skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading that I can see how one might come to the wrong conclusion (that actual housing costs are what is used to calculate inflation), that is likely in fact the intent.

The reality though is different:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/ec...

Think about it: how can you have ~1% GDP growth, flat or diminishing wages, but housing prices (the largest purchase any family will ever make, 10+ years of salary) rising at 5% to 30% (in extreme cases) per year, year after year after year, with no drop in other spending categories, but somehow inflation is <2%? Where is the money coming from to drive this housing bubble?

So what we have here is our government deliberately misleading us on incredibly important economic matters, that are massively distorting our economy and the economic behavior of individuals.
I'm not a man
"Measuring a system will generally change its state from one in which each possible outcome has some non-zero probability to one in which only one outcome occurs. That’s a lot like what happens when, in the die game, you learn that the die does, in fact, show a six. It seems strange to think that the world would change simply because you measured something. But if it is just your knowledge that changes, things don’t seem so strange."

This is the only interpretation of quantum theory that makes sense to me. The idea that an objective reality of the world has changed, through our act of observation, leads to absurd conclusions such as Schrodinger's cat being simultaneously alive and dead at the same time. I believe this is the same point that Schrodinger tried to make with his thought experiment as well.
I have cable and subscribe to MLB.tv and they still blackout games because (I think) some local station bought exclusive broadcast rights.

MLB.tv is interesting because they generally don't have commercials. Oddly, I wish they did. When the broadcast pauses for commercials, my screen basically goes blank and the TV gets silent. I wish they would just switch to a whole stadium camera with crowd noise.
Maybe I've missed the articles where people have really good ideas on how to protect travelers from solar radiation for the duration of the voyage, or maybe I've been misinformed on how big of a problem that is. I suppose I'd just like to hear that there is progress on these fronts, as well as playing with Martian mud. It feels like pandering to Sheldon's who dream of fleeing Earth.
Just out of curiosity, how did you find this journal's impact factor?
Meh, that's a bit like arguing over "I could care less" vs "I couldn't care less", except far more pedantic because this time it's about an abstract concept that doesn't mean anything at its face value.

Object Oriented Programming is whatever the majority of people agree to it being, so as to facilitate communication. "Original definitions" don't matter. Alan Kay has no more right to define "Object Oriented Programming" than anyone else, you or me included, anymore than long-dead Thomas Jefferson has a greater right than the rest us to define the course of our country.

If you go on a job interview and they ask you "do you know object oriented programming?" and you say "oh yeah, I know all about that," then you're both going to be very disappointed on your first day of work.
So true! The worst part is, I am rebuilding my capital in a cube farm to make up for all the fun I had running my Art Gallery/Pottery shop -- but I still dream of doing it again.
Very intersting, could you point me to his research?
Wow. That's quite something. For the whole OS?! :D

It seems that BB bought QNX for $200M: http://blog.vdcresearch.com/embedded_sw/2010/04/update-2-rim...

If I may ask, I'm very curious (and I suspect others may also be interested in this datapoint) - what sort of ballpark......? And what were you requesting?

Also, I have to admit that I'm unsure what you mean by "'randomware' style buy-out" - the only definition of ransomware I'm finding on Google (searching for "randomware buyout", heheh) throws back info about malware. I'm not as well-versed in business to be able to intuit what you're getting at there :)

You've probably noticed that I also replied to your top-level comment.
> First, humans weren't designed at all.

Oh come on. You know what he means.
I agree with your last point. A scatter plot, though, could just reflect population density. There is still value in bounds so you can see relative figures. I don't see a silver bullet really. The difference here seemed to be having someone with the right skills.
I've been using Bash on Ubuntu on Windows for the last 10 months instead of PuTTY. Pretty satisfied, it make operation on only linux easier.
Finance and the internet giants both cover a wide range of pay and a wide range of bureaucracy.

The top end of both domains pay rather well and has moderate bureaucracy.
This is exactly what I needed. The couch stretch is a miracle.
He does not. He stopped at the same time he announced his retirement from YC. (He'd at this point transitioned the running of HN to dang.)
John Paulson’s Fall from Hedge Fund Stardom
>So don't trick yourself by imitating the "we have values" game. Noone has.

I would argue that people do have values. Corporations and governments on the other end...

Keep in mind that its almost yesterday the west burried their notion of multi-culturalism. In the 90ties it was still considered racist to apply our moral values on people of another culture.

We were definately measuring with two different standards. And as a result, the censorship back then wasn't considered news.

Not that the hypocracy is gone. I dont think thats possible in a world where the west does any kind of bussiness with the Saudi's.

But you can see the change in perspective by for example looking at the general debate surrounding the working conditions in FoxConn.

In retrospect its all obvious. Globalism leads to an inevitable culture war. You cant have one world with multiple sets of moral rules. The working conditions in one place impact the availability of jobs and working conditions in other places.

Things have changed. Ten years ago, freedom of press in the West would be something that we would fight (and kill) for, but we were not applying it to exotic cultures. Nowadays, freedom of the press for any nation is an instant "are you part of modern civilisation" or are you an enemy choice.

I completely understand your frustration. The thing about public opinion is that its not like policy. Its inherently schizofrenic and contradictionary.

I am trying to explain the general sentiment towards Erdogan and why he has zero friends left in the West. It doesnt mean i think its actually this black and white.

The thing is: we have seen his speeches on TV. We didnt before. He called Holland nazi's for example. That alone has completely ruined any credits he had in Europe. No western politician can even smile at him right now and politically survive. He has no future and with him Turkey doesnt either and this has nothing to do with other political factions in Turkey.
And I was surprised just how close to the second stage it still looked when the secondary engines started up.

I can't even imagine trying to steer a rocket to turn it around, with an open top, while it's in the exhaust of another rocket! It's amazing.
As I understand it, the direct cause of the crisis wasn't that they changed water. It was they changed water and were totally incompetent in doing it. The basic PH levels in the new water are easily compensated for. Flint just didn't.

It's like if an uber driver canceled your pick up and the next one you got was drunk driving. Sure that first driver was a but-for cause, but not a direct cause. They have no moral culpability for the reckless actions of the next person.

edit: edited to correct the ph level as suggest by max.
> I'm not sure what the contention is here.

Found the Ars Technica Battlefront veteran.
Thank you for sharing. This comment thread is 10x as enlightening as the linked article. I am only curious, what specifically about adult life had such a powerful destructive effect?
I don't agree with this, but I think I see what you are trying to say. I think typically a full design would include some interface portion with maybe DMA or PCIe or whatever that would be done in HDL, and maybe a processor or not. HLS works for the processing that is done inside the FPGA. If this is what you mean by DSP-like, then sure, but it does not have to be image processing, it could be anything done in fabric. It is possible to write a specific truth-table, and similar basic elements in C++, so why would you be forced to do any specific type of application? Where did you get %20 percent number? At least for Xilinx HLS, I don't think that has anything to do with anything (maybe for some other compiler??). If you take some generic C or C++ code and try to put it in an FPGA, the number will be more like 80%. The results will be horrible. On the other hand, if you write code in a way that naturally maps to the hardware you are using then the results can be every bit as good RTL. But this is not necessarily easy to do. I think that this has more to do with the quality of the current compilers, not some inherent limitation with the concept. I like HDL, but I would much much rather program in C++. It is a more sophisticated language. I think Intel/Altera is supposed to release some HLS tool, and I know there are others that I haven't tried. What I am saying is that it would be nice if enough effort was put into these tools to not have to worry about whether there are limitations. Even more so since I think the newer C++ standards are moving towards multi-threading/concurrency.
Every nice day, I love walking up to Washington Square and grabbing a dosa or uttapam from the dosa man.
You might be interested in the Publons Academy [1] -- which we are launching tomorrow -- and some of the other tools we've built to improve the review process (e.g., more trustworthy contact methods) and formally recognise reviewers.

I'm a founder. Very interested in your feedback on what we need to be doing.

[1] https://publons.com/academy/
Quantum effects lead to more powerful battery charging
> sports and politics have always been friends

See also - Celtic vs Rangers, which is for historical reasons a proxy for a variety of political disagreements (Protestant vs Catholic, Loyalist vs Republican, etc) for some fans.
>The difference is that you passively wipe the phone screen inside your pockets or its sleeve

This is some of the worst grasping at straws I've ever seen on HN. Just admit that you are wrong here, you're being completely ridiculous. Cleaning a laptop screen isn't a big deal, and in fact you should be regularly cleaning any Macbook Pro retina display if you care about it's longevity. Oils from the keyboard are regularly transferred to the screen every time you close your macbook, and MBP retina screens are susceptible to staining when the anti-reflective coating wears off.
Adventures in JIT compilation: LLVM
Perhaps it's a confusion of terminology, because most people I know would call it as asip. It has the flexibility to implement any linear operation after all.
So the most logical interpretation of quantum physics is that reality is subjective, correct?
"targeted advertising" isn't a binary property though, it's a spectrum. Hanging fliers for a football workshop near a football stadium is targeted advertising. Running your ad for a college during a show very popular with high schoolers is targeted advertising. Putting my online ad for belt sanders on a woodworking site is targeted advertising. I don't see anything wrong with any of those, do you?
How are they doing a great job with their online content? Their website is such a dumpster fire of unhelpful design that I can't bring myself to go there anymore.

There's a 65 pixel bar at the top with scores, and a 300 x 260 pixel block with headlines. The entire rest of the page on a 1920x1080 monitor is filled with garbage, auto-playing videos, embedded tweets, or wasted space.
This may be downvoted to hell, but stuff like this makes me question things like vaccinating children.

I am positive that hundreds of studies were conducted and "peer reviewed" to ensure that they were safe. And I am sure that the drug companies producing vaccines have 0 conflict of interest with the anti "fake-news" saying that "anti-vaxxers" are nuts.
/s
It's a good two-year summer camp at a time in our career when we're all racing towards our first burnout, and a good opportunity to hang out with other high-achievers.

It's also the lemming effect... HBS is a rung on the "success" positive reinforcement ladder, like a big funding round. Privileged kids do the "prep school -> ivy -> wall street (quants) / MBB consulting (arts) -> HBS -> PE" track in absence of any other inspiration.
REST API Industry Debate: OData vs. GraphQL vs. ORDS
Considering that the whole country are market participants and not just the capitalists they can create market rules the same way they can create laws and still be free. The whole belief that the "markets" are apart from society makes no sense.
Yeah, I recall him sending me an angry email about something I said here :D

Regardless of his exit, it's nice that hacker news has somehow stayed more or less the same for so many years - just like yc
The fact that there were votes to take someone's money away and give it to someone else makes it political no matter what it is spent on.
Edit: My point is that killing an idea is necessarily hard, because ideas automatically have moral superiority over humans. We as humans must intentionally choose to endorse certain ideas which serve our interests, and we must do so knowing that we are indelibly influenced by those same ideas.

Pirsig, from Lila:

"Just as it is more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than patient, so it is more moral for an idea to kill a society than it is for society to kill an idea."

Persig elaborates, explaining how e.g. civil rights in the USA are an example of an idea coming to kill off a societal practice (racism) in favor of an idealized society (post-racist egalitarianism).

Hofstadter, from GEB:

"It is not such a bad image, the brain as an ant colony! ... It is not such a bad image, the brain as an ATN-colony!"

In this section, Hofstadter explains that the brain could be viewed analogistically to symbol networks, and explores how individual symbols could exist in many different contexts but are nonetheless coalesced in meaning when doing actual computation.

Similarly, ideas are like symbols in the network of humans, and the computation carried out by humans communicating in their daily lives automatically gives rise to higher-level idea networks which use humanity as a substrate, not unlike how Hofstadter's anteater perceives the intelligence of an ant colony on top of the individual ants in the colony.

A final tweet [0]:

"Nobody likes hearing that they are merely an idea-forge, a virus-hold for memetic mutation, a propagator of the idea-marketplace, do they?"

[0] https://twitter.com/corbinsimpson/status/733424172651581441
You phrased it more friendly. But let me rephrase:

TLDR: Idiot opens coffee shop goes bankrupt, writes blog post about it.
Criminal behavior is generally presumed to be a reflection of a politician's character, which may affect a politician's decision making in office.

I doubt the same inferences should be made so strongly regarding sports players.
They couldn't/wouldn't show footage of the 2nd stage, so more attention for the 1st stage. Fine by me, it was amazing to watch
I'd also be interested in reading this.
I agree completely.

It seems that the ability to think about thinking and having an outside view of yourself is the big difference between sanity and insanity.

The sane man knows himself to be a fool while the insane man believes himself to be sane.
There may be an intersection between fabricated research and fraudulently reviewed research but I understand that at least some of the papers retracted for reviewer fraud could have been published legitimately.

Grandparent has it right. This is all about the pressure on authors to publish, and publish quickly.
Depends where you're at. Levandowski got paid $120 million, IIRC? Obviously an edge case, but it's hard to imagine an engineer in Wall Street making that much.

(And he may never work again after this scandal runs through... but he also probably will never truly need to work again anyways.)
My data point is the observation of three years' grads, n > 3000.

Or hell, just the ones I knew well in my year, n=200 or so.
The river water has too low of a ph, the correction is to increase it.
Vhdl + vunit. HLS will (latency/bandwidth)-wise do equally good, provided you have some spare resources(large enough fpga).
Well, not really.. In effect, your class owns the relevant piece of data that it operates on and only allows pre-defined operations on that data.

Maybe my point is better articulated by saying [to me,] functional programming is more data oriented than OOP.
He's on twitter, https://twitter.com/paulg
Study finds gender bias in open-source programming
>I understand not wanting political opinions in a publication like this

But that's exactly the problem.
Thanks, I didn't understand until I read the tweet. Very cool! Nice job.
> That’s like buying a minimum wage job for two hundred grand.

This is literally true.

If ignoring your own labor you calculate that you will make $20,000 a year on a $200,000 investment for your business, it seems pretty awesome, until you realize you could just work minimum wage and not have to put up the $200,000 investment.

I think is actually the most common mistake initially made by people who want to open a cafe or similar small retail business: treating your own labor as free and ignoring opportunity cost.

For the purposes of calculating return on investment, you should imagine you are paying yourself whatever you would have to pay to have someone else to do the same work in your business.
Do I Really Need Antidepressants for Hypothyroidism Symptoms?
I was just planning a road trip and googling around for blog posts. Could not find a single blog link on the first 3 pages Google returned. It was just one travel ratingsite/aggregator after another. Sad state of affairs.
San Francisco Open Source Voting System Technical Advisory Committee Application
I guess the better coverage of the first stage is that they landed in land and not in a small ship in the middle of the sea. It's more difficult to put cameras in the sea and keep a good connection.

I think it's indirectly related. Probably, the satellite has a low orbit to have a better sight, and they don't expect to have the satellite for too long so care about some drag. So the rocket has more fuel to a return to land maneuver.

Also, it was very strange that they cut the transmission so soon. Usually they continue with the second stage and they highlight many times that the main mission is the satellite and they transmit as much of the satellite as possible in case they have an RUD. This time they closed the transmission as soon as the first stage landed.

Anyway, an amazing transmission.
One could also just use a synonym of object, like "entity." "Hey...we aren't using objects here, we are using entities!" (Facepalm)

I saw Guy's growing a language talk before, but I don't think he's ever chimed in on this debate before. Most people at his level simply except the world without much bias, and are comfortable using object and functional styles when necessary.
Fast CNN Tuning with AWS GPU Instances and SigOpt
Good maybe now I can not get weird looked at if I exercise with things like leg swings. Having strong arms is good. Having strong everything is a lot fucking better you pansy ass faggots. To state the obvious, which, yes, absolutely, unfortunately, does need to be stated; being an athlete not being an athlete, being ANYTHING not being anything, is irrelevant to the fact that stretching with lifting everything involved with that stuff is equally important to scientists as it is an athlete. This is reality, basic reality. Learn it I guess if you want to delve into intermediate reality.
How is it €20? It is less than 200 SEK. Most chromebooks are about 2000 SEK?
I've also known a "Ulises Cervantes" and an "Aristotle Socrates," since we're trading awesome names :) Guy Steele is still my favorite, because I can just picture a mustachioed villain shouting "curse you Guy Steele!"
A different characterization is that we are looking for those that think well. Both talking and code on whiteboards are only proxies for that, and neither are completely reliable proxies.

But really, if someone can describe the detailed psuedocode for an algorithm and explain its runtime characteristics, are you going to make them write out what they have just said?

Personally, I think the talking is a lot more valuable than the whiteboard. I rarely have to hand-write complete algorithm on a whiteboard, but I regularly need to communicate technical ideas accurately and succinctly. That's what I'm really trying to demonstrate anyways: of course I can code, but I can also organize my thoughts well and communicate them clearly to others.
> I have to ask. In your opinion, is access to this network really worth the cost of going through the program?

Not even close to worth it. Networking is pretty easy and the vaunted HBS network is very bloated.

I'd still do it again, but I was coming off an exit and mostly needed a way to keep busy for two years in Boston while my wife did her grad work.
That's an absurdly broad definition. By that definition, clinical therapy is psychological warfare!
This article makes the assumption that the TSC is zero at power on and counts monotonically from then on. The problem is that BIOS vendors know this and sidings try to game it. I have a machine in which it appears that the BIOS resets the TSC partway through POST, probably to improve benchmarks.

(I can tell this is happening because they only reset it on one core, which breaks all kinds of things.)
> Developing and managing your own system, like the OP did, takes a lot of time and energy - all of that, when calculated, costs a lot more :)

> costs a lot more

> costs a lot more

> costs a lot more

The point was super clear, and yet you managed to miss it.

@jitbit clearly stated that he and his colleagues evaluated several possibilities, and the decided to set up their own system.

It's literally short-term decision: it's a make-or-buy problem.

The make options surely takes some time, but it is a one-time expense with pretty much low maintenance and super-low operating-cost ($4/month). It also requires some study but hey, that's know-how that is going to stay in the company.

The buy options is a lot more costly, but gives the gift of ignorance: you are not required to know or do anything.

And if you are wondering what the costs are: setting up a basic mail server for a domain takes as little as a couple of hours. A little-more complicated might take a day, and a complex setup not more than a week, for a skilled person.

Considering other options, it might just be cost-effective to hire a consultant to set it up.

Source: i've been running my mailserver for years, and I've done consulting in setting up and troubleshooting mail servers.
Yep. And it wouldn't have cost much. Emphasis mine:

> Marc Edwards, a professor at Virginia Tech who has been testing Flint water, says treatment could have corrected much of the problem early on — for as little as $100 a day — but officials in the city of 100,000 people didn't take action.

> "There is no question that if the city had followed the minimum requirements under federal law that none of this would have happened," said Edwards, who obtained the Muchmore email through a Michigan Freedom of Information Act request.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/internal-email-mic...
The publisher lists it right on the homepage: https://link.springer.com/journal/13277

It's an important metric, of course they'd list it.