skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does a payday loan officer in a branch do that costs $30 that an algorithm can't do? Particularly for a repeat customer?

If your analysis is correct they could do away with the branches and charge far less... Maybe make it app, even poor people have smartphones.
BIND 9.10.4 may have a fatal crash defect
If you are talking about templates, then yes: https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-template...
Wait. Trump will soon pull the plug on China. Let's see how they can survive this.

(gives them three years to balance trade with the US)
But you might have more trucks, not necessarily less humans.
This is directly related to a comment I posted on another article two days ago[0].

This may seem more surprising than it actually is, because by "overweight" and "obese" they are referring to BMI categories, according to the abstract. The overweight BMI category contains people who range from healthy, lean and muscular (think muscular gym goer) to people who have little muscle mass and high body fat percentage (think large beer belly). The fact that you can decrease cancer risk by gaining muscle (usually from increased exercise, precisely the thing being studied) and losing fat while maintaining the same physical mass and thus the same BMI, is not shocking.

Once you control for body fat, having additional muscle mass (thus higher BMI) probably decreases all-cause mortality.[1]

Unfortunately, I don't think this has much bearing on azdle's questions, since people can be fit for many reasons, either by intent or by necessity.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11714249
1: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2499472
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So where does one go to train as a software engineer? Many four-year computer science programs train you to become a CS professor, not to work in industry, which would be fine (most "soft" degrees do the same) if they didn't pitch their CS degrees as preparing you for an exciting and lucrative career, more like a law or medicine degree than an art or philosophy degree.

I made some really valuable networking connections in college that helped me get my first several industry jobs--which is good, because I sure as hell didn't have any practical skills to sell myself with. Fortunately I was able to learn up on the job and get the skills I needed (at the expense of my first job's production schedule, sadly), but I was pretty unhappy once I realized how little I'd bought with all that tuition money.
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I agree about SMS being a bad chice for 2FA, and so do the Telcos here:

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/telcos-declare-sms-unsafe-for-...

"The lobby group for Australian telcos has declared that SMS technology should no longer be considered a safe means of verifying the identity of an individual during a banking transaction."

and

"SMS is not designed to be a secure communications channel and should not be used by banks for electronic funds transfer authentication,"
This is obviously comparing different things. Bootcamps and College are not replacing each other. But there is a difference between learning because you are hungry for knowledge (college) and learning because you are hungry for food (boot camp, you need to do your job). The former makes you better in the trade.
Seems like you didn't grasp the article clearly. PG says you can't think clearly about things that are part of your identity. You think he's arguing that you should choose things that really matter to be the things you _can't think clearly about_?
Ways C compilers break for objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX bytes
The weird thing is their web version / chrome app never has the state problems for me. But the mobile version on iOS screw s up regularly. I'll reach the end of my feed with the "all done" screen and upon refresh all the stuff I just read pops back as unread. Really annoying.
> I read that cold water burns some calories as well?

Not very many. An 8oz cup of water at 40F burns 2.1 calories to warm up to body temperature.
We do. Always have. See my main comment to OP on analog computation and its models that were used for NN's. Hint: One wafer (maybe 40 chips) of analog neurals takes almost 400,000 digital cores to emulate.
Spamming 400M posts is just casual business for any for-profit astroturfing companies.

I am not surprised if you can find another 800M posts is for soft advertising.
Student debt should be abolished, its a huge brake on the economy, only serving finance, which at this point in the debt supercycle is draining real productivity.
This would give the best of both worlds. People preferring the squash style can view the log cleanly, and people preferring detailed history can get detailed history.
So what are the excellent programs in your opinion?
All keyboards have a spacebar. Not all keyboards today have dedicated page up/page down keys. So potentially more keystrokes due to the function layer.
I got the sense this article trended now because that's exactly where JavaScript/Node is right now.
How do you handle cheating?

If you're hosting all the wallets, what's to stop you (or someone who gains control of the server) taking off with all the money?

Don't get me wrong, this is very cool and using real money might solve a whole lot of Minecraft's social/"tragedy of the commons" problems, but I'm interested what other issues it brings up.
And FF46 on Linux which makes me think they just haven't ever tried this with FF.
http://thehivemind.online/?ycombinator
reminds me a bit of the joke about the kid who kills both his parents and when being sentenced asks the judge to go easy on him because he's an orphan
> That was the one black point about my gf's experience when she was having trouble finding something that suited her: they dangled the threat of dropping her from their network.

Are you saying she was turning down legitimate offers because it wasn't exactly what she wanted, or she wasn't getting offers and they were threatening her to get her to try harder, or something else?
> Since moving to software, it seems there's little preventing anyone who can sling some code from calling themselves Software Engineers

In many countries to do that, you need to have a certified degree by the Engineers association (or whatever is called), otherwise you can be charged for doing so.
Or they could use GitLab which is free software (the community edition). And you can also make private repos without fee as well.
Hyper-Reality [video]
Having a C API for easy FFI doesn't imply a C implementation
Absolutely, a lot of people in tech haven't got the faintest clue about the world outside their bubble.
I think this is a great change. I don't go after internet points myself, but I think the graph has various other benefits than just showing how many times one can do a git commit in an hour. For example if I am sending an issue or a PR to an repo maintained by a single person, I can do some preliminary judging of response times and how likely is the change going to land by just from seeing the graph. Obviously private repos skewed this a lot: some people seem to have disappeared from the end of the earth, but in reality they might just be busy working on something else, privately.

In general, the graph also works as personal log across ALL of my projects: everything I do is in GitHub, and I can easily see what kind of projects I have worked on in the past year and analyse my progress across all the projects I contribute to. I think it's a great tool with tons of benefits.
I wasn't. The third thing in the "Dear GitHub" letter was that people wanted to make the "Please check the CONTRIBUTING.md" customisable.
Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease
We did something similar at Nylas, but we built it to run in production across our entire fleet: https://nylas.com/blog/performance/
The difference here is that null is a valid term in PHP. No comment about God objects.
To the university, of course.

In Portugal, our CS degrees are called "Degree in Software Engineering" and have a mix of everything that is relevant to the world of computers.

If you want pure CS style math, then you need to take a degree in Mathematics with computing branch.

Also we do have an Engineers association that validates which degrees are allowed to call themselves as such.

We are not alone, most European degrees are like that.
They did deploy one station, between SF and LA. They say it has barely got any traffic, so they aren't planning to build any more. Others have pointed out that building the station was a requirement to get some CA tax benefit.
So, revolving debt consolidation? Interesting.
I think Suster was going there today: https://twitter.com/msuster/status/733330477046587392

People waste so much energy trying to change others when they could change themselves with practically no effort.
Where can I find free or cheap code signing certificate?
I just realised that I plagiarised most of your points in another comment before reading yours.

The lawyer industry as it is, is I think a form of archaism. In most transactions there is zero justification to custom make a contract. Most sales of houses and businesses have exactly the same terms and the only reason you need lawyers to read and customize contracts is because other lawyers customized contracts previously and someone has to do the due dilligence of figuring out what they did. I am sure you could design a robust legal system with simple laws, where citizen do not need an expert to understand their rights and obligations, and where everyone would use standardised contracts for the quasi totality of transactions.

In fact it is a bit shocking that a common citizen cannot possibly understand the hundreds of thousands of pages of law and jurisprudence they he is required to comply with and needs to pay (dearly) an expert to do that for him.
Wendy's plans to replace workers with self-service kiosks
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I was actually was discussing this today in regards to violent video games with a friend. How much father can video games be pushed to reflect reality as a whole based on thing like the reactions of the carhacters and the environment around us
Google Allo: new messaging app is latest to fight FBI over encryption
Congrats guys! Stoked to see BitQuest evolving.
I never liked git bisect skip, becuase the bug you're tracking down somehow always manages to be in a set of 3 or 4 commits, of which you can't build 2. Maybe I'm just lucky.
Turns out it's a Brave New World instead of 1984. And I am not surprised. A semi-totalitarian government based around ideology. If China's idealistic goal is set to be achieving communism through socialism, then what's better than vox populi?
With China you're never sure. Look at what happened with the OPM hack they did on the US government database of federal workers
Robots have been about to take all the jobs for more than 200 years
I work in a bank and we regularly pay for legal opinions or advice on whether something we are thinking to do is legal or compliant with the laws and regulations. Are you referring to something else when you say compliance work?
Here comes the expected complaint: Ubuntu is supposed to be the user friendly distro, right?

It seems an unfair thing to say until you experience it, or your loved one does. My SO uses gnome-ubuntu, and I am at a loss to explain why firefox crashes multiple times a week on her PC. On my gentoo box? I think the browser hasn't crashed randomly in...months? And I am on ~arch at least for firefox so they are the same version afaik.

Gentoo doesn't have as many devoted, paid testers from what I understand as Canonical does, so how is their stability relatively worse?
Editorialized title?
> If someone perpetrated violence on him because of something he _couldn't_ choose, say, his skin color, I have a feeling he'd be less likely to conclude that "The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you."

I disagree. Each person reacts to circumstances differently. It might lead him to reject (what he perceives as) arbitrary labels all the more because others were using it as an excuse to hurt him.

And yes, these labels often come from outside of us, but I think his point is to resist internalizing them.

> The people to whom this "labeling" is most important are those who were labeled. Not those who label themselves.

I'm not quite sure what you are getting at. We all get labelled, we all have cultural scripts we are expected to follow. And yes, some have more negative labels. Are you saying such people are more justified in internalizing and defining themselves by their labels?

I guess I'm just curious as to whether you accept his premise that striving for a minimalist identity helps remain objective? Is it not worth analysing in our own lives what identities we have internalized that we could do without?
If I attack you because your identity conflicts with my identity, say over differing skin color, then it demonstrates his original point: the label I've given myself is making me behave dumb/stupid/evil.

My action creates no obligation on your part to adopt the identity I've assigned to you. Your station in life has no impact on whether you will accept the label; you are a human capable of reason and you have free will - the choice is yours.

In literature, Tom of Uncle Tom's Cabin is a solid example of this. Tom, a heroic black slave, rejects the labels and associated moral principals others (both black and white) wish to assign to him. He acts in accordance with his self-selected moral convictions. And when confronted with an ultimate evil that demands the surrender of not only his body but also his reasoning mind - demands he accept an unchosen identity - he refuses.
I would go out on a limb and stipulate that letting an enemy army free reign behind one's lines is a sure way to get rekt.
It's just in Stellaris it takes a year for anything to happen from bombardment...
It really needs some improvement to wartime movement
I fell out of my chair when I heard what US students pay. It's pure predatory ponzi finance really.

Worst, people spin morality plays out of it, without ever doing the math or looking at systemic flows and going... 'hmmm maybe all this talk about personal responsibility and fortitude is completely irrelevant in the face of systemic unsustainability'
> likely to need another loan next month anyway (although getting it will be harder since they now have an outstanding loan).

When they only have to make a small payment, they effectively already have another payday loan equivalent. Before, they had to scrounge up $230 to pay off the loan, and they could get another $200 loan back out immediately. Now, they can take $230 from their paycheck, move $200 from one pocket to another, pay off $20, and have a bonus $10.

In other words, any money they would have gotten from 'another loan' is an illusion, because that loan was sourced directly from their own wallet, with someone else taking a cut. They don't need 'another loan'.

For someone's borrowing costs to increase, they have to be in one of two scenarios: The first is taking out a payday loan once and never rolling it over. That scenario is not a big deal because the total cost is small by definition. The other scenario is someone that takes out the same value in one-year loans every month that they would have taken out in payday loans. This is not a reasonable comparison, because this person has ten times as much outstanding debt.
Whenever I'm working on a big patchset, I always make sure I add a checklist. Unfortunately nothing forces me to do this, so some people make huge patchsets and there's no history of what was changed or fixed in that patchset. This makes review and maintainence quite frustrating.
> Insofar as the issue of his tone or arrogance is concerned, I don't get that. Is it possible that when we complain about an adversary or messenger with bad "tone" or "arrogance" that there is something in the message that we don't like? Certainly he is direct and blunt in his approach. Doesn't put me off.

Wasn't a substantial part of Black Swan a story about a fake novelist writing a novel that people didn't like and wouldn't publish or something? It's been a while so I don't remember the details but it was pretty clearly Taleb coyly describing how he couldn't take editorial criticism.

There was also a lot of shit talking about sycophants, and then talk about how Benoit Mandlebrot was so smart that he thought Von Neumann was not that bright, and Mandlebrot likes Taleb so therefore Taleb's work must be super important.

I don't think any of that falls under the category of being direct and blunt in making an intellectual argument. It's just extraneous ego-driven bullshit.

The climate stuff is unrelated but worth making a short note on. The physics of climate change (not called that because it's less politically controversial, but because it's an umbrella term that describes a host of related phenomena that aren't solely an increase in temperature) are obviously complicated but not completely chaotic. As a professional (caveat emptor!) geoscientist I would phrase it that the longer-term changes are more linear but the shorter-term changes are less so, described quite nicely by you: "'Chaos' theory that lends exceptional stability to many phenomenon.' That being said, there is certainly a fair amount of stochasticity in the system but cutting carbon emissions by half (back to 1977 levels) just is not going to result in ice bulldozing Omaha. Really. It wouldn't be adding a new attractor, but it might be bringing one on a little more slowly.

But then again I'm just Ozark trailer trash...
Welcome to the Age of Trump
The story about the person who kept his identity small, during WW2 ( https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392 ) :

"""

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.

TLDR: paul graham is sofa philosopher.
C is simply the Correct Tool For the Job when writing cross-platform (native) UI's. It's simple, it's callable from almost any other language, and all OS GUI API's are already in C.

There has been a lot of negativity/arguments against C here lately, which in my opinion has been very exaggerated.

Seriously, how often do you guys write GUI apps that _also need to be secure_? An application isn't secure just because you write it in another language, there's a lot more work to it. If there is even such a thing as secure.
Pokemon never gets old, learn how to draw a Pokeball in 30 seconds
That only works if you can 1) write fast and 2) decipher what you wrote earlier. I'm fortunate enough to be able to meet both of of those characteristics, but I know one of my colleagues specifically learned LaTeX and emacs so that he could take notes quickly in math classes. LaTeX for equations, emacs drawing mode for ASCII art diagrams.
Washington Brings Regime Change to Venezuela
Just because the hack originated in China doesn't mean the Chinese government was behind it.
Which Buildings in Manhattan Couldn't Be Built Again Today?
Amazing brainstorming tool
That keeps being repeated along with the "filter bubble" trope now and then. I'm not sure I buy it.

Most of the stuff out of my "filter bubble" is just incredibly low quality garbage, whether it agrees or disagrees with what I think.

I can't see how actively going out of my way to read articles about how Kim Kardashian is an interesting intellectual adds much to my horizons.

There's only so much information we can consume. There seems to be this myth that looking now and then at the opposite viewpoint from what you believe frees you from the constraints of bounded rationality. It doesn't, and I haven't seen very conclusive evidence that it helps in any meaningful way.
No, it is the year of the Java desktop.
There's virtually no app that I feel thrilled to use on my laptop.
Why is it a risk? If you're applying for a job and potential employers see your all-green contribution graph, there is a very high chance they'll ask you to elaborate on that. At least now it is possible to actually show metrics for writing code that cannot be published or open sourced. Unfortunately quite a few recruiters care about it(because being a rockstar on github is a trend), but the initial screening process would filter out those with faked commit graphs.
I actually put Arch on my SOs laptop, because I knew that Ubuntu would probably break in some way in a couple of months. But I'd probably go with openSUSE if I needed to reinstall GNU/Linux (the community has put a lot of work into stability as well as having up to date software).
Focused solely on one bug - probably about 1 week - which was finding a bug inside Apache Thrifts RPC protocol.

But I find you rarely spend time focused on one bug - not just for practical reasons, but this is usually not the best way to fix difficult bugs. If you focus directly on it you're in "alert problem solving mode" rather than "quiet reflective mode" and insight and creativity only come in quiet reflective mode.

I've solved so many bugs while playing minecraft, or standing in the shower, or walking to the train.

If only I could convince my boss that when I'm playing minecraft - I'm only distracting my immediate consciousness (is there a word for this) while my mind is actually reasoning about the bug / rubber ducking
People would hate to admit it, but Trump has very strong linguistic appeal. He has a way with words that is wizard like.
There are some particularly concerning scenarios:

1. Google collects and stores information about my children, and it is released (by accident or otherwise)

2. Google profits off my childrens' education, has financial incentives not aligned with those of my family

but mostly I just think it's really fucking creepy for an advertising broker to be building up a profile of a first grade child, and I think maybe schools shouldn't become reliant on an ad company to help deliver education.

To assuage my concerns, Chromebooks should be usable without creating a Google ID. Or maybe the whole school should have a single ID used by all students.
> that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.

WPF is native on Windows, Win32/WinForms is also native on Windows. I'm assuming it uses Win32, although a third party FFI to WPF would be very, very nice.
Does arch have something like Software in their gnome 3? My SO isn't as into tech stuff and I wanted it to be easier for them to install stuff without having to google or know apt/emerge/pacman
If A results in B being taken as a preventative measure (to stop Q), and then C occurs as a result of that preventative measure, then the causal graph looks like A->B->C.

That is, both A and B can be said to cause C, in the standard counterfactual sense of the word "cause": if you hold everything but X constant, and add more X, and more Y occurs, then X causes Y.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't do B. If Q is worse than C, it's still a good choice. But it does cause C.
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They should just give to that guy who stands outside in the white suit, collecting money for that drug rehab center, all year round.
You pull it on the upward strokes too. Have you used a fountain pen for long periods of time? The nib acts as a spring (in fact it's called a "feder" in German, which coincidentally can mean "spring" though it also means "feather" which, of course, is the sense in which it is used) if you push on it. Little kids learn with a special kid's pen which has a very strong nib because they tend to push down hard and to push on the pen.

I don't know if they still require it, but as of 5 years ago my kid was still required to do his schoolwork with a fountain pen (until grade 8).
Also TK doesn't offer native looks. Wx tries, though I'm not sure how good taking into account all platforms.