skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1 in 5 ad-serving websites are visited exclusively by fraud bots

seriously?? that's surely impossible?
Cities with Taxis have lower rates of ambulance usage too.

In fact, any kind of public transportation will result in lower ambulance usage. Because when there are alternatives some %age of ambulance rides will be replaced by some %age of public transportation rides.
The python link is not working?

https://github.com/ASvyatkovskiy/PythonWorkshop/blob/Spring2...
It’s not binary! China is more corrupt than western countries, even if the west stil has corruption. The west has frequent reports about corruption because the media is separate from the government as well as separation of power, nothing can be papered over even if Donald Trump wants to silence it. In china, only corruption is reported on from official direction, the press can’t act independently.

There are plenty of countries that are more corrupt than China (e.g. India and Russia, as well as most of Africa). Again, it’s not binary!
> an emoji, in reality, looks like this: “\xF0\x9F\x98\x81”

… well, that’s one encoding of the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode code point.

> This is because setInterval(_=>{ },99) executes the function every 99ms

This is categorically wrong. You can’t trust setInterval to heed your request precisely at all: it’s a request that browsers take as a minimum only. Most browsers will call your function after the number of milliseconds you requested plus up to 16ms more, but some might wait even more than that (I think Safari in power saving mode doubles its tick time, to operate at 30fps; and background tabs typically won’t fire more than once a second these days).

Try running this snippet in your dev tools; it logs the number of milliseconds between calls:

t=Date.now();setInterval(()=>console.log(-t+(t=Date.now())), 99)

On Firefox I’m getting mostly 108–111, with the odd one a little higher, and a couple of 99s after running it for a few minutes.

(Some trivia on similar techniques for this measurement: `+new Date` is rather slow, `Date.now()` is about 7× faster in at least Firefox and Chrome, and `performance.now()` gets you microsecond precision (it returns a floating-point number in milliseconds, tied to an unspecified epoch instead of real-world time), and is a little slower than Date.now().)
Same thoughts here, I thought that was the important step to gemify everything in 2.6. Are they reverting course?
Pretty much this. It is their problem to figure out a way to deliver content in an acceptable and profitable way. The current way is clearly (starting to) being rejected by the Internet users.
New challenge: A robot to assemble a given maze as fast as possible.
This idea originated in the jsgolf community and dwitter (a site where you post 140 character js snippets that generate interesting visuals). See https://www.dwitter.net/u/aemkei
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Only a few sounds use lip shapes. Most sounds are based on tongue positioning. Compare ‘m’ & ‘n’ to… not making any sound with your lips together or slightly parted.

The only sounds I would be very confident at recovering sounds from images for ‘th’, ‘w’, ‘o’, & indistinguishable voiced/unvoiced pairs like ‘b’/‘p’ or ‘v’/‘f’. Basically, the sounds a ventriloquist has to cheat.
The Year 2017 in Money
That's interesting to me, as somebody who's moved to Finland recently. Presumably it tastes "worse" ?

(I had some today, I thought it was delicious.)
Organ harvesting of condemned prisoners continues although China has promised to to stop it multiple times. It’s why china has some of the quickest turn around times for organ transplants even though it has one of the lowest voluntary donation rates.
Depends on the quality of your travel insurance.

Some credit cards come with automatic travel insurance, but regardless it is well worth researching before you travel. Hospital stays abroad sometimes need to be paid out-of-pocket until you are reimbursed later on.

It all depends on the circumstances, your country of origin and any extra insurance you might have taken out.

I ended up in hospital for a fairly routine operation about a decade ago and had to pay out of pocket, luckily it was in a place where they just charge you for actual cost rather than to try to balance their budget by bankrupting you so it ended up being $1500. The same thing in the US would have been a large multiple.
>But to a lot of people; Android phones these days feel creepy to be around, with the amount of Google-integration that requires much hoop-jumping and ignoring-of-gentle-pushes, just to get peace of mind over your data not being vacuumed from whatever crevices Google can find. And there are a lot of crevices on your personal smart phone.

The way some people use their iPhone (my partner included) and all the (cr)Apps they have and what they do, it may as well be an android phoning home to google… also ignoring when its in airplane mode, telecos routinely connect through to the phone via baseband…

Even with all the conveniences, sometimes its just better to leave my phone at home… esp with all the times something is just trying to connect to apples servers.
So you need to factor the same private health insurance costs in the US to compare like for like
Got it, my groovy files have always been setup the environment (I.e. write config files for the test database, API keys, etc everything that should not be in git), and then just execute make to make so that I don’t have a completely different setup each environment. Thank you very much!
Could you be a bit more specific? As can be seen from the article, this is one part of a series describing several best practices you should follow when shipping binaries. This one article does not claim to cover everything. Also check part 1 and the upcoming ones.

Also, if there is a defense against ROP and other exploits that makes it possible to do away with ASLR and ESP please let me know.
It makes no sense to discuss objectification in regards to the level of societal development that is implied by polygyny. Nobody there is seen as an individual being in a sense that no one's human rights are guaranteed or even promised to be. This is only about basic needs. Of course, the men at the top are winners, and winners take all. Women are inequally treated by them but get their basic needs covered (safety and resources, reproduction and opportunity to care for their children etc). Majority of men, though, simultaneously have to fend for themselves AND are deprived of sex. They are worse off, biologically and personally. They have less to lose, too: no offspring, no stability, no relationship, however inequal; which makes it so much easier to challenge the status-quo.
Moreover, men are more likely to respond to violence in just about any context, especially this. No wonder that their frustration is a greater factor in societal disturbance induced by polygyny.
The video discusses reversible computing but doesn't answer any questions how to accomplish it. The subject is misleading.
It absolutely makes sense to insure routine medical examinations. If they’re not covered, people don’t do them. Many routine examinations uncover conditions that are not critical yet and easy to treat before they turn into a costly nightmare. (e.g. routine skin checks uncover potential cancer before it spreads, tooth checks uncover problems before they require expensive replacement) It’s an investment, not only health-wise, but also financially for the health insurance.
I agree on hardware quality.

Security to me seems like a sales pitch - Apple is just as sensitive information greedy as Google. And I deal in this area with Google as well as I do with Apple.

But the inferior software quality is terrible drag for Apple.

Photos - their syncing with iCloud is out of control. There are bugs that haven’t been eliminated for years. I gave up when after deleting 50 GB of RAW photos Apple re-created then and synced back to mu Mac.

Google Photos is not only more open but also smarter and better at improving picture quality.

Apple Music - I gave up after a month of getting recommended Heavy Metal albums and playlusts everyday. Nothing in my Library, listening and followed artist suggested that I might like Metal. What kind of company can’t write simple recommender?

iCloud - Google Drive is just superior, more open, integrates and exchanges files with almost everything, Google Backup just works. iCloud backup is really inferior and again out of control for user.

Apple Mail stoped beeing developed and there are well documented frustrating bugs and quirks if you use IMAP accounts.

Maps - despite Tim Cook’s promise to users it never got on par with Google Maps. The quality difers wildly from country to country but recently I have re-installed Maps, used them for a week in my hometown and got so frustrated that I have deleted Maps and went back to using Google Maps.

Oh should I mention that touch interface is full of bugs. Try selecting a piece of text in iOS...
So here is what I understood. Price differentiation will impact the equilibrium as content providers (CPs) are now competing also on connection speed. Lower quality CPs have incentive of paying ISPs to get better speed for their sites. If lower quality CPs pay ISPs more than the good ones everyone gets worst off. In this scenario CPs are also worst off as now they are diverting money to ISPs instead then profits or investment.
Self-Determination: The Tyranny of Freedom (2000) [pdf]
Ok, let's say 3 people with reasonable salaries, $10k a month. Equipment and a car even though is costly is used for long period, let's say $500k over 5 years, that's $8.3k a month. Medications are expendable, because the more load an ambulance has (and medication usage) the more revenue it brings, but ok, let's add $10k a month for resupplying medications, plus other small expenses it's total $50k a month. In the situation described by rconti (5 miles) it probably took them less than an hour for revenue of $3400, let's say an hour, and let's say they have average load of 3 such calls a day (not really a heavy load). It's more than $300k a month in revenue. So, what's the reason for $250k difference?
It's still the same as it was in 1939 though... And if you compare it with any Chinese city, London's slow re-population looks exceptionally sluggish.
> No : It considers that at 6 you're not a promoter. But your score will be 6. And the progress from 0 to 6 will be reflected on your score.

That's the thing though: The progress from 0 to 6 is not reflected in any score.
It was 8.3m 100 years ago, and it's 9.1m now.
Try to spend as much time with friends and family as I can manage.
Having used IntelliJ -- well, it's faster than a lot of other IDEs, but "one of the fastest text editors"? Maybe vim is spoiling me but everything that runs outside of a terminal feels glacial to me.
I'm not defending the cost! Just saying you can't look at it and say 'that's more than the cost of the vehicle' because it's not about the cost of the vehicle.
Recent experience with NPS both for internal use (are the employees happy) and with users parallels this also. Somewhat happy users appear to start with a score of 10 and discount points based on various negatives. Unhappy users start with 0 and only adjust upwards. albeit with more inertia.

To be fair, everything I've read about NPS says don't use it in isolation. The article covers this with the "why?" question. You need to follow up with more detailed questions to get any real benefit from it. But that reduces the survey to a simple tool for flushing out your unhappy users. It gets more complicated because, like unhappy families, everyone is unhappy in their own way.

Some additional things that muddy the waters:

1. Cultural fit - not giving a good score in seen as impolite. As a result you have to be pretty, damned unhappy before considering anything else. When you're users have reached that point you've probably lost them regardless of what you do.

2. Time of use - new users will be enthusiastic and give good scores because new users are enthusiastic and give good scores. By the time they have used the platform for long enough to make a valuable contribution they have generally lost the will to tell you in detail why your product is great or sucks.

2. Sample size, sample size, sample size. The math here is not precise but it's precise enough to tell you if your sample size is too small. The main effect of too small a sample size is the variation in the score is so great it is impossible to infer anything and you may as well abandon the approach lest you end up chasing shadows trying to make something better.

3. Internal use - simply don't do this - ever. There's a vast amount of politicking and employee uneasiness associated with this. Nothing is ever anonymous no matter what is said publicly.

So, in the absence of anything else NPS is probably a reasonable measure if only to generate a conversation internally and for trying to gauge whether your efforts are moving the needle and in which direction.
> Unicode isn't English or even Indo-European centric

It definitely is! The Latin alphabet gets a special place at the start of the range, in order to be compatible with ASCII, an English-language character set.
Hi Chris, thanks for the corrections, I know you cannot trust the browser, but for the sake of simplicity, and because the purpose of the intro was describing the code I found on the internet, I opt for a simple "this is the trick", doesn't always work, but this is the idea
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No, that's incorrect. If all your customers give 0s, your NPS is -100. If all your customers give 6s, your NPS is still -100.
> Women in the early stages of an uncomplicated labour.

That's taking a bit of a shortcut there. You don't know if a labor is uncomplicated until it is done and it can go from 'uncomplicated' to 'life threatening' in the space of a heartbeat.
well you normally start doing this in less pressured environments.

I have when in charge of a high pressure shareholder meeting told the company founder to stop talking and took another speaker - after the meeting the founder said I was right to do so
Techniques as in workflow? Algorithms? At which point does something become “unreasonable” vs simply effective.
you chair the meeting with the attendees you have not those you would want
Apple had way better options than slowing down your iPhone
Good. The purpose of going to university other than getting an eduation is to have your views challenged by people you don't agree with.
Of course, this applies only if the polygynous marriages are exclusive. I find it in any case hard to imagine how to support four or more wives not just financialy, but also emotionally by myself (unless you think of them as just property). Most people spend hardly enough time with their one spouse.

One could imagine that actually polyamourous marriages would reduce violence in such a country. Why don't let your fifth wife be happy when you are busy with the others, or doing warlord stuff... I imagine people thought modern contraception would remove a lot of social norms and taboos around sex and marriage, but that didn't happen. I guess some things die hard.
what are the benefits/uses?
This is probably a step in the right direction since, in my estimation, there is a clear bias against conservative speakers at universities. However, this is still government forcing people to allow certain kinds of speech. That's the other side of the coin of the government disallowing certain kinds of speech. In the UK, people are getting jail time for posting speech deemed offensive on social media. Both involve delineations best left out of the hands of government. I wouldn't want to see the government force free speech or punish offensive speech on privately-owned platforms like Facebook, Twitter or Hacker News. But when it comes to publicly-funded universities there may be no way around this.
I'm not keen on safe spaces, the harsh reality is your going to run into a broad range of people with varying views and a variety of degrees of sanity, better to let them have a shitty little backroom at UW and not give them a good story to take to the media that an insane mofo got banned from a college for spreading hate down there.

Throwing media attention at those who seek to push us gays back into the closet is counterproductive, akin to fanning a flame. Milo and his ilk love to be no platformed, as it makes for great PR when they can say "Blah college banned us, how dare they!".

Suppression of ideas doesn't work, let them die in the brutal, harsh light of public discussion and debate. With free media attention and a stunted discussion, this will only continue to snowball.

Building walls never works, unless you prop them up!
Some European startups acquired by U.S. tech giants in 2017
your also forgetting the 13th month and the generous tax dodges you can use in Germany or in the UK the use of ISA's and generous tax breaks on pensions your 401k doesn't get relif at your highest rate does it?
Are you from the Bay Area? Is there anything in particular that would cause it to be extra expensive?

During undergrad in the Midwest, I heard a freshman who was way too drunk fall off his lofted bed around 4 in the morning during the last couple days of the year. I heard his roommates discussing whether or not to call the ambulance because last time this guy got super wasted and hit his head drunk, the ambulance ride was a couple thousand dollars.

It was so messed up to hear them talking. He could have a brain bleed going on and they were discussing how handle the situation. Ultimately they did call 911 and he was fine the next morning.
Reporting from Oxbridge:

This is a real issue but actually most people have reasonable notions of free speech. It is just that the types that end up being welfare/student/women/minority officers are extremely aggressively attacking perceived attacks/hate speech/dissenters/traitors to the cause.

If anyone remembers the Tim Hunt story and the witch-hunt that followed (and let us not forgot the role the Guardian played in peddling that), there was a situation where Tim Hunt was supposed to give a speech at a college.

The women's officer was outraged and riled up freshers who where thoroughly convinced that a man accused of making a sexist joke merely speaking in a room inside their college was a violation of their own safety, a phrase I recall is 'The college is our home and our safe space'.

Most faculty/graduate students/undergrads are actually very reasonable and want to hear dissenting opinions. The problem is just that most well-adjusted people quickly tire of outrage-driven student politics, so it's left to the ultra-aggressive types.
The state of netbooting Raspberry Pis
It’s also a browser that allows its users, if they opt-in, to get a cut of the advertising revenue to view high quality, relevant ads that respect privacy.
What is the game?
is there not a CGT allowance in Norway I thought the Nordics had a strong individual share holder lobby groups
But the state is likely a tree structure and there will be lots of sharing if coded right.

I think frameworks like React should explicitly demand that state and props will be referentially compared to optimize the rendering.
This demo is done with my nearly 0 knowledge in lips reading, the effect I was searching was to make it more realistic, but with the limited amount of usable emojis I cannot have it very realistic, just better than random. At the end of the article I propose some gotchas to improve it: use better images, use a better map.

I'm happy that this article has triggered some people curiosity and can maybe evolve in something more advanced
I seem to remember they were televised at one point in the UK.
That is a problem in the contrived examples here, but I'm not convinced it's a problem in the real world. If I look at actual NPS scores of brands I'm familiar with, they match what I hear about them from people. E.g., Tesla 96, Apple 72, Comcast -3. (from http://indexnps.com/ )

The theory of NPS is that what matters is what people say about you. If people from 0-6 are all going to say negative things when asked, then lumping them in the same bucket is reasonable. It may not be as good as a more subtle scale, but it may be much better than thinking the numbers are linear.

It's possible that one could come up with a mapping that's even better, of course. But NPS is simple enough that even executives understand it. A marginally more-accurate number that nobody understands is probably worse, because people will trust it less. The point of the NPS score is not theoretical accuracy, it's motivating change.
The National Union of Students has a reasonable list of banned organisations.

Al Muhajiroun;
British National Party (BNP);
English Defence League (EDL);
Hizb ut Tahir;
Muslim Public Affairs Committee;
National Action

Some of these are proscribed organisations in the UK, eg https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-action-becomes-f...

The problem is that local branches go much further, and ban many more people.
Also rare one that confirms I am not crazy -- Python spacing sucks and I don't like it.

By talking about people "confirming" that something "sucks", even with the qualifier on the end, you're slipping into "I don't like it, therefore nobody should".
NPS is first and foremost a marketing tool for Bain & Co to sell expensive consultants and def not "the one question to ask".

Several marketing scholars have pointed out the psychometrically undesirable properties of the metric and there is conflicting evidence on e.g. the metric's predictive validity, e.g. in relation to company success

(All in all that old HBR marketing article contains very little details to back up the claim that it is a good and valid metric.)

If you can go with behavioural outcomes for measuring success, e.g. purchases, I think that that will always be more powerful than what a user says in a survey.

And if you can then causally link (e.g. through experiment) something you can influence (e.g. some dimension of "UX) to that outcome you actually have a quite good decision tool too.

NPS does not provide that.
When I was a student I was no fan of "no platform" and it was an important factor in the No to NUS campaign I led back then. BUT...

Universities and student unions foremost reponsibility is to the safety of the students and yes that can mean stopping the odd event.

Also unions are generally mandated to uphold an atmosphere of inclusion and tolerance and that certainly means going further than the legal minimum in rejecting hate.
This is why I almost stopped reading when the article suggested a "normal statistician" would just use the mean score (it does later address this, for those who haven't read it yet).

IMO, NPS doesn't provide a good enough signal to be "the one number" you should care about, but it recognizes the actual numbers don't matter all that much. I've seen the same question used with a 5 point Likert scale which I imagine is easier to work with. You'd still have to deal with people responding like "0/10 can't think of any friend I'd recommend this to" :/
Future behavior isn’t entirely predictable by past behavior. Sure. External events might put a particular individual in arrears, even though she/he has never defaulted in her/his life.

Machine learning however, can use past behavior to make an educated guess, regarding how/when/if an individual will repay and/or how vulnerable said individual is to unforeseen external events.

Machine learning might not be able to go as deep as evaluating someone’s chances of getting hit by lightning, for the purposes of credit ratings. However it does figure out if an individual has the chance to get out of sticky situations.

Summarizing, it’s not about predicting irrational behavior. It’s about using past behavior to make a better educated guess than was possible before.