skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a serious question? It's happening everywhere.

For example the famous Milo Twitter case where Milo himself got banned, but all the radical black hate groups and the actor herself who was posting tons of racist content didn't even get warning but instead tons on sympathy.

I'm not a fan of alt-right, but for news and social media websites, being so disgustingly biased and trying to help the radical leftist agenda is one of the major reasons why things like Trump and Brexit happen.
>"Well, your arguments seem equally non-sequiter to me."

Fair enough.

>"I spend a lot of time in the world of correlations, in biology."

I left that field. One reason was because I realized so much of my time was wasted after I attempted to attach numbers to things like "# of receptors required to fit the narrative".

Sure "A causes B", but it must be for some reason totally different from what is usually proposed (and could probably be considered a boring experimental artifact). I just don't care if "A causes B". I want to know for "f(A) ~ B", what is f?

>"It's much better to get a causation: a knob that when you turn it you get a response, rather than no response."

Reminds me of this paper:

"Biologists summarize their
results with the help of all-too-well recognizable diagrams,
in which a favorite protein is placed in the middle
and connected to everything else with two-way arrows.
Even if a diagram makes overall sense (Fig. 3a), it is usually
useless for a quantitative analysis, which limits its
predictive or investigative value to a very narrow range.
The language used by biologists for verbal communications
is not better and is not unlike that used by stock
market analysts. Both are vague (e.g., a balance between
pro- and anti-apoptotic bcl-2 proteins appears to control
the cell viability, and seems to correlate in long-term with
the ability to form tumors) and avoid clear predictions."

https://bml.bioe.uic.edu/BML/Stuff/Stuff_files/biologist%20f...
No, he sounds like evil coroporations force us to meet friends in coffeshops, etc.
When in reality we just don't want to tidy up our houses before inviting friends over, do the dishes, etc. And it also gives us an opportunity to leave the house :)
I'm using it in an even more general sense, the rise of non-establishment right wing groups around the world. Was the term adopted by white nationalist groups or was that just mud slinging that got stuck?
Ask HN: Things you wish existed but don't have time to build?
Intel 360 Gives Fans a Player's Point-Of-View [video]
Exactly why a website makes more sense. You get the latest version by just reloading the page.
It is to convince that you want this particular product by this particular company over the competition.
Abusive behaviour on Trustpilot
Replying to my own comment after thinking some more about this: It also explains to a large extent the choice of gas for the murders. After all you can open a gas tap a long way away from where the people are that you are going to kill, in fact the person opening the valve may not even know what they are doing (unlikely in this case, but still you could easily arrange it that way).

Everybody else is just doing their job right? Herd a bunch of people into a room, remove a bunch of corpses from a room. Nothing to do with killing anybody, or so you could delude yourself.

This also ties in with why I'm so totally against drones, robots and other kinds of remote warfare (including aerial bombardment), they make it so much easier to pretend you're not killing real people.
won't be really hard to improve the market share:
- make edge cross platform.
- make the extensions system on par with chromes and as easy to launch an extension
- fix its UI lag on Windows 10
- maybe open source it
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Uber bows to government pressure and suspends its service in Taiwan
I'm curious if that's a sufficient explanation. Do all the parents today (who remember roaming as kids but who wouldn't let their own kids roam now) live somewhere with more dangerous roads than where they grew up? I wonder if my own home town, which I know has not had significant road changes, has experienced the same alleged decline in roaming.
Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code class action
If Charlie doesn't know Bob's information is tainted, all you're doing is punishing the innocent for a crime they didn't commit.
>If I understand those 2 correctly, I'm no longer arguing that the data doesn't agree with that.

I think we're close to being on the same page. About your objection, my argument actually does not really revolve around the idea that there is some correlation b/w city vs state rates.

I'm just looking at the statistics themselves. The fact is there are several cities in the USA that have higher murder rates than any country in Africa or the Middle East. So if you were randomly placed somewhere at random b/w several US cities and vs Africa or the Middle East, you would live in an area with less murders choosing a place at random in Africa or the Middle East.
GitLab is a lot more feature packed than Gitea/Gogs. Gogs is lightweight, good for personal projects, but if you're looking for something to deploy company wide with integrated everything, Gitlab is the way to go.
>> Kids being randomly abducted is vanishingly rare, but the faster and further news spreads, the more 'real' it seems

The problem is that a single abduction is touted by the media as though 1,000,000 children were taken. It's the exact same propaganda as terrorism - one attack by a foreigner that kills 10 people is treated as though the entire nation of 319 million people were wiped out. When the police and child services can now pick your child off the street and put them into a foster home because they were "not under the supervision of a parent at all times", you have no chance. The U.S. has given away their freedom, simple as that.
I'm curious why you're amazed at this notion. Surely the vast majority of towns have not been significantly urbanized or had significant road changes in the last thirty years.
He's surely salaried. How do you define company time in particular when there's no set you need to be here 9-5?
I could use the exact same arguments but for PHP.
I personally use the home edition for my family. 4 family members have office / 1 TB onedrive with a single yearly subscription which is a fraction of the price I'd pay for a single perpetual license (and I have an extra user license to spare). It feels like a good value for me.
Slow how to me it still loads any website the fastest. The biggest complain about chrome is that it is bloated specially if you use more than few tabs. But I don't see google working on fixing or improving that much simply because using more than a few tabs is an edge case which probably less than 1% of the users use.
I have a distinct memory of this one, back when "Animation Festivals" were still a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVFTDDLa2z4
I've had good luck with videocopilot.net, though it's more centered on vfx than motion graphics.
I think jlink can strip at the class level, not just the module level.
+1

And it's not just reddit, but also sites like twitter don't mind anti-white/anti-police hate groups, terrorist organizations, but if there is some right winger doing even half of the same stuff what these previously mentioned people did, they'll get banned, censored etc.
Google and chrome are the biggest threat we have to the open internet at the moment.
There will never be any sure facts about any spy stuff. But his role as a figurehead of "look what happens in us, democracy is broken, don't blame us" message from Russia is just too golden. Stuff like that simply does not happen by accident in Russia and without fsb being involved.
>you somehow are very very unlucky, and two files end up having the same SHA1. At that point, what happens is that when you commit that file (or do a "git-update-index" to move it into the index, but not committed yet), the SHA1 of the new contents will be computed, but since it matches an old object, a new object won't be created, and the commit-or-index ends up pointing to the _old_ object.

>You won't notice immediately (since the index will match the old object SHA1, and that means that something like "git diff" will use the checked-out copy), but if you ever do a tree-level diff (or you do a clone or pull, or force a checkout) you'll suddenly notice that that file has changed to something _completely_ different than what you expected. So you would generally notice this kind of collision fairly quickly.

That seems like a dangerously dubious assumption.

It would imply that every coder has a clear, accurate mental expectation of what every file should look like as of the latest commit and will notice it before further commits are added.

I consider it a good day when everyone remembers to rebase in the right order!
Is there any other way to generate/buy/get these json files ? Really want to try this out, but do not have access to After Effects.
A law will make some precise quantitative prediction, "astrology" will make vague predictions like "A is correlated with B", or "A is positively correlated with B".

Here is a spielraum[1] of possible experimental results, with the * indicating the region consistent with a law:

1) |------*------|

Here it is for a vague speculation that there is "some correlation" (ie astrology):

2) |******-******|

You can see it will be much easier to find evidence consistent with #2 than #1, even if there is nothing to the ideas at all.

[1] Paul Meehl. 1990. Appraising and Amending Theories: The Strategy of Lakatosian Defense and Two Principles That Warrant It. Psychological Inquiry 1990, Vol. 1, No. 2, 108-141. http://rhowell.ba.ttu.edu/meehl1.pdf [figure 3]
This pretty neat, anyone know of any services that take advantage of it?
There not many project these days that would not require similar stacks. At least one core language: be it Ruby, or Java or whatever. Then you will have a DB. Then you will have some fancy frontend which will sure depend on node js. Then you might have some KV store/caching so you get Redis.
> When people say the median is "better" than the mean, they often can't explain exactly why (other than to cite skew, which I've addressed).

Well, 40~50 years of literature on robust statistics happens to disagree with the claim 'people' don't know what they mean (pun unintended) when the say the median is better. Furthermore skew has less to do with that argument than heavy tails. heavy tails are extremely (ok sorry, now its an insider pun) common.
Zero-sum for Indian IT firms https://qz.com/899306/will-the-h-1b-be-worth-it-for-indian-i...
st does this when you don't give it the right font path and config. There is one compiled in, and that's what it's using if you aren't passing a font when you start it. Right now, whatever font it's trying to use doesn't exist, and your screenshot is a typical result of that.
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Blockchain enabled Trust and Transparency in supply chains
I second this out of true curiosity. I have tried and never found any love in my heart for iTerm2. It just feels clunky and bloated to me.
said hobbyist also needs to buy an oscilloscope though. Granted they'll likely need that down the road, but still...
> Object Layouts on Azul.

https://objectlayout.github.io/ObjectLayout/ does not save you any headers. It just allows you to control where your objects are in memory and compiler optimizations based on this. It does not help you with memory footprint.

Also I'm not sure if it's really implemented on Zing considering that from the outside the project seems dead.

> Eventually Java 10 will fix this

I would not be so sure. The challenges especially regarding primitive generics are not to be underestimated. See

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/shady-values.html
Parent's comment about the big game is accurate; they were all friends waiting for some whale to show up, so playing there doesn't mean you're one of the best players in the world, skill-wise.

Up to 2010, Negreanu had some up and down and as poker theory developed, his game showed a number of pretty big flaws--which he himself admitted. Sure, he was a competent player, so calling him just a 'celebrity' might be misleading, but there were many players in the top online scene who did a lot more of volume and analysis that Negreanu, who pushed more edge and who leaked much less.
seriously?
almost everybody has FIVE different backups system and not one of them works?
I don't know where you work, but in my job monitoring everything is essential.
And a couple of times per year we do a disaster recovery test.
Something like this is completely and totally unacceptable.
It means that they never tested any backup.
I am going to get flamed to oblivion for this, but nonetheless:

You are not looking far enough in the past. The very textbook definition[0] of fascism (or to be precise - one of the basic definitions) is that it is a political movement that was directly linked with corporatism. Or in other words, a form of government where the major political power is wielded by powerful corporations and furthers primarily their interests.[1]

Quoting from [0]: "fascism, especially once in power, [attracts] support primarily from what in a classical sense is called the 'far right' or 'extreme right'." Authoritarianism and police state mentality are both drivers, but also the results of this mentality.

Considering how the politics in the western world, US included, have been going for at least the recent half a century... I am going to say that fascism didn't go away with the deaths of Hitler and Mussolini. It has been a dark undercurrent in the US politics (as well as UK and the Scandinavian countries, at least) all this time.

We have ALL been on the road back to fascism for decades. It didn't start with G.W. Bush in the US, or with Thatcher in the UK, or with True Finns in Finland, or with whatever the French populist party happens to be called this week. Each one of these is just a manifestation of a more generic right-wing, very much misandry-fuelled swing in public opinion.

US has been on its way to fascism for a long time. But you are not alone, your country has just been the most powerful and visible charioteer.

If you are willing to accept the link between corporatism and fascism, just think what Lawrence Lessig was not saying in his TED talk, "Country of Lesters".[2] (That's not the official title of the talk but the one it is easiest to find with.)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

2a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g

2b: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...
There's a big difference between letting a kid play in the way they want to play (with limits, of course), and forcing or strongly encouraging playing video games instead of playing outside.
4. Garbage collection. The fact that Java does not have a refcount collector, that can release memory back to the process's pool as soon as something goes out of scope and is no longer referenced, is horrid. Nearly every major software written in Java goes through the worst kind of struggle wherein users have to assign a 4 GB heap size to run a service that only really needs 500 MB. When fatal Out-Of-Memory crashes are the status quo, something is very very wrong.
William Bernstein in A Splendid Exchange argues that pro- and anti- immigration (and free trade) positions are taken not as fundamental philosophical positions by the left or right wing but by the different trade factors as would be expected considering the results of free trade or movement of labour under the Stolper-Samuelson theorem.

A simplifying example is that in a field and region that is labour intensive but having a scarcity of labour, labour agitates against immigration and free-trade.

It's a fairly convincing argument, though it references a trade model that is somewhat simplistic.
Good point, eicnix. No, we don't have a solution for that, but hadn't the need so far either. Sorry.
Yes, "power nap" is an existing feature that only does specific OS/apple specific operations (syncing, notifications, mail, calendar, indexing).
Horrible description of UX designers as "...often judged solely on how the product looks". You're working with visual designers, not UX designers.
It probably is their rationale, but it's just showing how reddit admins seem to be taking sides and turning a blind eye to parts of the community they agree with and banning the parts they don't.

Reddit used to have vibrant discussion in most threads, everything now is either completely hostile back and forths or completely a circlejerk. Rarely any middle ground seems to exist anymore and it's a real shame.
Early Infographics and Maps of the 1800s
I don't expect a parliamentary democracy to produce perfect reaults, just better results than a tyranny of the majority.

I'm a remain supporter, but that doesn't mean I think the EU is perfect. I do think that we're better off in than out though. The sovereignty issue is a red herring because if being in the EU became intolerable, we can leave. I don't believe we're in a situation where the negatives of membership outweigh the positives.

Europe has been peaceful for the longest period in its history because our interests are so closely entangled. That's a good thing. Free movement is a good thing both for me personally and for the economy.
"In the UK, Parliament is sovereign."

The EU courts can declare any bit of UK Parliamentary action 'unconstitutional'.

Within the EU, UK Parliament is not quite 'sovereign' :)
Thanks for responding, we are definitely in agreement. I have used both, in my experience quantile regression seems better behaved at the tail than quantile transformation in regression tasks. I think if one can make the transform conditional on the covariate they would be comparable.
How is "Dim" worse than "var"???

In fact even before type inference I always thought that Dim was a better idea. It was kind of absurd to be forced to write your type twice.

Dim D as New Dictionary(Of String, String)

vs

Dictionary<string, string> D = new Dictionary<string, string>();
I love Allen Downey's books. His "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" was the first CS book I used in high school, and it has given me the strongest fundamentals I could ever ask for.

I'm a college student now taking OS, so hoping this will be a good complement to my education.
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> Again, it was not a legally binding referendum.

That is probably part of the argument that was made to require a parliamentary vote. Which is conceivably a fair judgement.

But on the other hand what is the purpose of having a referendum to leave the EU if it is not intended to be enacted in law? It would be rather nonsensical to hold referendums that have no effect and could be discarded at will.

Nevertheless, as we saw the substantial majority voted to honor the referendum and a fairly small minority did not. That leads me to believe that the overwhelming sentiment is to honor the democratic vote and the will of the people.

The risk of denying the democratic majority is the risk of the 'tyranny of elite minority'. Its hard to decide which is the true injustice in an abstract fashion. Its very much a question of context and specifics.
Perl > Ruby > any other language > Python
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Why the GIFS?!?!!?! Couldn't read for more than a minute. And I am a Scrubs fan.
whoops yea i should add one for HN. I wish I could say something intelligible, but it's so complicated I don't even know what's going on anymore with western culture.
Working class and upper class children seem to have this freedom in London, having lived in both to press of area.

When I lived in Richmond there were often children alone on the bus or train with expensive belongings like musical instruments or sports equipment. My middle class parents would never have allowed that - but they would expect me to get to school on public transport alone.

Also, there are no rules or laws against this. It's cultural. See http://www.btp.police.uk/advice_and_information/travelling_s... for one example - there's no minimum age to travel alone on a train.
Agreed. I don't understand why there are still memes against Internet Explorer floating around. Edge is not the problem.
Yes, but things like "walked half a mile to school every day at age 5", "was allowed to bike 5 miles from home after entering the 5th grade and 10 miles after 6th grade" are pretty clear cut.
Tesla is testing self-driving cars in California, but lacking behind Google
Advertisements target your lizard brain. That bypasses your rational thinking. It is not a fair fight and not merely "just say 'no'".
Really? Have you tried wearing drag in a rural area?