skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another flavor of this topic is the following: just convert from database X to database Y. It should be easy, they are both SQL.
Tackling down the app obesity crisis
Nothing like a little oversimplified, half baked Marxism, when you want a one-idea panacea for society's problems. Ugh!
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Thunderbird allows editing the From header. I think this was a recent change from last year. I deleted my huge identity list.
only forgot to mention that pictures are going the way of books and newspapers.

the web today is video first.

the best selling cameras sold best because of video quality lately.

not mentioning video, focus control, and low ligth clearly shows this is article is amateur hour. even if the author is a pro photographer.
I would rather use my phone as the box instead, since it is the device that is potentially on 24/7.

I wish that by installing the app it would take me to the following process:

1. Set up my custom domain preferences
2. Set up email
3. Set up file sharing
4. Set up personal website (optional)

For the periods in which my phone is offline, e.g. on a flight, the whole thing would fall back to the app vendor service as a contingency to people sending me email or wanting to access my website. Once I'm back online, things would be sync up to the phone and the fall back contingency removed.

Maybe it's just me wanting to fast forward the world 5 to 10 years from now.
Which is sad, that active open source projects are now synonymous with a single companies service built around a single VCS.
we're not talking about the economy, but rather a social network that everyone you know is on - all your friends, and all their friends, and everyone you meet.

How is that not going to be a billion dollar company? Like, what do you imagine here?
> It didn’t get all the bells and whistles of other alphabets in actual practice.

Like what exactly? What's missing of value?

> but this was rarely done in Arabic

Because it's redundant. I know it's frustrating for beginners to guess the diacritics on the words but once you get to intermediate/advanced proficiency level of the language, you'll start to appreciate this design aspect of the language.

> Again, the “current system” in use for centuries in Middle Turkic and early modern Kazan Tatar and other Kipchak languages did not mark most vowels with the use of diacritics in spite of their theoretic availability.

How's this Arabic's fault?

To be honest with you, I am not really familiar with Ottoman Turkish let alone other Turkic languages and their evolution journey but if they didn't make any use of extended vowel diacritics or worse the baseline package of Arabic, I don't know exactly how they managed to communicate using that system.
Big Picture Machine Learning: Classifying Text with Neural Nets and TensorFlow
I have a cheap and old tv that doesn't have that hdmi feature is the problem. to be fair, the tv is kinda off brand and doesn't have any mapping in those "universal" remotes so I have to keep the original remote around if I want to turn it off and on with it. kinda a pain.
Standard advice to learning a set of new personality traits: pick one each morning to choose to embody for the day & focus on it.

How I do it: associate the set of traits with an identity somewhat separate from my own. She's essentially a clone of my personality, except she identifies as a woman & embodies the following personality traits: gentleness, patience, valuing relationships based on emotional support available through them, emotional thinking, relational thinking, intuitive. While these traits are considered stereotypical female traits, I don't view them that way. I think the process I went through would've worked the same if I'd chosen to associate those traits with an animal or, as Buddhists do, some kind of humanoid deity.

She develops her own beliefs, behaviors, emotions, and motivations that emerge from her core values. I'm ultimately aware she's simply a part of my brain...a set of neural networks encoding a set of traits...so it's easy for me to adopt her perception as my own.

That's how we learn together. It's a collaborative relationship. We can practice new ways of communicating in my head. It's the difference between having a two-sided conversation aloud where you're using your own voice for both sides versus using a different voice for each side.

It's sometimes easier to hear ourselves when we hear what we're saying coming from someone else.

How was that? Are you not entertained? ;)
At that point, would Android-x86 be easier?
"These women are smart, well trained, highly educated, many of them are looking for part-time work with flexible hours, something they could do from home. Most of them have the life long habit of looking through newspapers for interesting data. Most are willing to work very cheap. Most are eager to be in the workforce, most are sad about being out of the workforce."

If they actually need the money to survive, why would they work very cheap if they're well trained and highly educated? There's freelance work out there that pays better than "very cheap", e.g., editing or translation. Retired professionals such as lawyers or CPAs can also probably find freelance work in their fields.

If they don't need the money (they have enough savings for retirement) and are just looking for something to do, they'd have the option of doing volunteer work for charitable organizations that are probably more fulfilling to work for than some random startup.
It's still in the wrong place, balance-wise. The camera button should be as close to the edge as possible so that the thumb can counteract the depression force; otherwise, the picture may come out blurred.
Another way to think about it is to see all these platforms as markets.

Facebook is a people market. Spotify is a music market. Airbnb a hotel market. Uber a taxi market Amazon and eBay... Well, literally markets, right? And so on.

Markets obviously do create wealth, as a lubricant for trade. It's a meta-level of the economy, just like money is a meta-good that makes bartering actual goods and services more efficient.

So saying that's it's all "rentier" without creating any wealth might be selling them short a bit.

Where I'm troubled is that they're not free markets, in any sense of the word. They are privately owned, and the owners try to control their markets for the sake of their own profit. That's where things get problematic, I'd say, especially when there is a monopoly.
There's a kind of debate forming on individuals deriving good behavior from core moral principals vs good behavior being externally supplied by some kind of punitive framework. It seems that in cases where the behavior parameters are externally supplied, a person may not have developed any ability to figure out what to do when circumstances change outside of the parameters that were set for them. Whereas when people are taught principals and taught to derive behavior from those principals, they simply don't need lots of rules (if the principals are good ones I suppose), and in many cases will reject rules that seem arbitrary and not useful.

I think it then follows, if this turns out to be the case, that people who are raised in rule "free" environments learn more independent thought and reasoning and more creativity than people who are raised in highly restrictive environments where their internal thought processes may be less developed, and their tasking and behavior needs to be externally supplied.

However, I think this is a very difficult idea to use for child rearing. The balance and thought that needs to go into teaching good principals is much harder than simply making a list of rules. In the worst case, a child will get neither.
Well, considering that was written a decade ago, it doesn't really answer my question...

http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=General_Inform...
Have you managed to get davmail working with Office365/Outlook.com? It was unusably slow every time I tried (message fetching would take over a minute, inbox refresh would only happen once every ~30 minutes, etc...)
That was the last I heard too, but it seems to be actively updated. For example,

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.0/releasenotes/

Does anyone know the story?
I'm not sure I'd be inclined to trust photo gear reviews by a someone who is a techie/programmer first and a photog second.

Why not just see what dpreview and others recommend, who review gear for a living?
oh man, Crystal Quest! amazing. the mouse control seems wonky though, sudden bursts of acceleration, and jitter even when the mouse isn't moving?
I wasn't making the point that society was in charge of my kids, rather that society needs to be tolerant of kids nature and adapt to it to some degree. I can get my kid to sit still, but its not his natural state so I don't often do it. I am glad that there are places you can take your kid to join and indoctrinate them into cultures you want to identify with. I am glad there are options. I would not choose french civility. I would probably more want my kid to eat a big burger with his hands and get ketchup all over his face at an outdoor bbq. God bless choices.
Actually, the Android emulator with x86 package can be super fast for development. Just need to install the package in android studio.
Must admit I am somewhat jaded with current mail applications and actually creating my own. Sylpheed is wonderful and the one I currently use, it's fast and works. My problem is with the GUI. Every single linked email client in this thread looks like it has come from 2005 and, unsurprisingly, most of them were created around then.

Hoping that maybe by using some more modern libraries, and aiming for a material design-esque client, I might be able to make something easy to use and reliable.
Chrome extension that allows you to hide all this boring text from the internet
You are mixing up the sensor size and a certain technology (SLR). While most large-sensored cameras used to be DSLRs, this is no longer the case. "Sharper" and "low light performance" are tied to the sensor and the (interchangeable) lens. Nowadays, you get mirrorless cameras up to medium format size, as for example the Hasselblad. Or, in 35mm format, the Sony a7 series offers the best sensors.

And even the quicker is not necessarily any more true. The AF systems of the top of the line Nikon and Canon cameras are still the best, but the Olympus E-M1 MkII comes close to that - and no DSLR matches its up to 60 fps at full resolution.
I view a centralised web as a similar to à biological system of clones. A few large cloud actors are running similar systems that are essentially copy pasted blueprints. Such a system in the analogy of an biological immune system is vulnerable to diseases. A decentralized web is more resilient because each node is slightly different.

"Monocrop agricultural systems provide an ideal environment for pathogen evolution, because they offer a high density of target specimens with similar/identical genotype" source: Wikipedia
One of the comments has an interesting remark:

"We’re invited to believe that a CEO can somehow ‘earn’ £10m per year, whereas a teacher ‘earns’ £25k per year. That’s only possible if you divorce the word ‘earn’ from any of its actual meaning. No one can actually work enough hours, or create enough value, to equate to £10m."

I think this is the essence of the recent debate about inequality. I think most people would not have a problem with those who are genuinely producing more getting more as well. Think back to school, did you ever complain about your grades if you knew some other kid had worked harder? Me neither. Of course there were times when it seemed arbitrary as well, seemingly having no relevance to quality.

It's a big problem creating a notion of fairness when you move on from school, where everyone is the same age, in the same class, doing the same homework. To create software, for instance, what do you typically find? There's people of various ages, some managing, some selling, some writing code, some doing testing. You need all of them to get the job done, and the job has some sort of value, however vaguely defined, that is greater than the sum of its parts. Nobody on the team could do all of the team's work as effectively as the team.

So then we have the problem of attribution. There's no real way to say what fraction of the value someone created. The only thing we really have is negotiating positions. If you're able to say "Give me half or I'm taking my ball" convincingly, your teammates will give you half. They'll be thinking about a few things mainly: whether you'll really leave if turned down, whether they think they can replace you, and what deal they can put forth to other potential teams if you turn out to be irreplaceable.

This will have some interesting effects. If you're already making a lot, you'll probably need a lot to want to participate. You have more savings in order to hold out for a better offer. CEO guy "genuinely" needs more pay because why wouldn't he just retire now? Janitor guy will take any offer, because he needs to be running to stand still. Actually a lot of people will be in that position, even though their labour is generally seen as useful, like teachers.

Which is all just a long way of saying that the negotiating process does not in itself take merit as an input.
Within the Western classical music academy, these indeed are currently quite separate. That is not universal to all musical traditions.
This is a great example of an extension I'd love to try out if the security model for extensions wasn't so broken.
Data Analytics Models in Quantitative Finance and Risk Management
Seriously with the future of humans doing work so utterly in question right now

I 100% don't buy this narrative at all. I don't know who started it, but something about it makes me reach for a tinfoil hat.

The general historical trend has been towards automation but I still don't see any massive change in the horizon.
None of those point to any kind of troubled life (except his sickness at the end). He got all kinds of scholarships and awards early on, he had continued recognition throughout his life, had an income from his books and never had trouble to find a publisher, he went through the most troubled period of Europe and didn't lift a finger to fight (on the contrary: he was partial to the Nazis and the Romanian Iron Guard), and could get a job at any time but refused.
So you think both that rich people would be willing to give more money, and that rich people think they're already giving too much money? Or is there some fundamental difference between marginal tax systems and what OP was discussing?
Report: Tiger That Mauled Roy Horn Still Struggling to Find Work
The author, Andrea Ghez, is one of the leading researchers on observing the center of our galaxy, and the stars that orbit the central black hole, among other things.
you could say that the continual, un-ending nature of covert cyber/internet and financial war prevents any individual player or group from gaining sudden over-proportional power (as is possible with the two arm leverage of technology and finance) and causing a large-scale conflict. i.e. it's the new multi-lateral cold war of the 21st century.
No, just one for good philosophy.
Corporate dividends are taxed, while interest paid is not. This encourages debt financing. It's a subsidy program for lenders. It fuels leveraged buyouts; "private equity" usually means converting equity to debt. It also fuels stock buybacks as opposed to dividends. This causes a huge distortion in business financing, and it accrues to the benefit of banks. It would be straightforward to fix this as part of tax reform, but the banks would scream. We're not going to fix this in the US until we have a Goldman Sachs free administration.

The other big subsidy program for lenders is borrowing money from the Fed at low rates which can then be lent at much higher commercial rates. That's the welfare state for banks.

It doesn't have to be that way. Japan and China inject money into the economy by building, and sometimes overbuilding, publicly funded infrastructure. The banking system plays a lesser role in economic stimulation. This has its advantages; usually the infrastructure is good for something.
Only half-kidding: they could pay a dividend to their content-creators rather than their investors. The company would be worth a lot less but the content-creators would be way happier (maybe).
Hard to tell if you are serious. My mother and father are going to leave me a bit of cash from their business earnings (I wish they wouldn't). That doesn't make me a Rothschild or a Hearst. Not to mention regal dynasties or modern tech entrepreneurs which are in another category entirely.
The courts also said that for slavery. They are not some be-all end-all argument.
Hehe....category theory is a constructive math. Playing off the unintentional pun of "constructive criticism," I think it's time to create a platform where downvotes must be accompanied with constructive reasons or face being downvoted themselves.
That means 1 in 250 go on to win a Nobel Prize. An absurd rate.

I'd bet money that the only group to perform better over the same timeframe is the list Nobel Prize winners themselves.

Edit: I stand corrected. Solvay Conference had 15/29 one year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference#Fifth_Confer...
None of that has anything to do with being a DSLR though.

Want to increase battery life? Build a bigger battery. Want to protect the sensor? Build a mechanism to cover it when changing lenses.

Is there actually a technical reason you can't make a mirrorless as good as a DSLR?
And while our lax rules have certainly inspired creativity and fed into her individuality, it hasn't done a great deal to build work ethic. I'm aware of the stereotype of parents believing their kids are lazy, so I'm open to being wrong here.

I think the work ethic thing has less to do with rules, and more to do with how you approach small adversities. For a lot of people, if something is hard it's not worth doing. I think kids pick up on that.

Is struggling with something difficult bad, or good?
I don't see the difference. My family posts the memes. My grandfather sends me news from questionable sources via email. If you give my family my contact info by any means, I will be seeing more of the same.
Sure, except the wealthy were doing just fine when taxes were significantly higher for them. They weren't suffering--they were still extremely wealthy, far more than everyone else.

For them to complain that their chlorine level is too high, when in the past it was twice as high or higher, and they were still living high on the hog? Sorry, don't care how they feel, tax the heck out of them.
It's common.

It's often thought that in order to program Haskell one must understand or use Monads since they are so often mentioned. That's often a mental hurdle for those interested in the language.

Two things to keep in mind here are:

-in the book "An introduction to functional programming systems using Haskell" by A. Davie (1992), Monads (or Functors or Monoids) aren't mentioned at all. That's because they hadn't been architected yet. Monads are not an inherent part of Haskell without which you can't learn or use the language.

-Monads are ordinary data types, even if syntactic sugar is provided. They are not a core aspect of the language.

An explanation I found most useful is http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...

One can just start programming Haskell and ignore Monads if one wants. At some point you will design them or something much like them yourself, making their understanding an "Aha!" moment.
To me, everything in photography is a tradeoff.

One application where DSLR provides advantages over mirrorless cameras is photographing moving objects (e.g. sports and wildlife) because optical viewfinders and phase detection autofocus provide a faster response than an electronic viewfinder and contrast detection autofocus. In rapidly changing scenes, the difference between a great shot and 'meh' is often a fraction of a second.

Another area might be the diversity and quantity and quality of available 35mm lenses due to decades of manufacture. There's a lot of existing good glass out in the world. Likewise, film still has a role when resolution really matters because a large format negative has several times the resolving power of even the most advanced medium format digital cameras.

Consumer grade DSLR's are pretty reliable, typically rated to 50,000+ shutter activations (which don't occur when shooting live view or videos). That's more than ten shots a day for more than ten years. Over a period of several years, most people are far more likely to replace their digital camera for the sake upgrades than because the shutter broke and most people are more likely to break their camera by dropping it than by taking too many images.

That's nothing against mirrorless cameras. They have advantages for many people and since a lot of people shoot their DSLR's in program mode without making technical considerations, mirrorless cameras are a reasonable (though not necessarily less costly) alternative.
Why switch? I'll tell you why I switched from Thunderbird to Claws.

I got sick of Thunderbird's pathological memory leaking. I start by email client when I log in and leave it running indefinitely (days-weeks). Thunderbird continually started out at 1 GB but grew over time without limit, even if only sitting idle, collecting mail. After a couple of days it would be creeping north of 6 GB. Several times it drove my PC into pathological swapping, making the PC impossible to use and extremely difficult even to get control of to shut down.

Claws is currently using 0.1 GB, even after running for a week.
I'll second this. I really enjoy the bits of philosophy he throws in with it, too.
Spring+Dresses
Easily measurable? With what metric?

Or are you implying that, because you don't know a measurement that has a causal relationship with it, that you can't be improving it?
> If it was Iran doing this the US would go to war with them.

They are doing this, and yet, no war. So what does that do to your claim?

> If it was Palestine who was spying on US banking systems the US military would be killing left and right until nothing but corpses would remain,

Oh please, you must know nothing about geopolitics to think this is true. I'm 100% certain Palestine spies on Israel as much as they possibly can, and Israel does the same to them.

I doubt Palestine spies on the US, but only because it's not in their interests, not because they are worried about being killed.

> Gathering this information seem to have much more to do with controlling foreign goverments than with preventing terrorism.

And? Is that bad or something? That's what countries do - if they can.

You might wish you lived in a utopia where everyone was super nice to everyone else, and no one took anything not theirs.

But in the real world if people can take power, they will. It would be stupid for any country not to do anything they can to stop or manage that.

> there are lots of countries which have suffered many more terrorist attacks in the last 5 years and don't use it ad an excuse to fuck with everyone else in the planet.

You really believe that the US is the only country that spies?
>The "N" in that weird acronym stands for Netflix. The day they start selling my data to advertisers is the day I'm back to torrenting.

They might already be selling it for all we know ("privacy statement" aside).

Also, it doesn't matter at all, if many other people don't also do the same move.