skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially, to my knowledge.. of relevance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_(pharmacology)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacokinetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADME

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment_(pharmacokinetics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearance_(pharmacology)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_protein_binding
This isn't good enough. As I said in another comment, quantify it for me. I want you to demonstrate with real calculations how likely it is for a firm like RenTec to arise because you got enough monkeys in a room to hit some kind of statistical critical mass.

My contention is that there aren't enough professional traders or hedge funds in the world for the number of them that enjoy astronomical success to be purely a result of chance.

We have clear and irrefutable evidence of firms that consistently beat the market over 10, 20 and 30 year timespans. If you want to seriously suggest that they are a normal result of statistical distribution you'll need to really quantify that. I've never seen rigorous calculations that can support that hypothesis.

Moreover, I don't understand how that argument is easier to swallow than the argument that you can reliably beat the market. What is so difficult about the idea that it is possible to reliably and legally obtain material information that the rest of the market doesn't have an edge on, or that it's possible to identify predictive patterns?
Introduction to Economic Analysis
> It literally cannot prescribe complex social roles

It absolutely can. Evolutionary psychology is science, and it's based on the scientific method (ironically, unlike the sociology that's obsessed with "gender roles", which isn't based on science at all). Check out Gad Saad's podcast on Joe Rogan.
I'm sure they'll figure it out at some point, but the mystique of Apple only releasing something when it was "ready" has been over for a while now. So not only did it come later, it was less evolved than the Windows implementation a year prior. Cortana felt useful from day one for various tasks. Siri? Only in a subset cases.
Echo – High performance, minimalist Go web framework
it definitely has an anti-trump bias but i actually enjoy it. their philosophy is to actually educate the reader about issues rather than just tell the newest facts. i.e. instead of saying a bill was vetoed, they'll go into the history of similiar bills and what the bill had in it and why it was rejected. while most sites would just tell you it was rejected.
Dove anyone have real data on what's nature vs. nurture? So many people make arguments on this important topic that depend on huge assumptions.

For example someone below said women won't mind dating men with less status once our culture evolves. Are we so sure of that?

This is not a criticism of females. I doubt any gender can be cultured out preference for physical attributes.

We can support equal rights and still acknowledge innate differences right?
Same here. I gave up 2 years ago and went Fedora on my laptop and Android on my phones.

Currently I have a Thinkpad X1 Carbon running Fedora 25 (Gnome 3) and do not miss OS X at all. Gnome 3 is very clean.

I have a Google Pixel XL. All I can say about it is wow
More FOTM moaning about the state of Apple.

I can't believe people keep reading these "I left Apple and here's why you should care" articles by front end devs with no real idea of what goes into OS dev and where macOS has come from since the days of OS8.

Give me a break, surely if you want to use Windows you don't need to write 2000 words in the form of some needlessly pronoun heavy (because your opinion is really important) diatribe telling us all about how detatched Apple is from reality and how suddenly Windows is the 'place to be' because suddeny Windows has bash support, tell me again why I should drop a fully featured, mature *nix shell for one bolted on top of Windows.

Do people get paid to write articles specifically like this or are these devs so full of their own self importance that they feel like it's their duty to inform us of their opinions on the state macOS and why it's suddenly so much worse than ever before when in reality, macOS has never been more stable or developer friendly.

It's honestly so predictable I could have guessed 90% of the content of this article just from the sensationalist headline alone.
> Cheaper and faster, broadly

Presumably the author has already purchased the Mac, in which case, s/he's already obtaining the benefit from that purchase. To rationally justify the replacement cost (which is not just the cost of the hardware itself, but the opportunity cost of learning the new platform, purchasing new software, etc.), the benefits of switching have to be greater.

It's those benefits--not necessarily of the platform itself, but of switching--that aren't clear to me.
Sad but true. Apple may be on a slow descent, but they have years until their flight path intersects the nether realms of Windows.

Granted, Windows has a usable file manager (Explorer) and Finder is an embarrassment, but theres always Path Finder.
Is there any city that is actually managing to provide enough housing inventory these days? SF, London, NY, Vancouver, Toronto etc - all seem to have low inventories.

Is it simply that there is a multiyear lag before inventory starts coming on stream, or is there some fundamental reason why these larger cities can't provide enough housing?
MSM bias reflects primarily in opinions and reporting decisions. Most important events are reported by MSM in an unbiased fashion, as are (often) investigative reports. Vox does almost no original reporting and is just in the business of mixing up other news reports and opinionizing. In this, they are highly biased and to a large extent, they cherry pick news and views that conform with extreme liberal dogmas.

A good counterpoint to Vox is Real Clear Politics. Their front page features an equal number of direct links to opinion and news from both sides of the political spectrum. They also don't corrupt these links with rambling infantilzing '*splaining'.
Not sure why this link was posted again today.

For something new, you may want to look at its little brother instead: https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen/wiki

Anyway, version 1.0.12 will be released soon.
Wow! That's the specs of the cheapest DO droplet for 1/2 the price..
> What about those people who earn tons of money collecting economic rents on all the capital and other property they own?

I love how all these revolutionary fantasies always start with the same concept "these greedy capitalist pigs do nothing and get all the money!", as if everything was given to them to just profit from; and even if you want to play the inheritance card, as if their ancestors got the same benefit.
We print buildings
> I wont buy a laptop without a magsafe or similar connection

Check this out: https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...
The Baffler, one of my favourite publications, nailed Vox a wee while back: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/explanation-for-what-johnson
Those blocks also quite often map to morphemes, so the grouping isn't just syllabic but also retains higher-level morphological information. The orthography prefers letter distributions over groups that keep the same morpheme spelled the same way across use in different words. This promotes morpheme re-use, which is great for context learning.

Letter shapes are featural rather than arbitrary, e.g. a consonant might visualize the tongue position used to make its sound. And yep letters graphically build on each other (normal to iotized vowels and normal to aspirated consonants are all formed the same way, respectively, by adding a stroke).

Hangul is a masterstroke of human cultural achievement. Had a lot to do with me emigrating to Korea! I agree with you that there's a lot of geeky audience appeal to it (including even its origin story of a bunch of smart people applying state of the art knowledge of the day to enable others by freely disseminating it).
Credentialing in software probably has a really short half life. I agree with the comment about how insanely inefficient it is though!

I have this near conspiracy theory about why the interviewing process includes such ridiculous things as balancing red black trees. Like every other regulation/tax, the propagation of crazy ideas about interviewing practices is really self serving for the tech giants. In a large orgy of stupidity, companies which can neither afford the impedance of nor are particularly good at these CS type questions mimic the practices because they are probably trying to show that they have a high bar.

Unfortunately, the multi-billion dollar companies can churn through the candidate selection process and waste more money in the process than many other companies' annual revenue. But I am sure they realize the halo effect of making a great deal of noise about this practice, because this is one of those strategies with very little downside and all kinds of unintended upside.

If I were a recruiter at one of the top 10 companies, I would spend half my time creating fictitious accounts on various social platforms to ask about the CS question du jour at these interviews. It would be the equivalent of click fraud in tech job search.

On a more serious note, I wonder if companies trying to hire these employees ever really do a cost analysis of the interview process itself? At what point does it stop making sense to "just wait till we get that truly exceptional candidate"?
It's hard to say. The given information is consistent with either "nothing strange at all", OR someone who is living far above her means using credit, or has sketchy / black-market income sources.

For the "nothing strange at all" argument: Median home value in Evansville Indiana is $105700 [1] - even with a bog-standard 30 year mortgage at 4% with no down payment that's a monthly payment of only $505. A relatively small down payment ($20K via help from parents), and/or some fancy (unwise) 5/1 ARM financing could probably get you below $400/month mortgage payment. Depending on age and model and condition, a used BMW can be had for under $3K.

If she owns an above-average home and a new/expensive BMW, then I would say there are important details being left out.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/evansville-in/home-values/
Primary training aircraft at least have big potential in electric propulsion.
high altitude nuclear tests have created artificial electromagnetic radiation belts (similar to the Van Allen belt);

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_radiation_b...
Mars has atmosphere (not much, but enough to process into useful gases), water (in the form of ice), and a larger variety of surface materials than the moon.

Mars is substantially easier to establish a long-term operation on than the moon since you can create many of the materials you need onsite.
We get similar arguments on the Linux side, which haven't been true for a decade.
> I am gonna stay with my current bank

When Monzo is actually capable of replacing your present bank, i.e. it offers current accounts, this issue won't exist.

> current accounts should be held to the same standards as an average todo-list app?

If your present bank used the same card payments processor, it would be experiencing the same outage. That's my point, not that it doesn't require more stringent certification than Trello.

> So you are saying that my credit cards and

There's no credit cards and the company's stated no plans to ever offer any, preferring to instead ask What problem makes you seek a credit card, and rethink what a modern solution looks like.

> No offense ... ;)

Why would I take offence? I'm just a user, no skin off my back if you're not ;)
This is where I am confused too the speaker in the video said Earth's magnetic field is 31,000 nanoTesla.

He said the best plan for a shield for Mars is a 500,000 nanoTesla field at L1 which is 320 Mars radii away from Mars.

Maybe I am misunderstanding what he is saying or pronouncing, nanoTesla i.e. billionths of a Tesla?
Powerful job interview tricks
The Less Humble Programmer
Thought the same thing, but then saw this:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/branchusb/magneo-first-...

Gotta say the idea of a single USB C adaptor carrying power, data, and having a general purpose mag-safe like adapter is pretty compelling.
I agree. Even top producers plug their ableton track into a nice console after it's done, and directly feed it back again in the laptop, purely for the on-board eq/compression or subjective type off distortion that gets added.

One can argue offcourse if it's over the top, but let's be honest, most producers only use 5% off any vst in their lifetime and some don't even venture away from stock presets. For most producers that one sound out off thousand redundant ones is enough.
it was my friends mistake - the city code was clear but he was not aware of it. He owns a lot of buildings, so he self insures and has done so for 20+ years. This particular building they were making into a new business headquarters, so it was disconnected just -slightly- too long.

There was nothing wrong with the electrical. He was forced to make the 40 year old building ADA compliant, with handicap bathrooms, parking, etc. and a whole other list of requirements that did not apply when the building was built.

So take it as a lesson, not a complaint about code. Also, never shut off utilities if you can help it :)
Interesting story, and one I understand because I've been using Windows 10 a lot more since the WSL announcement/availability.

Basically in 2006 when I joined Google I had a choice, Macbook or Linux laptop, I chose a macbook. Really liked it and used a Macbook for more portable computing for the next 10 years. I also got a Linux desktop at Google and learned the various bits you had to know in order to run a Linux desktop full time with my laptop filling in for things I couldn't get on my desktop. When the Surface Book was announced, the hardware was just amazing. I figured even if Windows sucked I could eventually get Linux working on it. When WSL became available suddenly Linux was sort of just their and all my ARM development tools just worked. My home desktop which had been windows 7/Linux dual boot (defaulting to Linux) and I booted Windows 7 and took the free upgrade when it was offered. Then went back to Linux. And then needed to run my ECAD program so brought the windows side up to snuff. And have been running on the Win10 partition for the majority of the last 3 months.

At this point I use my Macbook Pro less and less.
Mars has more metals and the (frozen) water is just an inch bellow surface.
It really depends on what you’re doing, I think.

For instance, if you are developing a game with Sprite Kit, you will find that around 95% of the code is IDENTICAL on Mac and iOS. Sprite Kit itself works the same on both. Sister frameworks like AVFoundation are mostly the same and they have peanut-buttered some #define values to allow “different” classes like UIColor and NSColor to be SKColor, etc. to make it easier to have code that does not needlessly vary. You end up having to clearly think about UI differences between the two but that is true anyway between desktop and mobile.

On the other hand, sure, a utility-style application is not that similar between iOS and macOS once you get past the likes of NSString and NSArray. Yet, utility applications often look and work quite differently between desktop and mobile so this may make sense. And if you rely on the cloud to implement part of the functionality (and share it between the two), you may find that again you are dealing with mainly a lot of UI-centered differences on the two platforms that would have been different anyway.

The iPad is the weird one. Here, Apple probably needs a middle API that really can use exactly the same constructs between mobile and desktop where they actually do end up looking or even working the same.
MATLAB requires each function to be its own file. R has terrible object oriented support. Do you seriously think teaching MATLAB or R in universities can save these dying languages?

The only people clinging to R and MATLAB are statisticians and old researchers.
>So the story of Mickey Mouse in Fantasia..

Which, like essentially all Disney works, was based on existing folklore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer's_Apprentice
We are having bidding wars in Los Angeles on properties :( Not even in good school areas.
> With stocks hitting new all-time highs almost every day, global bond yields at or near zero, and Canadian home prices at nose-bleed levels, it seems like everything these days is in a bubble.

A photo-sharing app with a market capitalization of 34.69 billion. Yes, it's a bubble.
Case in point: Los Angeles, which, on the basis of median income, has the least affordable housing of any major city in the US, also has a significant number of vacant apartment listings.

The rental rates for these (mostly new) apartments are so high that they don't address the shortage of housing in the low to mid income range. And the owners (corporate, mostly) prefer to keep the units empty instead of lowering the prices.

So, in a sense, Los Angeles has both too few and too many housing units.
Coincidentally, Knuth is from Milwaukee as is Foster.
Angular and Horizon for realtime application
I have switched from Mac to Windows a few months ago. My biggest annoyance is privacy. I do not feel my data is safe while using Windows. I had to switch off too many defaults (keylogging, for example!), and I really do not know if I missed any, or if some update has sneaked in any new way for MS to spy on me.
Even native speakers can't always tell a difference anymore :).
It is still going to be fuzzy at the Planck length.

I'm not sure quantum mechanics and infinite precision are reconcilable
Less than 700 million years apparently.

https://twitter.com/humansareawesme/status/83696170574585856...
To be fair to HN, Apple laptops are very common in American universities too. It's not a purely Silicon Valley thing.
I'm sorry, I don't see where we disagree... What do I have 'backwards'?

I said SMEs that 'have been around years, are stable etc.' is a misuse - not newly created businesses (high growth or not).
I'm not convinced that all of these places are suffering a shortage of accommodation (a shortage of property investment opportunities, certainly).

It's worth remembering that a speculative boom creates extra demand.

As far as I recall it was almost universally accepted that Ireland had a shortage of supply ten years ago. Then the GFC happened and it very quickly became apparent that the shortage was of investment opportunities, not homes.

EDIT:

For some actual data related to this phenomenon, consider the Speculative Vacancies Report[0] published each year by Melbourne group Prosper Australia. Melbourne is, like many major anglosphere cities (London, Sydney, Vancouver, Auckland, etc), suffering something of a property price crisis. Each year Prosper Australia determines which Melbourne properties are vacant using water consumption data provided by the city's water utilities[1].

If you accept the narrative that is usually presented in the media; "prices are high because of a shortage of homes", then you would expect areas with the highest capital gains to be closely correlated with the areas that have the lowest vacancy rates. In actual fact the correlation is unintuitively the other way around - the areas with the highest capital gains have the highest vacancy rates (approaching 30% in the case of Melbourne's Docklands area).

[0] https://www.prosper.org.au/2015/12/09/speculative-vacancies-...

[1] Compare with the method for determining vacancy rates that is typically reported in the media: asking property managers what proportion of properties on their books are currently vacant.
> so things like terminal or unix don't really matter to me.

That's really what it's all about though. Many developers prefer a unix environment. Windows is often neglected in open source, so getting up and running with a working dev environment can be a challenge. So, for many, Windows just isn't really an option.

That leaves macOS as the only option that's a first class citizen in all regards -- hardware support from manufacturer, support in open source projects, support for proprietary applications (I.e MS Office), etc.

For non-programmers though, there really isn't a meaningful difference. Take your pick.
The market has a solution to this; it comes in the form of AirBnB. However, many municipalities are aggressively attempting to legislate this market mechanism away.
The sample studied by Broomell and Kane contained 217 people! While the results may be "interesting" and "evocative", the size of the sample really does not allow any conclusions to be drawn. The arstechnica post ignores the details; read the original paper.
I don't have any experience with Vultr, nor do I know anyone who has. Honestly, I haven't heard of them before.

Anyone have experience with them? I'd love to hear about it.
The New Yorker definitely presents itself as sort of the informed liberal analysis, but David Remnick seems like a fairly professional if outspoken liberal editor. Not the type to spread untruths. Russia is also his speciality so he's not going to stay out of the commentary on Putin. It's hard to appear truly unbiased when it comes to political/geopolitical coverage.
I've heard they plan to release Julia 1.0 this year. So keep an eye on it.
Interesting review of markup languages. I had to write some documentation a couple weeks back and choose ReStructuredText, which I consider the best option as it's easy enough to work with and generates decent enough HTML and PDF (via XeTeX) output. I started in LaTeX but decided against it. HTML was briefly considered but I don't want to spend all day futzing with tables (and I wanted nice PDF output as well). Markdown is unsuitable. Just this morning I wrote a man page with manioc. I don't think I could write a full manual that way.
Can't be this. Fast hiring rate, say 15-20% y/y growth, would only push average tenure down by 15-20%.

https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/4766345812...

http://www.koozai.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Google-Empl...

https://cdn.geekwire.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/amazonw...
I totally understand. Even with the bugginess, it's my single biggest issue with W10.
Mars also has more gravity than the moon.
Amazon's video game boss explains where its $970M Twitch purchase fits
Who would have guessed that introducing large amounts of friction into market interactions would have undesirable second-order consequences?
Mars has water and more gravity. It's a better place to colonize despite the distance.
I imagine there is also a size component involved. The Earth's magnetic field might be 31,000 nanoTesla, but it's spread over an enormous volume. This magnetic shield would have to be much smaller than a planet, so it makes sense that it should have a much strong field.
It's a slight variant of the Dunning-Kruger effect; people have just a little knowledge of some field, and can therefore dismiss entire decade's worth of thought on the matter.
Yeah, and this particular case is even more specific than "make up any concept you like" - it's specifically inventing a new category of number that is the solution to formulas expressed in existing notation.

I think I missed a fourth example of the same pattern: fractions. Originally fractions were not considered to be "numbers", they were just a way of comparing numbers with each other. https://nrich.maths.org/2515