skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read all the slides and I think the commenter raises a good point. If math doesn't matter a lot when it comes to CS, then why bother talking about it.

Show me how many standard deviations apart men and women are when it comes to skills that lead to success in CS.
I'm not sure that holds true for all streets, especially a private street in a residential area. Suppose there were no problems with parking before - what do you get by introducing a charge suddenly?
Of course that's an option. I've never once seen a tow truck anywhere near a charging station, or that kind of verbiage. It says "reserved for EV", but it seems as strongly enforced as the parking spots reserved at retailers for online pickup.
> The government owns student loans.

To back up your point, the US federal government guarantees the vast majority of the student loan market: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGCCSAQ027S

I believe the total student debt market is estimated somewhere between $1.3-1.4 trillion these days, so at least 77.5% backed by US taxpayers. I don't know what TARP topped out at, but I doubt it was 75% of banking assets.
I think your comment bears at least a passing resemblance to a pile of crocodile excrement, so I've decided to ignore it.
Reminds me of undergrad class registration, when everything satisfying a general education requirement would fill up and the server would crash the instant it started.

I didn't choose to take History and Religion of Ancient Israel, but it was the class I got the most out of.
jraines mostly got it. It's worth noting the look and feel of the Sachs studio. I doubt anyone is taking that advice completely seriously. But if, instead, you just said 'have fun, do whatever!' things would probably be a huge mess.
The hard part is letting them be random instead of forcing them into Adult World schedules.

"Johnny, stop having a blast in the beach with the new friends you just made, or their parents might invite us for dinner or something! We need to drag you to the Museum of Boring Things right now so we can maximize the value-add of this vacation!"
How can you define a "right angle" in a way that doesn't let you immediately prove that any two right angles are equal?

Euclid did -- if he could have proved it, "all right angles are equal" would be a theorem, not a postulate.

Similarly, how are you distinguishing "right" angles from "acute" angles?
When it fades, what do you do? Do you say, "That was nice while it lasted, too bad it's gone"? Or do you say, "I want that back, and I'll work to get it"?

In my own marriage, every year to year-and-a-half, I've looked around and realized that we weren't as close as we used to be. We've had to rebuild the relationship, which takes work. It's been worth it, though - still being in the honeymoon phase at our 20th anniversary was pretty cool.

I mean, yes, the relationship also deepens and grows. The head-over-heels-in-love can last for a long time even while the relationship deepens, though...
They're facing stiff competition, so maybe they're just retreating for now. Tesla's probably not their biggest concern, Nissan and Volvo are both far ahead of them as well.
I've done this many times myself. Feeling as though I suffer from perfectionism and my productivity really suffers for it. Do you have any links to online resources or CBT courses that might help? Thanks!
Ironically enough, clicking the link tells me that your site itself has exceeded its serving quota.

What a world we live in.
'Driverless' Van in Virginia Is Driven by Man Dressed Like a Car Seat
Your guess is incorrect. I have the most expensive available from that lineup at the time of purchase. I might be mis-remembering but I recall there being two i7 offerings (plus an i5 version) and I shelled out for the more expensive one.
Is racism really worse in the American south? Probably. Maybe. Certainly, it's more of an obvious, concrete social fixture. But still,...

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

(I'm from Amarillo, TX and I'm kind of a misanthrope. "General hate" might be something I could get behind.)

https://newrepublic.com/article/112586/voting-rights-act-cas...

https://thoughtcatalog.com/kovie-biakolo/2015/06/dialogue-is...

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/14/the_north_isnt_better_than_t...
Implementing strict organization can turn O(n^2) tasks to O(n), by removing the "look through my n tools to find the one I need" step.

That is, if you need n tools or parts for an assembly process, and if at each step you have to scan through these tools and parts to find the one needed, you have created an O(n^2) algorithm.

At least, this is how I conceptualize the value of workshop organization.
Reading a variety of garbage that doesn't share their sources or even provide a ledger for what their data means isn't going to give you good conclusions. Including any of those outlets is a mistake.
If only it was legal in my state!
So if confidence is a major factor, is it possible that affirmative action affects confidence negatively in the people that it is meant to support?
If a doctor misdiagnosis an eye ailment, they might end up with a malpractice lawsuit. If an ML program misdiagnoses an eye ailment, what is going to happen?
You missed strong religious beliefs that don't fit in with the local culture. Totally something that could be changed but not really willing to.
> How can anyone think this when half their DNA comes from a man and the other half from a woman?

This looks like a throw-away comment but betrays a bit of ignorance about basic biology. Men have anywhere from 2x-10x more testosterone than women (lots of individual variance) [1], which has a huge effect on personality. Just because most of your DNA is inherited 50/50 does not preclude huge differences between the sexes. This is even more obvious when looking at other, non-human species [2].

[1] http://www.hemingways.org/GIDinfo/hrt_ref.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism
I don't agree that this is a benign reason in itself. Regardless if you say that women don't want to be programmers now or that women never wanted to be programmers, you have to find a good reason why they don't want to. Because women have no problem sitting in front of computers in economics, so why do they in software?

I don't think it is hard to find a good reason why someone wouldn't go into nursing (even if this wouldn't disprove sexism in nursing). It has barriers to entry by requiring formal education, which can be competitive. The working conditions are somewhat difficult having to work irregular hours and be exposed to emotional stress as in seeing people dying. At the same time it still relatively low status, not necessarily well paid and has limited career prospects.

Of course you can argue that this shouldn't be the case. That the profession should help people dealing with stress and have good working conditions etc. Still it much harder to imagine these sort of "hard" reasons, negative things that are inherent to the profession, when it comes to programming.
The overhead of renting 10 houses, and the interest on 10 mortgages, is just zero or what?
Despite S.E.C. Warning, Wave of Initial Coin Offerings Grows
I recently ported my do not disturb for Gmail (https://www.dndemail.com) extension from Chrome to Firefox (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dndemail-do-not-di...).

The moderators at Mozilla initially reviewed the extension within just a couple of days. They didn't approve it and sent me some questions. I answered the questions but it took them 2 weeks to reply.

Even though it was slow, I will say, I was very impressed with Mozilla's focus on privacy and user safety (which is what most of their inquiries focused upon). They are clearly living their marketing -- it is not just lip service for them.

I will also note that I submitted a similar extension for the Opera browser on July 17 and am still waiting to hear anything from them.
> Over Quota

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I'm actually not super sure is this is a single-serving joke site like isthemissiononfire.com, or if this is just a hilarious coincidence.
The article mentions that small animals that could subsist on seeds rather than live plants could have survived. This sounds plausible depending on how long it took for plant life to reestablish.
Math, at least applied math, is not the goal, but the method. Programming neither is the goal, it is the method. Understanding that both are language to express the path is of the essence.

The XML as a vessel of human-knowledge is limited. Good intentions have brought it OWL/RDF, XML Schema, XSLT; examples where others before us have tried to extend the XML into the domain of semantics and algorithms. Nevertheless, it was found that, without an expressive type system, large and complex business domains cannot be modeled. Apparently, in order to model abstract business domains, we need a language that composes both high- and low-level with near invisible seams.

So, that click-your-XML-application might benefit from a reflective logic, enabling the user to explore the possible state-spaces. If your app uses relational algebra from DBMSs, it might be able to combine the relational algebra with the algebra defined by your schema's. The UI state-space and the XML schema might be an isomorphism, which helps prove completeness of your UI-builder implementation.

Above all, the mathematical way of thinking helps reasoning, communication and correctness. It might not be the only way or perhaps the way is dated. Nevertheless, ignoring math as a programmer, feels like ignoring music theory as a musician or linear algebra as a structural engineer.
At least we agree that some acts of expression are deplorable, just not which ones.
Yes! It is all about the amount of effort and commitment that the parties (plural) are willing to put into it.

Bear in mind that each part of the married couple will have decades of their own personal evolution occurring underneath the current of regular life. Opinions, beliefs, or attitudes that are strongly held at the time of marriage will change. Even if you meet the Perfect Mate (TM), no one stays static for long.

Marriage, like all family living, requires a great deal of mutual toleration and patience, and a considerable amount of individual flexibility and adaptation.

The Perfect Couple will fall apart in short order if they are not willing to dedicate serious effort to their relationship on a perpetual basis. Marital success has little to do with the starting material.

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For these reasons among others, I like the cultural ideal of arranged marriages. They make it clear that marriage is about the commitment itself more than it's about the personality on either side of the equation.

I also believe that most of the parents or grandparents in a position to make the arrangements would have better character judgment than the much-younger people trying to select a good spousal candidate on their own (as above, "good spousal candidate" is someone eager and happy to work for a strong marriage).

In some sense, it is irresponsible of the older and wiser generations to offload this duty into the hands of those who have great difficulty wielding it. And while I don't believe these arrangements should be compulsory, I think we'd all be better off if this was the common practice.
And presumably as soon as you see it's a day care you can say "neat" and move on to the next location.
The vast majority of student loan debt is already guaranteed by the US government: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGCCSAQ027S

So something like 77.5%+ of that is already bailout guaranteed. Taxes (or more likely US debt) will rise to cover it, which will have its own long term negative effects, but barring a US default that market is very well covered.

It's also very, very challenging to discharge US student loan debt, much more than housing debt. How that really works in the end, especially if a large number of people go into default, hasn't really been tested, and it will be a political hot potato when it does.
A scam? That's one elaborate scam! I mean you have some 40 organisations around the world working on kite energy, including Google X and several leading universities. It's almost like it would be more impressive if it actually were a scam. But it's not of course.

As to the tether, people are of course aware of the requirements it needs to fulfil, you can even find calculations about it online. Making it strong enough and still light is not a problem, the challenge is really in combining a structural tether with a conducting cable. It is a challenge, true, but it's far from impossible and there are several possible designs.

Makani's 600 kW prototype:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An8vtD1FDqs
Much like how I find the other replies to your last comment far more bothersome than anything you said...
Researchers Track an Unlikely Culprit in Weight Gain
Journalists have been making mistakes since the beginning of journalism but if you're paying attention you know there's a new class of web site that's qualitatively different from journalism. It doesn't make an attempt to do anything but spread transparent lies. And it's effective because it's aimed at a specific audience that's susceptible to believing what it wants to believe without asking questions, regardless of the transparency of the lie to everyone else. There's a specific reason the term "fake news" was just recently coined. And there's a reason why some are trying to pervert the term by applying it to anything that's mistaken. Because then it applies to everyone instead of calling attention to those who are specifically benefiting from it.
Subprime auto loans.
I had a stutter growing up, it was terrible. Whenever I got noticed I just froze up, I particularly remember one English teacher who knew I was bad at public speaking yet repeatedly calling on me during class to read sections (more than other kids).

I was terrified of going to high school with a stutter, I knew how cruel kids could be, but out of nowhere my stutter disappeared. I never really looked at to what phenomenon caused my stutter to go away but it was a huge weight off my back.
I've done this myself! :/
It feels like the relief of getting it "right" outweighs the time wasted, at least at the time. But it's kind of crazy when you think about it!
> I haven't seen a single criticism of the paper that even recognizes the author is referencing large-scale incontrovertible research involving the Big-5 personality model (the giveaway is the use of terms "agreeability", "conscienciousness", "neuroticism").

I've seen that research. What conclusions do you think you can draw from it?
> [...] Draw a new line through C and D. This line is perpendicular to the original line and forms four right angles with it.

You could define a right angle this way, but that only makes sense if "right angles" were already interesting before you worked out how to construct them. That process is valuable because it produces right angles; right angles aren't valuable by virtue of being the result of that process.

If you believe that, you still need to ask why certain angles were labeled "right", bearing in mind that whatever the reason was, it cannot have implied that two "right" angles were necessarily equal to each other.
Same thing goes for Vice on a lot of occasions.
I was referring to the practice of political lobbying and revolving doors, not literal prostitution.

For example:

https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=787...
Hack Club Shipit: A simple but useful platform to share your amazing projects
The Degree Confluence Project is an interesting version of random travel: people visiting arbitrary lat/long intersections.

http://confluence.org/
>This really sucks and this proves to me that if you are female, you are basically screwed if you want to do something engineering like because even Engineers don't act analytically but emotionally based on prejudices.

I think you should brush up on the meaning of the word "proves".
More than a third of respondents to his survey either strongly or almost agreed with the documents point of view.
How TO Create a Data Driven Culture
This is exactly why altcoins are popping now- investors are dumping their free Bitcoin Cash which materialized out of thin air into NEO and a bunch of other coins
Most people have plenty of issues growing up, like low self-esteem, need for validation, etc. A combination of training, therapy, meditation, sense-of-purpose, etc can work wonders.
That's overly simplistic. If you know with good certainty that negative discrimination against a group is pervasive and manifests itself in a certain way (say, hiring bias (though I'm not arguing that this is the case in a particular instance; that's a separate debate)) it makes sense to have positive discrimination to counteract that.
> I'm having a hard time figuring out a base case for say calling toString on an object, or incrementing an integer.

In both cases, we can special-case the "zero" of the domain. For example, toString of an object without any attributes would return '{}', while incrementing the integer zero would return 1.

I'm not sure about the usability of the latter in an iterative approach, but the former could definitely be used as the basis of an iterative algorithm that traverses all of an object's attributes.
imho its age related. retirees and seniors touring Ashville prefer more private and secure hotel accommodations.
In current ecosystem, with so many politicians promising golden eggs, price rise will almost never end up in the decrease.

Also, you are taxing the poorest. I think they struggle enough. You could start selling premium services though.
There's only so much the kernel can do to protect userspace from itself. When you have an interface which returns an explicitly extensible data structure, you have to assume userspace is going to at least ignore extended data it does not understand. Otherwise you cannot have such interfaces at all.
Toronto police officer buys would-be thief the outfit he was trying to steal
Well, natural phenomena (like having mates and children) don't always go according to the plan.[1] That's why nature populates the earth with enough people to ensure most of them will follow the rules of evolution/biology/whatever.

But I'm guessing that even those people who don't want children are following the rules of natural selection. "Only the fittest will survive" is then translated to something like "only the genes of those who want to pass on their genomic data will survive".

[1] People have free will after all.
Well, based on this article it either was not tested for life or it didn't have it.
Right, the article hints at this at the very end, hypothesizing that those animals that did survive were able to adapt to the conditions of an extended winter better than the larger herbivores and their predators.

Birds for instance can subsist on nuts and insects -- things that might survive a disturbed global climate -- and recover the next year, with some local die-offs.

Large herbivores though have to eat plant matter constantly. They can hardly survive a week without eating, let alone months. Those population die-offs then in turn cause a die-off among any species that depends on hunting those animals.
Ironically, I'm getting a message saying the server is overloaded.
Here is the cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1oBS2v-...
I have no idea. Maybe?

I wasn't taking a position on the debate either, just pointing out that specific argument could be problematic.

Regardless, I'm opposed to affirmative action for many other reasons anyway.
Kite learned the hard way that you do not piss off open-source programmers
So is this 0.2 pH more corrosive/stronger than sulfuric acid or not?
Source = Human Civilization?
"To prevent leaving surgical items inside patients, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) recommends counting all sponges, sharps, and related miscellaneous items at five different times: (1) before the procedure to establish a baseline, (2) before closure of a cavity within a cavity, (3) before wound closure begins, (4) at skin closure, and (5) at the time of permanent staff relief of either the scrub person or the circulating nurse"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK133403/
Literal Types in TypeScript
For this kind of event, you can see the pressure building up well in advance. Often, it's not clear what's going to break, but at some point, something has to give. A real "black swan" event was Hurricane Sandy. Flooding of Lower Manhattan was not expected.
"Pure acid" is a pretty meaningless description. Water is a weak acid (and also a weak base) so in a sense ordinary water could be described as "pure acid".
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14951181.
I think that's just the east wing.
What is it like being a cunt dang?
I don't think he is trying to state the converse of your original quote. Seems clear all he is saying is that you can share your life with someone regardless of being married. You can live with a boyfriend/girlfriend and experience sharing life all the same without the religious or legal institution of marriage. Unless the assertion is that things like filing taxes together somehow prevent this
I have not, but I know a friend who did this for a while directly out of high school. I've never read the book, but most of these types of books say "create passive income using ____________" he made a pdf and charged 15 bucks for it. Sold it on his own website and made ~$1500-2000 a month. the money he used to live and built some other not so successful websites. We were straight out of highschool though so this was enough money to live on and he didnt TOUCH the webpage for like 2 years steady income. Sometimes people just get lucky I guess.
Reinventing Staten Island
I can't be the only one who expected this to be about a certain Google project that aimed at organizing knowledge ;)
But you are a faggot.
Cheaper Fan-Outs Ahead
Instead of cancelling trains, why not take the unused cars and make the running trains longer? I understand that the stations may not be able to handle the length. You could stagger entries so that the first half of the train loads, pulls forward a bit then the second half loads.

If it is an issue with the strength of the train engines, could you use two train engines together? Especially if their intended routes are just getting cancelled.
Well, it does have silver particles in it.

However, these are in a colloidal suspension. The stuff does not conduct. I know because I had the same concern and I tried to measure it. Moreover, the voltages that something like this is likely to come into contact with is on the order of 1V for BGA packages upon which it gets mounted.

Proper application, of course, mitigates the rest of the concerns about this material.
If a car has to decide between killing ...

The trolley problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21EiKfQYZXc&feature=youtu.be...
When I was 6 or 7, my Grandma taught me how to play cribbage. At first, it was a little tough, so my Grandma helped me decide which cards to put into my crib and with counting out my hand. But as my ability to add and spot patterns increased, I stopped needing her help so much.

Cribbage is a nice blend of strategy, applied math and pattern matching. I plan to teach my 17 month old daughter cribbage as soon as I can.
That was USPS's first profit in 5 years just so we are clear.

http://www.govexec.com/management/2016/02/usps-records-first...
This is a good point. Here's an open question:

How do you know when you have enough positive discrimination?

Do you just make sure that the representation of different groups is the same as in the population? This is a poor solution because it cannot be said that this would have been the distribution without negative discrimination.

Also, along what lines would you now pick your categories?

Would you ensure representation for latino lesbian women who speak spanish and like chocolate cake on tuesdays?

Which is to say that the category can get arbitrarily small.