skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting in the context of that link: if I remember correctly Wittgenstein renounced his previous ideas on language after working for a few years in an elementary school. Some think that this change was prompted by direct observation of how language is actually learnt.

However it might be the case that what he wrote in the Tractatus is still relevant for formal languages, such as programming.
One fatality has unfortunately been confirmed.

https://twitter.com/VeronicaRochaLA/status/98632461126341427...
Personally, I have a "Cash" expense account---when I withdraw money from a checking account, the transaction records it as being spent there. "Cash" ends up being one of my major expense report items, but I generally ignore it because it is all small transactions that aren't worth recording individually.

For credit and debit cards, I hang onto the receipt and record it later. (I don't worry about being too detailed; all of my transactions at the local grocery store go into the "Groceries" expense account, even if I buy gas from their gas station.) I mostly use GC to track money moving into and out of my financial institution accounts.

[Edit] And I do the reconciliation with my monthly statement. There's frequently a credit card transaction where I didn't get a receipt or something, but I've never had too much trouble tracking things down.
The citation graph, one of humankind's most important intellectual achievements
"Companies over countries" is tolerable speech, but nation states will not find it tolerable as policy. As a citizen, I don't find "companies over countries" a tolerable policy. I get a say in how my country is run. I get NO say in how Facebook is run.
Washington Post is now reporting one dead, though it's not clear if it's the person sucked out of the window - the article says the person who went to the hospital may have been someone who had a heart attack during the incident, and presumably is the person who died.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/04/1...
Imgix is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to help scale to 100B images/day
It's different because you're ignoring my second bullet point. There's a very common misconception that p-value is the percent chance the data confirm that the effect is real. That's not at all how p-values work.

They are showing the _likelihood_ of generating the data were there no "effect." You make a "null hypothesis" — that is, you assume there is no effect — and you construct a distribution of the results you might see in such a case. If your results are relatively unlikely, then you say the null hypothesis is rejected at a p-value level, leading support to the fact that there is such an effect.

But there's another bullet in my comment. You could _also_ see a low p-value if the null hypothesis is wrong! That would _also_ lead to a low p-value, but for a completely different reasons — reasons that are typically elucidated in the entire rest of the paper. Thus, you should be most suspicious of papers that do not have a reasonable cause of action, as that should increase your prior that the null hypothesis is actually correct.

If I were to edit that post, I'd add a third bullet — that they cheated or did bad science. My objection is to you stating that the statistical tests alone guarantee at least a 1 in 20 failure rate with a p-value of .05. There are indeed many other reasons to be suspect, but the statistical tests don't guarantee this.
> Plus I don't agree with a company keeping tabs on my financial transactions and then profiting from that data on my behalf.

You'll have that near equally as long as you do non-cash transactions unless you use your debit card from an equally privacy conscious institution (maybe a small town credit union? Until they got bought at least..).

Personally I've just accepted that my boring life is known to everyone and try and get the perks I can out of it; free trip once a year being about what I've managed to extract without much effort.
'I believed the lie "write good content and it will magically rank" ...and paid a content writer for about 9 months.'

Is paying a content writer (who's area of expertise is, usually, being a content writer) a more noble attempt at gaming the system, I wonder?
She's dead: http://abcnews.go.com/US/plane-makes-emergency-landing-phila...
Latest pilot discussion (including armchair pilots) on the incident is available on Professional Pilots Rumour Network at https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/607900-swa1380-diversion....
He's obviously talking about the ones that aren't, such as the 'Discover Weekly' and the way it will guess at what to play next after an album finishes.

I believe his point is that the algorithms don't generate playlists or dj mixes with the same polish as a professional human and I'm inclined to agree. That said, I do think their recommendation engine produces decent results, but I don't think the composition of the list is something it focuses on. Rather its just a list of unrelated tracks it thinks you'd be inclined to enjoy on their own.
What’s the remaining 5%
This isn't really new, right? Laugh tracks and live audiences have been used in radio/tv since the 50s for the same purpose.
That seems to be more about their edge caches, which is interesting [and partly answers one of bad assumptions] but not the same.
Your best plan is [1]:
a) don't be a US citizen/resident, and
b) store your data in a country where disclosure of this information is banned by law.

Under these conditions, the provider can (and has incentives to) challenge the order requiring the production of the data. If the order is quashed, the US government would need to get an order from the local government under MLAT for the data.

As for your German datacenter question... Under the text of the law, it depends on whether that data is within a US electronic communications or remote computing service provider's "possession, custody, or control." In theory, a service provider might contract out the management of these aspects of its operations, but it would be hard to imagine a service provider feeling comfortable moving the data outside of its control.

[1] See p 2205 of bill text for the CLOUD act part. http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20180319/BILLS-115SAHR16...
Literally has been used as an intensifier for a figurative expression since the 1800s and has been defined in the dictionary that way for quite a while.

It was used in this manner by Charles Dickens, James Joyce and American authors as well.

Although, it pisses me off when I hear it used that way.
> If there is a bad enough earthquake [the fire department] will not come for you. The sheer volume of fires and service response calls will overwhelm them.

Wish your comment was higher up.

If you're in the Bay Area: sign up for a NERT/CERT class, buy an ABC fire extinguisher, and know where and how to shut off your gas line. Assume the fire department will not get to you.

SF NERT: http://sf-fire.org/neighborhood-emergency-response-team-nert
Wait, without an API, how do you automate downloading the CSVs? Specifically, how do you handle authentication?
Andrew Yang wants to run for president promising universal basic income
Yes. SEO works. The mistake is believing that SEO is just about Google. SEO is also important for places like Etsy, where carefully crafting your listings is important. And despite the belief that SEO is slimy, it's really all about ensuring that your product gets in front of the person that wants your product. So for Etsy, it's not just about the number of people seeing your product, but the number of seeing your product that want to see it, and are willing to buy it.
In Chrome I get an exception

>The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resume (or created) after a user gesture on the page. https://goo.gl/7K7WLu

thrown from the call to `new AudioContext()` and results in a page that makes no sound. Changing the sliders after this error has happened (in the hope that it would count as a user gesture) does not seem to do anything.
Sublime for single file scripts, VS Code for projects.
> Why aren't people pricing in an earthquake discount?

Similarly why we continue to build in floodplains, it's usually fine and when it's not the Federal government steps in and makes sure people are bailed out. This has proven to be a good strategy as long as you're not in Puerto Rico. It's the same idea as the "Greenspan put" being priced into the financial markets.
It also has a fraction of the features
This submission is rather more substantive than the titles it's had so far ("Have Algorithms Destroyed Personal Taste?", which we renamed to "Style Is an Algorithm" per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), so I've taken another crack at it. If anyone suggests a better title—one that is accurate, neutral, and preferably uses representative language from the article—we can change it again.
Do people affected by this get any consideration if filing today?
Also the most elbow / shoulder bumps per hour
Could be a friendlier meow.

It sounds like someone stepped on a tail.
Elm might be a good choice. It’s a simple but useful functional language. From there, Scala, Haskell and Standard ML will be much easier to grasp.
NIST Releases Version 1.1 of Its Popular Cybersecurity Framework
Sorry to hear that. I've tried to keep some consistency with the layout because the fonts and colors are already all over the place.
Discover how JustFab works referral-miracles with a vanity URL]
jed.
nano and geany

(neo)vi(m) if I have to.

echo,sed,cat in a pinch ;) (but really love a well configured nano and geany is really great as well)
>Why does that take thousands of lines on a tax return ?

In part because of incentives.

The government wants to encourage people to live in houses, so mortgage deductions are available.

The government has an interest in population growth, so there's a child tax credit.

The government wants to encourage certain kinds of saving, so Roth IRA's are taxed differently.

The government wants to encourage charitable giving so it doesn't have to shoulder all of the nation's burdens, so there are deductions for that.

etc...

When you're a kid and all you know is your paycheck, a flat tax makes sense. But when you get older and your life becomes more interesting/complicated, you start to understand there are reasons for everything.
I haven’t read a ton of Kripke, but the fender and more jargon-filled analytic philosophy is still in a different style.

I think the best oversimplification is that analytic philosophers are more like mathematicians and continental philosophers are more like artists and poets. (And, fittingly, many of the foundational analytic philosophers were also mathematicians, and the continentals, poets and playwrights.)
The direction of movement is important.

To compare, GA (small) planes typically descent at 500-700 fpm (my wife complains if I descend faster than 1000 fpm :) ). Jets usually do 1000-1500 fpm. Elevators in skyscrapers can go up to 1500-2000 fpm. The limiting factor is that for many people feeling partially weight-less causes nausea. Not to mention the pressure change (especially for kids and sick/old people).
Good catch thanks! Wikipedia says "The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is an American non-profit politically conservative advocacy group, with a particular interest in education"

Thanks for the link to the PNAS -- looks like a whole special issue, not just an article, in fact. Great. I'm gonna ignore the fake-NAS one, and read the real-PNAS one.

I wonder what National Association of Scholars' motivation is here exactly.
I believe IP addresses are considered "PII" under GDPR, since they can be used to identify an individual.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

https://eugdprcompliant.com/personal-data/
This 100%.

SEO is often more jumping between things that don't fit most peoples preconceptions of SEO than it is about editing a title tag or submitting a sitemap.
Google can’t rank properly repost farm that reformat stackoverflow content, giving them more rank than stackoverflow itself!

If something of that profile can’t get ahead of pages gaming pagerank, independent blogs focusing on content have zero chance without at least doing some legwork on backlinking and keyword optimization.
Sure. We had to truncate the title to fit it but that's ok.
One of the fundamental reasons is that tech is an in-demand industry, and you can make a lot more money working for a private company than you can for the government. Not so much at the developer level, but senior management is bereft of anyone with a clue.
The same WHOIS is used by spammers to send annoying emails do domain owners
Huh. The server crashed (all the tiles reset)... and when it came back, every single tile contained a bomb. This is a bit odd...

[edit] Five minutes later, it's back to normal.
I'll note that in these cases, you have a well-trained flight crew who is clearly in charge. That has to help a lot.
NY AG Launches Probe of 13 Major Crypto Exchanges (Incl. Coinbase, Gemini)
> If I just wanted a way to add up my expenses by category, I would have used a spreadsheet.

Um, have you ever actually done this with accounting data? It becomes a tangled, shitty mess. The formulas used to calculate everything become larger and larger, and the data needs constant casting from text back to numbers.

> It should automatically calculate my taxes for a specific country

It should automatically manage your stock portfolio and give you 26% yearly returns, and it should give you daily backrubs as well.

> It should have auto backups to the cloud or remote storage.

It does! Google drive, Dropbox, Seafile, etc etc.

> It should have a mobile app which works even when offline and syncs later.

Agree, mobile app would be nice.
This book is extremely opinionated. When I first started reading philosophy it seemed great, once I learned about a few philosophers in depth I lost all respect for Russel.
100 years of tax brackets
I really want to use it for my business. I couldn't get it working on Windows or Raspberry PI.
Nothing yet, waiting nervously
It's not going wrong, unless it's making conclusive statements that are beyond the strengths of the study. That's why I say grain of salt. I understand what you're saying, but my point is that it's not science or the scientific method that results in undesirable outcomes, such as the Nazi example, but just a lack of any other good option.

Governments (and people) should evaluate the merits of the information they receive. Properly conducted and repeated experiments with noted mechanisms of actions (e.g. vaccines) should have more weight than studies about trickle down wealth or whatever. Obviously, decisions have to be made, and some will be wrong unfortunately.
Cambridge Analytica’s Virtual Currency Plans
I suspect they would find some efficiently fraudulent manipulation in the complete absence of regulation, if only those exchanges were regulated enough to retain data sufficient for such inquiries.
Well, considering that most airlines operate at around 5-8psi (to reduce stress on the pressure vessel), I could argue that hundreds is still a valid measure.

But that would just being pedantic; it is an exaggeration.
Genuinely curious: why do you think this is?

I haven't surveyed zoning policies, so I don't know whether I agree with your conclusion, but I'd like to clarify a couple things.

First, we must ask ourselves what the goal of optimal zoning policy is. Is it to maximize the number of people who live there? Achieve an ideal rent/wage ratio? Maximize the efficiency of shared infrastructure?

Perhaps it is to maximize the desirability of living in an area. If that is the case, then if people are complaining about the house prices that may mean you're doing something right.

In any case, assuming we settle on a shared metric (which may involve a combination of these various factors), we need to distinguish between comparing the average case and the worst case performance of centralized vs. decentralized zoning policy.

I would say that my claim is that decentralized zoning policy will have a significantly better worst-case than centralized zoning policy, and that crafting a good zoning policy is enough of a gamble that I'd rather settle for a less-than-ideal decentralized policy than risk a horrendous centralized one.

Now, to tie back to the original debate of scientific expertise in particular: would adding a group of economists and social scientists to the central planning committee tilt the situation in favor of central planning? I very much doubt it.

"At the core […] is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets and communities. This idea […] comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people."

— Christopher Alexander et al., A Pattern Language, front bookflap[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language
Not having a debit card would make modern day living too much of a pain. I pay for almost everything in cash and really only use my debit card for paying recurring bills. Can't always win. :)
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents, which never lead anywhere new. I know the GP pointed there, but that's no reason to follow the pointer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FWIW, Qlot solves the version pinning problem. Not to discredit your experience, just wanted to say that there are solutions today for the same issue.

I'm interested exactly what the pain points are with CPS. Do you mean manually rewriting in continuations is tedious or is there a more insidious issue. I haven't tried writing async code in Lisp but macros would appear to eliminate continuation-writing-by-hand.
"It should automatically calculate my taxes for a specific country, and file tax reports with local, state and federal government agencies online, and it should highlight things I might have missed to reduce my tax burden given my specific situation."

Unfortunately, GnuCash's lobbying and political action budget is significantly more limited than [Intuit]'s.
George Carlin was right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBRquiS1pis
It is not the same traffic pattern, Uber sees a regular stream of request keeping their caches warm, Yes they might see 2X or 3X spikes every now and them but in proportion these are smaller than the spikes that the IRS will see today.
https://phoneworldz.blogspot.in/
Just reading the questionnaire... This is going to be huge as in this is going to be the foundation on which the government will go after the exchanges and enforce consumer protection...
IntelliJ for projects. It’s not free, but the functionality will save you tons of time.

VS Code for misc files. It starts up way faster than IntelliJ when you need to do something quickly.

Vim on the server. For the record, I also use vim keybinding plugins for IntelliJ and VS Code.
Linux Distro for IDS, NSM, and Log Management
I think the Biggest mistake people make is asking, "does it work" about any marketing strategy!

The question itself begs for an anecdotal answer that is completely irrelevant to your circumstances...

More importantly, the amount of people who have given up on strategies too soon or because it wasnt done in a way to provide empirical evidence, is staggering... and the amount of misinformation that flows out into the wild built on those flawed premises is really problematic for those without the context of your situation and the relative context of the situation where those opinions were formed.

The second problem is that opportunity cost is rarely measured by marketers. The third problem is that your resource allocation relative to your objectives is arguably more important than any other factor or opinion about a strategy.

Marketing decisions should be made in the context of your resources, goals, and your broader marketing mix.

The idea that you can evaluate a specific strategy and measure its return in a Silo without considering the opportunity costs and other available strategies relative to your specific resource limitations is very dangerous and needs to be killed off!

The ideal scenario is to optimize to cashflow relative to lifetime value and time value of money...or get as close as possible to this...and choose strategies within the context of this calculation.

You want an SEO strategy? First, figure out if your audience is there and the cost to reach them with paid search and how long it takes to turn into cashflow and the lifetime value of that customer...than evaluate the costs to optimize to rank for that keyword, and how long it will take, than look at your other resources and strategies relative to the likely costs and returns and time to get cash returned relative to those strategies and decide if its worth investing in ranking there...

Once you identify a proven keyword and have context for the cost and value and time and oppirtunity costs, than figure out how to rank for that keyword... maybe you buy a site that is already ranking. Maybe you advertise on sites already ranking. Maybe you think about the user and find a way to create a resource that Google will want to rank because of its utility... and than create empirical tests to measure progress and than you invest !!!

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The shortcut SEO strategy i like is to ask yourself, what resource can I create for my industry that is not online but would offer so much utility that google has no choice but to optimize their algorithms to rank my resource... like wayne gretzky, go where the puck will be in the future...

When is SEO is done right, its Google trying to optimize its algorithms to rank your content, not vice versa!

Just my two cents.
Imagine an alternate history in which chessboards were always 9x9, but computers were 64 bit as here...
Nah shrapnel breaking out a window, engine exploding, and someone possibly dying. All in a days work when I'm flying.
It's a little high, compared to the last couple of cars I purchased with those features. Want to say that $3k was more in line with what I paid for a full safety/tech package, and that included a speaker/nav bump, etc.

Keep in mind that most cars (including my two examples) only really have lane centering and adaptive cruise, though, as far as driver-assistance features go. Tesla's ability to change lanes and do basic highway nav is above and beyond the norm. I'd probably pay another $2k for that. Also, the way most of these packages work, you often can't get them a la carte--they're on top of another package, so the effective cost might actually be $5k depending on how that's structured.

Paying $3k for vapor that won't arrive before I sell the car/return the lease would piss me off, though.
>What will prevent a bad actor from providing subject material that teaches people to bring harm to themselves or others.

Well the bad actor would need root access to your brain. Make sure you set a good password, and don't tell anyone what it is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14645808
Losing what?

What are you trying to help?
The design of that website is really great.
Jay from CloudSponge here if anyone has any questions about this one.
What's the percentage? If 80% o the peasants are revolting, and 80% of the content comes from the unrevolting peasants, do I care?

I'm not advocating that they should or should not care, but if one percent are revolting and 99% comes from the other, don't you think it is time to bring out the uzis?
Delta Air Lines [24]7.ai cyber incident
You're still causing a ~3% loss to the vendor every time you spend money using a credit card.