skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cars are themselves taxed and so is gasoline. In Europe much much more so than in U.S. So in a way not having a car you have a tax break (and public transportation, whenever it exists, is subsidized, because it almost never breaks even, so you have another tax break).

And taxing meat is a bad idea. If meat gets more expensive, people will eat even more fast carbs and sugars, which will mean ballooning healthcare costs.
It's graphite basically

I would say it does
Next time, use diffoscope to track down the exact differences.
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Optimization at MIT: Classes
It looks good at the start, but it doesn't deliver.

I think that it depends on the domain. Part of my PhD project was making a natural language generator for a Dutch grammar/lexicon. The grammar was developed for a high-coverage parser. Due to Prolog's declarative nature, the grammar, lexicon, and productive lexicon could be used with very few changes. (E.g. in productive lexicon, for parsing one would derive a root and lexicosyntactic information. In generation, you start with a root and underspecified lexicosyntactic information and derive a word with its full lexicosyntactic information.)

One could argue that Prolog was primarily used for data (grammar rules, lexicon). And it is true that people have developed systems that target unification grammar specifically. But in this domain, Prolog gives you a good local optimum: feature structures are trivially converted to Prolog terms, feature structure unification becomes Prolog term unification, Prolog's metaprogramming facilities make it easy to compile/rewrite grammar rules (e.g. in order to exploit first-argument indexing in particular scenarios).

That said, I didn't and wouldn't use Prolog outside that domain and haven't written Prolog since. Also, I think Prolog has serious deficiencies, e.g. it can be quite tricky to write good steadfast[1] predicates.

[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.swi-prolog.genera...
If you like this, check out minetest too. (minetest.net)

Its got rendering improved over Mojang's Minecraft (with built-in shader support,) infinite world size in all directions (not just horizontally), and a very high-performance C++ implementation.

It also has a very well-supported and well documented mod API, and an active community. You should check it out.
They’ve Got You, Wherever You Are
Funneling money from VCs to travelers all across the world seems like a net good to me.
Huh. If this works I should be way more aggressive about finding a ME/EE oriented product design engineer job in SF.
John Carmack Keynote - Oculus Connect 3
My doctor (and later the 'experts' in the hospital too) kept insisting it could not be stress so they kept giving me crap to remedy migraine, blood pressure etc. It stopped completely and never returned when I removed the stress.
It differs if you search by Stories or Comments. There are hits if you search by Stories but none of the hits contain posts which is what threw me.
Yes, but it comes out flipped 100% of the time. I ran the train image 10 times and it was backwards (you can tell from the numbers) every single time. This is more than just chance.
Keynote: 10 Lessons from 10 Years of EC2 by Chris Schlaeger
German Lawmakers Vote to Ban the Internal Combustion Engine
I have worked through SICP, and strongly recommend not using a computer for any of the exercises, at least until the large scale projects in the later chapters. This would be the perfect recommendation for someone who only has pencil and paper. However it is a bit intimidating if not impossible for a true newcomer without access to external resources and help. But with enough time and effort...
This is a brilliant insight into how little I understand the world.

If I was applying to the same company I'd be VERY upset this guy gets an interview.

If I was the person he got delivered the donuts I'd curse him out of the office and tell him to apply like everybody else.

What makes him special or give him the right to basically break the rules and disrespect everyone who tries their best to get through the recruiting door? What would happen if everyone acted the same and started stalking execs and managers trying to "serve" them whimsical resumés?

Clearly I'm the one who's strange since everyone else thinks it's great... maybe it's a cultural thing?
> I feel bad about the downvotes in individual cases, but the culture of easy, repetitive, or just plain bad jokes is a big part of what turned Slashdot from my favorite site into a cesspit that wasn't worth visiting, so I think they're a necessary mechanism.

I think it was around 2000 or so that I set my Slashdot reading preferences to automod Funny posts -1. That turns +5, Funny "insensitive clod" jokes into +4s, allowing the +5 Everything-besides-Funny posts to bubble up to the top. It's features like that that make the original Slashdot discussion system still the best ever invented (well, back when the meta-moderation worked like it originally did, where you randomly approve or reject moderations, rather than re-moderating comments out-of-context, which isn't meta-moderation at all).
hey buddy. good to see you. :)
I agree that the odds of any one place giving him trouble are low, but he hit up 40 different places.

If just one of them decided to call the cops, he'd be arrested, and that might end up with him being banned from re-entering the US. If each place only has a 1% chance of calling it in, we're talking about cumulative odds around 1 in 3.

That seems like a pretty bad worst case.
BeanDuino: Tiniest Arduino compatible ever?
I've seen multiple examples of prolog over the years. From looking at them, one gets the idea that you must hardcode all your data into your program and the only UI is a somewhat odd shell, with no way to actually send input in or get output out. It gives the impression of a neat idea that is a cool academic toy but not a practical language for real-world use. I think that it would be helpful if more prolog intros had a simple example that read a CSV file or JSON object or something, processed it using the defined rules, and output the results to text or HTML file. That's a minor thing, but I think that it would give a better impression and get more people interested and trying it.

Of course intros to other languages may gloss over I/O as well, but with mainstream imperative languages (that aren't oriented to defining and querying data), it's more well known or assumed that the standard I/O patterns apply.
The Internet Finally Belongs to Everyone
thx! new macbook(12') is beautiful and it has at least 8gb of ram and at least a 256mb ssd and 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core m7. just front-end dev, nodejs, npm.

and Dan Abramov use new macbook, so I want to know that is enough for dev?

by the way, I had a mbp(15') but it is born in 2014
An important reason we keep using strategies that have been abandoned in the past is because the ratios change over time.

Ubiquity of SSDs brings to a close a time when getting data from another computer is faster than getting it from your own disk drive. A ratio that had previously been true, IIRC, not since a time in the eighties (see the Sprite system, process migration).
You can sit there and wait for someone to tell you what to do, or you can start crawling and observe how others walk. You can look outside the window and see all the wrong things in the world, or you can look outside and see all the good things in the world. You can look backwards in your life and see all the stupid things you have done, or you can think about the good things you will be doing tomorrow. You can think about all the things you have no control, or you can think about the things you can leverage. You can think about that 100 people who hates you or you can about that 1 person who loves you. You can think about yourself as a sum of all your mistakes, or you can think about yourself as a sum of all your actions. Take a chill pill, drink some chill beer, relax, its not the end.
Please tell us where to find your blog!
SICP is perfect for studying without a computer. I've done it that way and it was a great experience. However, while it is presented as an introductory textbook, it moves fast. It depends on the learner.
Break what rules?
Sadly such (willful?) blindness is far from unique to web devs (though much of it seems to originate with web dev these days).

I have personally encountered people that dismiss the whole "lets stuff everything in /usr" issue with claiming that everyone (or at least those they care about) are using lights out management anyways.
> Welll.... not really. Consciousness, AFAWK so far, is what happens when parallel sensorimotor systems sample a maximum-a-posteriori perceptual, interoceptive, and affordance model of the world into a global workspace where certain precise, mostly deterministic sampling computations can be done as a part of active inference to determine which actions to emit.

There seem to be some levels of abstraction here which I was trying to get at in my previous comment. Clearly we don't perceive the raw data of our sensory inputs getting dumped wholesale into our consciousness. We don't perceive the "pixels" of our eyes or the pressure of sound on our eardrum. That data is clearly processed by lower levels of the brain and turned into a more symbolic form. The visual system abstracts over the pixels, lines, borders, even shadows of visual input. The audio system recognizes pitch, volume, associates memory with patterns to classify sounds into churchbells, speech, scratching, animal sounds, music, etc. These things happen below the level of consciousness, since, try as we might, we cannot will ourselves into perceiving these details. Similar with our sense of time, our grasp and use of language, memory, etc. These all exhibit a form of abstraction that suggests that consciousness sits farther away from the base processing of the brain than what your comment suggests.

In my view, consciousness is kind of like the President of your brain. It doesn't see the full details of all the processing layers underneath; that would be overwhelming. It tries to make decisions and decrees and influence those subservient processes, but always along the chain of command there are those who have other ideas or intentions. So President Consciousness tries its best to steer the ship of hundreds, maybe thousands or millions, of diverse processes that are all loosely coupled. It doesn't see conditions on the ground, but always, always receives filtered reports that leave out details, get facts wrong, misrepresent and misconstrue.

Think about dreaming. Ever had a dream that was astoundingly rich and detailed, either visually or spatially? When you heard music or speech in your dream, or saw a complex thing like a person, do you think that the lowest level processors of your brain literally experienced the same input as if they had received it from outside? Clearly not. Your eyes are closed. Nothing in the environment is making those sounds. How would you see anything or hear?

There must be a kind of separation between the visual system which processes input from your eyes, and the system which constructs visual scenes, forms images, recognizes people, etc, because there simply is no raw input when you are asleep. So instead the scene-construction system and the audio classification system are working with "mock" data that is generated by other neural activity.

How can consciousness be "off" while there is still brain activity? In fact, during most of sleep there is no experience whatsoever, no memories created, even though brain activity continues. A global workspace doesn't explain how consciousness can be suspended.
It would annoy me to know that someone has an interview because they bypassed the rules.

For me, I think this is a difference between "engineering" and "marketing".

For Marketing, this sort of thing is seen as a good characteristic. For engineering, no so much.
You get full 2D from the Linux kernel, but yeah the 3D GPU is Mali, so no luck if you need OpenGL (in hardware).
So as soon as you turned 51, they just got rid of you.
I want this on a shirt with the filename and line number on it for doubters.
Smudges, scratches and the question of black or jet black?
I want to know this too. Must be some grunt/gulp script.
Note from the sf.net git repo:

Moved to https://github.com/manicdigger/manicdigger

Also, the author's web site: http://croxxx.tk/
In Europe I feel it's the opposite. I am being discriminated by being too young (25). Most companies here are looking for people in (30 - 50+).
I think this is a cultural thing US vs Europe.In US they want to take advantage of young,enthusiastic (meaning lower wages, more flexibility and so on)..In Europe they are taking of advantage of older employees differently (they have families so they will think twice before job hopping etc).

Age bias is the worst.
About as quickly as a lump of coal. There aren't many things that feed on raw carbon.
He means a tourist visa, B-2.

But you're right that the guy im the article is from Lithuania, so he might be using an ESTA.
It was acquired in 2009.
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Is there a reason why someone from a country participating in the US Visa Waiver Program would seek to get a Tourist Visa rather than the ESTA?
> There is a high cost to feeling like you're falling behind your peers or not contributing to the world. The math may seem easy but I think too much idleness is costly to one's sense of worth and place in the world.

The whole point is that cost is getting lower and lower.

> I refuse to believe that enabling women to be financially independent is a negative thing

That sounds like an ideological argument.
GNU refuses to let go of libreboot
It's not like markets just decide to do things. Simplistically the market responds to supply/demand. If the Germans guarantee a few million cars' worth of demand to those who develop non-ICE cars, people will respond and create the supply. It's a bit of a cludge but progress isn't guaranteed, it must be chased and earned.
Another replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has caught fire
My migraines occurred roughly twice a year for roughly 20 years. The symptoms have been sparkling lights in vision, effective blindness and incapacitating confusion lasting about eight hours. Extreme pain and vomiting only occur about half the time.

There is no connection to stress but most occurred when out in glaring sunlight. One happened when a kid flashed a laser pointer into my eyes from a distance. They maybe connected to lack of sleep.

I have not had any for about 2 years at which time I began taking Citalopram and 'Breo' for other conditions. It is hard to imagine how those two would make any difference but I post this in case someone finds it useful.
That's fascinating to me. I find that eating a high protein, low-carb breakfast is a fast track to a migraine for me. I can feel it coming on and grabbing some carbs will fight it off. I wonder why it's the opposite for some people?
thanks for making public domain!
Ah that name, [hopefully] an homage to one of the first platformers ever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Miner
So this is written in c# and can be transcompiled to JavaScript... Is there any public servers that will host your world?

My daughters play minetest and love it. However, they each have an old reconditioned laptop, and their shared world is hosted on one of them, so that laptop has to be on and running minetest even if only the other wants to play and create.

A browser-based world would be so much easier.
Been traveling for 18 months. Doesn't make a whole lot of a difference, especially when you go to poorer areas and see even worse conditions than what the post describes.
First, he was applying for a marketing position. A position that demands creativity and the ability to stand out and be noticed...so, essentially he proved himself with this gimmick. In other words, this wasnt just a gimmick but rather a demonstration of his skills.

It just like an engineer getting interviewed after finding a bug in your code.

On a more critical note, applying for a job is a zero sum game. Only one person gets hired. If you are more concerned with rules and respecting other applications by not standing out, you are just playing the game poorly. Your job as an applicant is to a)get noticed and b)beat out everyone else for the job.

All this is to say that if followong the rules are so important in your organization, this guy is a bad fit. If it requires scrappiness, creativity, and "hacker" mentality, it is a perfect fit.

In this case, as a marketer, it was brilliant!
I have had full stories copied wholesale into computer mags. You hire a good writer to make it not read like a press release.
It is a bit obscure. I let it build the ones it wants to build by default. This gives me the flexibility of deciding later when building Mercury programs what I want as a backend.

This blog post describes some of them: https://adventuresinmercury.blogspot.co.nz/2011/11/making-gr...
The first time I got scared about my migraines and decided to do something was after my first silent migraine. Before this I had just had them about twice a year lasting roughly 3 days.

My silent migraine started with pins and needles in my tongue, speading slowly to the rest of my jaw and then finger tips. Then I lost sight in the parts of my vision where I was focused, it became grey and bright around the edges. I still had peripheral vision. The last symtpom was what I could only describe as temporary dyslexia. I was reading sentences aloud and skipping whole words or moving them from the start to the end. It sounded like gibberish but in my head it somewhow made sense.
I started to panic until some frantic googling brought up these types of migraines. Which is when I instantly recognised all my symptoms as familiar but without the headache and light sensitivity seemed very alien and very scary.
I didn't downvote your comment, but "unless you're free", that strikes me as too vague. What does that mean in practice? Is it just freedom from the old system?
And if that logic and result are buried in AI training sets used to drive hiring selection algos?

https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/post...
Gimmicks make for very poor hiring filters, though they make for great article clicks.
Intimacy for the Avoidant
I also asscociate them with the more or less light as they seemed to occur at the start of spring or end of autumn.
Thanks for posting this, a very thought-provoking article.

This sentence: "He thinks too much choice overwhelms us and makes us unhappy—a phenomenon he calls the paradox of choice" reminded me of this humorous clip: https://youtu.be/UtwKFZHY5o4?t=252

Preparing for downvotes for posting something overtly Christian....
A community driven emacs fork – combining features from both emacs and vim
Enterprises are ultimately comprised of moultiple goals, many of which involve mitigating or controlling for both upside and downside risk.

That's reflected in the very names of some organisations, e.g., "limited liability corporation". Incorporation is itself fundamentally a risk-control technology.
Well, we don't really know all of the facts but it apparently wasn't a problem when she was hired, wasn't a problem when they highlighted her for Lady Ada Lovelace day, and it wasn't a problem that kept FSF from giving her a senior job title. FSF obviously isn't going to comment on the matter but Leah Rowe at one point claimed on the libreboot website that the employee that was let go had said that it was fine for Leah to raise cain over it but that was reverted not long after it was put up. Leah also claimed to be taking the high ground to avoid naming names and then promptly turned around and claimed that three individuals at FSF were misogynistic and that they should be fired immediately.

Make from that what you will.
> The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

-- George Orwell, "Why I Write" (1946)

Having no position means adopting the position of bullies and tyrants; or as the title of the Howard Zinn bio goes, you can't be neutral on a moving train. Also, entertaining "purely technical" (or mathematical or whatever) thoughts is kind of a luxury, and it's downstream from politics. That's not a value statement, but while all work and no play may make Jake a dull boy, all play and no work will make him a gone boy. If you love a thing very much, you absolutely should care about its foundations, and those who would sink them into the memory hole.
Super experimental means features that Chrome, Firefox AND Edge supported for years?
This is a very consumer-oriented post. Unfortunately, there's a clear tradeoff with startup advice between specificity and universality; for my startup, this one is far too specific to apply to us (I think, with some degree of confidence).

Which is too bad, because we do think about hypothetical competition a lot, and it's a nonzero source of stress... but a post specific enough to address our situation wouldn't be very general at all.

That said, I think this is still a well-written article (enjoyed his/her other posts on startup mechanics), and if it applies to you, c'est bon.
Your subconscious should work for you, not the other way around. If it's requesting attention that's not needed, it's faulty and should be fixed.
Why would you use atmospheric carbon? It's incredibly energy-intensive to do so, and there are plenty of far saner sources available.
I'm not a web developer, I don't know the details, I only know that when I'm browsing normal regular web pages, Safari is awesome and seems to use far less power than any other browser.
Kitesurfing is ridiculously hard to learn? That's news to me, learned it last year at 35, was not THAT difficult.
Would a programmable calculator be allowed?
The feeling I am developing is that the success of dating apps correlates with the fact that people spend more and more time working/looking for a job. I am pretty not attractive but while in high-school/university I had multiple partners whom I would meet just in my daily life and I felt it was the same for most of my friends, but when we all started working full time (even doing very different things) everything changed suddenly for most of us. I felt it myself, I had little time to socialize with people because I would spend most of my time in a place where socializing is not only not among the top priorities but is in fact often discouraged (can cause conflict of interests etc). The same thing literally drove some of my friends crazy. After I moved (last year) to a different country for a new job (with a girl that had become my wife by that time) I (we) noticed how difficult it was to simply make new friends. Before, it was really easy to come across so many different kind of people, while now I meet mostly males who did an engineering degree to whom I can't anyway speak much.
A very close friend I have of my same age recently told me, during a rather depressing conversation, that I did the best thing by marrying just after having started a professional career with the girl I met in Uni, because trying afterwards is just so much harder. Guys from work who are single just turn to dating apps, or go to courses on seduction etc. I do think a healthy society should try to address this issue, somehow.
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Except if ride sharing services are hobbled, a great public good is hit in the knees in favor of ideological adherence.

I don't think the same standard of employee protection applies to something like being a driver. I don't think you could apply the heavy hand of regulation without fucking over more people than you think. The moment you get the modern state on in, you get professional rentiers sniffing out any holes they can put roots in.

This isn't children being abused by clothing factories. These are an entirely new class of people and provider who are enabled by the fact that the regulatory appartus doesn't choke them before they even make their first step.