skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
limped through high school (except math!). majored in psychology/neuroscience and philosophy. had no idea what i wanted as a career. knew i liked learning about stuff. did neuroscience internships, community mental health internships. thought i wanted to be a therapist. got a masters degree for that. taught myself programming to solve problems with progress notes and practice management in mental health. liked that more than doing mental health. swindled an internship in computer science as a data miner. talked to the right people to get a position as an entry web developer. did that and moved up 2 positions inside same company. did a lot of side projects and open source projects for fun, to build my resume and learn. left to be a consultant at a cut-throat startup building company. now i work at a startup inside a bigger company doing node.js backend + angular/react.
Google gets 2.2M piracy takedown requests every day
Not sure this will help much here, because in both of those cases "ball" is a noun.

However, plain "old" word2vec will handle it fine.

A round ball is associated with words like bounce, and various sporting terms. It will appear in a the vector space alongside those words.

A dance ball is associated with dance, gowns, "go to", etc.

The example in the paper around "Washington" shows how this can be used to distinguish between the NER (named entity resolution) type "PERSON" and "GPE" (Geo-political-entity) - it disambiguates very well between Washington (George) and Washington (DC).
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140 / 7 = 20. You eat sleep and shit for a combined 4 hours a day?
Well to be honest all 5 of use would NEVER complain. We would leave restaurants and the people would say, "Oh your children are the best behaved children I ever seen." We would say later on to ourselves, "They didn't know what our father would threaten us with." He is a loving father but he would make it SO NOT WORTH IT to complain or misbehave. My children love to learn and don't complain but I don't threaten them :)

I think if you raise them to love what you do (For me it is learning, music and food) they grow liking the same things. My 9 year old at Disney World ordered the non-kid friendly Cheese Plate and the waiter sent out a second kid friendly appetizer just to be safe. He later asked her what her favorite thing she ate at Disney (Last night of 5 day stay) and she said the cheese plate.
This is silly. They have no problem with https, as the root CAs are compromised. If you think that ssl is secure against governments, you are wrong.
It's a prank on the verge of becoming a con :-)
Thanks. FYI, for the upcoming 14.2 release we have an officially unofficial repo with hundreds of fixes for 14.2 ready to go (and hundreds more needed).

I'll admit I get a little tetchy when people insist on telling me 'xxx is broken on -current' when I already know exactly which 400+ packages are broken, and when everybody should understand that -current is for beta testers.
You'd probably enjoy reading Spolsky's announcement for the Stack Overflow project from back in '08: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/04/16.html

> But here's the concept:

> Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. [...]

The goal from day 1 has been to foster a community that would be empowered to create something of lasting value. That doesn't preclude hand-holding... But it doesn't demand it either; whether or not that happens is up to the folks who make up the site, the folks asking and the folks answering.

In the 7+ years since that was written, many thousands of people have donated their time and knowledge to help their peers, both in the immediate sense of writing an answer to address a specific question, and in the sense of leaving artifacts for future readers with the same question.

But of course there's room for improvement. And if you're willing to step up, you can be a part of that improvement. Go find someone who lacks knowledge and gently guide them; encourage your friends to do likewise. The platform is there, empowering you to create the environment you wish to see... If you aren't doing it, that's on you.
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It does seem there is a serious amount of effort being put into making this some sort of wedge issue while utterly ignoring agricultural use.
It's a weird mix of modern and ancient map features. If you zoom in on Netherland, you can see it switch from modern coastlines to plausible ancient coastlines, but it still has the modern map of Amsterdam clearly visible.

It seems the creators may not have been aware just how much geography changed in the past 2000 years. Or maybe they just didn't care enough about the edges of the Empire.
It's still not being destroyed. Even splitting water into it's component parts rarely destroys it for long, since the subsequent hydrogen is usually burned, creating more water.
They have several food-grade filaments you can use to print stuff that comes on contact with food:

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20140111-food-grade-pp-filamen...

http://www.makergeeks.com/fogrplafi.html

I've also heard a KeyTech has developed an FDA safe filament for printing objects that come in contact with food or skin.
I was graduated from HS. I didn't graduate, they graduated me. You hear about people being graduated without the requisite credits in NY in the 80's and I was one of them.

My mom threw me out when I was 17 and I got into a lot of trouble.

I worked as a squid, a delivery person (when my car would work), and, finally I landed a real job as a data entry person.

I was the worst data entry person.

I have dysgraphia, cannot touch type, and am a world class champion of bad spelling. Not a good combination for transcribing acuities from intraocular lens follow ups.

My supervisor was on vacation and the manager needed a report for the FDA so, eager to help, I set about trying to convince paradox (a 4GL) to give me what was required.

I got the report to print but the sorting was all wrong. It was in date order and not grouped by model. Finally, by looking through the in-line help system (1992, no googling), I figured it out and got the report to my manager.

His reaction was not what I expected; he looked exceedingly perplexed.

"Something wrong?"

"It's grouped!", he replied.

"Isn't that the way it should be?", I responded.

He then proceeded to explain two things; he had been asking for the report this way for months, and I was going to be terminated that day.

The best part was that, unbeknownst to me, they were shipping the S/38 from Virginia and needed an operator to work from 12 noon till 3 am and—instead of being fired—I was just about to be offered a new job!
New trees can eventually grow on a barren island as well... but I think it's not really practical in the article's time frames to make a point of the distinction, in either case.
If you zoom in, it switches suddenly between modern and ancient coastlines, but even with the ancient coastlines, it still shows all the modern canals, polders and the distinctive grachtengordel of Amsterdam.
Ah. I always thought it was a reference to "ISP's" and the general public getting access to Usenet. Thanks for the clarification.
NASA not ready for dangers of deep space, auditors say
I wonder why. Lion farms for the sole benefit of hunters exist, why not other species.
Here's a good example.

Canonical comes up with a replacement for sysvinit called Upstart. Everyone agrees sysvinit is a dumpster fire on wheels careening around at high speed, so a new init system is welcomed as a Good Thing. Some people from Red Hat wanted to contribute improvements to Upstart, but Canonical insisted on a Contributor Licensing Agreement that would allow Canonical to relicense the work however they wanted, including commercially. Shockingly, Red Hat employees couldn't get clearance to do uncompensated labor for a Canonical project like that, so rather than contribute to Upstart, we got systemd.

Eventually, systemd became so [PICK ONE OF SUCCESSFUL OR BELIGERENT] that Debian adopted it. And at that point... game over for Upstart. Ubuntu uses systemd now. Because they don't have the resources to package everything for Upstart if Debian is moving to systemd.

The thing is, Canonical isn't that well resourced. Look at who contributes to the Linux kernel.[1] Looking at the top 10 sponsors of contributors, we see some of the usual suspects -- Intel, Red Hat, Linaro, Samsung, IBM, SuSE. We see "Vision Engraving Systems," weirdly. Going out of the top 10, a lot of hardware vendors, spits Oracle, FOSS Outreach Program for Women, Pengutronix... I mean, look at the homepage for Pengutronix. [2] It's some 90s era HTML 4.01 they've got going on there. But they're able to make significant contributions to the Linux kernel. Canonical isn't on the list. Canonical has NEVER been on the list, so far as I can tell. You can look all up and down the stack, there's a handful of Canonical-only projects they contribute to, but they're a rounding error in overall Linux development.

Which is their right, of course -- the GPL doesn't insist upon contributing back. And I would agree that shaming Canonical about community isn't productive. At the same time, Apple isn't what they are, it's what they want to be but are failing at being. Apple can get away with incorporating BSD code into their OS but still writing vast swaths of it themselves because Apple doesn't need any of the BSDs to adopt launchd to make it feasible for them to keep running it. Apple has money and can pay people to write code. And on the desktop, OS X has twice the market share of every Linux distro combined, so they can get developers to write applications for their OS even though it doesn't follow the lead of the rest of the BSD-derived OSes. (And yes, I know that OS X resembles a BSD distro far, far less than Ubuntu resembles Debian.) You're right that Canonical wants to be the Apple of the Linux world. But they're not succeeding at it and they're not GOING to succeed without some way of becoming profitable that has yet eluded them. And developers don't want the burden of having to support Canonicals quixiotic insistence that they are the Apple of the Linux world.

[1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation... (Also, why do I have to tell the Linux Foundation who I work for in order to read this report?)

[2] http://www.pengutronix.de/index_en.html
working on it. we'll see.
PLA is actually a bioplastic made from veggies and is actually considered food safe[1]. In fact, many of the plastic cups that you use are made from PLA, particularly anything clear. They can biodegrade given enough heat. The non-foodsafe part of 3d printing PLA is the hot end which is not clean, and can also be cross contaminated from printing other plastics such as ABS which is oil based.

[1] http://reprage.com/post/36869678168/is-3d-printed-pla-food-s...
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009 but the recession and my now wife convinced me to stick around for another year to get my masters. Got a job with a defense contractor which inflated my salary about ~15% compared to peers b/c I could get a security clearance. After 3 years of that I wasn't happy and posted resumes on Dice and flushed out my LinkedIn profile. Recruiters started banging down my door. It was just a matter of holding out until one that could meet my salary requirements (100k+) came along. Ended up doing cyber security at a telcom, but ended up unhappy with the culture there after about 9 months so I updated my resumes and profiles again and added the "will only work remotely" requirement. Took about 3 months of actively searching and talking to recruiters but one came along and after some aggressive salary negotiations I started working remotely full time for a nutrition supplement company doing DevOps.
Landscape or leaks. Flushing is a drop in the bucket and showering is minimal.
Well, what's gone is gone. Luckily, we have the technology today to ensure the survival and propagation of all of humanity's collective knowledge now. While it was a big loss, I don't think, in the long run, humanity has been set back permanently due to that event.
I try to be honest and discuss issues I'm having when they occur. The hell of it is that most of the time the issues stem from something they've implemented (code or culture), and thus they take it personally. On the occasions where it's been a mutual gripe it works out well. There's just a lot of ego on the line and it really screws up the whole process.

As for getting into management - that'll have to wait a few more years. I want to check a few more boxes as a developer before I make the leap. I think if I went for it now, there would be a good chance that I'd end up emulating some of the bad tendencies I see due to a lack to more comprehensive experience.
Mystery: A bullet with no entry wound, in a paper with no spell check?
Talk about bad timing...did you get into real estate in 2006?
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Their empire lasted a while. Given enough centuries, it's not so hard to acquire ports and develop a tradition of seafaring.
For some reason I get weary when I see cheap Chinese products that connect directly to a DC source. Mostly because of the stories of cheap phone chargers catching fire, or electrocuting users.
Lots of luck + some hard work.

Graduated from a decent state school with a degree in English and started working for a small publishing company as an "editor." The luck part was that the company was so incredibly cheap that rather than hiring a person with real programming skills, they opted to repurpose a young person (me) with some technology knowhow to do some programming for internal stuff at a fraction of the cost. Went back to college for a few semesters (on their dime) for a CS degree but never finished.

I built-up an okay portfolio + work experience and landed a job at a very small software company. Worked there for a while, landed a better job at a bigger company, rinse, repeat.

I'm making a good living now doing something that I really enjoy. I still can't believe this is how things turned out.
In Flanders in Belgium, domestic water usage is 110 liter per person per day on average ( https://www.water-link.be/files/uploads/document/gemiddeld-w... )

So they use 6 times as much, and that's the bare minimum?
Sell your car on Craigslist. You'll get more experience negotiating with sociopaths than you could ever hope for.
From the source report:

"Although NASA continues to improve its process for identifying and managing health and human performance risks associated with space flight, we believe that given the current state of knowledge, the Agency’s risk mitigation schedule is optimistic and NASA will not develop countermeasures for many deep space risks until the 2030s, at the earliest."

https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/reports/FY16/IG-16-003.pdf
Very bad title: it implicitly equates "Good Doctors" with "famous doctors" rather than with "doctors whose actions benefit patients". The real point of the article is that one should ask questions and be personally involved in care decisions, rather than just taking the doctor's word. But the linkbait headline obfuscates that point.
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23 years old.

I graduated from a low income high school in 2010 with good enough grades and I took most of the AP courses that my school had to offer (which was not many). I frequently didn't go to school and most of the time would drive around during the day or hang out at a friend's house.

I went to a local community college (that offered free tuition to students at my HS) for journalism because I didn't know what else to do. It was too much like high school and I had classes with all the people I was trying to get away from. I stopped going, failed all my classes.

Worked at a electronics store for a a year while I figured out what I wanted to do.

Decided to go back to school without really knowing what I wanted to do. Enrolled in CS at like the 4th best university in the area, so not a great school - but I ended up liking it a lot. I didn't have much math in high school, so I didn't have the natural inclination, and I didn't put forth the effort so I did poorly. I failed Calc 1 and 2 and made a C in them and in Calc 3 when I passed. I did well in my CS courses, As and Bs.

I have about 6 classes left after this semester - I had trouble going full time because I am married and work ~40 hours a week fixing computers or waiting tables and don't work as hard as I should sometimes.

8 months ago I got an internship at a pretty big company that opened a branch in my city. The internship turned into a job. It's mostly SQL Server stuff, and a few small desktop apps. It's not my favorite but my bosses are nice and it's close to my house.

I recently got offered a job at a small web development company that I got in contact with through a friend. I start there in 2 weeks.
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High school was hell to me, I would come home crying every night.

Things changed when I met the new physics teacher, a retiree from the Air Force, and even though I never took his class, I would spend study time at the lab repairing old hardware and doing experiments with them.

I went to New Mexico Tech which is an inexpensive state school that punches above it's weight, I think I was going to get a D in German once but I dropped the course.

I got into a Physics PhD program at Cornell, where I met my wife. Grad school was great fun, but somehow my working-class upbringings made me not fit in with academic culture. After a postdoc in Germany, wound up settling near Ithaca because my wife has family in Binghamton, and she now runs a busy but low key riding academy.

Since then I have alternated of times of W2 employment vs 1099 vs true self employment. Around 2000 to 2003 I was highly active in politics.

The overall trajectory has been up but definitely with setbacks. Along the way I have learned to love people, including myself, much more. My family is a joy and a challenge to be my best.

After chopping wood and carrying water in the web industry for almost a decade, I developed a specialty and have been turning it into a business.
I'm talking about average user experience. The depth and variety is still all there thankfully,(and probably more profligate than ever) but it's more squirreled away from the facebook/netflix audience than it was before as a result of market forces. The audience effectively wanting a customizable and social TV is a different audience from the one chasing brain food-- and the internet as currently envisioned has endless opportunities for both, though in former years it wasn't as optimized for the much larger TV crowd.
It was; AOL in particular, but other ISPs as well.

September was always a rough time on Usenet as all the noobs arrived; some old folks took the month off (or at least claimed to), coming back in October when they'd calmed down a bit. Once the public ISPs arrived it became like September the whole year round.
(Like tracking CSS pseudo-classes or CSSi.)
Any key to any of these locks will open this gate
Then at some point they wanted to add some metadata to the protocol without breaking compatibility with older versions of git. They came up with a nifty hack that exploits C’s null-terminated strings: add the metadata after a null byte but before the newline.

I believe this is the commit which made that change, very early in Git's history:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/1405...
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Introducing the Air Pencil
Bikeshedding about switches and layouts aside, I've always found that using a laptop directly for more than an hour or two to be unergonomic. Whenever possible I plug in a keyboard and raise the laptop so the screen is closer to my eye level.
Airbnb raises over $100M at a $25.5 billion valuation
The problem you have will probably be mostly with the distribution end of things. I would be surprised if Apple let you release a small intranet application with very limited appeal to the general app store. For that reason I recommend you pay the extra money and setup an Enterprise Program account. It will be a little more work to get the school to set everything up, but I think it will be easier in the long run.

Your other option is to just start with a standard individual account and then upgrade if necessary. That will let you get started testing on hardware now.

https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/how-it-works...
40% of people eating dark chocolate got hit by lightning.
Come on people. No more statistics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5zUa8tiGoo
Indeed. Yet another advertisement for a specific company on 60 minutes, that show has turned into a mix of corporate PR and a government mouthpiece. What happened to their journalistic integrity?

M-Pesa in particular in one of many competitors in Kenya. But yet they repeated M-Pesa two or three dozen times in the report and asked people about that specific service by name over and over.

I rarely watch 60 Minutes now. It just annoys me too much. It is like watching CBS Evening News, just blatant propaganda and scaremongering, I miss the BBC, and Al Jazeera (both of which are "strangely" not available in much of the US, so we have to put up with the US version of Russia Today).
I think that oftentimes asking a question on SO is a pain point. I'm tired of asking questions and getting modded to hell for trivial shit.
I went to a Bible College for a year and a half before dropping out. The dropout was not really due to a lack of interest in the subjects, but just a really poor work ethic on my part.

I landed a job in medical magazine recruitment advertising sales after a friend referred me in. I had no idea what I was doing, but I did well after some sales training. Eventually I decided to change jobs when I discovered that the magazine distribution numbers were wildly lower than what I was quoting to my clients. My company was lying to the advertisers. I took a short term gig as a cold caller at a financial advisor firm, working for my father-in-law's team. I ended up staying there for 3 years, passing the 7 and learning that I have no passion for finance.

While I was at the firm, I attended a lot of networking events and hosted a few myself. I met many people in the Philadelphia area who were involved in the tech scene and discovered where my passion really lied. I tried to get a startup running, but I didn't have the technical chops yet. Eventually, I quit the financial job, took an all commission job selling credit card machines to brick&mortar stores, so I could find a job at a startup where I could learn. Side-note, it's not a great idea to quit your job 1 week before your twins are born. Even when it all works out in the end, the stress is unbearable.

After 6 months of selling and searching, I ended up working at an online ticketing company as a salesperson. I worked there for about 3 months, and became the top salesperson before they laid off the entire sales team, because it was an experiment that didn't work out. Startups, huh?

I was unemployed, with 3 kids, a mortgage and nowhere to earn. I started leaning on my contacts pretty heavily. Luckily, the CEO of the ticketing company wrote us all pretty great references, and reached out to his network to get us jobs. I ended up as an Analyst at RJMetrics, where I am currently. I've been here nearly 4 years now, and I've learned a lot being here. I've been able to build and launch multiple internal technical projects, while starting the sales organization here.
This is great. Usenet was good in that there was an intersection of (relatively) longform content and interaction. Blogs can be longform but lack the interaction. Twitter has the interaction but 140 characters....

Maybe in 10 or 20 years, people will mine gold from the shit that is slashdot, reddit, and (god help us) hn. Of course, those are all walled societies with karma points and such which encourages certain behavior and thought.