skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just run Windows in a VM and cut off internet access. Use the windows offline updater periodically (not nearly as important since you don't have internet; still useful if you are going to import foreign files into the vm). http://www.wsusoffline.net/. You'll need a different windows scapegoat machine to use wsusoffline though. I don't think there is a linux version. Also, office 2010 on wine/crossover is perfectly usable for light work. Office 2013 is also somewhat supported these days.
Most anything I've read most people's "stats" (cholesterol, blood pressure) improve once on a keto diet.
Seems like a violation of the 6th amendment.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2098199-lets-ditch-the-...

Apparently it's a thing, and just shows this whole line of thought has sort of jumped the shark...
GNU Units is extensible in this regard. You can add your own dimensions.

I'm trying to think of how you'd specify density of butter, perhaps "butterdensity", cognate, "earthmass".

I've got a number of geographic areas specified, so I can give you, say, paper size in milli manhattanarea.
> but as I stepped away from my pc it made me feel grateful that I don't work as a customs officer in real life. I suppose that was the intended effect :)

That and a few others. IIRC, it gets fairly insidious quickly as you try to juggle values at varying levels (protecting your family vs general principle, for example).
I am only 2.5 years into my career, and have written almost all of my teams shared libraries, security toolchain and deploy tools. I also am the sole person to maintain and develop our CI and artifact repos, do most of training of new hires in writing production code, as well as some architecture decisions.

I also recently quit because I felt I wasn't being compensated enough for my efforts, in either freedom to learn/explore further, nor money.

I agree with you about deep understanding and hobby code. At some point in my education, something just 'clicked' and I could see clearly that software contains no magic, only careful thought about data and trade-offs.

Another part I would like to emphasize is reading (other peoples) code. Related is learning different languages and their paradigms. It is very hard and time consuming to come up with well designed techniques and patterns, and reading code let you explore this knowledge in a much more efficient manner.

Also, full stack is a lie.
Well it does not seem to me that he's making any scientific claims, just opinionated claims. Which is his right, just as much as it's might right to voice my own opinionated claims as a eater of food.
>world population

It is a big assumption that we will be restricted to the 'world'.
When we are not, it doesn't make much sense to stop a population explosion.
There's a famous saying, I forget who said it: "In God we trust, all others must bring data."

This suggests "data," as a thing, is infallible. Or that data holds _The Truth_.

Problem is, as a data scientist, I've become very skeptical that either is true. Not that data is useless, but mostly that if there's unequivocal truth in data it will remain unfound because those searching for it operate under such profound bias that they will be incapable of either a) finding the truth, or b) recognizing it.

The better quote, which can be broadly applied to anything data-related, is: "All models are wrong, but some are still useful."

Usually, I look at data as presenting only one side of the story. And models as hopefully useful, if used with caution. The proof is always in the pudding: do actions derived from our understanding of the data yield results? If "yes" then our understanding of the data contains some difficult to quantify level of truth. Do our classification, clustering, and prediction techniques work? If "yes" than our models reflect some of the truth (never all of it).

In my six years since college, and going on three as a data scientist, I've become convinced that intentionally (or not) a great deal of analysis and modeling (including machine learning models) is fundamentally wrong. Sometimes because the practitioner, with the best of intentions, screwed up (all too easy to do), and often because the practitioner used the data to tell whatever story they wanted to. You can usually manipulate any given data set into giving the answer you, or your boss, or your boss's boss, thinks is the "right" answer. And even if you come to the data with the purest intentions you'll often find "the truth"--only to have application and time prove it wrong.

My assessment: data is slippery, and often like wrestling snakes. Or, it's the modern version of panning for gold. We can make ourselves, or the business, much richer when we find those rare nuggets within the data which prove, with application and time, to reflect some measure of truth. The proof is always in the pudding.
Yeah, it would have been a more interesting if they had explained the Chumash decline.
And by the way CSV is a standardized format with its own RFC; it is definitely not home grown.

That same RFC explicitly notes that CSV is entirely ad-hoc and homegrown, and that it (the RFC) is an attempt to clean up the existing mess.
When most people play games, the goal is to relax. While I will concede that English has largely become the de facto language of trade, business, and technology, and I'm not going to go into hand-wringing because of that fact, demanding that people partake of their leisure in a language that's uncomfortable to them is several steps too far.
We leveraged 3D convolutional architecture for creating the speaker model in order to simultaneously capturing the speech-related and temporal information from the speakers' utterances.
It's been eye-opening in my career how rarely catastrophic failures affect the most powerful in an organization.

If only they could experience bIj!
See I am a smart scientist therefore I know what makes me smart and these few pithy words can make you smart as well. It's more or less appeals to authority...
> downvoted by the populace

By and large, I don't think the populace can downvote. Careful about abstracting HN to all of humanity.
> It found that home-made meals based on 408 bestselling cookbook recipes for infants and young children are not always healthier than ready meals and convenience products. In fact, on many measures they seemed less healthy: they tended to have a lower vegetable variety per meal and were more likely to exceed maximum recommendations for energy and fat content.

Is that representative of what the average person cooks?
They've just got hacked, yet the NYT is already blaming the Russians.
You are creating multiple strawmen and arguing with yourself.

> What the overpopulation people never figured out is that our rate of technological progress is faster than the rate that we use up resources, and it is faster by a long shot.

What the techno-optimists haven't figured out is that technological progress and the resources aren't unlimited, the only case where your argument makes any sense.
You want "Current Branch for Business".

A lot of IT people missed the boat on that, as the guidance from Microsoft is garbage. The whole Windows 10 thing is a real shitshow. They solved a problem ("Gee, I wish I could update Windows features quarterly!") that nobody had and created yet more complexity.
What's dismaying about weight loss isn't that people can't manage to lose weight but that the success rates in keeping it off over the longer term (5 or 10 years) are extremely bad for just about every method except stomach stapling.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/GarettJones/status/875692877770244096
I am not sure if this helps, but we don't actually know if the universe is infinite or finite. It is an unknown.
Google's ONE Neural Net to Rule Them All. Video, Audio and Language
Can confirm, I also used this at least 4 years ago.
Thank you so much for your feedback ... We will post very soon about the queue runners. However, since this open source project tries to provide simple codes, in the beginning, our emphasis is one feed_dict simple method although it is suboptimal.
I think that your comment in not accurate in this context.

Most of the work visas that are extended in Japan are for qualified jobs. Having a university degree is mandatory for most of the types of visa. Also, they need to offer you a good salary.

Actually, one of the few ways to get a visa without having qualification is to come from an English speaking country and work as an English teacher because they need a lot them.

http://www.juridique.jp/immigration.html#workvisa
Looks good! A lot of things seem to just work.

Can you stop the cursor blinking?

If you do something like pi 1e20, I think it should print out all the digits it has instead of printing zeros.
Thank you ... It is my pleasure!
The solution is ethical and moral people. Politicians or not, the greatest modern issue is that we don't value honesty and integrity as a society anymore. This means, across the board, we have this weird form of nuanced corruption where everyone lies without compunction just because it's accepted practice. This means we can't trust politicians, data analysts, data scientists (anyone who uses data to proclaim "the truth") or anyone who makes any claim whatsoever to "the truth."

Until, and unless, we as a people value integrity and honesty more highly, we should hold all "truth" to be suspect, and guilty until proven innocent.

I worked at a job where, as data scientists, we were discouraged from revealing what we found in the data, and compelled to produce from the data what our boss thought the answer should be. It was asinine. If you think you already know the answer, why consult the Oracle? Put your understanding into practice and find out yourself if you're right. Or, look at the data first with as little bias as possible, and build testable hypotheses from there. I think the tendency to take a hypothesis to the data is intended to reflect the scientific method, but that only works if you're open to whatever the answer may be. It doesn't work if you just keep pushing to slice the data in ever crazier ways trying to get it to validate your hypothesis.
I appreciate your compliment.
The Elgin rectangle: why couldn't people lock their cars in Carlton?
The End Is Not Near – Why Are Our Imagined Futures So Shallow? (2014)
Eh, I'd disagree. I relate to where you're coming from with that point, but if someone were to die on Xanax, we'd hear about it. If you die while taking Kratom, you're just a statistic. Worse is if your mental machinery is screwed up by the experience: then nobody hears and you just have to live with it.
That argument held water until you consider that Windows 7 exists, and had Microsoft invested in building that platform in a sane way at any point in the last upgrade instead of going off the rails (again) with Windows 8 and making Windows 10 something that looks like legacy windows, life would be simpler.

For my employer the solution to this problem for higher end users is easy -- Apple.
I agree it is a great course but it is not free!
Suicide for any able-bodied person privileged enough to be born under good circumstances in the first world is so incredibly selfish. There are so many causes worth fighting for, like bringing a basic income, fixing our medical system, etc. If you're going to kill yourself, at least do it for a cause so that it can help the world and isn't completely in vain. Maybe go to Washington and do a hunger strike in front of the capital.

That being said, do not commit suicide. Happiness is a choice, and you should chose it.
And yet, i still need quick calories to catch a bus in the morning. Amazing!
Well, now you've gone and killed him.
Yes, I found that, but that's not even an inadequate error message -- it's just wrong. Firefox has no way to tell if the connection is encrypted or not because the connection is being dropped while the encryption is being established.
Yeah, nothing wakes you up in the morning like a Coca-Cola.
rock n' roll will never die as Neil Young put it. Its just taking a break and going to hell to reorganize. Rock is here to stay and is out of fashion now but the cycle will come back and just like clothing fashion 20-30 years from now a new wave will happen.
I am inclined to say yes, you absolutely can. I'd even prefer it if said engineering manager tends to micromanage.
You are the villain in Papers Please.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunchClockVillain

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PunchClockVillain/Vide...

^ that kind
The title is clickbait. Just read the quote. It's not that at all.
That seems like a serious issue with excel. I don't really see how that is an problem with CSV as a format.
Show HN: Speech feature extraction package developed in Python
Also, the name "ampersand" was from the phrase "and per se."
The Eve V Hacker Surface Tablet
I do! Thank you for the correction (no sarcasm). I had no idea.
LOL. Yeah that won't get your account banned at all.
Hacker News should update its CSS. That was unreadable, with only four words visible at a time.
I'd love a calculator that can implicitly recognize hh:mm:ss notation and can answer queries like ...

3:20:36 / 26.2

7:35 * 26.2
I mean obviously sugar is not toxic. I think most people that do low sugar and no sugar diets are aware of that. Instead, they understand that there's way too much sugar out there and it is very addictive. That's the issue with this kind of anti-homeopathy reasoning, it's mostly just an attack on non-scientists who have their own theories and claims. However, science has a lot of gaps, especially when it comes to nutrition. It's very hard to be precise with it.
I put cardamon in hot water and it blows the minds of colleagues. This is in China, just tell them it is a different kind of tea.
Completely broken on Safari because of scroll jacking. Had to actually drag the scroll bar until the text starts.
How's your signal-to-noise ratio? Is this the first legit site you've wanted to access on one of those TLDs?
The traditional dismissal of detoxes is that your body naturally detoxes itself. If it was full of toxins, you'd be sick. Can anyone parse that with those who get mercury toxicity from eating too much sushi?

And how is sugar an important building block of life? I'm presume he means calories are important, and he's not referring to glycobiology.
The Life-Changing Habit of Journaling
Previous discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621515
Latency of Scaleway, the cloud provider offering multicore ARM servers
If you're on a low carb diet, sugar can give you a headache so in that way it does feel toxic. But is that just because your body isn't use to it?
Week in Ethereum News, latest issue
>cool brakes and motors that exceed 100C with water, by boiling the water.

While this would cool the trains and solve the heat problem over the long term, I doubt most passengers would think that being sprayed with boiling water from arriving trains (and the resulting damp) would improve perceptions of traveling comfort
As an aside, BlueCoat is not a very reputable company. They are responsible for the government-sponsored censorship of Burma's and Syria's internet[1]. Which means that Symantec is currently the (American) company responsible for the censorship blacklist of Syria and Burma.

[1]: http://surveillance.rsf.org/en/blue-coat-2/
One of the biggest problem I had with that statement is how extremely unscientifically it was. Home cooking don't take a constant amount of time and vary based on what food you make and how many people there is in the household. Some people like me do once a month cooking where you dedicate almost a whole day per month, usually a day on the weekend. If you are a single person then you might not even need to cook that often.
A CTO should have at some point been a strong engineer, but IMO once you gain the title of CTO you should broaden your perspective and focus on higher impact activities (and yes, there are activities that have higher impact than raw programming skill).
Syria using 34 Blue Coat servers to spy on Internet users (2013)
My personal take on it is that junior/mid-level/senior/etc. are driven less by pure technical knowledge (someone can have encyclopedic knowledge of a piece of technology and still not be "senior"!) and more by how you think about things and affect others around you.

A rough breakdown would be:

* Junior: your focus and what you think about stays mostly on the piece of code you're currently working on. You should be able to answer questions about what you're doing, and explain how the code works.

* Mid-level: your focus is a bit broader. Now you're thinking more about a bigger chunk of a project, and several developers' efforts on it. This is where you should start being able to talk not just about what is being done or how, but also a bit about why. You may start being expected to pair with others of your level, or junior to you.

* Senior: again your focus is broader. Now you're thinking about entire projects/teams, and while you still do and must write code for those projects, you also spend an increased amount of time identifying things that slow or block everyone else, and putting in effort to speed up or un-block (for example, you might develop reusable libraries or solutions for common problems the team is running into, allowing everyone else to get work done faster).
I bought This War of Mine yesterday, but haven't dared touch it. I don't want to get depressed playing it.

Will I get depressed?
Slash was the last famous guitarist. There's your proof that guitarists used to be a big deal, but are no more.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitari...
Indeed, that and the delta in mean device efficiency thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones.
"that technological progress and the resources aren't unlimited"

Of course they are not unlimited. In 1 billion years we will have hit that limit of technological progress.

Before we hit that limit, 1 billion years from now, we have a long way to go, and the limit is 'effectively' unlimited, for all intensive purposes.

The only way your argument makes any sense is if you think we will hit that limit within a decade or something. But all evidence points to the contrary, and that we instead will only have to worry about those limits, a long long time from now.
Congrats! Whatever works I say. The one issue, in my experience, is that usually it's just the act of paying attention to what you eat that makes the difference (and basically all diets help with this). I still think there is value in having choice in different diets and such, but hard to see how people can get so religious about any single one of them. You're not being religious or anything, just made me think of this common conflation is all.
I don't understand why every company is trying to reinvent the wheel with their ICO. Initial offerings should be about price discovery, not minimizing FOMO. A dutch auction is obviously the correct strategy and would be trivial to implement in an Ethereum contract.
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This. I am not quite ready to quit, but we seem almost identical.
It's ironic that young people are losing interest in the guitar at a time when there is an amazingly enormous amount of resources freely available for learning it.

When I started to learn guitar several decades ago, I would learn guitar solos off of records by slowing them down to 16 rpm (old turntables could do that) and moving the needle back repeatedly to listen to tricky phrases over and over again. It was frustrating, time consuming, and hell on on the records.

Today, for just about any popular and many obscure guitar-oriented songs, you can find a Youtube video where someone breaks it down note by note and chord by chord. There are all kinds of resources online for learning scales and theory and online communities where an aspiring guitarist can connect with thousands of other like-minded people.

I would like to see guitar-oriented rock and roll make a comeback. The heavy metal subculture is thriving without any mainstream radio airplay to speak of, but aside from that, there's just not that much going on.

If I see a local rock band play in a bar these days, about 80% of the time it will be all middle-aged men who have been playing for decades. Some of them are even retirement age.
That's exactly his point. There is no scientific evidence that this happens systemically, i.e. "Keto will lead to weight loss". That does not mean it does not or that you can't lose weight. There's just no evidence.
It doesn't let me edit text on iphone 6, and Can you show example with large number of nodes and then I may use it
We've now had over 30 years of house music. They won.
"... the 10-second travel time of the bullet means the sniper must factor in the Earth’s turning beneath it"
Really nice course. Labs come with solutions and would make an excellent "challenge pack" for anyone learning Python and CS right now.
Technical:

Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer by Sandi Metz

Fiction:

Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer - I saw this mentioned in a HN comment[0].

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14530693

Edited to fix formatting and add a missing book.
Science has gaps because scientist do not know things. Non-scientist going "based on what happened to my cousin, this must have been what happened" is not going to fill the gaps in knowledge.
It's in HN because?
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Top 20 MCQ Questions on Software Testing Techniques – InfoTechSite
But here's my experience using LTSB. I need an OS which has almost no bugs and fast performance. Neither I need new features nor the windows apps and store. I just need an OS for running office, certain software in my low end laptop. And imo LTSB is best option for me.

I was previously on Windows 7. It was very fast with no problems. Then I updated to Win 10 and my old laptop was not compatible with it. I ran into lots of issue e.g. over heating, display problem, drivers problem, hang sometimes etc.

But then I give LTSB a try and it works very well till now. Regarding start menu, I would say mine is faster(1-2 sec) in search operation than my friend's who has regular Win 10.

(I have Dell vostro 2520 i3-6GB ram)
You seem very certain about things that are kiterally unknowable.
(first off yes this is just one data point, second I'm an Aussie married to a Japanese woman living in Japan for around 5 years now), I am amazed at how much my wife's grandparents use and embrace technology. They have smartphones and recently we have been looking into a few different robot assistants(grandpa is on permanent oxygen tanks and grandma recently broke her hip, so movement is becoming restricted).

Of course this isn't all seniors here, but I do see a lot more tech used casually among an older crowd that I saw in Australia.

(They are both 93 btw).
what is purpose? to confuse average user so he matter click on genuine shady links?

seem dumb on same level as put bodies in blood next to road to check if people stop
I don't think it's the CSS that's the problem. The commenter formatted the paragraph as code by indenting it with spaces. Code usually doesn't need wrapping.
Where did you read that? How many were in the sample, how long was the diet, was it a double-blind test, what was the significance of the find? That's exactly his point: people write a lot of stuff on the internet that they believe or think is true. It might even work on them because of placebo efect. But it does mean these statements are facts.
Use "MiniHack" on iOS. Best client I've found.