skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, here's a simplified probability tree.

Scenario 1: Doom soon

10 people have a room number less than or equal to 10.

Scenario 2: Doom late

10 people have a room number less than or equal to 10.

---

Given that each scenario has an equal probability in isolation, there are 20 possible positions for the the <=10 individual to find themselves in (10 in doom soon, 10 in doom late).

Of those 20 possibilities, 10 of those are in the doom soon scenario. The remaining 10 are in the doom late scenario.

10 doom soon to 10 doom late is a 50/50 probability.

Edit: writing up a script as well, right now. Will add to link to it in my original comment when complete.
> ADHD therapy is very well "experimentally" verified ...

So is recovered memory therapy, with thousands of satisfied customers, each of which made a false outrageous claim about an imaginary sex crime, then went on to sue their parents, or boyfriends, or therapists -- and in some cases, all of them.

Your conception of science is below that required for astrology. No one knows what ADHD is or how to treat it. Therefore, there is no therapy for ADHD.

> verified in most of the hundreds of double blind studies ...

You mean the double blind studies you earlier claimed were unethical? There are no double-blind studies carried out with respect to ADHD, because there is no science taking place. And now that the NIMH has pulled the plug, such studies can no longer even be proposed for funding.

> you are refusing to acknowledge...

I did the research, and you are lying. Do your own research:

http://www.childmind.org/en/posts/articles/2013-4-9-most-com...

The linked article says the number one misdiagnosis among children is ... wait for it ... ADHD. The reason is that it's all based on symptoms, not causes, and this is part of the reason for the diagnosis rate and the many errors that are made.

In short, no science, no reliable diagnosis.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100817103342.ht...

Quote: "Nearly one million children in U.S. potentially misdiagnosed with ADHD, study finds"

"Nearly one million children in the United States are potentially misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder simply because they are the youngest -- and most immature -- in their kindergarten class, according to new research."

"ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder for kids in the United States, with at least 4.5 million diagnoses among children under age 18, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, there are no neurological markers for ADHD (such as a blood test), and experts disagree on its prevalence, fueling intense public debate about whether ADHD is under-diagnosed or over-diagnosed ..."

You need to realize that the professional literature absolutely disagrees with your claims about ADHD, this has been brought to your attention, you have ignored the information readily available at your fingertips, which makes you a liar.
"That we have a level of ignorance and inability to predict the future... and a poor understanding of where that ignorance and inability comes from."
Point of clarification: Wikipedia isn't just using the photo, they are offering it up to others to use as part of their "collection of royalty-free images" (Wikimedia Commons). In a sense, they are acting as a distributor, not just an end-user.
Fix the Modularity business properly! Please simplify and make a standard system that most people can get behind.
While Jigsaw started out ambitiously, I attended some of the initial meetings and the scope was....awesome.

Then it scaled back to a re-org of the rt.jar to make it easy to run on mobile devices (Ironically we are seeing the full circle - Java started out as a Set-top box language, then graduated to an enterprisey kitchen-sink and now wants to come back to a modular approach).

Now they seem to want to do some half-baked OSGI compliant approach. Have they used OSGI on medium/larger projects? There is literally no amount of money you can pay me to tackle something that hairy and complex.
Im curious if anyone has looked at examples of writing that have short sentences or phrases around the adjectives for example:

When I was a child we would visit grandma's farm. There was a barn there I loved to explore. It was big, it was red, it smelled of hay and had been abandoned for years.

vs

The big red hay-scented abandoned barn.

And if the phrases follow the ordering rules as much as strings of adjectives. Further, if there was a strong correlation, what would that say to us about language and maybe even brain structure?

It would be interesting as well to know if that construct, which comes to mind as a way to highlight intentionally out of order adjectives, is actually used that way commonly or I'm just cherry picking random examples in my head.
So your stance is that Uber is doing "harm" as a "shady" NON TECH company manufacturing "conflict PR"?

1. How do you define harm? My experience is that every one of my friends who use Uber really like it and the drivers I've spoken to along my rides have all said they like working with Uber too. Is the "harm" done to the other taxi companies? Would you say that Apple did "harm" when they released the iPhone because people who would have bought other company's products bought an iPhone instead? Because that's essentially what is happening here. Uber's product is perceived by my friends as vastly superior to the taxis in Atlanta. In fact, before Uber, they mostly didn't even use taxis. But now that Uber exists, they will often take Uber to and from their destinations so they don't have to worry about a designated driver.

2. I guess you define "shady" as a company that doesn't want agree to current regulations from the government. So whoever the govt. deems "not shady" is basically your definition of not shady.

3. The core differentiator of Uber and a regular taxi is the app. Obviously they are a blend of tech and transportation but just because they have some "non tech" elements, I don't believe that precludes them being considered a tech company. But, this is all subjective, there's no actual meaning to the word "tech" in tech company.

4. Do you have anything to back up these claims of Uber manufacturing fake PR? They have been outlawed a bunch of times in a bunch of cities of which none of those cases were made up by Uber. It is very very hard for me to believe that they would go to the trouble of making up fake stories in the cities where things were going well.
There's also David Foster Wallace's take on religion, which is that you can take it or leave it, but the alternatives might "eat you alive":

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122178211966454607
This is totally true. The downside, of course, is just how much code exists that is written in pre-C++11 dialects, and how many programmers are trained to write that sort of code.

I like way more of C++11 than I liked of the prior version, but there's just so much that's accumulated over the years. I wonder if breaking backwards compatibility is the key, but then I look at Python 3 and think, well, probably not.
Interesting. It wasn't immediately clear from the post: how is this going to be maintained? Some of the bundled tools on that list update fairly frequently. Is the plan to track the underlying versions (and risk breakage / having to create 'glue' patches), or maintain a separate (integrated, stable) fork/set of forks?

The github page states that "this version includes the production version of some libraries", but doesn't indicate how it's going to be managed.
I don't think it's just North Americans who are astonished. Most Brits are too. Even the most paranoid and cynical of observers seem to have been shocked by the spy cops revelations.
Don't be so sure with this one. They only disclosed the `create_with` issue, but `where(params).create` was also vulnerable. Unfortunately, the latter is much harder to search for and more likely to be used since `where` is seemingly safe.
Be careful when trying this out at work--I just got sent to my company's scary "your attempt has been logged" screen for being redirected to r/gonewild.
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Still no epsilon-delta support? This is the sort of thing I have in mind: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/110573/continuous-fu...
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Mike,
I build flavor profiling and quality control tools for coffee, beer, and spirit producers. I would love to help with the coffee DNA project. Shoot me an email[1]?

[1] JasonCEC@Gastrograph.com
I'm not sure how I feel about debit/credit cards, but the postcard idea is clever. What better way to validate identity on a neighborhood-based network than postage?
I'm conflicted, and I think the reason is- typically the police are not allowed to commit things which are crimes. They are not allowed to steal, or to murder, or what have you.

If Bob had been an ordinary citizen, absolutely none of it would have been illegal. Even if he was an ordinary citizen who led this woman on to get information. This kind of deception happens. Just think of the secretly gay men who have been married to women for many years, even fathered children. There are countless men who sleep with women, pretending to be someone they are not...

Are there any good examples of things any citizen may do that an officer may not, that are not as cloudy and twisted as romantic relationships?
What isn't transparent about surge pricing? The app straight up tells you "you will be paying more for this ride." If you don't like it, get a regular cab.

I don't know why people act as if Uber is twisting their arm when it comes to surge pricing.
I'm not sure that's true. Auto manufactures are a really big target for liability in accidents (I'd likely get more from GM then an individual in a won law suit), and a quick search [1] seems to back my feeling that there is sizable law and case law that define this area of liability. I'm not saying that it's simple to win against any sufficiently funded entity, but it's not impossible that anyone has immunity.

[1] http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/automotive.html#.U_Jd_2...
A lot of C++ verbosity comes simply from bad defaults. Const and virtual should be the default for example, not the other way around. Would stop the virtual destructor ommision problem, and if you need efficiency you could make destructors non-virtual.

Also in the "hiding stuff behind the scenes" department C++ is quite bad.

SomeClass someMethod(SomeClass a, SomeClass b) {
...
}

is doing a lot behind the scenes. Code below is better but it's longer and less convenient to write.

const SomeClass& someMethod(const SomeClass& a, const SomeClass& b) {
...
}

And actually C++ code isn't easy to reason about wihtout reading the whole program. It isn't even easy to parse.

What's going to happen when you run this?

y = f(x);

It may be that f is function, or a type. f may return the correct type to assign to y, or it may return something else and automatically run some conversion. There may be copy constructor and some destructors involved if it's returning object and not reference. It may run overloaded operator= and do anything at all, for example add f(x) to y. Hell, f can also be a class with operator() overloaded, and you would need to track its state to see what will happen.

And we haven't even touched the subject of #define.

It's much easier to reason about Java code for example.
Interesting that when Tom Scott did a (great) video on this topic back in December, he used "Big Red" as his example as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTm1tJYr5_M
Nice. When lawsuits are directed _against_ the content giants, she's all for the letter of the law and due process:http://www.wired.com/2008/03/riaa-racketeeri/

I feel so much better knowing that such intelligent sexagenarians are helping hollywood control the internet.
I'm fairly certain LA has a larger mainland Chinese base. Chinatown is almost exclusively Cantonese.
Non-trivial, but probably tractable. Moreover, just identifying that there is a siren and turning off the radio could be a tremendous help.
It is addressed by better design.

First off, it's important to know the difference between value types and objects.

For a value type, public final fields are good. They are set in the constructor once, and can only be read, and can't change. Getters are pointless, and my code does not have them. If you want them for a reason, then intellij does an amazing job fixing that.

Objects encapsulate mutable state, and getFoo() and setFoo() are inappropriate methods to have. They should be things that affect the behavior of the object, not simple setters and getters.

The big issue is that a lot of java was created when we still hadn't figured out how to properly do Object Oriented Programming. But we know now (well - some of us), and there is nothing in Java that prevents you from doing it well.
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Why does "large red barn" sound wrong, despite the supposed synonymic status of "big" and "large"? Or, if it doesn't sound wrong, why does it tend to give the impression of a very different meaning?

I don't think there are such things as pure synonyms, and I also don't believe that "big" and "red" are distinct adjectives in the headline phrase. Rather, they have formed a new "adjective phrase" that has new meaning beyond the sum of the meanings of the individual words. This isn't so strange, the words themselves have more meaning than the sum of the letters' meaning.

Thus if you say "red big barn", not only are you avoiding the meaning of the more orthodox phrase, you're showing off that you're not describing it the way others do. If I called a red balloon green, you'd point that out too and think I spoke funny. Same thing here.

"Big red barn" is not just saying that the barn is big and also red. It conveys the sense of a certain type of barn, in a certain part of the world, in a certain era. Surely if we were to find some large cattle shack in the Scottish highlands and paint it red, it would fail to become a "big red barn". Or if we found some Sound-of-Music-esque farm building in Switzerland and we diligently painted it, that too would fail to become a "big red barn".

The most amazing part of all this, to me, is how blind everyone is to it.
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disclaimer: i wrote it.
I wonder if this is going to increase the political will for additional housing to be built in San Francisco, as indeed is very badly needed?
> A sprawling bureaucracy—the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council—exists to ensure that distance from the motherland doesn't dull their patriotism. Its goal is to safeguard loyalty to the Communist Party.

This will only work for one generation. Once their children assimilate in the West, China will be foreign to them.
> I guess that sets the tone for the army people who are normally pretty isolated from social issues

What? That isn't true at all.
Why would they mention features that are still included?

- if continues to be a keyword

- Spyware continues to be included
um, C++ is the most widely used language in the world.
Learning in context is really an underrated aspect of language learning. Some more tips:

1) Podcasts: you can handpick a theme you like, so you can transfer your knowledge between languages to get all subtleties.

2) Graphic Novels (aka: comics): you see the dialogs with a corresponding image. You mix narrative aspects of a book, where you read whats in the mind of the characters and see with a corresponding image.

3) Movies: you should watch them with subtitles in the spoken language.

4) Kindle Touch/Paperwhite: you will easily click in a word to see its definition.
It's also not chaos because because it's not(!).

Mandelbrot had a lot to do with that era/chaos theory and was associated with it, him at Taleb were good friends. Do you think it's as simple as that? Why doesn't some one post something legitimate as opposed to trying to catch some offhand remark that I didn't fix as opposed to trying to desperately nitpick.
My Wishlist:
1. Fix Daemonization!

Publish an official blessed and supported way of daemonizing processes. Yeah sure, you can use Apache commons-daemon and others of it's ilk. And it will work. But it will feel hacked together (at least it does to me).

2. Fix Dependency hell!

Publish a blessed / supported / standard of supporting / managing different classloaders. Java has this great mostly unused mechanism (classloaders) for managing dependency hell. It would be great to have platform (maybe even language) level support to make that easy to do and a standard way of building software.
Now with less TDD!
afaik scalas properties are as good as in case of dart. Also, operations like + are also normal methods on numbers.
Just talked to a few other people and they said
-those who preorder get a guaranteed life-time price of $10/month, regardless of whether we raise the price for everyone else.

After the beta: we haven't decided on a final pricing system. We're shooting around ideas of doing a tier system.

And about running your own learntomod server:

At this stage we aren't letting people run their own learntomod server, the only exception being 3rd party hosting companies that want to make it available to their users.
It might depend on the product too. E.g. for mobile apps aesthetics and design trends seem to be more important than for websites. However it's more difficult to apply regular business metrics in the centralized environment of mobile stores.
Probably because it's not experiencing a ton of new features right now.
Not exactly comparable (because everything is immutable), but Haskell has sort of a cool approach to setting and getting fields.

Let's say you have

data Point = Point {x :: Int, y :: Int}

If you have a Point object called "point", you can get x by doing

x_coord = x point

If you want to create a new Point with x set to 5, you can do

point' = point {x = 5}
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I found that example odd, as I would find it just as natural to emphasis the second adjective.

> No, the small black purse, not the small gray purse.
The Transformer is a double CD of Monk's home recordings of practice sessions. He is iterating (I'm tempted to say hacking on) a 'standard' and leading to recordings of three live performances of the piece with a quartet. Taught me lots. A bit intense for non-pianists but will put paid to the 'random happy eccentric' stuff. This guy worked in a systematic way and lead his bands.

Kelly's book is just required.
I think you missed the "already infected" part.

If I've got drivers running on two computers that only are in the same room, and they both have speakers and microphones, then yes, I may be able to pull this off. If one of them is connected to the outside world and the other isn't, I may be able to connect from the outside world to the unconnected computer using this acoustic method.

None of this helps me get the infection on the unconnected computer, though. For that, there has to be something else - sneakernet USBs, for example, as you mentioned.
> Second, to complete the registration process, I have to either supply a debit/credit card, the will call a phone number and somehow compare that against phone records to verify my identity, or send me a postcard.

This is actually a HUGE piece of what makes the social network special. This builds inherent trust into the network so you actually know that the people that you're talking to are actually who they say they are and actually live in your neighborhood.

This means that, if you're selling your couch, or buying something from a neighbor, you can be sure that it's trusted neighbor that you're interacting with.

This actually HELPS privacy rather than impeding it.

Nextdoor also cross references with sex offender databases as well as "some" criminal databases so that they are banned from joining. It's also a safety feature.
I could probably make that work, but my Javascript skills were last used when JQuery was new, so I may be out of the loop
To really be an anti-Facebook, this service would need to be decentralized. And it's a perfect example of a service that should be decentralized by design. There's no earthly reason to have this live on one server somewhere, except if you want to track people and show them ads.
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Berlin has been talked a lot about on HN, but what is the situation like now? I know for awhile it was relatively cheap which was one of the big perks, but housing costs have gone up due to people moving there. What level of experience would you need as an American programmer to move to Berlin and find work? Is it a realistic option?

An example of a past thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221799
Semantics aside, does BadBIOS exist or not?
Why are there NSA, CSIS, and GOOGLE IDs in my ftplist.cgi
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There is no need to be polite to the target of disruption if they are overtly and obviously representative of systemic dysfunction and corruption.

There might be a legitimate argument if it was just mom and grandma. However uber does provide income for regular people and it has no doubt reduced the amount of drunk driving causalities and deaths. If you're young and can get around ask any one of your friends if they have considered uber an option when they never would have a taxi. It's becoming more and more commonplace.

Give this angle a rest already.
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I'm glad to see Nextdoor getting this kind of recognition. I've moved around the Bay Area several times in the last few years, and every new Nextdoor community I've joined has been very active and helpful (I bought furniture, found out about a block party, and much more). Highly recommend joining.
"if you roll out soldiers to address a civil disturbance, you need to figure out what they are going to do."

One of the interesting things I learned participating in a number of protests in recent years surrounded by veterans is that they were shocked at the local PD's willingness to violate basic human rights in ways that they'd never have been allowed in the Army / Marines / etc..

One of the concerns I discussed with a friend this weekend regarding the current / recent situation in Ferguson is that police with military equipment are doing things that are simply not acceptable for soldiers at war, such as outright pointing their weapons into a crowd in order to get people's attention, as well as the unchecked use of teargas which I also saw in Oakland.

I don't look forward to encountering any group of soldiers in a demonstration, nor do I doubt the Army has policies that are frightening, but one of the most frightening things about the militarization of police is that police are civilians who do not answer to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, nor do they require proper training on how to interact with the public as military. Many of them are vets, but not all of them had such duties while in the service.

This is why you often hear the perception that these police are 'dressed up to play soldier' because as horrifying as it is that a city would send soldiers in to repress its' citizens, it's an order of magnitude worse because they aren't trained to have any restraint and the protest they are policing is _directly_ against them and their presence in the area.
You're right that ABS is still an option on some cars. I have to ask, though... Why on earth would you not spring for it? Anti-lock breaks are enormously effective.
whoops sorry – from Chicago... the city any real resident loves to hate.