skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They're useless and expensive, and utterly unproven in anything like combat.

Well... yeah. That's true of every new ship design. Well, not the useless part. This ship isn't useless either, though you can certainly make the case it's too expensive for what it does.
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Private blockchains: everything there could be built before Bitcoin. It can be just replaced with fintech in general. Other technologies like VR are easy to understand even if they fall short.
"Deep learning" and virtually any other kind of "data science". I teach classes in analytics and I think ninety percent of what people really need is better understanding and visualization of the simplest statistics: sums, averages, counts, time series. Fancy statistical algorithms have some applications for example in fraud detection, but for most business people I think a great dashboard that lets them visualize patterns with their own two eyes is much more robust and useful.
Hey - email me, please! jm5491@stern.nyu.edu
> You talk as if historical value is low. I'd argue it's higher than supporting 4k or whatever's used to sell TVs these days. Not much point if we just throw out our existing content!

Well, commercial content can be re-encoded for new formats and usually is. Playing old files is limited to physical purchases of media, home videos, retro video games and internet porn.

And don't forget you can get VLC for iOS.
Nice strawman in response to no-one's comment
Carriers are not useless for "real" war. Not sure where you got that idea. We could probably spend that money more effectively, but for what government program isn't that true?

And it would take more than one hit to sink a carrier. These are 100k+ ton ships, and the important bits are armored.
Uncommon and slightly extreme viewpoint: the best way for a python programmer to learn C is to learn a bit of assembly first.

Python is a high-level language: it provides tools to manipulate abstractions easily. C is a low-level one: it gives you access to chunks of memory (and far enough ropes to hang yourself while shooting yourself in the foot while drowning)

Assembly is not hard to learn. It has a reputation of being hard because it is tedious to use and that optimizations can be very intricate but learning basic assembly does not take long. Learn about MOV, ADD, JMP, INT, a few conditional jumps, learn how negative numbers are represented, what a memory mapping is, what a program counter or a stack counter are.

Then, go back to C. Read a bit about how function calls are made, memory allocated, and you will see that C is actually a high-level assembly language. All the hard parts of C will become obvious: a pointer is a variable that stores an address, a stack overflow, a segfault, a memory leak, all these will make sense very easily within that framework.
that doesn't provide everything though. at the very least, it doesn't have all the advertising dossier they have on me.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12891169
Yea. The idea is to get the broad codec/container/etc support that VLC has, not to supplant native rendering of modern codecs. We haven't actually written any code yet, but if you hand VLC.js an H.264 file I'm pretty sure it'll just create a <video> tag and then pretend like it did all the work.
Either a chef or a lawyer. Maybe both.
Nice work... I really like it and would definitely be willing to give it a shot (and even to build my own if necessary).

I think there are two important concerns that need to be addressed that I didn't notice in the post:

1) The chords used to specify a given key should be a fact-based decision, made using actual data concerning

a) which keys are actually used most for a given target language and

b) which motions are actually least expensive/easiest with this system

so a sensible layout could be determined (like dvorak for classic keyboards); and

2) These things seem to keep your hands pretty busy... though I'd like to stick to only using a keyboard, and usually can 9x% of the time, I still _must_ use the mouse once in a while... so the mouse either must be integrated (as a trackball, motion sensor, or ?) or it must be easy to switch.

Have these aspects been considered/resolved?
Interesting point. We are quick to judge such apparent failures and waste on the part of the government, but what percentage of Silicon Valley startups succeed? What percentage of scientific experiments advance our knowledge?
We don't need a Moore's Law. However, more robotic vacuums will generate revenue to further advance robotics research. Lawn mowers, leaf cleanup, etc.

We're waiting for the Apple II or iPhone 1 moment then things will get interesting.
This may just be a poor summary of the paper, but it sounds very strange. First, it uses "machine learning / an algorithm" to estimate the number of citations. That suggests the system is to some extent a black box, which makes it hard to take the results seriously. Alternatively, if it is not a black box but is a detailed algorithm, then those details matter, but are not provided.

And the bigger question is - why is "machine learning / an algorithm" needed here, what does it do that normal statistical analysis tools cannot? That is, find the numbers, correct for various factors, calculate values, etc. Those tools are well-understood, and seem to be sufficient to answer the question proposed here, yet they weren't used, so there is a lot more to this story.
The issue with Photoshop is that the core abstractions were built in 1990, for 1990 hardware and GUI conventions (based on ideas from software for 1970s graphics workstations). Over the years, additional features (sometimes gimmicky ones designed to demo well in 5 minutes) were piled on top of this core, but nothing was ever removed.

So the end result is sort of like a junk drawer filled with weird kitchen appliances. You have your grandma’s beat-up cast iron skillet and rusty chef’s knife with some chips in the handle; these need some maintenance but are still your most flexible workhorse tools. Then you have a melon baller and potato peeler you picked up at a flea market 2000, a popcorn maker that you bought for your college dorm in 2003, a waffle iron you found abandoned when you moved into a new apartment in 2007 that makes waffles shaped like zoo animals, and just last year you were given a fancy bluetooth sous vide stick as a wedding present but the bluetooth is kind of flaky and sometimes you need to re-enter the settings 4 or 5 times before it works.

After long experience, if you put everything together you can usually make whatever meal you want, but sometimes it takes some creative license with the recipes, and folks observing the process are mystified.
I think about law school or an MBA at least once a week.

The opportunity cost is extremely high though. It's pretty hard leaving six figures of income in a low cost of living (and the grass is always greener I'm sure).
Farming and/or studying philosophy.
Same here, but do I really believe that Google has nothing on me? Not for a microsecond.
I already said there was a huge set of unstructured and structured data fed into the brain over one to two decades before usefulness. The difference is brain architecture doesnt require an insane number of the exact thing you want it to do. It extrapolates with existing data with small training set. Further, it shows somd common sense and adaptation in how it handles weird stuff.

Try doing that with existing schemes. The data set within their constraints would dwarf what a brain takes with less results.
RHA MA-750i's are phenomenal, especially with the memory foam on the buds. I can wear these on a plane and even without music on can hardly hear the roar of the engines. When I've taken them out to order a drink, etc and had music playing I've had flight attendants remark on several occasions how they couldn't hear the music at all until I've removed them from my ears.

Best of all they come with a 3 year warranty. I had an issue at one point and they replaced the set free of charge within the 3 years. They also sent me replacement memory foam tips several times without question.

Highly suggest! BTW - I purchased mine on Amazon.
The browser's far from ideal for a lot of things, but it's also a hell of an ocean to boil. Best of luck, though!
I am just blown away by the amount of anti-GMO sentiment on HN. For a community so vehemently in support of the science around global warming, you certainly do not seem to be nearly as "pro-science" when it comes to the topic of GMOs.
"propaganda efforts for their candidate"

You're confusing their Opinion section with their news coverage. Completely separate groups with no overlap. Though I don't blame you for not knowing. Its not obvious - and thats a problem.

This is your 2nd time posting the same comment?
I've considered it a couple of times.
Being a chef or someone researching climate change are the two things that I've considered. I have no background in either (I can cook up a decent meal but nothing impressive) and the thought of having to start from scratch bothers me a lot.
>I never claimed otherwise.

"Without Standard Time, it would have been dark out until 7:40am today here in SF. That's really tough on people (or children) who have to be at work/school by 9 or even 8"

>To use your own rhetoric: People, including kids, survive wars and famines; I'm sure we can handle changing the clocks twice a year.

I agree. However, I didn't suggest that DST imposed any hardships.
Localbitcoins.com, what else do you need?
If I recall correctly (long long time ago) there was only one pointer type un Pascal and it was considered a number that it was legal to modify without warnings.

C insists that int * , char * and int are totally different types that you should not mix. It makes sense most of the time but it can be confusing when you do not realize that internally they typically are the same thing <insert here the disclaimer about 32/64 bits systems>.
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You mean deeper analytics they infer from your behaviour (queries, time, cursor...) and the kind of ads they end up showing ?
If I could make a good living off my music, I'd seriously consider it. But that's unlikely.
I stupidly thought that this would be readable haha.
I think it seems simpler because Pascal differentiates the type ^integer (“pointer to integer”) from the expression i^ (“dereference i”) and didn’t originally have an address-of operator—you could only get the address of a new anonymous value.
It is easy to vacuum, so you vacuum more frequently.
Theoretically, OS and hardware access outside the sandbox most browsers are confined to.

Toggl for example can log time per window title when it's app is running on desktop.
> Google decided to double down on Firebase

So much so that they announced the closing down of another realtime service just last week, the Channel API [1], and are trying to funnel everyone into using Firebase instead. Frankly I'm not sure I even want to look into another Google service as I feel it'll get deprecated in no time as well. Better to use someone whose primary business I'm using.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/channel
Leaving a high paying job isn't very hard if you don't have many commitments.

I left a decent paying job to attend grad school and so far its been rewarding.
You are heavily implying that, somehow, because Donald Trump is crazy...that means Clinton is not capable of doing all the things revealed in those emails.

I am honestly really sick of this and people making those type of assertions.
Do you consider those in favor of GMO labeling as pro- or anti-GMO?

Edit to add: I've taken a look at the responses of 31 commenters (not comments) in this thread (starting at the top, working down until I got tired of keeping track), looking to determine if they were pro/anti-GMO and pro/anti-GMO-labelling. Of those 31, I dismissed 10 that I couldn't categorize. Here are my completely unscientific, eye-balled results:

3 strongly pro-GMO, no labeling

10 pro-labeling, including one for detailed labeling if labels are required

6 who expressed some desire for nuanced discussion, no discernible position on labeling

2 who expressed restraint in moving forward, but not anti-GMO
I don't think I said that people have trouble carrying their laptops. No one really had trouble carrying 10 lb laptops either but it's quite a bit nicer to carry a modern lighter laptop.

Forever people have said that they would prefer a heavier laptop with a bigger battery and for better or worse, companies have generally ignored that. I don't think it's really a "pro" issue either way.
Yup. Trading futures.
This. The maintenance crews are on the carrier. They can be moved to a land base along with the aircraft, but that would leave the carrier undefended.
Talking Bluetooth LE on Desktop in 2016
Haha, this is true, Nix's commandline is not exactly intuitive. I've been using apt, vim, and other similarly unintuitive stuff for a long time though so I just deal with it or script it, but totally understand anyone who prefers something more semantic.
I've been working for almost 2 decades and have recently rearranged life to study part-time. A combination of luck and good timing let it happen. It's done wonderful things for me in all aspects of my life, professionally and personally, and is opening new doors.
My elaboration is a bit late ... but.

int i, *p;

Tells me that i is an int. And so is *p.
I believe that some food companies are trying to make non-gmo labeling illegal.

Do you think it should be illegal for a food supplier to add a 'non-gmo' label?
I understand that, and this understanding has been pervasive for 30 years, which is why this exact article was written, and is still being circulated on HN.

Dare.
Just an additional reminder that Amazon Prime members can get six months of Wapo Digital for free.
Python also makes it easy to see what's going on in the REPL:

>>> 9999999999999999.0
1e+16
Yes, but these are the narrow minds you know. Be sure there will be a new/different set of narrow minds at the next company.
Interesting stream. Another one is Google maps on Android. I just went through my month of commutés, corelated with pictures taken. 'interesting'
Finally got around to trying this today and so far I'm super-impressed. Thank you for making this available to all.

I've already built an app for our local Capoeira Studio. Took me about 90mins not knowing anything about Jasonette beforehand. Normally I probably would have spent 2-3 days on something similar.

There is definitely a space for this type of project. There will always be dissenters and those who disagree with your approach - but as they say, you can't please all the people all the time.

Thanks for your work.
My takeaway from the article was they're arguing for this as well. The central issue is the third party GMO-free accreditation is being applied to products where there is no GMO-containing equivalent on the market at all (like the kitty litter example. It doesn't even have genes!). This is mostly to create a demand for a premium priced product.

This is like selling a PC with the label "No need to change oil!". I like not having to change oil, but there's no need to do that for _any_ PC.
I lost all trust in the NYT after Wikileaks revealed how they sabotaged Bernie Sanders and acted as a PR agency for the Clinton campaign.

http://observer.com/2016/10/wikileaks-new-york-times-propped...

https://medium.com/@Starkweather/new-york-times-edited-berni...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bernie-sand...
To echo everyone else: Apple should be paying you folks a boat load of money. If homebrew didn't exist, I don't think we'd bother with macOS as a developer environment.
From the Tao of Programming:

A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. "Excuse me," he said, "may I examine it?"

The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the master. "I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard," said the master. "Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human."

"Pray, great master," implored the novice, "how does one find this mysterious setting?"

The master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it underfoot. And suddenly the novice was enlightened.

I've played video games since before I could walk. Some games I connect with and can't stop playing - Undertale and Papers Please come to mind. Most don't anymore, not even an old favorite like Doom.

I feel like there's something to this article, but I think it's larger than "I don't like Game of Thrones". There is room for games that really dig into humanity, rather than being meaningless mechanics.

I mean, I like sports. But I like books, too.
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Consistency should be more consistent
Disclaimer:
It is relatively a small user base project (not MongoDB primary audience), but hope you will find some interesting details.

Thanks for reading ;)
I don't think it's a generalization, and I don't really care that you "know several vegans" that disagree.
I took a year off in my 20's for spiritual pursuits and volunteer work. Best thing I ever did, it wasn't well planned and on a shoestring. If I could do over I would have done the finances differently. I cam back to software, but with a much different outlook and world view.
But there's many varieties of conspicuous consumption. At least one of these looks very minimal: by not owning things that you need, you signal that you can afford to rent them, or hire someone to do the task, or buy them for one use and then dispose of them.

I rather suspect that if you suggested that any of the minimalists described in the article, or those that occasionally pop up elsewhere having discarded their earthly possessions, were trying to save money, then they would be somewhat offended.

Or, on the other hand, perhaps they're like Paul Erdős and and somehow psychologically impaired.
Anything involving pragmatic problem solving. Keep the mind occupied with varied tasks and satisfied by frequently delivering solutions. Skip the intricacies and subtleties of dealing with software.

There are so many people performing repetitive tasks who could benefit greatly from relatively small optimizations. I would be able to directly witness the impact of my work and make a difference on a personal level. It's hard to do this in software because the landscape changes so quickly.

It would also be super fun to practice apprentice-style learning in multiple fields and document/share everything.
But let's be fair. Can't the same be said of the startup tech industry? Tell me it doesn't exist to funnel money into select pockets? Why is it that Larry Page is a mega-billionaire, but people like Tim Berners-Lee or Linus Torvalds make so little?

Furthmore, can't the same be said about the ad industry that effectively bankrolls the internet because everyone wants to get rich building something that people won't actually buy directly but whose money they can get at through a back door into their pocket (because all ad money is baked into something else the consumer buys)?
Mechanical Engineering -- I work through a different mechanics textbook once a year, or so, for fun. I think I enjoy the theory of how the physical world works more than the practice, which keeps me where I am. :)
Sounds like "This War of Mine" might appeal to you. Check it out if you haven't yet.
Sure, my comment is only meaningful if someone bothers to fix the warnings. Before Vendan’s comment I didn’t know that Go doesn’t have warnings, so it’s moot anyway.

I was thinking in terms of upgrading a library to a newer version. It’s nice to at least get warnings for everything you’ll need to update, even if it doesn’t make it any easier to actually do so.
Some variation of https://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolu... ?

https://github.com/kiirala/approximate_image and http://kennycason.com/posts/2016-06-01-genetic-algorithm-dra... are similar implementations.
That's ok. They don't like what you like, either, and are perfectly happy to explain why in detail.
Terrible. A minimal attempt at data transparency. A fine grained reverse chronological list of potentially tens of thousands of data points gives you no ability to sort/filter/understand what's there.

Google will also never tell you what they've inferred about you, what ads have been tailored for you, and why. Their real gold is still hidden.
I believe a lot of us here on HN would consider leaving programming for doing business. A lot (including myself) already did.

Programming being very often about solving business needs, sometime in your career, you might be in a position to realize that it could make sense to go higher up the chain and build a company.
How is this not a suggestion that we nationalize the media?
I hate that google products are such crap if you don't let them remember everything about you. I deactivated the maps tracking on the privacy page recently because the wording made it sounds creepy, like they can keep track of where I am whenever they have it, not just the destinations I ask for navigation to. As a result, they don't suggest any places at all and instead make me type it out until the generic autocomplete gets it. No local storage on my phone, not even speeding up the autocomplete for the single place on google maps I have favorited. They seem to be very much all or nothing :( Either we track you everywhere or nowhere at all and gimp our products.
Hi! My name is mcguire and my decorating tastes go toward a bewildering array of things poorly organized. I'm practically a Victorian. Except for taxidermy. I don't decorate with dead animals.
No, if we had our food correctly labeled, all food in your supermarket would be labeled as GMO. All of our food has been bioengineered for centuries, we were just using extremely crude methods until now.

The morally indefensible position is the one that vilifies, through ignorance, a set of plant breeding techniques that have the ability to save wildlife habitat and reduce pesticide use and carbon emissions worldwide by making agriculture more efficient.

If you want to adopt a morally defensible position on this issue, may I suggest asking for labeling with estimates of water, herbicide, and acreage use of your food? Or carbon footprint estimates? Because a "correct" GMO label that actually carries any meaning will look like the methods section of a Science article.
I'm a part-time paramedic. I'd go full time in a heartbeat if it paid well enough to feed my family...
NEVER, programming is best work ever, giving me much freedom.
Ask HN: I need advice, Mid-life crisis
I'm 26. No college degree no job no money single no kids and now a DUI on my record so hard to even hire. I'm not depressed but I feel like I can do better in life.

I want to make something of myself but not sure where to even begin. I thought I would want to become a Web developer because I saw it as a way out of poverty for me and my family but I find it hard and give up at times because everything is so overwhelming and I don't have anyone to ask questions to because I have so many questions plus I can't afford bootcamps. I'm leaning towards becoming a PHP freelancer but even that seems hard to me. Because of my record of DUI I feel like being a freelancer is a good route

With no money and lack of training I don't know how I'll succeed as a developer. Or get a decent paying job in general I just don't want to end up homeless or poor.
PHP and Python. Current count - 902873

I have also scrapped all the websites from Quantcast but haven't scanned it yet.

The website is build using PHP including the crawler which works for the new websites not in the list.

For scanning multiple websites, the crawler is in Python which uses multiprocessing.
Study history and/or industrial design even though I'm horrible in the latter.