skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to, but I guess I'm in the situation a lot of folks are in. One of our software vendors used Oracle for its backend, so we have the privilege of having to pay for an Oracle DB, but we also don't get direct support. Sadly, we haven't hit the point where we cannot replace the damn software.

The other thing that truly ticks me off is the lack of any virtualization option for the damn thing that doesn't 8x my current cost. These damn fools actually had the nerve to call me about their HR software. I would rather buy another iSeries machine, thanks.

Oh well, it goes so well with the PowerBuilder-based database some government agency foisted on all its grant recipients. At least I don't have to pay a per CPU fee for that one.
A batch or PowerShell script potentially could (and it could even be named make.bat, so that instructions would stay the same). Windows does actually support symlinks, though the caveat is that it requires elevated privileges. See e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link. I suppose some PowerShell magic could invoke the Admin password prompt, though there's also a question whether it'd be good to condition users to require elevated privileges for some random just downloaded script.
I was about to point out that your use of "oversampling" didn't refer to the standard statistical technique, but rather to the right-wing conspiracy theory about polling being intentionally altered, but you've pretty much made that clear with your reply.

I think this first became a "thing" back in 2012, when the polls were predicting Obama to beat Romney, and that just didn't seem like it could be true, and it was blamed on "oversampling".

Also, Nate Silver isn't a pollster, he just uses their output as input to his models.
Again, many of these laws have provisions for redundancies for this exact situation.
I have chosen to answer that it is irrelevant. I claim I am not driven entirely by money, and therefore I would consider any offer on its total merits, not just salary. A few employers have taken exception to this, luckily I don't have to move jobs right now.

The point is when I was younger I would have told them, under pressure to seem open. Ban it, it is scummy
Transcript of POTUS remarks to CIA, as delivered
One in billions is not impossibly rare when there are over 7 billion humans alive.
> you implicitly made the claim that decentralization and freedom are more valuable than all of slack and Github's features combined.

I can't speak for others here, but personally I treat freedom as my first priority: it doesn't matter what features a platform offers if it doesn't offer freedom, because I will not use it if it doesn't offer freedom, therefore I'll never see any of those purported features.
Try hitting the "web" button under the link and navigating in through google.

If that doesn't work, I made you a pastebin of the raw text: http://pastebin.com/kS5QPEiF
Most innovation and progress now is at the city level (I'm not the first to say it). Name the last thing government achieved at a national level in the U.S. - there's health care, but that's now looking shaky.

The priority of one major party in the U.S. is to shut down government as much as possible; that party can block progress everywhere but in cities, where they have no power for now. However, they are trying to pass 'pre-emption laws' in many state governments which block cities from doing anything the Republicans in the state capitals don't like. So much for the belief in liberty and local control.
Isn't the best approach to 'fake physics' simply to publicly criticise the ideas, or, if that's too exhausting, to point to a previous criticism?
Unless the massive uptick in Tor client connections can be correlated to a massive uptick in Tor client downloads its not a societal event and is more likely government sponsored.
I don't expect everyone to be able to do so. I'm simply saying that if the opportunity to migrate presents itself in a cost effective manner, do so. If scoping/requirements comes up, recommend Postgresql over Oracle at the beginning of the project.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
> Btw, Jenkins 2 Pipelines are not even in the picture because are neither proper pipelines nor proper jobs. It has no resumable/pausable stages, and is just a glorified DSL/UI on top of a multi-job kind of model.

That glorified DSL is Apache Groovy. Its backers have been trying to distribute it by getting other JVM-based products to bundle it as a DSL, without worrying about how closely it really matches the product's functionality, such as specifying pause/resume in pipelines.
As a current parent the problem with this is that you'd need to get every other parent to agree with it for it to work well, especially in sports.

Let me give an example. At 4/5 kids can start playing baseball, mine started at 5. He played during spring and summer for two years. Sessions were 10 weeks, with 1 practice and 1 game, and we played catch some at home. He really enjoyed it.

But now, by age 8, he has a decision to make (and I do to as a parent). He can stay with "Rec level" which is just kids having fun (as slow parenting would imply). Or, he can join the "intermediate team". What does that entail? 4 practices per week plus 1 game, and significant travel to weekend tournaments. The team website also specifies the only times of year you can take vacation. If he doesn't join this team, he is at age 8 effectively giving up any chance of playing baseball in high school. If he does play on the team however, he's giving up on other activities, and we give up our freedom to not have vacation schedules dictated to us.

So, I guess if every other parent in the world agreed not to push kids like this it would work, for now it can leave kids behind.

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Why free? Someone has to pay for the costs - and if it's not you then either the model will break or there is another catch.
> Mathematical functions are taught in school. That function composition is associative and every set has an identity function, this is stuff that every high school graduate should know.

As a haskeller myself I wholeheartedly disagree. I knew nothing of function composition until Haskell. I only heard about functions in high school once my senior year and it was very basic. Admittedly I went to high school in rural Texas.

I also never heard about sets, the word I was never used in my high school math classes.

> this is stuff that every high school graduate should know.

You seem to have a lot of faith in the lowest common denominator of high school graduates and I think it does you a disservice in being able to help others learn these topics.

I sense my last paragraph might have sounded a bit... Aggressive? That's not my intention.

P.S. I still don't really know what domain and codomain mean :)
I'm not sure about either of these.

The problem with fusion is commercial viability. Building something for billions of dollars that can barely put out more energy than you put in isn't commercially viable. At any rate, fusion seems more like a very tough engineering problem, the physics has been there for a long while.

With quantum computing there are also no real signs that a quantum computer will beat a "classical" computer at anything any time soon. It always was and still is very difficult to get quantum systems to scale and you need a large enough system to make a difference and it may be impossible to do so. Again a lot of this is more of an engineering problem though admittedly the line between physics and engineering can be blurry since it's not always clear whether something can't be done because you've reached a fundamental limitation vs. having a clever enough design.

It's possible someone will eventually solve the problems in these areas (assuming there aren't fundamental reasons we're just not aware of yet why it's impossible) but IMO the odds are low and you need some sort of breakthrough.
I wonder how many users understand the concept of profiles and the session isolation they provide, want to use them, yet find the command line too difficult to use.
This. And, what is really Google paying them for?
Ensuring that there is no mainstream browser left that would complicate things for ad/tracking sponsored web (and so never creating an incentive + ecosystem for any alternative)?
I don't think there is any intent to be misleading.

I agree that reading this blog by itself is jumping into the middle of the conversation, and terms are not explained. The multi-verse has been discussed there for years, so occasional readers may assume it is the many-worlds stuff, but it is a very different beast.
I think this is false. Typescript must be.
There's a gazillion assumptions baked into inflation measures. The basket of goods to track, accounting for changes in consumption patterns, accounting for technological improvements, etc. There is no objectively correct answer to any of those issues.
> The prediction could still be correct even when the actual event is not what was predicted.

This is true (and conversely, a prediction can still be "wrong" even if the outcome matches the prediction, if the prediction expresses the wrong degree of confidence).

However:

> when statistics can only tell us something about it when repeating it

This is only true if you take a pure frequentist approach to probability. The Bayesian interpretation of probability has no problem with defining probabilities over single-occurrence events. (And even frequentists have a way of dealing with this, although Bayesians would argue that in doing so they're essentially adopting a form of Bayesian probability).
We are in exactly that position actually, and it is one of the reasons we are in the late stages of choosing a new ERP. Unfortunately that will likely be locked in and closed source too, but at least you have serious hosting options with MS SQLserver.
If this is an attempt by the UAE to prevent TOR connections via DPI, who would the primary target(s) be? I recognize that's an awkward question to ask of an anonymized service like TOR, but who are the actors in the UAE who might use TOR and why target them now?
The word "partisan" impies actions and beliefs on a "side" without considering it independently.

The intercpt, and glen greenwald, were a thorn in the obama administration's side with their reporting. Now they intend to be a thorn in Trump's side. That sounds non-partisan, at least in the sense of republican and democrat, to me.
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Asking hurts the people who give bad answers, which is unfair since in many cases those answers are irrelevant to the job being interviewed for.

Claiming the information is confidential may hurt your chances of getting the job, or simply get the "we need this information or we can't continue, sorry, it's policy" answer.

Lying about it benefits the liars (assuming they lie intelligently). I suspect that offers are frequently based on previous pay, so simply claiming your previous pay was higher would get you a better offer. Is lying really the behavior we want to incentivize?
High schools taught calculus outside of honors programs? My high school only went to algebra 1.5
Updated Chapter 4 of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming (Jan 18, 2017)
No it is (1 / infinity) which is not zero. Much like how X/X is not a continuous function even though the limits at 0 are 1.
My wife is the same way, and so the agreement we have is only a single activity/class/camp at a time. You can play soccer in spring, but not baseball, for example. The child gets to pick which activity they choose. For our younger child the conversations are simpler "would you like to take an art class or a dancing class" but still let the kid pick.
> A society truly run by the people, ala individuals, would have banned this

I'm libertarian-leaning, and statements like these bother me deeply.

If I'm an employer, why ban me from asking some question to a prospective employee? It's a restriction on the employer's freedom.

The job applicant has a right to decline to answer my question (and I have a right to decline to offer a job). Regulating what questions I can ask (i.e. my speech) is a restriction on my freedom.

I recently interviewed for a job, and they asked me what (minimum) base salary I was looking for, and I didn't answer their question, and said that I wanted them to make an offer based on what they thought I was worth. As a result, I ended up getting a higher base salary than I'd expected.

But that detracts from the main point. The reason I oppose such laws and regulations is that I feel like it's an infringement on personal freedom. Employers are made up of people, and regulating their speech and their actions is a limitation on their personal freedom.
A fair amount of it is based on awk, so awk might be better to start with.
I'm glad Firefox is doing this, but ...

> Blocking third-party cookies can break some site that rely on third-party resources

Can anyone name sites that require them?

As someone who defaults to deny all cookies and manually enables every one my browser accepts, I don't think I've found a site that requires 3rd-party cookies. Few sites require cookies unless you login or have shopping cart.

Of course, that's anecdotal. Maybe I just don't visit certain categories of sites and don't encounter them.
I wish there was an ERP on the market that would allow me to do that! ERP is about as locked in as a company can get, isn't it. At the moment anything involving Oracle is not under consideration
Can you think of scandals on scale of watergate under a democrat?
Can you please explain why it would blow up the L1 cache?
Ah. I think I get it now. I misinterpreted what you meant by the word "see" (in "My advice is to see the dot..."). I thought you meant, "understand that in fact q-dot is an independent variable" when in fact you meant (AFAICT) "pretend that q-dot is an independent variable even though in fact it is not."
I find that a bit mis-leading. While IAAP, this is not my area.

My understanding is the at the big bang there are a HUGE number of universes (the Multiverse) that are causally dis-connected, with different coupling constants for the forces and very different physics. Within our universe we have our physics, which includes QM, and one way of viewing QM is the many-worlds view.
A more in depth comparison is made by Tim Wu in his latest book, "The Attention Merchants." Highly recommended.
If, in such threads, a few posts up from the point analogous to this point, people just started talking about composing functions, and composing lists of functions, then more understanding would be generated.
You're asking the wrong question. Why allow it? Employers and people are not equivalent in my mind, even if they are the same, legally.

Your story is nice, but I've also heard stories where people are rejected immediately because they didn't share. Sure, you could say that people shouldn't work for those companies (and they shouldn't), but not everyone has the luxury of being able to interview anywhere, nor the ability to be accepted anywhere.
I'm eagerly looking for a solution good enough to let me ditch our current paid/hosted service. Gitea seems like it's getting really close, but a couple concerns linger:

* how does the pull-request/code review UI look? didn't see any examples on https://try.gitea.io/ or main website

* mobile/responsive UI would be really nice for small screens
Not sure if you're serious or joking (the parenthesis suggests to me serious), but AFAIK it's a well known saying that fusion power is in permanent state of "to be delivered commercially in ~15 years" since '50s or something like that...

Edit: ah, yes, and also the slightly more generic mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/678/
Could you provide some examples? That's a serious allegation.

I remember, as a volunteer, debating some privacy issue with a Google dev in Bugzilla. They made some crack about looking a gift horse in the mouth, but the discussion was out in the open. I don't recall evidence that Google was influencing Firefox improperly, but OTOH absence of evidence is not evidence of absence ...
Crucially, what is a reasonable sentence depends heavily on words.

"History lamps traffic people house cry Michigan algebra" also has the same parse tree, but if I utter this, people will probably think I need medical attention.
Yes, if you don't count CoffeeScript that is .)
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Free speech already has well known limits. Copywrite is an obvious one. Anyway, salary history's are discriminatory which seems like something that probably already has case law.
Nice little write-up on Amber
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Are all employers corporations? And even as such, this is just outlawing information. I do not understand how so many on the left support such a measure.

It's a question -- outlawing questions, especially between private parties in a consensual relationship (applicant and employer), is backwards. You can choose not to answer it; you can lie; you can choose not to work for employers that ask the question in the first place, especially if they coerce you into providing records. This will just undermine the efforts of companies that have differentiated themselves with noninvasive hiring practices and set them back on the same playing field as less scrupulous employers.

Why is free choice so difficult to understand?
What language don't you have to do that in where not doing so also won't change behavior and result in an error?
That's a red herring. You can hold individuals responsible for misleading statements in financial disclosures notwithstanding the fact that individuals indisputably have free speech rights. At the same time, if you can ban a corporation from asking the question about salary history, you should be able to ban a sole proprietorship or partnership from asking the question too.
Ask HN: Is anyone able to get transactional emails through to MSN and AOL?
We use mailgun for a transactional emails. Essentially just password resets and the occasional receipt. We have basically a 0% success rate for AOL or MSN emails. Does everyone have this same problem? We are just constantly dealing with password reset problems and every single time it is an AOL or MSN email address. They don't even go to spam, just silently discarded.

We are using a shared IP plan with Mailgun, but I assumed the whole point of their service is reputation management.
When you go to the casino and put $100K on red on the roulette that's speculation. When you use the $100K to go to college and get an engineering degree that's an investment.

There's no guarantee your investment will yield a reward but there's a better probability than gambling (let's just say better than 50/50 for that matter). An investment is putting money towards something that has a good probability of yielding a return, be it your education, renovating your house, a new car, shares in Coca Cola, or US government bonds.
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In this specific instance, though, doesn't it seems like a good trade for society to take away the rights of employers in exchange for making it more difficult for Comcast to do business?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13452618
score = (votes - 1) / pow((item_hour_age+2), gravity)

Which means, newer posts have a higher weight. As time goes by, the score lowers. The constant gravity can be adjusted to lower or raise how fast this occurs.
Standard probability theory does not have a notion of infinitesimals.

There have been non-standard attempts at probability theory that do involve such a notion. See [0] (found on a brief search; I have only skimmed).

EDIT: Admittedly, the existence of the non-standards analysis is a good indication that this is an artifact of the formalization of probability theory; not of the underlying reality that we are trying to model.

Simpson's paradox is probably a better example of a "real" "paradox" of probability. [1]

[0] https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/551380/1/Benc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
Napier's bones
> For a language with such powerful types, it's like a gun with no bullets lacking a good IDE to take full advantage.

Agreed, though hare is trying (has, but needs editor integrations?) to address this:

https://github.com/RefactoringTools/HaRe
I assume you're referring to the Virtu statement that they only lost money on one day?

That's true (or nearly true) of good HFT shops in general. The type of trading that HFTs do (market making, short term predictions) is generally less risky than long term investments. Also, the risk/reward of this trading is realized over minutes, not over weeks/years. So just as a hedge fund might have an unprofitable week but a good year, an HFT has a bad 20 minutes but over the whole day comes out on top.

For Renaissance, maybe they are truly smarter than the rest of the market or at least able to act on good trades before anyone else. I wouldn't discount foul play though.
Even then the claim is not true, because then you would be wrong to call them "experts". The fault then lies not with the experts, but with the media you choose to watch.
> Didn't he invent it after the sword had fallen and the BitKeeper people withdrew their permission to use it?

Yes, perhaps I should have been more specific that the sword (BitKeeper as gatekeeper) was the problem, rather than the "hanging above" (i.e. the threat rather than the actuality).
For anyone wanting to see some live examples of ClojureScript in action, please checkout my project, http://cljsfiddle.com
I don't think this should be downvoted, it's a valid perspective. Compile times matter.

I use typescript and have it watching my files. Compilation (or transpilation, whatever you want to call it) time isn't an issue. I could see it being quite a hindrance if I had to run tsc on my entire project every time I changed one line, I don't know if this is the case with clojurescript, but it would be a downside for sure.
If cities and municipalities are our hope for good governance we're are all pretty screwed. Cities across the country basically bankrupt and state and local governance is rife with corruption.
I'd take a look at uMatrix, which is easier and more granular than NoScript (but lacks the more in-depth security features). It allows you to block/allow cookies, css, images, plugins, scripts, frames, and more on local/remote host basis.

For example, when visiting example.com you could allow scripts from example.com but not from gstatic.com, analyticshost.com, or shadylookingdomain.com. Yet at domain.com you could allow gstatic.com scripts and images because it embeds Google Maps.

It's all done in an amazing, quick GUI that provides a visualization of the rules. I wish all firewalls would adopt the UI.
I agree both EKF and UKF are what you'll find in real world applications (because computing Jacobians is a pain!). I find the work of Jeffery Uhlmann both incredibly useful and hilarious (in that the "Unscented Kalman Filter" came from a stick of deodorant on a co-workers desk).

http://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Unscented_Transform
NumFOCUS: Open Code = Better Science
Not just big-data projects but many other projects move from companies to the ASF. Apache Groovy was previously developed by 2 programmers and a project manager on VMware's dime, until they dropped it. But to say VMware "donated" Groovy to the ASF would be inaccurate though.
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> I like Go specifically because it is boring.

I dislike Go because it's resulting programs are not boring. So many things can and do panic.