skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is that?

It's because of the mindset. When you consider learning as a chore, it really does become painful and tedious. However, if you consider learning as a hobby, it becomes much easier and much more natural. I had this job a few years ago where I was required to learn a certain programming language whose syntax and semantics I really disliked. It took me months to fix a problem that I now deem trivial, and this was because I felt that what I was doing was a chore. A few weeks ago, I decided to learn a new language, and since I did it after work right before going to bed as a hobby, the learning part came naturally and I felt like I was just having fun.

> And how can we make it easier to learn?

That said, it certainly helps if you incentivize your learning process. Answer these questions: why do you want to learn what you're trying to learn, and what will you get out of it? If the answers make you happy and excited, then I think you're already halfway there. Learning is much like going to the gym and working out: you have to tear those muscles up (a really painful process!) so they can be rebuilt much bigger. As the old saying goes: "no pain, no gain". It takes the right mindset and the right goals to truly make learning easier and more rewarding.

> What helps?

Peer learning! Try to find someone to learn whatever you're trying to learn with. As a programmer, I can attest to just how much peer learning works. I usually hang out at the Slack of whatever tool or language I'm trying to learn and join meetups. It really helps you learn faster when you have someone to bounce your ideas on.
When Blackberry went Android, they threw security out the window. Until Marshmallow, Android made absolutely no attempt at any kind of security whatsoever - any app could read anything on your phone and there was nothing you could do to stop it - messages, contacts, microphone, location - and to this day, apps still have to voluntarily opt in to the permission system.
This is a bizarre argument to me. Economists, for instance, do not have an agreed-upon definition for the "money supply". Nevertheless, it is perfectly reasonable to operate as if such a definition existed, so long as the details of its definition or not important in the discussion.

Similarly, this is in the same vein as writing pseudocode containing a function that has not yet been defined. The exact execution steps of the program are not defined, but you can still reason about its flow all the same.

To say that we cann't determine whether a species has changed, because we don't have a meaningful way to measure species change, is fine. It does not follow, however, that species change is inherently unmeasurable, and that therefore we just can't talk about it at all.
Yandex Mail Success Story [video]
The claims may be objectively true. But I can easily make many objective statements which are true and which are either meaningless, or seem to point out things that need more context to understand. Depending on which side of the argument I prefer, I can choose only the true sentences that seem to support that side and ignore everything else. This is done by media all the time. That's why it's worth to know the bias of the author - even if they don't say anything false, they may ignore a lot of facts and larger context of the issue.

For example:

- Only criminals smoke weed in the US. (true by definition, federal law doesn't allow it)

- Looking at prison population, black people commit more crimes than any other race in the US. (true, missing context of who gets to go to prison, and race ratios in population)

- Obama introduced the best patient protection and affordable care act in the history of the US. (true, but also the only one)

- In the US there are more people who brush their teeth who have cavities than those who have never brushed. (true, because only tiny fraction never brushed their teeth)
> It's not a magic spell you can use to discount a premise. Indeed, blind use of "fallacies" is just an appeal to ancient Greek authority!

Also known as the fallacy fallacy:

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy
>Individual US states are pretty close to sovereign.

At this point US states are mostly satrapies of the federal government, since the feds can withhold block grants to the states who don't fall in line.
Their only innovation seems to be "more qubits that haven't even be demonstrated to be qubits", so I'm a bit sceptical that their future endeavors will do much. Either the team or their management is insisting they ignore everything we know about adiabatic quantum computing despite having not found a hint of contradicting evidence.
Public usage can and should be managed locally as another topic though don't you think?

As far as recreational use, fundamentally, should it be the responsibility of the government to tell you what you can and can't ingest?

I don't think it is. I think sin taxes are stupid too. But I do understand drug usage is a concern and suboptimal for a lot of people. I don't smoke nor have I ever tried it, except for one cigar.

I'm asthmatic and I didn't like people smoking cigarettes in public places because smoking sections back in the day weren't contained. Now - smoking is generally considered uncool and it's hard to do in most public places. I've been to smoke free cities which is their right and I think that's how it should be.

Whatever side you're on - the evidence doesn't back up all the claims to keep it criminal.
Classit ford pinto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Fuel_system_fires.2...
FedEx Ground is typically handled by independent contractors (and may actually be a separate company). FedEx Express drivers are FedEx employees.
Ask HN: What routines do you recommend that you've stuck with for 6+ months?
Routines and the systems that support them/rely on them are often touted as a major contributor to success. Even though everyone has an opinion, people either have just implemented something and it suffers from the newness fallacy and/or people just want to share everything they are doing. I'm hoping to get an idea of what has stood the test of time that works specifically for you.
No, but I don't see the "designer baby" tech as something that radically changes the nature of the problem (which already exists, and has existed for a long time), either. Basically, insofar as status quo is tolerable, this doesn't move the needle enough to care.

The other thing is, coming from a "well, something must be done about it" perspective, fixing these aspects of human society strikes me as the least intrusive and harmful side-effect-free approach, compared to all the other alternatives (which are mostly about tightly regulating the tech and its use). Heavy handed regulation, in particular, will just produce a black market with no regulation at all, which is likely to result in more problems in the end.
One of the things that's most impressive about humans is that, despite needing somewhere between 1200-2000 calories per day to survive, humans have managed to not only find that number pretty much anywhere on the planet, but find enough variety to provide for all essential nutrients.

For example, I was idly watching this documentary [1] and there's a point where the subject of the film ends up living with some natives of micronesia. Here's the relevant bit https://youtu.be/-qSXyz3he3M?t=899

Despite living on a tiny dot of land surrounded by undrinkable liquid and virtually no major sources of fresh water. These folks have managed to find that many calories x 150 people and get enough variety to get all of their major macro and micro nutrients covered. They've been successful enough at this to have made a successful go at it for thousands of years. And if you look at the people, they're not at near starvation levels of food.

And we find this everywhere on the planet, humans of the same species, managed to spread to nearly every corner of the planet thousands upon thousands of years ago survive and thrive. That's amazing.

There's lots of comments that remark on what you end up eating when you're starving. But I think the pattern is in many ways the opposite. Humans have been successful everywhere they could walk, climb or get to on a boat. Most of human habitation is one of getting enough to eat most of the time, at least long enough to reproduce and raise the next generation to the point that they can feed themselves.

Another point is that humans have had various preservation techniques, in almost every society I know of, dating back into pre-history. The idea that you can apply a set of techniques that work one place to another makes complete sense.

Cheese is likely the result of a very deliberate process and patience rather than a starving person desperately shoving anything that might have digestible calories into their mouth.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSXyz3he3M
In general, USPS does have the infrastructure to do this: Managed Service Points are barcodes placed on mailboxes that can be scanned by the carrier, to establish when he/she reaches certain checkpoints.

https://about.usps.com/strategic-planning/cs02/2f3.htm

It's a more modern version of the mechanical "watchclocks" installed in buildings to ensure that guards make their appointed rounds.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_tour_patrol_system
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchclock

I have no idea how regularly USPS examines or audits their MSP data.
It's more about the models than the framework. Moses is really great, and has a few example models, but to get usable results you will have to build up your own models.

Kaldi is another. I have a model around here getting a WER of about 5%.
Algae slush is carbon coming from our current system, our current atmosphere, it is renewable. Fossil fuel is releasing carbon from and external source (external on a human timescale at least). It will be essential in creating a renewable replacement for oil.

Burning hydrocarbons is not the issue. Burning hydrocarbons that were extracted from the atmosphere millions of years ago, is.
Ask HN: Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?
I have been offered a job in Seattle that will pay 170k in total comp. I have 10 yrs of experience in software dev. Another competing offer was from Facebook but I declined it because they wanted me to join at in one level down than my current role.

I am 31 and don't have kids.I plan to marry next year. My wife may or may not work.

If I move to Seattle, what are hobbies I can pursue? I heard its usually gets very cold in winter. I haven't made up my mind but I found a place near UW for $1400 per month.

What are your thoughts?
>* I can think you can see the point I'm making: yes, Apple has a big pile of cash, a fat amount of profit and high stock value. However, Alphabet its influence and reach is far, far beyond that of Apple. Its just not as flashy & visible.*

Yeah, Alphabet is bigger in every way that counts except those two inconsequential things for companies: revenue and profit.
Interesting post, but I would suggest coming up with an original logo, rather than using another company's world famous logo and slapping a ninja icon on it.

Ministry of Sound logo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Ministry-of-s...

The logo this company (Ministry of Testing) is using:

https://www.indiehackers.com/images/business-icons/ministry-...
Here is an email I received from rollbar.com when they announced price increases. I was impressed enough how they chose their words to save the email.

Your account is on a plan from prices that we set back in February 2015. Back then, we were 5 people in a San Francisco coworking
space trying to figure out if what we were building was going to be useful to anyone other than our early adopters.

Over the past year and a half, we've learned a ton about just how valuable Rollbar can be, how it fits into the modern
software development lifecycle, and where it can go. Tangibly, we have:

* Grown our full-time staff over 3x, from 5 people to 17
* Hired dedicated support staff
* Released and improved countless features, including SSO, 2-factor
auth, and tons of integrations

... and we're extremely excited to keep working on our mission—to help developers build and maintain software, quickly and
painlessly—for many years to come. To have the resources to do that, we need to adjust our prices to better reflect the
value that Rollbar can provide, and we hope that you'll stick with us on this journey.
ASA is investigating No Man's Sky for false advertisement
I mean, the wires are only relevant to the control of the machinery (not the actual computation) and these aren't photonic quantum computers anyway. What's the point of putting a bunch of optical fibers with electronic emitters and receivers on both sides?
I'm guessing there might be a cookie or content security policy that requires testing with actual subdomains, so www alone might not work for their usecase. It's also nice to use a name that is guaranteed not to have conflicts, so localhost might be preferable for that reason.
what is good for the median person is also good for the 1%
Yeah didn't mean to sound that abrasive.. damn booze.

It is a nice feature indeed
Apple has its own OS, compilers, IDE, 2+ languages, various frameworks etc. This is more than what Google, more importantly used a lot by people. But yeah it just a hardware company.
I strongly agree that we shouldn't shield ourselves from opinions that disagree with our own, and that the 'bubble' is dangerous ...

...

> Who cares who said it so long as what they said has merit?

But how do we know how much merit it has? I don't believe anyone has the capability to answer that question on their own (unless they already possess the expert knowledge in the field), or the time to verify it.

Therefore, to a great degree we must trust the authors, so it helps to know who is speaking. No author is without bias; it helps to know their biases. Some authors are more honest than others and some more accurate than others. If an author has tried to deceive me before, I won't trust them again. If I've seen an author be diligent about accuracy, I'll trust them more next time.

...

... and so I do want to filter dishonest and inaccurate arguments, for obvious reasons. And for a less obvious reason: I don't have time to read all the exceptionally well-informed, highly accurate, honest, brilliant arguments out there; I resent someone wasting my time with their bullsh*t.
You may be thinking of Harry Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He was mainly responsible for the racially motivated propaganda campaign against marijuana in the 1930's.
Ok, let's not talk philosophy and talk capability-based security with CapDesk instead:

http://www.combex.com/tech/edesk.html

They already demonstrated that integrating POLA at language and security level with simple, user authorizations could knock out most problems automagically. Did a web browser that way, too. KeyKOS previously used that model for whole systems that ran in production on IBM's mainframes with checkpoints of apps and system state every 30 seconds on top of that.

Still think you have to screw usability to improve security? And does it matter that it might be true in an absolute sense of some sort if in practice it might be no different (eg File Dialog on Windows vs on E/CapDesk)?
Those are pocket change.
Perhaps in a world where everyone always deals in facts and everyone only tells the truth that statement is true, but that is not our world.

People lie and distort facts for their own personal gain all the time.

See for example, the scientists paid by the cigarette companies that produced data showing that smoking was safe.

Knowing who said something (and knowing who is paying someone to say something) allows you to better calibrate your skepticism to see if what they are saying might be biased by their financial or other interests.
Holy crap, watch video #3 it's worth it. She adds herself to the account by calling and asking.
Or once a company gets hacked, since that will be unencrypted in the users table. eg the linkedin data dump.
What distributor of software ever charged 50%? Retailers of CD-ROM games (when they were a thing) and video games do not charge that kind of markup.

You are crazy if you think this is a way for Apple to do anything other than capture some of the existing market of app ads, which has been incredibly lucrative for Facebook. They have so many ways to get more information about how useful an app is likely to be for you that they don't use, they don't need another signal.
I found this video so super interesting and yet frustrating for completely personal reasons: the company I work for used to sell a tracing product that was specifically designed for the distributed tracing problem and handled all of the issues he highlighted - trace sampling, cross-language/framework support built in, etc. It was/is based on the same tech as Zipkin but is production ready. Sadly, he and his team must have spent a huge amount of time rolling their own rather than ever learning about our product. Now, it still might not have been a good match, but man, the problems he mentions were right in the sweet spot of what our product did really, really well.
Require a minimum Ansible version in your Playbook
Yes! Sorry. I have always called it the "war museum" because that's what my wife's grandfather called it when we went. But yes, it's the Army Museum. And speaking as someone that was in the infantry for many years and deployed on many combat tours, I highly recommend it. It is a fascinating look at warfare through the ages.
for many search terms, and in my opinion, yes. a typical use case on an app store is searching for something like the example given on apple's promo page here: "photo filters". neither the app store or google has enough intelligence to make a decision about what the best result is, given a query that vague and returning that many results. the most useful thing they can actually display is likely an ad.

try searching for something like "car insurance" on google with adblock turned off - the majority of the visible page area will be used by some sort of ad unit, and the native results are pretty useless.
in the sense that Lightning did not kill USB, you are correct, sir.
If Dr. Andrew Wakefield 'admitted it was completely fake' why would he produce a movie in 2016 with Dr. William Thompson of the CDC saying precisely the opposite?
Oh, I am jealous of what you will experience when you go next week!
This is the key point. The cost of bringing a drug to market is mostly in the clinical trials. If the drug company can't patent the compound it's testing, it will never make back development costs.

This is the big problem with nutritional supplements and herbal medicine. You can't patent a plant, so there are all kinds of herbs people take that have never gone through double-blind testing. Some of them are probably efficacious.
openntpd uses the HTTP Date: header, not the faux timestamp in the TLS handshake.
This argument rests on the assumption that the Government mainly benefits the poor and powerless.
I'm sure it could also yield multiple well-cited articles on the other side as well. It would be much more helpful to actually provide some research that you stand behind.
Starting with // doesn't work in all browsers, such as Safari.
I wanted to make sure there were no other items to be addressed (specifically with the build scripts), I'll update the page now.
I agree, the Koch brothers are not motivated by compassion for the poor. However, they are motivated to act in opposition to some of the activities of government that are massively harmful to the poor.

I don't think we need to accept the _entire_ agenda of the Koch brothers in order to appreciate that sometimes they're doing the right thing.
> You're doing effectively the same thing, but in reverse. That article just demonizes introverts.

That article—as well as everything else on The Toast—is pure satire, and definitely doesn't pretend to have an actual position in the matter. Based on her writing & twitter feed, Mallory Ortberg is probably not an extrovert.
I did some research and all I could find related to capacitive was buttons out of the screen. But like I said before, you can hide the buttons bar, so it you would have to swipe up from the bottom of the screen and then touch the windows button to get to the live title stuff.. So I don't find your reason enough to do what you did, but anyway, it's your life! I'm looking forward to get my hands on IOS and see what's like

Edit: I was amazed by LG's UI on android 4.4. It's fucking cool. Those guys know how to make life easy and pretty for folks. It is actually a 14 bucks phone that kicks 100++ bucks phone assess
This article is beautiful.

I am not a React Native developer, but I am a React Web developer (not by choice). The author summed up my feelings about React and JS in general so eloquently. The Swamp Castle and Freedom from Digging bits were so on point.

I am betting that my comment will get buried in the bottom of the comment avalanche, but if the author is reading, thank you for making my day!
I should perhaps be more articulate. Coverage of human rights abuses is never much more than propaganda.

We do it, China does it, North Korea does it. It's the same everywhere.

Now, do human rights abuses give me the warm and fuzzies? No. But when someone is trying to tell me how reprehensible a regime is because of their human rights record, I'm reduced to rolling my eyes because the agenda is never about human rights.
> Actually, the point of the app store was distribution. That's what the 30% cut was for IIRC.

Nobody was paying Apple 30% because that was cheaper than distributing yourself. They paid 30% because without paying that their app wouldn't get discovered, by design.

Now Apple has decided 30% only buys you the privilege of being able to pay more to be discovered.
Why Women in Tech Might Consider Just Using Their Initials Online
One would think HN commentators would know Graham's hierarchy of disagreement...
Not to mention it's a felony and it will be prosecuted.

In your situation, you would almost surely have to know an already-registered voter's name and address -- I'm not aware of any states that let you register on the spot without government id. Many people don't register, and it's not automatic, so that's already an obstacle.

Also, the log books your voting location maintain get marked when a registered citizen votes. So if the voter you impersonated comes and votes later, your impersonation will be discovered.
Forgive my ignorance, but how does an individual of one country sue another country's government? In what court does this hold up, and how can the country being sued be held to any decision made by such a court?