skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your reply.

You are right in that I am a more practical, pragmatic programmer. I do have experience building enterprise applications and project management which is great, but I am lacking in the algorithm side. This is part of the reason why I am pursuing the degree.

Ultimately, I would ultimately like to do something with robotics/machine learning. I have a real passion for automation. I would love to work at a place like Amazon and help build the future of automated distribution. The algorithm side of things would tie all my skills together.

I will talk to the university about their statistics side of things of this course. I will see if I can get a full course outline and go from there. Would be more of a challenge, but worth it in the end.

Thank you again for your reply.
Back in the mid eighties, before the craze really took off I was in a small group who were mostly military and a few off base civilians who spent way too much time and money on this. We had two competitions, standard capture the flag which in some ways probably led to my enjoyment of Doom so many years later and hit man. Hit man was simply that, everyone put their name in the hat and five bucks. Only rules were, you could not shoot someone in uniform or at work. Take the target name from your hit.

Lots of hilarity and some good bruises but those were mostly remedied by disallowing freezing the paint balls. Some really unsettling conversations with local and base police, paint ball guns can look like a gun in the dark and if you alter their color it can lead to problems. Most of us had that old standard green CO2 powered model whose name escapes me.

Speaking for myself, I never even took the hit man game as anything more than fun, we never had anyone freak out about losing. Most took pride in just not getting tagged by the next meeting and i think only once did someone take the pot, it usually ended up as that weeks pizza.

Laser tag was definitely not the same, the primary difference being it doesn't hurt if you screw up.
This one appears to be useful because it has some concrete numbers. Because otherwise how would you define moderation? What is moderation to one is excess to another. Here we at least have "less than X and more than Y appears to be harmful", which is some actionable information.

Edit: actually, my opinion on "everything in moderation" is even stronger: I consider it a useless advice. Because, where do you even begin? Should you use some salt in your cooking? But how much? Or should you use none, because there is already some present in foods you buy? Or should you actively avoid foods that have already some salt added?

And it ends up like this: everyone thinks that he eats X in moderation, while anyone who eats less X is just unnecessary resticting himself, and anyone who eats more X is a glutton.

Or consider, would you say "smoking in moderation is okay and healthful"? And if not, how do we know that there are no substances consumed as foods that act in a similar way - hurt us even taken in moderation?
It wasn't going to Sweden and taking his 'lumps' that Assange was afraid of, it was being extradited to the US under a to-be-unveiled charge sprung after being moved to Sweden. Assange (rightly or wrongly) believed strongly that the chances of Sweden doing such an extradition were more likely than the UK doing something similar. There is a lot of stuff about the rape charges that is fairly suspicious, I'm not sure if the risk of extradition today is as large as it was back when this all went down and maybe that figures into Assange's decision to exit the embassy now.

If he goes to Sweden (which I would consider highly likely if he in fact does exit the embassy and gets apprehended by the UK authorities) I suspect the chances of him doing any significant jail time as a result of the case there are slim, so then the only thing that he should still be worried about is eventual extradition to the US on charges still to be brought, but the spotlight will be very much on Sweden pulling any fast ones in the extradition process there.

Time will tell.
It was basically "suddenly, sexual assaults, out of fucking nowhere" case. Coincidence? Also, AFAIR one of those women retracted the accusation, though I might be misremembering something.
Ah yes, and the timing and context was entirely coincidental. Neither of us know the truth but "digging around" by journalists, law enforcement or intelligence agencies is far more likely to be the reason that this surfaced than pure coincidence.
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Your list of section anchor links appears to be broken. I click on any and nothing happens. Otherwise I look forward to browsing it.
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That is absurd. Saying that using a certain data access api tightly couples you to it is as crazy as saying using variables tightly couple you to ram (and using ram is obviously bad!).

I honestly don't think you understand what tight coupling means.

You have data. To access the data you use an api. SQL is forcing you to use a generalised API, which is very old, hard to use and more importantly; hard to test.

If you actually want rigor in your SQL API, you use stored procedures. So now you're maintaining two languages (SQL and stored procedures) in addition to your application language.

For me, for most things, I just write a webservice which talks to whatever database I want. That's the API I expose. Anything can consume the API as long as it follows my RESTful spec.

With this architecture, I;
1) Don't have to struggle with SQL, making development faster.
2) Don't need a DBA making development cheaper.
3) Get to write in one language making testing a lot easier, which in turn makes quality higher.
4) can scale easier, picking whatever data storage characteristics are important to me.

Lastly, saying that NoSQL just doesn't have this rigor really makes me wonder what you think of google's bigtable or amazon's simpledb?
I don't want to throw a snarky remark out, but damn that had a bunch of weasel-ese in it. Looks kinda bad, but in a way it looks kinda good...

In addition, I found problematic the statement "The results indicate that negative results are not disappearing, but have actually become 4.3 times more prevalent since 1990. Positive results, on the other hand, have become 13.9 times more prevalent since 1990." "More prevalent", one presumes in this context, is a measurement of a subset against the total. Otherwise all you're really getting is a count of how much research is being done -- which I believe is what is being reported? That doesn't sound like a useful metric to me. Why would I care about the counts of positives or negatives when, in fact, there are only two types of things being counted? All I would really care about in this context would be their relative sizes.

I probably missed it.
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I still think being extradited for questioning is ridiculous
Maybe the way to judge curation is by comparing curation+search to search alone. With good curation effort, i think that curation+search is a winner , at a relatively minor cost(needing more time).

Also curation has the benefit of being a useful discovery tool.
> There are a lot of reasons for that, but, IMO, the most glaring is people abdicating their health reonsibility to somebody else (whether doctors, pharmaceutical companies, or government guidelines). As people take control back...when they realize they have some control...they will become more healthy.

I couldn't agree more. I've blogged about this some time ago (shameless plug)

"We need to start taking care of our health data": https://medium.com/@iamhealee/we-need-to-start-taking-care-o...

But responsibility and control is only one side of the coin. There are numerous problems which are happening behind the curtain and people normally don't care about (EHR software compatibility, sometimes lack of EHR software, different attention to detail when doctors record the health data, etc.)
The thing is, if it's just a national thing, then it at least seems to be 'infectuous' to the foreign population - we have ~25% foreigners in Switzerland, many of them French. If most of them would steal, farmers would stop doing that very soon - but so far it seems to work just fine.

But hey, weighing your produce yourself at the supermarket is also a thing here, and it works fine as well. Sometimes I think it's just a part of society, no matter the cultural, ethnical or economical background people have - if you trust them to "do the right thing", most suddenly feel sort of honoured and obligated to behave the right way. If you put police everywhere and assume people to be criminal first, they will act accordingly (test their 'freedom' as soon as noone is looking). It probably doesn't work if it's just one farmer / supermarket doing it, but I think when it's a common part of society, it suddenly works.
http://queues.io
try microworkers.com?
One word: Don't.

1. Never accept equity from a start up, unless you're sure they'll succeed.

2. Never give away equity as a start up, as you'll probably lose everything and they could walk off with all the IP.

(Yes, I don't like "investors" - which makes me wonder why I'm hanging out on a ycombinator domain)
Interesting write-up, I've been doing some iBeacon research and didn't think about the effect of ranging multiple beacons at one time causing such a dramatic effect on battery.
A search engine is technically sufficient, but takes more time and is less accessible. A search engine won't put things in front of you for you to peruse and explore; you have to know what you're looking for. Beyond that, the contributors and I have done research to find and decide on the entries on this list, which should help readers avoid repeating the same process.

A git repo has an explicitly responsible maintainer, while wikipedia articles do not. This helps keep the quality high.

Regarding SEO - even now, the same day I first pushed this, searching 'lua awesome' returns this as result #5 on Google. 'awesome-<language>' is a known convention for curated lists like this one, and people familiar with that convention who are looking for Lua resources will easily find this.
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Just a few days ago Guido proposed to adopt the Mypy syntax for type annotations in Python 3.5. There is a big discussion going on on the python-ideas mailing list about that and the general idea of having optional static typing in Python:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-August/0...

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-August/0...

Recommended reading for those interested in the topic.
> it was being extradited to the US under a to-be-unveiled charge sprung after being moved to Sweden.

That's entirely impossible under EU law. If extradited to UK to Sweden, he can ONLY be extradited from Sweden with the consent of the UK.

Scenario A: The UK would agree (in which case, he didn't need to be extradited to Sweden, as he was already in UK custody).

Scenario B: The UK would not agree (in which case, he cannot be extradited from Sweden).

Nobody has ever been able to outline any way in which being extradited to Sweden could have increased his risk of being extradited to the US. If the US even wanted him; the UK is well known for rolling over to US extradition requests, and he was in UK custody for an extended period of time. The obvious conclusion is that the US is not especially eager to get their hands on him, since they didn't actually try.

"Any extradition from Sweden to the United States would actually be more difficult. [...] there is no evidence whatsoever that the United Kingdom would not swiftly comply with any extradition request from the United States [...] the best opportunity for the United States for Assange to be extradited is whilst he is in the United Kingdom."

Source: http://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2012/08/legal-...
Unless he can be smuggled out or airlifted, I can't see how he's going to avoid being arrested by the cops waiting for him. If he's planning to hand himself in, why not do it straight away?
It has, but it is not abvious and thus a bad title. If the future of Linux (the kernel) is to be used on Tablets or other non-desktop-computer thingies, we may need other desktop environments (like Gnome 3). As this is questionable, a desktop-focused DE like KDE with the ability to later adapt to those seems like a good choice.

But yeah, it's vague and using one corner too much. Linux Desktops would have been the better term.
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Hm, they work fine for me; can you be more specific?
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If you look at Figure 3 (and section 3.2.1), you'll find they're reporting the number of papers in percentage of the total number of papers. So, relative size. The increase given in the abstract is that between 1990 and 2014.
There are numerous graphs plotting both the relative sizes of abstracts with positive and negative results against the total (not every abstract contains the wording they checked), e.g. Fig. 3, and graphs of their relative ratios (e.g. Fig. 4).

However, they somewhat admit that their findings are mostly spurious since checking for "p < 0.5" instead of "p = 0.04…" turned the results more or less upside down.
Best cluster solution by ALex Polvi and Brandon Philips.
This may just be paranoia on my part, but wouldn't being a target of industrial espionage by the Chinese make you already important/big enough to have the NSA working for rather than against you?
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That bit in life where people repurpose equipment in ways the original manufacturers never considered. I hate the term but in this case "thinking outside the box" comes to mind.

What's more interesting is that even the people that "thought outside of the box" didn't think there was any more to it other than a bit of one off fun until they had a massive response from an write-up published in an a magazine.
Thank you for the excellent links. A lot of your comments really ring true. A number of times I've really wished that the international phonetic alphabet was far more widespread and included in more language learning materials.

In addition as someone who has spent countless hours studying vocab flashcards with very little gains I can corroborate the fact that using it as a primary study method is quite ineffective. When I want to flashcard style studying now I focus on sentences, or groups of sentences with translations. The added context helps significantly but is still no substitute for full passages of text.
It wasn't his "sexual history", he sexually assaulted two women (and his lawyer admitted it - what he did was a clear breach of consent).

I'm not surprised one of the women backed down, they were both being harassed by idiots online for months.
It could just be a selection bias, in that we think it's interesting so it makes the news. If it had translated to something more banal, we probably wouldn't be discussing it on Hacker News.
Correct. It is even possible to find restraints that are dual or triple restaurants, serving food for all three.
Hello,

I have ticked the box that says use the Spotify service, but when I do a search, it doesn't find anything from Spotify. Am I missing something?
Thanks

EDIT: Using Windows 7
See also http://xkcd.com/1392/large/
The fun thing about finite sequences is that you can find mathematical rules for arbitrary continuations (in the simplest way with more or less explicit ifs as (n mod i)) with no way of deciding what the right one is, except maybe that less complicated ones are probably not the solution.
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First time I hear about the lawyer, will Google.

Anyway, he hasn't even been on trial. How can you be so sure he is guilty? I think that's an uncivilized attitude.
;) What is BDSM?
Julian Assange Will Leave Embassy 'Soon'
You can check out Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective by Stephen Marsland[0] which takes a less math-driven approach to ML. The code is available online if you want to take a look at it (it's written in Python)[1].

[0]: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420067187

[1]: http://seat.massey.ac.nz/personal/s.r.marsland/MLBook.html
queues.io is a good list of message queues, but it's not a useful list. It says nothing about them, how they work, the differences or what they're suited for.

For comparison, this is a useful list for getting the feel of a technology field: http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis
I'm still wondering whether this is an elaborate way to tell people that Trucrypt is completely compromised and shouldn't be used.
He's trying to avoid trial. That's the issue at stake. I think we're all indebted to Assange for what he did at wikileaks, but that doesn't make him a saint. I would think higher of him if he would have stood at the trial and been acquitted or even if he were found guilty and accepted the punishment.
Fast food places killed off all the poor quality local places, so the only ones who can survive are those who are either dirt cheap (e.g. food trucks, hot dog stands), have a captive audience (e.g. movie theatres, ball games), or are low capacity so can't compete with the quickness of fast food.

But before this, you could see poor quality local food places on highways. McDonalds and co came in and create a price/quality floor. You couldn't be worse than them.
A lot of the translations read like spam to me, with the mentions of "commerce", "home business", "the company" etc, and in Chinese marketing copy, it's quite common to say use "China" as part of the marketing "China's first...", "China's biggest.." etc etc

So perhaps a less sinister explanation, is Chinese spam?
I'd be interested. Any tool that checks correctness is one less thing I have to write before I begin my analyses.
Why not make an auction? That would be fun. Vote with smartphone and/or terminal on the street.
http://knockoutjs.com/ is also a great simple data binding lib but without any dependencies.
The one thing spy agencies are still really good at is getting people into compromising situations. It's not hard to get someone drunk and find attractive people to hook them up with. If they're married that's all you have to do. That's how they've recruited, blackmailed, and discredited people for 60+ years.

The guy lived 40 years with no sex charges and then immediately after pissing off the most powerful agencies in the world he's got two strange ones. It's possible he made criminal mistakes but even if so it's likely he was being manipulated. He easily could have been drugged without his knowledge.
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Can you back that up with some sort of credible source?
No, I'll repeat what I already said: You don't regulate what people can eat, you regulate what food companies can sell. You don't allow them to sell dangerous food. That isn't draconian statism, it's sensible regulation.
GoCardless or Paypal - i.e. services that have my info stored and don't require me to go find my card details.
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Am I the only one who lost interest in Desktop Environments ? I'm either satisfied with bare minimum (XFCE/ThunarFM...) or barest minimal (wmii/xmonad...).

KDE5 is surely a great piece of tech but I fail to see what's new except for a cleaner KDE4 in terms of UX; these days I feel dom/javascript bear more innovation (maybe too much).
Didn't he offer to have the trial held in another place? I haven't followed so closely. But the assumption that it might all be a farce to get him delivered to the US doesn't sound completely far-fetched.
Assuming he just avoids the trial because he is guilty is silly. If you don't trust the system, it's a good reason to try to avoid it.

Edit: since I have googled now, apparently he is not wanted in Sweden for a trial, just for a questioning.
One of the most amusing bits in the excellent blog/book "Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance" there is a bit about people who pretend to be unconscious - apparently one trick for dealing with these people is for a doctor to ask in a loud voice for a "brain needle" as they need to draw off a sample... Apparently a lot of people make a miraculous recovery at that point!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Sweat-Tea-Adventures-Inner-cit...
That "assault" was not using a condom for which both women didn't want to press charges. They did only so because the prosecutor pressured them into it. Pretty weak.
>> "That's entirely impossible under EU law"

When has the law ever got in the way? Governments can no longer be trusted. Only within the last week it was revealed the the UK tried to have evidence that they allowed the US to torture people on a UK owned island redacted from reports.

I've always been for big government/welfare state etc. but recently I've been becoming more and more libertarian. Politicians are untrustworthy and arguably evil people. They don't give one shit about us unless they are running for election. In that case they will lie and promise and then break those promises when we elect them. I've come to the conclusion that although I want a government that helps it's citizens and I'm fine with paying high taxes for that it's no longer worth the risk to our freedom.
Only, the Swedes would have had a quick/sham trial and extradited him promptly to the US regardless of the outcome of the rape case.

Not everything is as black and white as you appear to make it.
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The idea that you get a lot of just marginal significant results due to "P hacking" , i.e. minor fiddling with excluding outliers or picking a certain hypothesis test over another is probably true. Then there is positive publication bias i.e. only publishing positive findings.

However looking in the abstract doesn't really address either of these .. as even absent either P hacking or positive bias you would still expect the abstract to contain the selected highlights (i.e. positive findings) from the paper. It is the bit of the paper where you really should have positive selection bias!

If the paper has lots of negative tests (and most biological papers will report lots of negative control p values) these aren't picked up. A better way to see this problem (and I believe it is a problem) is to look at the whole paper and view the peak of margin results) compared to the whole set of p values.
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Not sure you understand that he might also be guilty of trahison against US. Should he be intercepted by US authorities, he would be given a hard time. That's what he's fleeing against. Had it been the two alleged assaults alone, I'm confident anyone would have faced the trial.
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> That's entirely impossible under EU law.

No it isn't. You have admitted yourself that it would be possible if the UK gave consent (which they would).

> The obvious conclusion is that the US is not especially eager to get their hands on him, since they didn't actually try.

This is by no means obvious. There is an ongoing Grand Jury investigation into Wikileaks. These typically take a long time, and it was likely not complete when the Swedish extradition request was made. It seems plausible that the US will wait until after the Swedish investigation has played out before serving their own warrant.

edit: The New Statesman article you referenced has a large inaccuracy. Details: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/24/new-sta...
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As a Brazilian, I agree with ricardobeat. I don't think I ever saw a situation where saying 'rabo' as a slang for ass would be considered even slightly prudish or childish, but always at the very least explicit. The african variations for 'ass' are much more tame (used on TV broadcasts, for example).