skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a pretty good understanding of the issue however you're either unaware or omitting one important fact.

Much of the friction in left v. right issues tied to science or "science" is that in recent decades the Science Community has produced and condoned a wide body of junk science through poorly-designed studies, slavish worship of the P value, outright industry-based lies, corrupting control groups with non-inert placebos. All relying on a sacrosanct Peer Review system wherein it is impossible to find capable reviewers that are not tainted by industry money. Not even at the university level. Add to that several editors of prestigious journals like NEJM and The Lancet coming forth and saying "half of what was published in my journal was crap". Don't forget all the scientists who support this system through silence, coerced by their fear of losing their jobs for challenging the "science" published by their employers.

In short, the Science Community has created what appears to many as an insurmountable problem of credibility and integrity. In other words, no such "I believe the science" assertions will be forthcoming from climate change deniers. Maybe if the Science Community as a whole can divorce itself from its numerous conflicts of interest and excoriate and excise the junk from its current offerings.

I'm a strong advocate of science and the scientific method, and I think much of what is labeled as "Science" should more appropriately be labeled "Propaganda". I've read plenty of stuff that a 6th Grade Science teacher would easily call out for violating the fundamentals of the Scientific Method. Add a little quid-pro-quo with your peer reviewers, and voila, study published in prestigious journal. Career advancement.
This seems like something I'd hear from a mediocre pastor, not from an academic.
Those LLD benchmarks are looking very impressive! Well done to all involved.
IIRC the original owners sold it to Dice, which is when the squeezing started.
You don't need a NAT for that, it's a job for a firewall. You could have each poorly secured device with their own IP, but still not reachable from the outside.
Filter bubbles ie when you consume content by your previous content to provide confirmation bias on your already existing ideas.

Filter bubble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

Confirmation bias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

On rating systems including how the IMDB rating system works
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/6418/rating-system...
That's jabber to evade political nuance. Opoid and drug abuse is obviously heavily prevalent in American society, and is part of their mainstream culture and media. The Americans spent hundreds billions of dollars just in their media push to make drug abuse a part of everyday American life.

Opoid abuse has been _observed_ in other civilizations as leading to a collapse in labor throughput. The Middle Eastern empires, the Chinese Empires, etc... have all recorded _correlated_ evidence of opoid abuse to a collapse in economic throughput, but never "_proven_" it under the "rigor of Western Science".

The real question isn't so much as to _what_ caused the drop in labor force. It is obviously not only drug abuse, where drug abuse is understood to be a symptom of the problem(s). The question that the scientist cannot or will not answer is why the Americans did this to themselves.
It is very easy to run unoptimized code despite sending everything to cuBLAS.

How easy it is to make the wrong turn - that depends on the library.
21-year-old tech entrepreneur running for SF mayor
I really wish that he would post his arguments in the form of text instead of video - it's easy for someone with good charisma to just speak in a convincing way and not give his listeners time to go back and think deeply about his claims, look up citations, etc.
I thought PushPin was based on Qt?
Stop pretending you really know what AI is and read this instead
The question is why one would trust Atlassian to make decent software this time when hipchat is such a POS.

On a former team we were forced to use hipchat and their android client just nuked my battery. It was like night and day; remove the app and my battery lasts 24-30h; with it hipchat installed it would last 10 hours. This was a stock Nexus device btw.
I evaluated PushPin for a project recently but ended up going with Nchan

https://nchan.io/
The "big flaw" is that a film that people either love or hate is indistinguishable from a film that everyone thinks is OK.
HTC makes the Pixel; cutting out he middleman gives Google reduced overhead (if nothing else, on contract management) and more control with that; if HTC isn't making money on the overall smartphone business to start with, the price may be attractive enough that Google wins on that advantage alone.
We know their offspring are (sometimes) resistant to the fungus. From the article:

> When the tiny elms reach 1 inch in diameter, the injections begin—every single sapling gets a shot of the two strains of DED. “That is the moment of truth,” says Marks. “We can tell in a couple of weeks whether they will be disease resistant.

Since they have a higher success rate than elm trees in the wild, we can infer that their parent trees were likely resistant to the fungus.
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I'm gonna need some more clarification on this white company stuff. Those are big claims I've never heard before
Not really, you only suggested that companies will send more flights to disaster areas which somehow means more people will be helped even though they can't afford it anymore.

Your suggestion that flights will somehow "run out" doesn't make sense. If demand is huge for flights during a disaster, airlines don't need to increase the profit margin exorbitantly to make more money. They already will.
AFAIK GNU foundation won't use github because its not totally free software. github isn't open source.
The place where using a non-Turing complete language actually matters is in constructive proofs where it's common to write a function without running it. This can be used to show that a value can be constructed in principle, even if it's not a practical program because it would take billions of years.

But practical programming is about writing programs that we actually want to run. The distinction between "takes far too long" and "hangs forever" is unimportant because real-world tasks have at least an informal deadline: how long the user is willing to wait. And most performance testing is done by actually running programs, not via static analysis alone, because we want to know how fast the code is on real-world hardware.

This particular language is something you'd use to generate large, repetitive configurations. It makes sense for that use case that you'd want to make sure all macros can be expanded. But you don't have to prove this statically, because you can actually run the program and look at what it generates. Doing config file generation using a Turing-complete language would also work fine; if you accidentally create an infinite loop (or just very slow code), you can hit control-C and fix the bug.
The appeal to most that I've seen, myself included, is that yarn is faster than npm. Is that not your experience?
I have been doing this for many years i.e. storing IP addresses permanently instead of relying solely on a cache and constant lookups of the same names, day after day, week after week.

Is it more resilient? Of course it is.

Periodically I update the stored addresses if they have changed, but to be honest most websites I visit do not change addresses very frequently.

Everytime I mention this idea on HN I get at least one reply insinuating it is stupid, unworkable, etc.

Now that BIND is storing addresses, I wonder if the responses to this idea will be the same.

The sensible thing for websites that do not change addresses frequently (which I believe is a very large portion of the web) would be to provide users with advance notice of IP address changes, like ftp.internic.net is known to do. Maybe put it in a standard location like robots.txt.

As for the rest of the web that use load balancing and CDNs, no doubt that some added DNS indirection can sometimes increase "web speeds" for some users.

But not having to perform the multiple layers of DNS queries to resolve names of Akamai customers can also increase "web speeds".

The web can seem significantly faster when the user is not required to do all those lookups.

At least, that has been my experience.
We re-implemented Vagrant's Chef provisioning feature on top of OpenSSH with ControlMaster. This cut about 3 mystery seconds mystery time from our provision process.

Instead of targeting local Virtualbox VMs, we use AWS boxes created by the internal tool we use to manage our production fleet.
I wish someone would create a more personalized algorithm for movies. Use the movie critics' reviews, and compare the other movies they liked to the other movies you liked. Even bad movies get a few good reviews, and there are people out there who would still enjoy those generally poorly received movies. Why not show me the reviews of people who liked a lot of the same movies I liked?
It's very convenient to start from the ice age and show how it's warming up. Here is a much longer timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png
Mail-order tape reels.
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The plane was fully turned around and refueled in 52 minutes, with a hurricane bearing down on it. Your response doesn't do a lot of justice to an impressive team effort.
He still gets a lot of flak from that "invented the internet" comment. Probably one of the few comments in politics that makes critics of it even more angry if they don't take it literally.
Running Linux/debian/freebsd on Windows/Mac, Simulating actual networks on a single computer ...

You can then run Docker inside a Vagrant VM.
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I didn't build this but I think it's very cool.
Everybody (except Amazon) will probably end up worse off. See Thaler's famous paper on the "Winner's Curse."
http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jandreon/Econ264/papers/Thaler%20JE...

I'm not sure what to make of this overall. The Federal Government should probably regulate this kind of behavior or at least sweeten the payoff of state cooperation. Our anti-trust regulators are really asleep at the wheel.
The main wing spar on those bombers also had to be reinforced to support the weight of the crew's giant balls. Respect.
Price gouging [0] is when the price is excessively raised to profit from a disaster. Including the reasonable cost of special transportation required (off-road vehicle, helicopter etc.) after a disaster is not considered price gouging.

By one estimate, helicopter transported gasoline "cost" around $8/Gallon to get it into difficult to access parts of Houston. Charging $20/Gal would be considered price gouging.

A small Helicopter (Bell 206L4 Longranger) could handle a 200 Gallon cargo tank, and costs under $1000/Hr to fly. I'd have to run the numbers but the ballpark figures make sense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging#Laws_against_pri...
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Teen marijuana use falls to 20-year low
So "AI" is equivalent to "neural networks" nowadays, eh?
I'm a pushbullet zealot. What drove you away from PB to build your own solution? Just for fun, or was there a specific feature you wanted to see?
I'm generally in support of WikiLeaks, but this is a really good example of why they often get such a bad rap. As far as I can tell, there isn't anything remotely illegal or unethical about this project (aside from war itself but that's an entirely different argument).

In this day and age its absolutely essential that we hold our governments accountable when they infringe on our liberties or engage in illegal activity. That said, I can't see any reason to leak sensitive documents regarding technical details of how missiles operate (even if the project was ultimately canned).
I've read the other book from the same author "Clojure from the Brave and True", and it's one of my favourite introductory programming books. I even own it physically. So I have high hopes for this, thanks for sharing!
^This! I used to think "who in their right mind would decide to inject heroin to get high" then I realized most people who transition from oral prescription drug--->all the way to--->IV heroin/fentanyl/opiate use are not in their right mind, and usually are resorting to IV use as a cost effective solution to bring them out of terrible, debilitating withdrawal symptoms, often one step past them switching to nasal inhalation of the same prescription-->then-->street drugs.
This video explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7CQaDEKbBU
It's a well-known effect that policy-makers don't deny knowledge of, and no substantial action has been taken to attempt to correct it.

It is, therefore, clearly intended that it continue, whether or not it was originally intentional.
You may have missed this one amongst the mud slinging/circle jerking:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/10/health/trump-opioid-emergency-...

That said, I agree that sessions' views on drugs are abhorrent.
In the organizations that I’ve worked at (around 100 people), sourcing is done by the purchasing department. After some quality engineers give the green light on a few shipments to make sure the parts are good, the vendor is trusted and more of their parts can be purchased. Manufacturers usually try and stay with the vendors they have for parts because the vendors are trusted to give quality parts, have relationships, and lines of credit already established. Basically reduces risk of getting junk and investing more time and money to find something that works.
I'd be curious to see whether any additional performance could be eeked out by ditching HAProxy & Varnish. Nginx can terminate TLS and handle caching, which would reduce the overhead of multiple separate processes & connections.
I am making more a response to those who are saying (paraphrasing) "you won't give away all the stuff you have to these unfortunate people who are affected by this huricane? you're a shitty person and you should feel bad."

Let's say you have two similarly situated people. Right now everything is fine, as has been the case for years. One of these two people, however, feels that it can't always be good, so they spend some percentage of their income, time, and effort on ensuring they are prepared for some particular severity of disaster. There is an opportunity cost to this choice. They don't get to go to Disneyland with their kids one summer or they don't get to go to the bar every weekend or they skip buying a new phone. Whatever it is, there is definitely something they are giving up. Now the second person figures that the future emergency may never happen and they make a different calculus and instead spend their money and time by taking their kids to Disneyland or by going to the bar every weekend and stay up-to-date with their latest tech gadgets.

We could reasonably score these two people's lives and say that the first person has a quality of life score of 10 and the second person has a quality of life score of 15.

Eventually Irma or Jose or Katia shows up and rips up all the services, destroys the municipal water service and what not. Suddenly the second person has needs that they cannot meet on their own. The reason they can't meet these needs on their own is because of their decisions about how to allocate their resources. If at this point they say, "well I made my choice and went to disneyland and now i'm fucked, i'd appreciate help, but if you don't provide it i understand." Then that's a very respectable answer. On the other hand if they say "I need what you have, give it over or you're a rotten person." That's not a respectable answer. The expectation that one doesn't need to prepare for bad eventualities and instead just expect to be able to take from others is greedy and selfish.

I'm not pointing at specific individuals right now, but rather the general idea that those who don't prepare for their own future actually are being greedy and selfish. Arguments of the nature "I'm going to die if I don't get it" really aren't legitimate if the situation is even somewhat predictable and avoidable.
Interests is extremely low and following 2008 liquidity requirements in the EU are rather high.

IMO, they could just do honest business and charge a flat fee for service :)
How do you plan to hold these razor thin phones then? During last years I went from 9.3mm (iPhone 4S) in small formfactor to 8.9mm in 5.0" phone to recent 7.4mm in 5.5" phone. The last one even after almost a year of usage is insanely hard to hold and use naked. It is slippery (metal) and always tend to almost fall when I reach far corners or put it in the pocket. I bought spigen case entirely to have a better grip on this thing, not for the protection I don't really need. With thicker rubber case it is less of ergonomic nightmare and I don't fear that it will slip out. Why on Earth would you want a thinner phone? (I'm not even talking about subpar iPhone batteries)
Just for reference, not everyone is OK with the foundations of probability - what you might call "conventional mathematical probability" as axiomatized by Kolmogorov. See http://www2.idsia.ch/cms/isipta-ecsqaru/ for the most recent in a series of workshops.

One entry into this set of ideas is what Peter Walley has called the "Bayesian dogma of precision" - that every event has a precise probability, that every outcome has a known cost. There are real-world situations when these probabilities cannot be assessed, or may not even exist; same for utilities.

Some examples are in betting and markets (asymmetric information, bounded rationality), and in complex simulation environments having so many parameters and encoded physics that the interpretation of their probabilistic predictions is unclear.
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I have a better alternative: growing excess food and dumping it on the ground.
And the Vegan shows up! I kid, but the stereotype really holds true all too often.

The unsaid assumption in your comment, that I disagree with, is that harvesting animals causes anymore suffering than caring for and harvesting plants (in a humane manner, which admittedly, many facotry farms fail at on either side.)
I heard them talking about this on the radio and they were talking about how, supposedly, one of their problems is young people would rather become drug dealers than work in the factories because it pays so much better. But if that is really true (nothing was offered as proof except a factory manager's assertion, so it seems kind of dubious to me) it seems like the obvious solution is to pay more so that isn't the case.
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Is this sort of analysis technically allowed by Twitter's ToS and Privacy Policy? Don't get me wrong, what you post on social media is public and that's that, but I know there are sometimes interesting rules around this sort of analysis.
This is an amazingly well-written example! I have very little interest in Ethereum (or cryptocurrency in general) but your writeup made me want to try it out and play with it. I wish I had documentation this good for everything!
You must be a professional pilot. Yes, I bet that's it. Plus, flying into and out of hurricanes isn't rocket science (and everybody knows that rocket science is really difficult and dangerous), so, easy stuff.
Link the Soundcloud version, which might be easier for mobile listeners - https://soundcloud.com/evan-doorbell/sets/group-1
This is not exactly correct. They can also hire permanent residents (aka green card holders).
I glanced at machine learning recently (my background is bio and physics, with lots of model building) and frankly, it's all just renamed ideas from computational physics that was developed starting in the 40's. This appears to be because modern ML derived from linguistics, which used non-physical terms and copied the algorithms, or independently rediscovered them.
Char takes a lot longer to rot. So the carbon is pulled out of the short cycle.
It's the Google model.
Someone writes a book about how anonymous people on the internet tried to ruin her career by spreading fake stories. People don't like that, so they post fake reviews in an attempt to ruin the book's sales.

...making the author's point for her.
Uh oh. If you don't watch out you'll end up a Bayesian.
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...

Is this along the lines of what you were hoping to find? Here's more: http://andrewgelman.com/2016/12/13/bayesian-statistics-whats...
It works both directions. I'll give you a pretty common example for my neck of the woods. A good friend of mine worked in a machine shop and had a great job for rural America ran his own small lawn-care business on his days off. One day he hurt his back bad, he didn't have time or money for physical therapy (who else would pay the bills) which would've probably been best instead the doctor prescribed opioids and insurance paid. So he went for a few months and it got worse, which was probably just him building up a tolerance, rinse and repeat a few times and he was a fully burned out addict. Couldn't hold his job because of how fried he was.

This isn't an isolated incident it's an all too common pattern I've seen. The cycle works: you go to work and work as hard as you can, you get hurt, you can't afford the best care option, you take the cheaper meds so you can continue working, tolerance builds up, you can't perform, then you're let go. In the end you're left broke, hurting, unemployed, and addicted.
To be clear I'm not saying there's no tech economy in eastern Kansas (though I think all involved would dispute a description of "massive"). Just saying that dropping Amazon there won't magically make 50,000 qualified applicants appear.

“There are simply not enough workers in the area with the technical skills to meet the demand of our region’s companies,” the report commissioned by the KC Tech Council said. “This number will not decrease unless our region does more to support tech workforce development.”

http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/technology/article14...
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I feel like the vast majority of supposed "labor shortages" have a lot to do with only wanting to pay bottom-of-the-barrel wages.
Back of the envelope math says helicopter transported gas shouldn't cost $20/Gallon! A small turbine helicopter costs less than $1000/Hr to fly and could effectively transport gas/diesel/kerosene into difficult to access parts of Houston.
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Ruby suffers from indifferent stewardship. Yes Ruby could have competed with Python in the scientific sphere but it didn't and now it's too late. I actually think Ruby is a better language than Python, by the way.
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So ultimately the issue is that push button statistics don't work?
I heard that drug dealing comes out to about minimum wage. They talked about in the Freakonomics book.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/24/opinion/oe-dubner24
> Meanwhile opioids and meth are completely out of control, but because they are largely white rural/suburban drug users, they have been getting a free pass for decades.

Are you saying what we need is a draconian crackdown on more drug users? I understand the impulse, but I don't agree that that is the solution, personally.
It also creates an unnecessary attack surface against core infrastructure.