skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where would like half the earth's population move to, if things happened quick enough for you to experience the results of a new ice age? Like Half or Eurasia and North America would be covered in ice...
This is a fun quote, I've always liked it. But I'm not exactly sure how it fits here. The OP seems to be an etiquette guide for an academic department.
I find it horrifying. Newborns need to bond with their mothers. Keep them both under observation if you must. Separating them is cruel.
Cops have tough jobs, the vast majority of police officers mean well and are good people trying to serve their community. I think people in threads like this forget that. But like any group of people there are assholes, we need to have a zero tolerance policy for police officers that violate rights. And for egregious situations we need to hold them even more accountable. Police aren't the law but an agent and servant of it.
TesLab is the companion app Tesla owners have been waiting for
What you can do, is create a repo that contains the explanation for a task, maybe some boilerplate, and some tests that will be run by travisCI or something similar. When students submit a pull request, the tests will automatically be run, so there you have your automatic grading part. CI can do more than tests though. You could also check for code style, and complexity using several tools.

Regarding cheating, maybe MOSS is useful: https://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/
That is due to the mobile usage eating into desktop's. Zuckerberg realized it long before us and hence the whatsapp & Instagram acquisitions.
Blerg, sorry, I have no clue where I got mixed up on this. I think I got confused with Drangonfly because I was going to try that at shortly after I got FreeBSD set up just to compare. FreeBSD seems to be going strong with i386.
Facebook asks for a lot of information from users and grew its way into government contracts and safer high $value arrangements due to how much data they store. Even if you're not "on" Facebook, people you know will establish a presence for you in Facebook's data.

Twitter accounts are cheap and the platform only has value as long as advertisements can run unchallenged by a large number of users.
It also depends on how comfortable your team is with managing your own infrastructure. If you're not strong on the DevOps side of things, then stick with a PaaS solution to get started (even if it's a bit more $$$), and look at cost efficiency later.

If you're comfy with running your own stack, then nothing really beats D/O, Vultr, Packet.Net (if you want bare-metal) to get started. With the number of self-hosted PaaS tools out there, you can easily replicate GAE on your own for a fraction of the cost, but you need to handle the Ops on your own.

It's ultimately about how fast you can get to market, and how well you deploy resources getting there. Frankly, there are times when paying a few hundred dollars per month to have the entire stack hosted and managed for you, is WAY cheaper and a better ROI than hiring people or adding to your dev workload.

In my experience, free credit programs are great, but only if you keep your tech portable enough to move over easily to someone else after they expire. A lot of these platforms offer APIs and services that are convenient, but they also create lock-ins that will force you to stick with a vendor who's cost-benefit drops after a certain point in time. At that stage, the decision you make will be between is it cheaper to refactor or to stick it out.

Hope this helps.
They hadn’t bothered to consider statistically far more likely causes of an irregular heartbeat. In Redelmeier’s experience, doctors did not think statistically.

Statistics assumes independence, something that may be hard to come by in the ER. Even when you start factoring in the covariance between conditions, there's so many confounding factors it's probably difficult to tease out any sort of significant r^2 for an individual patient

Instead, I would advocate for a pattern recognition method. Given a database of x million patients, it's likely someone has had the same type of case before, if not very similar. A sample would provide much less variable results than the individual patient,making diagnosis more confident.

Such a system could be used to predict symptoms before they become symptoms, saving time and preventing pain while serving to reduce hospital workload. Figure out a way to standardize it in the intake, and let the system predict what's wrong. It'll solve most of the cases, and identify new trends, leaving human doctors to focus on the edge cases like the one in the article.
They can sell direct access to the live stream of data at huge prices I'm sure.
It's a broad, introductory, 11-week course which 'about half ... typically treat ... as their one and only course in computer science'.

That said, I find the idea of a t-shirt to commemorate a single course (whatever it's difficulty) amusingly odd.
People breaking the rules isn't indicative of a broken system. People do take unfair advantage sometimes.
With documentation documentation.
> These are items that would not be able to be sold or shipped by themselves as it wouldn't be cost effective

Based on the add-on items I've seen I'm not convinced that's true. I needed to buy thermal paste a few months ago and there was a 4g pack for £3 as an add-on item, or a 20g pack for £3.50 with Prime delivery. Other times I've needed something buts it's only available as an add-on item - I don't mind paying for delivery as it's still going to be cheaper and easier than buying in a brick and mortar store.
While this has nothing directly to do with the OP, but there's an assumption of cleanliness amongst everyone I know. If it looks clean, it must be clean, right?

100% completely wrong. Simple casual observation of people exiting restrooms is proof that if anything is touched, it cannot be clean. I have seen far too many people not washing after going #2 that I simply do not trust a single damn thing that I touch in public. I'm not OCD, but the general piggishness of a large portion of the population is quite disgusting.

I operate on the assumption of filth, and it has kept me from getting sick for nearly 7 years. I avoid public restrooms unless nature is screaming at me, and I carry safety wipes and use them all the time. I use them the moment when I get into my car from visiting anything, anywhere.

I filled in for the building manager at a higher end office building, and the things I have seen were shocking. I have seen non-public bathrooms defiled in disgusting ways...all on touch surfaces. Feces, blood, ejaculate, and who knows what type of drippy bile. This in an upscale business building, mind you. Imagine what horrors are visited upon your common public restroom.

I even wash my soda cans. Probably a bit overkill, and my dad used to give me stick about it until he got sick from drinking from a can that had mouse pee on it.

The neat thing is that being fastidious doesn't take much time or effort. And, it's not like my immune system became Superman overnight 7 years ago, it's that I started being careful with what I did with my hands.
Unfortunately if you know English, the doors to truly learning AppleScript are forever closed to you.
The key thing that privately-owned cars have over on-demand cars is reliability, and the illusion of control. I've owned an unreliable car (It had trouble starting, but would run fine once started). It sucked. Not knowing if the car would start each time changed my relationship with going places and doing the things I wanted to do. I had to budget extra time everywhere I went, in case I needed to jump the car or wait for AAA. On-demand cars will have many of the same problems, just due to demand surges, and traffic. Sure, you can get stuck in traffic any time. That's true, but you feel it less when you have the illusion of control of driving. When the traffic delays your inbound car by 5 or 10 minutes and you're just standing on the curb waiting for it, that feels more aggravating than when you're behind the wheel.

I also think there will be a significant fraction of the population that uses their car as personal, daily storage. My wife keeps a bunch of stuff in her car, and would be significantly impacted if she had to take it all in and out every time she went everywhere. Same thing with kids car seats, etc.

I think on-demand cars will probably replace second commuter cars for families, but there will still be many, many owned-cars as well.
At what scale does equality lead to sustainability? At the family, neighborhood, local, state, national, hemispherical, global levels?

In other words, does equality have to apply across the board, or can it have effect at more local levels?
Even a logically defensible moral argument is only sound given some specific premises, which may not be universally shared.
It was 2010, I don't quite remember how I did it, but it was super easy at the time. Had something to do with location searching. It was the "Buffalo City Grill Shooting". At the time I was a heavy twitter user and it was immediately obvious how I could query the app to figure out what just happened. Now I don't even have an account so I'm not sure it's still possible.
Thank you to both founders for taking the time to write such lengthy responses. I really appreciate the more detailed insight.
I don't understand why Gadfly is the top repo. I always found it to be very slow and having too many dependencies. Last I remember it installs more than 20 packages as dependencies. Its also not a supported backend in Plots.jl
In a tiny subcompact car.

My money is more on Ford being a risk factor to Tesla than GM.
I get the feeling this one was trained on Cecil Taylor.
Your numbers are nonsense. A blockchain can be made to handle any number of transactions per second. It's simply a matter of increasing the number of transactions per block, the frequency of the blocks or both. The trade off is in the increasing storage requirements. The Bitcoin blockchain currently sits at just over 100GiB. This is an insignificant amount of data for a bank. Furthermore, you can reduce the blockchain storage requirements through checkpointing. Every so many blocks the participants in the blockchain can agree to and cryptographically sign the latest balance sheet. All previous transactions can then be archived. IMO, the Bitcoin Core developers shouldn't be focusing on anything but checkpointing right now.
They abandoned the atom concept for ELF & PE/COFF for the reason you described.

https://llvm.cc/t/llvmdev-lld-improvement-plan/274

"The atom model is not the best model for some architectures The atom model makes sense only for Mach-O, but it’s used everywhere. I guess that we originally expected that we would be able to model the linker’s behavior beautifully using the atom model because the atom model seemed like a superset of the section model. Although it can, it turned out that it’s not necessarily natural and efficient model for ELF or PE/COFF on which section-based linking is expected."
They did not affirm that the First Amendment was not violated; they explicitly ruled it had. What they affirmed was that it was not so obviously violated that every officer should have known it, and therefore the officers were entitled to qualified immunity, i.e. immunity from being sued because they did their jobs in a way that a reasonable officer could think was lawful.
See their Figure 5 [1] where they hypothesize how Zealandia was formed from the breakup of Gondwana, before which it did in fact lie adjacent to what later became a separate 'Australia' continent. Some of the definitions are complicated by the fact that continents join and break up, and their continuity across multiple continental cycles is not a given -- but that of cratons is, which are sort of an inner core of really old rocks that managed to survive all sorts of tectonic abuse. Zealandia has yet to be shown to contain a craton, presence of which would probably result in its undisputed acceptance as a continent. All of today's "classical" continents are amalgamations of contiguous continental crust around one or more neighboring cratons. See the 'Geology' section for discussion.

[1] https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/27/3/figure/GSAT...
With google spreadsheet appscript, i've built a dashboard with bootstrap, implemented a database with dopost and doget, downloaded 8000+ webpages for data scraping overnight. You can overcome the 5 minutes limit by using this http://patt0.blogspot.in/2014/08/continuous-batch-library-up...
Thank you so much for the detailed feedback.
> In the US, real wages and purchasing power have been falling

Where did you get the idea that real wages are falling? Even that graph seems to contradict what you're saying.

I used BLS data to compute an 8% increase in hourly wages CPI (cost of living)-adjusted from 2007 to 2017.

> Economics is a study of the behavior of people, and people aren't numbers

Yes, but that's useless. Atoms aren't numbers but we model them with numbers. You can't do anything with an abstract notion of "person".

> What we mean is you can't just use the theory and assume the world will happily follow it.

You haven't said why the theory is wrong. You can say the exact same thing about evolution. "You can't just use the theory of evolution and assume the world will happily follow it."

> rather than just assume they fall into place.

I'm not assuming they fall in place; I'm giving reasons why they will benefit in the long-term.

With regards to the original submission, see https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/5uo9p3/bill_g... and https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/5uoowk/beatin... .
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Possibly, but also because "Mule" and Nullsoft's llama, plus things like EMule and WinAmp pairing so well.
Ah. The top on Google for me is "of or involving preference or partiality; constituting a favor or privilege." Nobody would say the cop would be more likely to favor you if you filmed them; rather something more like the cop would be less likely to do something illegal if you filmed them.
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Google Launched an Artificial Intelligence-Powered Home Speaker
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This is fun. It actually feels like I'm taking turns with someone else on the other end of the screen who takes what I play and sends back a riff on the notes. The trick is (as the little intro shows) to only play for a few seconds, don't play simultaneous notes, and then stop and let the AI respond. Once the AI has finished, you can try again. If the AI starts playing before you're done, you've screwed up and should make your little sequence of notes shorter. Basically, the title of this is misleading... if you keep playing expecting the AI to join you in a simultaneous duet, it'll sound like cats fighting inside a piano.

Try playing the "Dukes of Hazard" horn: on your keyboard, press (without overlapping the keypresses) "LJGGGHJKLLLJ" and let the AI respond. More often than not, it'll come back with a vaguely pleasing riff on that sequence using mostly the same notes and in the same tempo.
I also prefer command line to GUI for many tools. However I've worked with some truly great programmers who always try to find a GUI application for editor, git, svn, debuggers, etc. Was my command line way the best practice? I doubt that since they still get the job done with good pace. My guess is that personal tastes define work flow. For me, it's easier to type, but for them GUI has been strongly integrated to their muscle memory.
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I would also look at https://zato.io/ which is a really nice Python based one.
See lump of labour fallacy.

No, they can still build robots inefficiently at low wages. And thanks to the heavy automation their real wage would be decent.

> older person is going to suddenly go back to school to learn a new trade is simply not how people in general work.

What if they have good incentives to go back to school?
Would Ayn Rand really tell you that, or are you just making a caricature of her beliefs?

If you are just making a caricature of her beliefs, is that what a reasonable person would do?
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Maybe if you have a business account, but not if you are a regular person. Regulation E https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Fund_Transfer_Act requires banks to refund "EFT errors" and fraudulent transactions.
Indeed, but people just don't seem to get this. As long as people are converting fiat to crypto at the front end, and then crypto back to another fiat at the back end, then there is no anonymity. There may be a lot of obfuscation in the middle, but ultimately the guy who converts back to fiat will be asked the question by his government, "Where did this money come from?" Then he needs a provable paper trail.

Maybe someday enough goods and services will be available to be purchased by cryptocurrency that fiat use will be diminished or eliminated. But at that point, the companies that are accepting cryptocurrency as payment for services will have to keep their own accounting in order to show their governments where their money is coming from. And then again the anonymity breaks down. The customer records, with email, ip, and shipping addresses are part of the audit trail.
Californians are paying billions for power they dont need
How similar is this younger generation to the younger generation of the 90s/early 2000s? Is there any reason to think that because a company "gets" todays younger generation, that they will get the younger generation of 2027?
If that is what the spirit is meant to be, I think that the principle of charity [0] is a stronger (less ambiguous) approach.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
> I've started other SaaS apps that never worked out.

We need more stories and details about such endeavors, but unfortunately most don't write about it.

Btw, how do you monetize the Date Range Picker?
Why would revenue surge? You assuming that rides will dramatically increase? I think you meant profit, but considering that Uber/Lyft combined are losing billions a year (Uber alone I think was over -$4B in 2016), I'm not sure a surge will be noticed.
An answer of "yes" to an A or B question is non-sensical and unproductive.
But isn't the practical effect of this that police officers can continue violating the FA rights of people in this way and then shrugging behind qualified immunity?
In a way, they did actually prove that code is law - but they proved that "currently consensus-agreed-upon code is law."

That old buggy code was law until the new code became law and changed the rules :). But of course its redundant to say "current code is law" because it's obvious by the logic of how consensus works.

The confusion for people was their belief that code at one point in history would forever remain "the law".
That's a daft statement. Every customer cares about cost. The only difference is the price points.

If that saying meant anything meaningful, Walmart, Safeway, Ford, etc would not exist. I think what you meant to say was, "don't target customers not willing to pay enough for a profit margin." Much less catchy, but at least it's not bullshit.
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The 3/12/36 Rule
Is it really smart to short an over-valued dud? What happens if they continue inflate their valuation significantly?
Not exactly. They do say 1st amendment protects right to record (with limitations) but they say the 4th is what matters here.
Cloudflare now supports Google Authenticator and any TOTP app
Chademo is about 1/3rd the speed of a supercharger in practice. I've never seen a full power Chademo and most have been 40-45kW. I get 120kW each time I hit the supercharger near me at <35% battery.
Maybe your kids aren't as smart as you think they are. Truly smart kids would help those who are a little behind.
I agree, "essential" is maybe too strong of a word.

But I do like to ponder the thought of all Google services, or all Amazon services shutting down for 2 weeks. Clearly not as essential, but the impact on the daily life of at least most of the US would at least be noticeable.

I believe these are still the early days of "internet giants". They seem giant now, but with MS, Google, Amazon, and other "giants" aiming to provide much of the structure of not only the internet, but also some of our daily lives (delivery, web, phone, internet access, information/news), I can imagine twenty years from now the reach of these "giants" to be far closer to "essential" then we feel they are now.

Who knows, maybe we will forever be in a cycle of "giants" growing, evolving, and failing without ever becoming essential. I don't know how it will work haha, but interesting to consider.
One thing to note is that the social priming studies in “Thinking Fast and Slow” are not very replicable [1]

1. https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...
> even if that clause was in your contract, they have to notify you whenever they lend your shares. That right to notification CANNOT be waived in the agreement.
I would also question if most of the primary education is useful. Some of it is useful, but not much of it for the number of years put into it.

Plus students who are good at an early age are dumbed down by this kind of education system.

Personally, only secondary education made any significant impact on my career.
No I'm literally talking about taking the row key and using it as the lookup from kms for the crypto key. Then you take the plaintext, the crypto key, encrypt the plain text and store it whereever. It's 1 additional aws api call over storing the stuff unencrypted, and about 5 lines of code in java that can be turned into a 1 line library call. Not sure why you need credstash.
If estimates are accurate that 25% of all Zerocoins in existence were artificially (I mean, even _more_ artificially) fabricated, then that dilutes the value of everyone else's legit coins by about 33%.

Hearing the 410BTC value estimate of those 25% is a bit surprising. I wouldn't have imagined them having such market capitalization so quickly.
Finally. This same story from various sources has been submitted a half dozen times at least, glad it finally got some traction.

Poor Zealandia is always under-appreciated.

http://worldmapswithout.nz/
"a theft on banks is extremely hard and rest of the system hums along. Mt Gox and DAO however resulted in catastrophic failure where everyone was collectively punished."

Not "everyone" was punished. Only users of Mt Gox. And only investors of the DAO. Also both Bitcoin and Ethereum survived these incidents very well.

With legacy financial systems (banks, cash) there are plenty of scenarios where you may never get your money back, eg.: lose your wallet/cash, 2016 Bangladesh Bank SWIFT hack where $60M was never recovered, etc.
> Simple means getting rid of extra words.
> Don't write, "He was very happy" when you can write "He was happy."
> You think the word "very" adds something.
> It doesn't.
> Prune your sentences.

Yes, and this is corroberated by three of the classics on English composition: The King's English, The Elements of Style, and On Writing Well. Good writing comes down to inspecting every word of every sentence.

> I rewrote it a dozen times.

And rewriting and rewriting. Writing is rewriting. Experienced professionals rewrite more than novices. I think some people think it's the other way around, that the more you write, the less you have to rewrite. I suppose it comes out better the first time, but I think writers who prize clarity and grace in their writing get addicted to pruning and rearranging and rewording. Again this is corroberated by On Writing Well. He pastes in a scan of one of his draft pages, with editor's marks all over it. It wasn't his first draft, it was his fourth or fifth draft.

Writing is a lot like programming in this regard. It takes refactoring.