skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> an increasingly seedy establishment in the U.S.

This varies quite a bit depending on where you are. We seem to have three different versions of Denny's here in the Dallas/Ft Worth area alone. One style thet looks like a classic diner, another that's your typical old Denny's architecture, and a few more that are brand new construction. I'm not sure if they're just testing out a concept, but it's been interesting to see that they're still branching out.
I think that's a great technique. I imagine it must be very difficult to achieve if your self-reflection isn't rationally based.
Only after you visit a domain.
There are statically-typed languages with REPLs, e.g. Scala, C#, F#, and the upcoming Java 9, so REPLs are not an advantage of dynamic languages. There are even REPLs for C++.

Many people's impressions of static languages are based on Java from 10 years ago. It's really quite different now.
Thanks for the link to the Collins article; I found it very interesting.

I have some questions about your argument that the atoms didn't cause their discovery, but I don't think I have time to formulate them clearly right now, so I'll just stop with thanking you for the link. :-)
Glmnet has quite a bit of functionality that is lacking in the Python elastic net implementations. The most notable is the regularization parameter sequence grid search (alpha in statsmodel, lambda in glmnet) which works remarkably well and can be orders of magnitude faster than a traditional grid search.
Can we get a televised debate between you and yummyfajitas ?

I agree with both of you, though one is for and other against UBI.

I suggest a compromise. A linear increase in ubi from 0 to sustainable. I think going straight to sustainable is a little too drastic all of a sudden. It's like if we invented teleportation. That would destroy trucking faster than AI. But it would be chaos too.
Or if you preload with a browser vendor, which in all fairness doesn't scale in its current incarnation.
Ask HN: How should I name my project management app?
I'm so bad at giving project names. I spent several months now trying to find a name for my side project - a project management app. I found a perfect option, but all the possible domain name variations are taken. Any ideas?
It says 17 hours a day but it doesn't say anywhere in that article how many days he works, in which case he'd be able to recover (somewhat) on days off.
I will not be surprised if Urmson ends up at Tesla.
Asia sees record high $23.4b in startup funding in Q2
5-10 years and http:// will be as rare as having a lottery jackpot. our kids kids will ask - what is this http? like our kids did with floppy disks...
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Don't see it happening anytime soon. Self driving cars directly create convenience for the end user, and the public may be willing to accept a few crashes here and there in exchange for that convenience.

The first time an unmanned Fedex truck kills a family of 6 in a minivan people will decided they would rather pay a few cents more to have trucks driven by humans.
Yep. For the radiosity based global illumination things, it's the most common way of framing and solving the way light energy is passed through an environment. And most of the work is in minimizing the computationally expensive visibility operations (shadows, etc) by determining how much light energy is going to pass between two surfaces (based on distance, size, orientation, visibility, etc), and then computing using the fewest rays and the right level of resolution of the energy to efficiently utilize compute resources. Basically... :)
Vulnerability Update: libarchive
There is also a good biography about Hitler from a historian called David Irving. He is the guy that studied the history of hitler and ww2 for decades. Although he is perceived as very controversial author, I think his books are the closest thing to the truth.
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>In short, a UBI will make us all poorer because people will refuse to provide the things that others actually want

People being forced to "provide the things that others actually want" in a job they hate or hurts them, just to make a living and feed themselves is what makes us really poor.
Buying licenses and having 4GB of memory (and being disappointed about it) implies a desktop PC, and even a $80 refurb on eBay has at least an 80 GB hard drive.
Turns out Danish has the same construction in use ("thats just volapük [incomprehensible] to me"), so it's not just one conlang throwing shade at another.
> Facebook may have self-interest but Indian elites unilaterally deciding what is good for poorer Indians is far more obnoxious.

I may be lacking local context. Where do I find out more about your reference to "Indian elites unilaterally deciding"?
and still have them ask for your phone number! . I'd also love if you could log in to Messages with a key pair
Michelin critics are also trained to evaluate restaurants on specific Michelin criteria and to not just give their personal take on the food. So "good enough" is very specific here to what Michelin considers important.
It is certainly worth talking about how to make things better, but all the stats I've ever seen indicate that the global incidence of poverty has been decreasing, not increasing.

For example, from: http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview

> According to the most recent estimates, in 2012, 12.7 percent of the world’s population lived at or below $1.90 a day. That’s down from 37 percent in 1990 and 44 percent in 1981.
I use WordPress on a shared server at A2 Hosting. It's about ten bucks a month and it does everything I need. I recently installed wp-cli so I can make and edit posts from the command line so I can write in pure markdown without getting into knock down fights with the built in editor about formatting.
Just a statistical note: infant mortality is accounted for differently in many countries. Due to how the US counts it, parts of Europe and other countries will often have a lower number. You would think it would be apples to apples, but it's not.
What proof do you have that Hitler was a monster ?
Not a book, but this essay:

http://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

Convinced me that I absolutely wanted to do backbone ISP network engineering on a grand scale. It's taken a while to get to the level of knowledge where one is trusted and confident working on circuits that can take whole countries off the internet if you fuck up, but very much worth it.
Why Uber Might Stalk an IPO Sooner Rather Than Late
Heck, the way capitalism works, people wont invest in cures even for popular diseases killing tens of millions, if they can't make a nice buck from them (e.g. if the majority victims are poor Africans).

And by the same token, they will milk a cure that they've found as much as possible, even if that means that millions (who can't afford it at the price) will die or get bankrupt etc. (Of course if they could sell it a two different prices to different groups (price differentation) they wouldn't say no to poorer people's money, but they can't).

(And the massive profits from such drugs and of such companies overall, reveal that it's not just "recuperating" money spend on R&D).
agreed, excellent point I wish more people would take note of or recognize.
I just fell into it. An opportunity opened (to teach at a conference and be paid per head rather than per hour of my time) and I went for it. It changed how I think about making money.
> Can we get a televised debate between you and yummyfajitas ?

Call the networks. :)

> A linear increase in ubi from 0 to sustainable.

I agree that going straight to UBI would be impractical, both politically and economically. My preferred approach would be a step function: we eliminate one entitlement program at a time, and replace it with a corresponding amount of UBI.
LOL, I saw this news last night and thought I read "AMOS" instead of "AROS"... so I thought the game I checked was running a crackintro (written in AMOS?!?). Anyways, you are right; this is actually a great usecase and opportunity to improve AROS as kickstart.
Just imagine any non-trivial set of relationships in the underlying data, and then some rendered content that doesn't just depend on individual data points.

For the record, I haven't actually seen anyone address my earlier example with the sorted/filtered/paginated table yet.

Another typical example might be a complicated form where some fields are shown or hidden or have different options available depending on the values of other fields, perhaps including circular dependencies.

Another might be some sort of dashboard that adds a tab/tile/panel for each of some varying set of data sources and adjusts the layout or level of detail depending on how many sources need to be included.

Another might be rendering a chart showing several different data series over time, where the scales and positions of the axes are adapted to span the entire data set.

Of course you could manually update the DOM in response to relevant changes in the data in all of these cases, but keeping track of all the different variations and transitions gets old very quickly once your UI has a few different cases like this.
Natural forces like quantitative easing (QE)? Money, as an abstraction and a tool, seems to be about as far from a natural force as is conceivable.
Also see, Dawkins review of Alan Sokal's book,

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/dawkins.html
I've definitely noticed this, too. A lot of the Pokemon Go playing I've seen basically just involves people just standing around in their own world, swiping and not talking to anyone.

Still, I think there's potential for the game. When Pokevision was live I remember seeing a big group of teenagers roll in to a park together to catch a rare Exeggutor. A battle system where you can challenge other players in real time would be amazing.
> A huge percentage of India lives, works, and travels in areas that are unlikely to ever be reached by Google's wifi,

Please define "huge". Googling shows me that Google's wifi was setup at mass transit stations. Wikipedia says:
"
In 2014-15, IR carried 8.397 billion passengers annually or more than 23 million passengers a day
"

23 million people a day is not a trivial number.
In first generation post-WW2, we built out productive infrastructure, and started to do so with our savings. In the second generation, we expanded with debt spending and started to increase consumer debt. Now, most well-educated new entrants to the market have already taken more debt than they have an appetite for, so they're saving to pay down that debt. There may be quite a few who are still doing frivolous things with their money that could go to service the debt, but in the end we're all paying off activity that already happened, to one extent or another.
Thanks for all the work and hopefully this will help with improving AROS to become a full replacement for the original kickstart ROMs.
To be fair, I don't know about you but my last pair of shoes didn't cost three grand.
We haven't had a TV at home since we moved about 3 years ago.

Use a tablet when we want to watch a movie or a show. :)
In the article Alec mentions it is important to be able to read academic papers properly. Does anyone have good resources for this? I've read some papers before but do not have a research/academic background where I really had to dig deeply into them.
> I have some questions about your argument that the atoms didn't cause their discovery

Like what is the person that discovered them made up of, if not atoms?
This is my personal opinion.

My Late 2013 MacBook Pro is running so smooth that I have no doubt that I would keep it for at least another 2 to 3 more years before looking into replacing it with another MBP. So In between now and then, why even bother to look for another computer? Apple probably saw the same that users would keep their Apple computer long enough before needed another major replacement to buy new ones every 3 to 5 years or so. IMO, for everyday tasks or even medium-to-high CPU instense tasks, current MBP handles very well, given that you are not a gamer or 3D CG designer.

Secondly, for the price you pay, it makes no reason to look into another Mac every or every other year. Serious, the author Sam Byford's 2012 MacBook Pro should be fine running everyday tasks. Mine is only 1 year newer, so if mine running so well, so should his. Admittedly, having SSD makes a HUGE difference in terms of stability and performance. I encourage everyone should have it. Maybe that's what the author's really missing out.
I find the HTTP/HTTPS "ring-fence" or "oil/water boundary", as he describes it, to be the most frustrating aspect of HTTPS, and recently wrote about it in some more detail (and how it might be fixed): https://alexcbecker.net/blog.html#towards-universal-https-ad...
"The Defining Decade" by Meg Jay to anyone in their twenties.

Shameless plug -I posted a summary here: https://rkirti.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/learnings-from-the-d...
I have one other friend (the only one of them all to actually read) and it was just as effective for him as it was me. I'm now trying to get my sister to read it. The hard part seems to be getting people to pick it up and stick it through.
The UK passed a law, not the EU. Everything continues as before for Ireland, for instante.

I really dislike when articles that seem to say something serious from sources that I'd normally trust simply leave out the most important references - the EU recommendation itself, for instante. That's a huge deal breaker.

It's easy to accuse but laborious to prove it, and that's exactly why it shouldn't be left out. Together with an inaccurate title, it makes me doubt the entire article itself.

I searched this recommendation for some time, but tiredness and this 5" screen are not exactly helping. I'll get back to this on a later time.
Reduced consumption for BS + increased higher education, arts etc. What's not to like?
Careful: a government board has one interest (welfare of its constituents) and multiple opinions about how to serve it. A corporate board has one interest (welfare of its shareholders) and multiple opinions above to how to serve it.

Besides that, both types of boards can have a variety of unofficial/official power structures, consideration of the welfare of non-constituents/non-shareholders, and varying degrees of competency.

This isn't to say that any type of governing body has arbitrary properties. Predictable inequalities exist.
Everyone outside the UK seemed to understand the consequences of Brexit far more than the citizens of the UK themselves.
> Postmodernists make for shitty programmers

Honestly? I get that people are skeptical and dismissive of postmodernism, but this is just petty tribalism with no basis in fact. Not every programmer is a staunch right-libertarian even though that's the stereotype. Maybe it would surprise you to meet programmers well versed in the humanities that respect or even identify with postmodernism. Human ideologies are absurd, postmodernism is just the investigation of how absurd they are.

Here's how to apply postmodernism to science in order to improve science: it helps you identify and analyze the power structures and processes that regulate and sustain the actual act of doing science. If there are systemic biases or failures within those structures they will impact the quality of the science you're doing. There is "objective" knowledge in science, but there's also absolute garbage, and there's no ideological argument to tell them apart.

Ideology influences the way we observe and interpret evidence. It even shapes the kind of experiments we run, and the kind of hypotheses we propose. It won't make you misinterpret a thermometer, but science is scarcely ever as simple as aiming a sensor at a piece of spacetime and reading the output.
Second that and add: Status Anxiety
Pocket C.H.I.P. Don't Just Play the Game, Change the Game
Thanks for this, I was ctrl+fing and you let me find this post!
Medicaid has a budget. When the budget is exceeded, you are SOL.
I think its safe to say "it breaks the web" is from the user perspective, not the server.

It only takes 1 server to serve differing content through each protocol to break things for the user
Of course you can do manual dirty tracking. But why would you ever want to do that on every single component when you could get it for free?

React's DOM digging has zero cognitive overhead so the benefits are essentially free to me as a developer.
Examples please.
Great comment. I'd like to see this idea developed a little more thoroughly -- any suggestions?
The Princess Bride.

I've given it away seven times & purchased it eight.

Like every book, it's different from the movie. I'm not going to say it's better than the movie, but I'm also not going say the movie is better either. Both are just so amazing in their own right that I adore them both.
This seems very broken-window-fallacy-ish. What am I missing?
A series of essays and books impacted my life the most. It all started on a sunny day, when I was a structural engineering intern full of hope and a beautiful girlfriend, waiting for my code to run(blah blah iteratively determine deflections of structures with non-linear stress-strain responses blah blah), when I read: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD103...

I quit my job the next day.

This was the beginning of the end. Like with all drugs, there is a slippery slope. You start with marijuana, and you move onto heroin. In my case, I graduated to:

"Formal Methods of Software Design": http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hehner/FMSD/

After that I read: https://www.amazon.com/Predicate-Calculus-Program-Semantics-...

Now in general I am quite depressed:

* I am very judgemental and look down upon most HN posts, especially the ones that praise Alan Kay, natural language programming, or view programming as a "craft" rather than a "science"; my favourite HN feature is the "hide" button

* I am disappointed with my math education, and tired of all the rabbits being pulled out of hats in my textbooks

* I wish I had enough will power and discipline to write a programming language that is nothing more than predicate calculus, but I don't

I foresee that as a result of these readings, I will die alone, sad, and depressed...oh AND penniless.

I wish I was joking.

That's a pretty huge impact.
It's scaling well enough so far. A domain can be submitted at https://hstspreload.appspot.com/ and doesn't take long to show up in Chromium and then other browsers.
Sure, all abstractions are leaky one way or another, but in the end React gives you much better separation than what we had before.

Having to deal with shouldComponentUpdate is a blessing compared to having to juggle 4-5 different concepts and web technologies, plus manage state, plus separate logic yourself, etc.

Heck, in Backbone, which is as bare as it gets, and you needed to wrap your data in specific classes...

And that's IF (and it's a big IF) you have some very complex performance case. In most cases I never needed it, and tons of stuff can just be a pure render function.
> For the field of schizophrenia research, and for psychiatry more broadly, this opens the possibility that new technology can aid in prognosis and diagnosis of severe mental disorders, and track treatment response.

For mental health patients, providing a safe environment that does not allow for substance use is 9/10ths of the cure. So-called "anti-psychotics" have been shown to make people's condition worse, over the long term. [1]

[1] "Drug-induced supersensitivity psychosis revisited: characteristics of relapse in treatment-compliant patients" - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3736929/
Trademarks on inflated cushioning do not apply to software.
agreed on the keyword bingo. analyst can mean different things but the term can sometimes carry an entry-level connotation (e.g., banks).
“A Witch's Roast”
Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL Affect IBM System X UEFI
I think it's useful to ignore the personal life of artists and just take the work at face value.

Surely a great many people who have accomplished amazing things are also deeply flawed (even reprehensible) humans.
HP Updates the Z240 Workstation with the Core I7-6700K
I've got a 2011 macbook pro which is now used for basic work around the house (media center, etc). It will likely last for several more years, because the needs for it won't change, and the specs it has meet the needs just fine.

For newer work - as needs change, specs change, it's advantageous to get new equipment to meet changing needs (generally faster processing in my case).
The difference though is that the changes are happening at a rapid pace. It used to happen across generations so people could adapt but now things happen at a pace that you cannot guarantee what you started at will still be needed in 5-10 years time.
This. I don't have the budget for a new Macbook, but everytime in the past couple of years I've wanted to buy a new laptop, I go off to Best Buy, take a look at the plastic, gimmicky touch-screeny windows things they have for sale and end up going to craigslist to buy an almost new Macbook even though it costs a little more (ok sometimes quite a bit more)
32% of working age Americans aren't working. This number will rise
Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke [1] by mathematician V. I. Arnol'd.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Huygens-Barrow-Newton-Hooke-quasicrys...
Well he does food service, which is generally really busy during lunch and dinner, and almost dead outside of those times, so even if he's present for 17 hours, I bet there's some downtime. I know when I worked fast food there was times we kept busy by playing stupid games like hide and seek in the restaurant.

Yeah, it's still work, but it's probably not a hard, strenuous job for all 17 hours of the day.
Here is an exercise: draft your account of how atoms caused the discovery of atoms, then imagine how I would rewrite it as an account of how the luminiferous aether caused the Michelson-Morley experiment.

My account is obviously bullshit, because the luminiferous aether doesn't exist. So, if your story is not bullshit, there must be a specific causal link in my story that doesn't have an analog in yours. Find it.
This is taken into account in the GDP deflator (i.e. inflation).
It's easy to understand why people don't listen to him: everything he says is so acerbic and barbed, that anyone who doesn't already agree with him will be immediately turned off by his writing.

RMS is the Richard Dawkins of free software. If you are already an atheist and enjoy making fun of others, Richard Dawkins is a fun read. If you are a religious person with some doubts, Dawkins is unlikely to convince you of much since he appears to revel so much in calling you an idiot. RMS, like Dawkins, has no sympathy for those with a different point of view. He immediately dismisses anyone not on his team, which is not a great way to gain followers.

If RMS cares about the free software movement, my advice to him would be to stop writing and let others with more empathy handle the evangelizing.
Blender Project: SIGGRAPH 2016 report
maybe it's a formatting issue in my browser, but it was less than clear when it was the author talking, versus when he was quoting something. i had to bail. am i not giving the paper a fair shake?