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No, it's not. Zip codes have absolutely no bearing on government/political boundaries, they have more to do with which post office is closest. For example, my zip code growing up was shared between two different towns.
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Thank you. I felt pretty bad about coming off as being snarky.
> I can give you an anecdote about how I drove through red lights multiple times.

As evidence for what? If you're trying to disprove an assertion that everyone running a red light gets hit, it's good evidence.

> You have no idea about the circumstances. I was actually talking about driving a bike

Assume good faith.
Districts are sometimes gerrymandered to cover different parts of the zip code.
Great counter post.

An off-the-top-of-my-head summary of some key points:

- Don't dismiss diminishing returns. Even if takes 10^6 times more computations to double intelligence, we may very well build a machine powerful enough.

- Units of computing per dollar, in contrast to moore's law, continues to double consistently and shows no sign of slowing down.

- Computational complexity is a theoretical model that makes certain assumptions that don't always matter in the real world, such as optimality and worst-case performance. Approximate solutions can be far cheaper and plenty sufficient. Average case performance is often more important.

- Impassable barriers can sometimes be entirely avoided by solving the root problem in a different way. Self-driving cars don't need human level vision, they just need a way of sensing the immediate environment, which LIDAR allows, despite being technically inferior to the human eye.

Of course none of this says we will achieve strong AI or a singularity. It is primarily a response to the type of arguments found in the linked article above.
This has some neat tricks that I'm sad aren't integrated in mainstream allocators-- e.g. putting metadata apart and in a sea of unmapped pages, unfortunately using an obscure allocator exposes you to different bugs in the allocator itself or in the surrounding software that are exposed by differences in behavior.
Its free negotiating leverage. Obama takes all the blame yet they are "giving" something to the Russians by reversing it. Only fair they give back.
Awesome! This would be a welcomed addition to browsers as far as I'm concerned.
An Open client server protocol.

I think Google Wave debacle is a great example of how the advice/vision dished out on HN is disconnected from the reality of consumer experience/expectations.

With Wave Google saw writing on the wall and discontinued Reader and GChat XMPP integration.
Facebook will censor/shadow-ban such a "good bye" post. It won't show up at most of your friends news feed. You also cannot advertise a competiting social network. The same goes fr private messages to more than a few people. Even if you try to write a seperate message to everyone, if it contains the same link or a similar text body, most of your friends will never see te message you wrote. That's all automatic. And for photos, they have a semi-automatic review process in place, with an army of contracted FTEs working in low paid countries to scan photos (there was a news story about that recently). I wouldn't be surprised if their other properties like WhatsApp and Instagram are monitored and censored/shadow-ban in a similar fashion nowadays.
I don't understand why you want to slap the fanboy tag on me, when I actually said in my comment that I love both games. Also, sorry if I got you bored, I usually enjoy talking about technicalities and often forget that others around me might be uninterested.

I accept your point about the colour mode, it seems [1] that SMW has more colours on screen as you said.

Regarding the animation frames, I couldn't find info, I'd love to read about it so let me know if you have any good link.

In my parent comment I was thinking more about smaller vs larger sprites (up to 128px in SotB) [1][2], and flat colours vs extensive use of gradients (I don't have hard data on this but it seems pretty evident by just looking at a few screenshots).

[1] http://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/shadow-of-the-beas...
[2] http://www.snesmaps.com/maps/SuperMarioWorld/sprites/SuperMa...
Both would be great. I like picking new idea or concept from fundamental level. Please send me links or emails.
From your link:

RESULTS: DILI was caused by a single prescription
medication in 73% of the cases, by dietary supplements
in 9%, and by multiple agents in 18%. More than 100
different agents were associated with DILI;
antimicrobials (45.5%) and central nervous system
agents (15%) were the most common.

CONCLUSIONS: DILI is caused by a wide array of medications,
herbal supplements, and dietary supplements. Antibiotics are
the single largest class of agents that cause DILI.

So FDA approved drugs cause 73% of these liver injuries, while unregulated supplements cause 9%. I don't understand how that is an argument for FDA regulation?
The c++98 code cannot be linked to libc++ which is c++11.

C++ is a set of standardized kludges incompatible between standards.
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I used to have a subscription to nature and just leaf through it, going as deep as I got into each paper.

The subscription was quite cheap (may have been using student discount), and it has a sort-of "popular science" section in the front summarising the major papers for audiences from other fields. Nature publishes papers from all fields of science and it can be quite entertaining to take a deep dive into vulcanology. You'll also get to notice when different branches of science end up using the same methods.

Of course that's more for entertainment value (and possibly annoying your friends). for work I stsck everything that appears interesting into an app (app-tly named "Papers") and search through it when I think there could be something in there.
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My guess is it uses geolocation APIs to match city to politicians in your district. Maybe even looks up politicians phone numbers by area codes that belong to those cities. This is just a theory of course.
And indeed districts can be quite fairly distributed, rather than gerrymandered, in such a way that they cover different parts of a zip/post code area.
Suppose facebook has the ability to look at a photo and determine who is in the photo, and the court determines that amounts to storing biometric data (despite the explicit exclusion of photos from the definition of biometric data). Now facebook would have to get explicit permission from users and non-users to collect biometric data. How could they possibly not collect data from non-users? If they have the ability to turn the feature on at any moment, any photo of a person would amount to biometric data, whether the person was a user or not. There doesn't seem to be a good way to comply. They could not host photos (no way). They could stop pursuing facial recognition (yeah right). My favorite solution is to have them alter any new upload by blurring out the faces of any person who hasn't consented to them storing biometrics.
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> if we find out we are looking at an American's data we're —supposed— to throw it away.

Keyword emphasized, and anyway ahat safeguards are there to ensure that they won't turn against "undesirable" Americans at any point in the future?

Like how the American citizens of Japanese origin were more-or-less extra-judicially just herded into camps back around WWII, and the perceived "risk factor" of American Muslims right now.
Reminds me of this short story: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/

Except there it's the higher level contacting humans.
One API for this is Google's Civic Information API:

https://developers.google.com/civic-information/

The API has a representativeInfoQuery to list your elected representatives, and a voterInfoQuery for current election information.

Details and examples are here:

https://developers.google.com/civic-information/docs/using_a...

And this page discusses the quality and limitations of the data:

https://developers.google.com/civic-information/docs/data_gu...
Pegged CPU with FF 51 also.
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What do you mean by all probability distributions? Any measurable function on a measurable space with Lebesgue integral 1 can be considered a probability distribution, so the answer to the technical interpretation of your question is no.
Thanks .... I will fork and follow you repo. But I need to learn Rust :)
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I have sadly found that 99.9% of people(excluding maybe the Amish, and some, very few religious groups) will do whatever their employer, industry dictates, as long as it's legal, even slightly legal.

I once walked out of Chiropractic School. I lost a lot of money. I walked out because of complete disbelief in the Subluxation, and the subsequent profession.

Besides my astonishment over the denial by the students, and staff; I was most bothered by, "Hay--it's legal? It might work, but the studies are underfunded?"

This was my over twenty years ago. When ever I encounter sonemeone, and there profession, I wonder what this guy(usually in a tie, with a degree) would do for the organization in order to make money for himself, and spawn.

99.9% of the time they go along with the crowd. Sure, after a few beers, they become pious ethical warriors, but they are scared sheep.

Psychologists have proved it over, and over again(Milgram experiment comes to mind), but everyone thinks they are different.

I have never found a completely ethical person. Ethics are the one trait we seem to be loosing year after year. And sure, every new generation thinks they are different, but really aren't.

My hope is ethics will be talked more about in companies, and society.

(If you're from a poor, unsupportive family don't "rock the boat"--you honestly can't afford it. I learned the hard way. Plus, it's usually the rich boys who need to take the ethical stand more often.)
Let me get my smart-ass instinct out of the way first: journals have impact factors, not papers :)

But it doesn't really matter because it's a somewhat-empty vanity-metric anyway. For assessing clinical trials (and aggregating their results) the Cochrane collaboration is probably the gold standard. Here's something I found on their method to evaluate trial quality: http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5928
> I used to be like you. I use to look down my nose and cluck and those stupid, pitiful Republican-type people who would dare let their children ever do anything except sit in a circle and read the most pristine and white-washed of full-text childrens' books.

I guess not, because that's nothing like me.

Of course children get exposed to other influences, but if you're staying up grinding Fruit Pop and/or similar glorified Skinner Boxes for your kindergarten aged children, the problem is not exposure from your child's classmates.

I don't give my children a sheltered, white-washed environment, but at the same time that doesn't mean I need to expose them to the manipulations of psychologists and behavioral scientists who design these 'games' to try and extract as much money as possible from the impressionable people playing them (children and adult alike).
I guess it should do both (despite more complications), although I'm a FF guy so not the target.
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I'd agree toki pona is unlikely to be as mind-expanding as Lojban, but the kind of creativity that you mention, working within constraints, can be "mind-expanding" too -- just as composing poetry within a specific form, or practicing constrained writing, can be.

Even though there are some fundamental designed-in limitations in toki pona (for example, we don't officially have comparatives, relative clauses, or quotation! you can say "a is a little x and b is very x" or use a kind of formula with "x this: y"), it can be surprising how many things can be expressed reasonably well given the effort.
Unfortunately, you then have to contend with assymetric information effects such as self selection, where sick people who are faced with increased expenses under a free market approach move to CA and NY, while healthy people who would pay more under a single-payer approach would move to TX.
Yes, because tools hosted elsewhere have the problem your shutdown is exemplifying. A definite expiration date /sucks/. Even if it is a month out, that means having to do a lot of retooling to pull out all the bits and pieces that have been built in that rely on the third party. Were it a hosted solution, a transition plan could be made that isn't a mad rush to make sure all the data that's in those annotations is saved once the lights go out.
I've used this guide and it works fine:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-...

It however advises to use blockid, not device-id, for mounts.

Any idea if this doesn't apply to AMIs?
One issue with Clojure is that it comes with strong opinions (STM, immutable data structures, JVM-Java ecosystem) and thus is not as paradigm-enclosing as other Lisps (e.g. Common Lisp).

I'd much rather have SBCL's native code compiler, read/compiler macros, conditions and restarts (that I end up using on pretty much every project) and optionally use libraries for immutability and STM (if and when I need them), than compromise from the get-go and use a language that reduces the set of available options by forcing its specific worldview.

If I do need a strong focus on concurrency, I find Erlang (and also Elixir) a much more coherent solution. The cognitive dissonance that comes from having to interact with Java when using Clojure is very damaging and it can't be abstracted away. Just look at Clojure stack traces.

So to end with, Clojure proponents should understand its limitations and design choices. It was created because Hickey needed a language to solve problems he was having in his specific arena (delivering concurrent applications in the Java ecosystem with his consultancy) and not really to improve on the Lisp state-of-the-art side of things. If you're a Java guy and absolutely need to stay in that ecosystem, I guess you can go with it. Otherwise, you end up giving away too many things. This has been validated in practice, in the Common Lisp community. We get a lot of guys who are coming _from_ Clojure, but it is rare for someone to move _to_ Clojure from CL.
I was intrigued by the first usable sector exact reason and found out this link that might be an interesting read

http://jdebp.eu./FGA/disc-partition-alignment.html
I agree that it's a race to the bottom but not that regulation is a way out. There are too many services employing too many engineers, and furthermore governments benefit from this massive surveillance. They pay for the results, and the direction in government today is towards less privacy, not more.

And if you do win the regulation battle, you only win it for the current generation of tech. There will be more, and every decade the power of information collection will get stronger.

I believe that we need to embrace the loss of privacy and ask ourselves how to transition to a world where one's personal history and daily life is freely available to the general public. I give it 30 years until we get there. The tech is certainly not going away.
> and then deciding that you are raising them in a way you don't like, but doing it anyway

That's really the thing here. The author realises these things are manipulative, and perhaps have a negative influence on his child's ability to think and reason about the world, and yet he's still staying up in order to help him play them.
I wonder what exactly was the bug? As far as I can google it's not been made public. https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/docum... (errata for the CPU I have, and I just tested and the TSX instructions aren't disabled on it btw. I probably enabled TSX in BIOS and forgot about it) mentions minor issues with string instructions' interaction with TSX, rdrand having a chance of hanging if called within a transaction, but the bug blamed for the disabling of TSX (HSW136) is just described as "unpredictable system behavior" "under a complex set of internal timing conditions and system events".
Everyone defines "better" slightly differently. No definition is scientifically plausible. the problem is all definitions are arbitrary.
In every industry that I have worked in, there has always been a battle between using the latest innovative technology to improve everyone's job, and holding back to ensure that nothing breaks. I've always been an advocated of the latter and it appears that some industries may not be ready to start using slack.
Take Ginkgo Bioworks, for example. Sure, being able to open a door through slack because you don't have your keycard is convenient, but this introduces a few security holes and likely makes the whole keycard system useless.
Also, there doesn't seem to be any mention of the need for data security in the article, but it should be noted that slack does not use end-to-end encryption, so they can read everything your organization shares. And, even if they are a trustworthy third-party, they have been hacked before (http://www.businessinsider.com/slacks-security-breach-may-be...), so it's worth noting.
> to the rest ofnthe world, all of the SV engineers looks grossly over paid.

Only to people who don't understand economics. I know the salaries in NYC are high as well, but I understand the cost of living that drives that.
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The "standard" counterargument here is that warlords, narcissists, and sociopaths can only operate effectively in private, and their capabilities would be severely limited in a world where secrets are hard to keep.
which is the same as Pareto distribution which does seem "natural" and "intuitively easy explainable" ... at least to me.
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I mentioned this to John Carmack over twitter once. He ignored me, I was an early dk2 owner and was close to having panic attacks in the beggining. I later learned that it had partially triggered PTSD in me (it came from another cause entirely, a traumatic event in my past) and it took me months to get over it.
This is all entirely down to personal subjective experience, but it was strange to see back then how I couldn't get any attention on the issue. I've met a few people who have had strong negative reactions of anxiety and dread after experiencing VR.
by the way, I'm not implying things are getting worse for humanity... imo things stay pretty constant for the human condition. They just get better toys.
Just to add a bit of context, this article was written more than six years ago: http://thecleancoder.blogspot.fr/2010/08/why-clojure.html
This would have been a better project, and had probably gotten a lot more traction, had it provided plugins for the big editor suites -- eclipse, visual studio, etc. As the project stood, it's neat, but at the same time, it's an impedence mismatch. You can't just annotate in your environment of choice, you have to go into a browser window to view the same code you have open in another window and see if there are any annotations. There's a place for something like it, but it needs to be a lot more intimate with how people already work in order for it to get any sort of needed traction.
Yeah I had a similar problem, my cursor was also jacked on the page. had delayed scrolling and could not click on links. Had to refresh the page.
The work on that has been discontinued by W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/), so we have to rely on extensions... It is a useful tool however, it could have saved me a lot of time if available earlier.
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These 3 are the most well know and well regarded 0-to-hero type intro courses online, and high-school math is sufficient to follow along (but pick only one and go start to finish!):

* https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-artificial-intellige... (by Peter Norvig - director of research @ Google & Sebastian Thrun - lead dev of google self driving car and founder of google x, now at gerogia tech uni) - great if you want a more "deep thinking" style intro to AI

* https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-machine-learning--ud... (Sebastian Thrun & Katie Malone - former physicist and data scientist great at explaining stuff so that anyone can grok it) - great if you want a more "down to earth" engineering style intro with simple clear examples

* https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning (Andrew Ng @ Stanford & chied scientist at Baidu, former Google researcher) - great if you want a "bottom up", from math, through code/engineering, with less fuzzy big picture stuff - this is a great intro, even if Andrew Ng is less of a rock-star-presenter, if you want to start from math details up take this one!

Oh, and kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/ . If you get stuck on anything, google the relevant math, pick up just enough to have an intuition and carry on.

You're still in college so you have plenty of time to learn well the required math, it's better to get a broad picture of the field ASAP imho! Then when you'll take the math classes, you'll already have "aha, this feels my gap about X and Y" and "aha, now I get why Z" and you'll really love that math after you already know what problems it solves!

(PS if you're less of a "highly logico-intuitive" person and more "analytical rigorous thinker" instead, just ignore my last paragraph and focus on the math, but try to get some deep intuition of probability along the way)
I think it's especially hasty to criticize Rust's string types in the context of C++, given the standardization of string_view in C++ as an analogue of Rust's &str :P
Isn't good sleep just undisturbed unconsciousness?
Works perfectly, thanks! I guess I was too surprised to see that accessing from Google didn't work that I completely missed this.
Although cyberwarfare and technological vulnerabilities that affect ballot collection and counting seem to be more potent than gerrymandering at this point, with modern elections.

Gerrymandering probably still matters in swing states like Ohio and Florida, but only if modern tampering methods have been ruled out everywhere else.
Obama and the NCI have become big proponents of opening up cancer data to everyone. Even going so far as to publicly call out places like Stanford for walling off data.

Check out the Genomic Data Commons as well to see partial results from these efforts. There's a nice article about it too at http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2017/Canc...
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Thanks! I knew I had read a blog post with this title somewhere, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Here's the related HN post from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1615182
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I'm on my 2nd or 3rd time around trying to learn FP and I'd love to know the common misconceptions, traps and mistakes people make when trying to learn FP.
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You can use a small patch to add the remaining power of call/cc to Lua. I've thought I would need to do this for a game, because I was using both "state stored in execution contexts" and "speculative execution of the game's update() function while waiting for remote players' inputs". I didn't end up making that game though :(