skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've probably heard of the phrase "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

So, I think (though I will admit it was long ago last time I looked this up), that men have a lower accident rate per mile driven but have a higher accident rate per time period (not time period driving). The reason is that men drive more (or at least use to, back when I read these statistics).

There is also the difference between different kinds of accidents. While per mile driven men have less accidents than women, they tend to, as you mentioned, be worse accidents. I forget if this actually made them cost more per mile driven or not, but once you also add in that they drive more, in a given year men do cost more and are charged more. (There is also the impact of younger men who have more thrill seeking behavior, so if you compared men and women within a specific age group you might find the statistics don't match the statistics across all age groups.)

So, thanks to the beauty of statistics, we can say that men are better drivers than women and men are worse drivers than women by using slightly different definitions of better or worse that, in layman English, are glossed over.
> And when I want Julia’s promise of fast loops, I use Numba. If all the effort gone into Julia had instead been spent on fixing remaining warts in Python workflow for science, we wouldn’t even havee this conversation.

Python is rather a mess. Code written in Python can't be sped up without pain/cost, and apparently it will never support concurrency natively. It also suffers from the bane of weakly typed languages, errors at run time instead of compile time.

I think the sweet spot for a language with most of Python's benefits that fixes many of its glaring warts is enormous.
Show HN: I built OLEDify to help save battery by pure-blacking your wallpapers
Download:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oledify-pure-black-wallpaper...

OLEDify converts regular dark wallpapers into Pure Black wallpapers (#000000 - pixel is off). Since the pure black pixels are off, it helps reduce battery use on the newer phones with OLED and AMOLED screens. More research on this can be found here:

https://www.greenbot.com/article/2834583/how-much-power-does...

iPhone X is the first iPhone with OLED screen. Even if your iPhone doesn't have an OLED screen, I find pure black wallpapers looks super crisp and nice!

I built this app from feedback from the /r/AmoledBackgrounds sub:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amoledbackgrounds/comments/95mz1l/i...

Before (background is dark grey, not black):

https://i.redd.it/w098c8sefpa11.jpg

After:

https://w.oledify.com/946E9804-842D-4B8A-AA35-C8C54A1B25DD_p...

Demo:

https://streamable.com/fhtgx

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/br5kdflkniwt9u0/AADkRawLrLR3isiEs...

- The app is 100% free to use and has no ads. I noticed a few people requested a donate/tipping on the AmoledBackgrounds subreddit post, so there is a Tip Jar option but it's not required to unlock any features. Only if you really really find the app useful and wanna buy me a beer, you can use the tip jar. If you don't want Apple to take 30% cut, I setup a paypal here:

https://paypal.me/OLEDify

- The “Crop & Resize” tool in the app can be used to resize & fit wallpapers for your screen. This is useful when you have an image which doesn't perfectly fit your screen. You can create a new image of the suitable size for your screen size.

- The app also contains a "Post to Reddit" option which posts the edited wallpaper directly to the /r/AmoledBackgrounds sub.

- As you drag the sliders, the updates to the image happen in realtime on the GPU instead of CPU and are quite fast.
which isn't particularly well-supported or maintained anymore

What does this mean? Notes appears to have fairly regular updates every 3-6 months.
If you can, add 1/4 tsp tumeric powder and black pepper as well. I’m basically declaring war on all inflammatory foods/factors.
"Dammit, I'm mad..." https://quotereference.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/dammit-im-ma...

PS I converted this into three palindromic tweets https://twitter.com/sep332/status/928484353310711808
I’d file that under childish and awkward instead of funny.
They are not using APIs to begin with. I'm not sure what else is there to lock down.

Maybe we should just let idiots be idiots, and natural selection (or in this case, financial selection?) do its thing and the problem will go away eventually?
How long did it take to fire Mark Berndt? His behavior had been flagged for decades but the school couldn't take action. Why did the school district choose to pay him $40,000 to drop his appeal when he finally was fired? Because even a case where a teacher was found to be feeding semen to blindfolded students, the job protections were so strong that that the district knew it was the cheapest and easiest way out to just pay him off.

I left California 3 years ago, so maybe this has changed, but at that time there were countless stories about "teacher jails" where Los Angeles would send teachers who should have been fired, but the process is so expensive and fraught with appeals and obstructions that it was cheaper and easier to keep them on the payroll - permanently. They would isolate them so they couldn't have contact with students, but they'd go on paying them to go sit in empty offices - for years.

The argument that tenure only adds requirements for coaching sort of whitewashes over the practical challenges presented when a district needs to let a teacher go.
They might be confusing effort with results. From that perspective, the iPhone had tons of security, and your toaster presumably has none.

Or maybe they wanted you to assume they meant within its product class.
This works on a national level. Switzerland does it too. But I don't want to read only Swiss Newspapers, I wanna read the NYT and The Times etc. as well.
I do think that the digital pass idea is worth thinking about more.
Julia 1.0 will be rough until major packages have caught up with the deprecations introduced in 1.0 and 0.7. 1.0 does not tolerate these deprecations, while 0.7 will warn about them.

This makes a poor first day impression for new users who expect Plots.jl, IPython.jl, Juno.jl or other prominent packages in 1.0. The package maintainers are scrambling to catch up. I recommend using 0.7 for a couple weeks until the community catches up unless you are proficient enough to contribute PRs and help out.

(edit) To be clear, 0.7 was released at the same time as 1.0.
Tarpits and Antiflocks
> Is there an example of a federated chat service which has end to end encryption that just works?

Yes. SilenceIM is a fork of Signal that maintains only the SMS implementation of the Axolotl ratchet. It works perfectly.

For that matter, every other chat network does too, if you use Pidgin and the pidgin-otr plugin.

End to end encryption is a property of the clients, not the network, practically by definition.
Right, my bad. This does look like a sensible solution
That is my biggest fear. I have to not only not opt-in myself, I have to make sure no close relations do either and that could be a lot of people.
I'm only vaguely familiar with Ryan's plans. However, he very plainly lays it all out on his site.

He is extremely clear in his language about Social Security.

"As Speaker of the House, one of my top priorities is to preserve the Social Security safety net and make sure the program remains solvent for future generations."

https://paulryan.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=12227
Hi Chen-Chen and Antony,

Why did you choose to join YC with a restaurant business?

Is there a technology differentiator in your business?

I have a lot of experience in the on-demand food space and your method of using commissary kitchens is very smart and will allow you to access tens of thousands of customers without an expensive build out.

I would guess net (after paying the delivery platforms for distribution) you're saving about 10% once a kitchen is operating at a reasonable scale.

Is that a model you're looking to expand into other concepts? My understanding is the entrepreneurs going the commissary route are operating multiple "restaurants" simultaneously out of a space since there isn't any reason not to.
Exactly. Signal's most important feature is that it isn't Facebook.
Article appears to be paywalled, but here's some more background info on the whole "direct listing" thing if you're not familiar (as I was not).

https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-difference-between-ip...
No, it comes at a severe cost. The upside is that it removes the negative externalities of legacy plants.
The Machine Learning Behind Android Smart Linkify
Wall st is not really buying it either. Time will tell, of course, but the shorts may end up winning big in the end.
"...my mom made $125,000 pre tax as a teacher every year in NY..."

Holy MOLY that's a lot of money!

Out here in "Flyover Country", (Wisconsin), most teachers wouldn't even make half that much. And I'm assuming by the way you described her salary, that none of that included any of the benefits! That's an incredible amount of money for a teacher. I would think a lot of teachers would like that salary.

I'm pretty sure you can safely assume that your mother is nowhere even CLOSE to being the norm for teachers across the nation. There are many, many teachers out there who are very much underfunded.
Got same in Austria
The Old Cincinnati Library before being demolished, 1874-1955
Nothing wrong if this is how you roll. Killing the hardware is always a "last resort" thing for me. #savage hehehehe.
Let's see:

- The overlay still doesn't work on Linux

- There is still no voice ducking

- The text chat channels are persistent and decoupled from the voice chat channels (encouraging spam)

- There is still no way to self-host it

- The team keeps wasting their effort on stuff like this rather than fixing their broken core "service" (if it can be called that)

Mumble had all of this down to a T back in 2013.
Do you think calling heroes "pedos" is funny too?
> Julia Computing is largely made up of people they've hired from the community straight out of grad school.

Where do you think most companies get "professional programmers" from, exactly?

Julia's been designed and implemented by some very bright people, and it shows.
If you screw up and a store is out of X it doesn't matter to anyone but the owners of the store. If you screw up the police databases someone can die, evidence can be lost, all sorts of awful results. It's a much, much, bigger deal.
>Find a service that actually respects you and your wishes if you want a test.

If they hold onto the data for any purpose at all, then their is always the risk that they go bankrupt and ownership of the data passes to someone who doesn't respect it.
Matlab is 1-based. That's what the vast majority of scientific programmmers still use. Worrying about 0 vs 1 is just useless bikeshedding, really. I've done lots of index heavy operations in Julia and in Python, and it's easy either way.
- Night Shift is disabled for external displays. That's another killer one.
You bring up a solid point. It would be interesting to see, of the students leaving a PhD program with poor mental health, what fraction already entered the program with poor mental health? My hunch is that the stark majority acquired it while they were in the PhD program, but I have no data obviously.
Because the theoretical possibility of being monitored on Signal is preferable to the near-certainty of being monitored on Facebook Messenger.
> Plus, the overlay is a great feature baked in-Mumble, TeamSpeak and others require a third party download and often they're just....awful, obtrusive, resource intensive and otherwise in the damn way.

Mumble has had a built-in overlay for years, and contrary to Discord's it actually works!
The thread Chris linked to has some great discussion on the state of the art packages.

With respect to your question about what’s missing: Coming from Python, I think one might be surprised by how much less one feels the need to rely on packages in Julia. The language has some very powerful abstractions that really makes one rely less on packages than you’d expect.

Julia has really inhereted a lot of great lessons from Lisp and that’s made the language an absolute treat for ‘rolling your own’.
Meanwhile, some lessons from more modern languages have also made Julia much more effective at sharing your abstractions with others much easier and effective than any Lisp I’ve ever seen.
How to Recover from Romantic Heartbreak?
I'm not shy, I'll take whatever.

Otherwise it's a very personal choice involving dozens of trade-offs. You'll never really know until you try.

How do you decide which romantic partner is right for you?
I really like the idea behind this, but I take issue with the fact that if someone does start a company, Pioneer will take 3% with the option of buying 5% more of the company for $20,000. That seems pretty unfair.

I would be inclined to participate if this term didn't exist, or if it were either more financially generous or took less equity. But I wouldn't want to develop any idea through Pioneer if any future idea (for the next 8 years) could be poached for so little. It almost strikes me as a lazy way of running a semi-accelerator. I do think it's great that you're giving $5000 grants to help people develop projects and themselves, but this seems to disproportionately penalize people who want to commercialize their current or any future ideas

(Edit: why was my comment moved from being the top reply to the danicgross comment to a reply to the top level article?)
> perhaps the light just LOOKS less blue.

That is a really interesting distinction! Blue is a color derived by social consensus, but it is also a particular wavelength of photons. I'm curious about what's there if we dive in and examine what specific wavelengths of light (numerically) cause damage, and what is the overlap with what we typically consider the color blue. I'm sure it's not one to one.
It took almost 5 years for our organization to move off Lotus Notes and that was a concerted effort with a considerably smaller foot print. We had a handful of full-time Notes developers and administrators on staff and were still paying quite a bit in support from IBM annually.

This is a bargain by comparison.

Lotus Notes is incredibly reliable so if the department is just maintaining the system as is, without upgrades or changes, while developing a new replacement solution then a single administrator is probably more than what's needed.
By choosing to not get a DNA test at all due to privacy concerns, didn't you also pollute the data, albeit in a different way? 23andme data will vastly under-represent people with strong privacy concerns which might have a future impact, especially if scientists using this data forget to take it into account.
Amazon AWS error exposes info on 31,000 GoDaddy servers
This is very much a non-argument. Call the columns the 4th and 7th is as arbitrary as calling them the 3rd and the 6th.

Again, 0-based indexing exists to fit a purpose:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EW...

In my opinion, reading `a = b[1:n-1]` hurts much more than reading `a = b[:n]`.
On a similar note, I continue to be interested in Julia. However, the examples and videos shared by the community are predominately scientific or mathematical in nature. The material is too dense for the layman programmer such as myself. Not specifically a compliant, but more of a call to action for the community to share more traditional usage examples to intrigue others like myself.

And of course, I should really assist to solve this problem myself. But, I thought to encourage other language experts.
Kind of interesting that Mars, the candy company, is funding this. Good for them. The world needs more competition in the agricultural business with the Monsanto/Bayer merger. It's nice that they are pursuing traditional hybridization instead of GMO everything.
I suppose the CEO of a publicly trading company CAN act like the President of the United States?

Seems like a good strategy actually. The strategy got Donald Trump the Presidency.

(edit): why all the downvotes? I realize my comment might have come off as sarcastic. Sorry that was not my intent--I just wanted to point out something I noticed.
Congrats to the Julia dev team for making it happen!

Julia v0.6 was already very functional/usable release but having 1.0 allow me to write code and have confidence that it will continue working in the same, solid foundation in the years ahead.

I started my coding career over 25 years ago and I had done much work in C, Java, JavaScript, and PHP. Julia is the best language that I have worked with so far. Fast, dynamic, and highly productive!

I'll be moving to 1.0 release when my dependent packages are upgraded to support 1.0.
Google Shopping was fined over less: https://www.tnooz.com/article/google-shopping-decision-sets-...

Large companies, particularly in the EU, are not allowed to throw their weight around to privilege their own services and apps.
Who said anything about parallelism? Concurrency still works beautifully on multicore CPUs. I'm writing jobs that have lots of tasks, not jobs that parallelyze a single task...
Future of Sex Report [pdf]
Holistic at 20m?

Canada tried to bring to the table a holistic payroll system, known as phoenix, which cost them 1b before they decided to scrap it. :)
Looks good; how do you handle the fact that most 'lost einsteins' are working a crushing 9-5 and don't have the time or capacity to conceptualize (let alone work on) their passion projects?
Hey, I'm the guy who made this! Happy to answer any questions that the blog didn't address
Where are vandalic monkeys now? Had some one read histories and remembered latest 2 wars in 50s and 70s at Asia? It was foolish and absurdity in the extreme.
Good, senior, full-stack devs make $90,000-125,000 in flyover states atm. And I do mean good ones. A lot of people are stuck at $80,000ish.

$180,000 for a front end tech lead is unheard of in said states. Architects make maybe $160,000.
The point is that Python presents a very complex environment where you have to deal with different languages and technologies.

For package developers it is a lot eaiser to use Julia.

Saying one should focus more on Python and we would not have these problems is missing the point. Enormous resources by countless companies has been poured in to solve the performance problems of Python.

It is almost impossible to do due to the language design of Python. You cannot fix it without breaking the language.

Julia in contrast required minimum effort and resources to get fast. It is almost a toy project compare to Python. It is all down to clever language design which allowed them to use a rather dumb and simple compiler while letting LLVM do most of the heavy lifting.

Every advance of Python is going to require 10x the effort of advancing Julia. It will just be a question of time before Julia catches up. Python has a huge lead so that will still probably take years but it will happen.
Killing the food game. Good work guys!
You're a hero; thank you for posting details.
I agree that Tox is better but at the same time I know people who truly need to stay hidden and they use Signal on a burner phone with a cash sim-card. That way it doesn't matter which medium the messages are transmitted over because it still can't be traced back to them.

And as far as I know the encryption is solid.

Unlike some other alternatives like Wickr Signal actually open sources their app and their communication protocol.
AFAICT FinTS wasn't ever massively widely supported and has never been fully implemented, there seems to be little information about it at all.

What info I can find appears in discussions related to PSD2, and one presumes there are reasons the EU didn't pick up that model but issued what it did.

One of the projects using these protocols seems to be openbankproject.com, but they have their apps go through approvals as well, using OAuth flows in a similar way to OpenBanking in the UK.

Eh. I don't really see how, even from your perspective, you can be against PSD and Open Banking - it forces all banks in the EU to open up more than the vast majority do now.
that is why the private sector cannot alone supply medical insurance
If you have the opportunity to join other programs, go for it! Our hope is that this model enables us to reach the billions of people that are outside the network of Silicon Valley. They might not even be sure if they have a "company". They just want support on whatever project they're pursuing.

We're hoping that becoming a Pioneer vastly increases the odds that you turn your "shower-thought" into something real, even if it takes a few years to mature.

We're going to be making bets on folks substantially before they have the indicia of success that investors screen for. Before anyone could even say "This person will someday found a company." The math for this to be sustainable requires that the equity slice be higher than someone would ask for if they knew 100% of their investments were in high-potential companies.
Pioneers offer: https://pioneer.app/offer

> Pioneer will retain 3% of any company you found over the next eight years. Pioneer will also have the option of investing an additional $20,000 for 5% in any of those companies.

3% of all companies founded over eight years is a very big ask.
Thanks for the link, that's very interesting and I hope it will be usable!

Why is Servo team not focused on general Web compatibility? That sounds like a major must do before anything else. Don't Mozilla plan to replace Gecko in Firefox with WebRender from Servo anyway, so how can they achieve it without good Web compatibility?
Programmers need ethics
Google announcing their Cloud Search
Meritocracy. The mathematicians at Princeton University are going to be producing potentially more valuable pure math research than a professor at name state university 145.

I don't know what the exact figure is, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was less than 25% of math PhDs who go on to get a research job in math. How much are we funding these students here? I was on the receiving end of some NSF money for a semester. Was it worth it for the NSF? I barely contributed much. Granted paying a grad student is relatively cheap. But I wouldn't hold it against the NSF if they were more stingy.

It may be that we really are funding the right amount and the benefits to the whole ecosystem are great. But I want someone to give a cool-headed discussion of the numbers, not some vague persuasiveness motivated by job security.
"...It should be easier to fire a bad teacher.."

This is a problem with most public employees though. It's not necessarily unique to teachers. Try to fire a bad cop for instance. Just won't happen. Or a bad database analyst at your State's Department of Administration or whatever. You just can't do it.
Should also probably log stool weight/color, mineral/vitamin intake across all foods, etc etc - just to make it even more clear that a person has no time to “just log everything” that could possibly play a role. And at the end, it would probably not explain a majority of the headaches - at least in my experience.
World's shortest palindrome:
I have no idea about that story, and it’s directly contradictory to my experience teaching in several Midwest states.
A new pacemaker hack puts malware directly on the device
Interesting. I am not an expert, and it sounds like you are, so thanks for adding that.

Even if it wasn't quite as efficient, could it be worth the trade-off in terms of reduced CO2? As the application of synthetic fertiliser etc is very fossil fuel intensive?