skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beards answer points out among other things that there are exceedingly few traces of Normans in the genetic record as well, and gives a plausible suggestion that most might simply have left, like the Normans did. She also points to more examples than a single Ethiopian conscript.

So the reality is that we know there has been people here that are poorly reflected in the genetic record, and that makes it rather pointless to point to the genetic record to demonstrate the family in question is implausible.

In any case, what troubles me much more than whether or not the depiction is plausible is just how incredibly unprofessional and rude Talebs reaction was. If he wants honesty and a focus on the science, he should grow up and act professionally.
Nicely done.

Next step, can you do it in reverse? Would be cool to create the regex in a graphical editor and then generate the actual expression.

Feature request: export the visualization to ascii, so I can copy paste it into a comment above the regex in my code.
Aren't you describing a consultancy?
Yes, I have also known one person to be avoid taxes, which IMHO is just as bad as claiming. The thing about tax avoidance is it's possible to be 'respectable' and still get away with it - 'my accountant deals with all that stuff...'. Actually claiming benefits generally provokes a social stigma, and the amount of money involved is far less.

I agree we need to concentrate more on tax avoidance. Particularly since any welfare state is going to be abused by a minority of some people - that is not a good reason to create a totally ineffective welfare state - that is part of the price we pay for it unfortunately.
Any amount of walking is good for you. The steps help certain personality types get it done, but isn't for everybody. Just park your car the furthest from your office and you'll feel better.

I walk to lunch and the round trip is about 20 minutes. I feel better after every one. Sometimes when I need a break at work, I'll just take a 5-10 minute walk and I come back ready to go.

It's quite amazing.
Object Pascal is definitely reference based, not value-based, at least not when I used it back in Delphi 7.
Recommended watching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_th...
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Nicely done, I was googling for exactly this last week when I wanted to post a quote to Instagram.

Suggestion: add examples to the landing page (don’t hide them behind an “explore” link).
Yes, it's an East-London working-class style.
plus a healthy diet,
plus a good dose of sleep,
plus ...

Really need a balanced lifestyle to have a good life. No single item will have significant effect.
Except that MS Office functionality hasn't changed much since the 2003 suite, they just adopted the questionable Ribbon UI while continually reskinning it to match the design trends of the day.
Sounds like an interesting idea, so I installed it and started trying it out, and it started talking about having to create projects and source groups and whatever, so I'll get back to it sometime, maybe.

Suggestion: lower the friction of getting started, have knobs to tweak behind the scenes for advanced users by all means, but the default mode should be able to do something interesting if you just point it at the root directory of your existing project.
exactly! the whole current mindset around startups and unicorns and such is wrong (or warped).

everything should be 'disruptive', earn a shitload of cash in short time.. but why? why is disruption always good. after all.. it disrupts!

i would be perfectly happy creating non-disruptive products and earn a perfectly modest salary from it :)
Now the red flags are:

1- Silly idea adjuncted with the blockchain label
2- No immediate answer to the question "How this is going to make money ?"
3- A white paper without substance, just a piece of marketing paper convincing you about the scheme with lots of use case diagrams etc
4- Ratio of advisors and other fuzzy titles / technical people at 10+
TL;DR ad for "something called, Active 10"
10 minutes brisk walk counts as a single "Active 10", and the goal is to do three Active 10s per day. This study compared people who did 10,000 steps with people who did three Active 10s.
A genetic algorithm designed an FPGA logic that couldn't possible work under usual rules, but actually did and used less resources than any human design. As it turned out, the genetic algorithm exploited some analogue properties of the FPGA, which a human designer would never attempt to do.

Genetics seem to favor efficient systems over understandable and easily extendable systems.

Paper "Adrian Thompson, An Evolved Circuit, Intrinsic in Silicon, Entwined With Physics."
> He "managed to" sounds like some kind of fraud, but no evidence is given.

Well, GP did mention that he worked at a car shop while on a not-fit-for-work benefit plan.
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Not to brag here but I think brutal is a bit of an overstatement. From what I can tell Seattle gets like 9,5 hours of sunlight now. That's almost two hours more than Stockholm, depending on the day. I have friends living in Luleå and two weeks ago they had less than 5 hours of sun. Now that's brutal.

The shitty thing about living in the north isn't the cold, it's the combination of cold and dark, but mostly it's the dark...
"You may ask, “Who cares what some dad from a flyover state or some businessman from another country thinks of us?” "

I can't even believe the author had that thought. Amazing.
> Why is it so bad that Microsoft charges for their product? I use Office in my professional life and Libre+Office in my personal life. I think if you make a decent product, it's perfectly okay to charge for it. Am I missing something ideological?

Well, it's not bad at all. The fees can be quite prohibitive for some companies, but that is just business.

I might trigger some flamewar here, but as a casual LibreOffice user, as an individual, I "bill" myself the price MS Office would cost me (70€ a year here in western Europe).

I find I'd rather pay for something that produces code which I consider to be "public interest", but I agree use cases can make one chose MS Office instead of LibreOffice.
After some googling I found a SV company that already does everything Kodak wants to do. Not saying there can't be competition, but storing data on the blockchain just isn't that hard...

https://www.binded.com
He's reflexively contrarian. It informs his reactions to things much more than any type of in-group loyalty.
One cool thing about the way MVCC currently works in PostgreSQL is that transaction rollback is instantaneous - there is no undo work to perform if you chose to rollback your transaction.

This proposal seems like it would do away with that feature - but perhaps it's a good trade off in practice. I wonder what people here think.
This is one of the areas where I wished there were some collusion and journalists and scientists always published stories that recommend more movement than is actually necessary.

I get the point of the article, but to me it seems that every time there is some new research on "how to achieve okay results with less movement and/or time" people will move less.

Not that I do that much of physical activity myself, but I am not complacent about it.
I think you can restore the default from the main menu?

View -> Toolbar Layout -> Default
The fallacy is not that capturing 10% of China's soda market is hard, but that even capturing 0.01% of China's soda market is extremely hard.
There are many people like that, now what?
Hehe... in my case there was some oscillation between C and C++ before eventually converging to C-style C++. To each his own. I even heard of people who thought Boost was a good thing, but I suspect someone was making a joke.
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Twenty years of speedcubing (2003)
> Well largely on RaspberryPi kind of platforms, which aren't even even embedded systems

no, for instance Arduino uses C++ as a main language. And an arduino pico has 2.5kb of ram... that's firmly in the "embedded" scale of things.
I bought (though in a sale) PyCharm few years back, without trying it much before (my bad), and found it really really bad. Used maybe 12 hours of my one year license.

Somehow got accustomed to to pretty much vanilla Sublime, mostly because I can't seem to get the language "intelligence" plugins to work correctly.
Ugh, the whole concept of 'microaggression' can f*ck off, IMHO.

And no, it's not culture war. The whole narrative that you can't criticise people who dress and behave like dickheads because you might be displaying class privilege is nonsense. Plenty of people from the very poorest and most deprived backgrounds don't do that.
Or as in the case of the current elected president of the United States, not paying taxes is "smart". The hypocrisy of worrying about someone "stealing" maybe £30k a year in benefits in order to support a very average (lower middle class) lifestyle vs those who avoid millions in tax when already wealthier than the vast majority of the country is insane.
Ah, I see. So it's basically integrated Puppet, but with first class support from the configured system
Thanks for sharing your concerns. But regarding your last two sentences, I'm sorry that I've to tell you that I think we are already fucked. I don't think it's a good idea to speed up the process of being fucked even more.
It is rather unfortunate that MS Office sets the bar for office suite of programs and so many people (not necessarily in CS/IT/Tech) can only think Office == MS Office.

The only way for an Open Source equivalent to dethrone MS Office is to beat MS Office at its own game WHILE retaining compatibility to it. Perhaps, retain a MS Office compatible core, and invest mindshare in making an absurdly fast, intuitive, and productive UI that is not necessarily the same as MS Office. Show people why one would want to use LibreOffice instead of the only factor being that it's free (as in beer and as in speech).

The day the suite of Libre Office impresses me enough to use it on my laptop inspite of having MS Office installed is when the tide changes..

Sort of like the Mozilla of Office programs.
If you are doing scientific computing, have you considered Fortran? The gfortran (GCC Fortran) compiler supports Fortran 2003, which has object-oriented features, and since Fortran 90 the language has had array operations and syntax similar to Matlab or Python with numpy.
FB's chief avenue to success was that they turned the chicken-and-egg problem of social networks (they are only helpful when lots of people your know are on the same network) into a shining example of the strength of the network effect. They did so by limiting signups to a single campus at first. Then they grew by expanding to specific campuses only. They made it so that facebook became the network for the students on each of those campuses to be on, yet kept the allure up by being exclusive. By the time they opened up to the wider public, the brand was super strong and entrenched.

Also, facebook had a huge amount of money to throw at marketing. That shouldn't be forgotten. They essentially bought success by spending that money, when lots of other social networks never were able to do so.
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IMHO, the synergy between MoFo and MoCo should be stated as "the former educates people, the latter provides them with tools they can control". The success of the MoFo would then fuel the need for software implemented by the MoCo, and the other way around.

No one, especially Mozilla, should never ever decide for us what we need.
I don't think anyone disputes the fact that whales control markets. I don't think we can have it any other way... free markets will never be fair / equal for all unless you have a communist system in play.

What crypto does to finance is eliminate more middle men than ever before and bring more transparency than ever before. The majority of people would consider that a good thing.

It doesn't mean the poor get wealthier or the rich get poorer, it just means things are more transparent, which creates a more level playing field.

Billions of dollars can't just go 'missing' like it can in the traditional fiat system for a variety of reasons - mainly because we're relying on humans to (a) be honest and (b) remember to manually file paperwork.

Crypto brings its own set of problems but like any form of technology, it will evolve over time so long as there are advantages to using it. And so long as it evolves, there'll always be new opportunities along with new casualties.
>The origins of the term are much older (before council houses in fact).

This may be true, but FWIW, the first time I heard the term it was introduced to me with a similar backronym. And not as some "isn't this awful classism" disclaimer, but as a gleeful denigration of the people it referred to. That there is an older etymology does not necessarily mean Jones invented the backronym.

>Actually I said chav because that group of loud, ridiculously dressed arseholes over there is starting to kick off

While I too have used the term, and feel like I was doing objection to genuinely unpleasant people, I remain suspicious of this argument, because it sounds a lot like "I don't mind black people, I just don't like black culture". A lot of what gets read as obnoxious is just cultural differences, and this is especially true of judgements like "ridiculously dressed".
'lamentable' is such a passive word to describe someone's life becoming a living hell and ruin. Not everyone is able to organise their life, not everyone is clever or successful, and certainly most people do not shape their own destiny.

The question is what do you think is ok to happen to people like this? Are you ok with this happening to people in your community? For some people the anwser is 'yes'. Those people might be selfish, or uncaring. Maybe they lack empathy. Maybe they don't believe it is happening. Even if they are selfish, they'd also have to believe the chance of this happening to them is going to be very low.
Has anyone been "successful" at step counting? I've been in athletic shape since high school (7+ years) and have maintained a healthy lifestyle since-- but keeping track of anything like steps or calories seems like it would be a burden, could become compulsive, and/or possibly lead to long-term failure.

I'm also pretty young and have time to run&lift 5-7 times a week, so maybe I'm biased.
Software for peasants™
Better marketing.
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I beg to differ: http://www.dw.com/en/salvator-mundi-da-vinci-painting-that-s...

Quantitative easing has inflated asset prices across the board.
Well, I’m not very knowledgeable about Windows world, as I said before, I’m not using Windows for 15 years or so. So, my bad, sorry.
Kodak is just a brand that they essentially lease out. The various CEO's all shed any businesses that resembled something profitable in attempts to, well I don't know, help shareholders.

Another imaging company where Kodak has its HQ is going through a similar but slower downturn. You could say they are ... copying them (sorry). I think when a lot of the baby boomers finally retire from the workforce, office printing will drop off a cliff as far as usage goes.
The Scandinavians ‘hitchhiked’ their way to the boons of empire
There's something odd about this article. The opiod crisis is a crisis, and we should go about mitigating the consequences of having so many addicts (And stop creating new ones as much as possible.)

I think it's because there are some hidden assumptions going on that the author just needs to come out and fess up to.

One, that drug companies should look at shipments per town as being an indicator of problems.

Two, that by shipping drugs, drug companies are causing the epidemic. They may be profiting from it, they may support legislation to make it worse, but it doesn't take millions of pills to get hooked. This is a result of additiction, not a cause of it. You shut-off/slow-down the pill flow, you just create a bigger black market. Addiction is a natural result of using opiods to treat pain. It is not caused by too many pills.

Three, that drug companies are the only people with agency here. Surely there are doctors, pharmacists, nurse-practitioners, ministers, social workers, and a slew of other people in these towns that are exposed to this problem every day. Many of them assist in the problem, either directly or through studied ignorance. This is a complex social problem with lots of players. Simplifying it to "evil drug companies" dumbs the problem down to the point of being intractable.

I'm not sure this article educated anybody as much as it made them upset. I'm struggling to find something useful and positive to say about how it could be improved. I sure don't want drug companies using some kind of statistical process control to determine who can get pills or not. That's whack.
>> That there is an older etymology does not necessarily mean Jones invented the backronym.

It seems to originate with him, AFAICT, or at least at more or less the exact same time. And it fits his narrative suspiciously well.

I first heard the word 'chav' used a good decade before the book.

>> "I don't mind black people, I just don't like black culture".

I don't believe dressing and behaving like an arsehole are necessarily part of working class culture. I could be wrong. It's not my background, though it is my mother's and a variety of my friends'
LibreOffice is worse in all ways.
Do you really feel that paying to teach someone a particular office suite prepares them for the working world? Anyone who has once learned the basics of computer use and has used an office suite can become accustomed to buttons being in a different menu and different shortcuts rather easily.
You mean Google Docs / Sheets?

(Which incidentally I use 90% of the time despite having an Office 365 subscription)
> I challenge you to convince me to willingly join in your Marxian ideal, until then I will fight it when it comes to my door, like so many in the USSR understandably didn't, comfortably boiled frogs as the record shows them.

a) I don't have a Marxist ideal, don't put yourself in a defensive position against an antagonist that is not there. I just don't mix up Marxist economic theory with Communism and Leninism.

b) Your view of history is perverse, and insulting to the many people that resisted and were killed off by Lenin & Co when they took power.
This, and Brooklyn Nine Nine have been smart, quirky, and good.
Why Office? So that everyone keeps paying the microsoft tax in the future for ever and ever?
Raises hand As a power user of Office before and after that change - the menu bar was massively better. Now you know someone.

Seriously, who apart from utter novices would ever want to use a UI where the keyboard shortcuts are non-obvious, the buttons take up half the screen, and discoverability is non-existent (and not even Google can help half the time because things jump around from version to version).
Sure it's a complex and very nice algorithm but I prefer an image that's not manipulated.
> If you avoid frameworks that impose a particular paradigm and/or shield the parts of the codebase with different paradigms...you'll have a grab bag of different approaches for the specific problem you're having for zero cost.

Avoiding frameworks and libraries which use unwanted language features and paradigms is very hard. Once these libraries are integrated, it is nearly impossible to restrict a team from using said features elsewhere in the project. Every C++ developer has pet features and features they hate and will never use, but these sets are rarely compatible between developers.
> We have no reliable evidence regarding what proportion of Roman Britain was "black". We have good historical evidence that there were Romans present in Britain who we'd these days describe as black (e.g. an Ethiopian soldier garrisoning Hadrian's wall).

That "evidence" consist of one fleeting mention in a biography about Septimius Severus.

> For 101 reasons, the genetic evidence is not very informative, and certainly can't be used to justify that claim that Africans were a "statistically insignificant subgroup"

The lack of evidence (genetic or historical) puts an upper bound on the proportion of subsaharan Africans in Roman Britain that is several orders of magnitude lower than the BBC animated cartoon suggests.

> As Beard points out, even Norman DNA is not very well represented in the modern population, and we know for sure that plenty of Normans came over as a result of the Norman invasion.

For the presence of the Normans there is plenty of historical evidence. For the presence of subsaharan Africans there is just about nothing. So we should stick to the null hypothesis.
I agree, i even get off two subway stops early every day for a forced 10-15 minute walk. Rain, snow, forgot my umbrella, I still do it.

I leave my house when its dark, and get home when its dark again. My walk to and from the subway and going out for lunches are pretty necessary with this schedule. Necessary in this case for peace of mind.

I do however think that the surfaces we walk on do make a difference in how 'good' walking is for us. Spending long times stqnding on hard surfaces tends to make my joints ache far sooner than a more padded surface like grass.
...as it would with older MS Office files. Why do people always try to frame this as some anticompetitive conspiracy?
With all open/free software updates I care about one thing and one thing only: UI. Not talking "features" or anything, just reworking what's there based on concrete user studies. Never happens. The only example I know of is Firefox (which actually managed to beat Internet Explorer long before Chrome was a thing, that's how powerful usability is).

I want to support free office alternatives so badly, used OpenOffice and Libre Office for years, but recently caved to buy a license of MS Office 2016 because even Microsoft's shitty interface is miles ahead.

The free software community needs interface designers badly. I swear it's the one thing holding them back. All the features are there, but using the damn thing is infuriating.
If it was up to me, I would try to reach 99.999% compatibility with ms word first then do anything else. Both doc and docx formats.

If people see that LibreOffice Writer is as good as MS Word, then they would migrate to it.

Then funding would come and then they would have all the resources to build awesome UIs.
Are you really equating learning an entire language to learning the basics of an office suite?

Most people use extremely basic functionality. They can probably learn a slightly different UI in an hour of experimentation.
The 10k steps approach takes an activity that people already do out of necessity and turns it into a goal. There may be better ways to get fit, but this one doesn't require a big behavior change. That approach will be more successful for more people than a specific exercise routine since it's just "do a little bit more of what you're already doing".
If you are against to Erdogan, you will be declared as a terrorist at best. He is a control freak, and lost his sanity when he was a little boy. People of Turkey suffer a lot because of him.
The brain drain faced by Turkey in the last century is getting to even further extremes. I'm doubtful that the universities can restore their past reputation or 'quality,' but Turkish academics themselves will hopefully persevere and flourish in other countries.