skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Sean - great point! When I was at Optimizely working on their data science team, we found that on average a test needed 10K-20K unique visitors to reach significance.

We find that this rule of thumb extends similarly to our causal analytics platform. However, we have found that even low-traffic sites are able to get a boost if they are tracking more events on their website (increases the opportunities for signal). Also, our simulations run in minutes on all your historical, rather waiting for weeks for users to be exposed to the test, which speeds up time to insight. If we can not determine significance in our simulation though (due to either sample size or signal), we will designate the projection as a correlation.
yeah but every noted pathologist who I've read with working knowledge of the case - which is the one in the linked article - says it looks like murder.
We do not need to eliminate every carbon producing process in order to address climate change. There are ways to balance carbon emission with carbon capture.

Let's not give the climate change deniers any additional ammo. Scientifically, our carbon emissions can be high, carbon capture just needs to be higher.
Police level of response needs to be appropriate based on the given situation. Seems like this police department just had a bunch of toys they really wanted to play with.
Putting the I Back in IDE: Towards a GitHub Explorer
That's not how net worth works. Substitute "12 shares of GOOG" for "$150K house", and your statement remains remains true-but-unhelpful.

If you limit yourself solely to the utility value of the home (i.e. you can live in it), you could perhaps convince yourself of that, but for most people their home is the largest investment they'll ever make.

I know a lot of people (including myself) have "sell home, move to a lower cost-of-living area, roll excess cash into retirement funds" as part of their retirement plan.
Honestly this seems the only reasonable explanation considering how long it was known he was doing what he was doing.
500 points as I recall.

@jquery should see the 'flag' link when opening the comment directly.
Maybe not. From this article, "...it probably wasn’t American intelligence, either."
Thank you for this post. I really resonate with it, although I have drawn perhaps a different conclusion.

Due to my limited ability to type/dictate and the controversial nature of my experience, I am not going to go into detail. I just want to give another data point to people claiming that more welfare programs will make these problems go away.

I have completely given up on the traditional health care system. It is so unbelievably bad when it comes to my illness that I am better off becoming my own doctor and paying for everything out of pocket. Because of this, I am a strong proponent of reducing welfare programs(except UBI) and making healthcare participation an option. I am battling a crippling illness. Almost no one has moral high-ground to insist that I give them my money for their health care. I am so so much sicker than easily 99% of the population. I should qualify for disability, but I don't because my illness is poorly understood by slow-moving government bureaucrats.

But I am fortunate to have identified the cure, and in a few years perhaps I will be back to normal. At that point I will be happy to pay health insurance premiums to help those sicker than I, but right now, my survival depends on the ability to not pay. $3000/year is the difference between life and death for me.
Wait, you're saying somebody in American has a handgun?
That changes everything.
If you want to try out the Oberon language, there are several Oberon implementations for different platforms, including embedded systems, native windows executables, and the Java virtual machine: http://oberon07.com/compilers.xhtml
Out of interest does anyone know what Atlassian's policy on this is?

(as someone who moved from github to gitlab, and is now open to other options).
> Surely someone who can do all of this stuff would be considered skilful.

Or merely someone who guards report to.
91% of the people of catalonia voted for the current spanish constitution back 1978, these are the rules of play for all us.

Any change to that constitution should be made by the mechanisms it itself provides, and even in the case a new one is made, it'd have to be voted by the whole country in a referendum.

This crisis has been provoked by irresponsable politicians that have taken shortcuts clearly out of the law in order to secede a whole region of Spain from it, and we also need to keep in mind half of the people from or living in Catalonia do not want to split from Spain.

My 0,02.
It’s a newsletter dedicated to showcasing contemporary poets. Do you complain if there’s a radio show which plays new music because it’s excluding all of the good music which has already been made?
This is also a crucial point many people miss when discussing Moon to Mars missions. The moon needs an industry first.
Don't expect much from this liberal hellhole.
America doesn't care about the little guy.

The solution is probably to buy huge amounts of insurance, and let your insurance argue it out with the police.
Consider a toll booth without a barrier (commonly known as iPass lanes in some parts). The intention is that you have to pay when passing through. There's no technical measure in place to prevent you from not driving through without paying.
Maybe Reason is more of your liking?
> 'the athletic' and its clones

None of which have actually taken off their runway as far as I know.
Keep up your hope. There are incredible upcoming economic and technical advancements. Me and thousands of like-minded super professionals are quietly working passionately for you. Please.. we're trying our hearts out here.
It's the general level of brashness and inconsideration that astounds people from other nationalities. Silly offensive jokes expressed in the loudest way possible, not caring about the reaction of others, etc. These things lead to alienation naturally.

Anecdata: a group of 10-12 Dutch tourists have gathered on a central table in a dinner bar, all laughing as loud as possible without ever considering a mom with a sleeping baby a few meters from them. The mom tries to make facial expressions of discontent, no one gets it or no one considers it some kind of a sign.
Is there shareable / repeatable code to go behind it? Its cool but without seeing how it was produced, it could be just as well a fancy output of a video editing software
No it will be largely confined to property damage. Shooting random bystanders for example would be still be an unreasonable use of force against that person.
There's a delicate balance that often lies in hiring process.

There are people who simply refuse to understand generics and/or stream APIs. Which are to (most) programmers more readable then the same logic being drawn out in a loop.

Meanwhile some other programmer would just write code golf and brag about it.

At the end of the day, it should be about enforcing a coding style that defines what you can or can't do. Adding final to all variable that can be final for instance is a great start.
Making a claim, in some cases, will increase your premium costs. Additionally, there's emotional and mental costs, which home insurance may not cover.
But where's the fun in that? Gotta get to use all that weaponry after all.
So many companies think that their automated processes are great, but then they block users from giving feedback on when it's wrong, so they never hear otherwise.
Why You Suck at Estimating Timelines, and What You Can Do About It
The way judges expect normal people to, within reason, use good judgement and will hold them accountable if they didn't, but will take police at their word that whatever dumb shit they did was totally necessary and appropriate and they can't possibly be blamed for it, is really frustrating.
Maybe in some more run-of-the-mill cases, sure. But even the dimmest staff member must have been well aware that this particular pedophile was on the verge of testifying against an entire network of other pedophiles.

If you hate pedophiles so much you're willing to risk your life/career just to let one of them commit suicide, surely you also hate them enough to wait just a little bit longer to prevent a bunch more of them from getting away with it.
If they have multiple Starships each launching once a day, it won't take long to get a few hundred flights.
Baden was present for the examination - he didn't perform the examination himself. It's a small detail but I wouldn't put Baden's opinion and the official examiner's at the same level.
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Shirt: $10

Belt: $20

Grenades: $1000

Destroying your home: priceless.
Well I don't know about Guardia Civil, but Gendarmerie is a branch of the army and distinctly not of the police.
The necessary sensors are really expensive, and that's why the production cars from Tesla and GM and such just aren't that great at it.
While I agree that currying favor with upperclassmen with performance art that pranks all but ingratiator and the ingratiated is a common strategy of whelps, I do find that this example of providing social security numbers has gone too far: it is one thing to rig the water fountain to dispense beer, and quite another to invite identity theft of the entire student body. Only we may do that and only for the purpose of parking violation fine recovery, for which outstanding unpaid balances exceeding $1mm USD exist on certain accounts.
It's also worth mentioning that even when you own a DVD, it is technically a deteriorating asset that will eventually become unplayable.

Many DVD disks deteriorate within a 30-100 year span to a point where they are essentially unplayable, even when kept in pristine conditions.

And if you are in an environment with extreme temperate swings, they will deteriorate even faster.
They didn't look at the portfolio.
Unless it uses CPAN stuff, or calls out to external tools. Those are often needed for key functionality, and they get stale much faster than perl itself.
We know that people are murdered in prison (though probably not as often as the media depicts.)

We know that blackmail exists.

While they might be uncommon, neither of those are extraordinary.

It is also undisputed that:

- a serial and unabashed pedophile had multiple contacts with two presidents, a member of the British royal family and a few titans of industry.

- when prosecuted for his sex crimes said pedophile came away with a sweetheart deal that apart from violating federal regulations, was _incomprehensible_ in it's leniency.

Now just because those two things are quite extraordinary it doesn't mean they are proof of anything. At the same time though, they are a justification for being a little more circumspect about dismissing conspiracies as crank theories.
Cops in America are thugs. Not sure what we can do to fix it at this point
Meritocracy? Ha. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is being hollowed out.

This administration certainly hasn’t helped as it amplifies its fear based rhetoric of migrants

Migration was and is a big part of the process. Not the only part, but still a problem to be solved. If you presumably want a European-style healthcare system in America and a job market that doesn't only favor employers, you'll need to acknowledge that the laws of supply and demand apply to labor and social services, and that an all-inclusive welfare state and mass migration can't work together.
Insurance company could raise his rates and he would still be responsible for the deductible.
How to think like a designer and act like an entrepreneur
> It's slower to write in touch-screen. From objective engineering perspective it's backwards in ergonomy. But most people who are not power users like Obama and his blacberry addiction. They just want to point and drag and big screen is better for pointing.

You could see it the other way around: for regular users who mostly just wanted to message, which was their core audience since the 3310, the keyboard was best. For power users who wanted to take advantage of the new features that were being ported from the PDAs used by professionals, like Wifi and HTML browsers, it was clearly that the lack of a decent pointing device was a major hindrance.
Chrome has a kiosk mode they could have used. Maybe they have some reason for exposing the OS and browser.
You can keep track of the before and after states whenever you do something nonreversible, like a syscall.
Why did this take so long to load?
Why isn't the armed shoplifting suspect paying for this? It's his actions that were the catalyst for the damage by police.

I don't think any of us are in a sufficient position of knowledge to determine if the police action was justified.

But it seems to me the suspect that picked the house to hole up in should be the primary responsible party.
Back in my youth I didn't "get" this the marginal utility of a dollar. I was also a libertarian and Ron Paul supporter. How naive I was.
Quantum computers can factor numbers faster than traditional numbers, yes, but i don’t think it’s going to be a sudden jump from “impossible” to “now anyone can break any crypto”.

On the other hand, switching crypto algorithms is relatively easy. Breaking crypto is something that’s happened before. There’s already a system in place for TLS for negotiating the best available crypto scheme, and people have already switched away from past, less secure algorithms before.

I think there are so many more problems to solve with building the quantum computers, compared to coming up with or implementing a new crypto scheme.
Who would have thought the best argument against an 80 character cap in pep8 would come from guido himself?
There is an ever growing boundary between ordinary citizens and government officials. Unless there is a drastic shift, this does not bode well for the U.S. as a country.
> The judge at their bankruptcy hearing described them as doing exactly that.

I know that William Alsup, the judge in their criminal probation hearing did so (and this was relevant to why their fire responsibility was held to be a violation of their criminal probation.)

I'm not aware that the same thing came up in their bankruptcy hearing (which has a different judge), but then again it wouldn't be surprising.
Article 50 was retrofitted: at the time of joining the EC (as it was then) in 1973, there was no defined mechanism for leaving.
Cognitive Hubs and Spatial Redistribution [pdf]
It sounds like it was going to according to this [0] article. The issue is the amount offered wouldn't even cover the temporary arrangements while the insurance rebuilt the home, 5k covers a hotel for 30ish days way less than it would take to replace the house.

[0] https://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/06/10/owner-of-home-destroy...
What do you mean?

A 2.5kW array will produce 2500W of power when the sun is at 90 degrees to it. This never happens to me, so I get less, 1,200-2,000W output depending on season and time of day. Now, in october, the array at best produces 1,400W, but the graph itself is sinusoidal, so the net power produced is 7kWh. Different units here - kW (which is specific power) verus kWh, which is power used.
Python 2 is 19 years old.

Python 3 is 11 years old.

11 years is a long time to married to the bugs of the past.

20 years is a long time to be married to a fixed language.
The main problem is that the WhatsApp group is nearly at its limit and you can see everyone's phone number. This is one of the ways Telegram excels.
In case someone didn't read the article cough

- Leo Lech owns the home

- His son was renting it and living there when the incident happened.

- Robert Seacat was the guilty party. He is entirely unconnected to either party above. After a high speed chase he hopped a fence and ran into a random house owned by Lech.

Whats at stake is whether the government can willfully destroy your shit in the course of police work and not pay for it.
I'm not certain whether or not either of you are aware, but most home insurance policies specifically preclude any claims precipitated by certain circumstances. Industry wide, a few of the standard circumstances that you would have to specifically add coverage for would be things like, acts of war, or, for instance, police actions.

The homeowner would have to review his/her policy in detail to determine if they are covered in this instance. But in light of the fact that they sued the city, I'm thinking they probably aren't protected, or opted not to add on that additional coverage, assuming it was available?
Don't they have source to source compilers that do the migration for you? I don't understand why the friction is so strong with python.
Right, but the government offered to cover his deductible.

Any money he got from the government over and above the deductible he'd likely have to pay back to his insurance company, wouldn't he? You can't double dip like that.
A spanish court could order spanish ISPs to block GitHub until they obey their order. They could also charge spanish Microsoft executives with disobedience, contempt or something similar.
This is one of those rare occasions that it might be worth your while to read the actual article...
That means halving the bandwidth of all inner-city roads (that are traditionally at 35mph+)

If a road used to carry 1000-cars per hour, it will only carry 500-cars per hour if you drop the speed limit from 35 -> 18. Effectively doubling the length of time for congestion.

You can get around this by building twice as many roads I guess, but cities don't really have any more room.
No mention of homeowner's insurance!

Was the house uninsured? Or did the homeowner's insurance deny the claim?
If our DNA were like clean code I wouldn't be so worried.
Unless you have no reason to believe the testimony will matter.
You have to keep in mind that those referendums were basically pro-independence acts, not an official vote by any measure. So it's obvious the results are wins of the pro-independence side.
Total loss to Walmart was probably like $10, wholesale, shipping, and stocking. That they pursued him more than about 100 meters is kinda nuts. The "high speed chase" that seems to have preceded this was dumb as hell, too.
History and philosophy should make us feel baffled and strange
He fired at the police through the garage, according the article.
Except police by law are not required to do any such thing

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...
We have a constitution that was voted in referendum in 1978. Most people in Catalonia voted in favor of these constitution, and Catalan parties have been an essential part of the governments we have had since then. Moreover, not even half of people in Catalonia (more or less) want independence.
I've seen estimates that the satellite business will generate more profit for SpaceX than NASA's budget. Since Musk controls over half of the stock, he can do whatever he wants with that.
Even if he's armed the danger and actual crime committed is so insignificant there's no reason to employ the tactics they used.
"English speaking world" is a tad wider than US specific - many of whom stick with a variation on the Westminster model. ;)

From the context of this subthread seems like the Spanish think of government as executive and legislature, with judiciary separate too.
This will be an unpopular view, but if someone is armed and locks themself in a house (the contents and perons inside which are unknown), its a bit tough for the police.

Police protocols are largely based on preventing the numerous deaths and damage that they see on a regular basis, and the court ruling is based on the legal experts reviewing the case and seeing that they did what was expected.

If your family was in that house, murdered, and you were held at gunpoint for hours, you would probably be wishing the police had acted more swiftly, not just put up their hands and said "well I guess we just let an armed suspect who ran and hid inside a residence after committing a crime go..."
I'm not suggesting that the alternative to unregulated capitalism is a powerful state, unless by powerful you mean a state that regulates businesses for the good of the people. I'm also not suggesting that capitalism should be entirely replaced. It just needs to be managed with proper boundaries and rules, else it devolves entirely into a financial-only scenario.

Take for example the recent deregulation that is undoing clean water and air protections to the benefit of a few industries. That obviously takes something (health) away from the people and gives it to a few companies as financial profits. Of course, those deregulations came because the companies had lobbyists and other agents who were providing financial benefit to a few politicians, and those politicians greedily placed themselves above the people.

When the government bodies that should be prosecuting criminal negligence (such as the 2007/8 banking crisis), the pharma-created opiod crisis, etc. have been gradually staffed by people from the industries doing the bad acting, that leaves society armless and unable to do anything other than protest (which they do, at times). But unless those protests become really violent (which I don't want), nothing can happen. Remember Occupy Wall Street? That was beginning to be an effective protest campaign, but eventually the cities began employing illegal tactics to break it up and shut it down. Since the people didn't turn violent, it was successfully put down.

I don't see a solution to the current situation other than waiting it out until the old corrupt people in power die off naturally. Younger generations are enough pissed that they might change some things once there are fewer kings of the political hills.
> You're right; Judge Alsup, overseeing the bankruptcy hearings,

As described in the article you cite, Alsup is overseeing their criminal probation resulting from their multiple felony convictions for the San Bruno gas explosion in 2010, not the bankruptcy case.

Dennis Montali is the judge in the bankruptcy case, see, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/business/energy-environme...
It turns out that crackheads aren't likely to have any money so how about the local government make the home owner whole and then they can sue the crackhead for part of his welfare check.
Cracking passwords to prevent credential stuffing
Sounds like the reasoning of a terrorist. Seriously.

If your primary goal is to force people to do something they don't want to do, on principle, call yourself an activist, a freedom-fighter, or a terrorist, I don't care. It's all the same to me.

If your primary goal is the survival of the human race, you shouldn't moralize.
"The idea that we can prevent fires from happening by preventing all sources of ignition in hundreds and hundreds of square miles is completely absurd."

That's true, but PG&E equipment has started more than 1500 fires between 2014 and 2017. That's over one fire per day. 17 out of the 22 biggest California wildfires in the last 5 years have been started by PG&E:

https://outline.com/5bxFLb

Arguably the power shutoff was the right short-term move here: during this wind event 4 fires have been traced back to PG&E (so far), but they had 50 incidents of damaged or downed power lines. It could've been a lot worse.

Think of it like buffer overflows in C. It's naive to think that you're going to eliminate all security bugs by any one intervention. However, if one class of bugs is responsible for 80% of breaches, isn't it worth investigating to see what you can do about that one class of bug? Here we have an organization that's responsible for 80% of forest fires: you're not going to eliminate all forest fires by firing its management, but shouldn't you at least investigate and see what they might be doing wrong?