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Well, if we provide confidence intervals it should provide some kind of "safety"... but even so, with forecasting the only assurance you can get is by testing it against known historical values and checking it's accuracy (and even that way, historical results are no guarantee of future performance).

What kind of details would you say can be inspected to see if the model is reliable? AR or MA orders, inferred seasonalities? They can give me some notion of what kinds of assumptions were created about my data, but do not guarantee that it will perform :/

For instances where that kind of insight is needed, I don't think our way is the way to go, but rather the use of some forecasting package (R's Forecast or FB's Prophet) and a more exploratory work. But we're looking more at instances where what matters are the forecasted values and not so much the information underneath - automated anomaly detection systems, consumer-facing apps, and along those lines.
Honestly, I don't really know much of anything about civil unions so maybe your right. If that's the case, I have no idea what the actual distinction is between a civil union and marriage would be then if they both confer the same benefits/rights/protections. Sounds like civil unions were just created to fill that same-sex marriage gap without pissing off the people who didn't want same-sex marriages. That way the people who are against it can still feel like marriage is just one man and one woman while gay couples can still get the legal perks. Seems like a typical political cop-out. But I could be wrong on this assumption as I don't know enough about it. That's my gut impression, though.
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Where's the energy coming from though? Einstein didn't say "you can curve space for free".
I still don't get it. Assuming it's true that there was a lack of clarity on whether he had the appropriate type of visa, why was he held 10 hours? Why was so much time spent on his case?

And why badger a 70 year old Australian children's book author who had visited the US 116 times previously? [1]

Not to ignore or minimize abuse by CBP officers, but from the CBP perspective, from the tax payers' perspective, what possible value derives from this behavior? Is this purely a result of a lack of leadership, bad management, and hiring unsuitable people for the task?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/australian-c...
I felt the opposite actually. To me, the swearing made it more believable -- sure, the guy is leaving a diary, but for all he knows, nobody will ever find it. Being stranded on Mars and facing one's own death seems like the perfect occasion for swearing.

I thought the swearing in that book was very tastefully done. For me it added a bit of lightness and humor to the whole thing. I'm actually pretty disappointed that they cut so many of the swears from the movie.
Another part of having a productive conversation is learning not to make blanket statements, and knowing that most of what you say will be taken literally, and being generous and charitable in your interpretation of others.

For me, the best part of having interesting conversations on HN is reading all the alternative points of view by smart people. Not much "productive" happens, from my point of view, by criticizing someone's show HN project, not much "productive" happens when you make blanket statements about what all people want. And not much "productive" happens by only agreeing with others.

So there might be another hidden motive behind what @jasonkostempski said. The comment he replied to literally insults the Poxi project, and perhaps @jasonkostempski was merely defending a Show HN project that's in a very early stage.

In my view, you may be defending the wrong person here. I want to see more show HN projects, and I want people to feel comfortable sharing their projects without fear of getting ripped to shreds, called a joke, and questioned why anyone would ever want to do such a thing. Let's be supportive.
Literally the central point of Watney's character through the whole book is that he refuses to accept he's going to die there and does whatever he can to prevent it.
wow. The hero worship is strong with you. I agree that he has accomplished some pretty cool things, but calling him a "once-in-a-century" or "once-in-a-generation" person ignores all of the other people who have been as or more successful than him in multiple dimensions of success.
Unless they make ~$5M a year or greater. This calculator shows effective tax rate >50% at that point.

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Edit: it was 5M not 4M. Calculator shows FICA not maxing out. It'll get closer to 50% the more they make.
Why? What's the argument against them? Having grown up in a foreign country I genuinely don't understand the reasoning.
From what I understand, if dark matter is stuff that only interacts gravitationally, by definition it is transparent to light. Also collisions, being ultimately electromagnetic interactions, aren't observed. So it's not transparent in the sense of glass. But I'm not a physicist, and this thread is interesting :)
That's not true. I just went through secondary education in the UK and we've studied pieces of literature with quite raw swears in them. It's not a massive issue.
shouldn't this be marked with "Ask HN:"?
I don't think it's inappropriate as much as I think it's just pure laziness. Can't find a more descriptive word? Drop an F-bomb. Yeah... get on with your bad self!.
They curse like sailors

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-nasa-censored-d...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msIUMu2PjBM
Yeah and here is my question - how much of your own money did you give to this meaningful cause?
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis https://amzn.com/dp/B00PYZ2VR6/ ($65).

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Have you read the transcripts from the Apollo missions?

http://m.imgur.com/Y1klGHr?r
It's really hard to quantify enormous (millions-of-lines) complex pieces of code that simply. LLVM and GCC take broadly the same approach to optimization: an SSA-based IR with dozens of passes, followed by lowering to a machine-specific IR with many more passes, followed by machine code generation, register allocation, and cleanup optimizations.

Basically, all you can really say is: LLVM is better at some code; GCC is better at other code. The differences are at the level of highly situational details at this point, not broad strokes.
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Isn't this reasoning essentially comparing a drop-in replacement with an ideal, though? Assuming this is a new technology that can actually make it through to manufacturing changes, the possible 30% reduction in plastic by using hybrid PE/PP is controlled by the relatively few milk producers and should be much more tenable than the societal change required for 30% reduction in milk use. Both reduce plastics usage, but one is a relatively quick change and the other requires change from many independent agents over a long time, so I don't understand why one is being trivialized. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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Astronauts are people too. Some people swear.

See the Apollo 10 logs:
https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/AS10_CM.PDF
Work in a startup and try to do a little bit of everything (code, devops, marketing, selling). Be really good at 2 of those at least and just hit the ground running.

You might not know how to do something, but ask to do it anyways and learn it on the go. Big corporations will not give you that kind of opportunity so you have to find a startup or create one yourself.

Code and blog a lot and put everything on GitHub and try to get people to star your projects and follow you. Learn to design, architect and structure your code for large systems.
Hi! I'm one of the authors of librtcdcpp.

Its still new, but we're starting to pick up some steam in the pace of development, and we have a pretty easy demo in the repo.
> Stream offers a rich and lively source for breaking news, Christian inspiration and conservative commentary

Seems religiously motivated to me, as you'd expect. Nothing extraordinary.
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I think it is important for people to occasionally remember that the concept of what is "appropriate" is completely made up.
It used to be a mixed bag - it's good to hear that they've improved their attitude to battery issues.

I remember taking a bulging in-warranty battery for a white unibody-era Macbook into the Valley Fair Apple Store and being told that it was my fault the battery was damaged. Genius bar wanted to charge for a battery swap and wouldn't dispose the battery for me if I didn't pay for the swap.
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Nation-States life is tied to babies and for now only Heteros make babies, even the gay babies. So, there is inherent interest for any Nation state to promote hetero sex and by its extension hetero-marriages (without relying on government funding for childcare).
I'm willing to believe that genuine autopilot on a subset of limited access highways could come sooner. Which would be very nice to have but doesn't. of course, enable any of the use cases that get people all excited.

At this point, it seems as if everyone feels they need to play this "right around the corner" one-upmanship game less people think they're late to the party.
I don't think America as a country is particularly uptight about swearing. I hear swearing all the time, everywhere I go.

We have a cultural norm that adult authority figures do not swear in front of children or provide them with educational materials containing profanity.

I can see why this norm may be irksome to some people but I don't see how it is harmful.
Australia certainly doesn't have this problem, but that's probably not a surprise.

As an example, here is some colourful language in a novel was a pretty standard text for English Literature classes in my state: https://books.google.com/books?id=BRwwAAAAQBAJ&q=fuck#v=snip...
> it would cost between $125 million to $1 billion per mile to build the Seattle to Vancouver line

$2 billion per mile is a lot of money.
Maybe it's all the little "terraced" sections the battery cells are cut into. If it's your first time seeing that as a scanner employee, it doesn't really look much like any other "battery."
It may have been that debt that ended up on the books, but what do your monthly expenditures look like in terms of vehicles, eating out, entertainment, etc? If you have cash on hand to pay those expenses you have cash to pay your debit. This may not be your personal case but I have seen this a lot.
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Also keep in mind that census data is what people self report. Pickup trucks (in this case) are what they actually drive.
Sure it was inappropriate. Many educated people swear like sailors exactly because it's inappropriate. His profanity was part of his character, and other characters reacted exactly as though it was inappropriate.
Nothing says religious people can't be honest about their motivations. If they wish to enshrine their religious rules into law, they could say so.
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Anecdotal incident: My friends and I were held for 2+ hours driving into Canada once, ~16 years ago. All 4 of us were questioned separately. Vehicle repeatedly searched very thoroughly. shrug

I've always chalked it up to it being a fairly boring and unrewarding job and they made a wrong judgement on who we might be or something.
I had exactly the same experience (albeit more recently) getting a simple WebRTC DataChannels implementation up-and-running.

Once you realize its just ICE + DTLS + SCTP, and that each layer has a corresponding library, the work getting it up and running is mainly just 'plumbing'.

Here's a link to the library I've been working on: https://github.com/chadnickbok/librtcdcpp
I would absolutely kill to get a job doing replication.

What I always hated about science was the inability for things not to work out. Even if you find something directly opposed to your hypothesis, you are somehow supposed to pretend that it worked out "just as planned".

It's toxic, boring and leads to bad science.

And so, for me, I would absolutely adore to be in a place where I got to run well-powered studies and aim to just figure out the right answer rather than build my career on a bunch of unrepeatable statistical flukes.

That being said, my PhD is in Psychology, so they probably won't be hiring me to run animal-model studies.

I really like this idea, as long as Nature put their space where their mouth is (which they won't, as they have at least one of these articles per year and it doesn't appear to have made any impact).
I almost mentioned vesting, but decided to summarize as

> Look into all the details and conditions of the program.

Either way, you're not _losing_ money, even if there's a delay in getting the match.

And IANAL and don't feel like looking it up but IIRC from last time I did it, I thought it was near universal, or legally required even, to be allowed to rollover any 401k into an IRA once you are no longer employed. Do you have a source or personal details on that? This is a major point.

The important thing is nobody with access to a 401k should delay looking into it by more than a pay period, as they are likely throwing away free money every pay period that goes by and they don't even look into the details.
There have been several businesses that filter or skip over swearing and other content in movies.

Somewhat interesting, all 3 started in Utah.

https://www.vidangel.com/news/mission/

https://try.clearplay.com/what-is-clearplay/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CleanFlicks
As long as neither of those people have any existing/active declaration of marriage to someone else, then it would be valid and in force until otherwise revoked.

There being an ability revoke means you still need government permission. The only difference is that we would assume a default answer of "Yes" when one asks.

This seems like a odd point to make. Weddings and marriage go hand in hand.

Perhaps I was being a bit pedantic but I also wanted to emphasize that there is a very big civil/secular aspect to marriage.
Well lets all walk around class naked and defecate in the trash cans then.
I'm with you. At times it seemed too forced--as if the author thought, "Oops, I forgot to add something to this sentence...a period? No, it needs a 'shit!'"

In some cases it really felt like they were just going back over text and adding them in as an afterthought.
Yocto has quite large community and is growing fast. That said, think of Yocto as the first integration not the only - buildroot is surely interesting too but we had to start somewhere. :)
It's hard playing moral arbiter. On the one hand, you want to make it accessible to as many students as possible as well as teach them the core of what you want. You could probably replace much of the cursing without changing the underlying narrative.

But I also totally understand your point. Why is every marvel movie jam packed with gratuitous violence. To the point where fighting is the entire point of the narrative. Characters will die in fantastic ways but is still equally traumatizing. But portraying love or swearing is too adult for children. Makes no sense to me.
I hope we get a sanitized version of Django Unchained for my high school U.S. history students. It really is a good story, but the constant use of the N-word is a problem.
I agree. But supporting what the US has become over the last decade isn't any better -- the fact that these issues are getting more attention now should not diminish that reality.
Although interestingly we're not necessarily sure they're exactly what we think they are - you can come up with objects which would give the same observations we have but be quite different : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravastar
This. The profanity, in my opinion, is really well used in the book. It gives it a raw and authentic feel that you wouldn't otherwise get. You can really see yourself there because he's talking like a human, not some politically correct ideal of a person.
Honestly, I would prefer that Seattle get their own transportation system in order for commuters. Support and focus on a "bullet train" to Vancouver is a rather moot point, especially at the price point.
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But not totally independent. Renting almost has to be more expensive than buying.

In a first approximation, if rent is much less than owning + expenses, the property owner will have to sell or go bankrupt, which will reduce property values. If rent is much greater, then property owners have an incentive to increase the rental market, lowering rents and raising property values. At a theoretical level, owning carries more uncertainty than renting.

Of course, weird circumstances can upset things: a decrease in acceptable uncertainty can cause rents to go up faster than the market can otherwise adjust, for example.

My past experience says that renting costs more than owning, but bit by much.

But I don't know what you think an inordinate down payment is.
> I notice that you don't characterize my comment as wrong, you merely criticize the tone.

It was not my intention to characterize your comment as wrong, I was expanding on your valid question about how a bureaucracy should deal with data, by giving you my opinion. Are you under the impression that this conversation is about winning ?

In addition, it is disingenuous of you to imply that every one who receives government assistance is basically a child, unable to exist without a parent, and then get all thin-skinned when getting called out on it.

If you want to make needlessly inflammatory remarks, be prepared to deal with the consequences.

In this case the consequence to you was so harmless, that I even took the next sentence you wrote seriously, agreed with you and gave you my opinion.

Closing remark: Don't use concepts like "tone policing" which describe a real thing, that real people experience when they're in a position of inferior power to try and tell me I am a baddie and that you feel bad, from being softly called out for being inflammatory on purpose. It's not the same thing, and it's a bit embarrassing for you.
You must supply a STUN/Turn server to the browser when setting up the connection, but if you're connecting to a public server you can use ICE-Lite implementations server-side to simplify the setup.

The ICE RFC does a good job of explaining it: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5245#section-2.7
just wanted to point out to potential windows users - this will only run on python 3.5 due to dependencies (pystan only works on python 3.5 for windows)
I had a quick look at it a while back, there aren't many (any?) inefficiencies there like that.
I made an (unreleased) roguelike engine with a (virtually) infinite world, like Minecraft etc, in Java. I did it as a Hashtable<int, DataContainer>.

In your case DataContainer would be some part of the canvas, maybe a 32x32 pixel area. And the int key would be the index of the x&y coordinates of that particular area. The image dimensions could then be a max size of the square root of an unsigned int, and to get the index of each tile you'd just do (y * dimension + x). You'd throw all this into a little wrapper so you have a "virtual" canvas that could be as big as you'd ever need it to be.

Also, don't actually initialize each piece of canvas until a pixel is actually placed in it, instead returning a static empty section of canvas if the key isn't in the hashtable yet. This allows for zooming way out smoothly.
more relevant, astronauts mostly grow up outside of the Bible belt, hence they swear. People in the Bible belt pass this kind of laws to warp reality and make the big city seem like a dangerous lawles place.
> "not a single true european will endorse its mistakes"

But how will a true Scotsman feel about it?
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> In my opinion, the C++ community should move past the Qt legacy and come up with a new industrial-strength, cross-platform UI library that has simultaneous first-class support for web, desktop, mobile and embedded targets.

The "write-once-deploy-everywhere" never worked,especially across form factors and devices, I'd prefer Qt focusing on what it does best (desktop) instead of trying to be a "the least common denominator" that is broken everywhere. Each platform has its own UI/UX language, it's something one just cannot reproduce with a single framework. A Qt app feels like a Qt app, and that's fine on desktop. It's not on mobile.
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Agreed. I assume as a classroom tool, this book would be appealing to early high school (8/9 grade). By that age, a student ought to be capable of reading a swear word or two in context without being injured.
Yeah, just like Huckleberry Finn. Obviously those kinds of works need to go through the censors before we can let children near them.
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I agree with you, but this is the reality of it. I'd much rather kids have a censored version of this book than not have it at all, which is the choice we actually have given how most schools are run.

And it's not like the swearing is in any way essential to the work. You're not destroying a great work of literature by replacing "fuck" with "crap." So while I agree we shouldn't be so uptight about swears, I'd say we also shouldn't be so uptight about removing them here.
Technically they are sailors.
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I still think that it became "worse" over time although and that's started to happen way before Trump.

I February 2002 I traveled to NYC and back then I had a glaring visa stamp from Iran on the first page of my passport. At the border control the officer asked me about that visa and why I had it.
I told him that I was visiting relatives and he was satisfied with that answer.
Approx. 2 years ago I was traveling to Boston and then had another check at the border and this time I was asked some basic questions (where I go, what my purpose of visit, etc) for 10 minutes in a separate room.
The last visit to NYC in 2016 was a thorough 40 minute of questioning. So in my experience it definitely got "worse"
More likely referring to the fact that Dropbox has had many an issue lately of doing things that may not have been intended to look nefarious, but look that way nonetheless. This is just the last straw for some users, whether or not the feature was used by them.
That would actually make me feel better if you're right.

That said in my mind it's on-topic for HN since YC themselves have been on the receiving end of what the article talks about (it does mention the outcry to remove Thiel from the FB board, but not that YC also faced pressure to cut ties to Thiel)

The point is: Thiel is completely within his rights to endorse Trump. It's not like he forfeited his humanity by doing so.