skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google brings up this:

http://artists.pixelovely.com/focused-practice-an-exercise-f...

Step 1: Identify what you’d like to be better at, and be specific.

Step 2: Try to break this goal down into smaller goals. List them. Notice if one might interfere with the other goals if it isn’t tamed first. Choose the most foundational goal.

Step 3: Commit to practicing that aspect of drawing 100 times. Each practice should take a minimum of 5 minutes.

This is for drawing but it looks like it could be adopted for programming.

EDIT: googling some more brings up this article
https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-program...

EDIT2: even more googling finds more concrete focused practicing
http://web.archive.org/web/20060316094755/http://blogs.pragp...
It falls under the category of "Hidden Variable Theories" and cannot explain the violation of Bell's Inequality.
Ah, right. You could do this project with a cheap RC car and a phone running TF stuck on it
Blowing stuff up is usually easier than fixing stuff. Do we have cold fusion yet (not Macromedia :)? Do we have fusion reactors yet? In fact, we seem to be slowly losing ability to have any use of nuclear energy except blowing stuff up - it's next to impossible to get a new nuclear plant built, and old ones are being closed down. By the same 2100 we may have the atomic bomb as the only way to use nuclear energy we have. And still no fusion.
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Inside the catastrophe at Mode Media,
You should probably avoid all companies who do not give their phone number and address on their websites...
It's a very good question. I always thought that it's because of technical difficulties when transmitting electricity over long distances, but it turns out we already do it well (HVDC). When you think about it on a continent scale: why not move all PV panels from Germany to sunnier regions of Europe like Spain or Portugal where you can generate twice more power with them (in average 200 W/m² instead of 100 W/m²). The answer is simple: we'd need to have a common grid across EU member countries, but such a thing doesn't exist and it's unlikely to happen anytime soon. It turns out the biggest issue on this planet is always politics.
I don't think they should do that, for different reasons.

For example, lots of projects have more than one license, but GitHub seems to list only one. Incorrect information is worse than no information.

Besides current implementation only seems to pay attention to most popular licenses (?)... arguably ﻿CERN Open Hardware Licence is not amongst the most popular, but for some reason I was expecting GH to detect that one ;) So again: incomplete information.

Perhaps asking the repo owner to manually specify the licence could be an option, but if the repo owner cares about licences, I'm sure that information is available already.
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Consumer choice is, indeed, the underpinning of the free market.

What is preventing other companies to come to market with cheaper versions of the EpiPen? Why are there no cheaper alternatives?
> when X is something incredibly broad like "cancer"

Relevant PHD Comics about how "there will never be a cure for cancer":

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php/archive_print.ph...
GitHub – theweavrs/Macalifa: A music player written for UWP.
MATE is maintained and based on Gnome 2.
Are you seriously using water in your example? The one resource that in most communities you can practically get for free. (that's not to say water itself has no monetary value, but you cannot deny the fact that even the most destitute individuals in communities with access to fresh water will not die of thirst.)
Not too much, but too little. A monopsonist that buys at a lower price than where the market naturally clears will remove more producer surplus than the extra consumer surplus it extracts.

In concrete terms, this means something like "the price of a doctors visit is low enough that a nearby clinic closes down. Even though you were happy to pay the higher price for the convenience, and they were happy to provide service at that price, we no longer get to have that experience."
> Are there any examples in history where a country has saved up such a big stash ? Are they planning to retire young, as a nation?

i think they want to avoid the resource curse/paradox of plenty by taking the oil money out of circulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

Countries that rely on income from natural resources are worse off because they tend to neglect everything else that might generate wealth; also with these countries a small elite tends to get hold of the oil well, this leads to authoritarian rule and other goodies.

A windfall from oil often turns out to have many toxic side effects, so it was a very wise decision to stash it far away, as far as possible.
Yeah, this is a few years back now; I spoke to a nutritionist last year for the first time in my life and that was the first thing she told me to cut (and I have).
The human body is orders of magnitude more complex than the (admittedly uplifting) achievements you mention.
Well, everything is public information, so I see no harm in sharing the names:

Russian company: Angioline (http://www.angioline.ru, the site is Russian-only)

US company: Medtronic (http://www.medtronic.com)

Oligarch: Victor Vekselberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Vekselberg)

Joint-venture created by Vekselberg and Medtronic for "technology transfer": http://stentex.ru/en/about/company_news/199

Ties in the government: http://www.renova.ru/en/press-center/releases/21/1995/

Single-source decree of the government: https://rg.ru/2015/05/14/stent-site-dok.html (sorry, I can't find English version)

Don't be fooled by the press releases above - no actual transfer or localisation has been done or planned in the nearest future, they are just moving stents from Medtronic to Russia.
Lame attitude. The purpose of war is to kill people, yet nearly everyone agrees there are some particularly bad ways to do such - some of those ways are bad solely by their shear effectiveness.

The whole point of finance is maximizing profits, sure. The whole point of not "accepting" that as-is and thus regulating is because there are some particularly awful ways to make profits.
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Well, there is the letter of the law, and people don't all necessarily agree with it.

I personally believe creators of software (music, games, other immaterial goods) should be compensated and rewarded fairly, and I gladly let them have their fair share.

At the same time, I find it ridiculous to pay for something that can be copied at no cost. The technology allows everything to be free, but we force an emulation of physical goods onto the digital world, so we don't have to change the way or society works. We use the legal system to enforce this.

I haven't found a way to reconcile these two views yet, this is a major unsolved problem in our society. I believe a solution would need a radical change in how our economy works.

But in the meanwhile, I have no moral problem to "pirate" stuff when I can't afford it or think it is to expensive.

Acrobat Pro? Photoshop? As rarely as I need it and as expensive as it is: Free. MS Office: has become to cumbersome to pirate, costs. Sublime Text? I like the product and want the Indy developer to succeed, so costs, too.
1) Going to a specific location (e.g. a location that shows up in some error log about processing that data file) and eyeballing it. Being able to go to a specific location is sometimes important (e.g. row 12873, character 233). Syntax highlight is important, it sometimes makes obvious something that's subtly malformed. Syntax highlight that doesn't take an eternity for large files is a hard issue.

2) regex search/replace - interactive grep/sed.

3) Very large edits - e.g., find a specific location and remove all data entries before that so that the problematic entry now would be the first one; essentially cutting away half of a very large file.

4) Do note that you might have very, very large lines - it's not that uncommon to have the whole file in a single line, e.g. non-pretty-printed json data. Some editors work well with large files but simply die if there's a line with a million characters.
I created a command-line tool with basically three columns which are:

- License.(md?)

- README.md parsing the license

- package.json reading the license (it's for NPM)

To try to solve this exactly issue for a dependency tree:

http://github.com/franciscop/ianal
I wouldn't go as far as calling it the "best" form. This can spread the risk over time-dimension of a single trajectory (i.e. your trajectory). Conventional Insurance has more space to spread the risk over: the trajectory of everyone who enlist themselves.
Power transmission on large distances is a very difficult subject. To put it simply, wires have a non-zero resistance to current, increasing with its length.

For instance, Morocco plans to put solar panels in the Sahara. The solution that is considered in order to transmit power was that the solar station would charge batteries and the batteries would be carried by trucks.
Because power losses will be absurd (unless you manage to find a room-temperature superconductor)

Pretty simple math, if you cable has 1 Ohm/km then the distance between the Northeastern most point in Canada to Ireland is around 3000 km (or 3x10E6m)

So suppose you have this very long extension cord, plug it on Canada (100V there to help the math) and plug a lamp on Ireland (an old incandescent 100W bulb, because it dims)

Your lamp is going to have 100 Ohms. Current is going to be 100V/(6100 ohms) = 16mA, making your lamp glow with 1.6W
The fact that it is a pseudo-free piece of software is one of the biggest reasons for its success (apart from its blazing speed and the rugged, minimalist engineering aesthetic). People just get used to the occasional nag screen as a sort of background noise.

I'm hopelessly tied to IntelliJ's amazing IDEs for any sort of programming, but Sublime is my EDIT.COM for all other writing, especially note-keeping. I used it in that capacity for around a year, guiltily enduring the nag-screen, before I got around to buying it. This free-but-nag approach (not Nagware - too negative) was unusual for the times, but it reminded me of the Shareware days when successful software like PKZip spread virally, but extracted commercial value only when the users felt like it.
I don't know about Shaarli, but yes, Wallabag is a read it later service, not a bookmarking one.

You can self-host or use a hosted version here (that's what I do) : https://framabag.org/
They are still only 1% of global stocks - hardly 'big enough to affect the stream'
Reading from a raw filesystem dump was both interesting and rewarding as it works on a problem domain that exists in reality, not just on some simplified playground. If you target something as primitive as FAT, the challenge isn't terribly high.
I pointed out the logical fallacy in the parent's example. Look at the water version of their paragraph:

'In [thirst], there are lots of situations where the cost is X dollars vs literal death. Of course, death is not an acceptable alternative, so an acceptable X ends up being very, very high for the [bottled water]. Most people would pay their life savings to treat themselves of [thirst].'

The parent 'proved too much'; there are many situations where a good or service is required for survival, but that alone does not cause the price to rise. The lack of alternatives (I.e. defensible monopoly) is what causes high prices.
To do the task in the article (classify images, pretrained model) - it's pretty easy - just follow the tutorial here:

https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.10/tutorials/image_re...
How does it compare to UMDF[1]?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Mode_Driver_Framework
I don't think it's a good thing to make us disease-free in terms of evolution.

I think it's better to just cure the diseases that kill us ( long/short-term) eg. cancer, aids, ... or make us immoble for longer term ( parkinson, ..)

Why? Because i think the best defense is a good immune system. You don't get a good immune system by staying inside and infection free and using medication all the time. Let people become sick ( not lethal ones) and let nature fight it off.
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This is presumably a large part of the reason for health insurance and public health cover (medicaid in the US).

This causes a principal-agent relationship where the decisions are made by health insurance companies (the 'agent') rather than the person who needs them (the 'principal'). This, of course, has it's own set of issues.
I switched to shaarli back in the days when del.icio.us was bought by yahoo. I am using it ever since without problem. Hosting on super cheap PHP hosting. The open-source community took over the project from original author and they are maintaining it. Highly recommend.
So don't brake suddenly when unnecessary, only in case of emergency. In other cases just slowdown to full stop and alarm human driver in process, giving him more time to react.

IMHO, emergency braking must be mandatory for every new car with top speed greater than 60 km/h.
I don't doubt that they were contractually bound to pay the 60M$.

The parent comment sort of implied that the fund couldn't possibly have overpaid, because 60M$ is such a small fraction of profits. All I'm saying is that they might have overpaid, at the time of signing the contract, if another equally skilled manager would have taken the job for a smaller compensation package.
Oh, well, that's different, then. As long as the cops and TSA goons are qualified to tell when the machine is malfunctioning, miscalibrated, or otherwise going full-Therac 25 on us, we're good.
Does it really bother you? Sometimes I'm concerned I'm a sociopath or similar because I don't care at all about the honor of complying with the license. If no one sees me pirate it and there are no consequences, who cares?

I do care about my fellow developer who wrote ST and seems a nice guy, which is a reason to pay... So maybe I'm not a sociopath after all.
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I have seen egregious abuse of pre-emptive threads ... a lot. Abuse of green threads / fibres / coroutines ... not so much. I think one has to be a half decent programmer to be even aware those options.
It's also an element with atomic number 31.
Let me quote Ramez Naam here:

Transmission costs money, but less than many believe. The cost of high voltage DC (HVDC) transmission lines is roughly 1 cents per kwh for 500 miles, or 1.5 cents per kwh for 1,000 miles transmitted. Over 1,000 miles, an HVDC line may lose 5% or so of the electricity it transmits.

I don't consider 5% per 1000 miles an "absurd" amount.
Steve Yegge: Practicing programming (2005)
Shaarli was created as self-hosted alternative to del.icio.us back in the day..
How do you know they have great tech?
Getting started with Rust?
Hi there,

Programming languages fascinate me, and Lua has been my tool of choice for nearly all of my personal and work projects due to its simplicity. However, I want to delve in to something a bit stronger, and I am currently torn between GoLang and Rust. Can anyone suggest me some starting gear?
So you're suggesting they're going to just give birth to a super race of people ?
I did that: https://github.com/harobed/gobookmark

« Inspired by Shaarli (Delicious clone), easier to install (only one standalone executable).

Built with Go - GoBookmark runs without installation on multiple platforms. »
I tried viewing the article on 4 different monitors. All monitors had default settings except for brightness. Monitors A & B were on new laptops, monitor C was on a very old laptop, and monitor D was on a smartphone. Here are the results:

FIGURES 1 & 2. On monitor A, all bands of color in figure 1 were easily discernible. The first four bands of color in figure 2 looked identically. Figure 1 looked more evenly spaced than figure 2. On monitor B, all bands of color in figure 1 were easily discernible. The first five bands of color in figure 2 looked identically. Figure 1 looked more evenly spaced than figure 2. On monitor C, all bands of color except the last two in figure 1 were easily discernible. The first three bands of color in figure 2 looked identically. Figure 1 looked about as evenly spaced as figure 2. The result from monitor D was the same as the result from monitor A.

FIGURE 12. On monitors A and B, the color of (A) was closer to (B) than to (C). On monitor C, (A) appeared equally close in color to (B) and (C). On monitor D, the color of (A) was exactly identical to (B).

CONCLUSION: On monitor C, gamma correction had neutral effect. On all other monitors, the effects were negative. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a standalone PC monitor for my comparison. It is entirely possible that a PC monitor would give a different result. However, since most people use laptops and tablets nowadays, I doubt the article's premise that "every coder should know about gamma".
You don't need a room temperature superconductor. High temperature superconductors can be economically refrigerated today. The problem overland is encapsulation - under the sea this goes away since the environment is much more stable (and colder).
Don't you think the emphasis on repetitive practice makes more sense for skills that are based on bodily coordination?

I think getting better at programming has more to do with learning patterns, thinking carefully, and hard-won experience.
I believe there are three alternatives: Epipen, Adrenaclick, and Twinject. The FDA does not allow pharmacists to substitute one for the other at the pharmacy, and many (doctors and patients) opt for the best-known brand.
What do you mean by "like him"? The only writer I find comparably insightful is Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex.com), and he has a quite different style and covers quite different subject matter.
Sigh. I so wish it was Lua and not JavaScript.
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People often think it's just because the food is there in abundance. But it was there even before! But obesity is still rising. And poor people are fatter than the rich.

I'd say it's a mix of specifically engineered flavor additives, advertisement, marketing and product placement and similar things.

But the usual approach is that people are simply stupid and it's their own fault so there's no problem. Anything the food industry does is simply the beautiful free market at work, and it's every citizen's duty to see through it all and choose a healthy lifestyle despite all the crap thrown in their face every waking hour.

Fat people are great business. They eat a lot (so they can be sold food), they stay at home a lot (so they can be sold entertainment and shown TV ads), they become sick (so they can be sold medicine) etc.
Telegram is amazing. Having security, and an app on every device makes it unparalleled. Shame all my friends use WhatsApp.
Why does Lemonade ask its users to record a video during the claims process? The FAQ doesn't give a good answer...
100% agreed. Investment vs consumption. Though maybe, just maybe, this thing has an "investment in reputation" angle to it too? More generally I wanted to contextualize the amounts.
It needs to be established as a human right.

It already is. Article 12 of the universal declaration of human rights:

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Just a nit, but the author keeps talking about object recognition while what he was actually doing is image classification. Object recognition actually consists of two tasks, one is classifying the object (this is a beer bottle) and the other is also says where in the image the object is. Additionally it can/should detect multiple objects in the image. This is a more complex than classification, which only associates one category with the image.
And for Android there is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dimtion.sh...
Industrial use of oil for chemicals doesn't burn it and is tiny compared to transportation. Also highly substitutable with plant sources.
Which you could say about pretty much any feature on a customer based business model.

But customer demand is only useful if you can turn the demand into a sale and a happy customer. Measuring the conversion of an interested user to a customer is how you measure return on investment for features.

If what you did meant an increase in revenue from those customers, then it is fair to say it drove revenue.
Can an insurance company really claim, as Lemonade does, that:

the Service Is Available “As Is.” YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT: (a) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE AND THE PURCHASE AND USE OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ARE ALL AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED AND PRODUCTS ARE SOLD ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LEMONADE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

In other words, they are promising nothing. How then can you rely on them for insurance?
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Neither is a CPU. A powerful GPU or cluster of GPUs, however ...
This is exactly what does win-sshfs linked by
modeless.
Is it just not advertising to your own product ?
>As annoying as callbacks can be, they do fit the model basic GUI model very well: user clicks on something, the system calls the corresponding funciton.

Those are callbacks for event-driven programming.

But there's nothing about them that makes it a great abstraction for asynchronous tasks in general, and even less so for concurrency tasks. They are a low level abstraction that should be used as an implementation detail.
> Where this goes wrong is sometimes executives, or more often, sell side( tiny little investment banks) acting on behalf of the company will call the hedge fund and before asking if they want to be locked up, just blurt out the news. it's an awkward conversation that typically goes something like:
> "Hey Chris, just wanted to let you know ..... something that will crater the stock in the short term like raising money in a bad market.... This isn't public information yet so you'll be locked up for 2 weeks."
> And just like that they've fucked you. Now you either have to choose to be locked up knowing that your investment will drop or take the risk of selling and knowing that you'll have to defend your actions to the SEC.

Levine talks about this regarding the David Einhorn/Punch Taverns case. My understanding of what he said: in the US the law doesn't work like that, if they tell you and you didn't explicitly agree not to trade on it then you can trade on it (the guy who told you could theoretically get in trouble for a Reg FD violation, but you're in the clear). But in the UK it does work like you say.
The Official Sublime Rust package supports this update:
https://github.com/rust-lang/sublime-rust/pull/87
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