skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only alternative is ignorance.

Sometimes ignorance isn't even an option: it's mandatory. The only choice we are left with is whether to admit to ourselves that we are ignorant.

The choice isn't between governing peoples lives using statistics vs. governing peoples lives based on gut-instinct (or whatever). It's between using weak statistics as a pretext for governing peoples lives vs. just admitting there's a lot we don't know and choosing to give people space to figure out things for themselves.

Jim Manzi, who literally built his business off of effective use of statistics, spent 10 years figuring out where to put the snickers bar at the checkout stand[0] and he admitted it was a really hard problem. Yet it's a joke compared to some issues that experts claim they can solve.

I have to depend upon statistical reasoning, both directly and indirectly, for work. I understand and appreciate the validity of the methods of statistics. That doesn't mean I'm going to trust any statistics that are used to back a policy proposal.

[0]http://www.weeklystandard.com/jim-manzi-talks-science-knowle...
Having worked in quantum computing, I think we'll get fusion first. Essentially the problem is, all of our scalable quantum architectures are really just mathematical models. There's scant research on actually building anything larger than about ten qubits. When you consider fact that error correction means you probably need about 500k physical qubits to do anything interesting (at least!) and as I like to joke even if we followed Moore's law it would take 32 years or so (and I doubt QC would scale so quickly) so not anytime soon.

But that doesn't mean it's "frustrated". There's a lot of progress being made. There's just a long way to go. Quantum algorithms are hard.

Fusion guys have always claimed they're underfunded w.r.t. experiments and in fairness fusion does get kinda hot so I could see it being expensive.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._historical_fusi...
Can you post a short video of your workflow? It might help a lot of people
Indeed, but I mention sociology and (social) psychology in particular because of their clear potential for political slant.
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut
Yep. If the market you're competing in is too efficient, find another market.
It isn't trespassing when a OSHA inspector visits a faculty. So it does appear that exceptions exist. Why not in this case?
Something missing from this entire discussion is that developers have a hard time understanding what are truly best practices for their product they are creating/maintaining. It is a bold assertion to say that everyone understands all the different nuances in creating software.
"because they let you" is the assaulter's excuse, not his absolution.
It is incredible that just today I posted this on github: https://github.com/ipld/ipld/issues/16

Structs/Traits already exist in some form that is not well defined yet, what you are describing is a generalization of what is happening with Ethereum right now, we have eth-block being a IPLD "Format", which is basically a struct with some particular characteristic where the parser instead of being written in a IPFS VM language, it is written and executed as part of the daemon.

The idea that you have described above or a subset of it, it's part of the plan!

Please do participate in the issue that I linked you to!
> Again, its only an issue for bad companies, with bad employment practices. The rest of us will be unaffected by the restriction

Don't you feel that this attitude is dismissive?
On the other hand candidates in the UK (at least) are in the habit of putting dates on their CV for the major events in their life, like school leaving and Uni graduation...so age is kinda obvious.

It is of course OK to seek candidates that are 'early in their careers', as long as you wouldn't turn away an inexperienced older person (and I have employed career changers who were evidently much older than other candidates). Again it is no issue for good employers
> Point in case, the word "violence" needs the definite article, because violence is an abstract concept (which the parent missed).

No, searching for "inciting violence"/"fearing violence" in Google gives thousands of hits. (Also in Google Books, if you want to claim all these websites are wrong.)

It is perfectly OK to use "violence" without an article.
Be careful with this one, the premise is sound (coming from a DL background), but I skimmed the paper and didn't see them comparing it to existing simple compounds and don't show if their compounds are actually any better.
If your idea of "refactor" is "change name of variable", then I guess Java wins. However, the refactors I do are frequently much more complicated, involving logic swaps that are far beyond a right click action.
It says "an additional $102.9 billion". That's $103B that they lose regardless of whether or not ObamaCare is repealed, on top of $165B that they'd lose if it's repealed.

(The numbers seem highly dubious to me, because they assume nothing will replace the insurance that the ACA currently offers. But if you're using the article's data, represent the article correctly.)
This reminds me of an article I read which said that 95% of the soldiers in Vietnam who had become addicted to heroin simply stopped when they came back to America.

1: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-...
> HR instead hired....

Well, there's the problem right there. HR should only have relatively minimal input into the hiring process, unless it's hiring someone in HR. Fail a background check, and I can understand HR vetoing a hire; asking for too much salary should be between the candidate, the hiring manager and their available budget.
Why is vscode showing up twice? Once under "Microsoft" and then under "microsoft". The numbers to the right are different too.
Can you edit your post?
Isnt this counter productive to the antibiotic resistance increase ? Alot of animals are given antibiotics, if they had actual human organs wouldnt that make things like swine flu more common and bacterial outbreaks worse?
It seems like they are preparing for more exits, the world has changed a lot in one year.
you can get it, along with a number of other Unix tools, with MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/)
Probably the only silver lining to be found in the new administration.
I guess you must have stole from the store. They let you pay and walk out but that wasn't consent. You're thief who just hasn't been charged or arrested yet.
... but I do dislike Python because of all the stack traces. Like 98% of the run time errors (and subsequent stack traces) I get in my Python applications could have been prevented by a proper type system.
Well, it's not really a solved problem, is it? Saying the performance is "horrible" does some injustice to it. It's actually the state of the art in solutions to a very difficult problem.

I've used the Stanford parser for university work (at Masters level). It was part of the pipeline for a sentiment extractor. I didn't get the feeling it performed badly, quite the contrary- the parses it generated were quite useful as features in my extractor. It had this rare feeling of a tool that you can actually use to do something interesting and useful.

Then again, I do have my expectations set very lowly, for this sort of thing, especially after completing my Masters thesis (on grammar induction). Language learning is hard.
I think you misunderstood much of my last comment, sorry if it was my fault.

First, none of these are really "my argument", I was just explaining some of the behavior that you are witnessing and didn't seem to understand (the reasoning behind some on the right dismissing the unemployment statistic as well as humans in general dismissing data that causes problems with their foundational beliefs), though I do tend to lean more towards the right's side on this issue.

As to the argument of those who have given up looking for work not being included: whether or not those who have given up looking for work have always been excluded from the unemployment measure is not the point of the argument. What they are saying is "8 years ago (or whenever) when the unemployment rate was (say) 7.9%, the count included a large number of people who have since stopped looking for work..these people now no longer count as unemployed today when the rate is 4.9%, and very significant part of that drop is from people just giving up, and not from an increase in people finding work". You could argue that over any given range new people are entering the unemployed count and people are giving up, and that over a long enough period this behavior is not statistically significant, but the counter-argument is that during this particular period there were massively more people just giving up than at any other time, and so the drop in the rate isn't actually a reduction in the count of unemployed.

As to both the labor participation rate and the unemployment dropping a significant amount during the same period, of course there are conditions that could lead to this, but the point is that it is not intuitive and the causes for it really need to be explained for either of these number to have any real meaning.

Nobody (mostly anyways) is arguing that 4.9% of respondents to a survey didn't actually indicate that they are unemployed. What people are arguing is that the definition of "unemployed" being used doesn't accurately reflect the "real" unemployment rate.
Says a liberal ROFL
Your example seems more like an example of people not having a consistent mental model of what words means. A typical person would probably say that "a working-age person without a job is unemployed" and "a full-time student or a stay-at-home mom or someone who retired early are not unemployed" are both true statements, but the two statements are contradictory. A statistician cannot possibly come up with a definition of unemployment that matches the colloquial understanding of what unemployment means.
No, m=1, typically, because most people only have/can have one employer.
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Welcome openrc . The good question is what happened to launchd , runit and , and Nosh . All were in the running to replace rc'ng .
It sounds like a marketing person speaking. You can get to the number 1 position in any area with enough qualifiers to slice to a tiny universe.
I think his point was that it's now 15 years away, which is not the 20 years away it was 5 (and 20) years ago. In that sense it is significantly closer. Many of the real challenges may remain monetary as solar becomes cheaper, and funding of fusion has never been particularly high (perhaps $10-15B over 50 years). However, it is ultimately a complementary technology (as are Thorium reactors and others) for scales, places, and times when Solar or Wind aren't appropriate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/fusion-energy-react...
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> and add that the number may not have been exact, it could be off substantially

Beyond pure monetary compensation, there are various non-monetary parameters - quality of health plan, quality and employee cost of dental plan, parental leave policy, 401(k) matching, mobile phone or Internet reimbursement, employer stock purchase plan - that any random number feels like a good ballpark estimate.

E.g. how does one value a health PPO with monthly premium $298 per family vs Kaiser HMO at $152 a month? A 5-day vs 3-week parental leave? The answer is highly dependent on personal circumstances, such as distance from home to the nearest Kaiser facility and whether or not someone in the family is expecting. The value of either might be $0 if interviewee plans to stay covered by spousal health plan and does not plan to have children.
https://www.amazon.com/Radically-Elementary-Probability-Theo... is apparently another take on this problem.
I'm hiring right now, into a critical role for me. I have lots of questions for new candidates about what they were doing before at previous employers. However I will not feel the need to ask what they are paid. I have been asked it on several occasions and every time it was an attempt to pay me less than the company had advertised for the role. I can think of so many reasons why someone's pay may have been out of step with their role in the past, and none of it is relevant to how I wish to inventivise them now. So no I don't think it is dismissive
Doesn't the C++ compiler take a while to finish compiling to let you run the program?
Can we go a little further than this? Can we require employers to post the details of the compensation package that comes with each job? That would save a lot of time for all involved and obviate the need to even ask this question.
Looks like the UAE has outlawed use of torque, and is also using DPI to block it, resulting in inflated numbers due to dropped connections and ensuing attempted reconnects.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6246
May I ask what country you're in now that has less trouble with "poverty, homelessness, trashed environment, (and a) run down health system"?

And is Auckland any different?
1) Install Chrome Canary. 2) Type duckduckgo.com in the address bar. 3) Do a search from the search box. 4) Repeat step 2 and 3 for a decent number of times (say 5 to 8 times). 5) Go to settings->Search engine. Here you should see duckduckgo.com in the recently visited section along with the usual options.
Please stop voting this guy down. While I don't agree with all post, he at least made a well argued post that contributed to civil discourse.
This bundler looks awesome sjrd, will give it a try soon. My other option I was going to suggest to other is to take a look at the sbt-web project. But keeping things compatible and seamless with npm I think is important since it's ubiquitous with front end devs
Look up "disparate impact" sometime.
Distributions in SciPy
No. It will stop us from bargaining and pushing for biding wars.
wow. Unbelievable. This kind of collusion between pollsters and campaigns should be illegal.
Most of the time m is a number smaller than 10. For many small businesses n might be the same order of magnitude, but for often it is at least an order of magnitude greater. The ratios just aren't close in most cases.
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Java IDEs only handle a few of the simplest cases of refactoring. That's useful, but it's not enough to make refactoring easy in general.
My understanding of how withdrawal from the EU works is that a country's withdrawal occurs 2 years after they invoke the Article 50 process regardless of whether a final agreement has been made with the EU. Is this not correct? If it is correct, how can the ECB make this statement without it essentially being a threat of war?

Edit - many below have noted that leaving the Eurozone and leaving the EU are distinctly different. I disagree. As I understand the EU charter, there is currently no way to leave the Eurozone without also leaving the Union. From Wikipedia, this is actually the exact position that Draghi espouses:

"Regarding your question on withdrawing from the euro without leaving the EU, this possibility is not foreseen in the Treaties. The Treaty of Lisbon does not include this possibility, precisely because of the irreversibility of the move to the third stage of EMU for Member States."

http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/20121107_morganti.en....
Europe is actually looking like a drug dealer. They give to countries like Poland "free" funds that are not required, and when you say you want to leave, they brag that your dose worthed a lot more.

Being french, but seeing french predating companies (SG, orange, carrouf, auchan, go sport, decathlon, campanile, renault, vinci, valeo...) setting themselves in Poland with EU funds and destroying local economies (fr & pl) makes me want to puke.

I fucking hate THIS europa.

I don't hate europa, I love my polish wife as much as she loves me. I am just pissed off that the we let private interests rule our countries.

Well, now that Trump is elected, I know americans will be as much fucked in the arsch as we are. lol

At least now, we are not alone to be fucked
TPP was dead anyway. The next question is whether the new administration will withdraw from NAFTA.
Fortunately if the EU breaks apart, the 800 billion euro debt to Germany will be just enough to buy lunch.
Many here love to hate on any and all international trade deals. The problem with is that withdrawing from such negotiations does not stop them. Canada, china, europe, japan, the uk and everyone else will still be meeting and inking deals. Not every deal is great for everyone, but those who sit on the sidelines never win at anything.
It wouldn't, no. Their strategy is limited by size, and they're returning profits (that they can't invest further) to investors every year. I.e. the returns aren't compounding (any longer).
Thanks. It's very easy to find hundreds of sales pitchs about commercial products, and Oracle even creates notes about the disadvantages of Postgres [1].
Finding equivalent publications about the advantages of open source software requires more work.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CANNMO++6tPiwBv2OKcy-H...
Before anyone gets excited, know that Minio only just started supporting clusters of multiple machines, and that it is severely limited: "As with Minio in stand-alone mode, distributed Minio has a per tenant limit of minimum 4 and maximum 16 drives"[0].

They built a toy object store while blogging aggressively.

Openstack Swift or Redhat Ceph are still the only real open-source object store players, AFAIK.

[0]http://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide
> A free market is defined as an exchange where both sides have access to the same information.

That is completely false. Asymmetric information and imperfect information are expected with free markets.

The price of gathering information is very well studied.
And it's still wrong, since strncpy() doesn't null terminate: it null pads. That means that if the string is longer than the buffer, it will not be correctly terminated.
Physically impossible to run a PB-scale Minio cluster: it's limited to 16 hard drives. See my comment above.
Yeah, Go and Java have comparable deployment. In practice, Java doesn't have single binary deployments; it has fat jars, which is similar, but the client must still have a Java runtime installed to run them. More importantly, you can't bank on every Java project supporting this out of the box. Java also doesn't have straightforward compilation; with Go, it's `go build` for nearly every project; no metadata files or build scripts. For Java, you must learn Maven, Ant, Gradle, etc just to get off the ground. I actually like Java, but I wouldn't say it's as easy or convenient as Go on the counts mentioned above. YMMV.
And PDF format has a built-in digital signature system.
Yes, archive.is hides the paywall layer above the content.
This is the workaround which still works.
But how long will it work?
WSJ could change the paywall logic at any moment.
I agree with you and disagree with other posters here.

It's physically impossible for the market to be efficient.*

Just try to use the efficiency for anything (set up any series of steps where one of the steps is "...because the market is efficient, therefore...") and whatever you've just set up just plain won't work.

Since it's impossible, instead of any version of the efficient market hypothesis people should just say "God's will" (as in God's will that prices should reflect available information), and it will show how silly they are.

* you can email me if you'd like a rigorous proof that it is impossible
I wouldn't be surprised at all if Ivy league CS professors didn't have in depth programming knowledge. They are Computer Science professors after all, not programming professors.
> 800 billion euro debt to Germany.

Wow! Didn't know about this. Do several countries owe Germany this debt? How??

Also if true, then Germany will also see a lot of Social unrest and the anger will be (unjustly) directed towards Refugees.

And with all the young high-testonterone Arab refugees now living in Germany, and a civil unrest in the horizon, Germany seems to be 1 dangerous place to be in right now, especially for young single German women.
Here's a draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-cfrg-curves-06
The intellectual property provisions were terrible, so this may be the right action for the wrong reasons.
Except the mouse wouldnt work. Either the os couldnt use it, or wasnt letting me. Either way, it was funny seeing one ms product not recognize another.
Well, he'd better get ready to keep getting shocked. Companies have been divesting their Oracle infrastructure for years now. Nobody wants to be audited by Oracle and then find they have to purchase useless products to ensure they don't get sued.

From a security perspective, Oracle is pretty awful. They have a history of responding to bug reports with cease and desist letters for violating copyright.

Their support is dreadful - and given they are such a black box then there are many folks who actually need decent support. It's very expensive to tune workloads, and their CBO is such a pain that anytime even a point release comes out you need to carefully reproduce every query rewrite, index and set of statistics to see if it is screwing up somewhere.

In short: there are vanishingly less reasons to use them, be they either technical, monetary or ethical. No one will shed a tear if this behemoth goes under.
Are leaving euro and leaving EU the same thing? Can a country leave EU but keep the euro?

UK was lucky to retain its currency independence.
That's rich. The very paragraph in which I enumerate the examples that back up my assertion, you claim doesn't make sense. Let's keep the goal posts right where they are. After all, the audience left long ago.

You can't understand why the intercept's article points out different leaks and how they show a variety of circumstances. Instead you can only see the two extremes. The "two" in my previous sentence is in reference to my initial assertion of your binary nature. The extremes are government conspiracy and sensationalism. You can't allow for a third or Nth option, because of your tendency to view the world in a binary nature. After all, binary means two possibilities. The actual shades of gray here are that information does not need to be damning proof of government conspiracy to be leak worthy. There is in fact an entire spectrum of leak worthiness. This is the true essence of this article. Even if you don't have direct evidence of an unequivocal treasonous crime being committed, there is value in leaking malfeasance of all sorts.
What's different between Gitea and Gogs?

I just setup the Gogs docker image the other day to play with, and it seemed pretty painless to me.

Edit: I just found https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/ which somewhat answers this - essentially a different governance model and more development, but not any major functional differences.
I'm reading "must" as meaning "or else we'll declare that you've defaulted on your loans". It's unlikely that Germany would invade Italy or Greece in order to seek loan repayments, but it's quite likely that such a declaration would be ruinous for their economies.
and your way breaks if a filename contains a new line.
Very cool. I assume this pulls from H1B visa info?
Wow, that HR sounds utterly incompetent.
"... with 32 bit keys."

The whole thing is editorialized to make it sound like the problem is with JWTs. It's not, this is just plain old improper use of perfectly good crypto.

Brute-forcing 32 bit HMAC keys isn't exactly newsworthy.
Well, some argue that poker is a game of skill. Bluffing, looking for tells etc. Everything I've read is that when you get to the championship level, everyone already is good at understanding probabilities. It's psychology that makes the difference.

In fact, just last night I talked to a woman who does really well at poker because she randomly pretends to be a "dumb broad" on some hands.