skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will be replaced by those that are bored and want to produce food, purify water, or clean streets for a better life.

Oh, wait were you implying humans are inherently lazy and willing to live in their own filth until they starve to death?

Maybe in a world with basic income, undesirable but essential jobs are compensated at a rate that begins to make them desirable?
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How is this different from ARC?
Separate the negative or positive aspect of a piece of feedback ( its polarity ) from its content.

Any feedback that is content-free ( purely positive or negative ) gives you no inspiration for an opportunity to create an improvement.

Any feedback that possess content ( regardless of its polarity ) gives you inspiration for an opportunity to create an improvement.

You control your reaction. If you choose to be open to being inspired by the possibility of an opportunity for creating an improvement, then you can also choose to meet that opportunity, reflect, and create an improvement that may work for you.

Feedback from someone other than you is not a necessary condition for this type of improvement, tho it can contribute, and it is often available and being offered to you.

If you choose to focus on the polarity of the feedback ( and get carried away with how "good" or how "bad" you interpret it as ), you may get in the way of focussing on the content.

Another way to think of it is that there are some very smart experts, who know exactly the kinds of things that could go wrong with whatever you are trying to achieve, and so there feedback can contain lots of relevant content, and it may just so happen that they, for whatever reasons owing to their own personalities, mostly express themselves from an adversarial point of view, and season their content with a lot of negative polarity.

Maybe that is kind of like Indiana Jones, in how the secret treasure always lies at the end of a cave of boobytraps and dangers. All those things are distractions, and if you navigate them correctly, you can slip past them, and get the treasure, and make it out with your head ( and hat ). If you lose your head, owing to the distractions, then that's your choice.

You can see separating the polarity of the feedback from its content as an opportunity to choose to either focus on what you are achieving and ignore and slip past distractions, or to focus on ego games and pretending others are wrong and you are right. Neither of these is right or wrong, tho one may work for what you want to achieve more than the other.

If your goal is what you are trying to achieve and that is what the feedback is about, the more you focus on content, and the less you focus on polarity, the more you are focussing on things that work to contribute to that achievement.

If you feel this may not be easy, then you can choose to see __that__ as an opportunity to create an improvement in focus.
I think the idea of a "jule thief" basically is a extremely low power boost converter to run a LED as a nightlight on the remaining few % of an otherwise depleted battery.

A standard switching power converter wouldn't be called that way, even when modern chips used for that purpose obviously try hard to be as power efficient as possible.

In a typical circuit nowadays you'd also avoid the use of a two coil transformer, and just have a "one coil" inductor to save on copper. The second winding is needed to control the.transistor in the simple circuit shown on Wikipedia.

Also the simple circuit doesn't provide for any regulation. The more elaborate gameboy schematicsuses mentioned in the parallel comment to mine uses feedback (look for the 4.7v Zener pulling down the transistor) to accomplish that.

But of course nowadays one would use a simple 4 to 8 pin IC integrating almost everything except the inductor.
Who is going to DoS your car in the middle of the arctic or a desert?
Interesting. It seems mine changes with the weather.

I can think of numbers as their symbols and manipulate them in my head like that. I can do small long addition, multiplication and division in my head this way but it's bounded by working memory I think. It seems like a skill I could improve on.

When I read numbers/equations first, however, it's audio. I sound the numbers out, much like I would words, since I hear the words in my head when I read. I can read without sounding out but I've noticed comprehension can suffer depending on the text.

None of this has any particular colour. The only things in my thought with colour are constructed imaginary scenes (for instance, walking on a beach) or memories. Both have a high degree of audio, visual and kinaesthetic information - that silly learning style categorisation test never seemed to work on me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10061391
I love looking through old manuals when I come across them at auctions, yard sales, etc. I love looking at the illustrations but rarely ever read into that manual at an in-depth level. I mainly like looking at them from a historic point of view, not a technological one.
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At the time, I'd guess that not many people knew anything about cryptography.
Thank you for that !

The sad part is US has been a force against democratic govt for the last 50 years.

India, Bangladesh ( my own people ), Iran, Nicaragua, Vietnam.

Meanwhile arming pakistan while it was military dictatorship, Saudi, etc.

The US is like any other country - its out for its own interest and securing resources for itself.

I cringe whenever americans take a high ground.

Its just a lot of propaganda, It took me a while to do my own research since no one directly provides the information. But its all there !

I find the fact that people in hacker news who consider themselves to be the more educated crowd do not keep tabs on it. What chance does the rest of the country have ?

The hardline Iranians were part of a generation that was deeply humiliated by the US. They are not the most educated bunch but they did what they had to do and everyone should respect them for it.

I think things would have been much worse by now if it wasn't for the rapid rise of china which went under the radar of american policy makers.

China hopefully provides the balance that is needed to prevent either America or China itself for doing terrible things to other countries.
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With C++17 Concepts we can say goodbye to class inheritance
I can see Jankyscroll is programmed in VanillaJS, which is another framework I highly recommend: http://vanilla-js.com
> 1. it does have the benefit that it's cross-cultural, you can actually talk to people outside your cultural bubble
We already do that.

Do you really? Whenever I hear an American telling the temperature of the weather, I have no idea what they mean. I have to guess from the context if it's hot or cold, and even what units they're using because they rarely mention the "Fahrenheit" part.

Conversely, how many Americans would recognize that "35 degrees" is blisteringly hot while "15 degrees" means you'll need a jacket and "40 degrees" could kill you if you don't find shelter quickly?
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I think the argument mostly still stands. These are still a matter of "taxonomy".
Sometimes my friends say I'm forgetful, but I usually put it
down to being trolled because I am sure the event or whatever
didn't happen.

Obviously I don't know you or your friends but... at least in my personal social milieu - and those I've been witness to - this kind of "trolling" doesn't happen.

Do you have sibling or other close relative or friend who remembers your life with more clarity than you do?

If so, consider speaking with a medical professional.

It would be interesting to know if my sleeping problems were
connected to my potential forgetfulness.

So, even if not, wouldn't hurt to have a conversation.

They may not know shit about programming, but in my personal experience, they tend to know more than me about what's considered "normal."
If it's anything like Apple maps, we'll have death tolls in the thousands.
Any setting a user must adjust or manage to make things work is a bug. Everything must work instantly and reliably in any minimally functional environment, and installation must be single-step.

This has its own problems, as you risk building hidden dynamic behaviour that can behave unpredictably. The notion of "everything must work instantly" also suggests enabling all possible services immediately, which is widely known as a terrible idea security-wise (although it may well be usable).
> The Republicans don't trust Iran not to build a bomb.

Neither do the authors of this deal. The choices are:

(a) Do nothing and allow Iran to continue to be within 6-7 months of making a bomb, as they are now
(b) Implement the deal and push that time out to 15+ years
(c) Try even harder to negotiate a better solution
(d) Stop them by force before they build it.

If you oppose choice (b), what other options do you propose?
+ Jonathan Livingston Seagull and, if you like this, you'll really like 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'
Was the product withdrawn? Does not Dairy Queen still offer that product?

Also yes the name Moolatte is not racist.
It is just a tool. You must know how to use it. It is your fault if you do not use it correctly. Just like a hammer, it is only approprite in certain use cases.
Just don’t drink at all when you drive? I don’t know why you think it acceptable to drink anything at all before driving.

I think it’s unacceptable for me to drink anything at all when I plan on driving. That way I have never ever been in a situation where I had to drive while being drunk. It’s a quite simple heuristic …
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Really? You feel that Apple hasn't been forthright with disclosing security issues or other problems/shortcomings with their products, and then fixing them in a timely manner?

I am always surprised when I see Apple being discussed on Hacker News. I own both Android and Apple devices, and my Apple devices are all much more up-to-date, have better privacy, and better security.
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Ask HN: What technological trends will emerge and rule in next 10 years? 
We have seen the sudden emergence of driverless car, IOT, 3d printers, machine learning etc. What according to you, which technology will shape our ecosystem
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I don't know artsy.net, it's probably image heavy.
But an average webpage size of over 1.5MB is not acceptable onmobile, imo: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/average-web-p...
Also: http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/11/21/web-pages-getting-bloate...
It's far more then it should be. Graphics can be size optimized, SVG or jpg. A JS framework doesn't need to be 100k where most webpages are probably only using a small subset of functionality. And i also don't want to download a gazillion other JS files for web tracking and such things. Ever download on a high latency connection hurts.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2765844
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The DTO in Aus has hired a few ex-GDS employees and seems to be doing good work: https://www.dto.gov.au
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10063111 and marked it off topic.
This is great work, and often thankless. Thank you!

Any plans to scan them and put them on line?
I didn't know that this is how other pressure cookers worked.

Mine just releases steam constantly through a valve once it gets to a certain temperature/pressure... but I might just be using it wrong :P
and we should trust them here why?
Though I can't recall any specific examples, I've heard that the experiments carried out in Nazi Germany added significantly to the scientific literature about what happens to the human body under extreme conditions.
>>OO folks are wasting their time discussing minutiae of their little peculiar use case, such as, say, single vs. multiple inheritance, while at the same time nobody is paying attention to what is needed in majority of cases.

Maybe they were fifteen years ago, I don't think that is the case now, the two most popular OO languages (Java and C#) don't even support multiple inheritance.
Of course we can. The fact that a trustworthy document from a real scientist in a real journal is initially seen as less reputable because a journalist uses the word toxins shows how devalued the word has become.
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>Curious what they are upto .

I'd answer this question with one word, cynical though the answer may sound to some: signaling. Whatever positive consequences for the socially disadvantaged their efforts might have going about it by hiring loud and popular self-appointed advocates looks a lot like a PR move. There is better bang for the buck in helping the poor in particular (e.g., through the effective charity community) and better expertise available to direct tech projects that might help them but those generally come without the glamour associated with Twitter personalities. Hiring them allows a company to leverage their existing social networks to present a certain image of itself.
My thinking is if Apple just did an electric iCar, they would already made a killing, and they can do it tomorrow morning. All you need is design and good supply logistics. No regulatory hassles to speak about, etc.. Self-driving car is great, yet not tomorrow. Technologically iPhone wasn't like self-driving car as there were phones+computer gadgets on the market before the iPhone, and in that regard iPhone was just like a better electric car would be today. Main innovation of iPhone was breaking back of cell provider - AT&T. Of course if Apple can break the back of DMV and put the self-driving car through regulatory hoops ... I will be so sorry to not have their stock :)
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You might have blown your safety valve, pressure cookers aren't supposed to do that.
If anyone needs to know about the Earth's rotation that precisely they probably

- don't rely on their laptop's system clock,
- don't use UTC either because of minor rotational noise/drift and the discontinuity around the leap-second, and
- find the whole 24-hour clock thing a little useless, not being seasonally adjusted etc.

I bet they'd prefer TAI to UTC (or even "Google time"), because they've probably got their own timekeeping systems that will probably interact more smoothly (heh) with it.

More to the point, there are approximately zero astronomers on Earth, and approximately seven billion non-astronomers. Even if astronomers do prefer UTC, it's better to make them have their own systems to add or subtract twenty-something seconds from TAI than forcing all of my timekeeping devices to have a database of historical leap-seconds and an internet connection to hear about new ones.

Not to mention the fact that I can't write down what the time will be in UTC in 86400 * 1000 seconds... Absolutely ridiculous.
Is there a 4 mph "forgiveness" in the law somewhere? I thought that technically it was an infraction to travel 56 in a 55, which is equally ridiculous as being ticketed for going 59 in the same spot.

I own a car that encourages the driver to go fast (think Autobahn speeds) with its power and ride comfort. I am still going slower than 60 in the 55 zones.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10005577
well, with default implementation in interfaces, now java support (something resembling) multiple inheritance
The problem is that generators are not that widely supported (yet). You could replace CSP with something like Bacon.js and likely achieve the same effect (don't have an example, but I'm researching the area for a new project)
If you mean "UNIX time", you'll be disappointed -- UNIX time is not the number of seconds since the epoch, it is also leap-second adjusted. It stops when a leap second happens to make sure there are exactly 86400 UNIX seconds between every midnight (so you can do divmod calculations on timestamps.)

Maybe you were suggesting an improvement to UNIX time, though, in which case I think the grandparent and I would get behind your proposal.
I can't make myself read something which has such an evidently wrong title. Must we ignore reality to push our alternative paradigm nowadays?
When I see numbers in passing, for example a telephone number on an advertisement, I'm obsessed with adding them up to see if the total is divisible by 9. I do the same with letters of company names. Done this for years, a compulsive tick.
For large tech companies trying to justify huge valuations to their investors and large cash reserves to their shareholders there isn't much a choice about entering a large market that is obviously on the verge of being majorly disrupted. The only question is one of timing.
It would have been much more 'surprising' if the research had shown the opposite to be true.
But why?

(actually a curious question. Why is this interesting to you?)
Just because a language supports OO doesn't mean that you are somehow trapped using only the OO paradigm. OO is a feature that gives you, amongst others, the possibility of expressing an inheritance relationship.

Most code I write in C# is OO in that it leverages encapsulation, but is generally written in a functional style (thanks LINQ) and uses inheritance for maybe two out of a hundred classes.

Most popular languages now are multiparadigm, so there's little point in criticising particular paradigms as if we're somehow stuck working with them and them only.
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Aren't generators part of Babel? As long as you target ES5 shouldn't you be able to use generators via Babel?
You should try to be open to it, OP tries to make a point and not just rant. Typical OO structures don't fit the way some (small majority?) of programmers think. Is becoming proficient at OOP an exercise in brain rewiring? Or should we reject it, since it doesn't come naturally? Worthy of discussion and not just outright dismissal IMO.
If you need this in python 2.7, you can get it from pypi (pip install futures)
I think your safety valve is gone. The safety valve should not be releasing pressure constantly once the whistle is on top of the lid.
If Pushbullet is designed to announce changes to Wikipedia pages, then it hasn't been compromised - it's working exactly as intended. The real question is, should people be relying on Wikipedia - which any random person (or troll) can edit - as a source of actionable information?

If I were interested in the latest news about which companies Google had acquired, I'd be crawling Google's Investor Relations pages, not Wikipedia.
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Take a look at http://cycle.js.org - it implements essentially the same concept using RxJS instead of csp and virtual-dom instead of React.
Good points. I, personally, would say that the most of the wiring is defined by natural languages we use. If programming language cuts against the grain of those, it is bound be hard to learn and use.
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I personally trust General Motors (car shuts off), Ford (car erupts in flames) and Toyota (car won't stop) more than I trust Apple. I will never buy another Toyota product but I still operate one. Apple is even lower than that for me, I'm not even using the devices I have. And some of them have flaws that have not been addressed at all (ooh this item is unsupported now.)

I also think it's ironic that you put privacy in the context of smartphones (Android implies this) when many people believe that smartphones are spying devices.
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Are compiler features to support writing something like libeigen still on the roadmap? rust is IMHO a bit of a non-starter for many engineering fields until it has a really good story for array math.
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I have not served in the military (we still had the draft in Germany when I finished school, but I was a conscientious objector), but I greatly prefer the 24-hour time format as well.

Maybe digital clocks/watches have influenced this preference, but I still think it is a good idea, because it is unambiguous.
So basically the "progress" of OOP wrt. multiple inheritance looked like this: first we throw it away because it's too dangerous, then we realize it's actually needed for good architecture, so we slowly try to smuggle it in under different names ("traits", "roles", "mixins") hoping nobody will notice.
That price is for single wafers off the shelf. They get a lot cheaper if you buy bulk, and you can slice them a lot thinner then the sizes I used to use (where I know the price from).
Technical manuals back to the 1930s? Not sure which devices were produced quite that early but I suppose it should be interesting in the field of phototypesetting history - http://haagens.com/oldtype.tpl.html#2G
sharing economy,
virtual reality based solutions,
widespread native language support on human facing interfaces,
cloud storage, applications entirely based on cloud ecosystem,
3d printing aiding fashion exploration rapidly,
This is the history of computing, it's important.
If you know how to do that with little to no risk, you can get extremely rich - but you wouldn't really care, as the electrodes in your brain will deliver more enjoyment than all that money could.

... or not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
I believe that the Strongtalk compiler eventually became HotSpot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongtalk
blame "designers" who wanted to emulate this behaviour
One of my hobbies is to repair and restore antique metrology, test equipment, and vacuum tube radios. I would not have been able to do any of it if it were not for those who have scanned and shared a large volume of old technical documents. A library like this makes me very jealous.
I've been open to it. I went on a journey of SICP, Common Lisp, Haskell and F# over three years.

I went back to my OO roots and c#/c++ and carried on mostly as I did before. Why?

Simply that its easier to rationalise a large system in terms of objects and actions. Even atypical OO languages like Go use this model.

What I did take away was limited mutability (not total immutability) and some functional paradigms such as map/filter and a well founded opinion that one shouldn't listen to programming religious wars and use what works for you.
Ask HN: What's your homepage?
I currently have Google News. But I feel there must be something better out there. :p
1930s = radio, there were also electrical instruments available at that time (for instance AVO voltmeter)
Question to biologists: Is cross contamination an issue? e.g. Monsanto corn has contaminated non-monsanto corn through wind/pollen/whatever natural mechanism.

Is there a non zero probability that sometime in the future I'll buy standard yeast for cooking at the store and get some of the kind described in the article?