skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one of my best friends was a heroin addict after highschool. then my ex-wife's best friend was a heroin addict as well.... I called my friend, who had successfully killed the habit (he now build super high-end guitar peddles) and asked him for advice on how to help then-wifes friend.

he said, nope - they can only help themselves.

she OD'd and died. that sucked.

however, unrelated to the sad story of ex's friend...

we are pranksters (our dads owned two competing companies and forbade us from being friends, thus we became good friends)

I took a pic of a sign from Alameda, Ca along Clement street...

The sign said:

"Tracks no longer in service"

(I SENT THIS BEFORE THE FRIEND STORY HAPPENED, just FYI)
I think you're expecting a simple templating engine to do more than I'm claiming it's doing.
A few stiff drinks.

Just kidding.

YouTube. I thought it was crazy for Google to buy it for $1E9, but now I think it was wise.
All wasted on finding the best advert to match to your search terms....
Going to go ahead and recommend Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife. And The Windup Girl is even better, but not on topic.
Is integer training insufficient for deep nets? (big implications for DL chips)
Basically, they show that 40-bits(!!) are necessary for GoogLeNet inference whereas only 16 are necessary with floats.
Additionally they show that XNOR-net for GoogLeNet doesn't converge.
Yep. My target audience has a GitHub account already, and I'd rather not force them to create yet another account on my personal site just to comment or leave a reaction.

It also works well as a quality filter. People with a GitHub account will be much more responsible with their words, compared to anaonymous posters or throwaway accounts, since they have a professional reputation to maintain.
That's definitely part of it, but as solar panel prices continue to fall I suspect that the marginal cost of adding on solar panels to a wind installation will be low enough to justify it even in sub-optimal sunlight conditions. You've already got the land and the power transmission infrastructure taken care of, so it's just the additional cost of the panels. It could start making sense.
I read a lot of text on screen. One of my main enjoyments of HN is it is text heavy so my screen space is not wasted with subpar graphics.

I also read in print I enjoy the tactical feel and the lack of a back light. I also tend to buy beautiful physical books that stand out as objects on their own.

PDFs, I only read now on an IPad given the high dpi.

If I have a point it is in my reading I switch back and forth so generously it is hard to tell the difference.
"* Specifically, the lump of labor fallacy."

I've seen the lump of labor fallacy come up many times on HN and often it is a case of simplistic reductions of statements like: "Increased labor supply cheapens wages." to some variation of "They are taking our [finite, limited supply] jobs." What may seem like a lump of labor fallacy(that there is a fixed amount of work) may simply just be an application of the law of supply and demand that does not assume fixed supply or demand. The fixed amount of work is assumed by the hearer of the argument and not the maker.

Additionally, even someone who is under the illusion of the lump of labor fallacy may still instinctively understand the law of supply and demand well enough to vote for his or her best interests.
I'm annoyed that I bothered to read the tutorial to this. The TLDR: "Write some generators or functions, put them in a list, and Bonobo will call them all for you in order. Look at the example files for more." The example files are all basic string transformations. The docs are mostly blank pages and missing sections. What little is written has more jokes and conversational tics than information.

What does this even do? There's mention of DAGs and different execution strategies if you really dig through the docs, but is that it? If so, why would you use this instead of joblib or some other established parallelism lib?
> when I hear comments like "work smarter rather than just
> putting in more hours", I wonder if that's not just
> rationalization for simply not wanting to work longer hours
> because people in that age group generally have other life
> obligations, and eventually become overpaid and
> uncompetitive status.

When people advise to work smarter than harder, it's often a nod to the fact that longer hours generally produce negative results. [0]

Working smarter generally means planning before writing code, thinking about how one's work will integrate into the larger system and how to make that code reliable, maintainable, and extensible.

It also means picking your battles and directing effort where it will count.

With experience coders learn that endlessly coding generates errors and shortsightedness. Sure, there is a small percentage of coders who can code error-free for much longer than most, but most coders will be most productive when keeping to a regular 40-hour work week. And even super coders are susceptible to burnout. [1]

[0] http://www.igda.org/?page=crunchsixlessons

[1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/burnout/

EDIT: format link list.
Ooooh, these are nice. Here are mine:

Extra History: stories of historical incidents — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbBHk_zLTmY&list=PLhyKYa0YJ_...
Real Engineering: mostly materials science — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVguabIhTs&t=33s -
Wendover Productions — mostly transportation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M
Tom Scott: a bit of everything — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmQp9M9jUo -
Jay foreman: Urban planning and maps — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjuD288JlCs
The Engineer Guy: Manufacturing — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYNX8y6lQMc
Practical Engineering: Mostly Civil Engineering — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olpSN6_TCc&list=PLTZM4MrZKf...
3Blue1Brown: Math, visualized to me more intuitive — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc
I see this sort of thing on Hacker News all the time. Programmers that are, I'm sure, the top of their field comment in threads about biology or something out of their field with the most silly and wrong answers. A thread about nutrition or something out of their realm of expertise on here is about as useful as reading a Facebook or YouTube comment chain. That doesn't stop them from speaking authoritatively about it. :)
Ask HN: Canonical removed all job vacancies
In this URL, https://www.canonical.com/careers/all-vacancies, approximately month ago, there were 27 Job Vacancies. I was interviewing for a position but decided it was not for me later, and I was told to check here and see wheter there will be any other position would be for me, but now there is none. Is this related to CEO change?
All-electric flying car takes first test flight in Germany
You're right, but sales, business and design have too many variables involved in the apparent success of what you make, so you're not able to safely verify what "worked".

Even in engineering, two people can make something that "works", but which one is better? Maybe the worst product had the better marketing, so it sold more and in the end there are more people praising it, then you'll think it is better.
I don't think it's worth it to add a cgo dependency to the package. Maybe write a set of assembly functions? The compiler can't omit calls to them and there isn't much more you can do anyway than to zero the memory.
I got redirected when using chrome but not on firefox.
The brain must constantly be doing triage on memories, without conscious intervention. And apparently it recognizes that there is less need to stock our minds with information that can be readily retrieved.

Or as my grandmother always said, "if you want to forget something, just write it down."
> The towers are just lots and lots of steel.

And a lot of engineering is involved to optimize that design, to build the towers as strong as is necessary to survive high wind loads while using as little material as possible so as to minimize cost. You're trivializing something that has a lot of thought put into it just because you don't really understand it well. I can guarantee you that more thought, simulation, and calculation goes into the design of windmill towers than goes into the average software project.
Legal issues from mirroring something that's sort-of government property? I have no idea if it is or not, but I'd guess it's some sort of grey area.
udev is part of the systemd code repository, and is not supported in systemd-less setups by upstream.

"Separate packages" does not imply "no dependencies".
Ask HN: What are your top productivity hacks in development environment?
Top productivity hacks/methods in development environment (IDE, tools, scripts)
Only a handful of useful algorithms (currently) that exploit quantum computers (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm). Shor's algorithm for integer factorization is the one that would radically change the current crypto situation (goodbye RSA).
GOODBYE RUST, AND HELLO, D
I wonder how HN allowed posting a duplicate article!
Why not just?

Linux:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 192.168.20.200/0 -d 192.168.0.100/0 --dport 8080 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 20000

Windows:
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenaddress=192.168.20.200 listenport=8080 connectaddress=192.168.0.100 connectport=20000 protocol=tcp
I am using EXWM everyday for more than a year. It has hugely improved my Emacs workflows and productivity. I would put it on par with Magit :)

It still has few rough edges, so may not be for everybody.
Friendly Open Source should reserve specific issues for newbies
Cats have been approved as service animals for autistic children before.
I don't like it either. I think it's just that "vaun" is a rarely used sound in English. No real words end in vaun.
Yes, yes it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...
A Java app of my university does this too. Is this a practice shared by most Java programmers? How come?
Not sure I understood the sign prank, but I'm sorry about the friend.
Well, they're not citizens at all, hence the phrase "migrant labour".
You need social justice my friend.
"Many of the sites that used to use Discourse are moving to NodeBB"

Source? Data?
"Algorithms" by Sanjoy Dasgupta has a fantastic description of Shor's algorithm that uses a quantum Fourier transform to factor integers. I love this book. A great place to start.
It's not if you're a politician. "Fewer jobs! More efficiency!" is a surefire way to not get elected.

Your constituents have to eat.
It's a valid question that has nothing to do with a tool/framework and everything to do with product goal and time/resources
Sometimes it's more about the challenge really. It started as an university assignment. Later I ported it to WebGL.

The original minesweeper rules don't make for a great game in 3D. I added the "sweep mode", where you can remove mines, to make the game more appealing in 3D
Those require root/admin access.

Still, I agree.
And the thread you linked is itself a duplicate of this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167469
How our ancient trees connect us to the past
Luckily most of the people here, if they wanted, could easily get an entry-level education in any field, because they know how to study from books, can get access to the material, etc.
I don't think there is a single VC able to invest enough to see this idea trough. The CPU alone is something Intel attempted and couldn't make perform well as a GPU. The Xeon Phi is (like the SPARC Niagara was before it) very interesting (and I'd love to see a similar part meant for desktops) and a model of what I think future CPUs will be.
Maybe the best answers could be given by those who would not hang around Hacker News on a weekend.
I just tripped across this and I thought it would interest you:

https://www.moonlightwork.com

I also run a google group called Business Bootstrappers and you are welcome to join:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/business-bootstrap...
Pretty good game, nice work.
As an outsider who has spent a fair amount of time in the area (climbing in the Red River Gorge area, specifically), thanks for shedding some light on the politics and mentality of the area.

Can you shed any light on how the oil industry is viewed, how many people it employs, etc? I've really only ever been down to the area on the weekends, and while a lot of the climbing access is via oil company roads, I've never seen any oil workers or trucks. Is this because the industry doesn't employ many people, or just because they don't work weekends?

Incidental fun fact, the Gallery climbing area has a huge overhang (15-20 meters horizontally, 20-30 vertically) where there's a well casing that goes from the ceiling to the floor for no apparent reason. Presumably there's an oil jack up top, but I'm curious why the well is located there...

Thanks for your informative participation throughout this discussion.
The way I read it, the qualifications were implicit through the questions he followed up with; and the whole point of the 'strawman' was that he wanted help to get a better understanding than the obviously wrong impression he got from his 'layman' reading of the article.
I used this: https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit

Some of it has been subsumed into newer emacs releases.

In general, find out which modes are considered best for whatever you are doing, install them, and then learn how to modify the configuration file to customize how the rest of the UI works.
What do you mean by that? Is knowing the URL of a HTTPS request a solved problem?
Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.

Get out!
Same here. I also take my watch off. I like having one at work and when I'm out but at home I take it off immediately.
Insight, 0.2.0 released
Extra History and Jay Foreman are new to me. Thank you!
> In other words, no computers should be infected because Microsoft already dealt with the problem.

I don't know if this conclusion is entirely accurate, I believe a more correct conclusion would be that "no computers that are patched and supported should be at risk of infection from these specific exploits because Microsoft already dealt with the problem."

I'd assume most of these infected computers are unpatched, unless someone can replicate the malware on an up to date instance of Windows 7+.

This is probably also why Microsoft have gotten so aggressive with patching and updating for better or for worse. (along with the cost savings internally that come with supporting evergreen software)
Even though it'll be that expensive, wait 50 years when we want to try and reverse all the shit coming our way. Maybe worth it at that point.
>>That sounds like a patronizing sense of responsibility. I treat service employees the same as I treat everyone else I meet - like a person.

I think it's totally OK to treat some people more nicely than you treat others, based on what you know about their position or what they are going through.
I think the main problem is tight udev and kdbus integration with systemd, and applications that use either of those components implicitly depending on systemd.

That, and systemd having large scope creep, absurd ways of dealing with bugs ("this old system is broken because it does not use our interface"), and generally behaving in a dominating and lock-in-promoting manner.

I found this list on the way: http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...
Either you're responding to the wrong person, or you did a very poor job at reading my comment. In case of the latter:

> Who is nitpicking here?

You and /u/colechristensen

> We are all just trying to help someone be more correct.

No one doubts the purity of your motives.

> The other responder to your comment is correct. It is entirely perceived and there is no real change in luminosity and thus brightness is the incorrect term.

No one disputes that the effect is perceived.

> I was offering my insight as both a graphic designer and amateur technical 3D artist with solid grasp of color theory and optics.

No one disputes your qualifications.

> Meanwhile you just butted in to tell me I'm wrong and I shouldn't tell other people they are wrong.

No one said you were wrong. I simply said that my experience is like that of /u/icelander and /u/pducks32 in that I perceive blue light to be brighter, which you disagreed with in your previous comment, but seem to agree with in this one. I didn't tell you not to correct other people, I said nit picking (i.e., correcting a minor discrepancy which isn't important, relevant, or otherwise causing confusion) is rarely helpful.

Interestingly, /u/Karunamon pointed us to the [Purkinje Effect][1] as an explanation for why blue light is perceived to be brighter, so perhaps you aren't correct despite your qualifications (I guess you espoused both sides of the argument, which would make you simultaneously correct and incorrect :p ). This certainly isn't my subject, so I'll leave you to sort it out on your own.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_effect
Same thing in open source. 90% of my users read all the documentation and have no issue; it's the 10% who don't, and in particular don't know the difference between a "bug report" and a "mailing list question", who drive me nuts with their out of context, incomplete examples "it didn't work!" etc. These are the people who take up all my time.
you overcame an actual heroin addiction but can't deal with people joking about it on the internet?
Yes, "it works" is a rather low bar. Almost all generic products in the market "work", but some are clearly better than others.
Is It Time to Break Up Google?
I tried prelude and a few other starter kits, but still had trouble because the starter kits change the default behaviors, which can be confusing when trying to troubleshoot or find answers. I personally feel its better to start "vanilla" and understand the various Emacs concepts.

The built-in tutorial is good. It gets you through the basics of navigating.

Even after having used it for a few years, I enjoyed Mastering Emacs [1]. There are several "getting started" articles on the website and if you find them helpful, the book is also good, in my opinion.

Print out one of the many reference cards available (the official one is available on the Gnu website [2]).

Try org-mode [3], which is built in. It's extremely useful and a gateway to emacs.

[1]:https://www.masteringemacs.org/

[2]:https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf

[3]:http://orgmode.org/

EDIT: Oh, and for remote hosts, I find it easiest to connect with Emacs, rather than connect and try to run Emacs from the remote host.
You can opt for the pat down and get a free ball fondling instead if you're more of a dom
I'm not super interested in rehashing the flamewar, so this is anecdata: from the perspective of sysadmin of thousands of physical machines, systemd has been a godsend. It gives me a standard way to supervise, gather log output from, and restart long-running-processes with dependencies on other processes. It's replaced a number of "sleep 10"s and "sleep 60"s that our infrastructure has grown over the years in shell scripts at various points in init. Starting services in a consistent environment (not inheriting anything from the sysadmin's own session / environment) has also been useful in an environment with lots of sysadmins.

It's certainly not the best solution out there for any single thing it does, but the standardization - i.e., that it is integrated with my distro and also every other distro - is extremely useful. Most existing things I want to run tend to have systemd support, and most homegrown things are very easy to write systemd units for.

Also, there are a lot of reasons to want fast reboots for servers, and systemd provides this. (Again, so do other approaches, but the standardization means this actually happens.)

It's worth noting that there are sort of two debates: systemd vs. other similar systems (upstart, SMF, launchd, whatever) or systemd/similar systems vs. sysvinit. From experienced, large-scale UNIX admins, I think the wide consensus is that the answer to the second question is "definitely anything other than sysvinit". See, for instance, that the Debian tech committee debate was about systemd vs. upstart vs. insserv or something else, and nobody voted for sysvinit.
One of the interesting tidbits in the article is the discussion about the length of copyright terms. The common wisdom is that the current (too long IMO) terms are the result of lobbying by Disney and other media companies.

The article goes into how, in fact, this really came out of Europe and a fundamentally different perspective on the purpose of copyright than the US Constitution. Wikipedia also has what seems to be a pretty good discussion.[1]

So when people say that current copyright law goes way beyond "promote the progress of science and useful arts" they're absolutely right. But copyright law in continental Europe was much more focused on protecting the rights of authors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law
The French, Coming Apart
What you describe can be formalized through the notion of Kolmogorov complexity [1], which relates to all sorts of interesting and fundamental concepts like entropy and uncomputability. So I think you're absolutely right to call it fundamental!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
I doubt it. That America, with all its strengths and wesknesses, is mostly white is a weird thing that always comes up in Singapore threads. Someone always does an America comparison, ususlly dismissal, by bringing up white-on-black racism. It's like people are indoctrinated on specific talking points or something. That and the idea all Americans are set to bd wiped away with violent crime. I havent seen it here yet but it's another that showed up dozens of times when Singaporeans counterpoint on blogs.

Who knows what your background is but Im calling the oversimplification when I see it. I suggest Singapore drop those talking points to compare cost of capitalism in US with law benefitting mostly owners to their "give some get some model" benefiting their people in general. That would be more fair given America is a plutonomy.
For instance apache not restarting properly on openSuSE 13.2 when ServerName doesn't resolve properly for some reason.
Hmm thanks! Never heard of it before, but sounds like something I need to try.
Transport too. I suspect that's the biggest bird killer.

Which really just goes to show how good wind is. The worst complaints aren't actually a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
How about "machine monograph"?
You actually think the majority of users either do, or want to, use multiple browsers to manage site incompatibilities? Have you not met any people before?
What infuriates me is how much our society coddles and encourages that 5%. I used to work in customer support (call centers), and I couldn't tell you how many times I saw the following scenario play out:

* Customer calls in angry about a legitimate problem they're having, but their anger is 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than the actual severity of the problem.

* Customer attacks and berates the CSR, often to the point of tears, before demanding a supervisor.

* Supervisor takes over the call, apologizes profusely for the "incompetent" employee, showers the customer with account credits and so on, and maybe (but often not) fixes the actual problem

I'm not necessarily blaming the supervisor. If they pretended to have a backbone and the customer managed to escalate beyond them, then they'd be the one thrown under the bus while their manager verbally fellates the customer. It's very clear at basically all levels: the employee is 100% expendable, while any risk of the losing the customer's business is unacceptable.