skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never even heard of NextDoor before reading this. Is it just localized discussion forums?
Racial profiling is 100% prejudice -- pre-judgment based on race alone.

There isn't a universal definition of racism, but racial profiling is certainly a historical tool of racists and racist policies.
It’s true that making decisions based on statistical risk is different from people acting out of hate. Indeed, it can be seductive to people with a basic understandinge of math that data driven decisions should be more fair minded.

But the devil is in the details. It’s famously easy to make bad decisions based on “flawless” calculations that simply don’t interpret data right or don’t take all factors into consideration. Statistics is known for this peril even in mundane business situations, but with problems that are controversial, and affect people’s lives, it’s even more perilous.

Here basic profiling would tell me you are male, correct? Did you know people like you commit 99% of murder and violent crime? Can you really blame me for crossing to the other side of the street if I see you walking toward me at night?
Indexes are useful for speeding up select statements but they run a significant cost on insert and update.

Sometimes it's better not to index, if you have a table that is updated often and queried in varying, complex, rarely repeated ways.
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What happened to the drive mechanism? I've had a (previously damaged) CD explode and I just had to pour the pieces out.
Is this thesis intentionally ironic? What exactly is the utility?

On a human level, loss and gain are subjective. The definition of a "stupid" person therefore requires complete context and access to their subjective state.

Therefore this doesn't provide any gain to the "intelligent" person to help resolve the situation.

However, from the perspective of a potential stupid person who is by definition self-destructive, when they read this thesis, their reaction at best will be neutral, and at worst cause them to become destructive.

So, to recap, this essay provides no gain, but does create potential loss.

In which category would that place this essay?

Q.E.D.
Thanks Rosebud! This is a cool analysis, and I really appreciate you sharing the code. There are a ton of ways to pick apart the interpretations, but I feel that you were pretty up front about the difficulties of inferring much. I can empathize with the level of data cleaning fatigue you must have felt. Here's an analysis of VC backed enterprise startups that I did for a stats class: http://robterrin.com/MissingData/index#1

By the end, I was pretty much burnt out on this data set to draw many strong conclusions. Still, you busted some myths and flagged some interesting observations for further research. Thank you!

P.S. Oops, I realize the OP is not the author, but cool nonetheless.
> If you're seriously investing in real estate you're looking into development projects, re-zoning, etc.

I don't think that's strictly accurate, there's something for every budget in real estate investment world, from buying a small condo to rent out to sovereign-fund-level buildouts like Las Vegas CityCenter or LA Metropolis.

It's like saying that someone interested in stock investing would not be buying a few shares here and there, but instead go the Warren Buffett way and acquire entire companies to get synergies across industries.

There are income-oriented investors and multifamily income funds who buy primarily for cap rates.
Carl's Jr./Hardee's Begs Amazon for an Acquisition Over Twitter #AmazonBuyUs
They are definitely not helping. They promote SceneKit and Metal over all else. Granted Metal is WAY better than OpenGL
Most students have the combined genetic material of their parents. Genetics are a key influence on aptitude.

To be transparent, I personally benefited from public schools, and my parents were not wealthy (but they were graduates of public colleges).

I'm not arguing that only wealthy people should have access to quality education. I'm just saying that it's a weak argument to point out that success in school is linked with wealth.
If you like this, try http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/. Less PC, but also hilarious in places.
I hear about racist behavior in NextDoor Seattle as well. The Stranger (local alt weekly publication) has covered it at least once before, as have some other publications. From what I gather, the situation is a microcosm of what we see on a national scale: people who live in neighborhoods with low racial diversity are irrationally afraid of people of color, and NextDoor is their platform of choice. If you don't live in Capitol Hill or Pioneer Square (which face issues of rapid gentrification and homelessness), the local crime stats show that you are vanishingly unlikely to be facing even property crime. Now I really wonder what NextDoor looks like in my (predominantly black, including African immigrants) neighborhood...

I'm sure The Stranger will have a field day if anyone actually gets kicked off because of this "don't share with the media" position. And if NextDoor think that media folks aren't already embedded, in every neighborhood group, so they can have access to the kinda-racist goings-on of the platform, they are surely mistaken!
> CSVs to show properly in Excel we have to mess around with OS language settings.

Why? Aren't the import settings enough?

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Text-Import-Wizard-...
To all the posters saying it's harmless. What's your stance on your source code being uploaded on crashes while you develop your app with new IP in it?
What if you also dress and behave like a drug dealer?
Can you explain what you mean by cut and cover?
I wouldn't throw out accusations of racism and make the discussion inflammatory when it's not particularly relevant. You can just mention the differences.

Knowing "African American English" still puts one at a severe advantage compared to immigrants who don't know English or American children who have immigrant parents who can barely speak English. There are noticeable and helpful similarities between the AAVE and standard English.

African Americans also have cultural advantages compared to immigrants and immigrant children because their parents and family all grew up in America. Knowing and understanding American cultural references helps them learn standard English vocabulary and concepts much quicker.
One of the Elements Doesn’t Obey the Laws of Quantum Mechanics
I'td be in the lower bandit category (the personal gain is significantly less than loss to the other person). The definition of loss is intuitively simple I think: you would have preferred that nothing had happened instead. Vice versa for gains, and then its matter of degrees. With total gain/loss to society scaling the intelligence axis

The stupid man would take down the other without meaning to; he gets nothing out of the event, and he brought significant loss upon his neighbors. The key being that this was without intention; that is, he poses a threat to himself, and everyone around him, by virtue of his normal character.
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Software is buggy by default. That alone is enough to require you to not run with unfiltered access, if you really care about minimizing security risks. And if you do it (and you should) then this story doesn't affect you.

I agree though that transparency about data collection is important, especially for building trust.
I've seen a few ND communities. They've been both what you're describing and also what GP described. They're not mutually exclusive.
I see quite of it here in Portland, Oregon as well. Certianly more “those people” are a problem posts than I would expect. There is definitely a lot more ire directed at the homeless, but the (apparent) insularity of NextDoor appears to encourage people to show their true colors.
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thanks for the suggestion..

but for email forwarding im looking for something similar to an old non-existent service that was called "easy.to" that allowed you to create email forward
see (https://web.archive.org/web/19990428165710/http://www.wired.... )

it was free and very simple to use it, do you know any existing service like this?

as for those "free" domains, do they last? do you have full control of them?

can you recommend some free "green hosting" providers?

thanks in advance!
I think this is more important:

The numbers are half a percentage-point different from 2016 — down in English and up in math.

Scores didn't really do down, they stayed the same. Why would one expect them to go up? Kids didn't get magically smarter, schools didn't change. It's more suspicious that the schools got better every year under the previous test.
iPhone auto replaces !? with interrobang.
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Tacoma here. I kept getting hand typed notes in my mailbox for a few months to join NextDoor. Looked it up once and never went back. Too many dogwhistle posts about "undesirable youth" causing all the city's problems.
Is it the same every day? I feel you should randomise it a bit.

On the general topic, there is something called "rejection therapy". While I haven't exactly practiced it myself, I've had my fair share of rejection and I can definitely feel it is something to try out. Be it social or work-related things.
They used to do this. I recently joined with no verification at all somehow. So did my girlfriend.
> Lots of FUD as usual with these topics.

> It's definitely nothing out of the ordinary and is common practice among many tools and apps you already use.

Also as usual it's opt-out and NOT opt-in. People get riled because (usually)

a) built in telemetry is almost always an unexpected and unannounced change - only to be discovered later.

b) opt-in is the only approach that leaves your trust in tact - everyone uses opt-out because they know the majority of users people will not choose to opt in given a choice.
Oh wow, I need to google this. There's suggestion that many isolated examples of humans advancing in technological capability? So surely something environmental was at play on a global scale.
My small shop of engineers (mostly nuclear, not software) somehow cobbled together Jenkins with Phabricator and we now have this magical world of up-to-date documentation, unit test results showing up in code review before code goes live, up-to-date in-use test suites, test coverage results vs. time, Pylint scores vs. time, auto-builds of various distribution packages, Python2 and Python3 compatibility checks, long-running validation runs every weekend, the whole nine yards! The best part is the release process (i.e. pushing the develop branch to the master branch). We have this huge checklist and Jenkins just runs through it all when it detects a new push on the master branch, doing all appropriate checks and updates of expected test results and stuff. God I love it.
All of this can be "shut off" through options during install and first usage.
Maybe it would be cost effective to plan it such that everything in that area is re-located and re-vitalized for when things come back online.
The premise of the post is having a Rails application with a User model and the requirement of letting users upload profile pictures to S3. The post should not be much interesting outside Rails development.

The question is why doing it by base64 encoding those images through the GraphQL API, but not all tutorials show useful examples.

BTW, paperclip is a gem that allows to add files to a model, with extensions to handle several backends (S3 among them) and process those files (convert formats, crop images with frontend integration, etc). It's probably the oldest gem in that genre, the main alternative being Carrierwave.
> Indeed, when I look at the emptyheaded paper for example, I see SIMD parallelism, query compilation join optimization, all stuff that was first developed in the context of RDBMSes.

The main contribution of EH is not the use of SIMD, it is the implementation of new WCO join execution strategies that hadn't been developed in the past 40 years of RDBMSes.

If you wanted that behavior, with its orders-of-magnitude performance improvements, you could not get it from an existing optimizing RDBMS---not HyPer, nor MonetDB, nor anything else in your list---but you could get it from a more programmable data-parallel system.

> Well, if computation's all you need ...

It is a thing I need, which is exactly the point. If the RDBMSes don't provide the performance (or anything within 100x) you can get from a more programmable system, you need a different solution.

Stonebraker's claim was that MR was a huge step backwards, which is BS to the extent that RDBMSes weren't solving the problems Google (and others) had. No amount of fantasy query optimization was going to take SQL to the performance of MR or MPI codes (even circa 2009, Vertica still had no support for UDFs).

You are of course welcome to list other things that RDBMSes are good at, and that's great. However, Stonebraker's claim isn't that RDBMSes have some value (which everyone I know agrees with), his claim is that MR was a shit model and everyone should be using RDBMSes instead (preferably his).

> If you're saying RDBMSes are bad at graph computations, then sure. That's unsurprising. But that's not what we were talking about! :-/

Remind me what that was, then? It seemed like we were talking about whether there was a heavy pro-RDBMS bias in the redbook, which I think is (i) fair, and (ii) fine. I also think Stonebraker is wrong in his claim that MR set things backwards because (as I referenced) RDBMSes weren't there to be set back from. If anything, it prompted a great deal of new work that led to improvements in areas he was blind to. A concrete example of this (e.g. iterative computation) seems totally on-topic.
One day we will have cheap, reliable, ubiquitous digital storage that we don't even think about. Future archaeology will be about digital spelunking and untangling of massive amounts of data that isn't properly catalogued or given context.
Asciimatics: a package to help people create full-screen text UIs
The author in your last reference is pure gold. Here's another one of his gems, and I quote from the abstract:

"""

The author proposes several new concepts of physics such as it is not mass but the attracting force of mass which warps space, electricity can be generated from space at zero cost, making of graviton bombs are for real, it is possible to include gravitons and darkons in to the standard model of particle physics, unification of quantum physics with Einstein’s relativity can be performed on the foundations of a new spherical geometric applications, & new thoughts on big bang theory , particles and pre big bang.

"""

http://vixra.org/abs/1306.0017
Unicode is vast. There's absolutely no good reason we don't have Snowman Separated Values (or some other proper separator sign that isn't commonly used elsewhere) other than that people don't demand it.
Emerging Trends in Embedded Systems – Updated
It is really great to see that the global embedded systems market is set to reach $234B by 2020 as per global industry analytics, owing to increased growth in production and consumer wearables and electronics.
I believe artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) is going to change the way the technology has been used.
What are your thoughts looking at the trending embedded systems?

http://blog.radixweb.com/emerging-trends-embedded-systems
Right, the symbols are SVG but not rest of the text.
What kind of time scales does this suggest?

> A study based on a coupled climate–carbon cycle model (GCM) assessed a 1000-fold (from <1 to 1000 ppmv) methane increase - within a single pulse, from methane hydrates (based on carbon amount estimates for the PETM, with ~2000 GtC), and concluded it would increase atmospheric temperatures by >6 °C within 80 years

Am I reading this right that it would take 80yrs to get to +6c, so it would still be a gradual increase? Is it an exponential increase?

Anyone recommend a documentary about this?
Fibonacci Numbers Hidden in the Mandelbrot Set [video]
How do drug dealers dress and behave? Do they wear shirts that say they're drug dealers?
What does a drug dealer dress and behave like?
That copies the data from the CSV file into a worksheet, you aren't editing the CSV file anymore.

I'm not just being pedantic, it makes a big difference. If I want to change some values in a spreadsheet I should be able to just open it, change the values, save, and be certain that the document will be identical apart from the deliberate changes. This is especially important for CSV files, which are commonly used for import/export operations.
Optimizing test taking took some years, maybe?
How do you even pass electrons through a line 6 atoms wide... :S
I've always thought cities should do this with regard to bottled water. It's one of those things you feel guilty spending money on but the convenience now and then is just worth it.

But if it was local, I wouldn't feel as bad about environmental impact and the profits would hopefully go towards something useful like filling potholes or education.

I'm ambivalent when it comes to bottle water but I certainly don't like giving Nestle my money.
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Or they don't care about anyone but themselves in this regard.

Private for them but everyone else can get rekt.
I mean, the article is about a gene that caused the bacteria to build sensors, not anything else. I don't know what bacteria can or can't do. (E.g. Ants are known to self-assemble into useful structures such as bridges. So that being true of bacteria is believable, hence my confusion.)
That was actually my biggest surprise about the DNC hack.

People who live by the maxim "don't put anything in writing that you wouldn't want people to see on the front page of the New York Times" apparently decided archiving controversial internal party squabbles was a good idea, and acted surprised when stuff showed up on the front page of the New York Times.
I don't see how it's unexpected when you get a message telling you when you first run it - and the only thing to do with this tool is to run commands explicitly.

Most apps are opt-out though, the checkboxes are already checked and a message shown. I agree that it would be easier to just enter an option on the command line instead of typing the environment variable option.
Ms doesn't enter markets where they have no control (OSS or closed ecosystems).
Isn't "consistent billionaire" a surrogate for "way over a billion" whereas the "non-consistent billoinaire" is someone who makes about a billion? And, does any of this mean anything? who cares?
I shouldn't have to resort to arcane concepts like importing files to get them to display properly when people in other locales can just open them.
Not for a standardized test gauging the understanding of student's knowledge of Math or English.
I lived in a Utah city with one of the highest concentrations of Mormons and on the whole people were incredibly gracious. Surely not all experiences are equal, but for over three years my wife and I were made to feel welcome in the community.

There were little inconveniences like no coffee provided at a lot of workplaces and liquor restrictions, but if you love outdoor stuff that alone can make it a pretty nice place to live.
Herein lies the slippery slope to APL...
There are reasonable people...

Have they got Paul Erlich on board?
I think you might be surprised by how often your perception of what a drug dealer looks like and behaves like is incorrect.

But still, let's assume you can reliably see this things: sure! It's very reasonable to suspect someone who is acting shady. Because there is likely a reason why they are acting shady. Race doesn't work like that, and that's why it's different. A black person didn't wake up in the morning and decide to dress or act in some way that makes some people suspicious of them. They had no choice in the matter - just simply existing is enough to make you a suspect in some people's eyes.
I accept that point. I also raise a counter point of Microsoft overwriting privacy customization such as that, on subsequent updates, regularly.
Well, I'll be sure to keep this in mind.
We are not talking about the SAT. This article is talking about the CAASPP, which is intended to provide feedback and ratings for the schools, not the students.
It's like Facebook but for your neighborhood, along with verified identities (people verify their addresses through a couple different methods) and groups based on geo-boundaries (which try to reflect the physical real-world neighborhoods).

You can communicate with people in your immediate neighborhood or with people in nearby neighborhoods.

As you can imagine, what people talk about really depends on the character of your real world neighborhood and the people who live there. That's why I would hesitate to characterize the entire product based on any individual experience with it. It really depends on the neighborhood.

I've personally found it to be a mix of extremely useful and meh, depending on the use-case and context. There's definitely immense potential.

It's one of the more under the radar billion dollar companies: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nextdoor
What makes a person stupid? If I have a friend who squanders their money while I save and build up wealth, are they stupid? What if they have a much happier and more fulfilling life than I do?

If you have a difficult job (like brain surgeon), but are terrible at most of the other parts of your life, does that make you stupid?

Are slow readers stupid? What if they invent a product or start a business that makes them a lot of money?

“Smart” and “stupid” are such harsh, black and white terms. They leave no room for the many shades of gray in between.

We all think we’re smart, even if we say we don’t. No one wants to be the dumb kid.

I feel like being “smart” usually just means you can think and process information a little bit faster than others. But like having a super fast cpu installed, it’s really a matter of what you do with it. You could write a bestselling novel on a slower computer. You could have a super computer and just go on Facebook all day.

It seems like every time I feel like I’m smart, I see someone who I thought was dumber who is more successful or happier than me, and I wonder if I was that much smarter in the first place.
> Which seems to argue that Cantor Diagonalization, a method of proof known for over a century and taught in most undergraduate abstract math courses, is completely wrong.

FWIW, this is a very common topic for mathematical cranks. It's somewhat understandable that in the 19th century this was kind of a controversial result, but it's really impressive that we still see crackpots swinging at the same target.
> https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#windowscmd

Can you point out where in the installation instructions I'd find out about this telemetry or do you seriously expect me to read every single piece of documentation this might be hidden in? Considering this was added after the initial release, do you expect me to re-read the documentation on every single update?

Sorry, but even if your argument was correct, this just (deservedly) burns any good will I had with MS, which wasn't much but at least I used to have some for the .net team.
On a congruent note, California flops on compulsory English[1], the expressive void of the interwebs yawns at over a thousand emoji code points[2], and people actually think it's a great idea to champion patented punctuation marks[3] in everyday grammar. Can this guy[4] even spell his name yet?

[1] https://outline.com/Gea52v

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

[3] https://www.google.com/patents/USD608820

[4] https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of...
Even Gmail should be assumed to be “eventually public”. That’s why we have this new saying:

”Dance Like No One is Watching; Email Like It May One Day Be Read Aloud in a Deposition”

You’re taking a serious gamble if you assume your email will be private forever, as certain politicians now know all too well.
Ford wasn't very good at acronyms?