skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent question. There can be many factors, among them:
- base rate of violent crime in general being lower
- lack of access to guns
- higher vigilance of school teachers
- more mixed rather than segregated environments
- more parental oversight and awareness of issues with children
- less stressful environment
It doesn't say that's "it". It says that's "part".
Other countries are not defined by the idea that people have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
> but it has always been the thing that made me doubtful about Tor.

If they weren't open about what they did with that funding, and the funding came directly from the NSA? Sure! That would've left everyone pretty doubtful. But since their funding comes from things like the NSF, OTF, ... and they're pretty open about the deliverables that each sponsor seeks[1] (for e.g. [2]), then there's really no reason to be doubtful.

[1] : https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors

[2] : https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/S...
Of course Lyft & Uber are more expensive than the local metro. They also pick you up & drop you off exactly where you need to be & don't make any additional stops. The anchoring for cost is to Taxi services not metro. Moreover, Lyft & Uber let you plan pretty precisely how much time you'll need even for the carpooling option in my experience; I've been in more buses/metros that broke down in the middle of my trip & am currently at 0 such issues for Lyft/Uber (I use it a fair amount for work).
It would be funny to ask a founder who has been diluted out whether one could say the same thing about software.
Health care costs in America aren't dominated by poor people getting medical care for no reason. This is somewhat like believing that wages being flat is because of illegal immigrants.
MoviePass' Wild Ride
I read it and considered cheap comedy. A sign of "cheap comedy" as I use it is when you have to agree with author's point of view about something to enjoy it.
Their lowest range was 40% higher than the Taxi. That's quite an amount.
>9/11 had more concentrated economic impact than heart disease ever will.

And that was because of the misguided emotional response (i.e. invading countries which had nothing to do with it), not because of the event itself.
I have been down that road too and spent years in total heavily medicated with various things that just cost me a ton and added more problems. I was usually treated as if my side effects were attempts to get something "better" when I just wanted something that worked and didn't screw me up more. Getting off of them was a nightmare as well and I ended up in the hospital once after seizures. The benefits were always outweighed by the costs.
I think that is a clever way to tease out causality.
We've recently created an open source library that can help you get started with pre-trained word vectors and Annoy quickly:

https://github.com/plasticityai/magnitude
How GitHub successfully mitigated DDoS attack
This is a duplicate. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498551
Nobody tell Yasha where the internet came from.
> The LTEE is special because it allows the team to “replay” evolution and thereby probe the effects of prior history on later events. After every 75 days (500 generations), the bacteria are frozen. This serves as an organic data backup of sorts, allowing scientists to thaw and revive living “fossils.”

This is just amazing. Kudos to this team of scientists.
I just wrote:

> It is not acceptable in the sense of "ok, we can stop now."

That means: It is not supposed to work well in the long run.
Right, it's a symptom. Dealt with depression for nearly 2 decades, and tackling all the baseline needs vigilantly, not least of which the social ones, had the strongest impact.
Word vectors are at the same time amazing because they contain a huge amount of latent information, and not good enough because they collapse a space of very high dimensionality in ~300 dimensions, so they have a limit to how much they can discriminate between close topics. I have done a lot of experiments on classifying text in thousands of topics, and sometimes they work amazingly well, other times they are really hard to use, depending on how close together are the topics I want to discriminate between.

Another problem of word vectors is that any word might actually have multiple senses, while vectors are just point estimates. If we wanted to be correct, we needed first to find the right sense for each word in a phrase and only then assign the vector. There is research in "on-the-fly" word vectors that adapt to context, but it's much harder to use.

A third problem of word vectors is out of vocabulary words and words with low frequency. For OOV, the usual solution is to create character or character-ngram embeddings that can be used to compute embeddings for new words. For low frequency words we usually ignore them (apply a cutoff).

Then there is the problem of phrases and collocations - some words go together, such as "New York" and "give up". The meaning of the phrase is different from the sum of the meanings of the component words. In these cases we need to have lists of phrases and replace them in the original text before training the vectors, so we have proper vectors for phrases.

By the way, one amazing tool that goes with word vectors is the library 'annoy' which can do similarity search in log time. So you can do approx 1000 lookups per second per CPU even if the database contains millions of vectors, pretty good. Annoy can be used to find similar articles, or music recommendations. Another remark - my preferred word vectors are computed with Doc2VecC (a variant of doc2vec with corruption). Doc2VecC seems more apt to discriminate between topics, but the secret is to feed it gigabytes of text.

Playing with word vectors has taught me intuitively how it is to navigate a space of high dimensionality. It feels different than 3d-space because each point has a shortcut to other points, each point leads to hundreds of other places which might be far apart. It's like a kaleidoscope where a small change can create a very different perspective.

doc2vecC: https://github.com/mchen24/iclr2017

annoy: https://github.com/spotify/annoy
True, but it's sad to see people continue to use Twitter even when they're aware of it's active censorship. Twitter isn't doing anything 'wrong' technically, since it's well within their rights as a private company, but it's still sad to see a society accept and embrace the practices instead of shunning them.
> CANADA: jump in the water

Canada has a comparably high-rate of gun ownership and yet a substantially lower murder rate. I've seen plenty of pissing and moaning on firearm forums about their restrictions, more severe than the US', but one could reasonably carry out a massacre up there just as much as one can in the states.

It's not the guns. It's us.
(comments on your previous posts are closed, so I'll ask here)

Does ClojureCL work with POCL[0]? I ask b/c ARM seems to have abandoned OpenCL-on-CPU with NEON, but it can still be done using POCL[1].

I've gotta say, ClojureCL just looks fantastic and a very slick way to deal with tight-loops (without having to do FFI with C++). And writing OpenCL kernel interactively is going to be a huge win. This might be what pushes me to switch from C++ to Clojure :)

[0] - https://github.com/pocl/pocl

[1] - https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/11/14/first-opencl-encount...

PS: Hope you have a post about profiling/benchmarking kernels
What does it even mean for a school to 'switch' languages? When I did my bachelors it was straight up a new language in each class, at the discretion of the prof in charge. Intro class homework was in Java, data structures was in C++, operating systems was in C, digital logic design was in Verilog, bioinformatics was in Python, ...
Duplicate. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498551
Petal | NYC | Hiring Software Engineers (Platform, Infrastructure, Machine Learning) | Early-Stage | Full-time | $100K-160K + Equity

We started Petal to give credit to people who deserve it – and made it honest, simple, and accessible. We cut through all the fine print, ditched the fees, and created a credit card that makes your life a little easier.

Our founding engineering and product team comes from Square, Addepar, Marcus, and Mint.

Stack: Python, Flask, Airflow, React Native, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Docker, Nomad, ELK.

-

Interview Process:

1. Quick 15-30 minute call to see if we can find a mutual fit.

2. Take home problem

3. Technical phone screen

4. On-site in NYC (white boarding, algorithms, data structures, past project presentation)

-

Hope to hear from you if this sounds interesting.

-

Cheers,

Jack Arenas

Co-Founder & CTO

jack@petalcard.com
Is that common? My tourist visa to Brazil lasts 10 years, which is standard I thought.
I believe we have a few crematoriums connected to the heat networks here in Sweden. Kind of creepy to think about, but creepy isn't a good argument against it so why not, I guess.

My father passed last week, maybe he heated up a small part of Stockholm already. I don't really know what happens next. Personally I don't care that much, I got my memories and that is enough for me. But based on what happened to the rest of my dead relatives he'll get a small plate with his name on at the corner of some church yard. It will be up for x years until they have to make room for the next batch. You can always pay to keep it up for maybe five or ten more years, but what is the point? Memories are free and worth way more than the tiny nameplate.
I analyzed the math here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16503218

TLDR: It's probably correct but also highly misleading in how it's characterized.
Hackterms: A crowdsourced dictionary of coding terms
Agreed - I was simply stating that the act of getting an MRI does not cause harm, whereas some other tests (CT scans, X-rays, etc.) actually cause harm during the course of the test. I certainly would not recommend healthy people to get MRIs. But if something is really messed up in your body, an MRI is one of the safer imaging techniques (albeit expensive and not always the best for the job).
> universe-topology: A universal computer knowledge topology for all the programmers worldwide.

That's . . . ambitious. Have you heard of this thing called "the internet"?

Topic knowledge bases are great, but this one's topic is quite broad, to say the least.

You may also be interested in the "awesome lists" as an ad hoc convention for programming-related semi-structured knowledge repositories: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
You can self host JIRA.
I agree wholeheartedly - despite how my comment sounds I have very negative feelings on the university system in the U.S. and how overused it is. My father was actually invited by a local youth group to address the kids on the importance of education a few years ago, because they thought he was very well educated. He showed up and informed them that he had dropped out of his third-world country high school and never regretted it, and then he showed the kids a bunch of books on random areas he had enjoyed and told them stories of how he applied that knowledge to various jobs to solve problems, help people, and advance his career. Stuck with me.
My objection, at least, is that I think for both of jerf's eras, the intended end state is still a race-blind society. And it seems perverse to map out a course to that goal that explicitly requires us to be conscious of race.
I agree that much of what the TSA does is security theater, but... at least we got that? It shows that we as a society cared enough to "put on a show" of protecting ourselves from terrorism.

I welcome more research on effective ways to reduce gun violence, but unfortunately ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment_(1996) ) researchers have been prevented from doing so.

The clear, most effective way to reduce gun violence is to reduce the number of guns. (cf. every other developed nation.) However, the current interpretation of the 2nd amendment seems to make that difficult.
Launch HN: Charge Running – 5K Training Doesn't Have to Suck
Ask HN: How to explain basic web browser behavior to stakeholders?
We get bugs like, "You should be able to open two separate sessions of the site in two separate tabs without them bleeding over into each other." How do you explain to them why this is just not possible in a web application? If you log in, you are logged in on all future tabs because cookies.
It was in the article you posted at the end.

/shrug. If your threat model includes state actors, then Tor's current shortcomings are non-trivial and should be treated as such.
You would think Amazon would have sufficient backup power to make that a non-issue, as would any significant third party data centers involved in routing data. However, a downed data line might make sense as a root cause.
> there are logically plausible situations, in which you might want to use generic group attributes.

I do not see what the logical situation is, because it is overruled completely by the individual's data which you already have right in front of you. It just sounds like applying biases by guessing with group membership instead of looking at the person. Anytime the group membership overrules the individuals' attributes, it's going the wrong way.

Also while I understand the context, some things just don't matter because life is fundamentally unfair and full of chaos. Yes everyone works differently at the same task even with similar results. Maybe they're smarter, or maybe they had a bad year, or got sick, or something else... how can you possibly account for any or all of that in a reasonable sense?

> but how do I look at past history when judging college grads with no work experience?

Judge their school experience. Give them responsibility commensurate with their skills and measure continuously to establish the history, then promote or fire.

> One of the things that some economists often claim about capitalism is that it helps with diversity

Yes, it does. However capitalism isn't perfect and is still up to legal, political, and generally irrational whims of the people. If you're talking about 1930's then there were actual laws segregating people. If you move forward to WWII, then it was the political climate where it was accepted to not work with others regardless of the money. If anything, I think a common love for profit actually does a lot to remove these barriers once people realize they're all better off generating and spending wealth instead of hating each other over looks and other useless attributes.
Meds aren't always so black and white. A treatment or drug may be successful in 70% of patients (or even 10%), and still properly prescribed when the potential harms outweigh the benefit.
The success of this St Louis street challenges tax-incentive-driven development
Its because poor people overusing free medical care is the problem with the health care system like people buying doritos with food stamps is the problem with SNAP.
Yes - "something like". I'm envisioning more interact with the graph rather than the graph only showing relationships.
Do you know of an uncensored forum that is better for discussing these issues? Is Slashdot better?
Registration and excise taxes are a fixed cost. Insurance may be a fixed cost. (Although you may need a different policy and some policies have discounts/surcharges based on miles driven.) But most costs of car ownership are primarily related to the number of miles driven.
That kind of defeats the argument of the article then.
Logically, it seems more practical to worry about things you can control, than those that you can't.

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will."

-Epictetus
No source but I read an article that agreed with your idea. A surprisingly large percentage of people were in the upper income range (iirc it was top 5% or so) for at least one year though it could also be due to a windfall like inheritance, insurance claim, sale of a business, etc. On mobile but will try to add source later.
Multiple furnaces?? Please tell me they don't divide the corpse before hand.
> Even beyond that the absolute rate of cancer deaths in the US peaked in 1990 216 per 100k vs 2015 at 158 per 100k. Which is a massive drop even over 1950's pre screening and younger population numbers of 193 per 100k.

Hmmm... Apply a 25 year lag.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures/m4843a2f1....

>PS: Stomach cancer is flat out much less common because we understand a major cause now. Cervical cancer rates will similarly drop from the HPV vaccine.

Yes...lots of progress in infectious disease treatment, very little with cancer treatment.
It's an opinion piece in the student newspaper. So it's just a student saying "this is how I feel".
I love KeeWeb, especially when used together with Nextcloud. I can access my passwords in a buch of different ways, all synced and all secure (the kdbx has a password and a file key).
1. In KeeWeb from inside Nextcloud (there's an app)
2. In external KeeWeb over WebDAV (great when using it as a PWA)
3. In KeePass proper using desktop file sync
4. In a KeePass-compatible app from the Nextcloud app
All of these sound janky, but they work better that any other free software self-hosted cloud password manager.
> You can have authentication without encryption. This is what PGP signed messages are.

Yes, but you must install the authorization certificate using a secure method.

Honestly I think far too many CAs are "trusted" by default, especially for executing things (such as javascript) on my computer.
Wringing out the risks – Aerospace America
Interesting way to play with stock options for public at large too.
How Bill Gates aims to clean up the planet – Environment – The Guardian
HSV is a polar model. (Holding constant Value)
He may be right in this case, I am not a doctor and don't know the details of his anecdote. My point is that if I'm looking for medical advice from a pop science author I'd much prefer Dr. Gawande's evidence and experience based account to some half baked story about convexity.

I'm not even sure whether Taleb's style of writing is meant to communicate much at all, what's the point of all this phony formalism? http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/medconvex

I'd like to see Taleb acknowledge at least that medical and financial estimation risks have a different character. Financial mispricing is adversarial, whereas you'd have to be more cynical than me to think doctors are always trying to get you to take the maximum care they can sell you.
> education for education's sake is a perfectly worthwhile goal

Yes, but a big part of university is just checking boxes to get the degree to get the job.

There are some classes that are great and educational and there are some that are just wasting time sitting in classrooms with some poor underpaid grad student going through a powerpoint and giving you a standardized test.

The more expensive university gets the less it can be about education and the more it has to be evaluated as an investment.

The average student has to pay back their tuition with interest (double the price at least) so if they aren't looking at it as an investment they are not going to experience good outcomes.
They talk about two distinct policies here, a personal policy (which still has to permit ridesharing, according to the illustration), which applies at any moment the driver is using the car for personal use (i.e. not logged into the Uber app to accept trips), then another policy, provided by Intact, which covers the Uber trips.

This page seems to be more about a kind of interface between the two policies, not that Uber coverage is provided for free.
The simplest thing, and one that apparently works fairly well with fasttext vectors, is just to average them.
I also think you could move most of that to a Tor onion service.
60 FPS in Firefox on my 2017 work rMBP. This is really neat.
The largest DDoS Attack in history just happened
Europe is of course defined by the ECHR rights to life, liberty, and so on. This does not include "the pursuit of happiness" but it's not really clear how the school shootings help with that.
Well every one except for me apparently. I've literally never worked with a (non-white) hispanic or black engineer before, so I have no personal anecdotes there. Female engineers are rare but I have worked with some and they mostly have been good (only 1 exception ime).

The irony in all this hoopla is that literally every engineer who has been so bad that I wondered how the heck they made it past the interview stage has been......drumroll ... white or asian male. That's simply because they are over represented in the field obviously. But this argument that there are floods of under qualified minorities and women engineers getting jobs is hilarious.
Uber has no tipping (or does it?) and hence, here we are discussing the findings of this MIT study...
> This was mentioned in another comment but nothing about "education" is about actual education. It's primarily about credentialisim and not being locked out of a career with a high ceiling.

Really? Learning how the history of your country has no value? Learning how to write properly, how to construct persuasive arguments is of no use? Learning how to break an argument down into smaller parts and analyze it for soundness has no practical application?

Because those are just a small list of the many skills I learned in college.

Not to mention higher level math, an understanding of biology, physics, and chemistry, and a deeper appreciation for arts and music.

In a world flooded with propaganda and "sponsored messages", knowing how to keep a clear head and peel away the layers of misdirection is an incredibly important ability, one that a good education will teach.

In a world where scientific debate in matters of public policy is of utmost importance, being able to understand the science being debated is a necessary skill for the voting populace.

College is incredibly useful, I fail to understand why detractors insist that it has no value. I will readily agree that corruption is rife and the cost is increasing way to rapidly, while quality may very well be on the decline as universities attempt to push more and more students through, but an educated populace is by no means a bad thing.
More generally, it’s a problem with confusing a thing with the symbol of that thing. You can’t make people richer by printing money and just handing it out, tho’ that doesn’t stop governments trying it (quantitative easing being the latest example). No mere coincidence that the same governments think they can educate people by printing and handing out degree certificates.
Unless there are non-competes in place, the analogy is fine. You have the freedom to use the platform or to not use it, and often you have the freedom to use other platforms simultaneously.
i dunno man. i've seen the frakking runoff in north dakota and seen the results of water tests from various rivers in california. seems a bit like BS to me.

but dang if the cost of living out here isn't waaay too high and a lot of people i know have hellish, one hour (or greater) commutes. so it's not like i'm saying it's all peaches and rose water.

but i suspect the mckinsey study probably picked metrics they knew california was going flunk.
Overall crime rate in the US (everywhere?) has decreased since the 1970s or so. There is speculation it had to do with lead paint.

There has not been a single "mass shooting" in Australia since the gun ban. In the US, mass shootings decreased after the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, and then increased after it expired 2004.
For anyone who had to google it like me, T-SNE is T-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding, and the way I understand it is that it's essentially a statistical way to reduce data dimensionality while still preserving its structure.