skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it doesn't have a keyboard, I feel that my thoughts are being forced out through a straw.

Wow I've been feeling this exactly but never had such a good description. Great interview, thanks for posting.
If you liked this article you'd probably also enjoy the book "Wind, Sand, and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It's all about his time flying as an airmail pilot through the Alps, over the Sahara, and crossing the South Atlantic in the early 20th century.
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Nitpick: Egan's design is different in principle; it's a self-contained device running a bog-standard neural network that, over a number of years, trains itself on the brain's inputs and outputs. So the actual mechanics of how it operates doesn't necessarily reflect the structure of the biological brain.

I found that really fascinating as an idea. Being identical is one thing, but does being arbitrarily close to your behaviour make it you?
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman is a fantastic book; worth every page. I was just listening to the Upvoted podcast where they interview Unidan, a once popular scientist on Reddit. One of the things he talked about was how he always wanted to convey to others that scientists are normal people just like everyone else. They don't live in a clean white lab coat atop a pedestal of beakers; scientists spend most of their time doing average joe stuff, running experiments in their underpants, and brewing craft beer with lab equipment. He wanted to make that clear, in the hopes that it would inspire people to go "Hey, if that shumlp can be a scientist, why can't I?"

That immediately reminded me of the Feynman book. It humanizes Feynman, turning him from the great untouchable figurehead of quantum physics to an average, hounddog schlum like most of us. The guy would hang out in titty bars while working on his theories! It's oddly inspiring.
It would seem that in a hundred years we have not made much progress compared to that moment in time! Especially sad was the following quote, i thought:

“Umatilla residents elected more than a dozen women to City Council in the last century” — out of how many?
I try to point out that real names policies only affect

1.) People who aren't using a fake but real-sounding name
2.) People who say something that someone else doesn't like (this can be everyone from a future employer who found something not very PC to jihadis who want to kill you)
3.) People who are smart enough to understand the above (I see grown up people shouting about how certain countries should be nuked, yes. signed Full Name, Teacher at such and such childrens school)
Ask HN: How to learn about investing?
I'd like to learn about investing.

How can I go about learning investing? Note: my understanding is extremely minimal to non-existent. People like to recommend "The Intelligent Investor" but my knowledge is so limited that I can't gain anything from the book. The terminology confuses me, it's like another language. Any websites or books that start at the bare bone basics? And any recommendations of more advanced books, once I get past the basics?

Thanks.
Function.prototype.toString() should be deprecated anyway. There are very few to no legitimate uses of it that are any better than awful eval() hacks.

Re: this comment, if you just don't make huge comments inside the body, but rather above it - as is the usual standard - this is less of an issue.
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Exactly, if the comment were outside the function, there would be no issue.
This is aggressively conservative. The evapotranspiration rate in California is 2x - 3x that of Iowa and the average rainfall is likely close to 0 inches in LA of which almost none is usable for landscape purposes. I would not be surprised if this much water is needed for a 2 acre or smaller sized lawn.
The case that has bugged me is when I have some integer number of items and I need to compute some CGFloat for drawing something based on it. count * SpacingPixels gives an error, need CGFloat(count) * SpacingPixels even though there is no possibility of losing precision by the up-cast from Int to CGFloat.

It is also slightly annoying to have Double and CGFloat not be the same, but I solved that by just always using CGFloat pretty much everywhere even when not referring to pixels or points.

I don't think I would overload + and *, though, due to possible complications with the error messages as the article suggests. But I might play with more terse Ruby-like ".to_f" as an extension or something ...
Brainless civil servant amazes doctors
Games at work?
Standard Interface Between a Text Editor and an IDE?
Are you suggesting that people go outside the law to obtain their own form of justice?
When I first read the article, I, too, wanted this person exposed. However, after reading your article, you are 100% correct in your analysis. It really is a type of internet-style doxxing, and you're also right in that this person isn't doing something illegal.

It's not illegal, but it is wrong in the moral sense. It is equivalent to someone parking in handicap spots and simply paying the fines. It's irresponsible and selfish, and a lot of people are cutting back to do their part. Someone coming along and abusing the system like this because of inefficiently low rates doesn't mean this person should be allowed to continue.
The part I don't understand is that the brand was developed in the US. Don't you have to transfer the IP at something approaching fair market value to the tax haven corporation? How could you possibly have the resources (in the haven, no less) to do this without loaning money (at interest?) backwards?
Nowhere near the majority of SV tech workers are on an H1B visa.
At first I thought the comment was actually serious and couldn't believe it before I read the whole article. Thanks for pointing this out
Don't walk barefoot in a dark room with BS1363 plugs prongs up on the floor.
Thanks! I was worried because it's not really up to HN standards. However, I'm just so tired of all the bickering about SF.
CGFloat is a different type based on the system, is it not?
Another similar tool is loader.io [1].

[1]: https://loader.io/
A few years ago, just for fun, I enrolled in a UCLA extension course on Measure Theory: https://uclaextension.edu/pages/Course.aspx?reg=Z5529

It stretched my brain in ways that my day job doesn't. I've since continued to take all of the courses in the series, which are always about "interesting" mathematics. The professor (Dr. Michael Miller) has been teaching these graduate-level extension courses for something like 20+ years. If you are in the area of UCLA, I highly recommend attending. Sadly, there's no online option, so you'll have to be a local.

More info on the course from another student (and clear fan): http://boffosocko.com/2015/09/22/dr-michael-miller-math-clas...
Water use squared doesn't really make sense as a charging scheme. There should be a per-gallon rate that everyone things is plenty, and that (or a small multiple) should be the max.
Sitting in my office - crying.
Your company is not “too far along” for YC
I did once post an article here about how emotional labor is deemed to be women's work and the social expectation is that women must do it. It was fairly man-bashy, so it unsurprisingly got no attention here. It got a great deal of very positive attention in a different forum I belong to. It was a huge positive, eye opening discussion for a great many women who have boatloads of legitimate frustration and anger about this issue and how it negatively impacts their lives.

The degree to which women are expected to deal with the emotions of other people means that women in male dominated environments get dumped on in a way that becomes very problematic for them. Women are not allowed to say "Not my problem." If they try that, there is hell to pay. So I do not believe this is more problematic for women because they value social relationships more. I think it is more problematic because everyone around them will blame them if they do not smooth things over (I mean for other parties -- like mom interceding between fighting children), will cry on their shoulder and expect them to care, etc.

This is one reason tech needs to value diversity: Most men simply don't have substantial skill in dealing with certain things. When you lack social and emotional savvy, it is not uncommon for the fallout to involve things like being sued by people who are mad as hell at you. The way to minimize outcomes like that is to have people on board who will recognize the problem early and act to resolve it before it involves lawyers and bad publicity. But they cannot take effective action if they do not have real power and are not sincerely respected.

Thank you for replying.
Minnesota has one near the airport (http://www.dot.state.mn.us/funding/projects/bloomington.html) that also has a light rail line running through it. It seems to work well but is definitely a little alarming the first time you drive through it.
Thanks. Removed the decimal separator, since it's surely not important.
Clojure: If Lisp is so great, why do we keep needing new variants?
Regarding the printf (pre)history see my old comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3964475

printf is based on the idea implemented as early as 1956, next year it will be 60 years since!

1956: Fortran I:
PRINT 1, X
1 FORMAT (F10.2)

Fortran was invented by John Backus and there was already a finished compiler in 1956.

I/O in the first Fortran, I believe including the FN.M syntax, was implemented by Roy Nutt, also one obvious genius:

http://www.cap-lore.com/stories/Assembler.html

"There were a few pages of description of a new assembler format for the IBM 704 that differed considerably from the NYAP that we were using." (That) "704 assembler, originally called SAP, was written in its own language by Roy Nutt."
Why not? The reason you're not allowed to get on the highway with a scooter or a bike is because it's dangerous to others. The only danger to me taking my airplane across the Atlantic is to me.

I see this misunderstanding a lot among non-aviation people. I don't have to tell anyone what I'm doing when I fly. I can go to the airport, right now, and fly my airplane pretty much wherever I like. I don't have to file a flight plan (provided I'm flying visually - non-instrument). I can take off and fly pretty much wherever I like. I can take whatever route I prefer, provided I keep in contact via radio with the relative controllers of the various airspaces I might pass through and keep an eye out for other airplanes.

If I'm flying instrument, I do have to file a flight plan and stick to a planned route (or communicate changes to my route). And unless I'm just up doing practice around the local area, I always file a flight plan even if I am going VFR. My personal rule is over 50 nautical miles or into a class C airspace or above (basically, the area around most decent-sized airports), I file a flight plan. It's free, keeps me safe and keeps ATC happy.

There are some other ICAO rules when your start crossing ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone - the distance from shore where you must be identified). I have never personally encountered this so I would have to brush up on the appropriate procedure before doing it. But there is still nothing stopping me from doing it provided I follow the rules.

Flying is quite free and liberating. Not so much as driving, but more than most people seem to realize. It's up to me as a pilot to exercise good judgement in not getting myself and others killed.
Aren't you using different standards for the journalist and the individual? if what the journalist is doing is disturbing, so is what the individual is doing.. if the individual is breaking no laws, neither is the journalist by outing him or shaming him. Both are acting legally within the system..
Just because it's not illegal doesn't mean it's not wrong. We are in one of the worst droughts in recent history. To do something so blatant and so selfish is completely something that should be shamed.
Just another walking contradiction like the rest of us.
1) Wordpress.com, medium.com, tumblr.com, posthaven.com

2) Write good content.
I'm not sure about other countries, but in Zambia at least the malaria rates are not spread uniformly around the country [1]. If your family is in Lusaka, for example, both they and your daughter should be pretty safe, especially if they take precautions like sleeping under a net.

You probably already know this, but if your daughter shows any symptoms of malaria, make sure you tell the examining physician that she's just returned from an area that is known to have malaria. It's often one of the first things doctors test for here in Zambia, but if you live in an area without endemic malaria, they might not test for it at all.

[1]: http://www.who.int/malaria/publications/country-profiles/pro...
How about it's OK because it's not that much? Commercial users dramatically outweigh residential, even including folks like this.

The whole Cali drought situation is farcial, encouraging citizens to cut back private use while ignoring the real big users. Under what premise is it OK for a commercial user to have more rights to paid water use than residential?

I think it also plays into Californians' need to suffer, to pretend they're helping. A nice restaurant in SF I like makes a fuss about serving water, under pretense of a drought. As if that makes one shred of difference other than pretending to do something.
Every time I read about living off the grid, I think about Ted Carns. He's done incredible things in off-grid living. If you've never heard of him, check out this documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUxmikfS2LI
We can't do that. It's illegal in California to charge people different prices for utilities based on income.
Sure, but in the UK the live and neutral prongs are half insulated[0] so the sparks stay inside the socket. And if a socket or device is known to be iffy, just switch it off at the wall before plugging anything in.

[0] http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/149/635/934/934635149_988.jpg
If you're being serious then I'll give you a serious answer.

Exempli gratia, let's pretend I was raped. I should be able to reify my victimhood and sell it to a lawyer, thereby transferring to that lawyer the right to extract compensation from the perpetrator.

Now there's a market for it and the price is whatever a lawyer is willing to pay. You will quickly see a market form around it. This was done in Medieval Iceland for longer than the United States has been a country, so mind your glass ceiling when criticizing this idea.
In the malls selling cosmetics, and in front of all the Adore stores.
I don't particularly see a problem if someone wants to corner the market on pork bellies. It's tasty, but entirely non-essential.
I don't see the composition of the Senate as a problem. I see it as balance. More populous states get greater representation in the House. The Senate serves to prevent more populous states from steamrolling less populous states.

It's a feature, not a bug.
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How is this not completely the fault of the person using such extraordinary amounts of water? Are they not an adult? Do they not have full control over their actions?
doesn't sound creepy to me at all. i wish it was done more.
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Plus, those darned oversized three prongs in ZA. I've only seen those in ZA and Namibia. It's confusing since the Indian ones look the same from a distance but the ZA ones have a fatter third prong.
And? You are not forced to use Facebook.
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I would say the observations that little printf brings up have happened to me in various points of my life.

And those nasty habits (ie trying lots of new crap.. complaining about existing crap) typically surface when I don't have a real problem to solve.

And that is the problem... my business is doing well but I just don't have any serious problems that are interesting to solve other than sales/marketing. I'm just not creative enough to find/create a problem worthy to solve that are not completely a mismatch to my current predicament (like I could leave my discipline and maybe do something else but I have obligations).

I really wish I had more creativity.
As I said: And if you think that $90,000/year isn't enough to reimburse society for this water usage... raise the damn prices.
I don't understand, are you saying you want water usage and billing to be public knowledge?
That fuse is absolutely required. Plugs are daisy-chained in a loop with a 32A breaker (The so-called "ring-main").

Removing the fuse will cause lead burn up if there's a short circuit in the device. If you look at the leads on some UK plugs the sizes of the wires can be very small. They can get away with this due to the fuses in the plugs.
Other municipalities tried to implement tiered pricing and had it shot down, however.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drough...
That's very interesting, but other than in name not related to the article.

If you didn't read it I would recommend you do - it's possibly one of the most interesting and reflective things I've ever read about programming as a profession.
Can you show a specific instance of advocation?

The video, in particular, was careful to not use names or addresses.
The title reminds me a lot of the Elektor series of electronics books from the 80s - "301 circuits - practical circuits for the home constructor".

Probably mostly familiar to Europeans....
The strange case of ICMP Type 69 on Linux
The most obvious case is patented drugs. As that's the point of patents in the first case.
Interesting that Apple is proactively killing apps with superfish like capabilities.
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The first example is about using /giphy.

The second example is about using /remind.

The third example is about using a command called /tweet.

None of those are from software development workflows. It's not until the fourth (and final) example that a dev workflow is mentioned.
According to HN guidelines, please post the original source. The Reuters article that this article refers to is:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/07/20/us-brain-tiny-idUS...

Note: from 2007.
Neuroscientists use maps of people’s brains to predict reasoning ability
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Author here, what are some of your favorite uses of common table expressions?
I'd love to see the EU tackle harmonizing this one. If nothing else for the amusement value.
One action can be rectified, the other possibly not. Public shaming can lead to unforeseen circumstances (you are relying on the judgement of everyone who is informed, which can include unstable people), so shouldn't be taken lightly. Additionally, it's not like a small village, where once the corrective behavior is taken it's fairly easy to make sure people know. There's less incentive in the media to make sure the people that were informed about the problem are informed about the fix, so the punishment can continue long after the correction.
My impression, which others may correct me on, is that he started down that road while in Los Alamos: I vaguely recall that his "You just ask them?" story was in that setting, anyway. I've always had the sense that he was deeply (and monogamously) devoted to his wife until her death. After her death, well, he says in this letter that he's had multiple girlfriends but that those relationships never went anywhere; my guess would be that he's telling his wife about precisely those early flings, and what they meant to him.

But yeah, for all his brilliance and magnetism and vision, Feynman was also (eventually) pretty terrible toward women. I gaze in grateful awe and reverence at his personal contributions to human knowledge, even as I grimace in frustration and disappointment at his contributions to a culture that continues to drive too many potentially brilliant contributors away. So this letter is bittersweet to me, since it calls to mind one of the few significant areas where Feynman's life did harm to humanity rather than good. I wonder if that might have been different if his wife had lived?
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Check out these guys: http://ntopology.com/index.html/

They make some awesome software that let's you create wither flat or volumetric lattice structures from existing 3D models.
Well, if you're consolidating by replacing five vendors with one, that can have cost savings in unified billing and administration alone, and simplified environment management - one stop for all your server needs - is indeed another benefit.

I've been a contractor for a firm that still runs their own mainframe for data transformation, and had Cisco experts on the payroll. They ran their own vCenter instances integrated with their Active Directory, so moving with them to Vblock was painful mostly in giving up control.
I bought one as well although I didn't do anything yet, would you mind share what you did/recommend doing? I was thinking to make a temperature sensor monitoring device, as I have an arduino that is doing the job now
Create flat or volumetric lattice structures from existing 3D models
> I've seen this used to do evil multiline string support a few times.

Love me some FOAM: https://github.com/foam-framework/foam/blob/master/apps/todo....
This is due to relentless cost-cutting by manufacturers supplying sockets to the large home improvement stores. When you can buy duplex receptacles for less than $1, this is what you get. If you invest in a Hubbell, Eagle, or other reputable brand, the plugs will stay in the sockets.

The drawbacks to the American NEMA 5-15 plug are that it is still a shock hazard as the pins aren't sheathed with insulating material. Also, the pins get bent easily and are a bit undersized for 15A in my opinion.
Could you please provide some links about this? I'm curious.
We'd be missing a large portion of our civilization's history without the private writings of notable people. I can't find anything on the provenance of Feynman's letters, but I'd suspect either he or his estate willingly donated them.
The lollipops are a built-in charge with an assumption of only taking a couple.

If you take ten and explicitly pay a dollar, everyone is happy.

The water in California has a limited supply, yes, but the use is plenty elastic. If it was all worth a moderate price per gallon, there wouldn't be such an issue. The elasticity and constant inflow mean that a price asymptote is just not going to happen.
I'm not sure that could be considered a commodity. Then again, a patent is a way to control the market to such a degree that something can't even become a commodity, so I guess it works in that sense.
Diagrams, information, graphs and abstract graphical representation of said information in various states, intellectually stimulating. Seems about right.
I recently moved desks and had to switch the side my external monitor was on. I have to admit I felt "slower" with the new setup, but after a few days I felt like I was back to normal.
Don't overlook the fact that the cost of employing someone is more than the sum of their salary?
Sorry spike, I wasn't trying to be rude. Never my intention. You likely caught me unawares and my animal brain responded before my human one could catch up. Be well.
This is the almost the same idea as "Sell the why, not the what".
Here in the UK we don't dare use a German-style socket for anything heavier-duty than an electric toothbrush.
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How does pressure sensitive touch essentially differ from a long touch?
And we're in a drought. I don't care if they paid for the water, it is completely selfish for them to think they should be able to use anywhere near that amount of water.
Perhaps they suspected an escape or extradition attempt with a well-funded commando-style raid?
France wants biometric data from all travellers at EU borders