skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this didn't make sense to me. It's the most important real-estate on the page, and not only is he humble-bragging, but he's instilling some doubt into his commitment to the project. "And to be honest I still do ask myself that sometimes.."

It's also so informal and personal that it made me think that what followed was going to be kind of a blog entry, or a simple and static announcement page, not what was actually a pretty compelling product walkthrough.

But then at the end I scrolled back to the top, and was like, was this actually effective? It doesn't read like marketing speech, and I did end up reading the entire page. Maybe they know something that I don't? But it still seems so misplaced among all of the obvious craftsmanship that went into the rest of the page.
Amazing what kind of bullshit people write here. But dang protects this and wants it this way.
Facebook algorithm and impact on media: French election experiment #1
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What this misses is that we don't really have any way of "generating" power aside from nuclear reactions.

It's all converting from one form to another. In the case of "human power" it's extracting energy from plants and animals that we kill.

Wait but Why has an excellent deep dive on this: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-lif...
I couldn't but notice that you are using my library Picnic CSS with the demo Github Repo Formatter (starting 32:50). Just wanted to say thank you to Seth Thomson and Google, it is a honor!
Internet in a Box for Windows 95: Opening an Internet Time Capsule
I know of a few instances of people resigning by email. Two weeks ago, one project manager and one engineer quit by email from my parents' company on the same day. In one instance, I started working as a replacement for the engineer the day after. It's not inconceivable to me that a CEO would take that email as formal notice, or that they might find a replacement within 6 weeks.
Will the battery be easily replaceable?
I think you misunderstand. After an introductory course, it's expected that you don't need to be "taught to program" anymore. As part of your compiler class, you'll be taught about automata, regular expressions, grammars. For your projects, you might get some help with using a lexer and a grammar generator, but you should be able to figure out the "programming" parts yourself, and the teaching emphasis is on the theory.
The best alt coins in my view are SiaCoin, Golem, and Steem.
Because it is a for-profit website with strict content re-use policy?
It doesn't seem premium Android phones have something spectacular to differentiate. Sure, you can spice up the camera, make the body more glossy, and add a beautiful screen. But the software is just another commodity that would be available for 1/3rd the price. That's why Google Pixel would always feel exorbitant even when the price is almost close to Apple iPhone. Seeing Essential's price tag, I have the same visceral feeling: "$750 for an Android Phone...? What?".

Here's where Apple eats the larger pie: the exclusivity of its experience that can only came at a price. In the past, the naive me used to think why Apple doesn't try to dent Microsoft's 95% desktop market with its excellent OS. Now I understand why that'd never happen: you can't be premium in people's eyes unless you create a brand of exclusiveness.
32bit MCU 'bridges graphics performance gap'
What I Saw at the Venice Biennale [video]
For what it's worth, my parents asked me to replace one of their contracting engineers who had just resigned. I started working for them the next day. Obviously hiring contractors is different from permanent employees, but if you have the right connections, you can fill a position quickly enough.
A lot of that stackoverflow sites q's are from India which has a lot of byzantine rules about paperwork related to employment "reliving letters" seem to be a huge problem.
Because most intelligent people don't want to fight with configs, syntax and technical arcana. I think we should accept that there is a strange mix of intelligence and obtuseness common to the people that stay in this profession.
Ask HN: Will Facebook brings it's own browser?
Will Facebook brings it's own browser?
It's not unusual, in education, to begin with something interesting* to provide motivation and a big-picture view before getting into details.

For example, if I wanted to teach a kid to use an Arduino, I'd start them off getting an LED to blink by telling them which wires to plug in where, and what code to type in. If they were good at that, maybe I'd have them make it fade in and out like a macbook light.

That way, when it comes time to learn about voltage and current and P-N junctions and bandgaps and PWM and cross-compiling and memory maps and bootloaders, they'll have real-world examples to relate it to.

The difficult part, of course, is even if I thoroughly test the instructions with a clean VM and hardware, the instructions can still fail - like if they've installed a different version previously and there's some sort of conflict.

*Or at least, interesting by the standards of the course
Yes, that's roughly correct. Even so, a CPU that would have much better single threaded performance would outsell one that has much lower single threaded performance but more cores in the consumer market. In the server market it is the opposite.
In my low level CS classes we handed in a source code print out. The printout was graded, not execution of the program. Partial credit was given. Even in higher level CS, partial credit was given.
The conceptual  as a social construct [pdf]
What illness does this?
> (4k vs react's ~200k)

I love Choo too, but it's 4k gzipped compared to React 43k gzipped (incl ReactDOM). I think you were comparing gzipped Choo to non-gzipped React.
Interesting. How did you find FreeBSD less Apple-laptop-friendly than OpenBSD? Did OpenBSD port the Broadcom Wi-Fi driver from Linux?
It also makes no sense that HR would not have called him and/or his emergency contact in all that time once they were informed of his decision.
I don't understand your application of Occam's razor. In what way is the scenario that he resigned by accident more likely? Maybe he was drunk, angry, depressed and overwhelmed and sent an email later to change his mind but then... why write about it on stackexchange? Or assuming none of it's true, again why bother writing it up and pretending a fake story?

It's fine to say "this is the internet and people invent stories" but to apply Occam's razor you need to actually come up with a motivation that would cause this guy to actually invent this story and post it online.
When it comes to debugging, I'm firmly in the printf camp; I rarely prefer debuggers over printf-based debugging

I'm struggling to understand this. Why would you ever prefer printf debugging in your local dev environment over using a debugger?
Their list of the World's biggest problems was sort of shitty in my opinion.
The high-end smartphone market is dominated by Apple, with Samsung a very distant second.
A couple of friends just successfully launched a commercial game on android/ios/steam using love2d, and they're really happy with the results.

I couldn't believe it was made with lua, it runs really smooth.

http://midipixel.com/warlockstower/
I suspect the country is India or possibly some one working in a body shop in the US
Champions of Tavisca Table Tannis Tournament 2017
I think this creates a massive disincentive in order to ask why they didn't get the mark they want. For fear of being marked as a complainer.

At the end of the day you are there provide guidance to get their skills and knowledge to place they want to be. Not to simply filter wheat from chaff.
The Nerds Have Won: Wall Street Edition
You can invest in Gold, which doesn't yield any return. The notion of investment implies a return, whether it is a cash yield or a principal appreciation.

But I would say bitcoins are more similar to fiat currencies than commodities. Commodities have an intrinsic value due to their rarity. You cannot manufacture gold (technically you can but in very small quantities). Which means that if you find a gold coin which ancient romans were buying goods with, you can still buy a suit with it today. You can call that a convention but it is a convention dictated by the laws of physics, not by some white paper.

Fiat currencies instead only have value by convention or law, anyone can manufacture a new fiat currency, like everyone can create a new blockchain. A government can by law change the algorithm behind any of these blockchains. But a government cannot create gold. If someone finds a bitcoin key in 2000 years, long after the western civilisation is gone, it will be an interesting piece of history that can but placed in a museum, but you won't be able to buy a suit with it. With gold you will.
The AI risk problem has already been solved. If any robots start acting up, just hit 'em with the ole semicolon and down they go.
To extend your last point, David Cameron has been down on record as saying "I can't wait to privatise it".

It was said tongue in cheek as a response to unfavourable coverage. Job security obviously isn't a joke to BBC employees so there is always going to be a "don't bite the hand that feeds" rationale to reporting.

That said, I think some of Laura Kuennsberg's reporting has been so blatantly biased I'm surprised she's got away with it. In fact, she has had at least one ruling against her regarding impartiality, with a slap on the wrist outcome:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/18/bbc-trust-says...

They say there's no evidence of bias or intent but it means as much as KFC saying "we uphold the highest standards of hygiene and all our staff are heavily trained as such" in response to an employee pissing in the milkshake.
Introducing the Eye Tracking VR Devkit for HTC Vive
Yes, I'm sure the first manufacturer of ABS systems figured that was the way to go.

Really, the only branch of industry where this kind of attitude makes sense is infotainment. Everywhere else - when there is money by paying customers on the line - it is as good as handing your customers to the competition.
Do you really need to leave IT just because of these symptoms? There are so many areas to work in.

Anyway, what illness are you talking about here?
Boredom?
Got stuck in a place where the project sucked the life and general interest out of you?
OCD?
Depression?
Anxiety?

UPDATE: Got good answers about what can cause these symptoms.

If you want to leave IT then try to find jobs that are still challenging your creativity, but don't need huge amount of concentration in the same time. Like becoming a carpenter, professional gardener, etc...

These still make you use your creative side, but rely on more physical work then intellectual.
Yeah I see where you're coming from, I guess I have a different perspective because I never really considered using consumer-grade hardware for "pro" server use. But I suppose it makes sense if you don't want to pay the premium for a Xeon type build. I wouldn't be comfortable hosting a critical production database on non-ECC RAM for instance.

Going on a tangent this discussion made me wonder if ECC memory was common on GPUs (after all, with GPGPU becoming more and more mainstream what good is it having ECC system RAM if your VRAM isn't?)

Unsurprisingly it turns out that consumer-grade GPUs don't have ECC. However I stumbled upon this 2014 paper: "An investigation of the effects of hard and soft errors on graphics processing unit-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations"[0].

Now obviously it's a rather specific use case but I thought their conclusions were interesting:

>The size of the system that may be simulated by GPU-accelerated AMBER is limited by the amount of available GPU memory. As such, enabling ECC reduces the size of systems that may be simulated by approximately 10%. Enabling ECC also reduces simulation speed, resulting in greater opportunity for other sources of error such as disk failures in large filesystems, power glitches, and unexplained node failures to occur during the timeframe of a calculation.

>Finally, ECC events in RAM are exceedingly rare, requiring over 1000 testing hours to observe [7, 8]. The GPU-corrected error rate has not been successfully quantified by any study—previous attempts conducted over 10,000 h of testing without seeing a single ECC error event. Testing of GPUs for any form of soft error found that the error rate was primarily determined by the memory controller in the GPU and that the newer cards based on the GT200 chipset had a mean error rate of zero. However, the baseline value for the rate of ECC events in GPUs is unknown.

[0]http://www.rosswalker.co.uk/papers/2014_03_ECC_AMBER_Paper_1...
I noticed some libraries are missing. For example, when I type multiplayer in the searchbox, libraries such as https://github.com/lance-gg/lance or https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest dont show up. Where are you pulling your sources from? Are you using a github API?
I thought that the company still has to pay for the leaves not taken.
Software engineer freelancer here. Started freelancing full-time in January 2017 and currently making a decent living, but not yet the salary I used to make. Another freelancer I spoke to recently mentioned it took him two years to reach his former salary.

1/2) Almost all the meaningful work I've done so far has come from my network. I've also picked up some nice jobs from Slack channels.

3) At this point I mostly work alone. I have a client which subcontracts to me and provides me with a project manager, which is amazing. I also know a designer to which I'll outsource design when I think it's needed.

4) This fluctuates wildly for me so I can't really give a specific number.

5) Slightly less at the moment, but would certainly be able to get and probably surpass my former salary with focus and grafting. However, I try and live a more balanced life at the moment as well as work on a side project, so salary isn't my #1 concern.
The first case is good for the company because it will end up in a monopoly while the people will suffer. IMO competition and free market will not converge to the "best for the people/population" optimum point in all cases, lots of cases will converge to a good for the companies and very bad for the people.
“The Technology Is Getting Real” – Laser Weapons Edge Closer to Battlefield Use
Tragically things like Dementia and Alzheimers can do this. Also numerous mental conditions e.g. depression, stress, etc.

I knew one guy that got a degree in Comp Sci and in his first job began getting severe debilitating headaches. He was diagnosed with a visual problem and was told to stop using screens in his day to day job. He quit a promising career as a software engineer and went and joined his dad's gardening business.
All I want is the best processor, most ram, micro sd, replaceable battery and root. Why can't anyone deliver this? I'm here cracking a v20 when I could be happier.
I just want a phone that:

- Lasts a full day

- Looks nice

That's all.

Currently I can buy various 8mm phones with various bad-to-OK cases.

Give me a beautiful 16mm phone and software updates and I'll give you my 700 bucks.
That's why I'm considering the Fairphone 2 as my next phone.
> What if most jobs are automated and people everywhere turn to violence to keep themselves occupied?

This will be a slow, step-by-step process where the media will be working against the general population.

Truckers are going to be among the first ones to be replaced with self-driving vehicles.
Quoted from The Second Intelligent Species: How Humans Will Become as Irrelevant as Cockroaches (Marshall Brain)

In addition, the mainstream media outlets will not cover the protests of truckers, or the force used against them, to any great extent. To the general, TV-watching public, any attempt at a trucker riot will be largely invisible, or will be marginalized as a nuisance. And any truck drivers who do appear in the media will tend to be selected to be the loudest, most extreme people possible. Therefore, when the general public looks at these extremists, teamsters will appear to be crazy. All truck drivers will be stereotyped with this “crazy” label, and the truckers will lose public support.

This is going to repeat itself until there are almost no human jobs left, if any. The rich will get richer and the poor will be stowed away, out of sight.
> > The writer already assumes that we think he is lying.

> Not quite. He assumes we think he could be mistaken. ("[…] it could be conceivable […] that, in my grief, I remotely logged in, sent the email and forgot I did it"). Still a bit fishy, but not as much as you make it sound.

Not quite assuming that we think he's lying, but a very common tell for lies is that the lier is preempting challenges to weak points in the story.

A lot hinges on his location and the exact job, but it smells very fishy that he apparently is set up for remote access to email (so it sounds like a "regular" knowledge worker job where checking your email from not-the-office at times is not uncommon), but when leaving very suddenly, ie. with no time to hand over work to colleagues, as you'd normally do for planned leave, he wouldn't bring the dongle with him, to be able to check in and make sure his colleagues have what they need to move on without him.
Lots of options actually. If you're healthy, able to concentrate on things for a long time and your brain is sharp then count your blessings.

I once (for only a few weeks, but it felt much longer) had to use medication that made my brain feel like mush, comprehension capabilities were a fraction of normal. Very humbling experience, scared to death of losing my faculties and ending up in that fog for some reason that can't be cured so easily.
Design apps to function remotely when an Internet connection is critical
Too much mission for a device.
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What to say when they ask you: how much do you make?
Maybe, but the procedure is the same as for any other error you don't understand, copy paste the error message to a search engine and use the results to figure out what it means and how to fix it.
Because more people want to consume DRM content than who want root.

Not saying this is good or bad, it just is.
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It's possible the CEO did try to ring him but didn't get hold of him. From the lack of response the CEO assumed the guy was serious about his resignation and went ahead.
> So unprofessional and disrespectful for both people...

I know of companies that do this, and I totally agree with you. It's done under the guise of security, but is really just immature hazing. First, if I'm in an office environment with fellow employees why is locking my computer so important? Is it to stop the random person from stealing company secrets or impersonating me? If that's the case why wouldn't the other employees around my computer notice someone, since clearly they had to be close enough to notice if I left it unlocked.

Second, if I'm out in public theft is much bigger issue than locking the computer.

Finally, and something you touched on, is that now it makes it hard to differentiate between authorized and unauthorized. It's much easier to say using someone else's computer without their knowledge is grounds for termination 100% of the time.
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"My software engineers wanted me to talk about our vision for making all devices, even those we don't make ourselves, play well together."
This sounds really interesting to me, but I can't find anymore information about what that means. Does anybody know?
Linux Inside – a book-in-progress about the linux kernel and its insides
His English looks just fine to me.
If you don't need a "full" REST API (whatever that means) then there is no business benefit to a "full" REST API.

And be honest: the back end for handling either is the same. No reason the same code can't be used if/when you need `v2/proposals` with RESTful verbs.

The biggest benefit for "full" REST is that lots of tooling supports it and it might cut down on documentation time.
Your can send mail from SQL a simple form and a suitable SPROC - I have done this from Oracle back in the day
People don't need to be reminded to think of themselves first. Because they do, and because the HN community is affluent there is already enormous commercial effort to solve their problems.
They're so worried about AGI, which doesn't exist, that they won't spend any time on the non-existential risks of non-general AI.

Listen to Cathy O'Neil for a more reasonable and actionable perspective on how we need to fix AI.
Absolutely no offense, I want to see the works of people who does this kind of comments all the time. I mean, I'm really curious what they are doing. I liked the the design of this website, but when I saw your comments it made sense, but still, I want to see what do you like or did.
Dual boot kali linux
I have bought Dell Inspiron 5378 worth 80,000 INR. I wanted to dual boot windows with kali linux. I installed kali linux 2016.2 32 bit, everything was fine but as soon as i enter the credentials at the login screen, it displays a black screen with a blinking cursor. i have tried many versions of kali and parrot also.
I wanted to know are there such laptops which dont support dual boot or kali linux
Suddenly it makes sense to me why so many programs are switching over to Python for every course they can that is not domain-specific, like graphics or architecture.
Unless you are close to retirement, the new job you should be seeking is "How do I heal myself". Unless of course you want to go through the rest of your life with your condition...

If school medicine won't help you, you should start looking for some alternate approaches, there are enough out there.
What is it with these companies putting the latest SnapDragon CPUs in their mobile devices?

No one cares about CPU performance. I've got a SD820 now in my Axon 7, and I can tell you there is 0 difference with a SD625 in daily use.

Except that the SD625 is cheaper and has an incredible battery life.

The only company realising that people care about UX in stead of specs seems to be Xiaomi. Consistently choosing SD625 and SD660 for their phones, because it is clear that any CPU can pull a phone.

And let's be honest. No one cares about mobile VR.

I'll take SD625 and 5000mAh battery over SD835 and 6GB RAM any day.
The website works really well on Safari on an iPhone 7+.
[COMMENT] Why Opinion Polls Should Be Banned During Elections
The secret is in combining the best of both, but that makes for difficult software-writing...
The Great Barrier Reef Can No Longer Be Saved by Current Efforts
A robot that performs basic medical services so that our governments kill fewer doctors when intentionally bombing hospitals. Or wait, we could also stop bombing hospitals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate
What good is home and stability if you're crippled (or dead) from disease? The point of the article you didn't read is that addressing health care is the most impactful thing we could do right now. That doesn't mean it will be so for ever. It in no way precludes on addressing other issues as well. I for one reject the implied argument that we should avoid doing one good thing because it doesn't lead to instant perfection. Seems like a bit of a callow excuse to me.
I used to work for a top 5 consulting engineers and I had to reverse engineer some tests to help prove that the tests on the ground where we had a problem with a bridge where the fault of some one else.
"With gold you will."

I think I'd view it that either things will have changed so much that the idea of exchanging physical objects for a bit of shiny metal seems ludicrously crude or that we've had a widespread total collapse and nobody is interested in shiny soft metal either (gold seems to have been used from 5th millenium BC which is a long time but definitely not "forever" in terms of human pre-history).