skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replying to your edit -

It sounds like you're an exception and a smart person, then. No sarcasm there.

The problem with being exceptional is that you tend to think of everybody else as exceptional, so the ones who'll naturally fail don't really have a fallback. One fallback can be self learning, but the crazy culture of "College dropouts only work at Best Buy"[0] prevents them from being able to get back on their feet.

(Of the 1,500 or so engineers I've worked with, I've only known one other person with less education. He dropped out of high school and started worked directly for Wolfram ;).)

[0] It's funny how earlier I was accused of using myself as anecdata earlier, but that same user emphatically agreed with someone who used their friend's dropout failure story as evidence that college dropouts will fail. It's so one sided... Editedit: oh, it was you. Yeah, check it out. It's kinda funny.
User-space malware, sure. Petya does a full-disk encryption.
This is really a wonderful post. Too many open source projects, conferences, and the like have turned into witch hunts by, as John mentions, the morality police. Maintainers are bullied into adopting CoCs even if there have been no issues at all in their community, and distancing themselves from valued members of their community for something dumb they may have said or done in entirely different contexts or years ago.

The whole set of posts John has provided on the matter have been extremely fair and thoughtful.
One thing I would do is add in sharable links to some of the content? I wanted to refer to some of it to someone else but I don't see a way of doing it? All I see is the main domain's URL consistently, no share button AFAIA (As Far As I'm Aware).
This is probably the most reasonable response to these sorts of pressures I've ever seen. One can hope that other groups will follow their lead and strive to act like fully-grown, professional, adults.

I'm sure they'll get eviscerated for it, though.
The relatively new http://elm-lang.org/ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_%28programming_language%29) claims "no runtime errors" and the number of compile time checks of variable types and values is really strict/amazing/well-documented.

That said I tried diving a value by 0 and that threw a runtime error.
From Poundland, which - for any non-Brits who haven't come across it - is our more upmarket equivalent of a dollar store and sells all kinds of interesting items that he's done videos about.
Agreed. In addition to "codes of conduct" that seem to assume all attendees are lecherous, racist rapists some conferences step outside their focus and end up turning away potential attendees. For example, this military member who really seems to be the target market for DjangoCon but who can't attend due to past pro-marijuana speakers. https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/4dihy4/django_train...
I don't think the QA was better then. There's tremendous variability in those older guitars. Arguably, the wood quality was better, but top makers today are still getting their hands on great wood. It's just more expensive.

One of my favorites is a well-played 1980 Tokai. In its day, it was a "cheap guitar", considered inferior to American instruments, but it's magical. It's better than Fender Custom Shops I've played - but I imagine 35 years from now, they'll be much better.
What an amazing article; cool-headed, rational and very well-argued. Especially the "Appendix" containing definitions and short doscussions/arguments is worth reading.
Well that's also interesting because it brings the potential count of simulated universes from "some N bounded by the ratio of the amount information containable by a universe to the amount of information containable by all of its simulations processed as a function of the size of the 'master' or 'original' universe" to simply "N = infinity".
That was a point I wanted to dwell upon. Awareness while committing the rituals indeed changes the game but that would be incomplete without including free will and the concept of consciousness (giving rise to awareness) in general. But then going into successively deeper arguments endangers the article ever seeing the light of day.
I don't think it's single mothers who lack empathy here.

If you have something thoughtful to say about a difficult topic, that's fine, but please don't post ideological rhetoric to HN threads.
This book is great. I highly recommend to anyone architecting modern, cloud-based applications. At the very least it introduces a lot of concepts that many different open source projects implement. It'll give you the "why", when you're looking at the "how".
MALTO (Nike SB and Apple)
> Cuba is not known for its food...

What? Cuban food is well-known all over the US.
Sure this kind of posts get pretty annoying. As the author keeps repeating "existential longing" I want to yell "get over it already" or "stop smoking pot".

But then I remember that I have my moments too. It's not everyday, but I definitely have times where I look at the mundanity of programming. Today, making these pages render in a few milliseconds gets me excited, but the other day I was watching a live feed from the international space station and simply switched the channel. Because what's is the damn point.

I don't find these posts meaningless. And don't be too quick to judge. Today it is him/her, tomorrow it is you!
Yea, people are just ignorant of the details and think "billion dollar trade" sounds bad. As if one guy could bring down a whole country because he just wanted to.
What would be a satisfying point to you? Can you describe an imaginary universe/reality that DOES have meaning, by your definition?
Leicester City and the strange finances behind rise to the Premier League top
Oh, absolutely. It's a master work. I did not mean to cast aspersions on Mr. Caro's work.
An inspiring and succinct documentary about the recovery of professional skateboarder, Sean Malto. Directed by Ty Evans. Sponsored by Nike SB and Apple.
Yes, I did a few weeks ago. I highly recommend it to anyone reading this post.
An oblique point, but we apparently have more in common with apes than monkeys. Admittedly, you could have just as easily compared us with wolverines. Nicely written!
You have to pay off your student loans somehow -- participating in (and these days, running) a corporate-sponsored hackathon is a nice way to pad a res^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H demonstrate technical and leadership skills if you're looking for a megacorp job.

Not everyone can say they won the Putnam.
I've always dismissed Anker out of hand as they are practitioners of the comically verbose product name school of Amazon listing, which I've come to associate with poor quality. Add to that the usually accompanying infeasibly high review count, and I'm genuinely surprised to hear they're any good at all.

I probably will give them a go now, but they're in bad company.
I lost some respect for Chalmers when I heard his TED talk that suggested consciousness was a fundamental force. He has some good ideas about consciousness but also a bit too mystical for me to agree with.
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Maybe they wanted to keep CPU usage low? Although disk usage would be noticeable as well (usually).
TL;DR LambdaConf invited a controversial speaker and people got very upset.

The whole story:

LambdaConf accepted a talk by Curtis Yarvin [0] for his work on Urbit [1][2] through a blind selection process. Before announcing the speaker list they realized this could be controversial and wrote about their decision to invite him anyway [3].

There was enormous push back on social media [4, 5], causing a number of sponsors to withdraw. An IndieGogo was set up to raise money for the conference [6] and was funded within 24 hours [7]. Soon after, a number of people co-signed a statement opposing LambdaConf's decision [8].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

1 - https://github.com/urbit/urbit

2 - http://urbit.org/

3 - http://degoes.net/articles/lambdaconf-inclusion

4 - https://twitter.com/seldo/status/714258138325626880

5 - https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=lambd...

6 - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-lambdaconf-and-an-op...

7 - https://twitter.com/ClarkHat/status/716242082696921088

8 - https://statement-on-lambdaconf.github.io/

(edit: formatting)
The point is to enjoy it. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Here are a couple of my favourite songs that I think put it well:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OvMoRVrqx_I

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z46va

Here's one of my favourite stories about the same thing:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/25/margaret-mead-meani...

Sometimes it can be fun/stimulating to consider the nature of existence, but if it isn't taking you to that place, why do it? I half remember a story about a famous mathematician who drove himself mad trying to solve a problem regarding infinities, to me this is a great example of the difference between intellect and wisdom. If you're driven to understand something, I'd suggest that tells you something that's interesting in its own right, so to turn it back on you, why do you want to know?
Permutation City. Recommended reading.
Useless robot waitstaff force the closure of two restaurants in China
Or Lesbains?
As the author, I guess I just wanted to go for the more relatable situation.
CoqHoTT: Coq for Homotopy Type Theory
Social Media sites like Twitter and Facebook have been shown to be addictive.

Junk food like McDonald's and Snickers bars have been shown to be addictive.

They are all the same type of product. It's amazing to see those involved in tech attempt over and over again to rationalize themselves out of that obvious connection.
What I'm wondering is have they created a model that only works if you employee "top 5 percent" people.

Sort of like if long-haul truckers needs the skills and training of Fighter pilots.
National Weather Service will stop using all caps in its forecasts
There is a technical reason to prefer Mean Square Error derived measures (like RMSE and standard deviation) in some situations (such as machine learning and value estimation): when minimizing one of these measures you tend towards the mean and get expected values correct. Expected values are additive: so they roll up nicely (get the individuals right and you also have the group).

My example tends to be lottery tickets. You minimize MAD by saying they are all worth zero (which is pretty much my opinion). But then you don't get the value of the lottery by summing up all the ticket values. You do/should get get with mean/expectation based estimates.

More of my writing on this: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2014/01/use-standard-deviatio... . Though I am also a fan of quantile regression (it just solves different problems).
Ugh. Now we're gonna be hearing about chatbots for the next 5 years :(
My best guess? In less than 15 years most aircraft will be self-flying. It will probably start with cargo planes over ocean routes, then inland, then passengers.
I read an FAQ on neo-reactionism and it's totally insane. But I would be fine with the guy lecturing about computers if he knew his stuff. Honestly I find intelligent, rational people who come to radically different conclusions about society to be fascinating.

On the other hand, if Hitler himself was alive and gave a speech on art, I wouldn't want to hear it because of his politics and actions. So clearly there is a spectrum for me, and at some point the politics become so bad I can't stand the person.

Also, by giving this person a speaking role, he becomes more authoritative in all subjects, so it probably is better not to help him. In summary, lots to think about!
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In practice some individuals do have immunity. If this case led the detectives to a local coffee shop do you really think they would have raided the owner's house at 6am and ransacked his home and business searching for something that they knew they were unlikely to find? It's not really that different from running a Tor exit node. The police knew that the traffic was likely coming from another source and that the most likely outcome was that the Tor node operator had no way of potentially knowing that anything illegal had even happened. How does that equate to probable cause to raid his house?
Without your ellipses it doesn't come across as a literal statement:

"The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles."

That is not equivalent to "White men dominate movie roles." The prevailing theme of the shit Hollywood is getting is that white men dominate movie roles. How can you look at yourself as a reliable source when you need to chop up quotes so needlessly?

Interestingly, even given your massacring of quotes, you seem totally willing to conduct thought experiments, and use the results (lol) of your thought experiments to accuse articles of being useless. Without quantification, in the words of the article "it’s all rhetoric and no data, which gets us nowhere in terms of having an informed discussion."

Unfortunately, you seem absolutely convinced that the burden lies on me to provide proof, that meets your standards, for claims you make from thought experiments, that aren't addressed or even mentioned in the article.

As I said very early on, I encourage you to do some quantifiable analysis.
Also can we call these something else? Bot is too overloaded a term. "Chatbot" is more accurate.
How exactly do you download the data? I am looking at the page the article linked to and I do not see any intelligible download link, just some factoids about the craft. Is there a giant tarball I can slurp down. How big is the data set anyway?
Embrace nihilism! (if you want)

But definitely read Camus and Nietzsche.

Camus is particularly good if you'd like to be exposed to philosophies/ideas that result in happiness, rather than ones that demand you just have it.
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Glad I didn’t read this on a Monday! I found this article to be a bit of a bleak outlook, or interpretation of life. At least Ecclesiastes offers a little bit more hope of finding meaning in the ritual than this article (thanks for posting).

‘This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot.’

So I guess it acknowledges that we are in the pursuit of contentment / satisfaction - not money... at what ever level of ritual we are following
I didn't make reference to acting out anger - I talked about acting on it destructively. Acting on it constructively is a different matter.

The side effects of a culture that stigmatizes anger or of acting on anger destructively, are that you experience it more.
> shows you keep your word

Wait, shows who? The company who pressured the OP into accepting an offer without sufficient time to think about it?

Future employers aren't likely to be able to figure out that someone bailed on an internship before even starting it.
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Indeed. The Texas music scene is alive and well. I would classify most of the guys in the parent comment as folk or folk-rock but there are plenty of real-deal country-western singer-songwriters in this genre. Max Stalling [1] is one of the finest country songwriters I've ever heard and it's a shame that he's never gotten the recognition he deserves. Bruce Robison is another that comes to mind, though mainstream country listeners will recognize many of his songs that have been covered by the hat act types.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYtiE3cAEC0

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBcM96iopPo

Edit: How could I forget Jamey Johnson? Here's one of him alongside Robert Earl Keen and Raul Malo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajb94tV-eM
I'm taking the skeptical line.

There's an old saw - "the plural of anecdote is not data." Those are extremely good examples but in the larger picture, the effects aren't nearly measurable.

This could be nothing more than a lack of reporting. But social scientists have never been able to thoroughly prove that money matters in significant ways. And I never said "it never does." That'd be foolish. My point is more subtle - we don't much know. Actual stories of corruption are rare enough to be noteworthy.
There is no point, no "for" reason. Only a "because" reason. Because you were given time. You are here because you were given time. Don't look for a point. Look for uses for time.
When will people learn that you don't fight a view by attempting to suppress it?
The really scary thing is that as he points out, it actually seems to be designed with an apparently reasonable amount of isolation between the primary and secondary - it's just that something managed to completely abrade the insulation.

That's the argument for a split bobbin. With a hard plastic wall between the two coils, in addition to the wire insulation, it's hard to get a short between both side of the transformer.

Here are some split-bobbin transformers for switching power supplies on Alibaba.[1] Split-bobbin seems to add about $0.10 to the price, raising it from $0.89 to $0.99.

[1] http://wholesaler.alibaba.com/product-detail/EE22-split-bobb...
First off, I don't like the author's writing style. Its definitely too hyperbolic for my tastes. I think the benefits of charging an electric vehicle at home are great.

But I'm still concerned about this long-trip thing, especially because long-trips mean that I'm away from the infrastructure that I've built up myself. (Is there a 240V charger at the hotel I'm staying at? or is it only 110V which only charges ~20 miles overnight in 8 hours?? Reports are 3mi / hour charge times on 110V. https://forums.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/charging-110v-ou...)
I made it, inspired by stsp, while frying in the sun at the https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015

I (still) dearly hope none of the foreign glyphs say anything that I don't like ... that would be by accident.

Can you spot a pile of poo? ;)
What he says- "When we get into things like this," he said, "anonymizing stuff, that’s well over my head technologically, then it becomes very murky and hazy."

Or, stated another way- "I'm not qualified to do my job, so I just rubber-stamp it"

Now imagine somebody saying that about a code review.
Is the hype for Medium legitimate? Why?
Actually found that incredibly annoying. These guys managed to get something working, probably with very limited knowledge and funds, that deserves an award.

It just seems this guy expects everything to look like an Apple ipad when you open it up.
A few generations ago people were much more resilient and capable to handle the real world and pain.
Now with many more people on this globe where more and more people need to downright fight to get their share it is rather unwise to overprotect groups of people that might be our future leaders.
We will have a future generation that already tries to use political correctness as weapon, this will lead to damning wars.
We can only hope that the next generation will react into correcting and balancing this current generation, because their badass great grandparents are not anymore here to correct them.
Lambda/Functions are mostly for very simplistic tasks. Resizing an image into thumbnails and storing it into S3. Saving the IP address of a request into DynamoDB. That sort of stuff.

You can't write enterprise-grade web apps with Lambda/Functions (yet) because they only support native PaaS storage mechanisms (S3, DynamoDB). You can't read/write to a database. You can't make TCP calls to another service. You can't do multithreading. You can't "import" other libraries. You can't do a whole lot that "enterprise grade" web apps will need to do.

It's still easier to do PaaS with Azure by developing your code local, debugging it local, then deploying it into a container for the Cloud.
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I'm tagging on to this, not being from the US or china, I can't see how one is worse than the other. The idea that china is a bad guy while the us is a good guy doesn't really make sense to me, they both does what is in the best interest of themselves.
> It is not news that Apple has given up on Mac OS X as a UNIX server platform.

Indeed. Having wasted many a weekend trying to get OS X Server working with portable homes, MCX preferences or the so called Golden Triangle of Active Directory and Open Directory I was left with the distinct impression that OS X Server is most definitely the most neglected product in the Apple stable.

I guess Steve Jobs' famous mantra, to say 'no' to a hundred things so Apple can say 'yes' to the one is very much apparent in this case. It's admirable in a way - that unlike Microsoft, Apple won't dogfood their server product if there's something which better meets their needs already out there.
Well ConTex is in addition to MikTex
Hi neeels :)
Aren't there legal tests that any appliance which plugs into the mains must pass? I'm surprised this kind of thing is possible, but I guess not performing such tests cuts costs.
prosecutors have a duty to 'justice' not simply to deliver the strongest result against the defendant. This is why they have to disclose information that suggests innocence.
They have a separate application for non-profits. Very few get selected (I think there were 3 or 4 this cycle), but essentially they give money as a donation. We are currently working on laying out our website, but we have put together content once it is set up.

Our next step is to break up our educational model into small workshops in order to test and gather data for its effectiveness. We plan to have our first workshop this summer.

If you have any specific questions feel free to let me know!
Aiiiigghhh! When I was 8 years old Jimmy Hendrix was still alive.
They're more an "expensive razor, expensive blades" operation. An 8-picture film pack is $24. An SX-70 camera is $470.
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There's no such thing as "not becoming political". Hosting an event is a political act; so is selling tickets to the event or paying people to help you run it. These acts might be _normal_ but they're still _political_.

When someone says, "I don't want this to get political", what they're really saying is "I'm comfortable with the politics of the status quo and I want things to stay the way they are". Sometimes that's totally fine. In this case it means giving a voice to a racist advocate of slavery.

De Goes can have his conference, but arguing that this isn't a political decision is simply incorrect.
So, caveat, this is my colloquial understanding of the ideology. I don't profess expertise. That said...

For most folks, libertarians are just... confusing.

To many, rightly or wrongly, "conservative" equates to things like free market dogmatism, some subset of individual freedoms (gun rights, property rights, etc), states rights/federalism, etc.

Libertarians often share many of these views.

To many, rightly or wrongly, "liberal" equates to a different set of individual freedoms (abortion, gay marriage, liberalized drug laws, etc), anti-corporatism, environmentalism, etc.

Libertarians often share many of these views as well.

So what makes libertarians unique is their extreme position on individual rights and free market economics. This leads them to hold views that cross the traditional left-right spectrum in unexpected ways.

Now, that said, I think it's fair to say that if you drew a Venn diagram of views covering the left-right spectrum, and then drew a circle around "typical" libertarianism, that circle would skew to the right, naturally placing them moreso in the Republican sphere (though there are many many reasons why they're an ill fit for that party). Doubly so if you take social conservatives out of the equation (which is where, I would claim, most of the libertarian/Republican disagreements typically lie).

To me, this just highlights the failings of a binary left/right view of politics, hence the advent of the Political Compass:

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