skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Why Elon Musk thinks we’re characters in a computer simulation
And yet we do that every time we install the JVM (and Ruby, and Python, and...)
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Hey, thanks! If they let me out of my cave again, I'll make a point of visiting more often!
Indeed, I even posted it back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8808754
Ahh, the whole, "If your company is mistreating you, it's your fault" argument. So if I am forced to stay at a job due to having a family or not having a "Safety net" due to getting cancer or something, it's my fault for not being able to leave?
Are all jobs listed here (https://www.freeagent.com/company/careers/) remote? For example https://freeagent.workable.com/jobs/411049
Don't create anything new, find a product that people use (and pay for) but are not 100% satisfied with, and make it better.
Oddly, ARM is eating the PC architecture from the inside. What's on your raid card? An arm. What's in your usb devices? An arm. What's in your SSD? An arm. A PC is beginning to look like a network of arms with an intel driving. How long will the intel core last?
You are absolutely right. I guess the point I was trying to make is that companies are not considerate when it comes to a candidate's time. IF after making a candidate go through a coding test or several interviews you still have doubts then don't hire him, simple as that. Nowadays companies/hiring managers/interviewers are used to treating us like crap, sometimes for their own amusement.Expecting candidates to pull out magic in a coding challenge is becoming more and more common, even when they know that a candidate won't be able to pull it off, it's almost as if interviewers enjoy turning people down and watching people struggle during interviews has become a (sadistic)leisure activity for them.
Indeed it is! See https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-react-native#why-is-it-call...
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A lot of Java apps are shit at packaging too. They often include an entire Tomcat server with all the setup files you don't even need. I wrote this a while ago:

http://penguindreams.org/tutorial/embed-tomcat-in-your-appli...

..but don't do that. Instead use something newer like netty and ditch that decades old crappy servlet layer you don't need.

You can also use sbt+onejar or sbt-native-package to make either a single jar runnable or a standard deb/rpm/tar.gz package to run your service.
Ping me and we'd be happy to discuss hosted Gitlab for you.
As someone who enjoys writing paragraphs of prose for commit messages on even small changes, I love these updates. I have no interest in the emulator or the games, but the engineering feats and writing style are wonderful.
It absolutely was! Theres s shout out to her and her amazing work on the github readme!
Love her work! :)
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Ask HN: Is there an app that lets you organise a workplace union?
I'm curious – why haven't unions been 'disrupted' by apps? Unless I've missed it, nobody's created an app that lets you create and run a union the same way you'd spin up a Yammer or Slack group. I would welcome any thoughts on this. Personally, I've never paid any attention to workplace unions before – but if joining and participating was like using Facebook for Work, I might.
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That's a quote from a White House official who was unwilling to put his name on the record, sorry.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-cnn-press-234455
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In Worst Instincts [1] [2], Wendy Kaminer documents this.

I lately have found the Rutherford Institute [3] to be a much better protector of individual rights than the ACLU. [4]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Worst-Instincts-Cowardice-Conformity-...

[2] http://beta.wendykaminer.com/ACLU.aspx

[3] http://rutherford.org/

[4] http://www.npr.org/2013/06/02/188125996/john-whitehead-on-pr...
Don't follow your passion
Why?

Everyone has their own copy of the gitlab remote.
Don't forget "man ascii". It's not laid out any better but might be more convenient for you.
Thanks a lot for sharing this. It is great to see that MIT is now catching up with Stanford in terms of Deep Learning classes.
And why should I care about this?
LOVE THIS BOOK! And you are correct, they indeed "borrowed" the machines.
John Carmack has to pay $150M. I know he's a very successful person but that has to be a lot of money for him. Is facebook going to pay that cash?
On the contrary, I was merely suggesting high-caliber people should be rightfully disconcerted if asked that question. Subtle indignation doesn't automatically mean passive-aggressive asshole.

Besides, the entire scenario largely depends on context. I'm sure most people would find it far more beneign if the question was posed by an HR person at BigCo, rather than by the founder of a smaller company.
I feel like that's because XSLT introduced so much complexity that mere humans found it impossible to work with. I've searched in vain for a decent XSLT editor to help me; the ones I've tried have themselves been incredibly complex.
The idea was good, but the implementation is the stuff of nightmares.
https://fundersclub.com/blog/2017/02/01/each-immigrant-funde...
OK, I'll make much easier examples: other people which I've asked thought them OK.
Which is why the Atom was discontinued, IIRC: the mainline chips power efficiency had been reduced enough to make the Atom much less viable.
>one of the strengths of the mean is that it is sensitive to changes in the entire sample, rather than only part of it.

Yes but this is exactly what is bad with it. At least for the majority of practical applications that I can think of. For instance, if you want to measure the "average" income of the population. If there are a handful of uber-rich people, they will really raise the mean. Even if the vast majority of people make much less than the mean. The median will do a much better job of telling you what a "typical" person makes.

I really believe that when most people read or talk about "average", they mentally interpret it as the median. And that the median is generally less misleading.

Sure, there are applications where sensitivity to changes at the tails is important. But even then, mean is misleading and difficult to interpret. In your earlier example, if you raised the income of the bottom 10% by 100%, then just use that as a statistic. "The poorest 10% of people now make twice as much money" is much more informative and impressive than "the average income increased by 0.1%."
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I've been following this and somewhat involved on the Slack channel since late last year.

A few comments based on what I've seen here so far:

"Fake News" might not be "the problem", but it is a problem. There is a real set of completely fake stories with no supporting evidence. Taking this away from politics for a minute, the archetype of this is "celebrities XX is moving to town YY"[1]

Comments around "this is just mainstream news attempting to justify its role" absolutely and completely have a point. There is plenty of room for new players to fix this problem (and hopefully be rewarded for it), on both sides of the political spectrum.

Comments around "The NYT does fake news - see their Iraq war advocacy" are somewhat misguided IMHO. The NYT has a number of problems, but no one should make the mistake of confusing opinion, analysis and forecasts for news. In the NYT Iraq War case, their analysis and forecasts were completely wrong and their opinion was misguided because of that. It is completely fair to make the point that their reputation suffered because of this, but we need to separate that from news reporting. This is something that news organizations don't do very well at the moment, IMHO.

As has been pointed out, this won't fix the whole problem. Most of the "Yes, but..." discussions here have been had when trying to come up with a reasonable but helpful task. I think stance detection is a reasonable subset of the problem.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/celebrity-moving-small-towns/
I've learned both C++ and C#, and I ended up writing my home automation system in VB because it just came more naturally to me, and I can write code that does what I want faster with it.

The side perk that I can relatively easily convert to C# later if I have to is there. But yeah, as much as I've worked in C style languages before, I find VB much more comfortable.
Instead I'd introduce some sort of random failure elsewhere in the game, so it superficially looks like it's working, but isn't any fun to play...

This isn't mentioned in the article, since one of the anti-piracy/-emulation techniques I didn't discover at the time of writing it (due to my dump being an overdump) is that many of the games do this. They screw up input so it either boots but you can't play it at all, or input is unplayably slow. It detects it by having an interesting memory mirroring quirk in the cartridges that no other GBA carts have.
> It's an absurd fantasy. There's no possibility for a disembodied, perfectly objective voice conveying facts.

Fallacy of gray. Just because you can't ask for perfect doesn't mean you can't ask for better.
Do you guys have any web presence at the moment? Someplace I can go to see more?
If the lawyer was really working in his client's interest he'd have put the car up for auction instead of buying it himself.
These are always great stories. I loved the barn full of classic cars one from a few years ago as well. (http://curioustype.com/35-million-dollar-car-collection-foun...)
I have a couple of ideas that I do not have the skill to create and am happy to share. One I am interested in using if you build it. What's the best way to contact you to share them?
President Obama as his comments on Fox News (he went farther and included comments on their viewers). For a bit of history, President Jackson was fairly salty with his views of newspapers. Unprecedented has pretty much been they insulted my guys instead of their guys.
I agree that my claim is false. I kind of wrote that from the top of my head.

In any case, the point that I wanted to make in the parent comment was that the JVM startup time itself was basically fine.

I just checked on my Macbook and a HelloWorld class gives me .13 secs real.
Seconded. Though I don't really understand what is their message on VB in plain english. They will continue supporting it but won't be adding new features like they do in C#? Am I right to read it this way?
I assume the author meant "in a 32-character grouping", however man ascii(7) on my Linuxes show it in 64-character groups, so... shrug
this would be great, with more and more people learning about functional programming techniques, C# with a functional leaning is really nothing compared to F# with support for OO. It's like the premium language from MS but feels not so loved.
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> It's a fairly minor thing, but if I had to guess I'd say a Tesla branded inverter for PV systems.

Responding to a question from an analyst during the company’s quarterly results call, Musk said:

“…There's no question Tesla's going to do integrated inverter. It's the logical thing to do. I think we've got the most advanced inverter engineering team in the world, and so it makes sense to, just as we do the inverters on vehicles, to do it with solar as well and have it in a very tight package at a cents per Watt level that is, I think, probably twice as good as anyone else. I think maybe better than that.”

http://www.pv-tech.org/news/tesla-confirms-plan-to-use-own-i...
Specially with taxes, might be not a lot remaining.
Striking a balance? It's the Innovator's Dilemma!
That seems like a lot, I didn't think he was worth that much, maybe I'm undervaluing his net worth. Is there a value for that anywhere?
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Keeping them separate in this sense can actually encourage cooperation, like the infamous case of IBM. They didn't collaborate with the government of the Third Reich because they were ideologically in lockstep - no, they kept their business separate from their politics, and collaborated because it was profitable.
Or entirely possible they knew about it, dismissed it as "frivolous case" or factored it in the price paid.
And until VS2013 the IDE was nothing like either. I think with VS2015 both have mostly converged but I must say it is a bit of a regression for the VB IDE.
So, it was couped up in that apartment for a long time...
I think it is at least more complicated than you are painting it. If it's something that is widely known in media circles as well as political ones (at least one Democratic senator alluded to it on one of the many occasions Hillary's e-mails were brought up), the media holding it back from the public isn't really a fantastic look either.

Sometimes it feels like the media is damned if it does, and damned if it doesn't. Report unsubstantiated rumour? You're biased! Hold back information because it isn't verified? You're biased!
Your comment reminded me of the 'Immigration, World Poverty, and Gumballs' presentation. Really eye opening.
This is the kind of satire that will dupe any attempts at AI classification.
I'm stuck in the same spot. I agree that a lot of niches are already quite saturated.

Are you open to collaborate? Maybe if we put our heads together we could think of something.
The Variety article says Carmack but the TechCrunch article says Iribe. I'm having trouble finding the actual source.
It really cracks me up whenever I hear the extreme right lambast the mainstream media, who (at least in the US) is mostly right wing anyway.

Trump should be kissing the feet of the mainstream media, who were the single biggest force responsible for his election. Without "Trump" being the most often repeated word on every mainstream reporter's lips ever since he started running for office, he wouldn't have stood a chance.

Trump got virtually non-stop, world-wide, free advertising -- the kind that even his money couldn't buy. His election is proof positive that there's no such thing as bad publicity.

Trump should be grovelling before the mainstream media. But to pander to his base, who long ago swallowed the "liberal mainstream media" conspiracy theory, and to deflect criticism, he has to pretend that he's a victim of the mainstream media, when he's really their beneficiary.
The decision not to use native replication might be attributed to its purported immaturity?
If you're on AWS, then you should be using ECS first of all.
RetroPie is a collection of emulators (and also distributed as a special-purpose Linux distro), mostly ported to the libretro API, and all being accessed through the emulationstation GUI.

For GBA emulation, RetroPie has the choices of "gpSP" (either through libretro or independently), "vba-next", and "mgba".

edit: Sorry, jpfau, saw yours after refreshing.
Hi all,
This blog post/FAQ should clear up the story behind the journal, and its relation to AOSA: http://tagide.com/blog/academia/the-art-science-and-engineer...
Kind regards, Tim
I can't think of any change in C# that I would make that would really be worth the effort.
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Only pull requests and issues are gone. And even if the repo's were gone, wasn't git supposed to be a distributed vcs anyway? ;)
> VB is supported until 2024

There will be runtimes for VB until 2024, but that's far from calling it "supported". The last language release was 19 years ago, in '98, and the IDE stopped being supported in 2008, 9 years ago.
I'm reminded of the old proverb: "Do not remove a fly from your friend's head with a hatchet". Banning thousands of people who haven't done anything and may actually help our cause, just to prevent a few dozen people who may be able to find other means to get in the country if they had to anyways, is not a smart policy.

There hasn't been anything like another 9/11 attack since and we've had 16 years, so maybe two Presidents and all of our allied governments with the same policy know more about what to do to keep the country safe than a two week old presidency.