skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That counterargument kind of assumes you can become a citizen wherever you want. A lot of people can't, even if they could afford to buy a house.
Damn Paywalls.

I wish there was a service that I could sign up to and it would make all the paywalls go away.
How else would you implement remote server management that works even when the hardware is shut down (put still connected to power) if not with a seperate CPU that has access to the NIC?
My parents also worked their way through college on part-time jobs. Meanwhile, I just graduated with almost $100k in student loans, and that's with the money I made interning.
The most important thing in life is to know why you are doing what you’re doing
What company in NL pays 90k for new grads?
PouchDB's replication capability is interesting, but is there a way to make it lazy load to the local DB instead of doing everything up front? I hesitate to use it for a web project with 10+ MB of docs where it would otherwise be ideal.
Ask HN: What makes you happy?
Well, there is. Or, rather, there are. One per paywall.
I'll just go on a limb and consider this to be fucking awesome.
Work: Python/flask with gunicorn and nginx, postgres for relational (90% of the time), mongo or Cassandra for document store, jQuery, sass, gulp, puppet for config mgmt, centos 7.2.

Personal: mostly the same except Mac osx or heroku for host, and no config mgmt.
I recall there was a bit of a reaction against the strictness of Victorian parenting in the 1800s that advocated essentially this. That children are precious little things who should be allowed freedom and not be punished. Those kids were known to have serious impulse control issues as adults and often had difficulty working in structured or formal environments like offices or courthouses. So it strikes me that if you're never going to give time outs for uncontrolled and inappropriate or destructive behavior, then you need to replace it with something significantly more powerful than what is being offered in the article. I think the psychologist is taking the position that positive reinforcement is better than negative and taking it to an extreme that I have a seriously hard time believing will be beneficial to the long-term mental health of the child.
I guess I'm just generically distrustful of reviews in general. Companies can give bad reviews just like normal users give terrible reviews. I don't think I've ever seen a review system that you didn't have to take with a big grain of salt.
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This is one of those interesting concepts that are inherently meta, since any reference to a successful target, ipso facto, voids the success of the technique. Even the order to forget person X is paradoxical, because its own existence guarantees its own failure.

It reminds me of that old chestnut where you can break a certain thing by saying it's name aloud: "Silence".
Rapid City gets a region but not Austin? Uh?
Yes, how do you think they would leave otherwise? You can see earlier in the video they walk into the facility without a hose attached.

FTA

"As you move through the lab to a different spot, you unhook, move to where you want to be and grab another air hose."
Baltimore and St. Louis are independent cities. They are not part of their surrounding counties. And they're both pretty small, in relation to the urbanized areas surrounding them. This causes all sorts of problems (e.g. duplication of services) and makes other problems seem worse than they are, relative to other cities (e.g. homicide and poverty rates appear higher, because they don't account for affluent regions just outside of city limits).
> Matteo Renzi staked his political future on his attempt to change Italy's cumbersome political system. He wanted to strengthen central government and weaken the Senate, the upper house of parliament.

Italians learned to be weary of that about 2000 years ago, didn't they?
Is CBL able to sync with CouchDB 2.0? Couldn't tell from looking quickly at their website.
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As I said 500gbp/day is not much. I see a lot of IT people earning this is Germany, especially in the Devops field. With something like that you would get an average qualified person hired in, say, Munich.
So the more expensive a property I have, the more pressure should be put on on me to rent it out? If I own a hovel I get to keep it to myself but if it's George Clooney's villa on Lake Como or Zuck's house in Palo Alto society should lean on them to make these places "productive" by renting them out?
Except the differences start showing up long before school age.
This is perhaps my favorite use of Docker ever.
With only 96KB of data RAM, I don't see how the ESP8266 could be suitable for store-and-forward relaying of aggregated WiFi frames in a moderately busy channel environment where the device isn't guaranteed the immediate opportunity to retransmit what was just received. I don't think RF power would matter, because the computational resources just don't seem sufficient for the mesh to support more than one omnidirectional data stream passing through each node.
They are C-family languages.

It should be unsurprising that languages which have adopted Lisp's syntax/programming model to a larger degree will also naturally find Lisp's syntax/programming model to work for them, while languages that haven't... won't.
All the listed PC games environments are tagged as "coming-soon"

https://universe.openai.com/envs#pc_games
I agree, it's not like telling all the people on the face. We should have some prejudgement to whom we are talking.
Wait. After three kids your advice only covers the first 2-3 years?!

Since I basically followed both of those pieces already, am I good?
Regarding salary. I think 45-50k Euro is a pretty decent entry level salary in Germany if you're coming out of university (debt free) depending on the region. That may look shocking compared to the SV numbers but you can live a good life off 50k and a lot of the stuff will be taken care of (education of your children, healthcare) which reduces the stress level quite a bit.

If you want to start a company, you'll face some social issues (failure is considered failure) but the infrastructure is decent enough. The social issues have changed a lot in recent years though. Anecdotally I feel like recruiting good devs right out of universities is a lot easier if you're a typical startup because many of the good developers will have fought the standard curriculum of the java-bot and be rather happy to work in a more agile setting (but still want to stay in their home country).
What is state of the art in reinforcement learning right now?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01783

Is there a way to deal with "sparse" training data (state, action, reward) triples -- sparse in "state"?
Well, you just got a few extra followers.
Not quite, the phone app talks to a controller which configures the AP. You still need to run the controller (Java app) somewhere if you want to change settings or monitor the APs.
Well, inability to understand and learn to be effective is a personal disaster in many things, not just text editing.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the supposed quality difference of MBAs is mostly unrelated to tech startups.
I can't agree with the one at the top for Waterloo, which is described as "A mythical University in Canada where many good Engineers and Computer Scientists come from." I personally hired tons of interns from Waterloo during my tenure as a manager in Silicon Valley, and then subsequently hired many of those as full-time engineers after they graduated. It is an actual real place with great engineers. The interns there usually did better than interns I hired from other top schools in the USA.
Speaking as an American, it's not just the rest of the world that finds it silly...
Little kids don't grasp a situation that good. If you don't expect them to have an adult brain, it's a lot easier to deal with them. Your emotions are generated by what you think is true - if you think that the little brat is hitting you just for the lulz, then you will get very angry.
I'm praying you're a troll. But if you're not, your flippant dismissal of thousands of man hours of experience in an industry in which you have no experience lead me to believe that I really hope I don't depend on any systems you've ever touched.

This is the first thread I've ever commented on for HN, mostly because I'm usually out of my depth. This one, I'm actually an expert on. This will also be my last comment here, mostly because I expected more than your bristling, reactionary, unobservant level of discourse.

All the best. I hope you find the peace you're looking for, and that it's not through arguments on the internet.
To be fair, Europe isn't much stabler imo. AFD in Germany in the 15-20% range, Le Pen might win in France etc.
This is a bit out there, but it would be fun if OpenAI can get one of the mega popular multiplayer games under this (WoW, League of Legends, DOTA etc.).

Imagine an AI team in League of Legends world championship!
I ignore it as my escape from the daily grind of computing is digging the soldering iron out and building some very minimal kit out of only discrete components. There is something fascinating about extreme minimalism. The fact it transmits and receives is a byproduct of the journey. I'm unsociable enough to confirm a couple of contacts and then build something else.

I have no problem with SDR, it just doesn't interest me. You need a physical connection with the universe sometimes.
New algorithms are always welcome. But it isn't a general-purpose MPMC queue (nor does it claim to be). The following constraints are listed in the "Reasons not to use" section:

- not linearizable wrt multiple producers

- not NUMA aware

- not sequentially consistent, quote: "things (such as pumping the queue until it's empty) require more thought to get right in all eventualities"

These are subtleties (especially the first and the last) that may bite if you don't know what you're doing and just want to "plug in a queue." It's going to depend on how you use the queue.

Side note: There are other examples of novel lock-free algorithms that have only been published by blog, powerpoint or github (e.g. Dmitry Vyukov's well-known work, Cliff Click's concurrent hash table, Jeff Preshing's hash table.) However, in general, lock-free algorithms are widely known to be very difficult to get correct (not too dissimilar to getting a Distributed Consensus Algorithm correct). I can't help thinking that we need a higher bar of correctness than the author's claims and some unit tests. Would you use a distributed algorithm that didn't come with a correctness proof? Personally I'd like to see a formal proof, peer review, and a Spin model. Peer-review need not be via academic channels, just something more than self-publication.
How do you handle the fast producer (query result) - slow consumer problem without any kind of backpressure?
I would love to see an implementation based on channels (js-csp , core.async..).
Important to note: main usage of this app is cyberbullying and chantage.
Lubbock, Spokane...looks like it's mostly around universities in the "nowhere land" regions?
Well sure. Notice I said homeschooling and preventing most contact (which actually makes homeschooling redundant).

Kids likely won't turn out the same even with the exact same environmental inputs, but I'm just pointing out that we often vastly over estimate our ability to control those environmental inputs in the first place, so the point is somewhat moot.
There was something else going on. Physical violence is not a cure for any known disease.

I have two kids, and as angry as they can make me, I always find that calming the situation down is way better than escalating it.
> It's funny that you think

Please don't be snarky on HN. "It's funny that you think X" can be shortened to "Not X".
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I haven't read the story, but frankly for me (just watched the movie!) the time travel aspect was the weakest point. You could assume the 'non-linear language' just enhanced her predictive capability, but the scene with the Chinese breaks that possibility; and that ability seems way unbelievable anyway, even with science fiction suspension of disbelief. I'm not a fan of time travel/ftl in general with few exceptions.

I would be much happier if she just got incredibly smarter after the interactions. I can see so many plot possibilities arising from that.

(People start distrusting her; she starts feeling more intimate with the aliens then humans; etc)

It resembles many programmer's belief that there just may be a 'holy grail programming language', where translating abstract thoughts into working code gets much easier, and your thoughts themselves are shaped by the structure of this language.

It might be arguable that Turing-complete languages in general are the holy grail, allowing expression of any algorithm into code. But indeed our productivity has risen so much with modern languages compared to the very first Turing-complete languages that one does wonder how far from optimal-human-productivity our languages really are.

The same musings naturally apply for human language of course :)
One lock-free queue is just simpler to work with than multiple queues. And the one queue nicely decouples the producers and the consumers, where they don't need to know each other's load and scheduling.

> multi-producer becomes trivial (atomic doorbell + round robin)

This implements all the work units consumes the same load for the consumers. Otherwise, the producer needs more logic to figure out which queue to enqueue. Accessing the consumers' statistics again becomes the problem of accessing shared data.
If you can make your system lock-free, it will have a bunch of nice properties:

- deadlock-free

- obstruction-free (one thread getting scheduled out in the middle of a critical section doesn't block the whole system)

- OS-independent, so the same code can run in kernel space or user space, regardless of OS or lack thereof (basically any lock besides a spin-lock needs OS support)

These properties are especially nice if you are writing a library that you want to be as unassuming and unimposing as possible about the surrounding environment. Given two libraries, one that depends on locks and one that is lock-free, I'll go for the lock-free one if at all possible.
not for much longer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzclz1seo0g
This type of explanation and review is a great example of why I appreciate the manner and spirit of moderation on HN.
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> I can't help thinking that we need a higher bar of correctness than the author's claims and some unit tests. Would you use a distributed algorithm that didn't come with a correctness proof?

Not any chance. Using any multi party algorithm, without any formal proof of any kind, and you just know that there is something that will not work as expected.
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Also worth saying is that if True Key is installed via Flash Mcafee bundle you can't actually uninstall it, you have to manually remove the service and delete the files/reg keys.
The English word for the Russian "шантаж" (shantazh; loan-word from the French chantage) is "blackmail".
I think people are being unreasonably demanding of FaceBook.

Fake-news, I can see the problem.

However snobbishly trolling with risque art and historical pictures, and slamming FB because the overworked mods were not sophisticated enough to recognize them seems like bullying to me.
He should change "Next they fill in the graph with a valid solution, but using the new random ordering of the three colors" to "... with the same valid solution, but using the new random ordering of the three colors."
ICYMI, DeepMind partnered with Blizzard to do this for StarCraft II:

https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-release-star...
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For the most effect go to the county library and use one of the Internet computers. Bring up Google and try a few short queries. It reflects the searches of the people who regularly use the library's Internet access computers.

The point of the article (as I understood it) was that perhaps Google could recognize queries that were hateful (it already squashes queries that are sexual) and either suppress them or proactively suggest counter narratives that the searcher might not be aware of. It is the latter which is both quite difficult and usually quite offensive to people, if you just suppress the suggestions it generates less controversy.
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Sorry I'm responding to this late, but since Product Hunt is rigged, it's impossible to trust any data related to it (particularly in terms of vote/comment counts), unless it's to prove said riggedness.
If I may suggest, please add 'next' and 'previous' links within the chapters of the online book. It's a little annoying to have to navigate back and then click on the next chapter to read on.
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Yes, I think there should be pressure to either use it yourself (if you decide your personal utility is worth the cost) or to rent it out. You can still leave it empty, of course, but people do respond to incentives; the more the maintenance costs, the more incentive they will have to either use it themselves, or rent it, or sell it. One of the major problems is that many of these properties currently sit empty as a store of wealth - like a safety deposit box - for overseas owners, which causes problems for the community.
I just hope no self-driving vehicle is applying anything learned in GTA.
Libresonic[0] is my go-to when someone asks for Subsonic functionality.

It's a libre fork of Subsonic that removes the licensing code.

[0]:https://github.com/Libresonic/libresonic
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You posted 4 or 5 jobs to this thread. That's not ok. Please restrict yourself to one, like (nearly) everyone else.
I know scripts rely heavily on centering and right alignment. I'm guessing that's not the only way they depend on the assumption of being printed. There would be some impedance mismatch in using tools designd for plain text.
> It's mostly Canadian citizens, coupled with low interest rates that are causing this bubble.

If that's true, how do you explain that the median home price to household income ratio is roughly 12x?[1] Affordable is defined as 3x.

1 - For house price I used the 900k avg house price from the parent article. For median family income I used 76k from StatsCan's 2014 census. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/f...
> Physical violence is not a cure for any known disease.

Since when somebody disagreeing with you is a disease?
I dunno, I'm not seeing it. I've just done another search, this time on 'resistor'. The Britannica article is a paragraph, whereas the Wikipedia one goes into a lot of depth on styles, history, etc. Notably, neither article has a diagram referring to the colour bars...

I get a similar differential with 'orchestra', where the wikipedia article goes into much more depth, not just about composition, but also about things like selection criteria. 'Grasses' gets the same kind of results as 'resistors' - one paragraph in EB, lengthy page on WP. At this point, I ran out of free views :)

(I was purposefully avoiding subjective topics like biographies, as no matter what is written in a biography, you can always find something to complain about.)

If it works for you, keep using it, I guess. But I found it slow, poorly laid-out, with fewer pictorial examples, and at least for the selections above, the inferior source.

> As the public now widely accepts lies and propaganda

The public has always done this. Yellow journalism has been there since the start, and propaganda goes back at least as far as Ancient Egyptian steles (damn, should have looked that one up). The only thing that's new (IMO) is the 24-hour news cycle, which has given everyone 'scandal fatigue'. When scandals are coming at you thick and strong, you just can't care about them anymore.
The core of the article is hard to disagree with: positive reinforcement is much more important effective than punishment.

But what if the kid just doesn't want to do what you want to reinforce? Just repeating your preferred choices aren't going to work. Kids are not stupid: they can tell that you're just trying to ignore what they want and push your choices. They'll frequently resist either actively or passively.

My approach to my son is: I praise him when he does something that looks right to me. When I disagree, I argue and reason with him like an adult. I try to project him on the receiving end to show how he's being unreasonable.

A large part of it is just understanding the kid's temperament and style of thinking and finding out effective ways of dealing with it through experimentation. A lot of empathy. When they see you're trying to understand their frustration they become more thoughtful.

This article has many good ideas but generalizing them sounds like an immature approach.
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Please don't post more than once in these threads. That's not fair to the others.
Firefox originally had a preference for that, but they moved it to CSS, so you can modify it via an addon or with userchrome.css:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.tabMinWidth
Write once, run over pedestrians.
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A lot of the infrastructure in rural areas benefits cities, anyways. Having a good freeway between Chicago and Indianapolis helps those cities much more than the random cornfields the freeway happens to go through.
I'm with you on the role of emotions, and setting up alternative thinking patterns too. I'm using CBT to do that right now.

But I'm not sure about this subliminal messaging thing. Especially when George Hutton can claim... this product: https://gumroad.com/l/iDowu

I am however open to guided hypnosis, I'd like to try that one day.
Many programmers still here, and talented people also arriving from other countries (mostly ex-USSR and Eastern Europe, but not only).
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I live in Cambodia going on about 4 years now. I almost said the exact same thing in my post, that the 6 year olds in my alley act pretty much like little adults. You see them buying things from the market, helping their parents, socializing with kids twice their age, etc. They almost never fight or cry, and if they do there's no parent rushing over to console them unless it's something serious. But, parents here are still very compassionate and work extremely hard toward giving their children a good future.

One of my favorite stories actually comes from my wife. Early on in our relationship she told me that as a kid her favorite thing to do was to pretend to be a cook. I assumed this meant that she had some toy cookware, something like the equivalent of a kid's tea party. But, as I inquired more, she explained that her play cooking involved sneaking off with her mom's knives and pans, buying a few vegetables from nearby sellers, starting a fire in one of those little firepots that are common here, and sometimes even going to the local pond to catch a fish! It's no wonder that she's a good cook now and also I think it's part of the reason she's been extremely successful professionally despite a lot of adversity.
Hm, I wonder what visa they used to move to SF.

Right now, there's no startup visa of any kind. The closest thing is the EB-5 investor visa, but that requires investing $500k-$1mil of your own money (not investor money). And, the H-1B work visa prohibits starting your own company and self-sponsoring.

If they figured out a way to move here and start a company under the current U.S. immigration system, it would benefit a lot of people to know how they did it.