skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"With that, you don't even need an SDcard for each node."

neat stuff, i didn't know that, going to read up.
> I probably won't ever try this unless it gets some popularity behind it.

Wow, the javascript community is militant about who picks flavour of the week and noone else trying other flavours huh?
> I can't get any Dems to pay attention to this.

Because they are all funded by corporations who want, as Alan Greenspan put it, "worker anxiety" to keep profits high. They gave Trump 37 billions more in the military budget than he asked for - authorising a level spending on par with the height of the iraq war, but will balk at Bernie Sanders's suggestions for universal healthcare or free tuition because it's unaffordable.

It also helps that the republicans are horrific towards anyone who isn't a straight white male: Roy Moore overwhelmingly won the white vote despite talking about how America was greatest during the times of slavery, how he believes all the amendments after the tenth were mistakes(these include allowing woman and black people to vote), not to mention the rampant homophobia.

Trump is the absolute worst thing that can happen to middle America. His policies hit the middle and lower class whites the worst. But they will _feel_ safe and secure with a giant wall and a ban on refugees.
You can try and tax your way to culture shifts but since we aren't all Homo economicus it is often not as effective as directly appealing to morality and individual responsibility.
The HVAC system was how the major Target hack was done.

EDIT: http://people.carleton.edu/~carrolla/story.html
It makes you think about it and sensibilize to it. Which probably failed by you considering :

>On topic: I have little doubt there's a strong link between climate change in general and the production and consumption of livestock.

The most common cow diet at the moment is 50kg of corn + 3 kg of soy + maybe 10kg (dry) of hay. Everyday. Do you think this grows out of the blue or uses arable land ? Also Europe imports soy (from southamerica mostly) to feed cattle. Add the transport costs & pollution and what have you and you might get a glimpse of how eating 100g of beef is producing way more GHG than 100g of beans.
author is think-piecing really hard.
Do you have any comments on video courses that go into depth on UI design? I'm a backend engineer and while most of RN makes sense to me, flex box and ui tend to throw me for a loop.

I should probably just find some flex box guides, as they'll likely cover most of it. Regardless, I figured it was worth asking you - since ui components with RN is my only trouble area currently.
I like Varoufakis, and I don't hold Bitcoins, but I didn't find that article particularly insightful. It's just the old Keynesian fear of deflation - which invariably uses the Great Depression, since there's very little evidence of the supposed harms of deflation besides it - and a fair criticism of Bitcoin being currently more driven by speculators than regular users, but with no explanation why that's an insurmountable flaw in Bitcoin.
The problems is there's no one who runs full speed ahead. There are many independent agents making locally sensible decisions.
With 24 bit color you can create an array with an element for each of the 16 million colors and just build the histogram. Running k-means on that is going to be less efficient than just making the histogram buckets larger, e.g. 2x2x2 = 8 colors per bucket, or whatever. So yeh you should be able to do that in a few milliseconds I would have thought. For more speed look at using SIMD instructions.
It's amazing (disheartening?) to see Twitter evolve from the website where you could tell your friends that you were eating dinner, to a website where the President of the USA makes real policy announcements.
Frontiers for Young Minds: Science edited for kids, by kids
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So many things I could say about this, but I"ll let Alan Kay speak for me -
https://youtu.be/p2LZLYcu_JY Alan talks about how ideas in Calculus could be manifested from an early age and a richness in understanding built up as they aged up:

- at very young ages, kids really respond well through "doing" / the enactive channel. When asked to draw a circle, kids in Papert's group would first emulate what a LOGO turtle would do by rotating their body in a circle (making tiny increments in x and y).

- as they got a bit older, the visual / iconic channel was more developed and they could understand the abstraction of a circle on pencil/paper and how the concepts carried over there

- closer to early teens, symbols were much easier to grasp and relate to, etc.

With this context in mind, there have been some cool efforts to mix the second and third channels I just mentioned to communicate advanced math concepts. Vi Hart and Grant Sanderson's youtube channels come to mind. Here are my favorite videos by Grant:

- "What does it feel like to invent math": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFDM1ip5HdU

- On the visual intuition behind a hard problem on the Putnam exam - "The hardest problem on the hardest test": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmNXy7er84

- From vectors to matrices to vector spaces to higher-level ideas like the link between linear algebra and calculus: "Essence of linear algebra" series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

What I especially like about Grant's videos, is that he often walks through what a mathematician would do, the questions she would ask, etc.
UPS delivers tires from TireRack to my door. Granted, I don't own a Big Foot replica, a mining dump, or a large John Deere. But ordinary tires are not that big and not that heavy and ship at ordinary rates...or in Amazon's case a heavily negotiated rate.
> How you take out a fraudulent loan?

Presumably you commit fraud on your loan application.
>It wasn't fun, it sucked a lot actually, but we did what we had to do, not what >we wanted to do.

I can see this is personal for you. I just want to put out a thank you for putting your own story on here.

>They can move.

This is an assumption.

> My parents did not have degrees and worked minimum wage jobs. They moved
> multiple times when it became financially unfeasible to live somewhere.

You don't need a degree to be educated or educate yourself. A degree has nothing to do with what I was trying to say. Poverty has been repeatedly shown to have a negative effect on literacy and critical thinking skills. Just because some of the people raised in poverty aren't impacted due to circumstance doesn't mean that the overall trend isn't real.

Here's a thought exercise, take 1,000 people from the poorest neighborhoods in SF. Then given their current wage versus a potential wage in another city and state ask them to calculate if moving would be the right choice. Tell them they can use whatever resources they'd like to determine costs. How many of those 1,000 people would be able to make the correct calculations? How many of those 1,000 would be able to calculate what the impact of taking out a loan to help fund the move would be?

> My reality is of a first-generation immigrant.

You're using a personal anecdote to explain why I'm wrong. It's a logical fallacy. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/anecdotal

>They moved multiple times when it became financially unfeasible to live
>somewhere.

Yes, people can move. I'm trying to highlight the point to the demographic that frequents "Hacker News"; the 80% educated tech professionals most of which are single. There are a myriad of reasons why for a large number of people it's not feasible or they simply don't have the ability to do the calculations to determine whether or not moving would be beneficial.
Based on my experience, it is Democrats who cheat in elections, not Republicans. In fact, Republicans have been far too nice overall (like Norm Coleman conceding to Al Franken in the midst of obvious vote tampering). Conservative principles are being washed away to everyone's detriment. We can't survive as a nation by always falling to the least common denominator among us.

I do agree that far too many Rs are in bed with monopolistic corporations--actual conservatives have been fighting for years to end the hegemonic GOPe. You saw it with the TEA Party. There's nothing quite like being cut off at the knees by Obama's IRS, though.

GOPe and DNC colluded to silence Ron Paul and the TEA Party and made peaceful reforms impossible. Trump is the result of all that. Had Trump not gotten elected, and had the socialists begun to really run roughshod over the hard-working conservative people who believe in limited government, low taxes, and disfavor the welfare state, you would be seeing something far worse than Trump right now. So count your blessings.

In time, you will come to realize that there is only one major party in the US--the Party of Big Government. They are all on the same side, which is the side attempting to snuff out individual liberty in favor of corporatism and turning all regular citizens back into serfs.

I read a ton of message forums. There is a tremendous undercurrent of disaffected Americans who are totally fed up to the point of hoping for a violent revolution. They are not people who are quick to violence (they are not leftists after all) and they understand that their chances for victory are slim. But they also understand that making a statement is becoming necessary. Trump becoming elected has delayed that revolt, for now.
> First, if story points are an indirect measure of time, then the "psychological game" you're playing will be immediately revealed if your engineers are as smart as claimed.

Adding a level of indirection removes some implicit biases. Points might be indirectly related to time, but only incidentally. Points sound more directly related to task complexity, which is itself indirectly related to time.

It's kind of like how lines of code seems like kind of a poor measure of program complexity, and yet, study after study has shown that regardless of language, framework, etc. the number of line of code is the best measure we have for latent bug count. This correlation doesn't always make sense if you look at specific, contrived examples, but the property seems to hold in aggregate.
"It's not as if they are saying something inexcusably erroneous, like for example that JSON is the protocol used to route packets."

They also suggested the DNS is like a proxy server (in their words, a "gateway") rather than a directory service. Does that count?

"Any other technical inaccuracies?"

That consumers continue to rely on transparent caching and that caching is a core ISP service. The FCC dismissed comments pointing out that TLS breaks transparent caching on the basis that there are websites that do not use TLS.

The order also claims that because people are able to access websites via an ISP network, the ISP provides people with the capability of whatever those websites do (e.g. under the order's reasoning, Verizon is providing me with the capability to have this conversation with you). You can argue that is an opinion and not a fact, but the order does not apply it consistently; for example, it does not assert that a phone company is providing an information service by virtue of its customers' ability to use a dialup ISP.

The order claims that by connecting to your ISP's network, you are receiving, "...computer access by multiple users to a computer server...that provides access to the Internet." Maybe that is just how the FCC interprets routers, but again it is not being consistently applied e.g. to the phone system.

If you want more, go read the order; the technical analysis is not very long.
She may have falsified documents or misrepresented her intentions when getting the loans. That would make them fraudulent.

If you had a US citizen as a coconspirator it's not a bad way to get a ton of money really-have them blow up their good name to take a series of crappy loans, use them to buy Bitcoin, flee to Pakistan. Sure you'd be burning your bridges in the US but if you were planning on living in a terrorist camp somewhere, you're not really concerned with that I imagine.
Evolution doesn't have a purpose. Just because you can eat meat doesn't mean you have to, or that you should. You can have a meat-free, protein-heavy diet.

Most of meat products are so processed that they are indistinguishable from plant-based substitutes anyway. If you try an Impossible Burger without knowing it's plant-based, you wouldn't notice it's not meat.

Beside, are you seriously denying anthropic climate change?
Well, maybe we just disagree. I think it's very unlikely that most or all the people to use 'scientist' in that way are all three of: non-English speaking; based in the sciences (for it would not be possible to conflate the two otherwise), and ignorant of the distinction, or just indisposed toward using it.

How can you equate them? I don't see it personally. Science is defined by the scientific method. Most of the humanities do not use the scientific method most of the time (history, philosophy, sociology, English, etc.)
If a stock market crash was to happen, Bitcoin would go up or down? (the peak of 2007 look small when compared to the peak of 2017)
Which is how Trump is/was able to do so much. Obama was ruling by executive fiat. If congress (Democrats) was doing its job, it would have passed laws. Executive Orders are not laws and can be instantly reversed. Democrats were just as happy has republicans to have their dictator in power, make your bed and lie in it.
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Ask HN: Freelancers and consultants, what online payment service do you use?
E.g. PayPal, TransferWise, ...

Please mention your experiences with them.
One of the online sites where I work just informed me that they are now supporting TransferWise. (They used PayPal earlier and still do.) Hence the question.

Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately if you follow the link to the proposed site for publishing kid-friendly mathematics articles, then search with a filter for mathematics, you get zero results :(

fwiw I have made some attempts to get my own children interested in 'advanced' mathematics. I found the TV series "Story of Maths" by Marcus du Sautoy to be helpful. I've also had some positive results watching lectures from Harvard's E-222 class[2] with my older son (14).

[1] https://www.netflix.com/title/80093836
[2] http://matterhorn.dce.harvard.edu/engage/ui/index.html#/1999...
10,000 Kilometers of Fiber-Optic Cable Show China's Interest in Warming Arctic
> Except you can't, as I've said, engineers are not good at estimating. They get significantly worse when you start estimating months out instead of days out.

Because you keep focusing on time estimates instead of point estimates. People have intrinsic biases related to time and their productivity. Like how most people implicitly assume they're above average in intelligence, looks, etc.
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> we're continually moving towards cleaner methods of producing electricity

Where I live we're actually regressing. Went from 30% nuclear to 0%, and now since natural gas is so expensive they're building coal plants.
This is quite brilliant, thanks billpg. I'm also amazingly grateful that someone's taken an interest in Zish :-) These questions will all require some thought to properly understand and respond to, with no-doubt some changes to the spec. So I've opened an issue and put the comment at:

https://github.com/tlocke/zish/issues/2
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Try to deploy your Magento cluster for free in one-click?
This is a summary. You might want to read the actual press release with the actual indictment rather than make up accusations of "thoughtcrime". https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/long-island-woman-indic...

Also, it's an indictment. The actual evidence will be presented at the trial.
I don't know what the hell is going on with Mozilla. Ever tried to install Firefox on Android? The new tab page is full of ads by default!

And this is the company we are supposed to trust? Because right now I feel like I trust Google more, and that's a lot to say.
> Science only truly works in when the properties being explored can be accurately quantified.

What about the scientific method makes it so that this supposedly is the case?

> There are plenty of experiences and occurrences which cannot be accurately quantified.

Mind giving an example (for which you also think the scientific method is not applicable)?

> There is a common misconception amongst scientifically-minded people that science can explain everything just because it can explain a wide range of events

I doubt that that is a very wide-spread misconception among scientifically minded people, for the simple reason that a very central aspect of science is to say "I don't know" if ... well, if you don't know. That directly contradicts the supposed belief that "science can explain everything", as saying "I don't know" implies "I don't think science can explain this, at least not yet". If anything, it seems to me like that is a wide-spread misconception among not so scientifically minded people about what scientifically minded people think.

However, the mere fact that science can not explain something does not mean that anything else can, and so far nothing has been demonstrated that could explain anything that science can't.

> The truth is there are certain parts of our experience that make no sense to put a number on, and science will never excel in those spheres.

What does putting numbers on things have to do with any of this?
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> Her lawyer, Steve Zissou, said she was sending money overseas to help Syrian refugees.

> "What she saw made her devoted to lessening the suffering of a lot of the Syrian refugees and everything she does is for that purpose," Mr Zissou said outside the courthouse.

That’s a hell of a defense
I've got it pasted. I'm unsure I want to rehost this, but I just might.
...This worked well when rents were low enough to save and homes were cheap enough to buy. In one of the most infuriating conversations I had for this article, my father breezily informed me that he bought his first house at 29. It was 1973, he had just moved to Seattle and his job as a university professor paid him (adjusted for inflation) around $76,000 a year. The house cost $124,000 — again, in today’s dollars. I am six years older now than my dad was then. I earn less than he did and the median home price in Seattle is around $730,000. My father’s first house cost him 20 months of his salary. My first house will cost more than 10 years of mine.
LTE equals 4G.
A worn-out fuel line had been rubbing silently against a bundle of old electrical wires near the front of the cabin – a problem that had gone undetected for years. The same mechanical defect existed inside every Sea Dragon in the fleet, though nobody knew it. Over nearly three decades, the Navy had never required anyone to regularly inspect Sea Dragon wires or fuel lines for damage.

Calling this particular problem maintenance debt is a bit disingenuous. PMCS/PMI could have been performed perfectly for decades and not caught this problem. Peculiar dichotomy in this story; the conflation of design flaw and lack of spare parts and improper maintenance.
I think there are other statistical methods that would take account of sample size in different ways -- perhaps saying in some cases "you don't have enough data to determine validity yet". Among other things that different tests would reveal. p-value is not the only way to analyze your results statistically.

p-values say a certain thing, and are not appropriate to be used as the single universal statistical test for validity, and may likely not even be the best 'default' choice.

I think the message here is indeed that statistical verification/validation is _hard_, and requires actual statistical expertise to know what the tests you are applying mean (and what the assumed pre-requisites of the test are) and apply the right ones. The current practice of "p-value and only p-value, always" is flawed.

(But it's also because the influences of current scientific/academic practice are to motivate people to find the _quickest and cheapest way to get published_, rather than to give yourself additional barriers to publication in pursuit of truth!)

There has been a lot of writing about this in more formal and less cutesy settlers-example ways, this is not an original observation to this blog post. It's in fact been a growing concern, including leading to a recent statement of caution on over- and mis-use of p-values by the American Statistical Association.

http://www.nature.com/news/statisticians-issue-warning-over-...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S106345841...

http://blogs.plos.org/publichealth/2015/06/24/p-values/

http://www.ejves.com/article/S1078-5884(15)00585-7/pdf

http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/mph-modules/ep/ep713_randomer...

I like this as a demonstration of one way p-values can be insufficient or lead you wrong, as people have been increasingly discussing.

It would be interesting to apply some of the other suggested statistical tests (confidence intervals?) to the settlers experiment results.
Except for the inexplicable 92% turnout last week, right? It is abundantly clear something fishy took place there because I simply don't believe that all those poor people in Alabama suddenly woke up and decided to turn over a new leaf and become civically active.

Roy Moore was a shit candidate from beginning to end, but the all-out media assault on him was a passel of lies and half-truths and that election was dirty, dirty, dirty, once again.
You should try central Europe - you can walk the city with beer in hand AND not have a dictator that can imprison you for life for banality.
The answer is right there at the top of the article: that it's for the classroom.
Saying that someone won the popular vote but not the election is identical to saying that someone won in the more densely populated area but lost in the more sparsely populated areas. It don't prove gerrymandering, which is the intent to arrange voting districts to manipulate elections. The intent is the key here and not the result.

Having seats allocated by area rather than population is an very old tactic to unify a large number of small provinces into a single nation. Rural voters votes need to still feel like its worth to vote, even if they are outnumbered by 10 to 1 to the voice and needs of the more populated areas. Similar how people view voting of third-party to be a wasted vote, so is it believed that people in low population areas would feel if election was purely based on the popular vote. This is not the definition of gerrymandering, but rather policy that is designed to prevent splintering of nations and civil war.

Did Roy Jones or his party rearrange the district to orchestrate a election win? If so then that is gerrymandering. If not then the idea of having voting districts rather than popular vote is really just the trade that happened a long time ago between low and high populated areas being applied to all levels.
Really cool project!

I'm a heavy org-mode user but one of the disappointing aspects of org-mode is that non-emacs users have a tough time contributing to documents; especially if I use advanced features like org-babel, spreadsheets, and the like.

I hold out hope that one day there will be a standalone org-mode editor for non-emacs users.

Folding Text seems to have many of the same features... I might have to check it out. :)
Can we figure out to replace mosquitoes in some fashion that doesn't feature human as an essential part of food chain?

"You literally had to run from your car to the house" isn't how you would like to live for the entirety of your life. Of course I don't have high hopes for Californians to understand this.

Tbe bottom line of the article is:

> I’m not going to kid you. It’s excellent now that the mosquitoes are gone. We don’t regret making that big effort.
I like to imagine that the internet was better way back when it was kinda sorta that way.
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