skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, next question. What is a woman? This is a serious question.

Here's the thing about your answer to the previous question: if what you mean when you say "act like a woman" is "cautious," why not just say "why is it considered misbehaving when men act recklessly?" The answer to that question would be much more instructive, although also somewhat tautological. You correctly describe your response as a sweep generalization with endless counter examples. In other words, wrong.

Gender is a cultural construction. Get that through your skull, and you can start talking about what you're actually talking about rather than muddying things up with your prejudices about men and women.

As for teaching about violence, you've made another mistake. Violence is always an evil. If nothing else, a violent act against an evil person still brutalizes the actor. The difference between story book morality and the real world is that real morality often involves choices between multiple evils. If the evil of not acting violently outweighs the evil of acting violently, then you must act violently. But it is not a lie to teach children that violence is always wrong.

it seems like we have a majority of parents who go with the convenient lie and fail to follow up

Yes, if only parents would stop teaching their children that violence is wrong, there would be less violence in the world. You realize how rediculous that assertion is?
I can imagine a simple scheme by which this works: simply keep a "distribution" with every single variable. However, I guess this stops working correctly when there is correlation. For example, imagine that somewhere in the program, I generate a variable X with 50% probability of being 1 and 50% of being 0. Then I generate Y = -X. And finally, I compute Z = X + Y. Now, if the program does not keep track of the fact that Y and X are correlated, then Z will falsely contain nonzero values in its distribution.
He's teaching others how to write in this style too - "having sapiently bored students at a fine writer’s retreat".

My reaction to the article was to make a nice cup of coffee.
When you structure your health system as a marketplace full of competing for-profit health care providers, don't be surprised when consumers start shopping.
Fair enough; I'm all for mocking bullshit language, it's just that deliverable never striked me as such. Then again, I don't work in English-speaking corporations.
It is an interesting idea to see if forgoing formal learning through tutoring, reading material, and textbooks; and learning through team collaboration and a lot of practice would work.

Like others on the thread, my hunch is that there will be a small group of self-driven students who will teach themselves using the same formal education methods: replicating the courses given in other universities, reading textbooks/papers/research, researching online, and watching MOOC style videos.

This group will end up teaching the others in their class through project collaboration. But unless everyone in the class is self-driven, the result would be a couple of successful self-taught developers, and a whole lot of below average ones.
Your points are disingenuous and suggest that Serbia wins in any case while it lacks higher ground.

In case Serbia wants to join the EU they need a vote from Croatia too and this is a legitimate reason to block entry. In case it doesn't enter the EU it's just status quo before a way is found to settle the dispute, something that has been done in a lot of post-Yugoslav succession cases with success.
This is a great article and study. We see more and more evidence that the human consciousness and decision making is distributed and in more places than the brain. Lots of articles in last 6 months about how our "gut" influences decisions based on bacteria, microbes, and flora.
Not really. We're far more proud of the Battle of Vimy, which we actually won.
French here who know a few people from 42. The tests to get in 42 are very basic and they're more about testing your patience than anything else. However, in order to get in the other top schools on this list, you need very high grades in math and physics among other things from high school. 42 let people in that haven't even finished high school. Not comparable. The reason they get 70000 people applying is because it's free, most applicants don't even finish the whole test (it lasts many days).
Ask HN: Why does Costco not have an express lane at any of their stores?
The CEO claims it's because:

>"Costco’s ability to sell merchandise at incredibly low prices is based on adhering to various operating disciplines at every turn. Instead of having an express line—that often would be open but without a member in line—we have invested millions of dollars to speed up the entire front-end process. Our policy is “no more than one (member) in line and two (members waiting) behind.” The average completed front-end transaction is just over 1 minute." [0]

But I think he's skirting the issue. I also think I know the answer but I'll pose the question first before muddling anybody's thoughts on the matter with my own.

[0] http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/12/q-a-with-costco-s-ceo-w-craig-jelinek/index.htm
It's interesting to compare the "CSA reports per 100 residents" with this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/African_...
Iceland has excellent Geothermal resources.

Hawaii, if you actually sit down and look at where the geothermal resources are (big island and a tiny amount on Maui, not where 90+% of electricity is used on Oahu), will force you to conclude that they couldn't copy Iceland and are stuck with other renewables.
> the result would be a couple of successful self-taught developers, and a whole lot of below average ones.

Sounds like most CS schools I know then.
I'm well aware of the nature of, and reason for the ANZAC day commemorations. The irony was that an event that served to define New Zealand and Australia's national identities, is also one of British Empires greatest failures.
Somewhat OT, but this is something I wish people could understand about groups like Occupy and GamerGate. The criticisms of both are often measured in such a way that the targets of the criticism can never do "enough".
What would the OS check the signature against, though? The certs that come with the OS are for validating sites, not apps, so passing a check wouldn't tell you much. It seems that Android would have to add a whole new cert store (and mechanism for adding certs), not just a couple of lines.
true that Monaco doesn't have a national team, but there is a team bearing it's name and in the principality, AS Monaco, who plays in the Ligue 1 (and will be playing the 2nd leg of the quarter finals of the champions league against Juventus)

:)
zuckerberg doesn't have any relevant computer science or non-basic programming skills (page has ~4 years more relevant computer science background that motivated google.com algorithm), and 99.99% of people in any of these schools are not going be the next zuck or page. facebook was one of dozens of social networks that were poppping up in the 2000s, and its success had more to do with investor and hiring connections then anything special about the original product.

For both zuck and page, their uncommon technical accomplishments came from people they hired: a small army of very-well-educated engineers with traditional education.
Report: 'Load Defection' from Customer-Owned Solar and Batteries Is Already Here
You are right how could I forget Kyubey. Just added him to the list (under the category Other). I will try adding the clipboard button when I have time. Thanks for the suggestions.
If you don't mind me asking, how hard was it to find a job after being away for that long?

I graduated from university 2 years ago, but I haven't sent out even a single resume or job application. In a couple of weeks, I (also being 24) will be having my first appointment with a psychiatrist.

I suspect that within the next several months I will be attempting a job search, but I am worried that having such a large gap will make the process rather difficult.
It sounds very novel and interesting, but for me for example I know I need _some_ structure to learn something. It doesn't have to be a formal university degree structure, but some kind of arrangement of material, mentorship, progress tracking, experience sharing, feedback, etc. is necessary for me.

I kind of doubt that giving a person with no programming/CS experience Google and a task like "write a concurrent distributed high-performance database system" would lead to a good outcome. There is a lot of trade lore, experience, knowledge of what works and what doesn't, etc. which is better passed by a teacher in an carefully constructed narrative than by random discovery by an uninitiated person.

But it is interesting to see what comes out of it, maybe they prove me wrong.
Perhaps this example is what you describe? flatMap (used by the for comprehension) enables monads to combine in powerful ways. The first part shows uncorrelated X,Y such that Y ~ -X, then the second part shows correlated Y = -X such that every y = -x

{
val X: Podel[Int] = Bernoulli(p = 0.5)
val Y: Podel[Int] = X.map(-1 * _)
val Z: Podel[Int] = X + Y
val d: Podel[Int] = for {
x <- X
y <- Y
z <- Z
} yield {
z
}
d.hist(sampleSize = 10000, optLabel = Some("Uncorrelated X, Y"))
}

{
val X: Bernoulli = Bernoulli(p = 0.5)
val d: Podel[Int] = for {
x <- X
y = - 1 * x
z = x + y
} yield {
z
}
d.hist(sampleSize = 10000, optLabel = Some("y = -x"))
}
/*

Uncorrelated X, Y

-1 25.52% #########################

0 49.60% #################################################

1 24.88% ########################

y = -x

0 100.00% ####################################################################################################

*/

So far, the weakness I find with probability monad, and simulation, is lack of precision. This makes them useless when the probability you want to find is precise such as 5.324e-11. Only formulas can give you the answer.
> For these types of issues, you can always find studies that contradict one another.

The cochrane collaboration perform meta analysis, so they have included the the research papers that say "exercise is a treatment for depression". Your casual dismissal of a well-respected organisation is odd.

> Yes, it's a vague hunch. I'm just saying it seems credible. I don't think it's very controversial that if you go to a psychiatrist for depression, they will ask how much you exercise, and if you don't, they will recommend it. They don't really have proof that it will help. But they will tell you that. It's the best they can do.

I've just shown you strong evidence that it's not "the best they can do".

They recommend exercise because many mental health meds list weight gain and increased appetite as side effects; and because they're doctors and so they recommend exercise to everyone.

> There's certainly nothing WRONG with exercise for a typical sedentary person, while there are known side effects to medication. And that doesn't mean they are exclusive -- medication + exercise may be the best solution for many people.

You've worded this to suggest there's nothing wrong with exercise alone as a treatment for depression. That is wrong. Depression can be a fatal illness. 12 men per day die to suicide in the UK. It is important to get appropriate treatment.
Is there any interest in blessing the Haskell driver as "official"?
One order of magnitude is a 10 factor, it can be smaller or large. So, 3 order of magnitude smaller is something 1000 times smaller.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
That is really interesting. Not too sure if that correlation is fair. I feel like a metric on socio-economic standing might be fairer
> Looking a little more into details and feedbacks from people who did the school, it's a VERY different story.

I'm curious to know where are those people who came out of42. The school opened like 4 years ago right? So the first graduates must have been last year.

If you have any stories to share I'm curious :)
Just a few weeks ago Vimy Ridge Day popped up in my calendar as a Canadian holiday - I asked around and although everybody knew of Vimy Ridge nobody in my group of contacts realized it was an 'official day'. This was in Toronto.

Likely due to the day not being a recognized holiday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimy_Ridge_Day
I've read that.
> You won't be able to use them with a Netflix stream (thanks to DRM)

I think you're wrong, and to blame DRM is ridiculous.

You can load your own subtitles on Netflix, html5 or silverlight.

You don't even need a Chrome extension for the Silverlight one, it imports DFXP directly from the debug menu (alt+shift+click iirc).

There are even browser extensions that largely automate the process for HTML5. (Downloading the subtitle file and displaying it.)

I don't know about Super Netflix but fwih Netflix Subtitle Downloader also gives you a couple of buttons to adjust subtitle sync if you need it.
I think I have to be harsh to get my point across: what you are saying is nonsense.

I will use this as one example, but you are equally confused on a number of issues, to the point where the conversation isn't productive. I thought you were asking honest questions to learn something, but you appear to have some preconceived notions which you will hold onto in face of contradictory evidence.

I said: "Computers, minds, and the universe are different things that work by different laws".

You said: "The Church–Turing thesis directly says that computers can do anything humans can"

It absolutely doesn't say that. Nor does the Wikpedia article say that it does.

Wikipedia says:

"In simple terms, the Church–Turing thesis states that a function on the natural numbers is computable in an informal sense (i.e., computable by a human being using a pencil-and-paper method, ignoring resource limitations) if and only if it is computable by a Turing machine."

Maybe you are confused by the mention of human beings in that sentence. That is irrelevant -- it would only be relevant if doing calculations on pencil and paper are the ONLY things that humans can do. Of course humans can do lots of other things, like make movies and do their taxes.

If you want to philosophise, that's OK. If you want to talk about mathematics, you can't "think it's right". Your opinion doesn't matter. You are confusing philosophy and mathematics.

And you are not doing Wikipedia justice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis#Ph...

It's accurate in saying whether the universe can be simulated by a computer is an open question. That's what I'm saying. I'm not denying it. I'm saying you cannot assume it's true to make FURTHER philosophical arguments, and then expect me not to object!

You would be basing your argument on false premises. I guess it could be worse -- you could base entire 300 page books on false premises.

I think it's good to be honestly interested and excited about these subjects, but it's clear you have a lot to learn. Sorry to be harsh, but I would like to direct your interest to better sources. You seem to be learning from sources that doesn't understand the primary material themselves. Even Wikipedia is an OK source, and quite accurate in this case, but you are not reading it correctly.
It's not just website language localization. It's having customer service that actually speaks the language. That's not impossible (Netherlands-based Booking.com supports a ton of different language), but online retail is a low margin business, and for most multinational businesses it is simpler to let the locals deal with the retail aspect. It works for Philips and Bosch, after all.

You can get away without offering this for some types of products and services, but remember that you are competing with local vendors who do.

And yes, of course, there are other issues, such as shipping overhead (for anything that involves physical products) and payment method preferences. But language on its own is already a significant obstacle towards exploiting economies of scale beyond the national level.
Which means that it can handle scripts that rely on browser features like DOM whereas node can't handle that. So, you can use it to test the client-side code automatically (with a CI tool of course). You can't do that in node if your code accesses DOM (e.g. calls something like document.getElementById or uses jQuery).

Btw, it is just a CLI wrapper around PhantomJS[1] I guess.

[1]: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs
Sure, we're more proud of a victory. But Gallipoli (the topic) was a loss where the Brits used colonists as cannon fodder.

Ypres, then, fits rather nicely. Including the couple of pages in grade 10 history class about how nobly we bled.

A war were neither side had any redeeming quality.
What would that current course be?
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.
>With only a brief skim of your talk, I wonder what you think of the moral implications of this project being DARPA supported.

You're not adding to the conversation by pointing this out. We can all clearly see this for what it is.
The "quarter that thinks its OK" is something of an understatement. Some of that quarter are self-employed people who still think it's so much better for their productivity to be around other people that they're prepared to pay money and sacrifice an hour commuting in order to sit at a desk in a big, trendily-decorated room with an assortment of other entirely-unrelated microbuses-owners rather than a desk in their own bedroom.

Other people have no choice whatsoever about where they work, but still enjoy their coworker interaction to the point they get bored and demotivated when the office is quiet. They might not be the most popular people in the office with programmers who also have no choice where they work, but from their point of view the open plan office is much better than sitting in a dreary box wondering if the question that's on their mind is actually worth getting out of their seat to go to ask a colleague about, whether marketing are in today and whether anyone else has made a sale yet.
realize that high school band could teach you everything you need. If you wanted to move up a chair, understand what it takes and master that. When you were set up for a challenge(the method used to move up a chair) you basically looked at all the required music and figured out which was the section the you would have to play. The Challenge was set up so that the instructor would listen to both players play the section selected, from another room, and decide who performed the best. That's how it is in life...and it has worked well for me.
The history of the land is irrelevant here. The idea that you can claim ownership of a land because it used to be your homeland thousands of years ago is completely abstract. While the hard reality is that in order to take, or retake, ownership of that land, you have to displace other people that has been living there for many generations. You can't do it peacefully. You have to take their houses, their fields, evacuate and destroy their villages, steal their property, and push them back each time they try to defend themselves against all this.

Remote history won't convince anybody, anywhere, to leave their houses and live in a refugee camp. Though it might work to give a veneer of reasonableness to this expropriation, for the exclusive benefit of those who won't lose anything in the process.
- OSX 10.10 on a MacBook Pro, 15" late 2014 (I use my laptop for everything, work and home).
- Various servers with Ubuntu / Debian on Digital Ocean.

- Atom, Git (Tower/Atom/command line), Node, Python, Docker
I agree that the existence of Jews in Israel for thousands of years presents a difference but I think this difference is small for the following reasons.

1. The Jewish connection to Israel has been exaggerated by Zionists. The Jewish people were one of many living in present day Israel/Palestine (see [0])

2. The existence of a Palestinian nation or kingdom is irrelevant, because a group of people can have a unique identity regardless of who is ruling them. Furthermore, there is no reason why the granularity of Jewish identity is the only relevant kind of identity. If Palestinians really only did possess a pan-Arab identity, it doesn't logically follow that they can be pushed out of where they live into any other Arab country.

3. Palestinians have been a recognizable nation since 700AD

3. Having left Israel and lived in Europe and other places for so long, Jewish people lost their right to return.

[0] http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html
> It is literally the comparison you made.

If only we had some other concept that could be used in common conversation. Something where people use words to draw concepts and ideas, using various language devices to create or drive home some desired concept. Some kind of concept around representation or metaphorical speech.

But alas, all we have to work with is literalism and pedantry. It makes conversation feel kind of limited and poor, fact checking every statement down to some measure of significant digits, or splitting hairs to show that a claim is correct, but not quite as correct as it could be, feels like not fun or entertaining conversation, but we have to work with what we have and I guess that's the way we're required to speak to one another.

I'm surprised we use words at all, Hacker News should really just allow for formatted tables of figures.
Humour is a part of human nature. Denying this at the outset of your policy and procedure, seems a pretty poor start to vetting humans.
I've seen this mistake repeated in numerous cities.
I run Raspberry Pi workshops all around Australia. I carry many Raspberry Pi (and electronics kits) on the plane (as carry on) with me. The security folks only seem to care about my tightly wound extension cords and Wi-Fi base station (an Apple Airport Extreme).
I come from a French grande ecole but from my experience, I prefer people coming out of Supinfo and Epita/Epitech than people fresh out of a French Grande Ecole.

The problem of most people coming out of grande ecoles is that they lack experience, after a few years on the job, they can become great, but newly graduated engineers from Grand Ecoles are not very efficient at the beginning on average.

On the other hand, I've seen great candidates from Supinfo and Epitech who learned a lot of the CS theory on the side by themselves and were really good...

I think learning CS Theory without a good practical background is actually wasted a bit and that more Grandes Ecoles should try to get students to have more practical experiences which would help them connect the theory to actual situations they've had.
The results of this study also show that the GC group has a performance that is 42% better than the GC-EF group. These data seem indicate that after an intense physical exercise, people without ADHD show impairment in attention performance.

This is the more interesting finding to me and conflicts with my personal experience. Maybe I just haven't been diagnosed for ADHD yet? However if it is true then this raises an interesting problem. Exercise is no longer a universal booster - you have to be damn sure that you're deep in ADHD, because if you're 40% ADHD and 60% normal, then exercise actually does more harm than good, according to the results of this study.

In general, this study seems very limited in scope and participant count. A worthwhile study for sure, but I think it warrants additional research above anything else, and nothing conclusive should be taken from it.
For me the issue is that Jewish identity is presented as always being good, while Aryan/White/European/Whatever_you_want_to_call_it identity is presented as being evil and racist.

Sure, these things exist at a different granularity, but that doesn't explain why one is ok and the other is evil.