skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Briefly

near -> nearly

well familiar - delete the 'well'

Since last 3 years -> For the last three years.

I work as manager -> I work as a manager *or* I am a manager *or* I have worked as a manager.

What are things -> What are the things

Beyond that there's some minor style issues.
The misuse of 'since' is common among German and Dutch speakers so that would be my guess of your native language.
I don't think any if this is a blocker for a director position but get yourself a good partner / secretary.
Daylights savings time is a fiction and I refuse to be ruled by it.
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I wish I could trade with you; I love learning stuff but it's not so much about using it practically, as it is that I just want to understand it.

Unfortunately, for most stuff, at some point you simply must have a problem to solve to progress further, and that's where I get derailed. I have a hard time getting excited about the real-life problems, so I end up getting stuck in the beginning stages of new pursuits. I'll read textbooks, I'll memorize syntax, but I'm never drawn to getting my hands dirty.

What I like about this sort of games is that they provide targeted problems for people who aren't naturally drawn to this stuff in practice.
Might be a good business decision. Any popular game with in app purchases tends to get a "welcome package" from a popular patent troll, for example. If you are an indie starting out you might as well avoid the legal costs by just cutting out a state that isn't going to net you much gain by itself anyway.
He pissed off a powerful politician.
You are right about that - and I think they are doing something really good (and props to them for being really up-front about how they operate) but unless they can really do something to help patients day-to-day, is seems the participation rate will probably always be small and inconsistent, which means a smaller, less-complete data set that will yield less accurate and useful results.

Again, I like the goal and I did try them but it is not a good user experience or particularly helpful on the individual level so even doing it altruistically really didn't last. To get that kind of rich dataset, you need the user to be highly engaged which means they are really getting something out of it and using it for the primarily selfish reason that it helps them.

Having now had a lot of experience dealing with the medical system as related to complex and chronic diseases, I still find myself really surprised by how little the "consumerization of x" movement has impacted it. Per point of the original article, I shouldn't be. The massive bureaucracy, the regulatory capture, and the general politics of the industry are so all-consuming that there is little time or energy left over for the patients. (disclaimer: yes, there are a ton of amazing individuals working in the industry but even they are, unfortunately, really handicapped by the system itself)
I wasn't thinking of religious groups, but yes. The Mos (and the Amish) are keeping it up.
"Well familiar" isn't too strange a construct, though removing the well does certainly improve things here.
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That's the case for most uses of "lambda" in programming languages too. It just means something like "anonymous function". I believe Lisp was the first language to introduce lambda as a keyword, and that's how it uses it: (lambda (x) ...) creates an anonymous function, but the body of the function doesn't have to be written in a functional style. In fact the modern concept of "functional style" didn't exist at the time.
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True story: it took two months to explain to an IT department that XML serialization files should be flagged as binary to prevent SVN performing line auto-merges on them.

Then another month to implement the change. And this was only for one sub-group.

I think some of the problem is "People who still feel VCS is a valid technology choice probably shouldn't be trusted to make technical decisions."
crowdsource it. there are thousands of programmers
that would love to help, let alone audit the result.
and even more that would love to write the sims.
Honestly had no idea about this.
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> where the price moves before the guy hits enter.

Can you give a page # reference for this? In the scene I recall, the price is stable on all exchanges for minutes--until they hit enter on very small order to BATS, at which point the prices increase on the exchanges further away.
That depends. The Oxford English Dictionary would agree with you. They are an "authoritative" dictionary that tells the reader what is right and what isn't. However, Webster's wouldn't. They document the common usage.

It's a matter of philosophy. In any case, the common usage will always win. People don't consult the OED when talking, or even writing blogs. So language changes.

Did you know that even the OED now includes the awful non-literal meaning of "literally"? Oh the horror ...
Fusion has consistently been a lot further away than we expected it to be. Given past expectations, we should not expect our predictions of fusion to be reliable.

Essentially, don't count your chicks til they hatch. Especially not free-energy fusion chicks.
When you've been treading water for so long just trying not to drown, it can be hard to focus on better swimming techniques when you get a moment of respite. Eventually, you can get into such a rhythm of almost drowning and recovering, that it can be hard to imagine anything else until you see it. Finally catching a glimpse of your neighbor who happens to just be merrily floating on his back can be revelatory.
Do you have a source for that, my impression was that many of those family farms were rather small and inefficient, but I could be wrong.
> might be handy to have a scale in my pocket sometimes.

I would kill for that. I diet in a geeky way, weighing everything. I have often thought that some kind of foldable scale that fit in my shirt pocket would be nice.
Jesus fucking christ man.

Of course he was ("disordered", to use your phrasing), and of course we all are, to some greater or lesser extent. I spent a few months in self-imposed isolation in my adolescence, and yes, I was already fucked up going into it, but there's just no way of slicing it where those were anything other than the most self-destructive, dysfunctional, long-term-devastating months of my life. Fortunately I had people in my life who cared about me and pulled me out of it - far too late to prevent my social development from being permanently castrated, but I've always been stubborn, at least I'm able, a decade later, to be a more-or-less functional adult in my day-to-day life.

Subjecting other people to this goes so far past "cruel and unusual" that idonteven - what the hell - you yourself have got to be pretty much entirely forfeit to think this would somehow be a positive experience for a human being. Jesus. fucking. christ.

And yeah, for the record,, that comment would be highly offensive, if the ability to feel offence and outrage weren't one of the casualties a mere 12 weeks of what you're advocating as a rehabilitation mechanism. The mind boggles.
Square miles isn't relevant to an app anyway.
I came to the conclusion (which I later confirmed by reading a quote by someone famous, can't remember right now), that most intelligent people will realize that no matter how intelligent they are, there always someone else more intelligent. And even if you look up to THE most intelligent people of mankind's history (think polymaths, the DaVincis, Eulers, Leibnizs, etc), they STILL knew they couldn't know everything/be the best at everything. There's even a famous scene in a Simpsons chapter where Homer looks up to Edison as an inventor and then he realizes that even Edison looks up to someone (I think DaVinci in the cartoon).

So at some point when my impostor syndrome gets to me, I remember that in the end it's really never going to go away and secondly, it will keep me reminding me that there's still a lot to learn and that helps me stay humble because I know any day I might meet the most improbable of persons, that will teach me something that I didn't know.

In other words, I have found that keeping my impostor syndrome alive (but not letting it paralyze me as another poster suggests) helps me keep my ego in check. On one hand my ego let's me enjoy the painful fruits of frustration and experience and then my syndrome avoids that from letting me float so high that I burn with the flames of ego.

In the end, that still doesn't negate the fact that it's a constant drain of energy having to balance the two. I guess that's part of the reason why they say ignorance is bliss... although I'm not sure it's a particularly enjoyable bliss.
Perhaps, but the beginning of the article reeks of him thinking he's somehow "too good" for prison, and that his transgression was just a temporary moral weakness.

While I'm glad he's bringing attention to the tragedy that is America's incarceration debacle, it would be nice if it didn't have to take a rich white guy getting put in jail before people take note that there is maybe a better approach to dealing with crime.
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The situation here is even worse than it looks like. You've got two government departments, one way or another both reporting to Downing Street 10. Suddenly one government department confiscates government assets from another department. This is not supposed to be possible. If they wanted assets from another department, they were supposed to politely ask. If the request was refused, and they believe they were right, they should appeal.
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In the real work we have systems of checks and balances. Simply hire a team of compliance checkers. Those checkers are kept in line by their management. If management is not up to task it'll come out eventually in a fabulous scandal, but in the mean time it'd be better than nothing.
I didn't realize that Project Euler was a jobseeking tool?
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I haven't read the book but I suspect from the article that's one of its conclusions.
Incorrect.

Tom Murphy (author of the top-level article here) has done an analysis of global geothermal potential. It comes up far short of present or forecast energy demands:

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/01/warm-and-fuzzy-o...

Note that even tapping geothermal only for thermal uses still falls far short:

The average American household used 80 thousand cubic feet of natural gas in 2001 (apologies for old data and Imperial units). The gas is predominantly used for heating of one form or another: house, water, and food. 80,000 cf translates to about 800 Therms of energy per year, or 2700 W of continuous thermal power. Using our number from before that the mantle generates 7×10−12 W/kg, the average American home would need a rock mass of 4×1014kg, or a cubic volume 5 km on a side at a crustal density of 3.3 times that of water.

You might also want to check the IPCC's SRREN renewables energy report which has more deets on a large slew of renewable energy options.
Since no one mentioned Plan 9, I thought I will mention one of the many features that makes Plan 9, one notch above Unix to make it easy in the web era.

In Plan 9, literally everything has a file abstraction. This also includes sockets. So, even shell programs can be network programs without external programs like curl or wget or anything like that. For anyone interested, look at webfs(4). You may say that this can be implemented with fuse. But having something first class, designed to operate well within the file abstraction, is very different from something that has been added as an afterthought. In some sense, the BSD folks who added sockets into Unix really screwed it up and missed the Unix philosophy altogether.
The other extreme is described in "Assholes, a Theory", by Aaron James. This is a serious book on organizational behavior. From a review: "James proposes a theory of assholes (a person is an asshole when his sense of entitlement makes him immune to complaints from other people) that explains not only why assholes are a vital part of human society, but also how to recognize them and coexist with them."

Note the definition: "a person is an asshole when his sense of entitlement makes him immune to complaints from other people." This is the clear opposite of impostor syndrome.

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"This arstechnica comment has it spot on and is tagged as Readers Fav:
"

No, it doesn't.

I know it's a great conspiracy theory, but it's not really likely.

It's actually significantly more likely they want to unlock the phone to try to get more evidence against the other 6 people he was charged with, probably because it's lacking.

Federal prosecutors, whatever you think of them, are generally not dumb. They know this is not the strongest argument they can make, and so if they really didn't need the evidence, they would drop it and make the argument in a context that wasn't trivial.

Seriously. They deal with tons of drug offenses every day. So do the judges.

It's much better for them to wait for a child-killing baby-eater who also has child porn on his phone or something that plays better than "yeah, uh, we want to go look for evidence against the other 6"
Okay, but I'm trying to figure out why the EFF is getting involved. It doesn't sound like their usual sort of kerfuffle.

Sure, greed, corruption, and low-brow abuse of power is repugnant in and of itself, but where does this start to become a Electronic issue?

How do the shenanigans of court district in Texas endanger an entire frontier of all things electronic?
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In regards to the Jack of all trades quote, the full thing is: "Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than a master of one."
The Internet wasn't even accessible to the general public without capitalism motivating the creation of ISPs.
How could OSM's address coverage be improved?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476306

I really, really wish HN would be fair and go with the first post of a story, not the creatively-titled later submission.
Modern 'Linux' systems are full of programs that violate Unix philosophy.

cdrecord, ffmpeg, emacs, dbus, imagemagick, all modern browsers ... the list goes on and on. plumber(4) does what dbus is trying to do, with very little amount of code and text file based rules.

I see it as a missed opportunity for linux kernel and hence to the wider audience to experience a computing environment that is a joy to use.
It is ok to assassinate a terrorist with a sniper and not ok to nuke a whole city on the suspicion that a terrorist must be inside...
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Ask HN: What are some good Machine Learning based startups in Gugaon
I'm a final year Computer Science Engineering student interested in working at a Machine Learning based startup in Gurgaon.

Any suggestions as to which companies I could apply to ?
In my opinion and experience startup founders, whether singly or in small groups, suffer the opposite of imposter syndrome: they know exactly what they are doing, but the world does not take them seriously, or believe it. In essence founders of projects are considered imposters; and closing one or two financing rounds doesn't materially affect this.
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We already know what we need to do to curb population growth, it's just counterintuitive - http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth... . Essentially, people have lots of kids because they're expecting one or two to die. If you reduce child mortality, then they can stick with one or two kids without significant risk of ending up childless.

And then in developed countries, we just need to massively improve energy efficiency. Like, instead of leaving all the lights on all night in offices "for security reasons", we put some disincentives on it and get people to put the extra money from the energy bill into some goddamn insurance.
Ironically the Unix philosophy doesn't even really apply to Unix itself - it mainly just applies to GNU tools. Unix is a general purpose operating system for computers of all shapes and sizes. You can't get much more generic than that.
Wow, thank you for that link. Never saw it before. Perlis really did deliver on his intention to give us a "pou sto to last the student for 40 years, not a handbook for tomorrow’s employment." Every time I've encountered a new language or framework (Java, Ruby, Rails, whatever), I've been grateful to him. He also delivered on his intention to keep us "on the computer early and often." I didn't get much sleep that semester -- now I see that was by design :)
> Or maybe you've read them, and your position is that Congress just didnt know what personal jurisdiction meant when it rewrote 1391.

You say that like it's improbable.
so why not change the title? The title is a very clear question.
> If Free solutions aren't outright criminalized by the same legislation (ala RIPA),

Can you elaborate on that a bit? I didn't see anything in RIPA that criminalizes open source encryption.
That's true. The free market was mostly [1] absent from the research into packet switching in the 1960s, the actual deployment in 1969 of the packet-switched network that became the internet, the invention of email, FTP, the domain name system, the mailing list, newsgroups, IRC, the MMORPG (initially referred to as a multi-user domain or a MUD), the web, webmail, the blog, the RSS feed, the wiki and Wikipedia, but, yeah, starting about 1987, profit-motivated ISPs started slowly to appear that offered access to the internet to organizations and individuals.

1: I use the qualifier "mostly" because the government did farm out most research and engineering tasks to a handful of for-profit companies (Bolt Beranak Newman, the Mitre Corporation, SRI International) that specialized in governmental contracts.
This type of headline is annoying. Nowhere does the researcher say anything remotely close to "King Kong"? It's not even insinuated as far as I can tell. Pure editorial sensationalism.
Sounds horrible. I came across the following quote earlier today that sums up my reaction pretty well: "Honesty without empathy is cruelty."
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In addition to what's mentioned below (and you can read on the rust site) -- in a js frame of reference, consider == vs === and/or strict mode vs non-strict. Comparing Rust to C is a bit like comparing js code written in strict mode, using just === for comparison, versus non-strict, use only == - and perhaps always having a custom function that deals with arrays, using eval to marshal objects from strings stored in the array, rather than the object/type features that js provides (especially modern js).

It's not a perfect analogy, but perhaps gets a bit of the flavour difference.
I'd very much recommend the writings of Vaclav Smil who's been exploring numerous parameters of this issue for years. His Energy Realities, Energy Myths, and Making the Modern World all answer your question in large part.

But briefly:

1. Vast amounts of coal, oil, and gas. We're using in one year the legacy of about 5 million years of accumulation of fossil fuels. We've managed to burn through much of the total initial endowment of these fuels, and there isn't more where they came from.

2. Improvements in very fundamental health and sanitation practices created a vast boom in population. Far more of this came from simple measures such as fresh water supplies, sewerage systems, and municipal waste collection than all modern medicine since 1920, including antibiotics, organ transplants, and vaccines. Understanding of germ theory, antisceptic controls in hospitals, and quarantines succeeded in taming the epidemics and plagues of the 19th century.

3. Chemical fertilisers, most especially the highly energy-intensive Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation process. Take away the energy and this grinds to a halt -- it fueled the growth of Europe in the early 20th century.

4. Other chemical and mineral wealth. From iron to platinum, minerals on Earth are present only in limited quantities, and the abundance on Earth as a whole is markedly different from prevalence in the crust. There's a long and growing list of critically short minerals, including such elements as copper, silver, phosphorus, tin, lithium, and more. These are crucial in electronics, fertilizers (especially phosphorus), and other industrial processes.

5. One-time gains from the Green Revolution. By providing plants' needs for fertiliser and pest control artificially, we've managed to divert more of their energy into food production. Take away those inputs, and ag productivity falls. We're also reliant on a vast transport, storage, refrigeration, and processing system -- food requires 10x the energy inputs as it delivers in calories in the US, 5x in most of Europe.

Short of it: Malthus didn't anticipate the total wealth of energy in fossil fuels, or the possible applications of that one-time windfall in further boosting Earth's population. His basic premise was, however, correct. His constants were wrong. Thats' all.

That space travel thing is kinda complicated. And the distances are really far. And last I heard, Amazon's delivery time on other Earths was. Oh crap. They're out of stock.

But enjoy your wishful thinking.
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You assume correctly.
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The authors data leads me to entirely the opposite conclusion. His data perfectly support the point that we need massive new sources of clean energy (for example, nuclear or even solar which is on an incredible downward cost trend), to support growth.

Anyone who has spent time on planes knows that the world is mostly empty. I recently flew from Seoul to Moscow and there was nothing but forest in between. The first visible roads were on the descent to Moscow.

If you assume that innovation is impossible, then sure, I can see how he conflates future energy use with CO2. But it's a failing of the piece that he never explicitly states that assumption.
What 'dllthomas said. I'm sorry, I should have explained in the comment, it's an obscure term to use.
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