skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly how I interact with the medical monopoly. I don't think I have been to the doctor for the last 10 years without knowing my diagnosis and treatment in advance. My job has then been to guide the doctor to the correct diagnosis in a way that keeps their ego intact.
I think invoking feelings artist intended or even requiring artist to intend to invoke specific feelings is too high of a standard. I agree with you on the second point.
No. One of the most commonly used definitions of faith is trust or confidence in a person or thing. Whether or not that trust or confidence is based on evidence or not is a separate matter that is not conveyed by the word.

Even in the case under discussion, that someone might have faith that something is a particular way, and are doing an experiment to confirm it (more likely disprove an alternative), that doesn't mean it's 'blind' as in without reason. People can have a lot of good reasons for believing something is a particular way without having measured it directly yet.
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Honestly I think you're way off base on rent control. I'd love to know what experiences you've had with rent control that have led you to such a negative POV? Perhaps living in Philly, as you profile mentions, has blunted you to some of the benefits of RC in housing-crunched cities.

The biggest fallacy I hear from people who don't live in one of these housing-crunched cities is the line.. everyone except the lucky few who can get rent controlled apartments. Rent control laws in SF, for example, are very inclusive. I mean, RC apartments can't be both rare AND pervasive enough to "destroy the incentive" to invest in housing, right? And every RC law I know of (which is only a few) has exemptions for new construction. In SF it's anything built after ~1980. In NYC I know it's back much further than that. So it doesn't do anything specifically to depress new construction.

Fundamentally, the question is do tenants have rights or are they at the mercy of the property rights of the building owner? In SF we believe tenants DO have rights. And you know what? RE investors here, where a rent controlled 2br apartment will set you back at least $3k a month in the city, are doing quite alright. They don't seem too desperately in need of expanded protections under the law.
Which law? They're being ordered to do something which they claim breaks Irish EU data protection law. It's a catch-22 situation; if they did comply with the court order they would be deciding that Irish law didn't apply to them.
> hate selling bandwidth first

So we pretty much agree then. They might not get to 1Gbps but the 50 Mbps I currently get (latency is horrible) is derived from a handful of channels. There is at least 600Mhz of more bandwidth sitting there. They could uncap the local network and allow other providers to tap into their last mile for a fee.
Hello,

The most important value someone can acquire is handling priorities and finishing tasks whether you like the tasks or no.

Programming can be a hobby or job. Today for you, is probably mostly a hobby and that's a very good hobby. But don't think for a minute that programming for a client, is as interesting as programming for your self. What keeps you going is the art of self-discipline. The persistence to do what you have to do when you should do it whether you feel like it or not.

School should be priority No1 for you. School will probably give you access to a University which will give you access to a world full of opportunities that now, you can't see, so basically you don't know what you're missing.

For every Zuckerberg, Jobs and Gates there are billion equally brilliant young men out there who fail everyday. Better fail with a degree that will give you access to the market than fighting alone, having to prove yourself at every step.

Generally speaking school or no school, that's up to you. But completing successfully tasks that you don't like is paramount if you want to be successful.

I with you the best of luck :-)
transferring

I don't see any claim that it was ever in the US.
Thanks for your input. I don't agree with it though ;).

The brain can push sounds to the background in the same way it does with visual cues, if there's no danger associated with them. For instance, you're not annoyed by the sounds your keyboard makes when you type (and I know many developers, who prefer loud, mechanical keyboards).

Also, try the following experiment: open a window during the day, plug in a microphone and just record with it for a minute. When you play it back, you'll hear many sounds your brain learned to ignore - cars passing by, hum of your computer, kids playing soccer on a field nearby, etc.

For those reasons I think there might be a set of sounds that would not become annoying with time.
I would expect a combination of name and functionality as sufficient to draw their ire, regardless of appearance. A lawyer can give better advice than I can, though.
I launched a similar project a couple of years a go - www.factoclock.com, it's a new fact every minute.
My concern with bringing someone with a start-up mentality into this lifestyle business (thanks mmastrac!) is that he'd be less risk-averse, and the firm would burn through its accumulated capital as so many startups burn through their investors' capital.

Sounds like an amazing opportunity for the right candidate though.
I absolutely love it. It really is quiet - to the extent that you can be standing in the kitchen and not know it's on (other than the under door light).

To me, the sole downside (and it's subjective, because I actually like it) is that the design of the the cutlery try is not particularly flexible - it has an opinion on how it should be loaded.

But everything is great. Low water consumption. Excellent cleaning. Good looks.
Doesn't work properly for me using FF 31.0

I can see the words on the tiles before clicking them.
Impressive move by Microsoft, frankly i'm more enclined to use MS cloud services,if they challenge US court orders on a regular basis. do some people know what they risk?
Oh, indeed, I've completely missed the classSet plugin! That would indeed make the code more elegant. And fair point about the logic perhaps being too complicated here.

Thanx for the pointers!
There is nothing more horrific than grout (and the cleaning thereof) in a kitchen.
Might be I've been sloppy with adding -moz- to some css rules. Will take a look!
Here's a different couple of guides to get you started:

http://lorefnon.me/2014/02/02/configuring-emacs-for-rails.ht...

http://crypt.codemancers.com/posts/2013-09-26-setting-up-ema...
It really does. We evaluated a lot, and couldn't be happier.
imho, you can use a nice and related background picture.. (check "dream afar")
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in my mind, eSports is psychological/dexterical, and chess is psychological/memorization (openings). The challenge is getting to the point where the world at large considers these types of competition to be equally valid to physical/athletic ones.
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imho, you can place a "share" button with #TodayILearned hashtag..
I touch on this in a post - I did try the latter, but got a React warning in the console about unmounted components. That, together with a comment in the official docs, made me go with the show/hide approach.

Although as pointed out in the Disqus comment, choosingg what to render is also fine, I probably did something silly stemming from not fully understanding the component life cycle.
> The 'increased focus...' is probably comparing micro- to mega- dosing, not 'reality'.

A typical mushroom taker can only trip once a week or once every two weeks (as tolerance builds up very quickly). That means one or two weeks of "reality" between (mega-dose) trips.
Nice practical introduction to none-programmers, but taught in a way that they can apply the skills to do other things instantly. Good job!
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But it appears that the Rust code is avoiding optimization over f() whereas for C code `asm("");` is inside iteration loop.
So, what with me being the crazy guy who browses with Javascript disabled, why does this page load two scripts from fb.me (Facebook) just to display two lines of centered text? There is no graceful degradation - without Javascript enabled, all I see is the text at the top and bottom.
A single "average" value can be misleading, the options in the UK have quite big speed jumps once you go beyond ADSL+, the figure you quote will be made up of x number of customers on ~40 mbps and y number on ~80 mbps.
Well, exactly. If I understand the paper, the only condition you need in order to arrive at accurate estimates is the absence of pressure to underestimate.
Chez Panisse charges a $25 deposit for reservations, that goes towards your meal. But they have two seatings per night, so it is more difficult to fill tables for no-shows. It's still impossible to get reservations there.
Huh. "Belt-phone business guy" is a new expression for me. What does this mean, exactly?
Isn't the DX almost exactly what you're asking for?
Another project that does this - https://github.com/jonthornton/MtaSanitizer. Free and self-hosted.
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That's a nice lucid example. Google should hire that guy!
Here in the UK, in addition to Nurse Practitioners we also have Surgical Care Practitioners - non-doctors who are trained to perform a specific subset of routine surgeries, or to assist in more complex surgery. It really doesn't make much sense to have a highly trained cardiac surgeon spend half an hour stitching up a patient after a surgery.

Our National Health Service benefits from substantial levels of integration, allowing for Fordist division of labour. The per-capita budget is much lower than in the US, but we can use that budget very efficiently.

Another example is the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, which develops evidence-based care pathways and makes key decisions on drug prescribing and purchasing. Because our drug buying is done centrally (giving the NHS considerable negotiating power), and because NICE are prepared to reject a drug on the basis of an inadequate cost-benefit ratio, we pay far less than most industrialised nations for medicines. It is my understanding that competition legislation would prevent insurers and HMOs from implementing such a system in the US.
For this particular benchmark Rust is beating C and LuaJIT by an unbelievable margin. I emitted IR for the Rust code[1] and it contains 4613732, the result of function f.

[1] https://github.com/japaric/eulermark.rs/blob/master/problems...

[2] compilation flags used: rustc -O --emit ir 002.rs
See the goreman solution below: its similar but each output line has its app prefixed.
What? No.

Comcast has their network reliably built out to 750 MHz. If you think there are 600 MHz unused on that, you're left with 150 MHz. Which is about enough space for about 20 NTSC channels and the FM band. I can assure you that there's basically no HFC/CATV provider in the world, never mind the US, with 600 MHz unused just sitting there.
What is the theoretical justification for taking a completely flat prior? "If we set the prior P(Ftrue)∝1 (a flat prior),"

There's no probability distribution which is constant over the whole real line. Is the idea that we can pick a distribution which is constant over an arbitrarily large (but finite) interval around the observed data, and so in practice, we may get results arbitrarily close to those given?
Sorry. After last two months with angular (and no previous experience with it) I found five bugs in angular. Fix for one was released in the meantime. Some already had fixes submitted months ago but got stuck on different stages of their process of accepting patches. One is not even reported yet (although I admit this one is not about directives but $ q).

As for composability they did not seriously thought this through. One bug I found out, the one that got fixed, showed up for anone who created two directives with isolated scope and transclusion, one used in template of the other. Basically isolated scope of outer directive got transcluded into inner one instead scope outer in relation to outside directive.

Scopes suffer from the same flaws that with() statement in js suffers mainly that when you assign inside it will be assigned not where you at first expect (current leaf scope not the scope of closest controller). When you add to this the fact that humble ng-model assigns you have a huge hole that nearly all newbies fall into at least once.

Another gripe is that angular doesn't eat it's own dogfood. For example ng-required is not a directive. It's just attribute parsed internally by input directive.

AngularUI router is worthless if you need to have multiple tabs inside your web app as it allows you to have just one branch of views tree shown at any given time. There are suggestions about implementing parallel subviews but last time I checked it was too hard for them.

Angular is set of legos with lots of weird pieces. React is blueprint how to make your own bricks so they fit together and won't turn into tower of ugly chaos when assembled.

I was distrustful towards virtual dom at first. But that's just a way of batching and saving dom changes. The architecture that's enabled by it is all about composability and maintaining control over your project.
As developers , we grapple with challenges everyday. This is the reason I chose this as a direction in life rather than just a profession. What one thinks (as a developer in my opinion) was the most challenging problem today would certainly be overshadowed by something even more formidable tomorrow. As far as details are concerned , that really depends. I say quote the challenge you could rate as the highest, and elaborate on how you went about dealing with it and coming out with a solution and making that particular module or feature work. Not all challenges get dealt with elegantly, most are just last minute bug-fixes (from my experience) to ship the code / feature to production and does lead to code that might not make us feel too proud about later on. So think it through choose the challenge to narrate about wisely and prioritize those with elegant solutions.Quick-fixes are not always bad if they serve the purpose to fix bad / buggy code. As for the main points on how to begin or what to highlight:
1. What was the challenge (a brief description)?
2. What were your foreseeable possible solutions (There are always multiple approaches to attack any code problem)?
3. Was there any collaborative brainstorming (sharing your challenges / problems within your team and seeking advice from those who might be able to give you a direction is the way to go) ?
4. What was the solution and how did you implement in the code ( the real "under the hood" details come here)?
5. What did you learn from this challenge ( Bonus Points for this) ?
Sort of depends on what is meant by a plug-in architecture. I think it's begging the question a bit.

I can compare writing extensions to Firefox and extensions to Emacs and it's pretty much the same experience, if that helps?
> I'd be pressed to find the reference, but people have shown that proportional percent of income ( in the aggregate, GDP ) spent on medical care has been consistent between countries.

There's a couple of tables related to that at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_heal... . US is an outlier, with a total health expenditure of 17.7% of GDP. Otherwise, yes, most similar countries (Germany, France, etc.) spend between about 8 and 11% of GDP.
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Completely agree. Everything that is supposedly not addressed in Kaggle actually is, aside from productionizing and monitoring your model in production. Sure it's a simplified less open ended version of what you'll encounter in the real world, but that doesn't mean that many of the core concepts don't translate. It's kind of like saying that you shouldn't do your calculus practice problems, because math in the real world is never so straightforward.

I think the most legitimate knock against Kaggle is that in many business settings there probably isn't much value in improving that extra .00001 (but obviously there are exceptions).

Anyway, I think that that even someone very experienced in machine learning would learn something doing a Kaggle competition, especially if the competition is in an area outside their core expertise.
I'd rather say that mathematics at academia aren't real mathematics. It pretty much depends on academia, of course, but what is generally taught to students under the name of "mathematics" (especially on technical programs, like engineering, CS, etc.) has less mathematical value than typical problem at Olympiads. But that wasn't my point, anyway.

Yes, that is true that "pure something" is almost always significantly different from "something in the real life". That's pretty obvious, actually. I guess that there's virtually nothing in the "real life" that would consist from only one "core" activity. In fact, it's the opposite: you make some activity "pure" in order to master it, because in the real life there's so much that distracts you from mastering that one essential skill, whatever would it be. Plubmers and painters (and almost everyone else) must to be able to talk to others and to solve totally human-related problems in order to do their job. Person you would call sniper actually does much more running, crawling, waiting and hiding than shooting. Or does it really surprise anyone that policemen do tons of paperwork every day and not so much of that stuff they show in the movies? And somewhat opposite example: it's obvious that cook's work isn't only slicing vegetables, but have you ever seen how any real cook handles his knife? Please do, it's sight to behold. There's nothing "pure" in this world, no surprise here.

So if it would be Yan LeCun writing something like this it would be justifiable (although I would be rather surprised to hear that), but in this particular case it's more like saying "Kaggle isn't important, data science is me!", in which case I find that NBA example to be OK.

To summarise: "data science is more than building a model" — yes, "Machine learning isn't Kaggle competitions" — no.
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>depends on what is meant by a plug-in architecture.

I'll give examples.

I love how easy it is to change or customize Emacs. E.g., if I want to change what happens when I right click on some text, I can do so (and have done so) by writing some Emacs Lisp code (and only 27 lines of Emacs Lisp code at that) -- leaving the parts of Emacs written in C completely untouched.

In other words, in Emacs (and IIUC Light Table), with very few exceptions, all of the editor’s functionality is exposed via "APIs" (and in Emacs, it would be accurate to replace "APIs" with "variables and functions" since Emacs does not have classes and such) written in a high-level scripting language (Emacs Lisp or ClojureScript).

The same cannot be said of Textmate, Sublime Text or Lime Text. What one can say of those three, though, is that they all have a plug-in architecture.

So, my question, again, is whether the OP is correct in his assertion that -- at least for people who are in the habit of frequently changing many different aspects of their editor -- having a plug-in architecture is no substitute for having virtually all of the editor's functionality exposed via "APIs" written in a high-level language.
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If D.C. and Virginia were countries, they'd be in the top 5 in Akamai's data, between Japan and Switzerland.
The problem with emacs is that while emacs is indeed long lived, plugins often have a short life-span. I've tried on a couple of occasions to find a good C++11 compatible plug-in but failed. I found one which used libclang, but didn't work with the latest version of clang.
Hmmm. "All-white like Sweden", is a poor way of describing Sweden.

"As of 2011, Statistics Sweden reported that around 19.6% or 1.858.000 inhabitants of Sweden had foreign background, defined as born abroad or born in Sweden by two parents born abroad." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden#Immigr...

That said, I think that the fact that the Swedish regulatory and legislative process isn't captured by commercial interests in the same way it is in the US, is the key thing that has allowed Sweden to move ahead with good broadband.
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I use the term "sitting there" very loosely, meaning TV channels that no-one in my neighborhood is watching. From my completely unscientific poll of people on my block that I interact with (selection bias) most do not use the channels, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, torrents, etc. The only person I know that actually uses a TV does so with terrestrial signals, but she is 5 std dev away from normal.
I think state sanctioned monopolies are _probably_ ok if regulated well. Natural Gas falls in that category here and I think they do a pretty good job. I'd say Comcast falls into state sanctioned monopoly-power-abuse which is different.
I know you meant no ill by saying it, but I have seen the claim of homogenity in the Swedish population brought up in several discussions over the past months and being Swedish myself it does sting a bit. Sweden has a long tradition of accepting refugees, wherever they may come from. Along with Germany, we are currently receving far more than other EU countries and many more are expected over the next few years due to the current unrest in the world.

Sweden being all-white, all-Scandinavian is an outdated image. Many cultures thrive together here, bringing new food and traditions. Almost thirty percent of the current Swedish population is foreign-born or have foreign-born parents. Studies show that the average Swede has become increasingly positive to immigration.

I am certain that if something is holding back the progress of Internet connections, it's not minorities. If this post can change the image of Sweden as "all-white" in just one person on HN, typing it will have felt very worth the time.
I can make a living with my water off. I can't with my internet off.
> I'd take a crowd sourced db of health info over a doctor's personal knowledge any day of the week.

I think it's a great idea, and so I went looking for a StackExchange forum for it. It turns out there is one that is in the staging phase:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/66048/health

Obviously caveat emptor, YMMV etc. would apply to such a forum, and the other issue is that a patient posting there doesn't have access to all the diagnosis tools that doctors do.
It's not like people dislike tablets but it's more on not having a reason to upgrade. Most tablets are good enough.
An even older engineer once told me: Even after you've doubled the estimate, it will still take twice as long as you estimate.
This case may be the leading edge of a huge wave with a global sweep.

The sticky point may be that the locality of data is impermanent and ambiguous. In the MS case, though the data is said to be stored on a server in Ireland, it could just as well be distributed, moved or duplicated anywhere, and for all we know it already has been.

Eventually laws will have to come to terms with the implications of the Internet: data, like a flock of migratory birds, for its own reasons goes one place to another and knows nothing about national boundaries.
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I'm a quite new Kaggler, but did some similar machine learning competitions on similar plateforms and I have to say that this article is quite bullshit.

How can a data scientist actually complain that the low value data munging work is already done for him ? Gosh, it should be the other way around - we should complain about how much of this we have to do at work !