skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't completely disagree with the premise, I'm not sure that having the most supercomputers in the TOP500 is evidence of it.

The PRC is striving to become a global competitor in as many fields as it can, as quickly as possible. But sometimes they go after the status symbols of achievement versus actual productive achievements. Both the ghost cities that stood initially empty and the supercomputer clusters that lay idle are results of this pursuit of the appearance of being a global player. [Apologies for not providing references here]

Most countries these days (post cold war) don't build super computers for bragging rights; they build them for defined tasks that drive their specification. Economics, budgetary concerns, and even power consumption often trump absolute performance when specifying a machine for a task.

The rise of clustered machines with commodity parts also distorts things since a faster computer (by some measures) can be made by adding more nodes rather than applying any fundamentally "better" technology.

That's not to say that the PRCs efforts are in vain. Focusing on competitiveness has produced results, and politics notwithstanding, the existence of these capabilities will create opportunities for their use.

But yeah, I was bummed about the SSC (especially given the decision's geopolitical context). I also agree that given fundamental research's past dividends, we should be funding a whole lot more of it.
The FCC will give the death blow to Obama's open internet rules in December
Renewed war on kratom legalization claims its first victims
> maintainers are bringing out sticks

Library maintainers? Why do they care what Python you use? They're dropping 2.x support because it's a burden to them.

I'm still using Python2, but the things I know I'd use that aren't back ported are; well, having to download something to backport functionality (batteries included is a selling point for Python), native namespace packages, nested exceptions, function annotation, and not having to treat unicode differently when dealing with external libraries like Qt or databases. I often backport lru cache, pathlib, and terminal size came up for me last week. The other new things look interesting, but since I'm not using Python3 I can't really evaluate them.
I think referring to the FBI as "the KGB" or "the Gestapo" would be counterproductive, making it harder for open-minded friends and family to hear valid concerns, and more likely that they just roll their eyes and tune us out -- similar to the effect of the euphemism "non-USAian" on this non-nonUSAian.
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> so, they should instead channel their energy into something with real future!

Such as?
I think it was an all or nothing thing. If they could have packported everything (the whole point of 2.7 was to be a bridge) then everyone would have moved up like they do for every point release. Only backporting the fun stuff left only the not-fun stuff when migrating your code.
Is there any news here? An announcement from the project or something?
Its a huge undertaking. You'd be competing with ACES/PIES, those guys charge about $10k a year last I checked. So there's definitely room to undercut them, if you can somehow get all that data.
I mostly agree with you. However, there is no incentive for justice reform. No politician has won any accolades for making prisons safer much less for reintroducing ex-convicts back into the mainstream society. However, if someone ran on that and (inevitably) when someone from a program like that goes off the rails then the politician risks their career. I'm not saying that makes it OK. I am just trying to analyze what the problem is...

I think the main problem is 1. most people just don't care about anything other than themselves and 2. they don't see of themselves in the same shoes as convicts
I don't see it as any different than the other disconnects between "what I want myself" and "what I get paid to do".

It's not unlike other fields. A composer who gets paid to write jingles for TV commercials won't listen only to TV commercial music. I once talked to an award-winning industrial designer at Fluke who admitted he couldn't care less about test and measurement, and didn't even know Ohm's Law. Michael Caine was paid $1M for "Jaws III", and says he's never watched it.

As a user, I avoid JS-heavy web apps (I think even StackOverflow has way too much JS). As an employee, if my employer (when I have one) wants me to build that, then that's what they get. HN gets responses from people wearing both hats.
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You wouldn't spend more than 10% of your wealth on a Da Vinci?
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> I expect to donate 99+% of my lifetime earnings

Good on you.
And a miscarriage is the egg doing a "Oops. Got that one wrong"?
That's a really poor reason to kill an old version. To be clear, I FEEL YOUR PAIN. However, new isn't legit just because it's new.

As a non-Python pro, I cannot say why one version over another. However, arguing that the old one is bad just because it is inconvenient isn't valid.

As someone who struggles with versions of Python on my Mac and on production servers (and with code that runs on 2.7 and 3.6+), as far as I'm concerned (as a pragmatic solutions-first person goes), I cannot discern the difference between ancient Python and new Python.

There are really few languages with such impact as Python. So we cannot blame the Python community for this situation as they probably really labored over their decisions regarding compatibility and versions. But in retrospect, I would have preferred they killed off the old version long ago. It would definitely have made life better for the users in the long run.
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> throwing an exception/error results in _|_ (bottom) and all _|_ results are equivalent

My point is that they're not when you have `catch`, and that this distinction adds nothing that ⊥ doesn't already add with regards to order of evaluation.
The government should pay back-salary to anyone with a case dismissed in this manner. This would cause queue back-pressure that would focus the system on high-value targets at the front of the queue.
I'd pay for that if you ever make it.
I think it would be best if it could also get as local as possible. If it's global, even per country, it still can only cover the most popular products i.e. those most advertised.
Hubski is in the process of converting from Arc to Racket
The restoration removed the previous painted-over-it paint.
I'm sorry. Of the millions of babies who die within their first year globally, I find it hard to be suddenly concerned about cannabis's effect on them given the multitude of other factors.

That's not to say it isn't worth study, but it's unlikely worth a headline.
It's not just libraries that I use when developing.

Searching for code snippets and copy/pasting stackoverflow answers can easily take more time out of my days than library documentation. But it's so much slower when I have to rewrite something I found for python 3.
Back when Firefox originally came out I was one of the first few adopters of it (primarily to escape Internet Explorer), but left it back in 2008 when Google Chrome came out because of it's speed. However, almost a decade later after having issues with Chrome on my new Linux rig and hearing all the fuss about Quantum I tried the Firefox Beta about a week ago (I'm not a patient man) and immediately fell in love with it. Not only was it faster, but it used half of the system resources that Chrome was using! I know some people are not thrilled with the loss of extensions, but having come to it at this time of transition I found all the extensions I had on Chrome and a few others that made my web browsing experience better than ever. I'm very excited about the new changes in Firefox and can't wait to see where they go from here.
okay so woods means white people, kinsfolk means black people. But DO = ?
The link has a stray forward slash ("/") at the end of the link, but otherwise has no problems. Slide 20 of the correct resource says (in graph form) that "81% of covered workers in firms with 200 or more workers are in partially or completely self-funded plans", which is indeed not what the text on Wikipedia claims. A footnote on the same slide says "Sixty-one percent of covered workers are in a partially or completely self-funded plan in 2014." (Please accept my apologies for not fixing these two issues on Wikipedia.)

The 2017 edition of the underlying report is available at https://www.kff.org/health-costs/report/2017-employer-health... . The report states multiple times that "Sixty percent of covered workers are in a self-funded health plan." The following portion is relevant to your discussion a few comments up: "Eighty-one percent of covered workers in firms with 1,000 to 4,999 workers
and 91% of covered workers in firms with 5,000 or more workers are in self-funded plans in 2017". Figures 10.1 and 10.2 show these numbers in graphical form.
> I think we have already lost the
> battle over data mining

Who is we? GDPR comes into force in 6 months' time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
People already pay Gartner a lot of money for just this.
You may as well name these people, to save us the effort of digging it up
git and other VCS seem to manage this problem just fine
Christie's has more details here: http://www.christies.com/features/Salvator-Mundi-timeline-86...

That BBC quote is a bit misleading. The photo on the left is what the painting looked like before restoration, not what it looked like when it was originally painted. Parts of it had been damaged and repainted over multiple times in the past which is why the restored version looks so different.
Lisk, Monero, Iota, and Factom. To be exact.
Boring is better.
Thanks for the book recommendation, I’ll check it out.

Yeah, it’s a goal of mine to be both confident and vulnerable, and being honest with myself and other people is how I do that.
It's pretty obvious what happened here. Everyone involved basically assumed he was or would be found guilty and didn't see an issue with him sitting in a cell for "just a few more months"
This is exactly how science works.

They report this possible case. Maybe there is never another association and the issue is forgotten, because there is no causal link. But maybe, someone else, some place else, who never read this paper, notices something similar and reports it. And maybe this happens several more times. And then, along the way, one of these reporters does a detailed search and finds the other reports. He collects the cases and maybe contacts the doctors who wrote the reports and writes what we call a Case-Series on these.

Maybe a couple case-series get written independently in various places. Someone finds these series and convinces someone else to fund a Case Control study.

Usually with environmental exposure literature this is exactly how "science" happens. Medicine is messy and serendipity is more than involved.

Hierarchy of evidence:
http://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2016/06/23/ebmed-2016-11040...
Actually yes it is. Physical currency inside a country is hardly the same things as Physical or digital currency outside a country. Having bitcoins (etc) inside a country is arguably less secure and far easier to confiscate.
I thought there was evidence that the female immune system also "selects" against some sperm as well.
> The government should pay back-salary to anyone with a case dismissed in this manner.

The "government" is the taxpayers, basically. I'd rather have all folks involved in ruining that man's life being sued like they should, and having to repay him for the opportunity loss. Taxpayers represent an infinite pocket to steal from, but private citizens don't have as much resources and should be held responsible for their decisions.
Detention Officer, I think.
A version of it was also the main theme in Shutter Island.
It seems like its more than that:

> The progressive clinical presentation of this patient during the prior 24-48 hours, including symptoms of somnolence, lethargy, irritability, nausea, seizure and respiratory depression are consistent with previously documented, known complications of recent cannabis exposure in the pediatric population.

Their source is here: https://alanflashman.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/piis0196064...

Those symptoms are consistent with exposure - it's too bad the case report didn't include any data from the parents (maybe I missed that).
You still need to move your wealth into bitcoins just as you need to move your wealth into whatever else. So, assuming an oppressive government bitcoins become harder to secure as you still need a foreign bank account but now you need steps after that point.
Sadly, this is common in India. In India there are people in jail for decades, without even a trial[1].

There are just 15 judges per million people in India as compared to around 110 judges per million in US.

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[1] http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/38-years-in-jail-without...
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This post stinks of classism. There are people who have been in jail without trial for 6+ months because they can't afford bail.

In fact your arrogant assertion that this isn't injustice is fucking offensive. I am having trouble not attacking you personally because of how ignorant you came off in this post.
> The EU isn't perfect... But this sounds a lot like an attempt to give consumer protection agencies the powers to block scam sites.

It sounds more like an attempt to give somebody powers to block potentially copyright infringing sites, under the pretense of consumer protection, through the roundabout justification that consumers "collectively" benefit from strict enforcement of copyright.
A killer escaped in Hawaii and flew to California got caught after hailing a cab
It's not always 1-2 weeks, it can be months.
Prosecutors, for the most part are immune to civil suits being brought against them.
You're arguing that higher income poeple should get speedier trials than lower income people?
The main problem is that most people in American society don't care what happens to prisoners. Don't be surprised if you employ these techniques only to discover nobody lifts a finger.

That said, this would be a project I'd be interested in contributing to. If you set it up, shoot me an email.
People in the US have a lot of drugs and are also very productive. Your assertion makes no sense. I don't know much about Indonesia, but Singapore is an authoritarian state, and Duerte is trying to turn the Phillipines into a dictatorship. Tyrants like drug laws, and especially death penalty for drugs because it gives them an easy way to keep their thugs in practice, remind the populace that they are ready to kill, and gives them an easy way to assassinate troublemakers.
So what if your thoughts run counter to the universal declaration of human rights? Are you serious?
Thanks for this. Working on an educational cost reduction thing... :)
This is awesome and great as a short-form resource. For years, my long-form (non-concise?) go-to book has been "The Art of Electronics" [0] by Paul Horowitz (and others depending on the edition). It has everything you need in a single reference book!

[0] http://amzn.to/2iZfjbG
It could if the egg could somehow know which ones were better. But how could it know that?
I wrote a simple program that does this same thing:

https://github.com/LucianoLaratelli/simple_diary
>>When will we learn that a "strong" housing market is not necessarily a good thing?

Because you can't operate the housing market in isolation. Housing market is basically everything connected to the housing markets. Plumbing to paint, it includes everything.

The economy is a whole. Sectors are only for our understanding. Economy works as largely a monolith, so its just free market economy at the end.

Only thing that matters in a set up like this is Demand and supply equations.
If you have $400 million in funds whose origin you can't account for, you move it into some opaque account to buy the painting for that $400 million. The buyer (you) remains "unknown" but now you have $400 million that you can account for, since it came from selling a painting.

In the art auction world, either or both sides can remain as anonymous as they wish, which makes this whole scheme possible.
It is possible: don't talk about it. It's only impossible if you see the world in black and white.
Even if what you describe sounds terrible and immoral, thing is, it's not illegal, and it's a consequence of how our capitalistic/bureaucratic system works. Let's fix the root cause instead.
Thanks for the reply. I was thinking of just using the scraped data to create an API that can take a VIN and give you the specs of that heavy duty vehicle (engine, weight, body type options, etc). I couldn't even imagine how crazy it would be to try and collect all of the parts data for every vehicle.
Just charge an upgrade fee for the next stand-alone version and then you can get your revenue back.

But not charging for stand-alone upgrades you make it seem like the only choice for a revenue stream is cloud-hosting.

Will you charge an upgrade fee or not? (for stand-alone)
Might have some good points, but:

- As it says in the post, there is a lot of generalization. And usually generalized advice for something as specific as building a startup is not good

- This is 6 years old - not sure if it still applies. A lot has changed in the tech possibilities since then
If someone started talking about Lebensraum it'd probably be fair to say the idea is associated with Hitler.
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If I understand correctly, they see associations of alleles in the zygotes that suggest the gametes have not paired randomly.

Basically it could be that the egg and the sperm have different proteins expressed on their cellular surfaces which go together like a lock and key and may also function as attractors ( chemical sensing or something).. all of this would originate from genes in the gametes.
No.

Their argument is “Specifc myocardial complications related to cannabis toxicity that are well documented in adolescence through older adulthood include acute coronary syndrome, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, pericarditis, dysrhythmias and cardiac arrest.2-4 To date, there are no reported pediatric deaths from myocarditis after confrmed, recent cannabis exposure“, therefore “this pediatric patient with death due to myocarditis may have died because cannabis exposure caused that myocarditis.”

And yes, if you get a highly anomalous event, it’s not at all unreasonable to point out that it immediately followed a highly anomalous input. If you’re looking for causality, x -> rare Y Is more likely if x is rare than if it isn’t. It inherently explains why Y is rare.
Came here to say this. The included spine and cover labels are a nice touch.
The algorithms are part of the problem. Many states use a point system to assign risk and determine bail amounts. Some might be arbitrary, others based on existing statistics, but in this attempt to be blind and fair, you're either adding bias by the humans who make the algorithms or you create a self-defeating system because those stats are used incorrectly, pushing inmates into recidivism and essentially building a feedback loop. US prisons are a self perpetuating system.

In the particular case of the OP, if this is all true, it looks like they tried to call someone out who was very powerful. When corruption runs that deep, it's very difficult for change to occur. For every story that ends up like the one behind the movie Changeling, there are probably a dozen or more of people who tried to do the right thing and end up silenced in prison or mental hospitals forever.

Troy Davis was executed, even after former President Jimmy Carter spoke up and called for his case to be reexamined.
I think the issue is that if housing prices hadn't gone up, they could buy a house of equal price without triggering capital gains.

So if your house is 1m and 10 years later stays at 1m, then you can swap for any other house in the neighborhood.

If your house was 1m but in 10 years becomes 2m, and all the other houses in the neighborhood are now 2m... you would hypothetically not be able to swap for another home. You now have 1.75m to buy with. A good problem to have, no doubt.
Watch this go terribly wrong.

Honestly, I don't understand why consumers lack the restraint to simply not buy unfinished products, but this is where the leverage to improve IoT security has to come from. If today's IoT devices are such a liability, then prove it in court; but don't think that you can write a law that ensures security instead of mere standardization.

Meticulously studying the introduction and effects of regulations in this vein, I highly doubt they will have the intended effect.
Whenever there's anything negative even possibly associated with cannabis, there are those who must reflexively shoot it down, or minimize it (i.e. your data is wrong, or, if it's not wrong, it's not as bad as alcohol, or if it is, it's a rare issue). It's like they can't accept that cannabis could ever be bad for any reason. I find this very odd.
be sad
Time to beef up on security before their top scientists start disappearing.
If FSF can re-license under a more permissive license, then FSF's assignment agreement implicitly allows the contribution to someday be used in proprietary software (since FSF could relicense to BSD or MIT, then someone else could take that code and incorporate it into a proprietary project).

So why doesn't anyone have a problem with the FSF's assignment?
Agile Keychain - 41.9 MB

Created Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM

Modified Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 10:02 PM

I really don't like the idea of ever putting all my passwords on a server that requires Agilebits to run it. You guys are a dev shop. Let users keep their passwords themselves and keep the stand-alone version (and extensions for it!) going with simple version upgrade fees.
This. I've had a few false starts at daily journaling and it mostly came down to being a perfectionist. In the past I'd only write down a handful of todos / notes because I didn't want to "mess it up".

I decided to spend 1 month (started at beginning of nov) and only use my bound notebook for everything including diagramming / working things out that I'd normally do on a whiteboard or scrap paper.

I do REALLY like that I have a permanent record of some ideas that I'd normally just lose to the ether.

At the end of the day who gives a fuck if its perfect, I'm only writing it for myself anyway.

Giving myself that permission has been difficult but a fruitful endeavor so far.. I'm hoping to adopt some of the other cool spread ideas I've found on r/bulletjournal
One of the big problems in America is simply not effectively treating drug use and addiction. Putting people in jail doesn't stop drug use.

You're talking about big distributors, not individual users. Portugal has probably had the best response to drug use, evaluation each case individually and helping people quit drugs when it interferes with their lives.
How do you plan on getting on when packages from PyPi stop supporting Python 2 at all? When Django, flask, numpy, requests, pandas, and more just don't even install? Will you just use ancient versions?
Basically a big part of the alt-right coalition with retrograde ideas on gender.
Here's another idea I just thought of randomly:

Scrape and monitor a company's competitor's job listings for them. Some of that data might be difficult to get given the nature of job sites and craigslist and such, but could be interesting to accumulate all of that (including from the company's own site) so you can get an idea when they are hiring.

Maybe.