skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditionally England does not use Monday as the start of the week. This is easy to see if you look at older calendars.

At the moment there's some inconsistancy:

Sunday to Saturday: https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave/pay

Monday to Sunday: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/statutory-sick-pay-manually-calc...

Googling for ["sunday to saturday" inurl:gov.uk] or ["monday to sunday" inurl:gov.uk] shows a bunch of examplesof each.

EDIT: You asked for links, so here's something from 2009 asking why it's so hard to find a calendar that starts on a monday: http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-200944,...

> Why is it so hard to find a calendar that starts the week on a Monday, not a Sunday? It can't just be my family who gets outraged by this.

And here's something else from 2009 which (weirdly) explaining why it's so hard to find calendars that start on Sunday, not Monday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6495398/Officiall...

tl;dr England used Sunday as the first day of the week until they started using ISO standards for time.
shhhhh ;-)
Super Mario 64 – Watch for Rolling Rocks Done with 0.5 A Presses (commentary)
We're going to darken the text on our next push. Thanks for pointing it out.
> Anyway, 7-year-olds do not actually have an anti-authoritarian streak; they crave the attention, acceptance, and approval of their parents and teachers.

FUCK YOU.

This is the response you would have heard from 6 y.o. me, if only I wasn't scared that my parents would punish me for swearing. That's how far my respect for authority went :)

I had gone to preschool for one year. I remember it as being locked up for half a day with a bunch of infantile imbeciles under supervision of not much more serious adults. I despised all those alphabetes who didn't give a damn about anything farther than 1 meter away from their nose and equally despised the teachers who acted surprised that I didn't care to socialize with the former. I think they suspected me of autism, but this was clearly just psychological defense to cope with my rejection :)

Caring about the teachers attention and acceptance would have meant behaving like a little dumb shit running around screaming and quarreling with others such. Not an exciting perspective.

I remember how at one time the teachers complained to parents that I never greeted them (which means I probably did, ha ha). My parents had to enter the class with me after having threatened that they'd make a scene if I didn't greet the teacher :)

Actual school was only barely better. At least the other kids were forbidden screaming. Still boring as hell.

> Where things get serious is when a kid refuses to read AT ALL, or worse, is demonstrably incapable of focusing long enough to read.

Why would anyone focus on something he/she doesn't care about?

I strongly feel that the reason behind most of those learning disabilities is keeping kids in an environment where ability to read is completely unimportant except for those few unfortunate hours they spend at this asinine place called "school", hours they'd like to forget as soon as they end. I hated school for being childish and boring, but other kids apparently had their own reasons too. I don't think many kids there actually cared about school. Especially in the first few years.

BTW, regarding reading being unimportant, I wonder if the rising popularity of computers won't suddenly provide a magic decrease in "reading disabilities". I was raised in the age of TV, but I feel like nowadays it's harder to obtain entertainment with no ability to read at all.
> I find it slimy and too saturated with grease.

McDonald's used to fry their foods in a blend of coconut oil, tallow & lard. Then the charlatans pressured them into switching their fryers to biodiesel (aka Soybean oil). Now McDonald's french fries are soggy.

I expect KFC ruined their product in a similar manner.
Using a library like Bluebird couldn't you simply write and get the exact behavior intended?

async function renderChapters(urls) {
Promise.map(urls, getJSON).each(j => j.html));
}

or

async function renderChapters(urls) {
var chapters = await Promise.map(urls, getJSON);
chapters.forEach(j => j.html);
}
- Police are not a judicial function.

- Thanatos is the concept of Death.

- Chthonics are characterized by their association with the earth.

> Chthonic (UK /ˈkθɒnɪk/, US /ˈθɒnɪk/ from Greek χθόνιος khthonios [kʰtʰónios], "in, under, or beneath the earth", from χθών khthōn "earth") literally means "subterranean".

(wikipedia: Chthonic)

Wikipedia's "Chthonic [Greek] Deities" sidebar lists the following: Demeter (I mentioned her in my comment too); the Erinyes (or Furies); Gaia; Hades; Hecate; Iacchus; Melinoe; Persephone; Triptolemus; and Trophonius. This is not a list of gods related to justice, or thematically connected to justice. It is a list of gods thematically connected to (or, in the case of Gaia, being) the earth. (Hecate is noted in the article on chthonic deities as not receiving chthonic sacrifices, but as being categorized as such in the modern day because of her connection to the underworld.)
Best life hack.
Back in the mid-2000's when Slashdot was "working" -- It was this: A bunch of yahoos would post enough inane comments, that an expert who actually worked there would get annoyed enough to write a long, insightful post full of actual facts.
You can open an IRA at Vanguard that would certainly be much cheaper than whatever you're paying that guy: https://investor.vanguard.com/ira/iras
NPM should not have been fine with it [0]. KIK|Bob's language is in violation of npm's stated Code of Conduct and Dispute Resolution process. If npm actually read KIK|Bob's emails that were sent to Azer, I don't see how they could have allowed that dispute to continue, let alone side with KIK|Bob.

[0] https://medium.com/@blakelapierre/bob-stratton-and-kik-inter...
The tracks still run through Renton and Bellevue and can connect to the rest of the light rail system in the Tukwila area.

I'd build the system to the border of Kirkland, and wait for the Kirkland residents to get fed up with rotting on 405.
That requires leaving the house though. Even worse, it requires going in to Walmart.
Supervised Sequence Labelling with Recurrent Neural Networks [pdf]
Just because these companies are doing well today says nothing of the potential impact this (still very present) risk holds for them.
My father knew this about me, and forbid me to read too many programming books (but instead had to concetrate on real literature). Later he told me, that by doing this he actually made me read (in secret) lots of programming books (and damn... he knew about it :)).
What about ElasticSearch. Even though its search engine, its growing in popularity as schemaless JSON data store
"However, our appeals to Amazon affiliate program administrators (associates@amazon.com) and even Jeff Bezos (jeff@amazon.com) were either ignored or answered incompletely, leaving us wondering if anyone was listening. "

This is pretty standard for Amazon marketplace seller services. They take a 16%+ cut of all of your sales and have absolutely nobody to help you when your account is banned or disabled by one of their auto bots.

This happened to a client of mine a few years back. Near 100% feedback, complying with every rule, and one day they get the ban hammer (for a claim that was later withdrawn by the original person that filed it).

Amazon withheld $50,000 for over 3 months while they were 'investigating'. After 3 emails where Amazon responded with canned responses, they said the matter was 'closed' and all future emails would not be answered.

Do NOT do business with Amazon. You will end up sorry and probably without a business. As as an associate or marketplace seller, they own all of your clients and you are responsibly for anything bad that happens. When you get kicked, they have all of your data, your clients, and your money for 90 days.

On top of this, they compete with their own marketplace sellers (unlike Ebay) and use all of your sales information to undercut you. I witnessed it many times with the above client.

This should be against the law. I think the only reason they haven't been sued out of existence is because their so big.
All it takes to have a galaxy forever full of self-replicating vN-B probes is the launch of one probe from one civilization sometime in galactic history. The odds that we would observe no probe here are (1 - P(a civ will launch a probe)) ^ N(tech civilizations). I assert that no probe has been observed, and I contend that N(tech civs) must be low, since P(launch) must be pretty high -- it just takes one E.T. script kiddie with a Stephenson matter compiler to make it happen sometime during the lifetime of a tech civilization.
> It’s not that people lack friends, she says. Facebook, Instagram— scroll around and you find a country bursting with mugging, partying companionship. It just isn’t real, that’s all. “There’s a real me and a masked me. We have a word for the lonely gap in between that: kodoku.”

I find this to be incredibly true in the US as well. I'm a university student, and there is a marked difference between how I know my friends are feelings vs. how they post on social media. I went through a long period of depression a few years ago because (for a variety of reasons) I was isolated from most of my good friends. Spending tons of time with them on social media didn't make me happy. It was confusing, feeling like I was still in touch with all my friends but at the same time not getting any of the usual positive emotions.

There's really nothing like human companionship.

EDIT: I say "how my friends post on social media" because I stopped using it. I'll log in and skim every once in a while but I stopped posting about myself entirely a few years ago. Instead, I try to call or email my friends. For some reason, email feels much, much more personal than Facebook. I've really gotten to know some of my friends better by writing back and forth with them. Different media inspire different conversations, I guess.
The Race Is on to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech’s Future
Wasn't there a thing that happened a while back where a fitness tracker was found to not work with darker skinned individuals?
IDK, I suspect half the time, my real friends and I are pretending to like each other, to maintain polite relationships for the other half of the time that we actually do enjoy each other.

What I mean is, nobody actually wants, needs, or should have 100% pure honesty all the time. Does it matter if the 3.5 days out of 7 that someone puts up with my cantankerous nature is to have access to my money or the other 3.5 days that I'm shaved and showered and generally pleasant?
A man cannot have a child by himself, he requires someone to be a surrogate mother, which is expensive, rare, and in many cases legally and ethically grey. A single woman can (due to certain medical procedures where the needed biological material is already in stock), and while a pregnancy is not cheap, there are no where near the significant legal and moral issues.

Of course either could adopt a child if they really wanted to. So really we need to determine are we comparing extremes to extremes, or are we comparing what actually happens in the population (and at what point do we disagree and thus need to begin supporting our ideas).
The problem (crap, way late to post, sorry) is that you may record the task "Have friends for dinner". THEN you start working backwards on the dependency chain. It's a natural way to break down problems (why am I shopping for food if I don't know what I'm shopping for?). Shopping for my weeknight dinners is different than shopping for my Saturday night party (literally different tasks if they're time separated).

So the desire is to be able to record a target task, and obscure it (so to speak) behind the preparatory tasks. This is where projects and other things come into play. Project: Make a journal for my sister's wedding anniversary. Tasks: Purchase materials, assemble, hire artist friend to produce neat drawing on cover, distribute for signing by family (both sides). Those end up becoming ordered in some fashion (purchase materials, then the rest), or running in parallel (hire the artist friend and paste it into the produced journal, send out a single sewn signature to family and sew it into the final product, assemble the rest and wait). If you've only recorded the task "purchase materials" you don't have a concept of what follows it (and it remains in your head). This doesn't mean you need to see the following tasks, yet (software can hand them behind the tasks they depend on or by date or similar). But recording them is not a problem.
So you've now moved the computational complexity to the fitness function, which needs to consider future moves as well?
Huh? The gaming community has spent the last 10 years or so fighting to get games recognized as an art form and now you think that limiting expressive freedoms is a good idea just so copyright infringement doesn't happen?

One of the most impactful games I've ever played was a PS3 exclusive called "Heavy Rain"[0]. That game, while having several branching storylines that create vastly different endings, was basically an 8-hour long interactive movie. It is one of the best games I've ever played but I doubt I'll ever play it again. I'm certain that I would make most of the same choices and reach the exact same outcome.

Another recent game that I really enjoyed is called Firewatch[1]. It's basically a three-hour movie. I don't even think it has different outcomes. You experience the story they give you.

That game was excellent (though really short for being $15). That sort of game would not exist in your worldview.

I watch Let's Plays almost exclusively as my digital content of choice. I first discovered Firewatch through an early pre-release copy that Marbozir played[2]. Luckily his pre-release copy only took you through the first 45 minutes or so and I was able to enjoy the full game on my own. Despite enjoying the game, the first 45 minutes of my game was incredibly dull because I'd already seen it played. Had I watched a full Marbozir playthrough, I would have probably never purchased the game. Without giving away any spoilers, once you've seen the whole game, there's really nothing left to experience.

I'm really torn about this article. I'm a game developer myself, so I definitely want to encourage people to buy games and support developers, but I have a family and rarely find enough time to actually play games. I get all of my enjoyment in late-night Let's Play sessions. This is a really tricky problem to solve, and I think being dismissive of a genre is dangerous ground to tread.

Thanks for your comment, though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Rain

[1]: http://www.firewatchgame.com/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_gwFDm21zA
Unfortunately they are the part of communication that we hang the whole communication on. If we identify people by any other part of the conversation we would have the same trouble I'm sure.
The same way uBlock manages their lists of ads.
Same thing could be caused by illness, physical injury, family issues, etc, etc.
Four Books on Debugging
My Erlang Factory keynote also goes into the design considerations and PubSub layer optimizations that sits underneath Phoenix.Presence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9ckqCMiKk&feature=youtu.be
You get a Roth IRA without ridiculous fees. For example, Vanguard (as mentioned in the article) has some.
Most retail weeks. Grocery stores still often use a Wednesday->Tuesday week.
Azure, Meet Barricade
As others here have noted, the affiliate game is a risky one. You are in essence a sales rep for whichever merchant(s) you work with. A merchant has ZERO legal obligation to continue working with you, and can often discriminate against you as they see fit, terms be damned.

If you don't own the relationship with your primary source of revenue, your business is built on a rocky foundation, and if the weather is fickle enough, you can be washed away overnight.

Having been an affiliate, managed an affiliate program, and worked with an OPM to manage the program, I can say that stuff like this happens all the time in the industry, and that's why the #1 rule for affiliates is "diversify diversify diversify."
My wife and son have no middle name. An ex-girlfriend also had no middle name. I would have thought it's pretty common.
Why Does Pessimism Sound So Smart? (Especially When Things Are So Good.)
That sounds like a resounding endorsement for anarchy. :-)

Game theorists will certainly disagree with you that there's no value in group cooperation. It's pretty obvious that any group that cooperates is more powerful toward almost any goal than any individual or group that does not cooperate.

But the question implied by Levine isn't whether cooperation is "worth" more than uncooperation. He's asking whether authority is always good, and hence, whether anti-authority is necessarily bad, or whether it's often a constructive alternative to group-think and submission, given that everyone is inevitably part of one or more groups and thus is obliged to choose a path: conform, change the rules, or quit the group. Levine's implication is that those who choose not to play by the rules, and disrupt the group destructively, are not necessarily pathological.

But I think Levine didn't succeed in making that case. He claimed only that some people are labeled as malefactors strictly because they refuse to conform to norms or authority. He doesn't say what fraction of those cases did so unhelpfully. In fact, I suspect all were disruptive to the group's normal conduct, and most in a destructive way.

That's not exactly a strong case for singing out, "Viva la difference!"
Precisely. The whole article uses similar callbacks. I think it's a great piece.
Don't forget that automation is expensive and fragile. It will cost a lot to maintain automated systems and it will cost less to keep people alive. So sooner or later people will just be hired to do jobs that require dexterity and creativity, for a little bit of money, which will be more than enough to buy a comfortable life.
I constantly get downvoted. It's not very beneficial to your karma to have unpopular opinions here... Instead of up/down votes a la Reddit, which comes with the Reddit mentality, too, implement Facebook or Emoji reactions. Be positive! Best for your actual karma is to ignore and not to punish (i.e. downvote). Popular posts get more upvotes, so, they essentially push up the good stuff anyway.

I think downvote should only be a reply, but, of course, you can guess who downvoted you... which is fine as hackers should not be cowards!
It simply says, "over politics". It doesn't even say what politics. Depending on the reading it suggests somewhere between pettiness or conviction. The only editorializing that makes some sense is to include that it's related to LambdaConf (provides context for those aware of the issues facing LambdaConf's organizers, but doesn't alter the substance of the title).

And this has nothing to do with relativity. Titles can be as non-neutral as possible and be appropriate. They should not be altered by submitters in a way that adds or changes a message not present in the original.
Tay, the racist statistics “robot”
Yeah I feel like there were a few dark times in my life when I would have definitely paid for this service; paying someone to go out and have fun with you certainly beats sitting in your apartment drinking alone and feeling bad.
I don't think I'd consider std::stringstream to be particularly obscure.
So what if I want to sell a text that is also hate speech?
It sucks allright.

The performance numbers are actually mediocre at best in "real world" conditions. When I tried using it in a project where both high performance and concurrency were needed, I also discovered that it doesn't scale past 1 CPU core - probably uses mutexes or inefficient locks. I gave up on it rather than trying to fix it.

That said, it has a simple API and sometimes neither concurrency nor ACID are important.
Machine Learning with Octoblu and Microsoft Azure
These are societal and philosophical concerns. A child's physical development affects how they interact with society as they grow into adults. Should a pregnant woman be able to negatively affect her child's gestation because she can't wait three or six months to start a business? Additionally, should parents allow themselves to devote their attention to a startup over their children?

In my opinion: Things that only affect her (abortion included) - her business. Things that negatively affect anyone else - her children included - societal, varying on impact.
Sorry, I should indeed have specified "jump right up" as "a few days of recovery." Thanks for clarifying.
You can sleep in on Sunday, but you need to go to sleep at a reasonable hour which IMO suggests your preparing for the week aka starting it.

On the other hand Friday night through Saturday night is party time.
There are a two things that bother me about your post.

1. You mention you want the "life of luxury" that these "lucky" people enjoy. If you spend your life chasing wealth, you will never feel satisfied. These "lucky" people spend their days doing something they love, not just chasing wealth. This motivates them to learn constantly and become better everyday.

2. The difference between you and the people who are "lucky" is when they get rejected, they study harder, learn more and keep persisting. Instead of doing that, you wasted your time writing this post to complain.

Figure out what you want and go after it. Do whatever you need to do to achieve it. It's as simple as that. If you don't really want it you will fail.
> But just because they aren’t asking, it doesn’t mean the pregnancy isn’t foremost in their minds. It is almost worse left unaddressed.

> On a call last month, a male investor finally raised the issue of pregnancy

> After the call with the investor who questioned whether her pregnancy would affect her ability to close the round, Na’ama was stirred. She told me that this is the first time she felt what it is like to be a woman, rather than a person, in her interactions with investors.

This feels like it might be a reason (although I'm sure there are others) that investors don't bring it up. You talk about being uncomfortable with people not bringing it up, then someone does (in a way that didn't seem inappropriate based on what you wrote, but I could be misreading), and then it makes you uncomfortable that they asked. It feels like there's really no way to win from the investor side.

Na'ama sounds like she handled the question really well, which seems like a big win for her in an investor's eyes (at least the good ones). From your perspective, if she's got a great answer to the question, wouldn't you want an investor that asks you how this major, life changing event is going to affect your team? For the sake of conversation (since this is being had in other threads) let's assume that said investor would also ask a man that question if they knew his partner was about to have a child.
Badoo launches photo verification for safer, more efficient online dating
This looks like a viable alternative to centralized solutions. I didn't even know git-notes[0] existed until I read that git appraise uses it.

[0]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes
I recall Kinect had the same problems.
If I'm reading your comment correctly, you're asking why the spies don't rm -rf. That would kill any chance of them coming back to a potentially good source of intelligence.
Exactly. Sure they may not be the pinnacle of amazingness. But they work fine. And if a sock and lego go shooting up the tube it is simple to unplug all the bits and fine everything.

I assume if they make a car they will make it simple to find the fuses and pull out the spare tyre.