skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison to dreaming reminds me of a comment in Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms:

"One way of viewing the two terms in the gradient (43.9) is as 'waking' and 'sleeping' rules. While the network is 'awake', it measures the correlation between x_i and x_j in the real world, and weights are increased in proportion. While the network is 'asleep', it 'dreams' about the world using the generative model (43.4), and measures the correlations between x_i and x_j in the model world; these correlations determine a proportional decrease in the weights. If the second-order correlations in the dream world match the correlations in the real world, then the two terms balance and the weights do not change."
Great to-the-point article.

To add from personal experience, a similar method can be applied for daunting tasks. To give an example: If your todo-list seems overwhelming you may end up procrastinating or stressing out. The solution can be a variant of what's described in the article: Write a new list with only 3-5/fewer items and focus on those.
"Hottest on record" here means "hottest since 1950"(when proper record keeping began).
After Verisign's SiteFinder stunt, I was shocked to hear their contract was renewed. This is the first I've read about Verisign suing ICANN over the matter and getting a settlement giving them the contract renewal.
Objective reality doesn't change just because the dept used to have a different name, that's stupid.

Exactly. Then why did you bring the name up? Nobody was even talking about the name before you posted; seems rather silly to complain about people discussing it now.
A Step Closer to Artificial Human Beings?
Is it still doing well? There are still jobs, yes, but everything I hear about the working conditions for doctors entering the field today is that their quality of life is not substantially better than that of a homeless drug addict.
So they want a life like they had at home, before the war started.

Makes sense to me. I mean, I would prefer that over living in a refugee camp for 15 years and being treated as a second-class citizen, with no future. "To live" is more than just existing.

You'll note that the Syrian refugees are also going to places which don't list all the befits you described, like Brazil. Then again, there aren't many opportunities for them as they don't speak Portuguese.

If you had to flee your country, would you want to go somewhere where you couldn't speak with the locals, or get a job?
If you are a oh-my-zsh user, the Git plugin has tons of aliases ready to use: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Plugin:git
Should for-profit crash courses get federal funds?
And what's the risk to the US if it isn't? Compared to the impact and risk of existing visa categories?
Scheme is probably the most beautiful language I know, but, alas, of limited practical value :-(
It seems that about every 2 or 3 months, we have the hottest month on record.
Probably because the poor behave differently from the rich - they tend to overeat more, exercise less, smoke more and drink more.

Also any disabled person (who probably has other health problems that reduce life expectancy) is by definition poor (poverty is defined as low market income).
In practice, Google is already a mediator of sorts. They decide that "car parts" points you to carparts.com while "computer parts" points you to newegg.com. (I hear there are other search engines that provide a similar service.)

All we really need is a canonical identity that doesn't change when IP addresses change. It could just as well be a random string.
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down!
The difference lies in directly and voluntarily working for such an org vs doing general work they also happen to have a use for. I get your argument, but it's odd that we make an exception for government orgs while we don't for, say, a doctor that willingly aids criminal orgs (for profit) with underground medical services. Who decides which partially violent organization is the one that gets a pass? I certainly cannot, so to me there's no difference in working for the mob or working for the military, when most military conflicts, which are events requiring the help of all kinds of professionals, are caused by irresponsible policies.

If you don't happen to live in a region where the military is the sole employer, and therefore you have the option to not work for them, and you're also concerned by the conflict of their actions vs proclaimed mission, then what justification is there to work for them directly?

What it boils down to, if I were at Red Hat, and I got presented a project to work directly with and for the military, I would kindly decline. But I would still work on Fedora and/or RHEL because those aren't exclusively for the military.

You can work for an arms producer on automatic assault rifles, but then you cannot reasonably expect me to believe you're under the impression that the products you build are purely for hunting and sports. Then there are arms which you can work on that are unlikely to be used by the military and primarily for hunting/sports, and assuming hunting is for controlling wildlife population, it's understandable why it's morally acceptable.
I got PR under the old FSW system in just over 12 months (applied in 2014).

Never stepped foot in Canada before then. Now I can stay here forever.

Citizenship after just 3 years.
It still blows my mind they Verisign to retain .com despite all the obvious corruption.
Isn't that what "highest on record" always means? Highest value since the start of the record.
I fail to see your point, though of course the abuse is allowed by the system.

Compare numbers of H1Bs in relation to number of employees and see how Tata compares with others

Not to mention most "Java engineers" are a dime a dozen
But you're still typing `git` every time!

alias g=git

I've got my Git configs up at https://github.com/kristjan/.dotfiles/blob/master/.gitconfig if you'd like to sift through them. The very most common, like `git status`, get their own Bash aliases too (https://github.com/kristjan/.dotfiles/blob/master/.aliases#L...). Who can be bothered to type a space?
This is not about the USA in general, this is about military and especially the US military.

If this was about helping the military of my country, I would also find it questionable.
The wager would be a lot easier if you didn't have the uncertainty about living 30 years after retirement or 10. I would like to see suicide become a socially approved choice so we could eliminate the risk of those potentially terrible living conditions in old age.

(I have stretched my year off to 2.5 and counting... would definitely rather live like this for fifteen years and check out than go back to work to support thirty years in a nursing home.)
And it won't improve until the world population starts limiting its meat intake.
Alternatively, if you are a participant in a hundred million or billion dollar loan, you aren't going to hire some green lawyer fresh out of law school to represent you. You're going to get the guy who has written dozens of these contracts.
> you gain that experience you aren't a broke lawyer anymore.

so basically you're saying they are broke because their education isn't actually adequate for the sort of work they would be undertaking.
The thing is, people don't find regexes difficult for any single reason. It depends entirely on context, the goals you're trying to achieve, and your skill level. The whole point about this article is that the real issue is regex experts making assumptions about novices' experience based on their own experience.

It depends a lot on what level of learning you are on. My hypothesis is that beginners are learning the individual commands and stumble on the escaping and the context. You don't need the mathematics for the mundane everyday simple matching that goes just a tiny bit beyond replace "a" with "b". The popularity of the original article seems to support the hypotheses that to the bulk of novice users (vast majority of whom probably are not HN users) the visual syntax approach would be helpful.

-OP/author
Good tip, though I always feel a pang of irony when I learn something like this while procrastinating.
Indeed. Often, meaningful progress on Digital Government can be hampered by short-term political imperatives. Even in countries where the public service is supposedly 'politically neutral' (e.g. Australia). You're right to worry about this being viewed as a 'rockstar' solvable problem: the problems are systemic and often have little to do with the merits of a given technical solution.

I did a stint at Australia's version of the UK GDS (www.dto.gov.au) and it was a supremely frustrating experience. Inter-agency politics, poor management and, frankly, a severe lack of technical competency at all levels were apparent. I was fortunately working in a team of (highly) technical competent people, who were had experience dealing with the the government bureaucracy. By about day two we were all bringing in our laptops and wireless internet dongles because the systems we were provisioned were utterly useless (Windows 7, no local admin, filtered internet). Our server and development infrastructure was mostly on AWS and GitHub.

Every single person in my unit has since either left, or been virtually pushed out of the organisation. Our preference for building up service-based infrastructure, developing a federated and privacy-preserving digital identity framework (distinct from a technical system implementation, which my team prototyped using OpenID Connect), and direct public participation (via GitHub) were at odds with the preferences of senior management. They preferred shiny new dashboards, a single government service 'portal' and a fully centralised roles-based permissions/authentication system for all citizen & business to government transactions.

I wish the solution were as simple as throwing technical talent at the problem until solved. However, this is unfortunately not the case. I admire the idealism of talented engineers who are willing to get involved to make a difference. I just hope they realise that, although absolutely necessary, rationality and technical merit are not sufficient for solving this problem. If they don't realise this, they're going to have a very unpleasant and frustrating time working in government.

Probably the most important attribute they'll need is 'persistence', of the same kind needed to successfully fight a guerrilla war.
I love writing Lisp, it feels not so much like coding but like writing poetry... Unfortunately, it has lots of problems with interpreter interoperability, lack of threading, etc. (unless I simply haven't found the solution to my problems yet). Therefore I often find myself forsaking it for Python, which has the added advantage that my friends will be able to read the code.
Clarification: we have too many people in jail. Automated systems that allow even more people to be jailed with little human intervention are what I am talking about. Not people getting their day in court.
The data may be the same but is the contention? In other words, if you have 100 clients accessing and writing in AWS but only 1 on the laptop it isn't realistic and the schema may still be at issue.

How large is the dataset too?

Honestly, I know people like to complain about Mongo a lot of times, but frankly I have had really large and small datasets use it and when setup properly with a well designed schema it never was the bottle neck in terms of performance etc. But on a couple of occasions we chose to move away from Mongo because the trade off in schema and machine config to make it work was more of a problem for us.
Absolutely true. It's not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of trust. Most employers I know value the employees who they know they can trust and rely on much more than the ones who think they're smarter than everyone else.

There are needs to be filled. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, general contracting, maintenance, janitorial, painting, roofing, auto repair, etc. You don't have to be a genius or close to it to do any of the jobs.

What you do have to be to be successful long term is on time and trustworthy. You do a good job at a fair price and show up on time every day your customers will be happy and they will recommend you to other people. Most of the people I know in these fields who meet that criteria have more business than they know what to do with and actually make more money than I personally do in my "intelligent" tech job. I could make more if I moved but so could they, so that's a wash.

What blows my mind talking to these guys is that they all talk to me like they believe I'm smarter than them...and it's odd. They are perfectly successful business people but there is just the aura of talking to people who do something that you don't know much about I guess.
Given the design diversity that we might see from a large number of small phone producers, it seems inevitable that Apple may have something in common with one of these phones. I wonder if you get to a point where you can't change your design for fear of infringement.
Not sure if I'm in the majority or minority here, but I actually prefer that the main command (git in this case) not be shortened. The rest of the options are where I find aliasing to be useful. Only because as the numbers of aliases you use grows, it becomes more likely that you'll overwrite your single-letter aliases.
What do you define as useful? Is a philosophy degree useful? They score among the highest on the LSAT.
Primarily in the fact that in the same sense that 'the code is the law', the code also is known to have this property that it is vulnerable to collective human intervention. You can argue that that is in inseparable property of the code itself.
Maybe that would be better. I admit that I don't know the first thing about TLA+. Agda is what I learned about in school, and what my computer science friends are excited about, and I was already interested in using it to write verified compilers. Writing compilers with functional languages was also a part of my university education. But that's just my background.
I've saved up a long list of them into a big project that I will definitely tackle one day. Definitely.

I just need to sort out the definitions and overlapping boundaries with habits, tasks and projects and what I should be documenting and not documenting, and how I should keep a record in terms of time-stamps and how to structure my information.

One day I will definitely do something.
> where I live

Important to remember that "Earth" is a valid answer for where you live, as well.
It'd be great if we could extract subtitles from video and put into a nice text format that's easy to read so it's skimmable. Then when you get to an area of interest, you should be able to click the place where you're interested and a video will pop up and start from there. Then when you've heard what you wanted to hear you can minimize the video and skim the text for the next area of interest and so on.
Not a book, but the computer history museum has a silicon valley exhibit.
Simple Contracts are Better Contracts: the Meltdown of the DAO
Question: why does every entrepreneur think she/he is "creating" jobs, and not just transferring them from one industry/workplace to another?
Serious Question: Why does the US always get away with average or below average temperatures? Every time I see one of these maps, USA (outside of the West Coast) is always blue.
if you could 100% accurately and reliably model a contractual understanding in any kind of language, it would have been done eons ago. human language (i'm fond of english in particular), is extremely expressive.

but there's a reason we still have courts and judges. it's because language is the tool through which humans express their desires and fears (computer language included, because it is written by humans, so far), it's not a machine.
Show HN: How to create a simple Twitter bot with Python
What a waste of an article and opportunity. The journalist had the opportunity to sit with 30 other tech visionaries listening to them talk about their vision for the future, and he just..forgot everything they said because he was hungry, and spent most of the article writing about his own hunger?
That's pretty common. Doctors don't really learn to be doctors in any sort of independent way until after their residencies. Certainly not from med school alone.

And I can attest that as an entry-level engineer with a CS degree, I was a totally useless person to assign a project to. It was several years before I could be handed something and expect to do it well at an enterprise level.
Let's talk seriously. Israel withdrew from Sinai and dismantled a few settlements in in the Gaza strip. It didn't relinquish its full control over Gaza's borders, air space and maritime space (which means, in fact, on the whole Gaza economy) such that Gaza is still considered by the UN an occupied territory.

In the meanwhile, Israel keeps expanding its illegal colonies in a foreign territory, the West Bank, contravening to the international law. It also unilaterally annexed the whole city of Jerusalem, also contrary to international law. And it unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights, demolishing over a hundred Syrian villages and giving the land to Israeli settlers, also against the international law (as was recently reaffirmed by the UN Security Council).

As of 2016, 750000 Israelis, about 10% of the whole population of Israel, lives in illegally occupied territories. This number has been steadily growing for the past 60 years.

Let me clarify the concept if these numbers seem a bit abstract. Israel is stealing houses and fields and destroying villages and driving out native populations, by economic and military oppression, in a quest for lebensraum for its own population. This is completely unacceptable by any modern western standard.
>But Google and Facebook are not the only companies in town that provide these products

Your argument falls apart there because they wouldn't be the only companies in town doing "medical or fundamental physics research" either.

It is blind luck that the industries and/or execution by Fb & Google allow them to print money - I don't think you can expect the same successes had they started off as medical or physics startups.

Incidentally, Alphabet is diversifying into medical research with Calico, and I hope it will turn out to be more than a billionaire's way of coping with their mortality.
Shrugger, I think we are aware that DoD is too big to only have one objective. My aunt, anecdotally, had a long career in cybersecurity with DoD. I still posted the comment about the old name because the DoD engages in expensive and unnecessary wars which use such a significant percentage of DoD's resources. Using the name "Defense" to interpret the department's actions decreases understanding of it.
At this point, there is a 100% chance that this is the coolest Spring/Summer in the last 15 years. It has broken 90F ~four times, and rained at least once a week in a place that normally rains once a month and is lucky to see a high be only 90F by the end of April.

Climate change is pretty nice this year. If it wasn't obviously bad, I'd be cheering China and other "developing" countries on. The "West" has nothing on them.
> talked into have his pacemaker replaced

i don't want to sound callice, but it seems like the "sales person" was trying to get more sales (as they are wont to do). A car sales man would talk you into replacing the car you don't need to replace because that's his job.

It's up to the consumer to be clear about rejecting, and if an elderly isn't of sound mind to do so properly, their relatives should've been there to do the thinking on their behalf.
And all other registries with prices under ICANN who can't even use the benefits of scale that much are subsidizing the domain names?
Does anyone have a good argument for why carbon emissions should be zero rated?
Don't get the point why people who made their money from tech (like Thiel) should be worse (regarding what they do with their money) than people who didn't make their money from tech. It's imo. positive that they have strong opinions and take actions vs. laying on the beach and drinking cocktails (quoting the article).
Google wants to see what the site will look like to someone who clicks to it from google, because that's what their users will be doing.
Where are you moving from?
Americans' Confidence in Newspapers at New Low
Obviously there would be UDRP.
lately, a lot of GP seems to be relying on an expert system to help diagnose/work out treatments for things. AI, as populeraized in hollywood pop culture, seems to only include things like human intelligence, where as in reality, AI encompasses things like expert systems, which is already very common.
hmm, i'm a programmer, and i think even with current-gen vive this could potentially be really cool. wouldn't be surprised at all if this is the future.
So that they can lose $2 billion instead :)

Just kidding; bad joke; I just couldn't resist.
Certainly everything in moderation - I only give letters to commands I literally type hundreds of times daily. Over the past 10 years, I've accumulated 5:

b=`bundle exec`, though this is becoming less often used and I may remove it
d=dotenv to easily wrap a command in environment variables
(https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv)
g=git
h=hub (GitHub's extensions to Git)
j=autojump to move to common directories using just a few characters
from their name (https://github.com/wting/autojump)
> In fact I think the trend to teach kids English via "phonics" makes spelling harder; comment back if you want to discuss further.

It took me a long time to realise the point of learning 'phonics' at school (they were called phonograms in Australia).

While I can see why writing and reading without speaking makes phonics look useless, for children, all of their language is initially communicated through sound. Putting a bunch of symbols in front of them and saying that it has meaning isn't going to help them - but showing that the symbols roughly correspond to sounds that they already know have meaning is a pretty important step.

This doesn't apply to all written languages - logographic systems obviously don't have a correspondence between sounds and written symbols - but for alphabetic systems and the like it's quite a good system.

Of course, English uses 26 letter to represent 44 or so sounds, so as far as learning to read and write via phonics goes, English is one of the worst examples there is.
I don't know where your quote comes from but actually the record (as stated in the source NOAA publication) starts in 1880.
The LSAT is a reading test. Philosophy majors do well because they are good readers, not because of any knowledge they picked up. You can be a good reader with other degrees too. The LSAT maps well onto law school performance because law school is also much about reading.

Want to get a job as a lawyer, start with a compsci, biotech or engineering-related degree. But having some professional life experience also counts. Nobody wants to get legal advice from someone who doesn't have any realworld experience.
Of course most of the money has been funding tools for imperative languages as that is the status quo. But this does not prove that there is little overlap with FP. Research FP languages like Coq have enabled INRIA to build a fully verified C compiler (Compcert), can your tools accomplish this? As far as Europe is concerned, FP does appear to be the future of formal verification.
I thought only a fifth of ~$115 million has been sequestered (apparently the action will be rolled back)?
I'm guessing the fact that his own hunger was the most memorable part of the evening is an indicator of the quality of conversation available at the dinner party. Billionaires are people, too, and I'd bet they just shot the shit for three hours and dipped.
this video effectively explains your point very succintly and well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU