skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Punk test. Advocacy groups are way less likely to want to turn your case into a test case if you are a racist asshole.
You have succumbed to the coordinate virus, http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/MathViruses.pdf
All I see there is some study unrelated to your claim [1], except maybe in the hypothetical square-chickens-in-vacuum case ("when individuating information is clear and relevant").

Now, in real life, when is information clear? Have you heard of, say, "blind auditions" for orchestras? I guess the people who developed that (and got results!) were stupid, because if clear and individuating information was present, there would be no problem at all.

[1] your claim:
> stereotypes (I) mention are (not) "incredibly harmful" to those negatively affected. Because the research shows that that is not the case

I.e. your claim is basically that research shows people negatively affected by stereotypes are not harmed much by them. There is and can be no such research.
The NEJM paper :
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1708483#t=article

pdf:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1708483
Broadcast TV isn't dying, it's moving to the Internet.
That's right and I can't believe there isn't more disgust at Google for the Echo Show drama. They blocked Youtube.com on this device -- the website, not an app. It's the most recent example of throwing net neutrality out the window.
I hope this will make innovators build a new powerful internet that is not dependent on telecos. Trump is not going to like it.
That already happened, in 2014. Netflix made agreements with Comcast/Time Warner/AT&T/Verizon.

I think it will be interesting to see what happens now. I imagine the ISPs already feel they're very near the peak price:demand curve for consumers. Their monopoly is such that customers can't really say no unless they're willing to go with no access. So I'd agree that if there was going to be a squeeze it'd be on other large companies. But that also opens up the door to a far more motivated Google Fiber. And the lack of net neutrality opens up some interesting things - for instance a Netflix arrangement with an upstart ISP could offer free access at ultra-premium speeds to Netflix. That is something that the current monopolists could not necessarily match.

Should be interesting to see how this plays out.
Moreover, "heresy" implies that a person becomes heretic - socially despicable - by embracing an idea. This is what the author opposes. And for good reason - embracing the concept of heresy means you're only allowed to think things sanctioned by the current sociopolitical philosophy. And since every society has some amount of batshit insane ideas it believes, allowing for heresy means cutting out the safest / most peaceful way of correcting that insanity.
Apropos crypto + political : excellent must read by Yanis Varoufakis, an economist that I greatly admire (but not always 100% agree with), on "Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of apolitical money": https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-da...
> DHS anticipates that there would be two primary impacts that DHS can estimate: the cost-savings accruing to forgone future filings by H-4 spouses, and labor turnover costs that employers of H-4 workers could incur.

Does anyone know what cost savings are they talking about?
This is a long time coming. There's a big backstory to it. Let me explain.

"Exie" was the codename for Microsoft's attempt to create, in Excel, a language similar to MATLAB (and later, Julia). The name "Exie" meant that it would be integrated with Excel. It was based on Alan Edelman's Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), which Microsoft acquired in late 2009 [0]. ISC's main product was Star-P, an auto-parallelizing compiler in which users used a *p suffix in an array dimension to indicate parallelism across that dimension, similar to CoArray Fortran.

Unfortunately, the ISC acquisition was a failure. Microsoft already had agreements with MathWorks and Cleve Moler (makers of MATLAB) which prohibited competitive software like Star-P. So Microsoft had to scramble and find other ways to get analytic, REPL, MATLAB-like software out the door. Unbeknownst to Microsoft, Julia was already making faster progress than they ever did, but on similar goals. Julia is what Microsoft had hoped Exie to become, and it's not a coincidence that Alan Edelman has been involved in Julia.

Then, Steve Ballmer decided to abandon HPC and mathematical software, and to focus mostly on the cloud, which led to the very public dismissal of Bob Muglia.

The head of Microsoft Technical Computing, Kyril Faenov, unfortunately committed suicide a year later. His wife, the daughter of a famous Seattle architect [1], did not respect his Jewish mother's wishes on the handling of his remains. His mother fought and lost in court [2].

Maybe Microsoft embracing Python in Excel is the best that can be hoped for now. It's certainly better than VB. But Exie tried, almost 10 years ago, to create an Excel environment closer to modern-day Julia than anything else.

There were a lot of personal sacrifices in that effort. For example, Bill Blake, the former CEO of ISC, stayed at MS for a while during the transition, then moved to Cray as CTO for a while, and then died unexpectedly less than 4 months after he joined D-Wave. [3] [4]

There's certainly been a lot of casualties, in the attempt to bring Excel up to being more analytically-friendly. Is it really worth it?

[0] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2009/09/21...

[1] http://archive.seattleweekly.com/news/956673-129/seattleland...

[2] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/wa-court-of-appeals/1735359.html

[3] https://www.cray.com/blog/cray-ceo-reflects-on-bill-blakes-l...

[4] https://www.dwavesys.com/blog/2015/04/bill-blake
That's more than a little bit off the mark. Both the U.S. and Europe are in the middle of a multi-decade economic boom resulting from deregulation. Telecom, airline, etc., deregulation isn't something we did on our own. Pretty much the whole developed world has massively deregulated these industries, and continues to do so, and continues to benefit from those policies.

To me, the litmus test for whether deregulatory (or really, any other) argument can be assumed to be in good faith is to ask: what do other developed countries do? Pai's self-regulation approach is being mocked as disingenuous in the U.S., but for example, Japan and Denmark also rely on self-regulation in this area.
It's TV.
I don't think its exactly anti-competitive since you're free to buy an Apple TV from anyone else. This is more about companies with paid for streaming services not allowing each other on their platforms. Often they will restrict each other from selling content on their devices since they offer a competing product. For example, Amazon sells TV shows/movies through Amazon Instant Video, so does Apple through iTunes. In my opinion this was enforcing a similar policy at a more physical level. There's a weird balance to the whole ecosystem.
It really depends. When we were starting out keeping our hosting costs low with dedicated servers kept us afloat.

We actually make an effort to cut our hosting costs while expanding capacity pretty much every year now because Intel keeps making better chips.
Look up the Truffle Ethereum Development Framework. Take a look into the Coin creation sample and work it out from there.
If you've got better suggestions I'm all ears. I've found it pretty great for debugging and being able to understand data in a rapid manner.
I think my statement is not insanely detached. Let's consider that the progressive culture of the bay area more or less throws men and western culture under the bus, what with our constant pursuit of sexual misdeeds perpetrated by the same men who bring us prosperity. Or that we take random ethnic groups, or women as a whole, and make them into victims of the "patriarchy", which translates into victims of western society, thus perpetuating the idea that western values are inherently evil.

How about the fact that your company can get ripped apart for not having enough employees of certain races, or that conservatives either shut up or get ousted at big co's? There are invincible, roving SJW gangs with Google Sheets filled with names and details of tech workers that have been blacklisted for not being liberals. They enforce the ideology.

Now, on to the republicans. You're saying that they're throwing poor people under the bus, and I think you're right, a lot of their policies are downright dangerous. But I cannot listen to anti-trump, anti-republican statements anymore because the real arguments are lost in the hysteria. I believe that traditional, western values are very important. They are what brought us to the promised land we are currently in - It was our colonialism and christian morals that allowed our society to blossom. I'm not going to budge on that. Now, I do want to receive good criticism from you and to improve my viewpoint, but the problem is that criticism often devolves on the part of the liberals to claims of being a racist, homophobe, transphobe, or xenophobe; that I'm some redneck who's uneducated and does not hold a valid opinion. That's why I'm worried.

Communism worked by throwing anyone "against the state" into gulags, and against the state was a very low bar to pass. You basically had to have an uncommon or "off limits" opinion, which is what most all republicans have from the perspective of a progressive. Taken to the limit, perhaps this means that no republicans are allowed to get jobs at tech companies, they are unanimously attacked in the media, and slowly a mono-narrative emerges: Welcome immigrants, don't be straight, never express your innate male energy and aggression, and of course, if you're a woman, never have children and focus solely on your career. My imagination tells me that will happen, because the flame of that ideology has been lit and it is hard to snuff it out when the people confronted with it all hold tech jobs that they will lose if they speak out.

Now I wish that you and I could have a real discussion about this because I know I haven't adequately addressed your central points, and I know my viewpoint is terribly flawed. But I think that shit gets fucked up a lot faster and a lot harder than any of us think, especially the rich ones of us in the bay.

Good luck.
As much as I dislike the ruling party, it's all politics and the major TVs in Poland are just foreign influence agents and they lie to their teeth about everything. For a weaker country like Poland to break out of foreign rule, they have to muster the power and get rid of foreign agents. Free speech has nothing to do with mass media which are just propaganda tools used by whoever is their real owner.

Free speech in Poland is doing way better than almost anywhere else in the world. You can think, write and say what you want. There is no official or unofficial wrong-think commandos, or ideologies shoved down everyone's throat. You can actually have a public discussion there, without fear of retaliation, being ostracised, fired and unemployable forever, etc. In some parts of USA you can't even say "Merry Christmas" anymore without fear of being labelled a bigot, racist or whatever and having a talk with an HR.

And comments about fascism etc in Poland are offensive and ignorant. Polish people like noone else in the world are wary of ideologies like communism and fascism. A lot of people here making such comments, wouldn't recognize fascism and totalitarianism if it hit them in the head. Otherwise, they would be discussing American universities, antifa, PC police etc all the time, not "raise of fascism in
Europe". Poland, as lame as it is in some respects is an awesome place if you value freedom of speech and mind. Come and visit.
Every supermarket chain in the UK does this to a greater or lesser extent, sometimes it's hard to distinguish the original packaging from the copy.

There is a German supermarket chain who take the concept to its absolute limit, basing their entire business model on it.
Thanks for the explanation.

So on one day, 2 years ago, after 15 years of perfect order, two lines went down.

I understand what you're saying about the standards going down and it's good that the Singaporeans are so demanding toward the authorities.

Still, it is not regarded an extinction-level event in most places.

In Melbourne (Australia), for instance, only 87% of the trains are required to arrive within 5 minutes of the schedule. That is, over every 10th train can be late and it's OK with everybody. See here: https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/about-ptv/victorias-public-transp... The average time between trains is 10-15 minutes, up to 20 in off-peak hours. (For trams and buses, the standards are more lax, obviously.) This is normal; Melbourne transportation is regarded as generally of decent quality worldwide and yes, CBD-bound Melbourne commuters generally use public transport, too.
How to address hard drive failure
And to yours, I'd add "for values of 'anymore' smaller than last 30 years", and kindly remind everyone that US military used to spray pathogens on its own, unsuspecting populace, in order to experimentally explore the areas of bioweapons defense and offense.
First, they put everyone who are not like them at a disadvantage

- Poor funding for some school districts

- Lack of accessible transportation options for folks in far flung areas

- Lack of funding for individuals to go to college/expensive education

- In this case, damaging careers, families and not letting people work at all, akin to slavery.

Then, they come out and say:

- Why don't you work hard?

- Why don't you get a job?

- Why don't you save money?

- Why aren't you more like us?

Why aren't they more like you? Because you don't let them be like you.

America is cruel!
The input is the current board-state and the output is the probability of each move.
Also for visualizing there are things like pandastable and DataExplore and other tools. You won't fix Excel by adding Python to it, but you do need the ability to process legacy xls and xlsx files so they need to at least continue that support.
Could you please explain why that is the correct way?
Majority of land-owners.
Every ordered field has characteristic 0, so I don't think finite fields are likely to be terribly useful for solving optimization problems. But:

(0) There is way more to linear algebra than linear programming.

(1) A linear algebra course is not the right place for an extensive study of how to solve optimization problems anyway. That belongs in a real analysis course.
Here in Seattle our condo building is in the middle of something insane - Comcast is actively installing their network in our building; previously we were only served by Wave Broadband. The local government has finally pushed back on what used to be de facto "gentlemen's agreements" to not allow competition in buildings. Excited to see what this brings!
Wish it supported Asciidoc. For now jbake and hugo will be my preferred choices but definitely adding this to pinboard as well.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not snarky tropes.
Of course I know the rules; I was born into them!
This post suddenly reminded me of Resolver Systems, who made a Python/.Net spreadsheet back in the '00s:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/spreadsheet/competition/prweb1...

I thought it was a good idea at the time, especially after having read "A Small Matter of Programming" which makes the case that spreadsheets are one of the very few successful end-user programming systems (the other being CAD):

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/small-matter-programming
I want to add two things that aren't directly related to the article, but which might contribute to further discussion.

First, there's an anthropologist who's found that the stereotypical, combative voices are only universal (among a small sample) to the American/western participants in her study.[1] In cultures that offer alternate explanations for them ("spirits" or such), the voices are much more frequently friendly or even helpful.

Second, but less rigourous, that "new approach" mentioned in the Stanford article sounds remarkably like how someone one of my high school teachers knew handled his own voices: he did have trouble with them for a while and wound up needing to take a break from the handyman outfit he (if I recall correctly) ran with his brother. Eventually, though, his therapist recommended he stop trying to push the voices away completely, and the next time my teacher saw him, a few years later, he was back working again, and just telling people "if you hear me talking as I fix your porch, it's not to you."

It's not my own depiction, but I like the idea that part of why the voices here get so aggressive is that we're dead set on denying their reality -- if we try to ignore them, they just shout louder until we can't ignore them. And, as this article shows, the way we cast someone's voices as controling or, at the very least, setting the course of their life doesn't do anybody any favors when that leads so easily to feeling like they're subject to the voices' whims.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann...
EBOLA SURVIVORS STILL IMMUNE TO THE VIRUS AFTER 40 YEARS
Or perhaps it's like the Macross, so completely inert -- but set to go off once the Zentraedi come around to investigate.
I am comparing the user experience.

Borrowing a tired car analogy, I see people crying foul that their Porsche sucks and that their neighbour's Bentley is better while most of the world drives rusty bicycles.
Designated as Chairman by Donald Trump - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai

Obama Designated Tom Wheeler chairman, and he put in place the regulations that Pai dismantled today - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler
Like one of those ants in the article, this solitary submission lives unobserved in an environment filled with tech news.
It seems that the article is trying an artsy way to introduce cryptography and hashing:

Communication is easy, but it’s hard to tell who knows what. Messages pass one another in corridors; conversations fragment. When A replied to B, had she received your message yet, or was she reading C’s? Did she ignore what you said because she didn’t like it, or because it had yet to be delivered? When D proposes a simultaneous attack on the wardens as they deliver dinner, how many people received it? When A confirms to D that she’s in, will D see the message in time? Will D know that B saw it?

Here’s one solution, if a strange one. Write a message with a very difficult mathematical problem on it—a problem so hard that it would take a month of concentration to solve. Now wait.

And I don't get the point of this. Is cryptography bad because it needs to ensure things are not intercepted in between?
It’s a lot of hang wringing over nothing. Google, amazon, even Apple and Msft rely on a healthy internet. They represent over 2 trillion market cap. They can easily compete with the telecoms.
US woman accused of laundering Bitcoin for Islamic State
> If I was Facebook, I'd start to think about how to add more value to people's lives.

Harvesting value from people's lives seems to be working really well for them at the moment.
A huge focus of the project is on human-readable schemas and formats. Even if all specs & source code of the project is lost, the data should still be recoverable from a curious archaeologist.

Between replicating between several companies as well as your own hardware & having friends & family mirror your stuff (encrypted or not), the ideas is that some copies will continue to exist.

Hardware failures are a given. Companies failing and friends & family dying is also a given. Natural disasters too. The only option seems to be trusting nothing and replicating all your data to lots of places, in future-friendly formats, and that's what Perkeep aims to do. And then a ton of tooling on top of that.
Yes, you could frame the Voyager treatment as "better levodopa". Though, the mechanism would feasibly mitigate neuro-degeneration and improve the terrible dose escalation of the drug.

Also correct about general delivery difficulties. Hadn't heard of Biontech's method - almost sounds like voodoo by your description.

I think there is interesting blocking and tackling happening on an organ-by-organ basis. E.g. GalNAc for liver hepatocytes, LNPs for systemic mRNA therapies, direct injection for eye or CNS (cheating, but still works). I'm partial to exosome hype...

Also no such discussion is complete without saying CRISPR, but the point remains that you can conjugate it targetted vehicles like antibodies. Conjugating to antibodies seemed to work for Stem :p
Defect that causes Huntington's disease has been corrected for the first time
Depends greatly on the problem domain.

For example, if the problem domain is football games and gambling, well, scraping the results of those games from existing apis isn't too hard nor expensive.

If it's based on real-world stuff with no existing consistent API (e.g. you want a app based on housing), you'll either need to build that API, find a company to research and enter the data, etc.
Cliffhanger is New Zealand quote of the year
Can you deploy a functional Wordpress blog on Lambda? Would love to try it.
Because the way the headline is formulated, the A.I. is helping the planet orbit that distant star, though arguably the comma saves it.
This is incorrect on several points. Most importantly, the idea that this move returns to some "deregulated" 2015 is a myth and has been refuted so many times throughout the net neutrality discussion. The short version is that NN has always been roughly in place and has been enforced with legal action by regulators for many years prior to 2015.
Cost savings by the DHS by not having to process H4 applications.
Oh this is cool, is it basically giving you a view of what alphago thinks the win % is for a given board state while you're playing? With undo that's awesome.
So growth-hacking using craigslist. I thought CL had run out of steam for potential marketers, it seems that is not the case.
i deleted the app but always had issues with Facebook Login in some apps which was annoying, so i reinstalled it.
Delete it off your phone, ASAP. There is literally nothing to gain from having the Facebook app on your phone. The app doesn't positively help you with the one thing Facebook is really useful for - event planning.

Every once in a while i like to see what events my friends have invited me to, so I log on to facebook on my browser, check my notifications, and leave. How do I prevent myself from getting sucked in by the news feed? I block it, with News Feed Eradicator, a Chrome extension.
If someone posted a picture of you or tagged you in some way, you know, the things that in your news feed that are actually useful/concern you, you get a notification without any clutter to block it up.

It's lowered my stress level and I still get to stay in touch with the things I care about.
This is a graduate-level course in the department of computer and information science.

> Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate course in linear algebra, calculus

> The goal of this course is to provide firm foundations in linear algebra and optimization techniques that will enable students to analyze and solve problems arising in various areas of computer science, especially computer vision, robotics, machine learning, computer graphics, embedded systems, and market engineering and systems. The students will acquire a firm theoretical knowledge of these concepts and tools. They will also learn how to use these tools in practice by tackling various judiciously chosen projects (from computer vision, etc.). This course will serve as a basis to more advanced courses in computer vision, convex optimization, machine learning, robotics, computer graphics, embedded systems, and market engineering and systems.
How does DHS save money by not processing these visas?
Additionally what about the second cost saving?