skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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A year or so later, I had developed a good relationship with some important operations people in this space, and while there were no commitments there was a custom of quid pro quo. I felt I could trust these people, since they had helped me out so many times. Then my business started to eat into the profits of a competitor, who, unbeknown to me, also had some sort of agreement with these folks. It was clear to me that there was a win win where we could all resolve to get what we wanted and I proposed we reach consensus. Instead of engaging on that, my former partners stonewalled and hired private investigators to try to pressure me into accepting a bad deal. I didn't comply and eventually prevailed, and it took me a long time to process what happened. The most shocking thing for me was that these people who I had built up such a good relationship with tried to betray and hurt me. I couldn't accept it had happened, and I lived in denial, continuing to extend them an olive branch, much longer than it probably worked for me to do so.

Around the same time, it was revealed that my partner who I had a formal agreement with, had known for years, trusted and considered family, had actually gone behind my back, while lying to my face, and began working with the former partners above, to make a deal for herself, to undermine my position from the inside.

Three big betrayals in as many years. By people who I had considered family and the ones I could actually trust. It has been very hard to deal with. Particularly hard was I remembered a time when I actually trusted people and I felt strong and life was good. But as soon as I showed some signs of weakness, it was like everyone I had been close to suddenly piled on to take advantage of it. It really felt like kicking me while I was down, by those whom I considered I could trust with everything.

But I still think of trust as something important, so my question is how do you handle betrayal by your inner circle, and how do you trust people, any people, not necessarily the betrayers, after you've known it?
+1

Also, planned Obsolescence should be illegal - or at least thought of, socially, as immoral. The thing is, that the need for replacing vast majority of things that you use regularly do to the disposable nature of profit-only-driven markets is typically built around supporting components in a product which are made out of plastic - but the useful aspect of the item can often be a re-usable material.

Take Razors as a prime example... Overall plastic is bad, regardless of the ephemeral convenience it currently provides - i has stifled innovation, its short-sighted and its detrimental effects will last for generations...
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Hi, this is my MERN boilterplace code. It is not perfect, but I hope it can get some beginners a head start. Thanks.
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I feel bad for the wives though. They had someone (who was willing to risk jail) trying to help them, and now they don't.
What's sad is because of App Store economics. He can never depend on his paying customers to ever pay for an upgrade. He will always have to chase new customers.
Perhaps it can have a JS shell?

And store data in HTML elements instead of files?
To be honest, I only went to see a single dermatologist, but my experience was bad. The dermatologist kinda overlooked and shrugged. I received a shampoo recommendation, but the dermatologist didn't say we should monitor the treatment or anything. From what I saw, she would keep recommending shampoos and I would try until I found one that worked. so I decided to try by myself.

Not my wisest moment. I should probably have seen another dermatologist.
I've lived and worked in London, NY, SF but I settled in Vancouver. I don't own a home but I pay a modest rent for a house in a good part of the suburbs and I commute on world class public transportation. My salary would sound great compared to US salaries just a few years ago but the CAD has fallen since. Nevertheless it still buys a good quality of life in Vancouver. I'm proud of the values that people have here in Canada and I'm raising a family somewhere where I feel safe and welcome as an immigrant.
Smartphones are insecure unless you can control all your users have new Apple phones.

The problem with many affordable TOTP tokens is clock drift. Are RSA's tokens better with that?
Look away from your screen, water your eyes by blinking 15-20 times in a row. Repeat every 10 to 15 minutes.
Hm, this analogy is awkward. Definitely agree that it's taken a lot longer to become standard than I would like.

I was discussing this with a coworker today, and we were reflecting on a similar technical rollout that really did take of. The various ascii encodings -> UTF8. This was a big shift at the time and took a lot of time to fix. In fact I know of one large DB that, after a huge amount of outreach with customers, was only finally decommed and replaced with a UTF8 last year.

We decided the big difference was that UTF8 solved a huge problem that effected everyone. Was backward compatible with all basic ascii, and was an easy upgrade in many cases (only a problem if you bastardized stored character sets faking out the system and storing them in a different charset).

IPv6 is nicely backward compatible with IPv4, but in general it is not solving a problem most people have (yet). Most sites work fine with IPv4; IPv6 for many is just work with no significant benefit in general.

That being said, I really want IPv6 to become the only option for a lot of reasons; but there is no stron forcing function.
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Note, though, that the preprocessing and augmentation is (at least in TF) done within the framework itself. I helped debug the pure-TensorFlow version of the Inception input pipeline, and getting it to match the earlier DistBelief version was agonizing -- it really shows all of the differences (and bugs) in the image processing ops. And there can be subtle effects -- differences in which image resizing algorithm you use, for example.

But it's worth noting that this code is all released:

https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/inception/i...

It may be hard to replicate that across all platforms, though -- as an example, the distortions include using four different image resizing algorithms.

Some of it was true preprocessing, i.e., cleaning up the imagenet data. I wrote a bit about that here: https://da-data.blogspot.com/2016/02/cleaning-imagenet-datas...

(tl;dr - there are some invalid images and bboxes, etc., and some papers chose to deal with the "blacklisted" images differently.)
Not directly, no. IIRC, programs like Espeak and Festival use formant synthesis, which would require explicit formant values. Voc models the tract itself... the main parameters are diameters in the vocal tract (which implicitly produce vowel sounds).

It may be possible to go the other way around and analytically derive parameters for Voc that match target formant frequencies. Not sure though...
There's a good lesson to be learned.
http://chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/timeline/
This whole case is odd since I have never heard of it being enforced even if you switch to a competitor.

My manager went from AWS to Azure and it was no big deal. He even finished out his 2 weeks and our director gave him a farewell at our (director level) all hands.
Have you seen your doctor about this problem? There's quite a lot they can do.
Implications around strategy learning, reinforcement, and learning logical systems.
Really? Kosher too? Because Kosher animals are NOT killed in the name of God. They are just killed painlessly, that's all.

Judaism has a very clear distinction for sacrifices for God.

There is a blessing said but it just says "Blessed is God who made us holy by commanding us on the rules of Slaughter". It's actually a problem for Halal because many Muslims do not consider it enough, specifically because it is not done in the name of God.
You misread my comment. I was explicit that the debt is canceled at the end of their term. You're also neglecting that imprisonment is a consequence of committing a crime (the accuracy of our legal system being an orthogonal matter), and criminals are accepting that risk in committing the crime, so it's not exactly involuntary.
Another sad thing is that a consumer can't tell their iDevice "hey, stop downloading updates to this app; I like it just the way it is" - the closest we can get is turning off automatic updates for all apps, and then hoping we never accidentally tap on the "Update" button for that specific app.

Currently, both of the problems can be solved in one kludge: release a big upgrade as a new app. For example, I bought the app Things when it was at version 2. I liked it so much that when Things 3 came out as a separate app, I bought it too. And if I really loved the UI of Things 2 and hated the new UI in Things 3, I wouldn't have to do anything. I could keep auto-upgrade on, and never have to worry about my Things 2 app being upgraded to something I don't like.
Hilbert curve is only useful if the sole goal is sequential storage of point data. Z-curves are superior in almost every other case in real systems due to their unique and efficient computational properties, which many computer scientists are only vaguely aware of.

And since modern spatial database architectures don't sequentialize storage along the curve (because it doesn't make sense as a matter of engineering), the sole selling point of Hilbert curves is moot. You shouldn't design most systems in a way that could exploit the benefits of a Hilbert curve.
Haha, sorry, that thought was in reference to the link saying they hadn't overflowed 2^31 yet. Two billion seems believable for tweets as of 2013.
That is my understanding as well. These aren't your typical international investments, the goal is to get the money out of China entirely.

Worth noting, China is also trying to limit international investments (in addition to capital flight mentioned above) to try and encourage domestic investments[1]. If I had to pick one sign that there might be trouble ahead, it would be this one. It's one thing to try and clamp down on people dodging capital controls, but it's another thing entirely to try and limit international investments that would broaden China's economic footprint.

And one final thought. While there are some troubling signs, no major modern economy is or has been as tightly controlled as China's. So I don't think anyone really knows how this will play out. It's quite possible that they thread the needle and keep everything rolling smoothly. And as others mentioned in this thread, there are plenty of examples in history where massive infrastructure investments caused some big financial pain/failures in the short term, only to result in positive long term impacts. It's quite possible that China is playing the long game here, ready to suffer some short term pain, but looking 20-30 years down the road. As their economy matures, infrastructure projects will get more expensive (see the US for example), so might as well overbuild now.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/26/china-to-re...
Do it! I think it's a rewarding exercise.

Also, build a language. Mine is Sporth: http://pbat.ch/proj/sporth.html

More recently, I've been building UIs on top of Sporth called Spigot: http://pbat.ch/proj/spigot
Where? Toronto housing isn't cheap by Canadian standards, and salaries, while higher as far as I know, are not super high either.

Montreal is ridiculous since it is essentially NYC's favorite "nearshoring" . It's also big for game dev, which pays like crap even by Montreal standards.

Is it better in Edmonton? No idea. But with Vancouver/Montreal/Toronto out of the picture, that leaves precious few options.
Just pick your side and get polarized into fruitless, shrill conflict like the rest of the world.
Would love to see revenue data!
> that religion serves the vital
> purpose of [snip]

I mean, the simpler explanation is it -- religion proper and worship of cargo-cult sciencey-sounding stuff -- makes people feel superior to others. Real science and rationality doesn't, but a vague appeal to authority, purity of thought, and being better than others sure does.
unable to read because an add keep popping over the article text. this is so frustrating.
Bikes work fine in icy weather if you put on studded tires. I like the Nokian Hakkapeliitta W106, coincidentally (?) made in Finland.
Hilariously, inside the article it is clearly stated, by somebody who speaks for the institution which would be responsible for this archiving, that the Tweets are already considered Presidential Records.

> In January, National Archives spokesperson Miriam Kleiman told the Associated Press that social media posts would qualify as presidential records, but that statement is not explicitly spelled out in the law.

So not only is the private sector adequately serving the purpose of archiving the president's Tweets, but the National Archives probably are as well.

I really hope that the people who voted for Mike Quigley are embarrassed that this is the pathetic, childish level that an Illinois 5 representative operates at.
Hilbert curves are used in a lot of graphics too. Heck, the old SGI Octane with Vpro graphics used a recursive Hilbert curve rasterizer. They show up a lot today in geospatial big-data since hilbert addresses make good shard keys.
I call them and 500px the unicorns. They're usually the first two examples thrown out when somebody says something skeptical about the market in [Eastern] Canada / Toronto.

Not that it's what you're doing. You're right, but still wanted it on the record that it's one of the few that's done so well. That said, I'm always happy to be proven wrong here!
Ugh, this is a real issue (twitter, or other "social" platforms) are all presidential communication platforms -- legislation shouldn't (i know, i know, ideal world, old man shouts at sky, etc) be special cased. It should be "all communication on any public platform should be archived, no matter the nature or location of the platform". Naming it the COVFEFE act trivializes what is a real issue (presidents should not have the ability to retroactively remove records of public statements).
Do delete it.
Not iPad as much as iPhone, but do you use Handoff? I do all the time, between work and home MBP, my phone and watch. For iMessage, web pages, emails, phone calls, etc.

I feel like the only thing we've actually lost was the requirement to use iTunes to set up a new iDevice, and good riddance to that. An iPod really was a peripheral whereas their modern successors are fully-fledged mobile computers.

If you mean use an iPad as an external display, that's a rather niche use. Is there a reason that the 3rd party app Duet Display doesn't meet your needs?
He could always put out a new app. Or add some new features enabled via in app purchases.
To be honest, this sounds like a terrible idea, but then again something really should be done about the level of obnoxious nonsense on display.
Prison work has never been widely regarded as morally repugnant (don't conflate with debtors' prisons, which are fundamentally different), so this necessarily is not one of your aforementioned forms of slavery.

At the end of the day, incarceration costs money, and the people responsible for the incarceration would ideally foot the bill. Obviously the incarcerated rarely have such means, but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask them to pay a little bit more than the average law-abiding citizen. I don't have a strong opinion about how they repay their debts--whether it's garnished wages while in prison or after their release, but it should be one or the other. Actions have consequences, and a fundamental purpose of prison is to remind people of that. Moreover, work is a rehabilitating endeavor--it build skills, confidence, and character. It's mutually beneficial.
> ...if a white guy gets offended while trying to learn that it's less of a problem than the actual object of our activism.

Nobody is arguing this.

Here's the thing though: it doesn't matter if one problem is worse than the other, at least as to the point people are trying to make in this thread.

When activists are openly hostile or otherwise inflammatory to people who are sympathetic to but not yet behind the activists' cause, they undermine that cause by pushing away and alienating the very people who are signaling that they're on the cusp of changing their perspective. Those people who held out an olive branch only to have it knocked aside are less likely to become allies in the future.

> Frankly if I have to argue with this person and tiptoe around their fragile ego in discussing these things I'm not sure we want them in the first place.

I'm sorry, but this is phenomenally short-sighted. This is how the human psyche works. Virtually any person who's been converted to your cause started from a position of disagreement, went through a transition period where they started to question longstanding beliefs and assumptions, learned to empathize with people who were harmed by the status quo, and eventually discarded or significantly amended those original beliefs. You will be hard-pressed to find a psychologist who will suggest that ridiculing or attacking a person in that transition period will do anything but turn them away and calcify their original position.
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I prefer Hipster Ipsum, myself: https://hipsum.co/

It's just a little site, you probably haven't heard of it.
Excellent point. Yeah, the machines my dad started on had magnetic core memory [1]. Each bit was a little metal donut with hand-wound wiring.

And in some ways, even "hundreds of dollars per date" doesn't quite convey it. These machines were rare and fiendishly expensive. In 2017 dollars, they started at $1M and went up rapidly from there. Getting more memory wasn't a quick trip to Fry's; even if you could afford it and it was technically possible, it was a long negotiation and industrial installation.

Another constraint that we forget about is the physicality of storage. Every 80 columns was a whole new punch card. That's a really big incentive to keep your records under 80 characters. Each one of those characters took time to punch. Each new card required physical motion to write and read, and space to store.

There were just so many incentives to make do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory
> but then again something really should be done about the level of obnoxious nonsense on display.

If only people asked whether something could be meaningfully accomplished before demanding something be done then we'd have far less bad laws.
Yes! It's true for my kids too, although I'm guessing mine are a tad younger.

It's interesting to try to put a finger on when computers became "cool". I suspect it's only with the rise of the smartphone, as even video games were seen as a tad nerdy in the mid-2000s.
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Yeah - I don't think a mentor is going to fall for what you are describing here. It sounds pretty selfish.

What you want is a free teacher. That's not a mentor.

Answer the question "why should I volunteer my $200 hr time to help you?" If you have a good answer, I bet you get a mentor.

There are too many people wanting a lot of value for nothing.
For most software, design is typically the most important factor. An app that does the right thing and has the right interface but is poorly coded and inefficient is still useful. An app that does the wrong thing, or has an awful interface, is not useful no matter how slick the code behind it.
"My attitude is if you don't think your app is worth anything - I agree"

By this logic, all free apps are worthless. Do you mean to tell me that each and every app on all of your devices were paid downloads? I find that unrealistic and hard to believe.

Also...do you use Facebook and/or Google? Those are also free to use and think it would be a stretch to call them "worthless" (I'll concede that many people, including me, find Facebook next to useless except for marketing purposes, but I would not try to make an argument that it is worthless).
iOS development in local consistent environments
Maybe, maybe not. LPC10 is a 8kHz speech codec optimized for low-bandwith signals. The Kelley-Lochbaum is a full-blown physical model of the tract.

What you put into the filter is important. The LF glottal pulse model used here is a pretty good excitation signal... aspiration noise REALLY makes a difference. It would still sound artificial, but it definitely wouldn't sound metallic.
Nah, hardware is more like dataflow or flow-based programming. Maybe functional programming, too. Goto is jumping to arbitrary, imperative code in RAM with an address and no regard for current state. There's possibly something in hardware like it but default stuff I saw in books were more like FSM model focused on data flows.
I listened to that podcast, and I think the money quote is this one:

> Russ Roberts: […] I do think it's--instead of getting a very highly tailored and expensive suit, now you have to know exactly how to match your tee-shirt with your running shoes in a way that doesn't make you look the wrong kind of geek or whatever it is.

> Tyler Cowen: Yes, so say you are an immigrant to this country and you show up at a workplace and they tell you, 'Look, put on a blue suit jacket and a tie, and burgundy shoes.' I mean, don't you feel immense relief at that, actually?
I did a little dance around the room when I first learned about them. They were so ingrained from my Mac usage (because as that link said, they're common across any standard text box control), that I think I didn't even notice that I was using them for the first few minutes.
It looks like what you really needed is a fixture factory.
Way too expensive in respect to users...at $.20/user/year...for 100k users, it's $20k/year. This vs. most installers that actually pay you...
Edit: Whoops, I read that as 100M :(

That seems within reasonable bounds of a VC offer, am I wrong? If they expect to be valued much higher then they would probably be more well known (approaching unicorn realm) and would get SV interest anyway. And if they want to give less equity maybe they should find a earlier stage/smaller fund?
Most highly motivated people can teach themselves IT skills. But IT skills are no longer in such short supply that salaries are crazy high.

In the Bay Area in the late 90s, if you could build and rack a PC you could get a top 10% salary with stock options. Lots of people lifted themselves to the upper-middle class that way. Now, between the high cost of living in cities with a lot of tech jobs, and declining salaries for non-specialized IT work, comparable skills only put you in the middle-middle class. If the trend continues, general IT skills won't pay any more than auto mechanic skills. Which can be decent if you hustle, but it's not the ticket to easy street that it used to be.
Dumb. It's not like deleting tweets makes them go away. If this is what Democrats are bringing to the game it's gonna be a long eight years.
Your Google-fu is better than mine. I tried "DH0", then "DH0 DH1", "dh disagreement", "dh levels", and it wasn't until "dh0 dh1 levels" that I got my answer. :)