skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All three questions use a combination of kanji and hiragana. To me, the average number of strokes per character in all three questions look about the same. The second question does use quite a lot of kanji with lots of strokes, but so do the other questions. If I'm just not seeing it and there are indeed more complicated kanji in the second question, then it's probably mostly a coincidence, although complicated concepts are often represented by complicated kanji.
It's ancient now, but I put together a video 4 years ago demonstrating a simple macro task: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWfBWg8bVTQ
"curated success-seeking golden path"

This. You elegantly captured my thoughts.
These are cute and seem like they have promise, but the fact that the site won't load on mobile means I won't have confidence to use them for any mobile-first web project. Hope you add mobile compatibility soon!
It's not universal, you'll hear a lot of arguments about it, everyone has different ideas. When I was growing up I was taught 10% was standard for restaurants. I don't know if its because my parents were cheap (probably not) or that poor people have a different idea about what's reasonable. Then when I got older I heard 15%. Now that I'm working a very well paid job people say 20% is "standard." Now in the last year I have been hearing rumbling that 20% is stingy and outdated.

I am started to feel very extorted by this so I've reduced my tips in response and reduced my frequency of going to establishments that guilt me into leaving tips.

(Usually if the food is over priced I don't bother with percentages.)
I totally disagree. (respectfully)

If you're applying to 100 jobs a day, you have no idea what you want to do. There may be 100 'developer' jobs to apply to, but a JavaScript Developer and Java Developer Position are drastically different positions. Pick one and get good at it. You might not be able to apply to 100 jobs a day this way, but I guarantee you will get more interviews this way. Quality, not quantity.
Dunno how the law about public funding applies to private institutions. The Ivies are certainly receiving public funding through the many federal agencies, but the funds are earmarked for research support. On the other hand, you used to see so many lawsuits revolving around Title IX and sports, with the women ending up winning, and the sports programs are certainly not grant-supported.
What happened to the woman who tried those experimental telomere prolonging treatment?
UC Berkley is a Tax funded university, so your argument is bunk.

And I disagree anyways; if the business wants to do something, they are responsible for following the law. That includes making reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities. Because we as a society have decided that it's more important that those persons be allowed to participate in society than it is for a business to make money.
That was the best thing I've read in a week.
>You're only 1/2 way away from slave labor at that point.

No one getting taxed at an effective 50% tax rate in the United States is anywhere near a slave. The minimum wage McDonald's worker with a 15% tax rate is the slave.
Was he hired?
CPU + memory autoscaling has worked pretty well for most services at Segment. We did have to build a custom queue-based autoscaler that feeds into ECS for our integration stack but the limitations of the ECS autoscaling rules makes it a bit clunky.
>'set -o vi' in bash lets me search my command history with the same keys as moving around vi

+10

I love 'set -o vi' and have been using it for ages, since ksh in fact. It makes editing commands and then re-issuing them so fast in Unix, if you're even just okay at vi - don't even need to know vim. Used to immediately put it into the .kshrc on any new Unix system I started working on (along with some other commonly used productivity settings, of course).

A fact that some might not know about 'set -o vi' is that once it is set (a one-time task per login shell, or put it in your login shell's profile file, then it is one-time, period), and you are now editing a command at the command prompt (using vi features), you can just press v to open up vi with a temp file containing that command, edit it using the full-screen view and power of vi, then save the file and it runs automatically.

This is particularly useful for multi-line shell commands like a for or while loop, or a long command pipeline.

And while in that vi session, if you decide you do not want to run the command right now, you can always save it to a different, persistent file name (with :w filename), and exit the temp file without saving it.

Then the command will not run, but you've saved it in a permanent file, and can do anything with it, now or later.This is useful if you realize in the middle of editing it, that you want to look up some command syntax (to add to the file), or polish the code some, etc., but maybe not right now, because you want to finish your current task first (which the original command sequence was a part of). You can just edit that permanent file at your leisure later, polish and test it, then use it regularly as needed.

Edited for formatting and grammar.
Not a singularity but any cyber augmented memory interface would lend the appearance of genius until the inputs/outputs are all wrong. Then you have artificial alzheimers and dementia.
I suspect it's roughly the same as a crawer -- same issues of fair use, TOS/CFAA, etc -- but likely there's no expectation that humans will read and follow robots.txt.
You gotta get more Rumsfeldian here. There are things we don't know that we don't even know that we don't know.

Is there a clear path to arbitrary editing of genes? Nope.

Does that mean that we absolutely won't figure out how to make arbitrary edits? Also nope.
The obvious choice to keep you both happy is a enameled cast iron dutch oven.
Thank you for explaining. That makes sense.

Though ordering them to "caption them if they are provided at all" and then ending with them being removed was not a surprising side-effect. I wonder if the students who filed the suit or the judge should have expected that outcome.

Now on the other side UCB is not exactly a poor cash strapped outfit so yes they could have captioned them if they wanted.
Google Spreadsheets and Ruby
Argument from authority, really?
It's been a while since I read Foucault, but I don't recall him being much concerned with marginal and fleeting differences of power in the add-out/deuce/add-in spectrum. The differences I recall are more at the scale of rights to commit violence and obligations to receive it. Such differences of power are in part sustained by the idea that it is common sense that things are that way because that is the way things are naturally ordered.
Would it be more efficient to have a secondary bus in the home that provides lower voltage and current for IoT type devices? Something like the USB ports built in to the power outlet but that actually has a single converter in the home with more efficiency.
Don't forget GraphViz. Although it's probably underpowered for that figure in particular.
I recently powered an old Acer laptop on that I didn't use for a while. It informed me that "/dev/sda2 has gone 941 days without being checked", after it finished that and booting fully up (a quick affair, even on that machine with no SSD), the i3 status bar further informed me, that the battery still holds a 57 % charge :)
Medium now charges $75 for using a custom domain
It works, but does funny things to the flavor.
the writer really has something against google
Wisely create window/modal/notification/push in webpages. Promise-based.
You're assuming a solid understanding of pre-calculus math. It might well take 2+ years for people with no exposure to proofs, or who have a weak foundation in elementary algebra.
Since Givewell has come up a number of times here, the obvious question to me, as someone completely unversed in how these things work, is how does contributing to your fund compare to contributing to Givewell? It seems like your goals are similar. Is your claim that dollars contributed to your fund will ultimately be more effective? Or are you differentiating yourselves in a different way (different priorities, improved transparancy, something else)? I realize the model is somewhat different, but the comparison I would ultimately care about is in the end results - the effects that my contributions would ultimately have.
Stack Motion Hover Effects
That's very true, and useful information, but it's the kind of thing only a sophisticated searcher does. Very occasionally I still use extended search syntax.

On the other hand, back in the 90s it was a practical necessity to use extended search syntax with services like AltaVista to find anything because search engines were basically terrible. Google on the other hand has and continues to expend considerable effort to ensure such syntax is unnecessary 99.9%+ of the time.

Consequently very few people know it any more. Combine this with the fact that in order to use the extended search syntax effectively you often need at least some understanding of what you're searching for (e.g., at least the ability to discern bad vs. good information), and you can quickly see why the average Joe is going to end up seeing and quite possibly believing the false information.

(I, for example, not being any kind of foodie, only know that it takes much longer than 10 minutes to caramelise onions specifically because I saw a friend who is a foodie do it a few years ago. He specifically made the point that it takes ages, otherwise you lose the sweet flavour. If that hadn't happened I'd believe it takes 10 minutes because Google said so.)
How Video Marketing Became a Vital Component of Our Product Launch
Show HN: Performance Budget Plugin for Webpack
Measure the impact of your changes to the performance of your application.

https://github.com/AvraamMavridis/performance-budget-plugin
Good blog. it's not just law enforcement either.

Genetic testing reveals your father's line has the genes for severe alcoholism. You are now a "warm client" for advertisers.

And don't underestimate the social influence of targeted facebook/twitter ads.
What country did you go to high school in?

I could kinda imagine what you say happening in the US, but calling it "maths" instead of "math" implies you're elsewhere.
I believe my account is likely "flagged". I submit articles and comments not that different from what I see on the front pages, but somehow my points don't move from 329. Likely some powerful user flagged me and now I have some permanent lock. Only speculation and guess...it is a mystery. But if this is what the "hacker news community wants" so be it.
"I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We're going to open up those libel laws. So when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they're totally protected."
The Initial Coin Offering, the Bitcoin-y Stock That’s Not Stock
Why do you think users of these services create value for free? Maybe it's because the value created for free is less than the value they get out of using these services they create free value for. It is true that these services get money thanks to the aggregated value that is created by all their users but let's take facebook for example, they only make $48.76 per user per year as of 2015 [1]. If they were to pay their users, they could not pay them more than that per year. Not such an interesting deal for anyone involved, even if Facebook was turned into a cooperative with 0 profit. Users would only get $48.76 at best per year and as a non profit, Facebook would probably be way less efficient and therefor only offer half or maybe less than that.

Now Facebook could turn into a paid service and pay its users more but then it would have much fewer users and then way less money to offer and now we're back to paying users little.

Seems like the current deal isn't such a bad one, Facebook connects a massive amount of people around the world including poor immigrants with their family (I know a few) and in exchange these users create value for Facebook. It's a voluntary win-win situation for both parties. Adults entering mutually beneficial deals with each others and enjoying it, what's wrong with that?

1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/11891353/How-...
Wait till you see the list of respected Enron and Theranos supporters...
In the opposite vein, it can be helpful to stick something like ` #useful` or ` # description ` on the end of a command you expect to need again, so you can easily grab from history with C-r
No, YT's automatic captioning is absolute trash. It most definitely is worse than nothing.
Macros don't "change source code". That is a serious, but common misconception: that they are somehow self-modifying code.

Lisp macros give meaning to syntax that doesn't previously have meaning. In this regard, they are the same as functions.

(foo (boonly) blarg) doesn't have any meaning because foo hasn't been defined.

We can fix that by writing a function foo. Then (boonly) and blarg have to be valid expressions and we are good.

Or we can make it mean something can by writing a macro foo. The macro foo is a function that will operate on the entire form (foo (boonly) blarg) and calculate a replacement for it. The Lisp form expander (a feature of the compiler or interpreter) will call the macro and accept its return value as the replacement for the macro call. Then, the replacement is scanned for more macros; the entire process removes all macros until all that is left is special operators and functions.

A practical example of a macro is the ANSI Common Lisp standard macro called loop which provides a syntax for iterating variables, stepping through collections, and taking various actions or gathering results:

(loop for bit in '(0 3 7 13)
for mask = (ash 1 bit)
summing mask) -> 8329

This entire looping mini-language is implemented in the loop macro. When you call (loop ... args) the macro takes over, analyzes the phrases and compiles them into other syntax.
You might also think of other minorities. Why isn't it also illegal for free lectures not to accommodate blind people?

The lawsuit addressed both deaf and blind students. In addition to captions, there should be screen-reader friendly versions of pages and documents, audio descriptions of visual data, etc. Public universities have limited budgets, so to spend possibly millions of dollars to support a free offering may not have been feasible.

Compare this to a free art museum operated by a local non-profit , and suddenly being forced to bring the building up to ADA code, building wheelchair ramps, installing elevators, providing audio descriptions of artwork, braille descriptions, etc. Instead of spending millions that they don't have to complete that work, they shut down the museum.

1. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/20/berkeley-may-...
The actual price for a D-Wave machine is more than $10M. It's a good sign that the first customers have continued their support by upgrading to the newer models.
It's about the Windows app.
LCh is just the cylindrical coordinates of CIELAB. It’s the same model.

(Ideally I would include asterisks and subscript ab in the symbols LCh to distinguish this from e.g. the cylindrical coordinates for CIELUV, but this forum doesn’t support it.)
Nginx JavaScript is ready for prime time
Books N Bros
More "Python dummies can't understand lisp". Harrumph.
I agree. There is a lot more fairness in physical space that doesn't translate to cyberspace primarily due to the implementation details of computers and networks. Whereas products and machines built in the real world are primarily protected by things like patents and trade secrets, practically everything in the digital world falls under uber-restrictive copyright protections, since the "creative" work of code and its compiled/interpreted derivatives is the language by which everything is implemented.

Similarly, concepts like the "first sale doctrine" are becoming less applicable with digital delivery, as it's impossible to identify a "hard copy" of something that may be eligible for resell. That completely obliterates the secondary market for many products that are accessed through computers, including software, games, movies, and books.

The CFAA essentially allows network operators to arbitrarily make someone a felon overnight. Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz is the most prominent example of this; his criminal prosecution under the CFAA (for scraping publicly-funded research papers out of a database) was pending when he committed suicide.

We badly need digital rights reforms, but since major companies have been allowed to profit handsomely off these shifts and since they find it rather convenient to bully small innovators with serious legal threats, which are easy to craft in this climate, it doesn't seem that anyone is making this a priority.
mozjpeg also generates progressive JPEGs by default, for the same reason.
Damn. I guess I ain't goin' to grad school.
Interesting study.

Q: Were they conflating job growth with tech job growth?

It would be informative to see the growth of tech jobs vs all jobs.
Not the original poster, but the _ trick works in ipython as well.
I guess, if for whatever reason Google had a MAC address of say a Chromebook in some other unrelated database. And the serial of that Chromebook was associated with your account. It's a stretch, and you have to wonder if Google would even go that far.
Ask HN: Do you procrastinate on (important) phonecalls too?
Imagine you need to
- schedule an appointment at the dentist
- call a customer to inform them about a delay
- or even just call your mom

I often find myself to move it to "I'll just do it tomorrow" for a few days/weeks in a row.

Is it just me or do you know this too?
True, I chose to put myself in this situation. My point is that tipping should be an option, but not mandatory. What the Uber drivers are doing in the article is highly unethical. The irony of it is I am building a financial planning platform for low-mid income individuals and families. I have spent years in the financial industry making good money, now I am turning into my own guinea pig. The last few months have been a healthy wake up call for me on how most people live in this country. Wall Street and Silicon Valley are sooooooo out of touch with reality. That one or two dollars means almost nothing to you, but for most people it adds up and makes a difference.
Looks like a great project. Have they actually got them all available already, or are they promising to do so? It's entirely possible I'm not using it correctly.

$ ~/Downloads/lbrynet-daemon &
$ curl 'http://localhost:5279/lbryapi' --data '{"method":"get","params":{"name":"ucberkeley"}}'

$ cat ~/Downloads/ucberkeley_index.txt
lbry://ucberkeley-3ACwBm9Id7A ---- Electrical Engineering 123 - 2015-04-22: Node-Pore Sensing
lbry://ucberkeley-6CQk6d5P5iY ---- Electrical Engineering 123 - 2015-04-24: How signal processing changes optical imaging
lbry://ucberkeley-vwNtTHED6s8 ---- Computer Science 186 - 2015-05-07
lbry://ucberkeley-lEESG9Bquok ---- Biology 1B - 2015-05-08
lbry://ucberkeley-WtrLpRZv8qg ---- Computer Science 10 - 2015-04-27
lbry://ucberkeley-VVxvj3irxPw ---- Physics 8B - 2015-05-08
lbry://ucberkeley-ZV6AvcJH9kE ---- Computer Science 10 - 2015-05-06: No audio
lbry://ucberkeley-PZqVwVDgWb4 ---- Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C11 - 2015-05-07
lbry://ucberkeley-6inUnzXx7k4 ---- Computer Science 170 - 2015-05-07
lbry://ucberkeley-QLFw93d9Igk ---- Public Health 241 - 2015-05-06
Maybe not, but in 2000 downloading JPGs of naked ladies required great patience, and now I can stream 4K video.

Look at his predictions from the 1989 timeframe and count up how many were just extrapolating Moore's law and coming up with different implications.

My point was that making unsurprising, long-term predictions (10-20 years) is both easy and useless. But for some reason we call people who do this, "futurists".

Now there's another name for people who can make surprising, short-term predictions (< 10 years). We call them "rich".
I disagree with just maximizing QALYs as the main measure of effective altruism. See my post:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=216
مشاهدة مباراة روما مع ليون اليوم 16-3-2017 بث مباشر| يلا شوت
Note that it's just using a t.co link, which is the only WSJ workaround that still seems to work.

https://t.co/aQSNPqZSZ3
I've been in regular communication with a couple career development people via Slack, and saw one during an on-campus event recently. They're supportive, but their advice is mostly "Keep going!"

I should ask what the traits of senior people are—I've had some really nice conversations with interviewers by asking, "If you were in my position, what would you be doing?" Sometimes it seems like they just want me out of their hair after the rejection, which I understand.

Yeah, my bootcamp taught Angular and I taught myself React and built a couple apps with it. Haven't looked at Vue, I should do that. And no, haven't used RxJS—I'll look into that, thanks!

My technical answers have been solid so far. My "time when things were difficult" stories were a little clumsy out the gate—I'm coming from a field where I never, ever got asked questions like that—but I'm getting them together now.

I appreciate your words of advice and support! The advice to take a week off is especially good, and something I should probably put an effort toward. I've been in go-mode unremittingly since June of last year, and keep putting relaxation off because I don't want to miss an opportunity.
[2008] The Universal Design Pattern
Performance Budget Plugin for Webpack
I guess you could go even lower by not renting, but buying a server instead.
Don’t Migrate Databases Automatically
That's not true at all. You can use dynamic libraries; Swift modules produce .framework packages, which are dynamically linked.
Nope, they pushed the expected release date to end of this year[1]. I was really hoping it would come out this month too, then I realized we won't see much adoption till 2019. 2018 will be spent with a couple releases of software decoders, and some adoption, and 2019 is when the hardware decoders will released. Which is when we can expect everyone to more to AV1.

But I'm still skeptical because HEVC might be more widespread with hardware decoders everywhere and people might just not care enough to move to the new standard. Unless MPEG-LA exploits its dominance really bad with license fees, then we can expect MPEG codecs to die off. Although I think x264 will still live.

[1]: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/om_av1/attachments/sl...

(4th slide. This codec will be standardized after the experiments are removed and it is frozen to test software.)
yes! String representation for instance, lake of utf-8 filenames support (at least there is bug) but nothing that
can't be fixed.
> investigating that hypothesis is easier

Anyone can search the FAA Airman Database to look up pilot ratings.

I just searched and he is not listed.

https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/
The American Library Association guidelines provide disclosure of records in response to a valid court order. Also, since your Library hypothetical trades on the special position of libraries In our society, it should be noted that libraries don't profit by rummaging through the books you read to advertise to you.
I had this thought too - my MAC address is not likely something google have access to (not in the normal operation of a network as it's stripped at the next hop)
New rules for flying recreational drones in Canada revealed
Also, hackathons! You even get free food. :)
good for you, you are not in China, where government try their best to sever any tes you have with your mother country, god forbid trying to videochat with your family without forcing them to install Chinese spyware... same goes for rest of the internet...