skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my response to belovedeagle.

There was evidence, but it was evidence that you or I would call insufficient to meet the weight of the accusation. You can find fault with that as shoddy journalism, but I don't think it meets the standard of unethical journalism.

> An apology is the last thing a newspaper should run

An apology is the first thing a newspaper should run, once it knows that its original story is faulty.
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Nice profile and portfolio.
Perl is one of those languages that nobody likes at my work, but that is impossible to get rid of.

Java is in the same boat, but at least it's still marketable so engineers don't mind working with it as much.
This reminds me (somewhat unfortunately) of the Playpump[1] which I saw referenced again in some product reading about really understanding customer and user needs in building new product. The Playpump was a playground toy that pumped water - got great PR and raised lots of money. Unfortunately it was also less efficient than existing pumps, required training, was more expensive and was not field repairable.

[1] http://unitedexplanations.org/english/2012/03/22/the-story-o...
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Hi, I'm the author. Thanks for your interest in my book!

I agree, the words "relatively little background" are too vague. What I had in mind was that the book requires little background relative to many other introductions to category theory (such as the grand-daddy of them all, Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician). But I should have been more specific. If update the arXiv submission, I'll fix that.

As cokernel points out, the level of knowledge assumed is roughly what you'd get from an undergraduate mathematics degree at an ordinary university in Britain (and probably many other countries too). I know this because I used it several times to teach a master's course at the University of Glasgow. Probably the most famous master's-level category theory course is the one that Cambridge runs in its Part III (master's) programme, which I've also taught. But this book covers much less than the Cambridge course, and assumes less background too.

If you've taken either (i) enough algebra that you're comfortable with rings, groups and vector spaces, or (ii) any kind of topology course, then you should be able to understand enough of the examples that you can get a good grip on the general concepts. If you haven't, then it might not be the right book for you. As others have pointed out, Lawvere and Schanuel's book Conceptual Mathematics assumes much less background than mine, and there are also texts oriented towards readers with a computer science background.
Can you explain "pro-west"? I suspect it means somebody who says "I like West. West will help us", not a liberal mind.

Liberal philosophy roughly means freedom and same rights to everyone, including very bad persons, in exchange to strict execution of written laws. So to be truly pro-west, person must advocate same right to everyone, including e.g. gays, and strong independent court for everyone, including e.g. top leaders and officials, which will adhere to written laws religiously. He also must fight to death with bribes and bribers.

Are you sure you labeling correct person with "pro-west" label?

PS.

It's looks like offtopic here. Should I delete this message?
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That's a lot of investment for someone getting their feet wet. I've been growing food for my family at home for the last four years and while I don't have two acres to farm, I can tell you that equipment has been the least of my problems.

Learning to grow food has been a gradual process for me, learning what works for my soil and my climate. I can't imagine trying to start with a Conex full of equipment and two acres to farm, unless you have a local farmer there to help you along. It's so much easier to start small, a few hundred square feet, and to get the advice of a local gardening club or garden store when it comes to choosing what to plant.
I'm not saying it's a _good_ idea :P
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Writing a brand new Mac app for myself, using Objective-C instead of Swift. So far it's a breeze. Yes I used Swift for a while, and it sure feels all academic and all, but meh, ObjC gets the job done just fine for me.
My instinct is that if perks have gone down but prices have stayed the same, that means that prices would have gone up if we kept the perks.

The airlines are not making huge profits. In fact, they seem to file for bankruptcy constantly. Even though bankruptcy is sometimes a ploy to renegotiate union contracts, they are clearly not making big profits. So if the (overall) higher price is not going to profits, it's going to increased costs of some kind.
> but only by an hour or two

So if I have a pretty normal set of afternoon errands like, go to the doctor, get groceries, drop groceries off at home and go to my evening meetup, I'm only looking at an extra 4-8 hours of transit time?

An extra 15-30 minutes of transit time(per leg) is basically what is actually sustainable for non-drivers to be able to get multiple things done in a day.
I like this article, https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-m...
Well, maybe you could have a price-compare thing, and that seems vaguely reasonable, but what everybody seems to be talking about and demanding is that there be a required bundling of certain services. A mere labelling is quite different.
This is one of the tools we are building at Open Law Library. Open Law Draft is a linter that finds common errors in draft bills right in Word as they are being drafted. Fixing the error before the bill becomes law is much easier than having to pass another law to fix it. Extending the analogy, Open Law Codify is essentially our compiler. We will be integrating the two so we can find more complex errors at the drafting stage rather than having to wait for the codification stage, as we do now.

Unlike what I think you are proposing though, our system must work with any law that is passed, not just laws we deem "correct". We simply write software that helps legislative bodies pass laws that are as close to what they deem correct as possible.
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Google Keep has one of the worst start-up time delay's I've ever experienced on a web app - which is kind of terrible for note taking.
Awesome :)
any plans to opensource part the code ? I am esp interested in learning how u managing to support high CPU usage and resource cost
The touchpad is probably as close as possible as being just objectively better on Macs. But the keyboard? I don't even think "Mac keyboards are the best" is a plurality opinion among just Mac users, is it? There's obviously a large heaping of personal taste here, but the MBP I have at work is the worst keyboard I've ever used on a "real computer" (i.e., not some weird hybrid tablet thing or something). And of the Mac people I know or read online, it seems the keyboards of the last couple of years of laptops have been, at best, tolerable.
I'll be using good old PHP
I didn't know how big New York City was until I went from Central Park (North side) to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden... walking... never again!
Does that timeline add up? The announcement about the diplomats was made Thursday, and I believe the original WaPo article was published on Saturday. You could blame the WaPo for being hasty, but they certainly aren't the reason Russian diplomats are being expelled.
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See how 250 devices and over 7000 sensors use only 11% of an #Intel NUC's i3 CPU
"classic" asp. Still have some crappy legacy pdf generation code no one is willing to invest the time to rewrite into here. Fortunately that's all of an update a year or so.
Yeah, that sounds like just the Anglosphere. I've been to Montreal and lived in Israel, and in both those places you darn well get fresh bread and pastries in either the supermarket or bakery shop of your choosing.

Mind, I was fortunate enough to live in the best baking city in Israel (something like 53 bakeries in a city of 300000 people, plus supermarkets and open street markets), but still.
Depends on your definition of "old" -- I'm using Bash, PHP, HTML, and JavaScript at work, which are all over 21 years old, but they don't really feel that old (even PHP feels new and shiny thanks to the lovely Symfony framework).
We've been building our cities wrong for what(?) 80 years or so. We've been aware of it for over 50. Still, there are depressingly few examples where we've been able to meaningfully change course. We don't drive our personal automobiles, they drive us. We ironically associate the car with freedom, yet building for the car renders every other mode of transportation ineffective, at great cost to our wallets, our physical, mental and social well-being, and to our environment.
Plus if you don't need inheritance, you can just use pointers to structs and pass them to functions. And if you need simple polymorphism in some small places, you can use tagged unions.
Is there a detailed post mortem available?
Writing an OS in Rust: Double Faults
I was trying to do the math here too. Here's what I came up with.

1) Shipping Container - ~$2,000

2) Tin Shed - Maybe another ~$1,000

3) Hoop Greenhouse - ~$400 [1]

4) 3Kwh Solar Plant with Batteries - ~$8,500 [2]

5) 2 Acre Drip Irrigation System - ~$3,000 [3]

6) WiFi Access - $1,000 (I have no idea what hardware/capabilities they're delivering here, but it seems like that's a safe number)

7) A Bunch of Hand Farming Tools - $1,000 (Another guesstimate)

8) A 1,000 gallon water storage tank - ~$700 [4]

So that takes us to about $17,600. Let's add another $5,000 for preparation, packaging, research and educational materials. Let's add another $5,000 for stuff that's more expensive than my guesstimates, and remove nothing for the article's claimed efficiencies that makes this so much more cost-effective than buying a la carte.

That still only puts us at $28,000, so either there's something I'm totally missing here, or this is total BS.

[1] http://www.greenhousemegastore.com/product/16-foot-wide-cold...
[2] http://www.bimblesolar.com/3kwcomplete-sunny-island
[3] https://www.berryhilldrip.com/Kit-Pro-2-This-Complete-Kit-wi...
[4] http://www.plastic-mart.com/category/9/plastic-water-tanks
For a 6' tall person, the current seating is actually very inconvenient on 8h+ flights. No hyperbole at all!
So maybe the solution is to all genetically convert our offspring to shorter persons :)
To be fair a lot of really useful C# features came way after that, like LINQ, Async/Await, type inference, etc
IEC61131-3 family.. very widely used stuff, but definitely feels clunky and old. It's not even fun-retro-old, it's just old-old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_61131-3
You are right - people should not choose their own jobs - the government should determine people's needs and assigned a job to them.
Two major challenges ahead for school; increase enrollment and control costs
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Well I think that's a big part of why the focus lately is moving to sugars over fats. But the other point is that they're not very rich in nutrients.
I enjoy exploring these patterns, not just for primes, but for factors as well. I made a little JavaScript app for creating "Number Mandellas" that my kids and I use to enjoy different patterns:

http://ideonexus.github.io/Explorable-Explanations/math/numb...

Our favorite thing to do is set the Preset to "Randomized" and click "Render Preset" over and over again to see what comes up. Sorry for the clunky interface, but the source is on github if anyone wants it.

https://github.com/ideonexus/Explorable-Explanations/tree/ma...
a public school spending more than $50k/student that is really mediocre
Awesome site, this is the best one today. https://patents.google.com/patent/US5588175

Word of warning, privacy services like Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes block the data tables cdn your using so your users using those services see no data at all
My only real gripe with C is that you have to write your own functions/macros (or use someone else's) to make dealing with strings intuitive. The stdlib is perfectly fine from an algorithmic standpoint, but I always have to look up every string function's manpage, every single time I use them.
Building payroll system in Ethereum blockchain, what did we learn?
This stood out to me, as well. I don't think everyone fits the mold that any one macro group is good or bad because I think it depends on our gut bacteria (which is potentially as unique as a fingerprint[0]).

I don't deny calories in > calories burnt leads to weight gain but to put it that simply does a disservice to educating people about their bodies and completely ignores the hormones controlling fat storage. "researchers at the National Institutes of Health have shown how insulin prompts fat cells to take in glucose in a rat model". [1]

So does calories in being higher than calories burnt lead to weight gain? Sure. That's thermodynamics. But what about lots of carbs in the diet (even paired with fats) and how that causes a higher insulin response and that then causes easier / more fat storage. I think the research here is clear and compelling. Of course, some people, due to their guts just may not process food the same way and may break it down more completely or be less sensitive to carbs in general.

"In general, the gut microbiota found in obese youth tended to be more efficient at converting carbohydrates to fat compared to the gut flora of normal-weight individuals. This suggests that even with similar caloric intake, obese youth are accumulating more fat compared to lean youth as a result of the composition of their gut microbiota." [1]

[0] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/personal-mi...

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-show...

[2] http://www.livescience.com/56179-gut-bacteria-differ-in-obes...
Lisp, C, .... Not Fortran though
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Hanalei, Kauai (Hawaii)

it is my favorite place to be. The town is friendly. I love all the farms, and there are plenty of outdoor activities to do.

Sure, it rains a lot. (Some houses are on stilts and the only road out of town floods over a few times a year) But IMO, it is worth it.

Now to find an IT job where I can work remote...
> One of the reasons I use Elementary OS despite my ambivalence towards systemd is the consistency.

I wrote "consistency across the entire system". I immediately believe that they did a lot of GUI polish and polishing of the default apps. But polishing the GUI of a POSIX-like system does not deliver consistency (only GUI polish). There is still the whole UNIX-like subsurface (like it or not), which delivers completely different abstractions than the GUI does (this is clearly not consistent).

For example rio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(windowing_system)) implements Windowing as private namespace (a central element of Plan 9) - very consistent.

BeOS (for which currently under the name HaikuOS they try to reimplement it in an open source way) is another example of an OS which was designed from beginning on to have a GUI and is thus also very consistent.
Hi, I am one of the contributors and I will be noting all the things you suggest. Thanks...
I'd be satisfied if I could just query the price of the flight by entering my preferences on a form.
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They all are "old". If it's new it's probably some wired buggy and failing combination of C Lisp and Forth.
Good luck making Google Maps without JavaScript.
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for e.g the article claiming "100 bugs per 1000" takes a crapy contract and considers refactors as bugs, critizes well known things to take into account, and generally exagerates. Another example, is the infamous 'solar exploit' article (since then slightly modified due to criticism), which is written by someone with a financial interest against ethereum (due to owning a startup with a competing product) essentially makes a claim equivalent to saying the internet is broken because you can do this in nodejs http://i.imgur.com/QGofSuo.jpg
I like the guys optimism and how at 56, he thinks he has enough runway in life to accomplish something via coding!
it's pretty clear what's being built here is outside of what typical fabs can build. You need a research fab with top of line equipment. The article basically says they had to do chip-style architecture to get the optical paths to be stable enough to do reliable computing.
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