skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qt Lite is commercial only right?

Edit: Ah yes it does say:

> For the time being, the Configuration UI Tool is a commercial only tool, that adds value for our Device Creation customers.
Nest cams back from the dead with new home monitoring device
IKEA and Rainmaking to Launch a Startup Bootcamp in Sweden
> So I guess its up to private industry in the US to tackle climate change.

While I'm guessing you're referring to those like the solar industry, it doesn't matter if the rest of the manufacturers don't follow along. Fat chance that under capitalism all these industries will say "maybe we should curtail our production rate and consumption of resources for the sake of the environment, even if we make less profit and aren't compelled to by the law". [0] The free market demands that Moloch must continue being fed.

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/80Az8Xx.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4

This is an old military instructional video about fire (artillery) control computers, explaining the mechanical aspects of how they work. It's beautiful in its elegance! I have watched it on multiple occasions just for the sheer beauty of the mechanisms involved. And, yes, of course I'm a nerd!
Interest is because of the time value of money and risk, not just risk.
That sounds like a good issue to open with GitHub.

I've been using request desktop site to vote in Mobile Safari, but it is one extra thing to do.
I don't know what level you are operating at regarding machine learning or AI, but the fast.ai MOOC is one of the best educational resources in that area I have ever seen in my life. If you have not tried it out yet, I very highly recommend it.
Yes and no. Many companies in industries prone to regulation have accepted that the regular see-saw of political power means that roughly half their time will be spent under more stringent regulations, and so it makes more sense to stick with certain regulations instead of changing processes (which carry their own costs and complexities) every few years to shave a few cents on the dollar.

An example: what if a Republican congress repealed legislation banning leaded gasoline? Would gas companies begin putting lead in gasoline again? Doubtful. Not only would it be a terrible PR move - since everybody accepts that lead is a dangerous neurotoxin - but as soon as government switches hands, the lead ban comes back, and all of that time and money switching to lead will have been an unjustifiable waste.

Maybe not the best example, but you get the idea.
I don't hope so. It would give Trump ammunition for his next campaign. "The rest of the world is treating us very unfairly".

Also, how will the rest of the world know if the US is doing their fair share if the US stops sharing data?
The interesting bit is that the debt buyers are making money from some advantage they seem to have in enforcing repayment relative to the original lenders.

Under proper rule of law, the original lenders would have exactly the same chance of getting money back as Goldman, eliminating all need to sell the debt at a massive discount.
From my experience, the legacy rules of the classroom are a major barrier to learning to use computers. I became a better programmer in 2 months at work than I had in 2 years of university because I was simply given a computer, a team which supported me, and unfettered access to the internet whenever I encountered a problem.

The main problem with the legacy rules of the classroom is that they put far too much focus on the "unplugged" (meaning limited to no internet access allowed), siloed individual.

This is exemplified by paper-based programming exams and a general hostility towards team-based collaboration -- which the author stereotypically oversimplifies and dismisses as merely "copying and pasting".

The legacy classroom model is one-to-many, computers are many-to-many.
If the clock speeds are decent (and the price is reasonable) this will be my next workstation CPU. Can't wait.
I don't think our poor sons and daughters should be involved in a military that will be used to enforce things like this
Who needs drugs when you can stare at a news feed all day?
IMHO if such a superficial aspect is what's breaking it for someone, I'm thinking they're a bit hung up on trivia, the rest of Nim is really very good and other languages should copy it more. In practice the symbol thing really isn't an issue...
That Mike Monteiro video literally changed my life, helping me go from charging $15/hr for PHP "development" (sigh) to charging real money and getting real checks.

Wat is a great talk two, they're probably my top 2 talk videos.
It won't happen. The diplomatic way is to not escalate things and just ignore the elephant in the room until it disappears. 3,5 years is not that long.
Doesn't matter - tariffs decrease purchasing power (these things have a tendency to affect unrelated markets because of the economy's interconnectedness), and lower purchasing power means slower economic activity, which includes investment in things like research.
Sheryl Sandberg's three key lessons for managing a growing business
1. I don't believe there is a monitoring system. If you sign up you agree to certain things and everybody hopes you stick to your word essentially.

2. Why does it matter what China or 'Eastern Europe' (which specific states are you referring to?) do? Adults shouldn't need to have it explained to them that just because somebody else does something, doesn't mean they should also do that.

Finally regarding "dragging the US down to everyone else's level" - what level is this? I'm not sure the best way to look at the figures but, per capita at least, the US is one of the worst C02 polluters coming in at 8th whereas China is down at 55th.
40. You need 66 to ratify a treaty, but you can also pass a 'treaty implementation bill' which is basically normal legislation mirroring the language of the treaty, and you only need a majority in the house, and either a majority or a filibuster-proof majority in the senate. That's how NAFTA was passed.
They could make money on qt creator. It is a very good c++ IDE and people use it not only for creating Qt apps. Make a basic version free but allow installing extensions and other advanced features after paying for the license.
Apparently it's resolved. I'd like to read their postmortem on it. They write those extremely well
I'm already used to working without unbounded loops and moving away from unrestricted recursion; I can appreciate that unrestricted boolean expressions are complex to verify but I'm just not convinced that day-to-day software development (whether we call it computation or something else) actually needs such things. To my mind verification goes hand-in-hand with implementation, provided the language gives you the tools to do that - maybe I'm arguing for a metalanguage rather than a language, but if I want to produce a program with particular properties that seems easy to achieve by constraining myself to a sublanguage where these properties are true by construction, and then writing my program.
Ammunition of the sort you're talking about doesn't really matter when they're willing to just lie.
Turn your website into an interactive canvas, basically an HTML5 Canvas game that functions like a news site, I think it would be much more difficult to block ads in this scenario. One objection is that you can already do this and we don't see it, but a counterpoint is that its a hassle at the moment, and once tooling is advanced C# to WASM compiler or something along those lines, then we'll see frameworks and then it will be pretty simple and possibly compelling... If it gives publishers more control over the experience I don't see how they could pass it up.
Another avenue would be emissions / environmental impact limits on various categories of goods. This would incentivize US business to go around the Trump administration's back and do the right thing anyways, just so they can continue to have access to these markets.

In any event, any effective global approach to these issues will need to have some legal and/or economic force, so the US is really just shooting itself in the foot by bucking the trend. Maybe we'll have a couple hundred more coal jobs nationwide to show for it, though :s
The thing is, half or nearly half the country disagrees with you on paper. I bet its not anywhere near that in practice, as in there is a range of political spectrum. If we had more choice we wouldn't have align to the poles of a bipartisan system.
It's not the science that's politicized. It's the response to the science. Politics is, in my opinion, all about helping your friends and hurting your enemies. If the response is one that will do the opposite then your oppose it. It might happen that the best opposition is to deny the science but that's a consequence not a cause.
Time value of money is also based on risk. You are betting that there is an alternative sure thing at which you could earn some expected rate.
Nitpick: They would still fail for DNS issues with *.github.com, so a domain like githubstatus.com would be even more resilient.
>Why bother quitting the deal?

So he can look like he's getting something done. Almost everything Trump campaigned on was a pipe dream or he has managed to quickly derail if it was even remotely possible. So he needs something to parade around in front of his base even if it's entirely symbolic.

For another example, look at the weird attempted rebrand of existing border fencing as "bollard walls" a while back because the border wall he campaigned on is never going to happen.
As a non american I would have agreed if Sanders would have won against Shillary and then Trump.
That's a very clean looking system! Kudos. :)

I have only one of the 512 950 PROs in mine; they are awesome. :) http://i.imgur.com/sydrBvv.jpg . Pic taken before 2nd 980 GPU was put in; 6850k CPU.
Sounds like this 'problem' is going to get much worse as the kid grows older, and I wouldn't blame the kid at all for being annoyed.
I've not done nearly as many conference talks as many people here (I do about one a year) but just for entertainment here is how it usually goes for me:

1. Come up with a proposal, send it out to as many conferences as I can find.

2. Wait.

3. Most reject it. Some times (often, actually) all of them reject it. Go back to step 1 (You lose 3 or 4 months when you are waiting, not knowing if any will accept your proposal).

4. If one of them accepted, be overjoyed!

5. Tell myself I'll start working on the talk super early so I'm extra prepared.

6. Actually not start until 1 to 1 and a half months before the conference.

7. Be super stressed. Not get anything else meaningful done.

8. Day of the talk I am angry at myself for agreeing to do it when I get little out of it.

9. Do the talk, it goes way better than I expected! I didn't totally embarrass myself and people seemed engaged.

10. It's over! Oh my god, it's over! Thinking of all of the things I can get done now, I'm never giving another talk and putting myself through that again.

11. 3 or 4 months pass and I see people I know are giving talks and I get the itch to do it myself again... back to step 1.
Less pretty than the consequences of climate change?
Don't we, USA, already have some of the toughest climate laws in the world?
It's true that any involvement with Venezuela will make someone angry, but I don't think it's the same someone.

Would shorting them really have angered the opposition? It seems like a move that would mostly have outraged the Venezuelan government, and having them angry at you is hardly a moral failing.
> My logic is that we have no, as in zero, control over the entire apparatus

Did you vote?
You misspelled 7.5 years.
Interesting (and perhaps emotionally satisfying), yes. Productive, no. Imposing tariffs is akin to shooting yourself in the foot if what you really want is innovation in clean energy.
For anyone that has 5 minutes, this BBC article is chilling...

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-how-western-civilis...

The salient point being..

'Western civilisation is not a lost cause, however. Using reason and science to guide decisions, paired with extraordinary leadership and exceptional goodwill, human society can progress to higher and higher levels of well-being and development'

We seem to be at a point in time where all of those points are lacking in US policy & leadership.
I'm having an ongoing facebook feud with a die-hard Trump supporter who has been parroting the 'everything with an anonymous source is fake news' line for the last weeks.

I challenged him to argue that it was likely Trump would not pull out of the Paris Accord because of the anonymous sources reporting that he intends to ... He just replied with some fake climate science and 'simple questions' that modern climate science has not answered to his satisfaction ... The blindness is insane -- and the damage really can't be overstated ...
Not sure if you're referring to it but they announced (roughly) the feature you described yesterday.

Introducing temporary interaction limits - https://github.com/blog/2370-introducing-temporary-interacti...
Sure, but having `util.promisify` in core modules means you no longer need an external dependency here.
Agreed. The front-page gives more data:

https://github.com/firehol/netdata

It looks like a thing that stores and visualises "metrics".

But it looks like it runs only upon a single host, which makes it less interesting than collectd/prometheus/etc, even if the visuals look a little nicer than grafana, etc.

I certainly wouldn't have the patience to open ten pages if I wanted to see the stats on ten hosts. I want all my metrics in one place - so I can graph "top five busiest hosts", etc.
Another example: the founder of Chobani yogurt is an immigrant himself. Not only has he hired scores of immigrants to work in his company (particularly in Twin Falls, Idaho), but the effects on the local economies here in upstate New York have also been a tremendous boon. As a result, New York State now produces more Greek yogurt than Greece itself.

https://esd.ny.gov/esd-media-center/success-stories/yogurt-i...
More specifically, the issue is with Republican legislators listening to fossil fuel interests and wealthy donors over public opinion.

A majority of people in the United States support climate action. Even a majority of self-identified Republicans.
Gee, I remember the last time a country thought it was being treated unfairly. That ended well.
I don't know whether this has changed, but they used to forbid you from developing with the open source edition and then releasing under a commercial licence. (They did this with a term in the commercial licence that specified that it couldn't be used with code previously developed with the open source edition.)

This was quite a confusing policy in some ways. I think in practice they expected to resolve such situations by backdating payments for the commercial licence to cover the development period.

(Edit: from https://www.qt.io/faq/#_Toc_3_13 it looks like the policy is unchanged but the wording around it has been softened a bit to encourage negotiation)
You're suggesting that having his cake and eating it too should mean [1] remaining unbound by onerous treaties(because the Paris deal is not very binding and [2] winning the favour of other nations in the deal as well as voters at home who support the deal.

But there is a different cake that he likes to have and eat better: [1] remaining unbound by onerous treaties through the act of withdrawing from them altogether [2] appealing to his base at home by refusing to acknowledge GHG emissions as a problem as well as by appearing to stand up for america by declining to engage in any sort of compromise with other nations.

So he won't withdraw because of any teeth that the deal has.

If he withdraws it will be to keep up the appearance of sharing the same values and beliefs as his constituency.

Whether or not that's dumb, I can't really say.
> Canada, the European Union, and China have said they will honor their commitments to the pact even if the United States withdraws.

I'm not sure about other countries, but my understanding is that Canada is "honoring our commitments" to the Paris Climate Agreement in a way similar to how NATO members are honoring (or not, as the case may be) their financial commitments to NATO.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28032017/justin-trudeau-c...

But I suppose "that's different", right?

If the motivating factor behind stopping climate change is saving lives, how come no one ever gets morally outraged at non-American countries not keeping their word when it comes to military funding, which I think could be argued saves lives as well? (Although to be fair, the net number of lives saved by military funding is debatable.)
Yes, massivly deep learning is all about learning from data. With the work I have done I have seen that currently unless you buy a 2xeon server you can't get enough data through to justify haveing 4 GPUs on one machine. So commonly its cheaper to break out to multiple machines, but this then has an impact on how you code your learning since communication between the GPUs then is much slower.

Think of training a NN to learn cats expressions and such Meme txt to go along with pictures of cats. So 1) you collect as many cat memes as you can (easy,... 40k memes of cats later) you start training... you need to normalise all the images you need to extract the meme txt and normalise this and you need to feed this through your tenso flow (or other system) to train it. This means pusshing your small data sample of 40k through the GPU and back out and possibly doing this a lot, there is no way they will all fit on your GPU and even if they do you need to get them on there in the firrst place.
Git timestamp can be set with different timezone so technically GitHub can analzye the timestamp (which they do) and compare with the actual clock of timezone. There's only a small problem though: the latency from the clock check server must be low otherwise we would be 1 second ahead by the time we get response and then another second or two after webpage render.

So from a UX we should simply discount time drift +-5 seconds simply says "blah blah just now" and anything larger might warrant as a warning to the author (Github can reject the commit and ask for confirmation). Although re-editing commit is a hassle for changing timestamp. It's more of a "please make sure you computer time is synced next time."
Can you elaborate? Do you mean taxes voluntarily raised by the countries to meet their goals? Why would Goldman-Sachs make money from those taxes? Or do you mean more like fines for not meeting the goals - but that doesn't make sense because you said there's no metrics for success so how do you fine someone for falling short?
to be fair the idea is that everyone benefits when we don't make large parts of the earth uninhabitable for people. In fact developed nations would probably see a better return, if the climate issues get worse they will be felt more in 1st world countries than they will in developing countries because it is the luxuries we have in the developed world that will be lost first (or at least more noticeably).
You can do a lot of preparation and perfection, over years, and finally get up there and suddenly realize that you are not an entertainer, or even a teacher, and don't want to be either of those, even though the assumption was that this was a good idea, or the main idea. Then what, you're the guy from the Advanced Bashing The Shell talk, or a like guitar player who does not want to play for an audience, what do you do?
I'm referring the the domestic investors (including India's banks) who make the original investments. They are taking a massive haircut. And India's banks are mostly public sector banks with majority (usually super-majority) ownership by the govt. They are being re-capitalized with debt and inflationary borrowings from the central bank. As an Indian taxpayer and a domestic investor, I'm getting hit both ways. Hopefully, this will translate into faster GDP growth in future, but I'm not so sure.
Both get used for political ends but I don't think either is inherently political. People enjoy using science and religion as a sort of "Open Sesame" to get political ends. I think it does neither any good.
> "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

This concept seems to be becoming closer to reality. Especially as every kid now has a smartphone.

The cliche path to illiteracy in America in recent years has been kids forced to attend 'dropout factory' public schools because they live in a particular neighbourhood and got assigned to it. Ideally the problem can be narrowed down to "the person without the parenting or cultural environment that promotes learning". Rather than not having a choice.
You're supposed to develop universal laws from data like that so that it's easier to hit negation over it.
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Lot of people in this thread saying they'd be willing to work N% hours less for N% less pay. Am I the only one living in a high cost of living area, for which the opposite is true? I'd be totally for working more but getting paid more. At this point in my life, mid-life crisis age, I am starting to notice time stalking me, realizing my inadequate retirement savings, and wondering how many more at-bats I'm going to have before it's time to walk away from the baseball game. Am I going to have to eat dog food when I retire? What's my kid's college going to cost? Will I ever be able to afford a vacation? Who really has comfortable answers to these questions?

Why on earth would you choose to work and get paid less than you can, while you are young and capable?? I look back and wish I had worked multiple jobs when I was younger, not that I had fewer hours.
Disclaimer: I've never worked for a company that tried this, so this is conjecture.

It strikes me that #1, #3 and a large part of #4 are not problems caused by the reduced hours but purely by the flexible hours. Do you think this system could've been more successful with more coordinated working schedules?

#2 on the other hand sounds like a systemic problem exacerbated by reduced hours, rather than caused by. It seems to hint at an imbalance in resource allocation in general, which is a problem worth addressing even with the increased hours.
I mean, S&P 500 index funds are down about a dollar on this news. I'd bet that any minor gain to his investments was wiped out by whatever general market exposure he has, so overall (probably) not a move for him financially.
All great feedback, thanks! Some quick replies:
- The omission of '<>' from the operator list was just an embarrassing mistake on my part. #facepalm #WILLFIX
- Also agree that a drop-down list of checkboxes (ideally a searchable one!) with an 'in' operator for low cardinality columns would be great. But the UI for that is a bit involved, and probably also need to provide some user control over when to do this since gathering distinct values can be an expensive operation for large data sets.
- Totally agree that it would be useful to provide more interesting column stats.
Thanks for the suggestions and refs to other tools -- very helpful.
I do. And a growing number of people are feeling the same way.

Check out neoliberalism. It's a centrist movement, so you get to pull in the good ideas from the Democrats and the Republicans while calling out bad ideas from both. If you're a Dem, it's difficult to do that.
Of course... but I didn't vote for a donkey nor an elephant. 5% or so of us did that. The rest just watch the media that supports their side and votes for the party to which they have declared allegiance. It is an absolutely brilliant system if you are an elite.
Country, or trading bloc such as the EU. The US can't negotiate directly with EU member states, as Trump discovered repeatedly in a meeting with Merkel.
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Simplest answer: a tariff on cars and trucks. Hurt Trump's supporters directly.