skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a model with 3 demes, with the deme having the lowest proportion of A-individuals being killed. This is no different from a model with 3 individuals with the individual with the lowest number of A-alleles being killed.

You can, of course, give a narrative argument on why you feel it is justified to exclude the interplay between these levels. But if you, at some point, try to show it is justified, by removing the assumption from your model, you'll struggle, I predict.

Evolving systems are very complex, it is an unwise assumption that you can chunk their dynamics into levels of abstraction and expect those dynamics to function independently or predictably when combined.
Lua is my favorite interpreted programming language and I've actively joined the community since 2014. I studied in the university where it was created and I decided to learn it just for the moral support because why not and felt in love with it. I observed MANY things that happened in its environment since then and I also happen to know a lot of things about its trajectory because of close friendships of older members of the community.

Lua had one golden age around 2008-2011 when it exploded in the game dev scene because of it's performance and easiness of use. And I can see it picking up speed and gaining popularity in two areas in the future:

- Web development (maybe) because of its amazing nginx module. It's super fast and it has the support of some companies like Cloudflare that depend on it. It needs more traction & community but it's an amazing tool. But this field is very difficult to break into considering that it's a saturated environment with many tools already available. This makes Lua stuff simply get shadowed even if they are amazing. I use it in this domain myself and I wrote the lua space blog on Lua itself. I know of "Chinese ebay", taobao, that has millions of products and itch.io, an indie game shop, using Lua.

- Machine Learning (for sure) because of Torch, as you mentioned. See, the thing is that this is a shiny new domain where Lua already has the right foot on. Even if everybody and their dog knows python and Tensorflow is a thing, there aren't 1543243 different tools for this to shadow Torch. If you check this page http://torch.ch/whoweare.html you will also see that very important companies are using it, which means that they are likely to encourage and widespread its use. I've recently decided to learn ML and I have used both Torch and Tensorflow. Although I found the initial shock of Torch bigger than Tensorflow because the amount of tutorials & community are not as big, I found Torch easier to use.

Finally, I've seen luarocks.org evolve so much recently! I'm sure it most definitely will have a very positive impact in the abundance of resources for the Lua environment in the upcoming years.

I personally believe Lua will see a second golden age soon. But just to clarify, when I see it had one golden age, in the past, it doesn't mean that after that it lost popularity, on the contrary, the users of Lua seem to always have grown slowly but steadily, by golden age I mean peaks.
Guess I will keep my 4770k for a while.
This + management engine + nvidia demanding that you log in for parts of their drivers on windows, I am actually starting to miss a strong amd a bit.

Maybe it's time to jump ship again.
And the ten minutes striking up a conversation with that strange kid in homeroom sometimes matters more than every other part of high school combined

Wow, that is pretty weird. That was true for me in college. I was at home after graduating in January 2002, at the bottom of the dot com bust. It was hard to find a job then.

I took this world music course in college, and I remember I talked to this guy who was also a computer science major, and he told me he was going to EA. Probably 6 months later, I e-mailed him out of the blue, and that got me the internship which led to my first job.

So instead of all the computer science stuff, I should have just relied on connections from the world music course and on my DOS batch file knowledge from age 13 :)
You can run real Flash Player 9 on a Nokia N800/N810, which had the exact same specs (128Mb/400Mhz). It ran Debian Linux with a Firefox based browser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800

It actually ran quite well! I used to play flash games all the time.
Not sure jabs at Intel are fully justified. I don't think they can be viewed only be Geekbench scores of their top of the line processor (excluding Xeons now). When you look at its admirable battle with ARM with their Atoms and the M line, the story is quite different. Stick computers and fanless laptops, both with x86 compatibility that ARM just does not have, by definition (yes, I know of Microsoft's latest wizardry in their Continuum dept.).

So sure, we're hitting some performance limits, but power efficiency (and thus battery life and/or weight) and form factors are also important considerations and Intel is making progress there.
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Over Christmas I went into surgery to have a tumor removed from my colon and I was diagnosed with stage 2 colon cancer (T4M0N0). We're now weighing the pros / cons of chemotherapy.

I'm curious if anyone was able to continue working while being treated? I'm 28 and pretty fit, but I know this stuff is probably going to knock my socks off to some extent. I do really want to keep my brain engaged to the highest extent possible; ideally I'd like to continue working from home four days a week. Anyone have any anecdotes they'd like to share?
Good point, I forgot about DeepZenGo. But it's very low-hanging fruit, though, which is the main reason why I'm surprised they haven't already done this.
Eh... I try to eat healthy on regular days. But after a good exercise I'll happily let myself eat some delicious junk food.
Sorry, I don't have that information.
In the sense you can not get tickets from the convenience of your couch!
The whole point is to unbundle what classes are, so there is no direct analogy. Structs are one piece of traditional classes; traits (rust) or interfaces (go) are another part, and delegation a third part.
CPU can be a bottle-neck, but only if the game happens to be very CPU-heavy (rare) and you happen to have a poor CPU.

In most modern games, a better CPU may yield a 10 FPS improvement, while a better GPU for the same price would yield 3x that.
This is entirely the reason I chose Intel and Nvidia over AMD/AMD. I run linux, and the open-source nature of AMD appeals to me, but I was so sick of the heat and the fan noise. Plus my old computer only ran at it's best during the winter.
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Sort of. Ticketmaster buys some venues (as LiveNation), and acquires exclusive online-ticket-sale rights to others. They enable this by pouring profit from fees into the venues (either to fund purchases or to afford licensing).

The result isn't greedy venues letting TicketMaster take the heat - if that were the case box office tickets wouldn't be so much cheaper. Instead, it's TicketMaster/LiveNation using venue lock-in to prevent artists from escaping their tendrils. There are some bands that have explicitly attempted to avoid using TicketMaster, and what they usually find is that it becomes very hard to find venues. In smaller cities/towns, it's often the case that there are no large non-TicketMaster theaters, so you can either feed the beast or abandon your fans in that location.

(So in a very indirect sense, TicketMaster is hiding behind zoning/licensing laws and that's why it can offer such anti-competitive pricing.)
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The unfortunate truth is that it is impossible for a live music fan to completely avoid Ticketmaster in 2017 without missing many of the best shows.

They strongarm venues into exclusivity agreements: all phone and online tickets at those venue must be sold through Ticketmaster.

Even walking up to buy a ticket at some box offices results in a venue using Ticketmaster as point of sale.

Their parent company Live Nation also outright owns many venues, a true monopoly in my opinion.
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Perhaps time to start a facebook awareness campaign, and have TM boycotted by artists and fans (?)
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Outside of the language war bubble it's really great to see a post like this. Practical concerns, reasonable advantages/disadvantages of each language, a real project dealing with real timelines. Thanks!
I take issue with the title itself.

> Ticketmaster is a horrible company, and I won't give them my business anymore

Ok, but what choice do you have, if Foo Fighters are playing in your City and you want to go? Or Manny Pacquiao is fighting Floyd Mayweather and you want to go?

It's not like there's a choice. There is, and that is to not go to the event. Because the core premise of TicketMaster's scam is the exclusive contracts they have with Venues and Artists.
That's insane. And despite losing the suit, they continue to do the exact same thing.
A lot of the mining happens there in quite big operations e.g. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/chinas-biggest-secret-bitco... (2015), which could conceivably be shutdown. But they could easily move on to other countries or just bribe the requisite officials.
The difference is if you paid more to the band, I'd be ok with that. My suspicion is this mostly involves paying more to ticketmaster.
For my Windows machine which is primarily gaming I only recently updated from an I7-920 to a Intel Xeon X5675 3.06GHz, for $95 used on ebay. These are NINE year old processors, that with a good video card still completely max out any game I throw at it with a resolution of 2500x1600.

My development/main machine is a 2008 MacPro, which has no problems doing anything I need on there.

I mean besides serious computations, what is my incentive to ever upgrade here? I'm basically waiting for entire system failure at this point for either.
The problem is they tend to own everything down to the venue. It makes disrupting them a cash intensive, long process.
Yes, there are many people in the world fitting all of a, b, c, and d.
Back in college, I took a soil science class. The professor said the Laramie valley has (used to at least) pretty good soil – fairly light and decent nutrient profile. There was a big western farm boom in the 1910's during a wet period that lasted 10-20 years. I'm not overly familiar with all the soil types in Colorado.

We have one farmer who uses some of our equipment, but he has also had good luck with soil in Fort Collins, CO [1]. He's on a hill though near a lake which might help. He said drainage was important for him.

Vertical farming is a great way to get around issues with soil quality. Especially for winter growing and also reducing the labor associated with planting, weeding, and harvesting. Seriously though, schedule a time to drop by if you're ever up in Laramie. We have a lot of knowledgeable people here who love talking growing! One of my coworkers has also done some good work on the economics or vertical farming (using our equipment mainly, as – well – that's what we know!) [2]. Much of the economics should be comparable on other vertical systems (though, probably less efficient you know ;) ).

Are you a software dev or tech person? Always fun to talk about the combo of farm and tech!

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2: https://youtu.be/u-aFueGWSFU?t=6m1s
Seriously though, what are the alternatives? Until then we all all 'stuck' with this Sh*t company. The only alternative is to 'not go' to watch your favorite performer / artist / fighter / singer.

Why hasn't this space been disrupted like how Uber disrupted the Cab Mob (oops, I mean the Taxi Medallions)
I found this article a while ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-m...

Which distilled the typical requirements to making close friends:

>the three conditions that sociologists since the 1950s have considered crucial to making close friends: proximity; repeated, unplanned interactions; and a setting that encourages people to let their guard down and confide in each other
Front-end frameworks are the bane of mobile web surfing.

> Faster CPUs won't change that, same as in the last 20 years.

In the last 20 years we've been throwing more and more hardware at the problem, eventually we'll hit a wall and start conserving those precious cycles.
> They are using no-till methods, the only input is compost and earth worms do the tilling work.

Actually they do use tillers. They use walk-behind tillers like BCS which are common in Italy. These dont compact the soil as much as a full tractor and are cheaper.

My wife and I have a 1000 sqft garden and have been watching Curtis' videos as well. We are considering building a mini-farm business on our property. Other good resources are Jean Martin's farm (http://www.themarketgardener.com/) and Eliot Coleman's (http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/)
The fact that many tickets are underpriced doesn't change the fact that TicketMaster's site is misleading and frustrating. Just because the market is willing to pay even more for the product than the advertised price + hidden fees doesn't mean I am, and even if I am it's still an obtuse experience.
Wow what did they do in 2009 to 2010 to increase their customer database from 25 million to 96 million?
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In before someone touches their screen too hard damaging the LCD because it's not reinforced to support the pressure of touch.
Hoping more people use seatgeek & gametime as alternatives - even stubhub is getting monopolistic as the single 'exchange' platform
I wanted to buy tickets for MLS final in Toronto this year.
General Sale was at 1pm. I log on at 1pm, site doesn't load. Keep refreshing and all tickets are sold by 1:01pm. And rows appear on stubhub at 1:20pm for ~$500 a ticket. I can fucking watch Real Madrid vs Barcelona (arguably the biggest soccer game in the world after CL final) for a ticket price cheaper than that.

Fuck Ticketmaster.
That's generally what a keto diet turns into once you've lost your target weight. I eat carbs now but still try to keep them as low as possible and it's great to maintain my current weight.
For you, pro-west means what you are said. For me, if a politic is elected by us, I will expect that "pro-west" will serve us by standards of West, not serve West government requests at expense of us. It's relative term. It's why I'm trying to clarify.

Thank you.
Many bands, startups, and other well-intentioned people have taken on TicketMaster in an effort to shake up the industry.

All have lost. Nothing has changed.
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So how would one compete with them since they seem to have exclusive deals with the venues.
Sometimes the idea can be good, but the originator isn't capable of turning it into more. As just about any VC will tell you, the idea is just step 1.
Did they pay the lawyers in coupons for ticketmaster as well?
Fellow teacher here, what method (tools) do you use to teach SQL via SQLlite?
Trying help disrupt TM by building a Stripe version of ticketing to provide nice APIs/grpc etc. https://ticketscale.io/ (still very much alpha)
I said, "heavily subsidizes a retired population"

Which says nothing about everyone, or every retired person, just these 27,000 apartments with vastly below market rents. On it's own this is not a big deal, but it really is a solid example of the problem with other forms of rent control.

The wider subsidy across ~1,030,000 apartments is a smaller subsidy, but also part of the same problem.

PS: Some of them could also afford to live in the same area without the subsidy. But, they also create jobs for people in the city further driving up demand for housing and thus rental prices.
They also store passwords in plain text. They emailed me my password for a reminder on a season ticket account. My account is a few thousand dollars, others would be 10s of thousands.
You're largely correct, but it is also true that the car ownership centric choices made on infrastructure and city growth turned out not to work so well either.

The best near to mid term developments probably involve cars still being quite central to many Americans lifestyle, while simultaneously becoming a bit more expensive and less convenient (e.g. less subsidized infrastructure, less central to urban planning). Simultaneously (some?) urban centers can become significantly less reliant on car ownership. Everyone can (and should) make their own choices, but we can work on having those choices less distorted by the policy objectives that have emphasized car (and for that matter home) ownership over other alternatives.
> Compare this with someone who simply wants to take their car and drive it into a crowd.

You have to multiply the probability by the harm. Yes, most people will just drive their car into a crowd, killing - let's say - 10 people.

But the man who perseveres and drives EVERY controllable car into a crowd can kill thousands, if not millions.
You're right that the USA are more diverse than often acknowledged. However, they are still sufficiently clustered and distinct from, say, northern Europe (also comprising multiple states with diverse cultures etc.) that the discussion here is meaningful.
Did you know that the Mission used to be an Irish neighborhood, for instance?

The point is that it used to be an affordable neighborhood. And the city in general used to be more or less affordable for the middle class, also -- independent of the ethnic background of its inhabitants. And that changes (including full-scale transformations of neighborhoods) which used to take generations to transpire now happen in the course of 10 years or so.

Just because change has happened before doesn't mean that all "change" is equivalent (or even "natural").
"Competition... is intense", hah.

TicketMaster's big advantage is that competition between venues isn't intense. Smaller cities will generally only have 1-2 venues of a decently large size, especially if you require things like alcohol licenses and permission to stay open late at night.

In any market where opening a new competitor was easy, someone would be fighting TicketMaster on prices and services. But since they deal in heavy venue lock-in, and opening new venues is essentially impossible (hi there, zoning laws), they get to gouge basically everyone involved.
I would be very surprised if it was that high.
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I used to do web contract work for a company that was eventually bought by Ticketmaster. I left before the sale. I was actually "let go" because I didn't comply with design goals.

One of the things that was encouraged in the design was to "hide away" things that detracted the user from checking out quickly. This included:

* Smaller font for things that you would gloss over or not even read, when you really needed to read it.

* A "time ticker" when one really was not needed. Create the illusion that those seats would be gone if they didn't checkout as fast as possible. In reality users were seldom in any danger of losing the seats.

* Put in the users face the event they were checking out for. Keep them reminded that they want to go to this event. Show them stuff about it and then show the cost and fee's in smaller font and break it up into steps so they see a smaller total first, keeps them happy, then add fees on but keep that "time ticker" going so they don't look to much.

Working there, I felt almost like we were a sleazy porn site.

Edits: clarifications

Edit 2: added that I didn't work for Ticketmaster.
Sounds like a product designed to produce new sales. Funny that.
Merged with Live Nation.
And once Uber squashes Lyft, there will be no competition again, and they can start treating customers as badly as Ticketmaster does!
The only limit to how big an area you can cover with Google offline maps is your storage. Each individual offline map is limited in size but you can download as many as you want to cover as big an area as you can fit in your phone.
I'm working on this problem right now. I believe the path to cheap water is through a massive fleet of solar stills floating in the South Pacific that passively collect evaporated water. Currently I'm working through my assumptions about biodegrading materials + construction, average loss (actuary) of such vessels in the region, logistics of collection/distribution over wide oceanic conditions, and how to build such a fleet incrementally without a massive amount of starting cash.

The big reason I saw this as an opportunity is the huge investments Saudi Arabia and the surrounding region are investing in their own water supply, and the knowledge that California's water politics will push them in the same direction. While traditional desalinization will help, the costs in material and electricity are prohibitive for small players.
To elaborate for the above commenter, ticket master sales for popular events often sell out within seconds of the sale starting as a swarm of bots attacks the site and buy up available tickets. It usually takes just a few minutes for ticket sales to go up on Craigslist or eBay. Users see just a blank page or ticket masters internal loading errors while scalping bots buy up tickets.

I remember trying to get tickets for my younger cousin to The International and I didn't evn have a chance. Even worse was neither Valve nor ticket master at the time has announced they weren't allowing ticket transfers so trying for tickets from those lucky enough to get some was useless as well. My uncle unfortunately was out $400some on eBay as a result; the guy I found on Craigslist was luckily way more understanding and when he was unable to initiate the transfer after a cash in hand meetup, he gladly offered to stay in contact until he could sort the issue on his side and transfer.

It's honestly a mess and it leaves a lot to be desired for most users. I get that ultimately they can't satisfy all customers because we all want the same scarce product, but it's very hard to shake the feeling that botting and ticket scalpers get too many of the tickets, a
Under certain circumstances, sure. But it doesn't make sense to enforce the time limit by forcing you to re-do the purchase when there are still available tickets not being held by an active checkout.
Scheme. When I write code in my free time it's always Scheme. I use it for web programming, game programming, systems programming, command line scripts, my package manager is written in it, my init system is written in it, etc. etc. etc.
Some venues will sell you tickets directly if you are able to go there in person.