skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was the 50s or 60s the government would never allow a talk like this to happen. Anything to do with nuclear was kept as a black art. Fortunately that paranoia has lifted so we can have safer systems.
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Guessing the parent mean Kodon (which I've had bookmarked for a while -- hasn't gone on sale yet): http://store.steampowered.com/app/479010/Kodon/
There is more than sex involved, but that was the biggest factor - at least in my experience which could well be different from typical.

I carefully avoided passing a moral judgement on their acts. However the fact is sex at 16 immediately jumps into moral issues (not just Christian - most world religions encourage marriage). I did my best those to focus on the fact that as a result of that choice they have eliminated their ability to get a head.

YOU are the one placing moral judgement on their choices and trying to make it look like my judgement.
Good thing science isn't done for your entertainment. What's the point of your comments other than to imply that physicists somehow aren't doing a good enough job?
From American and Western European English Speaking writers, this is true.

I have paid 5-10c per word for articles between 500-1000 words, that were all very well written in Eastern European countries by expats and fluent English speakers.

A few colloquialisms needed editing out, but if you are getting only 5 articles a week, you are spending $300-500, and 1-2 hours of editing per article if that (which includes formatting, adding hyperlinks, etc).
The back of my fridge is more interesting than this comment. Why am I replying to this comment then, rather than looking at the back of my fridge? Hmm...
The article does a great job of presenting Redux and stripping the "magic" out of it. But the section about dependencies between reducers bugs me A LOT.

"If a CommentsStore needed data from a PostsStore to properly update itself, it could call PostsStore.waitFor() to ensure that it would run after the PostsStore updated. [...] with Redux, that sequencing can simply be accomplished by explicitly calling specific reducer functions in sequence."

And it introduces a specific call order of slice reducers, and 'hasCommentReallyBeenAdded' variable, inside the root reducer to implement that dependency.

But it looks to me like such a dependency will usually be specific to a certain action, and in a modestly complex application, different actions will have dependencies in different orders, with different ordering and information needs, and moving those into the root reducer doesn't scale beyond one (i.e. the shown example). Thus, as is, the section doesn't really provide a useful pattern for building real apps. Those will need a different approach - represented by the catch-all but not so useful "it's all about how you want to write it."

Am I missing something about that section and topic?
A lot of the comments criticize the article for being inaccessible to beginners, and I think they're justified—without examples it's hard to know what the author is talking about without having first passed through the fire.

Having said that, I think he's talking about a crucial part of programming that beginners simply don't appreciate: how to break big problems into small problems. In other words, how to unstick challenges (and even find joy in programming) before writing a single line of code.

For example, make a list. Prioritize the items. Strike some. Put the simplest at the top. Figure out which item causes you the most anxiety. Chop away at the branches before attacking the trunk. Even intermediate developers often fail to see that the best programming takes place in the form of a plan.
We've been on Gitlab since version 5 and for the most part it's been a pleasure to work with. The omnibus version has made things way easier to install/upgrade, so not sure what the fluff is about being hard to maintain. The UI is adequate and they are working on improvements to smooth out the rough edges a bit. Looking forward to the improvements and new features to come. Just wanted to post something positive instead of the nit picky hate I've been seeing lately about Gitlab...
Same here. I'm on Facebook because of events.

Years ago, a club I was in was using Yahoo Groups, and over time more and more events were posted to Facebook. People complained, and eventually the organizer wrote back "I've been using Facebook because it lets me schedule an event, track RVSP's, link to the location/map, add members, post pics, and help advertise/recruit for more members. Anybody that wants to help or takeover any or all of this, let me know".

Total silence for a day or two before about 50 of us joined Facebook.

That was 8 years ago. I moved away but now I'm in at least 4 clubs that actively use Facebook for events... now it's typical for friends to schedule birthday parties, housewarmings, plain old get-togethers via Facebook private events. Also alumni groups, community events and so on that keep in touch or advertise things to do that way.

The only thing I'm tired of is people that constantly mention how they quit Facebook. I don't care. It serves a useful purpose for me. It's like that Onion article about the guy who doesn't own a TV and mentions that as often as possible - Onion should do an update starring Facebook quitters.

And before anybody suggests it, Meetup isn't a good alternative. (I'm an organizer of a Meetup group as well; I like Meetup but fills a different niche.)
on the darkweb, which will involve you installing a VPN and learning how to use .onion sites.

but honestly this isn't a good idea: its about a 95% chance that any hacker that you find that agrees to work for you will either 1) steal your money and not give you what you want and also possibly hack into your bank account and steal ALL of your assets, or 2) be an FBI agent in disguise and arrest your for cyber terrorism or some such.

long story short: don't hire a hacker.
I am glad you added a disclaimer stating your post is meant to be sarcastic because my automated deep learning HN voting bot has not learned sarcasm, opencv or angular6 yet.

I don't know how or why but it has mastered memory management in spark.
> I disagree. I think many of the problems in software development as practiced today originate from thinking that the theory is all that is necessary.

This is such horseshit. Computer Science gives you the intuition needed to guide you to making more correct decisions you make in building your software rather than wrong. When you have these practitioners hitting the scene all of a sudden who just simply learn xyz latest framework/tool/fad and then are faced with a new and interesting complex challenge (for example, computers all of a sudden now have multiple cores! surprise!), they do not have the background to adapt and spend much time cutting their teeth, creating many bugs in their wake.

If you think that having the theory makes you write worse software, I feel bad for you because your computer science education must have been shit and you probably wasted your money. In that sense I understand the bitterness that a lot of people have.
In my experience, the major reason bots feel unnatural is that they quickly reveal their lack of actual understanding of anything, with the mean time to Turing-test failure being not much longer than the preliminaries (such as getting your account #.)

Actually, maybe 'unnatural' is not the quite right word, as I have had some human customer service that is no better in this regard (or perhaps they were actually some of the better chatbots?)
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If it's online and not Affero GPL you don't even need to give back your improvements, provided you don't distribute your improvements to others.
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What your asking for is illegal, you should go the legal route instead and hire a private investigator which are legally required to do ethical investigations and are required to be licensed if required by the state you are in. With a private investigator they can get photographic/video proof that can be used in divorce/criminal court. They have been trained on what can be done legally.

If you and your husband are on the bill for the phone company you can request a record of all SMS messages and calls from them. If you want to search his phone legally you would need a warrant. As if you do something illegal you might end up on the loosing end if you go to divorce court.
Same here.

I added a event emitter to AsyncStorage and that's basically it.
I would second what Dave said, and have you look at this front pager from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14711492
The Roomba doesn't clean as good as I could, doesn't clean as fast as I could, and doesn't clean as cheaply as other products could. But I live in a house with laminate floors, two dogs, and a cat. Trying to keep up with their fur is a losing battle, so I'm more than happy to spend $300 once and have something that will run every day and keep the fur off the floor.

It's not replacing a normal vacuum, anyone who thinks so is fooling themselves. It's to keep your house cleaner in between normal deep cleans.
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I have no problem with YouTube with AdBlock Plus or uBlock
This goes well with the great-grand parent's comment on consumer hardware not being as attractive to investors. I think a lot of it lies in the complexity of the product. A smart watch or rugged video camera seems trivial to replicate and commoditise from an investment and technology standpoint compared to digital pathology scanners.
Well, 3680x2456 / 0.06 seconds ≈ 150 Mp/s or 75 Mp/s/per core. Pillow-SIMD's current implementation runs on ≈ 700 Mp/s/pre core for bicubic (which is closer to this implementation).

Obviously, your implementation could be further optimized, but quality drawbacks will remain the same.
Nice, thanks. My feeling is that this is about 75% of what we want and thereby may really be the best solution there is, right now. I'll bring your responses into my next team meeting.
> The actual money aspect is why this blew up. No one would care if it was fake money.

Two things:

1. This is assuming it was done for the press coverage, and not just as a hobby project

2. If I were to do this, I don't think I'd advertise it was fake money. What's the difference anyway? It's not as if people on the internet benefit at all from the investment return. I always assumed this was more of a "Twitch plays Pokemon" thing than anything more serious.
Weird price schemes are easy to cover up when a lot of your service fee handles the loading and recycling of said junk.

Although I laugh at the name, there's no one else doing anything like 1-800-Got-Junk for overrun garages, overcrowded basement storage, etc.

The only thing I notice is that each region has a 1-800-Got-Junk operating under a different name.

It's also not a subscription service (?)
people need to start somewhere, for someone experienced, sure he might sound like he is stating the obvious

for a novice, he might be enlightening

don't underestimate how much you know, or assume that everyone else knows it
The purpose of the C++ implementation is to test and validate the other implementations. Use the Python or Java versions.
Chatbots do work, those who say it doesn't work have just tried the really bad ones.

Examples of chatbots that do work

Nuance's Nina https://www.windstream.com/Support/

Jenn (unknown who is behind it) https://www.alaskaair.com/

Our James https://master.boost.ai/
If Google wasn't able to find the problem, then they probably should rollback.

They can't hurt their customers this way.
Solid questions (no pun intended)!

* FBX export?
* scripting/animation?
* Displacement maps, collision hulls, etc.

Would also like to know.
I so wish we had a squirrel google translate. Green, clean and cute world.
I saw you mentioned autoscaling first. How do you handle this? Do you just install autoscaler pod by hand? (edit: just saw the link you provided, not sure if you edited your post to add it or not, but thanks! I followed the link through to https://github.com/reactiveops/pentagon/blob/d983feeaa0a8907... and it looks like I would be interested in #120 and #126, but they don't seem to be GH issue numbers or Pull Requests. Where can I find more?)

It seems like a lot of the work like this just "isn't there yet" when it comes to orchestrators like Tectonic or Stackpoint, or Kops, in making this easy for you. (So there's surely a market for people who know how to do this stuff, but it seems like this would be the first feature that every tool supporting AWS would want to have. Unless there are hidden gotchas, and it seems like there would be a lot of blog posts about it if that were the case.)
When I saw the friend was using Mailchimp, it made a lot more sense.

I get lots of spam from Mailchimp (ie. people subscribing me to their newsletter, without my consent), and complaining to Mailchimp about it seems to have no effect.

So since Mailchimp allows bad actors to send mail with their service, it’s not entirely unfair that Mailchimp mail gets flagged as spam.
I certainly have in the past when something really grabbed my attention. My library has expanded in recent years partly because of the topics shared on Hackernews and mentioned in discussions. I would hazard a guess that most people don't follow up and just upvote a cool sounding title. It really does take months/years to work through some of this material, but there are some people who do it. Also important to keep in mind is that readers specialize (I'm big into math/stats/ml, but some of the guys I work with are deep into logic programming and theorem provers) so no single reader is knowledgeable in everything posted here.
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These are pretty well-worn arguments against chatbots. There's an overuse of bots for tasks that do not benefit from a conversational interface (checking the weather, surveys, promotions, etc.). But if you stop thinking of bots as sentient beings and instead treat them as domain-specific command line interfaces, you may get more utility out of them. For instance, it's possible just typing/saying "Send me a pizza with sausage and black olives" is the most efficient way to order a pizza.
Perhaps I've overlooked the obvious, but where is the deception and lies?
Where I live, if you leave anything large and metal by the curb on trash day, scrappers will come take it within hours. :) Hazardous waste is a big problem though.
Thanks, I didn't pay attention to the video the moment he said that.
"dropped into Nebraska from a meteor"

Don't you mean Kansas?
The Company will love that!
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Do you mean peaked or piqued?
Not according to http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/. Apparently what Keynes said was something similar, but not that same phrasing:

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment
policy in an irrational world.
I'd wanted to lift the burden of writing ORM layers and dealing with relational algebra and focus on persisting my intrinsic application models. I'd studied XML and other semi-structured web data at the graduate level, but was frustrated there wasn't a technology that was meeting that need. Companies like Microsoft and Oracle were adding XML functionality to their databases, but because it was bolted on an already constrained structure, it failed to address the mangling that relational structures impose.

I saw a demo of MongoDB in 2010 and was thoroughly impressed. The developer experience out of the box was exquisite. During a 1 hour presentation, I was able to download the binary, connect to the shell, create records in a familiar form (JSON), query the data from my preferred language, and all within a often second-class platform, Windows.

There was a certain _joy_ to using MongoDB, but I had my doubts, too. If this form of database interaction was so easy and fun to use, what was the catch?

Well, the catch was that MongoDB was re-thinking the issue from the ground up, re-envisioning the way we work with data, in an attempt to transcend the inertia that held back existing offerings.

When I started working with MongoDB, it felt like the same transcendence I experienced moving from C++ to Python in 1998--the approach was simpler, more intuitive, and powerful.

Sure, there were some growing pains. The concept came first without acknowledged writes or even journaling. Replication came in stages. Sharding came later.

But our operation was able to go from startup-scale to a global enterprise-scale operation backed by MongoDB, performing admirably, and giving developers the ability to rapidly innovate in a low-impedance environment. We've since developed dozens of applications against MongoDB.

I've considered emergent competing offerings like PostgreSQL with its JSON store, but when I did a few years ago, they were still dramatically behind in replication and sharding support, requiring extensive administration for aspects that MongoDB handled out of the box.

And in the meantime, MongoDB has continued to innovate, bringing in pluggable storage backends, advancing the query engine and aggregation framework, adding native geo-location support, and formalizing the concept of shard zones (a key feature for global scalability). And with Atlas, they've made server administration a near zero-cost proposition.

I'm a fan because when it comes to boots-on-the-ground experience, I see nothing else in the industry that even comes close. The most pressing deficiencies have been addressed and without compromising the key innovations. As a developer and technology leader, I choose MongoDB as my default database and would only consider a traditional database if the use case was intrinsically highly constrained and tabular in nature.
The one greatest internet life hack I discovered in the last couple of years is to delete browser autocompletes (cmd + shift + delete or similar).

Once I became aware of the "slot machine" effect of websites I deleted the default autocompletes for Facebook and Hacker News, for example.

Prior to doing this, if I typed "F" into chrome I went to my Facebook news feed, and "N" in chrome took me to HN.

I deleted those defaults and made it so the autocomplete takes it to my profile on each site. My Facebook profile page is inherently non addictive. It's just me. I can then choose to click on events or whatever.

My HN profile is even more boring. This forces me to make one extra click before viewing the news stories but that single click is enough to stop me from compulsively checking news.

I can't overstate how many hours per week I reclaimed from this one change. It is better for my purposes than any sort of focus blocker. It doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just removes the addictive trigger.

I also moved my Facebook app from the first screen on my iPhone, and disallowed any notifications. This is better for me than deleting the app. As long as I don't see the little red circle with a number, there's no compulsive reminder.

As a consequence of using this technique I am able to get what I want from web services without the addictive component.

--edit: grammar--
Holey-moley - he's just open-sourced it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/6ltk6p/mesh_maker_vr_...

This is a really interesting move.
Have this near where I live, but wish there was just a place to take it throughout the year. Don't like having to keep stuff around for ages until one of those days comes around.
Things would get tangled in a hurry with the hose getting caught up or stuck. Low pressure would help but I still don't think it's viable on anything but row based gardens.
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And this guy is generating more than $10K/month of value for Amazon. So what?
I would also posit, that the chatbots are not armed with the ability to actually solve problems.

I'd use a chatbot, if it could understand that X is a fraudulent transaction, and to have it cancelled. Instead I get , "Would you like to return your item?" -- NO, it's fraud.

It seems either the engineers responsible, or the upper management have made it an order to not allow higher functioning bots. Im guessing they're using the bots as yet another layer of obfuscation to get people to go away, just as companies used "longer than expected" delays on phone lines to get people to leave.
facebook.com?
I run a Facebook page, and they've recently started pushing chats through Messenger every time you post something asking you to spend money to boost the post. Every single time. And if you do boost, they'll beg you to boost again through Messenger. I tried "stop", I tried "cancel", I tried "unsubscribe", and I even tried cursing at it to see if it would stop. It didn't. Eventually I had to go into Messenger settings and block Facebook's chatbot. I reported it as spam, since there's no way to make it stop bothering you.

And now I see they're automatically opening Messenger when you visit someone's page to get you to message that business for... I'm not exactly sure what reason.