skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything changes => inevitability of death.

If you 'survive' (say every cell is replaced) then what is "you"? I'd say it's more likely to be a set of linguistic & cultural norms than it is to be anything fundamental from the view point of physics.

So that raises the point: is 'you' conceptual or is there anything fundamental? It makes sense for evolution to have selected for organisms to believe there was, no matter what, something fundamental, existant & worth preserving about them, but really - we're this group of cells & the plants we ate for breakfast (and the efforts of the farmer of those plants and so on)

Of course, as a "manner of speaking" (that is, in common every day culturally contingent world), all this is bogus.

But from a fundamental, naturalistic point of view, I don't see anywhere else to go :) It's also a very parsimonious view as you get to explain a lot of stuff with less entities, etc :)
duffs device.
> Syntax Doesn’t Move the Needle; It’s All About Tradeoffs

That section is gold.
Khemer Rouge, Gulags in USSR, The Great Leap and Cultural Revolution in China etc. Sorry , Commies/Left too sold themselves to people as crusaders of justice and there by order. The trains on time, thing was also promised in India esp. in a era that is remembered in INDIA as "EMERGENCY", and that violation of civil rights was brought to you by....(drum roll) Center-Left Indian National Congress.
Sorry about that, I definitely wrote the README with a Rust audience in mind. I posted this link to the subreddit for feedback, and really didn't expect someone to post it here.
This game is fun and addicting. I got pretty high scores too.

Unfortunately it's kind of easy to game, in that the window actually adjusts before big changes because I believe it's trying to predict the range. Also, if your reactions are fast then it's pretty easy.
The point of the article isn't that Uber is hurting taxis, but that it's also hurting other forms of public transport, and other startups in that space (such as on-demand bus services.)

Just because Uber > taxis doesn't mean Uber > everything.
That photo looks fantastic! It makes me sad we haven't sent people back to the moon in almost half a century.
Patanjali leaks user data
That's exactly what tzs said they don't want.
I have never understood objectives or why they end up on resumes. I think that must be some bad advice from 20 years ago.

Instead of listing personal projects, just have a link to a portfolio. I like to see and not be told.

Education is nice to have on top. Generally keep it pretty terse: where you graduated from and what your degree was in.

Internships can be a fantastic leg up, but may be hard to get into if you are a bit out of college.
For those interested there is Soviet movie about that agent - "ТАСС уполномочен заявить" - popular TV series of 1984. And I just realised that it was in fact 1984!
So what's Uber's long term game plan? Wiping out local taxi companies could be one, but people aren't going to disown their less-driven car anytime soon, nor is public transportation going to go away.

At some point I assume they're going to turn the corner and either need to raise profits or cut expenses. You can build a moat with cash for only so long.
C# clone? It's far more like a Kotlin clone without the JVM.
Objective - I'm about 51/49 on this. I don't see many, if any, cases where it really helps, but can imagine corner cases where it might hurt (eg, if you look too ambitious, or not ambitious enough, etc.). All in all, I'd probably leave it off.

Otherwise, while most people default to chronological resumes, there's a case to be made for a functional resume for recent graduates, people changing careers, or people with non-traditional educational careers, etc. The idea is, emphasize your skills and what you can do, rather than what you have done.

If you're not familiar with functional resumes, here's a pointer or two:

* http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/7770-functional-resume.html

* http://career-advice.monster.com/resumes-cover-letters/resum...

Now, the flipside is, there are people who argue that "functional resumes are bad", like this:

http://www.quintcareers.com/functional-resume/

My feeling is that if you're using a functional resume to try and hide something, then this kind of thinking holds. But if you're young, recently out of school, etc., that will be pretty obvious anyway, and a functional resume may still be better at emphasizing your skills and strengths.

FWIW, if I was reviewing a resume and it was for a entry level job, I would not in any way "ding" the candidate for using the functional style. In fact, I'd probably appreciate it, because it makes my job easier than trying to infer things from your description of your various class projects, internships, summer jobs, whatever. Just go ahead and tell me what you think you can do, and an interview will be the opportunity to dig deeper.

If you'd like specific feedback on your resume as it is, feel free to email me (prhodes@fogbeam.com) or post a link in this thread.
serious question: do you really think cheating is more prevalent in cycling than in other sports?
If you will certainly die for the lack of some thing, then you can truly say that you need that thing.

Senescence and death costs the species and the planet a horrible price in lost productivity, social conflict, medical costs, human desperation and suffering. Even if you don't want to live beyond some fixed span, if you want to impose suffering and death upon others...well, I don't even...
Corporate income tax is levied in 44 states. I'm not sure if any counties/cities have corporate income tax. Presumably if Apple et. al. have to pay federal corporate income tax they'll surely have to pay the state corporate income tax as well.
There are more alternatives to handle this. For example, the language could provide a tool that does any rewriting for you.
Just put them properly angled and positioned in the highway medians instead.

This is not hard people.
While I agree that Swift and C# share a lot of commonalities and are fairly similar languages, the better integration of Objective-C alone makes the new language worth it.

I don't know anyone in PL who thinks Swift is a bad language. It's a nice, conservative, tasteful design that uplifts some proven functional features. What's not to like?
No, a truly general AI would play the way we do ... based on goal seeking. Current chess playing programs give moves a single score based on comparing and tree pruning millions of position evaluations, so they cannot possibly articulate what went into that score.
Also:

"Glass"

"What is the worst solid dry surface to try to drive over?"
It would be an interesting thought experiment to estimate the number of developer hours spent on chat applications in the past twenty years. It would be a very large number, and I don't know how i feel about that.
> made me wonder how often such scenes played out over the years

I would guess not many. Mainly because the KGB learned their lession. Here is there video of them apprehending Dmitri Polyakov, a high ranking general working for the CIA for 25-something years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-1ogBb6kg [warning: man being held and his shirt is taken off]

Notice how they are holding him and what they are doing to him. It is presumably so he doesn't have a chance to swallow a poision pill or inject himself. .
Ask HN: Residual income project ideas?
I'm looking for residual income projects related around software. It should be bootstrappable, and done by one person.

The build first approach usually, for example submitting to codecanyon etc. seems to require lot of up front work which I'm open to.

I'm even open towards making a 2d game.

What are some ideas out there floating around? The key point must be that it is something achievable by one person boostrapping.
> “I feel really terrible,” Belgian national team coach Rudy De Bie told Sporza. “This is a disgrace. I never imagined something like this would happen to our team. Why would a rider do this? Especially at such a young age. And who is responsible for her? I’m embarrassed on her behalf.”

Oh yeah? I can't imagine such a cheat would pass overhead of the coach. It feels like VW executives saying it was a couple of zealous engineers..
Chess level cannot be determined by the strength of individual moves.
I use visual basic to pay my bills in Excel. It's unique in that Microsoft has never seen fit to integrate any other language into Excel. It has a large following in finance and other business disciplines. Companies have also undertaken year long concentrated development efforts solely to produce Excel spreadsheets (and VB macros) that run their business.

What can you learn? That a poorly thought out language will become incredibly popular if it is the only thing integrated with an extremely popular application. Make the language ubiquitous by tying it to an application.
Technically I guess you could make it a subdomain but no one would actually do that in a production site and in my 14 years have never seen it used, not to mention that major search engine bots will lookup both. The general user will simply type in the domain name more times than not without the www
You gotta be kidding. Here is how it works in reality. CIA operatives get the budget to kidnap Snowden. They organise "leak", but nothing was done in reality, they just wrote down that money.
One of the most compelling reasons to start using Swift is to make your project more attractive to job applicants.
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I was arguing with a friend about this long ago. He won the argument by simply asking me to translate the word "rectangle" into Spanish. It really opened my eyes to just how inadequate my foreign language education had been.
No, it isn't, exactly or inexactly.
Rent bills high enough to make any student rebel
Like everything else, Barbie has evolved. There's a new Barbie line called Careers which includes Barbie as a startup founder, doctor, teacher, opthamologist, engineer, and even president. Barbie Careers dolls aren't all caucasian either.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3D...
> "There is a lot more area coverage in roads than state-owned buildings"

and there's a lot more area coverage in state-owned buildings without solar than in state-owned buildings with solar, or that will get solar in a reasonable timeframe. It's not like we're running out of rooftops and need to find alternatives.

Even if the government did manage to cover all of their rooftops, there's still plenty of residential rooftop area that can easily be converted with proper incentives. I'm pretty sure we can generate enough solar power to handle all of the needs that solar is suitable for before we come anywhere close to running out of rooftops.

Even if I'm mistaken about how many open roofs there are and how much solar capacity they could handle, there are a lot of other and better options before you get to "put PV cells on the ground underneath semis".
This sort of parallelism is common for big matrix number-crunching on machines with large numbers of CPUs. There's a big computational cycle, where lots of CPUs are turned loose on an isolated chunk of the problem. No shared state changes during this phase. When they're all done, there's a state update to shared state for the next round. For that kind of work, each thread does about the same amount of work, so the threads finish at roughly the same time. This is useful for finite element analysis, hydrodynamics, weather prediction, and similar large problems that decompose into spatial cells. If everything follows the updating isolation rules, results are repeatable.

But for real-time control?
Explanations for choices have nothing to do with nodes or layers.
http://swiftcomparsion.qiniudn.com/
If isolated trees of these species do not have these space creating directional tendencies, then in a group the trees are not just "growing into available space".

I haven't read the book but I think you can investigate this to affirm or rule out plain affinity for sunlight during growth.
Compare all you want ... that doesn't tell you why the choice was made, because it was made by evaluating and comparing many millions of positions.
Let me introduce you to a little sport called baseball!

Also, I'm 99% sure the NFL's world is about to come crashing down when there is some sort of forced acknowledgement of how many players are taking HGH
"Those sources say the company’s investors have told employees that they can show up for work on Monday but that there is no guarantee they will get paid if they do."

Is that even legal?
that is actually false. The majority of people no longer type in www.
For example, in the last 10 years branding has completely remove the www and so likewise user reaction has followed suit. Unless you are targeting an older crowd, the vast majority ignore www on a search. With chrome being the major browser now and with browsers allowing search from the address bar, lookup without www is pretty much standard - again assuming your users are in a class of under 35 years of age.
I would say that the actual source code there is extremely ugly. It may be an elegant solution, but there's no way I would want to crawl around in that repo:

x2 = number * 0.5F;
y = number;
i = * ( long * ) &y; // evil floating point bit level hacking
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );
// what the fuck?
y = * ( float * ) &i;
I loved my OG Pebble from a functionality standpoint.

That said, if your goal is for dressing up... I would probably recommend against the Pebble Round. Drop by a Best Buy and check one out in person at least; my impression is that it looks terribly toy-like for a watch and would not be something I'd choose to wear in a more formal situation.
It's strange that almost no one commenting on this has the faintest idea how chess programs work. Chess programs score moves by scoring and comparing, recursively, many millions of positions.
German ranger?

1973. Ivan Marchenko "Biological field of forest ecosystems"
Also see theory of biogroups by Rogozin.

634.9
М 30

Марченко, И. С.
Биополе лесных экосистем [Текст] : монография / И.С. Марченко; Брян. гос. инж.-технол. акад., Ин-т экологии междунар. инж. акад. - Брянск : Придесенье, 1995. - 188 с. : ил. - 1000 экз.. - 20000 р.
Along the same lines, I thought this was good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarium_%28Suvorov%29
There's something that seems more egregious about it.

But I really don't know or care enough about sports to defend this position.
A bit of PHP is always beautiful
One of the most useful cases for smart watches, for me personally, is sleep tracking.

My LG G and my Pebble before it integrate with the alarm app Sleep for Android. Basically, I set a "I need to wake up by X time" in the app, the app uses the sensors in the watch to monitor how heavily you're sleeping, and will actually set off the alarm at the point within ~a half hour before the alarm time where you're sleeping lightest.

For someone like me that has a very, very hard time getting up in the morning, it's a fairly life changing thing. I also have Sleep tied in with a set of Philips Hues in my bedroom to have it start ramping up the lights to wake me up.

I'm still not a morning person, but I'm less likely to sleep straight through my alarm in the morning these days.
The question was rhetorical. And what is needed is aptitude for the specific task, not "IQ" ... the two are often very different.
"I doubt if computers can invent/innovate."

Sheer ignorance.
it's not taboo, it's just that the joy of cycling for a lot of recreational cyclists is in propelling yourself with your own power, suffering, finding your physical limits and pushing them, getting stronger, these sorts of things. sort of like asking why segways are taboo for cross country runners. e-bikes are just a benefit in utility, like you said, to get from point a to point b faster. but once you have electric assistance you're no longer truly cycling, you're doing something in between cycling and riding an electric vehicle. the ability to have assistance stops it from being an athletic experience, which defeats the entire purpose for a lot of people.

the other thing: a change in chainrings and cassette makes a much larger difference in "ease of pedaling" than a fancy carbon frame. if you buy a fancy carbon frame and carbon wheels the reason is to go faster while suffering just as much. want a easier time getting up hills, slap a mtn triple crankset, long reach derailleur, and wide cassette on your clunker. now you can exert yourself as little as you want and you spent $150 instead of $2000.
This would really depend on the demographic. Someone that is more technologically inclined would understand. However, appealing to the broad spectrum the general public would not. However, that example has to do more with the domain extension rather than www. Another example would be the .co domain extension example. In the western part of the country it could be easily recognize, but in the Midwest the demographic is much different and the general public may feel that a .co domain is merely a spelling error. It's all about your user demographic and their perception. Go with non www and then a redirect. Unless your demographic runs on 2G, either way isn't going to drastically affect your users. I would be more concerned about your file and images sizes than 100ms of a redirect.
Do you ask that of natural evolution, too?
Look up Niall Ross's summaries of Smalltalk conferences over the years: http://www.esug.org/data/ReportsFromNiallRoss/. They show interesting stuff that people do with Smalltalk and will help you decide whether Smalltalk is for you.

Personally, Smalltalk rocks!
Way too much money in having the big name bike sponsors all involved.
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"while this method does tree search all the way to the end of the game"

No it doesn't. You seem quite happy to just make stuff up that you know nothing about, like "2-3 moves into the future".
XCode has migrations for stuff they break. They are not perfect, but most of the time, they work.
American professional sports are commercial entertainment.

Cycling can't seem to decide whether it's a clean contest of human performance or a contest of artificial performance enhancement.
That's no counterpoint because the World team (of which I was a member) was made up of boobs on the internet, not players of Kasparov's strength, which was the premise of the question you responded to.
Great, thanks. Any thoughts on what works and what doesn't, more generally?

Also, what do you teach and to students of what levels of aptitude and skill?
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But most users will copy/paste whatever's in their URL bar, which will include www. if the site redirected them to it.
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> but for some reason the spacing is a bit off in the web view.

It looks like Github doesn't explicitly set tab-size so it defaults to 8. 4 seems to work better.
Naive factorial implementation in Haskell

factorial 0 = 1

factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1)
Have you tried meetup.com? How about the Hacker Dojo?
Interesting comment by a reader of the WSJ article: a former director of Theranos works for a company that manages investments for Capital BlueCross. He could have been instrumental when the initial cooperation formed. Of course, this is just a speculation.
This is nonsense. To combine AI systems requires a mechanism to combine their evaluations. The most effect way would be a feedback system, where each system uses evaluations from other systems as input to possibly modify its own evaluation, with the goal being consensus. This is simply a formalization of argumentation -- which can be rational; it doesn't have to be based on personal benefit. And generalized AI systems may well some day have personal motivations, as has been discussed at length.
It's clear that we've entered into the maturity stage of the product lifecycle. Devices are not innovating like they were 3 years ago and that's OK. It means things have reached a plateau and you'll see a focus on optimising.

Apple's growth is going to be flat, that's expected. If they want to see growth they've got to create a new market.

I hope for their sake they are working on a car and it isn't just an OS for car manufacturers. Apple excel at optimising the whole process, they could wipe Tesla Motors from the map with some of their classical execution.
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This question was asked to some top programmers and computer scientists. The answers are collected in this book:

http://www.worldofbooks.com/catalog/product/view/id/2366045/...
India and world would've been better off without partition. It has only created regional instability. The government could do a lot better, I mean there are still many archaic laws, from before India got freedom, in the constitution. Overall India seems to be on better track even though the progress is slow. Amount of educated youth is also rising. Corruption is declining as a result of media coverage. There is a lot of room to improve, but the fundamentals look good.

Because of partition part of british india was turned into Pakistan. Pakistani civilians do not hold any grudge against Indians is my general opinion. Its their Army and ISI that does not like peace for very silly reasons. I do not get what they are trying to achieve. I hope they'll clean up the mess they have created and finally become a good, democratic and progressive country.
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The Solaris kernel source. I got a deep appreciation for the elegance of it when I was working for Sun a long time ago. I can enjoy analysing that code base, which is opposite to the feeling I get when looking at the Linux code.

It's not overly clever, but it's incredibly clear and easy to understand.
Lyft for iOS is probably one of the largest Swift apps http://m.fastcompany.com/3050266/tech-forecast/lyft-goes-swi...
And yet only Microsoft gets criticised for doing it. :)
`www` used to literally be a different host in a network (and in some cases, I'm sure still is) specifically designated for WWW traffic. Think of universities in the 90s which had their existing infrastructure and an Internet facing host on their primary domain and they want to add a web server. They may have had a firewall, probably no load balances, so routing port 80 around their primary host was much more complicated than just throwing up a new host and DNS entry.
So what if he claimed it? It's not a credible claim, and in any case the current top chess programs are far stronger.
Viv: Voice-controlled personal assistant from the team behind Siri