skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the support! Really cool to see a project of mine up on the front page of Hacker News.
What does your son want to do? In all honesty, I would let him make the decision if he wants to go to university or not.

There is tremendous value in an undergraduate degree outside of just the education. It's the formative years for a young adult to experience life outside the realm of his protective "cocoon" if you will. The least valuable thing I got from college was the actual degree, the most valuable thing I got was learning what happens when you don't budget correctly, whether it be time or money.

I wouldn't advise the boot camps at all, I would advise edX and just have him start messing around with different frameworks/languages. Build some stuff with the MEAN stack. Build tools with Python, you could build some nifty DevOps type stuff with Python. Have him explore data analytics with Python.

Also, MIT or Stanford isn't the end all. Great schools, but it's more about the individual's grit and desire to succeed in life than the school on his diploma.

Just my two cents.
Wasn't supposed to be agressive, just wanted to make sure It's clear I completely disagree with you. Sorry if that came off as agressive, that certainly wasn't the intention.
Not sure if you have access to a good place that smokes fish but you may want to give it a try. I really enjoy it and find my body craves the oil. Smoked lake trout is my favorite because its very oily and to me tastes delicious. It can be a little salty though if you have to watch your salt intake.

You can get it with head on and skin so you can tell what kind it is. Also if you ever do try it, try to get a whole one smoked with bone in. Something about leaving the bone in makes it have a slightly different texture and taste, to me at least.

One other thing is make sure its smoked well, meaning if it isnt smoked long enough it can be too moist. I wouldnt want anyone to try it and sort of get a soggy smoked fish lol. Nothing "wrong" with it but I think its better eating.

Edit..person who posted about smoked sardines just made me so hungry! never had em and its going on list, thanks for suggestion!
The math.js api appears to be broken right now, it just says "error: method.apply is not a function"
I try using a Samsung phone and always run back to something with a more stock Android package, I don't think Google has anything to worry about on this front.
There would still be intense brand rivalry. Not everyone can tell pepsi and coke apart by taste.
> Steve Jobs was a regular faster.

He also died of cancer at a fairly young age after trying to treat it with diet instead of medical treatment. Probably not the best health role model.
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For jobs that take longer than Lambda will allow, I use Datapipeline to run a ShellCommandActivity, which can run a bash script on an EC2 instance.
Hot baths are also good for your body. Any activity where your body has to work hard to establish homeostasis is a form of exercise.
That's a different implementation from DoD's classic AUTOVON system, which used phones with the "missing" four DTMF tones to assign priority. "Flash Override" was pretty much restricted to National Command Authority (the President and Joint Chiefs) and would allegedly clear entire trunk lines to ensure call completion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon
How much is affordable?
I first learned about Roland because of their partnership with Sierra On-Line and the MT-32.

I remember Scott Murphy (Space Quest co-creator) told a story about the first time Roland came to hear how Sierra was using the MT-32. They were blown away by the full musical scores they sequenced (Space Quest 3). He thinks they were expecting Space Invaders like sound effects.
This is a fine argument articulated quite poorly.

A) cancer cells constitute a separate species, or at least evolutionary "actor".

B) the tech naivity is not that things can't be deeply understood, but that it's a moving target, and less than complete erradication of the parasite just increases evolutionary pressure leading to decreased understanding of the foe.
Idk. Loyalty and marketing can only compensate for so much inferiority.

I think the reason coke is pure marketing is because sugar drinks is pretty much a solved problem. No one is ever going to make a drink that is 10x tastier than coke.
Yeah, but I trust Digital Ocean or AWS (and whatever providers they rely on) more than I trust AT&T, Time Warner, and Comcast combined.
The TR-808 is basically singularly responsible for the most popular genre of music in the United States today (hiphop), as well as in conjunction with its younger sibling the TR-909 all of modern dance music via house and techno. It's sort of an amazing swath of modern music. A true pioneer.
I enjoy reading stories about people fasting. Someday I may try it myself, but I know I tend toward a sort of sensory disconnect, so I'm biased toward such hyperbolic stuff. I wish I could be more like some of my friends who are more balanced in their routine; fasting is foreign to them, but they are naturally fit and kind of Zen in their own way. They can just do "normal" very well and no experiments seem necessary.
Compromise your server with this one weird line of code!
I thoughy it was going to be about "Hitchikers guide to the galaxy" I read elswhere that it was a huge influence on him when younger but cant remember details.
Fasting seems to get a lot of appreciation on hn.
Ah, nice. That definitely didn't get anywhere near as much play nationally as the disaster did.
I knew a climber who quit cold turkey after 10 years climbing due to a similar situation happening to one of her buddies that she considered to be an expert. She suddenly realized she was playing a game of 'when' not 'if'.
I remember reading a story about how he picked the name "Roland". He wanted a company name that would be pronounced and spelled the same way in any language and country, and escape translation issues. The irony was not lost on him that the Japanese (his home country) have trouble pronouncing the 'R'.
I assume you never used CC but it's a gigantic pile of crap. It is completely worthless. Sold on golf courses to clueless higher ups, because most developers hate it

But in general I've never seen any commercial source control system beat an open source I've.
Mainly, I was poking a bit of fun at the idea that "number" even has a rigorous definition. You can't really assert whether infinity is a number or not without 1) knowing what they mean by "number" or 2) knowing what they mean by "infinity." If you want "numbers" to be a field extension of the reals and you want it to contain an "infinity," then the hyperreal numbers might be appropriate [1]. If you are instead content with having an infinitesimal and having only a ring extension, then the dual numbers might be appropriate [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number

But, anyway, if you can claim infinity is a number because someone thought of the real projective line, I can say polynomials are numbers. Square matrices, too --- I think of square matrices as being big numbers; rank measures how invertible a big number is.

A stranger consequence of my definition is that a continuous real-valued function on a space X is a "number." If X is a single point, then such a function is the same as a real number. If X is a discrete set of n points, then the set of functions is R^n. If X is compact (I think that's sufficient?) then the maximal ideals in the set of continuous functions is in correspondence with X itself. This suggests that for any ring, one may imagine there to be a space that it is the functions of, whose points are the maximal ideals of that ring. For the ring of complex one-variable polynomials, the points correspond to C itself (the maximal ideals are generated by (x-c) for varying constants c). So, yeah, polynomials are numbers now.
I got this too, and I've gotten it on other websites that are very popular. I can't imagine that any of these sites would intentionally host an advertisement that would make it unreadable.

The solution is to delete Safari's history and cookies. Alternatively you can use private browsing.
Kind of odd how the author reads into his sugar free gum and and ketosis so deeply but didn't say anything about missing two regular workouts and losing so much weight.
The one real advantage I know of is Tmux is compatible with mosh. I made the switch from screen to tmux and have noticed that there's a more active community.
808s & Heartbreak. Kanye used a Roland TR-808 heavily for all beats on that album.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Ka...
In denotation, but not connotation.

> "What can we as hackers do"

Implies a limited scope of vision and lack of initiative to fix the problem. Instead it's a half-baked plea to quench one's emotions.

I'll reshape my answer: If you believe that all you can do is donate your time or money, you are in the "can't" category of doers. As harsh as it is, the best position for you to fill is, for lack of a better title, the "idea guy." By promoting discourse and idea generation, you may be able to aide those who "can" -- make an impact on the problem -- and contribute to a more important solution.

What you can do as a person, and not the abstract and non-existent "hacker," is the above.
The author of Hypothesis (Python library for property based testing) has a nice article about defining property based testing and whether and how it differs from fuzzing. http://hypothesis.works/articles/what-is-property-based-test...
I definitely sleep poorly on days when I fast. Often I wake up 2-3 hours earlier than usual and am wide awake.
Common, we're not here to get advertising, even if it's well done, I really don;t care about your skills, your supposed talent, and you B&W website. You might want to think you're special, but I still want to see something I could think of of special..
Talk about a pioneer of the consumer electronics age. As someone who went to grad school to search for my future in music technology, this hits home. I chose that path inspired by exactly the sort of tech that Kakahashi built with Roland. In particular, it was their BOSS ME-33 multieffect unit [1], which was the first piece of music tech hardware I ever bought. It unlocked an entire universe of sounds for an 18-year-old me, searching for my creative identity. My identity, period, for that matter.

To take this in a wildly different direction, since about 2010, I've felt this ever-increasing impression that the world is being handed over from the post-WWII generation to mine. Every living legend that passes crystallizes that feeling. It's on us to take the reigns of this world and steer it, whether it's starting the Roland of this century, or simply effecting the changes to make our existence on this planet sustainable.

[1] https://www.boss.info/us/products/me-33/
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NYT should be ashamed they posted this, extrapolates examples from a small sample size to make a fake story
I wish people would stop submitting those kinds of links to HN.

Why would you want that?

Surely the point of HN is to read about things on the bleeding edge of what is possible. Sometimes that blood comes from being too ambitious and sometimes from missing docs. Either way, it seems a small price to pay.
As spivak noted, the question I asked isn't why people buy Samsung phones, it's why Samsung bothers with apps.
peachfuzz, quickfuzz, dharma, grammfuzz. They get done a bunch and usually people wind up re-inventing lisp to make a data specification DSL, then write some generators around it and call it a day. The generation strategy usually winds up being domain specific too (are you looking for OOB bugs? dangling refs / UAF? different patterns in different structured data lead to these errors without feedback) so honestly you should pick some parser combinator in a language that you know (like construct for python, or hammer for C) and then turn it into a fuzzer for your application yourself, using the faults you want to find as inspiration for the generators you write.
You do realize that the power of Cas9 is not it's ability to cut or even induce non-homologous-end-joining, but rather to co-localize with an exact sequence of DNA (that can be changed in a day for a few dollars).

Cutting DNA is certainly a great self-defense mechanism used by the bacteria that causes strep throat to attack other bacteria. But in the ways that Cas9 will eventually be used, likely its entire endonuclease activity will be stripped, leaving only its homing ability. And for that you can swap in any other useful protein functions that now happen at a particular sequence location. And that is what makes Cas9 so exciting. That NHEJ works at all is just a bonus to get us to some early results quickly.

fCas9 or dCas9, or a nickase (different endonuclease, and endonuclease-dead respectively) as well as a host of other variants actually hold great promise precisely and solely in their ability to locate a sequence.
Efficient codeless solution for UI testing automation
btw nice hack : getting ~400pts on a saturday night, with this kind of uninteresting content. Growth hacking is good only when you've got something edgy to sell
Based on the contents of this article, it sounds like many of the problems facing the F35 are rooted in sheer technical incompetence. There is no valid technical reason for many of the software limitations described in the article.
> Can anyone speak to success or usefulness of any of this Samsung software?

I'm one of those people who typically roots their phones and deletes all the carrier crap. My Samsung Tab S 8.4 came with so much crap that I literally spent an entire day uninstalling and disabling apps that it came with and I removed almost 50% of everything installed.

However, I recently got a Samsung S7 and I was really surprised that I actually liked a lot of the built in software. S Health is a really good health app and, in my opinion, better than Google fit.

I just wish Samsung would keep choice available -- it's really hard to use Google now/Assistant on Samsung phones to their full extent and their own S Voice isn't very good.
A short documentary on the TB-303: https://youtu.be/omHUR3R0Qqw
Do you feel tired that day?
Replying to myself because I found an animated gif that gives a peek into some of the functionality. It does look fairly slick. https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ori...
If you want the fast to have a detoxing effect, skip the 2 - 4 cups of coffee per day
"Trolling: A person who posts inflammatory or otherwise unwanted material on an electronic forum, especially anonymously."

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trolling

"Troll: One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll&defid=...

Provoking gangland warfare to the tune of http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-open-le...

There's been an absolute epidemic within this thread of people attempting to redefine trolling in such a way as to minimise either the problem or the source article. It's beyond stupid, beyond credible, and beyond sustaining any credibility of those doing it.

Ya trollin' me, bra?
Going through his portfolio, my sarcastic side trying to find something that will somehow justify for my mind why a person's writing is so good that he gets paid for it consistently. Flip through, see [0]
A picture of a boy playing in a puddle with a Washtub on his head, with the caption:

"The joy of being five.

You've got just 365 days to capture it".

Ok, now I get it. (goes to my soon to be 6 daughter and gives her a huge hug, and wish I have taken more pictures, and telling my wife I just got something stuck in my eye)

[0] http://getcoleman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1_Jessops-B...
This whole conversation reminds me of http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/. Claims like "breakdown of feedback loops that keep the system stable" are basically just a long way of saying, "for reasons I don't understand." All things happen for reasons, and if it's on the bleeding edge of human understanding, or beyond current science, it'll likely be for reasons you don't understand. That does not mean that no entity will ever be able to understand.

It's a little frustrating honestly. Don't people see that most things seem impossible until they aren't? Just two years ago a lot of people were quite confident that computers would never surpass humans at Go. https://www.reddit.com/r/baduk/comments/2wgukb/why_do_people... This is one of dozens of such links you could find from that period. Much moreso ten years ago. I get that cancer is a horse of a different color, but come on. If you are confident that ANYTHING will be impossible in 200 years, besides things which are physically so . . . well, I just cannot agree.
It makes sense though. I'm sure Wall Street is as bad or worse. The thing is, everyone already hates wall st.. SV and startups have become part of pop culture. It's "cool" to have a startup. People are eschewing Wall Street, Madison Ave, and big 4 consulting jobs to work at startups or VC firms.

It's only natural that journalists and media outlets will look to expose the flaws in what's popular. A similar story about stock traders would not raise eyebrows. Actually I think it's a good thing.
A. Real joins using normalized data

Then you end up denormalizimg your data anyway in the business layer anyway because most real world applications work with denormalized data and being a good DDD person you work with "aggregate roots". With Mongo you can store and load the whole aggregate root as is without the whole "object relational impedance mismatch".

1. generates a ton of network congestion from getting the data
2. ton of cpu because because json decoding/encoding
3. ton of cpu because scripting languages vs optimized C

I don't use scripting languages. I use C#.

4. the use of O(shit) algorithms to make the joins

If you're doing a lot of joins with a non relational database, you're doing it wrong. You should be Store the whole object hierarchy as one document.

If I'm doing joins. I'm using Linq which should be doing joins based on hashes.

5. inconsistencies when things fail like network or disk or shutdown

Again you should be storing the whole document with the relationships.

B. Redundant data
1. use a ton of memory/disk
2. create deferred overheads in order to keep things sync
3. despite that, end up with inconsistent data all over the place

You're doing it wrong you're using a non relational database like a relational database.

4. wont actually be faster or scalable(!!!)
In both cases they end up creating a bottleneck once you start caring about concurrent access not messing up your data.

If you use it like an RDMS it won't be. But if you're storing all of the related data as a document, using good algorithms when you have to join, it is faster. How much time do OO programmers spend denormalizing data and using bloated ORMs?
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The article is opinion. I'd like to see some peer reviewed science behind it before I believe it.

It sounds like the SJWs are attacking young white men who are the majority in founding Dotcoms. When Ellen Pao sued her former employer for gender discrimation she had no evidence to back it up and lost her case. Instead they had evidence that she was a bad employee. She was made Reddit CEO at a time to fight the so-called bro culture, and Reddit was the worst for it because she had no experience running a Dotcom as CEO.

I've run two different companies in the past as president or vice president (we took turns, my business partners and I to get experience) if we had vc investing in our small company it might have succeeded but we bootstrapped until our life savings ran out, etc.

I am now 48 one of the older men with a lot of experience and finding funding is hard. It seems like only the young men can get funding even if they don't have a business model or business plan.

I got many good ideas for projects, but I don't have the money to hire people to build them for me, etc.
I cringed a little when I read that.
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I upvoted you, but I would somewhat correct you saying how the technology helped unlock the creativity of the pioneers of these genres. Although we rightly focus on Kakehashi here, I just want to be careful not to erase the marginalized people that used these tools to actually make the music.
Like.. almost dying? ;)
>I would much rather see slow, difficult, tentative studies instead of the high-speed spray of nearly meaningless results we see every day.

A major hurdle is the experiments do keep getting slower and slower. As a recently graduated biomedical grad student I spent literally 6.5 years of my life trying to get an experiment to work enough times to glean useful data out of it. I knew exactly how much power my data had (I had literally years to think and rethink about it). The number of stars that had to align to get equipment, protocols, controls, materials, animals, sleep-schedules, etc. all aligned to get data out of an incredibly complicated system meant that there is no fast data. Useful biological data is hard-won. And it's getting harder and harder (read, more expensive and labor-intensive).

You could say, well, then just don't expect every scientist to do their own (independent) research (see the author lists on CERN publications...). That indeed would change incentives a lot in the biomedical fields - and I actually do think for the better.

The last point is I think there's a big difference between how a practicing scientist sees a 'published paper' in their field, and how everyone else sees it. A published paper really is just a mark of what you did, and what happened, and maybe a basic interpretation. It really does not claim to be 'true' in a strong sense. And there are entirely reasonable situations where different papers come to opposite (justifiable) conclusions. This is itself weighted data to be used in the next motions of the field precisely because sample size and (more often than not) experimental complexity makes clarity hard to come by for a single paper.
Peach Fuzzer[p] and Synopsys Defensics[d] should fit the bill. Both are commercial. I'm not aware of any OSS grammar-based fuzzers that would be good for anything (ok; there is Sulley and some others which seemingly haven't been maintained in eons).

[p] www.peachfuzzer.com/
[d] https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/security-testing...
the only reason why I upgraded my phone to the 7s. I have a 3 year old. A smart phone + Google photos combination is a pretty good one.
why? It's true.
also https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
Aren't pretty much all modern military aircraft turbofans?

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From wikipedia:

F/A 18-D 2 × General Electric F404-GE-402 turbofans

F-15 2 × Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-100 or −220 afterburning turbofans

F-22 2 × Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofans with thrust vectoring in pitch-axis

F-35A 1 × Pratt & Whitney F135 afterburning turbofan
Tirpitz did get used a few times, but it was mostly useful as a way to tie up a big chunk of the Royal Navy. Eventually, Tirpitz was sunk by aircraft.

The US's four Iowa-class battleships were quite useful, mostly for shore bombardment. They required a huge crew, 2,700 for WWII, Korea), and, after some modernization, 1,800 in the 1980s and 1990s. It's the crew size that led to their retirement. Each turret needed 90-110 people.

There was naval interest in building some "bombardment ships" intended for shore bombardment of countries that didn't have a significant capability for shooting back. But that went nowhere, since most of the US's enemies in recent decades have been too far inland.