skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I while ago approached my boss and told him i can't stand Apple laptop any more due to plethora of technical glitches, sporadic loss of bluetooth connectivity, sluggishness (MacBook Pro), necessity of hard restarts and just general inability to clearly see what's going on on my laptop.

Luckily it was an easy process to switch to something that works much better and without Apple brand telling me how i need to work and to see the world.
I'm not coming back to Apple laptop.
(Apple iPhone is totally different and perfect device).

If I need to do Linux development - I use dedicated server / SSH and whatnot.

--- Back to your question - some environments do require Apple hardware and cultural fit could be an important factor to blend in and not be criticized.
Right. All human endeavor involves subjectivity in some fashion, Bayesian thinking just lets you quantify it and handle it explicitly.
I used Skeleton, but now Kube due to grid:

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How noble of those large corporations to save you from yourself!

So, basically, your point is that you should sneakily hide your best ideas from your employers and then strike out on your own when you hit that magical amazing idea! You know, that idea that is obviously going to be an amazing success and you can know that ahead of time! People that foolishly try to succeed on their own time are rubes! Instead of accepting a check from the government, you should mail it in with a job you're entirely checked out of until you find the magical secret sauce to make yourself a billionaire. That's great for everyone right?
> Is it common practice to use the most frequent words as features ? It looks like they don't carry much information, by definition.

The common practice with a small-ish dataset is to use e.g. the top 10k or 20k most frequent words, but filter out the top 50-100 so most frequent words, as those indeed do not carry much information. A commonly used weighting scheme is TF-IDF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf), which comes included in Keras.

Anyway, this is a cool ML starter project. Keras makes it really easy to do this sort of fast experimentation with a range of different neural networks models.
4K Blu-ray has already lost to streaming
People tend to be surprised when confronted with stereotypes about themselves, especially when those stereotypes are untrue.
What's wrong with drawing on paper?
In HTML dev, CSS base classes that explain your going to create pages is a framework, ex: BootStrap, Foundation, etc.

This is just a light one, that is the point.
That reporting starts from the research links on the F.lux site which 1) don't really say what they they seem to think they say and 2) often conveniently hide behind paywalls. The F.lux team genuinely seems to care about human health yet they haven't bothered to write the equivalent of a three page term paper about what they're basing their work on the past 8 years. It's odd.

Even in this thread (as in the other six or seven F.lux threads that have popped up on HN lately) smart people are saying things that simply don't make sense. We're basically dealing with the equivalent of blue-blocker sunglasses from the 80s and it's odd seeing HN commenters spout the same informercial-grade rhetoric I laugh at on late night television.
> I'm only liable for up to $50 of fraudulent charges...

While true, I locked my Simple card after a $20ish charge in the Dominican Republic, then initiated a support request asking about it. Simple's nice and refunds all fraud, but some banks I'd have saved $30 there.

Plus, your not being liable doesn't mean you don't pay for it. We just pay indirectly - it's figured into the bank's fees, the interest rates they'll pay you on savings, etc. I like Simple, and I was happy to be able to stop it myself before they went and charged $1k somewhere else.
The bit about SSI form is news to me. I have more research to do.
Indeed, shelf face space is the most precious commodity to a retailer.
World's Fastest Rubik's Cube Solving Robot [video]
Zellers (no apostrophe, even though it was started by a guy named Zeller) was able to stay 'on top' of the Canadian department store game for quite some time. They were founded in the 20s, profitable well into the 90s, and had a niche and a format that was poorly understood by existing department stores. Their only real competition was K-Mart.

HBC bought them out in the early 80s and then started shovelling more acquisitions on top; Bonimart, Fields, Woodward's. They had enough capital to start fixing things - in the mid to late 80s your parents probably remember "Club Z" and pushing aggressively against their remaining competition to make sure they had the lowest price in town.

In the late 90s, just as Walmart was starting to show up in Canada (by buying up the burned-out corpse of Woolworth's) and threaten pretty much every brand under the HBC umbrella, HBC centralized decision making and planning in HBC's Toronto offices and under HBC execs.

K-Mart basically collapsed at this time from the same pressure; HBC opened up the purse and bought a lot of old K-Mart locations, intending to convert them. Eatons also died, and their assets were acquired by Sears.

I worked at Zellers to put myself through school briefly during this general time period, and I remember hysteria and confusion in all ranks of retail and management staff. Communication with HBC was generally command-and-control with no mechanism to individually fix brand-wide or regional problems.

Actual Bay stores in the late 90s were also doing poorly, and it was likely that Zellers was seen as a losing anchor that needed to slash margins further to compete with Walmart.

I will miss the chain. I had never really gone in prior to working there, but after working there I had gained enough weird institutional memory to be able to quickly find whatever I was looking for even in Zellers I had never visited before.

It is now basically a race in Canada to see if HBC or Sears will pull out first. Neither one of them are doing particularly well.

Canada is, in general, not kind to its department stores. http://ottawacitizen.com/business/local-business/canadas-big...
Also, something being NP complete does not say much about whether it is hard to do in the real world. Exponential is fine, as long as the constant, the value of n, or the exponent aren't too large.

Here, real world cases likely will have only a fairly limited number of registers and only a limited (but potentially very long) length of code to optimize across.

It would be interesting (and quite an accomplishment, even if doesn't give significant performance gains) to combine this with whole-program optimization (imagine optimizing the calling conventions on a per-function basis, and considering generating code for a function twice, with different calling conventions) and/or with the code that decides what functions to inline, but AFAIK, nobody does that.
Yes, pretty much. A single angel investing without a network is in dangerous territory, but that's the exception, not the rule. Most angels do have a network, that's also how you find them in the first place.
Nah, it's more like old-time poker: luck, strategy, and the judicious application of excessive violence.
cperciva. Originally "found" him when a user by the name of "sanj" responded to cperciva, pretty much flaming him and asking him if he won the Putnam, an annual math competition held in the US and CA for undergrads.

cperciva was making a few "bold" statements and sanj replied "Did you win the Putnam?" to which cperciva replies, "Yes, I did." and later goes on to gloat a little bit saying, he considered his earlier score of 53 his most impressive considering he was 14 at the time.

A user called dbosson proceeds to calls him out on his gloating and talks about helping others. He replies with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35120

The thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35015

It was one of the few times I've seen News.YC/HN delve into the usual internet forum banter and not being disappointed with it.

You might know of cperciva also as the creator of Tarsnap. He's very open about not being money-driven and the service continues to keep to its roots as a product only made for technologists. He's not concerned with developing the product for Enterprise, nor marketing. He's also someone who hasn't bent to external pressure to further develop his product for anyone else. Everyone else is business-minded, the likes of patio11 included, who are practically screaming for him to take advantage of his brand and following to build up a company.. But he just doesn't want to.

To me, he's someone who's truly gifted, not humble about it but doesn't gloat in such a way that you feel like he's going overboard. His claims are valid, he's matter-of-factly saying statements that are all true. Akin to McGregor, a UFC fighter who always seems to predict how he'll put the other fighter down in the interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJeziuaShow

Sure there are an insane amount of people here I can admire and I follow incessantly because they're such valuable sources of knowledge. But cperciva especially I can respect, because he just doesn't seem to worry about whatever anyone else thinks or expects from him.
I agree, however kzhahou made a claim that there could be a language that could do something another couldn't.

The discussion with aerovistae about computation came from their initial post:

>Unless of course you're trying to argue that the difference between python and javascript, for instance, is what each is capable of computing?

If we are talking about ideal machines, there is no argument to be made that there is a difference between what the two named languages are capable of computing.
10x developers are 10x more curious, 10x less assumptive, 10x more capable of putting themselves in user's shoes... and much more.
Air Bonsai: bonsai floating on a magnet
Google docs for code. That's doable. Heck you could do it today using google docs, simply set that up as your editor. No code completion, syntax highlighting and other goodies but it might just work for some collaboration.
And it's good for the world that this is the case.

While the original term of 14 years may have struck a good balance between motivating creators and moving their creations into the public domain, copyright laws have gone mad in the past century.
This is on everyone’s short list of problems with Bayes. In the simplest interpretation of Bayes, old evidence has zero confirming power. If evidence E was on the books long ago and it suddenly comes to light that H entails E, no change in the value of H follows. This seems odd – to most outsiders anyway.

I don't understand what he's referring to here. If we now know that H entails E, then that means our model of the world changed, and thus our posterior on H changed as well. Did I miss anything?

It's an interesting article, but there is a lot of debate around the interpretation of Bayesian inference, and IMO there are answers to be found. In particular, Andrew Gelman argues against the subjective interpretation: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/phil... It's the best article I've read on the subject.
https://xkcd.com/1018/
He crowdfunded some of the legal fees https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/gregory-alan-elliott-...

Unsure if it's even worth incurring more lawyer fees pursuing the loss of employment as the women will likely have no money to pay him, file endless appeals and delays, ect.
NwAvGuy has some not-very-nice things to say about Schiit. Basically, that they don't know how to design audio gear. He discovered that one of their amps could damage your headphones. For this warning, he was banned from the Head-Fi forums: http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/banned-at-head-fi.html
I wonder how this stands up against E. O. Wilson's work on sociobiology.
Photospheres of Snowzilla in Brooklyn
This is basically correct in my view as far as the US: Target here is basically the "upscale Walmart": people who want to avoid the "people of Walmart" go to Target instead. Things might be very slightly more expensive, and there might not be quite as much selection, but the clientele is definitely very different any place where the two stores are close to each other. It's really rather remarkable.

Also, Target stores here usually seem to be cleaner and neater, whereas Walmart stores frequently seem to be dirtier and the shelves look at bit ransacked and picked-over.

However, this does vary a lot by location. When I lived in northern New Jersey, the Walmarts there were a horror show: nasty floors, shelves looking like people just went through shopping in preparation for a hurricane, etc., whereas the Targets were nice. The customers at the Walmarts also seemed to be all poorer minorities, black and hispanic (I'm white), whereas Target was full of white and middle-class-looking black people. However in some more rural locations in the South, the Walmarts I've seen were clean and neat (but there were no Targets around).
I've seen this comment several times, recently, but haven't seen the black bar. I wonder if dang quietly stopped doing them.
Why not set your favicon to a gif?
Now that just looks useful. I can think of several uses. Thanks
My understanding is that Rust is, to be wildly inaccurate, kind of like a language without a heap. Normal languages manage stack memory without GC. Rust kind of does the same: When deleting a stack frame, Rust deletes the objects created when on that stack frame, except when a reference is returned by the scope corresponding to the frame, in which case the "ownership" of the heap object is passed to the frame under the deleted-to-be frame.

Sort of. Don't cite me.
Exactly! Furthermore, I wonder if the backlight leakage from an LCD ruins the effect (the reason why a black screen isn't actually dark). None of the studies they cite actually use LCD monitors.
Wolfpack programming!

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/2010/10/wolf_pack_progra...
STTL. Some of his books were so ubiquitous at Microsoft in the early 2000s I thought they were published by MS Press.
You can get car parts at Target (at least some of the ones I've been to), but the selection is pretty lousy. They'll have a few basics (wiper blades etc.) all in one or two aisles, whereas Walmart will have an entire aisle dedicated to motor oil and filters.
I'm well aware of this, there is a set of benchmarks in lmbench, which I wrote, that shows something similar to what you are talking about. I called it open to close performance and it plotted the MB/sec as a function of file size for read/write vs mmap.

One would think that mmap is faster because it does less work but that's not true if you include the open/mmap, read is always fast in that case (which is surprising to me, it used to be that there was a cross over point).

But your whole comment sort of misses the point of sendfile. If you are doing little file transfers, use read/write, they are fine. The overhead of the syscalls matter if the size is small. But sendfile is for big data and there the limit, of perf, as the size goes to infinity, is 2x.
That's still true but on the module level. If your module is so large that it's hard to keep track of the imports/requires then you should probably split the module up.

I really don't think require-ing within individual functions is a common or good practice. Can you point me to an open source project that does that?
It is a little tough to slog through now, though I'm sure it would've been pretty enthralling in '67. I liked this from the conclusion quite a bit, though:

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren't flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

I also liked what seems to be a pretty central point of the article (which I admittedly only skimmed): just because some medium (e.g. computer programming) has very precise requirements (e.g. in terms of syntax) for the forms expressions can take on, does not imply that the content of what can be expressed is similarly constrained.
Ask HN: How many of you feel capable as an industrial designer
Full disclosure: In addition to being a long time lurker on here, I'm also at a startup focused on matchmaking product designers and startups & midsize teams, and I'm trying to better understand our market, and whether we're solving the right problems. Will you help me?

I have a couple questions for anyone here who is working on a physical product idea, especially for those of you in the connected hardware space.

1: Do you consider the design an important factor in your success?

2: Are you, yourself, in charge of the functional or aesthetic design on your team?

3: How many members does your team have? And of that number is there a dedicated industrial designer with prior experience?

4: How did you find your product designer?

5: Does the prospect of connecting with a community of designers more easily appeal to you?

6: How long is your current development cycle, and how much of that is spent on the design vs testing, research, engineering iterations?

Thanks very much for your feedback. And if you have any suggestions on another place I might find more hardware makers, I'd very much appreciate the chance to ask them, too.

Cheers!
>> is anything really canadian?

Yes. Many things. Watch TV? Vancouver? Nickleback? Or drake? Or pretty much 1/3 of Hollywood? Canada and canadians are very over-represented in US culture. They are just hard to spot.

Cruz 2016 -
I like skeleton. It has been ported to sass as well.

> it seems somewhat dead

The beauty of skeleton is that it still accomplishes exactly what it is meant to, without needing attention.

To be fair, it is only html and css, so there aren't huge security concerns or dependencies like a big project would have. But that is the point. You can make a super quick website without using a bootstrap and it is very logical and minimal.
Short term loans have artificially high APR.
We try to encourage others to do those sorts of features via add-ons (http://blog.bitbucket.org/2015/12/29/file-viewer-for-bitbuck...).
Cinema Seat Preview Experiment in 3D
It's called the Law of Averages. It's a type of magical thinking.
I greatly respect NwAvGuy and agree with almost everything he says, but I think in practical terms that's a slightly over-simplified perspective. Look how inaccurate even these headphones are [1], arguably the best or one of the best ever made.

Getting the inaccuracies to be the right inaccuracies is quite subtle and very important in my opinion. See for example this review of his [2] and in particular the paragraph near the end:

>AN EQ EXPERIMENT: I tried using highly configurable parametric EQ to tweak my Denon D2000s to be similarly forgiving and I failed. When I filter out equivalent amounts of sibilance and harshness with the Denons, more of the music is gone and the result sounds veiled and artificial. The HD 650, to my ears, somehow works more like polarized sunglasses. They largely remove what I don’t want while revealing more of what’s left. It’s not just a simple frequency response difference. My objective side wants to pin down what’s going on but I don’t have a full explanation besides the HD 650’s lack of distortion.

[1] http://www.innerfidelity.com/images/StaxSR009.pdf
[2] http://nwavguy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/sennheiser-hd-650.html
Laws and case-law are always changing, but whatever lawyers do to stay current seems to work well enough.

Building codes change, but certifications for electricians/plumbers/whatever seem to work well enough.

The certifications I've heard of all come with an expiration date. The professional organizations I've heard of all require at least a little bit of ongoing study from their members.

I don't see why what works well enough everywhere else wouldn't work well enough here?
I think it's because with displays, you can put two of them side by side and say, "look, the shadow detail is gone in this part" but with audio you have to rely on your memory.
Check your privilege shitlord!

Just kidding, but seriously, this kind of accusation has really terrible ramifications for the accused even if they're cleared. There really needs to be consequences for frivolous accusations to prevent things like this.
Yeah, that's a standard rhetorical catch-22. Virtuous people always succeed, so anyone who doesn't succeed is by definition not virtuous--the system works! It's the same kind of thinking as "If God doesn't answer your prayers, it's your fault for not praying hard enough," or "Communism cannot fail, it can only be failed."
Thank you for this comment. I suffer severely from low self esteem and impostor syndrome. Coworkers from several previous jobs have even gone so far as to tell me they thought I was a genius, and it made me feel immensely guilty every time.

I'm going to try putting some of your suggestions into practice. I'm at a crossroads in my career, having recently been separated from my job due to budget cuts. Even though my job loss wasn't an indictment of my worth as a person or the craftsmanship of my work, my confidence still took a significant blow.

Staying motivated while looking, applying, and interviewing for jobs you believe you don't deserve to get is challenging, to say the least.
One thing that will not be rewritten in Swift any time soon. https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/613906970890801152
You're wrong

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/upshot/surprise-florida...

Don't worry about the political climate too much though. Plenty of Californians are moving here, many intent on advocating for the same policies here that caused them to flee their state in the first place.
Bridget Campos New Features: New Book: UPON THE WILLFUL IGNORANCE OF MEN
>You're twisting my words. I am saying there is no work disincentive. None.

I agree that's what you said in your most recent comment. But that's not how you started. I quote:

>What someone that trots that out is saying is that more people would be able to forgo wasting their lives in menial jobs and instead create art and new businesses, or stay home to raise a family or care for elderly parents

You clearly said that some people are going to stop working, and instead focus on things like art, and that's a good thing. Changing your argument halfway through and not acknowledging it is bad form.

In fact, you even said in this comment that there's a disincentive. It's beyond me how you can say "certain types of work ... will no longer have as an incentive" and still claim there's no work disincentive at all.

Make up your mind, choose an argument and stick with it.

>I'm also saying that the work people choose may not be entirely typical, or fit within everyone's definition of "work" as they define it as a moral imperative.

You're still straw manning your opposition, even after I pointed out that moral imperatives to work need play no role in opposing BI. So using your terminology, how would you respond to the concern that this "untypical work" would reduce output enough to threaten the viability of a society?
On Firefox on Linux, the favicon flickers if changed quickly in this example.

The webcam is a hilarious example. Reminds me of this 1-dimensional video game you can play in your address bar. http://glench.com/hash/
> Answers like this would make sense if we didn't already spend billions and billions a year to address those exact topics, or if I was saying we shouldn't have any welfare programs at all.

But then your argument doesn't make any sense because it applies more to means-tested programs than UBI, because working can't cause you to lose the UBI.
It's funny. As I was reading the entire post I kept thinking, "You know, these guys could have saved so much time by just asking a bunch of Moms."