skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I and most of my friends had a dislike for the general regimentation and bullshit of university life. It definitely gets better as you meet more and more like-minded people and there are some great aspects, but the system is pretty ridiculous.

In school, people generally have to do the same thing everyone else does, they have precise deadlines and get nothing for forging their own paths. In life, having no unique experiences or skills is a path to ruin, one can never be certain how long a window of opportunity will be open and finding one's own path can lead to great satisfaction and well-being.

From an educational perspective, school is even worse. Many with literature degrees can't write, business majors rarely build successful businesses, foreign language majors often don't end up fluent in the language they study for years on end, and even top sales reps or engineers often lack a related degree. Spending all that time is only really worth it if a) it's required for a license, b) you need access to equipment you couldn't otherwise get, e.g. for the sciences, c) you just aren't capable of learning well on your own, or d) you go to an elite institution where you can learn from the best in the world.

90% of the value is just the credential to deal with narrow-minded people and institutions who use it as a filter.
Groupon is still a two billion dollar company. It's still by any measure a huge success. I personally know many non-techies (normal people) that use Groupon and actually do go back as repeat customers for the places they buy Groupons for.
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This dichotomy is why modern physics is stuck. VR is forcing programmers to question the fundamental concepts while implementing (i.e. using) them in a discrete, non-infinity context.
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Salaries are not a random walk in the short term. A dip is significant.
So you're agreeing with me that the person I was replying to was wrong?
As a guy who used to work for Sun on JITted code and is now doing AOT for https://www.codenameone.com/ I've got to say that JIT always beats AOT in runtime. It can also beat it in startup when properly designed (MVM, caching etc.).
Significant and often are clearly a matter of perspective: what's significant and how often is too often?

Realistically, there will always be some incidents. Ideally, they should be as few as possible such that law enforcement is still effective (for whatever value of effective that society chooses). The severity also factors in: No one will probably care all that much if a cop screws up the exact wording of a miranda warning, but when the consequences are someone dead and police perjuring themselves, it takes a lot fewer of those incidents.
We are closer, but we are still far, far away.
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Hmm. Maybe I should take another look at Purebasic then. "Not OOP" is a selling point for me, and rare as hen's teeth where GUI software is concerned.
What's the root cause, and how do you get people thinking about it? What do people do in the meantime? We're talking about people with the authority and ability to ruin or end your life.. that they should face a little pressure and perhaps be enticed to find ways to fix their own system seems pretty reasonable to me.
There is no AGI research that actually produces anything that actually works. It's all about abstract concepts like value systems and the like, none of which is used for ML that produces real results.
MVM relies on the runtime system to enforce security isolation. In a system like Android that allows unrestricted loading of native code, this scheme can't work, since there's no way to get arbitrary native code to play along with the runtime security model.

Personally, I feel much more confident with the kernel enforcing application isolation than I would feel about relying on the Java security model.
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the KS test is quite sensitive.

if you are specifically testing against the normal dist the jarque bera test might be better, although also rather sensitive (prone to false negatives).

for two samples if you have enough data to bin, the chisq test is also available to you.
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Does one deemed to be always percepted as an underdog, if he intentionally avoids any eye contact?

For example, even a glimpse into the interlocutor's eye while having a conversation (esp. a constructive/technical one) completely shatters my thought process, feels like my mental resources are drained towards some unconscious "computation". Almost the same effect with the facial features alone, yet not that strong. As a result, when I interact with someone, I do not look at that person, even when handshaking, just unconsciously focus on some static object: cup of coffee, crack on the wall, etc.

People who stoutly seeks an eye contact, despite all the avoidance, literaly derange me. Blood is just freaking boils in my veins, like I am going to punish it in its weasel face right now (never happend though, just state of mind).
On contrary, I have no such problem with babies (hard to estimate, but probably up to age of 6 or sth like that) or domestic animals.

Has anyone encountered something like that? Do you consider that a problem? As for me, I feel that such trait constrains my ability to effectively (eg. being treated as an equal) engage in communication in non-technical social environments.
Just two books by Robert L Forward?!

I used to describe him as by far the worst author I've happily bought books by in hard cover. :-) RIP.

Ah, a lot of Benford of course.

Not to be a snob, but Sawyer seems a bit ... soft to be in a list of hard sf.
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If it doesn't work, just read the first few of his tweets:

https://mobile.twitter.com/imurdock?p=s
Again, the original is not an analogy. They never said every copy is a lost sale. So only a strawman is being attacked here.

The avenue you should be pursuing is getting the LoC to allow DVD ripping as a DMCA exemption. I don't even think the movie industry would oppose.
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A design patent protects purely ornamental features, thus it is not fair to criticize a design patent on the basis of it not being useful. Inherently, if it were useful, it would not be eligible for protection as a patented design. It may be fair to criticize the entire legal regime that affords patent protection to ornamental designs (e.g., the famous rectangle with rounded corners that caused a jury to find for Apple vs. Samsung).
Indeed! Amazon does top-notch customer service at scale like nobody else. Everyone else just assumes that it is impossible to scale up something like this and they let the a previously great experience slip as they grow into a faceless organization. Good business is all about getting these hard things to scale.
Put aside the whole idea of the app for a moment.

Think about how this reflects on society when this becomes therapy for teenagers at the formative years in their life to deal with something very bad that happened to them by people who were supposed to protect them.
That's cool. And very promising. I wonder why they decided to do it this way for the tegra project, and if that approach will spread.
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It'll only have the same terrible bias as BBB once police forces can pay to massage their coverage...
Hey mega, thank you for trying the app and thank you for your feedback. I'll be working to include more candidates in the choosing.

I was also surprised with trump not being eliminated by "taxes on wealthy should be increased." I'm getting my info from http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Tax_Reform.htm

(Also regarding there "not being much to choose from" - I agree.)
In principle I think it would be a good idea, but it will never fly (sorry), since it would not only cut into the airlines' baseline, but totally sabotage the concept of yield management (or price discrimantion, if you prefer), which is totally essential to the business model of an airline (or hotel, or car rental company).

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management)

While this may seem frustrating I can - to some degree - understand their position, since there would be a business model in that.

A cabin is divided into a number of classes. That's not just first -, business - and economy -, but economy class as such is divided into a number of sub classes, which are sold under different conditions for different fares.

For example: Swiss offers the following fare classes in economy (I assume this goes for the whole Lufthansa group, but didn't check). From most expensive to cheapest:

B, Y
G, H, M, U
Q, S, V, W
E, K, L, T

Now they have a certain amount of seats available in, say, fare class K. Once they are sold out you can only book seats in classes S, H or even Y. It fluctuates, though. They may add more seats to cheaper classes if the flight is in danger of not selling out.

Let's assume that I buy K class tickets for a flight, from which I assume that it sells out well in advance. Two weeks before the fllight is scheduled and only (much) more expensive tickets in B and M class are available I offer my tickets for sale and share the savings with the buyer, who, in theory would have been willing to pay a much higher price.

So in essence it's the ability of the airlines to price discriminate, which would be endangered if tickets are resellable.

You can argue that this is not right and unfair. Then again it's price discrimination, which enables very cheap flights. Provided you book in a timely manner and accept limited or no flexibility.
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> Jiggle the mouse so the playback controls appear. Wait 10ms for the UI to respond. 1ms is apparently not enough.

It doesn't seem necessary for the controls to be visible, to be able to interact with them?

$('.player-control-button.player-play-pause.pause').click();

and

$('.player-control-button.player-play-pause.play').click();

seem to work (in the console) whether the controls are visible or not?

> Netflix doesn’t expose any JavaScript functions for manipulating video playback

Apparently the player used to be at netflix.cadmium.objects.videoPlayer() but it seems to not be there anymore.

netflix.player.diag.togglePanel("log") overlays a detailed log of a lot of things happening in the player.

netflix.player.getVersion() shows the current version of the player; mine is "2.0000.453.011".

Edit: showgoers.tv that aims to do the same thing, has a script for controlling the player at http://assets.showgoers.tv/sync2.js (minified) and as far as I can tell they too simulate clicks on the interface.
I was set-up and arrested in 2008 for simply being in a suspicious part of town where I knew an old family friend who fixed my car on occasion.

I was charged with a felony "destruction of evidence" because a totally crooked cop, whom was eventually kicked off the force for messing with hookers, claimed I ate the non-existent drugs, and actually tampered with the swab he used to wipe my mouth.

I was arrested and fired from my job the next week. Eventually, the case was "null-processed" as the cop had been fired for misconduct and the State had no case.

In a life of bizarre legal experiences, it was perhaps the most bizarre of them all, and since then I put absolutely nothing past police, although I do recognize they do a dangerous job of which I would want no part of.
I agree, but I note some of this is out of your control. Rust used to be very clean wrt Google, and then Rust the game was released in 2014.
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For an Applesoft BASIC interpreter, check out http://discorunner.com

It comes with close to a thousand BASIC listings.

The pixels are rendered in OpenGL 3D and you can play original games in a 3D perspective.
I think the code you posted is much simpler, both conceptually and at the level of the code itself. We know what classes are, we know what render means.

I think the requirement to express markup as a tree of function calls is inelegant (JSX is no different, just shorthand for this) and my least favorite part of React, but I'll take inelegant over WTF any day.
How does Trump go after:

http://trumpd.com

but not something like:

http://trump.info

Answer: He can't go after the latter because its a real English dictionary word.
Wow nostalgia taking me back to learning level 1 basic on a TRS-80 Model I at the Radio Shack store.

But the ease of learning BASIC is alive and well today, you can write a PHP program with as much ease (then you can learn to write better code later but the point is the barrier to entry is very very low).

You can even run PHP as an interpreter in a DOS-like command window in Windows, very easy.
No, you're misinterpreting things. The analyzed DNA is from 5, 4 and 3 thousand years ago, at a time when there are suspected to have been no Celtic speakers in the Isles. Speakers of the Celtic branch of languages began appearing in the Isles far later than that (probably around 600 BCE).

This DNA would have not been representative of the DNA of the people who brought Celtic languages to the Isles. Similarly, the people who brought Celtic languages to the Isles are not necessarily representative of the current or even the populations contemporary to their times (minority languages can become dominant as was the case with Hungarian).

This only tells us about the population's genetics, but it doesn't link it to the Celtic language group.
OpenGL 3D Applesoft BASIC Interpreter Comes with ~1000 Programs
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I don't know why, but as a student developer I really appreciate not bloating it with ads or freemium or whatever. I am of the opinion that scientific tools are best developed non-profit and open-source.
I tend to agree with a lot of this article. Cab driving is not a particularly well paid occupation and Uber is making it considerably less so.

There's something a bit ugly about chiseling away at a low paid worker's wages that leaves me uncomfortable. I know I wouldn't like it if it was happening to me.
> Amazon's capital has gotta run out at some point in time

They're famous for being willing to push competitors into the ground on margins, at whatever loss is necessary in the relative near-term. It's very likely they're going to seek to squeeze Flipkart on margins until they're struggling to operate due to a very high cash burn (with venture capitalists eventually unwilling to keep pouring red ink down the drain).

I'd bet that Amazon views India as a truly massive future market. They really can't crack China properly, and likely never will. India however, they can crack. They'll pour vast resources into it to build out a dominant position. If you told Amazon they can own a dominant position in India for the next 30 years by spending $10 billion today, they'd write that check immediately.

They're the world's largest retailer by market valuation, and carry $14.4 billion in cash (with the ability to raise whatever sum they need at any time they need it). Further, AWS has become a cash generating monster, that will fund any adventures Amazon wants to undertake over at least the next decade.

No chance they run out of capital.
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This isn't about how you and your friends were too smart and unique for university life. This is about people getting jobs.
See also: Monday Morning Quarterback. It's easy to know what to do after something has happened (like, on Monday morning), but much harder in the moment (like, Sunday afternoon).
As the poster I was replying to didn't set any constraints, its clear they meant generally. I disagree that generally officers significantly overstep their bounds.
Licensing restrictions?
The outcome and the results are useless without normalizing against an unadvertised baseline.

If either traditional/big media or the internet and social networks influenced the vote by pursuading people who didn't do their own research -- that's a fundamental problem.
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> We want the compiler to understand what we mean without having to specify types everywhere.

If they are looking for complainers about having to specify type on Array and Hash declaration I'll complain... It's seriously one of the problems with Crystal that kept me away. I'd guess some other rubyists are turned off by specifying types.

Specifying types everywhere basically takes Ruby-like syntax and makes it look like Scala or Rust. Why bother with a fully typed Crystal then when similar alternatives have greater support and other advantages?
You could have done that at any time in the past few years tho.
I've been using this in conjunction with chance.js making it very easy to generate complex data sets

http://chancejs.com/
When I was in grad school, there were some people who were coming back after time away or a few years doing something else, and they generally did fine once they knocked the rust off and got up to speed.
Depends. Last summer I strolled into one meeting, where a typical enterprise project was discussed (Windows servers, MS SQL, Sharepoint, whole enchilada) and almost fall from my legs, because all the prime contractor people were using Macs.

So even corporate world is changing.
I don't have an opinion on whether that is or isn't a good strategy

what I find interesting is that seems to be the converse of the historical trend of the last 30 years or so

Rust Belt places like Michigan and Upstate New York, actually have a lot of water and have been losing population to places like CA, AZ, and Las Vegas which don't

it seems like more people are less connected to water than they ever have been

maybe there is a correction coming, maybe there isn't, I don't feel confident asserting a guess either way as to that
I always liked this library. Wrote a tutorial around the concept of it on websesign tuts a few years back, though I'm not sure how dated it is in relation to the API now (http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/filler-content-tools...). Anyway, it deals with one way the library could be used in the browser, in combination with other filler content services, to aid "designing" in the browser.
The REPL still lives! You need Racket. There's a lot of great programs now using Racket/WeScheme in education for younger kids.

Another project though I think really seems to be gunning for that old-school feel with some modern conveniences is PICO-8, which is a retro Lua VM meant mainly for designing games, complete with REPL, built in editors, and even PEEK and POKE. :D

To be honest though, I also kinda wonder how well you'd do just plunking a kid down in front of one of those older machines. Especially the Tandy ones. The Color Computer came with an amazing manual, that's pretty much what got me into programming all on my own as a kid.

As a fun side note, here's a Lisp in 1.5 pages of Tandy Color Basic: https://twitter.com/J_Arcane/status/668545293164683264
I like this initiative very much. It is simple and effective. Please do read the website of the initiative: http://www.vollgeld-initiative.ch/2-minuten-info/. The initiative states that all Swiss banks should hold all your money on your checking(!) account in 100% reserve. Your money is always there. There is no interest rate. It is just like cash money. Only digital.

If you want your money to gain interest you can open a savings account. Or you can invest your money in any other investment opportunity. The 100% reserve rule does not apply to saving accounts.

And thus you, as a customer, have a clear choice. Money on your checking account is save and always yours. Guaranteed by your National Bank and/or State. Money anywhere else is treated as an investment. You win some, you loose some.
I, too, wrote my first programs on a trash-80, sitting in the store and saving the things to a high-performance cassette drive ;)

But I no longer think that's the thing...the point back then was, to me at least, "here is something big that no one else I know is doing but its so obviously very cool, empowering, and in a way, secret".

Nowadays, with so many devices intruding on every aspect of our lives, there is just very little of that secret anymore, and while of course its hard for me to know how modern tech is affecting kids nowadays, I just cannot imagine they can feel the same way as I did, sitting alone in a Radio Shack in 1978, writing BASIC programs in wonderment.
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Yes, as long as people are aware of the dangers, it's no problem.

I took a bunch of electronics repair courses, which were largely focused on radios and CRT TVs. Only one person managed to hurt himself, he fell asleep with the open TV in front of him, and his forehead hit the high-voltage lines (~20kV IIRC) on the back of the CRT. I've never seen anyone wake up and jump from his chair so fast. Needless to say, he never fell asleep in that class again.
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Same here, that growing feeling that we have lost something during the 90's when home-computers were replaced by 'business PCs' drove me to write an emulator to preserve some of the magic in the past few months: http://floooh.github.io/virtualkc/, here's how to write a 'Hello World!' program on it in BASIC, FORTH, machine code and assembler: http://floooh.github.io/virtualkc/p035_helloworld.html

In my opinion, the RaspberryPi is the closest thing to a home-computer we have today, it encourages to learn, experiment and create things, it would be nice if it had a simpler, more home-computer-like standard operating system though. Linux (or any other current desktop or mobile OS) is simply too complex and scary. In contrast to that, smartphones and tablets are closed ecosystems optimized for consumption. I don't see how these closed-off platforms encourage kids to explore and learn to create something on their own.
It's the same with other languages as well: Go, Julia, Ruby (when I searched for some "Ruby Bangkok" meetups, I found thousands of offers to buy real rubies in Thailand. Same with frameworks: Phoenix, Sinatra, Iron, Gin.

After some time Google learns and shows you relevant results, but if you use Startpage or DuckDuckGo, you have to add "lang" or "framework" to search query
Changing the mission back to peace keeping instead of law enforcement would go a long way to fixing the issue. Enforcing the law causes more problems than it solves. See : drug war
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I'm sure they made a pretty decent living, by any reasonable standard. The thing is, in the last decade or two, the bar has risen far, and people talk about "did they make money" as in "did they make 100 million or more", which is sadly way beyond what is needed to live a very good life. (I think it is sad only because the people who make 5 million over 25 years think they need to make more, and don't enjoy it as much).
Yes, many economics papers are at the intersection of economics and psychology with a focus on human behavior. One of the broad assumptions of economics is that individuals are largely rational, but controlled experiments sometimes show that people don't always act in their best interest.

But at a macro level, there are no controlled experiments. We can look toward "natural" experiments (e.g., wages and the labor rate of two border towns, where one is in a state that has raised minimum wage and the other has not), but there's nothing like the gold standard double blind randomized trial that you'd find in a drug study.
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Definitely the best way to secure your Bitcoins is Bitcoin Hardware wallet like Trezor. It allows you to securely cold store your Bitcoins and also allows easy spending when you need so.