skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a reason that so much Enlightenment-era philosophy is devoted to trying to understand aesthetics/artistic genius, and it's that the human response to art can be truly profound. His description is no more hyperbolic than thousands of others, and the fact that you haven't experienced these reactions doesn't have any bearing on how others experience art.
I never understand all this hubbub. Does anyone actually think millions of Americans suddenly found a love of knowledge in the past couple decades? I know I'm in college to get a piece of paper to get green pieces of paper. I learn what I care about on my own time.

The majority of people are in college because you get (rewarded for | penalized for not) going by Mr. Market, however you want to spin it. It doesn't matter whether it becomes apparent in your work that your degree was basically irrelevant. Booming education among a market where the fastest growing and largest job sector is shit jobs in service is just nation wide stack ranking.

We're all on a treadmill and we can't all win.
I think you can "vouch" for posts and submissions now to counter the flagging. Of course, that assumes you will catch them before they fall off the front page or get auto-deleted.
You're right that it's a pain for users trying to do it themselves, but some shared hosters already offer integrated LE, like DreamHost[1]; hopefully most will, if users push for it.

[1] https://www.dreamhost.com/hosting/ssl-tls-certificates/
I see a blank screen.
Babies need to be taught how to use the nipple. Not intuitive.
Microsoft Introducing the UWP Community Toolkit
To be absolute sure, you need to review and compile the code yourself.

Scratch that. Code up a brand new implementation, test it and deploy it to an air gapped network, and then nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. :)
See http://docs.rstudio.com/shiny-server/#application-error-logs
There's a section in the article about to try explore while minimising the costs.
Appreciated! Not too big a deal.
All kinds of reasons. A few quick examples:

- say one of the slaves actually has some monitoring system break and now runs out of disk space, and stops the ability to write locally, so the lag will go up and/or health check will see its replication is failing, and it will automatically be taken out of the pool.

- say you run a site where a user has a list of songs they like. some users have larger libraries than others, but there is a few outliers that have 100x the amount of songs. your growing fast and you have some code paths that are not optimized for this, and some features that folks barely use that you don't spend time on. one of these users goes on your site and uses this feature and now you have 1 slave that is lagging because the overly intense query landed on it.

- say you have a high traffic site, or you are in a datacenter where you are sharing networking gear with a very high traffic neighbor, and the datacenter has over provisioned the networking gear, so there is no headroom for bandwidth. now you have slave lag if your replication is passing thru a switch at saturation. maybe this is only present some times of the day, on some slaves, so they will be taken out of the pool so servers with better network paths are prioritized.
> We can't know if training or talent accounts for the > 2 seconds difference.

I am sure if I train I would reduce my timing from 17s to 15s.
The Secret Button
its amazing how much Microsoft is trying to push UWP development and yet no one seems to want to make any apps for it. I'd love it if there was a similar toolkit for Android.
Yeah, what scares my reasoning in such discussions is that anyone can be simply under survivorship bias of the other company. How does one extract the real truth from here?
Gravity's Rainbow
According to NVIDIA's glassdoor, they have a thing where you can ask any time to take time off for any amount of time. It means you have to stress out about negotiation, according to reviews.

This seems to be a stark contrast between the normal policy!
Online learning remains relatively unevolved from the delivery of "multimedia" videos starting with WebCT in 1996. The difference is the masses arrived online.
Bill Murray (twitter) - Every Olympic event should include one average person competing for reference.
And they'll seize your funds if they feel like it, too.
In other words, AD is built around MS's corporate structure?
On the higher end of the market, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Uber, etc.. You can definitely leverage MOOC learning and credentials. I leveraged MOOCs and their credentials as part of my personal brand to offset not having any degree. It helped me move into a software engineering role at a top tier company. It isn't just the top of the market either.. many employers are learning that there is a significant pool of talent available by including candidates with alternative educational backgrounds.
the wider the scope, the more explicit you need to get to disambiguate the meaning of something.
long variable names are just a hint that your scope is too wide and a wide scope usually means:

- high coupling

- lack of encapsulation

- action at a distance

- wrong level of detail

Therefore it's a code smell. Imagine we referred to each other as "multicellular organism from the kingdom animalia phylum chordata clade synapsida class mammalia order primates suborder haplohrini family hominidae genus homo species homo sapiens sapiens".
Mo' Static
As we've told you many times, you can't comment like this here. And certainly you can't create separate accounts to do it with. I've banned this one.

You're a longstanding user and we've bent over backwards not to ban you, despite serious abuses on your part. The situation isn't going to stay this way.
Personal attacks like this (and "you're not thinking clearly", above) are not allowed on Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again. Instead, please (re-)read the HN guidelines and post civilly and substantively, or not at all—regardless of the clarity of someone else's thinking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Or just from one end of SF to the other. The commute from Ocean Beach (north of the park, without rail) is over 40 minutes on the rapid and usually over 30 minutes on the express. The 31-Balboa takes almost 1 and 1/2 hours to go the same 5 miles, longer than taking a shuttle bus or car for the 50 miles straight to San Jose, even during rush hour.

Pro tip: Don't move to SF for the commute unless you'll live within walking distance of your workplace. I suppose you could bike, but the streets seem pretty lethal, especially considering how heavy the traffic has grown.
> Expecting GitHub to spend real money to cater to a tiny minority of users

You must be new here...
Only baby humans, but that's because even 'full-term' human babies are severely premature by the standards of most mammals.
Why Refback Still Matters
HN is overall polite and mature, especially compared to Reddit. Yet it can't escape its background culture. Some truths will always be taboo.
Don't know for Web-Applications, but for Windows Applications there are tons of framework, which will create GUIs for you, given your Model.

One very good, which I extensively used in my previous position was DevExpress (https://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Controls/WPF/Editors...).
This is your life in the Silicon Valley of India
> disagree without teaching

That is the single most compelling reason, why I find most people (on|off)line disturbing. They just want to drown out dissent without helping other people argumentatively to understand the opposing view.

OK, that is probably, because they oftentimes do not have real arguments and haven't rationalized their position at all.

Maybe the past paragraph is just me being a misanthrope. Or maybe the internet is just too big - as bigger discourses tend to deteriorate.
"To visualise this, it’s simplest to think of the state of your repository as a point in a high-dimensional ‘code-space’, in which branches are represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned repository."

http://tartley.com/?p=1267
In hardware, I know NRE as non reoccurring expense.

Manufacturing companies charge setup fees for programming assembly machines, ordering silk screens, tooling, etc.
I mean, when you say:

>>a weird mix of passive aggressiveness, disagree-based-downvoting, "cite paper!"-ness, minutial edge case-oriented pedantry

You are basically describing software developers.

They are passive aggressive because they don't like direct confrontation.

They downvote when they disagree because if they disagree that means you are wrong.

They nitpick on edge cases because edge cases are what they deal with everyday in their code, so they can't help it.

So really, it's not HN you have an issue with, but the developer crowd. ;)
Ridiculous, I've learned a great deal from MIT Open Courseware.

I agree that Coursera has it's problems, with the insistence to stick to class start and end dates as one example.

But to extrapolate that therefore online learning doesn't work as a medium is absurd.
One of Uber's key advantages in Europe and the US is that fares were significantly cheaper and inventory is quite competitive than what the taxi companies got away with through regulatory capture (medallions and like).

In developing markets like India, the taxi/auto rickshaw premium is actually not much. I estimate that taking an auto rickshaw for my morning commute is only 40℅ or so more expensive than driving on fuel costs alone and when you factor in interest on car loan, insurance, maintenance etc, it would probably be close to cost neutral.

Uber and the local competition Ola are currently premium propositions to this. Local taxis I believe are competitive or slightly cheaper than Uber/Ola.

Sure I happily pay a premium for the comfort of pickup in an air conditioned car etc and there will always be top 2-3℅ who will pay a premium.

But being premium priced to key competition which has much higher inventory on the road means you can't really go after a mass market. In taking a mass market in any industry, convenience has almost never trumped price and availability. Everyone else I know in India who takes these cabs are also in the 2-3℅.

Uber and Lyft have had all three in US. But price is a clear disadvantage in India and availability vs. alternatives is currently not an advantage. I'm not very clear what the scenario was in China but I'd not be surprised if it was similar.

This lack of significant pricing and inventory advantage unlike US/Europe is I'm not sure being taken into account when projecting growth prospects and valuations.
huh?

"when will we finally throw away binary uploads" https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00622.html

"For instance, when a maintainer uploads a (portable) source packages with binaries for the i386 architecture, it will be built for each of the other architectures, amounting to 11 more builds." https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs...
Ayn Rand sure did though.
As a species we are inseparable from our technology. They go hand in hand. One does not improve without the other.
If I trained I could reduce my time from 10 to 9. Sadly that's in minutes though.
Blaming Walmart for shoplifting is like blaming women for getting raped. It's just wrong.
Must have watched too much anime, as right now this feels like the "yandere" kind of love...
Isn't it the way society works?
Even after several years of studying molecular biology, my mind is still blown by something like "They injected the mouse with a virus containing light-sensitive proteins engineered to reach specific brain cells." Just think of how many people worked hard (and for how many years!) to make this possible.
Oh my god, that's it! Thank you!
5 Reasons to Worry About 'No Man's Sky'
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12306445 and marked it off-topic.
Fixing "disagree without teaching" is tough when you have to do the teaching to thousands of people across as many or more places. I bet people just get burnt out after awhile.
The original MNIST training data made the assumption that the digits are not flipped. But you could solve it by creating more training data by flipping the original digits. But then you suddenly end up with an awful lot of data, and then the training process would take days, literally.
This video shows and compares some of what has changed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jas9ff0hdFI
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Please don't post ideological boilerplate to HN.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305958 and marked it off-topic.
I really disagree.
Yes, taboola maybe is promoting literally ANY content- even spam. So yes- I blocked them but currently Outbrain is really operating as a content discovery- I didn't find any content the abuses me as a reader. Not Yet. I know that they have strict guidelines as well for their advertisers.
We can all win in the domain of personal development. Most of what I learn, I learn for fun. I am happy to be able to stand on the shoulders of these great people and see further ahead.
Because the automotive industry wants to move from QNX to Linux, and wants to use dbus like they used QNX IPC beforehand. Thus we have projects like streaming video over dbus(?!).

https://lwn.net/Articles/551969/
Quality of musical instrument is huge factor too. I play trombone and I improved significantly only by buying new instrument without changing my practice routine. It is just "cheap" amateur instrument.
9 Tips on IT Localization Strategy
1. HPKP is too easy to mess up

2. If they use chrome, certificate transparency will log these

Unfortunately chinese people don't really use Chrome.
This is a revealing peek at the complexity of merged history. You can't project a "git space" onto a line, so a (linear) listing of commits just misleads you into thinking that your history is linear. That complexity is why I always prefer to rebase and keep my history an actual straight line.

TL;DR
- Merging is powerful, but comes with a cost.
- Rebase is your friend. Keep it simple.
If you understand Git branches, this analogy one may help you to understand topology.
A Guide to GIT using spatial analogies
I wonder who is keeping their secret keys in Bitcoin Core? Are people doing this? I know, I am not. I am just running it as a full node.
What other attacks would be possible if nobody stored their secret keys in Bitcoin Core?
Probably only attacks that required a lot of installations to be compromised.
"Light cone" isn't what it sounds like (to me): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone
I use hnreplies.com for this
Lshell 0day vulnerabilities
That's a very cynical, narrow, and depressing view of what education is. I very much doubt that view is shared by anyone that started or worked on Coursera or any other MOOC.
Because FAT is a very impractical file system

(if you read the section on "Other file systems" it's clear they're picked for being interesting case studies - I imagine FAT is simply not interesting to discuss)
Cross-Language Compiler Benchmarking
I spent ten minutes trying to make a demo app for it before discovering a limitation imposed by using the stripped down .net framework.

Until they break the sandbox it will continue to be irrelevant.
Pub/Sub Design Pattern in .NET Distributed Cache
The project supports for interaction to smartfox server 2x, 1.0.9 released
Care to elaborate?

I do not see how the quoted text snippets contradict what I wrote (that Debian builds binary packages fully indepdently from upstream, and prepares to have reproducible builds in the future).

Moreover, a single "huh?" comment is almost never helpful for a civil conversation.
Pretty poor assumptions drawn by the survey.
Polymorphism in java with examples – static vs. dynamic polymorphism
I believe what is missing from MOOCs is personal coaching. People do better when they are observed by other people than in a void. The educational coach doesn't need to be an expert in the domain, just an expert in education. Maybe MOOCs would do better to be coupled with local study groups and educational coaches that make recommendations about what to learn next and supervise the progress of the student.
Rebasing frequently is nice because it forced you to use Git in a way that makes rebasing pain-free, which leads to nicer Git usage in general.

In my earlier projects when I thought rebasing was evil, it was always because I was abusing aspects of the history that only made everything harder for myself.

(though then again there's surely a million different ways to use a tool like Git, this is all just in my experience)
Evaluation of Uncertainty in Basic Error Measurement of DC Resistance Tester
Bind Method in JavaScript
Turned out to be much worse based on what evidence? All three of your examples have been in use for over a century and there have been dozens of pain killers invented since then that are much better at targeting specific pain receptors without the addiction.
See also:
https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/issues/147
https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/issues/148
they might remove the warning altogether and replace it with a page saying "Hello friends! Please download the latest version and enjoy a picture of a pony"
Ask HN: Quickest Way from DB to Web App?
I have a Postgres database and I would like a simple web-based front-end for data exploration and some simple CRUD functionality. I'm leaning towards Airbnb's Caravel, but asking HN for recommendations.
Intel's Knights Mill mega-chip to take on GPUs in A.I
Nope. I have some substantial simulation code written against OpenCL that runs on Intel OpenCL and NVIDIA without modifications, and rather performant on both of them. The only part of the code specific to vendor is the platform selection, which is one line of code.

OpenCL falls down in terms of standard libraries such as cu{dnn,sparse,blas} but if you're writing everything from scratch it's fine.
I understand the purpose, but why use node for this? It's perfectly suited to a shell script with minimal dependencies (curl|wget, jq, git)
One of the lessons from this is that if you want to be able to do damage to a target with a directed energy weapon (and ballistic and explosive projectiles are forms of same), you've got to be able to _interact_ with the target.

It's a general problem of energy interactions -- if an energy form and material don't interact, it's as if the energy wasn't there. Glass and visible light (to a close approximation), neutrinos and matter, magnetism and non-ferro- or -para-magnetic substances. Cannonballs and tissuepaper.

At a biological level, transmitters and receptors, which generally require specific molecular properties to interact -- this is how transmitter blockers work, but stopping up the receptors. Carbon monoxide, similarly, binds strongly to hemoglobin and doesn't let go, preventing oxygen and CO2 transport.

Punching holes through an airship canopy ... makes it settle faster. The airframe itself is sufficiently large that terminal velocity is pretty slow as well -- large surface area, small mass.

You'd need either very-well-timed explosive charges, or cutter-type materials, or a thermal weapon which could melt the envelope -- the Airlander looks as if it would probably melt with sufficient applied heat.
Is projecting a message onto the wall of a building a trespass?
Possibly price. IIRC, Discus got expensive fast.
> We badly need an alternative to Nvidia/CUDA for deep learning

The post I am replying to.
Lockheed-Martin have ... some interesting customers.

They're also not sworn to tell the truth (whole, complete, or otherwise).
Wow, that would be a great way to respond to all of the people who think git is too complex. :P
Yes, but unless the framework authors maintain the contribution (possibly unlikely depending on the situation) they will have to keep maintaining those contributions.
Sure. It's really great those engineers in China where the jobs are going are contributing taxes to our basic income system here in the US.
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This is cool. Would be much cooler though if instead of the animations being linear, they were actually representing the athlete's run. So, Bolt's recent run started slow and sped up after 60m.
A recent multicore i7 (e.g. 4 core Haswell, 8 way SIMD for single precision = 32 threads) is enough to prototype OpenCL code which you can then run on larger CPUs or GPUs.
Not so say Coursera doesn't have problems, but the start and end dates don't mean much as of earlier this year, when they rolled out their new platform. There's no penalty for late assignments[0], and you can switch to a later session of the course whenever you want[1].

[0]: https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/208279866

[1]: https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/208279776
I do completely agree. Use right tool for your job.
Really interesting point.

Out of topic, but is it possible that is this why phone manufacturers are shying away from putting bigger batteries in their flagships? They want the batteries to degrade in the 2 or 3 years of daily power cycle, and most people choose to upgrade instead of replacing their non-user-replaceable battery. Does this make sense?
10,000 pixels. $1 per pixel. One chance at hitting the jackpot
Can anyone tell me what exactly is missing from OpenCL to be able to run the primitives of deep learning frameworks? Like, does it not have some kind of operation that is essential for matrix manipulation?
The free software world created Liferea, which looks good,[1] works very well, is easy to use, and was created 13 years ago. People just don't know about it, because they look for web services that they don't control instead of applications running on their own computers.

RSS is not dead, it is still supported by everything on the web except the large social networks that have corporate interests in not supporting it. This is in large part because all the content management systems support it.

[1]: See for yourself: https://clbin.com/B0v1yt.png.
Automatic Spec/Type inference for Clojure
What are you saying, that only children of your own race matter?
Seriously, how can anyone who knows nothing of computers use bitcoin? how can it possibly become a serious replacement currency?
The 1896 olympics were very amateur, both in facilities and level of competition, even compared to 4 years later. Many top athletes did not compete.
If you could bind a Slack identity to LDAP, would that fix it? I've never really thought of Slack as a security threat directly, but you're correct. If you trust voltagex@slack to act on behalf of voltagex@internal.domain, you've just crossed a security boundaries with no checks whatsoever (does Hubot et-al have audit logging?)
Does it come with any useful applications? Or any good demos?
They don't even have to implement the latest flavor of "Inception module", they only need to implement matrix vector operations and some math primitives like exponential, log, tangent and such. Why is it so hard to port to Intel? I would have liked to make use of my Macbook's Intel Iris GPU for deep learning, but it's not supported by anything.