skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh god my mother. What she needed to do was written in plain language right in front of her, and it was nothing technical but something simple like "you should fill out that text field". I had to install an antivirus software that would not nag her about installing the for-pay version, because no matter what I said, she would inevitably end up with the for-pay version and its useless features installed (but only the trial version, she's smart enough not to actually pay). My mother is pretty intelligent and far from senile, just around 65, it wasn't that long ago that she was a busy executive in a major corporation who had to manage not only people but also her Excel sheets and MS Office at the very least. I still remember many many years ago when she first got a computer with a mouse. She moved the mouse carefully between the tips of only two fingers, and taking her hand off of it between movements to stop and look...
Is that video content that users want or stuff that you auto play for them?
Persuade, Don't Self-Gratify
> Silence assists certain forms of repression.

So does sleep. Stop sleeping.

EDIT: Hours not spent fighting fascism are hours spent supporting it, right?
I would like to say the same about your anecdotal experience and utterly primitive "first-world/not" crazy talks.
I heard that opinion for quite a while already. I wonder if it still holds up. Do people still get creeped out, considering how in-your-face google now is? I don't know many "normal" users, so don't have an answer really.
I don't understand this obsession with the "purpose" of dreaming. As far as I have experienced its just noise on the wire that we sometimes are conscious enough to recognize.

Having spent enough time in extremely sleep-deprived states for projects recently, I've experienced firsthand a lot of funky stuff going on (e.g. falling asleep and waking up with a full page of class notes in front of me, or realizing that I've started 'dreaming' while editing a document, the dream being seeded by the words I was processing.)
Stoicism: The Lost Art
not just computers. whenever i visit home and my mom or sister want to watch netflix i have to be the one to plug in the hdmi cord for them from the ps4. i've showed them how to do it dozens of times but they somehow zone it out and would rather bother me and wait then figure it out.
I really hope that jailbreakers will be able to downgrade iPhone 4S from iOS 9.3 to iOS 6. I stayed current when Apple released updates, even with terrible performance, but now it's really doesn't make any sense to stay on that laggy iOS 9, if I could use blazing fast iOS 6.
I took the test (demo test at least).

Only 2 out of 6 questions had anything to do with UI/UX - the rest were either reading comprehension and/or basic math.

From the 2 that dealt with UI/UX, both were extremely hard, in one of them I had to send an email, get a token and navigate the site to send another email.

If this is what the results are based on, I wouldn't base any UI/UX decisions for web products on the results of this test.
Here is a lib I wrote for shell experiments in PHP: https://github.com/grothkopp/PHPCliWrapper
> A typical example would be one employee giving $175 to a peer

Don Knuth only gives $2.56 for his bugs! I guess bug hunting for google is more lucrative than bug hunting for Knuth.
Everyone has a price. And given that Google doesn't police it's store well, a single stolen app can pay out to a scammer for a long time. So the return is high for the scammer, they can afford to offer up enticing prices for the apps.
Agreed generally. I think the rub is where you get systems that are so specialized that you can't throw bodies at them. The Apollo missions are a great example of this [1].

So while it would be ideal to be able to have 3 shifts that work on the same project or codebase, to get the desired speed you need, in practice generally only a handful of people can manage the complexity.

[1] http://www.airspacemag.com/space/apollos-army-31725477/
It sure comes across like you are taking it out on me.

The comments you claim would not happen on mefi would likely get deleted. They don't here. That does not make mefi better. It just makes it easier to pretend it is or to be fooled by appearances.
Running your own name server is even easier than running your own mail server.

Running your own registrar gets tricky, however.
my father is a professor and has been asking my mom the same questions about microsoft word for the past 20 years, never learning it. he spends a lot of time on it too.
it's a bit hacky but you can solve that with:

console.log(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(myArrToDebug)));

It fully clones the array (impossible to have odd refs hang around).
makes me wonder how many business opportunities we are missing out.

we could possibly be making billions selling illiterates a usb-pluggable physical button that opens a browser window to gmail.
I wonder if Google Apps accounts can use this? I don't have an Android phone to find out.
Link Tasks Predecessor to External Project and Enhanced Working with MPP/XML File
China System Rates Citizens on 'Social Credit Score'
The spline function itself is defined as a function of the points. In general, if you change the points of a spline, then you change the resulting curve. Animats seems to be asking about special cases where, if you change the endpoint of the curve such that it is still on the original curve, the resulting curve happens to be the same as the original (over the interval on which it is defined).
I mildly interested in how the distributions break down by age cohort.
With regard to the naysayers, most of this functionality is built into iOS and has been for years. Few of the fears that people have expressed about Google Trusted Contacts have come true with the iOS incarnation of it. Depending on your situation, it can be a very useful feature - especially if you have kids.
perhaps include it in the developer tools or something
Your site seems to be down.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/appcues.com
R does some things really well, and there are some advanced methids available ,but let's be clear, some functions in SPSS are quite advanced, for example SPSS mixed models are more advanced than lme4.
Although my main gig is software, I've also been manufacturing electronic music gadgets for 15 years. The most significant difference in thinking for me was, for hardware, always keeping in mind "this item is being shipped across the world, must work perfectly upon arrival and for hopefully a long time after that, and is almost impossible to update without the customer incurring hassle or the company incurring expenses". Contrast that to software where problems are generally easily able to be fixed and - most importantly - can be updated almost instantly.

Especially after some recently problems with my hardware business that necessitated the return of some units for repair, and the hold-up of manufacturing while we worked out what was wrong, I've come to realise that the easily-updateable nature of modern day software really gives us such power and flexibility, it should never be taken for granted.
This is very similar to Sage Math Cloud: https://cloud.sagemath.com/
I'm more interested to know how it handles one person taking something off the shelf and handing it to another person.
yeah. my teenage cousin has no knowledge about computers other than using them to play Minecraft and watch Netflix. even his typing skills are poor.
Yeah that is the way to go. Wife asked me to block some her websites so that she would have time to do more useful stuff. Suppose I need to same for myself as well.
Google’s new “Trusted Contacts” app lets you keep tabs on family
There is also xonsh, pure python and works well.

[0] - http://xon.sh/

[1] - https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
Yes, I've wondered about all the interest in lettuce and kale. I'd expect more interest in growing higher-value seasonal crops such as blueberries or strawberries.
Actually income inequality was highest in agricultural times (higher than today), and hit its bottom in 60s or 70s for the US/UK, well after industrialization. Life expectancy and health inequality is near all-time lows right now. Information/education inequality is also at all-time lows, with more people in college than ever, and near universal access to the internet. Entertainment inequality is at all time lows.

Just wanted to note that we're really not doing too badly with advancing technology. And if you measure actual poverty as compared to relative poverty, which makes more sense to me, we are doing even better. Have a nice day.
Hmmm I knew there were some changes in both map and filter but didn't dig into them. If the only change is that they return iterators instead of lists, it would even help on some parts of a few projects I maintain. I still have to check it up though, can't be certain until I see what happens and if it breaks anything.
Disable a Scheduled Scraping Task in Octoparse?
I don't mean to offend, but I think that this is not a rational comment. I think it illustrates my point that rational discourse can rapidly become irrational when politics get involved. Again, I stress that this is why I am strongly in favor of a moratorium on politics on HN.

You express a fear that Trump is going to somehow strongarm, subpoena, or otherwise force tech companies to roll over and give over private data on every Muslim in the US. Notwithstanding the massive technical challenge involved there, I'm fairly certain such a request would be met with significant opposition at some stage - from judicial challenges, to company refusal, to public backlash. It simply is not a situation that can reasonably happen (especially quietly), no matter how loudly Trump might yell about it.

Additionally, you must keep in mind that a sizeable fraction of the population had very similar fears (re: gun control, healthcare, socialism, etc.) when Obama was elected in 2008. These folks were scared of what Obama would do based on what he promised to do. In the end, checks and balances won out, and Obama didn't end up doing many of the things he promised to do. (He's still a great president, though - in my opinion of course).

It's normal to be scared in these times, but it's not a good idea to lose your head. Trump can say a lot of terrible, terrible things - people are literally entitled to say whatever they want in this country - but if you rationally analyze the feasibility of his plans you'll realize that most of them aren't actually doable. And, you may also realize that some of his plans are even good for the country - for example, infrastructure spending is a proven way to improve the economy, and it is something that the US quite desperately needs (see: John Oliver).

Now, I shouldn't need to say this on a forum like this, but I am by no means a fan of Trump. I think that his rhetoric is dangerous, but he _is_ going to be president, and that means working with him to establish the best policies and compromises going forward, rather than stubbornly refusing outright to work with him.
When it comes out of the blue, yes. It's a useful feature, but also very intrusive, and that should be gated on a very, very clear opt-in.
(It's interesting how the "this is just for a week" thing hasn't seemed to enter the conversation.)

I think that's just because people are natural cynics, and as such default to the assumption that a temporary state of emergency will be permanent.
It's now only 4s. iPhone 6 is getting more and more sluggish with every major and even minor update.
I love GitHub and I use it for my own projects, however the increased reliance of the open-source community on GitHub worries me, because if this relationship goes sour it will be worse than what happened with SourceForge, because GitHub is much bigger with a much greater lock-in effect, because it also turned out to be a sort of social network for developers.

Many high profile projects don't even point at their own domain anymore, GitHub being their homepage, which is reckless for popular projects, given that a domain is only about $10 per year and given that hosting of static pages is essentially free.

Personally I hope that an alternative like GitLab takes off, because in the worst case scenario you can host it yourself.
> This is more akin to saying that before someone drives they should know about the accelerator, brake and steering wheel, the basic tools

No, this is something in between, but an analogous system does not exist in cars. If cars had trim, like airplanes, that might be analogous.
Main stream journalists can not get science right.

In the normal course of evolution women with narrower pelvis die a painful death while delivering a baby (or the baby dies). Thus the genes that give women a narrower pelvis do not get passed on.

We can not let these women die this horrible death. This is a good outcome.
The D Language Foundation’s Scholarship Program – The D Blog
First, the 'graduation' rate has to decline. But it's too bad they couldn't figure out exits.

That said the Seed to Series A is probably a hard truth, 31%.
Moneyspire 2017 iOS Released – New and improved
If the bots can find the api keys then amazon can just run their own bots.
> Why employees in the games industry put up with this sort of thing is frankly beyond me.

They typically don't, forever.

But there's an unending stream of fresh meat entering the game industry who will put up with anything to achieve their dreams of working on video games.

I've been lucky, in that I've done a lot of games, but haven't worked anywhere that routinely required overtime of me. The occasional project here or there would go south, or there would be a bad manager, but other than the last week or two of crunch to get a project finished, I've not done too badly.
Wait til they apply music piracy concepts!

"sir, you ate 4 grapes in store. Our grapes average 2seeds/grape, so we've calculated lost sales in the range of $800.

You see, those seeds could each grow into a vine that will produce an estimated $100 worth of grapes over the lifetime of the plant. You're basically stealing that money from us!"
>or gets merged upstream

I don't understand what that means. Do you mean that it will be updated automatically on your Safari once you download it initially?
I work for a place like that but everyone pretends like you can choose to work however much you like. I'd prefer if they just admitted it.
Taking some time to reflect on and consider my own thinking behavior has been interesting. Just like exploring any other system, subjecting myself to sleep stress (in order to meet aggressive deadlines) has allowed me to see what happens when certain things fail, revealing functional boundaries.

I see it as kind of analogous to when you starve a circuit/device of power - it behaves in unexpected ways, revealing implementation details.

Some examples that I remember: after a particularly long all nighter (I was a freshman in college and wanted to try it while I could still do it by choice and not necessity) I was editing an article I was writing for the school magazine. I was starting to fade and realized that I couldn't read and comprehend well-formed, meaningful sentences that I had just written.

I've noticed that when sleep deprived I notice different things and have a more diverse set of emergent thoughts/recall events. For example, today I noticed the plug for an electric oven at a restaurant I have not only been to at least 100 times, but have worked at for months. I randomly remembered the lyrics to China's five-year-plan song walking home from class. I will suddenly remember and think fragments in Spanish, despite not touching it for years.

Truly, it appears the nature of effective cognition is restricting all of the many responses to stimuli to those that are useful and relevant, and I think the parts of the brain that do that may have 'fallen asleep' in all those instances.
And you'll need custom lists for 1Blocker because it exempts some ad networks by default.
> We're talking about tracking usage stats.

We're talking about refusing clients who use adblockers. There are many ways to track usage that doesn't require that. I've implemented some myself. If the reason for refusal is because their tracking can't work with it it's doing it wrong.

> tend to come from pure consumers but rarely from those who both produce and consume

Produce what? And why does it matter? Imagine coming to a grocery store and being asked to change into store uniform, before you are allowed in, because it's easier for them to do business that way, marketing and stuff, and when you ask "WTF?" - they'd say "well, you don't know how it is to farm, do you? Did you ever milk a cow or harvested rye? You only consume, not produce, you lazy slacker, right? So either strip and wear the uniform or shut the heck up!". No thanks. I wouldn't visit such store. Would you?

> It's partially an issue of having a lack of perspective of the other part of the equation.

I am not obliged to serve everybody's perspective. I have no obligation to make life easy for somebody's marketing department or support somebody's business model. It's their business to convince me to support it with my money, and, frankly, telling me I'm too ignorant to appreciate how wonderful they are is not going to work well. Telling me "we're too lazy/cheap to do it any other way, so please disable all security features in your browser, disregard your privacy and risk your safety because our marketing needs some nice graphs in their next monthly presentation" won't work either.
Yes and no. They may have access to it from Android devices. But, this allows them to also do so from other devices.

Also, this likely allows them to track kids whereabouts, bypassing COPPA via implied consent.
Humans aren't programmed by another human.
I agree. I'm glad I took time to take quite a few statistics courses using R though. I composed the sentence deliberately: Just a course "learning R" as we have for all other languages IMHO is pretty useless, unless it is for people already statistics-savvy. What I learned from the experience was a focus on the data, not the code. I can't explain it, but to me it seems that when I code(d) in regular programming languages my focus is different, much more on the code. When doing something in R my focus was much more on the data at hand. That's probably also because when I wrote/write normal software I do it generically, when working on an R problem I already had the concrete data set. Maybe that's different for people writing more advanced code in R like packages, then it may be closer to "normal programming", don't know. I assume most people using R are not doing it to program, but to get something from concrete data, and only a minority of R users do much programming. Clarification - I mean code like this: https://rpubs.com/Noseshine/74191 It's code, sure, but I just wanted to get something from the data, no thoughts of writing a general purpose program. R programming felt very "hackish" to me, but I also feel it's fine for such concrete-data-oriented purposes as in my example link. In that case it's like Excel but more editable, processable and reproducible since you've got linear source code, and not a path of clicks through lots of complicated dialogues.
I always appreciate your comments, and the ones I've seen in this thread have been an interesting take on the question. Just one point though: there's no radical reconfiguration here. Undoubtedly it would be if we were going to make it permanent, but when we said "for one week" we really meant for one week. IMO HN's community system has orders of magnitude more hysteresis than would be radically affected by a one-week change, though I guess I could be wrong about that.
I found one, eShop titles have one key each, meaning once the key goes public, anyone can get the game with it, right from Nintendo's servers, namaste!

Don't flood me with your monies just yet, Nintendo, rather pay for better devs! ;)
"Press 'Control' + 'Alt' + 'Backspace'
to log out of the browser for Linux."

I did the demo test tasks. I think their test UI is pretty bad. But I feel like anybody who's used email could probably figure most of it out.
Node.js v7 has updated V8 to 5.4
That's my political opinion. I'm not on board with this liberal shit that's crammed down my throat on this website and why should I have to be? Liberals pretend to be tolerant, they're the most INtolerant group of people. Now they're getting together to ban conservative speech with hashes.
I don't see anything terrible with it.

You should definitely remove your high school and elementary schools from your resume.

Your resume seems unfocused. You list a wide range of skills from Business Continuity and Budget Accountability, to Machine Learning, to NewSQL and UML. There is nothing in this resume that suggests to me that if I was looking for candidate for a machine learning role, that you would be the right one.

What type of jobs are you applying for? I would focus your resume on the specific job requirements they are looking for.

If the job is looking for a backend engineer, I would not list due diligence / compliance at the top of the resume.

If you are looking for CTO level positions, I don't think you'll have that much luck with random online job submissions. Finding people through your network would probably go better.

The book "Never Eat Alone" has some good tips:
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Eat-Alone-Expanded-Updated/dp/0...
Not a good idea. What I have seen is young inexperienced people create lot more github, stackoverflow junk.

Do not mistake me there are badass developers too but you will figure them out just by resume too.
This is really interesting research. I'm curious to see how it develops.

Building trust with users is going to be one of the most important product design challenges for all of these new "AI" fueled products. A self-driving car obviously requires a huge amount of trust from passengers. But even a personal assistant bot needs its users to trust it before they let it reach out to their contacts to schedule meetings or ask basic questions.
There may well be overarching strategies that could be useful in either case, like the transparency into the machine's thinking described by the author.
I'm sorry to hear this. Was this for a company? If you can say, love to know which one so I know to never apply or recommend them. I really can only do around 5-7 hours of solid productive programming a day. Otherwise my brain gets fried and quality, innovation, and speed diminish.

I've done three bootstrapped startups (none ever raised VC capital), and while I usually work every day of the week, it is typically 4-10 hours a day.
"location services" = wifi, GPS, and/or cell tower information. Bluetooth beacons may now be a part as well.
Google Streetview sometimes shows photos that are a year or more out of date, FYI.
United Airlines will charge extra fee for use of overhead bins
Github issue system is lacking many features that Mozilla needs to track bugs (eg. proper dependencies).

It's true that bugzilla is not as welcoming as github, but things are improving. For instance you can now login using your github account - that removes some friction.

And wven if you file your bug in the "general" category of the Firefox product, it should be triaged in a few days at most.
This is a such a great tutorial. I don't code in C at all and I hardly understand the language. Yet, I was able to follow this and understand.

I mostly write Python and if you are looking for a shell written in Python, check xon.sh [0]

[0] - http://xon.sh
Publishing Jekyll updates with gitlab-ci
The OLED screen looks kind of out of place tbh. I think it would look better with a good old LCD.
This seems like the kind of end-run around the system that tech folks tend to think is a clever life hack, only to find out that legal/regulatory bodies aren't fooled. Like trying to convince the judge that you weren't speeding because if you set your frame of reference inside the car, it was the road that was speeding, backwards!

I only hope that the folks hand-rolling this onto their cars don't injure too many people in their attempt to "disrupt" cars.