skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny that you should choose a blender for the analogy.

Many other things that could be used for an analogy have been absorbed into the converged device that is a tablet or a phone or a proper PC or even a console.

Because of this there are not a lot of analogies left. However, I think the mountain bike is perhaps a better analogy, with 'off road' being no keyboard/mouse. In the early 90's mountain bikes sold like hot cakes, people would upgrade to the latest model (with even more gears) and eventually every able-bodied person had some lame MTB that was fairly useless on paved roads and not really that great off-road.

Eventually people came to their senses and the realised a normal road bike or a 'hybrid' bike would actually be better for going from A to B (rather than some mountain they never really needed to get to). The mountain bike market didn't die, it just evolved to what we have now, with most so-called mountain bikes being cheap junk - 'bicycle shaped objects'. Despite the plethora of such rubbish there is a smaller market for 'proper' mountain bikes that is doing fine, an established market. However, there was a time - decades ago - when many bicycle shops could not give road bikes away, every sale was for a mountain bike. At least the tablet craze never got so mad that all other devices where blotted out of the market.
I heard bad things about programming the Baofeng and other cheap radios so picked one up before getting blessed by the FCC to operate it. I figured if it was a pain I didn't care about passing some test.

It was a pretty straight forward process. I bought a decent cable to plug it in to my laptop, downloaded CHIRP (http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home) and used it to pull in a list of local repeaters, selected the ones I wanted and dumped the list to the radio.

There was one issue of confusion, maybe this will help someone. The order is important. I've never failed if I:
0) Remove the antenna
1) Plug in the cable to the computer
2) Plug in the cable to the radio
3) Turn the radio on - all the way, full volume
Then CHIRP will happily download or upload profiles from the radio.

The UV-82 manual is decent. I'm guessing it is the older models that people talk about. There are some funny translations here and there, but I don't recall anything that didn't work or make sense. Programming them by hand is still no fun. Thank you everyone who works on CHIRP!
Name one single instance where systemic inequality was fixed at the root. I'll wait.
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Thanks but to be honest, I am clueless on how to install it or use it on my Ubuntu machine.
Unfortunately it's not that simple. There's a good chance of ending up with some designer drug instead of the real thing. And those are well known to be dangerous.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dYzmZ1IU4zY
Yes, I agree. It's important not to chase for an "more equitable society" thinking you can work less, have better stuff, have a better working environment. You're trading extrinsic benefits for intrinsic benefits. Be prepared to be a lot more poorer, as you see the people who are poorest get a little less poor.
Emacs can serve as a terminal multiplexer, which is the most obvious thing for Emacs to provide in that setup, though as mikekchar said, it does have a lot to offer.

I never quite got the people who run Emacs in screen/tmux; emacs can already do that!
> This seems hard to imagine now, but no one expected DEC to fail, or HP to turn into that thing it turned into, or Microsoft to sit on a grenade labelled "Windows", or IBM to drift off to the margins of the web - and so on.

Sure, but for every unexpected floundering there are many more predictions of failure that never occurred. I'm not sure how unexpected failures in general give any insight beyond that they exist.
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It seems that Uber has now joined Google and Yahoo in spending a crazy amount of time and resources in changing their logo. Not only that but they then blog about it with a story that makes it sound like they just completed the Manhattan project. Chill dudes, just spend 2 hours every 10 years getting it refreshed and move on. Anything more is just design porn.
US National laws are restricted to US Nationals, and the territory of the USA. Now, for laws that could apply outside of these boundaries, you are partially right, but these are covered by treaties, agreements, cooperation efforts, decrees and stuff like that between the USA and its friends.
I submitted this a year ago, and hope to continue to do so annually. When I read the top story re: LSD: Life-Saving Drug, I felt today would be a good day for it.
It's hard to tell exactly without knowing what's going on under the hood, but what has significantly got better in recent months for me is:

- Individualized predictions (it clearly picks up things I often write, including slang and abbreviations)

- Multi-words predictions ("What time" completed by "is it" instead of "is", "it")

- Context dependent predictions: predicts email addresses when I'm in the "To" field of an email, predicts an URL when I'm in the browser's omnibox, etc.

- Multi language support (I can mix English and French in my texts... Happens all the time)
Starting and finishing a project designed for public consumption
They use a flux capacitor.
Eh. Microsoft hasn't really messed up the previous Android apps they have bought. I feel people have more issues with all data going to Microsoft now.
How on earth do you think the tech review industry works? 99% of the reviews you've read utilize free gear provided by the vendor. Some publications have taken steps to curb potential excesses, but at least when I was freelancing (2000-2005), almost all writers were provided gear for free, and allowed to keep said gear.

Ethical journalists can attempt to ignore the impact of gratis equipment, but it's difficult in the best of situations. Just as difficult as trying to ignore the impact of a "helpful" PR department. Apple was particularly good at this; I was provided with every version of the iPad for reviews. Once Apple got over their death march, this dried up, and dealing with their PR firm became tedious. HP provided notebooks, PDAs, anything, with no expectation or real system for returning equipment. The only vendors I ever dealt with that were strict about returns were Kodak/Canon with their DSLRs and lenses. These were normally around $10K or greater, so I was not surprised at all.

Bias is implicit in any review where the publication isn't purchasing the items it reviews. I'm not sure how Sweethome and the Wirecutter work, though I know they make $$ off of purchase referrals through Amazon.
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If you sync to simplenote you can use the simplenote iOS app which I've had good luck with. I'd rather use dropbox as my syncing layer though...
You need to use it for a while to see better predictions. If you talk in the same way often, it gets really really good at doing the typing for you.
Too abstract.
You can do that on iOS, insofar as you can attach any arbitrary iOS (or tvOS, or watchOS) device to Xcode running on a Mac, and pressing Run in Xcode will launch the "native program" you wrote on the iOS device (and keep it installed afterward.)

It's distributing binaries to others that's the hard part of these mobile ecosystems. Running your own code on your own device has never been restricted.
I only have one 'feed' (this one).

As for the games, it was long long ago and I don't think I would have done much of anything if I had not cut the habit. The one that really did it for me was Elite, I played that so much that one evening I saw the afterimage of the main screen superimposed on the wall paper when I looked away and I realized I should really stop this before it got even more out of control.

20 minutes per day... I wish. More like 12 hours per day or so, I remember one time I arrived at the office on a Saturday because I'd totally lost track of time.
Extradition is based on treaties/agreements between countries, and they go both ways to make sure criminals cannot escape just by crossing borders. As for Kim Dotcom, his actions may fall under US jurisdiction as some of its customers and servers were in the USA, and whatever he was potentially infringing (copyright among others?) is protected and recognized by international treaties.

For online businesses it's a lot more risky as your customers and operations may be located anywhere.
Does that 'wear-out' the panel quicker? I assume that more light focused can mean more heat. I'm told people try something similar with mirrors now but it tends to not work out well for the panel itself.
I figure these chickens wouldn't be alive if it weren't for us, and if asked, would they choose not to have ever existed in favor of existing and meeting a horrific demise?

Another thing to consider - if we genetically engineered chickens that couldn't feel pain, would it be unethical to debeak them?
Take a typical thermodynamics course. Right now, MIT teaches a full term thermo course for mechanical engineers. The exams, including the final exam, cannot possibly test all aspects of thermo, so they sample, but they sample knowing that the students have been exposed to (via p-sets and lecture) the parts of thermo not directly tested.

Now, decouple the exam part and have someone else issue the same exact exam as the MIT profs give, but without requiring the lecture or p-set component. Now, I can imagine there would be a profitable industry player, call them the "Minimum Instructions for the Test", who might teach you only the three laws, enough math to work out a Carnot cycle problem, and the background for one energy balance problem, in other words, just enough to pass the certification exam.

The students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology will have passed the same test as the students from Minimum Instructions for the Test and yet I can have confidence in the former's ability to solve a basic on-the-job thermodynamics problem and not in the latter.

IOW, I think it is, in effect, creating a new problem by eliminating the lecture, office hours, section meetings, and problem sets aspect of the education process and focusing only on the final exam aspect. I'm really not trying to erect and eviscerate a strawman here; apologies if it seems that way, but I'm trying in this post to be very concrete about the problem I see with test-only certifications.
Probably not the fastest way, but you could keep an eye on Hopkins' site and volunteer for a study:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/psychiatry/research/volunteer...

It has the added effect of being legal, and being done in a setting meant to give one a pleasant experience. Their psilocybin ("magic mushrooms") research is worth checking out. They found it had no lasting harmful effects in any of the volunteers, and overall seemed to have long-lasting positive effects in many people:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/single_do...
That's not what I paid for them. Even so, computers back then in general were more expensive than they are today and 'inexpensive' is a fairly relative term for something that you earn your living with. The last one in that formfactor that I bought was an acer aspire one, probably also not a netbook by some definition but extremely convenient (especially with the built in cellular modem).
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I used nvi on NetBSD, and indeed it did work if I set TERM=vt100 inside Emacs term (M-x term).

So:

NetBSD$ env EDITOR=vi emacs
(M-x term)

Emacs$ env TERM=vt100 elinks news.ycombinator.com

(go to text area, start editing, ^T, and up pops (n)vi)

I'm a long-time Emacs user as well, but have found myself on vi for last few years, initially as a refresher. There's definitely still a place in my heart for Emacs, though. I think your characterization of Emacs is also fair; I usually describe it as a Lisp VM.

Edit: formatting for clarity(?)
> It could also provide an interest boost to solar in terms of $/watt by focusing more light into a small area. Fun times.

I can't find a single use of this for solar based on the specifications of the lens in the paper.
Also photovoltaic really doesn't need focusing it doesn't give you anything because eventually the amount of power you get per surface area is the same so it doesn't matter if you cover a 50 sq/m area with a lens and focus it on a 5 sq/m cell or have a 50 sq/m cell to begin with, also considering that photovoltaic cell efficiency drops with temperature you really don't want to focus any light on them as it will tank your power production.

Thermal solar does need focusing but mirrors will actually work better than this for that application as well because you need to reflect the light to a central location anyhow an a collection mirror does both at the same time.
User interface for the Enterprise
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I did a ridiculous amount of LSD made by Nicholas Sand in the 90s and never had a bad trip. I did it in the worst possible settings due to idiocy of youth and all is good. Don't take too much if you've never done it, and stay away from traffic and you'll be fine.

I didn't have any profound experiences, it was just fun to do. I did liquid and blotters, started at two doubles, then over time usually two "quads" which is 8 hits of insane quality Sand produced acid. It was way too much but I was never out of control, when it got crazy I just thought wow this shit is great.

I did however always get sick whenever I tried Shrooms, that was pretty awful tripping and puking at the same time.
>Also, the specs are backwards compatible by design.

The spec may be, but I doubt any of the examples you gave would ever be compatible with irssi & co.
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I've actually used "master/slave", maybe a 15 years ago, and "primary/replica" is the first time I've heard something that really describes what we were doing. It actually fits better than "master/slave", because the primary wasn't giving orders to the replica, it was giving update data. I thought it was the perfect term.

But then I realized that "primary/replica" is offensive to the replicants out there (think Blade Runner)...
tried to use ember-cli w/o enforcing some certain opinions (e.g. directory structure) on a project and reached out to the community via slack, but it hasn't really taken so far.

maybe Goya was a bad choice? someone on the slack used the term "consume" for what i was trying to do w/ ember-cli, and..

https://github.com/ransomw/ember-cli-programmatic-usage
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We just upgraded from the installing a config from paper-tape system, at least now I can use a serial port.
Google Cardboard is a piece of cardboard (& software app) that you fold up into wearable - if quite dorky - glasses that hold your cell phone about 2 inches in front of your eyes. It's not exactly stylish, but it works - you do get a real VR experience - and it's completely free. It does augmented reality as well, using the cell phone's camera. One of my Googler friends showed me a cool demo where if you stared at a QR code in a magazine, you'd see elves and magicians battling it out on top of the pages, like a storybook come to life.

https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/

One of my wife's friends is doing a startup where you can print out the "gun" for a first-person shooter as well, so you get an immersive VR experience using nothing but your cell-phone and a couple pieces of cardboard:

http://www.realiteer.com/#intro
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Looks nice and I'd love to try it out for my company -- hosted at first, then maybe on-premises if we like it.

There's no pricing details on /business, though, only a "Contact Us" link.

So I'll do what I do every time this happens: click "Close Tab" and move on.

(I don't want to talk to your -- or anybody else's -- sales people. Ever. I know I'm not alone either, so you're artificially limiting your user base if you do this.)
I don't think "nets" means what you think it means.
I saw comments asking for links to some of the program materials mentioned in the article, and while searching for those, I found a site[1] that appears to link to a wealth of information about spatial reasoning and training programs to improve spatial reasoning. Enjoy.

[1] http://www.iwitts.org/proven-practices/retention-sub-topics/...
Mirros are only used for thermal solar applications where one heats up oil or melts salts to produce steam to power a normal power turbine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy

For photovoltaics you do not want to focus the light for many reasons the cell has a cap per surface area that it can produce, you don't want voltage spikes across the subcells (if it exceeds the overall limits of the cell it will damage it), it wears out the cell, and the cell efficiency drops as the temperature increases.
Microsoft could slightly enlarge the Hololens FOV for a significant increase in cost, but it still wouldn't be good. They would have to change the display technology they use to have something immersive.
Constantly. At least one a month. It's as strange to me as it is to you.

What's worse, the people interviewing me know even less than I do. The patchwork of bullshit runs deep in San Francisco.
I agree with just about everything you said, except the "in nature" part. Don't get me wrong, tripping in nature is awesome, maybe the best place to trip. But it isn't necessary and might not even be the best for your first time (depending on what you are doing). They real key is to not have too many stimuli out of your control, particularly having lots and lots of strangers around. Especially if you have to interact with them for whatever reason.

Other than that you are fine. As long as you are in full control of what you are doing and you don't feel pressured by strangers then most people will be perfectly comfortable. And while tripping in nature has generally been more enjoyable for me, interacting with really good friends (especially ones also tripping with me, one of the best parts of the trip) and seeing your familiar surroundings with a new mind was the most valuable part to me.
PageSpeed has been a savior for me! Every powerful tool when misconfigured can do some harm.
Some of the bugs and quirks I've noticed on Twitter in the last 3 months are unbelievable to me. I wouldn't even accept them from a startup, let alone a mature public company with huge revs.

Simple example: @jack often tweets out links to periscope broadcasts. Till a couple of days ago, most of the time I clicked on a link it would say "broadcast not found." Today, he tweeted out a bunch of periscope links and when I clicked on them I saw the mobile version of Twitter (I was on a Desktop PC using Chrome), and the periscope links led to static pages containing a single screenshot from the periscope with no way of viewing the actual periscope.
When considering only acquiring substances, unless you know someone who has/is a solid source, your best bet is probably to make use of what's referred to as "dark net markets", which basically means "forums within Tor dedicated to selling substances." You can read about how to get involved with one of these through various resources online. In this case, Google is your friend.

Do note that it's not trivial to get into this in a cautious way. It will take some work to get Bitcoins, and it's possible you may lose some money to fraudulent sellers. However, the people I know source all their psychedelics this way, so it does work (at least for some people).

On the subject of finding people: if you're comfortable, you can invite your friends. This might not be wise if they're not comfortable with psychedelics, so tread lightly. Anecdotally, I got into all this literally just by asking people I knew, it turned out they where all willing and things have been fun ever since!
Well that's the crux of the problem - the corollary to your question is "can you provide a firm definition of intelligence?" Nobody can yet, so it's all speculation and subjective opinion.

The reason that I personally consider all these things parlor tricks (including, hypothetically, complete mastery of Go) is that I see no path from these particular types of systems to general intelligence. A human can take in arbitrary sensory data and make all sorts of conclusions and associations with it. Does this particular system have the capability to get to a point where it can see an apple falling and posit a theory of gravity? Will it ever be able to read subtle cues in facial/oral/bodily expression and combine them with all sorts of other data, instantaneously, to achieve compelling real-time social interaction? Will this system ever invent the game of Go, or anything else, because it felt like it? No, it has absolutely no framework to do any of those things, or countless other things humans can do. It's a machine built with a single purpose in mind, and it can only serve that purpose. It's a glorified function call. I don't think this type of machine will just wake up one day after digging deeper and deeper into these "hard" tasks. We need breadth, not depth.
> - Multi language support (I can mix English and French in my texts... Happens all the time)

That's a killer feature for me. Changing keyboard languages every time gets old fast.
Ok cool, this is roughly what I had in mind. Yes, first employee.
We just went thru this upgrade process at work - it has something to do with live sockets and the sinusoidal flux of the reverse osmogrfier, and modulating the skor motion accordingly - Rockwell had sent out a great white paper on this, perhaps you should request it from your rep.
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I would like to see category theory applied in this area, for a more rigorous model of turbo-encabulation in the abstract (independent of hardware limitations).
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What time frame are you comfortable with? It sounds to me like you're looking at a 1-2 year span to get your feet wet. There is so much to learn, particularly if you are coming from a non-finance background, I would urge you to consider committing to it for a longer span. Which would mean that you would have greater flexibility and desirability on the other side, should you choose to leave. Otherwise I would urge you to avoid the space..

There are plenty of bankers, traders, and other sell-side guys that move around. But don't use that as a template for what you're looking to get into.

To answer your question, will there be restrictive covenants, yes - especially if you are going into buy-side HFT with proprietary in-house algos.
I do have some upper-hand in that they simply cannot afford to replace me - they'd need to employ 2-3 new people plus all overheads of getting them up-to-speed with our process, adjusting to team dynamics etc..

Thanks for the advice.
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Some people might
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
bloody brilliant
<He saw files he wasn't cleared to see. Of course the government wouldn't clear him.>

To me, that makes no sense. Clearing him provides the opportunity to debrief him on what he's already seen, make him disclose any contacts requesting that information, and how to properly handle what he remembers (if anything) and what new information he is exposed to.

This is like refusing to give Sullenberger a pilot's certification because he might find water landings fun and make them a habit.