skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long-term automation projects.

Chef development for one customer. Ansible for the others.
https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/
During Obama Era, VC Investment Toed One Party’s State Lines
And why that is a problem at all?

You can optimize your time to find one customer (read investor) which will give you $1M or to find 10K customers which will give you $100 each. Pick your fight.
Don't know where you're getting your numbers.

Miami Metro pop: https://www.google.com/search?q=miami+metro+population&rlz=1...

https://www.google.com/search?q=houston+metro+pop&rlz=1C1CHB...

5.5 million vs. 6.5 million. Quite comparable. (can't just look at city limits for pop numbers)
Thank you, this really is a great watch. Particularly the zero point stuff re: stairstepping - I had no idea this was merely a function of display.
But Art. 14 (2) literally states that "property [...] should also serve the public good", rather than "solely". This isn't just a nuance or gradual difference; it touches the matter of the principal basis of the law. Similarly, the right of assembly is a basic right with no conditions at all, and postulated in and granted in reference to the Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen from 1789, which found its way to Germany via napoleonic laws. Property is also a basic right granted therein.
He just tweeted about it:

"When people talk about 500 y floods or 100 year rain, they are klueless abt tail distribution. The empirical distribution is NOT empirical!"

(and a picture with math equations)

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/902632121407299585
Sounds like we better ban alcohol, a substance much more likely to elicit violence than psilocybin.
The Axoloti looks like the device I dreamt of creating many years ago when I was very into music instruments and just got into embedded hardware/software.
You are talking about desktop, but the problem is on mobile. On iOS, 3 of your 4 points are patently incorrect (there is plenty of evidence). They get away with it only because Apple is nowhere near dominant in terms of units sold, despite hoovering up almost all market profitability.
Oh wow, what? Why would anyone encourage this? The data is out there, it's a public dataset, just show me the password or a hash of it or something.
This will be a much harder sell to the public - cannabis legalisation had been helped by decades of "Medical Marijuana" - but there has no such inoculation of public opinion for mushrooms yet.

Under MM a voter will likely have known a friend or a relative who tried MM and had a positive impression - this was someone who did weed who wasn't a pusher, lowlife or degenerate. But of all the people I know who have done shrooms: those that aren't exactly poster-children for legalization tend to the type that are the most vocal about effecting change. In short: we need more white, middle-class, middle-aged married couples to openly talk positively about doing drugs!

Until then, I think a better proposal would be a law that strikes down the DEA's concept that drugs can "...[have] no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States." when quite the opposite is true - it damages the credibility of drug enforcement agencies to parrot these lines when there is evidence of both medicinal value and the politicalisation of prohibition (namely http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa... ).

Remove the dogma - and irrational stigma - from drug laws first, then begin more specific targeting for legalisation and regulation.
I know it's easy to blame climate change for anything and everything, but that's simply incorrect.

The actual takeaway is that our data is wrong, these floods occur more often than we thought. With only 150 years of good data, it's impossible to calculate "500 year" events accurately. You would need around 5,000 years of data to do that, and we don't have it.

So we ended up significantly underestimating how often these events occur.
Particularly curious how it compares to Wes' Python for Data Analysis, aside from the sklearn stuff.
The birthday problem still exists even assuming that everyone has an equal chance of being born on any day of the year. It's a phenomenon of the statistical likelihood that given a large enough group of people, the likelihood that any two will have the same birthday goes to almost certainty very rapidly.
Anyone notice the comments for this article on WP? There appears to be a poster called "The burning bush" who is commenting with lengthy comments about every 6 minutes. All of the the comments from that user are sceptical of man made climate change. Washington post does not appear to let you sort by anything other than "newest"... which means that this commenter's posts are always the top comment. That's concerning!
We've been reading aloud to our kids for _years_ now, and it's a great way to all share an imaginary world together. A great resource we found is the Read Aloud Handbook [1], which includes an enormous list of great books, and the appropriate age at which to first encounter them.

Also, since my son had an extended stay in another state, we recorded ourselves reading books aloud to his sister, packaged them into audiobooks, and put them on his iPod. This really helped us feel connected as a family. I wrote a blog post about how to do it [2].

[1]: http://www.trelease-on-reading.com
[2]: https://ben.straub.cc/2017/05/12/audiobooks/
This article reminds me of Nate Silver's book [1] which has a far more scientific and in depth look on the failure/success of these types of predictive statistics.

The chapters on the many attempts (or many failed hopes) in predicting earthquakes was particularly interesting, including many times the media has bought into hyped up new charlatans who say they finally figured it out but which ultimately failed to survive under basic statistical scrutiny.

It also has a useful soft introduction to Bayesian statistics and other useful concepts from the field of prediction that I hope more journalists read about. As this seems to be a very common theme in reporting.

Even this journalist couldn't help themselves with this line (combined with some scary looking charts described with an alarmist tone farther down):

> Was there some miscalculation of how frequently these massive flooding events occur? Or, most alarmingly, is something else happening that suggests these catastrophic weather events are becoming much more common?

The failure to mention the effects of El Nino/El Nina seems like a big oversight in this article, especially when we're just coming out of a particularly strong one. Climate stats are an easy one to get wrong - or to shape into any narrative - especially when timeframes and location are easy things to be viewed too narrowly.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-bu...
With iPhone's they get around 4-5 years of updates compared to the 2 years promised with Google's devices.[1]

Buying into iPhone development might be more expensive upfront, but you get a longer update period (which is obviously important for developers).

I paid around $725 USD for a 2012 Macbook Pro which can develop for iOS and it has 16GB of ram, an SSD and a hard drive for time machine.

[2]https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705#nexus_device...
If anyone was curious why the instruction address didn't match up, it's because he read the instruction identifier wrong. It's also totally counterintuitive and you have to essentially read the full documentation to get to any real information about it. Anyway here we go. VEX is a prefix notation with specialised encodings:

C4 - For a three-byte instruction (which vfmadd is) this is C4, if a two-byte instruction this would be C5.

E2 - This one is more involved but basically for this instruction the first three bits are 1 for setting some modes on it (R, X, and B). Then, because this is an 0f38H instruction, the next 5 bits are 00010. Altogether you get 11100010 (E2)

E9 - this is also involved, but the first bit is a W mode. This is 1 for the instruction he used but it's pretty much ignorable. for bits 2-5 it has to do with the first source register the instruction uses. This is 1101 because it uses XMM2/YMM2 (it's by lookup in a table) first. bit 6 is set to 0 if it is a 128 bit vector (it is). bit 7-8 are set to 01 based on a lookup table for the "pp" value which is 66 in the instruction identifier. Altogether that's 11101001 (E9).

A8 - this one is easy, it's the opcode.

C3 - this is the ModR/M byte which is actually used in this case for reporting the register/memory operands. first 2 bits are 11 to indicate the first operand is the register itself (not displaced, or truncated). The next 6 bytes are the register codes. 000 is actually not used since the destination is overriden for float maths), and the 011 is EBX as the base cpu register to source the data.

Altogether it works out to be C4E2E9A8C3. Not intuitive at all really.

Edit: Please someone correct me if I missed something. I hate this kind of stuff and I'm sure I made a mistake.
And yet WhatsApp refuse to allow my work phone access to their network as they don't recognise the phone number as that of a mobile phone. After they asked to see documentation from my phone provider to show that it was indeed a mobile phone contract they ran out of excuses and fell back on "there's nothing we can do"
I think the idea of a black swan is something which you don't even imagine before you encounter it, ie: nobody would even think about computing the probability of a black swan (bird) existing.
No, the birthday problem still works if you consider that the probability of being born on a particular day is uniform.

It's related to the fact that the probability of two people in a room having a birthday is more closely related to the number of pairs of people in the room (which in turn grows as O(n^2)), than to the number of people in the room.

A detailed proof/explanation can be looked up easily with Google, if you have a bit of mathematical maturity.
I can totally relate. I think my worsening RSI is a huge factor. It could be TMS (http://www.tmswiki.org/ppd/An_Introduction_to_TMS) not just regular RSI. Fuck if I know. Additional stress doesn't help, either at work or outside of work. The worker's comp people don't want to help. It seems like they intentionally want to see people suffer. Honestly, I'm in the same boat and I'm not sure what to do. I have the option of taking it easy at work but not everyone has that. I've been taking it very easy and trying not to work in pain but it only goes so far. I've been trying to do activities outside of work as much as possible and build a life for myself that doesn't involve work or computers or any of this shit. It's not easy.

Sleep, good nutrition, and exercise are vital. Sleep is, as some others here say, the most important. But it's also the hardest to fix. The sleep doctors are morons and it racks up incredible bills. Their suggestion, "go camping for a weekend" to treat a lifetime of delayed sleep phase. Honestly, sometimes I want to strangle these people. Most of them are clearly doing this only for the money. If you're in the US, the healthcare profession will fuck you. They will fuck you over really bad and they will enjoy fucking you over. Many doctors and personnel revel in the cruelty and power they have over patients, especially patients that have no alternatives (like with worker's comp issues). Same with RSI. You're really on your own. There is very little to no help, but there will be many bills (definitely get on worker's comp) for useless services. Really, you're on your own. I try not to let this dissuade me and go from moron to moron trying to get better. Sometimes I find someone that helps. Sometimes I just have to deal with shit on my own. I suggest you treat that and sleep ASAP. Get on the record. It'll also make it much harder for your company to fire you because, let's face it, they are the cause of the problems. Or if they do, you can sue them.
Possession and transportation should be legalized, cultivation and sale shouldn't be. If people aren't willing to spend the time to learn how to identify them in the wild, they're probably not responsible enough to use them safely.
> If we have a baseline of 500 year flood level at 0.2%

That's exactly the point. We don't have that baseline, despite acting as if we do. We would need data going back 5,000 years to do that.
>that's a concrete claim with is 1) easily verifiable and 2) wrong

I fail to see how it's wrong. If you call Math.sin(x) it will return an iterative numerical approximation of sine. Would you care to elaborate rather than casually dismissing it?

> There's so much wrong with that, it's hard to know where to start.

Such as? 60 has more prime factors than 10, and therefore using it as a numeric base will result in you encountering fewer irrational numbers. You really can't argue against that.
What are you on? EU is the biggest market when it comes to prosperity / population.

Some people need to drink less the libertarian kool-aid, Google is still recovering from missing out China and will do anything do anything eventually to satisfy EU

Your comment lacks anything with relationship with real life.
I've found templated queries(e.g. yesql) are far preferable for complex selects/joins/subselects and just can't imagine using the data structure dsl for such queries. One huge downside of dsl queries is that they NEVER support the full sql syntax of any database, in my case postgres. The best part is being able to write the query in a sql editor then copy/paste directly, rather than needing to translate into a dsl.

On the other hand if you need dynamic queries, then yes dsl is more suited, as well as for other query types where the dsl can be much better at handling multiple records at once... like say inserting 10 rows at once.

So to sum up:

* complex select queries - templated queries really shine

* simple dynamic queries - templates for simple replacements

* complex dynamic queries - dsl

* inserts/updates/deletes - dsl

* portable sql - dsl
Bit of context: I used to live in Denver, and I would hang out at Galvanize a lot. I was friends with a number of the instructors and students.

I worked at a company in Denver that hired at least 5 people straight out of gSchool, and I was one of the employees on the team who was given the task of onboarding and mentoring the gSchool graduates and helping them when they got stuck (which was pretty much constantly).

Each one of the graduates had at least a basic, fundamental understanding of programming with Ruby on Rails and Javascript, but they were all very much junior-level. They were all deeply brainwashed in TDD and Agile dogma, but would often become paralyzed when encountering real world problems.

Most of them had sub-par developer instincts (as was expected), and all of them required about a year-long ramp-up and a lot of on-the-job mentoring and training before they were really pulling their weight.

When you look at the quality of the code that was being created and the sheer amount of manpower and money being thrown at mentoring all of the junior level code school graduates, I would rather have had a single senior level developer than 4 juniors combined.

But that's not how the pay worked out. A senior dev doing the same amount of work as 4 juniors was only making like $120K, and I happen to know that every one of the code school students was hired on for at least $65K a year (if not more).

The worst part? After about a year, half of them had leveraged their new year's worth of real, on-the-job experience into job offers from other companies, where they were presumably hired for even more.

My personal opinion is that the company I worked for kind of got shafted a little bit by their enthusiasm and optimism with the idea of bringing on so many junior level developers straight out of code camp. Especially after we spent so much time and money mentoring them, only to have them leave for better jobs elsewhere.

I have a strong suspicion that many other companies have suffered from similar experiences with code school graduates and were left with bitter taste in their mouths.

If so, that would certainly explain why so many code schools are starting to encounter difficulties and are having to downsize or close. Companies are starting to catch on to the fact that they are still going to have to dump a good year of mentoring and training into each one of these "graduates" before they are earning their keep.

TL;DR: The gSchool graduates that I had personal experience with seemed to make out like bandits. That was before the market cooled down, though.
The "one host, one home" deal is a much better way to deal with the downsides of Airbnb: https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/06/19/toronto-to...
I think what he's getting at is whether there is a place where he can look up whether his email, in combination with a password, was leaked.
I've heard people have even died from caffeine overdoses [0]. We should ban coffee, soda and energy drinks while we're at it.

EDIT:
While my argument is sarcasm, there's both a change.org petition to ban raw caffeine [1], along with several senators who support such a ban [2].

0: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/south-carolina-te...

1: https://www.change.org/p/u-s-food-and-drug-administration-in...

2: http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i18/US-senators-push-ban-caff...
The site does say "Do not send any password you actively use to a third-party service - even this one!"
Increasing the bits doesn't increase the accuracy of the audio in terms of frequencies. It's 100% accurate regardless of bits. That's why trying to compare it to video resolution doesn't work. Bit depth is more akin to the screen brightness. If you turn down the brightness to 1 step from black, it's impossible to distinguish features in the image.
I'm all for it, and this is a great example of the benefits of direct democracy.

I don't think it'll pass, but still, well done getting real drug law reform on the ballot.
Sure, but they still don't have an electric nor an internet network. I also wonder what is their level of education.
While energy is definitely a huge part of the problem, preventing things specifically like Houston's flooding seems like more an issue of infrastructure and emergency readiness.

And dealing with the aftermath seems like it's a space for organizations dealing logistics, drone fleets (e.g., for mapping, finding survivors and communicating with them, delivery to inaccessible areas), etc..
There are different kinds of violence. Dude ripped out the heart from his friends chest while he was still alive and then cooked it. When discovered by police he didn't see anything wrong with what he did.
It's mostly a double-tax grab: 1st, the hospitality tax, and 2nd, when Revenue Québec goes after hosts' undeclared income. This will have the effect to dissuade the small hosts due to government harassment, while the larger hosts will pay the income tax and still make bank. Exactly the outcome that is undesirable.
Those of us who grew up playing Civilization figured this out pretty quickly. War is fun, but is time consuming and costs enormous resources.

Much better to focus on science, and technology and grow peacefully.
Off topic, but I've noticed in the gym, sometimes the music playing from the instructor's iPhone through one of those cheap Ion Block Rocker bluetooth speakers (big boxy one, looks like a guitar amp) has very very noticeable pitch sag in various parts of various songs.

It's via bluetooth, and the source is Pandora. I even googled Pandora and pitch change, and found some forums with folks discussing bluetooth causing this to happen, which has never been my experience.

It occurred to me that slowing the playback (eg, causing the pitch to sag) could be a fantastic way of dealing with a connection that's too slow. It would be far better than stuttering, even though many of us would find the pitch change really annoying. The instructor and my wife simply can't hear it, or say "I thought that was just part of the song".

Anyway, has anyone ever heard of this happening? Do certain products do it? Were the Pandora forums wrong and this is actually a Pandora problem? Of all of the bluetooth problems I've had in my life, I've never experienced this before, so I tend to lean towards it being a data rate issue on the cell connection and Pandora slowing the music down.
At the very least, I wish HIBP could distinguish between whether the data contains an email-plus-password or the email address only.
You should try downsampling the Blu-ray version yourself and comparing then.
Proper full stack devs are rare, but they do exits, and they're worth their weight in gold to any company with under 50 staff. I've been 'full stack' my entire career but it takes a long time to actually become a competent full stack dev.

A proper full stack dev can make design and implementation decisions at all levels, while being able to visualise the affect of those changes over the entire system, in detail, at low level. They're also able to communicate these changes not only to a uber-low-level introverted developer, they're also able to sit with the CEO/CTO and rationalise their decision in terms of cost and savings.

And of course, they're able to drop anchor, exit the elevator at any level and get on the tools.
Well, yeah. For properly mixed audio, you don't need anything beyond 44-khz/16-bit. If you need to do extensive processing, or you're working with raw audio and want the extra margin to be able to recover a sound when it may be too quiet (or too loud) or otherwise compromised then more samples and greater bit-depth can be highly useful.
yeah but the investor is a customer of your equity and the other is a customer of your product. Both ways you get $1M, I guess, but in the long run it's completely different visavis sustainability. A goal of 'getting' $1M is really short-sighted IMO.
I have issues with getting more than about 6-6.5 hours of sleep before my back is sore enough I have to get up. I try to make the most of it.

Like others have said, definitely get more sleep. Also, move more. Go for a walk. If you don't have time, consider getting a treadmill desk, and shift your workflow to sitting and standing. It takes some getting used to, but that has made a world of difference for me.
A healthy amount of skepticism is fair, especially since Wildberger is a fairly odd duck. But the kind of trigonometry Wildberger proposes does work: you can use it to figure the height of a ziggurat. So it's conceivable that the Babylonians discovered it and used it.
It's starting to happen, ecstasy was recently designated a "breakthrough therapy" for people with PTSD in early trials.

https://www.axios.com/ecstasy-to-treat-ptsd-fast-trackedl-24...
You cant move the goal post! C++ template is meta programming, as it's Turing complete. It's ugly and messy, but usable enough.
Dark web finds Bitcoin increasingly more of a problem than a help
With regards to the first part of your question - as long as the signal is bandlimited the Nyquist-Shannon theorem applies. If all of the waves are under 20kHz, regardless of how they're interfering with each other, the signal can be reconstructed perfectly with a 40kHz sample rate.
Thanks frgtpsswrdlame! It is definitely hard to have any meaningful discussion without agreeing on the vocabulary to use.
There was an article from 2016 also on HN today about the risk. Three different experts were quoted saying something along the lines "nothing will be done now, we need to wait for the big flood and 2-4 years after we will build a wall".

The "wall" (actually a more complex thing) was projected to cost 8 bil. A bad flood like the one from today was projected to cost 70+, but people were hoping that we have around 10-20 years to prepare
The problem is the benefit you note requires a lot of extra effort and at least one additional layer of abstraction that more than doubles the boilerplate/cruft required to maintain proper UI flow through an application.

Their "solution" is more of a problem than the problem it was meant to solve.