skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always found the initial assumption that things are normally distributed quite odd.

For example if you work with latencies then the normal distribution is a terrible thing to use. The closer to zero you get the more skewed it has to be, simply because everything that can influence the result will mostly change it in one direction.

So in that particular case an Erlang distribution might be more applicable. And even that often falls short if you have periodic things (background tasks) occasionally messing with your latency, creating a multi-modal distribution.
Morality and the idea of progress in Silicon Valley
I suppose, like so many things in life, dosage and quality matter in our social interactions. Having trouble forming connections with people, or having had key connections broken in a short time, can result in significant hardships. On the other hand, I've known far too many people over my life who suffered to varying degrees almost directly as a result of being unable to be outside of a "relationship" for any period of time. For many of them, I suspect that even one good episode of learning that it's OK to be on their own would have been life changing.
I'm a big fan of solo bar meals. Anecdotally and informally, I'd say at least 1/3 of the time a stranger or group will initiate conversation with me. Overall it turns into an active social occasion for me >50% of the time.

Even without active social interaction, I find people watching to be very enjoyable anyway.
Wow, that was very interesting, I will buy the book. I'm currently teaching my daughter to code and I notice is quite different from when I learned alone, it is very hard to not filter some boring stuff but I might be spoiling her.
No but what you do get is significantly more vendor lock-in.
Did anyone else in the UK have SNP on their ballots?

So, you can't use "voted SNP" to prove your point. SNP policies seem largely coterminous with the underlying politics of a mix of other parties? I'd be interested in a refutal of that if you have one.

Indeed there was a joke around the time of the election that many in England would have voted for Sturgeon if they could have; it seemed grounded in some reality, as most jokes are.

Suppose that most people voted selfishly this time around, whatever would net them the most cash at the end of the day. SNP worked for Scotland, Tory worked for England. The whole of the UK could just be equally selfish and not care a hoot about anything other than the cash in their pocket. This perhaps isn't the case but I think it helps to demonstrate that different voting doesn't necessarily bely a cultural schism.
I agree. Luckily my job doesn't require to be only at my desk to be productive. I really feel better the more I just move during the day. Standing in one position is exhausting; walking over to a coworker's cube instead of IMing or going on a walk instead of internet browsing adds a lot of motion.
Modern machine learning replaced it. Or rather, relegated statistics to a small subset of a wider field, only to be used for increasingly smaller subset of tasks.
Is infinity really both odd and even in any mathematically useful sense? I mean, it's not a number.
For sure.

I was just giving a reasoning why such code makes sense at all; I wasn't trying to defend its usage in the given context :)
The difference is that when a person is involved, you can apply pressure via representative, the press, etc. Bureaucracy has been full of "jobsworths" ("Sorry, guv, more than me jobs worth.") forever.

In reality, the real issue is total underfunding of these services for those who need them. People aren't switching to computers for these things because they think it's better (obviously, the policing one is the exception), they are switching because they don't have a choice to keep up with the workload.
Yes, a lot of this will be internal and external polling/analysis to determine what's great about your company, position, and location and use that effectively in advertising and outreach.

Job vs. opportunity: it's about growth. You know the old saw about 5 years experience vs 1 year 5 times over. Good developers avoid the latter, so you have to show a clear path to growth. Isn't that what you wanted?

Good job descriptions are hard to write, but Lever does a good job with them. I recommend looking at theirs for inspiration: https://lever.co/jobs.html

Also, I'm sure you didn't want to look like you were trying to get free advertising here, but it would have been helpful to get links to your company and jobs for reference.
Does anyone have a link to the lady's obituary? According to the story, without government money, she was surely going to die. And, if she didn't die, then the hyperbole about the "life sustaining nutrition" was just bullshit. It goes to make me wonder just how necessary government handouts really are.

Also, she has emphysema and COPD -- what are the odds that was caused by smoking? How much money does smoking cost? $5 per day? How many years did this woman smoke? Has she quit smoking? Did she die from starvation? My point is that her being deaf isn't a money-deserving disability. There are thousands of deaf people who aren't on welfare. Her health problems would likely have been caused by years of smoking. Why should my tax dollars go to support someone who caused many of her own problems? If I bet my life savings on blackjack, should that make me eligible for government assistance? If I am an alcoholic, should I get a liver transplant?

So, unless she died from starvation, the algorithm worked. She shouldn't be getting my money just because she has had a lifetime of bad decisions. As far as the bipolar, I could point to dozens of programs in almost every state that would provide her with free care for that.

As far as the other gent, the prospective gang member, do we have any evidence of harm caused by that algorithm? Was he wrongly arrested, detained or otherwise victimized due to that algorithm? His history does seem almost textbook in terms of risk factors to commit a violent crime. Unless his rights were infringed upon, I'm not sure I understand the issue.
I'm working on something that falls into that category at the moment. Micro is a microservices toolkit written in Go that starts with a focus on development. It provides a library for discovery, client/server, routing, etc and also includes an API, CLI and Sidecar for integration of non Go apps. Future goals are to address more feature rich discovery, routing, monitoring, config and a lot more. I previously worked on the platform team at Hailo where we built a microservices platform with 200 services in production.

https://github.com/myodc/micro

Let me know your thoughts.
Since apt-1.0 (basically, since jessie), there's also apt(8), which integrates (most of) apt-get and apt-cache.
I don't find that especially interesting.

If the design of the keyservers is such that they'll accept untrusted info and will relay it expecting clients to verify it, we shouldn't be surprised when we find bogus data on the keyservers.

We should be surprised if the clients do something other than reject the bogus data, but so far we're seeing them do the right thing.
What it would really take to reverse climate change (Post mortem of Google's RE
> But other people, as it turns out, actually aren't thinking about us quite as judgmentally or intensely as we tend to anticipate. Not nearly, in fact.

^This... I'm European and when I've visited USA / Silicon Valley (w/o knowing many people there) I have gone alone to hackathons, clubs, meetups, conferences, and many other places... and I've enjoyed it even more than other times I've gone out with friends. Doing things alone is powerful specially for making new connections, if you have the right mindset, even when you're in a foreign country.

Recommended vid: "Going Out Solo: How to hit the clubs alone and still have fun"

Description: Going out solo isn't something to be ashamed of or even afraid of. Sometimes your friends aren't willing but if you're on a mission to better yourself socially you wouldn't allow that to be an excuse. If you need a little encouragement on where to start I have some pointers for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftq0bzu2D1Q
Writing Strong Cover Letters
>UK is in actuality truly an oligarchy //

As a monarchy with a highly defined class structure perhaps the UK has realised already?
Dervla Murphy (Irish solo travel writer, in her eighties now) has often expounded the value of travelling alone. Basically she says that if you travel with others it's a safe cocoon. But if you travel alone you end up observing much more and interacting much more with the culture and people you visit.
sounds like your average user is one straight from "idiocracy"
From a man who knew how to sit in a cafe alone

Hell is other people
How the hell are these people using the Dark Net to buy drugs, then not using Tor or a vpn when checking websites to track their drugs?
Remember that the productivity will tail off as your resistance increases as well. You're probably better off exercising and taking in moderate amounts of caffeine from time to time.
Do you consider updating the apps installed on your iPhone to be a part of "normal use"?
This also works for speed limits, tax evasion and all sorts of laws. Imagine if a person were arrested and sent to prison for being $1 off in their taxes. Imagine 10 year sentences for these mistakes. Imagine every single person who was off by $1 were arrested and prosecuted. The tax code would be simplified almost overnight.

100% enforcement would equal almost an immediate repeal of bad laws.
I used to go the Museum of Modern Art in NYC with my dad as a kid -- one of the most memorable pieces for me has to be Burden's "Medusa's Head" [1]

1: http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81157
Gates, Zuckerberg Promising Same Jobs to US Kids and Foreign H-1B Workers?
Giant Robots, a Motorized Rhinoceros and a Banana Piano – Find It at Maker Faire
Consider me admonished!

I enjoyed the article and wouldn't want author to think I found fault with it. Maybe author would be amused that someone noticed the extra food at the table, and, in fact, intended it as an easter egg?
If it weren't for Google and Apple (and microsoft, of course) and everybody used computers the way RMS wanted them to, there would be a lot less people using computers.

I've got a lot of respect for RMS. What he does is important, and i want him to keep fighting for what he believes in. I just don't want him to win. We're all better for the opposition between the corporate interests driving forward usability and inclusiveness, and the philisophical interests pushing openness and ethics and impractical idealism.
> I built an app that sends me an SMS asking me how I am feeling and why and logs the response for later analysis.

Please share if possible! Sounds great.
The road to the stars passes through a refactoring of the human genome. That will be possible before a re-implementation of life.
This parser seems to be great.

I wonder if it has a similar decent parser error reporting like Parboiled [0] for Java/Scala. I never used Parboiled much, because it doesn't (didn't?) work somehow with Groovy. So I had to use an alternative with nearly inexistent error reporting.

There are also more or less complete ports to Java, Smalltalk, TypeScript and PHP.

[0] https://github.com/sirthias/parboiled/wiki/Features
Expressing scepticism of a clam of harm is not the same thing as supporting those who perform the alleged harmful activity.
See cr.yp.to for a similar experience.
http://i.imgur.com/gYCAWFe.png

http://i.imgur.com/FNuQqJc.png
SF median home prices up 26% year over year to over 1.25M
The same reasoning can be applied to the popularization of science, a contradiction in terms. If you want to understand a science, you've got to do the science. Trying to lure people into science by presenting an entertaining counterfeit is not only disingenuous and intellectually vacuous, but it is likewise harmful. Open ignorance is a good thing. Having to unlearn bad metaphors and a habit cheap thrill is not.
>not really that much more than the German presidency (£26 million) //

Germany has about ~50% more GDP than the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom...
> Speaking specifically to do notation, it has no impact on performance, being a purely syntactic transformation.

Of for Christ's sake, I of course mean the bind and the `>>` and whatever that it desugars to. You aren't adding something to the discussion. But thanks for reminding me that syntactic sugar has no runtime overhead...

There seems to be a lot of potential for removing all cruft that comes from things like this, namely to remove the interpretive overhead. I used to think of "interpretive" as only those language executioners. But I suspect that a lot of constructs have them. Macros, or whatever mechanism you use to avoid that overhead should maybe have a place in languages that try to both be high-level and to be somewhat high performing.
You mean Paludis right (on Exherbo too and not Gentoo which is still stuck in the stone age)?

Paludis does correct dependency resolution while Portage just pretends to.
You are spending 100s of seconds reading a webpage, so spending 1 second to resize the text width to your liking is a very small overhead.
For a slightly more mathematical introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3JzdKE-Fhs along with accompanying slides
http://crypto.biu.ac.il/sites/default/files/3rd_BIU_Winter_S... both from ""3rd BIU Winter School on Cryptography: The basics of elliptic curves - Nigel Smart".
Wireless Das Keyboard Modification
Leave your jacket :-)
That happens automatically, so don't think much about it. Back when you had to do it manually, I almost never did.

Now, I don't consider updates to be abnormal, but neither is it something I'd ever list in response to "how do you normally use your phone?"

Or my kindle. I update the software on that far less frequently.
Probably it would be better to have also a lib or dll, not just a program that render c/c++ servlets. It seems that all (that the kore executes from the feeded code) is running in servlet threads or at least started from servlet thread. Or it would be cool to add some "application" framework, not only "C-servlet" framework
The portage ebuild system for describing package dependencies and build procedures is awesome. The portage program for solving dependencies and building packages is mediocre at best—it's slow and too prone to not finding a solution even when the constraints of source compatibility are looser than binary compatibility. The gentoo portage repository of packages is clearly understaffed and orphaned packages are all too easy to run across.

All three of those things have gotten better over the years, and I have little doubt that given the attention and effort that RedHat and Debian package managers get, portage could be a clear winner. But the portage we have now has too many pitfalls to be the best all-around choice.
Interesting.

Now make a guide about decrypting it as-well :)
>The British Monarch cannot in practice, delay laws or call judges. //

Can not or does not?
@OP Studying HtDP is a good choice for someone entering Computer Science. HtDP is written by experienced CS professors and will introduce you to many important CS topics.
Diaspora » API needed
I would extend this and say start doing more things alone without technology.

It's about building trust with yourself, believing in you to be able to not only survive any situation, but to thrive.

We use people and technology as a social crutch and it limits our understanding of ourselves.

I hitchhiked throughout New Zealand by myself when I was 18 for 6 months and although it was a little uncomfortable and even scary at first I learned to trust myself and I built a huge amount of confidence that I still carry with me today.

Put yourself in situation where you have to trust strangers and in those authentic interactions you will see that humans around the world are really beautiful and loving and learn that it applied to yourself too.

My recommendation even for a weekend is to pack a small carry on size backpack with no electronics (phone, laptop, etc.) and go somewhere that you have never been in a way that you have never traveled. Hitchhike to Yosemite and find a place to camp and a fire to share.
Thanks for the ideas, I will try to make some happen. ;)
For a longform page it may be worth doing for readability, but the whole idea of fiddling with the borders of my browser window (which is shared between all the tabs) back and forth as I switch tabs is silly.
Then check to see if DRM is needed to see Netflix "original" content.
Well, it would be funny, especially if you did it at the same time. Could become a sort of Singapore style city-state. Perhaps then have an English parliament back in York. Though Liz might then abdicate, though confusingly except for viewers in Scotland, and go live in Balmoral.
Because it is not the same? They apparently rewrote a lot of yum.
> Recommended vid: "Going Out Solo: How to hit the clubs alone and still have fun"

Any timestamps you recommend? The first few minutes are narcissistic garbage.
I had to use debugger on regular basis in Java and C++, but never in Python, because Python programs end up being much simpler.

Also, you can simulate large parts of the program in IPython and not only find what the problem/bug is, but solve it right there and copy the solution back to the original program.
Can you expand on that - you mean that people who're proud to be British feel that they've been stabbed in the back to some extent? I don't see how that helps the Unionist position??
Every single day, we give birth to ~400,000 new people. All of them will most certainly die -- many of them after a difficult, heart-rending stint on this planet.

Allowing people to live longer (while an admirable goal, to be sure) doesn't improve the overall human experience at all. The same % of us will still live in poverty (and most likely that % would be even higher).

Before making people live longer... we should get better at providing for the folks who are already here.
There is a $815 open bounty on this issue.
Considering how contrived the implementation of this is, there's no wonder it looks terrible in two languages.

For example, this Python is both better behaved and much, much simpler:

import sys

for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
try:
with open(filename, "rb") as file:
word_count = sum(len(line.split()) for line in file)
except IOError as e:
print(e)
else:
print("{}: {}".format(filename, word_count))

I'd suggest you think up an example that justifies its implementation before making such a comparison. If the aim is to make both implementations do the same dance, not just to make them give the same results, even Haskell won't look much different to C++.
And yet other people's parents beg them to install 'that blocking thingy that makes the web less flashy'.
One thing I noticed and admired in many European cities is a sense of their place in history - not just awareness of the past, but appreciation for the future. I've never felt that in the cities of my home country Australia, where projects always feel like they meet a current need but will require re-doing in the future.

The best example I saw was the Plaza Mayor (town square) in Salamanca, Spain - there were commemorative plaques on all four walls of the square to great Spanish figures through history, but rather than fill all the spaces many were left blank for great figures from the future.

This project feels to me that it's taking a similarly long-view for the town.
Right, but isn't there precedent here wherein people guilty of a crime were forbidden from communicating with, or posting about their victim on social media? Just that in this case, the victim is the police force, and not some random individual.
I grew up in a house whose yard was filled with oak trees ... I'm pretty convinced they survive due to the stupidity of squirrels rather than "overwhelming" these predators. There were oftens way more acorns than needed, but every year the squirrels would work furiously to bury them ... then promptly forget where they put them. So the squirrel population was held in check by the number of acorns they could find the rest of the year and the acorns had the advantage of being buried (versus germinating on the surface).
I'm single and 63, and that often happens to me, too. You just have to watch they don't try to stick you into an undesirable small table next to the kitchen door, etc. I find this occurs most often with younger, less experienced hosts, and I simply won't put up with it. The instant I realize I'm being guided to a poor table or a noisy area, I quickly look around and request another one of my own choosing.
Personally I think we need a foundation of reusable microservices that anyone can then build on top of.
By my understanding, there's an inaccuracy in that article. It describes a one-way function, but calls it a trapdoor function. I thought that a one-way function is only a trapdoor function if there exists the possibility of reversing it with an extra piece of information. The wikipedia link[0] given seems to confirm that understanding:

A trapdoor function is a function that is easy
to compute in one direction, yet difficult to
compute in the opposite direction (finding its
inverse) without special information, called the
"trapdoor".

I know the article is trying to be informal, but that seems a simple thing to get right, and quite important. If I'm wrong I'd welcome being corrected.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_function
Ironically written by someone with a last name of Goto; the jokes just write themselves.
> What's reading mode?

I think that it is something invented by the people that have pushed for huge javascript monstrosity websites so that they can avoid the javascript monstrosities...
I think "rolling solo" as a guy doing cold approach pickup is one of the most badass learning experiences you can have.

It has taught me so much about how to fearlessly socialize with strangers in a completely non-needy (not to mention non-creepy) way. Also, all of the bullsh*t that you have to deal with just in terms of getting into good clubs (at least in NYC, where you have to promote girls into the door just to get in) makes normal work challenges seem trivial.

It is not for the faint of heart, but in case anyone is wondering it will pay DIVIDENDS in terms of life skills (and the short-term "benefits" can also be good :).
Does diversity matter?
Odd editorial. It goes from a not-terribly-good explanation of some criticisms of null-hypothesis significance-testing to an advertorial for his lab's particular variant on ensembles. Or am I missing something important here?
I love my own company. As in really really love it and I have found that I end up meeting completely different kind of people when I do things alone.

When I first moved to SF 17 years ago I was going out to eat alone quite a lot, this was before the smartphone so instead of technology I took a book instead.

I have a lot of friends so it's not a question about that. It's just that solitude brings out some interesting perspectives on life.
Another indispensable tool is this site http://gcc.godbolt.org
How many of them are senior military leadership?
I don't think that's how it goes. I think it's more that people who don't care about programming languages will stick with the first thing they learn until they are forced to change. If the first language they learn is C, C++ or FORTRAN then that's what they use.
Moments: How Apple Could Help Us Amplify Time
There is no design trend more inimical to the function of the web than gray on white text. If only it stopped at gray values of #444444, which is bad enough on old displays or in bright ambient light. The text on this site is #7f8d8c — more white than black — and the strokes on the letters in the equations are quite fine. Yes, it looks nice and clean to have so little black on the page, but the tradeoff is that I have to squint to read it.
Automatically Mimicking Unique Hand-Drawn Pencil Lines (2009) [pdf]