skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given my bad knowledge of history, it seems -

Back in Tesla's day - which was also Einstein's, and so many others - the dominate paradigm was of waves and resonance, and we got physics made of waves and resonances.

Nowadays, it seems like the dominate paradigm is one of information and computation, and so we get lots of physics - and weird, have-baked speculations - considering the world from those perspectives.

No clue what the next paradigm will be, but if I had to bet, I'd bet one whatever comes out of quantum computing (probabilities and ???? ?).
Refactoring Changes That You Should Always Make to Clean Up Your Code
Currently writing a guide: How to find and hire your perfect UX Designer - its work in progress at the moment..

http://uxstepbystep.com/
But a parent, or a military officer, or a corporate executive, usually isn't blamed for what amounts to "enemy action"—where something intentionally malicious out-thinks every preparation you've made and goes ahead and ruins your day anyway. Parents, for example, aren't blamed for what their children do when they've been told to do that thing by another authority figure. Executives aren't blamed for rival companies' industrial sabotage. Generals aren't blamed if a sudden trap is sprung during a retreat, turning it into a rout.

High ranking officers can be relieved of command for doing the right thing, but breaking the rules to do it, a la this based-on-a-true-story movie: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_Enemy_Lines_(2001_fil...

I pulled my kids at homeschooled when it turned out the public schools were a mess where we moved for one duty station. I am "The buck stops here" kind of parent. Other adults being assholes and fucking up my kid is not an acceptable justification for letting my kids get fucked up.

My kids are intensely loyal to me. They know I can be trusted to do what is in their best interest, no excuses.
I can imagine that. I am a permanent resident of US but for the fact that I am brown, I am avoiding all unnecessary trips.

Going through TSA is a very uncomfortable experience.
or unless we are the ones running the simulation and enjoying the experience of non virtual reality )
He comes from a culture where nobody is fired and failing upwards is almost a natural law.
The GP seems to be thinking in the opposite direction. His analogy is that knowing an ORM but not SQL is like not knowing Prolog, and that adding knowledge of SQL to your ORM knowledge is like learning Prolog.

So the argument is that it is a similar eye-opening transition from ignorance to awareness.
The article focuses on a golden age of candy bars more than a golden age of chocolate. Big difference IMO.
Exactly that, I posted from my phone.
Congratulations. Reminds me of the mobile game trainyard which has a similar logical task, but your game adds some nice depth, story, humor, and art.

* http://trainyard.ca/
People mention this a lot. 'You need to learn to communicate better, and it's more important than tech skills'. I see that 500tech offers high skill services (courses and solutions). Are these services outsourced then?
A big problem in our culture now is that there isn't accountability at the senior level and now everyone knows it. (But eric_b's comment seems perfectly reasonable, and I'm baffled it's being downvoted.)
And then again, if people need to write c/o they could actually write... c/o.
Fair enough. I didn't want to sound offensive. I just wanted to hear someone else's opinion to how they differ and why one is better than the other. Completely neutral here.
> I only wish it's possible to attach the app menu bar as well. The global menu bar approach of macOS and GNOME can feel a bit ridiculous on large displays.

I personally disagree. It's still highly relevant to be able to "slam" the pointer upward to always land on the menu bar.
You can do the same on Android: the stagefright client libraries are terribly buggy, and sometimes crash if you get the timing wrong or tickle the demuxers the wrong way. It's possible (but undocumented) to send Surface instances across Binder to a separate service process and render there. There are no obsolete ideas.
There is no contradiction between left-wing and authoritarianism. Communists as they were rising to power and in power were all about that.
This happens with bands all the time, and has nothing to do with Trump.

If you want to play shows in the US, you need a work visa. Bands will routinely try to claim they are not playing, and the first thing that CBP does is look up their tour dates, see they're lying, and kick them out.
Yeah, he rallied around the "no excuses" mantra because it felt good. And sure enough, halfway down the page he says the department dramatically reduced the amount of work intake.

Gee.

It seems like most of the excuses could be boiled down to "Well, you told me to complete a project, but then later you told me not to complete it, so I didn't."
Window Maker is great, inspired on NeXTSTEP.

On Windows there is LiteStep which is free and fully customizable. Makes Windows more palatable.
The examples Blank uses in his article is VP-level (highly paid, large equity grants, etc). I think a lot of people are interpreting his advice in the context of someone who isn't managing people.

Ahistorical and naive. If a VP in this organization thinks they might fall under the blade of "no excuses," he will sacrifice any number of his "isn't managing people" people.
That's the Curtis LeMay approach to management.[1] He was famously into management by fear.

We see this problem in software, especially in DevOps and "agile" shops, because the process is so forgiving of delay. In a manufacturing plant, no product comes out until all the component parts are ready. So there's a "no excuses" culture about running out of parts, or having an assembly line station down unexpectedly. Software rarely has that.

Organizations with real "no excuses" cultures have spares and reserves. They have a backup plan if a key person is sick or unavailable, or something important doesn't show up. They have slogans like "two is one and one is none". This is seldom seen in software development.

[1] http://www.au.af.mil/au/afri/aspj/digital/pdf/articles/2014-...
Did you sign up and get it working in the end?

I've been meaning to try GCP for a while. I've only ever used AWS, so want to try another cloud.

But it seems like I can't legally use GCP?
Yet another person blind to greed, so focused on money and profit they miss out on life
White Walkers?
No surprises. Agreed. Consequences. Agreed. Firing people. Bad idea. If the biggest lesson you teach people is the one they learn as they leave your organization, then I think you're wasting a good crisis.
Hmm your arguments make sense. I think I was overvaluing mobility, because I figured once reaching a post-scarcity society exploration would become the top priority.

My only other point is that the continuous transmission idea only works up to a point. Two populations that sufficiently far (I'd say hundreds of light years, but it could be thousands or millions of light years) apart are essentially different civilizations, because their societies would drift out of sync. Think about how much our culture, our language have changed in the past few centuries, and the rate of change in our society in only increasing. Extreme longevity or immortality might slow down the rate of change, but I'd argue that it wouldn't stop completely.

I guess my point is that civilizations have a maximum radius over which they can function, otherwise societies will drift apart until they are essentially distinct.
I read that essay and enjoyed it very much. I think it was a message I needed to hear and I plan to read it again.

It also made me think of effective management. Imagine that while Rowan was in the jungle looking for Garcia one of his many bosses stopped by and told him to carry a message to Rivera.

Does he do as he's told without complaint? That means dropping his other task. Does he ask his boss which is more important (a question that is often met with "both are important"). Or more directly, which should he do first ("work on them in parallel").

And all this time, while priorities are being reassessed, Garcia is moving through the hills and no messages are being delivered at all.
Does everything work as expected?

Might sign up as business too.
Trump adviser spoke with DNC hacker during the campaign
>You can wrap excuses, or culture, or other corporate vocabulary around the matter

An excuse (ex + causa) is literally an external cause, ie. beyond the responsibility of what has been asked of them.

>Managing people is difficult

>They [military] are damned good at it

Regarding uncountable dead soldiers, who (hopefully) weren't supposed to die, the track record looks kinda skewed.
I wasn't saying that I do or that anyone ought to accept obesity as normal. However, in my country (I'm an American) it is prevalent. I'm overweight (though not obese) too. It's not that weird to view it as typical. The word "norm" can be construed in a lot of ways. In one sense it just means typical or average or median. In another sense it means normative or preferred. I think we know what sense of the word we're dealing with here though.
"it's difficult to see how Bitcoin can remain competitive"

Quite the contrary, the fact Bitcoin has been successful & growing for 8 years in spite of using so much energy is proof it is a non-problem. Energy per tx is rapidly decreasing (http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-mining-is-not-wasteful/) so it will only become more and more competitive from now on.
Doesn't this data already exist in the form of ISP data brokers? I'm thinking of data that makes its way to into the hands of some marketing companies that show anonomized URL level traffic for a given website. Essentially giving you ability to see analytics on a website you don't own. Anybody know who the big players/ISP data brokers are?
That is one of the big challenges to consulting these days - trying to be "independent". In every IT space there are consultants that represent products. They get a lot of consulting leads from the product companies, and in return they are always looking for opportunities to plug a product. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that - IT consulting doesn't happen in a technology vacuum. In fact for a new consultant there is probably no better "network" then the product network. For example, I'm doing more and more cloud computing consulting. It probably would make sense for me to join the technology partner networks of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
We have been a pretty large user of this feature within Watson for the last 6 months... while it is pretty good, it lacks the ability to take external inputs such as stereo recordings with channel markers. I've been working on migrating our solution to voicebase whom in my opinion has a much more robust solution when compared to ibm with respect to speaker diarizarion specifically because they include a feature to do channel markers. The result is a conversational transcription being much easier to read. Prior to this we used the Lium project to attempt diarization on a single channel recording. We had mixed results. Without a doubt in the last 12 months speech to text has rapidly improved
Say you had a computer operating near planck scale (or some max bound on physical density of a computer system), could you use that to represent more information than would fit in the physical space?

The simulation argument is "If we ever create a simulation, we'll create more, so we're probably in one of those simulations, unless we were first or are unique at cosmic scales." Would lazy loading make it harder to simulate our own universe at similar scales (harder to build a simulation in a simulation?)

At some point, unless we're living in a limited simulation that can itself not be fully simulated, aren't we getting something for nothing? And if it is in fact limited, how do you show that?

Edit: basically what zerofries said...
There's a decent amount of research based out of the site in Vancouver.

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=insite+vancouver
Would the CIO get fired if two meteors hit both of their datacenters?

What about 256 meteors?

Maybe that's not a bad CIO. Maybe nobody is helped by firing him for sport.
Obviously the proper starting point isn't comparing to placebo; it's gathering enough data to develop baseline expected rates of change before altering the variable you're testing.
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Brown like Indian or Brown like Arabic? Does it even make a difference?
Maybe it's a lesson that security itself is a flawed approach and we need a fundamentally different system
@wayn3 - do you mind sharing: are you a product company or an agency?

How do the finished html+css files fit into your workflow?

- just courious ;)
Some of my favourite examples of the best and worst of Reddit.

/r/deepintoyoutube

/r/healsluts

/r/minihorses

/r/learnuselesstalents

/r/shitredditsays
the lack of education on the part of consumers

You realize if drugs were legal and regulated people wouldn't need to seek out desperate and risky online orders to satisfy their addiction?

When weed was legalized in Oregon, I immediately knew exactly what strain/THC%/CBD% I was buying. This was not available on the black market.

Education and security come from acceptance and regulation.
I don't disagree with your analysis. I'm left-leaning in my politics but find myself unwilling to support the Democratic party at all for being politically ineffective, culturally asinine, and for being distressingly corrupt.

American politics is in a terrible state right now.
This being an article from a British newspaper, it wouldn't use the term "candy bars" - they're all considered "chocolate bars" in the UK
The other day I tried PixelMator and loved it right away. Only thing holding me back from buying it is the 'Mac App Store' :(
Maybe the science isn't there?

That's exactly it. A given drug may be one person's savior and another person's nightmare. It's extremely complex. To get just a hint of what may be going on, check out Scott's article on ANTIDEPRESSANT PHARMACOGENOMICS [0].

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/06/antidepressant-pharmac...
Make friends with CTOs that have budgets, and convince them that anyone else would just mess it up.
Similarly, there is no contradiction between right-wing and authoritarianism. We've seen this in Greece, Latin America, ....
/r/PartyParrot
Yeah but if we're living in a simulation, we have no idea of what the laws of physics actually are or if it even makes sense to talk about such a thing. Logic doesn't really help at that point.
Install Jekyll on macOS and deploy your static website to GitHub Pages
The point of Bitcoin is to consume as much electricity, roughly, as a block is worth. Consuming this electricity, and using it to calculate a proof of the consumed electricity, means that the blockchain becomes immutable: no one can change the past, because it would require re-doing the proof-of-work.

So, out of this -- seemingly meaningless -- activity of burning off energy, arises the trustless property of the Bitcoin blockchain: with digital currencies that use proof-of-stake, or an SQL backend, every participant could -- theoretically -- have mutually agreed on assigning themselves 100x as many currency units, right before you enter and buy $1000 worth. There's no way to prove that this didn't happen, as it takes little effort to change history. This is unacceptable for a digital currency, hence the need for proof-of-work, and Bitcoin.
One day we will all die.
On one hand, I agree that responsibility flowing uphill can help with the pushing down unethical things. However, when dev leader felt so much responsibility for all tasks, he attempt to micromanage us all to absurd degree. I strongly preferred when I was responsible for what I was doing, because then other people don't try to constantly control details of what I feel responsible for.
Sf writers don't have the burden of having to create an internally consistent world. They're free to paper over plot holes however they like.
There is text there, it just won't read it. Ironically, it'll correctly draw boxes around the lines if you touch it.
He was famously into management by fear.

What does that have to do with this article?
Indeed. I know of a medium-size 55nm Bitfury farm in Venezuela. But as others pointed out, most miners are not located in Venezuela. In fact Venezuelan authorities are cracking down on mining farms, and have shut this one down - https://news.bitcoin.com/venezuelan-authorities-weakening-bi...
That doesn't really make it any better. Eclipse does the same thing (well they have since they ran out of Galilean moons), and I always end up needing to consult a chart to parse its version scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(software)#Releases

We already have a well developed and widely understood system for naming items in a sequence, it's called "numbers." I suggest people stop trying to be clever and use it.
Nice to know they still keep developing it.

Window Maker became my favourite window manager around 1997, after trying out the majority of them since I installed Slackware 2.0 for the first time.

I kept on using it until around 2006, when I switched back to Windows as my main desktop.

Back the in day I had a nice collection of mini apples, pity that GNUStep never came to be fully integrated with it.

Nowadays my GNU/Linux VMs run Ubuntu/Unity, I guess I will have to try WM again. :)
/r/A1B21F8244F

Weird encrypted messages, or just data dumps, or something else. The mystery is the fun part.

/r/AmazonWTF

Strange things you can buy on Amazon

/r/bench and /r/fence

Originally spawned from amusing comments, these subreddits still get traffic

/r/AnimalsWithoutNecks

Yep

r/crazystairs

Cool staircases
Great keyboard design can be undermined by bad decisions
Preet Bharara fired
Failure to create a safe work environment can erode trust and make for a toxic and fearful workplace.

Having a safe work environment isn't the same thing as not holding people accountable.
When I see stories like this one, read here how good the accessibility is in iPhones, and read about how good their security is for end users, I don't understand why it's trendy to tear down Apple and Tim Cook.

What a great citizen of the IT community and the world. It would be a great loss if new management came in and decided that all of this wasn't profitable.
Interesting quote
>> This isn't about you needing a learning curve to adjust to a differently designed input mechanism either. It's simply an indictment of how form was prioritized over function. One of Lofree's representatives told me that the company "chose design over the layout," later adding that it thought that "design matters more." <<
Every ANDroid Home Screen Evolution in One Video
The PDF is a scanned image with embedded OCR'd text. If you bring it up in Foxit or Acrobat, the text can be searched, selected, and in Foxit ^6 will switch to a text view.
Kaldi is state of the art. A bit harder to use admittedly.
The very first time I tried Hersheys (Brit, travelling to the US as a teen), my immediate reaction was "this tastes like vomit". Worst chocolate I've ever tasted, I have no idea how it's so popular
You can hack into new aws accounts forever.
> Three of those four URLs are .edu, and if you look at ../ in the other one, it says it's a college project. The web needed no advertising or tracking or marketing because basically everyone on the web was an academic.

That's simply not true. By the mid-90s academics were already a small minority on the web. The OP's sample links are biased because it's a somewhat academic topic.

There was plenty of free and cheap hosting around back then, and for those types of pages bare-bones shared hosting works just fine. For the longest time I paid about $60 a year to host a static site, and it worked great. Hardly the type of money that I needed sell out to advertisers to recoup my costs.

Even GeoCities, while mostly crap, hosted its fair share of useful content.

> The new web is no longer restricted to the ivory tower; you can get a lot better answers on StackOverflow than you could have ever gotten from the old academic internet. But it does have to feed its new master, capitalism.

Nowadays there is technically a lot more information available, but there's significantly more crap to dig through to find it.

And FWIW, I disagree that StackOverflow is "better" than the old style internet. Most StackOverflow answers are shallow - they answer the question, but there's no researching or learning, it's usually just an answer handed to you. It's like the old "teach a man to fish..." thing.
I would argue that the free tier matters to any company that offers one, otherwise they would not offer it.
> Other adults being assholes and fucking up my kid is not an acceptable justification for letting my kids get fucked up.

To be clear, I wasn't talking about things that have negative impacts on your child, but rather things that society blames your child for, and then redirects that blame to you.

An example: if your 10-year-old child just grabs a loaded gun off a table and shoots someone, whether this ends up deemed "accidental" or not, whether someone else is to blame for leaving a loaded gun there or not, people will still (at least partially) blame you for that—for (presumably) not instilling gun safety rules into your child.

But if your 10-year-old child is handed a gun by another adult, and told to shoot someone, blame for that would never land on you: society would deem that coercion, due to the power-imbalance between adults and children, just as much as if an adult were told to shoot someone with a gun held to their own head.

You might blame yourself for the trauma your kid suffers from having shot someone, sure. But, in the situation above, I don't think even you would think you somehow held ultimate causal responsibility for the shooting occurring in the first place. It'd be like blaming yourself for a drunk driver driving through the front of your house and killing someone you love: essentially an "act of god" that happened to have been performed by another human being.
I've had to check the Wikipedia article on Conway's Game of Life a few times to make sure I'm remember it right: Yep, four simple rules is all it takes to describe a Universal Turing Machine.

How whacky.
Its not quite a religion yet. More like just a "faith".

I always figured that religion was what happened after a particular metaphysics/philosophy came up with a guess about something unobservable through science and people started taking that guess seriously.

It usually takes the form of making up a bunch of rules for everyone to follow to keep from angering a postulated deity, but not always.

In this case you can observe this particular "faith" hatching into a minor religion (almost in toy/model style) with Roko's Basilisk.

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
That's great.

"combines automatic image processing, anonymous web workers, and members of the user's social network in order to collect fast and accurate answers to their questions."
FBI investigates 'odd' computer link between Russian bank and Trump Organization
How do I recover the Oracle 11g db?
I do not have much experience with oracle, just trying to help a friend.
I only have a daily backupfile and some log files.
full_expdp.dmp
full_expdp.log

Is it possible to restore it from the file?
Actually, I just need a table from inside, not all of database at all.

Thank you.
Makes a lot of sense, suburbs are both literally and culturally the border between rural and urban