skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Am I missing something here? I'm genuinely curious why anyone would think it's a good idea to surrender control over something that directly affects their everyday comfort, especially if it's air conditioning in Texas.
Yeah, it's sad how those terms ("white male", "feminist") have become loaded. But again, I think it's because of perceived power differences. For some reason, the term "feminist" has come to mean, in some circles, "person who wants to take away my power". When in reality, promoting an egalitarian world benefits both women and men, since it reduces jerk behavior. Promoting equal rights for women does not take away rights from men, you know?

I feel you on the second paragraph, but I think what's really distracting is the unnecessary stigma of the labels. What if more women and men, especially those with influence, openly identified as feminist? It's like the xkcd comic about girls being bad at math (https://xkcd.com/385/). If one self-described feminist behaves poorly, you'd probably blame that on her personally, instead of writing off all feminists (and feminism, at the same time).
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And how long will that last? And there's a presumption here that businesses with lots of IPs that got in early aren't already selling them for fun and profit. They, such as Nortel, already are.
Depends on the country really...in Switzerland you can be on the hook for a lot more than in the states, where breaking a lease typically only loses your deposit.
Well really at the expense of the airlines right?
With solar on the roof, I'm putting power onto the grid during those peak times. Maybe if they paid for more peak power, more people would put on solar, which would provide peak output when AC is most needed.

Seems less invasive than tracking when I tend to be home or not home. Next up, they'll track where I'm driving and only turn on the heat/AC when I appear to be heading home. I wonder who else would find that kind of info useful.
Wealth is not a bulk of copper. It's the ability to command a productive force. Resources are only one necessary component and definitely not a sufficient one. Humans have had all the resources of this planet for hundreds of thousands of years and lived most of this time in deep penury.

Also, the ability to do whatever one wants with the resources left is not the same as the ability to do the productive thing.

EDIT:

So once Elysium flies away the remaining population will likely have to make do without the productive forces that made Elysium rich in the first place. I guess over time people will find out how to rebuild such productive forces and in the process the society will stratify again. Ultimately Elysium II flies away and the cycle repeats.

(Note: or maybe we can have an inclusive economy where everyone has a stake and contribution)
I have not read that book, but I will throw this in for the sake of counterargument. That said, I don't believe anyone is saying cancer is "just" an effect of environment.

"Cancer is caused by both internal factors (such as inherited mutations, hormones, and immune conditions) and environmental/acquired factors (such as tobacco, diet, radiation, and infectious organisms). The link between diet and cancer is revealed by the large variation in rates of specific cancers in various countries and by the observed changes in the incidence of cancer in migrating. For example, Asians have been shown to have a 25 times lower incidence of prostate cancer and a ten times lower incidence of breast cancer than do residents of Western countries, and the rates for these cancers increase substantially after Asians migrate to the West."

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2515569/
> It's open for debate which is better.

Which is same debate as between onclick and addEventListener only with slightly less verbose syntax on both sides of the debate and some implicit scoping that makes it possible.
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I own an ipad and I disdain the thing. It's useful when it's useful, but the painful input makes it something I can't use regularly. I want to, but the input is just too painful for me. I've been considering purchasing a bluetooth keyboard for it for years specifically because I want it to be more useful for me.

When the Surface first came out, I thought "MS has it right, that is what I want". Reading your comment reinforces my idea that they went in the right direction, and I may start considering a purchase.
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I wholly believe there are hundreds of thousands of researchers who would happily spend their lives in poverty researching cures. The difficulty is that you can't research a cure to anything that's still uncured in a garage with the money you make begging on the street, or manufacture whatever cures you do discover.

The corporations who have billions and billions to spend on it, they need a profit motive to give someone a research budget. It's why they have the billions and billions.

It's not the only system imaginable, but it's the one we got.
Sure, until you decide to move. Then you'd have to pay market prices. Rent control, in San Francisco at least, is an exception that favors the renter and "punishes" the landlord. Even though the owner can't increase their current tenant's rent, the owner is still making an increase on equity due to the home's value increasing.
That... was quite odd. And mildly entertaining.
Cancer is a diverse phenomena (even within a single type) but there are lots of similarities in how cells evade programmed cell death or how tumors feed themselves that could be targets for wide reaching therapy. the idea that we've identified meaningfully separate types of cancers may be the flawed one...it is usually just based on where the cancer occurs not how it works or looks ona genetic level and other classifications may be possible.
Is there a vetted list of "good" apps for Android for basic tasks?

Like let's say I'm coming from iOS and now I have a million choices of EVERYTHING that used to be stock, like what SMS App do I go with?
"If you’re a technology professional and have no idea what any of this means, we suggest you start your training by placing an order here."

Step 1: Give us your money.
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Get it!
Who would have thought a specialized tool would be better at it's own domain that a general purpose programming language...
Competition has really heated up since the last time I checked out Fab.

It strikes me that this news is the first time I've heard about what Fab was up to in a long time. I can't really think of anything that would make me go "oh...let me go check out fab.com and see if they have it". This is unlike groupon which seems to have spent an ungodly amount of money (in a good way) in marketing and positioning.
AIs have been made for Go and they aren't extraordinarily complicated. They can beat most humans.

It's pretty widely believed that humans are Turing equivalent, and there is no evidence at all to suggest we aren't. Certainly humans can't determine halting for all possible programs and inputs. And we run on physics which as far as I know is Turing equivalent.
Totally thought this was a semiconductor fab layoff and was utterly perplexed by the NYC location. "Fabulous" makes more sense.
It seems like R is built by and for scientists, it's not at all surprising that programmers aren't thrilled with it entirely.

It's a good thing to have different tools specialized to people who wear different hats.
lauradhamilton said Metafilter's content was thin, not that it was bad or wasn't great.

If you answer everything in two sentences, Google is still likely to punish you for it even if those are ideal answers. They punish thin content even if it's supposedly great.
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when i was using R a few years ago, a number of the packages i was most fond of were themselves at least partially implemented in C++ / Fortran.

e.g.

`gbm` is pretty much a C++ project.

`randomForest` now appears to contain a fair bit of R code, but it still has the (original?) fortran routines for tree construction, as well as C code wrapping the fortran.

https://github.com/harrysouthworth/gbm
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/randomForest/index.ht...
The IPCC is supposed to summarize the state of the existing literature, but it was born political, tends to attracts eco-activists of all sorts and relies more than it should on "grey literature" - unrefereed "reports" written by ecological organizations. The IPCC also to some degree generates the consensus it is supposed to be merely reporting on, in that the lead authors have been known to push specific articles into print supporting "their side" of things and delay articles supporting "the other side" with IPCC deadlines in mind so that their side gets the last word. That's one part of the process where excess alarmism gets to creep in. On the other side, your sources are correct that the result then gets massaged into acceptability. The "summary for policymakers" in particular is the result of political compromises - various country's representatives argue about it and then the rest of the document in some cases gets rewritten to reflect what the summary says, leaving nobody happy.

Nonetheless, the IPCC documents aren't terrible and do tend to be worth reading if you really want to know what's going on.

On being "past skepticism": The most credible skeptics tend to be "lukewarmers". They believe reality is a bit more complicated and uncertain than has been portrayed, they tend to suspect climate sensitivity is a lot lower than the models predict and they tend to be suspicious of doomsday claims generally. But almost nobody at this point doubts "CO2 is a greenhouse gas" or that the planet has warmed, so all those "97% agree!" articles miss the point - the skeptics "agree" too.

A couple good blogs for credible "skeptical" views are:
http://judithcurry.com/
http://climateaudit.org/

And a good blog for credible "alarmist" views is:
http://www.realclimate.org/

(the most popular source for skeptical views is probably http://wattsupwiththat.com and the most popular source for alarmist views is probably skepticalscience. Those sites are indeed more readable and approachable, but the extra readability in both cases comes at the cost of (1) oversimplification of main posts, (2) attracting much dumber comments. So browse those sort of site with care and don't believe what you read there without checking it. )
It partially compensates by cooling the house down before peak. Also, you can override it at any time and it will learn what you want. The point is to find ways to cut back that don't affect comfort.
Is "the robot" just "other humans"?
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Couldn't be, the human always goes first.
>While constructive comparisons help make software better, it is hardly ever productive to talk down on other open source projects.

Are you saying this in support of a blog post with the title, "R beats Python, R beats Julia, Anyone else wanna challenge R? (matloff.wordpress.com)"?
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So they could recall most of Amazon's IPs due to lack of SSL? Fun to watch!
How is it obvious that what happened to Metafilter isn't right? I'm inclined to be sympathetic when any non-spammy site is hit by a Google penalty, but what's the basis used for determining that Metafilter is deserving of a particularly high ranking above where it's at right now?

The only thing I've seen are a few opinions stating that Metafilter is great. That doesn't make it so to the majority of web users.
LTE is in large part about IPv6 (with the aim of using the PS IPv6 net to move all audio/video longer-term), often with carrier-level NAT for IPv4, simply because unlike the incumbent telecos, many mobile operators simply don't have many IPv4 addresses and there isn't the pushback against carrier-level NAT on mobile.
I think expecting a male to put himself at personal risk for a women who won't put herself at personal risk is unfair.

We have no context, we don't know if the person in question doing the injustice was superior in the company, or not. All we know is person A did something bad to person B, and person C did nothing about it.

Why shouldn't we ask my person B did nothing either?
GO Code from Alex Pigot is probably the best known one: http://www.gocode.ie/
According to this tool, Belgium would have the highest IPv6 adoption in the world. Happy to live there !
Well for one thing, they don't accept credit cards without giving you a really, really hard time about it.
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It's hard to evalutate this comparison because the original Julia code isn't posted – who knows if it was well written or not? However, the same vectorization approach presented in R can also be used in Julia (or Python or Matlab):

julia> rw(n) = cumsum(2randbool(n) .- 1)

julia> @time rw(1000000)
elapsed time: 0.02370671 seconds (25125400 bytes allocated)
1000000-element Array{Int64,1}:
1
2
1
⋮
-314
-313
-314

Since there's no timings or comparison code in the article, we can't really compare performance beyond this. There is, however, this statement:

> This vectorized R code turned out to be much faster than the Julia code – more than 1000 times faster, in fact, in the case of simulation 1000000 steps. For 100000000 steps, Julia actually is much faster than R, but the point is that the claims made about Julia’s speed advantage are really overblown.

It's a little odd to argue that "it’s very unlikely that ... Julia will become more popular than R among data scientists" while completely dismissing Julia being "much faster than R" for bigger problems. This only makes sense if one assumes that addressing bigger problems is not of increasing importance in data science – which seems counterfactual, to say the least.

"R’s speedy vectorization features" mentioned in the article are not actually features – they are limitations. In R (and Python and Matlab), you have to write vectorized code because using a for loop is slow. In Julia, you can choose which approach is better for you and for the problem at hand. Want to write vectorized code? Not a problem. Want to use a for loop? Also not a problem. Want to use recursion? Yes, even that is ok.

I also find it interesting that the poster of this article is self-described as an "octave core dev" ;-)
I've always felt Priceonomics is gaming HN. How does this post have 28 upvotes and no comments (other than mine)?

And what does tug of war fatalities have to do with Hacker News? Why not a story about people dying from vending machines falling over on them? (7 on average per year)
Why would you disable the context menu? For something so simple, this application's front-end seems incredibly over-complicated.
Not a zero sum game though (although I do realize this is hackernews :). addEventListener is sometimes strictly better than using jsaction. i.e. it supports removing event listeners. That is fine. Right tool for the job.

onclick-like functionality is coming back to frameworks. Angular and Polymer both have variations of what jsaction provides as a single-purpose library. It is sometimes just much nicer to bind stuff together directly.
The purpose of the exercise was only partly to destroy any potential storage, but also to intimidate the Guardian. Having an air of fake mystery to irrational actions just adds to the effect.

If the whole thing was too easy the capacity for that intimidation would have been greatly reduced, and leaving it hanging allows paranoid people to latch on to stuff while giving GCHQ the air of having preserved some secrets, when their instructions were probably get rid of certain components, for sure, but randomly do some other stuff for confusion to cover exactly what it was we did have to get rid of.
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As did I. I was getting very worried about the next two nodes from IBM and Global Foundries. ;-)
Certainly in most (all) of Europe (even in places with relatively weak, by European standards, tenancy agreements like the UK!) nobody except the tenant can enter the property unless advance notice is given or in case of emergency (e.g., if a pipe bursts, the landlord is entitled to repair it without having to give advance notice).
Yes, this really clarifies how this may be misplaced paranoia. While I won't ever completely discount extreme paranoia when it comes to government spy agencies, I think this is a distraction from more relevant issues.

"On Saturday 20 July 2013, in the basement of the Guardian's office in Kings Cross, London, watched by two GCHQ technicians, Guardian editors destroyed hard drives and memory cards on which encrypted files leaked by Edward Snowden had been stored."

GCHQ was merely observing to see that the Guardian staff were cooperating. Instructing journalists to remove their 'special storage chips' while leaving others intact would be a breach of operational security. This event was more of a PR move because GCHQ, the NSA, and others had no idea what was going on and had to be seen "doing something", even if it was pointless, absurd, and violated the free speech rights of the newspaper and journalists.
Well, that's what he was calling for, for people on HN to be more rational and critical about their gut response.
Is W3W dead? All this past tense has me curious now. Surely a unique approach.
Small project that may be of interest to those involved in this discussion: https://github.com/brandtg/alicia

Kind of "eventually monotonic" distributed auto-increment keys. Your mileage may vary.
Yup, totally thought that this was an IBM related thing, and that the "C" part of NYC was a typo!
I am a renter as well but we have pretty strict rental agreement regarding these kinds of things. The owner is not even allowed to enter the property without my prior permission or a certain amount of notice.

When you are paying for someone else's house, please do not be afraid to protect yourself with a proper, binding rental-agreement/contract.

Edit: I live in Canada incase that makes a difference.
Obfusticators are pretty different from FHE. Instruction based obfustication takes common instructions like mov eax, 0xff and replaces them with more complex instructions that do the same thing but in a very indirect way while other common methods include mostly name mangling, compression, and encryption. To modify the code or dump it, you need the unpacker to somehow decrypt the code and load it into memory.

The point of FHE, however, is to encrypt private data to send it to a third party to perform operations on that data without that third party having the keys necessary to decrypt the data (and thus see what it is). With FHE, the third party can modify the data but must then send the encrypted result back to the client who then uses the original keys to decrypt the result and look at it. The client can't see exactly which operations were performed and the third party can't see the original data.

I don't know if a FHE based interpreter is possible but since you need to have the original keys to read from an FHE payload, I don't think so.
I have siblings with kids (and iPads) so this looks like a perfect timeline for a Christmas present...but it's never a good sign when you try to give someone money and they won't take your CC because they're doing validation wrong.

-_-
By definition growth is not sustainable. That's why every object has a maximum physical size limit. Just because something is growing doesn't mean it is sustainable. But in an ecosphere where userbase size is the metric, sustainability is just a literatural reference.
> The simple reason why they do not give smaller blocks is the VPS company themselves are assigned a minimum of /64 for network purposes. That means they have 4 billion blocks of 4 billion IPs so why be stingy :)

Well, you know, they might end up having half the population of the planet buying servers, and then they'll be sorry they didn't give out smaller alotments...
Who was that guy with that bigass beard was? You know, the one everyone in tech takes lightly and treats as the butt of the joke? He keeps owning your asses as you keep ignoring him.

The one who advocates open hardware. You know.
This seems like a more verbose version of Markdown :\ Maybe the only advantage is displaying code, but everything else is either equal to or more verbose than Markdown.

EDIT: I do like the link syntax, though.
Sometimes I am really glad that Bootstrap exists.
Thanks for the reply. The "outsource your job search" link looks interesting and helpful. I did not know about that option before and might try using it now.
Unless you're somehow securing multi-year leases, that's a cost that is passing on to you as well.

You also need to factor in the value of negative impacts of renting. When you have kids, school selection is driven by location -- and a lease is more ephemeral than a mortgage. You also always need to deal with landlords, who can be good or bad, and often cannot make changes to the property that you would like.
What about exercise? I tried this, but I exercise 3-5 times a week and I go hard, so I sweat a lot. On the fourth day I was ok, except for my armpits, so I went back to showering.
The first example they mention are browsers- not the kind of application you typically run in Docker.
Are you sure? An up-front payout has a time-value preference, of course.
> community where discussions usually end up in someone getting told what they did was obviously wrong.

Fascinating how that problem never appears in the programming community. How we never have a situation where a user is told that they are obviously wrong. /end snark.

Having said that, I sympathize with where you are coming from. However, you have to realize a few things:

1. R comes from a community designed to create things that are correct, a community where data is typically cleaned and small enough that sophisticated mathematical models exist. Most large data set + large sophisticated models problems can be broken down into test in R and then write C++ code.

2. On the cryptic function names, there is an element of inspiration from Mathematical symbology, it makes it easier to take a proof and turn into code.

3. Yeah, I got nothing on the data types. They confuse me as fuck as well.

4. R has ggplot2. This is amazing. I am a firm believer that a data scientist is nothing if they can't visualize their data. And yet, nothing comes close to ggplot2. This comes from a guy who will grab an ML engineer and talk their head off on the joys of d3.

Now having said that, I do hope for another great language to emerge. The closest for me has been Matlab, second best numpy. Somehow a paid software really fucking incentivizes people to clean their shit and make a solid product. (Well solid enough for my purposes).
They appear to be making numerous basic SEO mistakes.

For example their links don't have nofollow on them, when sites such as Stack Overflow (Rap Genius, Quora, etc) do.

That one change alone would likely boost their rankings significantly.
This indiegogo campaign launched 2 days ago is doing a "Nest for split A/Cs":
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Hopefully they can help the rest of the world become more energy efficient. Thermostats are not common outside the US.
Definitely. We actually designed something like that, but due to time constraints weren’t able to ship it (yet). One complication is that a reasonable range for a given variable can depend on other variables. But hopefully we’ll figure it out.

And thank you!