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I created a small program to categorize titles by sub-reddit[1] to learn sci-kit, tensorflow, etc.

I basically used reddit's Bigquery data for the dataset (it's huge!). My algorithm and code is here[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gudnFNBXc58

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/6hqd6...
If you want to spend more money you have to increase taxes. I don't mind whether we just increase an existing tax or create a new one.
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No, that means that you can't maintain a diet.
Brilliant. Superb explanation! Just couple of days I was trying to understand this from my team mates and it took him 30 mins to make it complicated.
I liked how it turned out, but the startup cost seems INSANE. He'll never reap the benefits of his hard work.
The UK threshold is still sensible. 9% for everything above £17k and forgiving all debt after 30 years means that paying back your debt won't significantly affect your lifestyle and that lower earners will never have to pay everything.
Yes, Hacker Hunt indexes all Show HN submissions, including those who never make to the main page. Actually - that was the whole reason to make Hacker Hunt happen.
I feel the exact same way about napping. Instead, I find that leaving my desk and going for short walks throughout the day is more effective, for me.
Actually, with DHL in Germany, that’s exactly what many people do. The cheapest version is paying by wire and getting the code to put on the package via their website, and dropping the parcel at a package hub, the second cheapest version s paying by wire and getting the code to put on the package via their website, then dropping off at a DHL store, the third cheapest version is getting it stamped and dropping it off at a DHL store, and the most expensive option (about 20$ more per parcel!) is getting it picked up by the delivery guy.

Which is why DHL can offer prices such as 4€ for a cross-Europe 1kg 30x30x60 package.
Not exactly the same, but for those Linux/KDE users who look for a tool to connect to another machine within the same LAN, I can recommend KDE-Connect (file-transfer, notifications, shared-clipboard, etc.).
Ask HN: Everyone had to re-interview for their current jobs, what % would pass?
Yeah, "lunch time, finally can get on and catch up
with hackernews!"
I don't know. You'd need to ask them.

But I'm pretty damn sure that fear is a big part of it. Fear of the enemy, the other, the foreign devils.

It's how the ruthless always trick the weak. As Göring put it in that infamous quote.
I would be very interested to meet one of these investors. If anyone reads this and would be interested, my email is in my profile.
It is actually amazing that we have not yet freak outs in the media from cases of food poisoning of the meal at home services. Someone touched every single thing in every single unit that a customer receives. If you got five twigs of cilantro, then someone touched each one of those five twigs. If you have received six pepper corns of some fancy pepper, someone making minimum wage touched every single one of them.

This is a massive contamination incident waiting to happen.
I cannot comment about Asian culture but conditioning does have a large part to play in how people sleep.

Personal anecdote: when I grew up my parents lived on a busy main road so I was used to sleeping in noisy conditions. I then moved to a quiet village - I love how silent it is on a night - but I now cannot sleep in hotels nor anywhere else unless it's absolutely silent.
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Actually, delivery costs in Europe are basically nil.

You can ship a package in 3 days all across the EU for under 4€ with DHL. I know, because I’ve done so several times.

Stuff that’s small enough to fit in a letter even for 80ct across the entire EU in 2 days.

In fact, the domestic shipping market in the EU is actually cheaper than getting international parcels.
Well, if you are on the road a lot, you need a mobile computer, obviously. Most of the engineers (probably all of them) at my employer have laptops, too. They need them, because they are on the move a lot of the time, visiting customers, construction sites and so forth.

But all of the office workers have regular PCs, so do the CAD people. No, wait - strike that. Some of the CAD people have laptops, too.

But there is a market for open PCs that can run any OS and software you like, that can be extended through extension cards, where you can upgrade CPU, RAM, graphics card independently of each other and so forth. It is not what it used to be, and it will continue to shrink, but I don't think it's going away completely.
Try to take some commuter trains in London, or buses, and you'll find plenty of people napping. At one job I preferred to take the bus to the tube even though the tube would be faster, because I enjoyed the longer unbroken nap.

There's even a comedy sketch (don't remember with who) about how London commuters are seemingly able to enter the tube, grab hold of one of the bars, and proceed to seemingly sleep standing for the exact right number of stops.
Is it, though? I'm from sourthern Europe, and nobody I know under 70 takes daily naps. Even in Spain, where they take long lunch breaks supposedly for taking siestas, only 16% of the adult population actually does so, according to a large study.
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There is no cost to avoiding casual drinking. You can still attend events, you can still hang with friends and you can still go to a bar (shocking).

Notice how you have no argument that can't be applied to say, heroin.

You can't seriously think that alcohol is healthier than water. And yes the comparison is valid for a drink of alcohol is a potential drink of water.
Agreed, I am comfortable (almost too much so) sleeping anywhere.

They say in the army, your survival is predicated on being able to catch a wink wherever possible.

As for sleeping in quiet places, one thing I've noticed is that my tinnitus is only audible when I am not in a city, as such there have been times where I remember I have tinnitus and am temporarily unable to sleep because of it.
I understand and appreciate syntactic classification. But it's a false thing. It makes you care about syntax more than semantics.
And that covers 90% of the people that care

Disagree. I don't know a single non-programmer with brew installed on their Mac, and non-programmers make up 90% of the people who have the most trouble copying files between two computers.
I read this as "How I learned to code in 30s" and I thought it'd be a parody of "Learn X in Y" tutorials.
> imagine if you had a company where cigarettes were dished out freely on a Friday afternoon

I absolutely can imagine that
>ActionScript 2 , ActionScript 3, C/C++, C#, Java, Python, AVR studio....I could wipe out 95% of these skills from my memory and get paid the same.

Yes you're right about this.Programming is quite similar to math in that aspect. Great debugging skills and understanding can replace the requirement for all of this.

But you seem to be missing the point here. There is a difference between learning a language and the frameworks compared to learning _why_ a language and _why_ a framework. This is what ~60% of today's "coders/programmers" miss and are unable to understand.

Learning the why helps you pick up things much easily. The effort you would have to put in to learn any new languages would be considerably much lesser compared to others.

A commonly quoted line in the industry is , "you need more breadth than depth".

And you wipe out a lot of skills on a regular basis. This is not a conscious effort that you make. It just happens to everyone.

I'm not trying to say that the late blooming programmers do not understand the "why" bit, but rather that a lot of programmers do not. I am one of those self taught programmers who loves exploring the why. And it makes my life much easier than those who do not. So revel in knowing that you are capable of picking up new skills much easily compared to others. That IMHO is a much more important characteristic than knowing a million languages/systems/frameworks.
You forgot "Step 4a.1" Go to brew.sh and follow the instructions to install brew.
Like the concept. One small advice I learned from Duolingo (on 290 day streak) is that you have to make sure that it is non-negotiable to break the streak. If you miss it, you end your streak, you cannot reverse it, no exceptions.

This really gets the commitment going. But to make it softer, there should a way to earn points by your existing streaks and buy a weekend pass, or a 1 day streak saver pass which will help you keep your streak if you skip it on the weekend, or 1 day respectively.

You gotta purchase those with the points you earn (can be 1 point for 20 day streak or lingots, etc) so there is a limit to what you can buy and you don't want to waste it also. I also like their weekly wager in which you double the lingots if you maintain the streak for a week. It really hooks you into it. It's not uncommon for people to have a 1000+ streak just because of these things.
Must admit that this seems a bit creepy to me! I guess he's just amused but I wonder if it starts him thinking, is this game monitoring me personally? How else can I be targeted?
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I can't believe they've got rid of the text snippets below the headline (why??) but I like the dedicated fact check box!
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> But in the end, they will still visit New York.

Guess you haven't travelled much.
It's tastes and expectations that have changed.

When I was growing up and when my parents were growing up dinner was best described as "edible." Nothing fancy, nothing artisanal, not bland but also not usually very exciting. Simple meals with simple ingredients.

Now people want (and expect) fresh and "fancy" artisanal food all the time - you can see it in here with people complaining about the quality of Chipotle.

I always think of these services as more used by young higher earning childless people, not so much families.
Why not use “which”? What to use then?
That's just too cool. I have not read such a faith-in-humanity-inspriring moment in a long time.
I agree - I write lisp for probably 50% of my time, and I have to juggle comparisons in my head every single time. For some reason it's much harder than arithmetic functions.
I learned mostly from MATLAB documentation. Good if you want theory and implementation, and most capabilities can be done with open source equivalents if you don't have MATLAB.

https://uk.mathworks.com/products/computer-vision.html
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Great stuff! Speaking from the UK (where this was mandated back in 2010), it's all very well having a curriculum, but what if none of the teachers have the skills needed to deliver effective and inspiring learning?

In the UK the government said, "make it so" and failed to provide training or resources for the many computing teachers who don't know how to program (which is most of them since the vast majority of UK based computing teachers come from non-computing subjects like business studies).The difference in quality of teaching, expectation of attainment and learning resources is staggering.

I wish NZ well, but I hope they realize that the teachers are fundamental in making this a success. A lack of investment in teacher training or classroom resources will make this dead in the water.
Nice one. My cat never purrs so this is a suitable substitute.
From that article,

"Some use bitcoins to buy Amazon gift cards, then order goods and food on the online store in the US and other countries, which can then be delivered by courier to Venezuela – where supermarket shelves are frequently empty."
...

"Farias says that many Venezuelan tech workers who freelance for companies elsewhere prefer to be paid in bitcoin. “With Cryptobuyer, we convert bitcoins into bolivars and help Venezuelans pay for daily life necessities, such as mobile phones recharges, television, water and electricity bills as well as banks transfers in bolivars,” he said."
...

"“Treating my mother’s cancer would have been very difficult without using bitcoins because my business is going bankrupt and I have a lot of debts, so bitcoins enabled me to stay afloat while our currency is collapsing,” said Eli."
I fully stand behind what you said.

It's just that I want to stabilize my skills and sell myself in new ways recently; thus I am more focused on perfecting what I can do and becoming an expert and a pro.

Lectures introducing new concepts are something extremely valuable!
This would be so much more useful it was written in a language that made it easy to distribute the whole thing as a single statically compiled binary.
I tried hello fresh back when they were promoting it aggressively. The only good thing about it were the neat recipe booklets. I actually kept them and made the meals again later. Everything else was bad. The produce quality was worse than from my supermarket, missing ingredients, stupidly expensive (outside of promotion). I'm amazed they still exist, I assume it's running on investors' money.
I know the situation in east Germany a bit. The "solution" is complete denial.

The discussions I observed happen in a way that I can hardly describe otherwise than that coal is some kind of replacement religion for those areas. For a long time (and for some even today) talking about anything beyond coal was considered some form of heresy. By now denial gets increasingly hard, because except one minor expansion all plans for further mines have been cancelled.
I wonder that myself. Sometimes there certainly are a porn and scam link in new, but I'd expect a lot more than there are.
Not sure if this is it but some guy did an AMA on reddit with a similar payment plan but it was really scummy. They took some percentage of your salary for a given number of years when you eventually landed a job. But there was no stipulation that the job needed to be in tech or anything. So the whole thing might be a total waste of time and you would still have to fork away a cut of your salary when you find a job as a kitchen hand or whatever.
Oh yes, I'm looking forward to descriptions of pronunciations like 'rhymes with tomato'. English, with its myriad of accents, is an awful language to transcribe anything into.

Moreover, having these pseudo-English transcriptions may leave people with a false impression they know how to pronounce something, while in fact using these transcriptions with naïve English phonology still leaves you incomprehensible (or at best very grating) to native speakers. Something something 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing' something something Dunning–Kruger something something.

Better just learn IPA yourself. Seriously.
Facebook "works" in the same sense opium "works"
Are they selective? Kinda important to know whether they are able to pick and choose who they think spending their time on.
It's also much easier for introverts. They can talk about something that is
not themselves and something they know very well. They can now expose many
interesting and subtle details of their craft.

Do you think introverts don't like to talk and to brag?
Try to practice mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness in Plain English [1] is a good resource. For starters it is relaxing in itself, and will teach you to relax faster, but if you practice with eyes clothes in a chair or on a couch instead of sitting in a traditional pose, and you're actually in need of sleep, it's easy to drift off unless you actively try not to.

The book has a number of pieces of advice to avoid sleeping - if your aim is to nap rather than meditate, just do the opposite. E.g. part of the point of a traditional meditation pose is to create alertness (sit up straight, lift your head etc.) in part to avoid falling asleep.

Sometimes I want to stay awake and pay attention to pose etc. Sometimes I like to use the breathing etc. to have a quick nap, and instead will sit in a relaxed position, rest my head. I find it's made a big difference in how quickly I fall asleep - I now associate certain positions with "fall asleep ASAP" and certain positions with "clear your mind and stay focused", and automatically fall into certain patterns when I prepare accordingly.

[1] http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
Some lisps let you use . to place procedures infix.

IIRC racket allows you to write (x . < . 5), and some schemes have curly infix (a srfi) where {x < 5} gets translated to (< x 5).
> You spend less time gathering and eating and free up time for thinking.

I think it's the other way around. We got bigger brains in the first place because our ancestors discovered fire and were able to eat cook foods that provide more calories. Therefore they progressively were able to sustain larger and larger brains. A gorilla for example has one of the largest brains for primate and they need to spend most of their days foraging in order to function. A human brain would be impossible to sustain without cooked foods.
When you read it, please, don't run away. Please, return back and put a like. :) The article deserves to be known.
But software is so pervasive that within a generation or two, not understanding how it works will put you at a severe disadvantage.

Unfortunately the corporations seem determined to put a stop to that sort of pervasive knowledge, if only for the purpose of controlling and monetising their users. They don't want people to know how easy it is to do things like strip DRM or remove artificial limitations from software. [See Stallman's famous story, or the Cory Doctorow articles on the demise of general-purpose computing.]

And thus most of the "learn to code" efforts I've seen have seemed to focus on some ultra-high-level language, removed from reality and often sandboxed, so that while people do learn the very-high-level concepts of how computers work, they are no less unclear about the functioning of the actual systems they use daily --- or how to use them fully to their advantage. In some ways, they're trying to teach how to write programs without understanding existing ones.

The document said children should be writing programs and understand how computers store information by their final years of primary or intermediate school.

However, this sounds more promising. Especially if they're starting more along the lines of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...
I suppose the more interesting question here is what the author did to actually detect the avatar.
I don't mean to say that I don't trust those media fact checkers

I would say that. In fact, I trust them even less than the outlets they cover. Most "fact checking" is opinion disguised as analysis making it just a boring op-ed.
Won't count for much unless they give related subjects some attention. The way maths is taught in NZ is archaic.
"Using that information I created a trigger that only activated Darth Vader when someone with that avatar was playing (well, almost, anyone with that hair, glasses and smile, couldn't be sure about skin tone or hair color from the screenshot)."

Presumably the avatars are built by combining pre-made features.
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x86 on ARM64 in Windows on ARM64 is provided by a port of Virtual PC. Virtual PC for Mac is an x86 to PowerPC JIT.
There is no indication that society did not exist before Fire. A lot of apes are social animals and they don't have any fire at all.
Well if he wanted to play privately why would he post it publicly on Twitter?
Yeah, it's interesting that it wasn't officially dropped from the plans, even if no-one hears anything about it.
I don't know in detail what it's like now, but when I was in school (decades ago...) those subjects were covered as part of physics. Whether the majority have retained that knowledge is a different matter, but it was definitely taught; I suppose the same would apply to programming if it were to become part of the mandatory curriculum.
This credit is unique in that it can be used against federal payroll taxes. i.e. most companies (even if unprofitable) can realize a cash benefit immediately
That's sweet and all but the rest of us have to pay rent
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Explaining it to a five-year-old adds overhead that isn't really useful when you're in fact explaining to someone who knows about programming but has simply never heard about covariance and contravariance.

A function `X -> string` can be turned into a function `X -> object`: call it, take its string result and cast it to object. This is called covariant (latin co- for "together") because casting `string` to `object` also lets you cast `X -> string` to `X -> object`.

A function `object -> X` can turned into a function `string -> X`: take the string argument, cast it to object, and pass it to the function. This is called contravariant (latin contra- for "against") because casting `string` to `object` lets you cast `object -> X` to `string -> X`.
Ha, great! And you can combine it easily with those other background noise generators to get, e.g. a purring cat in a coffee shop or in a restaurant.
I suppose it depends on context - where would a person be asked/expected to drink?
Also checkout his book The Humane Interface ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface ) he writes a little about this system there while describing the ideal interface in his mind.
Tell that to the next company that has to recover a thousand desktops...

The last time a hundred companies were hit with ransomware, disabling tens of thousands of desktops was... Yesterday.
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Scratch works pretty well in practice, to get across to kids that computers aren't magic:

https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/127964136013/it-turns-ou...

https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137374628373/scratch-is-...

https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137376311558/scratch-is-...

That's in the UK. The maths teacher was pretty on the ball here, but the main thing is it caught the kids' interest and communicated the concept of programmability.

Scratch for young children, Python later and you've basically got this coding thing introduced.
On that fine line between a bug and an easter egg
This one is pretty good:
https://www.udemy.com/computer-vision-with-python/
Developers who take free time to create projects are not crying for money, they are crying for not having enough time to do more!

Not everybody is made to only work for money.
To be honest, the books in GFX programming are usually about old consolidated methods. The new stuff is - everywhere, in blogs, in papers, in shader-toys.
In the Anglosphere, sadly yes.
0.) Teacher who gives up on trying to figure out how to teach more effectively won't be good.

1.) This is abut children. Their brains are not developped yet and their motivation is flicky. Pedagogy matters a lot.

The whole point is to teach them basic concepts so that they become able to learn more by themselves later on. They won't be taught modern stack, the point is to make them able to learn real stuff later on. A kid that encounters for cycle first time at university has much much harder time then the one that was even causually playing with logo.

2.) Even adults have common sumbling blocks. Having access to other people's experience - which explanation worked and in what order makes learning more effective.
I know that and i'm happy that there are still entities in world that can still influence google and other mega corps.
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