skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neyer/dewdrop can I think be combined with neyer/respect, which I think solves the problem of sockpuppets fairly well by normalizing ones respect vector.
such that someone making many sockpuppets should not grant them extra influence.

In addition, while in many cases, the source of a line of reasoning is generally irrelevant (it would be just as useful if it was generated by a random number generator) (these lines of reason are I think those regarding things which can be known a priori).

However, there are some claims for which it is either impossible or impractical to express/verify such an argument.

For example, I could not present to you a logical argument that shows the current temperature where I am.

If I had a thermometer with me, I could tell you, or even send you a picture of the thermometer.

But I could not prove it.

If a random data stream produced such a picture, you would have no reason to believe that the picture accurately represented the current temperature of my surroundings.

For things such as this, (I think these are those things which can only be known a posteriori , and which one has not personally observed) one has to take into account the source of the claims, and so one generally has to consider how much one trusts those who are making the claim (or, how much you trust them in the given context, which a single number perhaps would not be entirely sufficient, but it seems to be at least a partial solution)
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Yes, but more and more, courts and laws try to enforce "equal outcomes" and not "equal opportunity."
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I'm a big clojure fan and not the biggest Lua fan, but I'm afraid you are mistaken. You won't find any dynamically typed language implementation that can come close to LuaJIT for the general use case.
Could also be useful for passing messages across web workers, typed arrays can be passed between boundaries without cloning.
As much as I disagree with your overall viewpoints, I'll agree on this one you have here. For a lot of individuals, the gap that you mention is huge such as to not have an immediate, explicit effect, and for one particular reason:

Something as simple as validating and completely "accepting" the notion that "there is[sic] some genetic differences between the sexes" requires individuals to throw out entire swathes of subsequent ideas/notions/etc, if we were to be logical about things. I.e. You now have "Men and women are equal but ..." or "Men and women are equal except when...", instead of the pure and logically consistent "Men and women are equal".

If you ask me, the entire thing (sex-differences topic) is starting to smell full of tiny errors and corner-cases. Perhaps we're on the verge of a paradigm shift happening once people clarify their ideas, without exceptions and acceptable-errors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
Yes, I believe that many people will indeed put up with some shit for a couple of dollars a day.

Point taken on how many people that would apply to if miles were cheap.
I am Australian and mostly agree with the gun laws in my country.

>P.S. one last thing - pro-gun-ban people completely disregard gun shooting as a means for hunting and as a fun activity at range. Many weapons, including mentioned AR-15 (civilian version of popular M16) will never be shot outside shooting range. Why use higher caliber guns instead of some puny .22? Because it's more fun!

From my understanding, removing these guns will save lives, at least one. Why is having fun more important than peoples lives?

I genuinely do not understand. Things like Marihuana only `hurt` the user for the most part where guns, if they hurt someone, is almost always not the user.
Her WP page got me to this nice page: Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire?

http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/admired_designs.html#wils...
Schools especially are a major use case. In particular middle school and high school students who have smartphone but no data plans - or highly restricted data plans - have flocked to mesh network messaging platforms. Witness the success of Jott (http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/08/messaging-app-jott-is-blowi...)
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It was initially thought that programming was like sewing, and the "real" work was in the hardware.

Then it was realized that programming was very real and significant work, and the men in charge took over those responsibilities.

I think all we can conclude is that there's no reason women can't be just as successful at a career in programming as men, aside from social pressures. A statement which probably applies in both directions to nearly all fields.

(Not that you were necessarily arguing otherwise, but for the benefit of those less familiar with that history.)
Speaking of which,

Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning: http://amzn.to/1UwCEy6 and

Cal Newport's So Good They Can't Ignore You: http://amzn.to/1fkHSNF (blog: http://calnewport.com/blog/about/)

have really helped me navigate these issues.
Is this a fair summary of your argument?

1) Women are suffering under the current power structure.

2) Interpersonal variation is being used as an argument to support the current power structure.

3) Therefore, as a good person I must deny interpersonal variation.
The American Airlines example is just one of thousands.

This does not answer the question about ROI.
Did they check biological age against low grade inflammation? That would be easy -- check those with a history of allergy troubles.

(Yes, I'm hellbanned.)
If the user installs an extension that delivers ads, then perhaps it is the user's intention to receive ads? Barring some kind of exploit, this won't be something that a website can do to you.
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Ask HN: What's the difference between a unikernel and an exokernel?
Personally I can't tell much. It seems exokernels were a prime research interest from MIT's work starting in the mid-90s, before at some point they went off the radar into the 21st century.

Now the idea of a unikernel is emerging with the name being unique, but conceptually it strikes me as a set of libOS packages meant to be run as a linked application under a bare metal hypervisor.

Then it seems like more of a divergence in the proposed use cases than any significant architectural differences.

Any views on this? Will it take off or just become another novelty?
If you have a newborn, believe me, you'll notice how lack of sleep affects mood.
Why shouldn't he be treated that way? Because I'd like to think we live in a society full of reasonable adults that can say things like "I strongly disagree with this person's beliefs on issue X, but I otherwise can get along". But we don't, and I find it shameful and childish and potentially dangerous.
I do something similar with aufs and snapraid.

Aufs is responsible for the storage pool (union mount). I look forward to replace it with something integrated in the Linux kernel (e.g overlayfs).

Snapraid is responsible for the redundancy. It kind of implements an offline RAID5 scenario per file —instead of per disk block—, it only maintains a parity disk. Of course since it is offline, you have to update the parity every time you change a file. Usually once per day or per week is ok for long term storage. This approach offers many advantages. Every data disk just works everywhere since it has a common filesystem in it. Via parity data you can undelete files, find duplicate files and correct read errors. You won't lose all drives if you lose more than parity+1 drives. It allows scrubbing and rebuilding.
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Wow, that's um, not awesome. And why would anyone use this instead of ZFS? Anyone? Anybody?
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In Soviet Union class background played a role (worker background was a plus).

Moreover, many countries had Jewish quota (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota) - very often at the percent of the Jews in their population.

But what is striking, we now consider such quotas as blatant discrimination, rather than good affirmative actions for the (really or allegedly) underprivileged groups.
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Disagreement with the Constitution is certainly not new and I am not describing an increase in disagreement with the Constitution. I am describing a diminishing significance of the term "unconstitutional" as a counterargument to agendas that (strictly speaking) are in fact unconstitutional. In the country's earlier history, the constitutionality of laws was considered a more important factor to predicate their existence. If an argument were made that a law would be unconstitutional, that presented at the very least a significant hurdle to clear.

Are you saying you disagree that the Constitution is considered less relevant today than it was in the earlier history of the United States? If so, that's fine; we simply disagree.

Certainly the past were not "the good ol' days," and nothing about what I said is to suggest the past was a better time than the present. Technological progress alone makes today immeasurably more luxurious. Rather, my point was that the Constitution and the limits have been diluted with each circumventing event made for the sake of facile law-making and problem-fixing. And today the Constitution is more often than not seen as quaint.

Maybe you're right; maybe the percentage of Americans who see the Constitution as outdated and irrelevant has remained steady over time. I don't have polling data. But from my personal experience, even in my lifetime, the marginalization of arguments based on the constitutionality of laws appears to have grown. It now seems that bringing up the Constitution as a roadblock to new lawmaking is considered a tired, predictable, and ultimately weak talking point in a debate.
A better tool such as?
"Tracking indexes is 'big', and has some brute simplicity about it, but eventually the market will eliminate that as a viable investment mechanism."

I would like to know how.
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That rubbish is tiny and space is very, very big.
Hi, great job. Would you be so kind as to discuss your stochastic modelling?
Could do some crazy docker things with this. Imagine bouncing around your entire P2P net on a .bit domain. Makes popcorn time look like a bunch of amateurs.
Given the restrictions (no large files, no open (for long time) files, not lots of small files, nothing you need accessible 100% of time) what use case does this fill?
Nice, great work! I liked the ability to use various random variables for a Monte Carlo simulation. I think this should be the default, like FIRECalc. [0]

0. http://www.firecalc.com/
I'm not convinced that is necessary. Here's my first thought. If I'm given a higher resolution image and am to downscale, knowing it will be displayed on a particular screen, then I would sample the blue pixel not from the "center of the pixel" but from the position of the blue dot in the screen. Similarly for red and green pixels. Couldn't an approach like that give subpixel precision?
I think the general principle is that societal decision makers should be roughly representative of the people whose lives are impacted by the decisions.

Of course it's possible to take this too far.

As for why race and gender are considered important, I think it's probably because they are easy to measure, and there has been a lot of discrimination. Most of the other demographics are probably pretty evenly represented? I've never heard of someone getting passed over for promotion or housing because they were left-handed.

The city/country split is a good point. There is some provision for that in many political systems, with different geographical regions being represented based on population, but it's far from a perfect system.
For programming languages, the HOPL papers, many of which can be found online for free. http://www.multicians.org/ is also a fascinating site on the OS that served as an inspiration/opposite for Unix. On that note, you can gain a good amount of perspective by reading on the "losing side" of history: Ada, Multics, Wirth's languages, Lisp machines, Smalltalk, etc.
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It's really more about how many objects are on the heap, less about how long the heap is.
It is pretty fully featured, so for less than 100 people you shouldn't be missing something big. Anyway, the list of differences is at https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare
I like the concept and it would be great if we could personalize this app a bit more. For instance, I want “History” tab which shows all my gists.
> If it's too challenging to figure out I'll just tell you the answer

I was pointing out your sexist attitudes and the mistakes that you make as a result of your ignorance. You think of her as an object to be traded, not as a person with violition. That caused your chauvanistic framing in your response.
History repeats itself and people start rattling off the basic litany of complaints.

It's a first generation device for Apple. The first iPhone had to be plugged into a computer. This watch is for early adopters, you know the 10-50 million people who'd shell out the money.

The watch's abilities will greatly improve over time, thus becoming more useful to another 500 million people.
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What is P99.5?
We don't live in such a society. Hence why "not supporting gay marriage" and "I am able to fully support people from all walks of life (e.g. all people are created equal)" are contradictory statements, full of cognitive dissonance. This is "shameful and childish and potentially dangerous" for someone who is trying to be the CEO of a company. The questions raised about his fitness for that role are fair ones. Considering his beliefs, I think he handled his ascendance with grace. [1] Frankly, I think he could have succeeded and supported the overall cause of Mozilla. Do I think what happened to him was unfair? No.

[1] https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
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Ask HN: Every time I register a new domain, I get spammed
Every time I register a new domain, I get spammed by companies wanting to develop my new website. The messages don't come from my domain name provider - they come from third party companies. How do they come by this data? Or am I being naive in supposing that my domain name provider is not selling this information on?

Edit: I can see that it probably comes from WHOIS data. But how do they get tipped off that the new domain exists in the first place?
This also isn't how statistics works.

> We can further assume, arbitrarily, that P(B) = 0.02 (one in every fifty people make good engineers). So the likelihood that a person is a good engineer given that they are female is P(B|A).

> P(B|A) = 0.4 * 0.02 / 0.5 = 0.016
> P(B|~A) = 0.6 * 0.02 / 0.5 = 0.024

> What we learn from this is that sex is not a good screening criterion for finding good engineers. You realize an advantage of only 0.8%, not 60%.

if you multiply two numbers (here 0.4 and 0.6) by the same constant (here 0.02 / 0.5) you can't then say "You realize an advantage of only 0.8%, not 60%"... 0.016/0.024 == 40/60.

Re: OP's point ("When you pick out an individual there's still a 60% chance than one is better than the other given no other information than their sex"), I agree that's wrong, but not for the reason given. He's not reversing a conditional probability, but rather asking a question about the unconditional probability (the base rate), so the 60/40 conditional information is not relevant.

If you pick two random individuals, one male and one female, and the IQ average of the two groups is equal (roughly true, from the article), the chance that one has a higher IQ than the other is 50%.

julia> sum([randn() > (randn() * 10) for i=1:1_000_000])
499884

IE assuming that men have 10x the IQ variance, the variance makes literally no difference when comparing two random people.
Natural fertilizer is how our ecosystems were made to be so productive. Your land in Iowa is incredibly productive from a legacy of natural fertilization.

There are a growing number of examples of farmers using natural methods in the modern context. There is some supplementation, especially in the beginning to re-mediate lands that have been damaged by conventional agriculture; however nature has a way of making things work.

Natural polyculture systems produce more food than monocultures for a number of reasons, such as utilizing multiple layers, creating a functioning ecological systems, more efficient water usage, etc. This is done despite the lack of research that goes into creating natural food systems. Imagine how much better it will be when it's fully adopted.

Re demand: Much of our demand is artificial, narrow, globally structured, driven by subsidies, marketing, & supply. Corn based ethanol uses more energy than it creates. The only reason for corn based ethanol is to subsidize certain farmers. Our level of factory meat production is also destructive to the environment, resource intensive, & unhealthy. America pushes junk food creating an unhealthy, morbidly obese population.

I'm just pointing out how ecological & biological systems work, the consequences of the status quo, & how things can be improved.

I stand to be a good steward of our planet by considering the global systemic implications of our systems. That is the ethical thing to do. It's easy to hide behind rationalizations to shirk responsibility to explore viable options that have been proven to work.

If you see that as political, then you also being political.
I'd guess bolt action rifles are more popular, but both bolt action and semi-automatic rifles are readily available and widely used for hunting.
It's insane to buy one of these old index funds that are now pop curiousities. The only reason DJIA and S&P are interesting is because decades ago we didn't have computers, so we used extremely simplified indicators. Now you can buy into an index fund with 1000s of securities that doesn't have arbitrary constraints determined by the needs of historical contiuity with obsolete newspapers.
Schemas in my schema-less database? Why not just use MS SQL / Oracle / MySQL?
This assumes it's independent of other data.

If your classifier also knows that an applicant has a CS degree and hypothetically a higher percentage of females with CS degrees than males with CS degrees are talented. Then the relationship might reverse.

The point is stats about populations often fail to carry over to sub populations.

PS: This flip is actually fairly common in the face of discrimination. Basically, you would expect the first hundred female fighter pilots to be way above average.
You seem to be misunderstanding the implication of anti-inductivity and/or the point of index funds. Anti-inductivity only holds that strategies that return better than average can't work when applied broadly. There is nothing that implies that a broadly-applied strategy can't give you the market average. Index funds are supposed to give you the average return, that's their objective. There is no reason to believe they won't continue to be successful in doing that (if everybody just invested in index funds, everybody would make the average return...)
Very excited about the release. Schemas are something that ODBC connectors are doing already, although they are essentially normalising the collections into tables, sometimes looks ugly, but I suppose the aim's mostly to plug that into BI tools like Qlik, Tableau and friends.

I'm excited about the improvements that are being made in the Aggregation Framework, $lookup sounds interesting too, and hopefully it lands in 3.1.6 so we can start trying it out. For me the key takeaway from interacting with the MongoDB team on what's on the pipeline, it's been that I should invest more on the Agg Framework for some of my more complex workloads.

WiredTiger will be the default from what I heard, I've seen that the TokuTek people have slowed down with TokuMX and are building their own pluggable store into MongoDB.
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The constitution was written primarily as philosophy, not politics. It has some new principles but ignoring it is nothing new. The founding fathers wrote it and then immediately threw it in the garbage (and not just technical rules, the principles upon which it is based) when the going got tough (Alien and sedition acts for a very explicit example)
Just curious what use case this is? Is it that you want to see really important email/texts when you are involved in a setting where having your phone make noises is not preferred?
afaik most hunting rifles are semi automatic (that's what you're describing and how the AR15 works)
Probably going against the grain with this answer... Morally no problem - no one is married here (and in light of recent events - it's a universal thing that everyone believes in). If you want to lock someone down say some vows, otherwise they are fair game to go where their heart takes them.

Is everyone so understanding? No. My advice is to sit down and be honest with her regarding your feelings and say this isn't the right time or place.
99.5th percentile -- below that threshold, requests are generally fine, but there's a small fraction of requests that take way too long to go through due to GC kicking in.
> even the "computer graphics" in the background were hand-drawn!

TIL.

Also, see my handle.
Atonal (actually, I'd argue microtonal) music is totally where it's at though...
"They are over priced"

People have been saying this about Apple products since the Apple II. But hey, thanks for that observation.