skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife was a litigation lawyer for many years (she now works in-house) and while I can see the similarities with coding & debugging I think it would be the most frustrating thing imaginable.

Imagine having code where the people writing it never run it (the people writing contracts often aren't the people who would run litigation) and where you would spend months arguing with other people what you think the code would do if it was run and only very rarely actually "run" the code in court and when you do it's difficult to predict what will actually happen!
I am honestly not sure...
Hardware plays a massive part too; I don't see a static micro processor becoming conscious anytime soon. Our brains though are literally physical neural networks, that grow, move, and change physically all the time.
The UK at least requires presence of a DPF for the MOT test (i.e., test of roadworthiness, legally required to be done annually from a car's third anniversary of manufacture), and to have it missing (if it was fitted when new) is an instant failure. I'd be somewhat surprised if such things weren't relatively commonly part of roadworthiness tests, but I don't have time to look at quite what all EU states require.
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Outside of the writing, I kind of don't like the design of Medium. I can't quite put my finger on why, but it looks light but feels heavy (as a reader). I also don't like that every post pretty much looks the same, with the exception of the header image; with other blogging services you could style it at least a little (for example, it's generally obvious when a blog is on blogspot, but there are times when I didn't know until I searched and noticed the URL. Tumblr is very customizable too.) I even prefer Livejournal's interface as a reader to Medium's.

As others have pointed out too, it didn't seem to get past the 'hipster SV writer, dad, astronaut, all around awesome sauce' style writing and showboating aspect. You can do that on other platforms too (add the tag line and write the typical 'Medium way') but it feels like on Medium it's really uncommon to see a post from someone who doesn't add too much to the tag line.

Medium would have to get over this mentality and make it more appealing for regular writers, not just appeal with the interface, if it were to become bigger.
And that's because you did not listen to George Kennan.
I feel ya - the struggle is real.
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Not to mention what happens if you decide you would like to start writing a little program (as one does on a real Unix system) and realize that you are in a sandbox designed to prevent you from doing that unless you use all the official SDK stuff through Dalvik, which has a completely different flavor and set of capabilities.

Sure, I have a very awesome computer that cost hundreds of dollars but I can't really use it because... somebody said so?
I would write books except I hate working alone, I prefer being around people. Maybe some kind of writer's workshop?
Take a high-powered flashlight - the kind the police use. Hold it at arm's length. Point it straight in to your eyes. That's about 6000 lux.

They had also dilated the rats' pupils with atropine, making the acute exposure test equivalent to, or perhaps worse than staring at the midday sun for 24 hours straight.

Even the lower-level chronic exposure test used 500 lux with light from all directions so there's no way to look away. We don't use light that way in reality, and while I'm sure the intent was to accelerate the test, I can't help but suspect it's the equivalent of testing whether bathing in warm water might be harmful by boiling rats alive.
The way it is now, the only recommendation you can give is to use the getrandom syscall. The special files are not foolproof.
LogRocket is truly fantastic.
The more units thing is part of the reason I think Dota is a better challenge, I can't help but feel a SC2 AI could use inhuman micro as a crutch whereas in Dota mechanical / micro skill doesn't provide quite as big an advantage.

Not too sure what you mean by 'rushes can be punitive' but Dota certainly has a variety of early game aggression strats which tend to be high risk / reward and are seen fairly regularly.
I recall the classic 1986 edition of the Dragon Book spending waaaay too much time on boring details of lexing and parsing. I think it turned many people off the interesting aspects of compilers. It also had an interval-based formulation of data-flow analysis that nobody uses, possibly because it's (a) more complex than worklist iteration, and (b) not applicable to irreducible control flow graphs.

Are newer editions better and more focused on interesting solutions to interesting problems?
To be fair it is quite easy to get MOT without having anybody to see the car...
If you have LastPass, make sure you updated to plugin 4.x. Earlier versions didn't play nicely with the new multithreading, causing big lags.
Which programming languages have the happiest and angriest commenters?
I went in the opposite direction mostly because the academic job market sucks. I would love to get back into scientific computing in some sense. I miss all the math.
I am: https://jakeseliger.com/2016/11/28/trump-fears-and-the-nucle... and when I tell others why they just look at me strangely. I hope they're right and I'm wrong.
That's a very interesting concept. I've worked in aquaponics before so I've also been intrigued by the idea of being able to recreate sustainable ecosystems. If I had the time I'd love to be able to create a database and 'calculator' or sorts where you can enter inputs such as the type of herb crop you'd like to grow, and going by the preferable water salinity, pH, ppm, ds, and a few other criteria, you'd be given options of what crustaceans and fish you'd be able to incorporate into the ecosystem. It's a huge endeavor, but I believe it's something that would have a tremendous impact on society since too often there's reinventing the wheel with this type of stuff and that destroys the runway for a lot of startups that have grander visions.
Just wait until people start using the EAGAIN value in keys.
First round of life in the Universe might have been possible extremely early
Frankly more and more Poettering reminds me of De Icaza.

In both instances what the person produces only becomes "stable" after he pass the maintainership to someone else.
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Also seconded. Tracking down the root cause of a check engine light is very similar to debugging. What the code says...say "Catalytic Converter Below Efficiency" isn't necessarily what's wrong. Often times, that means "bad o2 sensor". As in our space, picking the right tool makes a big difference as well.
Build high-end speakers. I really enjoy it and I like the idea of high-end speakers that you can just plug into your TV and they "just work" without juggling remotes.
OK, "applications which require randomness during early boot time" is one such case. Thank you for pointing out.
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B) not really / there is a world out there outside of the JavaScript frameworks driven bubble.
thanks, I will ping you when I write something up (and I need to figure out a bug with my cross-domain referral attributions :( )
The no-tears formula for dealing with an unhappy client
If I were to quit technology, I would try to find something that keeps me as far away of a screen as possible. For instance, quitting the tech world to become, say, an accountant, where I would still looking at a screen all day long, seems useless to me.

This would therefore probably be a profession where I either see a lot of people (doctor?) or use my hands (carpenter).
Yes, there's the "ML ninjas" program, which brings non-ML SWEs into brain and other groups for a deep dive into machine learning through a project-based approach. (Often, but not exclusively, inspired by a problem from their originating area.). It's not a transition per se, but a great outcome is that the person becomes a bridge for their team between their specific domain of expertise and machine learning.

A full transition would be done by the usual transfer mechanisms. Two of my former students have switched into Brain from elsewhere in Google, for example.
> decent electronic music

And square circles too?
I'm not sure about the excellent user experience and UIs working well.

Im my experience of fixing computers for everyday people with not so fast DSL connections, those javascript based things usually have terrible performance and causes problems by breaking basic web browser functionalities such as history and bookmarks that those people rely on.

Then there are the UI issue of too small resolution, or increased font size to help with bad vision and many other accessibility concerns.

But I suppose that if you are using a recent computer, on a large flat screen, on high speed internet connection, and do not use privacy related features such as ublock, noscript or policy control you probably enjoy a flawless experience.

To me relying only on javascript for your web service or site is akin to answering the customer phone line 0.5% of the time by saying "f* ck you * ssh* le, I sh*t on your ugly face".
There is also "vimdot" in the graphviz distribution.

Its really just a hack where graphviz uses inotify() to watch for changes in a file being edited by vim.
There are probably good uses for them.

But unless you are doing something very tightly integrated with Linux, you should just ignore them.
Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance both have flow economies. Supreme Commander 2 works as you described, and indeed, is not worthy :)

Forged Alliance is great if you like TA!
For a 1 year old phones it's Reused not recycled. When you hand in a six year old phone that's when they need to be recycled and that costs a little money. So, old phones do end up in piles as actually recycling is more expensive than saying they will some day be recycled.
Related reads:

https://sivers.org/futures

https://sivers.org/hsu
Did It Always Take This Long to Build a Subway Line?
I would do good. I would build homes for veterans or work for my local non-profit that supplies dogs to support veterans having a tough transition back to civilian life. Or I would work with the diabetes type 1 JDRF so that my wife would no longer have to worry about her glucose levels. I would support teachers the right way, supplying them with proper training for 21st century skills so that kids are inspired to learn, learn, learn. Because I believe that doing good is very much needed right now in our world.
I overheard a guy on a plane once - old guy telling is life story.

He'd done various things, been a pianist, engineer, parent etc.

Now he writes, he says it's the most fulfilling career he's ever had; Though I expect he's already financially stable.
I would like to be an astronaut. It has the physical and mental aspects I'm looking for. The skills learnt during training are also super interesting.
I do believe the reasons are exactly backward compatibility and politics¹.

1 - As in "oh just keep it there, it's easier than convincing everybody that it's useless".
I was under the impression that React Native apps were pretty close to native on both counts. Is that not true?
I'm not terrified because I don't think Bill Perry is really terrified either, in his own words from the article:

>“I do not think it is a probability this year or next year or anytime in the foreseeable future. But the consequence is so great, we have to take it seriously. And there are things to greatly lower those possibilities that we’re simply not doing.”

A nuclear catastrophe, statistically, poses a much lower risk to my well being than tornado season. Also occasional flash flooding, especially while driving. Oh, and extremely dry summers with little rain that make for wildfire conditions. Also, there's heat stroke if I'm being active...I guess what I mean is I do believe, deep down, that there are people who genuinely care and will work on such serious matters.

Serious people who take things seriously. I applaud them and hope my tax dollars support them appropriately, public and/or private sector. Sort of like geologists working to study the devastating potential of fault lines or volcanic activity. After seeing what extreme weather can do, and how resilient the US population seems to be, I'm honestly grateful to not have to have "Duck and Cover" as part of my everyday psyche.
The papers are great, a lot of research has been done in this area despite the closed nature of .net prior to the recent open sourcing. Too tough to summarize in one comment but I want to add a few things for anyone thinking of checking them out.

I firmly believe .NET poses a fantastic programming environment for anyone to build systems, applications, the back bone of companies on top of. I think its significantly better than Java and has received much better support form Microsoft than the Java eco system and the JVM has from Oracle.

Functional languages like F# are allowing startups to build systems quickly that can scale from 0 to millions of users and I think this whole eco system, now that its open, is due for a renaissance.
Well, you see, it's possible, even likely, that there will be at least some survivors, so therefore nuclear war is a trivial concern compared to AI.
When I leave my current job I'm going to apply for an adult course on wood working.
I love to build things, and wood is the most available and easy to work with material (compared to plastic, rock or metal).

And seriously, I bought a saw, a hammer, a screwdriver last year, it got me crazy. Same as having a unix terminal and an Internet connexion.
Not only that but about 5 years ago we replaced most of the house with Philips LED lights, most of them failed/are failing by now (they start by getting a darker patch in the bottom of one of the tubes and then it slowly spreads out and the light shuts off completely).

5 years for a product that is advertised as lasting for decades as this usage rate.
ok thanks for the feedback, you are right, and a lot of people want more control of the phantomjs process (or a long-lived process) so it is something I should consider more highly.

I'll add it to my feature todo list. if you sign up, i'll send an email when various new features are ready.
Computer Literacy Books was lovely while it lasted. They used to offer lectures too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Literacy_Bookshops

Their website in 1998:
https://web.archive.org/web/19961219170620/http://clbooks.co...
I feel like probably half the people who insist on calling it "GNU/Linux" don't even really understand why.
Ask HN: Which payment processor do you use?
Want to start a new SaaS side project, and want to charge a monthly fee to my users. I've been looking for several options for payment processors, but can't really decide for one. I would really like to use one that charges a really small fee for every sale.

Which one do you use or recommend?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13333570
Some simple math-
1,500 crowns * 2M unequipped cars = 3B crown

That's 3B in capital costs (plus the cost of radios in unequipped homes) to save 250M/year. Seems expensive, but not totally out of the realm of reason?
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As someone still studying and not in the workforce yet, are there really teams out there that don't use version control?
Just curious what the general consensus of 1Password is here on HN? I am especially interested to hear from people that are actually using/paying for the cloud hosting (their servers).
I would start with a cheap OBDII reader ($50 or less) that has a real-time feature that can show you what all the sensors (o2, intake temperature, etc) are saying.

That's a more fun start than a book, and it might lead you in a certain direction as to which book you might want to read.
Automotive Grade Linux
It's not immediately evident, but the numbers are actually inputs, so you enter values directly.
Because they actively blocked (and still do) any attempts in the EU to release real-life regulations (not measure pollution in artificial environments, but on the roads!) -- for many years now. And still, they hinder that car buyers in Germany get the same compensation as US customers do.

The German news where full of it.

It is not helpful, when the labs are cleaner during car testing, but at the roads the people suffer from the pollution. VW is not the only brand, that optimizes the emissions for artificial environments.
The ability to tell time is enough alone. The varied selection of clockfaces to match my mood or clothing makes me prefer my huaweii smartwatch over a mechanical one. I don't use any special features.
Here is a nice article outlining the position of the German government and the big carmakers on electric cars:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/german-governme...
This is awesome. I was looking for something like this not too long ago and surprised I wasn't able to find anything to do this easily. Thanks!
Capitulation: Yes, I bought a new Mac Pro
We have a few programs for this. As I mentioned above, the ML ninjas program is like an internal engineering nfocused residency for existing SWEs. There's also a huge amount of internal training courses to get up to speed on machine learning. There are, however, options for existing employees. (step 1: apply for job.)
What's wrong with "Christian socialist"? While we have conflated (evangelical) Christianity with right-wing politics in the US, that is far from universal.

Most of the Christian churches described in the Bible are, in many ways, socialist communes.
I'm in the USA, so my mileage varies.

As it turns out, areas without decent cell signal — not even LTE, just a signal in general — is much more prevalent than I assumed. We just moved, only 15 minutes from where we lived, and we went from 4 constant bars of LTE to sometimes we get 1 bar of 3G.

I'm still not used to this, and there are many times where I get in my car, plug in my phone, start driving, then realize I didn't download anything for the ride. So I switch back to FM radio. Up here, sports talk stations are on FM, music is on FM, etc. As much as I hate commercials, the serendipity of a one-way broadcast can be exciting.

Second case: my wife's phone "connects" to her car, but only for phone calls. She doesn't listen to music through her phone really, and still relies fully on music from FM in her car. I don't think that's that weird.

Third case: both of my parents still drive, and neither do these sorts of things with their phones. When my dad is working in his garden, he's got the radio on (FM, generally talk or sports channels). My mom will turn on the radio in the car to listen to while she drives.

So I guess the car is the biggest case I see, and though for me it's mostly a reliable plan b, there's an older generation that still listens to a decent amount of FM (or AM) radio out there.
Which discipline though?
Seems like an example of supply and demand working as intended.
Oh sorry! My memory tricked me.
>Capitalism has already been around forever :)

Much of Europe, for example, was feudalist until around the mid 17th century. To put it simply, the king owned all the land, and those who lived on it were divided into those who worked, those who fought, and those who prayed. Under no reasonable definitions could this be considered capitalism - even Marx viewed feudalism as the order coming before capitalism.
My huaweii smartwatch is always on. That, and being round instead of square, is the reason I bought it.
There are quite a few great books on stable information. To name a couple: Knuth's Art of Programming, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Advanced Systems Programming in the Unix Environment, the dragon book.
Why should I own them physically? Well, I find physical books more comfortable to read than digital ones. They lack text search, but being able to have it open on my desk next to my computer is handy. Not to mention the sleep hygiene issues from using a screen before going to sleep.
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DC would have a much greater population density if developers were permitted to build upwards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_of_Buildings_Act_of_191...
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Hey long time lurker and first time commenter here. May I ask if you could ping you for a few tips on my application. Right now I am finishing up a master's in robotics (mix of computer science and electrical engineering) at an Ivy league university (also did my undergrad here). I have previous research experience implementing (from scratch) and training convolutional neural nets. Right now I'm doing researching in natural language processing but not with RNNs.

This program sounds very competitive and I would love to get in, so any help is greatly appreciated!
Cool!

One suggestion and one complaint.

I'd like to be able to select countries by clicking, rather than text input.

After a couple minutes playing, the site filled firefox history with tens of entries, and I could not return to HN even after hitting back several dosen times.
They were initially called "pubs" because they are public areas, as opposed to fully private areas. See also "saloon" derived from private "salons".
Yes. I have a friend who does QA for a major university and that department doesn't use source control at all.
Node.js let's you require() packages from npm. There, all the code you for ever need.

Instead of writing "a quick Python script" for personal use, I now write "a quick node script" because there's almost no thinking required on my part. Just require the packages and throw them together.

Not even Python has this package-completeness.
Their DNS "client" implementation was a tour the force of NIH wrongs, including screamers like not implementing security functionality that had been commonplace in other implementations for a decade or more.

Damn it, they have a web server in there for the sole reason of displaying a QR code for the initial log signing key. A signing system that apparently Poettering's brother came up with as a doctorate thesis, with systemd-journald being the only implementation (that i know of).

BTW, these days you find dbus inside the initramfs. Because systemd need it to be present during bootstrap. After systemd-pid1 is up, it will kill the initramfs version and fire up the one from the HDD instead.

There are times i wonder if the Fedora maintainers grit their teeth and play along with Poettering and crew because they have the same paymasters.
I live on the edge of a national park. In summer they advertise for Wardens to help with patrolling the park, on a voluntary basis.

If I could afford it I'd happily code for 6 months of the year, then be a warden for the rest.