skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of this. Modularity means control, and control is a good thing. That's what Free Software is all about, isn't it?
Absolutely. Been there, done that. I worked for a guy who is top in his social science field. Total p-hacking was the norm. It was an eye-opening experience for someone new to the field expecting things to be done more honestly following something like the scientific method.

Once I found a major bug in some code that was the basis of a significant chunk of his major book and an important article. (Basically an optimization process that didn't work but gave some nice results he built a story around.) When I wrote him a report on what was wrong and why, he didn't respond. I was supposed to write a paper based on the same code and all he would say was along the lines of "it should work". Over time I realized that the implication was that I should "make" it work. Of course, he never said those words but over time the message was clear. After beating my head against a wall for a long time, I eventually walked away from the project. Technically bad for my career, but I honestly couldn't see the point in being at a top university essentially selling snake oil.

That being said, there are fields of social science that are much better: demography, political science, economics and even psychology (which is very difficult at the best of times!) are trying to clean up their act. Basically, any field of study with consistent data available openly is probably pretty decent.

There are other fields like business/management where the pay is generally good (i.e. motivation for a nice job with good perks is there), many of these journals don't require data to be released, and the samples being studied tend to be convenience samples or impossible to reproduce. I generally don't trust the work in this area.

Sadly, policy makers are often willing to take questionable academic studies that support their preconceived notions. When these things don't work out, the general public becomes jaded that their taxes were wasted... it makes all social science research look bad.
This what happens when a basic sedan like a Volkswagen Passat plug-in starts at 450,000 NOK ($54,000), once you add even basic customization, fees and all the rest the on the road cost of a mid range sedan could be as much as Tesla 75d, since many Teslas come to Norway as secondary imports there are plenty of “refurbished” Model S 60d’s for less than that.

Don’t get me wrong it’s neat that this is the case but this is an anomaly which both isn’t “right” and not applicable to most places.

Norway has effectively a luxury tax of 100% on cars and it can go higher than that based on the rediculous EU pollution score.
Yea im going to need that paper.
April 1st is three months away.
I don’t think Norks has any functioning subs at the moment, and certainly nothing of the size to hold an SLBM.
I think the point is that the low-level image sensor functions such as timing, readout, buffering, error correction etc don't change much. Therefore its more cost effective to do it in an ASIC rather than pay a premium for FPGA.
I wouldn't pin the success of any app on Electron. Most would gain a lot from pivoting away.
The motto of this year's edition of CCC, as shown here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress#C...

It will probably be explained in the opening talk.

EDIT: also, maybe this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuwat_language
Money to pay their own salaries so they can do it full time? Not trying to be a complete asshole but seems like the most logical conclusion for someone with a SS degree which can't help you get a job outside of things like this.
A focus puller is already built using FPGA+GNU/Linux - https://github.com/Qinematiq
The funny thing is, if there’s a country that practically would adopt electric cars last, it would be Norway. It’s got large distances and low prevailing temperatures, neither of which are favourable to electric cars.

That’s how it would go if countries were equal. However, Norway’s a fairly enlightened and forward thinking place, so politically it’s not surprising they’re way ahead of the curve.
OP needs to learn the difference between poor application design and exploitable bugs.
FSB trap conspiracy re: Snowden app–Greenwald lectures new Guardian Moscow chief
Yes, it was in use at the library my freshman year in college (92).
You cannot nuke anybody, and you have no possibility of defense neither. That's why those cold war nuclear games were over, as soon as the Russian's had their subs, and the US had Incilik.
Try a text shadow of 1px:

text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000000;
It only costs maybe 12k to put together something that can go 180-200. Early 2000 f-body with nitrous alone will get you to 160.

Sure the average person hasn't gone that fast but if you want to it's not that big of a deal
> Frequentist: yes.

I don't follow.
I wish it was this easy. Corporate employers have seemed more likely to just terminate you if you raise concerns, rather than work it out. HR is there to protect the company, not the employee. Admitting, my world of law and politics is different. Give any indication that you are unhappy, and the company is highly likely to terminate you (with severance) and then have security escort you out the door. There is far too much fear in this anti-employee world for employees to be honest and compassionate with their jobs.
Very nice.

I spent a lot of money and time before diacovering Transferwise.
That’s not what I call “commercial TV”. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has a corporate arm, but it’s not for Broadcasting.
LisaOS really was a different beast than Mac OS, and very little code was shared between the two from what I've read. Just some QuickDraw code is my understanding. LisaOS was multitasking and more object oriented and more like a true OS from the start.

I'm super excited to be able to read the sources now.
I was looking at pressure cookers on amazon and got ads for full figured bras for a month afterwards.
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Yeah, I was thinking that would be some app, keeping the Lone Ranger standing by with his silver bullets and all.
Thanks for all the replies!

So, while it's possible to manually check the use of unsafe, there is no way I can currently do it automatically, right? I noticed there is a #![forbid(unsafe_code)], which I can add to my source file, but this does not check that whatever functions I am importing or calling do not underlyingly use unsafe, right?

Moreover, I admit I am being lazy here, but any idea whether there are sub-communities in Rust that are keen on creating these kinds of safe programs?
What? A consultant is more likely to bail on a moment’s notice if a better deal comes along. One reason for hiring an FTE is the inherent hysteresis.

Of course it’s bad for a consultant to get the reputation of being unreliable so there’s some moderation on the practice.
Depending on North Africa which is extremely politically unstable is a horrible idea.
Germany is phasing nuclear energy out.
EGV is just a vision: reality is Germany routinely overloading their neighbors' grids(Czech, Polish) transmitting electricity from northern wind farms to southern and Austrian industrial centers. The neighbors are quite upset about it and are taking legal and technological(expensive investments on borders, without any German participation).

The endgame for Germany is wind + Russian gas, see Nordstream2.
This is a great Christmas present!
Nothing to do with being forward thinking it’s about money.

When you can buy a Tesla for the same price or cheaper and a bloody Volkswagen Passat you are going to buy a Tesla.

The Passat which in the US would cost you $20,000 has an on road price which starts at around $60,000 in Norway and most versions would cost you $70-75K.
German: Tu wat, tu was, mache was

->

'do what'

->

do something, be active, change things

1981 the left/alternative scene in Germany was thinking about the use of computers in society (police, companies, ...). There was a TUNIX congress. The 'tuwat' note in the TAZ newspaper invited to a meeting, which was kind of the foundation of the Chaos Computer Club... which was the birth of the hacker movement in Germany. tuwat is the motto calling people into action and to change the society with projects, meetings, a club, a congress, ...
Depends what you study. If you're an economist you need access to data like compustat or other. If you're a political scientist in the US much of the data is available but you also need to spend a while cleaning it (although there are great resources now too.)

You're really talking about small scale interviews or qualitative work. That's an aspect of social science but it's not all of it.
I dont think you know what .NET is - it's an entire software platform comprising of several languages (C#,F#,VB) along with a compiler toolchain (Roslyn,RyuJIT), managed runtime (CLR), high quality standard libraries (.NET standard/BCL), and productive application frameworks (ASP.NET), that compile into programs that can now run on Windows, Mac, Linux, mobile phones and even Raspberry Pi's.

These programs can do anything, just like any other code in any other language, and the protocols (like HTTP or UDP) to talk between processes or programs have nothing to do with the code itself, which gets compiled down to the same machine level instructions anyway regardless of what language you use.
By one estimate, owning an electric car in Oslo is worth US $8,200 annually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...
Not-fun fact: jpay even charges $5 every time you add credit to an account. Now they're even starting to abolish in-person visitationa t some jails and prisons and force family members to use video visitation, because they can make money out of it.

I look forward tot he day when a lot of these predators are forced to swap places with the people they were abusing.
Agreed re. JavaScript, which is why I use Reason (ReasonML if you want to google it) with React and ReactNative. Ocaml but with a syntax that’s easier for my team to swallow, compiles to JS. The Bucklescript team deserves all the nice things in life for their amazing work!
This is a repeat of a prior Tesla publicity stunt. What they do is they only ship cars to Norway quarterly, and by filling a big backlog of orders they then claim to be the most popular make in that month, which is technically true but also quite silly. You can clearly see on the graph in the article that the reason Tesla "sold" a ton of cars in September is because it sold almost none in August and July prior. And Tesla has been pumping this PR trick for at least four years.

I think this says more about Tesla's bizarre production and delivery schedules than it says about the automobile market in Norway.
A year ago few people believed North Korea can build a hydrogen bomb, or an ICBM capable of reaching continental US.
Turnout is abysmal because so many people believe the system is rigged, and to some extent they're correct.
Retarded policy leads to stupid choice
Just to provide one example - about a year ago I moved from a 12 year old Gmail address to another address/service. The lift for updating people, services, etc. really wasn’t that much. I left the gmail around and I do log in once a month or so but the last time I remember anything of interest coming there was maybe six months ago.

I also exported all of my emails from Gmail. I recall accessing them once maybe a month or two after the move, but since then I haven’t touched them.

In general I think people attach much more significance to things like email addresses and phone numbers than is necessary. Frankly I’d much rather things like that change from time to time so they aren’t so easily used as semi-permanent identifiers.
Yep. Norway discourages gas powered vehicle ownership through miles of red tape and taxes.
Likewise, one of the most satisfying books/subjects at uni! Thanks for giving me the name, I had wanted to revisit the book but forgot the name and author.
WebForms are still actively developed and supported by Microsoft. The latest version is very good and the WebForms paradigm is incredibly productive for general business-line apps. You can build entire apps within hours or days that would take months otherwise with separate frameworks.

If you have a massive complex webapp then you should use MVC, or look at a separate frontend JS talking to a backend API, but WebForms serves its niche very well.
>It is a fallacy that it takes a lot of time, like saying QA is worthless because it too takes a lot of time.

If you think it's so valuable, why not have every developer in the team review every merge? That's like 15 code reviews for each piece of code checked in. Obviously, it's because at some point you get diminishing returns. We have developer testing, unit testing, QA and UAT, all to catch defects before production. That's 4 layers of testing. Code reviews make it 5 layers. Not only is it a fifth layer, it's expensive because the most expensive people (in both wages and opportunity cost) are doing it. Reviews are just another iteration of essentially the same thing. At some point, you are spending a lot of money on little return. For me that is mandatory code review after 3-6 months.
A Strategic Point of View for VM
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Which voters, exactly? The same voters who voted for Brexit based on false promises and politics of misinformation? Or perhaps the same voters who thought they were voting for affordable health care but against Obamacare?

The world is safer now than ever before, but I don't think we have secret services to thank for it.
I’m trying to imagine a situation where the risk is worth the performance payoff, but where I’m still writing python.
Why ridiculous? After all, it's been put in place for the express purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions [1], and at least in Norway it seems to be effective.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/transport/vehicles/cars_...
Thanks, I didn't realize it was related to conjugacy!
The high sales in December 2017 are easily explained because of the one-off tax proposed for 2018:

https://www.ft.com/content/fe6b79d4-af31-11e7-aab9-abaa44b1e...

Once Norway drops the tax advantages for EVs which is projected to happen somewhere past 2020 likely they'll be back to 'normal' quite quickly.

Also, this is for new sales, the bulk of the fleet is still ICE's (68%), with the majority made up by VW, Toyota and Volvo.
I can think of two gas stations nearby with that. I've started avoiding them since they installed the screens.
> if you want someone who will never quit, hire an independent consultant.

I can think of many reasons why an independent consultant would quit: abusive or annoying relationship with customer (e.g., customer wants lots of free revisions), bills don't get paid promptly, can negotiate a better rate elsewhere, bored with the current gig, etc.
Not true - Ractive is a library much like vue on the surface that came out _before_ React. It's all about timing, promotion and hitting a feature sweet spot.
The "guaranteed sum" is not really guaranteed because the sum is denominated in a currency that is not pegged to any real resource. If the next generation can't produce enough real resources, then the pension amount will just be decreased via inflation.
It's a corruption of "do something" in German: "Tu etwas" -> "Tu was" "Tu wat" -> tuwat

and an allusion to a very early conference announcement in the German hacker scene with the headline "TUWAT.TXT".

https://berlin.ccc.de/wiki/TUWAT.TXT

"Do something" in German has ~the same connotations as in English: the situation is bad and you urgently need to start fixing it.
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There's an associated text version of a lot of the main ideas in http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmuajs/vmoutlook/ but the video is actually quite funny even if you don't know what VM is. Reminds me of Bryan Cantrill's illumos talks in sheer entertainment value.

There are some interesting things to discuss on missing markets, and product management around this. Although z/VM is still a billions dollar business.
I think he was assuming the subject was terraforming.

Without a magnetosphere, the atmosphere will keep being blasted off into space continuously, and it'll be impossible to terraform.
> I can't be be sure that a developer doesn't go behind the scenes and change Sql server either.

You basically can. The difference is that it's quite obviously notable to a developer of any level that changing the schema in the database is something that should be done with some forethought and care. And then when that change is made, all applications accessing the database get the same new view of the schema so you're not going to have two different clients with a different idea about the schema trying to operate on the database at once because schema is global.

Making a change that suuuuubtly alters the way data is stored in an unstructured object is the kind of thing that's really easy to overlook in a pull request.

Your "only one module" rule is laudable, but you've also got to make sure that module can do everything you'd ever want to do to the database, including all the "one off" data mangling admin tasks anyone occasionally has to do. Otherwise it will get bypassed. Case in point I used to use an ORM heavily, but it wasn't possible to express everything in that ORM, so where that broke down we had to resort to manual sql. Add a few developers to the equation and you don't know exactly the format of your data.

Good schema management practise also means you end up defining all of your schema mutating operations as migrations, leaving you with a rather vital log of how things have changed over time and a good pinch-point to catch inadvisable changes to schema.
Is that a bad thing though? Are they just pricing in the externalities of gas powered cars?
"Template language... You can call it 'separation of concerns' all you want, but just let me generate templates using the language I already know, JSX is great"

Not everyone knows JSX, so while that argument applies to you, it doesn't apply in general.
I think I'd need to see more data to actually draw a conclusion here. Is this just a Star Wars thing or do other movies released recently perform similarly?

I think it's entirely possible that it's just a general movie industry trend that people who don't see a movie in its first weekend have no desire to go subsequently - maybe because all the good parts are almost immediately spread around the net? Less incentive to go to theater.
> However, we discovered after some time that the custom Python implementation for those workers was dropping up to 5% of the events. This was mostly due to the nature of how reading happens with Kinesis: every stream has multiple shards (ours up to 50!) and each reading client would use a so-called shard iterator to keep track of where it was reading last. Since the used machines could always crash, be recycled, or scaled down, we needed to save those shard iterators in some serialized format to Redis and share them across machines and process boundaries. Since we had so many shards, every once in awhile we would skip events and hence lose them.

I've never worked with Kinesis, but in Kafka you'd store offsets specifically to solve this issue. When one of the members of a consumer group would drop out, the partition (read: shard) would automatically be reassigned to another member. This gives an at least once delivery guarantee, combined with idempotent actions gives effectively once semantics. No need to loose any messages. What was the issue that the dubsmash engineers were solving here?
Look at the introduction from the timetable.

Tim talks about the current usage of computers only for surveillance, smartphones and cars. Believing that computers can be used for more useful things ending with the invitation of us computer freaks for the event:

Damit wir als Komputerfrieks nicht länger unkoordiniert
vor uns hinwuseln, tun wir wat und treffen uns am
27.12.17 in Leipzig, Seehausener Allee 1 (TAZ-
Hauptgebäude) ab 11:00 Uhr

"tun wir wat" translates to "let's do something".

The word tuwat can be interpreted as "tu wat" which translates to "do something".

Be aware this language is not German but more like Berlinerisch- the dialect spoken in Berlin.
They have 20 Romeo-class submarines, and can probably modify some of those to launch a relatively small ballistic missile.
If you’re interested in the topic you might want to have a go over it once more.

The author [0] is a leading North Korea watcher, most famous for his 2010 book, “The Cleanest Race”. [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reynolds_Myers

[1] https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-cleanest-race/
Tesla is also subsidized by government, so it costs pretty much the same as a "general" kind of family car.
It may seem "obvious" to you after being in the water with JSX for a while, but the free-style abstractions afforded by being 'just' JavaScript, like the one you mention, look incredibly complex for someone approaching an unknown codebase.
I ought to directly show this, but Frequentist hypothesis tests will produce different p-values depending on which model is chosen.
It discourages ownership of any vehicle, it just affects EVs currently less.
Norway didn’t implement those policies to encourage EVs due to how the laws and regulations were structured they just sliped through, and this won’t last for much longer there has been quite a bit of talk of closing some of the loopholes and cutting some of the subsidies.