skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its disingenuous and in other countries would get the labor board on their ass, they are using FUD to stop their employees from organizing.

Here in the US we have very weak labor law enforcement, thus Trump can have managers dodge a certified union [1] approved by his employees in a vote, and not even get a slap on the wrist for refusing to bargain with the union as his company is legally required to.

[1] - http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/las-vegas-hotel-wor...
"I’ve helped thousands of people — from NFL Coaches and Four Star Generals to best-selling authors and hedge fund managers — feel less busy and get more done.

I get asked for advice on improving productivity so much so that I’ve packaged most of it into an online seminar that I call Insanely More Productive."

Why is an advertisement for a $59 online seminar on the front page of HN? Nice title aside, I'm flagging this.
There seems to be a strong sentiment in this thread that the only value provided by education is the contribution to career (e.g. that loans should only be provided for financially viable courses, that studying arts is as useful to one's career as studying finger painting, etc).

This just seems so wrong.

Optimising for vocational training means you're effectively tuning out the abstract arts and sciences and... oh, the humanities. These fields don't usually/directly translate into a financial success, but they broaden our perspective and deepen our experience. And in doing so provide the tools and language to more effectively analyse and engage with human culture.

And to a certain extent, "true" art is antithetical to capitalism, in a similar way that "true" journalism is antithetical to surveillance (honesty/transparency vs main-stream popularity), and I'd argue equally as important. For that reason these fields absolutely should be subsidised, otherwise art becomes about marketing, journalism becomes about propaganda, and science becomes about start-ups...
Does nobody care that the person holding a debt is the one that gets paid?
Do you have a blog? I like reading your thoughts (though I'm unclear on how much of it I believe).

Your previous posts have convinced me to read The Book of the New Sun. I'm optimistically hoping it is as good as you believe it is.
I never mentioned luck. Although luck was part of it--like 10%--still technology was innovative and hit the sweet spot. So yes, it didn't succeed due to luck.

Like I said, I am not saying it's impossible. I just think VC-driven approach is not a good idea. Actually, I think the final technology that will succeed--be it Bitcoin or its alternative--will not have raised any money from VCs.

I went to several Bitcoin meetups and noticed how a lot of people are talking about "compliance", which is important, but I don't think the true success will come from any entity that's restricted by all these social boundaries and the need to make money.
It is insane, though, and should have been replaced with a compiler feature to do static assertions twenty years ago.
from the name of the domain I thought the alternative he was going to discuss was going homeless with really good camping equipment.
Jesus! Just how big is your student loan?!

I mean I paid for all my living and education expenses with loans too but I'm not sure I would if it would take 20+ years to pay off
If you look past the ad, the author's main point is a great piece of advice. A task takes time, so if you're going to do it you should schedule it. It's easy to put something on a todo list because you're not committing to doing it; you're just putting it on a list which causes anxiety.
I've heard "How to win friends and influence people" mentioned regularly. What impact did it have on you, if you don't mind me asking?
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I previously worked for a state government, and owned a project that served districting information. It was used by constituents to find their elected officials and to display different types of districts on maps.

I pushed out a bug that took down the mapping functionality. Normally this would not have been that interesting, but at the time the state was in the middle of a heated redistricting debate. Some newspapers around the state picked up on the outage and attributed it to shady dealings from the majority party at the time.

Slightly different, but it's not often that I have the opportunity to check in code that will lead to a conspiracy theory.
Are engineers who work at addictive software (social media apps, some type of games, etc.) actually breaking ethics? Should we defy this as a profession, not allow our skills to be used for a thing that's borderline evil?

If pushing addictive narcotics is denounced as one of the moste evil deeds possible, how's this different?
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That happened to me. I have a very early memory of a trivial thing (eating a radish and not liking it) from when I about two. It happened at my family's apartment, before we moved into our first house. I later visited that apartment when I was ten, and a lot of the details match my memory(e.g. the location of my Dad's little garden relative to the stairs) EXCEPT the actual visualization of the apartment building, which got replaced with an image of one near our new house twisted to fit the memory.
As long as the paper maps and your instruments are accurate, that's perfectly legitimate.

There's no guarantee that a random GPS you built yourself is anywhere near accurate, doesn't have random edge cases, etc. That's problematic when there's a high density of other aircraft containing hundreds of people around.

Not saying it's not legal, it just surprises me because the FAA is usually really cautious.
Best climate in Canada would be Southern Ontario or BC. If you're not in a big city, housing should be quite affordable in those provinces. Everywhere else in Canada, well, the weather can vary. No worries about needing to know French, it's only required in Quebec or (useful for) federal government jobs. But ultimately where you settle is up to you (or maybe your employer)...
Nonsense from a "Javascript" developer.
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> Android has 86% global market share.

I hear it frequently mentioned that Android has larger market share globally, and as such is a better target than just looking at iOS market share in the US.

Is this a fair statistic? Let's say you're just writing on the first version of your app. That is, it doesn't have the full i18n and l10n treatment yet. How do things compare if we still set our sights globally, but we only look at the English-speaking population?

My hypothesis is that it might be worthwhile at least when starting out to target iOS just because it has a larger market share in the population that you're likely to hit first. Ideally later when your app has proven itself, you'd expand to different regions, different platforms, etc., but I've only ever seen one side of this statistic.
Fuse.js could be a better alternative for elasticlunr.js.

[1] http://fusejs.io/
You don't need the media to know how much Trump likes to stir up fear and hatred in the USA. Watching him speak vs Trudeau is like night and day.

Trump clearly wants to make everyone fearful of the outsiders, of the elites, and fearful for their future so they can be sold his plan.

Trudeau is almost the polar opposite in how he presents himself and his vision. He thinks about issues deeply and wants to build a united country where people see their differences as strengths and take care of each other.

The media in both countries likes to incite fear because that's what sells, it's far easier than ever before to do that with the current president elect.
It was, five years ago. (C11 provides static_assert.) C was probably one of the first widely-used languages to support such a thing, beside Ada and C++.
And then you look 10 characters to the left of the code and hey, there's the explanation to what it does!
> Maybe just you.

Well, first of all I don't think it's "maybe just me", looking at the thread here.

Also I do agree nothing's wrong with copying other's ideas. I was criticizing the money driven nature.

Also I think your programming language analogy is great. I agree.

I just don't think the success will come from anyone who follows a narrative from VCs or anyone whose motivation is to make money from this gold rush.
Sure, and the choice of coefficients was as important to the terrain generation as the noise function itself. But the terrain generation was absolutely crucial to Minecraft's success and in the early versions provided almost all of the game's depth and novelty. Without interesting and infinitely varying landscapes to explore, early Minecraft would have had much narrower appeal.
OT: XinY is a misnomer, since Y is constant: each of the articles is of fixed length. It would be really cool (more helpful) to have some sort of dynamically resizable guide to a language, where I could adjust its length and detail with a little slider at the top!
From OP, on reddit:

> Until today, I’ve never shared anything particularly personal online, but in the wake of the election, I feel like I can no longer stay silent. I finally worked up the nerve to write publicly about sexual assault, tying my recent experiences to Trump's election. I look forward to your feedback and comments! I also shared this on the MensLib subreddit, and I've been pleasantly surprised by the positivity of men's responses.

> We all have a little bit of Trump within us, whether that’s a bit of narcissism, arrogance, aggressiveness, greed, stubbornness, impatience, impulsivity, bullying, poor listening skills, or implicit or explicit bias.
Here's a friendly reminder that the "noprocrast" options in your profile exist. From the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:

> If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours.

You can set it to something more extreme, like maxvisit=60 minaway=720, and then it'll only allow you a one-hour session every twelve hours, which in practice usually means you can only go here once per day. Doing this turns HN from a distraction to something you have to consciously choose to visit.
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So one visualisation of a sphere in very high dimensions is not something smooth and round, but something that is somehow simultaneously very symmetrical, and yet also very spikey.

It's unlikely that this will help anyone, but I recently learned that the spiky protrusions a naval mine are called "Hertz horns": http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/shipshape/terrible-thing-...

So if for some reason you are trying to trying to make a loose analogy to the spikiness of hyperspheres to an older military mariner who has never seen a hedgehog, you could clarify by saying "you know, like the Hertz horns on a sea mine?"
(Summary: Live in a rundown, but large, house.)

That only works if you rent. It's too expensive to own and not maintain a rundown home - you lose too much money on letting it decay.

And no, I don't understand the economics of how it's not worth it for a homeowner, but is worth it for a landlord to let property decay. But somehow it is.
Yeah, he should've totally used node.js /s
> looking at it stock recently it seems to be doing much better (especially in last year). Not sure how to interpret that.

One interpretation: NVIDIA has been doing a very good job of A) pursuing deep learning and B) talking that up on earnings calls. Even if they're not seeing much money from it right now, investors are excited that they might in the future.

This leads some investors and algos to think, "Hey, NVIDIA is doing well, and AMD is nominally in the same business as NVIDIA, so let's buy AMD because it's cheaper and therefore must represent a better value." This drives up the price of AMD stock, which is itself already prone to more volatility because of their lower market cap.

However, they are two fundamentally different companies. I hear a lot about founder-led vs non-founder-led businesses, and AMD vs NVIDIA is a good example of non-founder-led vs founder-led atm. Also, they've done a very poor job with their ATI acquisition. The ATI acquisition is why they even have a leg to compete with NVIDIA in the first place, but that train has basically left the station at this point.

Intel is in a weird position because their market cap is 10x NVIDIA's, so they need markets where they can make literally 10x more money than for NVIDIA to be interested. Victims of their own success, innovators dilemma, etc. Personally, I think that will hinder them because everything they want to try won't be "big enough" while NVIDIA doesn't suffer from that problem and AMD just has no idea what it's doing besides professional supply chain management.

Respect where it's due, Nvidia will win the hardware side of deep learning and fast matrix multiplication for the foreseeable future.
I just visited the NYT front page.

"Donald Trump’s Swamp Gets Murkier" is an opinion piece.

"Cabinet Selection Turns Into Spectacle That’s Made for TV" is a silly title and a cheap shot, but cabinet pageantry is nothing new. The article itself has a message in the form of facts focused on (e.g., the fact that all of Trump's picks seem to be old white men), but doesn't seem to express an opinion in the way that the editorial board's piece does.

Does it have a bias? Yes. Is it abnormal, or even unusually biased? No.
Every time I feel pretty good about my knowledge of C, something like this comes along and reminds me I don't know anything at all.
You have obviously never had to work in a unionized environment, here in Seattle Seattle Public Utilities will show union protected employees the door in a heartbeat if they cannot perform their duties or if management doesn't like them. I've seen & heard it repeatedly, here is a recent example [1]. The only people I've heard of being protected are the barely literate middle management at SPU and Oracle despite the tens of millions of dollars they have billed the city over what they quoted for a broken billing system to replace the maxed out billing system we currently have.

Get some facts & experience before commenting on things your unfamiliar with. Unionized employees nearly always vote for their interests, the number of unionized employees has collapsed under union busting tactics over the past few decades.

[1] - http://sheridanlawfirm.com/johnson-v-city-of-seattle-plainti...

[2] - http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/city-light...
There is no stock of assets that are suddenly going to fall in market value.

Sure there is, the loans themselves.

Right now a bunch of lenders have $1.3T worth of loans. If those loans don't get paid off, they are $1.3T poorer.
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1. The CIA has been funding Syrian opposition forces since 2006, well before the civil war began in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Syria#Parami...

Wikileaks has reported that the US government has been covertly funding the Syrian opposition since 2006.[40]

2. Yes, ISIS started in Iraq, by not primarily by Iraqis. As I said, the Syrians who had been trained, armed, and radicalized by the CIA fled to Iraq when the coup failed and started ISIS.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isi...
A year into the Syrian rebellion, the US and its allies weren’t only supporting and arming an opposition they knew to be dominated by extreme sectarian groups; they were prepared to countenance the creation of some sort of “Islamic state” – despite the “grave danger” to Iraq’s unity – as a Sunni buffer to weaken Syria.

3. See #2 above, we clearly funded and armed what became ISIS.

4. You're right on this one. The reports of the two parties backed by the CIA and Pentagon fighting each other had me mixed up. That doesn't change the rest of the stuff above for which I've provided citations.
Bad C code is bad C code. There's equally bad JavaScript, Ruby, and Python code too; none of those languages have particularly simple semantics.

Moreover, this particular example is due to compatibility issues across the multitude of platforms that Linux supports, necessitating support for versions of C older than any language you might like. Were Linux only ever to be compiled with a C11 compiler, this could be replaced with simply `static_assert(x)`.

And speaking as someone who's coded C for 16 years and makes a living doing so: it is rare that I write a macro; my Makefiles are about 5 lines long; I've never touched automake; and the only GCC flags I ever use (and use consistently) are `-std=gnu11 -Wall -Werror -O3`. Heck I wrote a cross-platform NES emulator last month following these rules.

There's a lot of bad C out there to find. Don't let that turn you off from writing good C.
Natural selection at work. Some make the wrong choice to take too much debt.
wow, I can't believe some of the attitude here in the comments. PWA is not an all fit solution. It's still in the early stages but it's pretty good at taking advantage of your browser. It covers a high enough minimum of capabilities that's enough to replicate an app like experience. The big pluses are the add to home feature as well Service Workers that lets you run your code after the browser is closed (this part freaks me out and saw something here about sw botnet lol) and SPA pretty much replicates UI of any native app.

Think of the chrome browser on Android as another app you are constantly going to compete with in which it's capability is getting more and more absurd until it inevitably covers almost all native capability. It's only a matter of time and seeing how quickly Chrome moves, I'm not surprised.

I think this is fucking great. I was going to learn Xamarin but now I won't have to. That's fucking huge. I've been putting off mobile dev for a while because I found working with Java and Swift clunky. So I waited and waited....and now my dream is coming true. It's pretty amazing that it's Javascript that unites them all. But ES6 is a serious contender...especially that ... operator that expands the JSON objects, it makes working with REST API which almost always involves JSON, it's a heaven to work with. Hell, I shunned ES5 and was actually learning clojure and maybe using Clojurescript with Om, but even though I really love clojure es6 seems like the much perkier option.

I wonder if there's any nice frameworks that can generate some scaffolding and UI kit and stuff for PWA. I'm learning React & Redux but I personally think Vue.js will outpace it...
These days probably half of the goods are sold in China.
He is correct in that distributed and user controlled are not highlight features of a successful product. This is something a lot of developers never seem to learn. It is the product that will succeed or fail despite what technology underpins it.
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earn a combined total of 250k+

Be prepared to take a hefty cut to your income. Canadian salaries are much lower generally.
Yeah, but then there's the mould, the lack of insulation, rough neighbourhood and paper-thin walls (if in apartments) that you have to put up with...

Sure you can get a shit hole, but then it's important to ask why it's considered a shit hole. Shitty housing in good areas aren't common (at least not where I've lived)
Same here. Which reminds me, I have some decent Kiwi camping gear in Sydney, might give it a workout next month in the southern hemisphere summer!
Call your Mother.
Best climate in Canada would be Southern Ontario

Southern Ontario often get to -30C and has huge lake effect snow storms.

BC is great if you're in Vancouver ($$$$ for housing) or Victoria ($$$ for housing).
Cross-platform development has always been a bit "function over form"
Or, you know, just get a place you like and understand that a home is a home, not an investment. The part whete people get into trouble is when they buy a home and think it's an investment.

The implication of home != investment is that you get something you can afford.
Trudeau just got into office. Give it some time.
Yes, but my company sounds like they'll move my job. If not, so be it.
I live in a shared shit hole and let me tell you, it can be pretty damn miserable at times. I'm living 20 minutes from central London via train for £300 a month. Everything is falling apart, things keep breaking because they have been repaired so many times, everything is glitchy, bits of ceiling occasionally fall on my head.

All that said, it's freedom. I can live any hours I like, do anything I want and not worry about the consequences. I don't worry about the paint falling off the wall, the furniture that wobbles or the heating that randomly turns on. I would say I am living the life.
Anecdotal: my 8-year old daughter loves Scratch, and I noticed that what she found the most intuitive was the message passing aspect of it. Assuming my kid is average in this respect, Smalltalk might have an edge in teaching kids how to code.
Nothing in that article suggests Trump broke the law.
Nixon?
10 minute review - i run phantomas for testing sites - specifically unfall24/phantomas

docker run --rm unfall24/phantomas http://xxxx

FAILS on hyper.sh
GOOD on sdc-docker

conclusion triton works
It was classic "innovators dilemma".

The leadership knew Symbian was getting frazzled around the edges, and was Maemo was their experiment with an alternative (the first Maemo interface was effectively their S90 interface ported to GTK), but they didn't want to sink Symbian before they knew they could transition their revenue over.

Sadly the board grew impatient and brought in Elop.

Between that and how HP pretty much installed a revolving door on the CEO office, i wonder if boardroom meddling is a massive curse on tech companies. This because a board will focus on quarterly increases in profits, even if the company is solvent and likely to remain so for a decade or more. Consider Dell taking his namesake company private again so that he could enact long term goals without the board constantly interfering.
Wow. I'd like to see you solve the dining philosophers problem without a robust distributed messaging system.
Sadly not really the Maemo i came to love on my N800.
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How would you know the car was a honda at that point?
Sure, I'm not saying its something with huge margins, just like how Allwinner isn't getting rich with their dirt cheap SOCs. That being said, they have a few markets like that, and that is what sustains a company.

I highly doubt Microsoft or anyone will buy AMD, as it would not make financial sense, AMD already builds these chips cheaper than any of them could build them on their own, and any kind of merger would revoke AMD's x86 license, and Intel's x86-64 license, thus destroying the ecosystem.

On another note, a razor thin margin might not be glamorous, but you can run a business like that, though it will not be glamorous.
You really don't need to pay tuition to gain a rich education in art and humanities and sciences if you want one. There are resources aplenty - buy a book!

I'd even go so far as to say the majority of college grads learned almost nothing during college, and the few who did would, after a few years of maturity, pick up a book of their own free will and enrich themselves.

I think the costs of university (huge amounts of debt and enormous human and physical resources put into holding lectures in giant buildings that need to be maintained and heated, the social divide created between those who got to hang out among the privileged for 4 years and those who couldn't) generally outweighs the hypothetical benefits you mention that some people might gain during college. Except perhaps for a few fields (like medicine, or dramatical arts, or music) where you can't just pick up a textbook and learn it all.