skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
couldn't agree more; I think working in R is a vastly different experience now than it was 5+ years ago, and has changed (for the better) much more quickly than Python has. I'm primarily thinking of the tidyverse here; the three you mention are so much more intuitive than loops + pandas + matplotlib.

With Max Kuhn's new tidymodels stuff, I think R has a real shot at providing a nice alternative to sci-kit learn, though there's a lot of catching-up to do. For the deep learning stuff, Keras in R is about as nice as Keras in python, but I'm not holding my breath for pytorch-like workflows in R.
Do you mean Keep?
Who determines who to silence? Do you have some clear simple rules? How do you ensure you're not silencing somebody who will eventually convince large numbers of people to believe them, and become the dominant paradigm?
the huge volumes of data they have

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
How about denying round earth?
How about deny Taiwan is part of China?
Who do the fact checking for the latest news in a very remote part of world?

Silencing one thing can be simple.

But once you take of role of censorship, people will ask you to censor other stuff and give reason for censoring/not-censoring that.
It will quickly grow into an unmanagable mess.
What if I advocate for old-age pensions, sharing of profits of large enterprises, and the abolition of land rents -- all of which were platform tenants of the National Socialist German Worker's Party?
Rendering Trends: Decoding Tired Tropes of Flashy Architectural Graphics
Maybe we'd have better games if diet, exercise, etc stats for all game devs and staff were publicly available ;)
Let me repeat this loudly so people in the back can hear:

TRANSPORT MECHANISMS ARE NOT DATA STANDARDS!

It is great that they want to build on REST and use common authentication standards and what-not: but that's not the hard problem. The hard problem is the data itself (including the critical structure of the data) and getting it to agree.

I liken it to someone that wants to build a rail system out of LEGO and then saying it is a 'standard system' because the LEGO are all the same...but they don't say anything about the size of the tracks, the overhead clearance, how the train systems should act in case of junctions or possible collision.

This is yet another 'data transfer standard' that hand-waves away the hard part -- the inter-compatible data model.
See also: eBay, AirBnb, etsy, bitcoin mining, stock trading sites, online Poker... Whenever you offer a platform that lets people monetize something (either their free time or the stuff in their attic), 100% guaranteed it will eventually be overrun by people and businesses doing these activities professionally and full time, unless you take genuine and effective steps to prevent it.
If it's any comfort to you, it's the same for normal-sighted (everything's gray).

They probably think that users like to have to hunt for the features of the site.
While obviously the video only shows the car doing each ~difficult scenario once, to my untrained-in-the-intricacies-of-self-driving-car-eyes, these folks seem to have made serious strides in perfect situational awareness.

They're noticing some pedestrians that I can only notice because of the little pink boxes their software is drawing around them.

Very cool!
For convenience, I believe these are the links:

* https://forums.civfanatics.com/forums/community-patch-projec...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/civvoxpopuli
It's mainly only developers that use Linux. Using consumers as beta testers? Who doesn't do that or something to that effect these days? "Move fast and break things" ship fast, get feedback, and iterate, etc. These are all mantras of agile, startup culture. Meanwhile, I'm not sure I see this with their latest products at all.
Why fonts? Or do they use fonts as an ID?
I am really impressed that Melissa is not only living in the gray, but defending the wisdom of doing so.
Until it became a cause celebre for progressives, Feinstein, Obama, Clinton, gov Brown, all spoke against illegal immigration. It’s not anathema to the Dems, but suddenly it’s something some think will get them votes, but they are risking alienating inner city whites and inner city blacks as well as rural white poors.

Few people would argue against legal immigration ala Canada, Australia, even Brazil or Mexico. They all have pretty reasonable requirements to becoming a legal resident.
> their "vow to resist" seems to mainly involve trying to outperform SpaceX

The planned Ariane 6 is cost uncompetitive with the Falcon 9 and variable cost and mass uncompetitive with the Falcon Heavy. There are no plans for a European reusable. The “our mission is different...our culture is different” comment implies a regulatory, not technological, solution.
These 20 pictures will teach you more than reading 100 books
The higher costs of a build out, combined with the increased noise of open floor plan, and no comment on productivity. This sounds like the worst kind of compromise: cut the baby in half.
> I ask for help understanding the conceit here, that the person who turns around and helps their colleague is at fault of 'breaking someone's concentration' when they were asked to provide help to a coworker.

How on earth did you came to that interpretation?

The person who asks question is interrupting the other one. Asking via slack is less intrusive as it gives the colleague the chance to finish whatever the colleague is doing before answering.
I'm a fun example here too. Through a quirk of how addresses are assigned in my city, and how postal codes are assigned in Canada, my house has a unique postal code. Given our postal code, you have 100% certainty, and 50% probability between me or my partner.
Possibly related to Russia’s recent claims about advancements in military tech
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22270/russia-releases-v...
The solution is to have zero tax on property of primary residence. This way when one does buy land and pays it off there is no need to have a substantial income to pay property tax and you can at least live rent free not paying "rent" to the tax authorities every year) and/or make the land work for you. Also remove the inheritance tax so wealth can be built over generations and not evaporate away. Getting rid of inflation as well would help as one could simply save money in a bank account and not worry about it losing value every year.
I agree that privatizing unemployment insurance would lower costs for reliable, low risk employees by shifting the burden to higher risk people, but is that a good thing? The kind of people that can’t hold down a job are exactly the people that need unemployment benefits the most. Not everyone can’t hold down a job just lazy, many have mental or physical disabilities that make holding a job more challenging, and those are exactly the kind of people that can’t afford extra insurance in the first place.
History will also judge Alphabet with a positive mindset (T&C apply!). Google did to web what Apple,MS did to computing. Google files patents but doesn't extract royalty from it unlike MS. I think next 10 years will be really crucial to Alphabet( not talking about Google here). The work Calico, Verily,Loon, Dandelion Energy are doing takes time to create impact. I think Google, Calico,Verily are going to make considerable contributions to healthcare.
> There the game stops. Proof surfaced in 1898 that the reals, complex numbers, quaternions and octonions are the only kinds of numbers that can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided.

1. I think they meant "the only kinds of numbers constructed in this way".
2. Sedenions can still be added, multiplied, subtracted and divided. it's just that multiplication and division lose most of their useful properties. With octonions you've already lost associativity and commutativity, though.
The problem with hashing it, from their perspective, is probably that they would like to be able to do analysis on the shared traits of the individuals whose data they harvested.
I think that maybe if you lock a mathematical physicist in a box forever with an x-TeV collider without letting them upgrade it, they will eventually find a theory that hits all of the datapoints and depending on their philosophical weakness then declare it "final."
Before all of that you had Reagan Democrats, who were complicit in the decline of worker's power and rights while supporting economic and trade policies that undermined blue collar jobs.

They were never "forgotten and left behind", they signaled to the elites that they were happy to vote against their economic interests for whatever the culture war issue of the day is.
>I can run 1 mile much faster than I can run 3 miles.

This ignores the fact that employers don't pay you for how fast you run, but actually by how far you run in a day. Only the employee cares about how fast they can run.
This is a lot like the story of slave-like labor conditions for Nike in Indonesia or Bangladesh and such.

From our comfy seats and nice intellectually stimulating jobs, it really looks like Bangladesh should be standing up for its workers and telling Nike what's what. But then Nike will just move to neighboring starving Nepal, and Bangladeshis will have to return to farming and being affected by flooding and having a really, really bad time.

It's bad that things are bad, but it's good that they could be worse otherwise.
And watch Uber cut the pay of drivers to pay for unemployment benefits. A company has to pay into a state unemployment fund for drivers.
"Proof surfaced in 1898 that the reals, complex numbers, quaternions and octonions are the only kinds of numbers that can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided. "

Not true. Any field (in the algebra sense) has these properties. [1]

Quaternions and octnonions also have weirder properties: quaternions are non-commutatve (jk=-kj) and octnonions are non-associative: a(bc) != (ab)c.

I think the article meant these are the only Euclidean Hurwitz algebras [2], which is a far cry from the claim.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurwitz%27s_theorem_(compositi...
I would think most of their findings are related to the types of exoplanet detection methods we have.

Talk to my when you’ve detected all planets in a random representative sample of stars.
You're telling me that with a phone, a car, and the ability to speak english, that driving cars around is the only opportunity possible?
That only works if things are within a reasonable enough distance to bike to and if the roads are setup in a way that someone can safely bike at all.

If you're talking an older grid-style suburb with corner stores and the like, it's probably something kids can do.

On the other hand, in many of the exurbs/modern suburbs, there's large distances between things and very strict segregation of residential/commercial areas. Car-centric layouts don't help either, with routes between

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Even older suburban areas can have their own problems.

For a personal anecdote, I grew up in a part of NJ that has been settled since 1700s and is rather hilly. (Watchung Mountains). Most of the main roads date from that time and resemble English country lanes in terms of width/geometry more than they resemble typical American roads. Speed limits are 35-45mph, traffic does at least 5 over.

It is absurdly dangerous to walk or bike on any of those roads, and there aren't really any practical solutions to that. They studied adding sidewalks and it was going to cost huge sums of money and require destroying hundreds upon hundreds of mature trees (the roads are thickly lined with forest, and there isn't even an inch of shoulder).

Cutting the speed limit is impractical because they're main roads that people drive 5-20 miles on, that's a significant time hit.
The fact your asking better analysis from me shows the failure of our news infrastructure. I myself was very surprised by this information. Data that contradicts our preconceived notions should be talked about loudly.

So far most of the analysis I see - where it mentions this at all - speaks of only absolute numbers which is almost useless. For all the press the gig economy has gotten I'd expect more.
> I've spent enough time in the military to know human ego will never allow this to happen

It's not human ego: people can be egotistical in any class. It's power.
> Unemployment insurance, as it's implemented in the USA through effectively a tax collected by a private entity, is a scamola.

In every state I'm aware of, unemployment insurance is managed by the State. It is a form of social welfare, and the government will intervene to e.g. extend unemployment benefits during periods of high unemployment. Applicants for benefits also cannot be denied on a case-by-case basis, and certain groups of people almost certainly receive more in benefits than they pay in. Private insurance would not achieve the same objectives.
Backdoors Keep Appearing in Cisco's Routers
Basic steps towards a faster Node.js app
I don't know, I was requesting clarification for the line "people will exploit themselves".
> you are most likely required to stop

Seems unenforceable.

Edit: The creative potential of a public service announcement makes me smile though.
Sure, why not. Especially since Apple forces indie IOS devs to provide their service via the App Store and takes a cut and enforces a bunch of rules and regs about what it takes to be allowed to be in the store in the first place.
Too many fans of the command line from the 90s. Oh well.
How many businesses died as part of the S3 outage of 2017?
Because every browser except the latest from Apple will happily tell every website you visit exactly what fonts you have installed. And that list changes very slowly over time, if ever, you know kind of like those patterns of skin ridges on your fingers.
I set up a separate gaming rig specifically to isolate these kinds of problems. That's where I run all my games and nothing else.

You'd think it'd be more expensive to have another machine specifically for gaming. But the slowing of CPU advancements means that old systems can be usefully repurposed. I grabbed the husk of an older desktop from a few years ago, its CPU and memory being more than enough for gaming. Threw my GPU over to it (not needed for work or personal desktop usage), and I had a dedicated gaming rig for "free". Now I don't worry about scummy studios releasing malware masquerading as games.

For those more technically inclined, you can do a gaming VM. That used to be my setup prior to having a separate machine. GPU passthrough allows you to give your GPU to the VM. I had it running under Ubuntu, with Windows as the guest. Near identical performance. That was a cool setup, but kept breaking on OS updates so I decided to just use a separate physical machine.

But these are ultimately just defenses and are no excuse for knowingly running malware. Gamers should make it a point not to buy games or other software that plays loose with their privacy. These studios should be ashamed of themselves. But it's impossible to always know ahead of time what horrors lie within your software. So at least I sleep better at night knowing these "games" at least have their own cesspool to writhe around in.
I’ve been exploring this idea as well however I have a hunch it’s not actually octonions but dual quaternions as they are the perfect formalism for representing 3d movement over time.

And to add to that, the are a Lie group I.e. they are anticommutative I.e. AB=-BA.

I’ve also been exploring this relationship between dual quaternions and linear logic. It’s pretty wild. I’m curious if anyone has any opinions on this.
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Show HN: I'm trying to virally launch my new non-profit. Help please?
>They seemed to buy into my reasoning

We're going to need a bit more detail from an account that clearly has an agenda.
> I've attempted plugins for both Eclipse and IntelliJ. Multiple times. Defeat.

Can you help us understand what you were trying to make, and the ways in which you experienced "defeat"?
I'm not sure I get where you are going. It might be a divisive issue but saying that simply because it comes up and you think something else is more important doesn't mean it is being used just to be divisive.
Not sure how relevant, but it appears he has the code for Rover's control on Github:

https://github.com/tlalexander/rover_control
Calling it a "codified Consumer Bill of Rights" makes it sound like you want it to be a law, but the second half of your statement makes it sound like you want it to be like the "certified humane" label on the eggs that I buy.

I have no problem with it being an optional label, but I see no reason it should be enforced legally.
Sorry for the late response, but I'm happy to!

I did move away eight years ago, and while I keep strong ties to the people in that scene and still have a good sense of what's going on, I either don't know of the truly DIY spots right now, or there just haven't been many for the past few years. There are some quality legal underground spots, but my knowledge of that is limited to dance music.

Kremwerk is probably most like what you're looking for, in that it's a small, late-night basement that throws great parties with fantastic music. The Monkey Loft would be your next bet, though per my original post, some if its luster has faded since it remodeled itself and became legit (but they still bring great acts). Rebar also gets an honorable mention, and while I wouldn't say it's too "underground" of a venue anymore, it's got a lot of history as such (read into it!) and hosts the longest-running house music night on the west coast, Flammable (seriously, check it out, especially if my man Eugene Fauntleroy is playing). Last recommendation for a venue would be to check out the next Train Car House Party[0].

Your best bet would be to follow area promoters. Sweatbox and Shameless are long-standing groups from Seattle with a history of throwing great parties. Sweatbox doesn't throw as many parties as they used to, but just last month they threw one in some kind of garage space in SoDo with Derek Plaslaiko playing. I worked with both crews when I lived there and they're wonderful people.

Other honorable promoter mentions are Innerflight, Hunt & Gather, Grounded, Drop, Viva and Depth. While you're at it, look into anybody involved with the Cascadia Festival[1] coming up, as many of the acts/groups involved throw small underground parties in the city. Decibel Festival obviously gets a nod, but they've been kind of quiet in Seattle since Sean moved to LA a couple of years ago. All of these promoters have Facebook pages that should be easy to find.

Hope that helps!

[0]http://www.roadarch.com/15/7/orient.jpg

[1]https://www.cascadianw.com/
What I would wish for is a list of common problems and how certain algorithms and data structures solve them.
Secular countries can expect future economic growth, confirms new study
I have no idea what this headline is supposed to mean.

"Vows to resist"

Resist what, exactly?
> A significant drop in wages is generally considered "constructive dismissal" for unemployment purposes.

A significant drop in wages can be considered constructive dismissal, but it's generally difficult to prove without explicit evidence of the intention behind it. And in this case, it's pretty hard to make the argument that it constitutes constructive dismissal, since there is zero evidence that Uber acted in a way to target the driver by intentionally cutting their earnings specifically, whether or not those actions were intended to target or retaliate against the driver.
Absolutely. Makes it break in very obvious ways that prevent people from continuing using it as an internal TLD, probably before the domain is actually owned by someone.
Does that work out for you? My experience is it's kind of a waste of time commenting unless it's on the front page. Even in (most) front page posts, the conversation seems to die quickly after it drops off.

Does anyone else wish HN would notify you when your comment is commented on? This pushes it into the realm of online forum software, but as someone who comments much more than they submit that essentially what HN is for me.
In my experience comments with 50+ upvotes almost always are comments on root or one level deep. Assuming popularity on hackernews was the goal I wonder what signals a member should look for in determining the best threads to comment on. In the past I've had success in commenting in new submissions with 3+ upvotes and 1 or fewer comments.

The ideal comment would be being the first commenter on a NYT or Bloomberg article about a tech company or law stating the majority opinion of HR audience. The trump comment on HR is being an early commenter with unique insight based on experience working inside the company being discussed.
As a complete accounting noob, why should I use this?

How is this supposed to help me instead of listing the transactions from my own sales_history table of my local DB?

Do I need to create a GUI for your service listing the transactions?

Let's say I implement your service. You have all transaction data, fine, then what? :)
You're correct that most of our detection is by transits in front of stars and will only see planets with orbital planes aligned toward us.

However, it's super cool to note that we've actually directly imaged expoplanets orbiting around their stars in other planes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...

Another possibility is detecting planets by the wobble that they introduce in the star's position. I'm not well read on the subject, but I wonder if Gaia's position measurements via parallax are accurate enough for this.

EDIT: A bunch more information from Wikipedia on detection methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanet...

The space-based observatory Gaia, launched in 2013, is expected to find thousands of planets via astrometry, but prior to the launch of Gaia, no planet detected by astrometry had been confirmed.
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Steam is part of the problem, tracking users and the time they spend playing each particular game.
Giant Bitcoin Mining Company Hashflare Disables Hardware, Mining Service
Hope for the best, sure, but recessions are inevitable
and, IOS App development.
FCC will now take your comments on whether to allow T-Mobile/Sprint merger
Small world. I swear I'm not posting about this everywhere!
Nice project! What kind of 3d printer are you using?
Also, do you think humans (in an economy or not) always act rationally?

Depends on how strictly you define "rationally". If you mean "spend a month collecting data, download, install, and learn R, and run sophisticated statistical analysis on the data before making any decision", then no, clearly not. IOW, humans are not the fictional "rational agents" mentioned in economics textbooks and papers. We're not Homo Optimizicus.

But if you mean "give some thought to the options based on known information, weigh the different options, outcomes and consequences, and then make the best decision", then I would say that people are generally rational.

It would probably be most accurate to say that humans "are semi-rational agents that employs lots of heuristics, including satisficing[1], to make decisions that are not necessarily the best possible, but usually aren't the worst possible either". Or to put it another way, we employ "bounded rationality"[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality
My mistake, I thought you were the interrupter. In that case, it's very nice of you to sacrifice your time to enable anti-social behavior on the part of your coworkers!
Hacker's guide to (US) healthcare data
As poor as I did in my Algorithms class last semester, this would have been very helpful to reference. There's definitely a gap between the concept and implementation of CS concepts, being able to see an efficient implementation of something like Heap Sort really helps teach how it works.