skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You've been watching too much Big Bang Theory. Sheldon is supposed to be a parody of a scientist, you know.

What a snarky and strangely dismissive comment!

Clearly there's a lot of overlap in the subject matter (it's science, after all), but employment prospects are most assuredly not the same for engineers and academics. You can get a job as an engineer; I cannot. As such, I don't see the relevance of your experience as an engineering student, hence my question.

So again, I'm not sure what your point is. I'm open to being wrong, but in order to see my error, I need to first understand your point.

It would be nice if you could explain it to me without being disrespectful.
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The most dreaded words in math education: 'from which it is obvious that...'.
No it is not. Haskell appeals to a certain audience, for the same reason that assembly and C/C++ appeal to a certain audience (fun fact: this category pattern will also be available in C++17 to be known as Concepts).

Sure, it is a niche language, and might have too steep a learning curve for the average programmer, but it is used in production, by real world businesses, and people write real world code with it.
because you like cooking more than coding?
> Many, many people define "critical thinking" as "thinking like I do."

This should be emphasized more. I was dating a guy who claimed to be a critical thinker, which actually was worse than what you described here. Essentially, his definition of critical thinking was "agreeing with me." This--among ample other reasons--is why he is an ex.

But later in life I realised it wasn't just him, a lot of other "intellectuals"[0], are like that.

[0]: I've grown to snort and snicker when I hear the word lately. I believe anyone who calls himself (or someone else, because they've given themselves the authority to decide who is and who isn't) an intellectual, is a pompous little shit.
yeah, but so were personal slaves and gladiatorial fights to the death. you can't argue prescriptive social order from history!
Interesting. It has been known for a while too that it only takes about a 100 SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) to identify a person from a large biobank. I once wrote a paper how to potentially combat this https://files.joelkuiper.eu/f/preprint/biobank2015_final.pdf (pdf)
Pedagogy is related to teaching children, andragogy is the education of adults. Each has unique challenges in that the young lack a base of knowledge and adults may have their own conceptual frameworks that need to be addressed.
That sounds scary considering the fact that Wordpress security flaws make it "remote system administration tool" first, and blog platform second.
A most interesting idea.

I've read several of these "survival at sea" stories and one thing they all have in common is the fact that they end up passing many container ships before they are rescued. Certainly some kind of automated scanning would save lives.
Man, I love Chicago.
So far as I know, Github don't have a presence in the EEA, do they?
Don't you think that the whole 'democracy' model is flawed from the top to the bottom? If there were no good candidates offered to the public, how would the public choose a good one? And if a good one would somehow emerge, it is trivial to 'catch him' with a pack of heroin or being related to 'enemies', isn't it?
This British-Indian couple aims to build the 'Amazon of education'
>Where did I say publication is a claim of conclusive proof?

Exactly where you typed It means that a quarter of the published papers say "Hey, we did this experiment which offers conclusive proof of X"

Again, this is patently false because they did not publish papers claiming conclusive proof. They published papers claiming evidence in favor of a theory.

>Make up your mind already.

There's no reason to be disrespectful over a mistake. I meant 1 in 20 (5%, hence the mix-up).

Returning to the point, it takes incredible mental gymnastics to argue that a false positive automatically degrades the status of a study from "scientific" to "unscientific":

1. The adjective "scientific" describes a method, not a result. Those speaking of "scientific results" are either (a) referring to "results of a scientific study" or (b) confused about what science is (namely: a method, not a result).

2. A false positive degrades the status of a result (not a study) from "evidence in favor of X" to "not evidence in favor of X".

I must respectfully insist that you are wrong.
I think you're on to something here. It may be that programming languages that require you to 'reboot' are better suited to people totally new to programming than to people that already know how to program using some other methodology.

This is because compared to your old, well used and worn tools that new tool starts off as a set-back rather than an advantage and we more or less expect an instant productivity boost from new technology. That set-back then becomes a huge hurdle to overcome.

The question a programmer faced with a problem to solve is always one of investment: should I invest my time and effort into this new technology that will make me x times more productive or simply a better programmer (or someone capable of tackling more complex problems) a year or more down the line, or should I break out my trusty tools and turn a buck today (or turn a buck for my employer).

In most cases that equation works out in favor of the old tools so the energy required would need to be offset by concrete short term gains if a person is to switch from one tech to another.

That lack of concrete short-term gains is the big stumbling block for old hands, and if you manage to hack that then I think a lot of these better technologies would find traction.

People new to programming don't have that particular hang-up and I'd expect them to do much better with such new tool or different tools. (But they'd have the same problem if they needed to switch to other tools, it's just that in this particular instance they have a blank slate advantage, that evaporates the moment they become proficient in that technology.)
As someone who got into cycling a few years ago Rule V (Harden the Fuck Up) has permeated the rest of my life.

If you can do 50 miles when the hail is coming in sideways and it's dark and your on a hill in the middle of nowhere then everything else seems easier.
It doesn't appear that App::RecordStream knows how to deal with a stream of JSON objects. You can split on a delimiter (newline), but you'll have to either write some regular expression or some perl code in order to transform each line of JSON into something else.
I bought a cat exercise wheel off kickstarter. There were a lot of problems shipping the product, but eventually they shipped. The fascinating part is explanations given by the company. They said they paid 50K+ for a master injection mold which was tested extensively and shipped over seas. The parts that were shipped back didn't quite have the tolerances they were expecting and the wheels didn't fit together very well.

It turns out the supplier they were working with in China cloned their product and were selling similar cat exercise wheels in China. A second mold was made and used to ship parts back to the US, and that mold was not made to the same quality as the first. At least, that's their story.
That's not how the law is meant to work. The law is supposed to "force" overseas companies to collect VAT on behalf of customers inside the EU.

So even in Panama your opinions are "sorry you're in the EU I can't sell to you" or you're supposed to collect the VAT. At present I don't believe they have tried to enforce it through any court yet. So I'm unsure how that would play out.
i kind of wonder how did we get to this point. technologically speaking it's a disaster - terrible slow and insecure language as a platform for bad practices and codr base. i guess the answer is that technical excellence.is absolutely secondary to other concerns, but it's a concerning view.
Wouldn't this apply the other way around as well? If you become known as a blackmailer who's true to their word, wouldn't your payment rate go up?
That seems like step one of a plan to get rabies.
Absolutely this, if I didn't have my business where I am I'd probably end up moving to London, it's the last place in the world I'd want to live but the salary gap even adjusting for cost of living/commuting is huge.

I could easily live somewhere cheap and commute for a few years then build up enough to move somewhere nicer.

What irritates me the most is there is absolutely no physical reason why London has to be the place for start ups in the UK and a whole bunch of reasons why it's not a good place.

Where I live now rent and house prices are incredibly cheap (even compared to most parts of the UK), the city is rolling out excellent fibre (I have 150Mbps at home and 100Mbps at work) and transport links are excellent, it would be a good place to start a software company (I am doing) but hiring is going to be hard since it will require relocation to get the talent needed (or working entirely remote, something I'm considering).
Is this some kind of a pipe dream? WordPress runs a quarter of the web?
It does already exist:
http://www.slow-journalism.com/

However, I can not say anything about that magazine's quality as I haven't read it myself.
What's abusive about Uber? You drive whenever you want and their commission structure means their interests are aligned with yours and you can never lose money on a shift (at least not to Uber).
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Hapii – beyond employee satisfaction
Beta!

Hapii is a small service for HR, managers and people who wish to improve happiness around the people they work with. This can have positive effects on a lot of things inside a company. Not just work-related.

I have tried to make a small youtube video that explains how Hapii works and why it's important to use it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTYcCjYo2g#t=1m010s

You can sign up for free, and use Hapii for free, at https://app.hapii.co

It's something I have given a lot of thought and believe in, but please leave feedback all you want!

Thank you
Semantics! (Though I'll be sure to remember that distinction for future conversations).
Nice to someone with a balanced perspective. Usually you talk to an ex-colonist and it's all doom and gloom regarding the Empire.
You have it backwards. Polynesians travelled to South America and back, acquiring sweet potatoes there, possibly some human DNA, and leaving chickens (there is good evidence for each of these, but it's not undeniable). There is a huge amount of evidence of Polynesians travelling long distances by sea, and, as far as I can see, essentially no evidence for South Americans doing this. The fact that it was theoretically possible does not mean it happened.
Not just any window, it has to meet size and location requirements too.
This seems to disagree with standard usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy
This thread is not about pirate activities off Somalia, it is about paying a ransom under threat of DDOS. That's an entirely different thing and strategies that work in one case may or may not work in the other. Case in point: you can shoot at pirates.
This reminds me of a recent interview with Pete Trainor: https://soundcloud.com/uxpodcast/112-steve-portigal-pete-tra...

"...things should be possibly be made more complex or more complicated for people to make them smarter and to make them happier... it's flying in the face of quite a lot of the wisdom that we've been building up for the last 15-20 years in usability."

I think one of the author's points is that he appreciates that Josephine actually satisfies a higher level of Maslow's hierarchy than Sprig not in spite of its lower level of convenience, but because of it.

1) Uber For Food: Immediate satisfaction of fatty, salty food.

2) Sprig: Higher-level satisfaction of food better for long-term health.

3) Josephine: Slower, more conscious choice; face-to-face connection with your neighbors.
Give the people taking your questionnaire a coin. When the question appears e.g. “Have you ever made a mistake that has cost your company thousands of dollars?”, ask the subject to flip a coin. If the coin comes up HEADS, tell the person to answer the question truthfully. If the coin comes up TAILS, tell the person to flip the coin again and if the coin lands HEADS to answer ”Yes” and if the second flip comes up TAILS to answer the question ”No”.

This protocol has small flaw as it is open to the "side channel" attack. I.e. when it is possible to count number of coin flips then observer can directly deduce the truthfulness of the answer.

Therefore one has to flip the coin always twice.
A Simple Platformer Episod 1 and 2
A quarter of all websites includes a LOT of tiny websites nobody visits.

How many users/hits/bandwidth of the web does WP get?
The impact of Docker containers on the performance of genomic pipelines
WordPress is like the Kalashnikov of the web. You can use it for pretty much anything, run it anywhere, do god knows what to it and it'll still happy hum along (albeit behind a very big varnish cache).

A few of our clients have millions of pageviews running off of a couple t2.small instances and the single biggest factor for them is the UI and the security of knowing they're not tied into a bespoke platform.
Scientists discover key driver of human aging: May lead to reversing aging
Ja! I used PBM format to create bitmap fonts for some retro-computing fun.

https://github.com/trillek-team/trillek-vcomputer-module/blo...
This is good news. The more electric car companies we have, the better. Even Elon would like to see that happen.
An important detail is that they don't show all the repetitions variations for time constrains. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters

> Testing is often edited due to time constraints of a televised episode. It can often seem as if the teams draw results from fewer repetitions and a smaller data set than they actually have. During the Outtakes Special, they specifically stated that while they are, in fact, very thorough in testing myths and repeat experiments many times in many different configurations, it is simply impossible to display all of it during a program. Beginning in the fifth season, episodes typically contain a prompt for the viewer to visit the show's homepage to view outtake footage of either additional testing, or other facets of the myths being tested. However, Savage himself has acknowledged that they do not purport always to achieve a satisfactorily large enough set of results to overcome definitively all bias.
No, these structures would have started being built before we knew knew how to calculate volume. Our radio waves will not reach them for 1300 years. With the degradation of signal, and amplification of noise, we're not sure if what they detect will even be decipherable from noise. They may have discovered a way to communicate that is more efficient, so they may not even be listening on those frequencies.

We found them because they built massive space structures. 1300 years ago, we were invisible.
Everything I Needed to Know about Publication Bias, I Learned in Pre-K
"Mr. Kohn was referring to the National Security Agency, the arm of the Pentagon that develops and breaks the complex algorithms that are used to keep the most secret electronic secrets secret"

Funny how this needed explaining back then. The story was also accidentally right, the NSA was indeed breaking those "complex algorithms" already during development!
> Speaking for my childhood self, I projected my own naive optimism for the future and Star Trek-fueled faith in humanity onto my visions of the Internet's potential.

Hey, I did the same thing and that's why I agree with 'rayiner. Star Trek's utopian future is United Federation of Planets, which is a central world(s) government.
Unfortunately, no.

https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpres...

(2014)
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Supermin is actively developed. The last commit was 2 days ago.

https://github.com/libguestfs/supermin/commits/master

Having said that, it's not relevant to what the OP wants to do. libguestfs, however, is very relevant.
Most early image formats were primitive and I'm glad they were.

The first image reader and writer I wrote was for the
.tga format[1]. This was before the Internet and I had no documentation. The only thing to do back then was to look at several different .tga files in a Hex-Editor and try to make sense of what you saw.

If things would have been more complicated I might just have given up - maybe on computers entirely. There was just this "How difficult could it be?" attitude back then I miss a lot today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truevision_TGA
The What, Who and Why of the Web
More than people trying to learn Monads, I see people trying to teach them. Few people write introductory guides to the "AbstractComputationFactories" of other languages, but it seems like everyone who gets (or thinks they get) monads feels the need to write a guide on them. It's inevitable that newcomers to the language will stumble upon them early on.
This.

While impressive, the headline is misleading.
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2337/...
No, that was just flat bred, aka focaccia.

Pizza only came to be much later, when the tomato got introduced to Europe, from South America.
And when people eventually found out that many varieties of tomatoes are not only not poisonous but also well tasting. :)
Kim Dotcom gave a gift that could easily be revoked if the attacker had continued attacking. Very different situation to giving cash (or bitcoin).
Why admit to major crimes online? Did you miss the Snowden files release?
Behringer Truths are not bad for the price, but Genelecs are usually better for most rooms. But I think there are usually (and not in all cases) better options than Genelecs depending on budget and usage. I for instance prefer EVE, because I can’t quite bring my budget up to ATCs or Barefoots.

JBL LSR range is also a low cost budget monitor champ.

These are also studio monitors by the way, so they are not always great for hifi listening - I use separate speakers for that.
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It's unrealistic to expect naive subjects to learn how to use GnuPG in an hour. It takes longer than that to learn a new game! People need at least to know what public-key cryptography is before trying to use it. But unfortunately, the Wikipedia entry is rather intimidating.[0] The GnuPG FAQ (at 7.1) is clearer, but not so easy to find.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

[1] https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html
Young People Are Happier Than They Used to Be
If he or especially she did, the wouldn't be allowed to have a problem with that in Algeria - or any islamic nation for that matter. That's the hilarious irony of it.
This is told to me by a Danish classmate (while intoxicated at a party).

He asked me: do you know why we say "Skull" when we drink?
I said: No I don't.

He Said: Well, back then during the Viking times. The Danes would fight all the way to the kingdom and cut the off the Skulls of the English princes; Dump out their brains and use the skull as cup for drinks. Hence the word "Skull".

I said: Huh? Interesting!

"And then we also took all their good looking women. And that's why all the Danish girls are soo good looking" Add him.

You got love the Danish people!
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The LSR 305 is an excellent speaker, and I too shy away from Genelecs because I think they sound rather terrible compared to their competition.

I do wonder if studios actually compare monitors before just putting in a low-range to mid-range Genelec setup.

Totally right about the room. It’s the number one factor.
An underground club of travelers who hack airlines to fly for free
I have to say, setting up blogger was just far too hard. Maybe something has changed, but back in the day I was trying to find a math renderer for http://randomtechnicalstuff.blogspot.com.au - but couldn't find anything.

I haven't bothered since, and my latest blog at http://sherlockchrisblog.wordpress.com is just working with LaTeX markup. It's honestly a breath of fresh air.
The Ticket Fairy (YC S15) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Developer in Sydney
Cuneiform was used to write multiple languages, since it's basically a way to write syllables, so it's a decent choice for a project like this.

You are basically writing English, but using different symbols (like IPA I suppose).
sounds like a case of 'worse is better': https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
You said "People need at least to know what public-key cryptography is before trying to use it." I think this is untrue. People really just need to know how to work with the technology, not understand what it's actually doing. Trying to explain the underlying principles makes it more confusing and thus, less safe.
I tried Joylent (a version of Soylent made in EU) for few weeks and I too "missed the feeling of eating" a little, but I recognized it as just a habit. The same kind of habit browsing HN is, with similar procrastination values.
Quite often the manufacturing process is expensive - For instance in some high end drivers the materials are just expensive to source. Who knows how much of that is bragging rights though
True enough. That has to do with the allure of jargon, I think. It's become a meme in itself. Nowadays on the Haskell subreddit, what I see most upvoted are tutorials that involve creating software that does something concrete. If that happens to involve a clever but not overwrought use of cool type system features, all the better. If anyone reading is yearning for some internet points, go write a Haskell tutorial that's useful, concise, and mostly shies away from the rabbit hole of abstract explanations. Even if it's merely about how to run a regexp or do a POST request.
There may be other technical solutions that are better from a technology POV.

What WP did right is to choose a platform supported EVERYWHERE (PHP, and not Ruby, Java or other crap only supported by few hosters), with a shitload of developers (again, the massive advantage of PHP), and packed the installation process in a way everyone from an 8-year old school kid to a 70-year old grandpa can handle (and literally, I have seen both!).

Also add in that wordpress.com's free hosting platform... well... surpasses any other blog solution by far.
Mathematicians prove the triviality of English
I seriously doubt that the "let's fight" option was anywhere near the table when India gained independence. The records will all be public by now.

> As for Britain giving up its ownership: To this date formally England lays claim to a whole bunch of places that they have colonized and in some cases it has gone to war to keep that situation as it is.

Examples in post Suez history include?
I cook all my meals. I spend an average of 3.4 hours per week in both cooking and washing the dishes. I order all my groceries to an online supermarket. I could save 3.4 hours by spending 300-400$ more and losing control over what I eat and how it was done. No thanks.

Cooking is not going anywhere. I simply cannot understand why common people with a kitchen would not cook. It just takes some planning and cooking enough food that it last 2-3 days.
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Hey, pizza ain't bad for you.

Having said that, I agree that sourcing ingredients, cleaning up, and all the other upkeep costs turns into a big hassle. Some time ago I voiced the concern on HN and from the answers I learned that generally, like every other task, you can learn to optimize away lots of that startup/teardown costs - but it requires planning and adjusting you daily routine.

Not something I have time to do now, though - changing routines takes a lot of time and effort too.
not surprised. I've seen my html illiterate friends make full websites using wordpress. The power of php I guess.