skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and traditionally, the biggest contributor to thermal inefficiency is the window to wall ratio (WWR) b/c windows have a very high conductance relative to walls. So if you can reduce the window area, or mitigate it's thermal inefficiency in some way (i.e compensate heat loss through passive solar gain), you can have a huge impact on overall thermal inefficiency.

Beyond thermal performance, optimizing windows for lighting potential is also interesting because electric light is a huge contributer to total energy consumption for offices, and outdoor light reflection and transmittance into interior areas depends a lot on geometry and material selection.
It's unclear to me what was gained by this?

1- He got a tax deduction: ok, but it's not like that money came back to him tax free somehow.

2- His company got inflated numbers: ok, but not revenue. They only inflated order numbers.

3- Presumably a very small percentage of his donation came back to him in the form of dividends: ok, doesn't seem worth it to me.

4- His reputation may have been enhance: but if the deal was structured as a gift of $10mil worth of free testing wouldn't it having been just as appreciated?

I fail to see how he made out like a villain in this. In fact, we used to do this type of thing when I worked at Ben & Jerry's back in the day. Just structured more as donated product, not donated money that must be used to buy product.
Application performance matters, that's why these data structures and algorithm questions still matter.

THIS! It's one of my go to stories but back when I was working as a co-op during my undergrad days, in my department there was a .NET programmer who was skilled but had no understanding of the underlying data structures.

He would be mystified at how I could write Perl programs that would outperform his .NET programs, even on less robust hardware.
If you just blocked zip files, it would be a good start.
I'm the opposite way. I prefer the whiteboard to pen and paper.
But then the compiler gets faster once you compile it with these new improvements. Is that accounted for in the issue?
> Since Windows XP Windows and Audio Latency has not been an issue

Core Audio literally-just-works with low latency and aggregated devices.

DAWs on Windows still either use MME/DX for north of 50ms, often 100ms+ latency or ASIO (exclusive device usage and no aggregation, assuming your hardware even has ASIO drivers because ASIO4ALL is at best rickety) on Windows.

I don't know what you think is going on with OS X, but I suggest re-evaluating your assumptions.
I have a friend who is super paranoid about privacy stuff. He was even able to get his utility bills to use a PO box rather than his home address, which he said was extremely difficult.
Fizzbuz is not what we're talking about here. It is "balance a tree" with me looking over your shoulder (and $100k in a suitcase) type of problems.
Hey, it can't be worse than what the airbnb founder did
Why do you think candidates for data science jobs aren't qualified relative to other positions?
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@raphlinus, fantastic work! I'd love to connect because I am also one of those people who has been working on CRDT/OT algorithms for a couple years now. I wound up building a custom database because of it, haha.

My approach (not finished) is to use linked lists and tombstones. I found index transformations to not be provably correct in an arbitrary P2P system because it always required a document root.

Here is a (terrible terrible) demo of the linked list approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rci89p0o2wQ .

What are your thoughts on your approach handling rich text? (document nesting)

Would love to chat more, mark [AT] gundb [DOT] io
Doctors, lawyers, and engineers have other forces regulating their competence. In addition to licensing, they also bear personal liability for malpractice. As a result, malpractice claims that stick in those fields is significant news because it's relatively uncommon.

If it were possible to sue a software developer to recover their salary and for damages done, you'd better believe that nearly all (though not all) of the people who are rather less than qualified would be out of the profession.
They also need to keep the authorized service chain supplied as well. This is why you can walk into your car dealer and they should sell you anything in the fiche. This is what keeps your corner mechanic in business too.
Let him have his vendetta. What is someone in India who is so poor he needs to work on the phones for one of these scammers going to do?

It would take quite a while to save up for a plane ticket, and they would be risking their job if they abused their access to the phone system. If they somehow do own that scam business, then anything they do risks their profit margin.
I haven't looked for years, but as I recall very little was LGPL other than the core, and the rest was licensed by module. Even if you just licensed the whole thing it wasn't particularly expensive.
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Sorry! It will be for FF on Android.
For corporate use -- does this discount the bill?
I'm assuming FF for Android because it's the only browser on the market with decent extension support to my knowledge.
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That's surprising. So what happens when there is a high profile case and the court fears for the jurors' lives? Or the case itself involves someone whose life will be in danger afterwards? If anybody can find out where these people live then they're toast. The courts have to suppress the information legally somehow, right? If not the old information, at least they need some protection against mining of new information after the subjects move or change their names, no?

Are you literally saying they have no way to order all the first-level companies to stop sharing data on someone?
There is no EPA highway patrol, so they can only go after large violators. The companies making the 'chip kits' do get taken to the wall occasionally.
There are people who do this. ShadowServer comes to mind. A number of large companies (Google, Microsoft, ISPs, etc.) run anti-spam operations.

It's harder than you might expect to do effectively.
Yeah I agree! I don't need NLP to be able to fulfil those requests.
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How many more Volkswagen emission scandals are hiding behind this ruse of patent protection. Certainly on every market we will find a proportional example, and if not then why so adamantly defend it? Surely this is just an opportunity for more companies to say to their customers: "hey guys. We are going to stand against fucking you for profit."
gun is also pretty close, http://gun.js.org/ , especially if you watch / read the video series on how the CRDT algorithm and security work in arbitrary P2P environments.

The base system lets you build other CRDTs on top, check out this talk I did in Berlin for details: http://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html .
> And based on an "it might" it's fine to just assign blame and pass judgement?

What on Earth are you talking about?

> In fact? By what facts?

The fact there is regarding the question of what bet I'd make. "In fact" is a common figure of speech.
>But it has to be the right market, too. Selling to consumers is a non-starter. You need to sell to people who have money.

What about small businesses? Is that a pipe dream, or do you think it's possible to get them to actually spend money on service and support? (I'm asking because I have a business idea for software which would only appeal to SMBs, generally smaller ones I think.)
Community features allow us to improve the product across the board and we would take that into account. :)
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I think that just "networking" would be the wrong takeaway, though. The author[0] is pretty active on Twitter / the blogosphere and, even though I don't follow him personally, his writing has popped up on my feed a number of times. He's likely meeting people and having interesting conversations ("networking") because he has interesting things to say.

[0] https://twitter.com/tdhopper
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>And this is the first time I've heard that the JVM is easier to target for non-Java languages

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

Here's a post from a JRuby developer saying he prefers a simpler VM.

In the comments section of the same post you'll see Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, saying he also prefers a simpler VM. I could probably find more examples if I dug further.

>I am pretty sure the CLR always supported variance, it was just unused up until C# 4.0

Nope. They were introduced to both the CLR and the C# language in 4.0. See https://www.codeproject.com/articles/72467/c-4-0-covariance-...
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rmbyers/2005/02/17/generic-...
Legally, the President has the power to just say 'I hereby suspend all immigration from Indonesia and Pakistan'. That would ban 25% of the World's Muslims in one go. Add India, Bangladesh and Nigeria and he'd be over 50%.

But he didn't...

Instead, he or his team chose to use a list of seven high-risk or non-cooperative nations drawn-up by the DHS over a year ago for the purpose of suspending Visa-waiver travel. That affected ~20% of the Word's Muslim population.
>>Therefore it was showing signs of not scaling.

Perhaps, although it seems as though it was less "not scaling" and more "someone exploited our system to spin the CPU" from my reading of the thread.

>"flippant" means "not showing a serious or respectful attitude"

And I hold to the claim that a 2 word response to an ask HN is absolutely flippant. Please explain to me what is actionable about "Doesn't scale"? That is a problem. Or, well, it could be a problem, it might not be a worry for them, but lets assume it is. "Doesn't scale" isn't actionable. Had your second post been the only post you made here, I don't think we'd be having this discussion, because while in this case it turns out to be not very helpful, it is at least actionable. They can look into emscripten and python, see that it probably won't work in this case, and move on. "Doesn't scale" doesn't do that.

Its the difference between feedback that is "you have a lisp" and "you have a lisp, try practicing speaking lyrically or rhythmically and it might disappear." It might help, it might not, but its actionable. "you have a lisp" isn't actionable.

I'll quote the Show HN Guidelines:

>Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

As for what you think of my comment, I have a few objections to your statement:

1. I don't actually see an 'ad hominem' anywhere, I only commented on your original comment and how your feedback was unhelpful. No commentary on the user, only the content. Please specify where I did, because I would prefer to not go around attacking people on HN, even unintentionally.
2. I went so far as to complement your second post and say that it was an example of good feedback.
3. You didn't post a Show HN, there are no guidelines on my feedback to you ;)

That said, if your emscripten suggestion was made in good faith and not just a CYA "suggestion", I apologize, I misread your tone.
Actually this isn't a totally trivial question.

The time zones in calendar appointments can change, if there's a switch between standard time and summer time.

You need to know when is the hour set back by 1 hour, and in that case sometimes the answer is ,,maybe''.

I was working at a small phone company, and handling the switch between time zones were not just non-trivial, but they caused hard-to find bugs, as these things happen only twice a year.
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Treads are usually for harsh environments: hard rain, ice, mud, to increase traction and avoid hydroplaning.

In regular environments (see: driving on paved road) they actively work against speed by reducing road contact due to tread gaps. That's why racing vehicles use smooth wheels:

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2009/01/26/388620.1-lg.jp...

http://www.slowtwitch.com/articles/images/6/75576-largest_MI...

Plus most cars were still using slick (smooth) tires up until around the 1940s-1960s and (I don't believe) were fast enough to have a threat of hydroplaning.

ETA: Just remembered you were talking about the bike. Considering the background, it looks like it was used on dirt roads so if ever mud happened to be in the way, one could just carry the bike over. Dirt roads also don't usually require too much turning and are fairly sturdy, so there's little reason to believe skidding was a common problem.

Even if it were for sidewalk/road riding, you can easily get out of the way of puddles and slow down easier than cars.
I'm afraid historically speaking his contribution to the cooking field hasn't been that big of a deal. Which technique did he popularize? Which dish do we still eat today that were his invention?

Carême was the first chef ever to pipe meringue. Escoffier created the brigade as we know it today. La Varenne introduced béchamel sauce, popularized (or some say invented the use of roux), first one to make use of what is called a "fond" (stock). Taillevent... well I think his contribution was accidental. His greatest work might not even be his.

I question in all of this how important Scappi's contribution was. He served important people... meh...
Depending on the industry/area involved, "clever" might better be described as "fairly standard practice".

This isn't by any measure a new idea.
This makes me wish there was a <love> button on HN. I have shared your request with Les.
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Edgy a.f., but what any of that wonderful rant has to do with my original point?
A while ago when I was trying to sign up for an OVH account to test their VPS offering, they asked for government id/passport and proof of address in order to activate the account.

I'm ok with uploading those documents when signing up for an account on financial-related online services (btc exchanges, online debit card, etc), but I would never comply with that just for testing some cheap VPS. Why would they need those info when other vendors don't is beyond me.
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It sure would have helped if the US hadn't caused the refugee crisis in the first place with our unjust and unjustified wars. We knew even in 2003 that going into Iraq would create a power vacuum that would unleash Muslim radicals. We knew that before going in, still went in, and now have the audacity to refuse the refugees that we created. The Iraq war was not a progressive policy; it was not a sane policy. Claiming that progressive policies led to this situation is delusional.
I saw a great talk by a private investigator at a security conference on this topic, and did some research after the talk to confirm what he was saying.

The short version is what you're asking for is going to be an uphill battle. Data aggregation companies don't want to disclose their sources because their services are often used by debt collectors and other organizations who want to find people who don't want to be found. If the sources were public knowledge, debtors could avoid them to escape debt collection agencies, for example.

The comprehensive list you're looking for doesn't exist. Each data aggregation company has a different list which is the result of many private agreements they have with their sources. If you want a list of the sources, you can't ask the data aggregators.

You can ask the sources themselves. Because you don't know who they are, you have to guess. Any company that puts a card in your wallet would be a good place to start. Under California Civil Code 1798.83, you can email companies and ask them to provide you with a list of all the direct marketing companies they sold your information to. Try making a request to your insurance agency.

1798.34 also allows you to ask California government agencies to provide you with an accounting of everyone they disclosed your information to. A 1798.34 request to the DMV should be a rich source of data providers.

There's also lists of companies involved in the data aggregation ecosystem in the consumer finance protection board's list of complaints:

https://data.consumerfinance.gov/dataset/Consumer-Complaints...

One surprising thing I found out during the talk is that pizza chains are a rich source of data for these companies. If you think about it, this makes perfect sense. The data includes a guaranteed link between a person, a place, payment information, and a phone number.

> when a court needs to order that someone's information be purged

I don't think this is a thing. A friend had to deal with a DV case and I got to see how all the legal machinery involved works. The court doesn't even bother trying to purge the victim's data when they move out and try to stay away from the abuser. The court simply moved the victim and the DV support organization told them to stay off social media and not to give the new address to anyone (including pizza places.)

That being said, the federal government does have a comprehensive list of all the agencies which are members of the federal privacy council. In theory, these agencies are supposed to have a data integrity board which provides oversight for any data they keep on Americans.

https://www.fpc.gov/federal-agencies/
There's no way for them to do that for free -- VoIP calls to PSTN still cost money.
Wow! This is such a fun way to remember these concepts.
Try searching: Which presidents are rapists?

On mobile at least, it really does look like Google is presenting a fact: http://imgur.com/a/DZP1H

Attribution at the top, and maybe more context would help.

Note that the article Google scraped this from is NOT calling those presidents rapists. It mentions one of them was accused, but not prosecuted.
Micro breaks.. micro dosing.. micro.. kernels. What will the next micro implementation?
What pragmatic argument? You just asked for evidence there's a limit.

Anyhow, there's a plethora of studies that have been done on the economic impacts of migration, expected outcomes to immigrants measuring different factors (wages, employment, and subjective measures of assimilation), and so on. It's basically an entire field in itself.

What is the real 'limit'? The answer is when the negative societal effects become greater than the positive ones, and the host population decides to limit immigration.

The rest of your post was a moral argument, which again, doesn't matter when the population has decided they're at the 'limit'.
Closures and higher-order procedures do not a functional language make. It has to be convenient to implement procedures that compute actual mathematical functions.

Assume there exists a (pure) function `f` and a list `xs`. Does the following expression always return `true`, or, at least, never return `false`?

map(f, xs) == map(f, xs)
> Since Windows XP Windows and Audio Latency has not been an issue and both platforms require a lot of end user work to get lower and lower latency.

As the other commentor said, Core Audio "just works" for low latency. MIDI is great as well. Windows still needs third party ASIO drivers.

If a USB MIDI controller gets unplugged during a set on Windows, I need to restart Ableton. On Mac, you just plug it back in and it picks up immediately, even the audio interface will do that.

> The issue is really only significant for recording audio and not as much when doing live audio.

What? Latency is a non-issue for recording audio, and A HUGE ISSUE for live usage. Any half-decent DAW supports latency compensation on non-realtime tracks. You can record a vocal track when every other instrument has 10s of seconds of latency, as long as your monitoring for the vocals has none. When playing live, every single track cannot have latency.

Edit, hell many of the best audio interfaces don't even support Windows as a platform.
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The "swipes control snake" interface for this is extremely difficult to control... it seems like the swipes only register if you swipe while on the snake, which means to do fast movements you have to keep your finger hovering in front of the very thing you need to see constantly, and even then it isn't like a swipe is remotely a fast action you can perform (particularly as it seems to only register moderately long and deliberate swipes).
I started out by randomly clicking on Idealism and couldn't figure out what the joke was supposed to be. Trying another one made it click, though!
We are talking about them breaking the law. The reason there credibility usually isn't questioned is because they know that if they do that the evidence will be rejected so they are compelled to be honest. Once that is out why wouldn't they be questioned they are proving a willingness to do something illegal to get a conviction. Manufacturing evidence isn't unbelievable at that point.
I have 2x $10 instances with HAProxy that run circles around anything any provider gives you.
Companies often use interviews as a time to figure out what they're really looking for.

For startups, this transcends data science. It might be the one time that week they focus on that need.

Networking is still king.

Exactly and this also argues against wanting to get hired to work remotely.
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I've probably interviewed about 70-100 such people in the past year and a half. Exactly 1 such person was qualified (I hired him). The issue in my view is the following: people who know both statistics and computer science are extremely rare.

People who actually understand statistics are rare. I can probably weed out 1/3 to 1/2 of candidates simply by asking what a p-value is, or what precision/recall are (this includes people who said they worked in search).

Of the ones who know basic stats, most are neither good at nor interested in programming. They just want to use existing libraries to crunch numbers in a Jupyter notebook, then hand that off to the developers.

Finding a person who can come up with a predictive model, understand what they did, optimize it without breaking it's statistical validity and deploy it to production is very hard.

(If you can do this, I'm hiring in Pune and Delhi. Email in my profile.)
Pre employment screening is different though. They need your permission for a legal background check and of course they will do everything necessary to do it. I'm asking about the information that leaks without your permission.
If you have your own domain name with a wildcard, it's really helpful to enter: someservice@mydomain.com as your email. That way if it leaks you'll know who did it and can setup much more robust rules to block. I'll use the domain name as the main address so I remember which name goes to which site.

For physical address mailings, you can hyphenate (or use a middle name) as the service. So First Service-Last as the addressee name. While harder to setup "mail rules" for, at least you'll know who to never trust again.
Now wait just a second here. Looking at:

http://www.runnersworld.com/peak-performance/running-v-walki...

Which summarizes:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22446673

A 156 lb subject burns 112.5 kcal/mile running a 10 minute mile. But that's gross calories. A random BMR calculator (5'8" male, 156 lbs, 45 y/o i.e. myself + 10 lbs) gives ~ 1600 kcal/day, which is 1.1 kcal/minute, or 11 kcal in 10 minutes. So that's a net kcal burn of pretty close to 100 kcal/mile.

What am I missing?

(Aside, I ran over 3300 miles last year and did not lose weight; I don't doubt the futility of trying to lose weight through exercise alone.)
Can't speak for the others, but by merely saying "please don't think I'm being rude ..." you explicitly remind the other side that being rude is an option, and that what follows should not be taken literally. Indeed why would you say "don't think I'm being rude" except if you already anticipated that the other side will take it as being rude.

Trust me on this, I'm not lying to you ...