skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
also I heard good things about this learning community:
https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/members/
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This is exactly the same thought process used when saying most women who claim they've been raped weren't really raped and they just did it to manipulate someone. Obviously the severity of the accusation is different but it's the same thought process.

Also, stop all of this talk about a jury. This is about addressing issues in a community. It's not a legal proceeding. OBVIOUSLY in a court of law we'd need strong evidence to convict someone, but we're not trying to convict an individual here. We're just trying to get people like you and ESR to stop claiming our experiences are either invalid because we're mentally ill or entirely constructed because we're trying to manipulate you. It's gaslighting exactly as ummnooo said.
I've observed a couple of things about the way I learn and I think that these are pretty general

a.) Print is a lot better than digital.

b.) You shouldn't read books linearly. I generally jump around a lot and read a particular book several times. The first pass might take just an hour or two, I generally try to understand the structure of the book, create a scaffolding of sorts, I might get 15%. During the second pass I might try to get the next 30%. I should have a good idea of the concepts of the book, I might not be able to solve all the problems. In the next pass, get the next 30%. The fourth pass is optional if you really need to understand 100%.
The best part is that a lot of times, you don't actually have to do all the passes, the first two might be enough.

The one thing I always hated about school is how you are forced to master each chapter 100% before moving forward. Sometimes going forward actually helps you understand previous chapters because it puts them in context.

c.) Highlighting helps me a bunch. Some people have the issue that they might end up highlighting too much. I don't highlight when it's all new to me, but only after I might have finished the chapter, I'll go back and think about what's important to highlight. It feels like the process of selecting what's important might be more important than the highlighting itself. But when you come back to it later, the highlighting definitely helps. Writing some notes with a pencil in the book is also good.

d.) More important than fully mastering all the material is making sure that you aren't bored or frustrated. If you can't move forward with something, give it some time, come back to it.

e.) Generally if I'm confused, doing a quick review pass from the very beginning of the book tends to clear things up a lot.

f.) Doing a "compare and contrast" between things that seem similar (or even if they don't) is usually a good way of strengthening some connections.

Btw, over the last couple of weeks, I've been trying to learn ML almost full-time. In the process, I think I managed to figure out what are the best resources for this and I'm in the process of setting up a website discussing what I've found. I started working on this yesterday so it's not quite ready yet. However, if you'd like to check out ML in 2017, I'm hoping to make the process a lot less painful. You can sign up here if you'd like to get notified when it's ready

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnksZmz7oH9Vpjtxp1...
> "As quantum mechanics demonstrates, observing changes the thing being observed"

This isn't really a fair corollary. It's not that true observation that changes particles, it's that once we hit them with light (to enable observation), they change their state. This is so so often misinterpreted in journalism. The change has nothing to do with a conscious observer being present.
A denial of service is the opposit of providing a service. You really can't tell the difference? Thats probably why you're moralizing legal code and forgetting that people voluntarily make uber successful.
So much truth, it's almost painful to read.

This blog article should be mandatory reading for anyone pondering on the idea of enrolling into a PhD program.
So OSM doesn't have much 3D data now but I wonder if maybe that'll change if this sorta thing takes off. If the interface for contributing 3D data (terrain and buildings, say) is well done, and plugins and libraries start to get support then we could see some of the larger cities filling out pretty quickly.
I really don't get what's wrong with passive voice at all. In my mother tongue (Turkish) and my L3 (Italian) passive voice is a part of the educated speech. Certainly it is harder to use than direct speech (in most cases), but why neglect it?
A "somewhat horrified Kissinger" when chatting to Nixon is comedy beyond Shakespeare!

You read that in a mainstream journal? You were played. You typed it yourself? You've been played. You dreamt it? You're a bard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(chacma_baboon)
There has been so many critics of cryptocurrencies on HN that hopefully this 3-year high makes people stop and ponder on why Bitcoin has succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectation over the last 8 years...
Best practices for labeling GitHub Issues
> What the hell are you talking about? In this post, ESR is claiming the open source community is practically magically immune to prejudice because of "hacker culture" even though it is somehow an issue in industry, academia, and everywhere else.

I'm going to stop responding because you argue in an intellectually dishonest way. You want to play identity politics and then throw around "white male" as if white men, specifically, have intrinsic bias and act nefariously. Good luck with that.

> You are exactly the sort of problem we have to contend with... You're disgusting.

There's no need to be insulting, even if having to defend your worldview is "triggering." The way that you argue and the comfort level you have in making personal attacks demonstrate that you're harming the cause you want to advance.

I wish you the best of luck in 2017, but I'd prefer we no longer interact due to your personal issues. Cheers.
> People do make false accusations. But you know what is a lot more common than that in the world at large? Actual discrimination.

This is really all that should need to be said. Anyone who takes ESR's claims of mental illness of accusers for granted but refuses to accept the claims of those who experience discrimination is part of the problem.
Why does somebody forking need to justify that their fork is warranted based on your standards?
>"... or just looking at the traffic in abject horror"

Yes, it would be this :)
> a 400 square foot studio is 1200 a month.

Is this a good or a bad thing? That sounds cheap to my ears.
Vue.js feels like the dark matter is JavaScript world. The impact is not directly observable, but you can definitely feel it's gravitational pull.
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There is a prime generating formula n^2 + n + 41 for n=0 to 39. Maybe this is related?

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Prime-GeneratingPolynomial.html
>> Still I believe that the first functional language that looks like an imperative language will move many developers from OOP to functional.

That's supposed to be the deal with javascript (but please don't ask me for a source; I was first introduced to the idea that js is functional in a book in an old workplace's library, where I was waiting for my boss to chew me up. Needless to say, I haven't used javascript much).
I'm looking at the "dead" comment by PravlageTiem. I understand that PravlageTiem was being sarcastic, and some people feel that sarcasm undermines the tone that is supposed to prevail on Hacker News. But still, PravlageTiem raises an important point:

WordPress has historically been a security nightmare.

Possibly there was a tone of anger in the way PravlageTiem expressed themselves, but the security flaws in WordPress are worth discussing any time that WordPress is discussed.

Certainly, when I have a freelance client, and they ask me "Should we use WordPress?" I typically answer with some long version of "It has a good admin section for non-technical users, and also designers love it, but it also has a lot of security flaws."
@tar11 thanks for the comment. The repeating questions are by design since I found out my kids get really motivated by starting with a few easy ones, ones they got the worksheet started, it's harder for them to stop. As the worksheets get harder, duplication becomes less common.

I'll look later today into adding a tablet version that will allow them do draw over to avoid printing them. Give it another try tomorrow.
What I've thought about is replacing the DNA in cells of adults with an average of multiple samples of their DNA, to correct for the mutations in our DNA that accumulates as we age. I think I've heard something about progress in this area, but I don't know what to google for. Does anyone know if there's any news in this area?
What bit-depth, frequency, etc. is considered to meet the highest standards. Years ago I read 24 or 32 bits and ~96 KHz, but maybe those aren't even the specifications that matter any more.
You're giving histrionics when what's being asked for is proof of wrongdoing.

> We're just trying to get people like you and ESR to stop claiming our experiences are either invalid because we're mentally ill or entirely constructed because we're trying to manipulate you.

I have nothing to do with ESR. I've not met him and you're trying to make a false association between us.

I'm saying "give evidence" of wrongdoing or undue enrichment. You've personally attacked me in another comment thread, so I'm quite aware you know you aren't arguing from the high ground. You want to play identity politics and create anecdotes and be intellectually dishonest.

As mentioned in the other comment, please don't respond as you're overly comfortable insulting a stranger. Good luck with everything.
There isn't really support for terrain in OSM. But there probably shouldn't be, there's not really any good way to collect a little bit of elevation data.
If there's an agreement, why are taxi drivers suing their companies, as in Chicago? Which are those rights granted in this agreement, and why aren't those even mentioned in pre-Uber stories describing the crappy situation of cab drivers, such as [1], which describe drivers having to pay to be allowed to work?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-di...
Ugh, the comments on the guardian are poison.
So... fake news? Or do we subjectively only apply that to right wing outlets, since that was the intention of the propagandists pushing the concept and blaming Russia to cast their political opponents as traitors?
There are a lot of tools and frameworks out there, so it's tough to know which ones to get started with. There are a lot of terms that don't make much sense until you just go ahead and start using them... HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby on Rails, Django, HTTP, API, SSL, Angular... it's really frustrating to figure out what's what when you are just beginning, but once you do figure out, you realize that it's not rocket science. But I'd advise anyone trying to learn to do web development to find a mentor who can help you get started by pointing in you in the right direction in terms of tools you'll need to learn to get started (and in what order to learn them). Once you have the basics, it'll be easier to know what tools you want to add to your arsenal later.

A great way to meet people who can give you guidance is through local meetups. For example, you'll likely find people with web development experience at any Python meetup. Finding a good mentor will save you a lot of time.
I don't miss olive oil, but if I wanted it, I'd just eat whole olives.

I eat nuts in my oatmeal every day.
Why? A medical degree is mostly a marathon of hard work and dedication. Laudable. I couldn't do it.

But does it take wits? The medical researcher probably. The person who figures out the dosage, maybe. But the person who through rote learning knows of the top of their heads the proper dose? Meh.

The people on this forum probably average 130 IQ. Not everyone here could do a medical degree. But most are probably smarter than their doctors.
Correct. The X axis is our estimate of actual time from GPS time. The Y axis is the deviation from estimate. The estimate includes a slew of about 5 minutes around the leap second.
There was a huge discussion yesterday debating the validity of the Post's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13292607
>since someone already got in there so of course it must come out.

Assuming it was brought in assembled and assuming that no obstacles (door frames etc.) were temporarily removed to allow it to get in.
They don't, but I'm free to express my distate for them if they do. That goes for much in life.

Forking is not a decision to be taken lightly. Even the most just fork will fracture the community and weaken the software's development. Contributors are now being asked to take sides and both sides are getting fewer contributions. The stress this puts on the original maintainers is also non-trivial.

Look at ffmpeg/libav. It forked for similar reasons on the surface, but in reality it was to forcibly take control of the vernerable project over petty disagreements. For years the users and developers suffered alike as libav was shipped by default in Debian due to politics and received subpar workmanship and more security vulnerabilities that were fixed on slower schedules, all while taking contributors and users away from ffmpeg. After nearly a decade libav is finally dead in the water and ffmpeg is becoming the default on Debian again, but not after lots and lots of damage to the project.

On the other hand, you have examples like nodejs/iojs, where there were much more tangible reasons and alternative solutions were explored longer and more earnestly, and they regretfully were forced to fork for the good of the ecosystem. And they were right, eventually the two projects merged together under better oversight.

But the gitea folks do not have nearly as much clout behind their efforts IMO, and as a result their move to fork is extremely harmful to gogs development.
Isn't that a problem because it will mean also higher transaction costs (in dollar)?
Presumably because it allows a workflow that skips over parsing (and possibly error prone generating code). Also allows generators to e.g. lint things without a bananas workflow.
> a temporary solution to a much larger problem

There might be disageeement on how "temporary" this will be.
Now I want to know what the album was
The degeneracy of a given allele is relative to the phenotype of the organism and also the organism's environment. Sickle-cell confers survival advantage in environments where malaria is endemic, but is considered a degenerate allele in environments without malaria.
سينما فور اب – افلام عربى – افلام اجنبى – افلام هندية – افلام اون لاين
Why do autistic people have to go extinct? Can't we support them in this wealthy day and age? Couldn't great cognitive tools lie beneath autism and other supposed illnesses? In my experience, "normal" people are the most boring because they can't think in (what they would consider) contorted ways.

There's a whole spectrum of people, one end which defines large parts of society, the plain average. On the other end are people whose minds are so distorted relative to the norm that it's impossible for them to function in our society. I would put the blame for that on society not being diverse or open enough.

It seems to me that evolution works because of diversity: an organism diversifies through mutations to the point where one type gets an advantage over the others and survives. Think of it this way: If you limit yourself to what you already know, you'll be turning in circles, constantly reaching the same conclusions for the same problems. Let some outside knowledge/factors mess things up and you'll be able to move on.
Here's a cheatsheet so you don't need to read the whole book http://boingboing.net/2012/11/21/timothy-ferriss-cheat-sheet...
My belief is that after the crashes, few weak hands remain. Brexit's speculation bubble was extremely tame and corrected back to modest growth after only days. Only in the last couple weeks has the growth looked particularly bubbley. Fully unqualified speculation from a casual investor: I suspect the correction goes to no lower than $800.
The Open64 / PathScale compiler suite has had intrinsics written in the IR (WHIRL) for a long time. WHIRL is stable enough that it's not a maintenance problem. Being written in IR means that the full power of inlining, function specialization, etc etc will be used, even if whole-program optimization isn't being used.
That was in the middle of something that was referred to (at that time already, by the participants themselves!) as "total war".
(Replying here, so my upvote on the parent doesn't get lost...)

Working in C means you get restricted to only doing things which C can do, and you're out of luck if you want to do things that C can't do: unaligned accesses, tail calls, saturating arithmetic, overflow detection, exceptions, stuff like that. IR allows you to do all this, at the expense of being considerably more complex and painful to use.

Of course, if your compiler don't want to do any of this, then C is a perfectly valid choice, as it doesn't tie you to the LLVM toolchain --- see Nim, for example. But as soon as you venture outside C's comfort zone, working in IR starts paying off.
It always applies. The rate hike you saw was supported by an increase in demand relative to the supply. The new apt complex simply kept the price from rising even higher.
Check out Dr. Robert Bjork's page on desirable difficulties (https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/research/).

Additionally, you need to write about whatever you're learning. Essays, reviews, whatever strikes your fancy. Learning really happens when you try to use the information.
Wow! I feel like we're kindred spirits! Drawing on the left side of the brain is an incredible book that did it for me. I've been writing about language learning all over for years, but this interview with Gabriel Wyner is a great spot to start: http://lingsprout.com/en/experts/gabriel-wyner-making-your-o...

He was in the process of studying Japanese at the time of the interview and had some specific comments about it vs the several languages he's learned before.
True that! For me, I find my mentor at my job and it feels that I learned an awful lot more from him than I would have learned on my own, so yeah, it's very important to find a sort of mentor.
The ACK's IR (which it calls EM code) has been stable for 34 years.

http://tack.sourceforge.net/olddocs/em.pdf
What should he say? He would probably feel like updating his LinkedIn profile.
The temporary problem is a lack of respect and exploitation of workers in their employment.

The employer can correct this anytime they want. They refuse too and fuel employees will to unionize.

The problem is as temporary as the employer wishes for it to be. This is no different then any other management driven mistake.

Why is it okay our site crashes every 48 hours? Management won't allocate money to fix it.

Why are our workers striking for better pay? Management won't allocate money to fix it.

You may argue the money doesn't exist to fix that issue. Which is really just stating the company is going out of business at a rather slow rate...
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017
What was the point of demanding unconditional surrender when Japan was ready to surrender before being nuked, if it kept the Emperor system?
what about slightly difficult. It's basically a language denuded of gradation.
This isn't surprising. Similar to meditation, a floating practice is something that is developed over time. I didn't enjoy my first float session and couldn't wait to get out of the tank. Now, with ~150 sessions under my belt, it's a very different story.
If it stays 'skyrocketed', yes.
1. It wasn't a threat, it was an until recently classified standing order that the USSR and China would not even have known about.

2. And what were US nukes in Turkey? (You know, the ones the US removed because the Soviets put nukes in Cuba.)

3. Answered below.

4. The numbers you've carefully "worked through" there are simply an absurd exaggeration of a long discredited myth.
which is not lossless and is completely irrelavent
I find learning more motivating within the context of a project, although that is more relevant to drawing or tech knowledge.

Also, I built a search engine for lectures, which has a lot of talks from tech conferences, which I find helpful for learning about software development topics - https://www.findlectures.com
Japan was ready to surrender before they got nuked, as long as they kept the Emperor. There was literally no need to kill all those civilians.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1lw9lg/seeki...

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/22/books/l-gore-vidal-s-ameri...
Because LLVM makes no guarantees about IR compatibility between releases. With the API at least, your compiler can catch the larger breaks when you upgrade, and they're likely to come with more doc/comments and change notes than the IR tweaks.
Another joke about nuking another country?

as defense secretary for the elder Mr. Bush,
Mr. Cheney commissioned a study of how many
tactical nuclear weapons would be needed to
take out an Iraqi Republican Guard division,
if necessary.

(The answer: 17.)

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/george-h...
I would also add Wroclaw, Cracow or Warsaw then.
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Neato! Thanks for the link.

Sorry if the tone of "only compiler I am aware of" came of as snotty it was meant as an expression of my naivety on the subject.
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This isn't House, M.D. The doctor's job is to assist to a great degree in fixing the problem, not just figuring out what the problem was.
The Chinese are running away from RMB and buying bitcoin

Not just bitcoin. Chinese money is buying whatever assets they can get their hands on; purchases of real estate in Canada alone last year significantly exceeded the entire market capitalization of bitcoin.
> Years ago I read 24 or 32 bits and ~96 KHz

These are useful to record and produce, they're of no use whatsoever to listeners[0]. 16/48 is the highest standard. 24b (let alone 32) is completely pointless and just wasteful, and 192kHz can actually be detrimental due to ultrasonics.

[0] https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Who believes in puppies and rainbows? lol

A sustainable insurance market is also obtainable without genetic information. In fact, without any patient information at all. Information allows segmenting the population to allow for diverse premiums. Without any patient information the premium will just reflect the whole population risk.

We can argue if this system is fair or not (I don't like these discussion because they hinge on the definition of fair, which is silly); but your point is about economic feasibility, and it's quite feasible to have a health care system without digging up dirt on everyone.

And, as a libertarian, I have to admit that this country has one of the most inefficient health care systems in the world. The amount of money we spend for results that are worse than any other industrial country is obscene!