skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really is a waste of time in my opinion. Despite appearances from the media, if someone in the US does not want to see firearms in their life, it is very very unlikely that they will ever see firearms (besides police officers') and even more unlikely that they would see a loose one that they should pick up to clear.

It's advice on par with telling someone to set aside money in their retirement for a nuclear bunker.
Damn, I was getting 80up/80down from my hotel in the CBD a few weeks ago. To the US wasn't a whole lot worse.
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Market cap not something attributable to the CEO, anymore than it's attributable to the Janitor. Nowhere in that equation is the CEO actions. They don't determine share price or number of shares. Share price isn't correlated with CEO actions.

Janitors at Yahoo also presided over a 33B growth in capitalization.
Reminds me of this classic comment on Macrumors when the iPod launched [1]:

Sounds very revolutionary to me. :mad:

hey - heres an idea Apple - rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up? :mad:
or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm? :mad:

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.5...
From the fire perspective, I suppose the positive aspects of musks proposal would be:

Cars are transported on skates, so the engines aren't running during the fire, reducing noxious fumes in the tunnel.

Cars are controlled automatically, reducing the chance of collision.

Since the skates for he cars are controlled automatically, they can be stopped/rerouted much earlier, avoiding bunching cars near the fire.
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People may invade your personal space for many reasons: because they are taller than average, because they may be commuting for a long time and need to move their legs a bit, because they simply forgot or think about something else, because they come from different cultures with a different culture of what is personal space (try using public transportation in Beijing and then in Tokyo), or because they are assholes.

I think that we can just try to be humans and ask, it's not really a big deal. As I said even eye contact is enough most often, is it so difficult.

There's no need to start a war, leave along a pointless, sexist war like the proponents of the term "manspreading" are doing.
This is a big reason I carry multiple credit cards and multiple debt cards with multiple banks. I'm paranoid about getting locked out of my funds while travelling. Wouldn't help if my wallet was stolen but there is still redundancy there.
This "context switch" cost of moving from keyboard only to keyboard+mouse (or mouse only) is why I always have both VimFX for keyboard controls in FireFox, and FireGestures, for mouse-only tools for doing most things.

Whether I'm leaning back in my chair with a hand on the mouse, or sitting forward with both ands on the keyboard, I can have all or most functionality available without having to reposition.
Yeah, go teach a 60-year-old math teacher to use TeX.
Never go full Cato.
I was assured that by now my socks would be addressable.
People that don't buy unlocked phones but on contract seems so be ok with carriers treating them poorly.
Text is also accessible to people with sensory disabilities (blind, deaf, deaf-blind...). Hypertext is also fine, of course; I won't insist on "plain" text. But this is in contrast with graphics, audio, and video.
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Kind of a sad day for me. Yahoo was so instrumental in the early web where I cut my teeth. Seeing it now sold to some telecom giant at around what a handful of unprofitable mobile apps go for is a bit depressing. For Millenials, imagine if Google was sold to AT&T 5-10 years from now after beaten by hungrier competitors. I guess all these companies fold eventually but Yahoo had quite the terminal illness and it lasted far longer than I assumed and often with bouncebacks that made you think things were getting better.

Perhaps Verizon can do something useful with the brand, but the Yahoo I knew is dead and probably has been since Mayer took over. She was brought in as a hatchet-woman to get an acquisition and got the job done.
A very apt comparison.

And much like with the C64, the BIOS maintains a memory map.

http://wiki.osdev.org/Memory_Map_%28x86%29
Are you specifically disagreeing with the original post, about working less hours in a week etc?
> similar to how in capitalism products become obsoleted in favor of newer, better ones.

this is idealistic and I think ignores a very important effect that is present in both consumer capitalism and in scientific research: the institutional interests of those on the supply-side tend to dominate those on the demand-side. In scientific research the supply-side would be research funding institutions such as universities, and the academic-industrial complex of publications.

in consumer capitalism we see many examples of products getting worse over time (from the consumer point of view) because it serves the interest of the producer. the best example I can think of is home appliances. In the 1950s and 1960s they were engineered for durability and maintainability. In 2017 they are engineered to be cheap to produce and to be disposable. Washing machine repair service is basically a thing of the past, for example. Now you are expected to just buy a new one. Similar effects can be observed in a lot of products.

what might this effect look like in scientific research? a lot of the "replication crisis" is related to this effect. there is pressure to write up a positive and interesting result, rather than a negative result. there is also pressure to write up theoretical research that attracts attention even if it doesn't yield experimental procedures to test the theory. is this going on with string theory? I don't know, but maybe.

my point is just to call into question the notion that there is some kind of positive selection pressure that improves research over time. maybe there is, but I wouldn't count on it being strong enough to overcome institutional pressures.
Once ETH overtakes BTC I think BTC will start to crash and the resulting panic will (ironically) take down ETH and most other coins and tokens as well, starting the third great crypto bear market. Keep in mind trading volume is heavily manipulated by insiders (especially for ETH) but price is what the public watches. Now let's wait and see what happens.
They were talking about things in the distant past. (Distant in computer terms.) The only way there isn't uncertainty is if you tried all the systems that were available at the time in question.

The claim is testable, in theory. You didn't test it, nor did anyone else here, so the fact that it's testable doesn't remove any uncertainty.
I had the exact same response after reading OPs post. I'd love to hear the other parties perspectives.
Can you share what parts of PostgREST way of doing things you found nice and what parts are lacking?
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How cavalier we are about taking life of other species.
Correction: this is why you never use debit or credit cards on the internet.

In a sane world it would be considered insane to use something as insecure. Frankly, they should be considered illegal.

I don't give my wallet to the guy I'm purchasing something from and let him extract the necessary funds - why should it be ok to do so on the internet?

That the banks reimburses me for invalid transactions is not a valid approach - that is directly funding criminals.

Generate one-time cards for every purchase, anything less ought to be considered negligence.
You can see the potential scale-out you can get for Tensorflow here on this PR:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/2916
Congratulations to Marissa on a job well done. That boat was a sinking ship that no one wanted to captain, and she kept it alive long enough to a satisfactory outcome.
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As always, if your curiousity is piqued by one of these articles, you really might as well do exactly what the journalist did and go to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organis...

(My favourite thing from the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomatia_tasmanica)
There have been efforts trying to do the exact opposite of this, and enable reproducible builds.

Being able to compile code and get the same byte-for-byte result as someone else (i.e. a distribution shipping you binaries) can help eliminate concerns about binaries being tampered either accidentally or intentionally. This is a valuable security feature for some.
I for one hope this works out well, more diversity is good for consumers. IMHO, anything that chips away at the dominance of Google and Facebook are positive too.
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Well some people don't have a few hundred dollars to drop on a new phone when they need one. At that point you're at the whim of the carrier anyways.
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Markdown has CommonMark and GitHub's Flavored Markdown, based on it.

Github is widely used too, and being used in code, it's likely that it will appear in more places than just online wikis.
I actually really disagree that it's a numbers game. Yes, it is a numbers game if all you do is send a generic application.

But it's not at all a numbers game if you only apply to companies where you have some human connection. For privileged people, that means a relative, family friend, or friend.

For others, who have no useful connections, it's possible to make these connections by cold-messaging people on LinkedIn, especially alumni from your school. I have friends who have done this right out of college and only applied to 3 or 4 companies before landing a job they loved.

I'd argue that a tool like this encourages and facilitates a dead-end method of applications.

EDIT: Let me rephrase this a different way. Sometimes, when you're not finding success, it's not because of too few attempts. It's because your conversion rate needs to be increased. In this case, the conversion rate of "send generic app" is very low, whereas the conversation rate of "tailor your app to the specific opportunity" is much, much higher.
> If guns were meant to protect us from our government--well we already have an overtly anti-constitutional, criminal government with disproportionate powers residing in unelected individuals.

You don't really believe that otherwise you would've left to one of the other hundreds of countries in the world, unless you believe all governments are criminal.

> Ah but you just want to "save lives?"

I'm interested in saving my own life if I'm ever in danger. I already have a brita filter.
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This is why I use http://privacy.com for some recurring services and one-off transactions. It pulls from your bank account via ACH a few days after a transaction but the ability to make one time use cards comes in handy.
CRLF unless your audience mostly use Mac or Linux.
Citation? If such a round exists I'd be very interested to see it.

Of all the 5.56 vs drywall tests I've seen (and there are lots out there), they never make a hole in drywall larger than 5.56 unless it has yawed, and even then it is a keyhole no larger than the un-deformed round. To make "a huge hole" in drywall it would have to expand massively and immediately, and I've never seen a 5.56 round capable of expansion when hitting drywall. Even frangible rounds essentially turn into 3 or 4 projectiles after passing through drywall, but I'd never say 1/3 of 55 grains at 2000+ fps would "not significantly harm a person".
Tell us your coding screw-ups, so we can show new coders
I moved to Melb nearly a year ago, was pretty active in Perth startup community.

- City/Richmond is the place to be

- Internet is pretty good in CBD from my experience (coffee shops) but not good enough to do heavy lifting (read: Australian internet sucks, sibling post is correct 10 Mbps is fast in Australia)

- Not sure about VCs in Melb but I have heard a lot lately that VCs in Australia have really aggressive and nasty contracts so I personally would want to have a 3rd party look over any funding I was singing up for.

- There's some really good meetups here especially Silicon Beach Melbourne, Startup Grind, Startup Victoria and Inspire9 Pitch Nights. Perth seemed a lot more driven from the central co-working space and then grass roots (apart from some "innovation incubators" from some companies which come and go) than what Melbourne is, not sure about compared to Sydney but it feels a lot more commercial here (more businesses selling to startups.) Wish there was a few more less corporatey hackathons or grassroots feeling events here.

- Andrew Hyde (founder Startup Weekend) spent some months here and his biggest point of how we can improve was Melb needs to do more to promote its Startup Success stories other than the obvious ones (Seek, Carsales.com.au, REA, Envato)
IANAL but I do love studying law. I love laws like this! Because they are up for so much interpretation. The law itself states just "substandard" degrees. The legal question then becomes what is "substandard"? The link that talks about this law attempts to interpret substandard for us but as far as I can find, no case law has actually defined substandard because no one has ever allowed a judge to make a ruling on a case based on a supposedly substandard degree. These, we don't actually know whether getting a degree from somewhere like Harvard Of Jamaica University would be fraudulent.

Of course, you'd still be fired most likely.
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Most devices still encode and decode far more H264 and JPEG than newer generations. We shouldn't be stuck with the horse and buggy because we're waiting for cars to be autonomous. WebP is superior to JPEG and the most widely available alternative.
I plaid a game a while back that was stuck in the tutorial level. The game company said that it was a known bug and that they would provide a fix for it. The fix never came. Steam tried to claim this same thing with me. Yes I was entitled to a refund despite having tried to change settings and despite being in the main menu of the game.
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Because it leaves a stinking mess whenever it breaks (and it seems to break worryingly often).
How do you differentiate that from "all three CEOs are doing an exceptional job"?
I have not, but I have extracted the backup with https://sourceforge.net/projects/adbextractor/ and inspected the contents, visually confirming the secrets are there. Even if a restore doesn't work, I can re-enter them manually from the information in the sqlite database. However I fully expect a restore to work.
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Actually I'm fairly sure (at least in newer SC like HoTS and LoTV) you can select a hotkey group of units with the mouse since they are represented visually in an icon on the screen that can be clicked.

I think the main point was to say the aspects of the game that are faster with the keyboard is around 95+ percent and that top players reduce their use of the mouse to the bare minimum because of its inefficiency.
>Perhaps Verizon can do something useful with the brand

They are abandoning the brand completely. After the merger goes through VZ will combined AOL and Yahoo! into a single new brand Oath.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/technology/verizon-oath-y...
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I don't think it's something that you need to worry about unless you're gonna be overtly shitty. I have my beefs with Valve, but not on this topic. Even if you get caught hacking in a multiplayer game, your account isn't banned (though you may be VAC banned from playing multiplayer in games that participate in VAC). Steam-wide bans only come from chargebacks that are against your EULA--and their refund policy is pretty reasonable, I think--and similar stuff pulled against Steam itself rather than anything you'll do during the course of using the service normally.

And if you're really paranoid about it, you can pretty easily back up games and play them with a cracked Steam DLL. It's not a big deal.
For some reason, people used to think a track record of profits was relevant.
It's not ridiculous as a basis for policy. The idea that the money belongs to the government has to end.

I can't figure out "Europe as it actually is." I have concluded that peasants like to be ruled and cradle to grave socialism is what people clearly prefer despite the negative effects it has on real personal freedom.
Lol. I was part of the core deal team. We did NOT know this would be the day for months and months.

But of course, that does not detract from your sentiment being 100% accurate. No one planned the timing of the consummation of the deal around random contemporaneous news events.
My initial thought was, "How did they misspell OAuth like that?"
I would rather buy a phone like moto g than get a super phone that is locked to a career and bloated with all the shit. But then if you are on hacker news, you most probably are not an average joe when it comes to tech.
If that is the scenario a garbage prepaid phone is probably a better idea than a 2 year contract.
Loving the downvotes! Hah!
Can someone explain how Yahoo's valuation increased by $33B, and yet it was sold for only $4.5B? Was Yahoo terribly in debt when Marissa took over? Or does the metric for valuation have no basis in reality?
Kim Mast developed an email system in 1974 on a computer system called PLATO at the University of Illinois with thousands of users using 512x512 graphics computer terminals which were located throughout the country and had output speeds of 180 characters/sec.

http://www.thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm

Also a year prior to that a forum system was developed by David Woolley

There is a current version still working on this system:
https://cyber1.org
What's the biggest discovery or development to come out of the LHC?
Mayer deserves no credit for Alibaba's value so that should be discounted from Mayer's "successes" at Yahoo.
I live in an area where nordic skiing is super popular and the local high school has a shooting range for biathlon. (in Washington State)

http://methowvalleynordic.com/biathlon-home/

edit: added link
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You could replace "plain text" in the article with "non-binary", and it would probably make more scence. Markdown is also not plain text in the most strict sense. Or HTML is plain text in a vague sense. In the end, what really matters is how easy it is to build parsers and tools for a format. Being non-binary is a huge plus. I think that was the point of the article, and I agree with that.
Plaintext certainly seems more attractive the more docs I write. Over the years, with both work and personal projects, I've used every format from:

- Notepad

- Microsoft Word

- PDF

- Twiki

- Various proprietary WSYWIG that compiles to HTML

- JIRA

- Raw HTML

- Markdown (several flavors)

With nearly every kind of migration, there are numerous pain points. The "raw" formats are a nightmare to edit and update, and the compiled ones require several hours of changing syntax, image locations, etc.

I've been getting so tired of having to re-do stuff on different platforms that more of my docs are starting as Plaintext and then written in pseudocode markup for areas that I know will change on every platform (e.g. generating a table of contents, image tags, etc).

Having just coded an entire website from scratch that was basically just documentation, Markdown comes remarkably close to doing what I want, except when the common format fails to meet my needs, which forces me to then have to switch to a specific flavor of Markdown in order to get something as basic as tables.

The docs of mine that seem most resilient to platform shifts (other than plaintext) are the ones that are written in or compiled to longstanding formats like LaTeX or HTML.

So perhaps my takeaway is, write in something readable that compiles to something widely available. That will provide the least headache.
"PDFs are still ok though."

They are OK in theory, for the reasons you state.

The problem is the gratuitous use of PDF which we have all experienced - here's a common (pathological) example:

Document author starts with plain text - no special formatting or fonts, no images, etc. Somehow their toolchain converts that into a PDF file that contains No text, but rather an image of text.

The result is a big, bloated, unnecessary use of PDF that cannot even be parsed or used with anything but a graphical PDF viewer since the text is now gone - there is nothing but a picture. Of text.
Insurance is voluntary--you can opt out. I can't opt out of taxes and put that money to other uses. It is am matter of economic freedom of choice.
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> I think software development also falls into this category.

Software development has absolutely nothing to do with code entry speed.

Requirements gathering, mockups, design, testing, and thought make up the vast majority of development time. Then even once you get down to coding, you're often maintaining existing code rather than writing code from a blank slate, which requires more time reading and thought than actual modifications. A one character code change might take an hour; but you spent that time testing, following workflows, and documenting.

So the supposed developers online who obsess over their mechanical keyboards and 1ms time saved hotkeys really confuse me. I genuinely think the day to day software development that I and my colleagues do has no relationship to this bizarre online fetish with code entry speed.

If I really want to improve my coding performance, I'll do a standing meeting instead of a sit down meeting, reduce the number of people in a meeting, or stop requirements slip by completely clamping down on change requests mid-work. Those are my performance tips, and they save hours, not milliseconds...
eyetracking and AI should be able to replace the mouse.
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The only real improvements I'd suggest is switching back to NVIDIA across their entire product line and offering 32 and 64GB in MBP. I kind of struggle to think what else they could improve. Do you have any concrete suggestions?

I do agree that autonomous cars are a money pit not worth pursuing right now.
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I was under the impression Python was magnitudes slower than compiled native languages, even when you aren't abusing Pythonic features that are computationally expensive like list comprehensions. And this isn't even in Pypy where this loop would be JIT'd and then run natively anyway, unless cpython does some kind of JIT? Is is just that the buffer is so large that the kernel handler is taking so much of a % of the runtime that the inefficiencies of the language stop mattering?
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The RationalWiki article turns out to include checkable cites.
1. Typically you'd start building up libraries with shared code, and then your command-line tools can be smaller and rely on the shared code. A good starting point is just looking at Python libraries you use and tools you use and see how they're structured.

2. Sharing with coworkers depends on toolchain you're using. E.g. for conda you could probably do a conda source, for pip you can just `pip install http://urltotarball.gz` or even URL to git repository.
They should probably just end all fantasy baseball leagues for this year too. I'd hate to have this year count.

In all seriousness, Yahoo! has done an amazing job with their fantasy sports.
Do you understand how management works?

You're expressing a very naive view on the subject.