skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does not help at all unfortunately because cost of living is just too different for different types of people. Eg: families vs single developers in their twenties.
Take a course like "MITx: Introduction to Solid state Chemistry" [0] and while you won't be doing quantum physics except a very basic introduction you'll brush against it all the time.

Depends on what exactly you do in chemistry. Understanding structures like molecules and chemical bonds takes you deep. I
f you only care about macro effects, like how to turn this input into that output in an industrial process than you move away from the low-level basics.

The same as in any field, you get to choose if you want to invent new algorithms or if you care about software architecture - both valid jobs for a CS person but it's different worlds.

[0] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-solid-state-chemistr...
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Stopping innovation is what I'm all about!

Actually I dislike uber because of how they flout regulations and hurt workers. But if they get rid of the workers altogether, It would be hard to complain. Especially if fairs become a fraction of the price.
That's a good point that I hadn't considered.

It would be much better if they directly measured the impact of this on cities though, particularly because the reaction to terrorist attacks is vastly different (see the difference in German and French reactions, for example). In fact, it could then penalize heavy-handed responses even when there hasn't been a terrorist attack. For example, the US maintains some draconian security measures and a police state mentality even though there haven't been any recent terror attacks (does every single MTA rider really need to be constantly reminded to watch suspicious packages?).

For that matter, I'm confident that you're quite safe from terrorism in Dubai. But the ranking should really include the dramatic security apparatus/environment which is in place to maintain that safety.
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Very very insightful, can't upvote this enough.
I will let the state of california make my argument.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/uber-drivers-deemed-employ...
Reminds me of the "frequency separation" [1] technique, used a lot in the high end retouching business.

[1] https://fstoppers.com/post-production/ultimate-guide-frequen...
Yeah, right. With all due respect, that is bullshit.

Say this to the Jewish community in Malmo, Sweden. The violence they have suffered at the hands of violent Islam is not a statistical anomaly.

Say this to the Jewish community in Copenhagen.

Say this to Israelis.

Say this residents of Iraqis.

Say this to residents of Turks.

Say this to Syrians.

Say this to women walking alone at night in Germany and Sweden.

Terrorism is real in all its forms (Islamic, "Mentally ill", etc), and it has a real impact on entire countries.

The recent attacks across France has hurt summer tourism.

Synagogues and Hillel schools around the world have high security because they have been targets of terrorism. (And not just graffiti)

Go live in some of these places (especially as a woman or Jew). Then come back to this conversation and tell me if you still believe that.
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Yes, I know that :)

My reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12286806 is relevant.

Regards
I see nothing wrong with it. Otto takes on the risk of developing a new business, and gets acquired if the risk pays off. Uber gets to benefit from Otto's efforts without taking the risk, but they have to pay for it in order to make it theirs. It's mutually beneficial, and risks get taken that probably wouldn't be taken otherwise, which is good for innovation.

This kind of thing is pretty common at Adobe and Cisco as well. There is a bit of a revolving door of executives and senior engineers leaving to start companies, intending from the beginning of being acquired by their former employer if their business pans out.

Many companies could not take the risk of running an innovative new business internally -- their board wouldn't let them, or their investors wouldn't. This kind of thing probably results in more research and innovation taking place that would have otherwise.
You really want me to say more?

You seem to have missed the point of my reply. You said "all modern publishing uses XML", and in doing so, you were overlooking the biggest counterexample to XML, and the biggest thing in modern publishing, which is HTML 5.

HTML is a huge, huge example of modern publishing. It tried XML, when HTML 4 came along with XHTML. XML was basically designed around making XHTML work. And then HTML stopped using XML in HTML5. It took a revolt of all the implementers of HTML, but people got behind it because everyone could tell that XML wasn't helping.

So now you've got a syntax that was designed for marked-up documents, that people don't really want to use for marking up documents, and it's also trying to convey data structures despite that this involves horrible patches like "xml:space" that no other format needs.

You were also hinting at APIs for communicating things like time zones and chess moves. Real APIs don't use marked-up natural language. I work in natural language processing, and to a first approximation, computers don't understand shit about natural language. When you need to communicate data, you use data structures.

If you want to communicate extensible data structures with hints about their semantics, you've got some choices, like protobufs and JSON-LD. Or you can keep patching XML and trying to make it convey data structures despite that data structures aren't made of marked-up strings, but then people won't use your API.

XML is also an unwieldy format for parse results. It's not a frozen syntax tree, it's a tree with tons of stuff bolted on to the side. The format that represents a syntax tree is S-expressions.
What constitutes being baked in? Various components of Windows gather telemetry data, the basic stuff is pulled by the Diagnostics Tracking Service which can simple be disabled. Other things such as Office and Contana gather in their own ways. That's no more baked in than Google Play Services is baked into Android. The fundamental difference is that Windows isn't Open Source so you can't go to a repo and pull down a clean version of it.

Windows has been sending telemetry data since XP.

Until recently Apple hasn't had much market share or scrutiny. We're starting to see that change happening with new malware targeting MacOS showing up and plenty of buggy software.
- -1st century: the brain is 'magic'

- 15th century: the brain is the creation of a divine being

- 17th century: the brain is a clockwork

- 20th century: the brain is an electrical computer

- 21th century: the brain is a quantum device

- 22th century: the brain is a ??

It's an interesting thought though, and I especially like Neil Stephenson's idea that the brain is a quantum device that 'leaks out' into parallel universes and uses 'brain capacity' from those overlapping universes, but it's just that: a neat idea, and science fiction. What's different this time? :)

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> I know a lot of people that wrote books and got something out of it.

did they self-publish or went with some known publisher? what kind of money can you make on ebooks?
Hmmm, lots of not-extremely-established people call Vancouver their home. I really wonder how many people here are basing their opinions just on trendy news pieces on Vancouver's housing. Pretty disappointing.
Yeah, I've always heard that expert systems are good, because there you can reason about the solution. For instance diagnosing people based on rules contributed by doctors. You can trace the steps the algorithm takes easily.

But for a neural net, you cannot say why this particular net should be trusted, as you don't know how it arrives at a solution. Therefore it's "scary" to use.

While I don't agree, it explains why it has been unpopular.
So what is Game Factory or other game makers?
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I find it easy to replicate this for myself. I cannot stop me from sort-of imagining the movement before the "decision".

After a few repetitions, it became apparent why this may be so. It's the instructions. I'm to move the finger "immediately". My brain prepares the movement because it wants to do it "immediately" after "deciding".

Here's a more relaxed setup. Alternate between looking at two fingers at a relaxed pace. At any moment, decide to move the finger you're currently looking at after silently counting to five.

Introspectively, I find no imagined movement before the decision with this task.
Elon Musk's next project involves creating roofs completely made of solar panels
Some languages do include "natural" in their numeric tower.
That's a good idea you guys came up with. We've enabled vouching on direct replies.
Sends http requests. A curl limited to http with a nice GUI.

(You have a valid critique about the site. Their meta description is actually much more informative: Postman is the swiss army knife of API tools, allowing you to design, build, test, document and monitor your services, all in one place. Postman is available for Chrome, Mac OSX and Windows. A Linux app is coming soon!)
I don't understand why it has to be so complicated.
If you position pivot of your objects on the bottom,lowest corner of its image.
Then you can start drawing them by the order of this position.

Start drawing from highest Z position to the lowest. When you have objects staying on top of each other, use order of the parent object as the drawing order for child objects.

1 rule : All buildings are only allowed occupy their own air space only. They are not allowed to have balconies over reaching to airspace of other X/Y area.
Exactly, and with enough money, pretty much every city is very livable.
I think if you have roommates or housemates at some point, or live with a girlfriend or wife, it isn't entirely out of the question. This isn't something I'd open with at a bar or something.
Agree with @acesubido on the ebooks. In fact, I would abstract this to any intellectual property that you can put into a marketplace. (books, apps, designs, etc).

I have an old account at Zazzle.com where I throw up funny sayings and designs from time to time (I'm not a designer).

It nets about $100/year from royalties and is completely passive.

I've met other people who make 10x that (they are designers).
I've often thought about writing some website templates which could then be sold through a marketplace such as wrapbootstrap or themeforest. I've been too busy to invest any time into this, but would be interested to hear if anyone else has had success doing this.
Lots of previous submissions, but the major thread (with lots of comments from the author!—maybe he'll show up again) was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755742. Since that was over a year ago, we won't count this one as a dupe.
Interesting, but maybe I'm jumping too much at this: a number of the object photos lack reference lengths for scale, are taken on wooden desks, floors, etc. Is this common?

If I were taking such forensic photos, I'd want reference lengths in every picture, on a simple gridded plane, rather than whatever surface seems to be handy.
In the 90's, John McCarthy was calling Go "the new Drosophila of AI". Now, we have AlphaGo that is "just" a bunch of "generic" deep learning with MC. Maybe John McCarthy was right and the ideas behind AlphaGo are the first steps toward true AI. I am very impressed.
And autocomplete in PowerShell is again.

Cmdlets tell the shell their parameters, and their parameters are long names, so you can just tab through them to find a) the available parameters and b) the ones which might help you.
He had no way to know if they were acutally still waiting months later. Just because the peer has not sent a RST doesn't mean remote end still has a process/machine still in existence.
> 32 bit floating point coordinates, in a game that deserves a true scale solar system.

How are 32 bit addresses inadequate? Just have a multi-level addressing system and you're done. You're going to have a Level of Detail system anyway, right? This seems like a non-issue.

It's not like you need to do math on grains of sand spread across multiple galaxies.
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With all due respect, I am Jewish and lived the last 4 years in the Middle East. I've also traveled extensively in both Europe and the Middle East, thank you very much.

Terrorism is designed to breed fear, so it's no surprise that you (and others) are afraid. That doesn't mean it's not a statistical anomaly.

You're conflating a lot of different things. War (what's affecting Syrians), sexual violence (why a woman might be afraid to walk at night), anti-semitism (which I've seen far more of from Trump supporters than any Muslims I know), and terrorism are different phenomena.

> The recent attacks across France has hurt summer tourism.

So? I don't dispute that a lot of people are irrationally afraid of terrorism, that doesn't make it a real threat any more than the fact that millions of people believing in reincarnation makes it real.
It's that bad comments sink down but the amount of downvoting is not shown, so downvoting behavior is not reinforced.

HN used to have far better comments, now it feels like a battlefield.
It goes to show how harmful the press can be in shaping the reputation of a city. Vancouver is a very popular destination for the rest of Canada and anyone who wants to move to Canada, not just foreign investors. It's more than foreign investment that's driving up prices. Also consider that high-tech companies in Vancouver are stingy wage-wise and think the city itself is a work benefit.
I think what you say about the 'echo chamber' bias is right, and I enjoyed reading it because this is something I've been pondering for a while* . It's an interesting case of a point so subtle that nearly everyone not only misses it but is sure that the opposite is true.

To answer your other concerns: Yes, we go out of our way to try to make moderation decisions individually. I don't think it would work to publish information about users' past accounts—that would be a surefire shitstorm. As you and others already figured out, 12313089 was flagged by users—that's what [flagged] always means, both on comments and stories. Vouches were turned off on direct replies, but I was inspired by the below to enable them.

* e.g. the subthread starting at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003178, plus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003205
Alternatively you can work on freelancer.com
There are many rivals but surely you can take a small job in 1-2 weeks. After that it will be much more easy to have a steady income whenever you wish.
> Normal shell usage means doing a lot of one-shot pipelines incrementally.

Sure because no-one ever takes those "one-shot" pipelines full of `cut`s and `grep`s and distributes them in real products. /s

As far as I can tell, Powershell is designed for scripts that are meant to be distributed, so they must be robust. Normal 'text scraping' Bash is shit at that.
Also unnecessary because thermal lightbulb rockets deliver better ISP.
Well, what is it that you enjoy?
This is similar to having 3D position and direction in different types (e.g. point and vector instead of a generic 4-component vector). It looks nice in theory, and it is 'type safe' (e.g. you can't add 2 points, only point+vector or vector+vector), but writing real-world code with this is awkward.
On the Java side here I tend to use groovyConsole when I need to do crazy one off stuff like open excel files which then require a DB query, and maybe to run regexs for little things. I use bash for running docker commands in a specific sequence.
> did they self-publish or went with some known publisher?

My former boss self-published a book on Leanpub. For the "known publisher", I'm a little acquainted with the author of "Docker High Performance" (Packt).

For the leanpub one, it was organically easy to get the word out through local meetups and clients. Packt reached out to the "Docker High Performance" guy, he reviewed a few books for them then they emailed him.

> What kind money can you make on ebooks?

For the people I mentioned, I can't say. But if you do get a good book out with a good following you can hit Nathan Barry's numbers:

- http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-stats/

- http://nathanbarry.com/designing-web-applications-2nd-editio...
Incidentally, I read that "perimeter" - the Soviet automatic MAD system - was actually not meant against the Americans, but against the "hawks" in the Soviet government. Which is why it wasn't publicized. It assured them that the USSR had a way to retaliate in any case - so there was no need to launch nukes right away at the slightest suspicion, but waiting if there actually was an impact somewhere was possible without losing the ability to retaliate. With the "hawks" assured the calmer people now had more time to think, talk, and check data in an emergency and faced less pressure to act immediately.

And to the MAD scenario, I too came to the conclusion that the only sane thing to do if I was someone in the chain of command to launch nukes was

a) Always make your unwavering commitment to launch clear - to everyone, including at home.

b) When it happens, refuse to launch, contradictory to anything people know about you.

You can't tell b) to anyone though, because there is a chance the enemy may find out. It's important to only reveal that you won't ever launch nukes when it actually happens, not before.
Weak, late-night logic, but take a leap: you've heard that mathematically-inclined folks have become decent musicians. And some mathematically-inclined folks are also decent programmers. So by the transitive property..
What are the advantages of this over Chrome?
> Apps that hook the arrow keys should always check for whether shift/alt/ctrl/meta keys are also down, to avoid trampling on people's keyboard shortcuts.

The majority of pages shouldn't intercept up/down either, because that breaks the ability to scroll the page. Only pages that will never involve scrolling (such as whole-screen web apps or games) should do that.

Left/right can be OK, as long as you never expect your page to need horizontal scrolling.
Generally, distinctions of "employee" versus "contractor" come down to things like the level of control exercised over a person's activities, when and how they perform those activities, etc. It appears California found that those factors tipped more to the "employee" side.

And it may well be that if taxi drivers sued at least some of them would also be ruled employees. Until then all we can say with certainty is that taxi companies claim their drivers are contractors.
That's not a passive income, though.
Common experience tells us we make decisions without consciously thinking about them all the time. When you do something a bit silly and someone asks "why did you do that?", you try to make up reasons when really you didn't know why you did it. It was some subconscious process.
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I think it's actually much slower than the original.

>The maximum reliable clock rate is not yet determined, but we expect it to be in the tens to (low) hundreds of kHz.
If I need to show 1 million cat images to train a neural net to see cats, I wonder how a human brain can figure out cats of any kind just by seeing one or two.

Is there something fundamental we are missing in going about building these deep learning stuff ?
I believe you. It is just that there exist black communities outside of the US, both in majority white countries and in Africa, which have managed to improve their circumstances radically (sometimes from a very low point, but that definitely counts). The experience of stagnation is acute in American society despite overall higher levels of wealth. If one supposes the lower branches of the social mobility tree have been lopped off then it makes sense.

None of this is to say racism does not exist. I've heard plenty of talk about niggers and kikes before also. Plenty of racism in black and white communities is extant. I believe affirmative action is an example of, and an encouragement to, racism.

It is that class dwarfs all other issues in relation to inequality.

If you have the wrong accent, ghetto or southern, you aren't going anywhere in society. Getting elocution lessons and changing your name are tactics that would further your status in American society.

To put it in this way: perhaps at most hundreds of thousands to low millions are badly discriminated against on racial bias but anywhere from ten to hundred million people are affected by classism. Scale matters!

Look at how Hulk Hogan needed the backing of a billionaire, to get his lawsuit funded against Gawker. This is evidence of wealth discrimination (a big proxy for class), and we're talking about the justice system discriminating against a millionaire here! From here it can only get worse the poorer or lower your status is.
You cannot say: "This image was classified as a stop sign, because this part recognized the shape and this part recognized the color, and this part the text", which you could do with other approaches.

When it doesn't discover that it's a stop sign, how do you debug it? Did it recognize the shape.. who knows?
What regulations have they flouted? I'd be interested to learn more because I hear this claim occasionally but haven't heard the details behind it. Could you share more details?
Most taxi drivers essentially rent out the car and medallion each day for a set fee, after which they are free to do whatever they want including just idling all day. Many of them aren't even contractors, they're sole proprietors or operating under their own LLC. Uber drivers are beholden to the app at the risk of being dropped from Uber all together, which ticks a few boxes on the legal guidelines for how to classify someone as an employee vs contractor. The California Uber case is particularly enlightening.
That sounds like a pretty solid method for making progress. First outline something with spherical cows and refine the theory as data that doesn't quite fit keeps accumulating.
Indeed I am. I suppose that explains it.
I like this best: The brain is the Universe trying to understand itself.
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But 135 million is the number of journeys, the number of unique people taking these journeys will be much much lower. If you take the metro twice every weekday, that is already around 500 journeys per year for one person, so the number of unique passengers per year would probably be much lower, more like single digit millions.
The resulting likelihood is still low, but the chance of something happening over the next couple of years in a place that you are in frequently, thus forever shattering your sense of security in a city that otherwise has a super low crimerate is not that off. You don't have to be killed to be affected in a negative way by something like this after all.
Adding to that is the fact that these kind of events have increased in frequency as of late and who knows how it develops in the future, especially if you country just took in huge amounts of syrian refugees without any background checks whatsoever.
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Similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10726489
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Same here - looking for some advice to generate a modest passive income source. I am a freelance web developer and have delivered some awesome SaaS products (both solo and as a team) in the last few years. And have been around for 12 years.

But when it comes to starting my own thing, I just get stuck - unsure what to start at. I used to blog based on unique problems, and have pretty much given up on it as its not that passively-rewarding unless one likes doing keyword based blogs. It does help getting more work which I don't want as of now.