skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ADD diagnosis in my twenties and an Adderall prescription have done wonders for my depression (gone), unemployment (working), self esteem (good), ability to maintain interest in projects (more fun than video games), sleep schedule (regularish) and social life (I now actually initiate plans to do things with humans now and then).

Before consulting with professionals, I'd never considered this might be my problem because I've never been hyperactive... But after doing some reading, it seems that this sort of disorder can present in a variety of ways, only one or two of which include hyperactivity.

If you are reading abstract algebra books because you want to, maybe this would encourage you as much as it did me - many people with various presentations of ADD are diagnosed in grade school because they "hit the wall" - they reach a significant level of dysfunction re: attention span, etc. and people around them are able to notice. However, the more a student is able to rely on their own natural intelligence to carry them (rather an ability to study), the longer it can take for a problem to appear. I was a junior in a CS degree at an excellent university when I finally hit my wall and realized I had to change something or everything would fall apart.
I mean, Cortana is a little fleshed out... Although but I'm not sure she a sexy blue woman appeals to all
Since I imagine you're looking for unusual answers that an engineer type could conceivably transfer to:

Theme park design/engineering

Museum exhibit design/construction
apparently computers spring up from nothing into miraculous existence quite often

Abiogenesis, the existence of physics, every "discovery" that results in new-found understanding of what is, the universe itself.. life is a boltzmann brain, physics is a boltzmann brain, discoveries are boltzmann brains, the universe itself, a boltzmann brain?
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I think I love you.
Try this physics paper[1] explaining how pretty much every model we have of physics is broken in fundamental ways. Things you take for granted because of what you've read in popular media (eg., heat death of the universe) are simply speculation based on stretching an incomplete mathematical model to its limits. The simulated reality nonsense is the same bad logic in a different guise.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01421
Microsoft's Scorched Earth History and the Current Crossroads
I had one router in my dorm that I named "backhall honeypot" for a while. Renamed it to "I live down the street from you" lately. Oh and my desktop's name is charlatan, lol.
This was pretty much my experience, and that of a few of my friends.
Razer built a laptop with three screens
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It is not a conjecture, it is a valid argument on unsound premises.
three.js! + some light gui toolkit
Not if the gloves are conductive too.
Well this is horrible. This is good for the world, how?
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(Fiction) Author.

It is very difficult to get published, and till you do, it is very hard to make 'rent and food' money (leave alone serious money) out of it (and sometimes not even then. Most non bestseller authors have day jobs), but if I couldn't be a developer for some reason, that is what I'd do.
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Hard to believe we've so far from the HBGary/Palantir plot to undermine Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald to today's Wikileaks.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/11/palanti...
The bug was introduced in Go 1.5 (when the compiler was rewritten to Go)
Personalized voice recognition, especially when your receiver is somewhere in your room, not in your hand, is probably easier said than done. I'm guessing the more accurately it detects who's speaking, the more it will fail to work at all due to noise etc.
The hairball problem sometimes has solutions. this is a filtering soltuion which works with all general layout methods: http://visone.info/wiki/index.php/Backbone_Layout

It also scales for large graphs
All the way up to Lake Kivu! As safe as Rwanda is, you need to be wary of the neighboring countries: DRC and Burundi.
This is not a sustainable solution.

This is kicking the can down the road.

The population of any closed system, whether country, continent, or even planet, cannot grow indefinitely. And any system that expects indefinite growth to sustain itself will invariably become exhausted when rate out exceeds rate in for a sufficient duration.

Immigration alone may be a stopgap, but it is by no means a solution.
Hi, Sam

Is 4 days a week for 11hr or, 5 days a week for 9hr Which timings are productive especially if you're work is more likely be a freelancer ?
It does, but it's not an exact science. My wife trained hers, but her Siri responds better to me than it does to her...
Maybe you care, but can we please have this, as a "Christmas for the rest of us"-Solution?

Every year it's a stressful and unhappy affair for our small family since so many relatives expect something.
I'm a bit late, but it was a great talk and TLS 1.3 is looking nice.

I'm not sure who was the first to propose 0-RTT like this, but it appears that both MinimaLT and QUIC did at about the same time.

TLS 1.3 does nothing to improve TCP deficiencies, but there are alternatives that does, including QUIC. What I can't quite tell is how the the two combine, if at all. Does a QUIC connection mean that TLS 1.3 doesn't apply/is redundant?
Yes, the hard part is replacing cmd.exe (i.e. making a terminal that works with windows programs). Making a terminal that works only with linux programs should be fairly simple, especially with WSL (windows linux subsystem)
MashiRafael's insurance is gone, and apparently so is Assange's.
This agent will be delivered through a mobile app and perhaps WeChat voice calling as an adoption strategy -- we're targeting China initially. Will likely pursue a seed round (maybe YC?) in a few months. Still early.
this comment im making mainly me thinking out loud. It is not insightful:

I was thinking that for a fixed n that doesn't really work, because there are only finitely many options, but I guess if n>~2000 , ZFC cannot show the winning strategy to be the winning strategy? Is that what you meant?

Given any two machines which halt, finding the one that ends with more ones is computable. Assuming at least one of the two machines halts, which one wins can be computed in the limit? By which I mean, if the process is allowed to have a "who is currently winning" (the one that already halted if only one has, the one that halted later if both have, or neither if both haven't) thing, and the limit of that is whatever it eventually never switches from. I guess that works even if neither halt.

Uh... I'm just saying stuff you already know to try to think through it myself.

Edit: I guess the question is then, what exactly do we mean by solvable?

Do we mean that there is an algorithm that outputs an optimal move on every turn? For any n, there is such an algorithm. The one that has the correct move hard-coded. Maybe we mean that there is an algorithm that probably always outputs an optimal move? In this case, well, I suppose it depends on the axiom system. Hm.
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Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327811
I think "50,000 games played" puts it a bit too simply. How many games has he watched how many equivalents of a game has he visualized as sequences of moves? If "played" is over 50k I'd be willing to bet "considered" is over 1,000,000.
> I see a fundamental shift has taken place at Microsoft under Satya's direction.

I haven't seen it yet, but it's still early days.

You cite some examples, examples that are real, eye-catching, but for me not substantive. The fundamental shift I'm looking for is a true shift in customer focus. Microsoft's big customer is enterprise I/T, who is not the end user for much of the tech. Azure seems designed to help State Farm (to pick an F500 at random) add some of that new cloud stuff to their Windows ecosystem. A good business decision, but in the age of AWS and even google services, it's simply incremental.

I could be unfair in saying "not substantive" to the open source initiatives, simply because it's such a huge philosophical shift (to a small part of their business, at least so far). Otherwise, I'm not seeing it yet.

But it takes a very long time to steer a big ship like Microsoft or Apple.
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That the new MacBookPro doesn't at least ship with two dongles (for USB and Lightning) is pure arrogance from Apple.

That MacBookPro 13" without touchbar comes with just two USB-C and an old-school audio port (gone in iPhone7) is just stupid, as one USB-C port is used to charge the notebook.

Steve Jobs vision and his personal testing of products is missing. He would have prevented such things leaving the factory.

Beside that little ports and touchbar fiasco, the MacBookPro is a good notebook. (though I wished Intel would get their act together and finally release a chipset for 32GB RAM)
Just use Tor.
so what happens now, some sort of rap battle or fight to the death over who gets to keep the name?
I don't understand this comment, are you implying that it's the first time you see a runtime with a bug?
You can't really automate lawyers, unfortunately, anymore than you can automate accountants. Someone has to assume the liability for giving you legal advice / accounting advice. Computers can't yet assume such liability.
it doesn't matter, he has US$785 million
Lol, I wouldn't get any work done in bkk...
From the commit message:

"This bug has existed since Go 1.4. Until then the select code was implemented in C, 'done uint32' was a C stack variable 'uint32 done', and C stacks never moved."

It'll affect probably most running jobs out there, as Go 1.4 was released on Dec 10, 2014.
I also tried using the console accessibility APIs [1] to at least synchronize scraping and forwarding to the pty. The problem with this approach is that the console code issues EVENT_CONSOLE_UPDATE_REGION and such with its internal locks held, so attempting to read from the console from inside the accessibility handler deadlocks.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms971319.aspx
> For me lisp in general was like that. But I just kept on until it clicked

Not sure this is the right way... I mean, everything will "click" if you do the same, e.g. VB6, but do you want this?
sweet. Are you in startup mode?
Rats, I was hoping this was a more general "fix" so that there would not be scarring on internal organs after surgery or other trauma.

No word on flexibility if the resulting tissue. Scars tend to be quite keratinicious and stiff. Still, an esthetic improvement is better than nothing, especially in facial injuries like the example picture.
your retarded, if "simulated reality" is how you describe "I'm alive and have consciousness because I was born and grew a brain (even if your brain is shit, you silly have a shorty brshit)

I can't ducking talk to anyone you all ducking morons
> Android already have voice commands at that time, they just didn't have a cutesy name for it.

So did iOS, well before Android. They just didn't have a cutesy name for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_command_device#Voice_com...
Vim for almost everything except for C# and F#, which I prefer to use Visual Studio (the full one).
The issue with your definition can be shown when thinking about the absolute zero point (that is, 0°K): as per definition in this state, particles lack any kind of energy. Common tongue would say that it is "frozen". Now if this state lasts, let's say, indefinitely, time would be non-existent. As there is absolutely no change in the state of the particle.

PS: Although one could now argue that the act of observation changes its state.
Just use the web server logs and crunch them into a log analyzer.
morons who play way too many video games
I don't agree. I think it's one of the strength of a large corp like MS. They are able to separate research and prototyping from product development.
You don't turn a research project into a product. You learn from it and incorporate it into your products
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Both companies have significant image problems.

Google are socially tone-deaf and creepy.

Amazon are Borging retail, and have a major problem with Bezos being widely viewed as an asshole, with strong justification.

Mind: much the rest of the tech world does little better. Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, Facebook, IBM, and more.

I'm inclined to think that its the sector itself which selects for this, though in the selection process, the personnel (and especially management) are very mich part of the problem.
Good point, I realize I've come to somewhat dread Christmas as well. So many gifts for people that don't care because they have everything, yet you're socially obligated.
"though it's interestingly a verified account itself."

So in the sake of transparency, they would be tracking themselves, right?
I feel this kind of thing should be remembered when people say they're going to reinvent decades-old technology.

This bug exists because they wanted to reinvent threading so you could have millions of threads, except when you actually use millions of threads for anything non-trivial it doesn't actually work out so well. To do that they couldn't use the standard since-1970 fixed stacks so they needed movable/growable stacks. They reinvented exceptions in a way that broke selinux. They reinvented the memory allocator in a way that breaks ulimit. They reinvented a javadoc/doxygen that's less useful.

It's great to try to improve things, but a lot of times there's actually very good reasons for the old ways.
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I think it's pretty obvious.
I think several of these will be post general intelligence. Especially the one(s) that require a simple explanation of reasoning, the generalized learning from an example or two and contextual understanding of natural language.
The only reason I need to not use Skype is that it is shit.
> Strong disadvantage to individuals who are new to the area when getting a job; most people got jobs through personal connections/networking

This is key. The people I know who found good jobs after attending a boot camp had worked at startups in non-technical roles, and they were able to rely on connections with their friends in the engineering department. They got hired back at the same startup as junior developers. They are good at their jobs, but there are other boot camp grads who are just as good who never would have been considered if they had applied for a job without a personal connection at the company.

The tech industry is really not that different than other industries: personal connections are at least as important as skills, experience, and credentials.
There's no doubt that the state always has more power than individuals, but the point is that the state will not have more power than all the individuals put together.
Elastic pricing is whole point of the toll lanes. They are supposed to be stupid expensive when traffic is heavy; otherwise, it would just be another lane

That said, I use them all of the time during non peak hours so I can drive 75-80 without being 10+ over speed limit. (Most express lanes in the DFW are set to 75. The express lanes in the Delmarva area are pretty lame in this regard. They don't even give you a speed bump. It's purely a "pay to suffer less" service.)
Stallman claims Skype isn't encrypted end-to-end and then suggests using "free" alternatives that are not in the least bit security concious or end-to-end encrypted.
Fair points. I agree!
smell the whiff of death a few times, realize that your time on earth is limited, stop messing around, and make each stroke of your blade count (and follow through)

only you can ride your private racehorse. everyone else who tried got thrown. get on and ride.

basically, one has the tools to be a proper cyborg ninja, and the only thing stopping one are minor personal vanities that actually deliver minimal pleasure compared to the pain they create in blocking ones self-realization. ditch em :)

*i find yoga, stretching, exercise, etc. helps to gather the passion and focus to unleash it when sitting still again...
Also the "long distance phone card" suggestion ignores that every major telephone company in the US was caught providing information without any legal obligation to do so.
I don't think it's outrageous to say that a few people with weapons can command many people without weapons.
Arguing based on etymology is a logical fallacy.
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My guess is that the main technical problem preventing this in SC2 is related to the game's replay-saving system. If you have only partial data, your client can't include the data from the opponent's perspective, which makes the replays suck. Theoretically you could generate the replay server-side but it would be resource-intensive without a costly technical overhaul.
I guess if you can't imagine it then it's impossible.
Philosophy students tend to make good money.
I am not sure who this guy is, but he seems a little out of this world.
Which is a lot more than $240.
Something that Parrots pine for..

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pining%20for%...
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So this is the new taboo? We have to watch what we say on tv and radio because a lot of people decide to buy this product?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snibt3CNqBA

Effectively AM recreates a sound wave using the EM spectrum in the most direct way possible.

When the clamp is held just right, an arc forms between it and the mast that recreates the AM signal with enough energy to vibrate the nearby air.
And what's the mark up on that compared to the grocery store? Considering shipping/prime subscription etc
have you heard of GNU?
DRM is an international standard.

So of course in the USA they have their own propriety standard. "In-band on-channel" or IBOC. Different versions for the AM band and the FM band.
> Saying it from across the room while cooking is much easier than washing your hands, grabbing your phone, loading the app, searching for the product, and hitting "buy".

Is that a realistic scenario for the majority though?

Aren't most people going to either make a mental note and add it to the shopping list later, or just wash/wipe hands and add a note to the list on the fridge blotter/whiteboard etc.

It'll be a sad reflection on the evolution of cognitive thinking if the people believe that they have to drop everything, clean up and reorder cornflour the instant they run out.

> grabbing your phone, loading the app, searching for the product, and hitting "buy".

Considering that, as well as the other option of having a magical listening tube in the house, living in a small English village, I have the 'luxury' of grabbing my coat and walking about 400M to the local store, and apart from the minor health benefit, I could also stretch the operation into a dog walking session, bump into and talk to some friends on the way and get some fresh air. There's also the local pub (http://the-quaffer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/murrell-arms-barnh...). Alexa, pull me a pint of London Pride...
The problem with his first argument is that it is a logical fallacy (affirming a disjunct). Just because one does not say A, does not mean that it automatically must be B. He says "most likely", but even this is not certain. I agree, it feels that it must be true. But then again this is an inductive fallacy. Simply because most companies we know that have acted in such a way actually were eavesdropping on its customers, one cannot say with certainty that this is a general rule.
He is quite famous in software circles [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
How and why would they do that? The idea does not much sense reading this article.
The etymology wasn't disputed. What was disputed is the way you are playing with etymology in order to get it to fit your desired narrative.

The word religion means to "bind back" or "yoke" [edited], i.e. to seek an understanding of the universe and our place in it.

Here you are retconing. The religio or bond/obligation refers to a monastic vow. It has nothing to do with seeking an understanding of the universe or our place in it. Therefore, the etymology of the word religion is completely irrelevant to the conversation.
Yes, it does. You might have been thrown off by the fact that L1 regularization is not L0 regularization, i.e. it doesn't explicitly limit the number of nonzero coefficients. Still, the linearity of L1 constraint boundaries creates spikes in directions with zero components, thus forcing constrained solutions to occur where many variables are driven to exactly zero. See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasso_(statistics)#Geometric_i...
RMS is a legend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman. Every one would be living in a little bit of a different world and all the computer tech guys would be living in a completely different world with out RMS.
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It's because FM broadcast is at a relatively low frequency that makes it valuable.

It has much better ability to penetrate into buildings, and through foliage, etc.
Skype is owned by Microsoft. No worries it will die out eventually.
I use the Matrix messaging client riot.fm instead
As it's bee said many time before:

- the difference between 'x-like' and 'x-dropin-replacent' is huge. Everybody can make a twitter clone in an hour. However, if you want to build the search feature, handle the conversations corner cases, have the same pixel perfect ui and scale, it takes years.
- the value of uber is not in the app.
Is it just me, or the subheading is "Story on accidental order begets story on accidental order begets accidental order"?
He serves an important purpose. He lays forth a philosophical framework for software freedom, and makes predictions that people don't take seriously and gives advice that nobody would ever practically follow. He also has this annoying habit of being right in the end. He represents an ideal we'll never reach, but we should always aim back toward.
It does this already.
The difference is that, as media has fragmented and people find increasingly diverse sources of news and entertainment, there are more niche celebrities and fewer mega celebrities.

Manufacturing a mega celebrity takes a certain degree of monopolization of attention. But the days of three-network-television and two-station radio markets are gone. We don't, as a society, watch and listen to the same stuff anymore. It started with cable in the 90s, but it's accelerated with the internet.

I don't know who Anna Kendrick is, but if she's anything like the rest of the "celebrities" I'm supposed to know, she's a Q-list reality show extra with a hyperactive agent. The internet has globalized and democratized the market for attention, which means greater competition, more niches, shorter shelf lives, and fewer monopolies.
Well usually you can just update whatever library has the bug and restart your applications, but as I understand this bug will be statically linked in all application binaries so they will all have to be recompiled and redeployed?
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