skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arts can create a sensibility for context, and can answer the "should" of "should we be doing this".

At least the hypothetical universe in my mind, a bunch of technocrats are a lot more likely to commit unethical behaviour than people who have a bit more sensibility for the human condition and history.
I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis at age 22. It's generally accepted that people suffering from Crohn's, colitis, IBD, etc should avoid NSAIDs and COX-2 inhibitors as they can lead to flare ups of their disease. So, it's not that I absolutely can't take them without dire consequences, I just can't take them regularly, or for very long (like a day or two MAX). When my doctor told me this, I shrugged it off and just avoided them until I sprained my ankle so bad they were afraid I tore ligaments. I took Ibuprofin for 4 days when I was trying to avoid narcotic use and get some work done and I wound up with the closest thing to a flare up I've had since I went on Remicade years ago. So yeah, I won't be doing that again, but I'd pop a couple once every so often if my back was extremely sore or something like that.

The upshot is that I am really aware of how Ibuprofin affects me and I can feel it kick in and relieve pain the same way someone who could take it regularly might feel about an opioid.
I'm interested, but where would you suggest to start?
>zero-based isn't as good as 1-based indexing for mathematics and science

[citation needed]

>nobody want to change it.

Love the claim here, followed by a link that reveals an ongoing controversy. True, the core developers don't want to change it, so it's not going to change. They chose to ignore the protests of many would-be users of the language.
I interviewed at Whisper when they were in a mansion in Santa Monica. It was an interesting setup that had all the amenities of home like a full kitchen, shower, pool, laundry. Those are all perks few offices have so you could differentiate your company if you had them.
Oh I know that it's possible. Technology makes most anything possible. Just not being in a room physically with other people. Once it can do that I'll consider working remotely.
Does the U.S. have an art/design problem or shortage relative to other nations? (non-rhetorical question, please answer). It does seem clear that the U.S. is behind many other nations in STEM fields. Seems like promoting STEAM vs STEM would be somewhat mutually antagonistic.
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There is absolutely nothing awkward with a working professional signing up for e.g. accent coaching, which is a service that many speech and language therapists will happily offer.

Back in my days as a professional translator, one of the basic drills for any sort of production problem was shadowing. The basic idea is to get a sample, play it once, then play it while repeating it word-for-word and working on nothing but producing it exactly, and then drill that to death. You might find it useful to pick an American with similar age/gender/education level/etc to yourself or to the target accent you want learn to emulate.

This practice is murderously difficult when you start. Pick samples which are interesting to you, which you can listen to first, and which are linguistically unchallenging (i.e. not the nightly news on a novel topic). Spoken dialogue from movies with broad appeal tends to work well for this purpose.

It is possible to code-switch on accents, and as you get better you'll tend to do it automatically. Don't worry about it potentially threatening your retention of your Indian accent and/or identity.

Production problems: (Your #2) Aside from continuing work on improving your vocabulary, which largely comes from reading and speaking (practice, practice, practice), you can work on circumlocution strategies. They're a bit outside of the scope of a comment -- you can rephrase, work around the lack of a word, use an analogy, even explicitly say "I'm blanking on a word" (practice any line you use to death so that producing that line doesn't stress you), whatever works for you. The important thing to remember is that your target interlocutors don't evaluate day-to-day language for flawless word choice but they do notice hesitation noises.

Speak short sentences with simple words. You will sound smart. If you uhh endeavor to what's it recollect the exactly aptimal no appropriate word for a given situation, people will (often subconsciously) downgrade your fluency and, regrettably, your intelligence.

Achieving drop-dead-cold mastery of short sentences with simple words allows you to build from there, including with pre-canned sentence fragments which are high-frequency in more sophisticated discourse and which you can throw out fully-formed, having practiced them to death. This is both a cheat code for passing any sort of oral examination and also a cheat code for life itself: having a stock of a few dozen widely applicable things at your fingertips makes it appear to the casual interlocutor that you have mastery of the entire vast field they represent.

3. My written English are okay but I often miss articles ( you might have noticed from my writing ).

Don't be self conscious about this -- I frequently do it, too. The only cure for this sort of thing is shipping more written words, then either editing them yourself (if you can recognize the mistakes) or getting someone to assist you (until you can recognize your own mistakes).
They just declare the rulers apostate, and poof, no government. Same trick the medieval European rulers would use to get rid of their rivals, by the way (they had to convince the Pope).

If their daily practice agrees with the Scriptures, and by all accounts, they are very uncompromising, it is very hard to argue that they're somehow not legitimate.
Grab the source, compile it and get it running...after that...whatever you find interesting. Some ideas:

* Trace the execution of one of the user land programs (e.g. ls) to see how it uses the syscalls.

* Add a new syscall - there are a few open-courseware labs online which have this as in introductory exercise (e.g http://moss.cs.iit.edu/cs450/assign01-xv6-syscall.html)

* In a similar vein - find some other labs for other courses using this - and follow them.

* Read through the companion book (can be compiled from the source or downloaded pre-compiled) and follow it through the source code.
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any relation to this (also a RISD project)? http://steamwith.us/

(edit: why am I being downvoted?)
There is no opportunity for innovation in SF, there is so much anti-owner pushes, that owners are holding on until the ROI makes it.
I think resources would be better allocated at simply educating STEM people in ethics and the like. We don't need to funnel people into arts just as checks-and-balances to the "less sensible" technology folks.
I guess that's one use for the iPhone's huge top bezel.
Based on the other comments in this thread, it's becoming apparent that my experience with ibuprofen and any other OTC pain drug is not typical. Every time I've taken one for pain, the effect is minor. Like I'm not sure if it's doing anything or not. Mostly, I only take them anymore if someone insists.

I wonder if I feel pain less than normal, or pain killers less than normal.
Any language's code can be integrated or transformed into some Turing-complete language. That doesn't make a language powerful. You don't see anyone raving about how amazing the language of variable-free arithmetic expressions is, but that's already integrated into most languages people would call "powerful."

The idea that ACL2 verifies a powerful language is outright false. ACL2's verified language is stripped down (no first-class functions, nontermination, exceptions, etc.) because added power makes it too hard to verify.
How exactly is the US behind other nation in STEM fields?
I have melatonin lying around. I'll have to test adding it to the routine next time

I've tried regular Melatonin while hungover and though it helped with the head-pain it did what Melatonin is meant to do - it put me to sleep. The slow-release stuff is better if you need to go to work or have plans that day. It also has a lasting effect as a result of being slow-release. I found that taking it on the night of the drinking before bed didn't help - it's not an effective prophylactic.
This is how I imagine how Google can bring it's self driving Uber-like taxi service to market. They can have a bunch of "remote drivers" that can take over the cars if the machine is not able to decide what to do. Anything 100% automatic is pretty much impossible, there is always an unsolvable or never seen before problem on the street.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500724
> the person who uttered the racist threat is still bound by law and physical violence is not free speech. And here we've found the line to make free-speech work: even-handed law-enforcement against physical violence, theft etc.

It's factually true but I don't think it's realistic. First, much of what people can do won't expose them to law enforcement. They can get you fired, prevent you from getting hired, cost you that contract, keep your kids off the football team or out of the good school, pass laws that make your life difficult, have city inspectors and police go over everything you do with a fine tooth comb (e.g., driving while black), etc. Second, law enforcement and the legal system in general have a long history of not protecting marginalized groups but persecuting them. When the sheriff, mayor, judge, prosecutor, and jury are all white and all know each other, and you know the history of blacks in the legal system, you may not want to trust your fate to their protection.

> Racist slurs on the other hand, while more cutting to people who have been marginalized, are just words designed to produce an emotional response.

Again, this may be true in theory but I strongly disagree it's true in reality. They are serious threats because they have a long, very well-established history of being backed up with action. I don't think you mean it this way, but it amounts to saying (as I understand it) that blacks don't face actual discrimination, therefore the threats are empty.
You mean like the app Groups? :-)
Ask HN: Who should learn how to program?
I know my question might seem strange, it is not a traditional question of "how" one can learn to program but rather "who."

Firstly, I'd like to introduce myself. I have been lurking on HN for quite awhile, the topics and conversation on HN are intellectually interesting. But I do not know how to program, nor do I know if I should learn.

I'm drawn to famous stories of programmers having a large influence on the world (i.e., Bill Gates, Wozniak, Zuckerberg. Etc), and having the ability to create this kind of impact is what entices me to programming. Thus, is programming for me? A person who wants to help change the world, or would I be only wasting my time (given my age [early 20s] and other priorities in life)?

Thanks
You're not the only one.

OK, this might sound even stupider, but I feel betrayed by the fact that otherwise good, technical people would voluntarily make such a major mistake, and then defend it so vigorously in the face of so many complaints.
I'm looking at their list of objectives, trying to understand how any of it will benefit the advancement of STEM.

It doesn't. The objectives only seek to leverage the concrete validity of STEM as a stable platform for "arts & design," which are intuitive and incredibly debatable by nature.
I knew it :P
These actually have been around for many years. I wrote an article on one I had created out of $1 laser pointer a few years ago and it got circulated by a bunch of tech outlets.
I've seen this for sale in Japan for years now. And clip on lenses that work with most phones are, what, 10 years old? And priced at 2-10$?

"Unlike other macro photography lenses, which can cost hundreds of pounds, Toby's product costs a fiver, and slips straight onto any smartphone."

I feel horrible for the reporter if they can only find _hundreds of pounds_ priced smartphone lenses. Unless of course they're making the comparison between some megazoom professional lens and a rubber band...

I guess I fail to see the excitement of this article.
Probably the same way they built the "underground" tunnels beneath all of the Magic Kingdom -- build ground level "tunnels" and build up the ground on top of them.
I had similar experience, until I realized that my dosage was rather low. You might need 3 pills by 200mg to feel the effects.
Minor note: Goenka uses the term "vipassana" in a way that makes people think they're synonymous, but many other teachers and schools teach vipassana.
You're correct. Defamation set in print is libel.
> Wouldn't you want to choose a more "clear" language

Are you implying that another language would be more clear?

Quite the opposite, C doesn't hide anything from you. When you want to understand what the computer is doing you can tell directly from the C code. Unlike other languages where you need to understand what the language is doing first, and only then can you understand the computer.

There are time where "hiding" the computer is useful, but not here.
I've seen various sources claim the US is behind other nations in STEM fields, particularly math, at the primary and secondary levels.

e.g. https://www.nms.org/AboutNMSI/TheSTEMCrisis/STEMEducationSta...
Not me personally, but I have heard that ibuprofen is avoided by people with various stages of kidney disease.

According to [1] it can cause "an increased risk of sudden kidney failure and even progressive kidney damage."

[1] https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/painMeds_Analgesics
Not really, I can't do the debate justice on a tiny HN discussion box. You can go on r/AskPhilosophy and ask them about it. You can also seek out Derek Parfit or something.

But, it doesn't matter if you personally agree with moral realism or not. What matters is that it is controversial and that there is no philosophical consensus. As such, to claim that "there is no objective morality" as axiomatic, is to end an argument before it has begun.

edit: Also, I think LessWrong-types cling on hard to a kind of logical positivism that is philosophically pretty primitive. The most exciting way to study this is via Wittgenstein, probably. He was their foremost figure, and then he turned on them. If you don't want to delve into philosophy, try to read his biography by Ray Monk- "Duty of Genius". I think any techie could follow it and enjoy it.
I've always wondered why so many do so much work for so little return. Open Source is great, but it doesn't mean working for free is.
A quite insightful essay.

Call me a sociopath, but while reading it I was - and still am - asking myself, how do I get to exit the Manufactured Normalcy Field? Because I don't want to stay in it. And after that, I started asking myself, how can we collapse the Field and shut it down altogether?

Also a potentially interesting insight to how my perspective, as a tech native, differs from general population: "We understand Facebook in terms of school year-books." Now do we? Do people really use this metaphor in their thinking, instead of understanding Facebook as it is, as a new kind of thing? Do people really shoehorn new technology into old categories instead of defining things by the collection of features and experiences they have?
> Yes, because that's what "once and for all" means.

No it isn't. Maybe to you it is. In what universe does "once and for all" mean "kill them all"?

> That's simply not realistic at all.

It is if the world unites against them. It's actually really simple. The problem is we don't have any leaders who would have the intestinal fortitude to make this happen.

Stop buying anything from them. Stop all flights to and from their country or countries. Unplug the internet routers. Unplug any phone lines in and out, don't allowed packetized communications back and forth, or both. Do not allow financial transactions with the rest of the world, etc.

Easy, no. Does it requires balls. Yup. Does it require absolute unity from the major countries in the world, including Russia and China? Without a doubt. Possible. Yes. Probable? Nearly zero. But it isn't impossible.

Pressure needs to be applied in a major way so that they (their civilization) will wake up and realize they have far, far more to lose than we do. Either they clean-up their act or they get exactly what they've been asking for. They get to live by their twisted rules and ideology without any western intervention or the need interact with us in any way, a people and ideology they hate so much.

We don't need them. And they don't want to accept peaceful coexistence with us. So, why do we have such a hard-on to have a relationship with them? Let. Them. Be. Maybe in 200 years they'll develop a civilization.
This is cDc #395 and it actually dates to 2004: http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0395.html

It is indeed one of their best.
> These drumhead hearings were not dissimilar to the Title IX hearings that take place on the campuses today.

To make such an extraordinary stretch; you need to provide some serious evidence or to redefine 'not dissimilar'. ISIL kills innocent people, the US executes innocent people, therefore, by the same definition, the two justice systems are 'not dissimilar'. But they are very dissimilar.
I support that future too. Because "good of the many" who won't have to die in an accident "outweights the need of the few" who want to enjoy themselves on public roads.
I dunno. I saw this today at Target. Thought it was a funny typo, but maybe they're onto something...

http://imgur.com/6zPv5xb
But why would I want to take a photo that needs to be "unlocked"? My phone already has a camera on it, and I can already not share photos. I genuinely don't understand what this app is doing.
That's over the recommended dose. Make sure you're comfortable with the long term side effects if you do that regularly.
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If anything I would assume their objective is the exact opposite - draw people to STEM trough something popular/approachable like Art.

To be fair the site is very vague - I can't really see how this would be different from something like industrial design/architecture ?
Is there a coursea or other MOOC that uses Xv6?
I'm available to the team most of the time, even on weekends. The more junior they are, the greater the effort I make to be available to them.

But in my mind there is a difference between being available for questions/advice vs. actually working, e.g. designing a system or writing code. If someone messages me on a Saturday asking, "hey, which server do I log into to do X?" then taking the two minutes to reply means I'm available, but I don't think of it as "work".
A balance needs to exist. You hear about people dropping out of "open source" because it's too much. Don't let people take advantage, and contribute what you can. Giving back to the community helps others, but it shouldn't have to destroy you.
It is worth noting that Fortran, MATLAB, Mathematica / Wolfram Language are all 1-indexed. These are, by far, the most influential and widely-used languages in numerical and mathematical programming for the past ~60 years.
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Yes. They look like this: http://i.imgur.com/KVTe4zp.jpg
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> I'm well aware that some consider this view misogynist.

By who? I would be surprised if someone said that. You might be worrying too much, but maybe I don't know. Can you provide a link to someone saying that?
I'm the first to admit I'm musically illierate but how likely is it that no one has never played a (simple?) six second beat like that before? I don't know what drum music looks like on paper but six seconds can't have so much information content that it hasn't been hit upon by others in the past, can it?
Vietnam really stands out for me in the world as a place that feels substantially different from the Western world we are used to, yet remains pretty darn safe for a Western tourist.

Given that it is also comparably inexpensive, it really is a fantastic place everyone should try to visit sometime.

Downsides: Lots of people have figured out how awesome Vietnam is already, so you certainly won't be the only tourist.

Also, after you've spent five minutes on a Vietnamese street corner you'll appreciate that riding the Ho Chi Minh Highway is indeed quite dangerous... but just for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with being a tourist.
Right, so if your holder object is heap-allocated, you need to dereference a pointer so that you can then call into the implementation. That's inefficient, bad for the cache, and puts needless pressure on the heap allocator. C++ classes built out of pure virtual member functions are just as compatible. If you use something COM-like, you can reference-count and manage them in a uniform way.

PIMPL as commonly described is a waste of good electricity, like most design patterns. Especially because most of the time I see it used, it's from the keyboard of some well-meaning but inexperienced developer who doesn't even need to maintain binary compatibility.
Really interesting story. I wonder if I myself might have gotten into trouble were it not for the fact that I couldn't make that many phone calls. I seem to recall that there was no such thing as unlimited calling - even for local numbers. Not to mention I wasn't allowed to hog our one phone line. Calling a long-distance number for 30 minutes probably would have resulted in at least a $10 phone bill - which was totally out of the question.

I was resigned to call one local BBS and do a direct 1-to-1 modem connection with my only other friend who had a modem!
Hard to say:
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`Usual Adult Dose for Headache
Study (n=34) - Prevention of Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-induced headache:
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I took 828 and really enjoyed it. It was one of the best classes I took at MIT. The other OS for that class is JOS, which is the one you build through the labs. It's similarly simple to understand and not that long to build.
Yes, it's now very clear that you're not saying anything. Thank you.
The song that the article refers to is Amen by The Winstons (1969), a cover of the gospel-like Amen by Jester Hairston (1963).

Though the drum break was played (and probably "composed") by band-member G. C. Coleman, the cheque was made out to the copyright holder and singer of the band Richard L. Spencer.

I wonder what would be different if Sony held the rights.
These disparities disappear once you account for certain key demographic differences. In modern service-economy societies, average educational attainment is unimportant. What matters is how many positive-marginal-product people you have, and the US still produces them in spades.
Frequentist: Here's a couple formulas that kind of make sense. Plug in your data and go.

Bayesian: Here's Bayes' theorem, a single formula that makes perfect sense! See, it's simpler, right? What, you want to use it? Something something beta distribution something something Markov chain Monte Carlo something something - okay, got it?

Good luck teaching that to undergrads. In the real world, intro stats classes are taken mostly by people with little math background, no programming background, little interest in statistics, and little innate talent for any of those things. With the frequentist approach, at least they have a fucking chance.
> I took 828 and really enjoyed it. It was one of the best classes I took at MIT. The other OS for that class is JOS, which is the one you build through the labs. It's similarly simple to understand and not that long to build.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from your comment aside from "I went to MIT".
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