skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I think this is how it works for a lot of people.

The idea of waypoints etc sounds more like a clumsy narrative about how it should work than how it really does.

If I'm "learning with others", I'm putting a lot more energy into being with others than into learning.

Unless it's an explicitly social problem, it's a very inefficient way to learn.

There are problems with self-directed learning. The most obvious is that because you don't know what you don't know, you can build an oversimplified mental model, which can cause issues later.

And if you're not taught best-practices and microskills that people learn with experience, your learning will be incomplete.

It's up to course material developers to try to solve both of those problems. Ideally teaching should combine rich and realistic model/overview with useful time-saving rote skills from real practice.
> That's an argument against ever adding ANYTHING to a new language!

Not exactly, because no error will be raised from Python and subtle bugs could be introduced if someone relied on this behavior.
I would re-title the article, _Generalization, generalization and more generalizations_. Why, this is a typical space-filler article typical of consumer publications, most visible in the Daily Mail, to provoke criticism, rage, agreement but not much else. People don't always fit in the neat boxes so don't waste time reading such common and regurgitated content.
What year?
Interest in the C programming language is plummeting
On Safari OS X, the article is blocked by a full-page ad that I can't dismiss.
The exception that proves the rule (else it wouldn't be a rule, but a universal law that goes without saying)...

http://comicfury.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=26895
Indeed other research has indicated that lots of factors can affect a judge's decisions.

http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889.full

A panel of judges would be one approach. Perhaps judges could be made aware of what the average penalty is for similar cases and that would give them an easier anchor for their decision.
I used to hate JIRA. At the present work, it surprises me that I quite like it.

I have thought about this (is my algorithm for liking/hating stuff deficient?), but am not certain if it is because I use a later version of JIRA, or if it is me. Am I less sensitive to bad web UIs?

It is easy to communicate with users and other developers. It keeps the discussion on the tasks in a nice place. It is easy to add queries to other people to call them in to touch a task.

My main theory is that the use case is different; I have more to do with users for the present tasks and the more complex features are less overkill. And I see less of the horrors (more experienced admins).

(Jokes about that this just shows my mental deterioration with advanced age will not be appreciated. :-) )
I hope you went to a hospital to get checked out after that. Some of the gases from cooking li-ion batteries are poisonous, and can cause long-term damage.

Honestly, if you see a li-ion battery on fire, probably the best thing to do is to run. Throw it somewhere not-very-flammable if convenient, but get the heck out of there. And hold your breath.
> If you are a developer (which presumably means a for-profit business) and have a choice between the two, you naturally decide to go after the higher profit option.

That may be true if the limiting factor is the number of developers - they will only develop the highest-value properties. But in a city like New York the limiting factor is not developer capacity, at least not that I have ever heard. Developers are effectively constrained by the number of profitable building sites, not their capacity to put up new buildings. And, in turn, the number of profitable building sites is dependent on not just the cost of labor and materials, but the cost of navigating city planning, obtaining permits, etc.

Don't forget that land is cheaper to acquire in less desirable neighborhoods, and it is also generally cheaper to build there due to lower existing density (which eases logistics by making it easier to get equipment in and out, allows more on-site storage, etc.). The development that maximizes returns is not always the development that maximizes revenue - cost and time also matter. And there are more developers who can handle building a 10-story building in the Bronx than can tackle an 80-story mega-project in Manhattan. Plus, a "cheap" neighborhood in NYC is often as expensive as an "expensive" neighborhood in most US cities, so if developers are willing to build in Milwaukee or Cleveland, they should be willing to build in the Bronx.

But in a world where the administrative cost of starting a relatively small project is overwhelming vs. the potential returns, then those smaller projects in lower-price neighborhoods simply won't get built.
Yeah, obviously, there are lots of ways to improve that code. First off all, much more efficient to to do (i * i <= n) instead of (i <= sqrt(n)), or at the very least you can cache sqrt(n) so you don't recalculate it every step.

You can also do a separate test for 2, then start at 3 and use i+=2 instead of i++, that cuts the test time in half. Once you've done that, you can observe that all primes are 6k +/- 1 except 2 and 3, which makes your code 3 times faster than the naive version.

At this point, you've basically got a simple wheel primality testing algorithm going, so why not go all the way?

I don't think the parent poster was making the point that his was the most efficient algorithm for testing primes. I think his point was that regular numbers are O(log n) in CS terms, not O(1), which is not obvious at first.
We are having great success with Phabricator - https://www.phacility.com/
What I've learned from the comments: If something is valuable, there is a shortage of it.

I'm not even sure if I'm being sarcastic.
My understanding was that they might be able to crossbreed, but offspring are not fertile, e.g. hybrids such as mules and ligers.
Really? We got a decent amount on Vietnam, though not so much in high school. I remember in middle school one of our teachers had us watch some of the actual newscasts, as well as exposing us to some other things like this picture. I'm 35 btw.
We've had documented cases of speciation of various types of animals within only a few generations, birds for example tend to do that rather quickly as well as rapidly form ring species.

And this isn't because birds are special but because they tend to migrate, in other cases natural or manmade barriers that split a species into distinct groups have also causes speciation after only a handful of generations.
Besides birds where it's common due to migration patterns "man caused" rapid speciation has also been observed in rodents (squirrels/mice) and various types of fish.

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/100201_speciat...

You do not need a 1000 generations to speciate.
Spotify? Soundcloud?

American ignorance at its finest.
For many users, abandoning Facebook is like abandoning the web. So no matter what shit Facebook will pull they're not gonna leave, unless something better appears.

From the other hand, this whole situation is a bit ludicrous. The journalist doesn't seem to understand how Facebook works and is directly attacking Zuckerberg like he explicitly asked to remove the picture. Come on guys, it's just an algorithm that detected nudity and decided to censor the pic. You can't write a rant like that and not understand how the damn thing works in the first place. It's poor journalism. And then you make the assumption that just because Mark has power he's using that power to manipulate the world. How the fuck is that objective reporting?
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Perhaps folks will wake up to the evils of that pernicious 'drm' stuff the likes of the EFF, Doctorow, and even Stallman have been harping on about for decades now. It's not like people haven't been warned, cautioned, lectured, blogged to, and eventually harangued at, 'hey, giving up control and ownership of your bits is a Terrible Idea (tm)'. This is just step N in a long line of steps where those particular chickens come home to roost.
Have you ever had to deal with the system on any level?
> The US is an empire (and the mightiest one yet) and will act like that until it isn't capable to do so any more. Historically, that's around 100 more years but I'm not sure history is predictive here.

Agreed, but one thing that has been a constant throughout history is that empires eventually become complacent and buckle under their own weight, and have to face smaller contenders that don't have the inertia to maintain the status-quo.

It's telling that there really isn't any empire that has endured "forever", probably because this is simply not possible.

Portugal was the first global empire and ostensibly lasted for 600 years, but its decline started much sooner than it's total lifespan (around the 200 year mark). The country is now a shadow of what it once was, and the US will also be one day.
This is a conspiracy theory, but perhaps MS paid them off to do it this way just to generate confusion.
TortoiseSVN provides the "clean" functionality if you want it.
The color of your skin still plays a major role in determining the amount of empathy you'll get
Ah, I see what you mean. Same thing happens to me when someone tries to be clever with sexual innuendo, it's just cringeworthy.

Well, I though the title was trying to be juvenile (and definitely didn't strive for professionalism) on purpose. I took it less seriously than I would've otherwise but not to the point of making me less inclined to click it... I thought that's what the author meant to do, signal that the tool is just a toy/experiment and nothing too serious.

We don't have brogrammers around so definitely cultural differences :P
Free expression already has limits (No "Fire!" in a crowded theater when no danger exists), I'm absolutely fine with government saying what Facebook isn't allowed to do (remove journalistic posts without due process).
Tip for frequent "HEAD" users: @ is a synonym for HEAD.
always wondered if something like this could be done. Now just train it on an famous individuals wav data and you got a free celebrity endorsement.
Given there's research showing harshness increases over time until lunch then dropping markedly, then increasing again over the afternoon this isn't terribly surprising.

We're not likely to eliminate these factors any time soon.
> ...the most effective way for you to express this dissatisfaction is to close your account...

I think the most effective way is to share the photo. I just share the The Guardian article with the photo.
Me as well.
That's why I wrote "simple cases" and circumstances could be taken into account as long as the software has access to the person's criminal record, family situation, job, etc.

Empathy in the end comes from knowing about the person's background and, assuming it's possible to provide this information to a software program, it could make a decision as good, and maybe better, than a judge (if anything, that will allow the judge to spend time on more complicated cases). Also it's well known that, for instance, less attractive people get harsher sentences, and machines will be completely immune to this kind of bias.
I'm a fan of tig on the command line and Gitbox (Mac GUI).
I'm not sure what good psychiatric counseling would do? "Oh you had a fight with your spouse last night? You better take a day or two off."
Welcome to the witch hunt of our time.
Ah. Perhaps it was trained on Dutch speakers, not English.
Good points. Also, git (not Perl though) was designed by a genius for himself (and a few other geniuses). All of whom don't know how much of a genius they are / don't comprehend how comparatively dumb the rest of us are. So, the git ui assumes you either "wrote git" or "have read the source and are smart enough to understand all it's implications".
I would caution that deserts are some of the most sensitive ecosystems in the world. Covering up large areas of a desert with solar panels may be more harmful than you realize.

That said, I am a strong solar advocate; I simply believe we should start with the roofs of warehouses. These are huge areas of relatively flat space where the ecological damage has already been done.
I have similar ideas, and want to start side businesses. I have succeeded a couple times. I'm about to launch a new one, send me an email (in profile) and I'll show you what I have, maybe we can bounce ideas or collaborate. I do software and certain types of hardware.
>it’s difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others.

I'm assuming this is just PR, but if not, what a dumb statement. I'm sure there are cases where this might be true, but given the photograph we're talking about, give me a break. You really can't create a distinction between this and most other nude photos?

Unless she meant algorithmically. I could see that being a problem.
But is not open-source like Linux and Electron are.
You're quite right. Democracy and consumerism don't always push in the same direction, but when they conflict, democracy has more moral legitimacy.

Arguing in favour of democracy does mean limiting some people's opportunity to make money. That can make it an unpopular view.

(Independent of regulatory capture and governmental corruption, of course. The point being that the people are in charge, not what they do with their wallets, because otherwise we end up with an oligopoly.)
How does the market solve the problem that it is morally wrong (or at least dubious) to delete an iconic picture that exemplifies the cruelties of the Vietnam War?

Do you believe that billions of Facebook users will switch to another social network because they are some sort of moral saints who recognize Facebook's mistake and act accordingly? Or do you instead believe that the majority of Facebook users are that much of a moral authority that we should readily concede that Facebook is right, because almost none of their users complain?

"the market solves this" is a funny meme, but it's often plain wrong. Markets can solve certain optimization problems and find price equilibria, but they cannot somehow magically solve the vexing moral question of how much (if at all) a social media company should censor their user's content and who should control this in which way.
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If we're assuming a first-strike, how about we assume our military planners are also competent enough to deal with NK artillery?
A forecast:

(1) NK eventually attacks a sovereign nation. Most likely, their nukes will be used as a threat to back up their aggressive actions rather than being actually used.

(2) China, at first perhaps tentative and apologetic, eventually joins in with strong anti-NK policies and pressure.

(3) NK doubles down, building up its offensive capabilities and maybe launching more attacks.

(4) Very sad day for the innocent North Koreans living under the regime. The US, or China, or the UN, or all of the above smash NK into the dirt.

(5) Profit.
I've just posted the picture

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7fc6b8264e4c56cec514877c01fa9...

Perhaps facebook will do the closing for me
I want something like that's halfway between links/w3m & readability/reader view - basically a version of readability that's an actual browser.

Maybe one day lightweight design will be trendy.
I got a Surface and Microsoft gave me 1tb.
> You don't want "impartial" judgements

Why?

Your argument seems to be that without empathy in the legal system people would go to prison for stealing a loaf of bread. That doesn't really make sense,

My argument would be that with empathy in the legal system, unlikeable people from the wrong minority with an unhappy judge would go to prison for stealing a loaf of bread.

There is so much disproportionality in the legal system that has arisen from gut feelings and a lack of objectivity - not just obvious things like racism but even just some crimes having far harsher punishments than more damaging ones because they're easier to get angry about.

Formalizing things like reduced punishments for crimes with lower damage (aka. bread is cheap) or born of necessity (aka. the thief can't afford food) seems so trivial a concern in comparison. Obviously formalizing more complex issues is also hard, but the bar to beat isn't set particularly high.
I've heard that Jira is such a Swiss Army knife that your experience with it is extremely influenced by how it is configured. If it was poorly thought out and configured then you will hate it.
Vim is charity ware actually or at least that's how it was qualified when I started using it. Most of the long time vim users I know have donated several times. Vim and Emacs also have shit loads of plugins, which can make them behave just like Atom or VSCode so as usual I think it's just a matter of preference.
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All GUI clients on Linux I tested are plenty of buttons and menus, it makes me cry...
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This doesn't feel right.. it's not actually a nice side effect at all.

1. it's not in the spec

2. you shouldn't rely on it

3. python can't figure out if you're relying on it, so no error will be raised

4. subtle bugs are sure to be introduced by people who "know" this "feature" exists and use it.

Regardless of the cool implementation details, this post shouldn't advertise that "keywords become ordered" and "A nice "side effect" of compact dict is that the dictionary now preserves the insertion order".

Ergo... we built this awesome thing that you'd love to use but you can't. Don't use it or you'll be a bad programmer who doesn't read specs!

(Just use addict or OrderedDict.)
I'm pretty opposed to having computers issuing legal judgments for a variety of reasons, not the least of which being that I spend a pretty large part of my day surrounded by government-written and government-sponsored software.

But if we were going to go that route eventually, perhaps a system where a judge is provided the "impartial" judgment as additional information or where the decisions are reviewed by a judge before sentencing and could be lessened/cancelled but not increased?
Do you mean the last paragraph? I am not native English, so I thought the "would", "would" sounded highly hypothetical.
AirPods have not been released yet, how can you and your Macworld source have reached these conclusions?

I am asking this because I am seeing this pattern after every single Apple product presentation.
It's not dangerous, it's the only path that society can choose. Facebook is dominant on social networking market and is subject to anti-trust regulations, that must be adopted to the nature of the service. Same can be said about Google in some countries.

It's almost impossible today for a person to switch SN, because for this to happen it has to be a group decision - most of the contacts must do the same switch. I have accounts in Path, VK and few more "yet another" social networks, but they are useless without social graph and it's beyond my control to move this graph there. It has to be regulated, because having freedom of speech in hands of a single corporation is wrong.
>Don't like tacos? Don't buy tacos.

Except because of network effects, if everyone's preference is tacos, then all the grocery stores will sell only tacos.
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Just checked, the # of data engineers rose to 9,246 (42%) in the last six months. So, the shortage is at least being addressed by people changing their job titles on LinkedIn.
it isn't about safety. its about an illusion of effectiveness. 97% failure rate based on their own internal evaluations. If the water bottle was so dangerous, you wouldn't be allowed to throw it away in the trash can right next to the screeners.
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I agree, a big part of the problem is that few tech organisations have alternate progression paths for technical staff, so promoting to management is seen as the only way of rewarding long term tech staff. Often made worse by making it politically untenable to raise salary above certain levels without promotions.

Back when I worked at Yahoo, the existence of a separate path to promote tech specialists was one of the great redeeming parts of the organisation, as well as a willingness to be flexible about remuneration for top performing tech staff - e.g. one of my direct reports was a developer that I gave raises that pushed his salary up above my own due to a combination of much longer service than my own and stellar performance (Yahoo was a great employer overall - at least the London office - back when I worked there, up to and including providing proper training for managers as well; but it was already then suffering from multiple-personality disorder, trying to be both a tech company and a marketing / media company at the same time).

But the problems also manifests for people who could do very well as managers, and maybe eventually will do, but who doesn't get proper support.
It's not competitive. Obviously every once in a while Europe will be able to make a popular web app. But for every European example I can give you 20 American examples.
If the government doesn't pay back/at least keep current on that debt, it's likely to fall, as in, the whole system of government, as happened the last time it screwed up so badly ("Not worth a Continental." although there were of course other factors). Secured by hard assets or not, a very great deal depends on people continuing to have a degree of faith in it as a whole, and it's hard to see how repudiating the debt would be survivable.

And it would still be just as sovereign as it is now, or are you claiming it's not sovereign over the Eastern part of the country???

Or course, there are many other gambits it could and likely will try, like the already mooted one of seizing people's tax system entangled retirement accounts.
Don't see any ads on Chrome with Adblock Plus.

It shows 32 blocked requests though (ouch).
Don't take it personally. I downvoted it, because I think it's irrelevant. I doubt anyone got angry or had any emotions at all about that post.
Many people argue that putting up micro-housing destroys the "character" of the neighborhood.

I'm not saying it makes sense, but that's the only real argument I've heard.
Now I'm curious what would happen if Obama posted a similar response, including the photo.
It would be neat to have a decentralized social network simply to avoid the editorial demands of the walled garden. I think we'd have a lot more unsavory content making its way to people's eyes though. There'd need to be more sophisticated ways of filtering information than just "unfriend", I suppose. And people would need to have tougher skins for it to work.
Massive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12461691

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