skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently become inundated with small business line of credit calls and no amount of asking them to remove my number worked (in fact, seems to have made it worse).

On the last call I decided to use a fictional name and spent 15 minutes chatting with the woman about how much I enjoyed living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and how hard I had worked to set up my first fast-food fried chicken restaurant and that, yes, I absolutely wanted to add a couple more locations to prove that the American dream was still alive and well.

I felt like we really connected.

Unfortunately when she called up the person who I assume was the lead buyer and tried to transfer the call - a "Mr Gustavo Fring" from "Los Pollos Hermanos" who was excited to expand his business with fast cash - I received a short burst of expletives before they immediately hung up.

Nobody has called back since but I've got a few more characters ready for when they do.
Lots of people here confuses planning done in large corporations with central planning.

Even if corporations plans their entire operation it is not the same as central planning, because even if a corporation plans its production it cannot plan it sales. It can only estimate because it operates on a common market.

Estimation of sales plans hiring, production etc, however the actual real sales is a feedback loop into that process, where in a central planned system that feedback loop does not exist. Central planned system will just go on whatever the "sales".
I've had third party cookies disabled since > 5 years and never had a real problem. I'm not convinced that such a complicated solution is necessary.
Son is heavily promoting this Vision Fund right now. It's a big vote of confidence in his ability to buy and build wealth. He has support from Saudi sovereign funds, Apple, Qualcomm, etc. He's a guy who has lost huge and come back bigger than ever. Totally fearless. He once had $70B on paper, lost almost all of it, and recovered due to his stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. If Asia Has a bright future, he's definitely Going to be part of it.
Wow! but is there consensus that the source is a pair of commets with clouds of hyrogen emittting at 1420MHz?
If three years after a bootcamp you're spending that much time on HN it probably did not go fantastically.
You don't appear to understand the concept of "standing up for yourself".

It fundamentally includes "in the face of adversity". And that means that you do it well knowing that there can and likely will be negative consequences. If you only do it under a guarantee of no repercussions, then you're not standing up...for anything, really.
> crazy bad women

This stereotype doesn't come from nowhere.

I found a video of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er7qPv8jsZo

This "push to Hubeny's field of expertise" seems to start at 1:02:00, "let her speak" is at 1:05:35.

The OP's account is overdramatized and sometimes plain wrong, like the suggestion that Holt didn't let Hubeny speak at all for these three minutes (she had two long blocks) or that there was a dead silence after the OP spoke up (there wasn't). And that's a part of the problem: feminism is routinely being represented by individuals whose subjective perception of events seems to diverge from what others see. FWIW.
There's always a tension between fairness and stability.

In a perfectly fair system you can end up with dozens of small parties, each having small number of people in parliament, struggling to find majority for a government (see last elections in Netherlands).

That's why some voting systems are designed to give a winning party some premium over their vote percentage.
I've seen enough action movies to know that the future is nuclear fuel cells the size of a hydroflask.
Why is Corbyn a weak candidate?
I don`t get it why left = communism.

Corbyn is a lot like Sanders he can get the youth to vote for some degrees and has good ideas for the majority of a country.

Austerity is not a good solution for the future within the new dawn of technology around the corner (ML/AI driven software)
Read the next sentence :)
Consider posting and answering yourself. I found myself searching for the same problem months later and once I found my own answer.
I think avoiding coalitions was a side effect rather than a design principle: doesn't FPTP predate political parties in the Commons?
So what is their solution to cylindrical objects? Maybe quarter rotation is good enough?
I had 1 full year of dev experience and I had direct bootcamp experience. Also, I'm technically a TA, not the lead teacher. Bootcamps, such as GA, hire teachers and TAs who are fresh out out of their own bootcamps, with a lot less professional experience than I had.

Also, like a lot of bootcamp grads in this thread, I did a lot of programming on my own, getting better and more confident. So I personally believe I was/am a stronger programmer than my years of experience would imply.

There is a stigma with the hiring of developers solely based on the number of years of experience they have. If you are qualified to do something, and the employer has determined that you are qualified for that position, then number of years of experience you have should be irrelevant.
I believe the move to bytecode based formats in mobile OSes and even on OS X and UWP will make this more relevant.

Using such mainframe model, makes the actual processor only relevant to the OS vendors or the developers using "down to the metal" toolchains.

Which is something that obviously weakens Intel's position.
Windows Update new CPU limitation removal tool for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1
Inventing a knot theory for eight year olds (I) (2015)
Related: those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
It happened thanks to massive deportations of Soviet Union which changed whole social structure of Crimea.

People who got conquered and who rejoined have not a single connection.
Boston Dynamics robots seem an order of magnitude further ahead than Aldebarans'. Aldebaran has these tools available because their business is selling these robots who can do tricks and are easy to program, while BD seem to push technology and make mobile robots useful. There's a mistake in the article, a Pepper robot is around 15k not 1.6k.
May will take that ticket to her grave; even as a doddery old peer, she'll be declaring that Something Must Be Done (and then dropping the ball when asked about details).
I heard this, then I heard an updated version:

A sign of mental illness is when you talk to yourself, but think the person answering you (in your head) is someone else.
Oh, this is gonna be good.
Came to post this.

I have nothing against Github, but I wish developers knew better :/
try parsing x86 opcodes and still say it's strong. #debuggerfrustrations :D
I have a sinking feeling they would love it all along a new border wall with Eire. :/
> The UK has a first-past-the-post system designed explicitly to stop coalitions.

That's a terrible reason for FPTP. As soon as you have a third party, you run the risk of coalitions.

What's so bad about coalitions anyway? Germany is run by coalitions and it's a world economic power.
A coworker's wife was almost taken for several thousand dollars by a phone scammer. She asked him at the last minute and he told her to call it off. He was pretty upset that they'd tried to exploit his wife, though. He talked to the police, but they weren't much help.

So he set his cell phone to autodial their number. For the next three days. His number is unlisted, so they couldn't block him without blocking all incoming calls, which was essential to whatever scam they were trying to run. He just tied up their whole operation.

His phone sat there on his desk ringing quietly over and over all day. Every now and then they'd pick up and scream at him.
I agree on the campaign, someone decided to have 'strong' and 'national' into the campaign slogan, despite the fact it actually didn't work terribly well for the UKIP last time around (nor this time!), and didn't work for the Front National either a few weeks back.

To me, in both cases, it seems the ruling caste has misread the fact most people want to see some real change with some sort of isolationist/nationalist trend...

Her asking for a mandate was laudable mind you, it was clearly needed. However, it now leaves her with nothing to stand on, and especially no weight whatsoever to negotiate that brexit thing. Unfortunately I don't see who can replace her either...

The thing is, on the other side the labour proposals are in some case quite laughable -- but they seems to have inherited a lot of anti-brexiters who decided that it was the least-worst scenario.

I have to say quite a few people I know where very, very confused about who to vote for, there was none of the 'classical' 'generational voting' which seems to have existed before. Even Lib Dem failed to attract people, and I have to say that surprised me a bit, as the 'center' seems to have worked for Macron in france -- perhaps they lacked a figurehead?
Yes, there were huge rumours she was in big trouble. Many recounts. She is on a knife edge.

Her majority, or lack of, would harm her authority. The Tories are all about performance and she simply hadn't performed.
ZORO – Shopping chat bot
Infrequently Asked Questions – Donald K. Knuth
That's not the only chance though. It's a chance within a chance within so many other chances over many, many years, from the moment the Big Bang happened.

For sure our knowledge will grow, but I am not so sure if this will apply to our understanding. Yet the more we know, the more we seem we don't know!

Hey thanks for letting me indulge in this thread, I was hoping to test my thoughts and learn something new (I did) :)
Initial setup to get started with programming and run a hello world kind of thing.

With things we do outside of an IDE.

Language specific functions and behaviour.
Well, at least it wasn't people microwaving their lunch.
What are the career options after 10 years as a programmer?
Amazon loaned $1B to merchants to boost sales on its marketplace
I am not British nor familiar with British politics. Is there any article that tries to explain the reasons behind what happened? Labours were something like 20% behind when the vote was called, but went close to winning yesterday.
Everybody knows what it means, but there are people who are too scared to try. Nobody should really have "a guarantee of no repercussions" when throwing accusations around but at the same time there exist people who could use more support to deal with situations when bad things are happening to them.
You could think of the problem in reverse: there's an excess of energy and they need to pay people to get rid of it (because using that much energy isn't as easy as dumping it in the ground).

If you could find a good way of getting rid of a lot of excess energy (worlds biggest kettle?) then you could potentially make a bit of a profit! Until someone comes along and finds something useful to do with the energy...
As a Russian, and as a Russian interested in economical history of both the Russian Empire and the USSR, I have to notice that before the communists the Empire had serious famine problems [1], and had no serious modern (19-th centure style modern) economy, which did not allow for effective product exchange between regions. For example, the Empire was exporting a lot of grain, but still had regional hungers every 5-10 years.

"Deficit" literally means "lack of something", and hunger is definitely a lack of food.

Food supply problems in the region were only solved by late 30s (if one skips war-related problem of 40s), when painful - like, really painful - communist reforms and modernization settled down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia...
That name is so, so good.
"Intel carefully protects its x86 innovations, and we do not widely license others to use them."
They already started to slowly move.

On UWP applications, if written in .NET Native, the MSIL gets uploaded to the store and is AOT compiled to native code for all existing supported architectures.

Apple has LLVM bitcode, which while still having a few leaky abstractions, there are plans among LLVM devs to eventually have a more clean architecture independent version of it.

When using a .NET based engine like Unity, the processor specific bits are part of the engine itself, so the majority of developers usually don't t write native plugins themselves.
Why C++ Sails When the Vasa Sank [video]
That pseudocode is "English as the high-level language", as I understand it. Basic and common notation is used there, it's not plain English.

Edit: though it's indeed not used extensively to denote control flow: that is done with "go to".
I'm a quick learner
Same here. Having my own domain at least decreases the risk of ever losing access to my email address. A lot of developers seem to do this.

It's a shame that this is not something the average person can do easily. Email addresses are by design linked to specific domains.
I guess the jobs I am applying for are rather competitive. I study in Japan and I am applying for jobs here which are open for those who do not speak business level Japanese, and there aren't many jobs like that.

I've build pretty significant systems. A few years ago I was working as an ASP.NET WebForms/MVC developer and recently I've been working on a web based visual programming tool using NodeJS and a graph database.
«please, Facebook, by all means please get the patent and don't build it»

wow
Most comments here are quite pessimistic.

Matrix.org is a start.

On a much much broader scale the Web 3.0 will be build on Blockchains, the so called Fat protocols will surpass the Web 2.0 or eventually merge.

https://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols

Ethereum will build up a considerable part of the ecosystem, with Dapps like status.im

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Je7yErjEVt4
Soviets where good at military and space innovation because there was competition with the West.

There was no competition on their domestic market, hence it sucked.
Maybe the OP was referring to the rebate that the UK had negotiated under Thatcher. This is a special reduction in its contributions to the EU (it was a £4.9 billion reduction in 2015). It was a sweet deal argued principally with regard to the UK receiving less CAP subsidies than France (for example).
They'll be bought by Google at some point I presume.
Pangea with current political boundaries, made into an interactive model
Then what exactly is CSV good for? I don't know any usecase where I need to programmatically exchange values without meaning in an open format.
Something like this?

http://static.polityka.pl/_resource/res/path/ce/97/ce973cf4-...
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Gove and Johnson didn't stand side. They ran for the leadership, were defeated in various ways, then in the case of Gove was not chosen by May to be part of the Cabinet.
I'm pretty skeptical of the story itself. Despite the many spelling and spacing errors, the "scammer" seems to have a really good command of English. The use of some rather "advance" phrases and word choices, the emails read like a native english speaker pretending to be someone who is bad at it.
Prefixing your shell command with a space will prevent it from ending up in history.
They are encrypting it to avoid detection of this TOS violation.
I'm not sure if the price in the article is wrong. NAO costs between 5k-15k, but Pepper uses much cheaper hardware and is sold at a loss so it might be possible to buy it for 1.6k.

Like you mentioned, Boston Dynamics and Aldebaran have different goals. If Google however is interested in making a household robot then I think Aldebaran would have been more suitable for them. Pepper and NAO have actually been used in public places like hotels and shops, but would you imagine one of Boston Dynamics robots being used there?
They briefly convinced the Army/Marines that they could make electric/hydraulic mules to assist soldiers in carrying their gear in terrain without roads. But they were too loud - at that point, might as well insert troops/material by helicopter or use horses/mules.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/...
California Prepares for Solar Power Loss During the Great Eclipse
Ask HN: Where do you host your API endpoint?
Just for some news feed like contents - it might be troublesome to launch an instance of the single purpose.
Looking into Google spreadsheet as API endpoint.

What is your choice?
My understanding was that Alphabet was going to license/sell the resulting products to the defense industry.
Mike Rowe on Efficiency versus Effectiveness
Scientists improve people’s creativity through electrical brain stimulation
There's a bit of a grades-achievement paradox:

1) Studies show that higher grades lead to higher achievements,[0]

2) Studies of very high achievers show mixed or mediocre grades on average

This article alludes to both of those and then just dismisses the 1st one as not relevant to "true" success, which I think sidesteps a more interesting statistical problem.

Imagine dots plotted along an x-axis of "achievement," and a y-axis of GPA. Can you have a strong positive correlation, but make it so if you sample the far right end of the graph, you get mediocre GPAs?

Sure, there are lots of ways to arrange the data for that effect.

Imagine grades put a floor on your achievement. So you have people with low grades and low achievement, low grades and high achievement, but very rarely high grades and low achievement. So the graph is like a semaphore flag with the lower left corner shaded. There's a correlation, but the right have the graph is still randomly distributed.

Or maybe the correlation is clear, but gradually sloping and the variance is extremely high. So all parts of the graph will tend towards mean GPAs, with the averages creeping up each quadrant.

Or maybe at the very highest levels of success other factors start to dominate (connections, location, luck).

The research gives no real hints as to which of these is true, but I think it's a little early for the article's "just-so" story explanations of high grades leading to docile individuals poorly suited for leadership or greatness. This sounds like the myths about Einstein failed at math in school.[1] There are several millionaires that did fine in school, the data hardly tell us it's impossible to succeed after getting good grades, that's reading too much into the averages. For counterexamples, Gates and Zuckerberg were both admitted to Harvard, ie, probably had above average HS GPAs. Buffett talks up how he was getting low grades at a young age (and stealing!), but then "straightened up" after his dad talked to him, presumably getting better grades in college. Any one of these should be sufficient to disprove the notion that high grades are somehow helpful for most success, but suddenly an obstacle to the highest levels of success.

A more thorough investigation of the 700 surveyed "successful millionaires" would probably reveal more. Maybe a lot of millionaires are harbor pilots, idly drawing an inheritance, or worked their way up from the mailroom, no idea without a closer look.

[0] Aside from passing acknowledgement of this research in the article, it's also covered in more detail here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/20/heres...

[1] http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/albert-einst...
Genes influence ability to read a person’s mind from their eyes
I can't imagine not having one. I don't mind having it most of the time. The biggest problem is that during some tasks, I can't always catch what folks say. For example, I read and write with my internal dialogue dictating the entire time. When someone speaks and interrupts me, I often have to ask them to repeat themselves.

In other words, it is really strong - To the point that when I first tried meditating, I found it extremely frustrating. The instructions I had didn't tell me what to do with the inner monologue. Somehow I was supposed to concentrate on breath without using it and I honestly couldn't figure out how to go about such a thing. I've never really understood why folks want to be without it.
Theoretically yes, though I guess the details are a little more complicated (depending on who exactly bought the energy and under what terms). e.g. energy company x might have bought all the capacity from wind farm y for the next 10 years, so then the fact that it's producing excess energy at that point in time becomes x's problem rather than y's. Presumably x would factor stuff like this in to their purchasing decision, so as long as the average price remains above some level they will still make a profit.
Yes Windows 10 doesn't run some apps that 7 or 8.1 does. So you need a way to use old Windows on new PC hardware.
It's this just assertion or do you have backing for it. It's certainly "nice" to think that "people just bury their heads and that's why I can't convince then of my far superior position", but evidence?
Aesthetic preferences exist for a reason, they've also been selected for and would often correlate with health indicators.

In the end reproductive success is all that's selected for, even at the expense of the host for the gene, like in the case of the peacock where their long tail makes them easy prey but also makes them easier to identify for a peahen.
May ran a bad campaign. Corbyn ran a better campaign, apparently.
This exact solution is described at the end of the post except that they call it RESET pin rather than DW pin. And of course they short it directly to GND by driving low, you can't just short two GPIOs together.
Well they tried that trick in Ireland too, I'm not sure if the scale was different or if the later wars undid the progress.
Out of interest, what were you doing before the code camp? Being CTO needs people and management skills which a lot of developers don't have.
Just out: "May has no intentions of resigning" (!)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/09/theresa-may...
The names of the machine's primitive data types are interesting, and refreshing if you're tired of the more well-known ones. These are the load instructions, for reading data from memory:

Load a Byte LDB $X,$Y,$Z
Load a Wyde (2Byte) LDW $X,$Y,$Z
Load a Tetra (4Byte) LDT $X,$Y,$Z
Load an Octa (8Byte) LDO $X,$Y,$Z

I thought the "wyde" in the instruction set reference was a typo, until I saw that it was used all over the place. :)

I guess it's better (less ambiguous) than "word", "long", "double word", and so on.
ARM, a big chunk of Nvidia, and now this: Where does SoftBank get the money for all these acquisitions? I thought they were just a Japanese telco, and not even the biggest.
The energetics of the robots are constrained by size, weight and power requirements of the components on the market. As such sure, mechanical walkers will always be much less energy efficient than wheeled vehicles of the same era. Their competition on the rough terrain however is not Segway but flying drones, which are much less energy efficient than walkers still.

There isn't any particular inefficiency in their walker balancing implementation.
It's much more a people problem than a technical one. Uless you eliminate people from the equation, this utopia will never work.
I idled here expecting something on time series data. The article whilst useful is incredibly thin, a one page blog post, which is fine but I'm not sure why it has lasted very long here? But thanks for that also, perhaps the thread will beget something more comprehensive. (Not volunteering)
> The "Google" brand has become synonymous with advertising and invasion of privacy, and the reversal of strategy (used to stick the brand on everything vs. isolating it to search and ads) is a hedge against the growing consumer distrust.

I really don't think so. Even Microsoft is not there yet for most people.