skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What I'm interested in is whether Americans:

1. Care.

2. Care enough to change it.

3. Actually can change it.

My personal belief is that all three are no."

I'm not Muslim but those questions scare me. What if we fail?

For what it's worth, many civil rights movements faced the same obstacles and persevered. Consider how black leaders felt, how LGBT leaders felt: They were advocating for minorities whom it was politically and socially acceptable to openly despise.

Here's Martin Luther King writing from jail:

"First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

Somehow it turned around; I don't know how it happens. Look at the tidal wave for gay rights recently.
It's still challenging to predict the outcome of a baseball game. Sabermetrics can project the outcome of a 162-game season, but a playoff series is too small of a sample size. Lewis stresses this in Moneyball.
Good and (complex) question. Essentially, the person deciding or purchasing technology in a hospital (an IT administrator) is not the person seeing patients (the doctor). They often work in completely different buildings and no have overlapping experience.

My bad incorrectly submitting.
When I first shadowed on a post-op floor in Detroit, I was shocked to see how much information nurses had to copy by hand during a shift change. Even new medicine orders and drug administration schedules were being penciled into the margins of already-crammed pages.
I would argue that not all those with the required traits for committing crimes do not actually go on to committing those crimes, so it would be wrong to preemptively punish them. Instead we should offer something like therapy to help them better control their instincts.
have you worked with hardware? I think i myself can sniff out a motherboard :) And dogs are very useful in detecting C4 for example, and i don't see why they can't detect various chemical stuff going into electronic components.
I wonder how this is different from other similar services, for example milanuncios has heaps of private homes available for letting (or subletting) also in Catalonia. In my experience both work the same, airbnb feels more trustworthy and is easier to use, milanuncios has wider selection. Anyone know the law in question? In hotels the accommodation tax was, I think, 50 cents per adult guest, something that could probably easily be factored in airbnb's service.
Being a god in C++ won't give you anything regarding foreign paradigms. Are you familiar with other FP languages such as ML, Miranda or even Lisp ? More than syntax it's the semantics that differs a lot. Laziness, Immutability...
Being safer in dynamic languages
The problem is, they are helping people break the law (the fine is for advertising illegal touristic rents) If someone rents a place repeatedly (for vacationing) they need a permit (which includes checking the place for safety measures, specially for the tenant) as well as paying another type of taxes. Likewise for longer than 30 days renting: for this the place has to be a for-rent place, registered somewhere else. The government is just asking AirBnb to follow the law, advertising only legal places that have their stuff in-place.

Not only that, but it's hard to know if AirBnb hosts are declaring their taxes properly (AirBnb could enforce this, though.)

As a Spaniard, I like seeing some disruption in areas that need it, and promoting leasing/rentings definitely needs it. But as a freelancer who pays quite a lot in taxes, it boils my blood that so many people (including most government officials, granted) try to game the system.

As for the quote, I can't find it anywhere in local sources, neither did I hear it yesterday when the officials appeared on news. So, it's probably a writer error, meant to be and.
Conv Nets: A Modular Perspective
Deslide: view web slideshows as a single page
What's the easiest way to learn about and work towards changing/improving these places as an individual?
> Lots of people lost money. Maybe it was done on purpose? The models I mean. Cause I bet someone made a fortune. Someone short-selling the game?

The considerable amount of collusion required across fifa, the teams and players, multiple publishing industries, organizations, countries and cultures to have sports betting and publications like fivethirtyeight make shit up (to the point that they created a very detailed scoring system for their predictions, all for the purpose of lying about a lop sided 7-1 game) would have to be considerably large.

I think the the better, and frankly incredibly blindingly obvious, way to look at this is that this was just an unusual game that nobody expected and you can maybe take a break today from being suspicious about the whole world being manipulated by a nefarious few who conspire to create every fucking notable turn in history to screw you or someone else over.
After a 12-hour stay in the ICU a couple of years ago, this doesn't surprise me in the least. I was given a different patient's discharge papers by mistake, and when I got all the records of stay for reference afterwards some of the clinician's reports were utterly illegible. I guess this is why I ended up answering the same medical background questions over and over again during the night.

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This looks like a great tool How are you going to deal with the inevitable hurdles of HIPPA compliance? (HIPPA = patient privacy laws in the US, for people who don't know).
Brazil looked like a pack of nincompoops scurrying around without sense. Well deserved win for Germany!
He says "if I can do it, so can you" - he had a doctorate at age 23, which is not something most people can do, even if they have the intelligence and drive. Very interesting person for sure.
There's also miTLS http://www.mitls.org/wsgi/home - a verified reference implementation of TLS written in F#
I've seen one senior engineer at a large firm start using Atlassian in 08. He then recruited his team to use it, then the division (at 4k or so per year), then he made it his primary "chief developer" role to customize Atlassian products for the company, until he just left the company because he was making too much money building widgets for the Atlassian marketplace. It was impressive. As far as I know he wasn't compensated in the beginning - he just really liked their products and how well they integrated with each-other to make deployments safer and developers less likely to need supervision by him.
Hm, geocaching TNG anyone?
I find that significant use of an Apple iPhone or iPad fore most people I meet is web browsing, email, SMS and phone usage. All which is outside the Apple ecosystem.

I can not figure out how we are going to achieve a healthy open ecosystem of apps with significant applications without a major malware problem. I'd be interested to see how that would work.
The End of Bionic
I was hoping to find more examples of application-level changes, where a developer is undecided between 2 (or more) data structure(s) or data representations and decides to swap back and forth at runtime between both.

The examples you provide are very interesting, but they are what I like to call "internal", i.e., the user is not necessarily aware of these changes.
Show HN: ES6 quasi-literals for JSX
As I commented below, the law says that a private place (like my home) can't be repeatedly rented without being registered as a home (full home) for rent. Also, separate bedrooms can't be legally rented (unless the full home is rented): it's either full house or nothing (personally I find it rather stupid a bedroom can't be rented legally, but anyway.) Likewise for stays longer than 30 days. It's not a matter of acomodation tax, is that homes (except those registered as tourist apartments, which implies the full house) are outside the laws.
Note that submissions containing NSA in the title receive a super penalty by default. (including this one)

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
> what also makes me horribly nervous is that when talking to muslims that are clearly well integrated, at work, or when going out. I can't get them to condemn terrorist behaviour.

This sounds like a broad generalization; certainly I've heard people who are Muslim condemn this behavior. In fact the Sunni locals condemned and turned against these very people during the U.S. occupation.

Consider also how many Catholics openly condemn the Catholic Church's child abuse, how many Jews condemn Israel's excesses, or how many Americans condemn an act of war based on a lie that killed over 100,000 Iraqis, or torture or indefinite incarceration without trial (or any war crime; the people who exposed the My Lai Massacre were widely condemned in the United States), or the unrestrained invasion of privacy of any person outside the United States? Not many people will openly condemn their own group, not wanting to air dirty laundry or appear disloyal.
Given a sufficiently high number of input parameters (huge in this study) and a sufficiently small test group (tiny, in comparison to number of parameters in this study), any classifier black-box approach will find some correlation in any arbitrary condition.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2009/09/16/fm...
For me, the most interesting part of Chaos is that it is deterministic.
Not really. No. And that's the problem! You're right that semantics are what make the languages truly different. However it is literally impossible to even begin to understand semantics if you don't know the syntax. That's what is so frustrating. It might as well be written in Kanji. That's how meaningless it is to me and, I believe, most programmers.
110 years after the adoption of the second amendment, the US 'militia' was defined as 'all men up to the age of 49'. 'Well-regulated' also means healthy and in good order, in the context of the time. This would suggest that all adult American males (up to 49) should engage in regular training to work as militia units - a militia made up of whatever random yahoos show up with no training is not "well-regulated", using either the modern or antique meanings of the term.
Thanks for the reply. Some good stuff there. Very meaty and it's gonna take time plus a few read through a to chew through it all. Thanks!
In a lot of ways, nurses have it even worse. They're constantly on the front lines they lose so much time in having to rewrite the same information over and over again.
People are only infectious after the rash appears, and remain infectious for about 2 weeks. Transmission usually requires prolonged face-to-face contact with an infected person. Prior to the rash appearing, the infected person will feel lethargic and ill, and will likely take to bed.

So if there were a potent enough exposure event, it would be fairly easy to recognize and contain. Smallpox wouldn't make a very effective biological weapon (except for psychological effect).
In a more positive direction, the state can provide those at risk with counseling and other mental health services to try to prevent the predicted scenario.

A similar idea was attempted in Chicago with those on the other side of this: those with high risk of being homicide victims.

An account of a boy in the program here: http://harpers.org/archive/2014/03/chronicle-of-a-death-fore...

Unfortunately the story ends tragically for him, but the idea seems promising.
European Effort for Computer-Simulated Brain Draws Fire
Good grief! False information and blind hatred much?
Another advantage of Erlang's unconventional syntax, as well as its single-binding variables, is that it doesn't look like a typical imperative language. Because of this, I'm not as tempted to think in imperative terms when programming in Erlang. That having been said, I do like Elixir's string-handling functions.
> I understand it's normal usage syntax very well.

You understand C++ syntax because you're familiar with it, not because it is "normal" in any way.
just pointing out that the "success" of your model depends heavily on how you choose your evaluation criteria. to me, 87% correctly classified seems irrelevant because you can just change the distribution of murderers and non murders and your model would fail. it seems more interesting to me to focus on, say, the rate the model successfully classifies murders.
All the other websites work well for me on Firefox. Either I'll have to switch browsers for one site, or switch websites ...
> So the US media clings to their same old models and is "shocked" when an upset occurs. And then they usually search so fast for a reason, they miss the real reason in the process. Hollywood has been missing the mark too. They also need to throw out their models and start over. BADLY.

This seems to assume that the US media is interested in having an accurate model of reality. I think it's far more reasonable to assume that the US media is driven by self interest, and 'shocks' and 'upsets' are part of what consumers are interested in. Speedy answers, not accurate answers. The model works for them.

To quote Steve Jobs from a Wired interview in 1996:

"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."
> The second school of thought ended up winning in the Muslim world because it exalted the Will of God as ultimate and without competition.

Not really. This is a complex philosophical and religious topic, and it is not as black and white as was presented in your post. There is no single view that dominates the Islamic landscape as you mentioned.
A new motherboard which is still outgassing, definitely. But the kind of thing they want to find - a well-aged microSD card - which is all chip packaging and doesn't even have a circuit board?

My friends who do hardware RE and occasional chip forensics generally have to dissolve that stuff (with happy fun acids that I don't particularly want to handle, like fuming nitric acid - I don't know which particular one, but I know it tends to be hypergolic - and hydrofloric acid, which my dad was familiar enough with and I never want to be friends with) before gas chromatography to identify it, because they wouldn't get anything if it had a magic smell and they just put it in there! Their reaction at this story when it was over on Slashdot was to laugh and wonder if they could replace the acids with dog slobber.
This is religious flamewar concern trolling. Please do not attack entire classes of people on Hacker News and please do not post anything like this again.
Checkout http://ars.io/ - it does this and incorporates many more profiles as well as LinkedIn.
Without question it is a valuable skill.

In academic research it is especially important, and made more difficult by the complexity of the subject matter. The most successful researchers can succinctly explain their work (problem, significance, methodology and findings) to a layman. That's how you get funding. This also applies to startup founders seeking investors.
The problem with the export driven economy is we can't all be net exporters. At some point your export driven economy will be undermined by neighbors with cheaper labor.
i cannot snyc my pocket
It would be of the huge benefit of all societies that the religions also disavow the inhumane ideas and practices appearing in their holy texts. See the examples with the exact references in my other comment here.

The problems exist and are real even if it's hard to talk about them.
Please don't. Religious flamewars are not ok on Hacker News.
Vaguely Rude Place Names Of The World
Has anyone read "The Foundation" by Asimov?
Technically it takes 60 days. Not sure from what basis. I would assume that 60 days countdown only starts on the 2nd or 3rd day, so that would make it 63 days.
Title only makes sense if you accept the presupposition that Google has such a responsibility. Read: "Google's Growing Silence"
You can create, share and challenge others with your Python coding games
I think the take away is not "do not optimise at all ever"
it's about not just optimising your code, but optimise the time you spend optimising it. Do not spend 2 weeks micro-optimising a loop that, in reality, has no effect on the end user's experience, and ultimately makes the code base just much more difficult to maintain.

What you want to do is try to get most of your FINITE and EXPENSIVE development time on optimising things that actually matter to user experience.
I was playing with the gauges in the simulator, and noticed certain values will create a system where it's possible for the lower pendulum to flip full-circle around the upper. Other parameters will create a system where that is clearly impossible. But there are some where it seems like it might be just barely possible for the lower to complete the loop.

I assume you can plot the y-axis position of the pendulums over time easily enough, and detect cross-overs... How would you discover the set of inputs where cross-overs will happen, but most infrequently?
75% of homicide perpetrators identified correctly (15/20) + 82% of non-homicide perpetrators identified correctly (111/135) is a total classification accuracy of 81% (126/155) for the procedure.

But if we just assume that everyone is in the non-homicide group (which is what "innocent until proven guilty" has us do anyway), then that gives us a total classification accuracy of (135/155) 85% for the same sample set. That is, "innocent until proven guilty" is notably more accurate than the system which is being proposed here, and infinitely less likely to deliver a false positive result.
The surprising ones I found:

Butthole Lane, Shepshed, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE12 9BN, UK

Fanny Ho, Lancashire, United Kingdom

The Cock Of Arran, Scotland, United Kingdom

Wankers Corner Saloon and Cafe, Wilsonville, Oregon, United States

Felch, Michigan (Dickinson), United States

Surprising because these are in an English speaking country, and you'd think these way ruder ones would have had their names changed already.
It generally takes more than 60 days. I think it should be within 90 days ideally but I have seen it go till 100+ so I don't think you need to panic.

Just keep checking the status online and you should see it change in about 2 weeks.
Isn't the real problem a lack of good micro-payment systems? I think the vast majority of readers would be happy to pay 10 cents or 50 cents for an article, if it didn't take $20 of their time to do it (e.g., create account, login, enter credit card, etc.). Look at how many people happily paid for downloading music once it was made easy enough (i.e., via iTunes).

What ever happened to micro-payments, which once were the next big thing?
The evolving software life cycle ecosystem
> Islamic jurisprudence eventually regularized the practice of conquest...

It did not regularize anything. That notion does not carry any weight, it was an attempt by some scholars to "model" the landscape, without backing by the Quran or Hadith, hence, not based in Islam proper.
I think the key numbers to compare in a study like this are the number of positive labels (in this case, homicide offenders) vs. the number of variables in the model. With n positive labels and n variables, you can almost always find a set of weights that achieve high accuracy. (That applies even though they're using cross-validation -- I suspect the experimenter tried multiple treatments, so it's very easy to trick oneself into believing you've found "the" model.)

For the control set, the model gets 82% accuracy, vs 87% if they had simply classified everybody as a non-murderer. That suggests mild over-fitting to me.

The other two controls are interesting, especially the one trying to match demographic variables, but the sample sizes (n=20, n=21) are too small IMO to conclude much, and I don't think you can pool the control groups since they're drawn from different populations.

That's not to say their conclusions are wrong. But studies on small sample sizes produce spurious results all the time.

The flip side of that observation is that large-scale machine learning techniques applied to relatively "shallow" data sets might produce some very surprising results.
I wonder if we can map every intermediate?

Obviously Certificate Transparency (or any public audit log to some extent, really) helps a bunch with this sort of thing.
JavaScript Interview Ios App 1.2
Hw Engineer to SW Engineer switch
Hi guys,
I stumbled onto this site tonight when browsing through some questions I head and thought this was a good place to throw this question.

I worked as a Front End HW engineer for one of the largest semi conductor companies for 10 years.
I left to start my own small business in another field 4.5 years ago. Haven't coded a single line since then.

Now I'm itching to get back into engineering. I live in SF and thinking about switching to SW engineering.

Why SW? Well even though I was a HW engineer, in my previous HW engineer job we would pretty much develop the environment to test the software model of the chip, write test plans/tests, debug regressions and try to find bugs. Bugs are either a RTL bug or environment bug. I'd say 80% of the job was SW engineering.

How hard do you think the transition and job finding would be?

In the past owned full environments for the very important chips, down the line the projects got bigger, owned many parts of the environment for the development and testing teams to use. Usually there was some base code already in these environments from our reuse methodology.

Started w/ PERL, last 5 years it was mostly C++. Most of this was w/o opening a single book.

I'm also thinking of taking some online classes in Java, Android and a few others prolly through pluralsight.

What do you think about a this new challenge?
Thanks in advance!
MIT develops finger-worn, realtime text reading device for blind
I love commenting on neuroimage research after reading the fantastic:

"Ten ironic rules for non-statistical reviewers." Neuroimage 61.4 http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Ten%20ironic%20rules%20fo...
While 75% of homicide defendants may have this defect, the opposite is almost certainly not true (that 75% of people with this defect will commit homicide). This type of research is fascinating, but since we have no way to treat such a condition, its only purpose would be to attempt to identify potential murderers. And that is a very slippery slope (see Minority Report).
It doesn't do anything. There is a pretty basic landing page with some random footer links, but nothing else. Am I missing something?
It's impossible to overstate this problem. Plentiful oil (or diamonds, or whatever) means 15% of the population can control the other 85% because they have modern weaponry and the money to buy off potential threats.

If your country doesn't have easily convertable (to cash) resources, you have to give the average guy some incentive to support you.