skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does one prove this "Mediocrity Principle"? "Specialness" is in the realm of philosophy and from that perspective, this principle just comes across as a mellow form of nihilism. Telling students to filter all of science through the "we're not special" lens just biases them so that if there actually is something special, they will be blind to it.
Might I suggest as an alternative the "Keep an Open Mind Principle"?
Damage is cumulative. Arguing over who did the most damage is not likely to bring about anything but hatred, resentment and more damage.

That is essentially what X did. King offered unity, healing and a better future.
You're comparing different things there: Republican is both the noun and adjective form, while Democrat is only the noun form. "Clinton is a Democrat" and "Bush is a Republican", but "Obama was the 2000 Democratic candidate" vs. "Dole was the 1996 Republican candidate".

You could try to adjust for that by comparing Republican vs. the sum of Democratic+Democrat, but that also pulls in unrelated uses of both terms: "democratic reforms in $countryname" and "Irish republicans", especially since it isn't case-sensitive. Which then probably overcounts "democratic", because it's used in that non-US-party sense more than "republican" is.

In general this kind of thing makes it very tricky to conclude things from pure word or n-gram frequency counts, since without more semantic annotation there are a ton of confounding issues.
It supports it for historical reasons but you should not use it. Here is the recommended configuration:

https://help.riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp...
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Today, I accidentally found out Keeper Security has a new feature called 'Secure File Storage'. I thought it's free, but when I went to active it, oooooh! I have to pay $9.99/year. I closed the windows, couple of minutes later I got an email from Keeper Security website that says 'We would like to give you a 25% discount if you order now.'.
This is quite interesting though an exact match. I will follow more news on this and w3c annotations.
I don't really understand what is being argued. Two statements are made:

> A: The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special.

> B: Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws.

The argument being that B implies A.

First this is self-contradictory: B implies B and nothing more.

What does he mean by "special". Are we talking about some mushy, subjective definition of "special". If that's the case, then it's a moot point. By that definition you're as special as someone thinks you are, including yourself. If your mom thinks you're special, you're special. That's what subjective means.

If that's not the case, by special, does he mean highly unlikely, finite, or unique? -- Math is infinite and governed by sets of universal rules, yet there are many unique ("special") mathematical patterns.

In this case, we don't know if we're special or unlikely because we don't know what the odds of us existing are. We don't know how common or uncommon intelligent life is.

"But intelligent life is not special, even if it were uncommon, because it's governed by the same universal laws as unintelligent dead matter."

Then, if our definition of special is not subjective, and uniqueness or unlikelihood does not imply specialness, then what is the definition of special that we're using here?

Or does he mean "governed by intent" (of a deity or purposeful universe). Now we've got a new problem, which is defining what intent is, and if there even is such a thing (which, if there isn't, the whole point is moot again).
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Just because there are higher organizational levels of "professionalism" does not mean that it is reasonable to go there for our profession. Those higher organizational levels should be taken when there is a clear need for them. They should not be taken just because we feel we exist long enough.
If you graph "republicans" and "democrats", the graphs are almost identical.
[just your first question] I don't think it necessarily implies an internal language, as crows, not being mammals, have a different brain structure. Specifically, they lack a neocortex. They instead have an independently evolved higher brain structure called a hyperpallium. Corvids (including crows) have the largest of these, amongst birds. Kinda, the apes of the bird world.

So it's possible the relevant processing centers are not separate in them, as they are in mammals, and do not need an internal language to bridge them. Therefore, while it's possible they do have the same problem and solution as us, this experiment doesn't imply it.

I wonder if there's a way to test which it is? e.g. something analogous the interfering with this internal language in humans that a commentor mentioned.
Counterpoint - humans are very much not mediocre, we really are special. No other species is as advanced as us, no other species is as capable as us and no other species is as awesome as us.

We may one day discover intelligent alien life, until then the blue planet really is special. Okay it may not look like much, but looks can be deceiving.
I hope network infrastructure gets advances more quickly so hotels with lower speeds will realize they have fallen behind.
Don't aim to learn everything. Learn to be productive and get to the point where you do things you do fast enough. Vim itself has enormous amount of functionality, so it is useful to read vim reference manual. It comes with one and you can get one in PDF as well here:

ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/doc/book/vimbook-OPL.pdf

Also read entire exhaustive help at least once so you get the idea of what is available (it can be done in one weekend, don't try to memorize too much just familiarize yourself with content, then later when you wonder how would you do that in Vim you will remember you read something about that once).

Vim has really great indexed help that you can access directly:

:h
:h index
:h <topic>

and there is also grep for help to search entire help for matches

:helpgrep <search_term>

No matter what you do understand that you will get slower before you get faster. At first expect your productivity to go down seriously, because everything will be strange and new. But persist with it and force yourself to use it. Once you get to the nicer bits you probably will not want to go back. After 6 months of regular use, you will not be able to back, every other editor will feel dumb and will frustrate you to no end (be careful when typing email: ESC key dismisses the compose dialog in a lot of email programs without asking you anything :D).

As for UNIX shell and tools, again get a good BASH tutorial book and learn the basics of interactive shell, learn how to do loops, globs etc. The rest is then all about learning individual tools, not shell itself, which is rather small command interpreter. Look in your /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin for commands and read their man pages. Experiment a lot with them and look at examples of creative use of these.

Back in the early 90s I had a year long course in vi (not Vim) but started using Vim on Amiga 500 days, and after 20 years I still come across new commands and ways to do things. This is the beauty of Vim, you grow with it and it never stops to amaze you. But it is a skill that you keep for a lifetime. It's like learning to touch type, you do it once and you type efficiently for the rest of your life. You may get faster or slower at times in your life but you are always faster than hunt and peckers. Same with Vim, dumb editors come and go, but none ever approach the completeness of Vim.
Yeah... getting caught out of evil mode can be scary... WHAT DO I PRESS TO LEAVE... CTRL-F... dafuq?
I wouldn't be so certain. Ebola can be transmitted between pigs and macaques via a respiratory path.

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00...
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Typical white devil.
Aaah, that makes sense. Thanks!
I've asked a lot of hotels about these things, I was usually told that it's the hotel that doesn't want to pay a little extra for the higher speed uplink (by the support), or that they've already exhausted their budget for this year (believe it or not, the budget thing was at Hyatt House once).

I'm not sure that many places would be under a 10-year contract; that sounds like too long a contract (especially if the company wants several grands for support on a regular basis; I think 3 to 5 year contracts would be much more common and reasonable). Even if they are so long, crappy WiFi could as well be ground for breach-of-contract, and they should be able to have the vendor get busy.
Klansmen and corrupt police from the 60s were racist.

So was Malcolm X.

"Usually the black racist has been produced by the white racist. In most cases where you see it, it is the reaction to white racism, and if you analyze it closely, it's not really black racism... If we react to white racism with a violent reaction, to me that's not black racism. If you come to put a rope around my neck and I hang you for it, to me that's not racism. Yours is racism, but my reaction has nothing to do with racism..." - Malcolm X

I disagree with him. I believe that hatred towards a race of people is racism, regardless of origins. When one condemns a group for the actions of a few -- i'll never believe that to be correct. You'll notice that he only mentions a reaction to imminent racism; he, however, did not conduct himself in that manner.

He could be called a 'reactionary racist' because his racism was not entirely fueled by sociocultural norms, but rather as a reaction to the hatred that he experienced from living near racism which was fueled socioculturally. While I agree that the motives for that form of hatred are more pure and just, it's still hatred. The repeated perpetration of hatred only leads to more hatred, due to the non-linear growth of vendettas which require 'settling'.

Just because he was the victim of much hatred doesn't make certain things he said 'non-racist', and as a (loud) public figure, atonement for advocacy of violence and racism in the past does not undo the damage that it caused. The 'nation's teachings' were despicable; how many were affected?

I agree that nearly all of the atrocious stuff he said was during his part with the NOI, but there's no time machine. He still did it. He was never an angel, he just improved with age.

The work he did towards uniting blacks as a singular entity to stand towards oppressions was fantastic, however the inches closer towards utopia that got us were lost to incessant preaching of racial weakening (coffee and creamer allegory..) and 'Truly Africans' movement, just further alienating the country as a whole.

There are better civil leaders to look up to -- some don't even require you to skim past their evil past.
Do people who encrypt their Gmail get targeted ads for
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I think some group shooting down planes with surface-to-air missiles would constitute the definition of some sort of a conspiracy. Just not a very subtle one.
It's very much not. 384 bit RSA is breakable. Here's a decent breakdown of key strengths in different settings:

http://www.keylength.com/en/3/

To get 80 bits of security, a level of security that is probably not acceptable against the global passive adversary, you need an RSA key larger than 1024 bits. 1024 bit RSA is believed to be crackable given a moderate financial investment, but hasn't publicly been cracked yet.
In VS, I use VSVim which lets me actually have both absolute and relative line numbers, but it probably wouldn't be difficult to write a vimbinding to bind enabling/disabling the line numbers plugin to a chord/hotkey.
Thanks for the update - look forward to seeing what you roll out.

One interesting feature to add at some point would be helping companies incorporate their BAA into their user agreement (this is how Practice Fusion does it - http://www.practicefusion.com/pages/user-agreement.html).
You don't politely ask your oppressors to give you the rights they have taken away from you.
Well, they only instituted this particular award in 2010, which probably impacts the choices. The four winners have been LLVM (2010), GHC (2011), Jikes (2012), Coq (2013), and GCC (2014): http://www.sigplan.org/Awards/Software/Main

It's hard to tell from that list if the SIGPLAN award will end up being more retrospectively oriented, but a lot of ACM awards are. For example the Software Systems award does sometimes go to contemporary systems (LLVM won in 2012), but also some that are hard to justify except based on retrospective impact (Make won in 2003, Eiffel in 2006): http://awards.acm.org/software_system/year.cfm

I think in practice the decision process often ends up being: did anything come up in the past year or two that's really great? If so, give them the award. If not, look back for something older and influential that hasn't won yet.
You're comparing 1960s America to colonial (and later) America. It's certainly possible that the damage done later on was greater, as there was a greater disbursement of knowledge, media, and information during a time in which the country was known as the land of opportunity, the melting pot.

A speech calling for violence in the time of newspapers and television is surely more damaging than that same speech given in an auditorium in the early 1800s to a select group..

I am not attempting to put a 'value' on the whole of slave trade, that's impossible. I'd merely like to point out the 'apples vs. oranges' nature of your comparison.
I was about to ask why the word "equation" is trending upwards since 1960 even though the related words "equations" (plural) has not. It also doesn't exactly track the word "mathematics". But after I added the word "music", it reminded me that the Y axis shows "equation" at less than 1%. I suppose that's within the realm of random noise insofar as word count statistics. Maybe NYT had the odd mix of staff writers that happen to use "equation" more often in the journalism that's unrelated to any larger cultural context.

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=equation.mathematics.m...

(unclick "music")
I think one key this time could be that mortality is down from 90% to 60%. If the virus is less aggressive, infected people have more time to move around and spread it.
Consider reading the comments on that article. A lot of good points are made about why Reading Rainbow is worthwhile.
Presumably due to the store's sandboxing requirements; the accessibility API grants a lot of power over running applications.
(/me waves back at jgraham)

Absolutely right - ASTRO-H brings new capabilities - high spectral resolution in X-rays which we don't have now. It's pretty exciting.

Beyond that, here in Europe, the European Space Agency has now approved our proposal for Athena (http://www.mpe.mpg.de/Athena), which should provide a large collecting area, high spectral resolution and pretty good spatial resolution. It's going to be a large technical challenge, which unfortunately means we'll have to wait until 2028 for launch. It requires development of a new mirror technology (based on stacks of silicon chip wafers!), development of a cryogenic X-IFU (X-ray integral field unit), which is going to provide spatially-resolve high spectral resolution X-ray spectroscopy. There's also a wide field imager, capable of mapping large areas of the sky quickly.
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If you haven't read the book, how can you even begin to have formed a judgment of him?
Are there compression techniques that are only "mostly" lossless? I was thinking something along the lines of: for delta, N > 0 the probability that the compression & decompression of a random stream of N bytes will result in loss is less than delta?
Conking is one example.
The control group is the people who have already died of ebola. Anything else is tantamount to murder.
I agree (while not supporting GCHQ here).

We have lost what we used to think of as privacy.
We need to find a new model for managing data / information. IP law is not really upto it but at least has a fairly coherent model.

But yes, government is evil, capitalism is nice does not wash.
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I took a similar model with Isomer: http://jdan.github.io/isomer. I tried it as an experiment, and was delightfully surprised by the number of people who wanted to pay for it.
While it has many advantages, clang still isn't as robust as gcc ( e.g. http://clang.debian.net/ ), and the code it produces can be slower ( e.g. http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1404144-KH-CLANG359076 ) I guess clang is still a few decades of testing and tuning behind gcc, though it's catching up fast.
Wait, little purpose? Isn't that the main purpose? "Applications on CoreOS run as Docker containers." [1]

Am I misunderstanding what CoreOS is for or are you?

[1] https://coreos.com/
Challenges for Amazon’s Cloud Computing Hopes
I think I'll just stick with my 4096 bit key.
Google keeps the key, but only for advertising purposes...
It is a race between the incubation time (between 2 and 21 days) and the rate of transmission, including how long the virus can live in the air (huge difference between just a few seconds and a few hours) and where it is discovered. If it gets to a major airport we may be fucked.

Also such a huge mutation may lower the deadliness of the illness.
I looked at your product, very interesting indeed. I think you made the correct decision. Is it possible to negotiate a bulk discount for patients with chronic illness. These people need to repeat these tests almost weekly.
Most of the past algos that have been developed have been done by commercial development teams. This means they are typically driven by the current requirements of the user market. The techniques that get developed therefore tend to be mostly increments to older techniques and since corporates value their IP, these get patented, everyone is happy.

If we could step out of this corporate context, we would likely do better on the algos.

On the topic of video, the latest stuff is still based on decades old core technology. Its still block-based motion compensated transforms which has been around since at least MPEG-1. Don't see any leaps and bounds in what's used now. No wavelets, no fractals, no other new stuff. Just better optimized versions of the base.
This is what China did during the SARS outbreak. Not only were people not allowed to move around in the country, but entire hospitals were quarantined so that people who got SARS would be sent there to die. My father was stuck in China during the entire SARS crisis in a small village and he was forbidden to leave. I called him several times during this period so it was eyeopening.
There's a project with the same name out there: http://basiljs.ch/ This made me wonder: how to deal with similar named open source projects? Although the goals of both projects aren't related in any sense it could cause for some confusion...
Badly. We can't cut of international commerce, the world would starve. We can't cut of international travel, the world would starve and there would be a ton of riots.

If the outbreak is localized then we may have a change of putting a quarantine on the area, but I doubt it.
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The lead doctor in Sierra Leone in charge of fighting ebola himself got Ebola. If it's not that easy to contract ebola, you would have thought the foremost expert would have easily been able to avoid this.
but once you have the BAA , does Amazon force you to run the dedicated instance 24/7 ? I'm very confused , just running an app on a dedicated instance, does not make it HIPAA compliant since the app needs encryption in-transit and at-rest to be HIPAA compliant. You can achieve that on a regular instance ...
Point taken on most of that. I still believe that the racial disparity in tech is a much more difficult problem than the gender disparity, because that argument doesn't change if you swap "IQ" with "SAT scores". Definitely do not want to imply racial superiority.

However,

the concepts of "black" and "white" are cultural inventions, and have no biological meaning

That's not true. If you take a look human genetic data, clusters very clearly appear which correspond with races. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2013/05/why-race-as-a...

To deny that is unscientific silliness.
Now, I'll admit that I personally don't know enough about Malcolm X to form an educated opinion of him, but you seem to be making the assertion that this biography is the only existing source of information on the man. That's pretty ridiculous. Perhaps tomjen learned about him from another source?
We'll go to amazing lengths to modify these tests so that crows can perform at a 7 year old level, and we all accept that as fair, but when someone talks about modifying tests so that kids of a certain class/race background can score highly everyone thinks you're cheating and violating the sanctity of the test.

Imagine if Google made an alternate set of tests for low income applicants that let them in at a 200% higher rate and announced "low income applicants perform at 22 year old level in Google applications with modified test".
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Newton was the biggest jerk in science. We barely know what Hooke looks like because Isaac destroyed every image of him after his death.
Good explanation, thanks. I would take from it that "purity" is relative, just as "safeness" is. There are no safe languages, nor pure ones, just some that are more pure than others.

I guess I would have grasped your point earlier if Haskell had a keyword "IMPURE", just like C# has the keyword "unsafe".

Come to think of it, doesn't "pure" in the context of PLs mean much the same as "safe"?
Thanks! We already have a growing userbase of chronic patients who love our service and use it for all their tests.
They mentioned LZW, LZSS, and LZH, if you had bothered to read it.
Black people can't be racist in any way that really counts. Racism only matters if the attitude had some sort of negative effect on the group you're racist towards. Since blacks have no real power as a whole, they can't be racist. If blacks were in the majority in terms of power, then and only then could they be racist. The ideas of Malcolm and the NOI, the panthers, etc were a perfectly sensible response to the racism of the white power structure.
I don't mind those targeted ads. What annoys me is the spam about enlarging my FkYmY0NDk4MzY0MTQ1ODZhNzM.
I think it's also partly due to the way that the typical dev team develops their algos. They all start with a base version and later push out revisions to their earlier base work. The tendency is therefore to just refine and not go for more game-changing answers. If they executed over longer terms and were more isolated from their markets, we might have seen more range in the changes made.
These plots would be even more interesting with a logarithmic scale option.

In Chronicle-golf, the most common word I can find is "new" at 74% of articles in 1978 (which beats out "who","what","when", "why", and "how"...).
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Sometimes the answer is "no, but it doesn't matter", as shown by two professors at my University: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v357/n6379/abs/357569a0...
Just to be clear, I'm not endorsing the committee's views, just stating them. I agree that Alpher deserves more attention and credit for his work.
Would you say that discipline required to build nuclear power plants is desirable in building Linux kernel?