skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author comes across a bit doe-eyed (although this is perhaps just them taking a necessarily politic angle, given the venue of the article), but I also think what they're saying is generally true.

The vast majority of people aren't actively malicious. I'd go so far as to say the majority of people who would be described by their colleagues as "assholes" don't get up in the morning planning to be shitty. Typically, at least in my experience, it's the product of a vast intent / ability gap, usually in communications / EQ-type skills. They honestly think (generally, overestimate!) they're being constructive or "honest".

It'd be easier if they were all just sociopaths.
> What's next, Trump is a Russian agent planted years ago and now taking over the country.

I suspect it's more a warning to Russia that the NSA are now watching the election systems and stand ready to intervene if they see something strange going on.
now imagine writing tcl commands in f#
I specifically mentioned non military response.
You are spinning this.

A twice elected democratic government of Ukraine was overthrown in a violent coup, orchestrated from abroad, that used neonazis to do the dirty work.

When this happened, the people of [what was then called] the "Autonomous Republic of Crimea" voted in favor of leaving what was left of Ukraine and rejoining the Russian Federation - which they were originally part of for longer than the US has existed.

Ukraine as a country has only existed for 20 some years. Before that is was a loose territory of different regions. The East was mostly ethnic Russians, the West was mostly other groups. And Crimea was always Russian.

The majority of the force used in Crimea composed of Russian solders that stood outside the gates of Ukrainian military bases, blocking them from leaving, to carry out orders to stop the referendum... Which turned out to be over 95% in favor of rejoining Russia.
http://regionals.burningman.org/

The map in that would probably overlay nicely with a global wealth map:

https://cdn.credit-suisse.com/articles/news-and-expertise/20...
Or alternately why not buy a few extra gigs of ram and upgrade her computer to more adequately meet her patterns of use.
That's a straw man (I think)
What I took away from their comment is that "rote execution -> concept" is faster than "concept -> execution"
Well, what about spaced repitition?
I think K-means would work best-- whichever cluster is closest to the "hot zone" gets the boot. :P
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12649414
It's a good question. It's a little hard to explain, it's more of a feeling. Some of the touchstones are Rainier Beer (long gone), the hydro races (kinda loved to death), the I90 "bulge" (gone), the Pike Place Market, the Bite of Seattle (loved to death), Bumbershoot (loved to death), Ivar's Restaurant's silly TV ads (Ivar died and is much missed), the freeway ramps to nowhere getting torn down, Bellevue turning into a glass towerscape, Ballard losing its norwegian flavor, Capitol Hill losing its counter culture due to escalating real estate prices, moldy waterfront cabins replaced by $5m mansions, the 1940s bungalows all disappearing, etc.

The Space Needle and the creaky squeaky Monorail and of course Sylvester are thankfully still there and going strong.
After reading all the comments here, you still stand behind your original pedantic comment as being appropriate and productive? Fascinating.

If you knew the OP was more likely to feel insulted than to feel helped, that wouldn't have changed your action?
Prometheus is great. I found setup quick and easy on Kubernetes (using the example config, which is full of magic remapping rules). It has "just worked" for the last 4 months. The query language is simple and expressive, and the integration with Grafana is good.

Compared to the issues we experienced with Elastic for our log aggregation, Prometheus on metric aggregation has been a piece of cake.
"Amaze your future employer!" "Free food!"

I guess that working for free food is pretty amazing for a future employer.
BGP route is on the receiving end.
I'm surprised people don't really think about this in the opposite direction - that programming can be used to help understand math better. How many people have gotten along better with linear algebra and calculus by virtue of messing around in a game engine? Having to actually apply math knowledge to solving problems - some applicable context - works wonders for cementing and fertilizing that knowledge.

Many a student thinks to themselves in a math class: "Man, I'll never use this." When you actually need the math, suddenly you have this "oh shit" moment and you step into gear.
This is recommended by Barbara Oakley, one of the authors of the "Learning How to Learn" course at Coursera.

http://nautil.us/issue/40/learning/how-i-rewired-my-brain-to...

The stigma against rote practice has damaged my past learning efforts. I thought I was learning things the wrong way. :-(
I've started writing everything in R Markdown and (very easily) converting to PDF or tex, which is just blissful.
It technically isn't, but it's listed in a private-use area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_alphabets

And, if you check the languages for the full Noto font Klingon is listed so it should work.
The only feasible way to handle a name given that, at least what I can think of, is a single unbounded textbox that's also optional.

Actually, I guess it really must be a foreign key M{0,}:N as a many-to-many to allow for having multiple names.
Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky
On the Modeling of Musical Solos as Complex Networks
Port forwarding on some consumer grade routers work using IP addresses (not MAC addresses). If I assign a computer a static 192.168/16 IP and forward a port to it, I'm doing it wrong?
It depends on your definition of "low-memory". The Kinoma XS JavaScript ES6 runtime[1] is designed specifically for low memory/CPU limited embedded devices, and runs very comfortably on 200 MHz ARM devices with 512 KB RAM.

[1] http://kinoma.com/develop/documentation/technotes/introducin...
For 1 year.
> Quotas aren't necessarily the best ideas, but if 90% of your applicants are men, and men and women have the same pass rates, what you have to work on is resume sourcing.

I agree with your approach, but the gender is not the only diversity metric. If you push this toward ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, introversion, geekness level, you might end up in a difficult situation and your company will look like Noah's ark. Instead, what I would do is to specify the tasks that needs to be carried out and define metric to measure it, then do a blind hiring. Attributes like graduation or work experience is irrelevant if the candidate passed the test. During the probationary period, if the team doesn't like the new members or the other way round, you can let them go.
Here's the first chapter of a book on him: https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoffman-man.html. Interesting insight into his personality (generous, warm, eccentric, curious), obsession with mathematics, reliance on amphethamines, and wide-spread collaboration with peers (Erdös number).

> To communicate with Erdös you had to learn his language. "When we met," said Martin Gardner, the mathematical essayist, "his first question was `When did you arrive?' I looked at my watch, but Graham whispered to me that it was Erdös's way of asking, `When were you born?'" Erdös often asked the same question another way: "When did the misfortune of birth overtake you?" His language had a special vocabulary--not just "the SF"[1] and "epsilon"[2] but also "bosses" (women), "slaves" (men), "captured" (married), "liberated" (divorced), "recaptured" (remarried), "noise" (music), "poison" (alcohol), "preaching" (giving a mathematics lecture), "Sam" (the United States), and "Joe" (the Soviet Union). When he said someone had "died," Erdös meant that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left," the person had died.

[1] "The SF is the Supreme Fascist, the Number-One Guy Up There, God, who was always tormenting Erdös by hiding his glasses, stealing his Hungarian passport, or, worse yet, keeping to Himself the elegant solutions to all sorts of intriguing mathematical problems."

[2] "Epsilon was Erdös's word for a small child; in mathematics that Greek letter is used to represent small quantities"
I thought the new title meant that they were ceasing to use some Symantec software...
That's not quite what I got: "rote execution -> concept" is a faster way to get the concept than trying to teach the concept itself.
At this point we (most or all programmers) can't actually successfully validate names or email addresses, or perhaps even phone numbers globally without mistake. Perhaps it's time to just become lax on "cosmetic" validation.
You are implying that someone who has everything you mentioned is happy, when it's often the opposite. The society we live in burns people emotionally, and it's precisely because of the lack of understanding from people like you (no offense intended) that we can't often do more about it. Do we work to live or live to work? Is donating money actually going to make him happy when he can't see the results first hand? Does money actually make people happy if we don't even have time to spend that money doing the things we would like to do? (It's common in the US to have shorter vacations than a lot of other countries.)
Good point. It sounds very similar to the mind/brain stuff in Snow Crash.
I tried to get two last names through marriage but California wasn't having any of it ...so my partner and I decided to shift names over and functionally have the same result. I probably saved myself your trouble - and I had a Spanish roommate in the past that had mail addressed to him with his two last names in 10+ different combinations - but that so many people have yet to tackle their misconceptions about names is frustrating :(

I do have two wonderful? related problems now though: I come across the occasional racist jerk that I can learn to avoid because they can't help Questioning my last name not matching my ethnicity, and I come across people that don't realize that my name in my other language hasn't changed (and that that's just not a Thing that happens in that culture). Yay names.
This reminds me of Burger King's subservientchicken.com, except theirs was prerecorded video. This is way cooler.
Listen to one of the original talk/interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgBcRhGPqs

He said (quote) "What are the odds that we are actually in base reality". This statement is made after expressing a philosophical argument contemplating the idea that if humans make increasingly convincing simulations then .... "What are the odds that we are actually in base reality". He never said we are living in a computer simulation, he just infers it by pulling a statistical number out of a hat ("billions") and then lets the audience/public believe whatever they wanted.

The initial quote "What are the odds that we are actually in base reality" is no different than saying "Human perception of the world is limited by our senses/biology/whatever". The only difference is the latter quote is (arguably) down-to-earth , boring, non-sensational and most of all - non controversial.

So then why be so dramatic ?

You could say Elons perspective is a "technical" packaging of a philosophical idea that has taken different forms, and his version is simply influenced by his career and role in the tech world.

I have a different perspective, my view is that the sensationalism and ideological theater is simply useful to keep investor and public interest. I think the theater around "AI as the greatest threat to humanity" has coalesced into a similar role. The only thing threatening about AI is that people are messy and will try to automate something dangerous and a bug will be in the software. The result is people will have hurt other people using technology. When it's stated like that ......the image of terminator robots goes out the window and the sensationalism is removed. :)

Scientists and engineers by default needed to disassociate from ideology when doing their work if they want good results, but many of them are perfectly content to play to the ideological assumptions of people (investors, the public , etc..) when it is useful.
Ignoring all the bs in your post would you recognize the right of any of the Russian regions to vote for their independence? (as far as how things unrolled you just have to watch interviews with Igor Strelkov who hardly can be accused of pro western bias).
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This just proves to me it's the crooked Establishment and Elites vs Trump and the Middle Class, even if half of us will have to be dragged kicking and screaming 'racist!' and 'literally Hitler!' into our new Trump-built promised land.

These are great days we're living, bros.
I believe that the first half of your want is already satisfied by amazon's kindle. When I had a kindle 3, I could turn on a feature to see highlights and comments from other readers.
Who put a talking robot in a park full of kids and gave control of it to the Internet???
I work in embedded systems. We mainly write C. We ask candidates to implement strlen() in the phone screen. A surprising number are not able to. It's a very low bar, but still a useful filter.
> The team heated the silk fibers at 1,050 °C to carbonize the silk protein

This is suspiciously similar to the way that carbon fiber is made. It could be that they are just converting the silk into carbon fiber and the nanotubes are not an important part of the process. Then again, I only read the summary.
Facts are bs?

> would you recognize the right of any of the Russian regions to vote for their independence?

Has the Russia government been overthrown? When it is, lets talk then, because the answer will depend on the circumstances of the event.
Still worth it. Tell me I can rob a bank for $100MM and you meet me upfront - instead of arresting me, just take half of my loot and tell me I can't do another bank for the next 12 months.
I've heard this same thing and I just think he was a nerd and that was one of his gags. I don't understand why someone would write about it like it's deeper than that.
The Adam Ruins Everything segment on this was great, it takes a large deal of water to poison yourself but somehow people manage to do it because of myths about hydration.
I have a 3, through Bruce Berndt. One used to be able to progress to a 2 without doing additional work, but nowadays that has become close to impossible.
I got this email yesterday, and called today to cancel my service.

The guy spent several minutes getting more and more belligerent, telling me that I was mistaken, that there had always been a data cap, in fact the data cap was being raised from 300gb to 1tb! The only real difference was now the cap was going to be enforced.

I laughed at him and told him I wasn't going to argue, just cancel the service.
Space elevator!

Monopolize space
An interesting Freudian slip.

You wrote: "...whether this thing I can do at an incredible actually mattered."

leaving out the word "speed" (another term for amphetamines).

It reminds me of Jung's word association experiments, where his data showed that people would pause for longer periods of time when the words in the test hit on subjects that held a strong emotional charge for them.
I never interpret this as anyone trying to say it is deep, but just that it shows insight into the kind of person he was.
No. You learn from doing. You can't make mistakes to learn from watching videos.
That might be an improvement, but I don't think it would be better than simply removing downvotes.

1) What's the purpose of this? If it makes no difference, what is it there for? A honeypot to catch throwaway downvotes?

2) Slightly better, but if a comment is hit with some of these before any likes, it might never be seen by people who would like it, which is just as bad as the current downvote system.

3) The staff can already do this, right?

Just get rid of downvotes. Let good comments be voted up, and truly bad ones (i.e. spam or rule-violating comments) be flagged. If someone disagrees with something, but not enough to rebut it, then so what? Deny them the effortless censor button. Or at least make downvoting reduce the voter's karma, so that downvoting has a cost.
Thanks for the response. I don't know enough about the issue to agree or disagree with you personally. I merely hoped I understood it well enough to explain why 'dragonwriter' reacted as he did. From the outside, including the Taliban and "associated forces" seems like an important addition, especially if ever applied by a future administration guided by the text of the law rather than the origin story.
While it's probably a negligible risk, we would breathe the dust from silk fibers if the stuff were produced in significant quantity.
> C++ is a non-starter.

Uh?
> It's crucial because people can die

Not every illness is lethal, for most of them you can just make it worse. Even less requires quick decision. Also, software evolves and scales much quicker than humans which makes our industry less standardised.

> That is not something you can say with someone's code being written this exact second. There is always time to research, test, experiment, and change.

In my world, there is a risk assessment which defines if we have time to research, test, etc. or just fix it on the go, because it is not a big deal if it occurs. In other cases we have a cold sweat and dead silence during deployment, don't we?
For anyone with kids, there's a great children's book about Erdös called "The Boy Who Loved Math". I read it to my kid for the first time when he was 2 or 3, and he loved it. It got us to start talking about prime numbers in a fun way long before I would have started talking to him about them. It also made enjoying math perfectly normal; my kid is 5 now and has no idea some people don't like math.

https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Loved-Math-Improbable/dp/1596...
Seems like it would be easy enough to disable voting on comments that are a few days old, or on stories that are no longer being visited.

I would suggest disabling voting from profile comment pages, to avoid voting on comments without reading their context, but this is Hacker News, and it would be trivial to script that...
No, what broke education is a fundamental misalignment in motives between the folks advocating for, paying for, and running education, and the actual children who go through with it. The things the decision makers are optimizing for are so very far removed from the actual experience of children. Like, how exactly does administering a multi-day standardized test help children? It's clear how it helps parents - they get to send their children to "better" schools. It's clear how it helps administrators - it gives them political cover for the decisions they make. But the actual children involved? Pretty damn near pointless, and the test is just the tip of the iceberg really.

I don't have high hopes for education reform movements, either. The direction education needs to go to get better is simply "less", and there's no incentives for doing so. (After all, how can you get credit for "helping children" if you're not actively doing anything?).
> You can implement EME in open source (the part that W3C standardized), and then throw a closed source CDM module on top of it.

Which means the whole thing doesn't work in a fully Open Source browser. EME is non-functional without a proprietary CDM.

It's like standardizing the <object> or <applet> tags: yes, they're a standard, but they're a standard way to talk to completely non-standard bits. But worse, because you could use <object> or <applet> to talk to an Open Source plugin, but a CDM completely loses what little function it has if open.

(That includes hardware-backed CDMs, since signed software you can't replace isn't Open Source either.)
Too literal... Relax
Ukraine never had nuclear weapons. Those where Russian nukes stationed in the regions of Ukraine.

The Kremlin had operational control of all nukes pre and post the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

There was no negotiations required to get them back except for a procedural "note of record". They would have been taken by force if necessary.
Yes, they do, because the baseline availability of dopamine and noradrenaline (it affects both of them) as well as 5-HT is considerably lower in someone with ADHD than without, though 5-HT doesn't have much of a role to play in attention disorders. It also has a sympathetic serotonergic effect (edit: that is to say, that the increase in 5-HT is similar to taking an SSRI. 5-HT is serotonin.)

The fact is, there are proven anatomical changes that are strongly correlated with attention disorders, and the efficacy of the dopamine/noradrenaline systems in the brain is significantly impaired by someone with such a condition. And, as someone with such a condition, I can attest to my baseline being very different from someone without an attention disorder. Further, the effect that I experience from taking Adderall is one of calmness and focus, while friends who have taken diverted pills say they feel "edgy" and focused, because its effect on me is to increase a low-baseline of the relevant neurotransmitters, and someone without a related attention disorder would have their baseline availability increased far above the therapeutic levels I experience. Self-reports from recreational users on web sites devoted to nootropics or to recreational drug use seem to agree with that assessment with considerable frequency.

Maybe that helps explain why people persist in saying that someone with ADHD has a different experience with stimulants?

Edit: I'll also add that my level of focus on stimulants still requires me to be somewhat interested in what I'm doing, and that doesn't seem to be the case with non-affected users, who seem to hyperfocus on whatever catches their attention first. Almost as if taking the drug gives them an attention disorder because they have too much dopamine and noradrenaline.
I had that recently. I have 15 years of experience, and my brain completely blanked on explaining a left join.

It's embarrassing even to type it out, but it happens. Very rarely I also lose my train of thought. I think it's just being a human though.
It seems like a lot of parents these days are appalled when schools actually make their kids do work. Sure it's not fun at first, especially when you're not used to having anyone tell you what to do, but once you get the hang of it, work is fun. It's not about an oppressive system making you in to another drone. Kids should be encouraged to think for themselves but the humans that came before us have a lot of beneficial knlowedge to share. Teach your kids to not take advantage if this and to play all day at their peril.
This is awesome. The real time chat too. Damn!
Linux kernel &lt;32 bit floating point error
How does "loved to death" work in the case of an event such as the ones you mentioned? Are they still there but lost their culture due to volume, or did they somehow fail despite that volume?

Both of the events you mentioned still seem to exist, in some form.
The x means "times" as in multiply and the "lower" inverts it. You could also say it's halved, been reduced by a half, been reduced by 50% or by 0.5. I think if something has shrunk by 0.5x then this could even be interpreted as it having grown 2x but this would be a pretty odd way to say something.
Doesn't increasing your metabolic rate require increasing your body temperature? This is something that has always puzzled me when I hear that some people have faster or slower metabolism than others.