skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe this article misses its own point. I'll keep it short.

“I” is a lie. There is no “I”.

The brain has two halves, right and left. The right side is spacial. The left side is lingual. Generally.

Both halves of the brain receive stimuli from our senses and build models of the environment that are optimized for their respective roles.

This gives each of us two models which we use to navigate our environment: a spacial model and a lingual model. These models each run in their own hemisphere and are very different from each other in both function and form.

The spatial model is innate. We are born with it. The lingual model, we acquire. (We must learn language before we hit puberty or we lose the capacity to do so. Search for “linguistics Genie” or “linguistics wolf boy” for details.)

Rather, this article is a commentary on the fact that practically all schools fail us.

In school, we sit in class, exposed primarily to lingual input. We consequently build an effective lingual model of explicit rules of our world. But but we are left to our own devices to build our spatial model, which we do from our own activities while following the “explicit rules” we know.

Every once in a while, we stumble upon some visual/real world representation that allows our spatial side to realize a concept that is well known to the lingual side.
Perhaps, but I'm not so sure that was the reason for the definition.

For example, I know the dates of the solstices and equinoxes, and I'm (at best) a casual gardener. The fact those dates don't align with what I think of as the start of the seasons doesn't prevent me from remembering them.

In the location I do most of my growing, I'm actually more interested in tracking first and last frost - these are the primary constraints on many crops. These certainly don't align with equinoxes or solstices, let alone 1sts of months.

Farmers, presumably, are even more intimately aware of the usual dates (and variances) for these events in their region. That's why I don't think it was the reason for labelling the solstice / equinox as the start of each season.
Money and debt come via violence.
; not really freedom...except in the sense that it isn't slavery (which is directly related to debt and money).

I highly suggest people read Debt: The First 5000 Years. It's pretty life changing.
In my compiler class we also used the Dragon book and we did write a compiler for a C like language... I don't think we covered the book in its entirety though but sounds like that was a better mix. I felt quite capable of writing simple compilers after I finished the course...
Got a new job in May so slowed me down, but got through around 8 this year.

I'm a Lencioni fan:

Death by Meeting -- Describes 3 types of meetings

Getting Naked -- Describes how to consult

I'm also a Marshall Goldsmith fan:

What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Once you get beyond a Director level with some mistakes, read this book

Mojo, How to Get It, How To Keep It - Another "look yourself in the mirror" book

Also:

21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John Maxwell. A little prod to act more like a leader.

Ready Player One -- Ernest Cline, Great Young Adult Book. Escapist fantasy.

Every Shot Counts -- Mark Broady, Statistical Look At Golf, but has some smell of Kahnemann

To Kill A Mockingbird -- Timeless Classic I Never Got To. Loved Atticus. I won't read a Watchman if it spoils my view of what Atticus was all about.

Started But Not Finished:

Business Dynamics Thinking -- Sterman (out of MIT). I need to take off work to read this 'cause it is so massive. Basically it is control theory applied to business modelling. However, I am convinced if somebody can apply these models, it really is the best competitive advantage. However, too people willing to stick with it.

How to Measure Anything -- Douglas Hubbard. Sort of makes me mad because it is so commonsense, yet most businesses don't apply this commonsense approach.
What would be the “long tail risk”? All the CRISPR-Cas9 systems would die out with the mosquitos.

We have 700 million cases of mosquito caused misery a year (along with more than a million deaths) on one side, and a completely vague risk that something bad might happen on the other. It is like worrying if you are going to get cancer from the smoke while your house is burning down.
Star Wars is not "the sci-fi cultural event of the year". It's more fantasy than sci-fi, it just happens to use space ships and lasers and stuff.
I am going straight to the public - I am also going to diversify (Catwoman panting in the works). Going to rent a gallery, have a party, get photos of people staring at a few giant Chromaluxe prints on aluminum and then set up a site. The art will feature anchoring pricing: 60'x80" limited edition Chromaluxe prints for $4,000 or a 24x36" lithograph for $35. Hoping I sell 10-posters a month of each. I wish you well.
> he is doing something good

> just an effort to make Facebook more popular

These things are not mutually exclusive.
IMHO aggressive optimization at compile time is an example of premature optimization. Let the hardware have access to a straightforward representation. Once the run-time hot-spots are identified, the hardware (firmware, VM, whatever) can rewrite the binary code to execute faster. Excessive compiler optimization makes this difficult or impossible (too much information thrown away.) Compilers should be designed for fast compilation speed.
Parinfer – simpler Lisp editing
How is the decision to do software because the moneys there not playing to the board?
Interesting, I took compilers where the Dragon book was the standard text book, we implemented a PASCAL like language (which compiled for the DEC10 as a target) and it was one of the really transformative classes I had taken. It brought together algorithms and data structures into a curriculum where they joined up to convert text into executable code. Really one of those moments of sudden clarity for me.
Unless he edited his post he wasn't being insulting. I'd say he was being very patient throughout this thread considering how demanding you're being.
That's awesome! I think that's great taking a side project into something more. Are you using meteor.js?
I'd adjust your above the fold look
-just my 2 cents
I agree. Without a fiscal union, you just have a fixed exchange rate. Look at the Euro for example. Since Greece and Germany make separate fiscal policies but have the same exchange rate (due to the Euro), if their labor force output (GDP) doesn't match then the real cost of the Euro goes up in the lower output country (Greece). They lose the ability to adjust policies based on their current economic situation.

Each separate state in the US has a fixed exchange rate with each other (1 USD = 1 USD), but our fiscal policy is administered by a central authority that adjusts for overall US conditions, not just individual states.
Why is only destructive useful?
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Cool! Though if you've searched exhaustively, I don't like our chances of finding anything. : )

Did you find anything that indicated a causal relationship against the astrological / zodiac - they mostly start/stop on 21st of months I think?
Me thinks the future is not looking too bright.
VisUAL, a highly visual ARM emulator
Asm.thi.ng – open-source bare-metal coding resources for ARM Cortex-M
That would work if most applications spent all their time in a few hot spots. But, contrary to popular wisdom, that's usually not the case. Most applications have flat profiles (to steal a quote from DannyBee—but it matches my experience as well). They have flat profiles because people have spent a lot of time optimizing them. In this context—which is the norm—eliminating optimizations to save compile time and deferring optimization to a few "hot spots" has the effect of turning off optimization for the whole program.

It's common to write off compiler optimizations as unimportant, because they're invisible and people don't see them. They're also complex, which makes people predisposed to get rid of them in the name of "simplicity". But, for better or for worse, optimizing compilers are necessary complexity.

Optimizing compilers are not ubiquitous because compiler engineers just like to play with technology. They're ubiquitous because you need them.
The world needs more bats. While bats will eat other more nutritious insects like moths, wasps, etc. before mosquitos, they can help control the mosquito population in areas where there are many mosquitos, and most of the insects they get rid of are a nuisance to humans: http://www.mosquito.org/faq#bats
Oh, I'm sure there's a few goobers out there who actually do dutifully send in their use tax. Maybe even more than 5!

This would make a great Onion article. "Man keeps track of all his online purchases and pays use taxes to his state" I wonder what kind of picture they'd pick for the guy in the article.
They did have control over their currency and looked what happened. The big problem they face now is trust. If they came out with a new currency, no one would trust it enough to use it in everyday transactions. Regaining trust in the government and their currency will take quite some time.
If I could give a standing ovation for this product right now I would. This is exactly what customers are looking for and is a very forward thinking mentality. I would use this, and recommend this, and I could see users loving this.
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Isn't the distribution of the errors roughly known? If so then couldn't one just subtract the mean error in the distance caused by this from each line segment, and end up with something much closer?
This is fantastic! Great idea and job so far! One of the biggest disadvantages with node is any type of complex manipulations / processing due to the single threaded, scheduler paradigm but combining node with native modules makes it much easier to pass off more complex pieces directly to C++.

Passing off to rust? Count me in! I'll be taking a look at this when linux is supported (would also love windows support but mac os x and linux are necessary for me).
It does seem like one of those real-estate folks selling their "three step system for creating wealth flipping homes" who probably make more selling the system then actually flipping houses. In this case where he'd be giving folks the software they need to beat him and if these software systems do work they'd eventually just flood the market and make the whole point moot.

That being said the whole industry is under siege. He may just be trying to make as much as he can before it officially becomes gambling or automated play becomes illegal.
Raymarching a procedural distance field (a mathematical snail) in WebGL
I built Space Invaders in C++ and SDL. It's the closest thing to a game i've actually completed so far.

The actual implementation isn't that great, it's lacking a few things but most of the gameplay is there, but my goal was mostly learning the peripheral stuff and throwing every tutorial I came across at it.

I posted a Show HN for it two weeks ago[0] but it was never commented on. I'm not complaining about that since, given the scope of some Show HN projects, it's not likely to be impressive and I wouldn't have expected much positive feedback, but i'm still proud of it.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10708248
Tit-for-tat?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27844-modified-mosqui...

We release GM mosquitoes that sabotage development of mosquito newborn, and they transmit virus which sabotages ours?
I really think it's great that experienced game devs are willing to put so much effort into these things. I loved the idea behind the Handmade Hero series. Do you know anyone who has the time to step through all the lessons for such a thing though?

It's a great resource to have out there, I'm just doubtful all but a few dedicated individuals will have the patience and commitment to go through something like Handmade Hero fully, spending many many hours and days essentially making what someone else made.

Speaking for myself, I would find more motivation in learning how to build something I wanted to make, with guidance from a master of the trade. I couldn't see myself spending a year of evenings after work building what someone else already made to try to learn the skill. Some degree of synthesis should be included. Perhaps some will use the information as a template to build what they really would love to create. If that's the case, I think these resources are even more awesome.
Dinner with Al Aho was one of the highlights of when I visited Columbia a while ago. He's simply an awesome person. And he's done some fantastic work - Aho-Corasick is a great algorithm. Alas, the Dragon Book was one of the low points of my undergraduate education, though I had a great teacher who pulled out a terrifically fun class despite the book. (Thanks, +Wilson Hsieh.)

In fairness, though -- or more an admission of how wrong we can be about things like this -- I subscribed to the "parsing is boring and solved" belief until Bryan Ford's Packrat Parsing work made me realize that it had just gotten stuck at a traffic light for a few decades.
http://computationalimagination.com/interviews.php

A place for me to express myself through writing out of my own experiences as well as interviewing really smart and interesting people like:

John Cook

Tim Hopper

Jon Krohn

Rob Trangucci

Łukasz Kidziński & Michał Warchoł

Thanks guys for sharing your insights!
And then there are those of us who wish we could teleport from Friday after Thanksgiving to December 31.
I love Mixxx! 2.0 beta is really fantastic. And, it's enough better and more reliable than 1.11 that I'm confused why y'all haven't done a stable release from that branch (but, it's good to hear it's coming). I haven't noticed the warbling since upgrading to the beta, I don't think, and a number of other big annoyances and crashers have also gone away. The additional capabilities (I upgraded specifically to be able to use the mic/mixer inputs on my controller, which 1.11 can't do, at all) and the nicer scratching and such is just great. In short: I see you've got a call out for testers of the RC; but, honestly, I already believe 2.0 in versions from months ago are more reliable and capable than 1.11. Anything that delays a release of 2.0 is just leaving lower quality software in the wild for longer than necessary.

Anyway, I really appreciate your work on Mixxx. I don't get to do audio or music work much these days, but I do occasional DJ gigs (mostly for free for non-profit orgs and such, but sometimes they're paying gigs), and it's been a whole lot of fun.
We were trying to exterminate the American Indian.
While I am generally pro-bat, I don’t think bats are going to solve the mosquito borne disease problem. If DDT couldn’t do it then bats aren’t going to be able to either.
I listen as I drive to and from work (25-30 mins each way) and over lunch (~40 mins). For a little while this year I had a <10 min commute, which was too short to start listening, and thus I missed my longer commute. I did Melbourne-Canberra-Sydney drives a few times this year, but usually mix it up with some podcasts rather than a single 8 hour session.

When you start an new audiobook, I find it takes time for me to warm to the narrator. Initially, some narrators can be quite grating, but eventually I get used to them.

I find I have to look out for when my mind wanders. The 30 second rewind button gets used a lot, though sometimes when I am still thinking about things from work on my drive home, I need to relisten to the entire 30 mins again. Its as if I paid no attention at all. The same for any driving that is not autopilot driving, e.g. to new places/complex traffic-an audiobook is too distracting so I turn it off.

I wish the Audible app would put the 30 second rewind button on the lock screen rather than next/previous track. Having to unlock just to rewind whilst driving sucks. The audible widget does not consistently appear on the lock screen.
> I'll be taking a look at this when linux is supported

https://github.com/dherman/neon/pull/22

https://github.com/dherman/neon-cli/pull/6
Hey, I really appreciate you sharing that. Those seem like great ideas to me. Best of luck to you as you get that into motion!
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Most counties don't have window screens. They've rare I'm Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Most of those places also don't have residential air conditioning either.
Same FIS skiing TV event/discipline, both incidents involve mechanical engineering, computer hardware and software.

Both are currently featured in the news and are controversial. The second one happened just a few days earlier.

Same skiing nation (in 5 races, 4 of their favorities were knocked out for (broken bones, etc)). The involved companies came in both incidents from the same country (coincidence, doesn't mean anything).

But instead of downvoting, maybe just ignore it? Several downvoted/flagged it, but a lot more upvoted it. It seems other use a throw away user account to post controversial comments...
Estimated number of Linux users worldwide
There's a certain strain of environmentalist that sees deindustrialization, technological regression, and human population decline as the solution to the world's problem. This perspective misses the mark, I think.
I think phrasing AD/HD as boredom sensitive vs boredom tolerant doesn't reflect cases under which the constellation of behaviors / emotions would constitute a disorder. Boredom tolerant makes it sound like these people have a disposition for boring tasks, but it seems like the critical component here is whether people can complete boring tasks regardless of their feelings about them. Whether or not someone is sensitive to boredom isn't sufficient to have a disorder, experiencing distress because they have great difficulty doing boring things, or being at a disability because they need to listen to loud music and pump themselves up to do boring things is.

AD/HD is phrased negatively because part of its definition is that it causes distress or impairment. If it doesn't do this, then it's not AD/HD. I do research, and I get bored easily, but to the degree that this boredom impairs my ability to do things I'd like to do I'm in trouble.

The idea of boredom sensitivity is interesting, and I like the idea that a researcher might have an advantage by getting bored easily, but it seems like the article doesn't quite answer the question, "In what context is AD/HD a blessing?". (I definitely believe there are contexts where it is a blessing).
Ask HN: Flowchart tool suggestions
Hey Guys,

Do you know of a flow chart tool that would allow me to define flows between products and then dive into each product and define the flows within the product until i reach the lowest resolution possible within my project?
would be great also if supported generating the flows from text/markdown

Hope this makes sense :)

Thanks!
Except they're pretty much completely staffed by Stanford, MIT, Harvard, (etc) grads.
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Google will reportedly challenge Facebook with an intelligent messaging app
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Don't you think emails are the digital successor to personal letter writing, not broadcasting to a bunch of followers on Twitter?

Anyways, based on artists I know - who aren't digital artists/ graphic designers, a scene where most tech companies are viewed as just an extension of greedy capitalism, I have serious doubts Van Gogh would be an active user on Twitter.
I just saw :D

Damn people work fast. I hadn't even looked into what it would take to support Linux (and honestly my rust knowledge at the moment is so limited I probably wouldn't have figured it out in a reasonable time frame).
I want to do some thing with AI and also work on my side project for product comparison.
and replaced with what?
want to do something with AI
That sounds similar to BCycle [1]. Is it a branded version for Chicago? In Cincinnati we have Red Bike [2].

1: https://www.bcycle.com/

2: http://www.cincyredbike.org/
How do projects like this gets funded?
What are some possible reasons for why the numbers are like this?
Some of the other nominees:

• The FCC for adopting net neutrality rules that ITIF says will limit broadband innovation

• People who seek to ban autonomous killer robots

• States that have put limits on the use by law enforcement of automatic license plate readers

• Jerry Brown for vetoing RFID tags in Driver's Licenses

• States that limited the use of red light traffic cameras

Here is their document listing all the nominees and explaining why each is nominated: http://www2.itif.org/2015-itif-luddite-award.pdf
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Yes, gene drive can be used for extinction. No, the article you originally linked and said "we already know what needs to be done", is not for extinction.
The UPS Teamsters union represents drivers, not desk workers.

There are quite a few non-union employees at UPS.
Supporting or condemning words has only symbolic value. Neither impacts real life in Africa.

This deal also seems to be mostly symbolic. China's real impact on Africa is found elsewhere.
I use Bitbucket for private repos. Yesterday I asked a similar question in the GitLab 8.3 release thread, and some of those answers might be useful for you too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10781263
I think video cards would be really sweet, the gamer community would go nuts over that.
Wouldn't sales drop with time as the market is saturated with identical players?
OSX doesn't even let me open it.
Just 40 years ago "global warming" was called "global cooling", and an ice-age apocalypse was predicted.

Imagine if the powers-that-be decided to do global scale climate geo-engineering by dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere (to increase the temperature).

> We already know what needs to be done [1], now all we need to do is get on with.

The good old thinking that you know everything and can't be wrong almost guarantees that you will be wrong.
That was an interesting read ... not a radio guy, but I do always wonder how the radio stations playing christmas music at the coffee shops I frequent manage it.
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I agree optimization is important. So important that it should be pushed down into the hardware. Binaries should look almost like source code. But that's just my vision for what it's worth.
I scraped from about 6 different sites - went through millions of combinations and only did so-so. I think it's simple - the people that win play A LOT of rosters to cover their bases. That seems to be what the person in the story is doing and what I've read other big players are doing.
Actually I think you are being rather timid in your proposal. C is the symptom: the cause is the underlying Von Neumann machine.
The future is hardware - re-configurable hardware connected as needed for the present purpose.
It's exactly what the DFS insiders were accused of doing.
This is a problem that several new tools are being built to address, e.g. Vault from HashiCorp and Keywhiz from Square. Storing the secrets unencrypted on disk on the host system is not a huge improvement over having them in the application by default. Ideally you want a system to store them securely that allows them to be extracted and decrypted only using credentials and policies you control. They should only ever exist in memory (which is why Keywhiz uses FUSE, for example.) Some container orchestration tools like Kubernetes also include their own mechanism for securely storing and retrieving secrets and making them available to applications.