skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"if understood within their sociocultural context" is akin to saying "if you agree with all of our assumptions". It's a bullshit, vapid argument no matter how you use it, and the students should be embarrassed to be using such childish arguments. But of course they're aren't, because they're children.
> First, not all of these are GPLv3, which is the version with the problematic patent clauses that scare companies away.

So, if Linux were GPLv3 you're saying that most companies wouldn't use it?

> You need look no further than Apple and the great investment they went through to avoid ever shipping GPLv3 software.

Most companies aren't like Apple.

> The GPL kicks in as soon as you distribute the software.

That's right, and that's a good thing. If you distribute GPL software that you modify, you need to make your modifications public. But as Riak is not a library, it does not infect any other component. If you distribute software with (say, Android) Linux but don't modify Linux then the GPL doesn't infect the other components of your software, as they're not actually linked (or Linux has some explicit exceptions).
Totally off topic but Liked the name and the reference to Planescape Torment. (My favourite RPG)
I too saw F8 and The Furious.
Most startups and some big companies like banks don't use these kinds of tests - Their process is mostly based around peer-review from other engineers in the company.
Do you exercize? At 25 my memory was great even after a week of sitting on my ass, but now that I'm 31 my memory goes straight to Hell if I don't break a sweat at least twice a week.

Copious notes helps too :)
No, you could get a reference to the container of the object and indirectly delete it. For example, if the unique pointer were part of a global std::vector, clearing the vector would invalidate the this pointer.

Keep in mind that you are at this point arguing against the existence of actual zero-days that have occurred in Firefox (and lots of other software). This is not a theoretical concern.
Here is a follow-up article written by one of the 33 members of the University of Pennsylvania Law School faculty to sign a letter criticizing Amy Wax:

Don’t Care if Amy Wax Is Politically Incorrect; I Do Care that She’s Empirically Incorrect

https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/09/03/i-dont-care-if-amy-w...
And regardless of the scope of the bubble, even if we conceded that it is all of BC and ON, the fact remains that the Bank of Canada has to act in the best interests (ha) of the country as a whole.
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I genuinely feel horrified by that. Like, it legitimately alarms me in the same way I'd be alarmed to find out everyone else in a room with me is a psychopath. I'm not very personally frightened to think that most people would be fine with me being hurt- it's not an imminent threat.

I still feel a deep discomfort from the idea that people could just be okay with people suffering. Obviously this is more acute with people in other countries than people who do not yet exist, and I have some allowance for laziness. But... people are genuinely fine with the idea that people starve to death? That's horrifying.
"Nor are the single-parent, antisocial habits, prevalent among some working-class whites; the anti-“acting white” rap culture of inner-city blacks; the anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants"

Already you lost me. There are plenty of single parents out of wedlock children in very white states like West Virginia, Kentucky, etc. How is rap culture or black people responsible for the actions of white people in these areas?

I live in a big city, my kids go to a bilingual school. Every parent there, hispanic or not, want their kids to do well, to get a good education, go to college, succeed professionally and personally. All of them have absorbed some American attitudes to one degree or another. The few parents who don't speak english well want their children to do so. None of these people are against assimilating.

There may be legitimate concerns of substance here, about having children out of wedlock, parents who are stretched thin. But this paragraph right here reads like thinly veiled racism targeted towards blacks and hispanics. All the sociological rhetoric does not hide this at all.
Just one person's opinion, but the average customer doesn't make decisions based-on security or privacy. Nor do they care about participation in a walled garden. So, what's left? Brand affinity.

Browsers may just be a relatively transparent means to an end, especially in the app world. The differences between them are small, to the average consumer, and I'm guessing whatever is solved by moving them to the browser is trumped by the existing state, syndicating the credentials you already have with the companies you trust, saving credentials to the browser and easy to remember (insecure) passwords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona was great. But, what customer problem are you trying to solve?
Stop driving. Move closer to work. Bike, etc, etc. It can be done, but most of us are unwilling to make the necessary sacrifice to do it.
This sounds like the musings of the idle rich, who can spend their days worrying about such things. No thanks.
Yea, I guess I'm not convinced that the prime-factors is faster than sorting. Sure, linear time for prime multiplication, but you still have to look up the prime number in a lookup. The question comes down to what the coefficient is in front of N for prime factor method and in front of N log N for sorting. As N=5, the coefficient ratio is pretty small to still warrant using sorting. Also, using Radix sorting makes things even more fuzzy.
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not surprising since many of the early lisp people grew up on ITS which had a built in 'crash' command available to all users which crashed the system..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_Syste...
I've read The Emperor of All Maladies. Overall I liked it a lot, but there are several long stretches with exceptionally boring material about the politics of competing philanthropic groups and things of that nature. While the fundraising side of cancer research is an important topic he spends far too much time on it. And he intersperses with contemporary "patient stories" from his practice that felt more like filler than relevant material. The book did not need to be 600 pages. That said the good parts are really good and it's worth putting up with the rest for them.
Maybe I'm just not the target audience, but I found this intriguing yet confusing. It might benefit from an explanation of typical use cases -- what do people do now that Dhall would be a better tool for?

I read the tagline: "Dhall is a programmable configuration language that is not Turing-complete," so I figured "programmable configuration language" was a term I just wasn't familiar with, and it might bring up some typical use cases if I searched for it -- but it seems like that term was invented for Dhall.

So maybe the kind of example I'm looking for is: if you're now using a non-programmable configuration language, here's what that would look like, and here's the improvement if you switch to Dhall. Or if you're now using a programmable configuration language that is Turing complete, here's what that would look like, and here's the improvement if you switch to Dhall.

(A more specific question: in what kind of scenarios is JSON+arbitrary terminating functions useful?)
Life might be nothing more than the most efficient way to hydrate carbon (entropy ftw).

Intelligent life is so far subjectively the most amazing thing that has happened in this universe.

We are the only intelligent species on our planet, our planet is the only place where we know for sure life exists in our solar system.

Based on our limited observations we are also the only intelligent beings in our galaxy at least at this time period.

While intelligent life may have no interensic meaning we have the capacity to give our life and the life of future generations meaning, this trait is quite likely the result of natural selection.

We study history, cherish our past, honor our heroes and plan for a better future and this is a universal trait that we as a species share.

Saying that life has no meaning is a pointless argument there is nothing to benefit from making this assumption, in fact you lose everything.
>we're saying both of these states are equal - because all cultures are equal - then where's the impetus for any new legislation? Where's the drive for change?

To play the devil's advocate (since I don't agree that all cultures are equal), three answer:

1) Mere preference/taste.

2) Who said "change is required"?

3) Within a culture we might have criteria to stand as impetus for change/legislation etc inside the culture. So the statement just means that we can't use them to judge another's culture but only our own.
Absolutely.

Though still, the CDN folks have faster machines not running in power-saving mode, and lower latency into the core UK Internet peering points / LINX, and my RPi is doing other things too, such as running a substantial Java-based server.
> But maybe that's not what the phrase actually means: maybe what they really intend to say is we've yet to identify unbiased metrics by which we can use to measure cultures and thus correlate them.

> If that's what's actually meant by the phrase 'all cultures are equal' (and I've never heard of anyone presenting it that way) then it should be stated as such because then we can work toward identifying those metrics so we can objectively improve our own culture.

I agree with you about "all cultures are equal" being a hard statement to defend if you take it to literally and nihilistically to mean that there is no objective way to measure good or bad. Not a lot of people are that nihilistic. Most people believe in some degree of moral relativity and some degree of moral absolutism. It's hard.

I don't have a rigorous proof for my feelings towards this, but I feel like the goal shouldn't be to reduce CULTURE down to KPIs. I don't think we should be putting culture on a scale and asking how it effects the economy because I think it's the kind of bad social science that people on HN usually detest. This is a good letter from one of Wax's critics, posted to Heterodox Academy:

https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/09/03/i-dont-care-if-amy-w...
It's conjecture, provided as a counterpoint to the conjecture in the parent post about requiring near 100% adoption of autonomous vehicles in order to see the benefits.

You're completely right that it could cause an increase in aggressive driving behavior. But it's just as possible that it'll decrease aggressive driving behavior. My conjecture's based off of three personal observations:

1) A lot of the aggressive drivers I know that have road rage-like tendencies take it as a personal affront when another driver does something like turn in front of them or using a less congested lane of traffic to get as far ahead as possible before getting over.

2) One of the most effective strategies I had available as a retail manager to diffuse a situation with an irrational/irate customer was to pass blame on to "the system/corporate policy" if they couldn't see reason. They'd still be irate, but they'd redirect their behavior towards something other than the immediate situation. The same principle applies when you go from blaming a specific driver to blaming "those damn autonomous Nissans. They always <insert some peculiar trait of Nissan's self driving implementation>".

3) Aggressive driving is hard to escalate into full-blown road rage when one participant is a computer. As you said, it'll react to the situation by potentially braking aggressively, but it won't then try to tailgate the individual and escalate the situation. It'll back off appropriately and assure that it's not put into that position again and be done with it. Aggressive drivers will get bored with antagonizing autonomous cars when they get used to them and to the fact that you can't get a rise out of them. As well, autonomous cars can likely get better at identifying indicators/patterns of an aggressive driver and account for that.
Your perception confirms my previous post that mediocre developers have a hard time to think in different ways, even to code in non-infix notation. Linux suffers a similar problem. Many people are so used to Windows desktops that they have a hard time to think in different ways, and to appreciate the Linux way which provides not one common desktop but many ones which can freely be chosen.

It reminds me of the quote "Who knows only hammers as a tool considers every problem a nail".

Also the typical claim that LISP just means "lot of silly parentheses" points out that those critics have never tried to develop in the Lisp way. Ironically, as time goes on and complexity rises, more and more developers appreciate new features which have been available in Lisp for more then 50 years -- lambda expressions, maps, and macros for instance.
Lisp was so far ahead of its time that people today still have problems to realize what is so fascinating about Lisp, and why Lisp machines are so awesome. They should take a look at the graphical shell [1] of McCLIM [2] (a revival of the famous CLIM GUI) to see that powerful desktop computing can be very different.

[1] https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/static/media/screensh...

[2] https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/excite.html
I would change the tagline to "Finding runtime errors at compile time" instead of "The ground-breaking new way to find runtime errors".
Isn't that just skinny model, fat client?
It's hard to compare a country like NZ to the US in a fair and meaningful way. NZ is a small, ethnically (and therefore more importantly culturally) homogenous country. Now, it's not completely homogenous, but it is much more so than the US.

Being a democracy, the policies of the country are inseparable from its culture and demographics. You say universal healthcare might stem the tide of cultural breakdown. But we cannot be sure the causality doesn't flow the other way. Unfortunately, it's likely a feedback loop. We have bad policy in part due to the cultural and social decline the author describes, and we have cultural and social decline in part due to bad policy. Simply proposing policy changes neglects the complex interdependencies of these things, and is why national demographics are so important in a democracy.

Part of the reason NZ is able to cohere around its policy more than the US is because everyone in NZ (to a greater degree than in the US) shares the same values and cultural identity. This is why you see similarly idyllic societies in the Scandinavian countries. High social cohesion due to shared cultural and ethnic identity. Same in Korea and Japan - although Japanese culture is a good example of some of the downsides of ethnic and cultural homogeneity as well.
Take the break without "unloading" the problem from your head. Get up, get some coffee or whatnot. You're brain will retain the problem you are working on with no effort on your part.

This works much better when working remote. When in office, keep your headphones on so people see that you are not available.

This is basically variation of a Zen walking meditation. To respect the Zen style fully, try to concentrate on the walking, breathing, making, pouring your coffee, and nothing else. Don't beat yourself up if you starting thinking about work, though -- just go back to being in the moment while doing trivial things. It's the getting up and giving your brain the OK to relax that is the key. The goal of Zen is to be in the flow with that's in front of you, even when sitting and doing almost nothing (just breathing). It is impossible to do this for long (at least for me). But the goal of "not thinking" and being in the moment / in the flow is a worthy goal. Softly bring your attention back to what's in front of you is the mental exercise that helps you relax and avoid distraction when not meditating, though for me this takes months of meditating to have this knock-on effect.

This isn't always possible for me. I probably don't meditate enough. Sometimes I basically keep thinking about whatever I'm working on or worrying about. But even then, stepping way from the keyboard at least let's me tackle things from different direction.

Anyway, a short break like this unlock something you are working on, similar to how we sometimes come up with good ideas in the shower.

For me, I do this once every hour or 2 when I can, not 20 minutes. On the other hand, on days when I have lots of meetings, this is basically impossible.

Just my 2 cents. Everyone is built slightly different; your milage may vary.
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Are you confusing the Essential Phone with the Fairphone (https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Fairphone+2+Teardown/52523), which scores a neat 10/10?
I don't work at the Guardian any more, I'm at the New York Times, where we are starting to use Svelte for some stuff (see e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/09/upshot/game-o...). Though I haven't spent a lot of time evangelizing it to my coworkers here to be honest — if people are happy with their current tools then I've got no interest in shoving Svelte in front of them.

> I'm just a bit lairy of adding yet another proprietary tool to my buildchain to try and bend the web platform to my will.

By using Svelte I've found that I no longer need to bother with any CSS pre/postprocessors or minifiers (I was mainly using them for scoping, which is no longer necessary), and I don't need to faff around transpiling JSX. So you might find you add one build tool but get rid of two others!
Was there intention with our species?
I went from Astrophysics > Computer Security > Genomics > Alzheimer's research > AI > Medical imaging

The secret? Stop worrying about not being an expert in the area. Be friendly with coworkers and immerse yourself in the new field. You will pick it up, even if the verbage doesn't make sense at first.

While doing this, exercise regularly, since this promotes neural plasticity, which is needed to learn new things.
Because having a phd makes you knowledgeable about data and statistics...

It does if you have a Phd in a data science related field.
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How do you propose to raise up a culture that doesn't value creativity and hard work, for example, to the level of success of one that does.

Lots of welfare, which gets back to the original point about marriage vs. single parents.
Sometimes humans talk in terms of self evident generalities derived from common sense instead of solely relying on scientifically verified facts. This is actually a very typical scenario when you communicate with other humans.
A couple weeks ago I was fairly new to neural networks, and tried a bunch of frameworks.

Most of them had unclear documentation, were hard to install (multiple build issues, undeclared depencies, etc) and simply did not produce any results. Why? Because I messed up, but as someone who isn't an expert at neural networks there is absolutely no way to find out what's going wrong.

Keras was easy to install, had pretty good documentation, and produced results immediately, with further tweaking improving them. I can highly recommend it, and it's nice to see that it's now available for R as well.
All cultures are not equal and few cultures are uniformally isolated. Civilization is a byproduct of cultures interacting and blending.

And human happiness and quality of life is most supported by improving our diets, our education, our expressions and our psychologies.

Enlightenment ideals built the modern world, not relativism. We should be criticizing all cultures and our everyday actions.

"Culture" in some ways is just a random repetition of behavior and ideas. It may conform to environmental pressures but there is nothing intrinsic about it in regards to any ethnicity or race. All humans are lazy, hardworking, intellectual, superficial, selfish and selfless. The difference is which ideas push us in the right directions of our better nature.
Isn't that what 'in general' means?
Python 2 advocates were quite firm in telling us that Python 3 and its incompatibility with Python 2 had killed Python and people would abandon Python altogether in droves for other languages.

This post is suggesting the opposite, that Python is more healthy than ever and growing incredibly fast.
Since you point it out, the computational analogy of the brain is useful but also has shortcomings as it leads us to misconceptions.

There's also a model/theory called enacting which doesn't consider cognition like a computer but rather like a piano.
It's undeniable however that, as of Emacs 25.2, Eshell has numerous rough edges.

And this sums up exactly why it isn't used more widely. According to the changelog, Eshell has been in development since 2000 and still has "numerous rough edges", up to and including "doesn't support INPUT REDIRECTION". Even the list of "bugs & issues" in the documentation refers to Emacs 22 (from 2008). Not that newer software is always better, but users can't look at that timeline as reassurance that the bugs will ever be fixed.

I'd also find arguments like "you don't need THING_X, you can just use Emacs!" way more convincing with examples. One person's "trivial computation in Lisp" != another person's.
I'd love for somebody to explain how you get a group of brain tumor-bearing mice. Can one somehow prompt glioblastoma to occur in some meaningful percentage of mice? I scanned the paper but found nothing.
I feel like this should all be short-circuited by the fact that cultures are not a fixed value that can be compared for equality. Congruence, perhaps, but there are too many moving parts in culture to be able to rank them, which is an implication of solving for a single (imaginary) term.
A lot has changed in the brief time since this article was written. Much of the evidence in support of priming was revealed to be based on weak research that didn't replicate. Don't rely on that section of the article.

https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...

http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/25/devoodooifying-psycholo...
The issue here is applying logic to actions that are predominantly displays of virtue driven by fear of being marked as not belonging to the in group. Reason isn't going to win here unfortunately.