skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard that Apple hardware in particular sticks with an AP longer than other devices, the Apple device is not continually looking for the best connection, it sticks with what it started with until the signal gets very weak. Don't take this literally but it's like Apple waits until you're down to one bar while some others wait until you're down to two bars before looking for a stronger connection from another AP.
History of Philosophy without any gaps
It's inexcusable that the controllers get jammed to the wrist straps so easily. Google "stuck joy-con" and you'll find articles and videos about how to un-stuck them if you've accidentally put them on backward. Why is it even possible to put them on backward? Even when they're on forward it often's often extremely hard to separate them. We had a switch party and pretty much every single person put them on backward once and we get to get tiny screwdrivers out to un-stick them

Nintendo even has a page up already that just says "send them back"

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

I suspect they'll end up releasing a new model of controller that doesn't have these issues but it's really hard to believe this wasn't found during development.
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This is well executed but I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with the genially philosophical textual content and craving the nihilist edition of the same thing. In a way it's a wasted opportunity to generate a day of healthy despair.
Here is my take on this subject:

A Practical Guide to Character Sets and Encodings
or: What’s all this about ASCII, Unicode and UTF-8?

https://medium.com/@keithgabryelski/a-practical-guide-to-cha...
When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners
Err... You just took this to the opposite extreme. Not recognizing that men have to face problems related to divorce doesn't mean you should throw the institution of marriage out the window as a racket.
Wow, a ~ranking~ made by university professors and academics mere months after his presidency is over? Sounds perfectly unbiased, a perfect excuse to stop exercising critical thinking. Thanks for sharing!
Germany did not 'import' them. Germany gave refugess a shelter, protected by the German constitution.

Germany did not import millions of illiterate people from Afghanistan.

Attributes 'such as'. 'politician' is an attribute such as. Tactics like Goebbels who called them Volksverräter and Volksfeinde.

These are the usual tactics by the right wing propaganda: useless 'semantics' when the intend is clear: a smear campaign against politicians.
Same in Zagreb, Croatia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Views && https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1vDLyUELWaKQJNIqC_M...
No, I'm not trying to walk anything back, I stand by what I said, and bluntly you seem to have gotten your feelings hurt and can't let it go even thought the thing you're going on about was tangential to the point I was making to him which was about how many men might be interested in such women. Guest what, if only 40% of people do something, that still qualifies as "normal", I know, it's shocking, but normal is a different word than "majority". Find a dictionary, I promise, it's true, something can be normal without it being what most people do. Women being dependent on their husbands for income is still quite normal. So please take your hurt feelings elsewhere and stop hijacking a threat that wasn't even about that.

I'll happily admit that the 51% number is slightly higher than I expected, hooray, you're made an irrelevant off topic point completely unrelated to why I responded to him in the first place. Do you feel better now? You can return to your safe space and look for the next post where there's one word you disagree with and high-jack another thread to rage on about something completely off topic to the thread.
Very cool. I wonder what some practical applications could be for this. Organic based file storage, etc?
It is certainly enough. It should be fine with, say, xubuntu. Unity, etc. might be slow, however.
How do you feel about the way WiFi is marketed to the public?

I think that's the main thing OP is saying "sucks".
The idea of the illusion is not really a new one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(illusion) .
Yes consciousness is an illusion but the illusion is real.

We are pattern recognizing feedback loops (with memory) who simulate a reality not the reality.

This simulation happen to be calibrated in such a way that it allow us to navigate the reality with some success by proxy of our simulation of it.
In my opinion as someone who works in the field, including interviewing and screening candidates, yes and no.

Yes in the sense that I don't think the field, such as it is, will expand sufficiently to accomodate everyone.

But no in the sense that I think the sorts of skills and problem solving approaches that one acquires while training for data science will become important in other fields.

So in my opinion even if everyone studying machine learning and statistics etc. doesn't get a data scientist job title, there are going to be increasing numbers of ways to apply that knowledge to existing jobs.
> It's 2017! 1080p or 60fps should be the minimum. To be fair that's not doable at $300 on a mobile gpu, but as a console that's rough.

It is possible on a $300 device, it's just that the Switch has lots of other design considerations (modularity, hardware controller costs) that drive the cost substantially up. You can definitely make a simple $300 tablet with good 3D performance, and indeed that's exactly what the Nvidia Shield is.
well. there's only two positions in this spectrum: get married, or not. this is sort of like pregnancy. you either are, or you aren't.
Excellent article. Thanks.
You should make sure the APs don't interfere with each other. The automatic channel selection didn't work well for me. I had to manually set my two APs at each end of the 2.4GHz spectrum. It's also a good idea to turn on wide band channel. If you have an Android device somewhere you can download wifi analyser to make sure the channels don't overlap.
No that's absolutely not it. This guy is a scumbag and was allowed to "resign" to come out of this relatively unscathed. The article about him doesn't even scratch the surface.
If anyone here is specifically interested in "tech evangelism" tips, I have been one for several years, and have written a few things about it - which cover, in part, public speaking; I hope you find these useful:

1) http://brunozzi.com/2015/04/30/on-evangelism/

2) Related to "accents" : http://brunozzi.com/2013/09/02/accents-english-arrogance-suc...
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Or maybe the phone app I'm using misorderered...
The particular quote is only circulating in right-wing groups.

Stay on topic.
Lots of legacy tech is also one of the reasons why Wi-Fi sucks. If you do one thing today, disable 802.11b on your router. 802.11b beacons alone can completely jam a 2.4 GHz channel in dense deployments, exasperated by those ISPs that broadcast their own SSIDs from your home router.

I wrote a more in depth blog about this at https://r1ch.net/blog/wifi-beacon-pollution
Bitcoin value: all time high
Because they have different psychological effects. One makes you think, the other makes you stupid.
They'll know how much is in that address, but a wallet consists of many addresses. How do you find all of the other addresses?

If you watch for long enough, you can wait for a transaction that spends from the address you know, and you might find some other addresses that were spent with it.

It's true that a non-zero amount of information about your Bitcoin holdings is leaked. But it's not true that that amount is 100%.
Except class action lawsuits get you absolutely nothing unless you are a lawyer. Enjoy that voucher for a free pancake, only redeemable between 4.30 and 4.32 AM at a single restaurant.
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it reminds me how lean common IRC clients are (written in C like mIRC). 15MB RAM and less than 1% CPU is enough for 2 networks and several channels (even with hundreds persons in a channel). Incidently it was also mIRC that showed that Intel removed some CPU features from the first Intel Atom CPU gen. Processing lot's of text isn't within the capability of Atom CPU, something even a Pentium 3 had no problem.
I experienced the same. Once you start, it's hard to stop. An amazing community around this awesome language is hard to let go.
Hey, I'm the publisher of the site. We just replicated the bug, and it sure is weird. Working on a fix. (Open to ideas, though!) Thank you!
I know first hand--skeletons in his closet. Weeding out the bad.
Understanding the importance and impact of pivot points in long term penetration seems to undermine "it's internal so it doesn't matter". Not that you're alone in that view but the "hard crunchy shell, soft chewy center" security model needs to die...
The content might be a little long in the tooth, but the exasperation about how programmers don't seem to give a shit about character encoding is, sadly, still relevant today. Unicode has been around since, what, the 90's? And UTF-8 has pretty much won the encoding war since 2008 or so. Yet, I still encounter software that fails to handle anything but ASCII, and it's 2017! Pick a random open source library, or look at a random company's software, and you're likely to find software that doesn't handle character encodings well. I think web software tends to be much better than desktop/mobile/embedded for some reason. Maybe an artifact of web guys tending to work with more recent/modern libraries and frameworks.

Who's seen this before: You're getting up to speed on your new company's legacy code base. Q: "Hey, senior developer, This API takes a string as an argument and we need to display it, fine. What encoding are we using?" A: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A full GC could take easily take half an hour on a machine with large virtual memory.

Booting then was much faster.
I can only assume your being down voted by young people who have no idea how beneficial a routine is for a married parent.
It's not that it's taken care of - you just don't have much choice in terms of healthcare and neither do your peers, so you end up not caring. If the local healthcare can't help you, you will pay the big money in America anyways. Or you'll just die/suffer. Of course, the degree to which that happens depends on the country.
Why the dismissive comment? His post was useful. Yours isn't.
I've found that the more time I spend doing low level code at my job, the less work they think I'm doing. The more you email and be at your desk, the harder they think you're working. I've realized that performance is relative rather than absolute, and if you're the only tech guy working in the office, there's no one to compare your performance against.

Just last week, they dumped a huge amount of server work on me. The next day, I told them I was working remotely to get the work done, and they get pissed. They make it seem like I'm taking the day off. Huh?
A non-magical introduction to Pip and Virtualenv for Python beginners (2013)
>I assume you mean "mediated" rather than "medicated".

Oops, yes, fixed that. I always make tons of typos on my HN comments.
Half white person here.

I think that is the same kind of thinking that leads to people saying that minorities can't be racist, or that women can't be sexist.

I think all lives matter too.
> Is there any reasonably popular encoding that is "hole free / complete" in the sense any sequence of bytes has a valid decoding ?

That's a property of the ISO-8859 encodings, it turns out to be pretty terrible as you have no way of distinguishing utter garbage/nonsense from actual text.

> I use B85 or B64 when needed but was wondering if there is a Unicode encoding that will do the job.

Base64 and 85 are pretty much the opposite of Unicode encodings. Encodings turn text (abstract unicode codepoints) into actual bytes you can store, Base64 and Base85 turn bytes into ASCII or ASCII-compatible text.
This allegation doesn't even scratch the surface on this guy unfortunately. He's scum.
Yes, this is in no way globalist propaganda in order to defame Trump. Swedenistan is perfect country. Why, just other day Muslims come and rape my daughter--very inclusive!
Yeah, they try to put the fear of God into you at the outset, but the IRS is actually pretty lenient as long as they think you're acting in good faith.
The American criminal system tends to punish individuals over treating problems. It is, at very least, internally consistent.
Yes, and for those who don't have the ASCII collating memorized, the lower case A ("a") is U+0061.
One of the six turbines went operational sometime yesterday (Friday, Mar 3). They are hoping to get a second online by today.

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/07/engineers-assess-spillw...
You could have put $15k into a startup that failed and lost it all.

Learn about survivorship bias and confirmation bias.
Agreed, the fact that you're saying you can't nest if statements is a sign that you still don't get the grasp of functional programming.

cases, conds, with statements, recursion, pattern matching...
10000% leaving bc of accusations AGAINST him. I know first hand. This guy doesn't deserve an ounce of benefit of the doubt. Lucky he was able to "resign" but I think people are smart enough to put two and two together.
> The issue has never been the backend systems at banks

I find this hard to believe considering the pains we were solving: now quite some time ago. Maybe they have changed.

Excessive burden on mortgage consumers is driven by many aspects.

At it's core is (was if what you say is true) the inability for backend systems to effectively aggregate and verify the necessary context to easily meet regulatory needs.

We were starting to aggregate such data allowing us to automatically verify and then fill out all forms necessary for the mortgage consumer.
Everything needs to be web-scale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
so you take a false assumption and turn it into additional assumptions?
In the direction of greater freedom and a stronger economy, like the US and Trump.
>> You mentioned that you hate your current job. So my question is whether you're knowingly or unknowingly communicating that during your interviews.

I wanted to ask the same.
U.S. suspends premium processing for H1-B visa applications
I've got a weird problem at my home where WiFi connection on my laptop gets really bad as soon as some particular other laptop connects to the WiFi. Reconnecting fixes the issue. Any idea what might cause this or how to gather more information on potential causes?
It's not hypergamy, it's paper money.

The realty and education bubbles are inflated by cheap credit. The cheap credit in the US exists mostly because Federal Reserve can print more money, and the whole world will buy. "There is a huge demand for $100 bills worldwide." If not dollars, US government papers ate considered safe, no matter the amount printed.

This is also makes US labor unable to become cheaper and compete with the places where it currently escapes. Hence some of the problems with dad jobs.
In case you are interested, there is quite a bit of talk on this, and other matters in the SFBA:

http://48hills.org/

Most of what is written on that site doesn't resonate with me but it's a good window into that discussion ...
Coming from an imperative language background, it certainly took some time for me to start using and understanding functional constructs. But the nice thing is that once you pass that bump, it's a hell of a freeway to go down.
There is a German tech saying that goes "Wer Funk kennt, nimmt Kabel" ("Those who know wireless, use wires").
It was my understanding that it's not true double taxation, but rather the US gets the money difference if it's the higher tax.

So for example, if country ABC's tax rate is 25% and the US would be 38% for you, you'd pay ABC 25% and the US 13%.

If however ABC country was 42% tax rate and the US 33% for you, then you'd owe the US government nothing (but wasted time) on your income.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am pretty sure this is how it works.
PayPal absolutely steal money from people. A community I run once tried a donation campaign to pay for hosting costs etc. At some point paypal decided this was fraud (right after someone sent a larger sum of money) and locked the account. Locking an account means they take the money, and there is no way to get it back, apparently. They kept coming up with excuses as to why no one was allowed to access the money and refused to refund people.

I wanted to try my hand at fighting them a year later and the account was gone entirely. Bye money.
I think consciousness is a concept created by our brain. It likes the concept of 'angry'. We all know what it feels like. But there is no 'angry'thing, our brain created it too.
What is triband. Can you recommend one?
I think it's getting Bits and Bytes a little mixed up. You can expect about 1/10th speed?

Most file transfer dialogs I've seen ("real world"?) display transfer rate in Bytes. Advertisers use bits, that little marketing wave can actually explain the speed drop to 1/8th of the "advertised" rate.
At least it doesn't penetrate walls, so if you are inside and have a 5GHz router you can be fairly sure of empty channels.
>No. The point of a passport is to travel/work abroad (ie. Not in the country issuing the passport).

It's also a standard way to refer of holding a citizenship (having a passport of X country).

Besides, most Americans don't care about traveling and working abroad in the first place...
I never heard of a tri-band router before. It's a misnomer because there is no third band, it just means it can handle 2.4GHz but will use two channels of 5GHz at once. There have been other routers in the past that used more than one channel but it sounds very selfish to use in a dense apartment/condo living situation.
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The user-illusion metaphor is a central idea in Donald Hoffman's work. I'm not sure who borrowed it from whom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYp5XuGYqqY
On the order of 1bn, but my memory of exact figures from a decade ago needed refreshing. In fact only $350 million of corrupt foreign monopolist cash is enough to buy the editorial position of America's premier source of fake news.

Good luck defending the NY Times on that basis.
You would think that AOT would be the right time to remove dead code.
Organic based file storage would give a whole other meaning to the phrase, "my disk died."
A love letter to programming
How long have the onsite interviews been? An in-person interview with at least three people and at least three hours total duration is what I call "a serious interview." At least for software engineers, there seems to be a roughly 1 in 2 to 1 in 3 chance of a job offer if you get a "serious interview." In general, shorter in-person interviews -- say one person for 1/2 to 1 hour are not very serious and can have very low success rate, usually at best they lead to a further "serious interview."

If all seven onsite interviews have been "serious interviews" then zero job offers is a bit low, but still could be just bad luck: 1 chance in 2 to the 7 (128).

That said, mid thirties -- thirty-five to be exact -- is the age where employees in the high technology industry start to report increased difficulties finding jobs. Look around -- not a lot of people who look over thirty-five.

Very few companies seem to be looking for 10+ years of experience. Most job postings on LinkedIn and other job boards will ask for 3-5 or 3-7 years of experience. Some for ten years, but not that many. You state you have twelve (12) years of experience.

It is difficult to know the reasons for this pattern in high tech. Probably all of these contribute:

o conscious and sub-conscious age discrimination

o companies are looking for young people who can work long hours, unpaid overtime. Overall stamina does decline with age. It is also harder to get more experienced people to work unpaid overtime as they recognize what is happening -- aren't fooled by unrealistic schedules, manufactured crunches over trade show appearances, and other deceptions and demand to be paid.

o Companies and managers feel threatened by employees who know a lot, preferring young people with little or limited experience.

US born "native" white men with perfect English report same difficulties frequently. It may have little to do with being Indian or having an accent, although it is surely good advice to work on accent and mastery of American English which differs in a number of ways from Indian English. Indian English is derived from British English in the 1940's and 1950's that was taught in missionary schools in India. There are a lot of web sites and blog posts now on the differences between the two dialects.

Also, if you are on a visa like the H1-B, that can be an issue as well. Probably easier to switch jobs with US permanent residency (green card) or US citizenship.

If you are unhappy with your current job and have trouble leaving it, non-work social activities, physical exercise, and sometimes meditation can be helpful. Unfortunately, under stress it is very easy to cut back on social activities and exercise, but actually you should do the opposite -- increase these -- under sustained stress.

Perhaps talk to some older product managers who are not trying to hire you, colleagues rather than employers, about their experiences and what might be an issue in the job hunt.

Good luck!
How do you define "severely punished"? A quick Google search will turn up folks impacted by this taxation law in very severe ways. Sure, not death penalty severe, but being fined huge fines is severely punished to me.
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I don't think marriage is bad per se, but the courts are being used to criminalize people for not paying debts which I don't agree with. Maybe posting some deposit reflecting the average cost of a divorce prior to getting a marriage license would be sufficient to prove their commitment... Maybe return such a deposit after 10 years of marriage... If they get divorced before the refund is issued use those funds to pay for divorce...

I don't think it's right to encourage people to get married and apply a low bar for such a commitment. However when they want a divorce it's not as easy.

Child support is a different matter though. Criminalizing people for not paying does no one any good.
It pushes people to work for cash paying jobs and just hides the problem.
Criminalizing it just forces everyone in the situation into a poverty trap.
It causes the parent being pursued for child support to resent the other parent or child.

http://www.postandcourier.com/archives/cost-is-high-to-jail-...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/why-people-get-sentenced-...
Joel's article confuses characters and code points and can be very misleading.

>In Unicode, a letter maps to something called a code point which is still just a theoretical concept.

This is incorrect. Letter or character (user perceived character) can be multiple code points.
Code points don't have intrinsic meaning across languages. If you want to count number of letters in a text or edit text, you must work at grapheme cluster level. Absolute minimum about Unicode must at least mention grapheme clusters and user perceived characters.
I agree completely. Being competent in analysis and statistics and understanding confidence & testing (the way of thinking more than the actual procedures / tests) will be of immense value across the board.

It's the same reason someone with a phd (from a good program) can succeed in non-native fields. Such general skills and soft skills have applications beyond a single field.