skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"most [runners] would benefit" is a pretty weak and unhelpful assertion. If we instead go with "almost all [runners] would benefit" then the anecdote is pretty good evidence against it.
It can pass. It took me almost a year, but it does pass. Take care and take some time to find peace.
You're forgetting all the biases (& fallacies) which may or may not have affected the experience or the memory leading to the anecdote. These biases (& fallacies) are detectable or the lack of them is verifiable, with the scientific method.

I'm not denying an anecdote is not valuable to the individual. It is, for the individual who made the anecdote; not the rest of us, not the readers.

I'm also will admit I, too, use anecdotal evidence. But that does not mean one has strong evidence when they do; they don't, and neither do I.
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And if the client used some kind of reliable and fault tolerant connection method so that the app open opened up and connected really quickly instead of being behind layers of websocket over socket handshaking. At the moment it takes nearly 30s-1m from open to latest chat message visible.

Instead of improving the speed they've put more effort into making the loading screens dynamic and appealing, which is quite myopic.

I think i've written to Slack over 2 years ago letting them know how painful it is to use slack in Africa, Australia or where latency is high (even with a fast connection). I was hoping their valuation and billions and funding would help them improve their software or even make a native mac app.
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I had my first experience with VR yesterday, maybe I'm differenent but I actually found it kind of boring, at first it was scary and exciting, but after about 10 minutes I just got sick of killing zombies and flying through the air. The fact it was a simulation was just too obvious for me. This can obviously change as the technology get's better but that's just how I felt. It was no doubt a cool / new experience but it felt like a gimimck.

I did question reality a little bit on the way home etc, but that would surely be normal? I do remember feeling great taking off the goggles and thinking to myself how good it is to actually be alive and walking on the earth. I've heard others say the real world felt boring to them, but I felt the opposite.

If I felt dread about anything, it was seeing my friends son running around the room while his playmate sat there watching him for hours on end and vice-versa. I felt a little sad that's how some kids are now spending holiday time together. I guess they're probably having fun but it did seem a little anti-social and unhealthy. Infact, I thought about it a lot today.
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I don't think there are any serious AGI efforts using OpenAI Universe.
A Galton box generates a binomial distribution.

Most probability distributions are designed to model some kind of process. The time between clicks of a geiger counter is exponential, the number of clicks in a second is poisson. The amount of time your geiger counter lasts before it breaks and you have to buy a new one is weibull. That's the whole reason why we invented probability distributions in the first place: to model processes.
> Could I demand that the city/town/council/etc delete all footage of me ever?

In fact, that is required automatically – all recordings have to be deleted as soon as possible, the maximum retention periods unless there is specific evidence against you is usually a few weeks or months.

> And last but not least, how on earth would this stance on data ownership not ruin data retention?

That’s literally what happened. The European Court of Justice has ruled that data retention unless technically required is illegal.
There are records, of course, but it doesn't seem like marriage records are public records in my state. The state says nothing on their website about obtaining these records other than going to city Hall in person with your ID and that's only to obtain your own marriage certificate. I think they also said something about responding to requests about genealogy requests but only for very old marriage records. There's not an online database of marriages like there is with everything else public in my state. Nothing publicly available for public consumption that I could see.

I can't see if my friends are legally married but I can easily see what they paid for their house.

Divorces are public though and very easy to find on the court's website.
Why does software suck?
No it's not. Most is quite a strong assertion.
Feel free to poke holes in the arguments. I mostly see is people just dismissing it on a gut level "it's ridiculous".

Or just donate to the against malaria foundation.
Yes I would. There are junk foods that work fine without any added flavors. Let alone junk foods with natural flavors.
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I would argue that movies can do this. I often walk out of a movie and the world outside seems surreal. With VR though, I'm so drawn out of it, rather than into it (like a film) that it more feels like I'm just playing with a toy. VR tech, at least to my eyes is just not there enough to draw me in. I can see the pixels and there's nothing interesting and non-gimmicky in the sphere.
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A sysadmin of Politiwatch here (non-profit that made the site). We're not harvesting your data. In fact, we nuke it right after we serve the request. We're super privacy conscious.

Regardless, we ask for the address as well as zip because in many areas, a ZIP is not sufficient to gather detailed data, as an official may represent one part of a ZIP code and not another.

Politiwatch, the non-profit that made WhoAreMyRepresentatives.org (https://politiwatch.org), is purely public benefit. We're trying to promote government transparency and political fluency. Nothing nefarious going on here. You'll have to take my word for it, though. If you're still feeling paranoid (and rightly so), enter your neighbor's address.
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I honestly think politicians have stopped using email. This leak was so inconvenient that it has changed behaviors.
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Created a really simple redis-py wrapper library.

Concept:

- not Active Record like
- compatible with redis command interface
- supporting light weight key and type restriction

Any feedback would be appreciated.
I've had success with Duolingo.

I've been doing Duolingo's French lessons every day for 15-20 minutes during my commute to work. I find it quite engaging and useful.
Gray color fonts on gray color background. It gives too much strain to my eyes and makes text unreadable.

Please check this out : http://contrastrebellion.com/
When I was learning C back in 1990, it took me a long time to get comfortable with it, and that's after years of programming in Assembly language (8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit). It took me some time to stop writing assembly in C and start writing C in C, if that make sense.

I haven't switched to Rust yet (I still deal with C/C++ at work on "legacy" code, and I'm having too much fun with Lua for my own stuff) but I don't expect to pick it up "quickly" and I'm sure I'll be trying to write C in Rust for some time. It comes with the territory.
What you are describing is well and good but also nothing new. Parents putting financial pressure on others by spoiling their kids with toys and treats isn't a new phenomenon. The article is misguided in aiming its ire at IAP(there's plenty of other legitimate grievances to have with them, but think of the children is just emotional clickbait).
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Hm, I'm sure there are good proxies, like the number/length of parent-initiated phone calls/emails to the school/teachers.
I was kind of enjoying 'out' as the verb, but you're probably right.

(Submitted title was 'Enter your address and out everyone who represents you in government'.)
Are there any performance benchmarks to show when this kind of approach is useful over less exotic solutions?
same people, same motive.

I have loads of friends in both Kiev and Moscow and the whole thing stinks.

we (USA) stirred up the Maidan (CIA) in the first place, and aided in deposing Yanukovych and installing Poroshenko.

The Crimean residents have largely been dual or Russian passport holders since WW2 anyway. It used to be full of Tatars, until Catherine the Great imported loyal Slovaks to help send them packing to central Asia, as there were loyalty issues vs the Ottomans.

In any case, the whole "Russia is not gay friendly!" propaganda started to be emitted around that time... (as if traditional Slavic society was any different in Poland or Ukraine? as if Matthew Shepard wasn't beaten to death naked tied to a fence post in Wyoming USA...)
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Wow... um.. have you tried to parent instead of whining about your shitty first world problems? Christ.
So, do the "OO"s in the name look to anyone else like they were intentionally styled on fake boobs?

I guess that's one way to get the attention of a lot of likely male computer geeks....
You should check out Zulip.

https://zulip.org/
That's where I get mine.
Ya, who knows....I do think he is very different than your typical politician, but exactly how no one really knows. You might be right that they thought they had the goods on him with things like the sex talk tape, but when he basically shrugs his shoulders and it slides right off his back, I could see how that might be worrying to someone who is also in the influence game.

I agree on Obama, I think something must happen in the first few days where the new President is sat down and gets told how things really work. I would think that is what happened to many of Obama's promises. I doubt anyone would look forward to having that talk with Donald Trump.
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I just got a Google Foobar window, closed it and then tried to go back to google.com/foobar, but it's not showing up, what's interesting, is that foobar is back? Anybody else notice this?
Imagine if there would be overwhelming evidence that it wasn't Russia after all, it was an American named Bob. If that would be the case would you say that Bob has messed with the American election? or would you say that Bob has exposed corruption on one side? How about the trump locker room talk leak? Was that not messing with the election?

If this is all true though, than I personally would prefer Russia to come to my country and mess with my elections as well, the more corruption gets exposed the better.
I was able to pull up my representatives without putting in my address and only using my zipcode.
I think it really depends on your state/county.
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The report released by the US govt only contains a birds-eye view of the hacking incident and not much technical details. But they do reference APT28 and APT29 which are described in reports from FireEye in 2014 and 2015:

http://www2.fireeye.com/rs/fireye/images/rpt-apt28.pdf
https://www2.fireeye.com/rs/848-DID-242/images/rpt-apt29-hammertoss.pdf

The evidence is circumstantial, but there is so much of it that I think you can confidently say that Russia is behind it. For example, compile times pointing towards office workers in Moscow, Russian language settings and so on.

Read the reports and make up your own minds!
Cargo isn't competing against nor replacing distribution package managers. Cargo is a build tool, not a package manager. You're free to package Rust software the same way you do non-Rust software for specific distributions. They are entirely different unrelated things with no overlap. Cargo solves a lot of problems that we've been facing for a long time. We have the Internet now, so let's use it to speed up development.
Doesn't seem to work on iOS. Just tells me it's getting my location, and then ... nothing.
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> If we instead go with "almost all would benefit" then the anecdote is pretty good evidence against it.

No, one anecdote is not pretty good [scientific] evidence against anything.

I can give you an anecdote about how I drove through red lights multiple times. That does not mean you should follow the example.

Why not? You have no idea about the circumstances. I was actually talking about driving a bike, I was a teenager, and there was barely (if any) traffic. There's pro and cons there, but what matters is I omitted the details. Hence, YMMV. Plus, the statistical evidence is too small (sample size is one). Good luck reproducing the outcome, too.

Its the same in our runner's example. There's simply hardly any -if any- evidence presented to even make the anecdotal claim. Which still lacks any statistical evidence.

What anecdotal evidence can lead to is scientific research. But we should not conclude on the outcome yet. We must keep an open mind, accept on a method and test circumstances, and gain statistical relevance.

It is absolutely mind blowing, btw, how much 'scientific' research these days is not statistical relevant yet gets passed good grades (and yields the paper) at say college & universities. I'm not sure if its incompetence or laziness or lack of time or lack of money. I've even witnessed this first hand recently when my significant other was completing an assignment for her higher education degree which I was reviewing. Four interviews lead to a conclusion. Which, yes, is anecdotal ;)
This is missing the codeintel package plugin seen in sublime text, which is a derivative from open Komodo edit...

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Tornado+nginx. Done.
tldr; some labs adopt a proprietary communication and content management system (instead of using existing open protocols) because they don't have the technical support, or time, to do it right.

In the short term this increases productivity but in the long term the lock-in will constrain.
Both of which are indexed by Google, unless you're hiding website content behind a login and avoid sending emails to Gmail users. Not much better?
Thanks! My implementation is currently front-end only.

Here's the code that simulates all the client/server communication: https://github.com/cricklet/blue-ot.js/blob/master/js/ot/orc...

It shouldn't be too hard to take that and put it in an actual client/server architecture. The client needs to have a way to send local operations to the server (this can just be an endpoint on the server) and the server needs a way to broadcast operations to all clients (probably webRTC?).
The ML family of languages and the Lisp one, with exception of Scheme, don't require TCO.

So none of them are worthy of being FP languages according to you.
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I would love to read an approach to effective political giving. Does anyone know of such a document? If the effective altruism movement had focussed on political action and donations instead of private charity to supply bed nets we might have a much better world (including money for bed nets).
ok i think i know what happened: Obama forced FBI to produce the report, but they got nothing, so they filled it mostly with irrelevant slightly-more complicated mumbo jumbo than Obama can understand to slide under his scrutiny, and then he pushes it out to the public without first consulting an actual security professional.
I don't understand why. Strip credentials from your source, dump it on GitHub. It may or may not get picked up by someone else, but this in itself is already better than having the project die. It also doesn't make you committed to anything.

So honest question - even if you don't feel like maintaining it later, why not open source anyway?
I bought myself a wooden clock kit from ThinkGeek. I have to buy stuff like this for myself... my family bought me clothes! (I'm not complaining!!!)

For my nieces and nephews, however, I bought them the large Snap Circuits 750 kit, and we have been playing with that. After they build something, I make changes to it, & they try to predict what will happen. Regardless of their answer, we then test it to see what will happen, & then I help them to understand why. They're getting better at it!! :D
Haha, I know, it does sound rather crazy. However, once again I will play the Snowden card: all of that was called crazy conspiracy talk, because there would be too many people involved who <insert your words here> so thinking that is just crazy.

It's certainly not crazy to not trust these people. Deceit is their job.
Which are mostly worthless, because most keep mixing implementations with languages.
You have to be a little careful here. Neural networks are not "very general computation techniques." A dot product and a rectified linear function (or some other function of choice) are not "general computation techniques" in the sense you seem to use. They are a very specific set of operations. And the fact that you can show that two layers of these operations is a universal approximator is a red herring: decision trees and k nearest neighbors are also universal approximators.
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Doesn't it also tech: with money you can get ahead? Even though others are "working" as hard as you?
You'd get busted when the EU authorities find out. After an accident happens perhaps.

They should rate the whole system: drive + battery to 250 Wh sustained and maybe 500 W peak power (30s) with motor cutoff at 25 kph. I can do all of these with my legs only so it's esentially a bicycle.

The label thing seems dumb. Of course manufacturers would sell 250 W rated drives to comply.
Flowdock is also pretty great

https://www.flowdock.com/
Full title: Why Clojure is better than C, Python,Ruby and java and why should you care

I recommend updating the title to "Why Clojure is better than C, Python, Ruby, and Java"
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Um... What? I eat plenty of junk food without artificial flavor, especially all the junk food that comes out of my own kitchen. The suggestion was "avoid artificial flavor" (which implies natural flavor is OK) not "avoid added flavor."

You're also implying everything with added flavor is junk food. Flavored Seltzer is the only thing that got my husband off of soda. Sure it's acidic due to the carbonation, but other than that it's pretty harmless especially compared to soda.

Artificial flavors and natural flavors are exactly the same thing, the only difference is how they are synthesised.
There's also the court case at the moment where the Prime Minister is trying to use the royal prerogative to trigger Article 50 (for Brexit) without an explicit act of parliament to authorise it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(Miller_and_Dos_Santos)_v_Se...
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I think this forum has to recognize a lot of work being done in the valley especially Google and Facebook is ethically questionable and seeking to brush it under the carpet or 'normalize' it perpetuates a dissonance. For starters the whole mythology of liberal freedom loving nerds sits in stark contrast to the reality of actively developing and enabling authoritarian technologies.

The curious consequence of the willful ignorance on one's own actions is the continued posturing and stark dissonance in expecting ethical behavior from other segments of society. If you can't behave ethically you can't expect it from others.

That level of dissonance is untenable and ultimately every intelligent person has to realize not recognizing and confronting unethical behavior is a race to the bottom and will reflect in every aspect of life around you.
There is no need to demonstrate anything.

Go is a good enough replacement for C, for user space applications.

With some improvements, even for more lower level tasks.

As for the flaws, anyone that had the pleasure to work with the Algol and Wirth family of languages is well aware of them.
Another site that offers the same cookie cutter bootstrap templates you can find for free? The worst part is they all just give you a pretty front-end with absolutely no back-end support. Just try actually interacting with the live demos.
And benchmarks with rigor, I might add. Noting important dependencies that match chipset, bare metal CPU architecture/bus wiring and compiler choices.

In particular, I've spoken with people who have cited significant differences in performance, when using proprietary compilers matched to vendor CPU chipsets, for Linux/OpenJDK compilation, which then changes the profiling of the JVM benchmark, on the same bare metal crate.

Meanwhile, L2 cache misses, due to object reference churn, are the final deal breaker with the JVM, if I've read correctly and read enough about JVM performance. Beyond even garbage collection overhead, fundamental JVM performance cannot be tuned to optimize CPU cache use.

Briefly paraphrased, the JVM performs messaging/referencing with String references, that look like "java.lang.Object@%HASH_CODE%" and when you instantiate and garbage collect many instances (millions of those hellishly long fully qualified java names) across many operations, costing many cycles, you'll always suffer incurred latency, because most of your objects are frequently populated and then evicted from the L2 cache, no matter how long they actually live in the JVM heap.

I don't have the link handy, or I'd post it.

But long story short, even though a JVM benchmark may be performant, benchmarks do not peg CPU resources according to real life use cases.

And changing the OS, motherboard, and compiling from source on your own physical hardware can provide benefits that might not be obviously worth the extra effort to compile from source bootstrapping all the way from the kernel to the JVM, before deploying your java artifacts.
What's the source of the data once an address is submitted? I tried to do a similar project during a hackathon and all of the APIs I found were either dead or insufficient.
The EU has restrictions on this kind of stuff - http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/data-collection/...
> If a bad page fault was executed it would allow transactions to crash the program, which wouldn't be very atomic.

It would allow bad page faults to crash the program, i.e., ordinary behavior. No? Why do programs need this protection for HTM transactions?

> You would need to tell the operating system kernel that the page fault happened in a transaction, and let it ignore it if it was a bad page fault.

It wouldn't ignore it. It would fault the thread and probably tear down the process, as usual. No?

> Also there are other cases were retries will not succeed, page fault was just an example. Another common case is the dynamic linker when a library function is first executed.

That would be an abort due to excessive memory use?

Thanks! I'm not as familiar with this stuff as I would like to be.
Ok! Sorry for misreading you. I've put the comment back where it was.
That a fair request, but the article doesn't say Clojure is faster than any other language, it just says it is fast. That caught my attention as well, because I don't think of it as being particularly fast (mostly due to startup time).
Clojure does actually support TCO, it doesn't support automatic TCO because of the JVM limitations. And after using explicit TCO calls in clojure for a while I actually prefer it now over automatic TCO. Because I can clearly see from reading my code where tail calls are optimized, and where they build up stack. I don't have to try and work out if the recursive call is in the tail position. It's all explicit.

For mutually recursive TCO there's `trampoline`

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/trampoline