skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link.

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Statistical-Learning-Predict...

vs

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Statistical-Learning-App...

The former seems to assume prior knowledge and the latter seems more beginner friendly, except it uses R (in case anyone wants the distinction).
Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang, MIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c

Probability by Joe Blitzstein, Harvard http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/youtube
After using Elm and the elm-format package in Emacs for the last few weeks I can say that not having to format the source and just letting your editor do it for you on save or via a command is so very nice.

This is a trend that I feel is going to catch on across any language that can support it. It makes trivial decisions and arguments about formatting a thing of the past.
Will there be a man made ravine breaking it into northern & souther halves, though?
I wish this become mainstream next year.
I don't disagree that the time-frame isn't very long. I also think we need more research/studies/etc, but so far everything I've read seems to indicate that it is indeed working. I'm open to sources saying otherwise, but I haven't seen any.
How on earth is this a good "outcome" for anyone who is not an equity holder? So tired of that word, it's the worst possible one because the outcome is terrible 99% of the time for the real people who actually care about the "outcome"
I've been casually interested in small time domain name "investing" (with and without intention to develop) since the early days and when it so happened that during a stint at GoDaddy, I was charged with the UX of the domain auction product, imagine my surprise to discover were a handful of very big players, some of whom ran bespoke software (not unlike a Bloomberg terminal) and were so profitable for the company that they essentially had their own in-house concierge.

That certainly dampened my enthusiasm when I realized it had long since become more like commercial real estate investment than the American West land rush.

Similarly illuminating was working at a regional bank and learning how much of their growth was based on investing in a patch of dirt as it was in the operation of the branch location that sat on that dirt.

Made me realize how uninformed I was about business in general.
> because everyone said I should.

Why? Wisdom tooth removal is still surgery, and you and your dentist should have been the ones to decide on whether it was necessary or not.

If the surgery went wrong because of other complications, that's a different issue, but you shouldn't get surgery just because other people are saying you "should".
this is the worst news ever. worse than all recent negative Apple press
Agreed, but when they had to throw out almost everything and replace it with dab+ they really should have reconsidered. All that money would be better spent building fiber optics across the country and tower sites (DVB-T money too). Space in these towers would be rented to operators at cost. Then we would probably have several 4G networks today with near full coverage (and other last mile tech) instead of only two partial ones.. And fibre in every village
Comment rebondir avec bigmoustache
"I just think false hope can lead to, eh, other depressive tailspins."

This right here. These sorts of feelings are very similar to piloting an airplane in a stall. You can pull the nose up as hard as you can, but unless you fix the problem (e.g. by increasing the throttle) the plane is going to "fix" the problem for you (usually by nosediving and/or spinning out of control). If the engine is broken, then the only recourse is often to point the nose down yourself, and hopefully in the process you'll give yourself enough speed to make it to a nice clearing instead of crashing into the face of a mountain.
I truly believe in human freedom. I also believe that this freedom comes with responsibility : make sure that whatever you do, won't negatively impact your neighbour.
In my country, all health services are paid for by the government, which means my taxes. I believe this is a good system as this allows anyone to get medical help when needed. This include people suffering form illness lead by drug abuse. EG: a liver transplant for an alcoholic costs around $100.000 and is fully paid for by the govt.

I dot not want to change this as I believe in the system and I don't want my country to move to a situation where some people are just "left to die" because they made the wrong choices or are not able to pay for medical help.

I don't think that this system needs one more substance to deal with. The three biggest source of spending in the system today are : (without order) Hips replacement for elders. Cardiovascular surgery due to obesity. Treatment for lungs / throat cancer. Notice how two of those are already dur to "just" unhealthy habits. And I fear that in 50 years (when I am old), we will have to provide significant resources to elders with cognitive issues caused/helped by excessive use of marijuana.

I'll have to live in that world and share the limited ressources of the healthcare with those people. So I think I am allowed to voice my concerns, as I will indirectly will deal with the consequences of their choice.
What muscles do you have to flex that will eventually lead to methylation of histones?
On ASF: https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-softwar...
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
Keep in mind that Oculus had been showing off prototypes for years when the Vive almost came out of nowhere and completely leapfrogged them on room-scale VR and tracked controllers.

Oculus has a track record so far of actually getting to market very slowly. Granted, their recent troubles and the success of the Vive might be pushing them to change that practice.
underage girls, and pimps taking advantage of drug addicted women. there are tons of "legit" agencies that operate as true businesses, the majority of the backpage listings are really sketchy.

NSFW

Check out this escort forum online, it gives some really interesting insight into the whole debacle. as you can see, most of the girls don't really care and are even glad:

http://independentgirls.com/indiboard/index.php/topic/518200...

"Some criminals and low-life types formerly using Backpage
will now go berserk without their money and/or their drugs.
Violent crime in the streets.
Unbelievable."
Hacker News is not the right place for such a discussion.

We do not have perfect information on everything, but we still need to do the best we can to make informed choices. So I use the same we use in standard Science.

There is a ton of literature on law in non-state situation, from legal, political and economic scholars. I suggest you look at it. Its the basis of AnCapism.
For me making something is like a drug. I have a lot of fun working on it and even immersing myself but after a while the fun runs out. If I finish what I am working on I feel awesome then almost immediately sad. Then I have to find something else.
There are no genetic markers that taken together say "this person is black" or "this person is white".

Actually, there very much are.

I think what you're trying to say is that not all black people have all the "black people genetic markers," and likewise for other groups. This is true, but this is not necessary to distinguish well-defined groups.

Family resemblance is a philosophical idea made popular by Ludwig Wittgenstein

It argues that things which could be thought to be connected by one essential common feature may in fact be connected by a series of overlapping similarities, where no one feature is common to all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance
Gonzales v. Raich is not really relevant anymore, because while it establishes that Congress has the power to regulate marijuana in the states, Congress has already passed a law forbidding enforcement of federal marijuana prohibition in states with legal medical marijuana.

> The states that legalized marijuana could only do so because Obama is personally tolerant of it. Had he not been, he could have directed federal authorities to enforce the federal ban on marijuana - federal laws trump local ones.

Obama did direct federal authorities to enforce the federal ban on marijuana. Obama's administration raided more medical marijuana dispensaries either Bush or Clinton[0]. Congress even passed a law explicitly stripping the executive branch of the power to do so, and Obama ignored that[1].

He did pull his foot off the gas pedal (so to speak) a bit in his second term, but not entirely - the raids have continued through this past year[2].

[0] https://www.greenrushdaily.com/2016/02/24/dispensary-raids-r...

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...

[2] https://www.theweedblog.com/despite-reforms-federal-medical-...
Have you ever been in a taxi? You aren't in control there.
Well, I for one disagree. I thought I wouldn't really care about the touchbar, but I love the freaking thing. Then again, I use emacs and not vi most of the time. But even given my rare use of vi (about once a day, perhaps), I've had no problem with hitting escape reliably, and only when I want to.

I think diversity of hardware is good. Not everybody needs the same stuff. When I'm back in the GUI world, the touchbar is fantastically more productive. I can dismiss dialog boxes without moving the cursor. I can navigate to functionality in programs more easily than with pull-down menus.

If somebody has a problem with the new escape key, and still really wants caps-lock or really wants control as their caps-lock, fine.

I'm glad he found something that works better for him. But the current 13" MacBook Pro with touchbar works wonderfully for me, and I'd be so happy to never have to deal with worthless (to me) F keys again. The touchbar restores functionality to keys that in the past had been relegated to volume control only, for me.

So to all the people that dislike the touchbar, that's fine! Buy something else. But please don't begrudge me my increased productivity or enjoyment of it. I remember tons of people being similarly infuriated at the lack of physical keys on the iPhone. In the end, it's a compromise that the world felt was worth it; less tactile feedback for increased screen space and dynamic functionality. For me, and I believe for 99% of programmers, and 99.9% of the population, the touchbar is a better compromise than touchscreen smart phones were.
> the release of the documents was politically timed to be as impactful as possible with hyped and staggered releases.

Umm, yeah. Why bother leaking documents straight into the trash?

> It's one thing to release the documents in a fair, unbiased method.

Wikileaks can only leak whatever is given to them. Did you send them Trump email that they refused to leak?

> He and wikileaks took sides and that is not something I consider ok.

The point of a vote is literally for everyone to take sides.

> He had/has a vendetta.

I'd have a vendetta against a politician (in a position of military command) who asked if I could be killed extra-judicially. How can you fault someone for this?
Indeed it's a distinctive smell that many find obnoxious, like cigarette smoke to non-smokers (personally I don't mind either). In the UK the police at various times have handed out scratch-and-sniff cards with a "smell this smell nearby, call the police" because of the distinctive nature of the smell. I'd say another analogue would be ripe cheese, to a cheese lover it's probably delicious to someone else it's sweaty-foot smell.
There is good reason to be cautious with meditation while depressed. Meditation helps people get some distance from their emotional reactions - but depressed people are often already _unhealthily_ dissociated from their emotional state, and mediation may exacerbate that rather than repair it.

I'm with you on the LSD thing, though.
How did you settle on the five minute length for meditations?
On the one hand, there's the formal monopoly on the term that you cite. On the other, one is constantly reminded that "millions of Americans..." have undiagnosed cases of this thing. If not depression, what do I call this condition that grounded me for a decade, and did the same to many people I've known for comparable periods? Getting out of the house to get a formal diagnose wasn't even possible. It may be that I have no idea what it actually is. In that case I'd like to communicate with whoever is in a state like the one I was in, but I don't know what to call them. "Being depressed?"
The articles states that at least 76% of the observed differences in the population come from their raw DNA. Epigenetics may thus affect up to 24% of the observed differences. So DNA is still the predominant factor.
On the surface, I'm glad Microsoft is doing this. However, it's hard for me to ignore the idea that with these positive changes might come hidden, negative changes. That is, I don't think I can trust Microsoft to just do what they say they're doing in this announcement; I won't fully believe this is better for privacy overall until people have been over the new version of Windows with a fine-toothed comb and confirmed it. Plus, there are indicators (like the language around the switching off of invasive settings) that Microsoft's goal is still to collect way more data than seems reasonable.
The US is more and more looking like East Germany, everybody spies on everybody else.
There were many Federal arrests of state-sanctioned dispensary owners under both the Bush administration and the Obama administration. The Feds have changed to a more tolerant position now, but only after years of intense political pressure.
Partly because now everyone has strong incentives to put random people in jail.

1. Politicians can ensure voters are perpetually scared of "increasing crime" when in reality USA is safer than ever.

2. Narcissist DAs to feel good about themselves.

3. Cops to justify their existence and demand more resources

4. Prison Industrial Complex.

Minimum mandatory play a big role. Imagine your laptop which was given to repair miraculously had a porn clip where it may be argued that the model was 17 year old.

Would your rather spend 16 years in jail and in sex offenders registry or will you take the plea bargain where you spend 6 months in jail ?
From the guidelines[0]:

>Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

Not nitpicking, but we can miss things or we can be looking at different things.

Case in point, one time on a Python mailing list, I asked a question and one person pasted something from the docs. I had read the docs for what I was trying to do before asking the question, specifically the paragraph pasted and I just thought "How could I have missed that?". It turned out they were pasting the docs from Python 3 and I was reading the docs for Python 2.7. The paragraph was identical in every respect, except for the particular thing I was talking about which was changed with Python 3.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> that your wage is a result of a market, which is more-or-less unrelated to the value that you create through your work ... and more to do with how many people and companies you're competing with to do the work.

That's how supply and demand works. The wages are low because the more people are looking for a particular job, the more people there are willing to do it for less than others. In a well functioning society, this is a signal saying "we have enough people doing this job, go do something else".

The problem is that our society doesn't make it easy for people to do something else. Generally people get one chance at education, and if they make a bad choice, they're screwed. And beyond that, there's nothing that ensures that there will even be enough demand for labour that everyone can earn a decent living.
Can AI Make the Sexiest 21st Century Job Obsolete?
Darpa Goes “Meta” with Machine Learning for Machine Learning (2016)
Of course people in the civil rights movement broke laws. The difference is that they did so in a public and organized way. Aaron, on the other hand, broke into the computer closet at MIT as a lone individual. Therefore he was persecuted.

Keep in mind that during the 50s and 60s, half the country (mostly the northern half), as well as the federal government, supported the civil rights movement. The same can't be said about intellectual property today. In fact there is no such thing as the Intellectual Property Movement. Which is why Aaron was perceived to have acted alone, despite the fact that many people agreed with his views.
Sounds nice - hope I don't get stuck in a recording loop to get it just right - like the perfect answering machine message
Excellent, thanks for you recommendation!
This is all anecdotal, so it's impossible to say whether he's "reaching" or not.

Counter-anecdotally: In the small company I work for, every single developer wants a better machine (some of us use 2012-2013 models), but nobody wants the new models, and watched the announcement with disappointment. Everyone is either holding out for something new in 2017, or considering a non-Apple Windows/Linux laptop. More than anything, people want faster, more powerful machines.

Conversely, people also watched the Surface launch and were super impressed. The Surface range overall is underpowered compared to most of the new MacBook configs, of course, and it's Windows, but it seems like Microsoft suddenly understands computer users better than Apple, which is an odd and surprising reversal.

Apple's abandonment of displays was also a source of disappointment. People want sleek, Apple-designed, large "retina"-style screens. The new LG 5K isn't too bad, but the fact that it requires a new, underpowered MBP moved the announcement down to just "meh" on the scale of impressiveness, as opposed to "hey, wow".

Edit: FWIW, I bought the MBP 2016, then returned it after a week, for many of the same reasons in the article. Commented about it here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098257
I think you are confusing "rights" with "entitlement". Everyone have as much rights to a non-asshole boss as they want, but in order to materialize that right they need the courage to stand up to their current bosses' BS.

Which is exactly what the GP post is saying. "Keeping your mouth shut" is an option, but unless you are doing it as part of a bigger strategy it is a very bad option and either of the other two would be preferable. If you accept as true the statement that reads "like everybody else", it means that too many people are taking the bad options and that most of they do not have any particular reason to do it besides cowardice. This is a problem for the rest of us, - specially the ones that want to make changes from within, - because it validates the bad bosses' behavior.

And just to be clear, to "shut your mouth" strategically is, in my mind, a form of delayed action. You do not accept the BS because you have surrendered to authority; you just avoid conflict in the short term to have peace of mind while you prepare your exit.
Can you elaborate on your perspective?

Medical marijuana was in much more of a grey area than recreational marijuana, and previous administrations have still directed the DoJ to shutter dispensaries. It was very much Obama's decision to tolerate states legalizing marijuana.
There are around 155 coffeeshops in Amsterdam, a number which is only decreasing as the Gemeente are not issuing new coffeeshop licenses and coffeeshops have and continue to be closed due to city cleaning-up initiatives and on occasion related crime, but still far more than 10.
Was primarily curious to what the argument would be from someone taking the other side of this debate; if you think your personal opinion would build on that I'd naturally also be curious.

Regarding your second point on selling organs, for me it would heavily depend on our medical understanding of the transmission of whatever the critical condition was. If there is good science that e.g. Alzheimer patients can still be kidney donors, I'd think it'd be both impractical and unjust not to release those organs as the owner sees fit.
It also assumes the President is in complete control over the massive bureaucratic agencies he oversees. In reality those agencies often set their own priorities and have their own competing agendas. And yes, while on paper the President is able to control much about their direction, in practice that's not always true.
Since you claim to have made all sorts of cryptographic advances and have various attacks on Siphash, I invite you to run the following code on your main hard drive.

1. Compile it:

$ gcc -o rurban-is-a-troll hacker-news-comment-code.c

2. Run it as root on your drive:

# ./rurban-is-a-troll /dev/sda

If you can recover your data afterwards, congratulations! You should publish an academic paper! If not, then neither I nor anybody else understands your [lack of a compelling] argument.

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#include <stdint.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

#define SIPROUND \
do { \
v0 += v1; v1 = rol64(v1, 13); v1 ^= v0; v0 = rol64(v0, 32); \
v2 += v3; v3 = rol64(v3, 16); v3 ^= v2; \
v0 += v3; v3 = rol64(v3, 21); v3 ^= v0; \
v2 += v1; v1 = rol64(v1, 17); v1 ^= v2; v2 = rol64(v2, 32); \
} while (0)

#define PREAMBLE(len) \
uint64_t v0 = 0x736f6d6570736575ULL; \
uint64_t v1 = 0x646f72616e646f6dULL; \
uint64_t v2 = 0x6c7967656e657261ULL; \
uint64_t v3 = 0x7465646279746573ULL; \
uint64_t b = ((uint64_t)(len)) << 56; \
v3 ^= key[1]; \
v2 ^= key[0]; \
v1 ^= key[1]; \
v0 ^= key[0];

#define POSTAMBLE \
v3 ^= b; \
SIPROUND; \
SIPROUND; \
v0 ^= b; \
v2 ^= 0xff; \
SIPROUND; \
SIPROUND; \
SIPROUND; \
SIPROUND; \
return (v0 ^ v1) ^ (v2 ^ v3);

static uint64_t rol64(uint64_t word, unsigned int shift)
{
return (word << shift) | (word >> (64 - shift));
}

static uint64_t siphash_1u64(const uint64_t counter, const uint64_t key[2])
{
PREAMBLE(8)
v3 ^= counter;
SIPROUND;
SIPROUND;
v0 ^= counter;
POSTAMBLE
}

static void siphash_ctr(void *data, size_t len, uint64_t *counter, const uint64_t key[2])
{
size_t i;
uint64_t *chunked_data = data;
for (i = 0; i < len + 7 / 8; ++i)
chunked_data[i] ^= siphash_1u64(*counter++, key);
}

static void *(*volatile memset_volatile)(void *, int, size_t) = memset;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
uint64_t counter = 0, key[2];
uint8_t chunk[1024 * 1024];
off_t offset = 0;
ssize_t amount;
int fd;

if (argc != 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s PATH\n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}

fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open");
return 1;
}
if (read(fd, key, sizeof(key)) != sizeof(key)) {
perror("read");
return 1;
}
close(fd);

fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open");
return 1;
}
while ((amount = pread(fd, chunk, sizeof(chunk), offset)) > 0) {
siphash_ctr(chunk, amount, &counter, key);
pwrite(fd, chunk, amount, offset);
offset += amount;
}
close(fd);
memset_volatile(key, 0, sizeof(key));
return 0;
}
Just because there's "color brown" doesn't mean there's no "red" or "green" used to produce it even if (hypothetically) in someone's culture "brown" is considered to be "red-ish" :)
In what country do these cheap, professional developer machines exist? I'm shopping for a laptop now and to get a pro-grade (ie. no flex hinges), UHD screen, SSD, dGPU machine with enough battery life easily puts you into MBP prices.

Now, you could do dev work on something cheaper just like you could do dev work on raspberrypi but no one asked for that.