skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could anyone give a base/guidance on how one would start comparing/explaining the similarities/differences between Oberon and Smalltalk?
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Yes, thank you for the clarification. Maybe "incomplete" was the wrong word; I was referring to the note on the Wikipedia page:

> At this point, Cardano, who did not know complex numbers, supposed that the roots of this equation were real, that is that q^2/4 + p^3/27 > 0.

I actually had initial plans to do it Cardano's way: I added a Complex class for the very situation you described[0], but ended up abandoning it as the trig solution seemed more straightforward.

[0] https://github.com/nicolewhite/algebra.js/commit/47b6cbba375...
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> I suspect this merely detects the order of the equation and then applies the proper solving formula (Abc for 2nd, Cardano for 3rd).

That's exactly right. You could build a quintic equation, but attempting to solve will return undefined.
I'm not in america.

No, it's not the same. Most of the world don't force women to be wrapped in tapestry against their will. Once you do there's zero compassion towards you.
I think it's easy to be talented when you get to decide what to be talented in. But most of the time you don't get to do that. If the project is to make a secure desktop application communicating over the internet in a certain time frame and you aren't effective at working in teams, network security and/or user experience etc. you can claim to be as talented as you want, you probably won't deliver good results anyway. You probably can't even properly judge what a good result is.
In what sense did Frege invent higher-order functions?
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=agsbcap

.. lol
Amazon does just have stack ranking, the company basks in it.
Hilarious!!
> You'll note they don't actually specify any asymmetric quantum-resistant algorithms. I'd guess if they did, NTRU or a derivative would be one they'd consider first...

My bet would be on McEliece. It's been around longer, so has been subjected to more rigorous cryptanalysis than NTRU, and is not patented.
I don't know js-csp (I prefer ES7 async/await + promises or streams) so correct me if I'm wrong, but the "csp.go" here isn't required since it's a single operation and the return value isn't used:

csp.go(function*(){
yield csp.put(channel, {actionType: 'incr'});
});

I assume it's essentially the same as doing the following using async/await:

(async function() {
await csp.put(...);
})();

Which is pointless.
It's almost as if you deliberately chose the least charitable interpretation humanly possible. I'd hate to see what other sophistry you'd employ.

Also I'm quite amused how the original post referenced domestic violence and you immediately jump to it beating women.

In any event, I was referring to the use of substances and the right to determine one's own destiny.
True but i use vnstat and like it :D
Alcohol is especially associated with increased risk for violence. Other drugs, not so much.

Most violence related to illicit drugs is not caused by intoxication, but rather by fighting and stealing between drug dealers.

So there is good arguement that drug prohibition increases violence by creating a criminal black-market (where people turn to violence rather than police and laws to resolve disputes) and by encouraging alcohol use rather than use of safer, less violence-inducing drugs.
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Advertising model for physical space as well as TV and radio seem to be stuck in the old days, no commoner can just spin up a advertising quickly for a few days.

It incurs huge cost, because it is geared towards mass campaigns. Anyone should be able to put up micro-ads (with small airtime or small geographic footprints) with targeted audience (like at a specific hour of the day or, on a conveniently located billboard) without paperwork and long-term deals.

Is it possible? If you are dealing in this sectors, what do you feel about this?
If someone becomes disruptive when they get frustrated, then they are not an A player.

Part of being an "A player" is to be professional, including in their communications and behavior. IF they are having problems with their role, speaking to someone about it and getting the problems resolved is appropriate, not disrupting the business.
Yes, but I don't agree with that hypothesis. From what I've seen, ego tends to peak around the "above average" range where they are trying to convince everyone (including themselves?) that they are extraordinary.

The truly amazing people demonstrate it in action not words.
>If you start a lifestyle business in tech and adjust your life to fit the new income (house, kids, etc), who says it won't go out of business in the next 10 years

The key here would be to not adjust your lifestyle too much.

If you can live on $30,000 a year (perhaps necessitating a move to a cheaper part of the country/world), you only need to have about $750,000 invested intelligently in order to live off of the interest (assuming a "safe withdrawal rate" of 4%).[1]

Even if you double that cost-of-living, you only need to save and invest about $150,000 per year for 10 years in order to retire at the end of your hypothetical successful lifestyle tech business.

As the person you're responding to said, "I think many entrepreneurs are less interested in building Billion dollar companies and are more seeking freedom from suppressive corporate jobs," and that is definitely in reach of a savvy lifestyle tech startup founder. In fact, I've met a few of those.

[1]http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-need...
One of the interesting corollaries to this is that the right person for a role at one point in a company / product is not necessarily the right person at a future time.

For example, the rogue / maverick type can be very important at early stages. They drive innovation, take risks, and get absurd amounts of things done. But, later that same risk taking can become absolutely destructive.
I have never been drug tested. I've worked since 1990 on the East Coast. It's never even been mentioned to me, except the one time that I looked into the FBI and discovered that they can't afford me.
I think its also the reason why alot of programmers prefer EDM or music that contains no lyrics to be able to listen to themselves more.
But I do feel like there is also a connection with inner monologue and when making something.
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I would like to see corroborating evidence from a more reliable source.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10042302
Puyol was by no means an average player and neither is Pique. These are players who were/are considered to be among the top five center backs in the world at their peak. Isn't that by definition a superstar?
D-Wave's hardware is customised for a particular function: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/jun/20/is-d-wa...

A team at UCSB built a prototype quantum computer that successfully factored 15 a few years back: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v8/n10/full/nphys2385.ht...
I would like a robot book scanner. Here's one, the ScanRobot® 2.0 MDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmhIJOqepVU&feature=youtu.be...

It doesn't give the price and I imagine it's quite expensive though.

There's also https://youtu.be/dByUFS-YJDo?t=1m34s

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX0g4aNynro&feature=youtu.be...

None look terrible cheap and they all seem to need a human to load up the book to begin with though they can turn pages automatically.
Expletives?
Do the contractors offer senior engineer pay (10+ years experience) that is more competitive with private sector? The direct employment jobs max out at mid-level engineer wages.
Important myths from around the world which have survived for thousands of years all share a fundamental structure, e.g. "The Hero with a Thousand Faces"

The general narrative of "entrepreneur" is singular, not plural.
Entrepreneur folklore is the individual (hero) fighting against the collective (culture).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces

"The hero starts in the ordinary world, and receives a call to enter an unusual world of strange powers and events (a call to adventure). If the hero accepts the call to enter this strange world, the hero must face tasks and trials (a road of trials), and may have to face these trials alone, or may have assistance. At its most intense, the hero must survive a severe challenge, often with help earned along the journey. If the hero survives, the hero may achieve a great gift (the goal or "boon"), which often results in the discovery of important self-knowledge. The hero must then decide whether to return with this boon (the return to the ordinary world), often facing challenges on the return journey. If the hero is successful in returning, the boon or gift may be used to improve the world (the application of the boon)."
This reminds me of the argument from Chasing Stars by Groysberg. It is very difficult to separate an individual's performance from that of their environment. A lot of factors come together, including individual skill, to influence someone's performance. If you take that same individual and dump them into another environment it is very difficult (or impossible) to reproduce comparable levels of performance. Applying this to teams, there are a lot of factors necessary for them to generate a high level of performance that goes way beyond the individual talent/knowledge of each developer. That's why its necessary to hiring needs to be about more than just knowledge but personality and cultural fit as well. Then you need to look at all the support structures that you mentioned.
Yeah there's limit to the logic, but it's also known that summing the best parts (in isolation) mean you will have the best product. The opposite is also true, Messi doesn't shine as much with the national selection, he needs his other team mates to be at its best.

> A team that wins everything over a long period will by default have their players considered superstars.

I was about to conclude like you.
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Addiction is a useful predictor of violent behaviour.

Previous violence is a better predictor. Both combined is stronger still.

Mental illness by itself is a weak predictor (vast mojority of people with metal illness are not violet) but when you combine mental illness with addiction, or previous violence, or both, you get a strong predictor of violent behaviour.

It's true that the illegality of drugs creates more violence. But that doesn't mean we should ignore the risks.

Targetted bans for individuals who have shown that intoxication makes them more likely to harm other people seem reasonable.
(FYI Wikipedia says Elm was released in 2012 and React in 2013, but that doesn't mean Facebook/Instagram weren't working on it before. Also Asana has been doing similar things since ~2009.
Hooking electrodes directly into your brain has no possibility to harm your body? That's comically wrong.
This sounds like a fantasy. Everyone has different likes, dislikes, and motivation levels depending on the environment they're in. Also, "professionalism" is mainly a stick management uses to beat up on employees when they neglect to align their incentives with the company (because it's expensive and possibly tricky to give points on the package or real bonuses).
A Life of Productivity
Yup, highly self-promotional. On the other hand, the system works: this is the first time they've managed more than a handful of upvotes.
There is a good reason why millions of years of evolution has created a minority of "talented" people. Societies need super-talented people and leaders (these are often not the same people, btw), but it also needs legions of pedestrian followers. Troops. Individually, each troop is not very impressive, but as a collective, they are what makes a vision happen.

Here's a recent example of an overtalented hornet's nest: https://www.trumid.com/Team.aspx

I give them 6 months.
The way I visualize numbers is actually based on a picture from my maths book in primary school. In that picture numbers were visualized as coloured, spiralling band / number ray with the integers from zero to 1000 written on it. The band started somewhere in the centre and spiralled rightwards and outwards from there.

The funny thing is that I continued to use this image till today and for larger and more complex sets of numbers. Negative numbers for me are a continuation of the spiral to the left. For larger numbers the spiral continues to the right and in upwards in the 3rd dimension. Each number that's larger by an order of magnitude of 3 (10, 10000, 10000000 ...) roughly lies on the same 2-dimensional vector.
And will make you feel ashamed of your README.md.
"For those partners and vendors that have not yet made the transition to Suite B algorithms, we recommend not making a significant expenditure to do so at this point but instead to prepare for the upcoming quantum resistant algorithm transition."
“I feel like a 5-year-old trying to learn this stuff.”
They usually get frustrated and leave the company. Also, not all A players make great people managers, which is to say the company went for A-level engineering talent but not A-level people management talent.
There are a lot of interesting circuits in some of those schematics that have been lost to the sands of time. Mostly because the same functionality got put into some noname IC that is now three generations gone, but perhaps didn't perform the same way.
That's not the definition of an A player, that's the definition of a unicorn. There are very few talented people who remain productive if they don't feel they're valued / doing valuable work.
Or you use one of a number of methods to disable unnecessary USB ports, so there's nowhere to plug anything in.
Google Groups has various options, one of which is a comparatively poor web-based front-end to Usenet. (Yes, there are still active Usenet groups.) Getting this right across multiple browsers isn't easy, but Google Groups postings to Usenet can be pretty badly formatted.

Some history: Google acquired DejaNews and the contents of other usenet archives, and has largely let all of that data languish, with what can sometimes be very weak search abilities of the archives via Google Groups (no hits for XYZ in an active group for XYZ, for instance), and where Google doesn't make the Usenet archives available and visible via the main search Google engine, and has generally become somewhat of problem.

Then there are the folks that dredge up a decades-old usenet thread — possibly having no idea what Usenet is — and post to it, and with the usual hilarity that ensues. "Hey, is PDQ still available?" to a post offering PDQ that originally posted in 1997, etc.

By some appearances, Google Groups is headed in the same direction as Google Reader.
It's usually cheaper to employ a couple of people on minimum wage to do the scanning.

The Usenet etext / ebook groups used to have some useful faqs about best scanning / OCR techniques. I don't know the right words to make Google return anything useful.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8174509

It's from a year ago, but there's some good comments by akharris himself.
Evolution doesn't optimize for the species, though.
It's very simple: Unity was never designed with a target platform as radical as HTML5/JS/WebGL in mind. It's stuck with an older version of the Mono runtime for its scripting language, and they've pulled off some crazy tricks to get it to work on WebGL: Mono IL code is cross-compiled to C++, which then gets cross-compiled again to JS/WebGL using Emscripten. That it works at all is nothing short of a miracle. However, compatibility and performance will be really hard to get up to a decent standard, especially when compared to engines that were built from the ground up for WebGL, such as Blend4Web.

Long story short: if WebGL is your primary target platform, Unity is not exactly the first place you should look.
Is the whole whistle counting thing typically an Indian usage of a pressure cooker?

I often see whistle counts mentioned in recipes from the country but all of the more local recipes I have seen relied more upon strict timings.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Link to original (behind paywall): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379615...
Agreed (I had terrible self-discipline when I was younger, but I have a fair amount now), but it's not a skill that can be dialed-up on demand. If you don't have it going into a startup, it's a serious liability. Learning self-discipline while also doing your first startup is probably impossibly hard.

Also, most people don't believe that it can be cultivated, which sort of begs the whole question: how do you cultivate self-discipline without the self-discipline to try to attain it? It seems that most people gain it by trying successively harder things over a long period of time.
Yes actually, if someone freely chooses to visit an unlicensed medical practitioner, perhaps because it's all they can afford, that should be legal as long no fraud is being committed. Perhaps you like the nanny state making all your decisions for you, I do not.
It's like the term "competitive salary" in a programming advertisement. Sure. If you had a competitive salary I'd be hearing about you from my friends, not reading your job advertisement.
I liked this presentation at CCC:
https://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2014/31c3_-_6261_-_en_-...
Eh. A real VT100 should understand tabs, you can set them with 'Esc H' oddly the DEC manuals don't say what the effect of resetting tabs would be (I'd guess it defaults to multiples of 8 characters).
There are people who are passionate about doing X. They know how to do X very well, might even be a world expert in X. Now, you might even have one of these people at your startup, or maybe not because it can aponly accept jack of all trades at the beginning? Also, keep in mind that advancement in technology typically occurs through specialization, not generalization.

So do you really want your machine learning star working on customer support? If they spent 8 years a PhD to become an expert in that, how would they feel?
I had a conversation with two developers at work were trying to convince me that C++ 11/14 feels like a totally different language and a lot more enjoyable to work with. While I wasn't sold I did make a mental note to take look with an open mind.
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Exactly. Also having that family meant he could take risks that others couldn't simply because he knew the family would bail him out (personally, not the company) if things didn't work out.

About his family, at least according to Phil Greenspun

http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
Knowing more than one needs to know leads to internal politics and discord.

That seems optimistic at best. As the OP demonstrates, the secrecy leads to gossip and rumours.
I would argue that this is deeply correlated with the reward structure. If you only have rockstars but they are rewarded must strongly due to individual accomplishments they will tend to lower the team play, if instead the rewarding is more calibrated twards team achievements, then there will be much less worriying on who is getting credit for what. Thus increasing collaboration. (I am assuming that the entire team is mainly A players and Bs are filtered out, thus there isn't too much variance in individual productivity)
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Rule 101: If it exists, there is a game of it.

This fascinates me - not the subject of the article itself, I gave up on it pretty quickly, it has little interest for me - but the meta-subject, that people will make games out of almost everything.

And it's more than the gaming aspect that fascinates me, it's the community or sociology aspect: These games drive the evolution of communities, societies, events, etc., all for things that a) I didn't know about, b) never would have guessed at, c) find intriguing but not compelling, and d) am completely unlikely to ever participate in.

Think geocaching.

But then, I've long been fascinated by the existence of the myriad societies and paths and doors closed to me (I can never be Pope, President of the US, e.g.; I can also never be a mother, but that restriction was imposed by biological accident, not by human politics and organization, and so is in a different class).
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I'm not talented enough to understand what that means... please elaborate.
You call yourself the Rebel Alliance, but you helped the government on a massive, expensive, intrusive, extra-legal project which almost nobody wants and has benefitted very few outside of the government and its cronies?

You ain't part of no Rebel Alliance, man. You're full Empire, and you helped build a Death Star.
I don't have a source at hand but, IIRC, instead of having leap seconds, Google slightly dilates each second to compensate for that. The time eventually corrects itself.
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There isn't much new in React; they just got the timing right and went with a very solid design that was innovative enough. It really does look a lot like SOL and other immediate mode UI frameworks, with a touch of optimization for the web and some better identity management. But I don't get why people call it FRP though, its notion of components and composition is completely different from what originated in the original Hudak/Elliott work on Fran with higher order function compositions over signals (react is much more object based and much less functional). With Elm, the lineage is obvious, but for React it just seems like a misapplied label.
You're confusing crimes with civil violations of rules, so let me be more clear; when I say crimes I mean things for which you can be incarcerated. A ticket and a fine for a civil violation is outside the scope of my meaning. A DUI can get you put in jail, even if you're fine to drive, even if you haven't ingested a substance in days. DUI's don't just apply to alcohol you know.
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This is a fascinating article, but I'm still left with the question : why? What good is this theory - how can it be applied somehow in the real-world, do improve someones life?

Don't get me wrong, I think its important to develop these theories. I just don't understand how it can be used in the real world. Anyone know examples?
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What? I saw a bike leaning and turning. The passenger is "doing nothing" because it's just a checkered ball without animation, but that it's not how bikes normally behave (assuming a "passive passenger" as they say), it's pretty obvious that the passenger needs to be shifting its weight to achieve that.