skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all there is no machine learning used in the article.

Second, machine learning IS helping in places like physics and medicine. There's currently a one million dollar prize by google for an algorithm that can detect cancer (actually it just ended.) And there have been a number of similar contests in the past. Just look here for all sorts of places machine learning has been applied: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions?sortBy=deadline&group=al...

People have been applying statistics and AI to medicine since the 80's. The biggest problem is medicine and similar fields, is it's terribly conservative. It's very difficult to get new technology to market. Whereas tindr doesn't have any regulations or bureaucracy to deal with. They can just push new technology to millions of users overnight.
Because sexual dimorphism is real, but it isn't as simple to apply that to things that can be affected by society and culture.
I'll Have What Phil's Having and Nacho Libre
From that very page:

Researcher Gregory S. Paul suggests that economic development has a closer relationship with religiosity.[27] He argues that once any "nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal health care, much of the population loses interest in seeking the aid and protection of supernatural entities." Other studies have shown that increased wealth is correlated with a decline in religious beliefs.[28][29] Indeed, the majority of the nations that showed a strong relationship between low religiosity and high IQ in the 2008 study were developed nations.[5]
With cities? Walkability, huge public transit networks in LA, KC and others, middle class Black neighborhoods, mixed use zoning ... We lost a lot.

With religion, we're losing rituals where people come together frequently to celebrate life milestones and our relationships - baptism, brisses, confirmation, etc. We also lose a third space and a community of people we don't just happen to work with and live near. A huge part of our social lives, historically, happened​ in and around religion.
The psuedo-audiophile space? Sounds like they understand their space perfectly.
> when you go on atheist forums, they never really seem like enlightened or happy places.

OTOH, if you go to forums consisting of people united by a common purpose which is neither religious not the mere absence of religion, you'll find enlightened and happy atheist contributor in many of those enlightened and happy forums.

Your view of atheism seems as warped as the view of religion you complain about.
Don't do programming just for the sake of doing programming. Try to make something you personally want, like a better-looking calendar app, or you want to automate some appliance. You'll find out whether or not you actually enjoy programming without feeling frustrated or like you're wasting time.
Being able to discuss design is an essential skill for programmers. This question gives you a chance to display that.
It probably does. I mean, we pay miners 12.5 BTC to verify ~1800 transactions. It's not like that BTC is free. When new BTC are created, it devalues existing BTC.

Put another way, the miners will sell that 12.5 BTC on the market. Selling on the market puts a downward pressure on the price.

Another way still: If the market cap for Bitcoin remained constant, then it's obvious to see that for every block reward generated, the price per bitcoin goes down.

I don't think it's unreasonable to think that that means we're paying miners $16.5k USD per block, which would be about $9.22/transaction. Plus transaction fees. It's probably just hard to see that because the market cap for Bitcoin keeps increasing faster than Bitcoin's natural inflation. Basically, investors in Bitcoin are paying the transaction cost right now.
It's not really proportional, which is why it hurts the most. Wealthy people (who don't buy extravagant things) have most of the same basic expenses as the poor, and the sales tax can really be seen as a regressive income tax that eats up a larger portion of the income of the poor.
How about if I draw 7000 sketches or drawings in a year? How would that be "bulk registered"?
Just based on what they have on their site, no simple metal plate could make the shapes that they do/are working on.

http://www.materialise.com/en/medical/patient-specific-impla...
[Posting from a throwaway]

You're exactly right, in an unexpected way though.

I was working at a somewhat successful BigCo. (makes HN frontpage every other month or so) a few years ago. Then came the time to discuss raises that year. I did more than was required of me, helped other teams, rewrote a bunch of legacy code in languages that were not part of my job description, etc.

What did I get? A sub-inflation raise in a year where the company's revenues increased by 70%. My closest coworkers received about the same. All because we worked on infrastructure, deemed a cost center.

So next year I coasted and put in the bare minimum while working on side project and taking freelance work. Got average to below average marks when the special time came. Then got asked to work unpaid overtime to "fix my mistakes". I quit on the spot. It was a huge relief.

Now I work for the man in the mirror and he's the best boss I could have ever wished for.
similarly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/10...
That's an anarcho-capitalist stance, sure. But very few programmers are an-caps, compared to the number of libertarians.

Most libertarians (and minarchists, and a lot of others) specifically accept basic law enforcement as a reasonable role of government. The whole "night watchman state" idea centers around defense, policing, and courts as legitimate government powers.

(Also, this is backwards even to an-caps. The taxation was theft, but availing yourself of services purchased is reasonable compensation since no one else is permitted to sell legal services.)
And that's the exact reason why I hate current solutions for this kind of thing.

When I was younger, we had a motion sensing light switch in my bedroom (because I was a little shit that never turned my lights off). It used to infuriate me because if I rolled over too much at night, the light would go on. If we messed with it to the point that it didn't happen any more, it would turn off when i'm just sitting there reading or something.

Something that could determine where you are not by motion but by the fact that you are a large bag of water would be much more accurate and could basically stop the "lights randomly going off at the worst time" issues.
This is a huge problem and has been for a long time. We allow pretty much anyone to code up a website. It'd be similar to allowing anybody to start practicing medicine.

I've lost count of how many websites I've used that were blatantly insecure. Sometimes you have no choice but to do it, like when I had to apply for a Brazil travel visa. Their SSL certificate has expired, and has been expired for years now.
Persecution of homosexuality and anti abortion crusading, among many other issues historically, may reasonably be seen as abhorrent for many. But as others are saying many go full reductionist and don't separate these actions from the idea as a whole.
CA HWY 17, Southbound @ Bear Creek Road, April 28, 8:30 AM.

Lane re-paving artifact and shadow of median barrier combine to form false lane marking.

Subaru EyeSight system determines lane departure and sounds alert.

If the vehicle were autonomous, would the steering have reacted?

http://www.subaru.com/engineering/eyesight.html
Citus (YC S11) is hiring a technical writer
The economics of energy generation are changing; more metrics favor solar, wind
Also to the Italians. Maybe there's a pattern where a country can achieve eventual prosperity by going Fascist (Germany, Italy, Japan) ending up defeated on the wrong side of a war, then reform itself into an economy that emphasizes high value-add high-quality manufacturing?

"Make America Great Again!" Maybe Trump is onto something! </jk>
Because I don' t take it as harping on the tech - it's not the tech that's the problem, it's the hype and culture around it. There's tons of hype, many outright scams and ponzi schemes within bitcoin to point to, it's fraught with outright criminal activity just within trading, not to mention that it's the payment of choice for Ransomware.

The distributed ledger isn't what people are making fun of - it's the frantic rush and chaos around using it that is ridiculed, and in many cases, rightfully so.

Edited additional thought: Come to think of it, I don't think a lot of the new found SV culture is really as hackerish as it's made out to be - it's the same business stuff that cyberpunks in stories would snub their noses at and work to undermine, except it's masquerading as hacker culture - there's a very cool protocol underneath bit coin that probably will fundamentally change how we do "something" in the future. But what is everyone climbing over themselves about with Bitcoin? Get-rich-quick after get-rich-quick schemes and ridiculous business enterprises.

Silk road I got - buy whatever with crypto-currency, hard to trace, from hard to find sites on TOR, and a package arrives or a service is done. Cool! But that's not what the clamoring is about now, and it hasn't been for ages.

That's not a hackerish interest, that's business people playing with yet another asset to trade.
Instead of this tax credit for the already-middle-class, why not raise the standard of living in poor areas by investing in education, food security, health care and jobs in those areas? If it works, you raise the poor up to the middle class, reduce dependence on government subsidies, and grow the economy.

Let's say you start a business in a poor neighborhood. If you hire locals you're by default investing in the local community and the local economy can grow. If you hire outsiders, they can come into the city and help new services start that will serve the needs of the workers, which will provide a limited impact on the local economy.

If you provide assistance for education/job training, food assistance, daycare and healthcare, the local community can gain the advantages they need to get jobs. But if the jobs aren't local, they usually need major investments in public transit, so IMHO it's better to invest in local small businesses in these areas.

So perhaps this $6,000 credit isn't a bad idea, but spend it where it really counts: poor cities and neighborhoods whose local economy could use it the most.
Pretty much all cloud providers that use KVM (where "pretty much all" probably means all except Google) are using QEMU and potentially can be running hostile code, so the "not recommended" remark is perhaps a bit exaggerated.
Lower the taxes and don't let government get their hands on it at any stage of the process. This smacks again of redistribution of wealth and I'm totally against this.
Q&A with the founder of Zidisha
I'll semi-answer your question by giving you my standard set of advice and resources for learning React.

The article "A Study Plan to Cure Javascript Fatigue" ( https://medium.freecodecamp.com/a-study-plan-to-cure-javascr... ) is a great place to start. It gives an excellent series of steps for tackling modern Javascript concepts one piece at a time: Javascript, React, ES6, and state management.

On that note, definitely don't over-complicate the learning process by trying to learn many different things at once. Some people will say you should use a "boilerplate" to learn React, and they're wrong - boilerplate projects almost always come with too many pieces configured, and are confusing for beginners.

Instead, the best advice is to focus on learning React itself first. Once you have a good understanding of how React works, you will better appreciate why a state management library like Redux can be useful, and you can learn about other tools later.

You should start out by reading through the official React docs and tutorial at https://facebook.github.io/react/, and I'd encourage you to use the official Create-React-App tool ( https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app ) for setting up projects. It creates a project with a solid build setup, with no configuration needed on your part. There's an excellent post called "Simple React Development in 2017" ( https://hackernoon.com/simple-react-development-in-2017-113b... ) that gives some more specific instructions on the actual steps to follow.

Past that, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics. It includes links for learning core Javascript (ES5), modern Javascript (ES6+), React, and much more. I also published an "Intro to React (and Redux)" presentation at http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/02/presentation-react-... , which is a good overview of the basic concepts for both React and Redux.

Finally, the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord are a great place to hang out, ask questions, and learn. The invite link is at https://www.reactiflux.com .
Very much this. HN seems not to appreciate that jobs are our only currently accepted mechanism for distributing wealth on the scale necessary for our current society. If automation removes them, sure, it will increase net productivity (at least until the poor masses destroy the machines). But if we lose distribution in the process, it's an enormous loss.
Essence of calculus
Brave New World is widely considered a dystopia, but it is an introspection and satire on existing societies, which for many people actually are dystopias. This is a separation from stories that focus on the post-apocalyptic aspects primarily to create the genre of "scifi dystopia". Therefore, viewing Brave New World as an introspection only leaves the parts of the society that I like as the part to evaluate to see an ideal segment of society, colloquially called a utopia:

- I want to be at the top of the pyramid society

- I want there to be no consequences for promiscuity

- I want a calming mind altering drug that has no side effects

- I want peace and stability to focus on my intellectual tasks

Brave New World accomplishes that.
Good News: Android’s Huge Security Problem Is Getting Less Huge
Same, exactly. I frequently have impulses to do things that interest me, I enjoy following those impulses and they've benefited me immensely over the years..

There isn't always some malicious or negative root cause.
> I don't know what is gained from harping on all the early failures.

Avoiding them in the future, perhaps? I wouldn't mock a mature technology for historical teething issues, that's pointless. But cryptocurrencies keep replaying the same errors and conflicts without seeming to learn a thing. I like the idea of cryptocurrency, but it's not going to succeed unless we learn from the (myriad, severe) mistakes of the past.
That's not really the point he was making in this article, which was more about people that make their homes in multiple places. It was using the term townie differently from the standard definition.
Religion and God are constructs defined to enable people to deal with situations and phenomena beyond their control. “By controlling this proxy that controls all situations and phenomena, I can indirectly control the outcomes of my current predicament” is a frame of mind that gives people hope and enables them to stick it out until the storm passes.

From the cliff gods that give the bee-hunting Gurung of Nepal the courage to wade into a literal mountain of bees to collect honey, to Vishnu and Shiva who help the Hindu mother and child sleep at night while the father’s fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit, to Jesus helping a Christian couple deal with their childless marriage, there is a plethora of gods available for people to adopt and use to derive hope no matter who they are and what their situation is. Because without hope, even those who are otherwise fit to survive, often don’t. Religion is a placebo that has worked extremely well for thousands of years and rest assured it's not going away anytime soon.

The alternative is to live a life of total control but boredom is as potent a killer of men as any other.
Isn't this similar to Walmart not paying their workers enough, and encouraging them to go on welfare and food stamps?
That explains why the humans aren't just ems (which is what people are more commonly confused about.) But I wasn't asking that; I was asking, why do they need the rest of the human, other than their brain? It costs far more to feed than just the brain would.
TDD is awful if you expect all of the tests you produced during the process to stay static. With care, you can pare down your test suite, or add additional tests, to be appropriate as a regression suite for the software each time it is iterated to a deliverable state.

I actually find TDD helps me design components with fewer responsibilities, almost always as a result of realizing the complexity via writing permutations of test cases. It helps me think about 'what each thing should do' because I don't have that innate ability like some folks.

It is especially helpful in pointing out cases where adding a layer of abstraction or introducing subclass variants are beneficial.
Essence of calculus, chapter 1
The Five System Filters: How the System Automatically Selects for Subservience
As experienced on United this week:

- Hand out warm chocolate chip cookies as passengers de-plane.

- If a passenger asks for a couple of decaf coffee pouches, give them 16
What do they use at Google?
So 700 million devices don't even get an annual patch...sigh.
Wait, how do you even PUT 60k in a Roth/401k in one year?

You're capped at 18k for the 401k, and you're capped at 5.5k for a Roth IRA, assuming you're under the income cap to contribute to the Roth in the first place. If you're doing a Roth for your partner as well, that's another 5.5k.

So if you and your partner both max out your 401ks, that's 36k per year, plus another 11k for the two Roths to make 47k going to retirement savings.

Is there another vehicle for retirement savings that I could be dropping money into, aside from my Roth IRA, my wife's Roth IRA, and my 401k?
In my mind, the simplest way to lower the risk is to just hand people the money they need to meet their needs (rent, electricity, food, internet). So maybe SR&ED could go away altogether if the UBI experiments are successful.

If you consider those who drop out of college to do a startup, those people wouldn't even have $100k in a 401k to take out to start the business.
Always funny realizing what a stereotype you actually are.
Amazon actually does sell some low-volume, high-dollar speakers. Google for "amazon premium home audio" to find it.

As an extreme example, you can even buy a $32,000 pair of KEF Blade speakers there. They have "Only 1 left in stock", but it has free Prime 2-day shipping! (They also have lots of much less extreme stuff in the $500 to $5000 price range.)

I'm not sure how they're managing it. They may have special arrangements going with the manufacturers (so that there are no penalties). Or it may be that Amazon initiated things to build out a special section of their store. Or it may just be that these items are high-end but aren't _custom_, so the manufacturer can stay ahead and keep enough stock on hand even though that's only a handful of units.
> Not really. Go is used to replace Python. Rust is used to replace C/C++.

I think that's fairly simplistic. Go is often used to replace Python, but what it aims for might be slightly more ambitious. You generally don't hear about people or companies replacing services they've written in C or C++ with Python (implementing when nothing already existed, yet, but generally not replacing), but you do hear that with Go, because the performance is close enough that the trade-off makes sense in more situations.

On a scale of 1 = C/C++/low-level and 10 = Python/high-level, I would hazard that Go aims for the 3-8 range and Rust aims for the 1-5 range. Quite a bit of overlap, but they each go a bit farther in certain directions that makes them a bit closer of a fit in those areas.
Hacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm – Infinite Series
You claim to have 20 years of experience, yet this reeks of "Just world" naivete.

Are you guaranteed those things if you work better than the rest? No, external factors can nullify all your dedicated work.

What would you do if all you had to show for your effort was that employee of the month picture on the wall?
They can't just grow the human to adulthood, and then take the brain out and throw the body away? The point isn't to avoid growing a body; it's to avoid feeding a body that is laying there doing nothing, when the brain would have a much lower energy+nutrient cost.
When I was a teen I was offered cash to turn back speedometers many times, and always refused. This started after I set the speedo on my own car back to zero, but I was customizing it for myself, not flipping it for a fast buck, and it was already 25 years old anyway.

Back around the turn of the century I was offered a bit of cash to build a "Revenge Porn" site. The guy who called me sounded very mild and calm, even nice. He did say he'd been turned down a few times but he also seemed determined to make the site.

I had never heard of this idea at the time and was pretty surprised with the concept. I turned him down, of course, but what surprised me most was how many friends and acquaintances told me I should've taken the cash when I told them the story.

I'm 58 years old now and the number of people who've asked me to help with their scams, and have tried to scam me, is far more than I can remember. With all that experience I can spot them easily now but it never ceases to amaze me how willing some people are to do that.
Now you're talkin'. True security theatre.

I would also add a laser that slowly scans the room, combined with the voice from the first Resident Evil movie.

Would you get sued for him tripping over your coffee table because of the fog or my lasers?

In a rural area, they would just shoot the drone (I still really like your idea). You could blanket the area with inexpensive trail cams.
I made one out of what was left of an older system (door sensors, motion sensors). Its getting pretty old now as it predates arduinos and was made with a PIC (olimex PIC with ethernet board).

It just posts all of the events from the sensors to a VPS in the cloud (that I have already to run personal web sites). If its "set" with a post from my phone, it simply texts a list of people (wife, dad, good friend) that an "alarm" went off. Otherwise it just records the events for later curiosity.

I've also got one IP camera that I can jump on and look into the main room with.

It was nearly free except for the happy project time to build it and is all I've ever felt I needed.
Would you not agree that a large proportion of cheap manufacturing comes from China?
Why on earth would you want to do that?
In no particular order:

* GPU drivers are a buffet of terrible things. My best moment was either hand-compiling shaders to GPU-specific assembly in order to implement video playback filters, or deducing how the GPU vendor's drivers managed to fake a particular GL extension and implementing that same fake trick in the MesaGL version of the driver.

* Self-applicable partial evaluators are cool. I've tried several times to build one, and each time I fall short.

* I've hand-written parsers for big languages. I've also written parser generators. I'm not sure which is harder.

* Fighting with motherfucking BitBake. You have no fucking idea.
No, they aren't. Massive corporations are America's job engine.