skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are probably already a great learner then. I took the course and can definitely say it was an eye opener.

Few additional tricks I picked up:
* Recall(as you mentioned) is critical to understanding. Effective recall also connects a topic just learned with other known topics.
* A problem looks solvable but its important to actually apply yourself and arrive at the solution. The process of learning does not offer rewards until the mind has been exercised.
* Deliberate practice of poorly understood concepts. Don't fall into the trap of fooling yourself to believe that you have understood a concept or practicing problems that you are already good at.
* Read through material quickly to to create a "framework" or stick-figures in the mind. Gradually add new concepts to the basic framework.
* Learning is best done with frequent breaks to absorb information. Learning is also a passive process where the neurons need time to grow.
* Repetition spaced across several days forces us to recall. This helps strengthen memories and filing concepts into long-term memory bank.
* Better sleep helps.

I could go on. Really wonderful course.
In a word. Math.
Awesome insight, thank you! I figured the same, still might put up a page to see if there are any takers! haha
Gavin Andresen was left as lead developer by Satoshi Nakomoto. He was forced out.
I think AMD would make more sense on Desktop front. But TB3 is still a roadblock.
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Why did you take private lessons if you already knew how to swim?

I also swim in a non-proper way and I recently found a "new way" of swimming after seeing some video about it, and it is fairly easy. But due to muscle memory I find myself going back to my own way.

My own way being: Imagine doing a front split[1], then pushing your body up into a standing position, while angling your upper body 90 degrees (plane with the water, that is).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_(gymnastics)
Great article, absolutely the wrong conclusion and solution.

If you would pay $100 more for a washer with a 50 year warranty, there would be a washer with a 50 year warranty. It really is that simple. So many people choose by price, then quality, the best thing you can say about appliances today is that they cost less in real dollars than the ones from the 50's and 60's. If you chose your appliance the other way, quality first and then price, the manufacturers would put in quality to get you to pay more.

Every single thing mentioned in the article if you compare an appliance "with" that thing from the 50's to one "without" that thing today, every time by leaving it out you can sell for less, or sell for the same as the competition and make more profit. Metal thickness? check. Motor quality? check. Anti-rust coating? Check. Durable control circutry? Check. Everything.

You want to change the market, then the market has to prefer quality over price, and pay for it even when there is a cheaper, lower quality alternative.
what do you mean? in both cases the odds are against you.
>> human rights are a fictional story just like God and heaven

What a heretical thought. It makes me want to read the book of the author. Somehow similar like http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/GiftDaughter.htm
Sorry about that. I would definitely change the title if I could but it seems to be permanent now. Thank you for the feedback.
He says he gets conversion sales from the page. So some people searching for the crack must find it to be worth the price.
I bought a Speed Queen front-loader a few months ago. Although I can't say anything about the longevity, I was very impressed with the quality of the machine, going so far as to take pictures of the underside of the drum, drain plug, electronics package, and braces when setting it up. It's heavier -- about 250 pounds -- and quieter than the top-loader I replaced.

I worry a little about the electronic control panel, the same one pictured in the review you linked, but I have hope it'll last more than a decade. The warranty is exemplary, even though I haven't had to use it yet so I can't attest to how well it's fulfilled. And it's made in Wisconsin: it's not just another rebranded Electrolux or Whirlpool.
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Miele

Seconded: the Miele that my family insisted on buying us for the wedding is well beyond 8 years and we haven't had a single problem.

10 years warranty but rumour have it they might easily last up 20 years although you might have to change parts somewhere between 10 and 20 years.

Oh, and I think it cost something less than USD1000.
This is a somewhat simplified version of what you will see in a AAA graphics engine (pretty much all of them have abstractions around draw passes/stages and pipelines). The weakness in the approach here I think is that it won't handle temporally aliased things particularly well and also, I've found that actually render pipelines are more of a pipe"tree" with dependent objects becoming inputs for more than one pass for various things. Then you throw in multithreading into the mix and start to understand why a simplistic API like this gets complicated really fast in real world settings.
Hey look, more stereotypes!
Interesting to get that perspective. I'm based in Australia, which has a similar farming landscape to the US/Canada; I'll admit my view is probably a bit skewed.

Is rice agreeable to vertical farming? i.e.: could the bulk of China's crops be moved to VF? In my understanding it's typically a hydroponic practice, so I imagine so.
I'm sorry you feel that way. It's a perfect characterization of how most non-technical comment threads threads go on here however.
For whatever reason, I was expecting something about gliders from Conway's Game of Life. But this was much more interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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Support depends on whether the GPU can handle compute shaders. That's a starting point.
They will be much louder and may be less energy efficient.
Some of the blame for appliance quality rot (though certainly not all of it) can be laid at the feet of the government. With new efficiency and safety regulations it becomes impossible to legally sell a dryer that can get your towels crispy dry in 30 minutes.

Sears is a lost cause. The only thing keeping them afloat is the value tied up in their real estate holdings.
When Japan opened up to the West, Korekiyo Takahashi visited the US in 1886. "We said, 'What is it that makes the United States such a great nation?' And we investigated and we found that it was patents, and we will have patents."

http://www.iphalloffame.com/korekiyo_takahashi/

You need to reward innovators or you won't have innovation.
I respect your work on bitcoin, and don't get me wrong - I don't think most core developers are complicit in what's going on. I think all you guys are doing great work and will be welcome on whichever team prevails in this mess.

On the other hand I don't respect the political moves made by some other people in this whole fiasco. They've damaged bitcoin horribly.

Edit: just repeating - I don't think most core developers have anything to do with this.
The way I phrase the simple answer:

both gambling and insurance are slightly-negative-expectation plays with occasional large payoffs. With gambling the payoff is random, but with insurance the payoff is coupled predictably to an external negative event.
Yes, CIG is absolutely the most transparent game studio of all time. I say this with over 13 years experience in and around the games industry. They're creating a plethora of video and text content on their process, on the development of the game, the design, the experiences, failures and successes, etc. They share time tables. They share their deadlines. They often miss them in fact, and so do I at my company. It doesn't mean they're running off with the money.

As for Elite, that is an excellent example of a project that failed to deliver what it promised. I love Elite, by the way, but the only reason you're touting it here is because it's already out, whereas SC is not. I understand that, you're a gamer, you want something you can play now, not something you can play later.

Here's the thing: Star Citizen and CIG are both plagued with issues. Cultish behaviour from their communities, overpromising tendencies, micromanagement, etc. It's not a flawless game or studio. But game development is hard and game developers are some of the most passionate about their job, of all professions on earth. So it really pisses me off when people start claiming that all they want to do is "run with the money".

It's possible to fail. You're on a forum where people build their own companies from scratch. Most of these people fail. If after dedicating years of your life on your vision while being questioned at every corner you end up failing, that's not "running with the money", that's failing. It's hard, it sucks, it destroys you and this happens to people on here every single day. It's not some kind of goal that they're all looking forward; "oh man I can't wait until we don't have to keep up this charade anymore of pretending to work on the game every day, so that we can enjoy all the jaccuzzis we've been buying!".

You want points of reference, I invite you to look at game studios that actually "take the money and run". Start with Zynga, see how deep that rabbit hole goes.
The "majority of miners" are Chinese, which are thought to be controlled by the Chinese government at this point. Also, I think a 75% majority fork could leave the smaller fork vulnerable to 51% attack by a single pool.
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Forced? I thought he have withdrawn voluntarily and then during the Craig Wright controversy Wladimir took one good look at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits?author=gavinandre... and said, you know what, Gavin is barely committing any more, let's not just have that access lingering around.
I don't fly because of the TSA. I have zero fear of terrorism on my flight.
> [T]he market has to prefer quality over price, and pay for it even when there is a cheaper, lower quality alternative.

That's really hard to do when so much of the market is living paycheck to paycheck. Many people want to choose quality, but simply can't afford it: their dishwasher is broken and they've got to steal from the food budget or the kids' Christmas gifts to fix it before Thanksgiving.

The decline in appliance quality has the same root cause as the rise of Walmart: real wages have stagnated and regressed since the halcyon days of heavy metal gauges and fifty year motors, and people simply can't afford to pay a premium for quality.

(They can't afford not to, either; "the poor man pays twice" and all that. But when you're living paycheck to paycheck it often seems like there's no real choice.)
Keep in mind that Smalltalk also persisted everything in what I think was called images, and it managed fine.
I think this phrasing works for certain kinds of people, but turns off other kinds of people, and worse even misleads another category of personality.
I'm mid 40's now. It is significantly different than when I was 20 or younger.

It was like I had more horsepower back then. I could sit down and do 200 vocabulary words 90% retention after a single pass. I'm nowhere close now.

On the other hand, I can organize my attack on learning something so much better than I could before.
Forced out by who? He stopped contributing on its own for a long, long time prior to losing his commit access (due to fears of his computer getting hacked, in addition to him not actually using that commit access).

He's still welcome to contribute (hundreds of people contribute to Core, only 3 of them has commit access), but it doesn't look like he's interested in that.
Second. This is the best thing on YouTube.

If you like more workshop instructions, check out "this old Tony"
Are GDAX related to Coinbase? This is almost word-for-word a copy of Coinbase's statement:

https://blog.coinbase.com/update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-...
Woah, I hadn't realized that. So once BTU was created, could I just create new wallets on it, and import the keys from BTC wallets?
Well there is Bigger Pockets, and some of their video podcasts on Youtube are quite good when they interview a knowledgeable guest.

They are pretty honest about things, but I feel like there's kind of a similarity with their messaging and the passive income/get rich quick world, although they will definitely tell you it's a get rich slow method, but it sometimes has that kind of feel to me.

But they cater to a lot of newbies. I come from a different perspective because my father was a landlord of a decent number of properties and I grew up in it.

I would say the biggest predictor of success is going into the right market and finding a good deal. Your profit or loss is determined by the deal you make.

There are a lot of people that buy houses far away from themselves and get property managers to operate for them for a fee. I personally would never buy a lot of properties far away from my home, and I feel like a lot of the people that do, do it from a kind of Dunning-Kruger false confidence, or maybe just a way lower anxiety level about what could go wrong than me.

You want to walk the property, you want to keep an eye on things, you want to make sure things are taken care of because you have a lot of liability as a landlord, and that's why I would only buy fairly close to where I lived.

Also at the level of buying and renting single family homes, duplexes, triplexes and so on, if you start paying contractors to do work every time something breaks it's going to eat into profit margins or possibly destroy them, at least until you've owned the property for a long time and rents have risen.

At that level of investing your profits are going to come from the work you put in yourself, or the price appreciation of a rising market over the long term. It's different if you can do bigger deals, larger buildings with more units.

If people are interested I might start blogging about real estate investing for developers.
You implying that the hundreds of contributors to Bitcoin Core are somehow controlled by Blockstream is insulting and inappropriate.
Given you're in HK, interesting username (ManuAloha). Are you from HI? In any case, aloha from Kaua'i :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

anyone remember this?
Resale value is part of it. People buy Car Brand A because they know they can sell it in 5-6 years at a decent price.

People generally don't look at resale value when shopping for appliances.
Now every departure is viewed with suspicion. With a 10,000 person company there is going to be exec departures, but even normal departures will have rumors attached to them (why did they really leave? Isn't the timing odd? Was something about to come out?)

Every senior person leaving Uber now has to manage their image as they leave. And every journalist is digging to see if there is any dirt.
Resiliency, yes, but maybe not performance. Still a great win :)
Yes. Coinbase is the brand for their consumer-facing products, while GDAX is the brand for their exchange/trading products.
That doesn't make sense to me. So an OS will assign a 4K page of memory to multiple processes, with some granularity that each process "should" only be able to write/read some of it?
Life is but a game.

Also, to put yourself in the shoes of a country (in terms of crisis). Imagine you're a guy with several women:

Some women are chill with being friends and understand that.
Some women want you to settle, but you don't or can't.
Some women just hate you. Some women share no interest but could be converted depending on time, resource allocation (e.g. time or else), etc.

After a while things seem simple, then you notice time conflicts, argument conflicts. Then you begin to think: "What if they're doing the same thing I'm doing?"

Then comes in the role of intelligence collection and plausible deniability as well of minimizing evidence showing alternative events of the same story.

Then, of course will come a time when alliances are formed. Are you with them, or are you not? Intel sharing? What if they compare the metadata of x and y event and see an outlier?
The usual poster child for patents is drug development. It costs about $1 billion to get regulatory approval for a drug (this is also why drug costs tend to be high). Once you know the formula of a drug, it's not particularly hard to work out how to make it, and the marginal costs of actual production are almost nil.

The main value proposition of patents is that you entice inventors to make their inventions public for promoting further innovation, with the cost to society of given them exclusive practice for a short time. The problem with trade secrets is that reverse engineering exists, is generally legal, and is surprisingly easy. Give me a shipping binary and it's effectively equivalent to giving me source code.

I recently was thinking about patents, and software patents in particular. It's clear that the current patent system doesn't work very well here. SCOTUS has heard several cases about this general area of patents, and has found all of them distasteful (note that State St. was not a SCOTUS decision, and in Bilski, SCOTUS went out of its way to complain about how bad State St. was), while still struggling to be able to articulate a useful test.

The problem with software patents, in a nutshell, boils down to the fact that an invention like, say, the Enigma machine is the sort of prototypical invention that everyone would agree is patentable, while it's not clear that the software analogue should enjoy the same patentability (leaving aside questions of novelty, here). Should we prejudice a modern inventor just because he implements his useful machines in a virtual question, they ask, with the implicit response hopefully being no. And it's that response that drives SCOTUS to shying away from categorically saying that this sort of stuff that's never patentable.

And the answer I would give is yes. It is inherently more difficult to realize an idea in a physical domain than it is in a virtual domain--after all, I can try many different implementations in an afternoon (it's called recompiling). Furthermore, one of the great revelations of the information age was that you can equate many different concepts with relatively simple encoding systems--think about how we can use integers to represent, say, floating point numbers or strings. The essence of patentability is that you had to figure out something new, which is to say you had to realize an abstract idea into something concrete in a new way.

The downside is that this suggests that software should be patentable, although the bar should also be recognized as being much higher. And when you go back and you read the Alice decision, you can see SCOTUS sort of reaching towards that idea: you have to do something inventive with the abstract idea to meet §101 requirements.
Thanks, I thought it might be something like that.

I think this would be better linked / re-titled to Coinbase as that is what most would be familiar with.
Couple of questions to focus your decision making:

Did they pay for your relocation expenses? If so, is there a clause in your employment contract to pay it back if you leave within a given period of time?

Do you want to stay in your new city?

If you are unhappy enough to leave, then why not bail up the manager who hired you, tell them point-blank that they lied to you and you know that the "round the corner" talk is just window dressing. Demand more money for your pain, etc. You should only do this if you are willing to get fired on the spot. But it is what I would do.

Immediately start looking for a new job. I would not put this one on my CV. Just mark the time as time-off to do a bit of travelling and relocating to your great new city and now that you have settled in, you are looking for work.

Don't worry about it being shitty legacy stuff. I have even worked on mainframe Cobol for a while and although I hated it, I ended up learning about a new industry and then getting a job with one of their competitors. Every silver lining has a cloud.
Is there something that happens in your life every day that you can anchor a meditation habit to? For example, my personal anchor is the fact that I take public transportation to work every weekday morning. Overlaying my meditation practice onto my daily commute gives me 15-30 minutes of meditation time* 4-5 days a week.

* eyes open or closed, standing or sitting, breath or open or metta or body scanning, all are doable
I am glad someone understands my concern with pasting a single quote from an article without context. Here it may be valuable, other articles perhaps not.
This.

It also depends on your site's target audience. For a programming site or other I.T technical site it properly wouldn't matter.

For others, as recent as 2014 i still witness the following.
A: What was the site address ?
B: something.com
A: OK. [Start typing www.something.com ]

For the majority, i.e those who dont know HN, and dont know jack about computers, WWW means website. While in recent years this is much less of a problem because Google has become our gateway to Internet and Apps taking over, WWW is still ingrained into their mindset.

And agree on the .com.
Try running it with a double strong dose of Star San. In general, mildew can be avoided with star San and borax.
I see it this way: insurance is risk sharing. Gambling is competition. Insurance is about risks to yourself and your property. In betting, you are not compensated for your own loss, but some event that may be a loss or a gain or even neutral. I'd say taking out an insurance against a random person's life would still be betting.
It's difficult to be proud of anything I'm doing :). Whenever I propose a design for something, I'm told to do it the fastest way which is usually a bad hack.

I'm amazed the code works at all. The stack traces are more than twenty deep sometimes. I can't stand to look at it for more than 20 minutes without a break.

I need to be more careful next time I'm looking for a job
It does not seem as heretical when taken in context (rights do not exist, biologically speaking).
I sincerely hope we aren't using "more reasonable than current copyright law" as a measure of anything.
Uh... the downside isn't inevitable?
Shame it's a Forbes link. Guess I'll have to search elsewhere.
Industrial IoT modules are solving these problems. I have been developing/deploying these modules for the past two years that interface to the controllers and send MQTT messages OTA to the cloud for analytics. Ofcourse, it is a bit of a challenge to interface to these legacy industrial systems, but not impossible.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" is a great way for the malicious to fool the stupid.
I think it greatly depends on your goal. If you want to raise capital, you probably need a US company.

If you are not American and your country does not impose onerous foreign affiliate reporting schemes, I can suggest Hong Kong. It is quick and easy to set up, is a relatively "clean" jurisdiction, and Hong Kong does not tax revenue earned outside Hong Kong. Hong Kong also does not tax employment income earned outside Hong Kong if the employee does not live in Hong Kong. If you draw money from the company, you will need to review your local tax rules.

Singapore is a good jurisdiction, other than the local director requirement.

I can write a fair bit more, but without knowing where you are from and what your specific needs are, it is difficult to provide useful feedback. Disclosure and tax rules vary significantly worldwide.
A regurgitation of what I read in the article is supposed to be helpful? It appears from reading the rest of the comments more than I come to discuss not just re-read what we already read in an article.

I guess if we throw a cute face in its supposed to be innocently acceptable too right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯