skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried co-working spaces? Might help you network with similar people.
You are just playing the devil's advocate here.
Single vs Double precisions is fine.

Most of Matlab calculations are homework or simulations. Generally speaking the real world will add more errors then double floating points will reduce.

Honestly GNU Octave has been a surprisingly fast developing product. Matlab only got GPU acceleration 2 years ago (according to my buddy who uses Matlab) (which is very fast for a GNU project). A lot of academics are picking up on it, even professors recommending it.

I think the most glowing recommendation I heard was, "Well its free, and free goes along way when you're living on a research stipend."
> That 10% is still orders of magnitude less than I pay annually for health insurance, which is sinfully expensive.

I don't think you understand what "order of magnitude" means. You pay more than your gross salary for health insurance? If 10% is "orders of magnitude less", then you must pay at least 100%.

Also, I don't know where you are buying insurance from, but I can get insurance for about 4% of my gross salary.
In germany unlimited sms has only been a thing since ip based messengers like WhatsApp took over messaging and nobody is using SMS anymore, before that SMS were quite expensive after you hit the budget of your contract (typically about 50-100 SMS). Now, unlimited SMS is the norm and things like this browser get interesting. But even if it would be a great working alternative, it will only work until carriers adapt. I really want unlimited data...currently i get 750MB with a contract that costs EUR 50.
Adding all numbers in strict cons-based list is O(n). Adding all numbers in lazy cons-based list is O(n). Adding all numbers in a strict cons-based tree can be O(log n). Adding all numbers in a lazy cons-based tree can be O(log n). Laziness is an entirely different problem from the one the author is talking about.

I see many people here in the sibling replies appear to have also so thoroughly internalized that "cons is for a list" that they appear to have entirely missed the point of the article.
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5000 Rupee (or 63EUR) per month for nurse? If this is close to true, I really feel for them. They work just as hard as the doctors, some even more so.
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This is an interesting, readable report on an automated procedure for experimenting on evolution of microorganisms that will be good to try out with microorganisms other than yeast. Figuring out the different gene interactions over many generations of random mutations will eventually develop a deeper understanding of how these one-celled organisms work. And that, as an expert interviewed for the article suggested, will help deepen understanding of evolution as a process. "'I think many people think about one gene for one trait, a deterministic way of evolution solving problems,' said David Reznick, a biologist at the University of California, Riverside. 'This says that’s not true; you can evolve to be better suited to the environment in many ways.'"

Scaling up this approach to study multicellular organisms with longer generation times than yeast will of course take a lot of time and effort. Sometimes (as here) experiments on simple model organisms produce surprising findings. There will be even more surprising findings, I think, as evolution is studied in more detail in multicellular organisms at the molecular genetic level with strict experimental controls of developmental environments.

EDIT TO REPLY TO ANOTHER COMMENT:

Another participant asked,

I feel like a CS education should prepare one for this kind of field. What's a good way to get started learning more about evolution?

It will indeed take a lot of hard work by experienced computer scientists to solve some problems in evolutionary theory. A quite good way to start learning about evolution is to read the book Why Evolution Is True, which talks not only about evidence for evolution but also about implications of the theory. Then read the book's website[1] frequently for the latest news.

Other good things to read are the books by biologist Sean Carroll (not to be confused with physicist Sean Carroll) such as Endless Forms Most Beautiful.[2]

[1] http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Forms-Most-Beautiful-Science/d...
How much would you consider selling it for?
This starts off similar to the "mind palace" from the BBC TV series Sherlock Holmes. And gets very detailed and interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

From the site:

Step 1 - Find a place: We start by preparing your spatial memory. To do this, you need to choose an actual place or building that you’re very familiar with. This could be your home, work, school, or any place that you can close your eyes and imagine or "see" in detail ...
The main thing to blame for that was WWII, where a lot of people learned to read. When they returned, there was a deluge of inexpensive pulp novels and magazines, in addition to abridged and simplified versions of classic or important works (notably from Reader's Digest.)

Many of the adults consuming these books had just learned to read. I adore that stuff and collect it (for both lurid cover art and lurid content), but the actual gems are not so common and 98% of them are completely unremembered.
Would this allow users to circumvent internet censorship? It seems like that as long as the main server was outside of the censored zone, SMS traffic would be able to get information in under the radar.
So a better metric is % of GDP spent on healthcare, and the relative outcomes.

The US spends a much greater proportion of GDP[1] on healthcare compared to many other industrialised nations, and the outcomes are broadly the same as those who spend far less.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?order=wba...
So 8% of users try it once per day? I'm wondering how that compares to phone, messages, email, whatsapp, Skype, etc? Very poorly, I'd say.
I am increasingly critical of Wikipedia's project, and not just in terms of its observed gender balance. The standard of "objectivity by media citation" breaks down for many fields of study: For one example, there are many criticisms of Wiki history in /r/AskHistorians. [0] [1] [2]

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/281u8f/what_a...

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2fa203/wikipe...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1jvfe6/if_wik...
>But for Wikipedia to actually become a platform fully embraced by women, it would have to change its culture in fundamental ways, reducing its emphasis on anonymity and providing more opportunities for meaningful companionship and satisfying social relationships between its contributors.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social network.
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> This condition is known as cerebellar agenesis.

To tease you a little bit, I read this as

> This condition is known as being born without a cerebellum.

I don't know why we need a latin name for everything!
What kind of challenges do the characters face? In the YA I remember, characters were struggling to define themselves while figuring out social standing, who their friends were, how to interact with their parents and managing their obligations(typically schoolwork). Those struggles could be abstracted by adding in genre challenges, but were still recognizable, and that was the appeal.

I don't know a ton about pulp genre fiction, but the stuff I read is about people trying to be good at their jobs, take care of their families, meet their obligations, and still end up good and/or alive.

It's still escapist, but I feel more comfortable escaping in to stories where the characters have the same problems I do. I don't judge anyone for reading what they want to, but I don't understand the appeal of reading books about teenagers' problems. and that's fine.
Your speculation presupposes that 'adults' will be more successful than 'non-adults'. It is an interesting experiment, and everyone who is raising kids is participating in it, I think it is too early to guess on which will be the people in control of the knobs next.
If I'm on a 2-lane road, and gravel next to the white line... a car is passing me and having to cross the center line. Meanwhile, a big gravel truck is approaching over the hill in the oncoming lane. The 4000 lb car to the left of me can either wrestle with the 25000 lb gravel truck, or the 200 lb me. Now guess why I'm willing to hit the gravel and let the car back over.
Well, that's sartorially normative, isn't it? Check your privilege.
I'd argue that a survey of the literature shows quite the opposite. A young adult novel is more likely to address a specific subset of questions, yes, but if anything they are more likely to address e.g. ethical issues and moral dilemmas.
Even better, why not just let people enable/disable the ethnicities? Could even make it so it draws the most recently enabled race on top of the rest. I'm trying to get an idea for where each ethnicity lives and it would be so much easier if I could just look at one at a time.
> The majority is always wrong by definition

Care to explain the thinking behind that logic?

I can't seem to get my head anywhere near understanding how you can state this.
Thanks for the redlines on my writing. I'll make sure to incorporate these nifty tips into future correspondence.

However, I think you can agree that you are being a bit extreme by saying that my post "contributed nothing to the conversation". Just because you happen to dislike what I said or how I made the point doesn't invalidate it.

I'm sorry that you find my post distasteful, but given the initial post I think that it was fully appropriate.
I wish the results of the form [0] for favourite apps to port was public.

[0] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10mlIGJq2ENubhkvTJYk11ujckA8...
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Not only does it sound like you didn't read the article to the end, it sounds like you didn't even bother to skim past the first 1/3.
> 1) Call a specialist's office for appointment, and you will usually get a wait list of 3 to 6 months.

In the past year I have seen both a dermatologist and an orthopedist for the first time. I never had to wait more than a week.

> 3) Doctor sends in your prescription to your mail order pharmacy.

Mine have always gone to the local pharmacy of my choice. Same for my wife.

> 5) You get bills, which could be 10x higher than what you were expecting. Your insurance company provides no explanation of the mysterious charges.

I rarely get bills after the fact, but they always itemize and explain the charges. I also get statements showing what my insurance company paid.
If I had to guess, I'd say it's because it's slightly faster, still makes sense if you have learned the right bits of Latin, and because it makes you feel smart.
Double-precision is a good default for a tool like Octave, but I agree that single-precision can be plenty accurate for a lot of uses. It's often just not worth the added time and code complexity to determine where single-precision should be used.
Source? Edit: Found it.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-Sept...
Ironically, in addition to working on the code described by the linked piece, I also implemented POSIX.1b message queues for QNX. (Namely, for QNX4 in 1995.) While I'm not necessarily in love with .1b message queues (see the commit referred to by my earlier comment, above), one cannot compare blocking message passing (Send/Receive/Reply) to message queueing -- they have entirely different semantics. (The QNX primitives are more analogous to doors.[1]) I would also caution about making blanket statements about performance with respect to different IPC mechanisms on entirely different systems: aside from the lack of quantification in your assertion, different IPC mechanisms often solve slightly different problems, and each must be considered within the context of its own system.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doors_(computing)
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Sorry for your loss.

I don't really know how all that works but just curious - is it documented / can they prove that the pre-existing condition wasn't mentioned at that time? Sounds pretty convenient for the insurance company to purposely "forget" something like this and then abuse that information when the time comes since, unfortunately, the person who could argue it is no longer alive.
Could you achieve a more high throughput version over voice? I wonder, after compression what the data rate ends up being. I'm reading gzip can get 2:1-4:1 with text. So about a kb/s?
For those that to become adults in your scenario, though, the societal markers are stacked heavily against them. Delayed gratification could be something like financial independence, right? How does that square with the heavy push that one should become indebted to others (via credit or loans or what-have-you)?
Specifically human intelligence of the kind that builds internets and spaceships has evolved exactly once on all of Earth's history, in contrast to things like eyes and wings, which have evolved dozens of times. And it evolved very recently, and appears to be due to run-away sexual selection of the kind that produced the peacock's tail.

All of this suggests that specifically human intelligence--not dolphin or bird or any other kind of intelligence that does not build internets and spaceships--has an unusually narrow bottleneck to get through compared to most other capabilities, despite the ridiculous benefits available once a species gets through it.

As such, I'm betting that we'll find life pretty much everywhere in the universe, and intelligence almost no-where. When intelligence does arise, it will likely be wildly different from us due to the essentially random nature of the sexual selection process that takes it through the bottleneck. The precursor species will almost certainly be tool-using and social, but tool use and social behaviour are both extremely common, so we could find anything from intelligent birds to octopuses.

With regard to the "surprise" that evolution can produce convergent morphology, this isn't really that surprising: genetic studies have shown that such things occur in nature. For example there are two species of coastal lizard in the Yucatan both of which have evolved an extra vertebra in their neck which were thought to come from a common ancestral population, but thanks to genetic analysis in the '90's were found to be due to convergent adaptations to coastal conditions by different inland species. Furthermore, while gene selection does occur, the basic unit of selection is the whole organism, which in most cases either reproduces, or does not.

Evolution happens at multiple levels (a topic it is fun to speculate on: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe-ebook/dp/...) and the competition between them is likely to be a focus of increasing study in coming years.
I really just wish they would make a native email client & possibly native word and spreadsheet app to work with Google drive. It's confusing for me to know whats synced offline vs online, I can't imagine how the average user must feel.
Often private insurers will say "We will pay 1XX% of what Medicare pays" and the like, though not across the board. Generally from procedure to procedure.
"the sites where men are most dominant – Wikipedia and Reddit – are on the whole very dry and text-based. ...The sites where women predominate ...Pinterest is full of gorgeous, nourishing images uploaded by contributors."

While I agree with the point that more images and more attractive layout would help attract female visitors/editors, I do not like the language the author used here. Why is text portrayed as "dry" while images as "nourishing"? Personally I prefer text much more over image when I am trying to gain information on a subject. Text is straightforward, precise and quickly processed. Unless I am browsing a geography, food or history article I turn off the image all together. Most of the time they don't tell me anything more than the text.

Wikipedia's purpose is to provide information and knowledge. Not entertainment.
Sounds similar to the German medical services available for children. My son needed surgery on his ptosis that is becoming a problem for his vision. After making seeing the doctor at the UniKlinik in Cologne, he was booked in for operation in two weeks time. The operation took place and was in hospital for about 1 week. My wife stayed with him for that whole week in the hospital.

Total cost for this procedure was zero. I did not have to deal the insurance at all, the UniKlinik handled all the paperwork.

We were considering having the same operation in Australia prior to relocating to Germany. It would have cost at least $2500 and months of waiting.
i am an indian living in the US for more than 10 years.
Costs are cheaper in India and the big hospitals usually have good quality care. The problem is what happens when you have complications or side effects. In the US, you can sue the hospital/doctor and expect to get paid. You can't do that in India (cases drag on for decades).
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Since Canada doesn't spend trillions in wars and bailing out banks, they can afford to provide healthcare to it's citizens.
Perhaps, but there's a big difference between not trusting machines and not trusting them to be perfect. If people don't trust machines, it's because they're surrounded by machines that break and malfunction constantly, systems that don't work, networks that fail - and autonomous cars implies a level of faith in all of that working flawlessly most of the time in spite of demonstrable reality.

While I object to autonomous cars mostly because they remove human autonomy and implicitly limit freedom (as a tradeoff for safety and greater efficiency), I think it would be a bad idea in any case to come to the point where having a steering wheel isn't even an option.
> gets rid of the css, javascript, and images

Hell, this might even be faster than loading stuff over WiFi.
Well, I ordered the book. I've given the first couple chapters a read and (while the writing is somewhat agony-inducing) it's far better than I gave it credit for. I retract my earlier statements :)
These are all really, really weak arguments for using Node. It's annoying to see them parroted again--can we do better?
More usefully it means doctors fluent in different languages have a very good chance of accurately describing conditions to each other.
When I was a kid bullies pulled your pants down to your knees to embarass you, I guess now they pull them up :-)

But more seriously kids get to an age where they want to declare they are not their parents, the go to method of choice has been clothes since well since forever. The cycle is that the kids wear it, its shocking, then as they get older they are wearing it as "adults" which then makes it establishment, so the kids behind them make up some other fad. Rinse and repeat. I think making dress code laws is both absurd and hopeless.
Using files and sockets as common abstractions for a variety of underlying mechanisms is one of the most powerful things about UNIX/Linux. Yes, there are tradeoffs, but in return, it means you can interoperate with a tremendous number of utilities and tools (which don't even need to know anything about the underlying mechanism) in unplanned and unexpected ways... for free.
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> The "B" players aren't demotivated by bad management, a hostile environment, lack of freedom or respect - they're people who are just naturally unmotivated, lazy, etc.

I strongly disagree with that. In the wrong environment I could definitely be a 'B' player, in the right environment I'm unstoppable.
It certainly makes it easier to find in a book or via search. You have one word for what it's called, instead of having some under "Born without a cerebellum," some as "Missing cerebellum," others in "No cerebellum," "Undeveloped cerebellum," etc.

Plus it's more convenient to say. Not a big deal for us, but to people who deal with crazy medical conditions all day long, describing each one in natural language would be imprecise and time consuming.
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S/he tried to tip the nurse.
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It's better to have a shorter and noun form for referencing being born without a cerebellum. It's especially convenient for researchers who write about it and have to refer to being born without a cerebellum multiple times in a single paragraph.

It's better to have a shorter and noun form for referencing cerebellar agenesis. It's especially convenient for researchers who write about it and have to refer to cerebellar agenesis multiple times in a single paragraph.
Is the full article not pay-walled for anyone else?
The US of 2014 doesn't have 25% unemployment. When we get back to that point, I think we'll develop more tolerance for socialist policies. And just in case anyone doesn't think our unemployment will get that high, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
With the number of non-compliant usb devices on the market, I would guess that the inconsistent compatibility of the magnetic plug/receptacle would cause a good deal of frustration.
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Please tell me you are planning something like this?
Disclosure: I am a Wikipedian. I agree with several other participants here on HN that the general atmosphere on HN is much more friendly to informed, thoughful discussion on most topics than the Wikipedia editing culture is to discussion of how to edit Wikipedia.

One thing that Wikipedia helps some people learn about is reliable sources. With that in mind, I'll mention that the source kindly submitted here, the Wikipediocracy site, is a haven for critics of Wikipedia of all kinds, including people who were site-banned from Wikipedia for tendentious pro-Nazi edits[1] and a variety of other people that no professional editor would ever allow to edit an important reference resource. The mobocracy of Wikipedia's initial editing culture indeed drew in too many idle young men with little life experience and too few people who had ever had actual responsibilities as editors or researchers.

I agree with the comments posted before this comment was posted that most women, as a general rule, know better than to engage in time-wasting activities like cleaning up the mess on Wikipedia. I have to carefully ration my Wikipedia research and editing time among responsibilities for doing actual paid work and caring for my children. Anyone with adult life experience and mature judgment is likely to find Wikipedia more off-putting than rewarding, but some people persist in trying to clean up one or another corner of Wikipedia out of compassion for readers of the world's most visited free online encyclopedia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests...

http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5063
In my experience The Internet in general will argue about everything. FIFY.
Caching can be critical if the volume is high enough. There are physical limitations of computing appliances that make sites like Google or Facebook actually impossible to run without extensive caching and indexing layers, not just prohibitively expensive.
Yes I suppose it is. I guess I should say it the other way. I'm impressed with the long-botheredness of people in power regardless of the intent of the people wearing the fashion. Most of the time parents, clergy, etc give up after a decade or two and accept something as normal.
I don't think your distinction (or judgment) here changes OP's point. It might be a solitary, textual endeavor, but the question remains: why are women less prone to dedicate time to this sort of stuff.
Don't bring religion into this.
Wow. Simple, yet profoundly true.