skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be throwing out the good with the bad. The phone isn't just an internet portal, it's a music player, a navigation system, an audiobook player, a book reader, etc.
This tiny electric jet startup thinks it can reinvent regional air travel
Bad idea, as it gives a false sense of safety.
I'm not sure about battery life but I was a huge fan of Slack (based on Electron) until I set it to run at startup. Before then I'd routinely have three Visual Studio instances, a SQL manager and Chrome running with 10 or 15 tabs open. No problem. Suddenly, I noticed my Windows machine would bog down with just one Visual Studio and take minutes to load Chrome. I was sure I had a virus.

Actually, Task Manager showed 90% of my 8Gb ram being utilized and caching to disk constantly with most of the ram and CPU being hogged by eight(!) Slack threads. This is with Slack minimized and sitting idle.

The fix was to replace the Slack/Electron app and use the browser version instead. That solved it.

Electron is a super cool piece of tech that could enable all kinds of great app development but needs to go on a serious diet first.
Answer: it's an oxygen shortage in the overly thick muscle, causing tissue death

Solution: oxygen masks for the chickens
Whose Reviews Should You Trust? IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, or Fandango
You have talked about Python's exception scheme before, and been rebuffed before (it is too dynamic to use pervasively in a systems language), please be more specific, and also have the minimum grace to not repeat incorrect things.

In any case, panics are not guaranteed to unwind or be catchable: they can be turned into aborts (yes, on the stable compiler). This means an arbitrary library using them for recoverable error handling is incorrect.
Maybe a dongle/phone you can connect to, but don't use?

Fun (semi-related) story, I once had someone steal my mac power cable on a bus ride from Quito to Banos, Tungurahua in Ecuador http://bit.ly/2olVpLT and had to install putty on an internet computer from 2003 to get into a server to reboot a process. That was when I realized that Internet access was no longer a luxury for me.
Because you don't have infinite willpower.
This. Anyone who had doubts can get a stack of z/OS DVDs and the Hercules S/390 emulator and just try to get it to boot! Not trivial.

Although I don't know if Hercules is still alive and hasn't been shut down by the suits.
Flirted with stints of vegetarianism. Still eat far less meat than "average" and can go many days without meat.

I am okay eating animals, they are tasty. They think, they die, they go to my tummy. I try to eat grass fed and "humane" local stuff these days precisely to avoid issues that occur at mass produced meat factories (antibiotic needs, etc.). This makes meat cost more, which makes me eat less.

The central reason for me comes down to sustainability. Eggs and milk are still not the most humane things to me, but they are sustainable and quite a bit better than killing the animals they come from. They cost way less to produce and eggs/cheese/dairy make a lot of tasty stuff I am less willing to give up than meat.

We can probably sustain the planet if everyone eats a light to moderate amount of dairy/eggs, but based on what I have read we really can't do that with the amount of meat consumption in America (and other places that are meat heavy in their culture.)

Not only that but Americans are used to cheap meats and are very very slowly becoming used to paying for meat at prices where it can be raised more healthily (legitimate free range, zero antibiotics due to much lower animal density, etc.)

tl;dr save the planet, and maybe because I occasionally feel bad animals die for me to live a more convenient life.

edit: also, regarding the fish only "vegans"...honestly... it is hard enough to safely define one thinking meat from another. I think people do a lot of mental twists and turns and narrative building to convince themselves that something like say, fish, are "lesser" thinking meats. Insects? Fungi? Bacteria? How do you define your thinking meat? The philosophy of this is actually fiendishly difficult if you take it seriously and don't just stop when your brain has convinced you that you have it figured out. I also don't think it is even subjective, even though it is a very passionate subject. At some level if you eat animals you have to accept the consequence and can't just rationalize away you are eating the muscles and fats of an animal that had its own thing going on. I just never felt strongly convinced by the whole strict vegan argument given the amount of energy required to live that way (it is actually hard and difficult to be a really strict Vegan, in my opinion that time can be better spent reducing misery of actual humans in a lot of cases)
I wonder if the security people were operating under a general expectation of concluding such an action within a certain amount of time, or if they were ordered in this instance to conclude within a certain amount of time.

I also wonder if the plane actually was "overbooked," or if the need to get four crew-passengers on the plane was due to a sudden and unforeseen event. Claiming "overbooked" may give the airline some advantage that not overbooked would not. No idea what the rules for overbooked vs not overbooked are in this case, it just seems weird that exactly four people needed to leave for these four crew members, and not, say, five because of a real overbooking.
trick |trɪk|

noun

• a clever or particular way of doing something: the trick is to put one ski forward and kneel.

Synonyms: [tricks]: art, skills, techniques; secrets, shortcuts.

... and I wish people would stop this witch hunt for "clickbait". It seems any headline that includes trace amounts of creativity, imagination, or suspense is seen as illegitimate, usually with an allusion to some mythical past where every book was apparently called "It was the Gardener: A Murder-Mystery".
When I used facebook I always liked to share my failures with friends. I tried to make them funny. I liked dealing with it that way, it let me move on.
So Deis PaaS is dead. Is this now a AquireHire to get Kubernetes to Azure?

https://deis.com/blog/2017/deis-paas-v1-takes-a-bow/
I tried living totally without internet access, and while I felt a lot better overall, I eventually had to give in. Nowadays phone books aren't usually delivered to homes anymore, so if you want to get in touch with a store or find a doctor's office, you need internet to search for it. Since I wasn't driving at the time, I couldn't just head out to an internet cafe when it was something important.

For similar reasons, I've had trouble detangling from Facebook. 10 years ago, if a friend was getting married they'd send out announcements -- now they just "announce" it on Facebook, and if you don't log in that week, you don't find out about it.

So part of the reason it's hard to disconnect is because the previous methods of staying in touch have atrophied in favor of these new, more toxic systems.

Nevertheless, I'm trying a couple of things (with varied success -- I really do much better cold turkey):

- Trying to reward myself with internet time after I score enough points in Habitica (aka HabitRPG)

- Trying to turn off the modem at a certain time of night like 10 pm (I find I sleep better too -- might be coincidence but I've noticed the difference many times)

Ultimately what would help me would be a pay-per-use internet plan versus an "always on" internet plan. If I know that my plan fee increased after 20 hours / month, I'd have access when I needed it, but then I'd have to "save up" for special occasions like streaming a show. As of yet I haven't found an external limit that doesn't also make life too logistically challenging.
Ironically, I find the only internet interactions that stress me out is not FB or twitter its when i post on hacker news (like this:)) I think mostly because i care and also people here can be very confrontational.
$125 isn't even that bad, as class actions go... it really is a wildly crooked system.
https://archive.fo/x8M8l
I didn't say it was "weakness". I meant it seemed like unnecessarily crippling oneself. It might be valuable for many people to investigate why they can't stop themselves from overusing their smartphones. Sure if they end up realizing that they can't manage to stop themselves, it would make sense to change the environment, but why give up without even trying? This really seems like the opposite of learning self-discipline.
In college I had tried to get into programming (including taking a CS class) and had, each time, bounced off (not because I couldn't get it, but tutorials seemed boring and a passion wasn't ignited).

Fast forward to after college, I found myself at a career-y job I disliked. Each lunch break I loaded up my (shiny new 2011) Macbook Air with a few tabs-worth of chapters of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist [0] and headed to a Wendy's that didn't have an internet connection. So, for 45 minutes I could eat my spicy chicken nuggets and apply what I was learning from the book in console at a Python command line. It was so simple and fun, I was hooked. Within a month I was taking on programming-related responsibilities at work, soon thereafter auditing a class at Uni (I specifically chose cause it interested me), and within 4-5 months was being paid by my professor (from audited class) for web dev grant work, and a few more months and I was being paid as a developer by the University directly. The rest is history.

I think one key part of why it stuck the fourth time was because my routine allowed for 45+ minutes of time away from the internet each day with learning materials. The satisfaction of learning is incredible but more of a "slow drip" compared to the kind of instant satisfaction one can get by opening Netflix, Facebook, or whatever. Going without the latter during a key period I think changed my life.

[0] - http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english3e/
The universe doesn't have to be discrete. Only our capacity to understand it rationally and form consistent linguistic models of it.
MessagePack has extension types:

https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/spec.md#forma...

I experimented using them to implement a limited atom/token spec for use on Arduino.
I remember those days too. I had a lot more fun.
Another time management method that claims to be different, but really is not.
PostgreSQL Monitoring with OpsDash
While I take your comment with the levity with which it was intended, and I agree with you that the advice is wholesome or idealistic, I disagree with the implication that my advice was anything very hard to do.

You write "It's pretty obvious to any parent but very hard to do 100% of the time" but I don't think my method requires that. It could be more like - "I have some free time today, I'll take my kid to the store to help teach him self-control". That is, you can still be upset with store designers that they arranged their items to cause your kids to frustrate you, and you can still usually leave your kid at home while you go to the store, but you can also sometimes take advantage of the environment that the store has created for you.

Similarly, I was listening to a podcast recently about the moral virtue of becoming a vegetarian due to the various evils caused by factory farming. It's one thing that I've always struggled with, because while I see the moral case, I really like the taste of meat. One point that was made on this podcast was: Eating 10% less meat is about 10% as good as being a vegetarian. And, if you can't force yourself to become a vegetarian, it is better to be 10% of a vegetarian than 0%. Likewise, applying rigorous parenting techniques may be too challenging to do consistently, but applying them 10% of the time may be 10% as good - but better than nothing!
How much does it cost to build and run a system like that? What does "my pool wanders between 40 and 70% utilization" mean? I'm assuming you're not talking about free space, because you say you don't delete things.
I agree, the article reads like they had an idea for a story and tried to fit the facts around it.
The heaviest use of contractors in the games industry is, as they imply in the article, in test. Typically you'll have a small core test group in-house to handle test during development and then a much bigger outsourced group you'll ramp up prior to release. In a large multiplayer game you may want 100s of testers on hand at any one time, but only for a few days at a time. Outsourcing gives you that.

Depending on the game you may be content heavy in which case may use outside contractors (or outside studios) to help with the mass of work but that seems to have dropped off as a practice in recent years. Using Chinese and Indian art outsourcing studios was big 10 years ago.
More recently the big players have moved to a model where each of their development studios has a game (or two) in development with a core team working only on that game and a content team who will work on whichever studio needs their help (typically the next game for release).

If you are not 'outsourcing' the entire game development you'll typically want most of the core staff in the same location and full-time. Design, code, technical art and art direction all have to work very closely together. Not something you can easily split around the world or assign to short-term contractors.

Psyonix did outsource their console versions to another studio (likely comprised of full-time employees), which is common with smaller companies who would rather not have to ramp-up their engineering staff for console support. It also saves Psyonix the large capital expense of purchasing development kits.
That rock you mention is where I work on
my startup -- with money in mind.

My main reason to do applied math is to
apply it, to business, the money making
kind.

Yes you have told me about Vapnik before,
but the rest I see, e.g., deep learning,
smells like tweaks on Breiman's CART. I
have a lot of respect for Breiman, maybe
more for his fellow student Neveu as they
were at Berkeley under Loeve.

I have a tough time taking Silicon Valley
seriously on anything serious about
machine learning -- new words for
statistical model building and estimation
but done with much more data.

In

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and
Jerome Friedman, The Elements of
Statistical Learning Data: Mining,
Inference, and Prediction, Second
Edition, Springer, 2008.

I find mention of Vapnik, mostly for
separating hyperplanes, and references

Vapnik, V. (1996). The Nature of
Statistical Learning Theory, Springer, New
York.

Vapnik, V. (1998). Statistical Learning
Theory, Wiley, New York.

Looking at Hastie, et al.,
which seems relatively elementary, I
wouldn't expect to find much on the
Kuhn-Tucker conditions or Glivenko
Cantelli.

In

Kevin P. Murphy, Machine Learning: A
Probabilistic Perspective, ISBN
978-0-262-01802-9, MIT Press, 2012.

I saw no mention of Vapnik.

In

Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-David,
Understanding Machine Learning From
Theory to Algorithms, 2014.

I see

Vapnik, V. (1992), Principles of risk
minimization for learning theory, in J. E.
Moody, S. J. Hanson & R. P. Lippmann, eds,
`Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems 4', Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 831{838.

Vapnik, V. (1995), The Nature of
Statistical Learning Theory, Springer.

Vapnik, V. N. (1982), Estimation of
Dependences Based on Empirical Data,
Springer- Verlag.

Vapnik, V. N. (1998), Statistical Learning
Theory, Wiley.

Vapnik, V. N. & Chervonenkis, A. Y.
(1971), `On the uniform convergence of
relative frequencies of events to their
probabilities', Theory of Probability and
its applications XVI(2), 264{280.

Vapnik, V. N. & Chervonenkis, A. Y.
(1974), Theory of pattern recognition,
Nauka, Moscow. (In Russian).

Okay, that may be a first-cut list of what
to read on Vapnik.

Gee, machine learning and not from Silicon
Valley -- the second part is a step up!
Not from Pittsburgh either -- two steps
up!

Probabilistic and from Russia? More steps
up!

For more steps up, maybe some French or
Japanese could contribute?

For such things, I could take Bertsekas at
MIT seriously.

I'm deep into my startup; there I've done
my applied math derivations and written
the code.

It is true that I have some suspicions
that some old techniques tweaked a little
and maybe some newer techniques might
increase accuracy some, but I'm leaving
that on the back burner for now, avoiding
premature optimization.

But I'll index this post and not forget
about Vapnik.
The `error` function is approximately `throw`.

Catchable with: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.1.0/docs/Contro...
I have to disagree that internet addiction is not something without highly negative social connotations. There is a significant number of people who fall into poor social circumstances via too much exposure to internet. There are a lot of internet communities out there that amplify deviant and antisocial behavior in people who spend way too much time on the internet. I agree that it's a different beast than a substance addiction, but there's no way you can simply dismiss binge internet user issues. Though my point may seem anecdotal, a lot of people have friends who were a lot better socially adjusted before they started letting the internet change their perspective and priorities.
I haven't dealt with my laptop based computer addiction, but I have solved my cell phone addiction.

It's important to understand how much behavior around technology is based on ingrained habits. My goal with dealing with my phone was to "short-circuit" the habitual/addictive behavior.

To do this, I did two things.

1. I turned off all automatic notifications on my phone, as well as all background updates of apps/email/etc.

2. I created a simple rule: I can use my phone whenever I want, but I have to wait five minutes after 'thinking of using it.'

Combined, these two rules have been effective in short-circuiting the addictive properties of my cell phone. The five minute wait time gives me the chance to have deliberate/conscious thought about my phone use. The lack of automatic updates happening in the background gives me a chance to catch myself, if I unconsciously start using my phone. For example, it takes 20-30 seconds to load email. If I unconsciously open the email app, nothing has changed. Sure, I can tell it to load the email, but the time it takes to load the email gives me the chance to realize I'm breaking my five minute rule.

I feel like I'm able to use my phone as a tool again. After around a month of this, I'm no longer scared of my phone's power over me.

Sadly, I haven't figured out an effective system for my computer yet.
I think "trick" here was referring to what is sometimes called "Fourier's trick" for getting the Fourier coefficients, than calling Fourier analysis itself a trick.
You don't need "infinite" willpower. You might even need very little once you've changed into a default mode of using your phone less. By the way it's still unclear whether ego-depletion is a real phenomenon AFAIK.
I did this last year and it was amazing. I got so much done. I became way more fluent in git, started using syncthing to back stuff up, and began printing things I wanted to read.
I never reach into my pocket to check for messages. That is what my LG G Watch R is for, it gives me the information quickly and easily.
Couldn't you make a full electronics replacement kit? It's a bit more involved, but DMCA and other DRM issues just go away. All the original electronics just get removed, to be boxed up and maybe discarded.

You run your own software on your own computer with your own sensors.
DG? You're really giving away your age ;)
This will continue to be the norm in industries where the marketing cycles are so short and high-stakes. Firms get burned by picking the wrong contractors. Contractors get burned by spending a lot of time bidding on the wrong projects. These problems will continue to get worse as the stakes rise, as there will be even less time to make decisions properly. The project management debt they mention doesn't go away, it increases exponentially.

The article suggests industry shifts more towards project-based economies as they progress, but I think this is wrong. The examples of Hollywood and video gaming are both outliers, because both of these industries have put up huge resistance to lengthened product cycles. In part they perceive it as reducing competition. And it's true, but personally I am starting to wonder what all this competition is actually getting us. Prices for customers are dropping, however we seem to get a lot of sequels and recycled content in the name of cost-cutting, and then a lot of extraneous fighting over who gets to release what on what platform just to push royalty charges up. And what do we have to show for it? A lifetime of fickle and perpetually unhappy customers? Please make it stop.

The only solace that I have is that a lot of this is still driven by the hardware arms race. This won't end, but we will start to see more consolidation as the industry continues to mature.
Thanks. I follow most of them.
As I mention in the blog post I link to in my comment [1], the idea isn't to replace.

As for whether spiking neural nets are true representations of the human brain, I think it comes down to choosing the right level of abstraction for the problem. Should your model include neurogenesis? Should you stop at the quantum level? I think the answer is, that it depends. [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14078487
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095943881...
Could be more useful to instead place messages, such as "check the lights"
>I don't know if I agree that the best arguments result in agreement between opponents.

They don't end in agreement, they begin with cooperation; you might not resolve the argument, or your position might prevail, or even change. As you say, there is no argument to be had in some cases, there is no reason. I'm talking about a methodology, rather than an outcome; you can still disagree.

That said, in the case of something like the slave and their master, I'd suggest that an argument is pointless in any case; what's needed is a fight (in the literal sense).