skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sir David Attenborough lost with all hands."

Boaty McBoatface was an awesome name. Such a missed opportunity...
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And who do you think voted for Boaty McBoatface? College students or 5 year olds?
And I still think that is an American cultural quirk. To me that notion is bizarre.
I think you were supposed to be patriotic, with the cold war and all.

Now a days, you are supposed to understand that governments indoctrinate patriotism and purposely inflict unneeded international distrust and tensions for their own selfish agenda.
>Trying to make the browser ideal for both browsing content, and rendering rich application UIs bloats the browser.

Maybe, maybe not - depends on how you define bloat. Modern operating systems, mobile and desktop, are magnitudes larger than their counterparts from years ago, are they bloated because they are bigger?

Having a more feature-rich browser doesn't make a browser 'bloated' - it makes it more feature-rich.

>Firefox could use a LOT more developer time spent on improving performance and reducing the memory footprint.

That's already happening, except browser performance is now focused on improving rendering engines and js engines to enable rich applications, because every modern browser is already very good at rendering 'simple', non-RIA, pages.

>For example, typically the F1 key is the "Help" key. So

Woah woah. Giving web applications capabilities that match those of native desktop applications, doesn't mean mimicking every desktop convention. The Web doesn't work with function keys, that's a convention that arose largely from platform limitations - so F1 doesn't mean 'Help' in the Web, just like F1 doesn't mean help in your CLI either. What's wrong with that?

>For all the talk about how X11 remoting doesn't work over the Internet

Anything can work - the problem is that there is no universal platform accessible to consumers to enable X11 streaming. On the other hand, almost every computing device these days provides an HTML/CSS/JS rendering engine. That's why developers want to build on top of the web-stack. So through a quirk of history that's what we ended up with - in an alternate universe, maybe the standard for rich web applications are Java Applets, or ActiveX, or X11, or SSH, or whatever. That's not the world we live in.

>With web apps, the experience is all over the damn place.

Sure, and you can go crazy, but there are conventions. For example, the way links look and behave is intuitive. I've built desktop and web applications, and there is a core 'feel' that all web-applications share because the browser takes care of so much of the behaviour and provides the base widgets and the framework. Things like the way links look, that they are underlined when you hover over them and your cursor changes, that you can right-click on a link and open in a new window/tab, how cut-and-paste and text-highlight is handled, drag-and-drop, (browser) zoom, how fullscreen works. Yes, any given page can override some of those of behaviors, but then again, so can a 'native' app.
I dislike DA for being involved, even if involuntarily, in the McBoatFace fiasco :)

OK, I don't but that would ruin the joke.
I disagree.

In my experience, outside of technicality-penis-measuring contests (like this thread, or a few particular minutes during the class I was leading a few hours ago), every time someone says O(foo), they're describing an algorithm that they believe to be Theta(foo). On the other hand, I've never seen someone _define_ big-Oh and accidentally define big-Theta, which is unsurprising, given that the big-Theta definition is literally twice as much work to write out as the big-Oh.

Relatedly, Theta is a highly useful concept, except for that fact that it's much easier to type O(n) and also mildly faster to whiteboard it (relative to Theta(n)). Why do you think it's almost useless? Mind you, I don't think it's useful enough to care about the fact that most non-specialists can't keep track of the difference between these complexity classes.

Also, I question your claims about Hell, and what I take to be your implication that you disapprove of both saying using big-Oh to refer to average-case without saying so, and of saying "average" without specifying a distribution or an aggregation function.

To the former, that's how people use the language, and meaning average-case is 100% as reasonable as assuming that big-Oh always means worst-case. Big-Oh is a system for dividing arbitrary functions into nested equality classes (well, I guess maybe the right name for this is inequality classes?), and <<average-case resource consumption vs input size>> is just as useful an input function as <<worst-case resource consumption vs input size>>. There's no technical reason, and no pragmatic reason, to insist otherwise.

As for distribution, if someone doesn't specify distribution, it means they're implying that it's true across all the reasonable distributions that they can think would apply, just like it always means something like that when a human leaves out a detail. Every single time I've looked into a case like this, the assumed distribution is a uniform random distribution of all possible inputs. There are always things left unsaid, why claim that this particular elision is a sin?
Trump did well because of the early open primaries allowed him to do well. Plus, Fox News continued pushing of him helped. A perfect storm of hate for the establishment. He lost my own state because our reps didn't buy it.
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The kind of hypnosis you see in movies is "baloney", people know what hypnosis is from movies, hence this impression.
No I didn't say that, sorry.
Looks like Christian needs help packaging GNUnet better. I'll see how much I can do.
True, but, if we are being honest, only 150,000 odd people voted for it, so it might not represent the ordinary person on the street.

But, for the UK at least, I think it would connect with a lot of people, and for a longer time.

Unfortunately, sometimes we take our selves too seriously. Especially when millions of monetary units are involved...
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Not quite like Lending Club:

>The SEC requires all PeerStreet investors to be accredited investors
I am disappointed Clinton played the gender card - that was her best argument? I thought Adams' assessment was fair. I really don't like Trump's policies, but, a person who can't see past their own gender and only represents 1/2 the population? That's a great way to lose 1/2 the votes.

It's an amazing feat, but, Clinton managed to change my mind and convince me that Trump is the best candidate of the two. Shudder the thought!

I truly feel for the Amerucan population. The only choice is who to block out, rather than who to vote in.
What's in a name? That which we call a boat etc etc. "Silly" isn't necessarily a bad thing, although the term does seem to be used pejoratively.

As for recent college graduates, they might well take a look at the swift mending hands of bureaucracy in this situation, and draw some pretty accurate conclusions about the stiff deeply unsilly hierarchy under which they'd be working.
Links:

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.toround.an...
Just for the record, I'm not saying I agree with everything he wrote, just that I found the perspective interesting.
Yeah, I guess that seeing it in terms of Top 5 just made the issue a lot more black and white.
With respect to Musk, that is total bunk. Any structure like this will have to be secured to the deck. The fact that it is a rocket doesn't matter. He may think that it is safe from falling over, but the insurance company and/or the health and safety people will tell him that cargo that tall needs to be secured. Ropes, chains, welding ... it cannot just sit there. A Volvo station wagon, on that deck at sea, would be tied. A box of onions would at least be secured so that it doesn't shift onto someone's foot. Boats move, cargo cannot.
But you will happily walk along streets with diesel fumes being pumped out?
I don't suppose you might even contribute to those fumes yourself?
I would say that the fact that this is now the top story on HN, a place notoriously not populated by 5-year-olds, offers anecdotal evidence on the contrary.

In a more serious response, as a young researcher, let me assure you that when a position opens on a superb research facility such as this, we would fight for it even if it was called the RSS Hitler Did Nothing Wrong. The PR main target here is not researchers/employees, it is the public and specially kids.
But it may make a 5 year old want to go into those fields. I think this boat has many decades of service ahead of it.
He's only defied expectations within his own party. The U.S consists of more than the republican party; You have independents, third parties and the democrats. So sure, he'll have those hard right neocons voting for him, but what about everyone else? What about the moderate (disenfranchised) republicans? Or the independents and democrats? I'm sorry, but I haven't met a single independent or democrat who said they'd vote for Trump. He's about as polarizing as they come. He'll get creamed in the general election. I'll go so far as to say that it will be the biggest landslide in history. I'm talking double digits.
By "sense of equality", do you mean "conscience/moral compass" or "perception of how equal society is"?
I don't think any 'dedicated sailor' is silly enough to choose their next job based on the name of the boat.
> Pick someone younger and you may look foolish should they become involved in something later.

Old men develop new scandals. Joe Paterno. Bill Cosby. Various Catholic bishops and cardinals.

If you're worried about bad press, better pick people who have been dead for some time.
Maybe just Sir David 'McBoatface' Attenborough.
> Humanity: a problem that solves itself, if you wait long enough.

Fixed it for you.
I said "release versions", not "production code".

Please check the very definition of assert() macro.
So basically most medicine is "baloney" for you too? (see: placebo effect and many different drugs that won't work on everyone)
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I didn't really look it up but it would be hard to believe SpaceX being a strictly American company with 100% American workforce. Hell, even if it were, it would still be troublesome if the company didn't position itself as an American nationalistic company - think about all the stakeholders. Maybe some supporters wouldn't be so passionate and some suppliers wouldn't be so perfectionist if they felt they were there for the success of a group that they are not a member of (Humanity vs citizens of USA). From that perspective, it would be even weird for NASA employees to do this, let alone a private company's.
ShapeShift is super vocal about this. They halted business in New York after the bitlicense was required.

Nice to see the application process finally stat moving though.
Remember that you can be playful without being childish - young and old both embrace that
Maybe Leeds will get bigger? :-)
If you go back a step further, then you can say that those forms are derived from White-European sources e.g. Christian gospel, folk music, krautrock, experimental synth etc. so the question remains why/how it happened.

IMHO good art comes from adversity and novelty (mixing cultures). These were active forces in the 19th century and sadly still active today.
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I noticed more and more politics submissions on the HN front page in the last 5-6 months. I think this is the demise of HN.
Thank you for your incredibly insightful analysis.

There is a lot more to the man. He seems a simpleton on the face of it. He thrives on people underestimating him.

Yet everything points towards him being an excellent player of the "Game of Thrones".

Whether you think him an idiot or not - he is one of the best strategists I have ever seen.
That looks like an Akamai error message (yup, www.senate.gov is a CNAME for e483.g.akamaiedge.net). Akamai has a bunch of (frankly ridiculous) heuristics for developing IP blacklists. So likely whatever network you're on got blacklisted for some inscrutable reason.
Can you only continue you career in London?
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The MKULTRA experiments inidcate that hypnosis is not baloney.

That said, the CIA is no ordinary hypnotist.
How can they advertise 6 to 12% annual returns (12%!!!) for lenders when 1) PeerStreet have to take out their 0.25-1% fee && 2) All of the Big Banks are offering home mortgage rates of <4%?

When the numbers are this far apart, I can't help but be suspicious.
Leave it running in a separate window.
Apple’s aging email app opens the door for another contender
Apple Mail is, like the company’s other core apps, displaying what looks to me like a gradual deterioration in quality. Its biggest problem is a technical incompatibility that makes it slow to receive messages from Google’s Gmail, which now has a billion users.
Well, you haven't made any assertions (e.g. something whose truthiness can be evaluated, like A => B).

Your only claim is that Trump is successful by today's standard. You're implying that's the reason for his success and not his "persuasive skills" and you don't mention anything else, but you are saying "case closed" as if these words are enough.

So what are you saying?
Now Gmail on Android is forcing Chrome as web browser
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Same message here (France). Are you a Tor node by any chance?
So lame!
Software engineer, roughly 9 years of experience in web development and also UX design in 3 different countries.

1. If you don't enjoy working for the company, quit and find something better. Don't wait for things to improve, especially if you don't have much influence in the company or if you don't see it worth the effort. Trust me, it's better for you, your colleagues and the whole company, your friends and family. This is the most important rule!

2. Don't get stuck in platforms and technologies that you don't find interesting (I'm looking at you .NET).

3. Ask for the salary that you want to get. You are not going to get a raise later, but don't be greedy. (I'm really bad at this)

4. Always do your background work before interviewing with the company. Ask lots of questions in the interview and make sure that it's the place where you want to work before even applying. Interviews should always be also about selling the company to you, not just selling yourself to the company. (This is what I have learned to do)

5. Remember continuous learning and improvement. Learn, learn and learn and do things better than last time. Try out new things as the industry is changing all the time. Also learn during your free time as you don't have time to learn everything at work, but remember to relax and take a rest.

6. Network with people, get friends, be a nice person who can get stuff done. Some day they might do a favour for you if you need help in something, e.g. getting a new job. (This has been very useful during my career)

7. Always work hard to keep customers satisfied and deliver excellent end result in every project. They are the ones that pay your salary and they will give feedback about your performance. Even one failure can cost you a promotion, salary raise or you don't get to do that dream project for an important customer.

8. Be motivated and find out where that motivation comes from. Do things that you enjoy as they keep you alive.

9. Don't underestimate your skills, you are awesome and you can do it. Be proud of your achievements and success stories!

10. When in trouble, ask for help and help your coworkers if they need any help. You are on the same boat.
Back to DOS, You have to load your MXCDEX001 driver in order to use your CD-ROM.
Okay but I'm pretty sure the manual pages for assert functions don't make a distinction between release versions and production code, whatever that is...
My experience with benchmarking is that the benchmark program must actually do something with the result (like, printing it). Not only because you cannot trust a benchmark to do self-validation, but also because you otherwise end up fighting the optimiser.

You don't have to print the result within the body of code that you are timing (which would skew the result), but you must have some confidence that the benchmarking setup is sufficiently close to real-world usage conditions. This usually involves the computation now knowing how its result is going to be used.

(In a similar vein, I am also very skeptical about benchmark programs that hard-code their input, rather than read it at runtime.)
As far as I can tell, the article isn't claiming that cross compilation in rust is easy, and it's definitely not saying that you can easily dynamically link and cross compile simultaneously. I develop on OSX but deploy to Linux, and that has always been an issue for me in Rust, compared to Go for example. The easiest approach for me so far has been building on the target platform with vagrant/virtualbox and calling it a day.
The problem, I think, is that the suffix "face" makes it sound like an insult. It would be a derogatory name, which is just unacceptable.
Why would you have it automatically enabled?

If you write MSVC only code you can add it to your compiler options for the projects that use this new compiler.

If you write cross platform code this is (potentially) one less thing that is different between compilers.
What is false? Nothing you said contradicts anything I said.
"dead coffee elimination" sounds more like something for Java code. ;-)
Yes making career moves from one technical field to another can be difficult - I hope you manage to find somewhere that'll take you on without putting you over a barrel.

I've found that it entirely depends what level of embedded development you want to enter - for instance I mainly work with C++ and MSQL databases on our platform - because our main device runs linux this makes sense. But other related products that we sell run on bare metal and are written in pure C.

Having a strong knowledge of C will most certainly get you far in this field, but perhaps learning the ins and outs of C++ wouldn't be such a bad idea if you have the spare time - the more niches you can fit in the easier it will be to pick up that job you really want.
Because it's a hobby and I don't have to compromise on this? :)

Also, I want to backup my system the same way I backup the rest -- with ZFS snapshots and send/receive. (Also, I really want to try using docker with ZFS on this machine.)
Popsci is not compelling. That book was eviscerated by actual scientists.
Where is real America?
What always annoyed me about Story Points is that it's a measure of complexity, not time. At least that's what Story Points are supposed to stand for.

When you state that a team should know how many Story Points it can handle, it would make much more sense to see Story Points as some measure of time. If you've completed last few Sprints 38 to 42 Story Points, with 2 full-time devs, than one could state that a single developer on average can finish 20 Story Points in Sprint. And if a Sprint is 2 weeks (10 days), that would mean maybe 2 Story Points per day for each dev.

Yet, in every business environment I've been in, the SCRUM fanatics always state that "No, story points are a measure of complexity". In practice, to me, this makes no sense. At least not if one wants to use historic Story Points to estimate how much work can be completed in the next Sprint.
Since it's a .gov domain, people can assume that everything on it is published by the US government. Nobody else can register a .gov domain. So a MITM injecting ads or changing the content would be worse than for a .com site.
Of course not!

But no hypnotist says that hypnosis is placebo!!!

I totally agree that it is.
That looks like one command to me, not two.
Yes, but if we go by number of followers on social media, then Germany is already ruled by nazis. (The far-right AfD has more fans on Facebook than all the other parties combined.)
Does that mean we would live shorter lifespans than other apes without medicine, sanitation (and all the other stuff the Romans did for us)?

I remember something about the metabolic rate being tied to lifespan.
If you think renting in Berlin is expensive, check out Copenhagen. I know a few people living in Berlin, rent is 60-100% more expensive here.
While this is entirely unethical, it is an amazing business decision if they get away with it without any harm to their reputation. I wonder if they reputation risks were considered when they rolled out this "feature". It's a good example for Bruce Schneier to add to the next edition of "Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive".
"out of touch" with who/what exactly?

People who contribute that much, but have nothing to show for it? Those businesses they built can't have been very successful..
What is still sadly active? Gospel is white and European now? I don't understand.
That's why that patterns is not applied in the new optimizer, unless the Bit Estimator proves x+1 does not overflow. After it was implemented to behave like what other compilers do, I analyzed several applications and libraries and it would have introduced silent security problems - I explained in the blog post.
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The future is now - 1) Self-driving cars 2) Flights to Mars in the next 10 years 3) Gene Therapy and Crisper 4) Robots are actual real world discussions

Happily no flying cars (We would all die), No AI yet (In the future AI I love and respect you and welcome your presence in our world)

Gattaca - The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic manipulation to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The film centers on Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, who was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to realize his dream of traveling into space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca

This is just the crack in the wall. Philosophy and Ethical questions will make this one of the biggest stories for the next decade or more.
The dead aren't as popular. Most famous people die 10-20 years after the public stopped watching them. So it's hard to find someone dead but still currently famous. Attenborough is that rare breed of famous person who is still active and respected at 89. Kids and grandparents alike know his name. Even Cosby, with all his infamy, is not recognized by teenagers because he stepped off the main stage long ago.
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>Most likely having sex with a prostitute is not your spouse

That's my point. Christianity has long been very pro-sex, just with your spouse. As I said, you could be sued for not having sex with your spouse.

>Also, as someone who was raised Catholic it was very clear. If you're not doing it to procreate you are sinning.

That is totally incorrect. You aren't allowed to prevent conception, you need to "let god decide". But there's nothing suggesting the purpose of sex must be procreation. Again, there's a spiritual and emotional side of sex that is seen as vital.
Once the Haskell people have figured out lenses properly, you can have all your OOP niceties (that anyone actually cares about).
I'm saying he was the epitome of a successful and happy person by today's American standards.