skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's a language-level builtin rather than something you can use in your own libraries

The only people who still think that a library approach is superior to a compiler approach are Scala users.

I'll clarify this for you: if it's a library construct, it can be ignored. And as a matter of fact, there is nothing in Scala forcing you to use `Option`. You can completely ignore it and enjoy your time diagnosing NullPointerExceptions everywhere.

When a feature is enforced by the compiler, such as Kotlin and Ceylon, you don't get any easy way out: you have to think about null cases or you will not be able to compile your code. Period.
"Dont do somthing that you dont want to be done to yourself." is probably the reason that give birth to every basic human right.

So yes its absolutely appropriate. You dont have to be even a libertarian to realize that.
Exactly why the Iranian nuclear deal seeks to prevent access to the materials needed to build a bomb in a breakout period not the information
> But arguing you can't "steal" the intangible

The issue is not intangibility. The issue is scarcity and ownership.

Theft is (or rather, ought to be) when you deprive someone of a scarce resource they can claim ownership over. If they can't claim ownership of it, or you're not depriving them of anything, then it's not theft.

Any given idea, after it has been conceived, is obviously not scarce; the reproduction costs for an idea are essentially zero. You can't deprive someone of any idea by copying it.

The question, then, is whether you can claim ownership over the control of an idea (i.e. who is allowed to know the idea, and how they are allowed to apply it). To me, that seems insane, but obviously not to everyone.
Sure about that? The first paragraph of your link is pretty ambiguous, both in the vague criterion for "tested positive" in the first 10% and the unspecified doubled number for "had used pot within hours of a crash"... how many hours before for the crash 1st group? A urine or blood test could show up to 2 weeks prior. What number doubled in the second? It also fails to acknowledge that 2013 had the least number of fatalities in Washington State in over a decade[WSTC data, bullet 7].

2015 NHTSA:
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/pot/2015/02/11/federal-study-d...

This BBC/SpeedTV video from 2010 sums it up, if you have 5 minutes to judge for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzKjFiGFrcU

As always, YMMV.
2 years? Your profile says that your account was created 205 days ago.
Same thing happened to mine, which I seem to have posted at the same time as yours. Don't sweat it, HN is full of salty people.
That makes a lot of sense. These kind of discussions come up whenever people complain about how crazy military procurement is, when you can get a Raspberry Pi for $10. The military wants to get its job done in worst-case scenarios that most of us have the luxury of not thinking about.
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Yes, but most don't sub. Traditional media is a shadow of its former self. The content is shockingly bad. I'd love to bring back to life the editor of these papers from 30 years ago, pretty sure they would want to be dead again.
These jobs might actually come back, but the cost for upgrading coal plants to use modern techniques like chemical looping make it a bit unviable at the moment (or maybe not I'm not sure). If we ever got a carbon tax in place, then the market could sort itself out in that regard.
About 75,000 CR (roughly $10 billion) did not come back in circulation. I don't think this is a small amount (more so by Indian standards) so while the estimates for #1 were way off, there was something uncovered. Nobody knew in advance how much black money existed so it was a wild guess before this exercise anyway. So I don't think your #1 criticism is valid.

Source:
http://indianexpress.com/article/business/economy/demonetisa...
Be careful you don't set them up to fail. Measure team power not individual power. Do you really care if they spend time writing code or not if the team is getting more done?
If you read the article, you will learn that ALB (new L7 ELB) now supports IPv6.
"I’m sure many of Altlassian’s employees don’t understand this decision. Because it makes no sense for them. In their minds, Trello is a shitty product compared to Jira."

everyone inside thats not a manager thinks jira is shit too
Nutrition, as a field, is mostly quackery and bullshit. There's a reason the advice changes drastically every few years, and at any time there are 10 competing fad diets, each apparently supported by some number of reputable scientific authorities.

We do not have the predictive power at this time to make authoritative recommendations about what each and every person should eat, except for fairly straightforward things like "eat vitamin C or you will get scurvy".

Check again 50 years or so. Maybe by then you can walk into a medical clinic, get a DNA and gut ecosystem analysis, and walk out with a useful dietary recommendation.
Popehat usually has better coverage on these things:

https://www.popehat.com/2016/11/03/the-corruption-of-speech-...

https://www.popehat.com/2016/12/05/cracked-drunkenly-paws-at...
> ScalaZ is trivial once you have the concepts

So are quantum mechanics and string theory.

And... everything, really. Everything is trivial once you have the concepts. That's a tautology.

Look, I understand the value of higher kinded types and I really enjoy the kind of Haskell code I write when I make use of them. It's abstraction and reusability at its pinnacle. It feels great.

But by calling it a "killer feature", you are showing that you lost track with the real world and you forgot how long it took you to get there, and whether it's really necessary to be productive at your day job.
Thanks. I subscribed to their RSS.
Yeah dang, who would've ever thought that lazy people with simple needs was a big market?
I begrudgingly left Firefox for Chrome because Chrome supports U2F and Firefox doesn't. It's just too much of a pain to log into my U2F-protected accounts on Firefox.

I even tried the U2F Firefox extension, but that doesn't work on all websites (some of which I need).
I'd buy a re-print of these. These would go great in my college's ham shack. This is the kind of stuff that I imagine Marconi doing in his lab while smoking a cigarette and talking about airplanes being invented or something.

It's got some great projects for anyone who's looking to get into radio. Check out page 100 for an example of one of those crazy projects. It looks like it's a 50-foot areal hooked up to a 4-tap isolation transformer being AC coupled to headphones. It's using a basic single diode detection circut (you can check EEVBLog's latest video to see them being used in the spy bug detector). Nifty stuff and remindes me of fox hole sets
While I would normally agree, this is the one "side project" I think they should have kept. We really need an imap5 or some standard which addresses the modern problems with email. Who else is going to represent the client perspective and maintain the reference client implementation without being a corporate shill?
Angiotensin receptor blockers can give you a cough. Almost all drugs have side effects. You got to read the drug information yourself and watch for known side effects. Start one new medicine at a time so you know which one is giving new side effects.
By the way, reducing salt intake is amazing for lowering blood pressure.
It absolutely needs to be a strong cryptographic hash, because you want to protect against both deliberate tampering and accidental modification.

Any other function, whether non-cryptographic, too short, broken or having known weaknesses, while perhaps suitable to detect accidental corruption, will not protect against the former.

For example, SHA-384, or SHA-3 are great choices.
Here’s how a new Chinese fund aims to discover true value in Indian startups
> They don't allow using iOS SDK for building applications which download and execute dynamic code

While this is true, it's also explicitly that "Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript"

Regarding a non-apple iOS SDK: "Apps may only use public APIs". this forbids anybody from making an alternative SDK.
Why is this desirable?
Data.gov is also coordinating with Archive.org and similar efforts to have a more systematic comprehensive archiving approach. More info should be available soon at http://www.data.gov/developers/harvesting and https://archive.org/details/data_gov
Not for now unfortunately--but maybe once we get a little larger.
I don't think anyone stops Apple from building products. But it's about banning competition, not about their products. And their influence on the industry is way too big to ignore it. So I'm pretty convinced, that what they are doing with excluding competition, shouldn't be happening. It's not about demanding features from them - let them produce bad browsers that are behind modern ones. It's about allowing better ones to be actually used by their users. I.e. choice.
Back in the Stone Age, we used netlists to enter circuit schematics. Then computers evolved to graphical entry; so much nicer. Looks like it has de-evolved back to a net list.
I believe in certain situations they've been able to use ksplice or similar mechanisms.
You misread "impersonating news sites became an addition following the rapid rise of fake news, or propaganda sites."
Interestingly this is also the path Sailfish is taking. The launch of a fairly lowend device with Intex didn't see a rush of devs from IN (not surprising) but resulted in the forums and marketplace comment sections being flooded with incomprehensive and often abusive blabber. Hope they got paid well by Intex.
It looks like year is extracted from pickup_datetime at ETL, so hence its not a fair comparison against the other databases that do this at runtime in Q3 and Q4. In something like MapD Q3 would be nearly as fast as Q1 (~20ms) without the extract function, which involves relatively complicated math.
Just because you don't care about freedom doesn't mean no one cares about freedom.
Won't happen. Unlike engineers, doctors are trained to come up with a diagnosis given whatever subset of information can be presented to them and understood by them in the time allowed. The main source of their information is not even the patient, but prevalence (i.e. prior probabilities). It's a 80/20 sort of system, really more like 95/5.

It's a lot like YC office hours actually. Though doctors have less time than YC partners. And doctors get paid per appointment.

In general, it's not useful to think of doctors as engineers. The line doctors work is much more tech support - lots of similar highly repeatable cases, with a well understood script. The ones that are more like engineers are doing research in research hospitals and writing that script. They still see some patients as part of their work, but appointment reimbursements are not a profit center for them, but part of their research.
It's absolutely horrifying what's going on in the United States. Trying to dictate what are appropriate avenues of investigation for practicing scientists is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes (see "Deutsch Physiks" in Nazi Germany or Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union).

When you combine this with Drumpf's bigoted, Islamophobic and un-American executive order aimed at banning Muslims from the country (which substantially increases the likelihood of another terrorist attack, by marginalizing Muslims and playing right into the hands of ISIS), it becomes very clear we are facing one of the darkest times in the history of this republic.

For the sake of the world, every decent person who believes in human rights must do everything in their power to resist this tyrannical and illegitimate President. It could very well mean being imprisoned or beaten or even killed by Drumpf's thugs. But if history has taught us anything it is that freedom is worth fighting for.
Backlash from the tons of big companies still using it will become lobbying to keep it supported. I don't expect them to stop in the next couple years, or the next few, etc.

There's less muscle behind keeping Python 2, but there's a lot less muscle needed to keep it going than to extend copyright.
Apple's curves are effectively superellipses, so-named by Piet Hein -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipse.
There are schools that decouple learning from age (example: Khan Academy Lab School) but I haven't seen many public ones that pull it off.

Kids learn at uneven paces, so there is no perfect formula for how to split schools, but an imperfect split is still more efficient than boring the best.

In New York City they have a lot of G and T programs, but there it is more about lazybtrachers letting the kids teach themselves. At least it's a stronger peer group.
Agreed. Improving my writing from countless essays and writing heavy classes has been a tremendous help in my life.
Can it still provide that kind of repeatability along all degrees of freedom at full load though? Last time I worked with robotic arms (Staubli) the real world precision was much worse than the specs claimed. With something as heavy and imprecise as a construction brick, I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least a few millimeters of wiggle room close to the edge of the arm's reach. In my experience, the tolerances on parts used in automated assembly lines don't have such high variability as those in construction (and this seems like a very general purpose robot capable of some complex architectures).
@jMyles, "culture" is especially applicable to music, where musicians appropriate tunes from many cultures and enforce copyright.
RethinkDB adapter for Ecto
"Authoritative recommendations" aren't the only thing we get out of science. In the absence of the ability to make them, science's job is to attempt to give us a best guess at what the most likely answer to a question is. In the 50 years between now and your hypothetical in which nutrition is "solved", advice like Pollan's is a good balance between simple and as effective as we can hope for at this pt.
>Instead they test a "null" hypothesis that acts as a strawman, usually that some parameter equals exactly zero

How is "there is no difference between my groups/conditions" a strawman?

This is by far the most common H0.
> Regarding a non-apple iOS SDK: "Apps may only use public APIs". this forbids anybody from making an alternative SDK.

What stops any alternative SDK from being public?
They all moved on so they have no idea how good it is.
There's a big difference between the nuclear bombs countries with nascent nuclear programs (like North Korea) can build, and those the US can build. So unless you're talking about just enough knowledge to build the simplest of nuclear weapons, it's far from moot.

Everyone does understand the underlying science (or can find it pretty quickly on the internet), but very few understand the engineering specifics.
The app is free to you, but if we can detect (say) diabetes early and route you to the right medical care, we save the healthcare system money. We've built a platform called Cardiogram Connect which optionally lets you share aggregated data in exchange (usually) for financial rewards. You'd choose to connect with whoever pays for your healthcare--depending on your situation, that could be a health system, accountable care organization, insurer, or employer--and that entity is the customer that pays Cardiogram.
Apple is a hardware company. Theoretically.
> Aside: my (personal!) hope is that the Steam Controller initiative will eventually become a new universal -- and open -- standard for PC gaming input. I'm definitely not speaking for Valve on this particular point as I have no idea what their long term plans are.

That is my hope as well, but for that to happen the configurator probably needs to become an independent application that's not tied to the Steam client.
How bad is IE these days actually? I haven't used it since 2001.
Not just swift, specifically Swift 3.0 since it will stay stable. Some libraries haven't caught up but worst case you spend three hours manually updating lines the converter couldn't figure out.
I think if anything the article is biased in favor of Libgen. Some of the quotes from the publishing industry are just stunningly tonedeaf and the sort of quotes you use when you want to let your subject hang themselves. For example:

'“People often say to me, ‘You don’t pay the authors. You don’t pay the reviewers. You hardly print anymore. The Web is free. Why do you charge?’” said H. Frederick Dylla, the former director of the American Institute of Physics and board member of the Association of American Publishers. “It sounds like a compelling argument. But it actually isn’t.”'

or this one:

"“So is it fair then if some high-school student wants to really follow the Supreme Court and doesn’t have the money to pay?” Greco said. “Life is a bitter mystery. We can’t give everything away for free. It’s not that kind of country.”"

I now want to use these for everything. 'Why can't we have sane housing prices in SF? Because the idea that regulation has something to do with it sounds like a compelling argument. But it isn't. The truth is, life is a bitter mystery.'
A more plausible model is that doctors help sick people a lot, and are totally useless to healthy people.

From that point of view, consider the American system of providing great health care to people with stable lives and good jobs, and sparing no expense on attempts to save people who are beyond help, while denying treatment to the unemployed and to people with "pre-existing", i.e. long term, medical conditions. It's almost like they're trying to exert the most possible effort for the least possible effect; like someone has memorised the triage chapter of a first-aid manual, then set out to do the exact opposite.

Oh wait, they make lots of money that way, so it's all good.
I also remember not wanting to join facebook because it used your real name. I was so use to using nicknames/handles/avatars etc that the thought of using your real name was uncomfortable to me.

I must have been one of the last people on campus to sign up
Sometimes. In Sales brand is a negative signal. "Anyone can hit their quota if they're selling SAP" In engineering it can be helpful. "We hired the VP of BlahBlah from Google, she knows how to scale"
People have an uncanny affinity for the familiar. A company founded by MBA graduates will likely have a preference for more MBA graduates. Engineers prefer engineers. Use that to guide your selection process, but I've tried to find companies that value a balance.
That's fair!
True -- the available data sets (like MIT-BIH arrhythmia database) are quite small. In our case, we launched a study with UCSF Cardiology which has recruited about 10,000 people so far, and that's how we get a data set large enough for deep learning.
Where is the evidence that any of the data sites are at risk of being shutdown?
Ok. So what exactly do you require to achieve even a modicum of those benefits? And you think that was not tried in the last ~70 years of Indian Independence?

I'm not sure your angle, but most people are content with analysis, but there is no urgency for action - a situation of "blissful analysis paralysis". What's worse is that, when someone takes an action, any action, these people are the first to raise all sorts of objections against those very actions that were unable to, incapable of, or totally uninterested in taking.
Elon Musk wants to dig a tunnel to ease L.A. traffic
The "theoretically" qualifier is unnecessary. The majority of Apple's revenue and profit is from hardware sales.
The use of constants without any actual representation is a bit sneaky.

You might apply a ceiling assuming constants are limited to, say, 16x16 pixels, with each pixel marked or unmarked.

That gives you 2^256 constants to play with (minus those that are already taken), probably many more than the human mind can effectively remember or distinguish without confusion. I could be bargained into more pixels per symbol, but let's consider this case to start...

H(2^256, 10^100) would still be quite large. Considerably less so than G(10^100), but I think it might be more fair (for some arbitrary definition of fair).

Of course, pixels per character can vary wildly, based on display size, and even on simple displays often contain more than 256 pixels. A more reasonable assumption for very simple displays might be 32x48. At that large, you're over 10^100, because your options with that much of a canvas have already shot over 400 digits.

You can get many more pixels if you assume your constants are a word, but I think Rayo's constraints would start counting subscripts and word-like constants as multiple "symbols".

Then again, we usually don't just flip a single pixel to switch symbols either, so I'm being too generous there. I'm not sure anyone's done a study on how many potential single-width characters might be reasonably distinguishable...

Studies on human perception seem like a much needed prerequisite for further classification of large numbers!
> Firefox would pop up a vague message telling me that "one of your tabs" is causing an issue (not telling me which one) and then I would need to randomly close tabs to try and get things working properly again

Did you have any addons installed? LastPass is a bit notorious for this, even the e10s-compatible version is quite bad.
Yep, I've been there. I should say though:

1. Abisko has way more clear nights than almost any other place in the arctic circle. Yes, it can be cloudy, but your chances in, say, Canada are comparatively very grim.

2. This applies to just about anywhere within the arctic circle.

3. The cold winters of arctic Sweden are much, much milder than similar latitudes of Russia or Canada. That there exist plenty of towns, an electrified train line, and actual infrastructure says a lot about this.
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Gotcha. TIL.
Some taxes are useful (roads, justice system, police, some defense, etc). Many taxes however are simply theft.

The only way taxes are fair is when it impacts everyone. When a tax takes money from one group for the benefit of the other, it's theft.

A universal consumption tax is about the only thing that is fair as it's proportional to gains and gains are generally (albeitly imperfectly) proportional to shared infrastructure built, maintained and defended using taxes. Unless the additional revenue benefits everyone, it's hard to increase.
I've been thinking a lot about this in the wake of the guy getting clocked on live TV, Richard Spencer-and the resulting fallout of people in my immediate circles openly cheering this behavior on.

Having long considered myself a moderate "leftist", the people I grew up thinking were the ones who stood at the vanguard of "Supporting free speech". I'm wondering what kind of road we're putting ourselves on where pre-emptive violence is acceptable in the face of uncomfortable ideas and disturbing information.

I recently lost a very near and dear friend on the topic of Spencer, not because we disagreed but because despite all attempts to talk about the matter reasonably with someone that I've had numerous spirited and intense, but always reasoned and respectful debates with-took the "go fuck yourself" route in response to my "I disagree with his ideas, but I also disagree with bestowing physical violence upon him for having those ideas". His response could be boiled down to a paraphrasing from the TV show Archer: "Do you want Nazi's? Because that's how you get Nazi's".

And I'm seeing this mentality echoed across multiple circles. It feels like the evolution of some of the things people talked about early on when they would call people "SJW's". Of course a reasonable person wouldn't be against social justice, but it's hard to critique some of the hostility the people that moniker is attached to without someone invariably coming along and accusing you of being some sort of -ist as if your critique of behavior is carte blanche critique of progress.

It wasn't our disagreement that made me walk away from the friendship, but his hostility toward the disagreement. Is this what the left is turning into?