skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With due respect, you haven't seen this happening nor been in one. I'm coming from India where Real Estate prices have grown exponentially in the last decade.

When rents are high, the Real Estate market goes up, not down. Since everybody thinks that they can recoup all building prices through rents, I've seen many of my friends buying homes at exorbitant prices and letting them for rent again to exorbitant prices.

New buildings are being built dime and dozen because rents are there to support them. People are no longer buying home to live, they're buying homes so that they can rent it out, because rent prices are high. A whole slew of new buildings are being built because they can rely on exorbitantly high rents.

Its a vicious cycle. Higher rent leads to more buildings being built. Once rents are high, it increases the costs of all goods: Hotels need to start charging more to cover rents, so do all grocery shops and everything else. Real Estate is one of the fundamental reasons behind creating the modern urban poor and homeless.

When you control rent prices, you stop buildings from being built for sake of letting out. Instead, buildings get built to really live. Like it or not, 40k inhabitants are coming in to live, rented or not. Controlling rents will allow for a sustained development. Otherwise, new buildings will shoot up as a business opportunity based on this 40k, and that will screw up everything else.

As somebody deeply affected by the ever-increasing rent prices, I believe Germany is doing the practically right thing.
On a side note, you can increase performance of presentations by 25% by not leaving time for questions. I find Q&A is often the best part and I wish the conferences left more time for it.
You'd be crazy to enter the USA territory.

Stay out.
> the technique is fairly new and used in deep learning, popularized by some of the guys that popularized deep learning, usually mentioned in conversations about deep learning

Logistic regression with regularization is fairly new? 'Pioneered' by the same people as deep convolutional neural networks? Are you certain about this?
Considering that how awkward AltGr is to reach, I find it difficult to understand why that layout would be very practical (for programming), considering that all of those punctuation characters are available either directly or with shift on US layout.
map() isn't all that useful in Python.

If you want a list it's more straightforward to write:

[f(x) for x in my_iterable]

If you don't want a list it's more straightforward to write:

for x in my_iterable:
y = f(x)
Presuming bias isn't an excuse to not mention logical flaws.
For the record, I think it's a complicated subject, and we can always do better than the status quo.

But this article is not helping the cause of those that want to end affirmative action; it identifies their cause with jerks.
Really? a huge volume of material was released and you question the effort due to typos? it says version 0.1 at the top.
Back of napkin math bring this at ~25 lines of code per day. Looking quickly at our Git history, this seems well below the average LoC/day me and my co-workers produce but our software is still in early stages and there's lots to do. Perhaps you are maintaining a more mature project?
That's my opening sentence :)
If you actually read the article, it says he stated his social background precisely on the application. They chose to ignore it and focused on the amount of melanin in his skin.
A good bucket brigade
To continue this line of though, distributed computation is hard problem, and that's just computers. Here, people have to do real work to statically verify a paper's procedure, which is very cognitive overloading. Imagine reviewing a PR and deciding with certainty if it will work or not. Even then they should also "recompute" the experiment to completely verify it. Of course add human error on top of all this.

It seems there's a problem here, the article made it seem anyone can produce a bad study for lulz, and get everyone's attention. What is more scary is people doing it for vested interests. Maybe there's something that could be learned from projects like BIONC, Wikipedia, or Bitcoin, but better science is going to cost more money, and require more cultural attention. Not sure how to fix those things :)
Giving a Truck a Camera and a TV Is the Best Idea We Never Thought Of
Note that blueberries don't exist wildly in Europe, only bilberries which are often confused. Most people don't even know that there is a difference.

This is similar to how cranberries and lingonberries are confused.
In QM math is essential. Most of things I had learnt about QM before learning its basic, well, mechanics were actually building false intuitions.

Without math, many-world interpretation is a ridiculous absurd, and an Ockham's nightmare. With - well, it's pure QM _without_ adding additional assumptions.
Thanks, I'll update it shortly.
I would argue the problem with AA is not that people might abuse it, but because its a fundamentally flawed system that starts to prefer certain races to one another. For instance, asians are definitely a minority in the US but are extremely heavily discriminated against when applying to colleges. There is even a lawsuit against harvard right now that shows how harvard denied many asian students in favor of other minority's.

So, thats one issue with AA. The other is simply that fields like medicine should have only the best of the best getting through. Why should a native american kid who did shitty all through high school get to go to med school and a asian kid who got a perfect 4.0 and did extra curricular things not. This is making america worse and in many cases further pushes a racial divide agenda that says "minority's cant hack it in the real world".

What is worrying is that the truly great minority leaders/thinking/doers/etc.. will have their accomplishments completely invalidated by their non-minority peers for thinking they got to where they are just because of their racial makeup.

Just to see the above in action, look at this reddit thread : https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/2zun6p/accepted_int...
Seems that there's a pipeline of affirmative action programs throughout the medical profession starting with admission to college and ending at the hospital where there are quotas for hiring black and latino doctors.

That's an absolutely terrifying state of affairs.

I want the best qualified people to treat me and my loved ones.

Edit: Seems that the more 'mainstream' crowd (read reddit-esque PC liberals) have arrived at this article and I'm now being downvoted (without any responses or counter arguments). As a result I've been rate-limited and I can no longer post. Cheers!
This looks cool. Please repost it!
So the author cheated the system, cheated someone else out of a place - and then decided a couple of years down the line he didn't want it anyway. I knew going into reading that I was going to come away thinking the guy was a dick but he's an even bigger dick than I suspected.
Not every country has it's own but quite a few do, like Germany for example.
HAProxy?

ELB?
Folks who have figured out windbg's learning curve will know that VS isn't even the best debugger from Microsoft.
Ask HN: Is telekinesis inside the international space station feasible? [idea]
The idea is to implement telekinesis inside the international space station by adding vents on the walls to push objects around based on directions from mind readers worn by the astronauts. Is this feasible?
According to EFF you are at the mercy of the agents.

https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-gui...

Why make your life harder?

Make gz image of the drive. Upload it somewhere, wipe laptop, when inside the US just download it and unzip from live cd on the fly.
seems like optimizing something always involves precalculations.
I agree with you that liability for abuse is not a significant problem with AA. I am not convinced one way or the other on the overall cost/benefit, but lean in favor of AA because it helps with my white guilt.
You best move a copy of your filesystem or all files encrypted to some online storage, and travel with a barebones installation. Most people I know have a second, travel drive or even travel laptop, and only put a subset of files online (eg. on your private hidden service, HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient is very useful for that).

Happy times.
> ...and an Ockham's nightmare...

Just never forget that Ockham's razor has absolutely no basis in science. Also, what one person finds a simpler or more elegant theory, another person might not; in that sense it is quite arbitrary.
Germany backed off nuclear power in the 90s long before Fukushima. That process was merely slowed down before Fukushima and set back on track afterward.

This has to also be kept in mind when considering nuclear power in Germany. The nuclear plants in Germany are so old that whether you are pro or contra on nuclear power, shutting down the existing plants is more or less a non-issue.
That's fascinating. Turbulence has been a confusing mystery for a century, despite its importance in aerodynamics. Finally, someone has insight into the problem.
"Makes me wonder how much effort was put into this."

There, fixed that for you. I don't wonder because I can clearly see how much effort was put into it and also decided not too be a jerk.
Pros / cons of KVM?
Don't worry Dan, the word 'minority' has been redefined to not include Asians.

I was informed of this the other week by an Asian friend who's a college student. She mentioned it in passing like it was just basic knowledge.
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Isn't that the definition of affirmative action?
How about free one level, $1 to enable rest?

Not scummy but also gives people a free trial.
I can relate to the same problem and often I am stuck when reading about algorithms explained through math formulas. I would love to see some kind of dependency tree for math knowledge which clearly shows all the requisites for understanding a specific topic.
Maybe it is a nice problem to solve for empathic math freak enterpreneurs which can come up with new, structured teaching methods.
It's like a car speeding up and then stopping at every red light vs. the one smoothly flowing up to and through each light as it turns green.

The latter might not get you there significantly faster but it's going to be a much smoother ride.
Maddox put forward a interesting question about women getting paid less then men- He said "You know how I know that this is bullshit? Because if there was a way companies could instantly save 30% of their wages and get the same output, who in their right minds wouldn't do it"

My thoughts on the actual issue are sadly ill-informed, but the logic here seems problematic: "People say X phenomenon occurs. You know how I know it doesn't? Because it seems like it would benefit the people in charge!"

Did I mis-understand the quote?
To clarify: I think it'd be better if the Unicode Consortium changed the properties of U+2019 than change which character is the canonical representation of an apostrophe, given you won't be able to change most documents.

If you make apostrophes a different character, how would you make sure apostrophes and end quotes aren't confused? Unless you're a Unicode fanatic, you probably won't manually edit sequences of hexadecimal codepoints.
I agree with you in principle, but one thing to keep in mind about the medical community is that there is a legitimate need for broadly diverse medical professionals in a hospital. The reason is for community outreach -- someone of the same background (say, socio-racial-economic) can communicate with the patients easier and have a better outcome for the patients' health.

I am sympathetic to the desire for the best qualified people and affirmative action truly does scare me, but medicine does need a bit of special consideration here, in my opinion.
WordPress has plenty of functions to sanitize, the one who made the theme or dropped in the form probably overlooked it.
Funny. Despite being in Sweden I always try to get US keyboards just to avoid the whole AltGr thing for braces.
Of course AA is flawed, but the status quo is flawed too. That's the point of AA. It's supposed to be a counter weight to structural imbalances in order to let minorities get a foot in the door with the hopes that in the future it will not be necessary.

Note that I'm not claiming that AA works or is for the best, I really don't know. But just that you can't have this discussion honestly without acknowledging that there are subconscious biases working against certain groups of people. The whole basis of Maddox's quote assumes that people are objective and have no biases—that's a myth, just like the idea that all players in an economy have perfect information and are rational.

This is where the whole "check your privilege" thing comes in. From one white man to another, we are not qualified to judge how much hard work and talent is required for a woman or a black person to succeed and be recognized.
Spanish government plans to tax sunlight
Instead of petals, they should make a small clip that attaches to the end of your shoe.
Here's an excerpt from the original Wall Street Journal article that this article is based on:[1]

``In two short messages sent to Uber drivers in Hangzhou and circulated online—verified with Uber in China by The Wall Street Journal—Uber urged its drivers not to go the scene and instructed those already there to leave immediately. Uber said it would use GPS to identify drivers that had refused to leave the location and cancel its contracts with them.

The messages said Uber’s actions were designed to “maintain social order.”

In a statement issued Saturday, Uber also said one Uber driver involved in an incident during Friday’s confrontation was licensed and had cooperated with the Hangzhou authorities. The company was strongly against any extreme behavior that could affect harmony and stability, the statement added.``

"Maintain social order"? "Extreme behavior that could affect harmony and stability"? Those sound exactly like words that we'd expect to be hearing from China's authoritarian government, not from an American company.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-orders-drivers-in-china-to-... [paywalled, available via Google search]
I am from Brazil, here our economy depends greatly on commodity exports (meat, soybeans, iron, coal, and whatnot).

Producers of commodities, tend to export the best stuff, and sell the crap internally... It has an interesting result: the flavour (or quality, for non-edible products) of some stuff, is drastically different, for example two famous cases is chicken, and oranges, it happened once to each industry to be unable to export for some reason, and they dumped the export product in the internal market, people that bought the "export" chicken and oranges were very impressed, it tasted MUCH, MUCH better, also the export oranges are obviously different (they are bigger, heavier and have a more striking colour).

Unfortunately, I am not one of those people :( (I had girlfriends that tasted those, but when it happened I lived in a city that was too small to get those products).

Still, for many people that think that produce can not be THAT different, I can say, yes, it can, even when made by the same company, sometimes in the same farm.
OP here. Yes, it was a huge "aha moment" for me when i saw the implementation of this function and how simple it was.

Absolutely brilliant! Hats-off to the author of this snippet.
PeaCoq, a UI for Coq
Yes, a society with zero employment where everyone has more goods and services than before sounds like utopia. You are basically describing robots meeting all our needs while we do whatever we like.
Couldn't you treat the network as a matrix and perform addition and subtraction on it in the same manner?
Ah the critical distinction is paying attention to your body is not the same thing as buying a book. As per OPs comment, I used to lift, its good exercise, and I saw plenty of demonstrations of data gathering technique and analysis.
work with a group that use Mozenda - I haven't worked much with it directly. They made it through a couple years of scraping with Mozenda. They recently decided to spend more and installed Kapow. More mature platform - lots of features but also a lot more expensive if I understand correctly.
I don't think anyone buys a Kinesis for speed. It's all about ergonomics.
Taking a vacation increases your chances of getting a raise or promotion
The implication is that companies would only hire women, as they are cheaper than men.
OP here, noticed that we now have California grown, relatively inexpensive blueberries that I don't recall seeing when I was a kid.

Turns out it's another example of how markets can be disrupted by hacking. In this case, the 'hack' was breeding blueberry plants that can grow in California. Farmers find gaps in the growing periods to deliver their more expensive product when growers in other states can't deliver.
The memory-unsafety bugs they found through fuzzing is worrying for newly written code.

It really shows that you should try to avoid writing C code when possible.
Ancient DNA reveals how Europeans developed light skin and lactose tolerance
>I wonder if there are any Vietnamese hackers out there in some village, trying to work out how to write their own apps for the iPhone5 ..

After the success of Flappy Bird, written by a guy in Hanoi, I think a lot of them are at it.
This is one of those things where it's really hard to tell whether it's a major step forward or utter bullshit. The question to ask, of course, is "how could this be tested experimentally?". It it's testable, it's a lot more important than if it isn't.

The proposed theory would seem to indicate that it's possible to get the real world into a state similar to an out-of-sync network game. Some games can get into a state where the player states have diverged, but the players are still connected. Is this article claiming that the real world can do that? That should be testable.
I did the whole keyboard must be perfect thing a few years back. I realised I had wasted more time researching and testing keyboards they I could ever save during the left of my working life heh.

Now a nice keyboard is something you want to have but as long as it has some key travel I am good to go. I don't like mushy keys too much though.
Marijnh/tern
A small helper to add licenses to your work
I was starting to get sore wrists at the end of a day programming, rather than let it get worse, I investigated ergonomic keyboards and came up with this one. I really like it, and my wrists don't get sore anymore.
fields like medicine should have only the best of the best getting through

I'd like to offer up the contrarian view. In music or basketball there is no way to arrive at the top unless you began studying your craft at the age of 3. Unlike high-level basketball or music at a very high level, medicine is quite plebeian, just watch your physician do his thing next time you get sick.

In everyday medicine good enough is in fact good enough, you don't need the very best to advance the state of the art. If it wasn't the case we'd hear that <insert ethnicity here> physicians are dangerous to life, and we'd see them lose their licenses more often than average.
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Thanks for the link you provided. This is the link I cited, http://www.mailinator.com/tymaPaulMultithreaded.pdf .
There's that explicit pipeline for marginalized people. However, there's long been a much more powerful implicit pipeline in the form of unconscious biases, old boys' clubs, and the like.
Anyone tried this with the corpus of HN commentary?
Since you bring up basketball, should we have AA there also? I feel like asians, native americans and jews are being extremely discriminated against in the sport. Or is it OK to say 'fuck those other minoritys' in that case? If a applicant is jewish but misses 50% more freethrows over another identical black candidate, who should get the spot?
Why iOS only? Pay to play model still works pretty well on PC. See the numbers for yourself:

* http://steamspy.com/

* http://steamspy.com/genre/Indie
I have, actually. Here's the code for the experiment, with a link to download the data: https://github.com/fchollet/keras/blob/master/examples/skipg...

I also recommend using Gensim for word embeddings.
DNA carries traces of past events – poor lifestyle can affect future generations
There is also a pretty consistent message sent by identifying the term as pejorative and insulting, to be fair. There's a huge false dichotomy that holds that anyone who utters that phrase cannot possibly be progressive, when in fact the more likely scenario is that the speaker is progressive and is tired of a certain class of tactics overpowering the message.

This thread is exhibit A, to that end. Look how many people are up in arms about the shirt and have really lost the plot of what they're mad about, and still invest their lives arguing over the shirt months after it was dead and gone and the guy apologized, in response to a one line aside from the original commenter that was interpreted as permission to get opinions off chests. There's a person nearby fervently arguing about the shirt without even having seen the shirt, and yet we are supposed to accept that this is the best path to equality and progressive change?

I am not sharing an opinion (seriously, read my comment again), but I can tell from voting that it wouldn't matter anyway. My opinion would probably surprise the people voting on this comment, but I know better after several years than to ever speak to Hacker News about this topic and expect a coherent response. Again, I point to the thread.
Yes I agree with the community outreach angle.

I'm not sure that outweighs the costs of AA.

Imagine your mom is diagnosed with cancer and you take her in for treatment. In walks a black doctor who will be overseeing her care. It is obviously possible that this doctor is just as qualified as any other, but given AA it's also more likely that this doctor - as opposed to a random indian or white or asian doctor - is less qualified.

So now what do you do? It's your mom's health on the line here.

We're literally talking about peoples' wellbeing potentially being sacrificed to the alter of political correctness.
The floor could be dirty, and then the foot pedal goes back into your bag.
We all have to make decisions with imperfect information. That can be assumed outright with little contention.

Yes, AA is fundamentally flawed, but that is because it is a biasing correction to a pre-existing and difficult to manage bias. You might be tempted to think "if the goal is to eliminate bias, you shouldn't introduce more bias" but the fact is, a counter bias can mitigate another. No, it won't work in a utopia, but we don't live in a utopia. And maybe it can't even help create one. But it doesn't actually prevent any progress.

> "What is worrying is that the truly great minority leaders/thinking/doers/etc.."

Well, don't worry about the truly great leaders, thinkers, and doers. They are truly great, so they will overcome. It is results that make one great, not rewards.
Did you mean by leaving time rather than "by not leaving time"?
I would recommend starting with a calculus book. If you aren't comfortable enough with the trig side of things, do a refresher on OCW or Khan Academy.

This book is my personal favorite.

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Practical-Man-J-Thompson/dp/1...
The old boy's club consisting of Asians, Indians, and Whites?
It's the definition of racism for sure!
The "Slip and Slide" bit give me a good laugh. Interesting article, makes me curious about what exploits I have on my own site.