skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...just to maximize profits for the business owners

Cheaper is not what business owners want. Cheaper is what customers want!
Most consumers don't want to "tell a story" but record memories. The auteurs who wish to "tell a story" can crop the viewport to their hearts desire without limiting choices for everyone else who isn't a tortured genius.
Hey, another snarky valueless comment about war. Yes, hopefully someday we'll have world peace. It was horrible that 30 people died. War is ugly. However, you are distracting from helping to discuss some real issues that are solvable today.

One example is that 2700 people will die from malaria today. Maybe we can save a million lives a year if we'd all work together on this?
PHP wasn't designed for secure web applications. Most of its users don't care about that. It thrives anyway. So, this isn't a failure of PHP. On contrary, the author cranking it out quickly might have been a reason for success.

Now, someone wanting secure apps might not want PHP. They traditionally went with "safe" languages such as C# or Java whose runtimes were full of 0-days. They might find Ada, Component Pascal, or Rust with a web framework helpful. Even enterprise sector hasn't been writing most web pages is Ada, though. ;)
Yes, but the number of species extinctions skyrocketed due to human behavior. Natural habitats are being chopped down, nature is being forcefully controlled and developed in certain ways and global problems like man-made climate change are threatening a vast amount of species on this planet.

Humans aren't the only species destroying other animals' habitats for their own goals, but they're the most destructive one by a great margin. To make matters worse, humans possess the means and should have the common intelligence to find a better way. But instead of working together and saving the planet with all living creatures on it, humans are too busy fighting wars in an attempt at imposing domination on others.
This is the first I've heard of the new australian "New Payments Platform" (NPP). Is anyone here working in the space?
Also interesting/telling: all of a sudden the republicans are against "free market" trade here.
Sorry but you are simply wrong. You keep using people who use personal computers as their work tool. But thats missing the point. We are not talking about engineers, designers and people who need to work in excel all day but they are still a minority compared to those who own a smartphone.

The point is that many people don't own a computer but use their smartphone to do everything with.

You see that once you have to build solutions for the masses.
Cool, trade wars. I was wondering when Trump would do something stupid that impacts the markets.
Not really. I was particularly into playing around with slot cars for a number of years.
From https://80000hours.org/articles/cause-selection/:

> We’ve been ... drawing together research from the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute; the Open Philanthropy Project (a foundation with billions of dollars of committed funds); the Copenhagen Consensus Center (a major think tank); and other groups.

It's not as though their analysis is pulled out of thin air.
This seems to be caused by a software bug (at least, I'd hope so). The site continues to make requests on a loop, driving up data and resource usage.
Solar installation is probably, like most other installation jobs, a race to the bottom with regards to profit. Not to mention that installation is more-or-less a one-time event per house - where do those employees go once you've passed the initial hump?

There's much more money (and sustainable jobs) to be had in the creation of the solar cells.
HBM GPUs all have ECC by default.
tldr; NPP a mobile payment API inside your smartphone will make it easy to move cash among apps across phones too.

it's like the 10th thing in mobile payment space so why NPP differs and will win is not answered in comparison.

you can skip mostly rhetorical, revisionist smartphone history and references to Kenya/Australia.
Mystique – Heterogeneous RecyclerView Adapter in Kotlin
I am not impressed by the website at all. It is very well designed and in some ways pretends to give you a lot of information but I find myself asking the most basic of questions. What is Essential, does it do hardware, software or both? Is it running a special Android or vanilla? What is the screen made of? There is all this hype about how strong the phone is but I have never heard anyone complain that aluminum is not strong enough for their purposes etc.

For a marketing site, I am just not impressed with the amount of important information. Maybe the answers to all of this are in there, but it is so poorly arranged that after checking in a bunch of places I expect it to be. I have given up
Considering we already have Antifa out and about I don't think we have to worry much, it seems the kids of today really do remember.
I see where you're coming from, but the current media situation says that any attempt to do this would be a terrible idea and backfire horribly on them.

I mean, we're already in a world where a large percentage do not trust anything the media is saying. Where 'CNN is fake news' is basically a meme and 'alternative' news publications have taken a large bite out of the older ones' markets.

If they try and paint the trucker actions as all negative or crazy, it could go about as well as painting Trump crazy did prior to the 2016 election. Or pleading for Britain to stay in the EU pre Brexit.

And something similar also led to GamerGate becoming such a catastrophe.

If the media try anything like this against the general population, they'll soon notice that:

1. Trust in them will decline even further
2. Alternative news sites and YouTube influencers will take full advantage of the situation and cover the other side extensively.
3. They'll turn social media sites into even more of a war zone than they already are.

So unless they want Breitbart (or the next Breitbart equivalent) to gain a few thousand times more traffic from people who feel like 'the media' is lying to them, I doubt they'll continue this sort of path.
As others have noted, this is unlikely to explain it.

I'm a professor at Carnegie Mellon. In the most recent semester, I taught a large undergraduate intro to programming course (CMU 15-112 is similar in audience to CS50 at Harvard. Our cheating ratio - about 10% - was similar this year, and was also higher than normal). The course is taken by almost all first-year students at Carnegie Mellon - it has about a 50/50 gender ratio. Out of curiosity, I examined the stats for our cheating cases - briefly, so I may have made some errors. But males accounted for about 2/3rds of the cheating cases. It's not clear that that is statistically significant, or if it boils down to "about the same."

Unlike your hypothesis, this is based upon the actual cheating statistics from a class of about 450 people. :-)

Some time over drinks, remind me to tell you the story of the guy who asked his g/f to go get him a snack from the vending machine, stuck a USB drive in her computer, and stole her homework to hand in as his own.

Cheating happens across genders and nationalities. We look hard to identify trends, because we try hard to find ways to intervene before the cheating happens. Most cheating comes from poorly-managed stress. A smaller, regrettable subset comes from people who actively seek to cheat their way through something -- but most of it is simply a bad decision under time pressure.

The NYT article's hypothesis that people are putting more hopes on CS classes for their future careers rings true to me. We see a lot of people who are (a) not doing very well in the class; and (b) (probably mistakenly) believe they need an A or a B in the class in order to succeed in <thing they want to do>. This creates a stressful situation for them, and some respond in a way that bites them in the long run: they cheat. And, because this is CS and we have MOSS and other tools, they get caught.
It sounds like you at least have a good feel for what's bad and what's worse (which is good).

I think one thing you can do is attempt to isolate the code surrounding the next chunk you work on. Do as much as you reasonably can of the things the article mentions. This may only be writing tests and adding logging, but if it's an improvement over what's there, you'll improve the experience of the next person involved with that code.

I'd warn you against jumping ship in hopes of finding a "clean" code base. Most code is somewhere on a spectrum of "maintainable enough" and something... grimmer.

If you really are unhappy and don't feel like you're growing or have the ability to grow, maybe try out contributing to a well-maintained OSS project. If you find yourself immensely happier, dust off your resume ;)
How did they get the buying power in the first place?

Jobs of some sort. Teachers, construction workers, health care workers, programmers. Farmers, utility workers, electricians and craftsmen of different sorts. Case workers for the country's child protection agency. Folks that speak the local language who work in call centers. Sure, some of these are low-paying jobs, but lets face it: so are some factory jobs (i've worked in one and had friend that worked in others, which pay a little above minimum wage).

Simply put, you aren't going to ship off all the jobs. So they aren't the best at manufacturing? So what? Obviously, if they have buying power, the country has some other strengths. They simply wouldn't show up when looking at manufacturing only.
As Elon Musk put it, ~"Managers receive the greatest distillation of all the problems. They have the worst job"
They are the ones expected to solve the hardest problems. If someone can't figure it out, it gets pushed up the chain.
I don't see how people could be tricked to buy a google car with the expectation of the controlling software being obsolete in a couple year and left unupdated as the sensor technology improves.

That alone makes google a risky partner for any serious automaker - they're better of as a partner to a leasing agency than a seller.
That has nothing to do with total disaster.

Quick search will show me many different things including climate change is real, climate change is a hoax, ice is expanding 9/11 was done by the government etc.

"A quick search" is the worst form of argument that exist as it will show you many different things.
The brackets are there, you just need to ask.
The first was expected. The second on Prolog optimizations was interesting.
Ford outsources a lot of work of this type, as does everyone else. However Ford does watch their partners (how much I don't know. My studies of Honda says Honda is concerned about their suppliers, but I never got interested enough in the subject to see how/if it generalizes)
He appoints the regulatory reps that are alligned with his policies. Add personal dynamics and diplomacy and you have a rather big role.
Wikipedia describes Godel as a nonreligious theist who believed in the existence of an afterlife. In that context, it is not surprising that he would draw far-reaching conclusions that a human being's behaviour cannot be described by a formal system.
Bayesian Compression for Deep Learning
FTFA - "While imports have risen, U.S. producers have seen business shrivel, with 1,200 manufacturing jobs lost and a 27 percent wage decline in the four years to 2016. U.S. solar cell plants went from running at 81.7 percent of capacity in 2014 to 28.9 percent in 2016, the filing said."

So, this happened during Obama's administration...
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Yeah this. Does this thing colour parenthesis and stdlib builtins? We're good to go.
A collection of loosely coupled computational systems still forms a computational system, not some fundamentally different entity.
The Obama administration was pro-solar, so the GOP had to be, has been, anti-solar. Remember the Solyndra "scandal." It's not about "annoying the environmentalists" per see, it's about motivating those voters who do get revved up about annoying the environmentalists.

That's certainly not the only reason but it would be naïve to wave it away at this point. As the article points out, the situation we find ourselves in has been years in the making. US PV production has actually been in decline just as PV is starting to make sense.
I didn't really mean, "not doing much", but more like being the type of manager that lets the team get on with the work by removing as much of the day to day business nonsense as possible.
That sounds a little more realistic than a jump to management or skilled trades for someone with the difficulties the OP describes.
Are there businesses building automation and tooling for working with legacy codebases? It seems like a really good "niche" for a startup. The target market grows faster every year :)
Managers generally solve no problems. Not engineering ones anyway. They are responsible only for applying the proper resources to get problems solved.
You mean,versus sitting and complaining? "Necessity is the Mother of invention" - scratch your own itch, don't lay around and bitch.
Disclosure: Am manager.

Bad idea. Managers need to know a different set of finer details, not none at all. While individuals on a team have to get deep into the details of what they're doing, managers need to work at the edges - where what Team X is doing integrates with V, Y and Z; and longer term, how what all of those teams are doing now fits in with the work lined up 6-24 months down the road. That's a full time job, even before we've actually done any managing of our individuals. Maybe this gives you some insight, but that's actually why (in my opinion) the first things to fall off with poor managers are 1x1s, meaningful coaching, etc.

Managers also have the stresses of accountability and expectations. There are days where I wish I was still an individual contributor.
What would the equity do for him? Other than likely go to zero, that is...
> bite-sized chunks is really the main ingredient to success with complex code base reformations.

An excellent talk about this is "The Scandalous Story of the Dreadful Code Written by the Best of Us" by Katrina Owen [0]

[0] http://www.kytrinyx.com/talks/scandalous-story/
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There were others before Mossberg, and IMO they did a better job. Infoworld used to be a weekly read for a lot of us in the tech community, and they had a number of experienced columnists (e.g. Dvorak, Cringely) that could have easily slid into the job that Mossberg was handed at the WSJ in the late 1980s (after nearly two decades of non-tech related coverage for the newspaper).

If you read his earliest work, you get the feeling that he sometimes had no idea what he was talking about. But he kissed up to the CEOs of the major companies, which dovetailed nicely with the editorial stance of the WSJ and the P/R needs of respective companies.
> Let’s say a restaurant booking app wanted to get your a taxi to take you door to door — right now that would all happen behind the scenes, because that booking app can’t order and pay for that taxi. There’s no API allowing these apps to perform transactions.

Do I want that? Do I trust Rstrntr to get me a cab? Which one of my ride-share/taxi app will it use? Is part of my install process now telling every app I install which of the other apps on my phone I prefer to use for what?

Maybe that's just a bad example; maybe being able to print a photo from Flickr by sending it, along with a small payment, to Shutterfly would be cool. But I also don't want it constantly badgering me for permission, the way some apps tend to.
Opera used to provide something that behaved something like this from the user's point of view. It never got much attention though and was eventually dropped.
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How is someone with "little to no concentration and a very low level of comprehension" supposed to write a novel?
Regarding food safety, the UK's Food Standard's Agency has a category that specifically deals with food prepared in homes and sold to the public:
https://www.food.gov.uk/business-industry/food-hygiene/movab...

The requirements are not insurmountable.

Please someone do this! There's loads of (mainly) women on Pinterest who explain how they bulk prepare a month worth of food for their families in a day or two, and freeze it/jar/store it. I'd love some near me to prepare more and I could just buy up some of it and throw it in a slow cooker or oven.
Get People to Listen by Admitting You're Wrong
I switched from Blockbuster to Netflix specifically because of their extensive back catalogue. There was an old movie that I wanted to watch that no Blockbuster carried, and it was $30 new. Once I signed up for Netflix I (almost) never went back to Blockbuster.

I'm still kind of surprised that Blockbuster didn't see it coming until too late.

(Edit) I also canceled Netflix for a month because I'm an Amazon subscriber, but it was Netflix's recommendations that brought me back.
I suffer from severe anxiety that is nearly crippling, it basically rules my life. Disclaimer, it's not social anxiety, more of a general crushing anxiety a majority of the time. But I wanted to write to offer some reassurance.

You are young, and with that is great and abundant hope for you; it may not seem so now, but your future could be very bright. When I was young, I felt that I would never be strong enough to make it past all of the sociological hurdles necessary to move in and up in this field. Like you, I do not feel that therapists have helped at all - honestly, for me I feel talking about things sends me into a tail spin of much deeper anxiety. It can be difficult making clinicians aware, but there are pharmacological solutions that do help - you need to be a team with your doctor, rather than letting them simply run the show (not to be presumptuous, you may already have this sort of relationship).

I managed to break into my field by doing a project on my own and showing what I was made of, then presenting it to the group I was displacing with the internal hope of selling it. Instead it landed me my first job - wherein I was initially underpaid, but it was still more money than I dreamed of making at that age (I was in my early twenties). I was quickly identified as a passionate (and opinionated) expert and received very large raises over the next several years with them. When I did finally leave, the experience I gained there, made bargaining a lot easier. It's important at that stage not to be manipulated, you still may find yourself too-fresh in areas of negotiation and end up going backwards in your career. So perhaps aim for folks who aren't used to hiring software engineers, so you both have some equal footing on the negotiating experience. After one or two jobs, your experience will speak for itself, and any "quirks" people may see with you, will be dismissed as "everyone is different" and you can be accepted for the brilliance you provide rather than the image you worry your anxiety elicits.

TL;DR, aim for small non-IT shops (eg. state & local government, factories that need programming, companies breaking the small to mid-size barrier that now need programmers), do projects to show your worth (maybe even work that would benefit them). Make a name for yourself and show your true brilliance.
What's a minimum sample size you've been successfully using? I'd imagine that finding APKs, disassembling them and finding the malware yourself for the training datasets are rather resource intensive tasks, so it's a difficult balancing act?
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The problem with this is that it's exactly the setting for GANs, which means that if you get your hands on one it's trivial to train your models to defeat it.
I don't do this with everything, it depends on what the project is and what my use of it would be. But with libraries or anything that would be a part of something you might find it won't work with your next OS update, browser update (js libraries), or it requires dependencies that are obsolete. I think it's a fair and quick filter.
Speaking from personal experience, something as simple as a concussion can create such symptoms. For that reason, I find it very easy to believe any illness which could impact your brain physically (such as with fevers or inflammation) could have strong negative impacts on your mental capabilities.
V8's Ignition and TurboFan pipeline: can we finally compile js – bytecode – vm?
Javascript is no longer a toy language and now it reaches beyond the browser environment. But, as a developer, I fear shipping my code because it can be easily seen and copied. I wish there was something equivalent to Java's bytecode in JS. I know there are some alternatives, but I don't feel confident about them.
> To those who downvoted me, can you please explain why?

Sure thing. "Then why not start a business that does low-volume runs?" is not helpful. OP is likely in a different business, and starting a resource and capital intense business just to do low volume runs is likely not part of their roadmap for the next 5 years. It's also far from trivial.

Put differently: Given how easy you make it sound, where's the "Show HN" about your lifestyle business offering such services?
Volunteers Needed for Hackathon: London
Hello,

My organisation is running a Hackathon next fall. We haven't set a date yet but are in full swing putting it all together.

Are there any experienced hackathon-goers who would be interested in volunteering their services for the day?

Services needed:

-MC for event (kick off hackathon, hang around for questions. This person will need to be extremely personable)

- Volunteers (main point of contact for any questions participants might have)

The event will be in Central London in November, 2017. If you are interested, please reply and I can get in touch to give you more information on how the event will run, etc

Thank you
Same reason I won't buy a Kindle! Oh, what Android is this? Can I root it? I wonder if I could upgrade it. Etc etc. So I'm all for low-tech paper books.
If some websites will break down in this browser while working in other browsers, people will probably notice.
Bangladesh's population is growing by 1-2% per year [1]. Isn't that just as bad as losing 1-2% of their land to sea level ever year? How are you concerned about them losing land but not about them gaining people?

[1] http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/bangladesh-pop...
Pirate Joe's defends case – can you buy goods full price and re-sell?
Jenga: Sotware-Defined Cache Hierarchies [pdf]
Where did you go?

There is a great deal of difference between different schools, which I think explains much of the varying experiences people have.
Ah, yep pasted this in wrong. Thanks for flagging!
You can use 'local' to have sane scoping (shadowing) in moonscript though:

-- will print:
-- 15
-- 0
-- 15
-- 10

y = 0
goodfun = (x) ->
local y
y = 10
y + x

badfun = (x) ->
y = 10
y + x

print(goodfun(5))
print(y)
print(badfun(5))
print(y)
Building houses is a one-time event per lot. Where do those employees go once you've passed the initial hump?
Writing and directing movies
They're not unforeseen, China is giving subsidies for solar panel manufacturers. Not many people object to using subsidies for domestic industries or R&D but using them for exports is just state level predatory pricing.
Running a program also gives feedback quicker than waiting for a professor to evaluate it.
Same.

I considered that to be a personal failing at the time.
Solomon Feferman on Penrose’s Gödelian argument

http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/penrose.pdf (PDF)