skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My relationship with DDG for the last few years has been the following:

- I read somewhere (mostly always on HN) how great it is.

- I set it as the main search engine on my browser.

- I use it for a while, but I notice how slow it feels compared to Google, and how the results (especially local, non US ones) are somehow off in some cases.

- I go back to Google after a few days, and I forget about DDG for a few months/years, at least until the next comment on HN about it.

...and the cycle begins, again.
Great route! Maybe it isn't necessary in temperate climates, but the most important point is that he has showers at work. In tropical countries it is a must. If more workplaces had showers a lot more people would cycle to work.
I think it is safe to say that they don't think it's too important for them given their main message, but hey, maybe they have an opinion anyway...
The more people who can afford a mortgage, the fewer people that need to rent in a given market.

It seems obvious that low interest rates would drive up property prices. It's less clear whether that would drive up or down rents.

It would tend to drive up rents by: requiring landlords to tie up more capital in new purchases of buildings (decreasing their marginal propensity/ability to put new buildings online for tenants), decreasing the number of people buying [increasing the number renting] due to fear of bubbly real estate market or inability to save down payment.

It would tend to drive down rents by: lower returns in other passive investments might drive investment towards rental real estate chasing income (increasing supply), steadily increasing property values might encourage marginal buyers to buy, reducing demand on rental units in an area, foreign buyers might be more inclined to "park money" in USD real estate, some of which could be rented to offset the cash flow.
"When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality."

-Russell Brand
How do you find common cause with someone who denies your basic and essential humanity? "Black Lives Matter" has shown that large portions of White America treat black people as invisible at best and deserving of their mistreatment at worst.

Recent example: Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is called a "broken boy" in the media while black children killed by police (e.g. Tamir Rice, but there are dozens of examples) are viewed as grown adults, deserving of execution.
a 20oz coke bottle has 65g of sugar / 4.2 = 15.4 teaspoons
Maybe try it? Once I started cycling in London there was no looking back, even if I had to be on busy roads. Many residential roads in London are very quiet during the day so there may be a windy circuitous route that is very pleasant to be on. Or a busy direct route that is not as bad as you think. When theres a proper cycle lane that's nice but it is by no means vital.
When institutional investors criticize the “short-termism” of public equity markets, perhaps they are really critiquing the transparency of market valuations. The internet and big data have made the inability of most investors to beat the public equity index much more obvious, leading to the rise of passive, low-cost index investing. Perhaps it is no surprise then that highly paid investment managers prefer to move money into private markets, where the numbers are fuzzier and where it takes years rather than minutes for the consequences of bad decisions to be realized.

So PE firms end up adding debt in hopes of enhancing returns and using phony accounting to conceal volatility. And the institutional investors that have flooded private equity with capital prefer this “phony happiness” because it reduces career risk and the hard work of having to explain the volatility of public markets to stakeholders.
I have 2km and walk but I'm contemplating if I should use my old bike...
But you can slow down that process by crop rotation, for example in canola there are many known resistance genes for blackleg (fungus) infections. Farmers are in many places advised to rotate their canolas to different resistance genes so the fungus cannot build up resistance so quickly

See for example https://grdc.com.au/resources-and-publications/groundcover/g...

I cannot find any data where that particular fungus has gained and then subsequently lost its resistance to a plant resistance gene, but it wouldn't be impossible as long as the particular plant variety is not sown
How to set up AWS EFS across multiple availability zones using Terraform
An Example of Go RPC Client and Server
Oh boy. Here we go again.

Why not just fix the first product instead of an endless stream of new systems that just do what the old one did google? Its maddening. Polish something for once before you push it. Put down the adderall.
I did not find any video on YouTube showing it reacting to user input, go figure... Its CPU is underpowered for any UI that isn't highly optimized native code, and this looks like it's struggling to serve up the few pixels of its relatively low resolution display:

https://youtu.be/hI-gYmwL9hQ?t=1m19s

However they had to use some kind of software rendering due to lack of GPU, and QML with software rendering isn't that fast either.
Even x86 machine code will work differently on different processors, because it's not executed directly but translated on another machine code and this translation is different on different processors (and AFAIK completely proprietary). There are layers above layers. I won't be surprised if someone will implement JVM over WASM to run Java applications in the browser. And JVM has JavaScript engine, so...
His previous favorite book of all time was also by Pinker.
that's too bad. I really like Mrs Dash
We have different definitions of 'magic'. `Html.program` is magic, `comparable` is magic. Elm has been steadily removing features and adding magic since they lost `Signals`
Hahaha. It's fucking obvious why.
I'm not the poster you're replying to but yes, it's extremely easy for white people in the USA to never have to interact on any level with someone of a different race. Suburban enclaves driven by white flight from cities entrench this effect, but it's possible in any area. Lots of cities are still extremely segregated.
That's an absurd comparison. Most women have sex with their husbands willingly because they like sex and they like their husband. Prostitution is a quid pro quo business arrangement. Of course, sugar-daddy type relationships
do exist, but they are not the norm. Consider the example of your own parents. Is your mother akin to a prostitute because she had sex with your dad at the same time that he may have been providing for her material needs?
Thanks for sharing... I'm always excited to see examples of RStudio notebooks in the wild.
I'll add this reference to the list. Or you can raise a pull request as well if you want.
I'm keeping an eye on the BeeWare project[1]. They seem to be doing interesting work in both of those spaces as well as mobile development. They also do a very good job of helping new contributors[2].

[1]: https://pybee.org/

[2]: https://pybee.org/contributing/how/first-time/
I found gitImmersion useful, http://gitimmersion.com/
Blue Medora Launches Industry’s First IT Monitoring Integration As-A-Service
It depends on what questions you're trying to answer.

My intuition tells me that predicting socioeconomic status with Facebook's data would probably be reasonably successful, and you could look at feature importance from that. If they're trying to test every theory that Munoz came up with in 4 years of brainstorming or w/e though, then I think they'll likely find it's an insufficiently complete dataset.
The Limitations of Steven Pinker’s Optimism
Will this be in anaconda?
Show HN: 2016 Campaign Contribution Data Viz Done in ClojureScript
You know what other services have data that contains photos of your "YOUR KIDS"? Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Photobucket, and pretty much every other tech company with hosting services. If these companies get hacked, do they deserve to have their data deleted? The answer is no.
Isn't that threat independent of how the seeds are developed? Corporations have controlled the food chain in the US for a lot longer than GM techniques have been around.
Containers won the battle – but will lose the war to serverless
The Apache patent grant and retaliation clause says that if you issue a lawsuit alleging that the licensed software infringes on a patent, then you lose your patent grant to that software.

The old Facebook license said that if you issue a patent lawsuit against Facebook, you lose the license to the software. That is in addition to the retaliation clause about the software itself.

So if you are using any OSS from Facebook, and then Facebook comes in and infringes on some unrelated patent you own, you need to stop using that software before suing or you just don't sue.
You can't make blanket statements about something as general as GMO, but you can make them about human nature and greed.

I don't think GMO is fundamentally different from processed foods. Processed foods can, in theory, be beneficial for us. But in practice they add all sorts of crap to make it taste better and reduce costs. It's an arms race between food companies trying to find new, cheaper substitutes that haven't been proven harmful yet and others who are concerned about health effects of processed foods.

If someone is messing with my food, I'd love to believe he's doing it for my benefit, but somehow greedy bastards are much more motivated and organized than altruists. Greedy bastards start companies and corporations, and it certainly helps to be one to rise to a CEO position. Food, like many products, is optimized to reduce production costs.

I don't have good sources at hand, but I keep reading that processed foods are linked to X or Y disease or Z deficiency, or some civilizational disease like allergy or cancer. Norwegians start admirable initiatives by donating large sums of money to other countries for humanitarian efforts and preservation of natural environment... yet their fish farms are just awful. Industrial scale fish farming is awful, even though fish are very healthy to eat in theory. There's nothing inherently harfmul about panga fish, but the way they're farmed in China would make you throw up.

Finally, I have an issue with GMO because we know so little about genetics and even plain old food and it often takes decades to find out some kind of food or ingredient is harmful. Look how long it took with sugar. Modifying one gene can affect others, unforeseen aspects of an organism. We don't have unit tests for DNA yet !!

My conclusion: GMO is one more way to obfuscate my food.
Python Metaclasses and Metaprogramming
In the US a 7 starts at $83,100 - https://www.google.com/search?q=bmw+7+series+msrp&ie=utf-8&o....
Debugging story has not changed. The core team is in discussions with some large company to get funding and work on debugging protocol and collaborate.
I'd like to see van Rossum drop his anti-functional sentiment, but at the same time I suppose there are much better languages for that.
I agree this article makes absolutely no sense. Tesla's biggest market in Europe is Norway. In Norway, the base price of a Model S is $76k, while the cheapest BMW 7-series costs $140k! That's literally double the price!
Where would be a good place to actually store that niche knowledge? I agree that it doesn't really belong on Wikipedia... But it could still be valuable. Maybe even more valuable than "normal" content because if it's lost it's lost for good.
I do this to "take the lane"; essentially, if I'm in the middle of a lane, there is some reason why I want that lane — usually my own safety due to some other hazard, or perhaps I'm going to make an upcoming left — and I want/need drivers near me to essentially give me the same respect they'd give a car.

Typically, the idea is that I would like drivers behind me to not pass me in the same lane that I'm in — that is, I'm trying to avoid having a driver do the typical half-assed job of passing by trying to squeeze their SUV in the same lane as me. (i.e., if you want to pass me, use another lane, not this one. If there isn't another lane: tough, I'll be out of your way ASAP — I don't like having a car behind me any more than a driver likes having a biker in front of them.)

> Wouldn't this slow the traffic.

Sometimes, yes. For me, most of the routes I take the car traffic moves at approximately the same speed or slower. If there's a huge speed difference and traffic is much faster, I'll usually avoid left turns and use a crosswalk to "turn", if I think that's safer. (Which has its own tradeoffs: one has to be very careful and ensure that drivers in the lane next to you are going to actually stop at the crosswalk before you enter it. Just because the light is red hardly means anything, and a lot of drivers will overshoot the stop line if they don't think anyone is going to be in the crosswalk when they do so.)
Why wouldn't you measure the outcomes? You have to. What you don't ask for, though, is that all outcomes be equal, because it's a fundamentally absurd proposition.
Those sliders look sweet :)
This seems to be a new programmer fad. Since the 90s... 'smooth scrolling' has ben some goal. But only to designers. Users dont care. In fact, the extra complexity usually adds uncertianty to scrolling that users hate. If you arent coding some immersive game, let the os/wm/codebase do it. Stop touching your face.
> multiplayer navel game

I don't think you mean this, though it could be intriguing just as well..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphaloskepsis
It's a lot harder to offer your service for free (80% of "better" here) when you don't run a highly vertically integrated and dominant advertising system.
> Going completely off the rails and jumping on fad diets instead is not a wise choice

it seems your opinion on how to tell which diet is fad is based not on research but on a quick google search. inform yourself on the topic, then we can argue.

> The current recommendation of a diet heavy in plants, low in saturated fat, moderate in carbs (complex carbs, ditch the simple ones) is perfectly sound, a good average diet for the average person

except none of what you said makes the keto diet bad. i can grant you that it's not recommended for average person mainly because it requires a lot of knowledge and discipline to be following properly, but the rest is bs.
I think part of the problem when it comes to Google, is the massive name recognition. I'll wager that the average not-technical user who ventures to Google doesn't understand 1) what exactly a search engine is 2) alternatives exist.

If you asked them, they probably think Google is the internet, and if you have to find anything, you have to go to Google to find it.

I'll admit I have no proof of this, but I've found, generally that the non-technical individuals I know, have incredible poor working knowledge of the internet. I take as my primary evidence though the masses vulnerability to really stupid and easily caught scams, spoof websites, click bait, and spam emails.

As a technical user, I'm constantly baffled that people fall for this crap. So if people really are that incomprehensibly ignorant, I'll bet they don't' even really know what a google is and why they use other than it's all they know and they'd be lost without it.

If the general public can't figure out no one is going to hand them a million bucks from nigeria, how the hell can they figure out you don't have to use Google?

I use DDG btw. I find their results fantastically good. So good that I can't even use google. The spam, the adds, the poor results. I cant' take it. I also can't handle that google returns different results on different computers.

I get the same results on DDG every time i make the same search. I've gotten lazy and started performing searches for things instead of typing in the address because it's consistent and faster.
In 2018 that just gets you praise for your “hustle” I think... followed by a YC partnership.
On Using Guards in C++
Thanks for the answer! I hope then to see you in CASP (and CAMEO too, it is a great tool to test/refine your method).
I was discussing a paper with a co-worker of mine (we also work on psp, we work on RBO Aleph). We had a hard time pinpointing the thing that made your method finally work. You have mentioned in your blog post that you have been working on it for years now, and I guess a lot of other people had the idea of using deep learning for psp. But what was the insight that made it all work, using LSTM? or was it many small refinements and hacks?
That's possible, but it's also possible that it was there for testing: run a test function that fills up the HD and try to save a game in order to make sure that game-saving errors show up properly.
The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language
I'm trying to get a JupyterHub or JupyterLab instance deployed at my university. JupyterHub has documentation on deployment, authentication (e.g,. LDAP, CAS), and so on. I'm guessing that JupyterLab will eventually get things like this. Does anyone know if there will be a migration path for JupyterHub to JupyterLab?
I also bike in the SFBA. I also drive there, too.

> I didn't run red lights

Thank you. As both a biker and a driver, I appreciate this. Too many bikers don't do this, and I've witnessed too many close calls for those that don't. I've been heckled by other bikers for stopping at red lights, so I know that sometimes this can be a pain to actually stick to.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150124074006/https://duck.co/h...

“Just a wrapper” is misleading, but DDG returns bing results at least some of the time.
A lot of people on this thread have praise for Pebble watches. I never owned one or any of its current competitors. Always got a a gimmicky feeling from those types of devices (i.e. no real added value over a regular watch and smartphone). Genuinely curious:

What value was added by a Pebble watch?
In America, the instances of the kind of voter fraud you're talking about are so low that you can basically discount it as a factor:

* https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud...

* https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/18/us/voter-fraud.html

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/25/here-...
I tried to give up painting. But I couldn’t
yeah, the discussion keeps neglecting this point. They fired him for doing what they asked. With respect to "at will employment", he didn't do it the way they wanted. What a funhouse. This action points out there is a set of rules which override what the employer tells you are the working conditions. The employer can reference those rules retrospectively to justify why your firing was not unlawful under the NRLA. I feel like this is beneficial to Damore's case though, because it shows that he can't seek relief from this catch-22 situation under the NRLA, and it's truly about the difference between what Google promised and what actually happened. It seems like this misrepresentation was deliberate.
You don't have any source for your final claims. Here [0] is for you an open letter from 129 Nobel laureates in support of Precision Agriculture or how most people put it: GMOs.

[0]: http://supportprecisionagriculture.org/nobel-laureate-gmo-le...
Sure it slows traffic, but it's not really the bicyclist's fault if the bicycle lane is filled with unloading delivery trucks or the city planners made it too narrow.
I don't know the details about Facebook but for a while I had to visit Apple pretty often for a project. There you had super rich execs, well paid engineers and then a whole layer of people doing cleaning and other stuff that worked for service companies. I talked to some of them while working late and a lot of them had a 3 hour commute one way because they couldn't afford living any closer.

I know they are not technically in the janitorial business but it's a necessary part of making the company work. When you want to address inequality we have to stop marking some people as essential and having them participate in the success of the company while others are being left out and get no benefit while also working full time for the company.

In my company the lower ranks don't get any yearly bonus while engineers and up get one. These people also contribute to the company's success but somehow they are not deemed worthy enough to get a share of the success.
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BRouter might find you a better route

http://brouter.de/brouter-web/#zoom=13&lat=51.5097&lon=-0.12...
"I'm pretty sure"

-- Do you have any evidence, data, metrics of any kind to support that?
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Yeah I think I swapped "exterior" with "interior" there oops!!
I'm a data engineer for a startup that's trying to hire its first data scientist. The range of candidates that apply with this title is massive. Defining our expectations has been challenging.

My phone screen "fizzbuzz" is having them calculate a standard deviation from an array of data w/out with only basic operators (no numpy.std). Then explain why they choose population/sample and explain the difference.

I studied math in undergrad so one of my requirements is "knows more math than me".
I've fallen thrice (that I can remember). Two of these times was when I was stupid enough to ride on ice with slicks. The third time I tried to pull some fancy trick up a curb (just stupid). So, I've scratched my jeans. Other than that: nothing (touch wood). Nowadays I run studded tyres in the winter and they're crazy effective.

I don't recommend riding without a helmet or hövding, but this article gives you some insights into the risks of riding a bike in cities: https://www.vox.com/2014/5/16/5720762/stop-forcing-people-to...
You can buy a upcycling skateboard lamp with BTC and ETH
> By going through a number of engine-specific / implementation-specific code transformations they have achieved a significant performance boost for hot code, which, for whatever reason, the JS engines themselves failed to attain with the optimization repertoire they already have.

I think you're mischaracterizing what happened a little. Most of the author's improvements weren't engine- (or even JS-) specific, they were algorithmic improvements. But for the first two that were engine-specific, it's not like he applied a rote transformation that always speeds up scripts when you apply it. Rather, the author (himself a former V8 engineer) saw from the profile results that certain kinds of engine optimizations weren't being done, and rewrote the code in such a way that he knew those specific optimizations would take place as intended. Sure, a deep ML preprocessor might do the same - but only after trying 80K other things that had no effect, and on code that wasn't even hot, no?

More to the point though, it strikes me that you say JS engines aren't all-powerful, but in the same breath you seem to assume that just because V8 didn't optimize the code in question that it can't. It seems very likely to me that any case you can find where a preprocessor improves performance is a case where there's a fixable engine optimization bug. Sure, in principle one could build a preprocessor for such cases, but it seems more useful to just report the engine bugs.
You can say that about any technological advance. If we're doing the evaluation and only picking the beneficial ones, doesn't that make the technology as a whole beneficial?
Interesting to see comments about bike commuting in Stockholm and London since I tried it in both cities. Commuting by bike in Stockholm is a breeze even if you are biking in parts of the city with lots of traffic. Its also a beautiful city which adds to the experience.

I have tried to commute by bike in London but its to scary for me. I think it would be fine if you can find a path through residential areas, but for me thats impossible. Biking in the central parts of London I feel that a slight lapse in concentration could end up with a very bad accident.