skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, at least from my experience, it would be good to find something that REALLY interests you, and get a big expertise in it. Especially at your age, if your an expert in something, people will be astonished by your professional knowledge. They won't care about the fact that your not that god in other things if you already blew them of their feet.

Also, at a job you'll usually only be doing specialized work anyways.

Check out http://meetup.com/ for finding local programming meetups. It's awesome.
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By the way, what languages and paradigms do you think you are really good at?
After the November election, I started rewatching "The West Wing."

Yes, as a "cast" show it is somewhat unrealistic with respect to the scope/number of people involved in daily West Wing activity, policy, administration, etc. And it is purposely idealistic. Nonetheless, it summarizes and states well many principle and practicalities of the Executive, Administration, the other two branches of government, and provides a not insignificant education to the general viewer of how all that works and why.

As well, it portrays the idea of good -- but imperfect -- people doing their best within an imperfect system.

Next up, perhaps: "The Wire." I started it about a year ago, but I was not in a place at that time, myself, where I could easily/reasonably take its message as I've heard/read it described.

"Mr. Robot" I've found excellent at describing a contemporary technical but also a social milieu, and thoughts on same, with which I'm all too familiar.

Recently, I've been revisiting old/classic movies starring Bogart. There is an essence of the American character in them, perhaps both reflected and thereby instantiated down the succeeding years and decades. A taciturn but thorough awareness and expectation of self-reliance.

Viewing such as this seems to inform me, to some degree. Hopefully not in too distorted nor misleading a fashion.

A lot of contemporary viewing reflects some contemporary thinking and news items, but comes with a lot of bulk. There's only so much Marvel content I can take, for example. It becomes distracting, consuming, rather than informing.

What concerns me in good part now, with the direction paid streaming is going, is that while production values are increasing, with limited libraries and historical content, it may be trending towards a contemporary consuming as opposed to informing.

Yes, we're living in Hell's Kitchen. (Well, I feel that way, more than infrequently.) But I don't really think we are going to punch our way out of it.
>These are headlines that have a definite negative slant.

But also definite true one. Wine has always been short of the promise it made (except for specific, select, apps), and the laptop is bad on any metric that matters except the "I can update it to make it have a less bad processor when that becomes available for it".
I wasn't aware of a panic response regarding H-1B visa reform from anyone than perhaps the large companies that exploit them.
> After all the 'added expenses' of a upper-middle-class lifestyle

You mean if you earn a lot but then make the decision to spend a lot, there's not much money left over, making you middle class?

You seem to treat it as a given that if your income is high, you necessarily ratchet up your lifestyle expenses to a point where there's "not that much" left over.

What if your income is $4 million per year? After all the 'added expenses' of an upper-class lifestyle, you're certainly left back in the... middle class...?
I hope they have Servers outside the control of the US government.
> Whether Musk becomes a space industry visionary -- or the latest in a string of delusional Don Quixotes -- remains to be seen. Doubters call Musk's vision pie in the sky, a gross underestimation of the technological and commercial challenges SpaceX will face.

> But Strategic Insight's Kaplan said that "probably a couple dozen entrepreneurs have tried this in the last 10 years, and they've all gone out of business. It's easy to say you're building a cheap, simple rocket, but that and $2 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks."
The Name of the Wind, and The Wise Man's Fear -- great fantasy books by Patrick Rothfuss.
You are confusing morality, which is indeed be subjective and relative in many cases, to objective truths, which are by definition objective.
Don't be so surprised.

It's easy to look and say, that group is taller and has bigger muscles so that's an obvious advantage.

It's harder to see mental advantages. Statistically, men have better spatial reasoning and are possibly better at the kind of logic (and intuition) chess requires.

Or maybe it's environmental. One way or another, every single one of the top 100 chess players in the world are men.
agreed. author is in love with their own words.
Software vendor argues that it has copyright in output of its CAD software
I'm afraid not, my knowledge is all 2nd hand (wife is scientist) :)
Does TrailDB pre-aggregate metrics? AFAIK it stores the raw data bucketed with an actor id (usually a server or visitor) and performs compression and some columnar storage optimizations for events of actors.
Did Google ever actually have human tech support staff? That just doesn't sound like the sort of thing they'd do.
> Rust is too complex to be compared to C

I feel Java is to C++ as Go is to C as Rust is to Scala.
4 months travelling in 1 minute
What's Wrong with the EPA? (1995)
>The point is to ensure that random events like which family you're born into can't strongly affect the course of your life.

This is impossible. We pretend like it's not true in America, but one's parents have massive, near-total influence. That doesn't mean you'll turn out to be an exact clone of your mom or dad, but it does mean that your childhood, and the choices your parents make on the family's behalf, are going to dictate a great deal about your life from the day you're born until the day you die.

There's no way around that. Should we take all of the community's children and randomly distribute them to different households so that parents with business aptitude don't grant their children an "unfair opportunity" by giving them good business advice? Is this not an unfair opportunity granted to children by the "random event" of their birth? If the benefit of a parent's intellectual resources is fair, why isn't the benefit of his/her financial resources?

>However, note that we're talking about cutting a link. By default, opportunities are only available to people with past actual successes. By default, outcomes build upon outcomes and compound exponentially. We're looking to defy that natural process, cut a natural link, and thus regularize certain statistical structures.

I disagree. By default, in the absence of a government, the market is open and opportunity is equal; two persons with no knowledge of one another can walk up to each other in the desert and make any trade considered agreeable between the two of them. That is equal opportunity. In a complex society, the government's role is to protect that natural transaction flow, not to confiscate the goods and redistribute in the way that it has decided is fair. That makes both parties unhappy and leaves only the governors pleased.

The government protects natural transaction flow by refusing to allow the enforcement of provisions that would unfairly exclude the participation of large portions of the population based on artificially imposed constraints (i.e., not inherent constraints that exist due to lack of financial, physical, or mental resources).

Natural marketplaces are also safeguarded by refusing to allow similarly artificial prohibitions to flow from the centralization of control within certain de-facto authorities, usually monopolies or cabals.

And for all that to work, the government also must provide more basic enforcement to safeguard human life and protect private property.

That's basically it! The goal is not to equalize the outcome, or ensure that the difficulty gradient of actually succeeding is identical or near-identical for everyone (which is impossible).

Opportunity refers to the ability to start out without someone's boot on your neck, not the ability to do better than your peers (that's merit, not opportunity).
Exactly. I deeply respect ng and his team, but they are more applied.

Also, hilariously, the article totally neglects that more research comes from Canada and Europe (deepmind) than the US....
I find that writing mods for games is much more interesting. It's more like "real" programming in the sense that you solve real problems with real constrains and you get a rewarding result. I feel like OP should include games with mod systems, such as Oolite (Javascript) or Battle for Wesnoth (Lua).
>A single building wouldn't impact tens of thousands before discovering the attack.

Tens of thousands can work on a single small building. Heck, tens of thousands can eat at single McDonalds per day, where one might e.g. infect it's storage.

And why think it would be discovered quickly? An attack, eg. some virus or poison could be selected that takes a day or more to manifest any symptoms.

>they'd likely be coordinated by a state actor

There are groups of terrorists that are not state actors too, and some have considerable funding...
The physical training is for endurance, as at high levels chess can be an exhausting sport. This is because winning chess competitions involves concentrating intensely for hours, days, or even (in rare cases like Kasparov vs Karpov) weeks while being under enormous and constant stress. That can be very draining if you're not prepared for it both physically and mentally.

I would liken competitive chess to an endurance sport like marathon running instead of to something like boxing or sumo wrestling, where physical mass and brute force can be deciding factors.

There's no reason that women can't be as physically or mentally prepared for such as sport as men.
On par with Valve? I would say Google has the worst online support system of any company, by far.
Libertarian soul that I am, in principle I am for its existence. But if it came to a vote, I'd happily pull the lever for "no". Complete hypocrisy, I know. But I have never seen alcohol improve people's behavior, and as the only teetotaler in a family of alcoholics, I was often at the business end of its worst effects.
I wouldn't bother until I actually started making money.
Tempted to Abandon React Native for Native Android
> The distribution network is what incentives the creation of child porn.

It is true only for the part of the distribution network with backwards money channel. It is paying for downloading which incentives the creation of child porn, not downloading itself or even uploading.

> Also feeding into pedophilic fantasies, which is what child porn does, will further act as an incentive for the creation of child porn.

Citation needed
I'm also interested in this.
I also hope to start a side project, likely a saas business.

I'm worried in case of data loss, being hacked or site instability, I will get myself sued. I want to state the possibility of those unpredicted events in the terms and conditions.
Agreed! From my perspective (computer vision), I can think of quite a few Chinese individuals who are true leaders in AI at this point (often working for US companies).

In fact, given both Hinton and Bengio's being Canadian and LeCun being French, I would say US really in the game in terms of producing "AI grandmasters" (assuming that's their definition of grandmaster). Krizhevsky was studying in Canada. DeepMind is European.

From both the research and industrial perspectives, China's education system has well prepared students for the field of deep learning - the rigorous / analytic nature has proven a massive benefit when dealing with such large models and datasets.
*autonomous ship lives
> For the helmet surely you could take your own if you rent scooters that much?

If your normally traveling baggage is a backpack with laptop and a change of clothes then the scooter helmet quickly becomes a pain in the ass to lug around.
I'm no accountant, but I'm pretty sure a business doesn't have unlimited discretion to accelerate depreciation on equipment they buy, deferring or eliminating taxes (due to lower effective profit).
It's more likely the channel was brigaded by r/The_Donald supporters or 4chan than YouTube actually doing anything. Their systems are so automated, stuff like this happens all of the time - the users wield an unseemly huge amount of power to knock content offline.

So, lessons learned: 1) Keep backups of everything you'd upload to YouTube. 2) Vimeo.com account 3) Petition YouTube to revamp their content policing strategies to keep humans in the loop instead of algorithms knocking content offline because a mob with pitchforks decides they don't agree with you.
Not pedantic at all, thanks for the correction!
I have a few ideas here, and the common theme between all of them is that you have to put yourself out there:

* Find some developers in your local area who maintain, or can merge into, an open source project. Work on what they are passionate about, and get to know them. Learn what it takes to contribute effectively, and you'll get noticed. Bonus points if that open source project is something someone uses for work, as you're now another local expert in a tool that someone actively pays people to develop.

* Find something in your local area that doesn't work as well as it should and fix it, or at least offer to fix it. There's a crosswalk signal on my block that is malfunctioning. It's supposed to flash a red hand (aka don't walk) with a countdown from 10 to 1 seconds before turning solid red. Instead, it flashes "99". If you saw that malfunction, you could do a bit of research to see who the manufacturer is, call up city hall, and tell them you'd like to work with the technician who is tasked with fixing the light. Ask the technician if his company has any work you could help with.

* Find out who developed the websites for some local business in your area, or visit that local computer shop that offers website development along with their services. Ask if they'd hire you as an intern, showing them the work you've already done. Even if they don't ask them if they'd be open to discussing their process for hosting and deploying websites. Find a way to improve it, open source the solution, and give it to them. Now you've got a customer for your open source work, which is something you can most definitely put on your resume.

At the end of the day, you'll have to decide if you're willing to figure out what it takes to create opportunity for yourself, or if you're willing to settle for opportunities advertised to you.

Good luck, and stay awesome. And props to you for asking this question in the first place.
Ask HN: Have you ever felt jealous when handing your projects to others?
When working long times on a project I get the impression that one or the other gets somehow emotionally attached to what was created.
This seems to me as a rather counterproductive quirk when trying to be professional.

Have you ever felt mistrust or even jealousy whilst giving your projects away?
How have you coped with that situation?
googles automatic takedowns has a lot of false posetives. and their support is bad or non existing. they dont do manual takedowns though. if your lucky they will restore.
Facebook is terrifying
The first chapter of Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers has a plausible explanation... he gives an example of how successful hockey players are disproportionately born in the months of January, February, and March. To poorly summarize the explanation, it is that the kids who started out with a slight advantage (i.e., being slightly older and bigger than the other kids) have their advantages multiplied over time because they are singled out for extra training and opportunities for growth (all-star games, travel teams, etc). In the case of chess, it is possible that the initial slight advantage (being a boy) does not even exist, but is only perceived, but if boys receive more encouragement, training, and opportunities than girls, the end result could be the same.
It's insane that we can't even be sure. Across my RSS feed, in back to back entries:

- Intermittent fasting a great boost to fat burning and weight maintenance

- Skipping breakfast makes you gain weight

Now, I know the gist of why intermittent fasting can work. And if you read into the skipping breakfast article with a lot of background info they don't provide you can pretty much tell their measure group was people who skipped breakfast and probably had a shitty habits around diet and excercise as well.

But if I'm just casually trying to figure out what normal and healthy are, here are two articles that present research that come to conclusions that (on the surface) are completely opposed, but neither is technically wrong.

Fat was the cause of all problems. Sugar is the new tobacco. Tobacco was recommended by doctors for energy. Sitting is the new smoking. Standing will kill you. Red meat will give you a heart attack. Omega 3 is essential for a million things. Fish oil pills are, well, snake oil. MCT is the new fish oil. Coconut and palm harvesting contribute to global warming. Brown rice is healthier than white. White rice has a lower glycemic index.

What the heck are we supposed to do?
First unmanned factory takes shape in Dongguan City (2015)
Has anyone tried installing it? Earlier today on a recent checkout of Cuis-smalltalk-dev and encountered an error.
What is the vacancy factor in first class vs economy class? My observation from flying often would estimate coach being 70~80% full on typical routes and first/economy class only being ~50% full. I would also guess that the average paid price is only half of the full first class price.

Would there be a public source for any of this data? Or anyone with in insight in these numbers that want to share anything?
Nice site! Has really helped me know what the "market" looks like. Thanks for sharing
I'm pretty sure the audio would fall afoul of noise ordinances. If not, you'd probably hear it from strip malls.

I suspect what stops us from seeing more blimps is cost. They're expensive to operate, and billboards are cheap.
Over the past few decades, we have seen the slogan "a rising tide lifts all boats" thoroughly debunked.

Indeed, it is possible for macroeconomic measurements to improve without large segments of the population seeing the fruits of those improvements.

That's why it's incredibly important for political leaders to connect with people from all walks of life. Bill Clinton understood this very well. Hillary, unfortunately, did not. She was content with relying on polls and numbers, which of course could not capture many truths that, by their nature, cannot be quantified.
Physical sports have the added factor that men usually have a much easier time building and maintaining muscle mass than women, as well as usually being taller and so benefiting from more leverage with longer limbs.
I want to be able to understand and modify if needed. Although I do program in other languages, I want to focus in NodeJS for now.
Censorship aside, content creators should never depend on a single third-party service for hosting their videos, especially if they intend to make a living from that content. Google has already proven willing to remove arbitrary content, delete channels, etc. from Youtube with no apparent rationale or recourse given.

I suspect a lot of their recent "glitches" are an attempt to poison the well for public content and to drive potentially copyright infringing channels[0] away in order to eventually turn the service into an entirely subscription based, big media friendly platform. But who knows? The point is, it doesn't matter. Unless you're Sony, you might well wake up tomorrow to find your entire channel erased, and you'll never know why.

If your content is important to you, consider hosting it elsehwere, or else offering it as a torrent. It may require a bit more of a technical investment, be less convenient, and even reduce revenue, but in the long run, the more channels for distribution you have, the more you can afford to lose.

[0] infringing from the point of view of media conglomerates, who refuse to respect the legitimacy of fair use.
Dad Smashes Son’s Video Game Console
Strauss–Howe generational theory
My halfway informed interpretation, just from the abstract- it turns out that modern image-recognition networks are capable of learning labels randomly assigned to sets of random images, which means that it's still mysterious why they learn labels with intelligible meaning when given non-random images (rather than just memorizing the training set via some nonsense model.)

I'd guess the resolution would have to involve an ordering over possible models, where (for well-designed networks) intelligible models are preferred over unintelligble ones. Filing this away to read later.
"Hamilton" by Lin Manuel Miranda. This is the story of how the play came to be after his first white house performance.

Here is a short post I wrote a few days back:

Hamilton is an absolutely fantastic musical. An amazing history : probably the most interesting story of a founding-father. It has got everything : rags-to-riches, heroism, fighting, betrayal, sex scandal, .. you name it. The musical is based off of Ron Chernow's door-stop sized biography. Lin Manuel Miranda adapted it to a Broadway play. And if you are like most, you will end up becoming a huge fan of Miranda. The musical won a Pulitzer as well as a lot of Tony's including the best musical. What a beautiful way to tell the story of a founding father with Rap, Hip-Hop, R&B and a bunch of other genres. Mind blown!

If you can get a ticket to the musical, consider yourself lucky and go watch it. I haven't. So ended up doing all the other reading / listening before the musical finale. :)

I got so interested in this that I have now listened to the musical (many times), read all the coverage of it in NY Times (published as a book) and also the book that Miranda himself wrote about the genesis of the show and watched a dozen videos of Lin on youtube.

Here's Lin's first presentation of this idea in a poetry recital at the White House:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE

The entire musical is available on many streaming services and on youtube too.

The book by Lin Manuel Miranda : Hamilton :
https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Revolution-Lin-Manuel-Mirand...

This is the book that covers all articles on NY Times: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FWP73AM/

A few cool Lin videos:

SNL Monologue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsupmN90wBk

Freestyle rapping in the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w31jboLYcH4

Freestyle with Ellen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhKeIr6Zbc&t=201s

Ron Chernow's book:
https://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Hamilton-Ron-Chernow-ebook/...

[yet to read this massive tome -> saving it up as the finale].
Their videos are just clips of others' content, this isn't original work or a leader on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateProgressWorld/videos

This reeks of breaking a ToS and then trying to masquerade their political site as something more noble to rationalize creating a narrative of victimhood for marketing/attention.

The group/person behind climatestate.com is either deluded or trying to sell an aggrandizing message by claiming that they're the subject of a "concerted attack on climate science originating from the current U.S. Administration". There might be an attack, but no way was this on anyone's radar.
It's generally accepted [0] that there's more variability in male IQ than in women (with the averages still being about the same). So the effect is that there are more extremely intelligent men in the world than women (and, conversely, there are more extremely dumb men than there are women).

Assuming IQ and chess ability are correlated, this would explain the lack of women at the top tiers of chess playing.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intellige...