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by privong 10y ago
> I think signal:wtbob works just as well as tel:+15551212 That doesn't work as well for auto-discovery of other Signal users, though. The latter enables auto-discovery based on people whose phone numbers are already in one's c
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Dress Codes: Suitable Disruption(economist.com)
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by privong 10y ago
> If this isn't the case a court can strike down the law as ambiguous. Yea, that's why I was arguing that being able to sue the government is a Good Thing. I think we're basically in agreement...
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by privong 10y ago
> The folks in Congress are right to set the national budget and priorities, but it is a good thing that the details of implementation are left to agencies, because they're the ones with the experience and technical knowledge to kno
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by privong 10y ago
> it's weird to complain or sue every time that the government doesn't make something you wanted. Because in few years people have the power to elect another set of representatives. You're correct if the government rules&#
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by privong 10y ago
> I never said people on the left don't do it. Apologies for my mis-interpretation. I think discussions about such things (e.g., the revolving door for lobbyists, where most people seem to agree that it's bad for governance) wo
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by privong 10y ago
> He lied, as many on the left said he was. Please drop the partisan angle on this. This isn't a left/right difference. Obama campaigned with a similar promise and he still selected lobbyists for his administration: https:&#x2
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by privong 10y ago
> Can someone (perhaps older than me (I'm 38)) explain this sentence? I have no idea what it even means to "beat on" a flashlight. You push a button, it turns on. What is there to "beat on"? I think it has to do
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by privong 10y ago
What about doing something like the inverse? Top500 for algorithms on a fixed hardware configuration. You have an input dataset and an answer (perhaps something with an analytic solution, for sake of comparison). That would let you compare
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by privong 10y ago
> You have to wonder how long 'Obamacare' is going to last now with a Republican president, congress and senate... I don't think the Republicans have enough people in the Senate to block filibusters. So I assume the Democ
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by privong 10y ago
> I think it's not that he didn't, but he couldn't, with the most obstructive Congress in modern history Ironically, some of that might have been his own doing, though. The healthcare reform was passed essentially without
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by privong 10y ago
> My impression is that pollsters, people surveying voters during the election, report via the AP or directly to networks; seems basically like the traditional news wire. Sounds like you're thinking of the exit polls, but I think O
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by privong 10y ago
> The conclusion that numerate people are coming to regarding algorithms for court sentencing is quite different from what you describe. Okay, that may have not been the best example to reference. > Human processes just add additiona
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by privong 10y ago
> I'm not comfortable with any given group of people doing such sort of approval, so right now I consider an algorithmic approach natively superior. That is a point the article makes, though. The algorithmic approach is effectively
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by privong 10y ago
> I mean, I guess you could argue that's not their "primary mission", but then I don't think that is in conflict with the OP's assertion that they "dropped the ball". Part of what you quoted does seem t
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by privong 10y ago
For reference, this article received a substantial number of comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12877381
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Gender Bias in Astronomical Publications from Citation Counts(arxiv.org)
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by privong 10y ago
> If they do that, then the new POTUS account will start at 0 followers (unless they have a special agreement with Twitter). They must have made some sort of arrangement. The article states: The account will retain its more than 11 mill
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by privong 10y ago
> Okay, so, what will this link do? > https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/786254141182074880 > Will it go to a page that says deleted? Is that what "no tweets on the timeline" means? Will each twee
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by privong 10y ago
Regarding being systematically wrong, the rebuttal paper is essentially arguing that, by ignoring other cosmological measurements, the original study refuting acceleration is potentially falling prey to systematics. The other cosmological m
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by privong 10y ago
> Too bad recent discoveries rule out Dark Energy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12783631 The methodology of that paper has been questioned by other researchers in the field[0]. Among other things, the paper claim
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by privong 10y ago
They do mention this, though it's somewhat buried in #4 on page 8 and in their paragraph saying they left out "Build Tools". They do suggest having a "controller script" (or set of shell scripts) to run all the comp
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by privong 10y ago
It's fairly general. The document is discussing management of scientific software, which I would think is fairly robust across disciplines. They separate the discussion into the following topics: * data management * software * collabor
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Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing(arxiv.org)
143 points by privong 10y ago|20 comments
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Python and Machine Learning in Astronomy [audio](talkpython.fm)
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The Ethics of Globalism, Nationalism, and Patriotism(humansandnature.org)
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by privong 10y ago
> Considering NASA has a budget thats 3-4x that of ESA, I'd be a little less quick to judge if I were you. I don't think GP was judging ESA. I think they were merely pointing out how impressive NASA's success rate has bee
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Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing(arxiv.org)
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Thoughts on OpenType Font Variations(practicaltypography.com)
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List of Numeral Systems(en.wikipedia.org)
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