skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen professor wages recently? It would be much cheaper to lobby to counter the law than it would be to give wages that would draw professors to a shitty job. If they wanted wages, they'd leave academia anyway.
I especially liked the discussion under Example 1 about reformulating "negative" sentences into "positive" sentences.

The briefest amount of work in mathematical deduction or symbolic logic will cause you to raise an eyebrow whenever anyone insists "you can't prove a negative."

Every negative statement has a positive formulation buried within it. Or, no negative statement exists that lacks a positive formulation, and vice versa.
Apple’s profit up 33% to $17B following iPhone sales push
Monads for functional programming [pdf]
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Many ordinary shop air nozzles are supersonic; you can see they have a convergent-divergent nozzle (or are an aerospike) like a "real" rocket. That's not such a big deal.
Hmm, let's see…

> To build anything useful you'll need about four distinct package managers to get all of the necessary dependencies

* Ubuntu packages (dpkg via apt)

* Python packages (via pip)

* Our own software packages (via our own dependency manager)

* Custom-built software packages (e.g. nginx) or non-package software installations (e.g. activemq)

> some mish-mash of configuration management and provisioning tools to develop it

We use salt for (some of) our configuration management along with just symlinks into git repositories (where possible, e.g. MySQL and others won't follow symlinks for security)

> perhaps a different set of configuration management and provisioning tools to deploy it

We have a custom-built deployment system which we use to deploy git packages (including the configuration packages that the configuration files are symlinked into) as well as our actual software.

So… yeah. You pretty much hit the nail on the head.
Looking for a app developer
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We been working with a company but their work SUCKS so we decided not to move forward with them.

We spent so far 10k of our own money but we feel to get the kind of work we are looking for we have to find someone and share the vision we have for our apps.

So if you want to build the app that will shake the world hit me up lets build this team.

Im like Morpheus looking for NEYO and i know your out there.

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Just to clarify: I said Apple (iTunes) doesn't cater to Linux. The (not so bad anymore) issue with Spotify had/has to do with content rights.
The deadline is mid-2016, and you can enable TLS 1.1/1.2 on any IE version on Win7, even if it is not enabled by default.
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is monitored by a global network of seismic, infrasound, hydroacoustic and radionuclide sensors. www.ctbto.org/map/

These usually end up detecting earthquakes though http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/hazards/nuclear-monit...
The action of recessive genes is well understood, as are various diseases caused by them.

Don't forget that European royalty conducted a long-running experiment on the effects of inbreeding, and the result was a great deal of deformities and disabilities. A whole genetic disorder is named this way: just look up "Habsburg jaw." Lots of other experiments on human inbreeding have been run on islands like the one in the story.

Your post sounds an awful lot like, "I don't understand, therefore it is not understood."
IIRC, part of the problem is that fingerprint comparison methods do not produce consistent results. Different experts produce different results with the same set of fingerprints.

Also, as the article says, fingerprints 'in the wild' are often incomplete, smudged, etc.

EDIT: From the National Academy of Sciences report linked to from the article (the ACE-V method is the standard fingerprint analysis):

the ACE-V method does not specify particular measurements or a standard test protocol, and examiners must make subjective assessments throughout. In the United States, the threshold for making a source identification is deliberately kept subjective, so that the examiner can take into account both the quantity and quality of comparable details. As a result, the outcome of a friction ridge analysis is not necessarily repeatable from examiner to examiner. In fact, recent research by Dror23 has shown that experienced examiners do not necessarily agree with even their own past conclusions when the examination is presented in a different context some time later.

Don't miss that last sentence.
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You're technically right (multi-core CPUs can do true parallelism), but you were downvoted probably because your point was obvious (to the people who downvoted you).

A multi-core CPU is basically multiple CPUs. The details (multicores share the same die, use the same caches, etc.) are mostly irrelevant here.
> Also, what's up with that &? It doesn't seem to be a Prelude operator.

It's now in [Data.Function of "base"](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.0.0/docs/Data-Fu...) and hence in ["base-prelude"](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-prelude).
Its not about racial bias. Its about background checks, and making sure that the internship is genuine and in one of your uncle's US companies.
Plus you should appear confident and genuine, in the in-person interview.
We just revamped (today) https://jumpseller.com homepage.
I'm not sure there's any working DRM for movies currently. DVDs and BluRay can be copied. Streams as well. DRM for DCP "works" but no one was copying 35mm film either - and the old analog hole is still open. All the DRM makes it more complicated to master and distribute legal copies -- I'm not convinced it reduces copying.
Dyscalculia, the hard math problem of the brain that no one talks about
I would think that happy developer are located where interesting projects are, not where there is a more vacation days or whatever system ranks "quality of life" indexes.
Kind of disappointed that nobody's able or willing to provide one :-(
Real federal expenditures per capita have grown, so it's not merely population growth.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line...

This means that the government is doing more stuff per person.

There is no reason to expect basic research funding or other types of funding to track either GDP growth or population growth. Population may double, but that doesn't mean there are twice as many good hypothesis to test. Once you've achieved economies of scale, programs like basic research should grow sublinearly.
Since I can't code for shit, I submit pull requests to fix grammar and spelling a lot.

The reactions are overwhelmingly positive. Just make sure to leave a nice comment.
I love my 15". It's thin and light enough to have a cover. 13" is too small a screen for me. 17" is too large. Hence, 15".
The decades of bubble building is exactly the root cause.

The regulatory framework - I presume you mean Glass-Steagall - has never been shown to have been capable of preventing this sort of thing. Even people who advocate for it - mainly Paul Vocker - admit this. Keeping investment and deposit banking separate had nought to do with it. There might have been other "firewalls" but I've yet to see a proprosal that has been identified as sufficient to prevent this sort of thing.

Fraud was fraud; whether policy to push lousy mortgages came from Fannie/Freddie/Congress or not isn't all that controversial to me - I am sure it is true because of the evidence. But it is controversial to some.

The ideas behind the mortgage buildup were just that - ideas - that were accepted by a broad spectrum of people.

And neither you nor anyone else can show that money driving political influence has one thing to do with it. It was the style of the times. There was a cycle of deregulation beginning with Jimmy Carter.

Might be that Dick Armey was bought and paid for, but I am pretty sure he would have advocated for deregulation regardless out of ideology anyway.

The only idea I am aware of that may have made a difference is that Brooksley Born wanted CDOs/CDSs on exchanges, and we simply don't know what would have happened. It is bad that she was shouted down, but that has more to do with certain foibles in how things like the regulation that is there works, and with how the Fed interacts with those.

She was, in effect, a heretic, a Jeremiah who was not listened to. And it's a black mark on us. But we don't know.

Greenspan's mea culpa covers it - he did not know that banks really weren't doing the proper risk analysis.

But we just do these things. We have bubbles. There will be more before it's over. "Nation of Deadbeats" is quite the book.
tn91 sounds like they are trying to be mobile with the laptop. Bringing a 24" monitor would defeat that purpose.
The alternative hypothesis - that the brain has independently evolved twice - is in my opinion even more interesting. If true, it would seem to have implications for estimates of how easy it is for life to evolve intelligence.
i think the anonymous part was added by the article. the app's website doesn't make any such claim?
There is pseudoscience, and then there is "pseudoscience". What I've found with the MBTI is that it's mostly just "pseudoscience", by the strict definition of empiricism, however, that doesn't make it completely useless pseudoscience. Let me explain:

It's a convenient mental framework. If someone fits one of the archetypes very strongly, then the framework will be very useful in predicting and recognizing how they think and behave in general. If someone doesn't really fit any of the archetypes very strongly, then yes it is useless, they'll get different results all of the time, and it will be pseudoscience. So while the test is bad at predicting even 60% of people's types correctly, people who do fit the archetypes will still find the test valuable.
Another point on DRM: good music, books, films, tv series become part of who we are. I want to be sure I have can show something that shaped my world-view to young kids in 20, 30 or 50 years time. If I had my music trapped by MS' zune that wouldn't work so well. If Amazon loses the right to some books, they dissappear from my Kindle. Who knows what happens if Apple buys Netflix? I do not want to rent access to my own culture. I want to buy access.

Edit: if it didn't look like nothing will ever enter the public domain again as a result of copyright expiry -- this wouldn't be as much of an issue.

Edit2: It is tragically ironic that Disney, a company founded in part on access to public domain fairytales, is at the forefront of killing the public domain. I imagine our collective digital culture would have been much richer if the terms were still 14+14 years after publication.
> If no clients have bound, messages disappear into the aether

To everyone who thinks this sounds scary, don't worry. You can bind dedicated "Undelivered queues" and "Dead letter" queues to exchanges to make sure that when routing fails, you don't lose any messages.

We're using RabbitMQ in a few newer projects and it's really a joy to work with!
The essay covered lots of things about the subject matter. Do you not think social scientists understand confounding variables, or do you assume they are idiots?
This site isn't the only scrolljacking offender, even NYTimes has a subtle accelerate/decelerate that is counterproductive and annoying.

Is there a greasemonkey script or the like that can disable scrolljacking? I recognize that means it'll probably break layout for many cases, but at least to avoid some (like NYTimes).
I'd say another mistake is possibly saying at the same job for six years. It's best to move on after three years, if there aren't any advancements. Especially when you are a solid top performer.
It was a career not a job. I was at two companies for those six years.
Facebook and Reddit both have large communities of people centered around various illnesses and disabilities. Introducing yourself to groups like that (being genuine and engaged; not just a drive-by) can be a great way to get the word out.
I think the point of the bulk of the document was to demonstrate that lots of good hypotheses aren't being tested (in the US).
I trust Gladwell and his research and interview access more than I trust your blanket, ad hominem dismissal of his work.
Right. No smoking gun.

There were multiple scenarios described in which such a failure was plausible. The story is nowhere as cut and dried as in the Therac or the Arianne cases.

Here are his Embedded Systems Conference slides:
http://www.barrgroup.com/killer-apps/
>Take two cases.

This is where you are implicitly employing proof by contradiction. Why do you take two cases and not three? Or four? What assumption allows you to restrict your conclusions like that?

Probably the Law of the Excluded Middle: (P or ~P). (This is equivalent to ~~p = p.)

Once you assume or derive either of those, you have validated proof by contradiction.
RIP. mihai
> let's just assume they mean the same thing and move to more interesting discussions

They don't mean the same thing, and that is a poisonous attitude to have. Parallelism is about performance. Concurrency is about synchronization. The difference might not matter to you, but for certain things (programming language design, library design, system architecture) it is paramount.

One thing nearly everyone agrees on: a single-core processor cannot do parallelism, but it's perfectly capable of concurrency. How do you reconcile that with your view that they are the same?
And still funded by the Federal government.
I used slightly equivocal language. The tutoring part of me has less demand. But I sell products too, and those do alright.

I think society is better off for having free/inexpensive products addressing this need, rather than many expensive tutors.
This is considered the hardest computing course at UNSW (with the possible exception of the security course). It has a reputation for being brutal and breaking lesser people. 'Survivors' get a t-shirt proclaiming this fact.
> The difference might not matter to you

The difference matters very much to me, what is silly is that nobody agrees on which one is concurrency and which one is parallelism. In this thread alone, I found two people with a different definition from yours.
So can calls to "map" and "filter", if your language allows side effects.

Not that I'm trying to be all dogmatic about referential transparency- more like, without it, is there a large benefit to functional style vs. procedural style?
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I've been fascinated by this island for the past 10 years now. It was an isolated community where you could study its composition in an entirety of its isolation. The island has charming place-names such as "Ridge where the Goat jump off" and "Down where the Minister land his things." The island's official website, tristandc, is put together by the villagers themselves. Thus I wondered, where do they get their electricity from?

So, I corresponded with the island's administrator (who, along with the village's doctor, is from England - only 'foreigners' or outlanders allowed on the island.) The only outlanders who are permanently allowed on the island are anyone who's been shipwrecked, which is how there are two Italian families there now (or is it one?) He explained that there's a crayfish factory owned by a South African company on the island that employs roughly half of the villagers. The factory is powered by diesel generators and for their exclusive deal with the islanders, the generators power the village.

The other half of the employed villagers work "for the government." He didn't really expand on that point, but I took that to mean that part of the jobs are the make-work kind. Because of the harsh climate, the dominant food is the potato and the administrator, Mike Hadley, told me many of the dishes are potato based. The villagers drink an ungodly amount of alcohol per capita, and every year they crew boats to the nearby Gough island where they collect bird eggs for eating. Rest of their supplies are shipped once or twice per year, so saying that they buy in bulk is an understatement.

The islanders are very shy and self-aware of what's perceived as their backwardness. But they appear to be rather charming, in their own way. Whale oil trade made the remote island attractive for resupplying whaling ships, but after the industry's collapse the islanders got cut off. Their genetic pool got cut in half after a single boat capsized and men were lost in a storm. Their speech patterns, fashion and culture lagged behind the times- almost literally by centuries. Their reconnection to modernity happened after the volcano erupted post WWII, and the islanders were evacuated to London for a couple of years. And now, they let tourists on for a few hours and charge a steep fee for a visa stamp.

The island is in middle of nowhere. You really have to pull up a map and slowly zoom out until it sinks in that they're basically living on a desolate volcano: https://goo.gl/maps/CTLn9

But for all its remoteness, the island "caught" a floating oil platform back in the mid-2000s with all its serial numbers filed off, and claimed salvage rights. And of course, at the time I wanted to move to the island and bring them wind turbines.
My internet connection at home has been down for 3 days and I've been grumpy and proclaiming that it's the end of the world.

What the hell am I thinking - the unimaginable courage to live a full, productive life with a debilitating condition like Mihai had sure puts thing in perspective.

Thank you for teaching me a lot today.
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In a panic scenario, it's likely BOTH pedals will be engaged, and that's not likely to be the optimal response.

I was explicitly taught not to do this as well, and I've seen it go bad in action too. In many cars, slamming both pedals down hard results in the car continuing to move, when it's usually desirable for the car to quit moving more than it is for the car to speed up.
More like no one would ever write about the need for Jews to outbreed, and if they did they would be rebuffed with a bazillion qualifications about the science being uncertain. You only get to make sweeping statements when politics are on your side.
I don't see how any of those things prevent the methodology I described being applied.
That task is trivially accomplishable in jq. I have no clue why you say it's "easier" in nodejs.

i=1
for line in `echo '[{"a":"b"},{"c":"d"},{"e":"f"}]' | jq '.[]' -c`; do
echo $line | jq '.' > jq_out_$i.json
i=$((i+1))
done

The above prints each element of the array to a file named by its index, including pretty-printing it.

If you use it every day, the above should have come to you easily enough.
Nah. There were more secure operating systems in the late 1970s and 1980s: IBM VM, Wang's OS, KeyKos, Popek's kernel.

Then came UC Berkeley.
Yeah, the Carter bit made no sense. I remember Carter, and a lot of his bad decisions were very much NOT the result of "engineer thinking". One that comes immediately to mind is his executive order outlawing breeder reactors, which has basically saddled us with being unable to cleanly reprocess reactor waste back into usable fuel. Never mind the fact that only a very specific type of breeder reactor produces weapons-grade plutonium, and never mind that as a nuclear enginner he SHOULD have known this, he still banned them in a bizarre attempt to ingratiate himself with the 70's "disarmament/anti nuke" movement that never seemed to fully grasp the distinction between nuclear WEAPONS and nuclear POWER.
Mihai, we will remember you by what you have done and accomplished.

RIP
The Jews are several orders of magnitude more numerous than these small island populations, and even then there are genetic diseases that are far more common among them.
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How does UNSW compare to say MIT? The pace of this course looks fairly relentless.
I'm sure your reasons are just as valid as my own for forming an opinion, but I've always wondered if the people who enjoy reading because of the linguistic qualities, rather than the content, are really just spending too much time looking for ways to feel superior. Then again, maybe I'm being critical in an attempt to feel superior. Who knows and/or who cares I guess.
So since the science of recessive genes is so well understood, how big does the population need to be before scientists instruct the group to start outbreeding?
What categories? I'm differentiating between math/logic and science.
It's a little annoying to see the author retell the story of Toyota's prius acceleration problem as if it were a defect with the peddle.

We know now that it was a problem with spaghetti code firmware, lack of testing, & poor system design.

See here http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...
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Oh, ok. I interpreted that as advice to students writing up their proves, not trying to find them.
Actually, using the clutch to maintain position is bad too. It heats the clutch up, which changes it's operation properties and very seriously reduces it's operating life.

I was taught to approach target position on hill, disengage gear train, use brake to hold car. Then, quickly switch from brake to clutch while applying gas... That's tough too.

So I always used the hand brake, leaving my two feet ready to use clutch and gas. In that case, it's optimal. Apply clutch and gas, until car begins to want to move, release hand brake and continue.

I won't own a manual car lacking a hand brake for this cuse case alone.

Now, with skill, it's entirely possible to do this with just the three pedals. One needs to release the brake, and while moving the foot to the clutch, engage gas and very rapidly find the engage point of the clutch and then continue to get the car into motion from there.

Roll back on this is perhaps an inch or maybe two done well.

I can do it, and was made to practice this, but I don't like doing it at all as it requires one to really execute a few things quickly with good precision.
Scientists typically don't outright instruct, but merely describe the consequences of various options. Sometimes (e.g. with global warming and the "keep dumping massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere" option) the consequences are "lots of people die horribly." But outright instructions are typically left up to the nice men with large guns.
Right, but I would have preferred an attempt to estimate the stat. Isn't that what this page is all about?
Bill Gates could quite possibly be a moron. World government would only concentrate corruption in one place, out of the reach of common people like us. Such a government would be by the corporations for the corporations-- even more than Washington DC is today.
For the same reason why, say, version 7 of the WRT-54G router had half the memory that version 2 had.

It's expensive (money or calories) and the extra functionality doesn't help in getting more out there (selling or reproduction).
You are right about side effects.

From all I've heard people in impure languages have begun to embrace the notion of restricting side effects voluntarily.
I'll settle for "whatever's also available on DVD".
Just to clarify: I assume your original comment was an allusion to Popper's falsification?
Well yeah, counting views, or more recently copies, has been a central tenant of show business since its inception in antiquity when minstrels played on stage. No wonder the media business is resistant to changing on that point.
Package a bootstrapping batch script that installs the MSI, maybe? (I don't know your clients' requirements, obviously.)