skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's in line with the question that was asked: "The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?"

Which has an implicit assumption that happiness = living your "best possible life".

There are definitely people in Africa, Latin America, etc, who recognize they may have better prospects elsewhere, but if they're content with where they are… isn't that happiness too?
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Another fun way to write a recursive descent parser is to abstract and parametrize the recursive descent algorithm.

Best done in dynamic languages. I wrote an abstract recursive descent parser in JS which accepts an array of terminal (regexp) and non-terminal definitions (array of terminal/non-terminal names + action callback), and returns the function that will parse the text.

The parser "generator" has 125 lines of code and doesn't really generate anything. It's an extremely lightweight solution to quickly produce purpose made languages in the browser without need for any tooling.

Together with `` template strings to write your custom made language code in, it makes for a lot of fun in JS. :D
This seems like good advice. I think there have to be SOME learnings that will help you grow at this job. I once took a job with one of the largest IT companies in the world, even though the tech and "culture" seemed opposite of what I wanted. But I learned a whole lot, because companies that big are making 1000s of mistakes every month, and you learn from mistakes. You get to see what NOT to do, how NOT to manage people, etc.

There is also a lot of resume building opportunity with a "situation" that isn't ideal, as the previous poster mentioned: can you make some progress on transitioning their stack out of nothing? can you go a bit beyond the job role and have some great things to talk about in your next interview?

I am not saying dedicate your life to a job you hate, but maybe finish out your first year then evaluate your options -- and try to make the most of the rest of the time you are there.
Things may get weird at the scale of pennies or billions of dollars, but at scales relevant for buying insurance or gambling diminishing marginal utility certainly holds.

Losing $10k when you have $20k hurts less than losing $10k when you have $10k.
Except nobody ever refers to it as "H2G2".

Using acronyms already adds some degree of ambiguity; shortening a commonly used acronym makes it basically unrecognizable, even when used within the proper context.
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It might be too long since I read Aksel Sandemose's "En flyktning krysser sit spor", which is where the Law of Jante originates, but if you read the 10 commandments of Jante, I think you are a bit on the soft side in your interpretation. :)

http://denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Litteratur/Nyere_mo...
> What's next?

Uber folds.
Oh my god, a dream come true!

I had always hoped Bob Nystrom would write a book about interpreters/compilers.

Back when I tried to learn how to write a recursive descent parser, the examples I found either ignored correct expression parsing or wrote an additional parse method for each precedence level. Writing a parser by hand seemed just too much work. Along comes this great article about pratt parsers http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/03/19/pratt-parsers-e... and all can be done with two simple functions, a loop and a map. :) Saved my enthusiasm right there.

Another great example is this article about garbage collection: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-gar...
Instead of making things more complicated than they are, Bob Nystrom simplifies daunting topics and makes the accessible.

Thanks so much for your work! Really looking forward to this one. Will there be code generation too? :)
This originated as a joke in the [SwiftDE](http://slack.swiftde.net) Slack. The actual idea was to fork the Swift compiler and replace the keywords with German counterparts. Turned out to be a bit more involved than I expected and I didn't want to spend too much time on a joke project. So the current implementation uses the most basic and broken way of possibly doing this, string replacements \o/
This appears to be a written down version of the talk they gave at FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/my_bsd_sucks_less/
It is a requirement in the sense that if the C code passes the aggregate parameter by value, the compiler is required to generate the assembler code to pass via the registers [1].

[1] inlining, calls to static functions and whole program optimization do give the compilers freedom to pick a different calling convention of course.
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Piano's quite fun but not got to the bit yet where you need to play different rhythms with different hands. I'm weeks into it. It's surprisingly easier than I thought it was going to be at the moment. The new methods of teaching seem to be much better.

If you're find rocksmith a good progression, I'd maybe think about sticking with that. String muffling is something you get better at with practice and as your fingers get better muscle memory, but if you watch any live performance you'll see even the pros do it sometimes. Also bends and sustains, you get better at very quickly. It's more just learning the whole sequence and then refining the sequence later. A lot of people don't have the "ear" for hearing those mistakes anyway and won't even notice you make them so it might be that it's deliberately imprecise for beginners, I've no idea when I picked up the skill. Fore example, most non-musicians won't notice a bass guitar or the difference between a bass guitar and a guitar, although generally speaking people seem to be a bit more musically literate these days than in the 90s because of the internet.

One great trick which you probably know about is to play a progression incredibly slowly, so slowly you get every note perfect (just a tiny snippet of a few notes, at most like 10 seconds of a song). Then repeat it a bit faster, but still very slow, making every note perfect. If you fail a note, restart it again at that speed. Increase speed a little bit every time you get it right until you're playing it faster than it's normally played.

EDIT: Also, there's a certain amount of your finger tips getting a bit harder as you play more which makes it easier to play.
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There's a similar MacOS app called Numi that's a bit more polished.

https://numi.io
16gb will work no worries :-)
To share my own story, I flashed a hacked version of the proprietary BIOS on a Thinkpad X220 and was able to replace the Intel wireless chip with an Atheros chip. At the time Libreboot wasn't available, but it could still be a viable method of using a newer Thinkpad with a fully free OS, downside being that the proprietary BIOS is still in use.
Presumably this is why they are getting into the battery market.
You summarised it well:

- It is really really bad for anyone buying foreign goods and services (which is 100% of the UK population, because very little gets made here)

- It is nice for anyone who has major shares of UK manufacturing companies (0.01% of people) and who own foreign assets (the 0.1% of people who have 6-7 digits of globally diversified assets). Maybe for people who might find a manufacturing job that otherwise wouldn't have gone to the UK - but frankly the Ford Transit production that moved to Turkey won't come back to Southampton anytime soon...

It's not black and white, but it is a pretty dark shade of grey for the huge part of the population who used to be able to easily afford nice foreign food and cheap foreign holidays and consumer electronics, and now suddenly has to cut back. And the manufacturers whose domestic revenue suffers after these cutbacks.
rockefeller is one of the families that created,control, own the federal reserve

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-federal-reserve-cartel-the-...
Another one I know of is that the agility stat lookup is broken, which severely affects your chances to run from a battle. The character at position 1 looks up the agility stat of position 3, character 2 looks up the stat for character 4, and characters 3 and 4 read garbage data. In effect, this means that characters 3 and 4 have about 1/10 the chance of running away.
By what definition would that be?
Cellulose is a very useful chemical. It was generally replaced by petrochemical synthetic polymers for many of its original applications because the latter may be more stable at higher temperatures, under UV light, in contact with certain common chemicals (like water), etc. And most of the petro-plastics are cheaper to manufacture.

Cellulosic thermoplastics often appear in products where you don't want the plastic component to last forever, particularly textile fibers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose_acetate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose_triacetate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellophane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyocell

This 3D printing application seems similar to processes used to produce rayon and cellophane, but instead of producing the more universally useful fiber and sheet forms as a commodity, it forms an end-product directly and then stabilizes it chemically.
So do I. But I'm mindful of the flawed assumptions made by the best minds in symbolic AI from the 1950's to the 1980's that AI required no more than raw facts and logic. Let's not repeat that mistake.

I'm intrigued by the potential of deep nets to 'simulate' the bases for symbolic grounding using something like thought vectors (TVs), especially if they can be revised and augmented through personal experience. Bootstrapping one's knowledgebase using someone else's rich set of TVs may go a long way for an AI to become grounded vicariously.
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And why many of us are fearful of becoming a EU member, and strongly dislike how much our politicians bend over backwards to implement EU directives via the EEA agreement.
No, for a few reasons.

One, it is an “extraordinary claim with no extraordinary evidence”. There is absolutely no evidence that any god exists.

Whereas, there are strong indicators of other contributors to religion. How would you explain the tendency for most people to adopt the religion of the country where they live, instead of examining ALL religions to decide which one they believe the most? Or, the tendency for indoctrinated children to have lifelong religious belief, versus NO tendency for adults to spontaneously adopt a religion after having no religion?

I also hugely dislike that religion is used as a club to end conversations and justify nearly anything, ironically usually after misreading the religious text used as the source. Even if the text is quoted correctly, it clearly documents ancient life and not modern life so it can’t perfectly describe any situation we may face anyway! And for some people, it is not acceptable to combine non-religious sources of information to make up the difference, making conversations difficult.

It is also frustrating to see scenarios accepted only because they are religious. For any given religious story X, if you substituted all the character names and places with fictitious ones you could get anyone (religious or not) to agree that the stories are false or at least improbable or ridiculous; and yet, if it’s the religious version, it is somehow infallible truth. It is even more frustrating when demonstrating obvious contradictions has no effect on religious believers.
This is very true, in many respects (apart from the part about the government, but let's not touch that).

The Brits have always been, and will always be European. The difficulty is that lots of the integration that's happened over the past 50 years was predicated on the single market, and disentangling all of that in two years is a very difficult prospect. For instance, what happens to Open Skies? And what happens if Ryanair reduce services (which they may have to, if Open Skies goes away)?

Suddenly some of that stuff starts falling apart, and people are no longer casually exposed to difference, and the learnings that come from that.

And of course none of the young people have the right to live in the EU anymore, which kinda sucks for them.
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It is the best in that you will have the maximum amount of feedback/suggestions/critics. It helps you discuss with your potential users and helps you refine your ideas. It's one aspect people critically need at the beginning. It's one aspect people do not have with the anything that uses ads on internet (landscape+ads to see if some facets of your idea are successful, or prototype+ads).
Lol this reminds me of the Demolition Ship Captain incident at AoKH where DSC hacked into Angel THS's account (and then ban half the active users on Age of Kings Heaven) by just creating a website where he could get Angel THS to use the same password he could use everywhere (HUNTER)
While I wouldn't literally describe Uber as a ponzi scheme, I think you are right in the figurative sense. It usually helps to make that distinction. But yeah, it's hard to not see Uber running into a massive liquidity crisis at some point in the next deaced. The company is only viable to the extent the private capital markets allow it to be. I don't think it has any hope at all of accessing public markets.
Still wondering what's so capital intensive about the business. Is it the need to float money? Could you restructure your business to avoid this? i.e. by partnering with an existing merchant account provider and signing your customers up as "sub merchants"? (isn't this what stripe does? or at least used to do?)

Why not reach out to other big banks for investment? Perhaps you can frame the pitch so that they feel like they're capitalizing on a missed investment opportunity by their competitor (your original investor).
A demo video would have made things a lot clearer
> I just bought all new appliances for my house a few years back. If anything, I was bowled over by all the players in this space and had to do a lot of legwork in regards to reviews. I really don't think lack of competition is an issue.

The post specifically addresses this: most of the brands you see have actually been consolidated into a small number of manufacturers. Brands under the same parent corporation may only appear to compete, while really being a means to achieve market segmentation and illusion of choice.
white people are the happiest on earth. hallelujah
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> The patent system no longer rewards innovation. At best, it's a non-participant and at worst it quashes innovation.

> I'm not trying to agree or disagree with anything else you wrote, just clarifying what I think is a point you left ambiguous.

That's a ridiculous oversimplification.
Miele machines are small compared to most washing machines for the US market. I had an imported AEG and when I replaced it with a LG frontloader it seemed impossible how big the drum was. I used to only be able to wash 3-4 pairs of jeans at a time and now it's like 8-10.
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Yes, thanks for the feedback! I wasn't planning on feeding it the entire audiobook and trying to align the whole thing (though there are other reasons you might want to do something like this) - I figured I'd use some heuristic methods to detect chapter breaks (like long silences), then try as you say partial matching to figure out which ones correspond to what chapters (or which ones correspond to chapters at all). Like I said, it was a vague plan, but when I've played around with running things through speech-to-text in the past I haven't had excellent results. I was hoping something like this (where you have the speech and the text and just want to know how they line up) would end up being much moreo accurate.
It's still my feeling the underlying powerful reason for people voting for Brexit was immigration.

The rest was just a smokescreen to pretend like that wasn't their only reason.
It already has; see the 2016 election. Factories will come back, but they won't require labor anymore, so in the long term something fundamental needs to change.
Thou shalt not make use of French if thou doest not know the language. Deaux is a village in France (you can google it).
You can't patent an idea. You can only patent an implementation of an idea.
fair enough, my anti-American exceptionalism friend. Please point me to an example of a society, of non-trivial size and mixed racial groups, that's doing a good job with rehabilitation and recidivism.
Well London has the highest rates, but if you compare cities of similar sizes from one country to another (Say London to Paris, Sheffield to Lyon, etc.) the rates in British cities are almost always higher.
Random advice from the internet:

being poor at networking means the alternative is looking online for work

That's one alternative. The other alternative is developing a better network. Talking to recruiters is developing a network, just not necessarily a good one. Meetups, open source projects, blogs, conferences, Tweetergrambook, etc. are other ways of building a network ranging from personal contact to personal branding.

Consider building a network as research. Maybe you hear about a great place to work at the price of effort outside your comfort zone.

Good luck.
buying car vs driving a car for pleasure vs excessive speeding

buying medicine vs using medicine vs drug abuse
Completely agree. It's the (lack of) data that's the issue, not exposure to technology.
It's still a risk. If everyone's houses burn down at once the insurance company will be SOL unless they insured themselves against catastrophes (which they probably do).

Also, arguing by definition is pointless, put since we're already debating pointless semantics, google 'risk transfer' and see what comes up.
Companies can fold while offering products that are in-demand. The problem is that you have to have enough demand, and sell at a price that allows you to be profitable at that demand level. So it's quite possible for a company to have a product that's in-demand, such as glittery pink mechanical computer keyboards (there's got to be a few people out there who want them after all), but not be able to sell them at a price high enough to keep the company afloat. So glittery pink mechanical keyboards surely have some demand, but it's not going to be high, and the manufacturing cost of such things is going to be high, so between the low volume and high cost, that means you need to charge boutique prices. If you can't get enough people to buy them, then the company goes under.

But this is still attributable to "bad management". Good management would not even try to sell a low-volume product where they cannot price it high enough to make up for the limited demand and volume, and would instead come up with a better business plan in the first place.
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> Brexit showed there is quite extreme xenophobia alive and well in Britain

Xenophobia is irrational hatred towards foreigners, while Brexiters had very rational qualms about them (mainly about lowering wages for jobs).
You are probably familiar with it already, but in case some readers are not, bc is a nice traditional tool for such things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_(programming_language)
My university dorms had speed queens.

I was not delighted. Clothing was torn to shreds by the washer and then left still wet by the dryer. The machines were always getting called in for maintenance. I get that they were being ran 24/7, but the number of loads I had done correctly versus left wet and not so clean wasn't a very good ratio. :/
Possibly not the heat exchanger as a most likely cause, when all is functioning well (having just performed my own brief online research).

However, the original question concerned the longevity of gas furnaces, and possible limiting factors on their lifespan.

As such, you might care to contemplate:

* What are origins of CO?

* What are such possible origins within a house?

* What are the likely mechanisms for transit of CO from normal exhaust systems to interior space?

* What might be the long-term consequences of thermal stress, oxidation, cycling, etc., on manifolds of such spaces.

If you choose to focus myopically on heat exchangers and heat exchangers alone, that's your call. I'd suggest keeping the batteries up to date in your CO monitors, however.
For music discovery and history:

- Ishkurs Guide: http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

- http://radiooooo.com/

for timezones of co-workers and clients:

- http://localtimes.info/

sci-hub / libgen (should be known quite widely now)
Yeah, they are high 90s% recyclable, depending on the technology.
That tells me much of what I need to know, thank you.
There are a few current projects, particularly in database research. I don't know how many of them use ML in the traditional understanding. Current projects I know of are Wrangler, Mimir, Katara, MayBMS (in no particular order).
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Probably so that you can show off cool new tech as a trade show.

IIRC, people have been trying to stick computers in refrigerators since the first dot-com boom. It made little sense then (and even less sense now), but it has a superficial appeal if you don't think about it too much: everyone in the family interacts with the fridge on a regular daily basis and many people use it as the household noticeboard. However, when you think about ergonomics, efficiency, and maintenance; the whole idea falls apart quickly.
The problem with "common sense" is that Americans have so little of it. Even though it's entirely legal, to most Americans a 40yo dating a 20yo may as well be illegal. And yet those were the ages of my grandparents when they met, who remained married until death and produced a wonderful family.
It's not a coincidence. But that doesn't mean it's a global conspiracy.

You stated the entire cause->effect very succinctly yourself: "If a brand gets a good reputation, some big conglomerate buys it and starts using it to make trash, and it takes time for consumers to learn it through the grapevine"

It is an extremely straightforward way for a company to make quick money.
The most plausible summary I've heard is that it won't be a rapid collapse, but a story of opportunities not taken or no longer available. We'll slowly forget that the UK used to be better off than Ireland and that young people used to emigrate from Dublin to London not the other way round.

(However, I'm still worried about what's going to happen to our 3m EU residents; there are a lot of ways in which the government could mess this up badly in a blood on the streets way. Will they? We don't know. But saying "that would be stupid, they won't do that" is no longer valid.)
> Can't we just couch the argument in live and let live individual property rights?

Sure, but that's the easy road to never settling the burnt feelings and the idea that your neighbor is "getting away with lawn murder".

Basing the standard in eco-science may mean a standard that everyone hates, but it's firmer ground that can be argued rationally.