skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economies need to meet a certain level of development in order to "move up the value chain" rather than just get left behind. I'm confident China has that. I'd be worried about Indonesia or Kenya.
I'm not a professional statistician but basically the only thing I remember from my stats class in college is that if you have an extreme outlier, even if you think it might be indicative of future trends, you have to adjust for it. Just like electing a single black man after electing 43 white men as president was not an indicator that racism is over (since an openly racist man was elected following that) nor is it an indicator that minority groups are now going to be elected in higher numbers (since a white man was elected immediately after).

There's also the fact that Trump cannot actually be anti-corporate since he is a billionaire owner of a multi-national corporation. He is the definition of corporate because his name is literally a corporation.

And now to get political (so skip to the next paragraph if you don't want get into politics), there is the serious question about how much influence foreign nations had during the election. It's an open question whether or not Americans consciously elected Trump on his own merits, or if the propaganda from Russia swayed the vote enough to change the outcome. Then there are less well-sourced questions about hacking of the voter rolls, hacking of the voting machines, etc. I'm not sure if you've seen the news about how this guy is hiring a bunch of high-priced lawyers to investigate if the president actively colluded with a foreign power in order to win the election, but long story short, the president actively colluded with a foreign power in order to win the presidency.

And now I just read your username and realized you're the same guy who thinks Western Europe is failing because they're socialists and who has said Obamacare is literally Hitler, so god damn it why do I waste my time arguing with extreme right-wing trolls.
Check out the platform Zephyr Teachout/Tim Wu ran on. They were pretty close to you albeit without co-ops. Actually the whole Open Markets program which just got removed has some really good stuff in this vein. On youtube you can find several talks they've given (not sure how long they will last.)
AMD’s Epyc Pummels Intel’s New Xeon-W Workstation CPUs
I think you're correct, but the scary thing in this case is that Google/Alphabet might actually be able to do it, for better and worse.
My (somewhat oblique) question is why copyright would apply to a dead guy's works. ...It's not like respecting copyright is going to get him to write more.
Uncivil? The uncivil one is the the one who spends most of his time on HN spouting ignorant anti-immigration rhetoric.
But the poles heat up faster than the equator, so we actually do have an increased differential.

Edit: apparently someone doesn't believe me. Here's a source: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/18/371438087/arctic-is-warming-tw...
There's an easy fix: use a better language.
Can someone elaborate? I thought this is about the TypeScript compiler and some fork.
AT&T Uverse has instituted a 1TB monthly cap on residential internet service. Unless you also buy TV service, in which case it's unlimited. Clearly they're targeting customers who want to stream all of their TV via sling etc. with this.

Now, the AT&T small business-class internet (which I've just recently switched to) is still unlimited, though it does cost more.
> increasing racism against Jews

This is true.

> Men usually wear a baseball-cap over the Kippah in public

But this is right-wing bullshit.

The rise in anti-Semitic crimes is used by Pegida to stir up fear of refugees, Muslims, and Islam, and it's also used by Netanyahu and the Israeli / Jewish right to encourage immigration to Israel.

The reality is that the rise in anti-Semitism begins in 2014, prior to the refugee crisis. It's tracked the Europe-wide rise of the right, not anything related to "Muslim integration" (which in turn is often a code-word for not letting other people wear other kinds of head coverings). Much of it is even linked to Pegida-adjacent groups or people.
Ah ok, thanks a lot for the explanation!
>Seems simpler to tax companies for making money.

Only if that money makes its way back to the people who would otherwise have been employed because of the robot tax.
The Bail Trap Game
Maybe what's needed is just some cooling off, but it should be clear that you're not welcome to continue to violate the guidelines like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Phosphates are water-soluble, they enter the hydrology wherever it goes, which means that long term they end up in the ocean.

But this isn't quite the big deal that it's made out to be. Mineral phosphorous mining is cheaper than other sources, but phosphate isn't rare or going away. It's literally present in all biomass by definition: phosphate groups are the bonds that tie the links together in RNA and DNA, and it can be extracted from biomass trivially (i.e. composting, or even incineration), albeit at somewhat higher cost. Given that agricultural output is currently almost free, that's hardly going to break society.
Science by consensus. Let's see how that works out.
I believe it helps because it

a) Is simple

b) Works for any tasks.

c) Allows for short burst of activity during which it is easy to refrain from reading random stuff, mails, or explore tangential ideas. Easy because you know you will have 5 minutes to check it out if necessary after your burst.

d) Helps for moving around, go fill a glass of water, look at your surroundings etc.

e) Probably correlates well with average human attention span
Ten Advantages of Serverless Architecture for App Development
> and that he believes he should use Google and his wealth to intentionally seek to manipulate modern culture. It's a disturbing notion and I've never understood why people weren't more concerned about it.

Because they're pushing the progressive agenda, so who in the media, government, or academia is going to stand in their way? As far as those parties are concerned, Google is doing what corporations "should" do.
Perfected the feed? As a YouTube user, 'perfected' is probably the last word I'd use for it.

Instead, it seems to either:

1. Hide stuff I actually wanted to see from channels I'm subscribed to
2. Show me videos I've already seen before.
3. Show completely irrelevant videos
4. Mix up subscriptions and recommendations by recommending videos I'd already have seen if they showed me the bloody subscriptions in the first place.

And watch later... oh boy, their idea of videos to show there seems to be stuff I've either seen years ago and didn't like enough to finish, or that I've seen multiple times and didn't finish once or twice because I saw something new to watch.
Can you elaborate on some of the issues you're having in the Chrome Remote Interface?
The author has also written http://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.ht... .
Drop your butterfly knife, you might just hurt yourself. Knock over that Cubiio, you might blind your neighbor in the building next to yours.
Even better! Writing deployment scripts for that. Thanks for the tip!
Transitioning from Academic Machine Learning to AI in Industry
There are multiple, valid definitions of inflation, thus it can be low and high at the same time.

The Treasury Rate and CPI could both be low while real estate or precious metal prices explode. Likewise, real estate prices could be in a freefall while the CPI hits double digits.
google still hasn't learnt how to do support/communicate with their paying customers

You are confusing "don't know how" with "absolutely not incentivised to spend money on this"
Take a look at Arq. I began switching over to it before Code42 announced they were shutting down CrashPlan, and I've been happy with it. And if you do one-day decide you want to put some of your data in a cloud, this supports that as-well.

https://www.arqbackup.com/
They actually swarm first without biting and then once they get a critical mass covered they chemically send a command to all bite at once.

I’m not kidding.
Talking to Boys the Way We Talk to Girls
Yeah, I don’t know when, but sometime in the past few months I’ve basically been exclusively using YouTube’s recommendation engine. While before it was kind of blunt (“you like video games, so here’s some more video game videos”), now it’s very sharp (“you’ve been interested in half life recently, and you like the video essay format, so we’ll give you half life video essays”). It’s honestly amazing how easy it makes it to reach good content.

A giant feed of neurally recommended videos, created by average people with passion in topics really feels like the future.
Nitpick: IQ is based on a normal distribution with 100 as the mean. If everyone had an IQ of today's 120, then it would no longer be an IQ of 120.
My guess is that Microsoft's bet is less in AR in its own right, and more that the "phone" - a form factor that has changed once or twice a decade for the past 3 decades or so - is due for a form factor change. And they'd like to be ahead of the curve for once, rather than always catching up.
Why bother have a 5-star rating system then? Sounds like Netflix went down the right path, with thumbs up or thumbs down. People either zero it out, or give it five stars.
Ask HN: Book Recommendations
Where do you get your book recommendations?

Do you subscribe any value to all these 'Must read books' lists or what Bill Gates (or other famous person) may say they read in a blog post? Do you assign any value to a list put together by some random person that says a famous person recommends a particular set of books?

In other words, do you feel more inclined to read a book that has been endorsed in a list by someone famous?

Do you just rely on reviews from Amazon, Goodreads etc?

Lately, some of the most interesting books I've found have actually been through HN threads where a user mentions a book relevant to the topic discussed, usually by including a summary or short excerpt from that book.

Your thoughts?
Is it crazy to just ask?
You can say that but sometimes there is just no way to get it right without trying stuff that doesn't work, improving on that, and throwing the old stuff away. You can't plan ahead and take your time to do things the right way because you don't know what the right way is. Iterating quickly is a way to work through those approaches quickly, and throwing away bad approaches is better than refining the wrong one.

John Carmack:

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
How ‘Doxxing’ Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars
If there is a law or federal rule, that usually implies there are not sufficient market forces behind whatever we still think should/shouldn't be done.
While this is true, the average mouse never goes more that 300 feet from their dwelling. While mice can infect deer ticks with lyme disease, it is deer that are primarily responsible for spreading the disease to new populations.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3072871/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140701111549.h...
How do you read the JLS bits about final fields that mmastrac referenced then?
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-17.htm...
Fox News Hires Tomi Lahren
People may use I/my simply for a personal taste, such as a blog post of a mother about her daughter, instead of a formal article. Some use it to emphasize that they are expressing a personal opinion. Sometimes it shows they are more self-centered, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Or it could just be habit. Anyway, I wouldn't psychoanalyze it too much.
Is there an alexa app that can understand recipes? I hate having to constantly check the recipe when I'm cooking. It would be nice if I could just say things like "ok, I added all the spices, what's next?"
I believe Duplicati is the current tool du jour
I throughly enjoyed the webcomic Digger [1]. I didn't realize the author had so many other works published on the internet and in print. Thank you for this pointer!

[1] http://diggercomic.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15128428
any general-theory getting started tips/links?
I don't know; no doubt we could debate the point at length.

Nevertheless I stand by my original remark. IMHO the conflation of "Chinese" with "cheap crap" is:

* Not relevant

* Debatable / Subjective

* Divisive

and thus distracts attention from the actual point being made.
Could you please not post such inflammatory unsubstantive claims? We're trying to have a civil discussion around some semblance of a shared reality and comments like this get in the way and worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There is plenty of music that you wouldn't even get to enjoy if you didn't invest in some higher-end equipment and made some effort to improve your listening environment, because you wouldn't be able to hear it at all: the opening of Schnittke's Symphony No. 3 in the BIS recording, Nono’s Prometeo, Ligeti’s Cello Concerto as I mentioned above, most of Knaifel’s music issued on ECM or several of that label’s Pärt recordings, etc. That is music of extremely pianissimo dynamic. And no, you can’t just turn the volume up, because if you did that, the loud parts that come later would blow out your ears: you have to have a listening environment and responsive speakers that are capable of representing the whole dynamic range of the recording.
I came into Crashplan because for me these were essentials:

- Encryption before data get to the cloud

- Multi-platform support

- Versioning - saved me few times

- Deleted files backup without time limit to keep them.

- No limit for size.

- Real-time-ness.

No one else offers above. And I need 3 boxes.

$10/mo/box is more expensive than Home plan used to be - but i think i will have to bite that $360/yr bill with a good feelings - because crashplan is tested and it works on all points.
Perhaps I'm spoiled, but I'm wondering why this wasn't a thing many years ago. Am I wrong in saying this was brought about in reaction to Chrome adding the same feature, or has this been there for a while? Clearly people wanted this for ages, hence the work on things like PhantomJS. But it seems like it was only added once they realized they needed to play catch-up with Chrome.
> The IRB requires a procedure that doesn't avoid it

The IRB requires getting informed consent from the patient. This is not unreasonable. In fact, IMO, experimenting on people and then publishing the results of those experiments without prior informed consent is grossly unreasonable and creepy.

Parent's point is that the author concedes that in a psych ward context, even asking for consent carries serious risks. I'm not sure if this is true because I have no personal experience, but the author seems to believe it is true.

Look, it sucks that doing any research in a psych ward carries substantial risk. But that doesn't mean that you can perform experiments on psych patients without their informed consent. Even if you think that the experiment is NBD. Guess what? You're not the patient and it's not your medical data, so it's not your call. Insisting otherwise is incredibly disrespectful and dehumanizing toward psych ward patients. They are humans, they have rights, and an inconvenienced researcher is not a reasonable justification for nullifying those rights.

Are there aspects of IRBs that are infuriating and unnecessary? Absolutely. But requiring informed consent before medical data is used in a non-treatment context is -- and should be -- a basic right afforded to every patient. Even psych patients.

I hate IRBs, especially for questionnaires, and especially the stupid training. But posts like yours convince me that both are sadly necessary.
That issue becomes a logistics issue. You can pay one worker in Bangladesh to oversee the machine, or you can pay one worker in the US (or Europe) to oversee the machine.

But, if your target market is US (or Europe) you've got shipping costs to get your finished shirts to the US (or European) market. If the machine is in the US (or Europe) those shipping costs are substantially lower (and with much less latency).

The lower latency (meaning you can sell shirts in a more "on-demand" manner) and much lower shipping costs might well outweigh the labor savings of the Bangladesh worker overseeing the machine.
Please teach me.
"BigDecimal is an immutable data type. So every method of this class should be thread safe."

I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of Java's API and memory model and this is unexpected, but should it? If so, where does the documentation make that promise?

Also (nitpick) one _can_ subclass BigDecimal and make it mutable (a design error that won't be fixed because of backward compatibility)
So true, good call
Your argument is a total non-sequitur. Work to make a city more ecologically friendly is completely independent from whatever social problems there are. You can use this argument to oppose literally anything except for whatever issue is from your perspective the most important. You can't govern a city this way.

Your claim about salaries staying the same is plainly false. See for instance https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/wages

For prices to double every 7 to 10 years we're talking 7% to 10% inflation year over year. In reality inflation is below 2%.

Your assertions about the Muslim community in Berlin are baseless, hateful, and totally offtopic.
IQ enhancement is almost the only thing that matters in the genetic engineering story. If we don't allow it, somewhere else will; and it is they who will control future technological progress. Strength matters little in comparison.
> It's the same strain of rant Zed Shaw had of Py3, ie., that its harder to teach than Py2 and thef. bad. Crazy.

Why is wanting something to be easy to teach crazy?
Penguins have a gland above their eyes that filters excess salt from their bloodstream, allowing them to drink salt water.
I actually have a friend back home in TX who owns a store that sells flamethrowers. [1] Sadly, his business is in the bulls-eye of Hurricane Harvey flooding.

[1] http://www.txmgo.com/index.php/shop/flamethrowers
The interesting thing about Trump is that, in spite of what he ran on, quite a bit of Trump's advisor picks ended up being from the business, banking, or investment side of the equation. (Prominent examples include Rex Tillerson of Exxon; Steven Mnuchin of Goldman Sachs; and Wilbur Ross of Rothschild.)

It's hard to say that Trump is "pro corporation" though, because his cabinet also includes anti-globalization nationalists (most prominently Steve Bannon who is now gone, but there are others). The policy conflict between these groups (and others) actually has, in my opinion, been one of the strongest defining features of Trump's presidency so far.

I agree that Trump campaigned as an anti-corporate and (along with Sanders) showed that there is current popular discontent with the state of business in America.
S/he was pointing out facts.

And s/he did so without accusing anyone of being "unfounded, ignorant".

And without accusing anyone of being "so locked into your position that it doesn't matter what you are shown, you will ignore it and instead fall back to your ignorant position."

Was it anti-immigration? I guess so. Was it off topic? Possibly, I'll let the mods decide.

But you are the one who bring the accusations.
> has a multiplication by 320

Huh the original implementation seems to have a lookup table instead of that, interesting.

https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/05167784ef009d0d0...
Less transportation required, which should be cheaper and better for the environment.
If you're looking for raw data, you can find measurements from NASA's earth observation missions here: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/

NASA's Worldview application presents the data as overlays on maps of the Earth and it lets you scroll backward in time from the start of the missions (around 2000 or so) up to near real time (a few hours old). If you want to make sense of the scientific data, you'll still need to put some work into understanding what the instruments are measuring:
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
I was not speaking of in-house software were only "your colleagues might use it badly". In that case, you have access to the entire source code and aren't so worried about backwards compatibility.

I was referring to publishing a library which uses a namedtuple as part of the public API.

Your argument seems to be that there are good things about namedtuple - which I agree with - so therefore I shouldn't be so dismissive of it. That might be reasonable if there were no other easy way to construct a light-weight object with immutable attributes.

But the attr package exists, as js2 pointed out in a sibling branch. See http://www.attrs.org/en/stable/examples.html#immutability .
He is also very pro-deregulation and anti-oversight.
That sounds like a lot of money to spend to get fragments of notes for an unfinished book that you can't even sell as "Terry Pratchett's Unfinished Book" because his estate would sue you. Not to mention the legal risk of stealing the hard drive fragments then publicly admitting that you did it when you publish your book.
My mechanical home button always broke around the 20 month mark... combined with the shrinking battery life it always gave me a reason to upgrade. Now with the 7's non mechanical button and armed with a battery pack, i may never be forced to upgrade due to wear and tear.
My question is, is it worse or better with Ruby,NodeJS, Perl,Java or Go? I remember NodeJS scripts being extremely slow to start in general, way slower than Python.
The bring up isn't actually very painful at all. The devices we are running are armv7, so we can easily just cross compile with the standard go tooling. The syscall package and memory layout of go structs lets us do almost every without C and when need C, cgo is very easy to use.

Go's easy concurrency made developing this really easy, so I think that go would definitely be the choice regardless.
I reference this article constantly at Untappd.

When we were building the NextGlass app, I took much of this into consideration for giving wine and beer recommendations.

We recently ran the query on the Untappd database of 500 million checkins and it yielded some interesting results. The "whales" (rare beers) bubbled to the top. I assume this is because users who have to trade and hunt down rare beers are less likely to rate them lower. The movie industry doesn't have to worry about users rating "rare movies", but I would think Amazon might have the same issue with rare products.
We actually switched to Wilson score. Doing it later has some weird effects, when you've already have a lot of people typically voting on the first definition, and then suddenly the order gets switched because something has a higher ratio giving it higher confidence. We're honestly not sure it's done anything that great for UD, sometimes simple is just better.
But it's clear communication. People are missing that.

Small donors like to see their money go directly to projects + don't understand overall operating costs (on the whole).

Larger donors tend to see the overall operation and can fund that directly.

Most of the problems people have with the Red Cross are that 100% of the money doesn't go directly to the fund they donated to (which is fixed in this model).

This creates more goodwill and more trust, which brings in more donations. Net win for the charity. I don't see why more don't do this...
Any examples that I can listen to online?
> so having a NAS turned on all the time feels like overkill

It shouldn't. You probably only need a single drive NAS. Don't buy a multi-bay NAS unless you need one.

As for remote connectivity, just use a good password and SSL. Most hacks are caused by people coming up with bad passwords (eg hunter2).