skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's weird, I'm closer to the opposite. I never get motivated unless it comes deep within myself--if I feel like something is worth my time, be it because to groom my GPA, because it's interesting material, I feel a drive to do it (which sometimes makes me unhappy because it's grueling work). The social interactions at school are great in its own right, but I feel like that bit is decoupled from my work.

You know one of those clicker games, like cookie clicker? It's hilariously dumb if you think about it--it's kind a parody of what a video game really is. You click, and then you get a reward, and you use that reward to do the click thing better, faster, and automated. Some people love it because they are really receptive to operant conditioning and self-motivated just to see that number rise (however stupid it may be), and some people feel like they need a deeper reason to play something like that. That was kind of my analogy for the whole shebang.
One things IDNs certainly have done in countries like Germany is encourage companies to buy multiple domains.

Your company name contains an umlaut? Better buy both the IDN and ASCII versions for each variant. Boom, doubled the sales of domain names.
I am writing a game engine and C++'s lack of proper reflection is a real hindrance for a variety of serialisation/deserialisation interfaces, be it networking or saving things to disk and loading them. You just end up writing redundant and more brittle code for no reason other than that a language feature is missing. I think it is great that this problem is given attention.

Edit: After thinking on it for a few minutes. All I want is a generic function that takes a class as the generic type T, and a string as an argument, and returns me a completely filled in object of type T, or throws an error on malformed input. I really don't think I am asking for too much here.
Please don't.

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I do understand that anyone from history will have held views that are morally repugnant to anyone in the modern world. Think of Thomas Jefferson and having children with his slaves and I think those children were slaves, while also thinking about the universal rights of man (and not women, blacks, or non-landholding white men).

But there is a historic millieu that one has to use to judge that person's views and ideas within, and that does allow me to consider the views of people from antiquity. But that notion also applies to judging the ideas of people writing in the world that I live in. Today, it's just clear that women should have civil rights and be equal partners in society with men. It's silly to state otherwise, and so when someone who is a contemporary states otherwise, it does call into question their views.
Thats a different discussion though.

You can be of the opinion that everyone should get access to the same treatment or you can be of the opinion that they shouldn't and that people who can afford better treatment should be able to.

All I was doing was point out that a single payer system has it's own issues as well.

Whether you are a fan of one or the other is more a political discussion.
In nature, the natural neural network called brain seems to weigh in the information from multiple sources instead of relying on just one. Not just in terms of number of sense but even for the same sense. Vision for example: it gets input from 2 eyes and if the data between the two is too inconstant, it sometimes drops it.

The machine learning systems will probably use similar tricks at some point. You might need to double the resource needed to process data twice or more, but you end up with a harder to fool systems. At least with the current adversarial attacks.

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[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/two-eyes-two-view...

[1] http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/story/20150130-how-your-ey...
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Am I missing something with your comment? Sorry but I don't get where you're coming from, or how the comment is relevant to a css framework.
Ask HN: Is developing desktop app for Mac worth it?
I'm pretty much Windows developer and I have been developing desktop applications for Windows for who knows how long. Recently, I've been interested in Macs. I don't really like Windows anymore for multiple reasons.

I would like to hear experiences about developing desktop apps for Mac. Is the app store worth it? What do you think is the future of OS X? (I've been reading a lot negative comments about new Macs...) Do you make living out of developing desktop applications?

Product I'm planning to write for OS X is this https://cryptoextension.eu/. This is not meant to be an advertisement, just to give you some insight what I'm planning to do. On Windows, sales are more than I ever excepted them to be which is nice of course. I have this image in my head that Mac users are more willing to pay for software, is it true?

Just asking for your experiences really, I'm probably going to buy Mac anyway and write the software for it, as it's fun and I like to do desktop applications :)
I see you haven't worked in the public sector or non-tech enterprises.
1950's tax preparation: plugboard programming with an IBM 403 Accounting Machine
So what do you call a war who's aim is to install a friendly government and take over some amount of the nation's sovereignty?
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If Amazon loads .1 second slower, are users not buying from Amazon or not buying at all? Until you know the answer to that you're not really making a convincing point.
Ah, yes, but the person who owns the AI radiology business, and the equipment, will happen to be a radiologist.
It's good that someone is pointing out these basic mistakes. It's really easy to see which companies go the extra mile.
Although, with some exception where protectionism ensures high pay, the higher the paying the work, the less concerned the market is with degrees. This is more due to the fact that high paying jobs are high paying because it's difficult to find people, and you can't be choosy when your options are already limited. But the secondary effect is that with the high pay, the benefits of "debt control" is lost anyway, so there's still no reason to look for workers with degrees.

Hence why the reasonably high paying software industry couldn't care less about formal education, but lowly office jobs that barely pay minimum wage expect the world from their applicants.
> especially paper money

(A) someone either forgot about or doesn't grasp the scale of the derivatives market

(B) Given the choice (and that's assuming they're given a choice) between the long-standing fiat-based currency we currently have in which the skilled already have some measure of "wealth", and a system that largely favors unknown entities and a bunch of smelly basement-dwellers who had leftover pizza money back in the aughts, guess which one the people will go with lol
As an old-school Erlang programmer, I don't want to water down the Beam ecosystem with an influx of Ruby "programmers."

Sure, they may be able to cut and paste a Phoenix demo to get something sort-of working, but they have No Idea how everything works.
I doubt I can afford the best, an extra 100k or two for a few percentage point increase in outcome isn't a deal I'd make personally.
Neural network written in swift apple playground
You forgot the most important. More real world experience, and a well formatted resume.
This breaks the HN guidelines against being uncivil and calling names in arguments. Please don't do that, regardless of how wrong someone else is.

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Nobody has really commented yet on how highly suspect the methodology here is, nor the tradeoff between education and experience, nor the tradeoffs inherent in the world "acceptable" when you're trying to figure out what the minimum acceptable education is to land a certain job.

Just for the easiest example, the given education stat for top executives (chief executives, general and operations managers, and legislators) is listed as "high school." It's not even "some college". Now if I come to you and say, "hey, my niece actually just graduated high school and she's pretty smart, has a lot of ambition and drive, really great extracurricular involvement -- can we set up a job interview where she might take over your company as CEO?" you would laugh at me! You would say, "let her get her MBA and manage real people for a few years, and then let's talk. Or I mean if she really can't wait, let's give her an entry-level position and if she's really as good as you say, she'll be managing in 5 years and might be able to get to the top in 5 more."

But if we say "minimum" as in "could you start a company with only a high-school education and find yourself as its CEO?" then of course the answer is yes. Heck, let's knock this one down a peg, that could happen even if you don't graduate high school, it's just less likely. Legislator? Sure. I mean, most legislators today are presumably former lawyers who have 7 years of post-high-school schooling in them, but all you really need to legislate is to be elected.

Or for another example, Devin has said, "Any job specific training takes less than six months. Examples: ...cook." I mean, that's partly true, some 1/4 of cooks in this country work at fast food joints, some other 1/4 of cooks work in cafeterias etc., but placing it at "high school" as if culinary school isn't a thing is just deluding yourself for the other half or so of cooks. And if you have the choice between going to culinary school for a year or going to work in a kitchen that will take you for a year, probably if you're fresh out of high school you're going to get a lot more out of the culinary school. And that's because education has a different sort of value from work experience, which makes them very hard to compare evenly. The cook who went to culinary school for a year probably knows how to cook a much broader diversity of things, but the one-year-anniversary line cook will probably have greater appreciations for, say, prepping quickly and efficiently, taking multiple orders at once, estimating the time that dishes take to cook and communicating that to others, and so forth. They're not easily comparable.
It appears that they are finding the private keys for transactions that already occurred. Reusing an address is not part of Bitcoin's design and it was never intended for people to do that. By not reusing addresses (not reusing private keys) I think one would be immune to this attack.
The article doesn't seem to have much detail; anyone have more detail on this?

Edit: The details are in the URL posted by alphydan; it looks like address reuse does not matter with their method.
Probably A/B tested for maximum customer annoyance /s
I left my last doctor after I arrived at an appointment only to find that I did not have an appointment that day. In fact, the doctor wasn't even there.
If all a radiologist does is pattern matching, the market would've replaced them with techs a long time ago. If not in the US, this would've happened in at least a few other countries.
AFAIK, there's a new huge testing facility for self-driving cars outside of Detroit for this exact reason. Will update with a link if I find it.

Edit: http://ns.umich.edu/new/multimedia/videos/23020-u-m-opens-mc...

And more recent investment: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougnewcomb/2016/07/27/michigan...
I knew a lot of people in college that didn't work all that hard except for last minute rushes to get things turned in at finals. Those people had a hard time finding jobs that justified the cost of their education. I also saw people that consistently worked hard. They are doing quite well. I think going to college is something you shouldn't do if you're not taking it seriously. If you're using college to put off real life, you might be better off waiting tables.
Remote work is changing. With better video chats, slack chats and such, I don't feel that remote is that much different than being there. If the whole class does get together from time to time, and the whole class is remote, I think it can work. Especially if they are in the same geographical region so they can get together and do things outside of class.

The "pursue at their own pace" is probably the part I disagree with as well. Most young people just don't have enough internal motivation to actually finish on time. You still need the structure a class and school provides. I just think it doesn't have to 100% on site.
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"Dunning-Kruger" has become the new "cognitive dissonance", a phrase everyone recognizes just enough to throw around as an epithet in lieu of making an actual point.
The irony is that traditionally made ciabatta or france baguett is not white. If you put in just a little yeast, put it in a coldplace, and let it slowly grow over night- then and only then you get the real thing. Anything you can order on the same day is just not the real thing. A good baker needs a day for this and will tell you.

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/handbook/ciabatta-poolish
The sub head
"Edwardian Britain harbored many of the preconditions for fascism—including rampant anti-Semitism—before war broke out and united a divided nation"

Doesn't sit well with me because that competitive european colonial era was a lot more complicated than Pugh describes.

I hope Pugh's book discusses the realities of the global rentier classes and the origins of globalization, because I would argue this is at the root of much of subsequent events.

England, Germany, Holland and France were all competing to colonize the globe in a militaristic fashion during this era, and their internal and external societies reflected that. The advent of fluid global capital unaligned to nation states - including the 1910 Jekyll Island 'Federal Reserve' invention in the USA - led to massive pressures on the parochial societies.

The semitic ethnic cleansing to create the predominantly Ashkenazi state of Israel was largely the result of British capitulation to the global financiers who orchestrated the Sykes Picant and Balfor treaties that enabled the state of Israel to be reinvented.

The punitive reparations on Germany after WW1 was largely seen as this same class extracting tribute from Germans ...and crucially the popular sentiment was that German society was being dominated and overrun with Jewish capital. These are obviously contentious issues but, just as the case now where the 1% who own the world's capital 'haven't taken out enough insurance to protect themselves from the rest' to paraphrase economist Mark Blyth, 'populism' ie people waking up unsatisfied with the way their societies are dominated and run, was a major motivator for change then and now.

Well over 100 million people died in WWII and billions were made by those same stateless rentier classes (who are of all ethnicities and religions, this isn't uniquely about Judaism).

The author's website

http://www.martindpugh.com/page3.htm
parsing doesn't benefit from a functional style?
the expressiveness and clarity of parser combinators in haskell are one of the languages selling points.
Yup, and inb4 "it's anon so impossible to regulate". You're not fighting someone trying to stop you from purchasing it, you're fighting an apathetic system that will go with "whatever works" and isn't a pain in the ass to use.

All it takes is for some litigators to decide that operating businesses anonymously is illegal, and now those "anonymous customers" could be police stings making your "system" more trouble than it's worth to use anonymously.

Truly-anonymous currency is either a fantasy or will only exist in niche markets. In reality all they really have to do is scare people at the point of sale, and the point of sale is by the nature of markets not hard-to-find or 'hear about on the street' (because it has to attain customers).
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> Trucking companies rightfully insist on a high school degree...

Not sure about these days, but ~10 years ago, my friend's family's company did not require a high school degree. To your point, however, I know this because he specifically complained about dealing with under educated employees.

From some rudimentary googling, it seems requiring a HS degree is the norm, but there are plenty of cases of forgoing the degree/GED.
Why Cancer Drug Prices Keep Rising in the U.S
Maybe it does, but that's perhaps not the point.

The point, at least in this case, is that the author is counting on being treated as a serious thinker at the table of ideas. He is relying on our good faith to promote ideas that are fundamentally incompatible with the existence of exactly the kind of dialogue he's being given on this site. Do not think, should he win, that he will afford you the same charity.

Criticizing someone who uses dialogue in bad faith is an exercise in futility. It's better to recognize their actions before hand and label them as such -- a sophist, or a pseudophilosopher, or whatever. That won't stop them from speaking (nor should we want it to), but it gives us the power to redirect dialogue towards more serious participants.

Edit: I realize that I didn't make this clear: criticizing the easier thing is not sophistry. At the worst, it's poor argumentation. Sophistry involves using rhetoric to hide intellectual bankruptcy and bad faith.
By the time the command is done the hero died of thirst.
Is the Drivelog Connect even necessary?

"Drivelog Connect allows your car to speak to you. Your car directly connects with your smartphone. All the information becomes available at your fingertips."

Many of the features the app offers could be made available in the car's console/monitor.

Like: - automotive diagnostics, display of real-time driving behavior(should you really be looking at your Smartphone while driving), Logbook for recording and storage routes...

I don't really see benefit of this app.
1. domain name are hard to find nowadays, thus i had to choose most nearest match name.

2. documents are created online with editor and the URL are generated for each docs.

Mostly nowadays doc files or pdf files are binded with trojan and RAT, thus in order to prevent user from getting infected, this product was created.

Also, NDA was PIA , thus i had to create an easy NDA option where user can right away sign online and view the documents.

In-order to prevent misleading signature, there is option where doc author can set require approval even after signing NDA, so that he can himself verify, if signature is not misleading. After verifying from his panel, he can approve or deny the view of document to user.

It's all online in portal.
Only somewhat relatedly, The content of the constant ASAA ads during sporting events on TV strikes me as indirect but blatant military propaganda.
Cruising along with frequent pit stops for garbage collection.

All jokes aside I agree with you to some extent: C++ can be frustrating to work with, and there are a lot of quirks that make it really easy to blow your foot off.

These quirks are not without benefit though. Being able to control how memory is allocated is hugely important in performance sensitive applications where pointer chasing is not tolerable. The same can be said about r values/move semantics.
Maybe that's the perspective from your bubble, but I still have users on dialup and satellite links and ten-year-old notebooks, and I expect this situation to persist for years. Perhaps even more so if we launch in developing locales. "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." - Gibson, W.
I kind of like the openness for some reason. I have a bunch of USB drives hanging off my NAS laptop retired into NAS. This bee thingy sounds nicer.
>зоомагазин.com or .рф they shouldn't have to compete for the name petstore.com

There's already a .ru domain. And why would it want petstore.com instead of zoomagazin.com? Everyone is able to transliterate to Latin here. Many years have passed since .рф was introduced and almost nobody is using domains in Cyrillic. Sites that use Latin domains are much more popular. At this point it's safe to say that non-ASCII domains is a feature that nobody really needed (except for phishers, of course).
investment banker != trader or investment manager

an investment banker typically advises on M&A transactions which is a very human business where your career path is strongly correlated with your social skills and status rather than technical knowledge.
Can you really expect high school students to perform well in online classes?

Does it matter? At what point do we put the failure of the student on the student? Education being unaffordable is a broadly sympathetic position. Not getting an education because you couldn't be troubled to take advantage of a free education is an unsympathetic position.

You're giving too much credit to students, they don't know what is best for them. This $100k will be exploited in some way by profit-seeking companies before you have a second to glance back at the money.

This plays right into the author's point. It's exploitation to culturally coerce young people into large amounts of debt to purchase a degree in communications or international studies, only to end up tending bar or hauling trash.

Instead, under the author's plan, they could have tested the waters of secondary education at 14 or 15, decided it wasn't for them, got a job hauling trash and be a mortgage-free home owner before they're 25.
After offering $800 + refund of ticket... Zero passengers volunteered.

I have severe doubts that more money would solve the issue. The flight didn't cost more than $200 one way.

Calling the police worked for 3 of the four passengers. There was just one last guy who continued to refuse even after getting his nose busted.
>... and AMP sites heavily outrank non-AMP sites on Google's SERP.

That's like saying Ford thinks Ford makes the best cars.
Pretty sure they use manual transcriptionists according to LinkedIn employees
Not sure we are discussion the same thing.

My point is that a singlepayer system payed by the taxpayers and budgeted by the politicians isn't making money it can only spend less money.

A system like the american overall can make money, it's it's goal to profit.

That's the difference between whether it's a market driven market or not IMO.
Checkout this one http://gethead.info/
And pick whatever you need.
The article has some interesting ideas. But it tries to solve a problem that is already solved in other countries. Why do not, instead, start looking at how those countries do it?

The problem needs thinking out-of-the-box. Education is not "too expensive", remove that from your equation. Education is a great investment.

Why is your country not paying for it? Try to solve that instead.
Outranks because google has a vested interest in promoting it
> How likely do you think 1 is in the next 15 years (surely less than 100%)? To me, 50% seems generous.

Tesla has the hardware deployed already and announced that the software to enable Tesla Network (which is essentially Uber, without drivers) will be enabled by the end of this calendar year. You think there are 50% odds that one of the other companies ploughing billions of dollars into autonomous driving R&D is going to take another 15 years to execute on this? I can't think of many examples where that level of first mover advantage has existed outside of the development of viably deployable nuclear weapons.

> Based on this

I don't accept the premise, I'm afraid. But Uber could be profitable if it increased its fare price by 15%. So why is it difficult to believe that they could achieve profitability by cutting central costs?
It seemed like in the panel they just kept looping back to the performance and concurrency, to which the Ruby guys would say "So what, Ruby is fast enough for 99% of apps", completely ignoring all of the other strengths of Elixir.