skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to judge, because I don't know anything about your background or situation, but do you mean to say that it has taken 2 years to get to 5 pull-ups, and you've been doing them almost daily?

On the surface (again, without knowing you) that seems like slow progress.

Would you mind elaborating?

The reason I ask is that I too have just reached 5 and would like to hear about your journey.
> but last time I was there, electronics were generally much more expensive than in the US.

There are various factors:

* VAT is always included unless (if its aimed at business solely, like IBM, then this doesn't seem to be the case, but then that is being mentioned)

* Relatively low EUR. The EUR also isn't doing so well compared to the USD.

* Storage tax. This to compensate the entertainment industry.

* Environmental taxes.

The price you see in store is the price you're gonna pay (excluding S&H but the seller has to inform you on that before the sale is finalized). I find that practical.

> since they preclude inexpensive short-term-use or disposable electronics.

Which I consider a great thing because its better for the environment (although not good enough).

I'm not interested in buying a new phone every year because the software isn't updated anymore, or because the battery isn't allowing me to use the phone for a whole day anymore.

That's why -after burning myself with various cheap and expensive brands- I got myself a Fairphone. No, it isn't perfect and it won't run the latest version of Android, but at least it will have all security & reliability fixes backported. Monthly. At the very least its a step in the right direction, and the Fairphone is leading by example.
Only for the new versions, I assume.
Why does time seem to fly when we're having fun?
Many Samsung buildings in Suwon, Samsung's HQ town slightly south of Seoul, are still company dorms. I went there for 10 days and it scared the hell out of me.
I've been writing Morning Pages (3 x A4 pages, hand-written) every day for almost three years. Sometimes I do them in the afternoon or evening, or right before bed.

Sometimes I'll only do one page, sometimes ten... A month or two ago I spent a month writing about 20 pages a day of "morning pages" after a few intense experiences.

After a month or so I didn't need to think about it any more, and now I can't imagine not doing it. Every morning, wake up, make coffee, write, then start the day. I find my life is richer and deeper as a result.
Yes, that is me. I have the expertise, having maintained a fork of django-oauth2-provider for over a year; however, the issue with django-oauth-toolkit seems to be the lack of responsiveness on the part of the maintainers. We at edX are willing to contribute these features; but, we'd prefer not to maintain a long-term fork of the project.
I think you intended this comment as snark, but the irony of it is that Scotland is today part of the UK, but was almost --- and will likely be within the next few years, as a result of Brexit --- an independent country precisely because its citizens don't agree with the policies set in England on its behalf.

Scotland is quite a bit more liberal than the rest of the UK; it does indeed see more of its future in the social democracies of northern Europe.
Twitter cuts ties with firm believed to help police spy on activists
Government failure to provide cheap housing ?
Does FoxConn have company scrip? As far as I know, you can take the money you make at FoxConn and save it until you find another job. Or send it to your family to support them.

Company scrip served to make it so you could never save up money to leave, which was the biggest problem.
Yeah, I don't mean this disrespectfully, but that's probably one of the worst rationales for trying something, at least for something important as this.
Reminds me of a more advanced version of http://textsmili.es
> What if one language has a word that simply has no equivalent in another language? Wouldn't that word be 'off the charts'?

No. It'll still be mapped onto the word2vec vectors, but it would just take on bizarre, extreme, and highly unstable values due to maximum likelihood training. It'll associate that untranslatable word with all sorts of random other words like 'cheese' simply because 'cheese' happened to be used within a few sentences of the untranslatable, and the mapping will vary unpredictably with different hyperparameters, random seeds, datasets, implementations etc.

This often happens; for example, in a simple logistic regression, suppose you have 10 datapoints and 1 variable that separates them perfectly, what will maximum likelihood do? It won't give you a sensible odds ratio like 10, it'll give you an OR of ∞, because if the OR is ∞, that maximizes the chance of perfect separation since the likelihood of separation is always 1 and any finite OR would imply a slightly smaller likelihood <1. (While a logistic regression using any kind of regularization or Bayesian prior will behave much better.) You can see this in image-classification CNNs when you give them a photo of something not in the training set - they just come up with whatever is the closest match for the flimsiest and most superficial of reasons. Or if you try to use a NN for time-series prediction and extrapolate out the prediction, it'll be an exact extreme trend, because it's not reflecting any of the real uncertainty.

This is why being able to ask a NN about its uncertainty is so useful: the regular NNs will just confidently predict bullshit because that's what you trained them to do. There's some nifty stuff about this in "Uncertainty in Deep Learning" http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/yarin/blog_2248.html , Gal 2016.
So some poor guy who works for a company that doesn't make as much money as amazon doesn't also deserve a living wage?

Wages are about supply and demand. There is enough supply of the caliber of workers that amazon needs willing to work at minimum wage to fill their demand for workers.

If we think that amazon is making too much profit, and should distribute it more, then we should tax them more; that way, the benefit can spread to more people and not just the lucky ones who happen to work at amazon.
In the chess arena - if heard a couple of good reviews of this game lately. Chess with random pieces but you get worse prices the better you play. Off for a game now. Really Bad Chess by Zach Gage
https://appsto.re/nz/XHxjcb.i
Store the metadata in SQLite and expose the SQL SELECT interface.
I don't believe so. Our model is that people come here to find interesting things.
Same here, particularly considering it's just a Bloomberg news article about a website. How are flagged stories reviewed?
Note the footer:

> © 2015 ASCII.li - Yes i realize most of the site is about Unicode °٢°

I had the domain before i got the idea, i know how wrong it actually is

Edit:// It also started with the Figlet and Cowsay generator. Until then it even made sense!
An interesting reminder
I asked if it were possible to amend the employment contract and they said, "you'd have to quit and re-apply".
Interesting find with attrs. My main use case for namedtuples is a class as a data container which doesn't require any special methods. This might be a better alternative.
So I understand exactly what you're saying, but I'm not sure you've thought this through: a company that is openly hostile to side projects is likely to be the worst case scenario when it comes to the commercialization of side projects that weren't disclosed to it.
Their infinite list is actually damn cool ●ᴥ●
Yeah, that wouldn't have made a lot of sense :-P
(Yes, France appears just a little bit authoritarian in my eyes.)

France has been in a continuous state of emergency for more than a year, and there is talk of extending it (I think this would be the fourth time) for another six months to cover the election period next year as well.

During such a state of emergency, the executive gains considerable extra powers, with provisions made for measures such as curfews, house arrests, the prohibition of public gatherings, censorship of the press, and searches and seizures without the usual judicial oversight.

So yes, I think it's reasonable to suggest that France is an authoritarian state at the moment.
I like that! I think keeping things in the head is very important and a good way to build on stuff without increasing the scope of needed knowledge.

How did you guys handle parenthesis/precedence? Or more like a calculator I guess...
Instead of window shopping in stores and buying on Amazon, I now window shop on Amazon (all prospective purchases go into the shopping cart to monitor prices), and then I bundle my purchases every 2-3 weeks at brick and mortar stores. ALL of our baby purchases (diapers, wipes, etc) have been switched to Target.com. I don't even really miss Prime (my packages were already not sticking to within 1-2 day delivery deadlines, so not much loss there). I also don't impulse shop as much, and plan my purchases out, which is nothing but beneficial to my wallet.

It's not perfect, but if principles were easy everyone would do it.
If you or anyone can suggest a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral title), we can change it. The HN guidelines call for changing titles when they are either linkbait or misleading (and that's not an xor).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Related discussion:

AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AMDGPU
patch

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13142285
Why are these people working for Amazon if it's so bad and what would they be doing if it were not for Amazon? It's not like they're conscripting workers in the dead of the night and shackling them to the warehouse. I'm not saying there shouldn't be labor rules, work week hours, etc, but if they're not breaking any laws what's the big deal?

Every few months we see articles about programmers working at $SILICON_VALLEY_BIG_CORP that lives in a van outside the office or sleeps under his desk at night. The worker is usually a combination of frugal and nutty. What's the difference between that and this?
Hell Freezes Over as Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation – ExtremeTech
I've heard good things about https://gravit.io/

But there are others: http://alternativeto.net/software/sketch/
Want to Raise a Rocket Scientist? 20 Holiday Gifts to Give Girls a Head Start
Not to crap on the thread, but what are some PC games that are similar in their simplicity but may be somewhat more robust? Old or new.
Just because they may have nothing else doesn't mean it's not deplorable.
Connected but unequal: The mechanics of inequality in a networked world
Alternative title: "Amazon gives jobs to local homeless population". But seriously, I fail to see how this is on-topic on HN other than Amazon being a tech company.
Drizly suspends non-compliant home alcohol delivery service in Kansas City
I don't think it's unnecessarily pedantic to ask people to refrain from using the word "liberal" in the American sense when referring to countries in which the original sense of the word is retained.

When it comes to regulation of the labour market, Scotland is decidedly less liberal than England.
A few years ago my wife was working for an airline in the Middle East, and they provided accommodation for all crew. They had a few buildings in various places around the city (some right in the city centre, some further out), and provided regular buses between the buildings, HQ and the city centre (for buildings outside).

Inside the buildings were apartments that housed up to three people, everyone had their own private bedroom and bathroom. The quality of the buildings was fairly good, not luxury but not cheap.

You could also opt to receive a stipend if you wanted to find your own accommodation, but it was a bit low to get something of the same quality.
3 years old is definitely not too early to start playing structured games.

At first, early on, games should be very simple. The idea is to focus solely on the basic structure of games:

--game start
--keep attention on game
--turn taking/following in correct sequence
--problem solving around a very simple goal
--game end
--with finally very clear assessment of player ranking (i.e. You won, I/we lost or I won, You lost)

Underlying all this should be a heavy focus on the maintenance of appropriate emotional responses and behavior modeling (e.g., no gloating, no sore losers, no emotional aggression or defensiveness).

Again, this is all ground-floor stuff, so kids can start learning it as early as 2-ish. Learning to take turns is a huge emotional advantage. As is learning how to both succeed and fail in games and life with grace.

A very good game that has a degree of complexity appropriate to kids that young is "Animal Upon Animal" by HABA.[0]

It's a simple stacking game: On your turn, stack this animal on that animal; if the stack of animals falls over, that's the fail state. (There is a 6-sided dice with pictures on 4 of its faces, and 1 and 2 pips on the the remaining, but it can easily be removed from the game until the child in question is ready for it.)

[0]http://a.co/bJ8syTL
Well, in a sense, a device driver can usually be thought of as very connected to a highly sensitive part of a computer system. If something goes wrong in a driver it will have a negative effect on the whole (monolithic) kernel and the rest of the operating system.
Gaming Evolved was not developed by AMD, it's a branded version of raptr.com.
The Netherlands has several 'Company neighbourhoods', I was raised in one. They were typically built before the second world war and they were actually meant to 'enable the working class'. Build quality was good and had quite some space for the time. Layout of the neighbourhood was not dense but left spaces open for nature and play.

Facilities included schools, sports accomodation etc. PSV, a dutch premier league football team is a project of Phillips the former electronics giant. PSV -> Phillips Sport Vereniging.

And Phillips built neighbourhoods, schools and public swimming pools too.

Ah well ... sigh ( I was not raised in a Phillips neighbourhood btw ).
If your needs are for static analysis and type checking at compile-time, you are using the wrong language.

I'm a huge lover of Python, but I drop into C# when I need stuff like that. Or Go. Or Rust. Or something.

You're just making bad decisions here.

If you're looking to catch bugs in your code before you test or deploy it, don't use a dynamic language.

Python has never been and probably never will be a language with declarative types and the checking that allows.

Pick a different hammer if that's the nail you need to hit.
Don't complain about the hammer you want to use not being a screwdriver.
Also, if you know a little bit about finance and are interested in Ed Thorp, read his papers. For example,

https://books.google.de/books?id=uOPa9XtzoJ4C&lpg=PA181&ots=...

should give you a feeling of how his hedge fund was working.
> I'm trying to figure out how to show him the "move N places forward" mechanic where N is the number on the die.

Maybe start with hopscotch (the regular kind with where you toss an object into a square, but with clearly numbered squares), telling them each time the number of the square they're on, the number of the square they're heading to, and the number of hops they'll do, before they do them. After a while, they'll get an understanding of how the numbers on the squares relate to what you're saying, and maybe even a vague intuition for subtraction.

Eventually, you can replace the thrown object with a rolled die (I suggest a big soccer-ball-sized die they can see from far away, with numbered faces instead of pips)—whose roll indicates how many spaces they should move rather than the space they should move to—and keep playing the same game.

Once they get that, then they're ready to play board games.
Nobody mentioned Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
From the article:

> He added that he had opted to stay in a tent as it was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home in Perth, although his camping equipment had disappeared by Friday afternoon.
It's not the governments job to provide welfare to companies by subsidizing the labor force. Government should provide infrastructure and safety nets. The employer should provide sufficient payment for the employee to use the resources without needing special government subsidies.

If a full-time employee needs government subsidies then the company is not paying enough.
Exactly. But it is always interesting to me that when the cost of living is high, and a job doesn't pay enough to afford to live near it, people think it would be "helpful" if the employer offered discounted or free housing. The alternative is to think it is "horrible" that they don't pay you enough to live there.

In the transaction though its the 'job' that is the good thing and employers (in spite of their whining about worker shortages) are able to get people to work at those insufficient wages, and so they continue to pay them.

Unionization broke that cycle once, I'm curious to see if a technology worker union emerges from this growing level of pain.
It's not my impression that this is the case.

http://www.snp.org/pb_employment
I think this is were you are missing the bigger picture though.

The solutions to the problem in your industry might not be based on the skills or insights of your industry.

It might be that someone recognizes the similarity from another industry where the problem was solved in a specific way or that the insight just so happens to be solvable based on the knowledge of some specific technology.

And it's NOT about ideas it's about recognizing the real problem that hides underneath and which requires experience to understand.

Here is the essay I ended writing https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4... this might give you a better perspective on how this is useful no matter what constellation.
body weight exercises
Graphical vs. Text-Based Coding for Kids
lol, we do that stuff too, but I see how it could sound. definitely not locked up in a dark room, often I'll just ask him a few questions while we are in the car. the vital thing is making it an everyday thing.

he's actually obsessed with numbers these days, so I am feeding the obsession a bit. very cautious of making it too much of a task though.
My daily habits are one of the best parts of my life. Without them, I feel like I'm running in sand in life. With them, I feel like I have solid foundation to build on. With a few challenging ones, I feel like I'm building on bedrock.

I've coined the term sidcha for Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity and written about the concept: http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/self-imposed-daily-cha...

My main challenging habits are

- Burpees, daily

- Blog posts, daily

- Cold showers, every fourth day

I did my first set of daily burpees December 22, 2011 and haven’t missed one since, so I’m about to enter my 6th year of that habit, nearing 80,000 cumulative burpees. I've written about it: http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/burpees

I started posting daily on my blog, http://joshuaspodek.com, in January 2011 and haven’t missed a day since, so I’m about to enter my 7th year of that habit, nearing 2,500 cumulative posts. Here's an archive of all the posts: http://joshuaspodek.com/archives

I took my first cold shower in December 2013. I did them daily for a month and every fourth day since, so I just started my 4th year of doing them regularly, nearing 300 of them cumulatively. My posts about it: http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/cold-showers-rock#30-d...

Less challenging habits include things like brushing and flossing daily, cooking healthy meals daily, and others that aren’t as remarkable, though I’ve done them longer. The last time I went to sleep without brushing my teeth would have been in college, which would be around 1990.

Come to think of it, if you count not eating meat as a habit, I’ve eaten no meat since 1990.
Yeah, why don't they just get a job paying twice as much where they don't have to sleep in a tent? Silly peasants. And how is a Google software engineering making six figures, sleeping in a van in 68 degree California, any different from a minimum wage worker sleeping in a tent in a field in the middle-of-winter Scotland?
There actually is a sidewalk conveyor belt (and some sidewalk escalators) in operation in Bilbao. I'm not sure how much of a maintenance headache it is in practice, but it does make a hilly neighborhood more easily accessible.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/18345027333/
You could achieve the same just by artificially raising the cost of living through rent and utility fees.
No. To be more precise, it does a completely different job. As I said in another comment, it isn't actually a Scala compiler. Comparing it to Scala.js is nonsense to begin with.
Nice game!
sure. my email is my username at google's mail service.
Try "Animal Upon Animal" by HABA.[0] It's an excellent game for kids exactly that young. Very simple stacking game. I highly recommend it. It'll teach turn taking and goal oriented thinking.

http://a.co/bJ8syTL[0]
I'm very familiar with how blockchains work. But if you can verify your vote then I can tell you to prove to me you voted for the person I told you to.
Start with the 30-Day Plank Challenge.

Since you mentioned good fitness, start recording what you eat in a food diary. This is the first step to eating healthier.

Also, get away from the damn screen and go take a walk.
Someone very close to me works at a newly constructed Amazon fulfilment center. She was told she would be a "sortation expert" and when she arrived was told her job had changed and she would now be the person loading trucks with packages that weigh up to 49 pounds... Not ideal considering she weighs 110 pounds bit whatever, she has agreed to the job. The shady stuff is how they schedule workers. Only 4 hours a day "so your muscles are fresh" according to a supervisor. They also mysteriously had no work to do on Thanksgiving so everyone was sent home (so they didn't have to pay time and a half we later learned). But the next couple days after they we absolutely slammed. Also they reward employees that are forced to stay late with $5 swag gift cards for the Amazon store, not Amazon. It's seasonal and temporary so it's not a huge deal but I couldn't imaginr working for a company like that permanently.
> MSPs such as the one criticising Amazon in the article should work to increase it.

They can't. The level of the minimum wage is reserved to Westminster.
Are you kidding me? You don't even watch the own ads you make your visitors see?
Scala Tutorials Part #6 – Case Classes – Madusudanan
This project is a great OIDC provider, but a not-so-great OAuth 2.0 provider. For example, it doesn't support the client credentials grant type.
I work in the healthcare industry. Basically we ARE the industry nowadays, and we use excel and word to keep everything "organized". There are some half-ass designed software,websites, and databases that are used as well, but it's amazing how a multi-billion dollar company can rely on this level of technology. I think they get these bids to run state government programs, and have absolutely no plan in place. And for some reason instead of just automating or updating things, the company just throws bodies at the problems and makes everything "production" based. I'm sure a lot of places are similar, but this is a white collar factory on such a massive scale, it literally sickens me. There are so many channels that approval for changes has to go through, that by the time some small minor change is implemented its already way too late, too distorted by having so many hands touch the problem, and too outdated.
> Don't work for companies that are dicks. If there's crap about them wanting to own you or your thoughts, don't sign it and get a different job elsewhere.

That's Joel's whole point, almost every single company had these restrictions written into your contract. And it's not possible to know if they're "the nice ones" who won't sue you ahead of time.
Where and how do you shop now?
BRT doesn't fix the ride-quality issue.