (despite that Apple is heavily involved in LLVM). LLVM is great as a AOT-compiler, but JITs seem to need faster compilation-times for some benchmarks. See this blog for some numbers from Apple: https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler...

But yeah, their reasoning for avoiding it was a bit strange. Although I understand them when they say that LLVM as a dependency may be to huge for Ruby. LLVM is huge and the bigger project compared to Ruby with major backers (Apple, Google, etc.). What is important for Ruby may not be what has high-priority for the LLVM project. IMHO Ruby is big enough to warrant its own JIT.
> The economic story of the last 8 years has been a recovery for the wealthy and financial sector only,

There’s a kernel of insight here, but as stated this is a grossly inaccurate summary.

On the whole the economy is doing radically better than it was during the recession in almost every way. I recommend diving into BLS data yourself if you’re curious about particular regions, industries, etc.
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You may be right but the problem is, were those 'smartness' tests decided by men? What type of smartness are we talking about? There are different types of intelligence and on average men and women seem to be good at different things. It's hard to compare things that have pros and cons in different areas. Where one is green and crunchy the other is orange and juicy.
As a side note, AFAIK WD "USB only" disks may pose a problem (in case of issues) because they (or at least most of them) have a form of pass-through encryption, i.e. the data on the disk is encrypted and is decrypted on-the-fly by a chip on the PCB, if a component of the PCB fails, recovering the data becomes very, very difficult even if the hard disk works otherwise fine.
I think you're completely failing to understand my point.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3482389/how-many-primiti...

You only need about 9 primitives and can build the rest from there.

You can implement arithmetic as macros and functions, from scratch.

>Internally the symbol table is a hash-table in most Lisp implementations.

Point me at a language that won't require a symbol table that is not assembler.

Really do it.

Point me at a language that is simpler to implement than LISP and is not assembler. (and maybe not brainfuck)

>If you only have linked lists, you can't make vectors.

If you have a turing complete language, you can do everything. I don't think you know what a turing-complete language is.

>In Common Lisp, the CLOS system is a layering of data structures, functions and only at the top are macros. Parts of CLOS then are defined in itself.

How nitpicky.

>Lisp is no longer simple.

Compared to most other popular languages, it is.
The Manhattan project took place over about 5 years. The US has been investigating fusion since at least the 40s.

ITER is also an international effort, funded by 36 countries, not just the US. The US also withdrew from funding it for 6 years in 2000 so I don't know what its total involvement will be, but so far it will be well short of its involvement in the Manhattan project.

I agree that the money that should be invested in fusion shouldn't all be spent on a single approach though.
People not paying income tax and national insurance - they're classified as contractors, so technically they're responsible for their own deductions, but I'd be very surprised if many of them are actually paying anything.
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I agree. Most supervised learning classifiers are derived based on the independent and identically distributed assumption for each (x,y) pair.

To be more specific about the Naive Bayes assumption, the features of a data point are conditionally independent instead of simply independent. This means that given a certain label, these set of features are independent.
Seems like they've got you figured out, at least. I wonder if the eyeballs across all media are up, post-election.
No - what I said was the Trump can pick who he wants.

That's it.

Also - Gingrich and Bolton are not 'discredited' - you just don't agree with them.

I too, would prefer Gates, but Gingrich is probably who Trump's base would rather have and frankly, maybe it's more authentic that way.
In the slides for unsupervised learning, what is meant by "Maximum Entropy"? Doesn't this just imply that the distribution will be uniform; i.e. it's no better than making a blind guess?
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After losing control of the entire government, there is still this sense of: "I don't need to engage in debate with you". Its just not rationale.
They have job skills, the jobs disappeared.

It's not their fault.

If outsourcing suddenly produced high quality issue free software for cheap tomorrow then we'd all be just as screwed despite having such great skills.
What do you mean by "fulfilled by Amazon-type products"?
It has been like this for me for months. I just stopped using it except at a Desktop.
Net worth is a pretty slippery concept. For example, what is your house worth? You cannot know it with any sort of precision.
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Microsoft need another expensive EU lawsuit. This is very similar to the things they have already paid a lot of fines for in the past. It seems that wasn't enough.
Property taxes are a yearly thing. I did not explicitly state that, but my suggestion (which I have made numerous times both on HN and on Reddit) is that every year one can assign a different value, which addresses the majority of your complaint.

The other part, about damages, is a grey area today. It is up to the jury/judge to decide how much value to assign to the infringement, but they start from arbitrary statements - which is why Oracle can claim 9 lines are worth $5B even though they've been giving them away for free for a long time.
I use chocolatey on my Windows system at work and at home.
> Thankfully, freedom of speech is such an integral part of the US, that there is not one side trying to control what the other can say, and the other doing the same back.

Let's hope _other_ people's freedoms aren't being taken away thanks to your vote, though.

I also don't see why you would Trump will actually listen to you. Because he says so? You trust what he says?

I understand and will not debate that you feel like you haven't been heard by the American political system (I immediately take your word for it), but that just doesn't mean the alternative to staying on the same path isn't significantly worse. Or do you think your life couldn't be any worse? Worse is _also_ an alternative you may have voted for.
I'm very happy with my System76.
(I have an galago ultrapro - they don't make them anymore but still provide support). They used to have pretty bad reviews, but most if not all the people/colleagues I've asked are now happy about their purchase. YMMV.

If I were to buy a laptop to run Ubuntu on today I'd go for their Lemur.

Disclaimer: I work for Canonical.

EDIT: Dell seems to sell their XPS 13 with Ubuntu still? Not sure what you meant: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9360-laptop/pd?newt...
Closing Guantànamo Bay turned out to be much more difficult than Obama assumed. The full sordid story can be found here:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/01/why-obama-has-f...
Or you get parties like the Lega Nord forming in rich areas that don't want to subsidise the rural areas any more don't for get this cuts both ways.
Almost everyone new I meet moved to Vancouver from elsewhere. I often get the comment that I'm the first person they've met that grew up here.

Rain is preferable to freezing snow in most other parts of the country, and true Vancouverites don't mind it because it means fresh powder on the mountains for skiing/snowboarding, conveniently located 30 minutes from downtown and open at night with artificial lighting. And there's no place better in the summer, when there's no rain, extreme heat, humidity, or mosquitoes. Just lush green surroundings, and ocean and mountain views everywhere
In most languages, it is easy to write a 'try(expr, fail)' HOF that gives you the same functionality (but possibly with different performance profiles, depending on the underlying exception handling implementation).

On the other hand without non-local error handling it is harder to bail out of the outer map on a to_something error, if that's what's desired.
Last time they did it they got 2 wars and the housing crisis.

How do you convince people?
You need to a hard look at your self for saying that
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> Hillary was such a poor candidate that even Trump was able to defeat her

Which is sad because she really truly is more qualified than he is, I think. But she's just so damn unlikeable.

It's not even about the emails or anything. She literally represents everything everyone (including many liberals[1]) wanted to change about The Man. The only thing she had going for her on an emotional personal level was that she's a woman and that having the first lady president would be cool.

Imho Sanders stood a better chance. At least he was [trying to?] giving hope to the same audience as Trump was.

I guess we'll see what happens next.

[1] Here I consider things like "alt hacker propaganda" a la Mr. Robot and movements like Occupy Wall Street as "liberals". Perhaps they're more libertarians, I don't know. But the zeitgeist amongst many young people has been extremely anti-establishment in recent years.
Libertarianism and fascism are so far apart that I'm not sure if this question is just trolling, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.

Libertarianism generally supports the idea of minimal government intervention in people's lives. This means both avoiding restrictions on what people are allowed to do (e.g. legalize drugs, oppose religiously-driven laws that restrict the freedom of gay and trans people), and also avoiding governmental efforts to actively assist people (e.g. no social security or Medicare). Most libertarians would like to see a small, weak government that just does the minimum required to ensure that one person's freedom isn't impinging on another person's freedom. They typically oppose military intervention - many oppose the idea of a standing military at all - and generally advocate for open boarders.

Fascism on the other hand generally advocates for a very strong government that aggressiveky restricts individual freedom in the hope of achieving the goal of social and cultural stasis, or national military power. Fascists typically believe that individuals should submit to the will of the state (e.g. dramatically limiting free speech, banning "deviant" lifestyles). They tend to support aggressive military actions and closed borders.

Libertarians believe personal freedom is an end in itself. Fascists seek security and safety for their immediate society and tend to not care much about personal freedom. Whereas libertarians tend to value every individual, fascists would argue that any given set of individuals should be sacrificed if it benefits the state.

As with any political identity though, there are a wide range of beliefs - and people - who have been identified with these two labels. So, YMMV.
"But conversely, the Microsoft stack that I worked in and we were increasingly unifying around in Pfizer was simply much harder to find competence in"

That's probably because the developers that are strong in Microsoft stack were already out of the country most likely pirated by companies in Singapore or in other parts of the world. Majors banks in Singapore had been pirating IT people in Philippines from QA to Project Managers for years.
People should ask themselves deeply why this happened and start researching. Because that would be a rational response, not "protesting" with destroying property.