skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent some of my youth on a lake absolutely overrun with zebra mussels. You couldn't even see any sand, just shells. It sucked.

Nearly 15 years later, they're all gone. I don't know why. No one on the lake needs to use water shoes and the beaches are beautiful.

I understand that zebra mussels suck and are terrible for the great lakes, but do we understand the long term repurcussions?
Also read it in high school. Could only read about 2-3 pages at a time before brain was overwhelmingly & delightfully engaged and had to go have a long think.
wait is that map weighted per capita?
The author is recommending, in a round about way, a way of dealing with a sex-asymmetric phenomena that was perfectly expressed in this image, from another NY Times article on marriage[1]:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/29...

It is amusing that, in both articles, the illustration tells more truth about the situation than all the words following it.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/why-you-wi...
Ukraine bans Steven Seagal as threat to national security
Its not that wacky a theory. A large number of people use narcotics as self medication, perhaps without knowing it, for conditions other than ADHD. Bipolar individuals do as well
tl;dr

Whites have far more drug issues than blacks, up to 30X, we incarcerate blacks vastly more then whites.

America is as racist as hell. And water is wet.

But we all know that. The data is there. Now what?
I checked again:

1) OpenJDK allows you to fork under a) GPLv2 or b) GPLv2 + Classpath Exception (see http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html, "If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version." where library=OpenJDK and exception=Classpath Exception).

2) Android's OpenJDK fork is licensed under GPLv2 + Classpath Exception (see https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore/+/master/L...)

3) Retropiler OpenJDK runtime is licensed under GPL only (see https://github.com/retropiler/retropiler, "The Java classes in runtime/ module which were copied from AOSP are licensed as GPL.")

They could fork OpenJDK and license it with classpath exception which would allow you to (statically or dynamically) bundle your app with OpenJDK under any license. But since they didn't include the classpath exception your app bundling parts of the Retropiler's OpenJDK fork must be under GPL! So you can use it only for open source projects...
I agree with you completely. I view my current income as almost irrelevant when it comes to determining how much of a retirement nest egg I need to have.

My approach is to actually contemplate what retirement looks like and develop a budget based on that to determine what our expenses will be, and subsequently how much income will be required to support that lifestyle.
I wonder if you ever clicked on a Google Adwords ad, after you searched for something.
> home address, annual income and model of car driven is predictive

Why the hell would those be factors? The factors of the case should be things that actually matter in the case.

A rich person who murders someone should get the same sentence as a poor person who murders someone.

A black person who murders someone should get the same sentence as a white person who murders someone.

Adding those factors would be insane in the first place. If you're adding crazy things like that you might as well add factors like "Can Juggle" and "Can Burp the Alphabet" because things like that should have just as much to do with sentencing as what kind of car you drive or where you live.
Opening a new tab is a channel for getting people's attention. Have you tried to do something else in the new tab instead of showing books? Is anything other than books more valuable?
The Python async story appears to be a bit of a mess though. There was some discussion recently on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14240125 .
If you believe in the 2% inflation figure put forth by the government, yes. So let's say it's $60k, before taxes. Seems like a bummer, do you think?
California is more dense than NK.
South Korea is denser than Cali, but only about as dense as New York State

Either way, the DMZ is 400 sq miles largely forested, with about 0 human population density. Maybe its got some leopards, maybe maybe a tiger.
It seems to me like it would be easier to build a good UI on top of nftables than it would be to build the same thing on top of iptables. For example support for atomic rule replacement is something which should benefit higher level UIs.
As someone who contributes to many knowledge projects, including Wikipedia and Wikidata frequently, I'm curious about what you mean that Wikidata is not yet suitable for any purposes. Am I wasting my time contributing to it? I thought that it was helping a lot of machines understand data. Can you please explain further?
There was a bug in Windows 95 (98 too?) where if you tried to open 'nul\nul' or 'con\con' etc, it would BSOD instantly.
Provided lots of drive-by fun in computer labs... (got really good at typing win+r con\con)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
Well, that's something they have in common with ninjas then. :) Ninjas had lots of rumored abilities and practices ascribed to them which they didn't really have, and the ninjas of the day did nothing to counter the rumors. In fact they helped spread the rumors since it enhanced their fearsome reputation to do so.
It is not about mods flagging it, is about not un-flagging it (guilt by omission). But sure, there is a chance that what you said is true.
survival? Have we all been transported to Bartertown?
Well, everybody's experience is different, I guess. But 99% residential and no stores or restaurants is bit hard to believe.
Right, because Google likely has a tremendous codebase which would prove difficult and costly to port. If they were making a decision today and had no existing python systems, do you think they'd choose the version that's going to be EOL in less than three years?
It also seems to me that even if you accept all of those things as fact and are OK with them, say in an O&G HPC workload where you cool the DC, run for a few days/weeks and then go offline to fix issues until the next run, isn't the amount of energy and cost required way higher than just having more compute resources?

Ultimately its just dollars per compute and it seems highly dubious to me that supercooling your components, even if you accept high failure rates and long lead times, is going to move that needle in a positive direction.
Small bit of feedback on the game: not being a law student, it took me a minute to figure out what I was supposed to do. From the mention of "Risk Assessment Program", I infer that I'm supposed to assume that everyone was found guilty, and guesstimate whether they are likely to commit more offenses in the future (and choose a sentence based on that). Is that correct?
Letting someone do something to you is NOT consenting. Are you saying that rape victims consent to sex when they let their rapists penetrate them?

Despite your quotation marks, you actually misquoted him, and left out a lot of extremely relevant context.


It must take a lot of bravery to stand up and carry the water for Trump's right to commit (and brag about) sexual assault by misquoting him out of context.


Read the entire literal quote in context:

"You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything."

Please explain how it is consensual if Trump doesn't "even wait", and he thinks he can do "anything"?

Would you tell your daughter it was OK for Trump to kiss her and grab her by the pussy and anything else he wanted to do, without waiting for her consent, because he was "a star"?

I wouldn't let you or any other Trump surrogate near my daughter, because you have a lot to learn about consent. You and Trump both need to read this before kissing and grabbing any more women by the pussy without waiting for consent:

Consent, explained for Donald Trump.
Trump and his surrogates don’t seem to understand how sexual assault works.

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/19/13330140/trump-consent-explai...

The FBI now defines rape as "penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim." When it comes to sexual assault, like the unwanted kissing or groping that Trump is accused of, different states have different legal definitions of "consent" — but consent is always relevant.

Legal definitions can vary, but the fundamental concept of consent is incredibly simple: Does the other person actually want you to do the things you are doing to her?

When Trump says women "let" him do "anything," he’s not describing consensual activity. He’s describing, at best, touching a woman without encountering physical resistance from her — or using his power and influence to subtly coerce her into not resisting. Coercion is not consent either, from a legal perspective or a moral one.

There are a lot of reasons victims might not physically resist or even verbally object to unwanted sexual touching. They might simply have no time to react (time that Trump said he doesn’t give them: "Just kiss. I don’t even wait"). They might be confused or in shock. They might be afraid of physical violence, emotional abuse, or other repercussions (like being fired) if they don’t comply.

That’s why brute physical force doesn’t determine whether an attack counts as sexual assault. Unwanted and nonconsensual touching does.
Linear algebra, calculus and Statistics for machine learning
I've been thinking about this problem for a long time, but have come to realize that keeping groups small has its own major shortcoming. Namely, it limits the ability of the group to achieve greater things. The larger the group, the more influence it has and generally the more resources it has too.

There are also plenty of counter examples in corporations and governments throughout history where the size of the organization has not affected its ability to achieve its goals or compete with smaller organizations. Therefore, I think the issue and solution lies elsewhere. Somewhere between accountability, culture and trust.
Thanks for breaking that down. Didn't think about the need to differentiate between scrap and mine. And yes I was thinking specifically about this instance on the beach which faces much fewer issues than areas covered with vegetation.
How ABSOLUT VODKA Tranformed Using Insights?
A "decent" visual recognition API at this point isn't very good or useful. The other comment in this thread is correct - if you want to make a truly useful service out of Watson, they do it as a consultation and do it essentially from scratch.
As with anything, it's hard to generalise without oversimplifying, but here goes. You don't generally just have a data set and a machine learning algorithm that somehow magics outputs from a data set. Usually decisions have to be made by people either in training the model, selecting variables that are included in a model, etc.

Here's a simple example. Say you're trying to come up with an algorithm that decides whether articles in a data set are "fake news" (topical, I know). We have to tell the algorithm whether a given article in the training set is fake or legitimate, otherwise how would it know? Clearly this will reflect the views of whoever is tagging the articles. When we run the model on a training set we need to score how well it did, again this will reflect the opinion of the person doing the scoring.

For a real example: https://mathbabe.org/2016/05/12/algorithms-are-as-biased-as-....
can nim handle gc across threads yet?
But if you just want one directory on an existing filesystem to be compressed, this might be an easier option
It's tough to be sneaky in space...
Yeah, imagine France building a wall!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_Line
Just tried this a bit, I like the idea of a simple browser, have tried lots.

Like having the address at the bottom, hate that Safari has this and tabs at opposite ends of tge phone. Corners are cute. Agree with Lobster that "X" is confusing, but useful... seems like the right button with the wrong symbol.

It would also be nice if the last few pages could be frozen, so as not to lose scroll position and half typed comments... but perhaps hard? One better than safari would be to show which tabs are still loaded.

How do I clear cookies? My vote would be for this to happen in the background, perhaps 24hrs after I looked at the page which put them there.

Is it possible for it to use my iOS content blockers?
> I wouldn't take anything that comes out of 4chan seriously, as they're known for intentionally riding the line of Poe's law.

Well, you don't take 4chan seriously... but unfortunately e.g. police tends to do so, just look at the countless swattings. Or the media, look at the Macron fake leaks or the massive hate campaigns which now mostly originate on 4chan since reddit has banned doxxing outright or dedicated hate places like fatpeoplehate.

> and doesn't appear to me to be a racist, despite near-constant insistence from journalists that he is

Uh. Have you never watched a Trump speech, or the executive orders from Trump and their fallout?! Donald Trump is at the very least an open racist, with some of his actions leaning towards Nazism.

> Trump received a larger share of the AA and hispanic vote than Romney

No one forbids people to vote for Trump even if the consequences will directly harm themselves. In fact, anyone who voted for Trump except the rich could have known that he/she voted for a racist who will do anything to harm them if it suits his way.

> Bannon (and Breitbart in general) are not Nazis

Breitbart is a frontrunner of pushing antisemitic and xenophobic propaganda. You'll find interesting parallels between Breitbart pieces and the realities of Nazi Germany. Trust us Germans on this one, it appears that due to our history we spot the parallels easier than others.

Also, Nazism did not start with Auschwitz, it began with xenophobia, us-vs-them (i.e. us-vs-jews) divisive rhetoric (which is now rebranded as us-vs-muslims/us-vs-"illegal immigrants"), propaganda (as "fake news" were called at the time), anti-"communist" fights, plus a healthy dose of imperialism ("Lebensraumerweiterung"). The only thing which the Trump presidency and his supporters lack currently is the aggressive imperialism, but he's doing some "progress" in that area.
There's a surprising number of game companies around LA. You'll get a little (or a lot) of all these things.
We did this in python 2 with greenlet. It's cool that people can do it today by writing "async" in a thousand different places though!
> The modern Wikipedia hosts 11–12 times as many pages as it did in 2005, but the WMF is spending 33 times as much on hosting

I stopped reading right there.
CRUDE OIL: Halts Weakness, Eyes Higher Prices
Even the wallpaper is ugly and looks like some 00s renders.
Maybe nanny is a bad example. I'd pay good money to get impartial therapy from an AI (guaranteed non-abusive) and then when it comes to solving the problems of humanity in general, a sufficiently smart AI seems like our best bet, on the basis that human nature is yet to be fully understood by humans after centuries of trying...
You're both half-right: the "standard" App Engine environment is "Python 2.7 only", via the link you just gave. The newer, flexible env (with less bullt-ins) does 3.x too.
Smaller brains?
Based on the timeframe, I bet the software that found/cleaned the virus was F-Prot.
I recall the same type of network and exactly the same situation here in Australia, with a student locking everyone out. From memory, despite appearances the password system was essentially an honour system, involving one computer being the "master terminal" (try keeping kids away from that keyboard) and even then there being ways around it. I think the offending student got a stern talking to and a day off school. We taught ourselves quite a bit on that network, and the teacher in charge of it was quite happy to admit that his knowledge could take us only so far, before self-learning had to take over.
I have zero problems with Wikipedia's resorting to nagging the everloving fuck out of people who don't donate.

I just wish I could get them to not nag the everloving fuck out of me. Every year when I see the donation banner, I donate perhaps $20. I would maybe double that donation if it could stop fucking nagging me.
The problem on the beach is not vegetation, yes, but uneven land and especially sand and salt water.

While a tank or an AK47 might work in this environment as intended, a robot with fine gears and other relatively delicate moving parts will have trouble with the sand... and the corrosive sea water environment. It will require an extensive amount of maintenance.
Nope. We know they're invasive and that they upset the balance the Lakes are used to. We have to assume that's not great but we're all just trying to do what we can to not upset the Apple cart.
Anyone else sick of the unbelievable amount of lazy and unsubstantiated "shill" accusations being thrown around lately?
There are a handful of good performances involved -- e.g., Stephen's Flint -- but by in large, the acting is terrible. Which is such a shame because the actual story is pretty decent. If you can make it through the first season, you'll be rewarded.
It's still fundamentally a waste of disk space. On my system, as of a minute ago, ~/.cargo/registry/index took up about 200MB for three different checkouts (for some reason). After deleting that and running `cargo update`, only one of them is recreated, 104MB. Out of that, 57MB is the JSON files and 47MB is git history. But if I just concatenate all the JSON files, the result is only 33MB, and after gzipping, 3MB. Hypothetically, a non-GitHub-based Cargo could store only those 3MB (using binary deltas to avoid resending it on every update), or even 0MB if it just relied on the server to resolve dependencies.
I'm guessing the zebra mussels died as their food source became less common. I was a bio major, and there's a name for the population collapse that happens when a species gets access to a new food source, grows quickly, and then collapses, but I forgot what it is.

I'll have to look at my population dynamics book later to see if I can remember.
> I understand the argument that people should be able to manage themselves

I think that argument is made because people arent aware of the degree to which external factors can influence not only our behaviors, but our thoughts. Im sure the HN crowd is aware of things like framing and anchoring, but there are dozens of cognitive biases we are all susceptible to
One problem I've always had when stumbling upon the cost disease theory is my sense that real wages not only "should" rise due to productivity gains, but also due to the wages of alternative occupations.

If a person has the intellect / drive / grit / possibility etc. to pursue either an occupation as a university professor (where the productivity gain has been low) or a high end engineering job (with high productivity gains), it's obvious that if there's demand for university professors, universities will have to somewhat compete with the engineering firms for labour.

I guess the situation is somewhat different for the arts, but still, if the real wages had been constant since the 1600s I guess very few would pursue a career as professional classical pianists if it would be impossible to make more than minimum wage (even at the topmost levels).
i don't think it's refueling anything. for one it has a pretty small payload, but more importantly it has a low orbit (~320km). there's some decent speculation here:

http://www.airspacemag.com/space/spaceplane-x-37-180957777/

tldr possibly a test bed for new smaller electronics packages designed for new smaller satellites
Not at all.

Look at utilities and regional banks, which are usually priced based on return on assets or operating margins.

Growth oriented companies have advantages and disadvantages. Microsoft is a great example -- they have a business that's a monopoly cash cow, but they also need to hit high growth rates to prosper. They squandered a decade trying to both grow and milk the cow, and are now growing again, while breaking and eventually losing parts of the legacy business.
Interesting, where do you have those stats from?
Michigander here: not really a comment on this article per say, but if you've never visited the lakes, you should come by (during summer) and check them out.

Some good spots on the Lake Michigan side (which I'm most familiar with):

Sleeping Bear Dunes: http://www.sleepingbeardunes.com/

Saugatuck Dunes: http://www.michigan.org/property/saugatuck-dunes-state-park

Mackinac Bridge: http://www.mackinacbridge.org/

(BTW, the last "c" in Mackinac" is silent)

Ludington State Park: http://www.michigandnr.com/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?id=46...

Petoskey State Park: http://www.michigandnr.com/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?type=...

Traverse City: https://www.traversecity.com/

Holland: http://www.michigandnr.com/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?type=...
It pays to live humbly I suppose haha
If you want to understand the reasonings the Go maintainers have about generics, there is a GitHub issue[1] on it that is probably a better place to start than to argue with me. The thread references both recent academic research as well as other programming languages' take on the subject.

I don't think their crux is so much that generics "as such" needs more baking, but the specifics of how to implement them with the Go language. Mind you that some of the core goals of Go is to be simple, easy to parse, fast to compile, support good tooling, etc. so the question they're battling with is how to add generics to that mix without sacrificing any of those goals, and without making some mistake you can never go back from once every code base out there starts depending on it.

Now, by all means, we can argue that those priorities are wrong, or that yours would have been different. But I think it is disingenuous to suggest that they are effectively idiots who don't understand how to apply basic concepts, or are unaware of other programming languages.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292
I agree with the thrust of your comment, but the bit about "clickbait" is misplaced.

Is is clearly a poetic metaphor - no-one clicking on the article seriously believed that Wikipedia has a literal biological cancer (the "cancer" metaphor is hardly a new one, if any criticism can be made here it would be that it is almost verging on cliche). Indeed the entire article is structured around this metaphor - the title is hardly false advertising.

I disagree strongly with this new obsession that every article title and headline must be written as pure "Man Bites Dog" factual summary, particularly for opinion pieces like this. Surely there is room for some attempt at poetic flair.

(A hypothetical example of a real "clickbait" style headline for this article might be "Google Will Buy Wikipedia").
One example that's going to come up is "Has the person previously been convicted of a crime?" That question is strongly correlated with race, and yet is strongly arguable to be relevant.

Model of car is hard to say that it's useful for predictive value, but home address (=which neighborhood did you grow up in, e.g., are you in Cabrini-Green or are you Gold Coast?) and annual income (poor people are more likely to commit crimes than rich people) definitely are going to be queried inputs. Particularly if the question is things like "what should I set bail at?"
This doesn't seem to compare. Argentina did lay the mines.
They could always offshore their 5 layers of clueless management. This would enable better synergy between the offshore employees and the clueless offshore management.
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