skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This would be true and understandable if immigration wasn't so incredibly skewed towards Mexicans, but it is skewed.

And people's views on race don't map neatly to a purely genetic definition, nor do their views of ethnicity map to geographic boundaries. It's not at all unbelievable that Americans would see Mexicans as a different race.

>I find it funny how you blame white people for the hate, then blame them for the redefinition of culture and community around race and ethnicity... right after blaming white people for some perceived degradation of our country...

I'm assuming this is supposed to discredit my comment somehow, but I don't know how it would, nor do I really care.

I don't blame white people for that redefinition. I blame the alt-right and white supremacist movements for seeing an opportunity to spin widespread anger (among lower class people of various races and ethnic groups) with the effects of globalization and automation into a revolution to maintain and protect white culture.

And I've simply seen too many arguments around this issue since the last election cycle began (funny how it seems to have sprung fully formed and fully clothed from the breast of the Trump campaign, huh) and too many articles framing the modern populist movement as an issue of white racial identity and fear of the loss of white cultural and political majority, and seen that view defended many times, to believe for a second that the confusion in your prior comment was genuine, unless you've been living under a rock for the last few years.
I've never had a problem parallel parking in a station wagon.

I'd probably struggle more in an SUV, as you're higher off the ground and you have less visibility.
If your intention was to pump digital currencies you would probably say something like "everyone else is buying"...
> A wedged truck on main street a week for 8 months, and people got pretty cranky about it.

I think you accidentally a word there.
In the south, gas was cheaper than that up until the mid-90s.
Explain to me why you think the GPL matters here. Last I checked, the GPL pertains to the program (i.e., apt-get). That is not where the problem is.

Additionally, contracts are not carte blanche to violate criminal law. To the extent that a contract provision would purport to allow violating a criminal law, it would be unenforceable.
If PoS fails, it will fail as a black swan event, after the system became "too big to fail", not at the level of mere testnet.
I have an XPS 15 running Debian. I got the 1080 screen for better battery life (but I also run plugged in to a 4K monitor most times anyway).

It's a great machine. I have no complaints. Well, I blew out the speakers doing something rather dumb but there are simple (T1.5) screws on the bottom; it was a trivial $10, 15 minute repair.
I am steaming mad at the Debian release team and think they made an amazingly, amazingly poor decision. I do not think they should go to jail for it.

(That being said, I wouldn't mind if Oracle cease-and-desisted them for installing someone else's software using their trademark as the package name.)
I don't know the exact details for Russian, but it's not so easy in Korean, even though about a quarter of the words are of English origin. First the transliteration sounds could be quite off, as it could be based on the spelling rather than pronunciation (e.g. quinine is ki-ni-neh). Second, for short words you're not really sure whether it's native Korean words or not. Third, the meaning could be different than what you expect (e.g. cunning means cheating, like on an exam, and glamour means a voluptuous body).

From this experience I would be weary of any words that sound similar to English in a foreign language.
Don’t vote Republican is probably the most important thing.

Convince others to stop voting for Republicans.
I spent almost 10 years in Beijing (2007-2016), and it seemed like everyone knew everyone. I was off a bit, there are 500,000 foreigners in Tokyo, compared to around 600,000 foreigners in China:

http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2015/01/08/nali-lai-de-ov...

https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/increase-...

Japan has twice as many foreigners as China does, with many of them concentrated in the Tokyo region.
Thanks so much for your answer, that's exactly what I'm looking for !!
True. At least the latest update removes the weird apostrophes.
And after trying to steal my countries idiotic politicians statement about smashed avo and millenials, you’ll be stealing our HSPs [0] next!

[0] Halal Snack Pack, served originally by west Sydney kebab shops, it’s literally the greatest food to eat drunk. Which I find amusing — we do love our irony down here!
I know people already said it, but causality, resource cleanup and error handling are all solved with Actor model in a more general, more flexible and more reliable way than nurseries.

If you think reasoning about concurrency is hard, try testing and modelling it, especially for something distributed. This is where naive ideas about concurrency should start to fail and a need in solid foundation arise.
I found an old Thinkpad laying around in the office once and just for shits and giggles decided to give the old Linux thing a try. Threw Ubuntu on it, hated it, tried again with Debian, now I'm a full convert. It's my main dev Machine but I've thrown a Debian VM on my PC at home for when I WFH and dual booted my MacBook I was using before with Debian.

It's just... So clean...
notes:

1) I didn’t mean to submit this URL, really; I thought I’d be redirected to the existing submission. That can be found here (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10387071

2) Ironically, the lost-and-resurrected journalism series that this article opens with describing, "The Crossing," appears unavailable once again. http://thecrossingstory.com/chapters/index.html responds with a 503. It’s possible this is temporary due to increased interest in the topic due to today’s story about Joy Reid: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/the-e...

3) Luckily, the Internet Archive does have a copy of The Crossing today: https://web.archive.org/web/20151127150800/http://thecrossin...

Major props to the folks at the Internet Archive <3
I also love it. At least I did until last week when my Command key stopped working. Blowing and shaking got something dislodged I guess, because it started working again. Unfortunately whatever it was got stuck under the space bar. :(
That's part, but the reverse is also true. Someone could lose money and still have better odds than normal. Something like skill adds 5% then luck adds or removes 30%.
Reminds me of that guy who pretends to be Satoshi Nakamoto: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/craig...
Yes, they have a bug at SVT. When the web page says a video is geoblocked, one can still download it via youtube-dl...
Until they have to build and test iOS apps...
Commercial insurers in the US cover far more new and experimental treatments than the Canadian system does. The drug mentioned in the CBC article? Full coverage in the US, from the day of approval.

Covered in Canada? Maybe never. And that's one of the best drugs out there to treat that type of cancer.

I'm not arguing the US system is better than Canada's. Just calling out there are trade offs with single payer systems. If American's think they can move to a single payer system and keep all the bells and whistles they have now, they will be deeply disappointed.

And your 2nd link actually proves my point. The drug in the article is not covered in many Canadian provinces at all. The guy in the article is being denied the drug because it's not approved for his mutation. Most people with the correct mutation do get coverage for that drug (again, a new, state of the art drug).
I'm amazed HN launched in 2007, this was written in 2013 and for 5 years no one has added new definitions yet.
Seven thought experiments to make you question everything
Critique my dynamic quotes web app. Constructive criticism is welcome
Adding my gripe to the cacophony: I upgraded my 2012 MacBook Pro to the 2017 model because I wanted a bigger SSD and one more monitor than the old machine supported.

Much of the time it's fine because I have it docked, giving me access to a regular external keyboard. But when I travel or use my treadmill desk, forcing me to use the built-in keyboard...ugh. The key travel distance provides poor tactile feedback, making it feel like I haven't pressed hard enough. And my typo rate goes through the roof. I didn't have those problems with my 2012. And Apple's decision to go with only USB-C is a constant source of inconvenience; I wrongly expected it would pass over time. All this, and no noticeable performance improvement.

I still have the 2012, I haven't had time to prep it to sell. I'm seriously considering finding other ways to deal with its limitations so I can ditch this awful 2017 instead. What an expensive mistake.
Data-Driven Sales
Stop (or cut back on) flying. Drive a lot less or stop driving. Go vegetarian or at least eat less meat than the typical American does. You don't necessarily need to go vegan.

Pee on a tree. (I would provide a link, but I made that a private site as it wasn't being developed.)
There's something about 80386's comment that bothers me. I agree with the overall tone that there are interesting and unexpected discoveries to be made in pre-history and archeology, but all of the examples are unscientific.

Frankly, all of the examples have a click-bait tone and deal in those topics related to "secrets of the pyramids" cable shows: controversial until proven by an amateur; science in the dark until it asks the primitive people about one "simple algorithm;" surgeons use stone age tools; Greek objects on a Pacific island (but not really).

My debunking, in order:

Yes, we now know Polynesians were long-distance intentional sea-farers, but Kon-Tiki did not prove that and was very controversial (and unscientific) in itself. Polynesian-South American contact is hypothesized but doesn't have solid evidence (sounds more neutral than "isn't fully accepted"). Currently only the sweet potato and palm tree genomics show it was likely, still waiting for artifacts or human remains that could provide solid evidence.

About Polynesian sailing, others have covered the complexity and accomplishment of their navigation, I will add that they also likely travelled seasonally: go in one season, come back when the winds shift 6 months later. Recently, the crew of the Polynesian Voyaging Society sailed around the world using these ancient techniques.

There was likely a land-bridge across the Torres Straight at glacial maximum, but not across the Wallace line further east (see the Sundaland comments). Anyway, this comment is so vague as to not really say anything.

I get the idea that we modern industrial humans under-estimate what is possible with stone-age technology and ingenuity, but the link to modern scalpels is but one minor point (that they had sharp tools). You need a lot of other properties to build things, some cultures had them available and developed them (rope for binding, cloth making, etc). One thing to remember: when Captain Cook landed in Hawaii in 1778, the Hawaiians were essentially in the stone age (though some contact with Spanish galleons or the floating remains thereof is speculated). Very soon thereafter, an ambitious local chief used western advisors and purchased guns to conquer all other islands.

You say "Greco-Roman lamps turning up [in] Palau" but the article you linked shows that it is only the design of ceramic oil lamps in Palau that might be traced back to a 6th c. bronze Byzantine lamp found in Thailand. The article itself does much to play up the sensationalist nature of Greek influence in Micronesia, but draws lots of tenuous connections between a few pottery shapes. And both the article and your short summary both fail to mention the possibility of parallel development of a basic implement (only so many ways to burn oil with a wick in a vessel). All in all, the article reads more like Popular Science (with unrelated-topless-native-woman image) than a scientific paper.
Well, even though I did not delete FB, my usage has gone way down. I reckon I spend about 5 minutes/day on FB today, down from about 30 min/day a year ago.
One day I'd like to eat a flight of dumplings from all countries that have something that could be construed as a dumpling.
But does the Explorer get the same MPG as a Taurus with the same fuel efficiency technology? That's the comparison that people should be making if they care about gas mileage.

The Taurus is rated 18/27mpg, the similarly sized Honda Accord is rated 30/38. (though with less horsepower with a 4 cylinder than the Taurus's V6 -- but that's the problem with lax fuel economy standards, manufacturers will sell horsepower over mileage... until the next fuel crisis, then they'll whine that no one wants to buy their cars)
No, but the local languages where repressed and even forbidden for a long time by the republic ("It’s forbidden to spit and spoke X language" policy at schools) in ordrer to increase or create the national unity.

I’m very sad that from the two languages known by my grand parents generation (alsatian and a dialect of dutch) I only know a few words because these languages were destroyed by the state.
I spent 8 years writing Linux software on a Mac, with various configurations including SSH, VMWare and Docker development environments.

For a while I was happy about this state of affairs, but over time I became increasingly dissatisfied.

Late last year I started a new job and essentially demanded that I be allowed to choose my own hardware. I ended up getting a high-spec X1 Carbon and running a Fedora variant on it.

It works very, very well. And the keyboard is great. I won't be going back to a mac any time soon.
No; they're taking the next few design cycles for IC sedans and putting them into IC crossovers. It's what people want to buy right now - they're keeping the Mustang, a car bought primarily by people who would never buy a crossover, and the most crossover-like version of one of their hatchbacks.
The laws in the UK are already far more restrictive than our American cousins when it comes to advertising. “traffic data” and “location data" are already covered by the e-Privacy Directive 2002/58/EC.

Source: http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/differences-privacy-la...
Funny how personal this is - I literally loved the keyboard on the first click. It feels strange when I have to occasionally type on my 2014 MacBook.
> but JavaScript is the real poster boy for the indisputable triumph of "worse is better".

Not sure it beats PHP in being worse. But at least both got substantially better with recent versions.
Python and JS are both equally awful. The sad reality is that Perl 5 still remains the only viable scripting language aside from scheme (lol) with sane scoping and lexical closures.
Same, bought last June. It's mostly a weekend driver, maybe this will boost the resale?

On a side note, it's my third fiesta and I still own my second haha. I will miss them :(
There's a decentralized Twitter clone that runs on the Ethereum blockchain. https://peepeth.com/welcome
You pay income tax on RSUs as they vest.
>What many cities have realized is that trying to provide sufficient road capacity to meet demand is a game lost before they've even begun, and instead focused their efforts on trying to coax better utilization of current corridors...

here's a radical proposal: improve public transit. it needs funding at the federal level. which currently isn't forthcoming, despite all the rhetoric about improving the nation's infrastructure.
I mean... it's not wrong...
There's no such thing as bad publicity, the latest incidents are no exception. This has probably been a benefit to the company overall as I feel it was becoming less of a focus in peoples lives until we all had to discuss the platform again.
No need to add more definitions when the ones already there are good enough.
The way you told it I'm not sure whether he was joking or serious. It's a good story both ways!
Police just need to start issuing tickets. Seems like a solid and easy revenue stream. Both riding on the sidewalk and riding without a helmet is illegal. Haven't seen any rider wearing one.

CA Law: "An operator of a motorized scooter must be at least 16 years old, possess a valid drivers license or instruction permit, and wear a helmet.

A motorized scooter may be operated on a bicycle path, trail or bikeway, but not on a sidewalk. On the roadway, it must be operated in the bicycle lane, if there is one. On roads without bicycle lanes, motorized scooters may operate where the speed limit is 25 mph or less, and shall be ridden as close to the right hand curb as possible, except to pass or turn left."
Swedish productions are not usually blocked, unless I guess the rights are being sold to other countries.
Not defending the OP (or continuing their line of thought), but here's an exclusivity argument for why it's difficult to build public transport infrastructure in the US.

The US is special because its cities were either built to be pedestrian-hostile, or were made so during the Depression years when the transport companies went bust.

Now, in addition to the mindset shift, I think you'd need to rebuild entire cities/metroplexes to make the public transport work.

Case in point: the South Bay Area, where I live now. Sure, you can add trains (at a huge cost). But once you get off the train station, where do you go? The sidewalks are those narrow strips separating the roadway from the parking lots adjacent to stores, they are no joy to walk on, and it will take you forever.

Where in Europe you have:

[store][sidewalk][roadway, 2 lanes][sidewalk][store]

Here, you have:

[business][parking lot][impenetrable hedge][sidewalk][roadway, 3 lanes][uncrossable median][roadway, 3 lanes][sidewalk][impenetrable hedge][parking lot][business]

Then, due to the zoning regulations you don't have stores and cafes right next to place where people live - you have huge blocks with nothing in them but houses, houses, houses.

Ditto for business districts.

It's not enough to have public transport, one needs to rethink entire cities from ground up to make them walkable, bikeable - and accessible by public transport - even if it exists.

Another case in point: Seattle. Lacking a good train system, they made the buses work with dedicated bus lanes, which make the buses fast - faster than traffic.

This works because the city has not been developed in the sad way I described above.

As for the suburban wasteland, which makes up huge chunks of the US population-wise, you can throw all your trains and buses at it, and it will be but a drop in the bucket.

Disclaimer: lived half my life in the US, half my life in urban Ukraine. Big fan of public transport, but drive most of the time - and when I don't, I bike, outrunning public transportation in most cases on distances up to 6 miles or so.

EDIT: see the urban sprawl point below[1]:

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16918434
Thanks for answering my question, but I was being hypothetical. I just wanted to know what services do this sort of thing in theory, not like I have money I need to get involved in this idea!
True, but VW grants a lot more in the way of rebates than Honda or Toyota. A manual Golf Sportwagen (lowest trim) quotes right at $20,000 on Truecar (where I live), and a manual Civic hatchback (lowest trim) is at $19,700. Not much of a difference (both prices including destination).
As an American I wasn't aware that Ford made any cars other than the Mustang.

If it's true they do, I probably lump them into a category with the other invisible cars like the Toyota Camry.
I got the same itch and ran with it for a game jam a while back. It's fun! http://steveasleep.com/jumbogrove/
It was Netintact if I had to guess.

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.a...
so vitalik says he just had a short term connection to this team before he grew suspicious. if he really was the head behind a scam, why did noone sue him? why is there no evidence, like former employees, payments, company registration?
Persistent streams are interesting, but we spent years refining our ETL and building it around Citus, that it would be very complicated to separate those two. I will wait for the extension and do some testing.
What I don't understand is that AMD/Intel differ so much.

The subsequent question I haven't seen clarified is:

In any of these situations, are Intel's results actually accurate FPS or could it be showing 'accelerated' FPS?

I.e. is Intel taking a performance hit, or are their 'non-HPET' numbers cosmetically showing faster performance that isn't there?
The CIA did something similar in the 50's and 60's, with a fictitious economist called Guy Sims Fitch: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/09/meet-guy-sims-fitch-a-fak...
The article says MySQL "the most popular free SQL database" but gives no reference for this claim. It seems to me that every system I know of has at least one install of SQLite somewhere (be it as something that was installed with the OS or in some commonly installed application). SQLite seems to agree with my assessment in https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html so I wonder where did the quoted statement above come from, and what's the basis for it?
I don't think 'let' existed when this article was written.
Depends on the country / store tbh. Canadian Apple Stores don't send any Macs out to repair centres. US stores generally do, but I think they still have the latitude to do some repairs in store.
From a footnote on those slides:

> The numbers for DAUs and MAUs do not include Instagram, WhatsApp, or Oculus users unless they would otherwise qualify as such users, respectively, based on their other activities on Facebook.
Organizing the tech sector
“Looking closer at this you are describing one model but testing different values of one of the model parameters.”

I am inferring from context that this is probably supposed to be a criticism but it doesn’t make much sense to me. Of course we have to consider different values of the mean, the whole point is to get a p-value corresponding to a range of potential different means.

But anyways, I do think that an explanation based on the t_0 statistic I defined in my other post is better.

1. We can define a statistic t_0 that is the infimum of the absolute value of all t-statistics for every candidate mean in the interval.

2. Suppose the mean is some value mu’ in the interval. Whenever the t_0 statistic is at least as big as its observed value, the t-statistic corresponding to mu’ is also at least as big in absolute value as the observed value of t_0, by definition.

3. So we can give an upper bound for the probability of the former event by the probability of the latter event. But the probility of the latter event is the same no matter what mu’ is, and can be computed using Student’s T distribution.

4. Therefore, we have an upper bound for the probability of t_0 attaining a value at least as big as the observed value, assuming that the mean is somewhere in the specified interval (plus the other standard assumptions). This is the p-value.

Do you agree with those assertions? If not, specifically where is the problem?
It has a small interior. When I tried Ford sedans at a dealer last summer, the Taurus had the least head room. The others were bad too; it seems modern cars have shrunk. I had a Taurus from the 1980s and it was fine.
He's in a financial position to afford $10 a month for the relative luxury of not being served ads, meaning he has a relatively large disposable income, meaning he's the kind of person I would want to advertise to.
For those interested, Julio Cortazar gave an "in depth" account of Axolotl in a short story:

http://southerncrossreview.org/73/axolotl.html

Set in an aquarium :(