skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it is always great to learn what other people are doing.

I have no issue over the costs with paying for all these services as it is almost always cheaper than building/setting up the same tools yourself, the issue I have is the lack of skills/understanding that going down this route encourages. I like to build everything myself so I learn, not because this is the most efficient way to run things. When something breaks (it always does at some point) it means I can fix it.

There is also the other point which is I love learning about all this stuff :)
The notion that some of the neurons silenced by alcohol are inhibitory neurons is actually the explanation that researchers have proposed for why stimulating glycine receptors produces an increase in dopamine release. The idea which is shown in a diagram in the article is that silencing GABA-releasing interneurons (which are inhibitory) with glycine consequently disinhibits dopaminergic neurons.
>most modern processors have a bunch because it's impossible to test every possible edge case a priori.

Only with the sort of engineering most current CPU manufacturers use.

It's possible to have formally verified hardware; it's just expensive with current tech. Tools are improving, though. I suspect the next cutting edge will be the unification of functional-language-to-hardware compilers like Clash or Lambda-CCC with fully dependent languages like Agda or Idris, where you can statically verify arbitrary properties though the type system.
I did a ctrl+f for the word "hipster" and here it is. Have an upvote.
I suspect only EC2/S3 and their paired services (EBS, IAM, etc) gain enough use to qualify as "enormous" and thus receive wide attention for their failings. AWS has a lot of services:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#List_of_pr...

Putting that aside, I'm not sure "why aren't people complaining?" is a reasonable way to prove or disprove how buggy software is.
Surprised he'd stick with a Newton and not a PalmOne device - they had the better community.

That said, I have a Pebble and it has reminded me of the simple effiency of black-and-white LCD and lightweight processors. The battery lasts all week.
> every human being in the world

It's not compatible with blind people or people who don't speak the language of the notebook.

One of the wonderful things that computers have done is to vastly improve the ability of people with disabilities and speakers of any language to access vastly more information than they could before.
>Thousands of applications were made not so long ago with manual memory management.

And pretty much all of them are unreliable garbage that we as an industry should have been too embarrassed to ship.
Visualization of data flow between Tor relays
Check to see if your local area has web developer meetups. Then you can observe examples how they create web applications today. These meetups may be under trendy names like "java" and "html5".
It's revenue neutral, if used as a replacement of existing benefits when the recipient doesn't work (e.g. child benefit, unemployment benefit, and old-age pensions), and paid for by raising taxes by the same amount as the basic income when the recipient does work.
> But in the little free time I have available

> But after work and family, there isn't much time left

If you want to ship ASAP with little time investment, IMO nothing beats Meteor. Skills required: HTML, CSS, JS.

I've built projects with PHP, Rails, Django, Node, Angular, etc ... and Meteor is the framework I recommend to newcomers. Ok, you're not exactly a newcomer, but clearly you've been disconnected many years and you don't have enough free time to learn new tools/languages. You'll need a lot of abstractions (features, deployment, db interfacing, best practices, etc)...

Meteor will help you with this, a lot... And the most important thing: it's a lot of fun!

https://www.meteor.com/

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I still think it is a very big stretch to go from web
browsers (which suck on many levels) to unix bashing.

This is a totally legit criticism. I think this connection is probably the most interesting idea I have in the post. Interesting doesn't make it right though.

I just know from personal experience when I try to get people to switch away from webapps and they ask "what should I use instead?" I don't have a good answer.

I could say "use desktop GUI apps", but that's not really convincing. What would be convincing would be "use this awesome command line/REPL environment!", but I have trouble honestly suggesting that (even though I love my setup) because I know they won't have a good experience with current command line environments.
Academic jobs have a lot more going against them than just the pay tho.
> they had the better community

Perhaps PalmOne had the better community, but Newton has had an incredible afterlife that has extended to this day. It somehow got the attention of lots and lots of hobbyists who have modernized it in unbelievable ways.
For me yes. For everyone else - I have no idea. The world is full of water, it even falls from the sky.
Transistor counts keep going up although clock speeds and single core performance peaked starting ten years ago. Check out this graphic:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dennar...

Since then there has been an explosion in number of cores. Seems like coding for distributed systems is the way to go. I suspect that increasing the transistor count will remain beneficial to things like scientific computing and machine learning.
nice dodge. chewbacca defense!
I hate this attitude. It's one of the ways conservative people rationalize their fear of difference and shame people into conformity.
I don't see how you get all that at all. How are they suggesting women are disabled? They suggest women do a lot of work valuable to society but not historically paid and not only paying women but both sexes would help breaking out of traditional work roles.

"The feminist argument for a U.B.I. is that it’s a way to reimburse mothers and other caregivers for the heavy lifting they now do free of charge. "

Also why isn't the post the title of the article? So clickbaity now.
A huge difference though was that the Jobs bullied for changes to get the iPhone produced.

Bezos on the other hand, made the Fire phone team answer to him (similar to Jobs bullying, without any of the mythical stories..) Yet the product he made them create was a total miss with consumers. As egotistical and deluded people might say Jobs was - he still had to be aligned with the needs of the average person to produce the iPhone, a masterful manifestation of usability principles.

Bezos is chaotic, sure. But more damning, he is out of touch.
> You can have your 0% income tax rate "paradise" and try to remember that Texas has among the highest property tax rates in the country to make up for it.

Coming from NY, those property taxes don't really make me even flinch. When you combine lower cost of living, lower real estate and no income tax higher property tax doesn't even move the needle.
It's to be decided on a case by case basis. I used to deploy whole infrastructure outside the wiring in a day with little mgmt overhead. The trick was doing as much ahead of time as possible. Each success fed into next project.

That's why I recommended in a other comment using people that do stuff similar to what you need and split cost among several companies.
I like how not carrying a Newton is considered conservative.
The Aristotelian treatment of causality is what's needed here. Objects act in accordance to their nature. Cause and effect is the course of how objects interact with each other. For a given situation, objects A & B will produce the same results if made to interact with each other in a given way.

This is in contrast to the Humean treatment of causality, which is a listing of events where objects play a nominal role.

Let's consider the case of a person considering an argument for determinism. The arguer is presenting a logical sequence of statements building to a conclusion. The considerer is having to focus on each of the presented facts and how they relate to the conclusion. It is this act of focusing which is the core role of volition. The arguer is counting on the focusing act to take place in order to present an argument for determinism. It may be argued that volition can't be proven, but in order to argue against it, it's necessary to rely on volition still the same. Funny thing, volition.
If you have a good transit system you don't need parking.
... Because I'm a hipster
That's one of the best posts seen in awhile. Thanks.
There's a lot of work that I do free of charge. Wash my car. Go grocery shopping. Do my laundry. I walk my dog out of a sense of love and duty. Shouldn't I be paid for this? Why isn't the government paying me for this invisible labor that I chose to do?

I cut back my hours and quit my job because I have so much to do so, what the hell society, where's my compensation?
Malpractice insurance rates are not tied to malpractice award amounts? Unless rates were fixed by law and financially guaranteed by the Government, how on earth would that even be possible. Are you just a troll?
> Makes me totally re-evaluate AWS after seeing how its built internally.

Customers care about deliverables, not elegance.
Do you make 100% of your decisions based on what is the most efficient/utilitarian, or are there some inefficient things you do just because you enjoy them?

Some common examples are buying a brand new car, using loose-leaf tea, buying wine that costs more than $8[1], eating at a restaurant that isn't the cheapest around, etc.

People do lots of "irrational" things for emotional reasons, and there's evidence that doing something the "hard" (in some cases inefficient) way makes the end result objectively more pleasurable.

1. http://io9.gizmodo.com/wine-tasting-is-bullshit-heres-why-49...
VMware's five key cloud-native computing investments
I don't know what any of those things you named are. I ignore all that stuff. The only thing from the '90s that doesn't work anymore is Flash, because I guess Apple blocked it during the mobile revolution and it killed its dominant position.

Otherwise, everything applicable from back then still is today. Any time anyone mentions PHP on forums like this, there's always fashion-conscious people who jump in to attack it. But I'm still building brand new websites based on it, and people still express their gratitude, never once saying there's any problem because the site uses PHP.

MySQL is still going strong, and there's some alternatives that are compatible, like Percona and Maria.

JavaScript is the same. There's all these frameworks like there are for PHP, but I ignore all that. I never understood why I'd be better off using someone else's virtual language on top of a language. I just use bare JavaScript, and it works the same to me as it did back then. Still have to worry about differences between browsers, but instead of Netscape and IE, it's stuff like Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. A framework can make that easier, but it can make others things more difficult, and it's better to keep dependence on JS minimal anyways.

What I'm getting at is, I don't know why you need to update anything. If you're trying to get a specific job, then you need to use what they do. But for just building things in your free time that work on modern web browsers, you already know what you need to know. You could probably even run the same exact version of server and authoring tools you did before, and it should display fine in the latest web browsers.

It's different if you want to build something like a mobile app, or Windows software, because those platforms changed significantly since the '90s. There's languages now that didn't exist then, and new tools you've never seen before.

But on the web, any text editor, HTML, and any language you want for the backend is fine. Just like I still write .sh scripts, and they get the job done.

It's more important to spend that time on family, and your career. Since the stuff you already know still works, there's not much need to use anything else. Unless you're worried about what the kids think, and how they'll judge you.
Conservative means supporting the status quo.
A jackpot-rigging scandal is forgotten as Powerball fever sweeps the US
Yes, Manhattan is the ideal city. It's so ideal, that even people who live in the other four boroughs of New York City[0] refer to Manhattan as "the City."

[0] New York City is comprised of five boroughs (aka. counties):
1. Manhattan (officially known as New York County)
2. The Bronx (yes, "The Bronx." No one says "Bronx.")
3. Queens
4. Brooklyn (officially known as Kings County)
5. Staten Island
I don't think I follow. I've read over your comment a few times, and come away either with a statement that seems incorrect or a proposal that isn't UBI... The failure may well be mine, but could you clarify?
This was very helpful. Thanks. The second link made it sound very smalltalkish to me -- it sounded like an OODBMS that real world users could relate to. So I followed the link at the Wikipedia article and was surprised to learn that NewtonScript was a prototype-based inheritance language modelled on Self.

If the secret sauce is a user-accessible OODBMS written in a prototype-based scripting language, would it not be possible to build a Data Soup system in JavaScript? No need to bring the device back -- just replicate what people liked about it.
Pitman shorthand! Haha.
I'm pretty sure Atlassian (recently IPOed) proved that to be wrong, especially in the case when your customers are developers.

Besides, bad repetitive code almost always results in bugs. If there were a ten commandments of programming, that would be #1.
>For somebody who's an expert on this, I'm shocked at such a reduction. Infant mortality rates, for example, are more important to me than awesome jazz clubs.

"Shocked" at what? It's not like he said today's people should live in 19th century conditions to create better jazz.

If "infant mortality" rates shock you, then there are much better targets than a historian talking about jazz clubs in old times. Like the fact that the US, for all its wealth, resources and technology, lags behinds far too many modern countries in infant mortality reduction, and what should be done to change that.

If anything when he says "is it really any worse than the situation today when everybody’s fed but you have an incredible percentage of New Yorkers who live in the shelter system" he's really addressing this issue, that there's far too many things to fix even now.
It turned out that it was only working for me because I was willing to plow hours into fixing problems

Fixing problems, or finding solutions for your problems? Every advanced system has a learning curve, and Unix is an advanced system without a well-defined domain. It's great that you invested the time to make it work for you, but that you feel that it is inappropriate for "most non-programmers" is not necessarily a failure of the system.

As a sibling post said, "there is not much interest in empowering non-technical users". I think that's close, but I would add that it's a problem of scale: non-technical users require domain-specific solutions. If there were one single solution to empower non-technical users, there would surely be commercial interest.

I'm sorry, but I can't help feeling that the article has a high dose of "lo! I've seen the light and my light will solve every problem on the planet". It ignores the many good things Unix has enabled, and is very light on the details how a better system would look (or how it would be secured -- befriend, really?).
Meteor takes the suck out of web development and feels so drastically different from everything else. Definitely worth it to take a look.

If you decide to use Meteor use: http://guide.meteor.com/
Plants vs. Zombies 2 Hack Android No Survey 2016
Most computing power advancement is now in GPUs, which have had tremendous increases:

Approximate cost per GFLOPS

Date	| 2013 US Dollars
1961	| $8.3 trillion
1984	| $42,780,000
1997	| $42,000
2000	| $1,300
2003	| $100
2007	| $52
2011	| $1.80
June 2013	| $0.22
November 2013	| $0.16
December 2013	| $0.12
January 2015	| $0.08
Well I too find the article misrepresenting the problem but for different reasons :) (see my other comment in this thread)
I am sorry to say this contributes to the feeling that the HN rule about titles is entirely arbitrary. Most of the time the rule seems stupidly rigid and inflexible. After all, why can't developers highlight the aspect of the article that would be of most interest to the readership of HN? But then, suddenly, an exception is made, based on wholly subjective criteria. How do you define "over the top"? Have you tried to get an Alexa app certified? Do you understand how bad the situation is?

I'm in favor of flexibility regarding the titles, and if HN supported such flexibility, then your decision in this case would seem less arbitrary. But given the rigidness applied at other times, this seems like an odd exception.

I'll point out that the current title does not come close to expressing the level of frustration that developers are currently feeling regarding the Alexa app store. Shouldn't the title give some indication about the real conflict?
You don't indent after a package e.g.

https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/ja...

And it's fair enough to indent with a main since it is so infrequent. Ideally you only have one main entry point.
You do see the irony in criticizing a study for its imperfection when you yourself rely on nothing more than your personal guesstimate of what "most people" think and a just-so story about the possible influence of an obscure biblical interpretation, right?

I agree with your general point, many of these kinds of psychological studies lack all external validity (they don't measure what they think they measure). It just surprised me that instead of "you know, I have my doubts" your original post went straight for "this empirical research is wrong because my unsubstantiated theorizing is right."
I had a Model 100 for a while, purchased at a flea market. It had a hardware glitch that I could never solve, despite scouring the circuit board for problems, so I gave it to a friend who wanted it more than me.

As I understand it, the Model 100 was a favorite among journalists. At the time, I was impressed with being able to just turn it on and go. That was also why I liked my Palm Pilot.
Luckily, you can skip right ahead to React+Redux. It's really a logical extension of your stack than you think. jQuery and Backbone you can pretty much ignore except know that it's a less elegant and less declarative way to do models, views, and event binding.
Software growth is not keeping up with hardware growth.

My parents told me to "Clear your plate." That was because they lived through the depression. I remember writing code in assembler and 64k and feel the say way now. Programs I wrote in that space now take 64m and I think "What a waist".
I am actually convinced that men (especially a specific class of men, defined by a certain level of income and education) will be more likely than women to need assistance from a UBI program, as their jobs will be replaced by technology at a higher pace.

In addition, women (at least heterosexual women) are likely to have the significant advantage of having more choice when selecting a partner, because of the global imbalance in the male/female ratio; this gives them a stronger position than their male counterparts within their relationships.

References

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21652323-blue-collar-m...

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21645759-boys-ar...

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2015/03/24-gender-...

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/04/ec...
What about this ?

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The biggest reason for old computers still being usable is that the market was long ago overshot by computer power.

Most people simply don't need a lot of machine to do what they need on a computer. Where as early on computers were struggling to do things like display text and images the peak of user demands was the point where all computers could run Flash Player 9.
Wacom has a digitizing pen that looks cool, a good trade off it looks like; but I'm with you, you'll have to pry my moleskin from me before I lug around some crap. Now if that moleskin just happened to be digital...
You've answered your own question: there's no need, you have no problem to solve by writing an app. Usually the problem itself dictates half the technology choices for you, and the rest are filled in by using what you already know. In your case though, you have no reason to write an app. So the only answer that makes sense is "none".
I've just written an Idris programm that determined "your mothers phone number", hows that for arbitrary facts? (tip of the hat to xkcd.)
we had a thread just yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10867791 and also last month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10740748
Cheap shots.

Speaking as a huge fan of the Newton MP 2000 (which I kept using for years after the Newton was cancelled):

1) You can search your meeting notes. I had four or five years of meeting notes that could be instantly (well, by late 90s standards of "instantly") searched.

2) You could point it at any IRDA printer and just print stuff. (I was astonished by this when I discovered it worked, because the first IRDA printer I got was made long after the Newton was cancelled.)

In contrast to this, most of my paper notes (and I've gone back to paper) end up being lost, and those that aren't lost are horribly disorganized. Generally, the half life of paper notes -- for me -- is perhaps a month.
Very cool stuff! We have a lot of internal tools for automatically detecting clouds at Orbital Insight as clouds present a large challenge across many types of satellite resolutions and bands. Glad to see more people are turning towards deep learning for satellite imagery.

Curious to hear how long the pipeline takes to run on a single image? Also, have you thought about running the pipeline in a fully convolutional manner, reducing the need for proposal regions?
> "I mean, electrons are very very lightweight and tend to move quite slowly for typical currents. How much kinetic energy can they give?"

I only have a layman's understanding of this whole process, so I could be missing some important details, but I believe it's necessary to look at the atoms as a whole rather than just the electrons...

Consider, the electrons (from the outermost orbit of the nucleus) are travelling from atom to atom (the ease by which they can come and go determines how conductive the material is).

During this process, when an atom has more electrons than its stable state it is negatively charged, and when it has less electrons than its stable state it is positively charged. The greater the polarisation between the positively-charged atoms and the negatively-charged atoms, the more electrons can move through the material. I believe the potential difference between the poles is voltage, and the volume of electrons flowing at a given time is current, but I could be wrong on that.
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