skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buying on eBay 20 years of data for $100 is a very good risk / reward for me, no offense, but data is cheap, $100 is one dinner out for me... even if the data was crap it is much better than to spend few thousands dollars for data from another unknown provider from the web with crappy result...
Yes it does. If the project is related to your job you can easily get your manager to let you spend 20% of your time on the side project and 80% on your current job.

However If the project has nothing to do with your current job your manager might have you work at 120%. And you are still responsible for your job and on top of that you can do the side project. However unlike other companies google will fund the project.

(Disclaimer I work at google and have been granted to take a week off work for a 20% project. And done the whole 120% time for a project)
The Open-Source community needs Open-Source HDL compilers. Until this happens OSS for FPGAs will continue to be slow.
I think that was the moment I realised I liked Windows 7 more than XP. Installed new graphics drivers, expected "you must reboot your system", instead the screen went black (I had a moment of 'oh crap') and then came back up with 'installation complete.' Very impressive if you're used to XP.
Vipassana meditation uses naming technique as an aid to maintain constant awareness. You name what you are doing: 'walking'. Alternatively you name things that come up to awareness while meditating: 'thought, thought, frustration, need to scratch nose, .... sadness, thought".

Japanese Soto Zen tradition has short verse for every task you do in monastery. Entering toilet verse etc.

It's easy to lose ones awareness when switching tasks or moving about.
Being able to buy a bit faster doesn't make up for how badly poverty is treated in America. I would argue, in fact, that although it may be harder for a tech worker to break into ownership in Canada, your family can still take advantage of the countless social programs that aren't available to all hardworking people in America :)

And there's more to Canada than Toronto. Montreal has great rent prices and a fun-loving tech scene, and a very unique culture. Quebec has $5 a day daycare, free healthcare for all, and McGill university which is ranked as one of the best research institutions in the world despite having the cheapest tuition in North America (although prices for non-residents are quite a bit higher).
Microsoft Acquires Open Build Service to Integrate It into Visual Studio
Yes!

- Idris' `String` type is not just a list of characters, here [1] you can see some relevant functions, I'm still trying to find the definition of `String` though.

- Functions can be overloaded in Idris, which enables declaring a field with the same name on different records.

I'm not sure what you mean with modules and namespacing though

[1] https://www.idris-lang.org/docs/current/prelude_doc/docs/Pre...
The main problem with laziness is that, according to SPJ "[l]aziness makes it much, much harder to reason about performance, especially space."
He didn't say "company blessed". He said "favorite". I would be very surprised if there weren't some clustering in laptop choice.
You make it sound like Linux was the only option on x86.
An introduction to programming by explaining jokes for programmers
Will read, thanks!
He's also been laying the groundwork for escalating anything that looks like a terrorist attack. Remember the tweet "If something happens, blame the judges?"

The emergency powers he could demand might be surprisingly far-reaching and hard to terminate. France is still in a state of emergency, 16 months after the Paris attack, and people seem to be used to it. The police don't mind being able to do warrantless searches and surveillance, and as it normalizes further, people will start asking: "Why did we ever make a fuss about those people's rights anyway?"

(Incidentally, this is a major theme in Brexit. The UK conservatives want to abolish the European Charter of Fundamental Rights because they feel it provides too much protection to non-citizens.)
So is Smalltalk a joke language now?
Using the Mechanical Turkers to rate fluency would arguably be an even more dubious evaluation benchmark if more rigorous standards and consistent for fluent English existed; people regarded as having good writing and editing skills can find better-paying sources of part-time remote work than AMT. Some of the examples of human editing shown in the blog entry certainly don't look fluent to me...
I was in Japan eight years ago and saw this but never understood what was going on. I have a video of a conductor pointing over and over and over again I made a gif out of. I am enthused to know what was going on.
The default Google Calendar does this on Android and Web. It allows you to assign different colours to the calendars you have.

So my work is blue, my personal is green, my wife is purple.
Google #MsPacMaps
Couldn't said it better myself.
Please do not do this, it is never OK to loose money, better give the money to charity and sign for a fantasy portfolio and get your news and trills there...
Next time your on the NYC subway watch for the conductor as the train comes to a stop. They always point out the window at a marker that helps them know where to stop the train. Seems to be a very minimal version of what this article is taking about. But I always get a kick out of it.
What happens if you try in DuckDuckGo?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather+in+Copenhagen&t=lm&atb=v55...
The List of Reasons Why Fiverr Is Great for Logo Design
One of the preinstalled apps on macOS is /Applications/Chess.app. Turns out it uses an open-source chess engine called sjeng, the binary for which is inside the app bundle. Chess.app is itself open source, so I tweaked Apple's code for my own purposes. The code launches an sjeng process, opens a pipe to it, and sends commands over the pipe.

There's a couple of sentences about this in the _README file here (as well as my tweaked source files):

https://github.com/aglee/ChessFidget/tree/master/ChessFidget...

Fun fact: you can play chess in a terminal window by running /Applications/Chess.app/Contents/Resources/sjeng.ChessEngine. You can enter the `help` command for instructions. Note this will create four files with .lrn extensions in your home directory. I forget how to control this behavior -- you can Google "sjeng" for details.
Slightly off-topic, but I imagine there must be a world with balloon-like leviathans serenely floating through the sky like our airships, hosting mini-ecosystems on their bodies and under their shadows..
I confirm those "out of place object" reminders work great!
When I was an expat, I used to use google.com/ncr ("no country redirect") to avoid being redirected to a results page I couldn't understand.
Back in the day.

(To appreciate the joke, check-out which companies had Smalltalk development).
Because it does not exist outside of the minds of the "scientists" "studying" it?

Proof of its existence before down-voting would be appreciated.

Update: a quick overview of how easily sectarian beliefs could be held with support of nothing but opinions of the followers could be found a in my older comments.
Another site to help you with salary negotiation
Here are some search examples you might like to check out:
+ This is how much Google is paying
https://wagescout.com/company/Google%20Inc./
+ This is how much employees are earning in New York, New York
https://wagescout.com/job-region/new-york-ny/
+ This is how much an employee with a Bachelor's degree is making
https://wagescout.com/job-type/bachelor/
+ This lists the typical jobs that give you 200k+ base salary
https://wagescout.com/job-tag/200k/
+ And this is how a Software Engineer having a Bachelor's degree with 5 years experience is earning 200k (base salary only) at Facebook in New York, New York
https://wagescout.com/job/software-engineer-87098/
We hope this site might be useful to some of you, esp those who are looking for a job move, who are considering an ongoing offer, who are trying to ask for a raise but dont know how much is enough, or simply those who are curious about how other people might be getting out there.
Author here, that is precisely the point of Blinklight (the site this blog post is from) :)

It starts from the absolute beginning, and the tools and tutorials are web-based and integrated with each other:

https://www.blinklight.io

The focus is from Hello World to personal computer, but I've built a DSP-based guitar pedal in the past, and signal processing is really fun - I'd love to create a parallel learning path from Hello World to DSP at some point.
I was specifically talking about an emergency situation. Planes don't do early landings when nothing is wrong.
>What's so bad about Dart, if you disregard the "Google is trying to subvert the web" angst? I quite like the optional typing in the language, for instance.

A new language that doesn't solve anything better than Smalltalk did.
You're piling strawman on top of strawman, while suffering from confirmation bias. You think the AI risk guys are making well-hedge arguments, because you believe in that thesis.

Andrew Ng, Yann LeCun, and many other people who have ACTUALLY worked in AI are the ones who scoff at it. They don't need to make arguments because what do you respond to a young earth creationist?

All of the arguments in Supreintelligence or otherwise are simply that AI will eventually exist. The only argument for that it will come by 2050 is a badly conducted survey of non-experts.

Should we worry about all sorts of existential risk which could arrive in any undetermined time in the future?

The whole project is so absurd, it's hard even to begin to make any counter arguments, because none of the arguments make any sense.
How do you structure your reference checks? And what do you do for new hires who are very early in their careers and don't have real work references?

Also, I'll note that three of the above employees were sourced via referral from either other employees or friends of execs.
Show HN: Drag and drop sorting and reordering script for nested structures
In Saitama I saw an old guy on a pedal bike (not a train) who did this the other day!

In fact, I made a note specifically to ask a Nihon friend just what the hell he was doing (so I'll just ask HN instead)...

I understand stopping at an intersection and looking both ways. But making a specific pointing gesture and verbally calling out while doing it I thought was just a bit odd. Particularly cause he was the only person at this quiet little 4 way (no lights) stop. Sounded like he said "hayougush... hayougush".

Retired train conductor?
Hopefully they introduce namespaces (like matriona) and the type system of strongtalk with gradual typing.

edit: just realized this was an april fools :(
Consider that statistically if there's any one person having a problem using software run at that acale, a significant number are likely exist with the same problem without speaking up about it.

That's where the opportunity is.

On a related note keeping the same thing in mind with software that you're building is a very powerful tool: "it works for me/on my machine" is great, but it discounts the possibility that if one user is seeing a bug or usability issur, chances are that that others are too - and not talking about it.
A very strong magnetic field has bad health (neurological and intracellular) consequences. I can't find a good citation, but this blog post should help explain the risks.

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/how-strong...
> I think we can all agree existing unions need to be made more democratic. If your union rep isn't on your side, they should be replaceable.

The problem I'm talking relates to how people in the majority group can politically overpower those in the minority. "Making unions more democratic" doesn't fix that; democracy as a system is literally designed on the principle of the majority (or plurality), not the principle of the minority.

Just as an HR representative works for the company (not for you), a union representative serves the people who elected them as a group, not you individually. If you are a minority member, you can't assume that your representative has your best interests in mind. And, by definition, you don't have the political power to replace them.
AOT compiling was initially all about iOS (where JIT isn't allowed), but you can now do that everywhere with "application snapshots" which were recently added with Dart 1.21.

Unlike the script snapshots, application snapshots also include CPU-specific native code in addition to the serialized token stream of the source code.

So, you don't just skip the parsing stage, you also skip the warmup phase. Your application starts instantly and it runs at full speed from the get-go.

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/wiki/Snapshots
Nobody asked about your income or whether the data was worth $100 or not. OP said he couldn't find good data on eBay and asked for clarity

Your comment is very perplexing in content and tone.
Also, why is the anti particle pair of a charged particle the opposite charge, but neutral particle/anti particle pair are both chargless?

That's just the definition of an antiparticle - same as the particle put opposite charges.

Though it does make sense that in order to cancel each other out, it must be so..

That's right, this is required to maintain charge conservation in annihilation processes.
Yes, totally agree. But it offers something different to say Python, as the video points out. Some things are more compact in shell than in Python, because it's not the same sort of programming language as Python. And I reach for Python as well, when it's the right tool.
So.. 20% doesn't exist anymore. What you've describe is nothing like the original 20% time.

"if the project is related to your job" -- the whole point of 20% time was that _you_ choose what you work on, not the manager that defines the boundaries of your job.

"120%"? Isn't that the same as "not paid to work on this, but company owns it"?

I think you've drunk the koolaid.
Old hackers never die they just dust off their anna kournikova floppies...
I live in the US, and also agree with this. That's why we say "before last" to specify the item before the last one.
Well, on the plus side of that, accrued means they're actually useful, as opposed to "designer through they would be useful".

I wouldn't mind a better shell, but I'm not going to throw out my current shell for the lack of a better shell.
Please argue why you disagree with mainstream physics before requesting links to Wikipedia.
Same. I have a "keys-wallet-phone-pad" routine in which I make sure my pockets contain all of: my keys, my wallet, my cell phone, and the 7-inch tablet that I carry everywhere. I've gotten into the habit of doing it every time I get up if I'm not at home or at my desk at work.
Oh god #1 100%

Very few Google services, I think, are reminded that people can be signed into multiple accounts simultaneously during the design phase.
Are there sources for this which include externalities like mining and producing the fuel?
Very interesting! The word 'embarrassing' comes up a lot, but I wonder why this would be perceived as embarrassing compared to, say, the ritual bowing to empty carriages that takes place on Japanese trains. Or simply compared to the gesturing that takes place in other professions like the construction industry.

Without knowing the psychology behind it, a good guess would be that it derives from the sense that observers may not understand one's intent in pointing, and could prob be alleviated by using some kind of beacon like those used by aircraft marshallers.
Agreed that owning stocks will keep you more engaged with what is happening in the business world, but you'll need super human discipline to not act on the news. Wells Fargo, for example, is now trading at an all time high despite being involved in recent massive consumer fraud.
I do that with my keys and wallet whenever I travel because I'm paranoid about losing them.
Exactly. Go app uses much less RAM than Java app.
Are they actually experts, though? From that paper:

“Concerning the above questions, how would you describe your own expertise?”
(0 = none, 9 = expert)
− Mean 5.85

“Concerning technical work in artificial intelligence, how would you describe your own expertise?”
(0 = none, 9 = expert)
− Mean 6.26

Also, the whole methodology of aggregating the opinions of random conference attendees seems suspect to me. Attending a conference doesn't make you an expert.
A notable exception is New York City’s MTA subway system, whose conductors have used a modified point-only system since 1996 after then Chief Transportation Officer Nathaniel Ford was fascinated by the point-and-call system during a business trip to Japan. In the MTA’s case, conductors point to a fixed black-and-white “zebra board” to confirm a stopped train is correctly located along the platform.

According to MTA spokeswoman Amanda Kwan, conductors were quick to adapt to the new system, and within two years of implementation, incidents of incorrectly berthed subways fell 57 percent.
It reminds me of the Knuth quote: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
You were using NOSQL keystores before it was cool! So ahead of your time.
I have probably called Trump a dangerous buffoon often enough–calling out Chomsky is still important because (a) it's much more likely having an effect on him, since it's coming from "his" people, and (b) it does get noticed on the right as well. I still remember being all warm and fuzzy inside when John McCain told some lunatic at a rally that, no, Barack Obama is not a secret muslim al-quaeda terrorist.

Plus, you know, he's wrong–that should usually be enough reason to challenge him.
Me too. What is this 'Cocoon'?
Also, now that I've had time to start going through things, I wanted to add: great job! This seems like a pretty fantastic introduction so far. Although it might be helpful to provide solutions/additional hints in case someone gets stuck. (I'll admit I'm currently a little stuck at the "boss battle" in chapter 1.)
> Plenty of words have multiple meanings in normal and formal English.

There are some stats from Wordnet on polysemy in English. Obviously this depends on the granularity of a set of senses in a dictionary, but regardless English has many polysemous words (26,000+ according to Wordnet). And more importantly, these polysemous words also tend to be the most common words, hence words like "set" having around 120 definitions in the Oxford English dictionary.

https://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/man/wnstats.7WN.html#s...
I do something similar. I touch my keys, wallet, and phone through my pockets, and then check my fly before I walk out the door (four things). Every now and then, I'll wear a belt, and I always end up checking my keys, wallet, phone, and belt (four things) and then walking outside with my fly down.
Yes, the article we are discussing here spends​ two paragraphs discussing exactly this.
I don't see how Robinhood is any more dangerous than the others. They offer the same products as regulated by the financial industry. Companies advertise all the time with x amount of trades a month/year at low or $0 cost. You can't just go in an day trade because there are restrictions and regulations on everything just as any other brokerage firm.
Looks cool - is the app in the Play Store?
Could this be set at boot time instead of install time? That way if RAM is added or removed (or if a DIMM goes bad) it will update automatically.
Putting the Turing into Tutoring
One gram would be about as bad as the Nagasaki nuke, so not that terrifying.

Sure, it's bad, but I only sometimes lose sleep over all the nukes, so…
There's a few in the works, but none live yet that I know of.

Also, since they're not yet live I can't vouch for them, but here's an example: https://freetrade.io/
The meaning of that sentence is not that there was only one study done on this topic though; just that the author is aware of that particular one, performed in 1996, that makes the 85 percent claim. The use of 'one' here may even imply that the author is aware of more studies that confirm the usefulness of this technique, but that referring to more than this particular relevant source would be superfluous for this article.
The frog levitates at 16 tesla. That's a long way from the fields the article talks about. Nevertheless, given that our brain reacts to magnetic stimulation, I'd be wary of using it as artificial gravity.
I'm confused, did they mimic the windows 95 feel with HTML / CSS? Or did they use WINE? Why did they want to make a serious application resemble Windows 95?
It's relatively straightforward to build a bootable image:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/getting_start...
Why, the very same distinction as between a science and a religion - a proposition which lack empirical verification cannot be used as a valid premise. One single logical flaw (assumption of existence of a mere abstraction) is enough to discard the whole mental construction or a model.

Most of so called modern science is based on a sectarian consensus of ignoring the logical inconsistencies.
...and alternate file streams.
Ask HN: Best proxy server for schools?
I use internet from my school behind a proxy with some blocked services. What is the best proxy server to unblock these services?
> I'd lend some amount money to a colleague, and a few weeks later I'd have a hard time figuring whether they gave it back, and they too. Solution:

An I.O.U.?
I have 2 0.511MeV photons for you - a classic experiment that you seem to have missed in your studies of Physics? 3rd year undergrad, usually.
I've started on programming early this year as a new year resolution, the tutorials on apollo and the help from Graph.Cool comunity alowes me to learn so much... really excited for whats to come...
I consider the article's title to be clickbaity. The fact of the story is why the workers point at things and there's an interesting explanation behind it. Saying they can't stop, however, isn't a true statement and would have been much better if they stated the real affirmative.
That's grand pal
What date was this published? :o)
april1.js does all this
Buy and hold indefinitely is a completely valid strategy, and outperforms almost all active investment strategies in the long term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprised_of#Evaluation
Damn, after reading the description I wish it wasn't April Fool's. I'd totally get one with the dino floatie and little lawn chair.
> Different regions have dramatically different average commute times which don't directly correlate with population. Thus disproving your point.

Average commute time is not the desired metric here, see Duranton and Turner[1].

[1]: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Matthew_T...
It's April 1st :)
Probably has a thing or two to do with today's date...
You make a lot of points. For the moment I'll take issue with only one of them. You claim OpenAI is "an organization that pays below market rates", and give a link to support your claim. The first thing in that link is "OpenAI compensation is similar to industry compensation.", which means it's basically "market rate". Later that link says "OpenAI does not pay absolute top of market", but arguing from that sentence that OpenAI doesn't pay market rate is like saying for example Apple doesn't pay market rates because there's a hedge fund which pays more.

So I believe the source you cited indicates the opposite of what you claim it does.
> Because function arguments are pushed in reverse order in C and funnily enough, GCC actually does that even though that's crazy.

Actually, pushing function arguments right-to-left means that the first argument ends up on top of the stack - and that makes vararg-style functions possible.

Think about it - a called vararg method must be able find the fixed arguments to figure out how many arguments it actually gets.
Yep I had this feeling too that we've got american standards on software. I switched to Safari when Chrome wanted to translate every page I read in English.
Myers diff in linear space: part 1