skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ladies and gentlemen:

I would like to summarize for you the meeting that I have just had with the bipartisan leaders which began at 8 o'clock and was completed 2 hours later.

I began the meeting by making this statement, which I think needs to be made to the Nation:

America's public enemy number one in the United States is nuts dependent. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive.

I have asked the Congress to provide the legislative authority and the funds to fuel this kind of an offensive. This will be a worldwide offensive dealing with the problems of sources of nut supply, as well as Americans who may be stationed abroad, wherever they are in the world. It will be government wide, pulling together the nine different fragmented areas within the government in which this problem is now being handled, and it will be nationwide in terms of a new educational program that we trust will result from the discussions that we have had.

Together nuts and there users can be defeated.
>Personification of the assistant allows a more intimate experience for those not of the computer science inclination.

Fair enough. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't want anything I do with my phone to be described as an "intimate experience". Takes all kinds.
On the other hand, maybe they could violate them left and right and let the code sort it out.
There are lots of projects like this today; but I think the most important and useful thing (profoundly missing) is an open source state-of-art offline (or maybe hybrid) speech recognition package. Until that happens, almost nothing has changed.
I'm literally sitting in the middle of a field right now using an iPhone with a 4G connection. I don't need AMP, I need a way to turn it off.

Let people enable AMP browsing if they need it.
Same here. I find a brief, effective lifting session to promote sleep; cardio has the opposite effect.
> How come you said a women "on my side" rather than "by my side"? (is she a gun or a partner?)

I think this is just an honest mistake as a result of bad English rather than a reflection of his attitude towards women.
I wonder what Mozilla did wrong that this thread is not full of "I'll just switch to Firefox"

I'm on Firefox all the time and it's a RAM saver ;)

Full disclosure: I'm not related to Mozilla in any way but definitely a fanboy.
Hi Patrick. More value bombs as usual. Thank you, sir.

Impostor Syndrome. Have you written more about it elsewhere?

It's been crippling at times. That said, I was recently very surprised to learn of a couple folks who I consider way better than me at $FOO to also regularly deal with impostor syndrome as well. I was floored.
Can you play tennis with chopsticks? Sure but it will be terrible.

Your phone is a terrible way to program...you will type 20x slower and see 10x less than a real screen. And you won't be able to quickly switch tabs, search Google, etc.

Just get a cheap laptop.
WP is not a solid paywall; there's just a limit counter. Read in an incognito window and dismiss when necessary.
Both questions are great. The primer feels fuzzy (by declared design) but that doesn't quench.
DDG is probably worse than Google, but often it's good enough.

The !commands allow you to search more specific sites directly - if I know I want Wikipedia, which I often do, I can just type !w and search it directly. Similar for other things like IMBD, Wolfram Alpha, etc. It's just a convenience.

You can also search Google using a command, which is sometimes necessary when you're really crawling the depths of the internet for something old or weird, but nine times out of ten the straight DDG results will get you where you need in my experience.
Accurately describes the job. The preamble makes me bit suspicious - will I really be able to influence the product? Do I need design skills on top of programming?

Like the wide array of tech - suggests company is looking for talent and assumes people can learn.
Go, without package-scoped variables
Very well written! I think more CS educations should devote more time to mathematical logic and its usefulness in CS. :)
If you are looking to learn python on the smartphone SoloLearn has a great free app that can give you enough to get started. It also has sample programs you can run in a simulated python programming environment so you can get your hands dirty. I highly recommend it.

I just checked out the edx website now (never heard of it till now) but some of their courses look interesting, might check them out.

I doubt either SoloLearn or edx can make you a python or r master, but if you want to program in python, going over them + a few other tutorials and writing some test programs doesn't seem like a bad way to get started.
Microdot: Easily Create .NET Microservices with Orleans
What are the options for training the models?
I wouldn't be surprised to see them add a 4 point shot.
The Microdot framework for .NET helps you to create scalable and reliable microservices based on Orleans Actors, allowing you to focus on writing code that defines the logic of your service without the need to tackle the myriad of challenges of developing a distributed system.
Attoparsec is fast, but used to have bad error messages.

How do the 2 parsers compare w.r.t error messaging?

Haskell has Parsec/Megaparsec which have better error messages, but are extremely slow.
No I'm not a scammer. I can't even ask my clients to pay me. Most recently these people got a big SEO audit pdf and I'm the poor bastard that has to do it for no pay hahaha. They're like "alright so... all these urls and how the db/pages work? Rewrite them..." and I'm pretty sure I'd break a good part of it, just because of how expansive the site is. (I'll decline at least on this part as it's beyond me, like being asked to integrate a PayPal recurring API payment thing)

Nah they're like my second best client ever but it's still I don't get paid hourly/"a reasonable fixed price" so no in short form, I have no self respect.

I was scammed once (at least), it was a site that said "Sell your ideas for money!" hahaha, I "sold my ideas" For a non-refundable fee of $99 and this also overdrew my bank account.

^^ That reinforces my original thought, I could build a similar "legit looking site" throw a payment system on there and get some poor schmuck like myself to fall for it and pay. Good job on me who built that site for say $17.00 and some time.

edit: I was scammed by this lady (beat up looking face) and this guy, her "son" or whatever... they were asking for gas but insisted I give it to them in cash (at the gas station). Yeah I'm pretty stupid.
"But in this case the larger problem is that it's (more or less) a single-purpose account for getting into flamewars about Uber. That's not how this site is supposed to be used."

So a person cannot give opinion in a civil way, and highlight information which was not known to others?
It is "mandatory" to talk about multiple topics at HN?

How do you define "flamewars"? Just giving your opinion about a topic, discussing, debating is flamewars? Then one could say the entire world of comments on HN is flamewars, since most comments discuss and debate topics.

I believe arguing your opinion civilly, giving reasons etc,
should be okay, regardless of whether you talk of only one topic -- or have a particular opinion on one side of the debate. Most users of the site typically have some view which falls on one side on any debate. But they defend it and give their reasons civilly. Thats the whole point, isnt it?

I have read employee8000's posts and they all seem civil. Except for the one which was changed. But that particular comment was wrong, his other comments on this thread are very civil IMHO.
Just spent 3 weeks in 6 cities in China. Ofo and Mobike seems to be the biggest bike share companies. There is also a company that makes electric bikes (with hub motor) available for bike share.

How they work:
1. Pay a deposit (99 RMB for Ofo, 299 RMB for Mobike) and register
2. Scan the QR code to unlock the bike -Mobike will unlock automatically- Ofo will send a pin to your phone that you can use to unlock the bike.
3. When you are done, just lock up your bike (rear wheel) and leave it anywhere.

In Shanghai it was common to see incensed security Guards dragging bikes off premises. Bikes definitely do clutter up precious walking space.
Also, if Stephanie is a hot word and someone called Stephanie comes by...
Boy how I wish any of my mobiles had that feature set, not everyone is willing/able to spend more than a PC on a mobile device.
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Having been camping in a field for the past week but still needing my internet fix I think I'm going to start giving ddg a real chance (still hate the name though) until Google gives me a setting to disable AMP results

I get the idea behind AMP but it's just far too late to the game for Google to be pushing it so heavily. Back on 2G internet I used Opera Mini, I don't use that now because I just don't need it anymore
In the UK, Siri has a male voice by default.
I wonder whether people whould have enjoyed different kinds of male / androgynous voices. Soft voice? Energetic coffee-powered male voice to make us feel like businessmen during an MBA? Effeminate male voice because it would trigger sympathy? Masculine female voice because it mixes styles? Aged-man voice because it evokes wisdom? Grand-mother voice because it evokes good tips for life? Celebrity voices?

I concur that the initial female voice of Siri, Alexa and Cortana reminded me that all assistants shouldn't be women, and I believe future ones will match people's preference, so the only voices that will be universal will be those 3 voices, female and young.
> The worst one I see all the time is scrolling down to actually read the AMP page frequently results in the page closing, returning you to results.
Fast is good, but at least it ought to be a good user experience. I used to use google news a lot, but i totally abandoned it

I use "request desktop site" on google news to get that working properly on my android.
It analyses sentiment and personality from latin/pseudo-latin text samples?
I know you know your history and I know that you're smart because of the many many comments of yours I've read over the years but I have to disagree with you.

The whole point of GNU was to make a free UNIX. They logically started with the tools to do this. Editor, then compile tool-chain, standard library, user-land tools, … the kernel was to come eventually. But kernels are _hard_, not necessarily because writing a pre-emptive scheduling system with virtual memory is difficult (it is) but because 50% of the OS is drivers and for that you need hardware documentation. Besides a kernel ideally needs CPU support.

The i386 was the first mass market cheap CPU to provide a large (virtual) addressable space, memory isolation (rings 0..3), and so on. This was when Windows took off if you'll remember and when Novell was able to write a decent networking server, and Xenix, and OS/2, and I even remember buying a book that presented the source code for a 32-bit OS on i386 that I bought and marvelled at and lost somewhere on my travels.

Linus wrote Linux _at the right time_ for the i386, and built upon GNU. He famously said that it was a small project, not big and fancy like GNU -- you can Google the exact quote. Also, Linux uses GPLv2!, the socio-legal hack that Stallman and co. came up with, so Linux was _doubly_ dependent on the fruits of GNU. Why do you think Stallman and many others to this day want us to call our systems GNU/Linux? So I disagree -- though lacking a kernel, GNU provided a hell of a lot so I wouldn't call it ineffective just because they didn't manage to make a kernel.

It is true that Linus is more pragmatic than ideological. Having said that I think it is distro vendors that package the kernel with binary blobs, I'm not sure if blobs come with the kernel but I'm totally open to correction on this front, it's been a very long time since I looked under the hood! But I reckon Linux's success was due more to Linus's engineering skills, social skills, coding skills, taste, building on the work of Intel, PC architecture, and GNU.

Peace out anigbrowl! :)
Obviously there are good practices and bad ones. Giving antibiotics to healthy livestock is one of the worst.

solution: don't eat any meat from countries where this is allowed. Yes this is a bit of a hassle if you happen to live in one of those places but it might be possible to at least find organic meat that isn't given antibiotics when healthy. Buy that.
Previous submission was killed as a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528889
Not OP but I recently switched to Fastmail myself. It's web interface is a bit bland but you can use IMAP/SMTP and your device's built in client if that's an issue

Liking it so far, really liking being able to attach my domains natively to my inbox
Hilarious given that he is very attached his Wickr account.

I happen to know he uses it quite extensively.
yes, absolutely true.
I learned on a TI-83. Compared to that a phone doesn't seem so bad.
I should have been clearer: The police/prosecuting authorities will decide if the behaviour in this case was criminal and if there is enough evidence to bring charges under the law - the law(s) in question having been passed by Dutch Parliament. Thanks
No, they are not. They are highly socially successful and know exactly what gives them praise. They know how to do politics well. They eagerly form cooperating packs. That is opposite of autistic.

People on the spectrum are clumsy systematically - agains bosses, against customers, and time it hurts them.

Alpha geeks act like jerks to get ahed - put down opposition without needing to argue, protect their social status or raiser popularity by being fun. People on the spectrum are not fun. They act like jerks unintentionally - they don't understand what they are doing.
Rather, how much have cognitive sciences evolved in the past 30 years?
How do we measure things in space? (2001)
AIDE for Android allows you to write and run Android apps on your Android device. It is on Google Play. You can write and run an app for free, although certain functions need an in-app purchase. It is decent enough, and highly rated, as it's one of the best ones there. The nice thing is you can write and run apps on the device itself. Of course, if someone wants to seriously program Android, they would get a computer, Android Studio and such.
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Absolutely, 8" phone with bluetooth keyboard is decent machine. It runs full linux shell and python...
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Relevant story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453281
Interview with more companies
For past 12 months or so, I have been dwelling into whether learning is possible on mobile or not. Of those 7 I worked free of cost for an Edtech startup, which was providing learning on mobile.
My quest is still not solved. In a world which is so much in flux right now, many people run for their lives, with nothing else but their wallet and mobile,when something disastrous is happening around them. They have nothing else, probably but a mobile to rebuild their lives.
This is an experiment in that regard.
Thanks !
not using keyboard is intentional and deliberate.
Core ML currently only allows you to load pre-trained models onto the device.
Did I miss something, or is there absolutely no mention of privacy issues, exposure, or protection?
That was interesting, a telecom museum should make sure these recordings don't go missing.
Also, don't use a common male/female name for a voice assistant the same way you don't use a common name for a dog. You don't want to be calling your assistant or pet and some nearby person looks up.

PS: If you have a grudge against your neighbor, you could use their first name for your dog >:)
I think you are looking at it in a linear way. But maybe the relationship between scale and causal information is nonlinear. Causal information might oscillate as the scale increases. So that physics, chemistry, and bioligy are concentrated around scales that are associated with peaks in causal information.
Composing reproducible manuscripts using R Markdown
Yes, absolutely. A lot of us learned on far less powerful machines. Don't listen to the detractors. The hardware limitations will help to create focus and understanding... but do buy a bluetooth keyboard. If you can't afford one, email me and I'll post you one.

You're not going to find the best algorithm in terms of computational complexity by coding. - Leslie Lamport

Clarke's Second Law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

... quotes from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Great series! Thanks so much for writing it!

Noticed a few typos: "there exits"; "adding more states so to it"; "many possible future"; "talking about expression". In note 14, the asterisks are being lost, with the text between them italicized. Note 15 is immediately followed by a comma splice; maybe you wanted "so" after the comma? Note 16 is also screwed up.

(Calling it a night. Will continue at some point. Would love to chat further; email in profile.)
this is an experiment to see how conducive mobile is for learning.also hundred if millions of people around the world have a Smartphone as their only computer. is it possible for them to learn programming and make themselves better due to it?
It works, thanks!
See comment above for a fix.
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yes IDEs are not possible. I found one for Python called QPython but not sure how it is. After using some of the desktop IDEs, not sure whether to call it by same name.
I dated the woman who did the voice for Google Voice (the voicemail service). She moved out to CA with me when my company got accepted to YC and she got a job at Google. I dunno exactly how she ended up doing the voice for it, but it's always been vaguely surreal to hear her answering my phone (I use Google Voice, and last I listened she was still the voice ~9 years later). It's not that big of a deal, more of a weird anecdote (that I've very rarely had occasion to tell before now) than anything traumatic.

Seems like a personal assistant voice would be kinda the same. Though maybe you hear it more often. But, it's probably not something that happens very often. I mean, how many personal assistant voices are there, and how many people can they have dated?
What was the conversation like? Was the operator trying to scare you off?
That's not quite accurate. If you make an AMP page, Google will cache it. Google caching it is not optional.

https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/faq#can-i-stop-conte...
I saw Solo Learn but did not check out, I am not sure of the level of complexity it would present in real.

EdX courses are in truth, God send, hundreds of millions of people around the world have only mobile as a computer, if they can access EdX courses and simultaneously, in some way do those programming exercises on mobile itself, they would be so much better off.
If you come up with a patentable idea, you can specify its implementation in either hardware or software in the patent (or just be ambiguous). However, if your idea alone is unpatentable, you can't add "implement it in software" to make it patentable, according to Alice vs CLS. Basically, Alice vs CLS removes a certain class of software patents, but certainly not all.

Yes, any software patent is possible by describing it as running on a processor. See for example [1], which has the very common claim prefix of "A machine readable storage medium storing a computer program..." Alice doesn't invalidate these patents unless, by removing that text, the remainder of the claim is unpatentable.

Because software patents are still legal, there's no need to attempt to describe them as running on a custom hardware device - you just specify them as software. Specifying custom hardware would unnecessarily reduce the scope of your claim.

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US6126544
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I had assumed this article was going to be about how depletion of fish stocks and irresponsible fishing in general was going to change the Japanese diet. However, all we got was local political drama.
Is this basically a path from model code that runs on an nvidia GPU like most people currently do, to a model that runs on iOS taking advantage of Metal?
Then it's weird to reveal that kind of connection on HN, a website about sharing links to sites in order to inform and teach the readers.
The claim that STEM is biased against women might be one of the biggest detractors for women to go into STEM. So it is very irresponsible to claim there is such a bias, without verification.
Ok, but some people are jerks or without being autistic. No one likes being interrupted, not just autistic. They just make it while another level.

If you act angrily after being interrupted, then people will interrupt you less. People with high social skills do that intentionally for exactly that reason. The difference is in inability to control the bad reaction. Merely being rude and self centered is not enough (autistic come across like self centered, but that is oftentimes unfair).
yes to most extent it won't be. this is an experiment in pedagogy also, where I would like to see, if someone is really driven and resources are under constraints, can he do it?

Can passion overcome constraints?
It's evidence of the price of Bitcoin.
I'm glad you bring up the Kindle: The Fire Phone failed, as I pointed out, because you can't succeed on Android without Google Play. Funny enough, it was rumored their next attempt will support Google Play. And since Google's MADA prohibits manufacturers from selling forks, it means Amazon would also have to give up the Kindle Fire. So Amazon is soon to be another example of how you can't fight Google.

If you'd like a detailed opinion of mine about Google at large, feel free to message me, my contact info is in my profile. I don't think the mods would appreciate an in-depth on my issues with your employer here.
- hardcore history

- revolutions

- Hannibal and the Punic wars

- Arab spring: a history

- The Ancient World

- The history of Byzantium
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un plug the harddisk from your laptop than put in to other laptop or use Personal computer tu detect your harddisk is still health or not. if your harddisk still detected by other laptop or pc maybe you still can backup your data to other storage. plug as removable device and don't boot the system from your harddisk. use hard disk docking station to connect your harddisk.

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this is an experiment in pedagogy and mobile learning. mobile learning is supposed to be huge, but does it work?

also, while I could buy a Chromebook definitely, hundreds of millions of people are not as much previleged as myself, but so many of them would have this burning desire to build something new, to learn programming. can they do it?
If I understand the root comment correctly, here's my 2c.

Ars used to be the premiere tech news website, focused on tech instead of things like society and politics.

After it was acquired by conde Nast (owner of wired) many think there has been a steady drop in quality of writing on that website, and a move away from tech towards political things, similar to Wired.

I'm not sure if I'd attribute the drop in quality to conde Nast or just a general trend in websites getting more popular (e.g. Reddit), but I think it's there.

Edit: missing the last sentence