skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yet because of the de facto segregation of America, whites are unlikely to have many black friends

As a non-American I find this surprising. After absorbing American movies and TV shows I honestly picture average middle class America, at least in the Northern states, as being a true mingle of races where almost every white guy or girl would have at least 1 or 2 black friends in their immediate social circle. Similarly in the workplace.

Is that really not an accurate picture?
Net worth of American households overall is shit.

Americans don't save money for retirement, they expect Uncle Sam to take care of them.

Yet another way in which America, whose left-wing politicians like to pretend is some kind of capitalist nation, is just another socialist shithole.
Most people think that they are better drivers than other people. Even the terrible drivers think this.

And, really, you want other drivers to be better so Google's cars probably are what you want.
Well, than I would like to extend my apologies to Ludovic Courtès.

Aforementioned discorteous post from reddit user would really be understandable coming from a GNU enthusiast if caustic in form.
You're welcome and thanks for the encouragement !
Actually, when you get the timings ok you don't need anymore some "runtime" adjustments, everything is fixed in advance.
You just have to get the calibration data for every device, of course.
By the way, as you said, you can use a clap to synchronize automatically two videos, using just the audio track, but that's another story ;-)
Reverse tunnelling is more useful for this sort of scenario. Then the other person can connect to the remote server port and it'll reach you.
Title shows author doesn't understand programming language design. No, a small set of higher-order functions[1] is not as fundamental as the concept of higher-order functions in the first place.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2cv6l4/clojures_tra...
You can have fused information from CoreLocation, with some smoothing and so with lower time resolution, but you can have too raw data from the gyro / accelerometer.
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I did not read the article, but a way to counter that is for a motivation boost. Allow the player to make up for it the next day.

From a MMORPG pov you would have just got killed and your loot(progress) would have dropped, you now spawn at the nearest town and have a day to get your loot back or lose it.

And so maybe in courage you to hit the ground running faster the next day, because you know you are dead.
Nokia will have its revenge on the smartphone industry
That's unfortunate but the bottom line for patients is that the NZ works excellently.

Sure, it sucks that someone committed fraud and got rich in a dishonest manner but preventing that is not the goal. In the end, this fraud doesn't really affect the healthcare given.
Bayesian statistics gives you a posterior distribution. What you do with that distribution is up to you. If you want to find the decision that minimizes the maximum loss instead of the expected loss, that fits perfectly well within the Bayesian framework. The posterior gives you all the information that you need to make a decision, whatever your loss function.

Frequentist statistics on the other hand gives you no such thing. You can't make decisions based on frequentist statistics. Frequentist statistics is all about reasoning about things that did not happen. Things that did not happen are irrelevant for making decisions in a situation where that thing did happen. So while frequentist statistics is mathematically correct, it's also strictly speaking useless in practice. It's only useful insofar as it gives us heuristics for decision making when the Bayesian approach is impractical.

Here's an example. Suppose there are two types of berries: edible and poisonous. We devise a statistical procedure where you measure some properties of the berry (lets say we look at the color), and the procedure should help you decide whether to eat that berry. Now in frequentist statistics, you'll get a procedure that gives you the correct answer with probability at least p regardless of what your measurement was. Suppose that p=90% and we observe that the color is blue, and the procedure says: this berry is edible. Can we now eat the berry? No! This says absolutely nothing about the probability of the blue berry being poisonous or not. For example suppose 95% of berries are edible and red, and 5% of the berries are poisonous and blue. Then a valid procedure would be one that says that all berries are edible. It's correct >90% of the time, so yay! But if the berry we are holding in our hands is blue, it's incorrect 100% of the time. The fact that the procedure would have given us the right answer if the berry we found was red is irrelevant for making the decision of whether to eat the berry in the situation where the berry we found was blue. Things that did not happen are irrelevant for making decisions in a situation where that thing did happen!

tl;dr: frequentist vs bayesian is not about worst case vs average case. It's about P(measurement | true value) vs P(true value | measurement). The former is irrelevant for making decisions, the latter is exactly what you want.
Isn't the speed of DSL highly dependent on the details of the actual analog line?

I have an ADSL line, and my contract says "50Mbps", but I rarely actually get over about 4Mbps. As far as I can figure, the reason is because my house is near the limit of distance from the central office... (the phone company actually has a calculator web app thing that lets you plug in your address and get the line length...and then a separate calculator that maps from line-length to expected speed)

[I'm not complaining or anything.... It's a cheap line which I've had for ages, they're very up-front about the caveats of ADSL, and I could easily get fiber or cable (from multiple providers) for a bit more money. So far I just haven't cared enough to change it.]
>The US is 31st worldwide on bandwidth speed (which really can't be explained by the US's size alone)

So? That's like saying the US is 31st on average car speed. Very few people need a car that goes more than 70mph, just like very few people need an internet connection that goes faster than "can stream HD video".
In that case the UK is in an even worse predicament:

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/fraser-nelson/2014/08/why-brita...

( Why Britain is poorer than any US state, other than Mississippi )
The pitch of the brakes and honking of the horn. For the truck from behind, can maybe notify the computer the trucks brakes are failing.

Yes, the 360 would see the truck, but it won't notice the honking so it can not be aware that the truck is trying to "tell" it something.
Shows nothing except a grey rectangle on my browser.
Oh, and dropping files on the page will just change it into a download link.
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The economic and political system is Problem #1. It's not fit for purpose, and humans can forget about becoming a successful space-faring species until it's replaced by a system capable of rational long-term project planning, and which also rewards inventiveness, creativity, intelligence, and other talents.
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"The gaps demand a wrenching, soul-searching excavation of our national soul, and the first step is to acknowledge that the central race challenge in America today is not the suffering of whites."

While true, this is misleading in that it points the reader in the wrong direction. The real cause is the same that facilitates expensive internet access with no competition, the crazy cost of education, the indiscriminate surveillance of citizens and foreigners, a militarized police and of course our arrogance on the international stage.

The rich elite have a vested interest in this status quo. I don't see this changing in my lifetime.
I live in Germany, 1.5h from the nearest International Airport – and I can get 200mbps for 80$ everywhere here, in some areas even more. And these speeds are provided by for-profit companies, not by municipalities.

Your argument is invalid.
In northern states, that would require black people to work overtime and befriend everyone. There simply aren't enough to go round, even if black people weren't segregated by housing, jobs, and social status.
Fibers and Threads in Node.js – what for? (2012)
Call me old fashioned, but function calls are pretty nice events.

Rather than heaps of code, and weird concepts, you can just implement firing the event into the A, and B models by calling a method on each. Simple!

A.getFilteredDays(payload);
B.getFilteredDays(payload);

That's only two lines of code compared to 30 or so. This scales up because with more models, you have less code.

In practice these are easier to debug, because the debugger supports function calls with stack traces, and easier to read, because people understand function calls. They are also faster.

This is why I think that long article is complex. Remember that OO uses messages and objects. Method calls are events. Also remember that there is an M in Document Object Model (DOM). So you see we already have a Model, and events?

Please also consider how much less code there is in the jQuery version of the todomvc app compared to the react one. http://todomvc.com/
I always think that having a better understanding of statistics and the mathematics associated with Bayesian calculations would be useful but I don't know where to start.

What would be a good book for me to learn?
We aren't talking about bugs, though, we're talking about cars not being able to navigate as well. That doesn't mean they're useless, it probably just means that they would have to drive very slowly at those conditions.
More or less, yes. There's already plenty of snakeoil out there claiming to erase ciphertext or keys anyway - with zero verifiability, and often the claims have been demonstrably false. I could name two right off the bat: Snapchat. Cryptolocker.

If you want ephemeral communications, GPG actually won't do the trick, the public encryption asymmetric subkeys are pretty long-term; ephemeral communications have key lifespans measured in seconds, not months or years. The closest you can get to what you want right now is probably Axolotl as used by TextSecure/Signal, or perhaps OTR, or perhaps Pond: good designs try to not to need to trust third-parties to destroy things and try to instead make sure third-parties don't see things that are too useful to Eve or Mallory in the future. (Even there, metadata is still a nightmarish concern which is hard to protect and very valuable to Eve, sometimes moreso than content.)

Even trusting the first or second party to clear things, you may have some problems. Did you really clear that memory? Are you certain the compiler didn't 'helpfully' optimise out your memset? (See also: explicit_bzero(), etc.) Did Bob secretly take a copy, or can you trust him not to? (You pretty much have to trust Bob to follow the protocol there; that is the impossible problem behind DRM! If Bob wants to cheat, he's got physical access and all the time in the world: he always wins.) And if Bob is honest, if jackboots bust down Bob's door, does Alice still have to worry about a cold-boot attack? (Probably, yes.) Or Mallory playing really dirty and rooting Alice or Bob's machine, which is always, possibly short of the $5 wrench/rubber-hose attack, the easiest route. (See also: Firewire and Thunderbolt DMA attacks, exploitable USB stack bugs, etc.)

It's possible to try to do trusted ICs with tamper-resistant low-retention EEPROM storage, such as you might find on a specialised smartcard/crypto token or TPM - Pond tries to use a TPM's key storage if one's available, I think? - but these devices are often black boxes with far too little external auditing from the good guys and it is something of a blind spot to prove it is above tampering. (There are a couple of open-source efforts to develop trusted cryptography/security cores, including https://cryptech.is/ for example, but verification that hardware objects came from sources and weren't trojaned even as low as at the gate doping level is Very Hard™!; much harder than deterministic assembly/compilation for software.) They may be trusted by some, but they have a long way to go to be trustworthy.

Rolling along with a pretty website is lovely, but doesn't help with any of these problems. Worse, it may give people a false sense of security. Please, no. The doghouse has enough dogs it in already.
We'd still be banging rocks together for fire if we quit every time we developed a technology that wasn't sufficient for production in its earliest stages.
LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy turns U.S. Open tennis match data into music
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This is a case of some idiot who is responsible for the server having to tell management something so they say "oh this guy hacked it".

Management tells the lawyers and PR which forwards it to the "news" who just go for the most sensationalist story possible.

Hope he wins any lawsuit and more importantly his reputation back somehow.

I'm not even sure what would have been the better course here other than to have CC'ed other people on the email.

ps. No way in heck I am going to click on them but those filenames seem to appear in google cache elsewhere.
What's Mongolia's population density (I haven't checked but my guess is not very high)?
Being Beethoven [0] is another habit building iOS app. The idea is that you adopt daily habits and rituals from the most effective and creative people in the world. At the moment they have Richard Feynman, Lev Landau, Elon Musk, Bruce Lee, Bill Gates, etc.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/app/being-beethoven-adopt-daily/id9....
At the Legislature or Executive are both wrong answers, as the Judiciary is also a check and balance.
there might be dead angle.
According to More or Less, 90% was the mortality rate of one particular historical outbreak.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/moreorless

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/moreor...

edit - It also says that 52% is the current figure on this outbreak and that if you count up all cases, then Ebola has a mortality rate of 60-65%.
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I am surprised how many of those habit-building apps completely ignore that there is a weekend.

I've been using Commit for a while and - because I am a bit lazy in that regard - committed to tracking my time properly every day (instead of as a bunch after 2-3 days). (I usually keep a note around)

Now, I obviously don't do that on a weekend, but it still breaks my streak all the time, which makes the streak kind of moot.

I have the same issue with GH streaks: I would enjoy if the whole system was more lenient, allowing days off the chore.
How about when he was just getting started though. There would have been a long period when the site wasn't making money, he had to pay for hardware (which was more expensive in 1997) and he was so young he likely wouldn't have had any of his own capital. It would be interesting to know how it worked. Maybe they did send him hardware right from the start but it doesn't seem likely.
I think the meaning is the following:

Function composition usually operates at non-collection type inputs. If you compose f and g, that usually means f takes some input and then g takes as input the output of g.

Transducers are a generalization of composition in the sense that it takes a collection of those inputs f would accepts.

So, in that sense, function composition could be a specific instance of transducers with number of inputs = 1.
Especially as those customers might end up liable.
Upcast, a declarative cloud infrastructure orchestration tool that leverages Nix
> By that logic why try and do anything at all ever?

Just sue them, so that it becomes well known whether the practice is illegal.

If it's not illegal, make a law covering the general problem, and let the court specify the individual matches.
One advantage might be that you could have all the materials delivered in one go from a single supplier (a concrete manufacturer), instead of having multiple deliveries from different places for the different materials (brick, concrete, cement, rebar, etc).
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cup its balls
The problem is that the United States isn't a 'country' in the way the UK, or Denmark, or Australia is. The entire population of Denmark is 5.59 million, the size of a single second or third tier city in the US. Australia is 22 million, the size of the NYC metro area. You can socialise and centralise healthcare in countries on such a small scale, but it becomes exponentially more difficult to do in a country like the US (pop: 313 M).

The United States is an enormous country comprised of 50 separate state governments, where the powers of the federal government are extremely limited (both by the constitution itself, and by the fact that it is practically impossible to do anything at that kind of scale).

As a result, it is extremely hard to pass any sort of massive reforms. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to pass one single, uniform system of health care for all Europeans?

Talking about solutions that work well in smaller countries is all well and good, but the reality is you need different solutions if you want them to work at scale. It's the same reason why most of Facebook's backend is now written in C++ instead of PHP. It is much more painstaking to work with and harder to pick up but when you're building a huge system of interconnected parts you want something that isn't going to fall over and die suddenly.

The supposed chaos and gridlock of the US political system is a feature, not a bug. It's the reason why if you look at a list of the world's oldest nations the United States is right at the top, and is one of the largest.

EDIT: Sorry - not saying the US's healthcare system is the best it can be and didn't make that clear enough. Just saying that comparing it to other countries won't help as the US has a unique political reality.
That's exactly why it would be more scalable as a court decision. A law can never encompass every possible dark pattern, while a new court decision can be added every time somebody discover something bad, and sue.

Additionally, court decisions will be more efficient, since once a pattern is found fraudulent, it is not only banned, but there is also a whole case of discussion to refer to. With a specific law like this, with no prior cases, we aren't really much further than we already were.
Yeah... when I was in grade-school, I lived in a majority-black area, and so had lots of black friends... but then in high-school we moved to a different state, and I don't think I even saw another black person until I entered college...!
Well, I remember all these things just too well from our Backbone App (not Backbones fault, but ours!), and I would never go back there again.

So now I have 3 things to add to A and to B, because B needs to refresh everytime A does

We used to do this. A lot. It was a big mess. Because in reality (for us), it is never that clear cut. You almost never have full dependencies so that thight coupling is the right way to do model it. There are always exceptions that you need to be aware of.

We found that decoupling reduces cognitive load greatly, and changing the relationships can be done a magnitude quicker because "listen to except if this and that happens" doesn't scale. There are just too many this and thats if your app is big.

I know that the status quo method always looks easier than something new, because its unfamiliar. But restriction of communication flow is, in my opinion, the ONLY way to keep order in a big, complex app.

Just consider this: I've tried both ways extensively, and I favor the Flux way. I might be an idiot, but there is a possibility that I'm not. This should encourage people to really try this once to avoid status quo bias.
So if two camps of nerds argue, inevitably someone has to submit a post to hackernews "You are both wrong! Let me show you why ..."

And maybe this post also rubs me a little wrong because on the one hand I have an interest in bayesian methods and on the other I will never be able to get a thorough nit-picking-able math education...
HabitRPG allows you to pick weekdays on which your daily activities are active, so the weekend is actually covered. What I do miss is having tasks that are weekly or monthly.
With 8% (very variable) inflation in India he is still confused about what he is getting.
NZ works excellently.

That is a pretty big claim... Have you ever actually lived in NZ and experienced the realities of paying for this system via taxes and claiming its services? Have you monitored the incessant demands for more services at better quality, the incessant complaints about being over-worked and underfunded, the endless criticisms and debates about inefficiency, long wait times, burdensome bureaucracy, poor outcomes, and unhappy doctors?

Outright fraud and corruption is just the tip of the iceberg of problems that naturally develop when a society decides to sever the act of consumption from the actual purchase of a service.
There are already prefab "components" that one can assemble into a bare-bones house. The production of this prefab parts can utilize traditional manufacturing processes. 3D printing is typically more expensive than traditional solutions.
Unfortunately Github API does not provide means to search for most watched repositories. That being said, the front page listings are a small fraction of all repositories that I have treemapped so far (around 4000 at the moment). You can search all Github repositories from the search input, and queue them for treemapping if not explored already.
Ask HN: Shall I run my own adserver?
Hello,

at the present time, advertising on my site is managed by a company that sells ads to relevant companies then serves them on my site, filling the remaining inventory with other ad networks.

At this time, they do the selling and the serving. I receive a monthly check which is the ad sales minus their commission (50%), minus serving costs.

There is no reporting, I never get any other detail other than the final amount.

Because of this - I would like to start moving to my own adserver (bonus if I don't need to physically host it myself) and just plug the ads that they sell.

How complicated is it? Worth the effort in your opinion, counting that I don't want to do any selling myself ?

Also, a big chunk of revenue is lost because they don't do responsive ads. All ads are sold on a desktop pageview basis and I know nowadays you can place some kind of placeholder and it will be rendered with a properly sized ad depending on the resolution.

Am i getting into a lot of trouble for wanting to do this on my own?
Get off the internet.
I particularly like Pans Narrans as a classification.

Though I suspect that Pans Superbia might be unfortunately closer to the mark.
I remember my friend had one, and it was on every time I visited so I could look at it.

I am tempted to get one, but I am a bit skeptical with the quality as well.
Are you a Bayesian or Frequentist? (2008)
Rethinking VPNs: Give Service Access Not Network or Desktop Access
plans to develop a temporary brake and steering wheel system for its fleet of test cars

How do you tell an autonomous car exactly where to park or at what exact spot in a parking lot to pick up a friend without a steering wheel?
The Swedish SAAB was for sale[1] not long ago if I recall correctly.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_Automobile#Spyker.2FSwedis...