skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it started with the first actor President.

I should re-read _America_, 1988, Jean Baudrillard.

"You have the same difficulty today distinguishing between a process and its simulation, for example between a flight and a flight simulation. America, too, has entered this era of undecidability: is it still really powerful or merely simulating power?"

"Can Reagan be considered the symbol of present-day American society - a society which, having once possessed the original features of power, is now perhaps at the face-lift stage?

Give your emptiness and indifference to others, light up your face with the zero degree of joy and pleasure, smile, smile, smile. . . Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. And it works."

The simulation, the movie, is greater than the dispossessed actuality, whatever that may be. A movie is visceral, gut thinking, truth. Why fight it, as long as there is a chicken in every pot.
As mentioned in this article, Slate published 5 stories critizing Hersh within 36 hours of its publishing. It would be unusual for an organization with such an agenda to make Hersh look balanced in an interview.
Google "silicon film" & "digipod" for a couple of attempts at exactly this.
How weird is our Solar System?
I hear your concern and I hope they have no intention of treating non-profits as a free dumping site. I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt and not just assume the worst of them.
I don't have the technical abilities, that's the only thing. Definitely the co-founder is replaceable. I have just hire someone to continue the work and see how things go before asking to be a co-founder and don't burn money on salaries in this very early stage. What would be your recommendation for me?
Yeah, I eventually want to add more realistic mathematical models to pull page refs from (exponential decline or something similar).

Using random page calls, the algorithms all perform approximately the same when there is a much higher discrepancy in the real world. When selecting algorithms to use in real use cases, the system page calls are monitored and then replayed into simulators like this one.

Still a few things to do before becoming practically usable, but it's good to compare the mechanisms of each paging algorithm and see how they work. I plan to add a configuration option so that it can be slowed to the point that someone could follow along with the algorithms.
They can eat memory at extraordinary rates, but I've successfully used them to reduce memory usage as well. If you need to store a mess of strings that tend to have a lot of duplication toward the front - URIs, for example - then a trie might fare pretty well in that department.
> But really you don't need any of that, if you're passing a slice to something and some knucklehead is calling append on it, take him out back and shoot him.

"You don't need mechanisms to prevent you from doing stuff like this, because you can just avoid doing them", in other words.
Developers chat on slack
weird how so many people had this issue, myself included
Kids are more likely to be harmed by a parent or a close relative. This is just fear mongering.
> It reminds me of a coat of arms more than just a flag.

That's because it is from Lord Baltimore's family's coats of arms - look up Crossland and Calvert coats of arms.
Haha, yeah. It's from our second programming assignment where we were asked to implement 2 of the algorithms running one at a time, but I decided to completely rewrite it so I could compare all the algorithms side by side using varying methods.
Naive question: how does his example differ from a server responding to HTTP requests, that would take a JSON event as an argument and return a json version of:

"the value was: "+ event['key1']

I suppose the AWS wins in term of set up and easiness of deployment. Anything else?
Would be nice if they gave receipts for tax purposes, like the Shyp/Goodwill partnership did: http://blog.shyp.com/goodwill/
Both the Government's "Seal Team Six - Fuck yeah!" version and Hersh's more pedestrian "ISI insider sold him down the river & it was a hit job" version have exactly the same corroboration - ZERO, NONE.

We have no body, no evidence of burial, no (faked or otherwise) pictures of the actual raid, etc.

Obama admin. feels happy to make up one version of events & now via Hersh we have another. We may never know the truth but I find Hersh's version a bit more plausible. Why?

1) So the Pakistani's who are always nervous of India trying to sneak into its airspace missed the choppers in AND out (even if they came in via the Afgan route)?

2) The ISI is the most capable aider & abettor of Terrorism in the world - they HAD to have known the Osama was in Abottabad (and more likely house-arrested him there).

The US govt. would have us believe that Osama was living the backyard of a Pakistani Military academy unnoticed & unknown to the ISI? This is an inconceivable lie.

3) There was a mysterious courier that lead to Osama thru the Hard work and Torturing of the CIA OR an ISI insider betrayed the location for money : which is more plausible?

Torture rarely yields credible intel & the possibility of the CIA stumbling onto some courier fortuitously & following him around meticulously is too many coincidences for me. OTOH a greedy ISI insider is not hard to believe.
"infiltrated"? may I have some source for that?
Okay, so this concept of 'secret deficiency' is not what I purported, hard to measure does not make something secret. I will explicitly state that Asian applicants, with an admission rate of 4:1 relative to their racial representation in society, will typically start at a higher socio-economic standing relative to blacks (and whites if you want to talk means here).

To give you a positive answer: If blacks were over-represented at Harvard and asians under-represented then I would definitely accept the argument.

Now, as to the concept of 'outperform,' it depends on how 'performance' is defined. I don't care about academic performance as much as I do about long-term social mobility. If you can demonstrate that asians who attend college accomplish even the same amount of social mobility as blacks I would take a difference stance here.

People coming in with ultra-high SAT scores typically wont represent the underprivileged and the underprivileged will typically receive the most benefit (∆-socioeconomically) from the prestigious education out of all applicants.

Can you create a model that admits everyone based solely on GPA and test score while also addressing the challenges faced by the underprivileged? How does social mobility fit into your desire for fairness in admission towards asians? (honestly, not trying to be antagonistic, I'm curious what you think about this because we clearly differ on opinion here but this point is valid)

edit: so that would be 'deficits relative to their established peer group' then.
as far as why the pakistanis didn't just hand him over: hersh reports that they were receiving a great deal of saudi money to keep them from letting the americans know about him, presumably because they didn't want them to get him to talk about his ties to high-ranking saudis. the pakistanis conditionally permitted the raid, as long as it was explicitly a kill mission, which would stay in line with the saudi terms. again, the original plan was to kill him and take the body and announce a week later that he was killed in a drone strike on the afpak border, but that was scuttled when the helicopter crashed.

as for the unprofessionalism of dumping parts of the corpse of the most hated man in american history, perhaps you hold higher estimation of the moral restraint of a team of men who kill for a living than i do
Absolutely true.

I wanted add a note on it being BLUE (the best linear unbiased estimator)

"The Gauss–Markov theorem states that in a linear regression model in which the errors have expectation zero and are uncorrelated and have equal variances, the best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) of the coefficients is given by the ordinary least squares (OLS) estimator."[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Markov_theorem
If you just want to search SO, use the "!so" prefix in the Duckduckgo search prompt...
I'm a big fan of the EU's "right to be forgotten". I never quite got how everyone decided that it was a tool for pedophiles.

If it had been implemented in a robust way that required companies like google to remove all data about you, I'd be making an annual request, on general principals.

Given unlimited political power, I'd probably boil it down to the trifecta of "collecting data about someone, even in anonymised form, constitutes opening an account for them. Accounts are always wholly owned by the person they are about. In the event of multiperson accounts each individual has controlling influence over the account's deletion (see rule three)", "when an account is created the owner or owners must be notified", "upon an account owners request, you must completely delete an account and all associated data, working in good faith to delete it as fast as possible, even if deleting that data will affect other accounts".

It probably needs some refining, but the goal is to punish deliberately obfuscatory system designs where data or account information is deliberately entangled to make data deletion impractical, and give people control final control over the gathering of personal data about them.

Ultimately, I really liked the Gevulot system from the quantum thief (really worth reading, it's an amazing series). It'd be nice to have an internet based version of the same system.
From The Intercept, which links to other sources:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/managing-night...

(I haven't read it closely enough to say how much I believe it myself.)
The implication is that Jews are gaining advantages from an ethnic network. Discussing even the existence of such a network is not considered acceptable in the West.
This is almost comedically incorrect. The only reason I can think of for someone to claim this is for entertainment.
When is too early to leave?
Hi HN. I've been working at a new job (software engineering) for three months. A few weeks ago I was contacted by a recruiter for a fairly well known company (in tech circles at least). I thought, what the hell, I'll interview.

I just received an offer with about a 40% increase in base salary, with added bonuses as well.

My question is this - is it too early to leave my current job? My duties at both jobs would be comparable. I do enjoy my current job, but I also really like the product and team at the other company.

This company is probably stronger on a resume than the one I'm currently at. However, I feel like it would be unfair of me to leave so soon.

Any thoughts are appreciated.
AKA "The rich get richer"
He didn't claim that they had been "infiltrated". He simply claimed a few high ranking generals were members.

The narrative he was trying to create was that the military literally considers our presence in the Middle East as a crusade, in the historical sense. And frankly, I don't think this is too far off.

George Bush used "crusade/holy war" rhetoric both publicly and (reportedly) in private. Religious indoctrination in the army is rampant. Eric Prince of Blackwater has been accused by former employees of trying to start a Crusade.

So what's your counter narrative? The higher-ups in JSOC and the military are all reasonable secular humanists?

The Pope is a member of the Jesuit order. This doesn't mean that the Jesuits have "infiltrated Catholicism", it just means the Pope is a Jesuit. If you think that Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta are "shadowy conspiracy groups", you need to stop reading Dan Brown books, and start embracing the fact that other people have different ideologies.

As far as your "appeal to authority" is concerned, yes, that's exactly what it is. That's how journalism works. Anonymous sources get quoted all the time for pro-military stories. Deal with it. Would you have criticized Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for using "anonymous sources"? Part of good investigative journalism is relying on the reputation of established journalists. And while you're right that this is an appeal to authority, your argument is nothing more than an ad hominem designed to discredit the narrative Hersh has created.
The california republic flag with the bear is quite popular.
NSA Reform Bill Will Give the Government More Power to Spy on Your Smartphone
Show HN: Simple Hash Table Implementation for C
I am no means an expert, but from my understanding you are only partially correct. Betz's law essentially says that because the velocity of the fluid exiting the cross section of the turbine is lower than the velocity or the fluid entering, the exiting fluid must consume more volume, and that their is a calculable limit to that difference. If these devices are in fact using vortices/turbulent airflow to induce resonance then perhaps different rules apply to the amount of energy that can be extracted?
To you and me for sure, but a photographer who is not familiar with how JS is executed, I would say its possible they might miss the issue and just focus on the result.
A little off topic, but I like to get my news from Google News. If there is a story I am interested in I try to read the same story from two or three random countries. This might filter out some noise/bias.

I also like Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.

Almost all of my friends however seem to have a favorite TV news show. The liberal ones like MSNBC and the conservative ones like Fox News. So, I think a lot of people do watch TV news.

In 2013 the authors of Dollaracracy spoke at Google and they really laid into TV news, especially local news that just do not cover important topics.
Chocolatey has been awful for me. Also Cmdr is not well unmaintained and it's a far cry from the Linux tool-chain. People will be better off with Babun or straight Cygwin - http://babun.github.io/
In order for Hersh's comments about Opus Dei to discredit him as you're trying to do, they would have to be false. Do you know this?

_The Nation_'s Greg Grandin thinks the discreditors have more egg on their faces than Hersh does: http://www.thenation.com/blog/207001/its-conspiracy-how-disc...
Oil made from recently dead organisms would be better for the environment, and various schemes are proposed to make it.

Normal oil is bad because it's releasing carbon stored over a long time and introducing that carbon back into the system.
FBI now claims its stingray NDA means the opposite of what it says
Is there anybody defending those? Unless there are, your downvoting is well deserved.
"No phrase has been bandied about more than “conspiracy theory” in describing Hersh’s reporting. Critics argue that he’s accusing “hundreds of people across three governments of staging a massive international hoax that has gone on for years.” How could that be possible?"

The mass surveillance by NSA, GCHQ and the rest of the "Five Eyes" intelligence organizations involved thousands of people in several countries and was covered up for a long time, perpetuating the hoax that "the NSA only spies on foreign nationals". Then Snowden came along. Governments are pretty good at covering up their secrets.
I like lambda a lot. I just have to find more use cases for it.
It's the talent finding question, we are all having and fighting right now. If you watch HN carefully you would see that we have at least 4 - 5 talent finding guidelines or startups popping up daily.

HN is a good place for looking for talent, but you need to give more information about what you want to build. Also you need to create interest in people because it's really an early stage venture with low funding. Considering money is the first incentive you need luck, or you need to show that you have the chance to become a unicorn.

Also you may try angel.co.

So good luck.
My first thought from "properly dispose of, we don't want it in landfills" was, this is for hazardous waste -- you know, that box of old paint cans and dead SLA batteries that you know your city has a plan for, if only you could be bothered to figure it out. If not, maybe the website should make that more clear.
To be honest, your English looks absolutely fine to me, which is why I downvoted that comment for trolling. The content was also excellent; not often you get that sort of look at the internals of a project.
Good point, that really is the key. However, itjust turns it into the almost equivalent problem of: why assume Gaussian error terms, and the rest of the article does a good job at motivating this.
Jim Ballsilie: “Canadians can innovate, but we’re not equipped to win”
(Disclaimer: I've never actually tried to read CMOS circuits, and I'm still far from an analog electronics expert. The tutorial itself has been vetted by people who worked on the simulators though -- thanks to Lidnariq, Quietust, and BigEd!)

The basic logic elements tend to be more involved in CMOS, which makes use of symmetrical pairs of transistors with different doping. (Roughly, the doping determines whether a high or a low voltage "closes" the transistor.) Compare the implementation of a NOT gate for NMOS and CMOS here for example (where 'a' is the input): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverter_%28logic_gate%29.

To get an idea of one problem with NMOS that CMOS solves, consider the inverter example when the input is high. In that case, you get a continuous current from the power source to ground, meaning you're drawing power (and generating heat) even in the steady (static) state. CMOS on the other hand is designed to only draw power while the circuit is switching. Studying the circuit on the wiki article might give some rough idea of how that works.
"...despite being a key information for API users, most usage patterns are not described in official API documents."

Its a great point, however I feel that any API that provides a demo project is pretty much accomplishing this better than words ever could. While I, almost, always read API documentation, I often find the picture is only complete when I've either started to use the methods myself (feeling out issues around authentication and the format of the response of the API) or after I've been hands on with the included demo project (when one is included).

Also minor annoyance: I love that this is a free service, but PeerJ's download button needs to be moved to a slightly more obvious location.
The article mentions the fairly familiar fact that "median is to L1 as mean is to L2" -- i.e., the mean is the point from which the total squared error is minimized, and the median is a point from which the total absolute error is minimized.

I was telling my 8-year-old daughter about that the other day, and it occurred to me that the other "measure of central tendency" children get taught about, the mode, also fits into this scheme, with a tiny bit of fudging. Define the L0 error to be the sum of the 0th powers of the errors, with the (unusual) convention that 0^0=0. In other words, the L0 error is just the number of data points you don't get exactly right. Then the mode is the value that minimizes the L0 error. So: L0 : L1 : L2 :: mode : median : mean.

(Note 1. The obvious other Lp norm to consider is with p=infinity, in which case you're minimizing the maximum error. That gives you the average of the min and max values in your dataset. Not useful all that often.)

(Note 2. What about the rest of the "L0 column" of Ben's table? Your measure of spread is the number of values not equal to the mode. Your implied probability distribution is an improper one where there's some nonzero probability of getting the modal value, and all other values are "equally unlikely". (I repeat: not actually possible; there is no uniform distribution on the whole real line.) Your regression technique is one a little like RANSAC, where you try to fit as many points exactly as you can, and all nonzero errors are equally bad. I doubt there's any analogue of PCA, but I haven't thought about it. Your regularized-regression technique is "best subset selection", where you simply penalize for the number of nonzero coefficients.)
The video game that first came to mind was the opening segment of Metal Gear Solid 2. Something about the rain in that first part of the game was done perfectly. I've placed a video of the opening scene below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukh7C9zkXGc
You originally claimed that "quite possible that there are other deficits" that Asians suffer. Glad we have established that is unlikely.

If I wanted to address the "challenges" of the underprivileged, I'd simply give a preference to those who can demonstrate it. This is not currently politically favored because even highly privileged blacks underperform poor whites and Asians. (I can dig up stats on that if you like.)

No need to use race as a bad proxy when you can actually measure the underlying variable you claim to care about.
Read and watch quality independent news? Use critical thinking?
As I posted before:

“Many of them are members of Opus Dei,” Hersh continued. “They do see what they’re doing — and this is not an atypical attitude among some military — it’s a crusade, literally. They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They’re protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function.”

My understanding of that statement is that he meant that they were deeply religious and were members op Opus Dei, not that there's a secretive organization that's controlling USSOCOM.

Please stop propagating things you read in that horrible VOX article.
But worrying about things that are out of their small hands isn't exactly productive

Or it may seem, but I believe the reason we make advances in almost every field is due to philosophy. "Philosophy proposes and Science creates a framework for discovering answers."

But I agree, it begs the question "who is really smart?"
Where I last lived, there was at least one charity that had free pickup by truck. Not on demand exactly, but they could take anything useful if it was boxed- or furniture. You could leave your stuff on the porch and they would shift it for you.

This seems strictly worse and very expensive if you want to get rid of any significant amount of stuff.
Yes it was I typo, I did mean "50 years ago" :P
Elon Musk gets back with his wife Talulah Riley again
http://www.jumpedtheshark.co.uk/

Also, it wasn't just a major character, it was The Fonz.

The Fonz was originally a minor character, but he was so popular with fans that he became a main character, and is the most memorable character on the show.

My favorite "Jump The Shark" actor is Ted McGinley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_McGinley

He's joined the cast of several once-popular shows as they were on the decline.
Gaussian is sometimes a good approximation if the error is a sum of independent thin-tailed variables (due to the c.l.t.). That is all. The article does not, in my opinion, motivate this very well.
This is awesome and flies in the face of many arguments that functional and imperative programming languages need to be kept "pure" and mutually exclusive.
Killing the Crunch Mode Antipattern (2014)
He may be the most hated man in America History but I think the moral thing to do would have been to capture him and bring him to trial, but that apparently didn't enter into consideration.