skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fairly obvious that grocery stores would not want to be in poor neighborhoods. This article paints it all as segregation / race issue which is inaccurate where it is really an issue of purchasing power of the community. While many poor neighborhoods are communities of color - dollar stores have their origin and largest footprint in rural America which is predominantly white.
Most = highest number of installations. I bet the winner for largest amount of data managed could be another one (Oracle? MySQL?)
You have described exactly how I feel about this subject. My solution wasn't to delete facebook though, instead I ended up unfollowing every person I've ever argued with and unliked nearly every page. This has turned my news feed into a wasteland, and I've slowly become less of a Facebook junkie as a result.
Ok...? No one said anything like this. Just saying binctr is not some new project just hitting the scene.
Yeah, I agree with you there. I was trying to make a point closer to what jkaplowitz above mentioned in their last three paragraphs.
AT&T announced 5G, but is actually using 2G to 4G under the hood. It's a perception thing they fake.
Dialogflow and Node.js.

I needed them for my senior project[0] in college where I tried to make a lab assistant with the Google Home that would answer questions about the cafeteria menu and course information.

I learned a lot about webscraping which I had to do since I had no API to work with. I really wish I was more diligent in finishing it since prior really liked my demo.

[0]: https://github.com/fgandiya/virtual-jo
There is a recent research paper estimating vaping to be about 95% better for you than smoking. Even if people who wouldn’t have smoked at all vape, it appears to be an overall net positive.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180111141600.h...

"Studies show that if most current American smokers switched to vaping e-cigarettes over the next 10 years, there could be as many as 6.6 million fewer premature deaths and 86.7 million fewer life years would be lost," said David Abrams, PhD, professor of social and behavioral sciences at NYU College of Global Public Health and the article's lead author.
I played anarchy a bit. It was ok but mostly just pvp and bugs. Shadowbane was where the hardcore pvpers went as well as call of asheron I think?

Edit: Asheron’s Call and Dark age of Camelot.

Oh gosh. Kids these days have no clue! Or maybe they do.
In that case, I would be better stated that nitrates are carcinogens not bacon itself.
Hah, that's the first time I've heard "disappeared/reappeared". It's plausable, but are there multiple witnesses/reliable video?
I would note that when you say "locals", you don't just mean the residents of whatever county, town, perish or whatch-doogle. You mean people who've had some incentive to research the mess. Because a lot of average residents of these areas either don't know their crazy ins-and-outs or don't know these by-laws are unique to their area.

I mean, from the air, from a car passing through, etc, the US appears very uniform, more uniform than most of Europe or other parts of the world and a lot of people here take that uniformity as a uniform administration. Moreover, there is a bit more uniformity than the ridiculous administrative rules indicates - zones, policing, codes and so-forth are unified by private entities and generally enacted to achieve the appearance of a uniform country.

Note: Also, the multitude of administrative apparatuses here aren't equivalent of, say, two or twenty fused nations threatening to break apart. The US unified this way and the over mess is much of a way for local to hoard their power, rip-off outsiders, etc.
My intuition suggests this is physically impossible.

My assumption is that these habitable zones would be required to generate the necessities of life in an environment devoid of any of them. Nutrients, oxygen, water... we could make recycling them very efficient, but there's always some loss. And even if you had zero loss, that's insufficient. If you're going to make a habitable zone that can support new population, you need to operate at a surplus.

The other option if you can't manufacture these resources from nothing is to import them. But that's extremely expensive. That's not a problem if the recipient is generating something of roughly equivalent value, such as mining valuable resources that can be shipped back (classic colonialism), or conducting important research (as in the case of the ISS), but if the recipient isn't generating anything of value besides somewhere to run later, then it never really gets there because it relies entirely on receiving continued shipment from the motherland.

I'm happy to be set straight on any of the above points, but these are the doubts that come to mind whenever someone argues the moon or Mars have potential as off-planet habitable zones.
I remember the vorpal bunnies. I seem to remember a bug where they would sometimes appear as an energy vortex sprite...

Can you elaborate on why the creature learning was bad UX? Did people get irritated when the wolves were killing their rabbits?
This blew my mind recently, when I had to delete millions of files in a directory and rm didn't make the cut (too many arguments), and find -delete took forever:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/79656

perl -e 'for(<*>){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}'

seems to be the fastest possible way to delete enormous amounts of files
> You're (deeply) conflating disconnecting from FB with disconnecting from communication. These are not remotely the same thing.

Nobody I know uses email for actual communication, and no amount of me sending them emails is likely to change that. Further, I don't pay for therefore don't use text messages, and the majority of people I know don't use Apple devices so can't use a free service like iMessage to contact me.

I'm also not planning to sign up for another service just to replace another, nor do I think I could reasonably convince anybody to follow me to another service aside from WhatsApp which wouldn't be much of an improvement, really.

I'm glad you've managed to have zero difficulties. However, if it were really so simple for me, I would have already pulled the trigger long ago. Someone else's anecdote has no relevance to my situation just as my anecdote has no relevance to anybody else.

So please don't tell me what I'm conflating. I know my own business best.
My bank used to do the tokens until some mathematician reverse engineered the algorithm proving it insecure.

They've now moved on to certificates on your phone.

You go to the bank, prove your identity, they sms you a certificate. When you choose electronic authentication on the website you get a popup on your phone to accept. You put in a password and it validates the cert on your phone and sends the response to the website.

All without having to install anything.
> It's fairly obvious that grocery stores would not want to be in poor neighborhoods.

Why not, for us clueless people?
Sure. I don't have any holistic survey to prove my point, but an example of recent progress in terms of sample efficiency is this paper[0]. Derivatives of this paper have been used to solve Sudoku[1], Starcraft II[2] and more [3]. This paper enabled more efficient use of data by creating a probabilistic graphical model between logical sets.

[0]https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01427
[1]https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08028
[2]https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01830
[3]https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01822
You think the parent comment adds something more worthwhile?
FTA: "I think the space shuttle was a serious error. It hardly did anything except have an exciting launch, but it never lived up to its promise,"

Few people are willing to call the shuttle a failure, but it was. It cost much more per mission than estimated and was supposed to lunch every two weeks. It averaged approximately one every 3 months. The payload was supposed to cost $635 per pound, but ended costing $27,000. You need a critical review of NASA if they are going to be effective in the future (Humans or no). This article may read as overly negative, but there is a lot of Pollyanna reporting regarding NASA.
I've seen a game that fixed the 3000 skulls problem.

All items could be destroyed to create runes, that can be applied to another item to improve it. Let's say that a skull giving +10 force would give a few runes to add +1 and +3, the later being more valuable.

Everything was recyclable and there was a complete economy about recycling to provide for the one hundred different characteristics.
I am currently in the rural south and have to say you have a VERY valid point. You have to go many miles for an actual grocery store, but can find various discount small box stores as easy as a gas station.
Although, I do remember when I was young [in the last century], visiting for holidays, there were general stores and country markets at an even larger scale.
An odd example of the loss of 'small town business' by replacing it with branded chains.
Thank you for everything Raph! You are a truly a pioneer. A few questions which I’d love to get your response on, although no pressure:

1. How much of an influence were past Ultima games on UO? The game engine itself resembles Ultima VIII, was any of the code from that game reused?

2. Whatever happened to Ultima Online 2?
Considering it was the success of the Soviet's Sputnik missions which rallied up American public to support for the Moon mission; I don't see why the progress of manned missions from China, India, Japan shouldn't create positive sentiment again within USA.

With commendable growth of private space organisations within USA, it's perhaps inevitable that an American would be the first to land on Mars; which politics apart would still be a giant leap for mankind in general.
Người mắc bệnh tim mạch nên tập môn thể dục nào?
What kinds of technology are you interested in?

AFAIK, there are many tech meetups in Taipei. I myself am a system guy, so I can say that CAT wrokshop (compiler, OS, blockchain, virtualization) and TLKH (Taiwan Linux Kernel Hackers) are good. Both community accept English speakers and the people can interact with foreigner speakers, but it would be a little bit difficult, but not impossible, for them to organize English-based events.

Besides, there are Taipei Devops meetups, Rust meetups, ...

If you are a Web/Framework guy, I am sure there are more meetups than I can tell.

Last but not least, welcome to Taiwan!
The most practical causal inference book I’ve read
They answered that in their second sentence: why would they put a store in a community that can't afford to buy their products?
There are more than enough junk books out there too for sure.
Causal inference reading list
Not sure why your comment has been flagged while the equally loaded parent comment has not
I spent a few years in Texas and often travel by road cross country. I do have to say, finding a dollar store chain of local is a blessing in the big empty in-between.
I'll go a step further and say, if escalators are really so dangerous that we need to prevent people from walking on them, than they're too dangerous to begin with and should be removed in favor of elevators, ramps, etc.

As far as I'm aware, though, escalators are not a leading cause of death.
I mean, divisiveness for its own sake is bad - I wish more people felt like we were 'in this together' more of the time instead of engaging in identity politics about which group deserves what. So I see where the point is coming from, but it's not a totally content-free argument to make, to accuse someone of being divisive. It doesn't mean they're wrong, but calling someone divisive could be a valid criticism in its own right.
"Every Windows10 machine" , did not know that, where is it located ?
> anyone morally opposed to military is excluded, responsible or not

This is not correct. It is explicitly stated in the novel that the government has to accept anyone who volunteers. Someone who conscientiously objects to military service will be given something else to do, but as long as they volunteer for some kind of service, they can't be denied.

> being in military does not make you responsible

Depends on your definition of "responsible". In the absence of mind-reading ability, we have to assess that indirectly. The indirect method Heinlein portrays in the novel is the willingness to sacrifice one's life for one's country. Doesn't seem like a bad indirect method to me.

> the only way to gain the vote is to subject yourself to years of pro-military propaganda in environment where dissent is treated as undiscipline and where the tactic to make you adopt new values literally includes sleep deprivation and maximum exhaustion

The only training explicitly portrayed in the novel is that of the Mobile Infantry; the training is driven by the requirements for the MI to be effective at its mission, not by "propaganda". And most people who volunteer don't end up in the MI (not stated explicitly IIRC, but certainly strongly implied by much indirect evidence). And it doesn't seem like the training that Navy pilots, for example, go through is anything like MI training (again, not stated explicitly but strongly implied by indirect evidence).

> military dictatorships and dictatorships in real world did not proved to lead to more responsible exertion of their sovereign authority.

The government of the Terran Federation is not a military dictatorship. It is specifically described as a representative democracy in which you have to volunteer for 2 years of service to your country in order to vote or hold office. What's more, you're not eligible to vote or hold office until you complete your service, which means that if you are a career military person, you don't get to vote or hold office until you end your career. So, for example, the Fleet Seargeant who gives Rico and his friends the long speech before swearing them in, and the Colonel (temporarily reduced from Fleet General) who gives Rico his pips before Rico goes out on his field training as an officer, cannot yet vote or hold office. They won't be able to until they retire.
Are you seriously stating that a 16yo tries to get laid because he’s watched a “sexy music video”, rather than because he is a 16yo?

Sorry, I just cannot take you seriously after that. Dude, people used to have kids even younger than that, when media didn’t even exist.

If you really want to rationalise current mores, you could try looking at how kids might have to use or face violence earlier that they get any sexual instinct, so they should be trained right away. But it’s still a baseless theory to justify a state of things mostly driven by arbitrary religious taboos.
Those thoughts stopped being entertaining a long time ago.
> Just saying binctr is not some new project just hitting the scene.

Gotcha. You’re original statement left a lot of room for interpretation, I wasn’t sure what you were suggesting.

I didn’t mean to imply binctr was a new project, I meant it relative to me as I’ve never come across it before in comparison to the well known established solutions that exist today. The more “household” project names. I probably should have made that more clear.
> we're stuck with WoW (and its clones), which was an excellent game in its own right, but it wasn't a true MMO

because most companies didn't realize what they were copying when they copied WoW.

True MMO - aka, a sandbox game. See this very indepth critique, if you want more about this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvK8fua6O64
Here in rural Iowa, Dollar General also has claimed the niche of "less stuff, but also nearby". You can either drive 5 minutes into town and go to the Dollar General for most of your basic needs, or you can drive a half hour to the nearest city with a Walmart / Target / etc.

I really quite like stopping by to grab a quick thing or two. Around here, there tends to be a local grocery chain in the same vicinity, so generally I'd pick there for more traditional grocery foods. But ran out of toothpaste or need a pack of diapers? Dollar General is the place to go.
VSCode has a richer UI, more functionality and of course supports extensions, source control etc by default. It just does a whole lot more. I think you’d be better off comparing with an actual port of the example compiled for each engine.
Yes. Downloaded my archive. Manually deleted my actions (likes, comments) via Chrome extension, then went through deletion process.

In May, when I’m in Ireland I’ll be filing a request for my data to see what remains.
Walking does cause a larger queue as people get on one side (non walking) of esclator mostly . So 1 person gets on instead of 2. I have now started standing in what is considered the walking lane once people see that I am not going to climb they got on behind me and the throughout of the elevator increases.
We should go the path of Sweden and make all IRS records public too...
There is also an argument to made that editors etc serve as gatekeepers to keep out "the wrong kind of people," which frequently correlates to the wrong gender, the wrong race, the wrong religion, the wrong social class and so on.

For some people, freedom to try to express themselves and/or freedom to hear others try to express themselves is far more valuable than whether or not the writing is grammatically correct and typo-free.
That would be because of a tool called CopyBot which came out in 2006.

https://www.raphkoster.com/2006/11/15/copybot/
I'm suggesting we should be wary of inflammatory/controversial, trending content. Usually the attention content receives is proportional to how polarizing it is, not how nuanced or important it is. This is a legitimate problem, and the video does a better job explaining it than I could, which is why I linked it in this thread.
"BLM and its supporters in Mid-South were totally full of crap scapegoating cops as main threat to black people when it's actually black and latino thugs"

I don't claim any particular knowledge of what's wrong with the police anywhere, but when cops or people who identify with them say reflexively "well, we'll just stop defending you from the thugs if you don't like us" my gut tells me that it means they already were deliberately enabling "thugs"; the declamation sounds like something that people have repeated to themselves for years, bottled up the justification for corruption and the protests just give permission to let it out.
Under DEDICATION:

In the hopes that this work may in some way contribute to their exploration of space, this is dedicated to the crew members of this country' s present and future manned space programs.
If only I could join them in their exciting endeavors.
I never played UO and I've never spent a great deal of time playing any MMO. I know it would take a lot of effort but I think a neat solution would be that if all the animals were killed then people would start starving to death.

I wonder if social pressures could somehow be codified into a game. If someone goes around killing all the players then maybe none of the vendors will want to do business with that person or something? Though I'm sure there are ways players could still explain that and I'm sure people who have spent a lot more time thinking about MMOs than me could explain why that wouldn't work
It's not that I have nothing to hide. I close the door before I use the toilet. This tool specifically promotes hiding crimes. Mix questionable ethics with no updates in six years and it's likely to taste off and stale.
I disagree - that's not a link to a paper by the Sunlight Foundation.

It's a link to a site that wants you to agree to try a monthly subscription before you can download anything at all.

Especially in the context of a discussion about public data, that's an important distinction.

If you can, please provide an URL to the actual content?
Shunning of heretics was designed to centralize power in the church and affiliated groups.

Modern social progressives do perform analogous shunnings, yes, but these acts are for the explicit purpose of decentralizing power _away_ from groups who have it.
If a decent-sized asteroid hits the earth, humanity simply ends. That is an unacceptable risk.

We become multi-planetary for survival.
It's not just to reduce the amount of ZoL specific work.

If I understand correctly, the developers were saying there are specific parts of Linux where anything using them is considered a derivative work, and therefore even distributing source would be a violation of GPL. An instance of this is the crypto layer that was added in recently with the native dataset encryption. SPL actually reimplements this logic because the ZoL maintainers claim they can't use the Linux crypto subsystem without violating GPL.
Have you tried seeing if you're connected to anyone there through LinkedIn?
THIS.

I was just saying to our partner (as well as to my wife!) how lucky we are to work on Healthcare solutions. We have access to data about medications, opioids, patients and physicians behaviors that so very little of others (who can have any clue about data analytics) has.

The realization of sitting on a goldmine of impossible-to-access-data + capability of developing cutting edge analytics solutions that could change the world is the best place to be.
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Of course, I don't want the government reading my emails, but if June or the NSA or some hacker wants to watch me toast my third bagel of the day, I think the most they'll glean from that is that someone in my household is carbo-loading.

Don't you think your health insurance company would like to keep an eye on your diet to make sure you're eating healthy enough? Do you want Pillsbury to send you ads after June told them you make a lot of cookies?

Seems like there is a treasure-trove of personal data to be mined from such an oven (i.e. what time you eat meals, whether you're home for lunch, what days your girlfriend joins you for dinner, etc)
You need to watch out for counterfeit products in those dollar stores. I found one selling "Colgate" toothpaste that was not the real thing.
I think Kant gave this some thought, didn't he?
Tor-over-Tor is less secure than Tor by itself, because the circuits are not aware of each other and it is possible to reuse your first connections entry as your second connections exit.

i.e. A->-B->C, then the second connection becomes D->-E->A. This would allow A to de-anonymize you.
Things I started to learn:

- knitr, as I got sick of LaTeX (I always ended up fiddling with the figure placement forever until it was just right). I also moved all my R work into RStudio, which is a HUGE time saver and the Projects function has saved me a few times.

- snakemake, for reproducible bioinformatics workflows, integrates nicely with HPC systems, and is very beautiful (the few times I've used it)

- I went through the first fast.ai course, and used it with some success on kaggle, but I'm far from doing 'bleeding edge' stuff I think (applied is fine though! give me a nice dataset and I should be fine). I've also read the Kaggle book (Deep Learning with Python), which contains a whole bunch of these weird useful machine learning tips that no-one really can't explain mathematically

- I've also made an effort to switch my R code to immediately use as much tidyverse as possible, which isn't always OK when using bioconductor at the same time