skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. For a lot of people FB etc are treated as 'all or nothing' but it doesn't have to be like that. Just like alcohol or whatever drug you prefer doesn't have to mean getting wasted every single day. Couple of times a year is fun as well, if not more fun.

Whatever the author claims about social media ('corrosion of civic life and cultural shallowness', for one) to me sounds like thinking too much like any other standard social media target but with some clicking around and reflection you can change it to work pretty well for you (at least on FB). Sure I do get some crap but most has been filtered out after a while and it now works extremely well for me: mainly for events/band info (most forums I used to frequent for e.g. the goa/squat scene only have a fraction of all parties these days but most is on FB now), news for some particular stuff I care about, group chat for setting up meetings etc. Used this way it also doesn't hurt my carreer any more than anything else on the internet: before FB I spent time frequenting many different forums and news sites and chatting on IRC during work hours. Part of that just got swapped for something else.
In Germany it is not entirely 1:1. If you receive Hartz4 unemployment (€404) and have a so called €450-minijob (which is the cutoff for social security taxes etc), then €170 are additional income and €280 are offset with you unemployment, giving you €574 overall.

At least that's how I understood the mechanics just now, having never been forced to actually understand them.
Well, the quality of the discussions on HN have taken a dive dramatically since about a year and a half. So maybe he just doesn't feel theres much to comment these days.
That argument is skipping straight to the "Profit!" point. A somewhat distant Star Trek future where resources are distributed evenly among all. I'd like that to happen, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Meanwhile the argument ignores the not so far away reality where automation is available to the people who already have resources and jobs today, leaving even more people who currently have little without jobs and automation.

A job is not a right today, it is a responsibility. Our society assumes that everyone, or at least a large majority of all that can, has a job. How do we prepare for a future where the majority cannot get a job?

The most promising answer currently seems to be Basic Income. Though that leaves me asking too. How will we convince people and corporations that have to give up more of their income and accept taxing their property, to redistribute all resources to a huge mass of people that have not money, nor influence? It seems very easy as long as it isn't your own money. Paying taxes, few say that they enjoy that.
Fun.

I love that weird intuition trap you mention - the volume of a N dimensional sphere of radius R sphere goes to zero as N -> infinity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball
On the other hand, if you want to compare the enormous, diverse US to tiny, homogeneous EU countries 1-1, that's somewhat disingenuous as well.
The effects we're feeling in the South US are mostly from the La Nina[1], but there is actually something interesting happening with the Arctic ice this winter. It's still below zero up there, but we might end up with a northern channel in about 4 years if it stays this warm. It isn't just about the ice that has formed, but the speed that it's forming. It's significantly slower than recent years[2]. This was caused in part from storms[3], so now the rapidly warming temperatures can cascade in the next years with darker water and thinner ice. Also, the methane crater explosions in Sibera can't be helping...[4]

[1]http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/10/us/la-nina-arrives/

[2]http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2016/11/Figure2a.png

[3]https://robertscribbler.com/2016/11/18/arctic-storms-sparked...

[4]http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-exploding-permafrost-...
> There's a perverse modern idea that you don't have an identity unless it's a public identity.

That started with talk shows on TV, where it is implied that you haven't had an emotion until it's made public.
I wonder too if the methane production from a modern cow fed for human consumption is very different from that of a wild buffalo.
It would be quite funny if it turned out that religious people were sorta right and our visible universe is just a cell in some other dimensions' creature butt, for example.
What does "binom" mean? Is that a typo? I tried looking it up online, but don't see anything.
When I was in CEGEP (2 years of pre-university basic science and general ed college, specific to Quebec), we used maple for exploratory symbolic and plotting kind of work in math classes (calculus and lin alg).

In university (engineering school) they taught us MATLAB in the two required introductory programming classes. In grad school I took an advanced numerical methods class where the prof was actually cool enough to let us use whatever language we wanted. I took the opportunity to learn python/numpy.
Is methane from cows counted towards a deficit in the carbon trade?
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You'd say shower or bath. Truck stops often advertise "showers" for instance.
This comes down to the definition of (hyper)volume. We use a (hyper)cube as our unit, but that’s somewhat arbitrary.

We could alternately define (hyper)volume using a standard n–simplex as the unit, then we would say the volume of an n–ball → ∞ as n → ∞.
How to Learn Anything with No Free Time
I loved A History of Modern Computing by Paul Ceruzzi

https://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Computing/dp/026253203...
IANAL, so take these with a grain of salt. A few suggestions:

1. Explain him the problem and offer a full refund.
2. Explain him the problem and offer to continue work for a smaller fee if he drops the lawsuit.

Worse thing you can do is to completely cut communications with a client. People tend to understand that you are going through a rough patch if you talk to them.
Gab.ai, a twitter alternative founded by Andrew Torba, a YC alum.
Who the F do you think you are to order me around?

That's my immediate reaction to the title.

As it happens, deciding for myself is more important to me than my career assessment by other people.
Another difficult to replicate cultural norm, public restrooms in Japan also don't normally have paper towels or other hand drying methods. Most people carry a handkerchief with them for drying their own hands, and everyone saves from reduced paper towel waste.
What makes you think that he doesn't pay into the system already as part of all people who chipped in whether Austrians or not?

Systems like these can be susceptible to abuse and this should be researched and prevented as much as possible but this attitude that any free health care receiver is to be treated with suspicion and distrust till proven innocent is not healthy, sorry for the pun.
This post compares the allegations with the harmless actual quotes:

http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford

This appears to have been the instigator:

https://twitter.com/nexxylove/status/771503661956501504
It would be interesting to see the list of actual books read.
There are far too many distractions online not necessarily social media. In the past it was irc and later forums. I find instant messengers particularly distracting, even if you put all on silent mode sooner or later you will want to check if you have unread messages.
Depends on how long I need to be in there.
>> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

>> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
It means someone you work with. A binôme in French is a group of 2
Yea. Even on gsutil 4.22 you gotta switch off your virtualenv before you can list your files. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gsutil
I haven't studied the MKL license, but in the python world, Christoph Gohlke is kind enough to freely distribute some python packages (notably Numpy and Scipy) built with against MKL.

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
So tired of "game changer". If you have to declare it, it usually isn't.
As would I.
> Is it because Japanese people generally take better care of public spaces and keeping the toilets clean and operational is thus cheaper?

It's not because Japanese people are cleaner in public toilets - I have seen enough "dirty" toilets in Japan to convince me that it's not the key factor. The secret is simply very frequent cleaning - in some toilets you'll see a list with stamps showing when the cleaning lady came during the day, and it can be as frequent as every hour.

I'm all for it. Having no free public toilets is just another reason not to go out or to feel annoyed staying out for too long. In Japan since this is free people can shop for longer and spend more time in public places and I am pretty sure this kind of factor has a positive effect on consumption, which is why malls and areas with large concentration of shops usually have the cleanest toilets.
I've read Cal Newport's book Deep Work. I've also quit facebook almost 2 years ago and more recently twitter and instagram. I have zero regrets and overall I can say that my life improved a lot, including my professional life.
Lots of advice-like books are like this. I remember a co-worker who had suddenly become very taken with a certain financial management book series. He asked everybody around him to read them or listen to the audio book version. I finally relented to one of the audio books (I had a long commute so why not?). It was hour upon hour upon hour of clearly made up stories about made up people and chapter after chapter of what basically amounted to "to save money, spend less than you make".
What I found is that blocking completely works less than just delaying the page for a bit with something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/waitblock/kcnjfepp...

That way I have enough time to think and question whether I really want to open the page I was about to open, and I don't disable the whole thing if I actually need to visit it.
A thread on reddit about just that very topic gained front-page visibility and a lot of "I'm actually doing this right now" comments.

EDIT - I actually found it, "Reddit is probably the world's largest group of people that communicate while shitting.": https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/5dqufr/redd...
I recommend a different approach - if one feels bound to go on social media often, take a couple of month hiatus from it. The main important thing is to be able to break the power of addiction, since it is what causes the distractions in the first place. It is not really a problem unique to social media.
40% is a marginal rate. For the lower part of the income, you'll have a lower marginal rate. The effective rate is lower than the marginal rate. 23% is the rate of someone single and declaring 75k€ of net income (the marginal rate in this case is 41%). It seems that with such an income, you are part of the 3% wealthiers.
You forgot:

Washroom. Lavatory. Outhouse. Mens' room. Little girls' room room. Potty. Half bath. And many more (mostly NSFHN).

I suspect there's a deep reason for all the different words, probably because of the basic nature of what goes on within such rooms. I wouldn't be surprised if other languages have the same profusion of synonyms.
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> Is that "net" extracted from all published experiments, i.e. in some meta syntheses? And is statistically significance calculated in each individual experiment?

You can find excesses in both individual experiments and meta-analyses, IIRC.

> Publication bias toward positive results should be detectable via methods such as funnel plots.

Funnel plots have notoriously low statistical power, it would require only a little publication bias to produce excesses, and asymmetry in a funnel plot can be due to other reasons.
What he said: http://media.grubhub.com/media/press-releases/press-release-...

He very explicitly says that any employee that disagrees with his statement should resign and the "statement" included his political views.

Will wearing a t-shirt with "I heart America" get you fired at GrubHub? It's on Matt's list of no-nos: nationalist.
If Apple still feels the need to have a system for real professionals, then it has a choice: (1) upgrade the Mac Pro on a regular basis or (2) go back to a tower system.

The Mac Pro has proven to be a bit of a disaster, because it hasn't been upgraded for more than three years and users can't usefully upgrade it themselves. A rational Apple would just go back to doing towers. (Even with a tower, you can still handle external as well as internal upgrades.)

You're right that this is hackintosh territory. However, I've seen a lot of people switch to PC towers runing Windows instead. If they spend most of their time in Adobe programs, they are still using Adobe's UI. And users can boot/dual-boot into Linux if that meets their needs.

I can't see many reasons for "creative professionals" to stick with MacOS at the moment, no matter how much they like it. Even Final Cut Pro users recognize that Adobe is the industry standard, and there are several other decent video editors for Windows.
everybody is busy in self promotion.
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Probably because its single channel. They bump voltage and freq to catch up in performance.

If they would choose 2x16 and lower freq, voltage resulting performance would be even better with similar power usage.

Apple prefer to make more money. They use power of brand to sell overpriced products to clueless crowd. Just go apple store to see audience, most people there do not even know what is RAM.

[1] http://nucblog.net/2015/09/dual-channel-vs-single-channel-do...
But then people extend the "core beliefs" of the company to whatever they want even if it has nothing to do with what the company does.

As much as I disagreed with Brebdan Eich's political positions, I thought it was wrong that he was pushed out of Mozilla because of them. HN is not a single voice but my reading of it at the time was that, contrary to my position, most people thought it was the right thing to do.
I'll do what I want, thanks. I'll also bear the consequences and not whine like a baby.
Japan has minimum wages.
I'm more than willing to delete all my social media accounts. The only problem is: I travel frequently and need a way to keep in touch with a wide variety of people. Ergo, Facebook.

Any suggestions on replacing in this manner?
To put this in perspective, let's assume that there are indeed 75x10^9 barrels of oil. Fracking typically can only extract around 10% of the oil-in-place (the rest is too expensive to recover once the reservoir pressure drops, even at $100/barrel)[1].

The US consumes 19 million barrels a day [2], so (75000 barrels*0.1)/(19bpd)/(365 dpy) = 1 year. All that oil would be burnt in a single year if it was the only source!

[1] Consequently, the recovery factors for shale oil are
typically lower than they are for shale gas, ranging from 3 percent to 7 percent of the oil in-place with exceptional cases being as high as 10% or as low as 1 percent. http://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/worldshalegas/pdf/overvi...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=33&t=6
The important questions is, however, who's setting the prices for the drugs & procedures. I imagine it's the same in NL as in most Europe - the procedures covered by (obligatory) insurance is set by a centralized agency (probably government), along with the costs of said procedures and the drugs that can be prescribed as part of the insured procedures.

IIRC in the US, the main problem is that those setting the prices have much more bargaining power than the insurers (especially the smaller ones), so they're pretty much free to raise prices...
Been ten months, not earned a single dollar. Redesigned the blog again
today

http://talkproductivity.xyz/
If these early computers "weren't much more than toys" then how did they (even putting aside that the article didn't give any source that they were really directed to boys) give an advantage to boys using them later in computer science?
It's worth keeping in mind that learning from few examples is not such a big
deal. What is really hard to do (and a long-standing problem in machine
learning) is learning a model that generalises well to unseen data.

So the question is: does the OP really show good generalisation?

It's hard to see how one would even begin to test this, in the case of the OP.
The OP describes an experiment where a few hundred instances were drawn from a
set of 50K, and used both for training and testing (by holding out a few,
rather than cross-validating, if I got that right).

I guess one way to go about it is to use the trained model to label your
unseen data (the rest of the 50k) and then go through that model-labelled data
by hand, and try to figure out how well the model did.

We're talking here about natural language, however, where the domain is so
vast that even the full 50k instances are very few to learn well. That doesn't
have to do anything with the model being trained, deep or shallow. It has
everything to do with the fact that you can say the same thing in 100k
different ways, and still not exhaust all the ways to say that one thing. So
50k examples are either not enough examples of different ways to say the same
thing, or not enough examples of the different things you can say, or, most
probably, both.

It's also worth remembering that deep nets can overfit much worse than other
methods, exactly because they are so good at memorising training data. It's very hard
to figure out what a deep net is really learning, but it would not be at all
surprising to find out that your "powerful" model is just a very expensive
alternative to Ctrl + C.

It's just memorised your examples, see?
edit:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/18/74/3a/18743a2a2...
People should not be mocked, agreed.

But I think things get more complicated in the current environment where people who have voted for Trump have basically been labeled the same as him. It's apparently possible to have a "hateful attitude", or be racist, or whatever else, which can get you fired at GrubHub, by having voted for Trump.

But honestly, regardless of arguing intent or whatever, I think the crux of the argument boils down to this: If you had voted for Trump and worked at GrubHub, would you be comfortable going to the CEO and saying "I voted for Trump" without fearing for your job, after that email? I would imagine the number of people at the company who don't/didn't feel that is non-zero (purely based on a vote, not based on if anyone there is actually racist), and I view that as completely inappropriate.
I called your comparison of the two countries absurd. It's not obvious that you're Swiss, it's obvious that you're out of touch and it's common for Americans to make some simplistic argument, pointing at fringe countries like Norway or Switzerland as an example.

You point at some facts that happen to be similar (when adjusted) for the US and Switzerland, but it's rather arbitrary. What the hell does gun ownership have to do with healthcare? And of course, like most industrialized countries, there are "lots of cars"...

The absolute difference in wealth doesn't affect just medical equipment, it affects practically everything besides labor. One of the reasons why labor is so expensive is the high taxes (VAT etc). When the government subsidizes that expensive labor, it'll get a big part right back.

You also edited your post to agree more with mine (i.e. Obamacare), when the original point was more like "private insurance can work look at Switzerland!".

Yes, it can work, if you're wealthy Switzerland and you regulate the fuck out of everything. Touche...
It all depends on the size and design of the reactor, though. A reactor that you put on a plane just for the hell of it (which is what that was) is going to be a lot smaller and lighter than a nuclear reactor that needs to power an entire submarine. The point to my reply was that submarine nuclear reactors were in no way suitable for space use because they aren't optimized for weight at all. Reactors optimized for plane use would be a closer fit. The reactor in that plane could be lifted to orbit on a Saturn V, so we're making progress, but, and this is a huge but, it was air-cooled.

A 3 MW reactor puts out a hell of a lot of heat, and without the benefit of air-cooling in space, I'm not sure what exactly you would do with all of that waste heat. Consider how massive the space shuttle orbiter's radiators were (they are on the inside of the cargo bay here: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Flgzb.jpg ), and all of that is only capable of shedding waste heat in the amount of ~6 KW! We can put a much more capable reactor into space than we can possibly cool, so we haven't bothered. Cooling is the real problem. The total mass of the radiators and the structure required to support them ends up being way more than the reactor itself.

So for good long distance transportation in space, not only do we need a working, efficient emdrive, but we also need better power generation that is much more efficient from a waste heat perspective. These are really hard problems.
Most places where you have to pay, you usually have to pay up front. The yelling guy might just have called you names for being cheap, I certainly wouldn't expect toilets at a bar to have a mandatory fee.

Another scheme is usually found at Autobahn rest stops, where you actually have to pay for toilets, but get a voucher over the full amount that you can then use in their shops.
Will you share what you're using as a blocker and on which device?
The counter argument is that social media being designed to distract you makes it good training for your concentration. You don't need to avoid grocery stores that sell chocolate to stop getting fat, just get more disciplined.
A good solution would be for government to offer large rebates to farmers purchasing this as feed (ideally whilst reducing some other farming subsidy like CAP). Farmers would have an incentive to use, there shouldn't be large monitoring costs and should be cost effective
For one operation I had, I was given a turkey sandwich to eat in the recovery room before they would let me leave. Two slices of wonder-bread, one slice of turkey. $36 on the itemized bill that was sent to my insurance.

It's nuts.
Yeah, I always find these posts to be like an alchoholic telling everyone they need to stop drinking because it destroys your life. This makes sense, because it did destroy that person's life; however, lots of people are able to use alchohol responsibly. The key is knowing which type of person you are.
If you struggle with this, try: https://selfcontrolapp.com/

It's a digital nicotine patch for your bad browsing habits.
See also Azimov's "The Gods Themselves".
Except that meat has been part of the human diet before we were even human, and evolution has adapted us to be omnivores. The human body can't produce a number of amino acids any more, a number of which are most easily sourced from the bodies of animals that can produce them (most of which are herbivores). For example Lysine and Methionine are easier to acquire from meat than vegetables; especially if you aren't burning lots of energy (exercise etc) or intake of lots of calories is a health issue.

You can live on a vegan diet, but it is easier to live on an omnivore diet. And since for most people easier is preferable, and when talking about the population of the world as a whole, you'll still find that a large percentage of the world's population will eat meat if it is easily available.