skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You guys are doing a stellar job!

The only additional thing I could wish for is a learning-oriented portal with a multitude of examples, focused on people with traditional JS background, that wish to learn all the advanced (coming from advanced languages) coding concepts.
It really hasn't. Python has pretty good support for machine learning on data with no missing values.

It doesn't really support things like survival analysis, complicated time series models or (the most important) missing data.

Also, R's formula interface for models is a thing of beauty, while Python has nothing similar.

So, if you have data with no missings and are only interested in a small subset of statistics (that used by computer scientists), then Python can definitely suffice.

If you are in almost any other discipline, you're going to be using R.

Don't get me wrong, Python is a wonderful language, but R is so well adapted to analysis that it will be a very long time before it gets replaced (Julia looks really promising, but its not at 1.0 yet, and hence hasn't seen the broad scale adoption it would need).
Oh, sorry for that, the question was misunderstood.

I presume that a user-level contract language like Simplicity is going to be translated into low-level byte code like EVM. That low-level code is what gets executed on the blockchain. People can choose other languages with less guarantees, write contracts in those languages, and those contracts will be interoperable with each other. This is how things work right now. In my view the real problem is to introduce a language that will be both safe and expressive at the same time.
> Now, CBS has sued Tannen back, claiming that he "hypocritically" used CBS intellectual property "while simultaneously bringing suit against Plaintiff's sister company, CBS Interactive Inc., claiming it had violated his own copyright."

Wow CBS even admits that it's retaliation! Hopefully that comes up in court as a strike against CBS.
I think this is one of the strongest pros for using OVH;

YOU get the abuse letters and as someone operating a internet service it is YOUR responsibility, legal and otherwise, to deal with them.

This means if the abuse letters are ignored, the next step is the legal one instead of having OVH deal with it. It's business between you and the hoster, not between you and OVH.
Try reading this link for a comparison between Blockchain and Hashgraph: http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2017/10/blockchain-smart-co...

Warning: He writes in a very colloquial lang sprinkled with what he thinks is right. Be your own judge.
1. It doesn't make any sense to allow yourself to risk spending more than you have

2. They're more prone to abuse: if somebody gets hold of the numbers on your card (whether by a leak or hack or by old-fashioned pickpocketing), no further PIN, password or 2FA token is required

3. The only use for them is online spending outside Europe, and even then the number of websites that require them is rapidly shrinking (PayPal can work with bank accounts, and Stripe now supports SEPA direct debit and local payment methods such as SOFORT (Germany), iDEAL (Netherlands) and Bancontact (Belgium))

4. They cost money (see point 3, people don't like paying for things they don't use)
Definitely, if the apps use different versions of the .NET runtime.
Here is a hint of performance

https://blog.xinhong.me/post/sublime-text-vs-vscode-vs-atom-...

But an even better test is when using these editors on large projects with hundreds or thousands of files. Atom is a disaster. I tried to like VSCode and except Electron part and baggage it is great.

For this reason, I am switching to vim for everything except Java/Kotlin. There is nothing even remotely close to IntelliJ for Java or Kotlin and you can use very nice vim bindings in IntelliJ. I also keep Sublime installed for quick file edits when browsing the filesystem with GUI apps.
How can one get one of these outside of Japan?
Intentionally designed or not, the way the roomba crashes around the house, with it's "extra dirt" light occasionally going off and it circling on an area, does rather resemble an enthusiastic puppy suffling around an exciting new space.
Blockchain vs Hashgraph comparison and stuff
Yes, and that would be the case with Electron too, but in the case where n apps share the same version of the runtime, I assume it saves a lot of resources?
Five Reasons to Take Code Coverage with a Grain of Salt
Warning: He writes in a very colloquial lang sprinkled with what he thinks is right. Be your own judge.
And that's the the issue at hand. Francis wants a larger, more merciful Church while his predecessor, Benedict, was on record preferring a smaller more conservative Church. We'll see how it goes - large, old institutions move slowly.
I'm not familiar with Electron myself, however it's relatively easy to identify which applications are using it.

I know Discord doesn't support using a keybind for push-to-talk whilst the (Chrome) tab is not in focus with their web application whilst their Electron app supports this. Something vital to PTT users whilst playing games.
I do lots of data munging and loading with Perl. There's nothing that comes close to the productivity that Perl enables me to have.
I lived in London nearly 20 years and yes it's like everywhere. In Piccadilly Circus or somewhere else busy, of course the shop keepers will be tense and the 'locals' in the pubs won't be looking for a chat (though that is a lie I've had random chats with both on many occasions), but in my own part of east London I'd meet loads of randoms in the park or the pub or the local shops or cafes, esp since having a child.

That said I've now moved to a very small town and it is crazy friendly, people will go out of their way to chat to you and be nice (but then again there are plenty of grumpy shop keepers and locals)

So I guess it is the same everywhere - your own little view will be coloured by your own expectations and by how much you are genuinely open to talking to people.
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This was an interesting article, thanks for sharing it.

But as an average consumer and amateur investor (at best) I'm much more interested in using Bitcoin (and other digital currencies) as a medium of exchange rather than as a store of value. For short term transactions (ex: exchange fiat for bitcoin -> transfer bitcoin to recipient) digital currencies offer a very fast, secure, and simple method for transferring value across borders that would traditionally take much longer than a few ticks of the blockchain. And over that shorter term their value is relatively stable and suitable as a medium for such exchanges.
Sony revives pet AI project with updated AIBO robot dog
iterm has terrible latency, you should try using alacritty - way faster.
My comment was meant to say "as long as no valid message", which was intended to imply that for OAEP and PSS it essentially does not matter and for simple padding schemes e has to be sufficiently large (ie. not 3)
Even if I you are correct, I again ask if these costs enough to use your model to make policy decisions? For examples:

How much lower? 0.5% or 50%?

How much of a paycut are willing to accept in exchange for longer-term stability? (Are there jobs in the US with two employment options; one with job protections and the other without?)

How does it compare to other factors which affect salary? As has come up on HN before, salary in Sweden and Norway are public information. This is meant to reduce information inequality during salary negotiations. (Eg, it would have been more difficult for Goodyear to have systematically underpaid Lilly Ledbetter had she known her market worth.)

Obviously there are other differences as well, like the effect of employment-based insurance vs. national insurance.
It's funny to see Perl on the top of that list. I was a Perl hater for so long that I don't even remember how it started. It probably has to do with the extensive use of symbols (=~, -s, -d, s/ ...) that makes code quite unreadable and the fact that it sometimes feels more like a shell or a UNIX tool than a proper language.

Recently I wrote a program in Perl after more than 20 years and I actually found it quite enjoyable. It's so easy to write scripts with option parsing that do file processing. You can even make them very readable as long as you sprinkle it with some comments alongside the tersest statements :)

But I guess if I had to write or maintain bigger projects in Perl the nightmare would begin.
Microsoft tried to be backwards compatible with msvcrt.dll . It’s just too much inertia. Also you need to be bug for bug compatible or you may break some old app. Apps may even depend upon behaviour you didn’t know was there.
I think this quote from Metalua's frontpage, an extended Lua for better metaprogramming, sums up that feeling perfectly:

> Don't bother developers with macros when they aren't writing one: the language's syntax and semantics should be best suited for those 95% of the time when we aren't writing macros.

An extended language to add more magic, says we don't need it most of the time.

And to be honest, it's one of the things about the Lua community I find really attractive.
> That Scott Alexander's "Epistemic learned helplessness" blog post (2013) -- is an excellent generic rebuttal against Eliezer's arguments.

It's a fully general counterargument against anything.
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Minor bug report: registering with a 64 character password fails. 32 characters seems to work fine.

Also a feature request: please add the ability for me to delete my account/data from your servers.
Interesting, but how would you check if it's one or the other? By IP? Could work for defined cases, but developing a universal technique could be tricky if all previous communication happens via FB. Much easier to use another platform.
For perspective each screen cap is something like 1/30,000th of the episode (visual portion only), versus the photo CBS used is the entire creative work.
And if you do check out EconTalk, make sure to browse through the archive. They've had a lot of technology folks on the show over the years [0].

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives.html#guest
Organizations themselves are fictions. Y Combinator, for example, doesn't actually exist in any sort of real sense. If they suddenly lost all their assets, the fictionalized entity would still exist. Nothing that actually exists in the physical world, nothing you can prove the existence of scientifically, is coextensive with the entity known as Y Combinator Management, LLC. It exists only to the extent it is written that it exists, and that people believe it.
I use it as a store of value
Any intentions on adding support for right to left languages? This is the only reason why I have a Windows 7 virtual machine with Office 13 installed. I am looking for alternatives.
Was hoping that people that see themselves as enlightened and rational would recognize the complete lack of nuance or reality in statements like "entire dogma is a fiction without any basis in reality".

You don't believe that's simplistic? Is that a way to jumpstart useful dialog about that institution?
Hey now, Hadley does really great work, IMO he's the main reason R is still worth using.

I started using R about 10 years ago, but after learning Python I came to really dislike R for how ugly it is. But I still kept using it for plotting because ggplot is so damn good.

In the past year I've started to use R more again and have started to kinda like it. It's still unpleasant for general purpose programming, but for manipulating and plotting dataframes, dplyr/tidyr/ggplot is very clean and way nicer than pandas/matplotlib.

So yeah, I think R has improved a lot since I first learned it, mainly due to Hadley, and is actually a pretty good language within its particular domain. But if I had to use it for general-purpose stuff I'd probably come to hate it again.
Bit of a weird response from you there, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised as I'm getting down voted etc for merely describing industry best practice for handling this type of thing.
Sherry Turkle's book, 'Alone Together', is split into two parts - the first is an investigation into how people (mostly children and the elderly) interact/bond/etc with robots of varying sophistication - starts with Tamagotchi, Furby and My Real Baby, PARO, and goes onto research-level robots. The second part applies similar thinking to social media, which is why I picked up the book. But I found the robot stuff interesting. I think my main takeaway was realising that the robots don't have to actually be technologically advanced for people to form bonds with them. Interesting read anyway.
I did, but it didn't work all that well for me. I just tried it a minute ago. However, I found that macvim was way better for me, once I figured out how to make it look as pretty.
Ironically, you are preaching to the choir, and not adding much to the conversation. No wonder atheists are the new vegans.
A growing number of airlines/airline groups have their own API too. Some of them are quite limited, others are quite good. API limits are generally low unless you beg (or so it seems)

- Lufthansa: https://developer.lufthansa.com/docs

- IAG (Iberia/British Airways): https://developer.ba.com/

- AirFrance/KLM https://developer.airfranceklm.com/

- Turkish Airlines: https://developer.turkishairlines.com/

Many of these all seem to use the Mashery API portal, so I'm guessing it was sort of pitch by Mashery and/or Sabre. Lots of these APIs seem like a trial of airlines trying to get out from under GDS/clearinghouse systems...
- American presidency

- Putin

- North Korea

Potentially endless sources of disaster energy
I would somehow think that an entity that has no intrinsic value, but only speculative value is quite bad store of value? (Of course, you are more than welcome to correct my hypothesis by indicating what is the intrinsic value bitcoin has. I thought that illegal trade was one of the major ones, but the parent told me that even that is there no more.)
Isn't reality a fiction either?
It already exists, it is called web widgets, with MSHTML during the 90's being one of the first implementations of such idea.

Qt, Gtk, .NET, Java, Android, Cocoa, UI Kit, KHTML, even crufty old Motif had such widgets.

It is just web developers not getting native development.
Every 600,000 years on average. Might be 300,000 years and then 900,000 years. We are talking about big and unpredictable timescales, after all.
Ahh such a classic :)

tl;dr: correcting for multiple comparisons is important.
Hence web widgets on native UIs.
Oh yes, I don't disagree. I think it would be good if they could at least do a "light QA" for trusted corporations - MS, Google etc.

And no devs at the corps I've worked at (big banks) have Macbooks for coding. If they do, it will just be connecting to a VM somewhere.
> Nothing that actually exists in the physical world, nothing you can prove the existence of scientifically, is coextensive with the entity known as Y Combinator Management, LLC.

You might be surprised, but brains and court records and all of that are actually physical and perfectly accessible to scientific investigation.
Another point of clarity is that Annulments are easier to get than is implied by the article. It's a process, but you don't have to be wealthy or powerful.

(As an aside, the whole concept of declaring a previous marriage invalid - for various reasons - seems like it's a hack in the HN sense of the word.)
Does 'bad optics' mean something like 'bad impression'? Sounds odd to me (although I'm not in the US)
The Catholic church used to teach that all non-catholics would be damned to "permanent eternal suffering". They have "backtracked" on this and there has not been any resultant problems.
I like that idea, seed the universe.

We may not be able to save humanity, but we will give life a fighting chance.
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Maybe they need to "fork" the church.
It means it "looks bad".
Erik Klemetti, an assistant professor of Geosciences at Denison University, wrote a response in Discover Magazine after news outlets reported about the NASA project in August. His article discusses the notion of an overdue Yellowstone eruption, the context for the NASA exercise, and the state of existing technology. Klemetti concludes, "It is a fun science fiction short story...but it isn’t any sort of real plan to save the planet from Yellowstone." http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/rockyplanet/2017/08/31/225...

As an aside, I hold a Master's in Geoscience with an emphasis in hydrogeology, and have studied the Yellowstone geothermal system since about 2000. The NASA thought exercise is certainly worth considering in the very long term, and we should aspire to advance technology and our understanding of the associated environmental systems to afford it.

However, more immediately, there has been immense political pressure to allow geothermal energy exploitation outside the national park -- with unknown and poorly understood consequences for the geysers and thermal system inside the park. In 1994, a law that would cease any nearby geothermal drilling if Old Faithful Geyser was disrupted failed to pass in Congress. I worry that this type of article, the original post, is being floated to promote that drilling agenda: a near-term excuse for private industry gains under the guise of saving humanity and at the expense of one of the world's most fantastic landscapes.
I like the copy. "Even if we get hacked, they can't read your ..." is a real claim. It means something concrete, and is an interesting hook for someone who's technically literate. Something more generic like "We keep your documents secure" means almost nothing nowadays -- literally every online document storage system will tell you that regardless of how seriously they take security. I'm sure Equifax will be happy to tell you how secure your data is with them.
There are also people that run as root...
Curiously that 25-34% range is the same as the support enjoyed by populist political groups in many European countries, and also the same as Trump's approval rating in the US.

It seems like there's a conservative third of populations that increasingly seeks to isolate itself from the mainstream (or political center, or whatever you want to call it).
"Why can't they let the devs manage their own machines?"

Part of the problem is that then the devs aren't actually managing the systems, they are blindly trusting the vendors. To a large extent, (re)packaging is make-work that should not need to happen, but it does provide a kind of safety fuse. In the event that a vendor breaks something or worse, unilaterally decides to change the product, organizations needs to be able to put a stop on new versions. The change of icons on VS Code was a trivial misstep, but it demonstrates that the VS Code team has the power to push changes that that users do not actually want on to large numbers of systems.

It is the same dynamic as the snap/flatpak vs. Linux distribution packaging debate. Most of the time, the developer can deliver their software faster, more reliably, and with better QA, if they are given a direct pipeline to user desktops. Sometimes, though, they will screw up, or they will make a decision that works for them, but not their users.
Machine learning problems are unique for each case. How can they apply them all. If it works it will be revolutionary but I guess it won't...
Cool project, one minor thing is that the background doesn't go very well to a wide-screen. I can see the image repeat.
What I have been doing, to some success, is just finding products that have a lot of demand. If I can do something that's 10x better in a brief period of time, I do so. It's usually really easy to tap into an existing market than building from scratch.
Signal provides privacy, not anonymity. It's a hard trade off sometimes, but it's easier for wider adoption.
a tunnel diode uses quantum effects, too, and the tiniest mosfets come close to the quantum realm at least in production, too. Does that make a pc a quantum computer? I really don't know the difference, but I'm sure that would be stretching it.
So why has nobody tried to implement something similar for Python? Is there some fundamental limitation of the language at play?
That is possibly even a rather low estimate. The sheer amount of ejecta and ash will quite literally blanket the Earth.

It would make for a good story premise for a movie/TV show/video game, but not so much fun to actually live through.
There are also Anglican Catholics that believe basically the same doctrine as Roman Catholics but have the Queen of England as head instead of the Pope.
Have you read this?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/24/how-did-new-atheism-fai...
I wouldn't call that minor. Sounds like there's something odd about the way passwords are handled. :/
A blanket statement like that isn't very useful without giving the country. Protection for the customer varies widely around the world; I trust that the Danish system would work out fine for me.

(Additionaly, if my debit card is stolen it's of limited use without my PIN.)
+1 After 3 mins it gets a bit tedious. Love everything else abut it tho!
but you don't need to understand much to just physically exist. Whereas electrodynamics and certainly also quantum effects in semiconducting cristals informed the development of transistors in the last what, 50-60 years.
snhxt
I hadn't looked at my config in a while and you're absolutely right, running as root is a big warning flag. Just fixed it with the tincd "--user" flag. Created a new tinc user that owns all of /etc/tinc and set "--user=tinc" in /etc/default/tinc. Runs fine.
> In the US there are many voices about the 'deep state' trying hard to subvert Trump (in my opinion a good thing).

The deep state is no longer attempting to subvert Trump. A soft coup has been performed for purposes of stability, Trump is now being directly managed by the deep state. He'll give them what they want, so long as he can be handled he gets to stay. The Mueller investigation is now a lame duck, it's for show, nothing will come of it other than a few meaningless trophies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-generals-have-tr...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/military-leaders-con...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Live will continue on our world whatever Pope Francis is doing or anyone else in the catholic church.
Bitcoin is gold for millennials.
I recently had to debug an open source delphi application, it was awful. The IDE is dated, the errors arcane, and I had someone from "greymatter" leave me a voicemail after I started a free trial of the IDE.

Also, curly braces as block comments actually offend me.
If you select an RTL interface language, the UI becomes RTL. And in Chrome, you can select RTL in the editor in the context menu. Are you looking for something similar to that in Firefox, or are there any other issues with RTL?
to get into the specifics, you probably need to study accordingly for a while. NLab has linked some sources https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/quantum+computation