skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't there a story of some guy who's Tesla order got cancelled after he blasted Elon Musk for not serving good enough food at some event? This reminded me of that story.

There's a point the article is trying to make but in my view the dinner story completely buries it. I don't know how the invitation looked like so I don't know if the author was right to expect a lavish meal. If it said "Please join me for a dinner" and there was no dinner then that sucks and he's a bad host and I would at least say "Hey, I was expecting food so can we at least order some pizza?"

If Thiel offered you a coffee, would you expect an expensive and fancy coffee just because he's rich? If he invited you to a chat at a local Starbucks, would you expect him to pay for the coffee? The article is full of entitlement and I wonder if it's warranted. "He's rich so he can afford it" is not a justification for one's inflated expectations.
Depends on what you understand as "good life", and differences in that understanding are probably why we aren't in the middle of that catastrophe yet (at least in this area of life). But if everyone were to raise their kids for optimal job-market value, then yeah, that would start sucking pretty quickly.

> It's also quite selfish.

Seems that having children in general does that to you. It's something that I hope I'll be able to avoid when I have children of my own.
Is It a Crime to Be Poor?
That was my thought too. It seems that the author was trying to tell the story in such a way as to pull on the most heartstrings.

I live in a city, and if I hear incoherent screaming outside of my apartment, I ignore it. I figure calling 911 every night would eventually get me in trouble, so I just accept that loud, mentally ill homeless frequent my neighborhood at night.
I am curious, why do you consider make-your-own-classes a superior approach?
No, it's not.

This is about companies only granting severance if you sign non-disparagement agreements.
http://science.time.com/2013/07/23/in-town-versus-country-it...
No longer is it enough to spend the weekend running errands, doing what we normally do, and knowing that my daughter Sophie will find a way to play, whether juggling the grapes in the grocery store cart or throwing rocks into the water at Walden Pond. No: We must pay for playtime, and have it be organized for us.

"No longer is it enough?"――and who exactly is forcing this except the parents' own minds?
Reading the paper (http://whitman.syr.edu/faculty-and-research/research/pdfs/BQ...), it looks like each customer took the same amount of work to "check out" (moving five sliders to the correct position). The whole reason to divide a single line across multiple cashiers is to keep one slow customer from slowing down an entire line, so it's weird they didn't model this in the experiment itself.
Here's a list of slugs for almost all of the courses!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W1PZEQbb1jnNh-EeFUoB...
I live in a city, and I hear people screaming incoherently outside my window on a nightly basis. This is because my neighborhood has a sizable homeless population.

Am I an asshole for not making nightly 911 calls to report this?
It's not that simple. Natural gas emits around half the CO2 of coal per GWh. It really depends on what it's substituted with.
You are saying that when your individual line starts building up you feel pressure but when the single global line starts building up you would not feel pressure?
How is the target audience for Meetup elsewhere? I live in Berlin and I noticed that it's almost exclusively developers (which is fun, but sometimes weird - I went to a street cycling meetup and everybody else was a dev too). Maybe the dominance of German clubs in organized leisure is the reason for that.
Had no idea about FATCA. Absolutely insane government overstep. To impose such a costly burden on financial institutions worldwide, to make Americans a liability to those host countries, and all for such little gain ... it boggles the mind. And the fact that it's been in place for 6 years - the Obama administration must have started planning it almost as soon as they came to power, and they've had so much time to see the inefficiency of it and the negative effects, and still they haven't made a move to reverse it. Totally nuts.
Well yes, mainly. But the complaint of the laid-off workers was about immigrants taking their jobs.
The Lonely Transatlantic Journey of a Self-Sailing Solar Ship
I realize its not a technical publication, but this piece is real hand wavy.

Yes, a modern economy consumes energy reduces local entropy of atoms though agriculture, transportation and manufacture. This can be considered computation.

But then: "Late in the last decade, I developed a mathematical technique that can be used to characterize an economy’s ability to produce products. This measure of economic complexity, which makes use of information about the diversity of countries and the ubiquity of products, explains a substantial fraction of a country’s level of income, but it also explains future economic growth."

There is no substantial explanation of this measure and how it is constructed. If it can't be stated simply one suspects it is subject to manipulation and its predictive power might just be an artifact of its construction.
Oh god. I just went through this shit show for a .deb archives. Python is an absolute nightmare to package and distribute this way.
"I think it would be interesting to see what academics could achieve if they were offered some modest grants aimed at developing and maintaining viable open-source alternatives to all commercial software"

I think this would be a waste of academics. Commercial software is not expensive (mostly) because of some secret sauce. It's because delivering a functioning product requires lots of work that is thoroughly mundane and repeatable.

Analogously, one could employ chemists to bottle coca cola or metallurgists to package hammers but that would be just a waste of everyones assets.

Should government make it's own pencils? I don't think so.

Good products require lots of work that is hard to be intrinsically motivated of.
Well, you've taken the first and hardest step by admitting that the hoodie CTO was 90% right.

The next step is to figure out what is hot and learn it. React is a good candidate. So is native app development, although native app developers are finding that the indie market is basically tapped out and most of the opportunities are in contracting. Rust may bring a resurgence of system programming & low-level development. Hardware is hot but I don't know if it'll last. VR could be big but who knows whether it'll actually take off.

You don't even have to lie about past experience. Just build a portfolio project that shows you're competent in the new tech, put it up on GitHub, and explain that you were a JQuery dev but have recently updated & modernized your skillset. Companies love employees who are willing to stay current on their own time.

Remember that you can't ever settle down in today's economy. Your classmates who are doing so will have their own rude awakenings in a decade or so. That doesn't mean life has to be miserable though; it just means learning and uncertainty needs to be built into your life. You're far from the only one without plans for life; indeed, oftentimes the ones with the firmest plans are the ones most adrift when those plans inevitably don't pan out.

Good luck.
This was a great read. Very approachable.
Unsolicited parenting advice is a flaming bag of shit on your doorstep.
So you doubt that the reporting is accurate? I don't. It's very believable to me that people would ignore some disturbance outside in a suburban neighborhood.

Granted, this is an anecdote that illustrates one of the stranger aspects of isolation, and probably wouldn't happen everywhere, but I think that's the point: in some places, absolutely no one will help you.

So, to say it's a lie without any evidence to the contrary is unconstructive.
“So what do you actually do?”
> It really is a very wrong use of "isomorphic", though

It's really not.

> Two things can be isomorphic to each other but one thing cannot called "isomorphic" without specifying what other thing it is isomorphic to.

Good thing we're talking about the relationship of client and server code then so we're not doing that then isn't it?

> isomorphism is about those two things having the same conceptual structure, despite being different things.

Yup, still perfectly on topic here with Client vs Server...

> In math...

Ah well, there's your problem. It's nothing to do with the mathematical definition of the term.
Ah yeah my mistake. I worded that poorly and SMC is what I meant. Either way, great work and the rest of my comment still applies! :-)
One of the best things about HN is that by the time I see comments as horrid as this, they've almost always already been flagged by community members. It would be better if they didn't exist in the first place, but that's too much to ask.

To all the users who flag toxic comments like this one: thank you. HN has improved a lot because of you.

(We banned this account for trolling and detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11886308 and marked it off-topic.)
> One very small part of the arctic circle.

I'm not sure where you get that from. I suppose you mean that there are areas in Canada that are as cold, and have a larger population - but not, as far as I know, as far north:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Circle#Human_habitation

"The largest communities north of the Arctic Circle are situated in Russia and Norway: Murmansk (population 307,257), Norilsk (175,365), Tromsø (71,295) and Vorkuta (70,548). Rovaniemi (61,329) in Finland is the largest settlement in the immediate vicinity of the Arctic Circle lying slightly south of the line.

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the Arctic Circle, Sisimiut (Greenland), has approximately 5,000 inhabitants. Of the Canadian and United States Arctic communities, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with about 4,000 inhabitants."

Tromsø has a relatively mild climate (record cold temperature in winter is ~ -18C, "usual" coldest days of January and February are around -10C). The north of Finland is much colder in winter due to being away from the warm ocean currents, as is inland Norway.

(Source: I grew up in Tromsø, and worked for a while as a city guide before I moved south to Bergen)
Not so strange. We talked about getting blindfolds for accessibility testing and talked about maybe trying to program with them so we can empathize better with users.

VoiceOver is pretty good. If you're already a touch typist and no-mouse person it's not as big a stretch as you think. Hearing your code read back to you helps with some things.
Personally, anything that eliminates pointless, meaningless "pleasantries" is a win in my book.
I can empathise with this - I was edging on being an extravert until I took about a year of remote work. I think social skills come from practice and exposure, so when you stop interacting with people for great lengths of time, your skills weaken and you want isolation out of fear of showing your ineptitude. It's a vicious cycle; the only solution I have found is putting yourself in a social environment by force (i.e. workplaces, clubs etc).
I can't even imagine a block party in my neighborhood. We'd have the 24 year old tech multi-hundred-thousandaire from across the street mingling with the Mormons to the right and the shut-in imminent foreclosure retiree to the left bumping shoulders with the gangster guys on the corner and the kitty-corner mother-of-twelve trying to feed her kids up on hot dogs but keep them from listening to any of the conversation. Then some douchebag would blow down the street in his Mustang at 40 miles an hour, totally oblivious to the barbecues and plastic tables covered in red plastic cups...
I think Thiel supports trump because he wants trump to blow everything up. He says women voting was bad for his political block (libertarians). He thinks we shouldn't have got enforcing things like safety - instead just sue people who wronged you. just like he did to gawker.
Yes, a lot of incentives. But another important point is that they make some sense, due to the pervasiveness of renewable hydroelectric power in Norway. Being an oil producing country, we could have gone the other way, and just subsidized gasoline prices instead.
That's a very interesting thought. I've also noticed that in Metro Vancouver the majority of pubs are on busy streets or in dense city areas, rather than neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the people I know (mostly 20-somethings) tend to gravitate towards the city core for social outings, and so I end up very rarely trying the few neighborly pubs in the suburbs.
Is it really broken to fight an artificial government imposed monopoly, which is what labor restrictions on foreigners is? This isn't something that's going to make the incumbents destitute. They're IT workers, eminently hire-able and highly paid. I'm sure they can cope with a pay cut unless they've been living beyond their means, which would get them in trouble no matter what their income.
That's a large part of why I'm into social dancing.
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I'm introverted and I still prefer more population because it offers a lot more diversity in restaurants and grocery stores (I like to eat all kinds of stuff). I also enjoy the bustle of people even though I don't prefer to talk to any random individual.
> a better wrapper around virtual environments compared to virtualenv wrapper

This comment alone tells me there's something wrong about python's modularisation. And I'm saying this as a python programmer. Why didn't Python 3 clean up this mess? Or am I missing something there?
Yeah, it was the 'go to' seminal text for a while. I've used his malloc implementation in a few projects. He's also an ACM fellow, so, not really unsung (not denigrating his work, just saying that his work is fairly well known in both academia and the industry).
Sure, that's what I was pointing out.

However: Zero-Shot Learning Through Cross-Modal Transfer http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3666
Is there such a thing as anti-social dancing?
Nah, it's all good, I probably would have just stolen from you :)
big fan. just love this style / mac user since 1986.
You're assuming that the ROI generated by football isn't a transfer from other universities who lose students to the spending uni. More likely, funding football is a zero sum game which generates no overall benefit for the research community.
They works great when you have more employees than customers. Not many businesses can do that.
Not mentioned in the article, but hybrid vehicles are also quite popular in Norway - as they blend some of the benefits of gasoline and pure electric cars.

My tounge-in-cheek take on it is that people that shouldn't really need to own a car, because they're living in an urban area and should be able to use public transport, will buy a Tesla. People that live eg. a few hours outside of Tromsø, will generally buy a four wheel drive gasoline car. But some of these can be served well by hybrids too.
Interview with a Male Prostitute in Amsterdam Red Light District
McDonald's has something particularly attractive about it to older folks though. Might be nostalgia since it was the first big fast food thing, or maybe it's just cheap coffee. Not sure, but the one near me always has a couple of groups of old folks chatting there at 7-10am on sundays.
Good food, and innovations in food, follow the money. The money's not really in France. What ideas they had to contribute, other countries have now absorbed. There is as much good food and wine to be had in the Bay area as there is to be eaten in Paris, if not more.
Problem is management doesn't go for it. It was many years ago in a startup kind of situation. I recommended that instead of hiring 10 people to handle a modest workload, it would be better to employ 5 superior workers, give them twice the workload and 1.5 times the original proposed pay.

I was very confident this idea would give better outcomes as I knew potential workers who could easily handle the higher load and do a better job at that.

Regrettably my idea was not used, and true to form, the leisurely pace of work was a drag on productivity. Twenty years later, long after I'd left that workplace, the outfit was essentially bankrupt and called out for mishandling funds.

I still think I was right, but even good ideas can be hard to sell.
Plus then you own the scan and don't have to worry about DRM.

> I then run 'em through the scanner

Does that take a long time? Do you have a setup to make it faster than scanning page by page?
Strangers greeting me on the street was a culture shock when I moved from India to US (to Salt Lake City,UT). Often my brain won't process it in time to return the greeting before the person has passed me. Sometimes I will bungle the reply (saying "same to you" in reply to "Good Morning") or just smile in return or nod.
If you have greeted someone on the street and hasn't gotten any response back, please don't take it to heart.
Having community, closeness, and realness is so important for our growth but so lacking in our environments. The only way most people know to find community is through partnership (which has its obvious flaws e.g. divorce rates), or in the work place, which is often lacking in meaningful connection. Family structures are weak, and the communities formerly facilitated by religions are not being supplemented in our new, growingly secular world.

The internet can provide some amount of valuable community and support, but it's limited. Words in text can only convey so much. You can't be held. You can't shout and scream and be irrational. It's easier to hide than confront difficult emotions.

Therapy is so valuable, and its stigmatization hurts us all, but it's also limited. It's just one person, with one set of beliefs. They aren't there with you in the heat of a difficult situation. And honestly, there's something so gross about having to pay hundreds of dollars just to find someone to be real with.
How to Break into the Tech Industry–a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews
$5/hour sounds like they were violating minimum wage law which is now about $11/hour. Surely that itself is the problem, not whether the workers were foreign or local, or how much above minimum wage they were paid.
> It also has uses when reducing 48 or 64bpp RAW-format digital photos to 24bpp RGB for editing.

The author touches upon it here, but I think it's worth generalizing further: If you have high or maybe infinite precision in your color values, dithering will look much nicer than simply rounding to the nearest value. A concrete example is a color gradient. If done naively with rounding, color bands will be clearly visible. With dithering, they will be almost impossible to see.

See for example: http://johanneshoff.com/dithering/
I don't feel that I know any more now than I did before you posted this "reply".

The third branch ([s1 s2]) adds the elements of the smaller collection one by one onto the larger collection. Conceptually, it does this by constructing a new copy of the result for every addition, since conj is not destructive. It is buggy and will return a result of whatever type the larger collection is, with data being duplicated if that type allows for it.

My question was, why does efficient set union of two collections require one of the two collections to support fast membership tests? As an answer to that question, you've posted code that doesn't involve membership tests at all and supplied no discussion of why it is or isn't efficient.
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Awesome and inspiring to me, great work!

I am now looking at LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) and ELM to create a very small online game. It makes me want to maintain C/C++ chops.

It's sad Apple is so walled in that you need a VM to build for OS X, and iOS doesn't even make the list. I have an iPad, but I use an Android phone for that reason, and I only program mobile for Android. Apple is getting better at supporting iOS devs of late though...
Dan's original Redux videos are one of the finest tutorials I have seen. While the underlying concept is also simple and intuitive, after 100 mins of video, you get a very indepth understanding of th arch, problems it solves and how to use it in real life. Awesome
Yes I am. There is one gentleman who is around fairly regularly, he doesn't have a permanent home and he is fiercely proud of that. He has money to buy stuff if he wants. He likes to read and will often trade books with the used book store or ask for books from garage sales as he sees them. He was reading one Asimov's Foundation books when I met him sitting next to his stuff.

We don't get as many outright beggars but occasionally we do. One person I talked with who was simply demanding cash I suggested we trade stories. I'd tell him a story and he could tell me a story. If we agreed he had the better story I would give him $6 (which is the price of a typical paperback book). I told him about the birth of my daughter and how it changed me in ways I didn't expect. He told me about of joining the Navy rather than being sent to jail for shoplifting, and learning the fastest way to clean a mess hall that had just fed 80 sailors who had been sea sick. I gave him the $6. But strangely he didn't really want it, he wanted to tell me more of his stories. But I was out of time so I said if I saw him around again I would ask for another story. Sadly I didn't see him later. He really was a pretty good story teller.

The people who have been problems have either been high (drunk or drugs) or mentally damaged. No fault of their own but they simply weren't in a place to be human. My wife and I called 911 and helped one guy get to the hospital, he was passed out in the parking lot of Safeway. He didn't appreciate the help but I continue to feel it was the right call.
You don't have to give half your life's income to pay off the mortgage.

Use your tenants money to pay off your mortgage. ducks out of the way
Well, I understand that it is handy for the mother in dealing with depression. I don't have the literature handy.