skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "We need to protect minorities and women from the white male oppressors" is basically the slogan of the identity politics wing of the left.

No, that's something white nationalists say to each other; I don't see it elsewhere (in any significant quantity). There is overwhelming evidence of discrimination against people who are in minorities and against women, and as these people are largely excluded from power due to that same discrimination, they have little ability to protect themselves. If we believe in liberty, opportunity and meritocracy, and basic morality for everyone, then everyone should do something about it.

For the most part, only white nationalists say white-skinned people are discriminated against (with any significant scale or impact). There is no evidence of it that I've seen and a look around SV and the IT industry, corporate offices, governments and legislatures of every Western nation, college campuses, and any other locale of wealth, power and privilege shows how absurd the idea is. But the argument is not about discrimination, it's propaganda that is about creating hatred, trying to get people to see everyone as friends or enemies based on skin color (which is perhaps why white nationalists think there's some sort of bizarre us vs. them team competition), and providing a (transparent) excuse for racial hatred. Few people are fooled.
The coffeeshop fallacy (2011):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3134322

> Lots of people think they want to start a coffeeshop. They likely don’t. That’s like buying a minimum wage job for two hundred grand. What they want is to be a customer and sit in a cafe, drink coffee, be nice to people, and possibly curate an art gallery. [...]
Chris Arthur is a good writer for the walking if you liked the literary aspect of the OA.

http://www.chrisarthur.org/

The Irish Nocturnes essay Meditation on Walking used to be online. Fortunately, the Way Back Machine has it.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010413013113/http://www.richmon...

[The Richmond Review was a nice early Web based literary magazine]
Yes, some of his deals are where he built buildings. Even there, it was a matter of getting some tax credit or very good deal on the land or something that essentially transferred resources to him instead of to someone else. It's not easy to get the buildings built that he's done...he's definitely added value in many cases, but many of them were structured in ways such that he could not lose money (i.e. no real risk, zero sum thinking).

Many of his deals were simply buying existing properties which is what I'm referring to.
I would like that, and if someone built an EPUB I would host it on my site.
Scientist forged ISIS letter withGoogle translate 4 attention to his AIDS research
No, you're supposed to worry separately about formatting and content. I know that math-y people (I guess that means math, CS and physics people) think that just using the default settings is fine and those who are hit particularly hard with Stockholm syndrome sometimes even call it 'beautiful', but outside of that world, there is a stigma against papers formatted using just the default Latex (Tex?) settings. So wanting to use other fonts, more narrow margins and different header styles is something that should be if not easy, then at least within reach of even casual users. Which it isn't, right now. (in my experience, having tried to set up Latex and VCS-based authoring workflows several times with people who only took programming classes because they had to).
Prof. Michael Jensen's higly-cited 1976 paper [0] identified the principal-agent problem [1] then argued that a company's sole purpose is to maximize shareholder value. This thinking is what gradually led to the now widespread obsession with stock prices and short-term results.

Short-termism is harmful.

Jack Welch said it best in a Financial Times [1] interview:

“On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy… your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products. Managers and investors should not set share price increases as their overarching goal. … Short-term profits should be allied with an increase in the long-term value of a company.”

[0] Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304405X769...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

[2] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/294ff1f2-0f27-11de-ba10-00007...
0.5€ per day for unlimited data here in Europe, heck Poland has 5€ per month for unlimited everything

can't wait for end of roaming charges, even if they limit no fees for like 3 months per year abroad it's worth just switch SIM every three months only because of data, even if you will use secondary card for calls and SMS so people can reach you on same number
Sorry I didn't have time to read completely, I will read this when I have free time.

But I wanted to mention this is completely reverse for me. Over the years I have found my body and mind are complete opposite side of each other. I have to complete stay moveless, and when I stay moveless for awhile that's when my mind will work at its extreme capacity. Moving, Walking, Talking, Writing, everything is kinda distraction from my deepest mind state, and I need that state when I study Math especially the hard/analytical problems. I call that deep state, ZEN. I wish I could be in that state everywhere and every day.
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> WE EDUCATE LEADERS WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.

http://www.hbs.edu/about/Pages/default.aspx

> Careers change. Industries change. The world changes. With the programs at Stanford Graduate School of Business, you’ll not only keep pace with that change — you’ll drive it.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/stanford-gsb-experience/why-bus...

(Related: Cool URIs don't change https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI)
One of the most hard things to comprehend in life is how different can you feel and how different can your own ideals become.

I was like that; as described before in the same thread, a western, light version of hikki - staying at home, eating tv dinners, spending time in front of the computer. Almost no social interaction, cut in a loop, 26 hour days, and happy with it.

And I'm looking where I am now: doing sports, enjoying and throwing parties, keeping in contact with a lot of friends, a lot of whom said me that I have an outgoing personality and charisma... And all of that with almost no time left for TV series or videogames. And I am happy and feel in harmony in this state, too.

These two people don't understand one another and can't comprehend how the other lifestyle can be enjoyable. And I don't really understand how the hell a happy, self-content man can transition from one such state to another - but it happens. In my experience, people do actually change a lot in their lifetime, even if they don't expect it themselves, and one of the most surprising things about this article is how stable the lives of those hikki are over a long amount of time.
> This requires more standardization than one is likely to get.

Not for the functionality - the only difference is that your compiler cannot tell you that you are doing it wrong while a strict interface can be checked at compile time. But the standardization is there, it's just not explicit - your programm will crash/fail when you don't provide a proper callback that obeys the implicit contract (e.g.: takes 2 arguments, first the value, second the error if any; returns nothing).
He's comparing this device's tracking with Google's tracking. Why are you pretending you don't realise that?
I2P-Bote – Email plugin for the I2P network that uses a distributed hash table
Sure. But the web app UX is clunky; it wouldn't be acceptable to have a desktop word processor with Google Docs' quality. It's a little sad if this is where the bar is set for kids, all in the name of cross-platform.
TLDR: Idiot opens coffee shop goes bankrupt.
I programmed FPGAs using both VHDL and Verilog for many years. Recently I have started at a start-up where we predominantly program using C++ HLS. I never want to go back to full-time HDL again. We have found it is possible to get the same performance as carefully written RTL, but you still have to write with the underlying device architecture in mind. There are advantages with HLS, simulation is vastly faster, and C++ templates can be used. This makes it easy to try many iterations and find clever optimizations. If you try to do the same with HDL it would be a nightmare with a large design. More people should move to HLS and push for the tools to improve. the world would be a better place.
There is no valid excuse for that.

There was when TeX was originally written to run on memory constrained mini computers. I agree that there isn’t an excuse today.
>You think they all would have got these jobs without going through the HBS process...?

Despite only referring to his experience, I think the extrapolation holds for most HBS grads( i.e. If they have the skills and early success trajectory to get into HBS, they could get similar offers and opportunities without an HBS stamp. Don't discount the two years' opportunity cost.)
I like this quote I found in a mathematical analysis book:

"It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards, that certain mathematical statements are irrefutable facts. What is unfortunate about this is that a proof, in spite of the fact that it is perfectly correct, does not in any way have to be enlightening. Thus, mathematicians, and mathematics students, are faced with two problems: the generation of proofs, and the generation of internal enlightenment. To understand a theorem requires enlightenment. If one has enlightenment, one knows in one's soul why a particular theorem must be true."

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5760666-foundations-of-a...
That is not always how objects are implemented. It is but one way to implement objects.

A JIT-ing interpreter, for example, doesn't have to use function pointers to implement objects.
Heh, small world. I work for Sky, and my team very recently took over technical responsibility for that exact site. Nevertheless, it's worth knowing that outside the big 4, there are ISPs which on principle don't even require that step. People can fall into the trap of believing that all UK consumer internet access has a ThinkOfTheChildren filter in place by default, but that's just not true.
.. and a large amount of bullying, harassment and occasional suicide problems?

(seriously, "bring back national service, but I don't have any facts" is a terrible argument for HN)
At least for LaTeX there's also a ton of "cargo cult" involved. You either build a template, or get one from a professor, when you start as a student, and you just use that template for the rest of your time at the university. It's not uncommon to see a template that was initially created in the 90's and people just sort of added to it over the years.
you can use unlimited 4G anywhere
An Update on Swift 3.1.1 for Raspberry Pi Zero/1/2/3
In North Korea, browser history deletes you!
If I had to guess, I'd say it all started with GEB by Douglas Hofstadter. It very well explains aspects of symbol manipulation using koans. However, there might be another precursor.
why not just find place which is not busy? no need to feel bad about being there occupying some spot if half of the cafe is empty anyway all day
"Food is not an easy business."

Business is never easy, except if you are lucky. They guy was an idiot. Rule #1 in many businesses (e.g. coffee ships, restaurant, hotels, hostels etc.) you are not in the food business or hospitality business but in the real estate business.
How SLP and SLIC Works: Windows OEM Activation
I followed reference [2] and the highest voted answer (not the selected one) concludes:

> I think the results speak for themselves and demonstrate unequivocally that LLVM is perfectly suitable for JIT compilation.
We have a company that has liquidity that is measured in multiples of this country's GDP.
I really don't think someone just said "hey everyone we're all gonna plan during our SCRUM meeting today." My guess is everyone in the group already participated in some exercises (maybe the group has an "exercise" time when everyone does some basic working out which is optional but everyone has been participating). Then during one of the exercises (with everyone participating), someone throws out "let's all plank tomorrow during our meeting." If anyone just moans or says "nah" they scrub the idea.

Once we did a "hike" during our work meeting (this was my last job at a swimming pool so everyone besides the cashiers was very athletic) and everyone loved it.
There is a difference between opt in and getting yourself and your immediate family killed in the process of opting out. You can also install custom ROMs, or just use android without the google apps and not worry about any of this. You can do this in like an hour. If you're stuck in North Korea, there is damned little you can do other than get shot for sending a text message about it (if that is even possible). Which is what we should be discussing here.
Hmm, that smiley looks like th3j35t3r; I'd be weary of copying it, since so many people are after him and would go to great lengths to harm him... from what you say, you don't fit the profile, but still...
Great, will they have you and your immediate family killed for speaking out?
DragoNN:learn how to model and interpret regulatory sequence data using DL
Both. The differences are not that great. I don't believe anyone who says they can done something in one that can't be done in another, they just don't now how to do it. After staring at a large design day after day, it is a pleasure to switch to the other one just to break up monotony. If you inherit someone else's design, I prefer to have the component list in VHDL to get an overall picture of what is going on. I guess it is easier to write Verilog, but easier to read someone else's VHDL.
I do believe that some people are just not fit to live the average life.

I spent so much time trying to follow normal people. I'm not very different from them, but say, a bit too intellectual (not smart, just intellectual) and introverted. There's a part of human relationships, such as, simple fun, banter, exchanging viewpoint, that are extremely tiresome to me (probably because of an issue with non cerebral exchange, friend and love being a lot less easy for me). For a long time I just followed along as the shy guy, 99% anxious/shy mood. I ended up drifting away.

Now since, a few things happened, I almost had a meaningful relationship with a girl; that changed my view of life, people, friendship, partying, lifestyle and work (work became a mean to an end, not just a playground for passion). Unfortunately the relationship crashed for absurd reasons. I'm now back to lonewolf mindset, but not because I can't live like others going out etc but just because the grief took out any desire for me to do so. I understand both viewpoint, my old "hikikomori" self and the new one.

Lastly I have now a lot less value for what others like. It's just their fun, not mine, I don't feel bad for my tastes (feels like coming out :) but I don't feel the need to do what they do. Not that I avoid it, but I'd say I'm just more stable on my feet. The girl I mentioned before also had a similar realization, for many years we often try to fit the mold, for some it works, for others, it doesn't and you realize you're fine doing your own shit.

I understand the "time flies faster", and btw, the few time I go to family reunions or parties, even though I don't like it really, it messes with my brain, it's a burden a bit, but the next day I feel like my brain has been replenished with randomness (others behaviour, stories, feelings) and it slows time somehow.
Why not use DynASM, especially since you are using the Lua eco-system already?

https://luajit.org/dynasm.html
Facebook Australia allowed advertisers to target teens’ emotional states
You can jump on a stationary bike when you code! I have my road bike on a trainer in front of my computer (standing desk) and I can code while training. The height is almost perfect because the handlebars go under the keyboard platform (it's still not comfortable though). Most of the time I'm just watching tv shows but I've done some coding while cycling before.
Maybe something like TeXmacs? It is actually unrelated to TeX (AFAIK) and is basically a WYSIWYG-ish editor for structured documents. The only drawback is that it is kinda crash friendly (especially the latest version, try one of the 1.0.7.xxx instead of 1.99 version).
I don't see why this research couldn't be applied to empirical data from an arbitrary system of coupled oscillators.

I am interested in EEG and fNIRs, but there are drawbacks. Naively, people will try and study this data without first doing a necessary back-of-the-napkin.

EEG and fNIRs have hard physical limitations. EEG is limited to pick up only large-scale EM field activity, where the higher resolution perturbations and effects are averaged out. This is because of an increased measurement distance and noise that is acquired through the skull and other intermediary tissue. This is unacceptable since the current scientific consensus is high frequency phase and activity is fairly important for information coding.

On the bright side, a lot of information might also be encoded in larger scale synchronized oscillation that happens in the brain (the stuff that EEG picks up on). This space is obviously lower in dimension.

The only work-around for this hard information limit is to explore invasive BCI technology (e.g. tetrodes connected to your neurons).

Relatively speaking, this isn't difficult for scientific laboratory research because:

1. We don't care about invasive surgery on rats.

2. We don't care how comfortable rats are.

3. We don't care how mobile rats are.

On the other hand, for commercial purposes, it is not feasible to stick a wired-tetrode array into a human brain yet. We can't afford to lose a human. Engineering on the invasive BCI frontier is incredibly primitive right now.
Tensorflow meets protein biotechnology – testing dSPP for public release
Racing to the Precipice: Prof Noam Chomsky (March 2017)
IoT Single Channel LoRa Gateway Shopping List
I also recommend the kitchen mats at costco. I'm not sure if they still sell them but for $15 I couldn't tell the difference (well any large difference) between it and the $150 ergo mats I've tried.
My Journey from a Ph.D. In Organic Chemistry to Software Developer
I think OP succumbed to the problem of shifting baselines. The brain adapts and sets the base to whatever your situation is, eventually. You live in a huge house? After a few months you stop noticing it and instead start seeing the small little issues. The rich guy and the poor guy are going to complain equally. Satisfaction and contentment go back to their equilibrium value. Having the Harvard MBA becomes the new normal, life seems equally hard, because you compare with your own new baseline, not with that of other people. Doesn't mean OP can't objectively be correct in his assessment that this MBA did nothing for his employability, because that depends on what he wants to do. But did his goals shift (upwards) too, setting a higher baseline? Seems very possible.
\setlength{\footskip}{length} should do the job. You might have to reduce the \textheight to make room. What are you trying to achieve?
You could at it this way, yes - Sushi is a bit like Pizza in that

a) it was born a few hundred years ago (Edo period) as a take-away food / fast food

b) some forms of it have become a high craft or even art that you can spend a lot of money on (compare to high status Pizzerias in Napoli)

Now whether that's legitimate or not is of course up for discussion - in my opinion it's a legitimate and fulfilling experience that you can have by going to a Sushi master if you can appreciate this kind of craft.
Accountability to well-informed people who understand the tradeoffs involved in building sustainable real-world infrastructure is great.

HN is not an audience of that kind of people.
I have been thinking for a while that oop in the message passing sense is basically coroutines. I guess that is encoded in Erlang? Probably should learn it at some point.
It's a mimic - there isn't a method in apple maps that render it. I made the 3D versions myself. I use scene libraries that overlay the camera view (that is basically what AR is).
Bah! Function pointers are glorified gotos.
Deep Intellect (2011)
Yes, but it's also quite dangerous, even with proper form. I hurt my back quite badly doing it properly.
I enjoyed this a lot. Thanks for doing it.

Code for scoring anagrams according to my method is at https://github.com/mjdominus/anagram-scoring if you would like to use that.
I had to think for some time on this one. Finally it occurred to me, that the pieces are some x distance apart on an average.

At any snapshot, the pieces are lying with a Gaussian distribution around x multiples along the belt i.e having sigma at x, 2x, 3x,...nx....

So for the bins to not overlap:

1) their width/span-along-the-belt should be lesser than x

2) And they can be placed at x, 3x/2, 5x/2, 7x/2 (i.e. prime multiples of x/2)

Wow! Learnt something useful today. Thank you. :)

Edit: I realize after posting that, my solution won't work! If somebody can explain how the prime thing works will be great. I can imagine, though, that the bin placements should be such that, at any given time the piece is only in front of a single bin. Meaning, no pair of bins should have a distance of x-multiple. I can guess, perhaps heuristics which work well, can be devised. But it will be great to know the mathematical solution for this.
True, it would be easier, but a common person can do the same thing in Office much faster. Linking Excel columns to fill a Word document doesn't take that long. I've seen a few places use Excel as a billing software with a little bit of VBScript. Outside of the tech world, I don't see it gaining traction. At the end of the day, we all need different products for different kinds of users. If you're wondering, I'm the LaTeX kind, used it everywhere I could.
Ooh, is it ad hominem time already?
My current favorite is “Cheryl Burke” / “huckleberry”.

(Cheryl Burke is one of the professional dancers on _Dancing with the Stars_.)
Is there a big jump between prototyping on a Pi and using a microcontroller?
I knew a guy who ran a famous coffeehouse once. He made so many mistakes, truly glorious fuckups, and came out of it with barely any skin left on his ass.

He's a multi-millionaire now, having built a major tech company. I always look back on his coffeehouse days and wonder just how incredibly valuable it must have been, to be able to suffer such colossal screwups and come out of it with enough knowledge, tenacity and sheer willpower to continue in the capitalist game.

One of the conclusions from this thought process is that he must really have learned to deal with customers, principally, as his business grew/failed, in spite of it all. And, I think, that's really the only good reason to own/manage a coffeehouse: you really like the customers.
Things I’ve Learned from 7 Years and 7 Startups
I doubt it. They would be too scared of implemented backdoors. They might outsource some parts, maybe to china or india, but they will likely assembly it in NK - to have full control over it.
The whole article is /r/iamverysmart material.
I think you're probably right. That's the ideal.

Thanks for letting me know - can't believe I missed that. I don't use Ruby professionally, just as a scripting language to make my life at work easier.
No, function pointers are glorified addresses. Function calls are glorified "push the instruction pointer" plus goto.
Can you give more details?