skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link just reinforces what I am saying. You have a community with some bad social norms, and many people in it are now realizing it and trying to change the whole group.
Yeah, also it's worth pointing out that he finished a PhD in math. That is already genius level mathematics as far as most people are concerned; certainly relative to your average undergraduate STEM student.
Moving to GitLab: GitHub Censors Daplie's LetsEncrypt Module
I don't doubt it. I've certainly seen people bill similarly (and obviously it doesn't involve writing that much code) - I'm just trying to put the pieces together in this context.
As New York City first discovered when the Triborough Bridge was built, more highway capacity generates more traffic.

Today only the Uber-rich can afford short haul flying. With a airtaxi/flying car scenario, just about anyone could fly across their metro area for some special occasion.
It's violent crime which has dropped. Additionally, lengths of prison sentences have greatly increased, even as crime rates dropped, especially due to war on drugs legislation and three strikes laws.

Get yourself educated, friend.
> Controlled trophy hunting big game is one of the most effective ways (sadly) of protecting the hunted animals.

This is debatable at best. If you want to have an argument, point out research, not a college humor video.
XPS 15 9550 here. Got mine on eBay for ~$1k with no SSD. Mine has the i7-6700HQ, 4K IGZO touchscreen, bigger battery (which takes up the 2.5" SSD space, so M.2 SSD only which is fine by me), and GTX 960. Follow http://seb.mamessier.com/dell-xps-15-9550-ubuntu-16-04/ + http://malachisoord.com/2016/09/10/xps-15-9550-ubuntu-setup/ and it's OK. Graphics switching doesn't work flawlessly. Powertop requires some messing about to get the fans to totally stop. Battery life is worse than under Windows. Palm detection on the touchpad is wonky and requires blacklisting a kernel mod to get working properly (the touchpad shows up as two devices). My keyboard had a cable under the spacebar not properly glued down, so I had to get a replacement KBD (~$15 on ebay, parts are readily available). Plextor M8Pe works fine but I had to mess with the BIOS a bit to get the UEFI boot stuff working correctly. Wifi works fine. Bluetooth works as well as it does on Windows, which is to say not that well, but I don't think it's the fault of the hardware or Ubuntu. Configuring X to play nice with the proprietary drivers + power settings + stupid Synaptic touchpad daemon + graphics switching + Arc theme took a few days to get more or less working.

The screen is also terrific and very noticeably better than my work mid-2014 15" rMBP. I wouldn't have optioned the touchscreen if I had a choice, but the 4K IGZO is only available as a touchscreen. I actually use it sometimes, and the hinge is good enough that it doesn't flop around and it feels solid when tapping on it. I only really use that for casual browsing.

My past few personal laptops have been Dell Latitudes since they're typically made from metal and have nicer parts (keyboard, hinges, touchpad, etc) than stuff like the Inspiron series. Parts are cheap and easy to find (e.g. an extra power adapter is $35 shipped in bulk packaging) and they're generally easy to repair, with repair guides, service manuals, and Dell's great service code look-up readily available. If it blows a motherboard or drains a battery tomorrow, I know that I can keep it running for relatively little money. Dell also has great business warranties if you can find a used one with a year or so of warranty left.

TL;DR it's still a huge PITA to get even the latest Ubuntu working right with a top-of-the-line Windows laptop, and even then it's less nice and doesn't "just work" as well as a Mac, but I paid about 1/3rd of what a comparable MBP would cost, and since it's just a personal laptop for my side projects and electronics hobby stuff (microcontrollers, audio measurement, open source, etc) it's totally fine.
I had always been interested in the software development lifecycle. I eventually made the switch from dev to program/project management, in part, because I had worked on too many projects at different companies that failed to ship. I wanted to be part of the solution.
Why does the subject knowing about it make it any less useful for genocidal purposes?

You pretty much need a state ID or drivers license, which lists your skin color. Political contributions are a matter of public record for anticurruption purposes. Vital records offices are more than sufficient for tracing ancestry. Welfare offices know who is poor and medically needy. Telecoms and the post office knew who you communicated with.

There was more than enough information to mount a holocaust on any of those axes long before the current crop of tech companies.
White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election
Open AI's Philosophical Claim
Not saying you're wrong, but I was pleasantly surprised that I only had to plug my iPhone 6S+ in via USB and it just showed up as an additional network connection and "just worked" in Ubuntu 16.10. I've never had an easier tethering experience. FWIW it also did not work at all over Bluetooth (couldn't even see my phone).
well, we never found them.
I own this laptop too, and I agree with you. I would add a few complaints of my own, though:

- The computer sometimes seems to turn on after it's closed and asleep in my bag

- The CPU gets pegged constantly, even on the i7 version (admittedly, this may be due to some background processes that were installed by my employer, but sometimes in task manager it just seems like a generic Windows process it taking up all of the CPU, so it's hard to tell).

- The fn key placement is awful. Seriously, I think Apple started this trend, and I wish other manufacturers would stop following it. Years of muscle memory have trained me to put my pinky in the bottom, left-hand corner of the keyboard for ctrl. At least you can change this in the BIOS on this computer, unlike a Mac, but that's still less than ideal.
Well, back in the day, the Sun people were crowing that HotSpot would be faster than C++.
> Why then don't people write in Java for performance?

They do. Just like people write for PyPy for performance.

The only challenge to Java's performance is from languages without dynamic GC and with detailed static type information: C, C++, Rust. Even then, Java is usually "only" half the speed.

And AOT is coming for fast start-up, not good steady-state performance.
My experience shows that almost all GoF design patterns, except singleton, are not useful at all in writing modern C++ software.

The singleton is really just about a language trick, it hardly means anything more than a global variable fit into C++'s class hierarchy.

I've been writing C++ in the past 1.5 years. All I have saw is design patterns being used forcefully and awkwardly. And there has not been a single instance where a pattern is used and improves the overall quality.

Such practices result into closely coupled class webs, which is hostile to testing, extremely difficult to understand and change; the worst, they easily causes circular dependency, which was once considered a norm in C++ code.

They also result into overengineerred interfaces, which gradually morphed into a "DoEverything" interface, like DoEverything(ActionOptions, RuntimeEnvironment). ActionOptions literally captures every options you can have on anything; and RuntimeEnvironment includes all data for the action to happen.

IMHO, C++ code is about as good as it can be, when it manages to achieve 2 things:
1. DAG in translation unit dependency.
2. Predominantly prefer composition to inheritance.

Plus, class access control (private/protected), and anonymous namespace should not be used to hide your implementation. That makes writing tests way too troublesome. And TBH, no one wants to abuse implementation details, unless the interface is bad or no comprehensive tests.
Sure, but the Australian and US States similarly have parliaments with strong jurisdictions - stronger than those of the Scotland, Wales and NI parliaments, because the national legislatures in the federations have only limited scope.
I'm not really squeamish, and I'm cognisant of the cultural difference but.. I would caution people against image searching for tied up dogs in the context of China unless you're prepared for some pretty shocking stuff.
Eh, there's limited utility in trying to hide how much of an idiot I am.

If you want an honest comment, my main feeling was more of envy that patio11 could build and run and sell a six figure business he didn't really care about, and had the choice of a startup, a job, or consulting, with experience that he's well capable of all of them, and that he can stop off on the side to record some videos that even in a world of YouTube and online courses, people will pay in advance for, sight-unseen.

I really do respect him. And I really don't want to follow him into a life of consultant marketing, business reminder software, on-call phone stress, sign-on funneling or salarymanship.
Sadly, most recent 15", of all brands, have a numeric keypad. IIRC I only found one non-MBP beside the XPS15 that still have no keypad, but it has way worse issues (very bad heat issues). So you pretty much only have the choice between an MBP and an XPS if you don't want a numeric keypad(and an off centered touchpad, beurk!) on a recent 15"
You think this says nothing for his credibility overall? His title was Senior Policy Advisor and reported directly to the Assistant Administrator.

His wife is Nancy Kete, another former EPA employee and currently a managing director of the Rockefeller Foundation. They spend a lot in grants regarding "climate change"[1].

[1] http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/fundraising-for-climate-ch...
Why not try out an in-store demo to see if it works for you?
Why? You already know everything about who gets what classified info and what journalist's internal processes look like. Surely you have access to the names of officials who hold public office in the relevant departments and agencies.
Do you have another source for this claim?
Let me add that there are two competing stories here. One is that JA is a sociopath, and got away with it because of the norms of the group, but now people are changing and rejecting such behavior.

The other is that the females in question all thought for years that JA's behavior was fine, or at least not very bad, and then all of them, for some unaccountable reason, went crazy at the same time and irrationally decided to persecute him and him alone.

I find the first story a whole lot more plausible than the second.
Like the people currently taking private jets and helicopters!
Political Graveyard[1] is the world's richest open dataset on American politicians, and its size dwarfs everypolitician.org

[1] http://www.politicalgraveyard.com/

[Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the site, not even sure who runs it]
The Carbon is touchscreen, just not a convertible.
I don't think a PhD can get any interview for academic jobs at all without adviser's reference letter.

It's worse than no publications.
Fair points. You can react to iMessage notifications inside the notification overlay on iOS 10 ... and it's dog slow and inconvenient and I don't like it.

The keyboard and autocomplete is really frustrating. You can custom keyboard, but even with NinType swipe-keyboard installed, it's slow to startup, and I don't use it because it wants me to type whole English words in whole English sentences - and that's not what I want to write in iMessages.
“It's Just Emulation” – The Challenge of Selling Old Games (GDC Talk)
how about rhinoceros horn trade?
But he/she is not making a reasonable argument though, they are making a cynical one that doesn't even remotely make room for a rational discussion. This seems to be a scary new norm where people are so frustrated they cannot see the complexity and nuance of the world, its just all crap and crap crap crap. The only think these people seem to trust is everyone lies and you can't trust anything, and when you can convince enough people of this (who will in turn stay home on election day and leave control up to the extremists who will not be) and you can take control, thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The thing that scares me about this the most is the attitudes of people I ran into face-to-face registering voters this year. I ran into quite a few people to would make similar statements and the interesting thing was that after a while I could actually predict pretty well how people would respond to being asked if they were registered to vote from a distance. The people who had very cynical responses looked miserable (from a distance, before I talked to them) and likely were miserable (thinking the world is crap and everyone is lying and we're all being spied on and no-one can stop it, etc) and it leads me to believe many of the people who comment on these stories in similar ways are similarly miserable.

The bad-news flood from our overly connected lives I think is starting to have a serious effect on peoples psychology and it is making it harder and harder to have reasonable discourse. In the end at this rate its going to be a small number of news-junkies and academics and a bunch of extremists and the rest of the population will be tuned out as long as there is enough food and distractions available.
In a way, most people should be doing bad work today.. looking 5 years back.
Yep, understood.
Such definitions are useful because they result in useful safety factors when testing to find the actual threshold values is either impractical, immoral, or impossible. Consider:

1) Most children do not appear to suffer from lead-associated brain damage

2) Most children's lead levels fall below 5 μg/dL

Therefore, while I do not know the level at which lead exposure results in brain damage, I can be safe in assuming that it is higher than 5 μg/dL. Moreover, since I know that most children fall below this level, it is not an overly difficult bar to achieve.

So now we've got a regulation which we know is:

1) very achievable (in fact most of the population is already there)

2) almost certain to be on the safe side

If you can recommend a better strategy, I'd like to hear it.
> because they take recycling money out of the pocket of the municipality

I was curious if the municipality is doing a good job of recycling but couldn't find numbers. Like for the city of Santa Clara, what percentage of the recycling is brought in by the municipality. I kind of think it is probably lower than that brought in by competitive commercial entities.

I did find:

"Recycling rates were up for all material types: aluminum rose to 85 percent, compared to 83 percent between January and June 2007; glass rose to 79 percent from 71; and the most common plastic, No. 1 PET, increased to 63 percent from 58."

None of the numbers are above 90, and PET is about 60% so having more people like this who bring these numbers up is a good thing.
Exactly. And let me add that you can have police force that works for justice only if the larger society has a whole lot of good norms that are enforced informally. If you don't have that, then the police will just be a bunch of thugs, as is the case in many countries.
PJNATH – Open Source ICE, STUN, and TURN Library (2.5.5)
In case you are not familiar with China, there are many such old ladies in China. Most of them in big cities are trying to dressed relatively clean and decent. There are some old ladies eat the remained food left on tables in student restaurants in universities.
Try Google. It was in all of the regional papers. The guy was also interviewed on 60 Minutes. That interview prompted the system operator to issue their "he was in charge of software systems, but had no access to important things like the electric market" statement.

The weird thing was the FBI knew about him and there was a strange quote that he would be more useful being interviewed by them while "living in freedom".
so many people like her live in China
Look, you can't simply build a mini-plane with 10 combustion engines. It's a design you can't bootstrap powered with gas and migrate to electrical later.

You also can't put combustion engines in the end of small actuators, like it's on the article.
That seems entirely accidental, though. He was a mostly failed spy, a compromised one to boot, who just got on with his life and happened to work at ConEd. It's not like the KGB planted a spy at the heart of power grid operations just waiting to flip a switch and plunge the Eastern seaboard into darkness.
I think you ask. Rephrased, "I expect to be reimbursed for travel, but will try to keep my airfare/hotel/per diem expenses in line with what your employees get. (Hint: provide me a copy of this policy.)"
Piles of them just googling his name.
Sure, an easy example is public voting. When congressional votes are public, it is very easy for special interest groups to reward or favor politicians who vote correctly. It's easier to buy votes.

Otoh lots more information available to the public often also makes it easier to detect lying and corruption.
Jack Barsky was profiled on 60 minutes. They interviewed the FBI agents who turned him (or captured or whatever it was exactly that happened).
> what algos and patterns in quantitative finance need a phd level of research ?

Require a PhD? I'd say about none of them.

If we turn around the question to: "What algos and patterns in quantitative finance can be done by a 18 yo out of high school?" I'd say about none of them too.

The average to-be-programmer can't fizzbuzz. The average to-be-quant can't do basic statistics.

I don't know about the US but the universities I've attended in EU are extremely selective with Maths. Requesting a master or PhD is a good filter for anything math related.
We don't know if the taper does anything though. If we don't have a working theory we can't really use variations of the working device to prove anything.
If a mugger is caught, I'm very much in favor of giving him a hefty prison sentence. However, if you want a sustained decline in the violent crime rate in a whole society, law enforcement is only part of the picture. You absolutely do have to do something about the root causes, the socio-economic factors that were giving a generation of young men the feeling that they had nothing better to do than mug people. It's not about sympathy for criminals. It's about doing things that actually work, not just things that feel righteous.
Is there a simple algorithm for intelligence?
I hope by that you mean secure our infrastructure from future intrusion.
233 countries, 0 from my country.
BigDL: Distributed Deep Learning on Apache Spark
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It's one of my first projects in Golang.
I'll work for more features like show story content on terminal.
On the CPU being pegged, I have bothered my IT department to death over the same thing on my X1 Carbon. If you download Process Explorer, I would bet it's CSCService that's causing the issue. If so, the culprit is likely the Windows "Offline Files" feature which lets your IT department sync your laptop files with the corporate network every so often. My IT department has failed to fix the issue, though, so yours may be unable to find a fix. For a while, I just messed with the power setting on my laptop in order to never allow the CPU to be fully utilized so that the fan noises were not insufferable.
I think the leading expert on this subject is NYT reporter Fox Butterfield:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/us/despite-drop-in-crime-a...

In case it isn't obvious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Butterfield#Criticism

The late Dr. Richard Pryor also did some seminal fieldwork in the area:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7DhFhzkjcA
Expats often have "I'm not Japanese" as an excuse and a lower expectation of conformance.

To be clear this is not just a company issue it's a cultural issue. If the company does not have a policy of "go home at 6pm" the default culture everyone expects is "work late", especially for men.
I'm having a hard time understanding what your PhD is about. Could you clarify in layman's terms?
don't give me that powell shit. he supposedly was "higly skecptical" of the facts. yet that dickhead went with the story at the un anyway. after the damage was done he's like "sorry". come on.

https://youtu.be/IYBA9JD5oW4

https://youtu.be/FejQH_VCB24

edit: do me a favor and don't rush to conclusions. i didn't mention russia.
It's possible that adding an interaction term for classroom quality and involved parent would show that there's zero marginal benefit to a good classroom if you're an involved parent. That result seems orthogonal to their research goal, which was estimating the mean impact of a quality classroom for the "average" child.

The phrasing, "they should control for" has a specific statistical meaning, criticizing the model as having an omitted variable problem -- that they left out a regressor that is correlated with both the dependant variable and at least one of the other regressors. That is a different criticism than suggesting an interaction term.
> Unless you think unsafe is Rust but "lesser, not really". ... It's part of the language ... sometimes things are needed that can't be proven safe by the compiler, but you may be able to prove to yourself it is.

This. Unsafe is to the borrow checker as 'Any' is to the typechecker.
Honest question for anyone with knowledge about lead and health: I just moved into an apartment that the city has cited for lead-based paint. How soon will I die?

I asked the landlord, and he said don't worry about it (of course). He said the risk is mainly for children, and that the lead is only kicked up when the paint is scraped during remodeling or whatever.
No need to mock anyone. Just take your awesome market prediction skills and make an easy billion dollars or two for yourself.
A few studies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26514947
http://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2016/11/25/thoraxjnl-201...
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2016/11/05/0...
http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/4/8/895.short
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20479151

I am sure there is a meta-analysis somewhere but this would take a bit of time to find
Good link. The problem is most people think that blood cholesterol all comes from diet. But the link explains most of it is produced by the body itself.
Tools to help with a process, not to define the process.
Thinkpads are not better than other laptops when it comes to Linux support.

Just look at the broadcom wifi chipsets: if you mistakenly buy a thinkpad with one directly from their website (and they obviously don't advertise it as such when configuring the hardware), and then ask their support to get it fixed/changed (even on your own dime) they'll just stonewall you. Once they got money out of your pocket, you mean nothing for them.

The only solution is to buy a supported (intel chipset, for the wifi) FRU aftermarket (and good luck finding it, since Lenovo's support won't tell you that information).

At least, with a Dell or a Chromebook I have a recurse if the hardware they sold me has incompatibilities with the Linux version they shipped it with

Moreover: I won't support a company with such an horrible and embarrassing security track record as lenovo
What happened in Washington state after voters legalized recreational marijuana
Many large company jobs are de facto jobs-for-life. But things sometimes get boring mid-way into careers.