skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't tell you for certain. Probably some combination of genetics and intense training, with previous periods of long sustained critical work.

Often I find I compare whatever my current situation I'm in, with previous tough situations I've dealt with, and know that if I made it through those, then my current situation is tractable.

On multiple occasions in a previous life I've worked multiple 24-36 straight hours doing intense cognitive and physically intensive work for multiple crises in Korea, Iraq and other wartime places. So that's a good benchmark to compare to.
No, they are more likely to be founders of Unicorn startups.

That's a very narrow definition of success. It's says more about the the funnel for VC money than anything else.

I went to a state school and my friends and I all have good careers that would be characterized as successful by most measures.

One of the big differences between going to a "random" college and a Stanford/Harvard/IIT is that you don't have that network of connected professors and alumni guiding you into big tech companies. My school had that type of ecosystem with big banks, government and other areas.
Don't most reporters start out with obscure/niche stories so they can hone their writing styles on relatively "unimportant" or filler pieces? If machines do all of that work, how do reporters develop the experience to be able to write an organized, in-depth important story?
I use MiniHack for iOS. It isn't perfect but it's the best I've come across.

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> How can you ignore something which is causing you or someone you care about harm?

If it is really causing you harm, you can always sue for libel. If it is just something you dont like, deal with it. The internet is not a "safe space".

> Will you operate a node which keeps that content available against the wishes of the target?

If it is anything like DHT, yes. I don't give a shit. Whoever has a problem can take it up with the originator of the offending content. If they can trace them and prove it is illegal in a court.

> For that matter, how many people will use a network which prevents you from removing mistakes?

Everyone. Do you use git? Do you correct mistakes using a new commit? Congrats, you now know how to correct a mistake on the internet.

> if someone uploads legally restricted content, everyone participating in the network has to expect legal consequences even if they personally aren't troubled by it

In such cases the law is wrong and must change.

> If you're in Germany and someone else can get Nazi content from your system, do you really think “I didn't upload it and there's no way to block it” is going to lead to a court reaction other than an order to turn it off until the underlying technology is fixed?

The way German law treats Nazi sentiments is highly anti-free-speech. Cannot continue for much longer (~50 years). The correct way is to allow free speech but prosecute criminal acts (free-speech is not a criminal act). IMO, irrational laws in countries that are against free-speech should not impact adoption of technology, just as bittorrent is still widely used even though US law is against it.

> Ignoring that many places do block BitTorrent

I am curious how that is done. Are you talking about China? I do not know any way to block the bittorent protocol itself apart from DPI.

> That doesn't seem to fit with a blockchain model and it seems like a major problem growing a social network beyond the immediate founders if everyone has to find a private cluster to join.

I agree. Maybe someone can come up with a solution. Maybe we can encrypt everything so that nodes can not possibly know what the content is. I don't know.
At my previous work, we attempted to find the correlation between faulty code and the time of commit in the version control. Most bugs were written after 14:00. (And no: we didn't check-in all code at the end of the day).
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> The Utah Legislature approved a bill in 2012 that made it a class B misdemeanor to trespass on private livestock or poultry operations and record sound or images without the owner's permission. It also prohibited seeking employment with the intent of making those recordings. Leaving a recording device for that purpose was a class A misdemeanor. The law did not criminalize the possession or distribution of unlawful recordings, but focused on trespassing and filming while on the property, according to the state.

Ah. So I infer "trespass on private livestock or poultry operations" is still illegal, but the other formely prohibited actions are now okay.
Depending on his tax rate with HSA a $1000 bill would still be $750 after the tex savings. Hardly an improvement.
>Well, statistically, Stanford/Harvard/IIT graduates are more likely to be successful. If you go to Berkely or Georgia Tech, good for you, but the Stanford et al. grads are probably better.

A lot of the value in going to Stanford seems simply in being associated with the name Stanford. If you're the kind of person who values form over substance, go there. You'll do really well in life.

I've watched student clubs there get sponsored by Intel and nVidia at the drop of a hat for absolutely nothing more than the opportunity to put their name next to the Stanford logo. The students know this, and take advantage of it too. It's a really weird dynamic. The whole thing just feels fake and gross.
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This is sad for the US. But I do wonder if, on the whole, this is a good thing. I've always wondered if the US's largest "foreign aid giving" is not the actual measly sum of money it gives, but rather just kicking out high-skilled workers, sending them back to China, India and elsewhere.

I imagine it's a boon for those developing countries. Instead a natural brain-drain, the country doing the draining is stopping it. I'd love to hear some stories about entrepreneurs who wanted to come to the US, but had to go elsewhere and ended up building large businesses. I do see a lot of cool startups coming out of India (that we use for our startup, like Chargebee and VWO) - I wonder if they would have been tempted to start them here in the US if it were trivial for entrepreneurs to enter.

Perhaps a rare case of the road to heaven being paved with bad intentions.
"Anyone has the ability to affect reviews to some degree."

No, they don't. Except in the imaginations of conspiracy theorists.
I don't know how the actual UI currently looks like, but even if it still looks like Windows XP, the IDE and Common Lisp compiler are still quite ahead compared with what Emacs + SLIME are capable of, specially in GUI related Lisp development workflows.

Maybe they could improve their marketing message, but I doubt most wannabe Common Lisp developers are willing to pay for comercial tools, with enterprise prices, even if they had the best marketing of all times.
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Interesting. So e.g. Norway has a similar level of racism towards blacks as the US does? Why?
Offtopic, but thank you for pointing that out. Since I'm not english I
cannot judge the writing of such an article. For me it just feels like
my english isn't good enough. So at least I know I'm not the only one.
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This is really cool: now, I'll have a reasonable way to introduce my coworkers to lisp without making them learn emacs at the same time. Anyways, would it be possible to include something like parinfer or paredit here, as well as some reasonable keybindings for them. In vim mode, I find these keybindings extremely ergonomic (loosely based on slimv's settings): https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs...
In addition to what's already been discussed, you should also think about how to answer questions related to the hiring process. In today's competitive world hiring a great team consumes a huge amount of a manager's time and energy. Some questions to think about, how would you attract top talent? What's the interview process look like? How do you know an engineer will be a good hire? Things along those lines.

In the other comments people have spoken quite a bit about managing down in to the team, I'd also think about the project management and scope negotiation portion. As a partner to product management you're often called on to help shape what's possible long before ideas enter sprint planning or get turned into stories. Think about how you'd help negotiate scope when often the actual requirement has not been clarified.
> That's a flaw in the system.

Not only that, is is a flaw that cannot be fixed. Period. There is no 100% reliable way to handle this without mistakes. And mistakes are not only irreversible, they cannot be made up for in any way. As such this particular system cannot be allowed to be used.
Growing up in Southern California, I remember always finding old clocks with conversion stickers on them - I've been looking for a good source on the technical details to find out what they needed to do to accomplish the changeover. I'm not willing to pay 35 bucks to read the IEEE article however.
Incidentally, Japan faces this very issue to this day; part of the country run on 50Hz, the rest on 60Hz.

This made matters trickier after Fukushima, as the nation is effectively two smaller electricity grids, not one large one - so making up for the shortfall became harder than it could have been. (However, there's a massive frequency converter interface between the two grids.)

Edit: Aw, shucks - now that I revisit the article, I see the exact same points being made in that article's comment section. My bad.
DL models can learn to classify hundreds of weed classes in less than a week. It takes centuries for a new breed/trait to appear. This is a very uneven race.
Non sequitur. Your analyses across this thread are all very weak, based on weirdly fallacious premises; here, that "racism" means "racism against black people".

A reasonable reader might suspect that you reached, for whatever reason, the conclusion that capital punishment couldn't be racist (perhaps because, as you've stated in other comments on HN, you feel the term "racism" is used too often), and are now intent on working your way backwards from that conclusion.

I think you should take a beat and reconsider how you're approaching the topic. It's an odd experience discussing this with you and watching you do little dances after each response to reorient yourself towards your preferred conclusion.

Edited extensively from the one-liner I originally wrote, sorry.
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> It's difficult to find remote work for a big company; most of them have policies against it.

Strange, but seems to be true.

Reminds me of one of this comment:

> That's unfortunate. I could rock your world with my knowledge of all of those things, regrettably my physical presence is tied to a 50-square-mile chunk of rock that isn't anywhere near your 50-square-mile chunk of rock. With all the things we have in common - language, currency, culture - it's a shame such an outdated concept as 'physical proximity' is a requirement for the position. If only we had a globe-spanning communication network that would obviate the need for such silly self-imposed limitations... :-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadminjobs/comments/4638md/hiring...
> We will most likely have 16 years of an unproductive government that does not work for it's people

Millions of Americans have access to health care today that they simply did not have before the Affordable Care Act was passed. That is not unproductive, that is profoundly beneficial for real people.

Throwing up your hands because "politicians" does nothing to fix the problems with a party completely unwilling to govern in a role of governance. Demanding that your Congressperson and Senators fight for meaningful change for Americans will make a real difference. Start there.
I think that hacker news might have given it a hug of death, I currently have a 'site down' alert when viewing it.
Insisting that a URL change with state is taking it too far. It's not how I understood what Tim Berners-Lee and others were saying at the beginning. I would be interested, however, in articles that espouse this.

If the URL represented state, then it should change as you're filling out an HTML form, at each keystroke. But instead there is one URL for the blank form and one after you click Submit.

A better rule is one URL per "document" or "record." So in your Photoshop example, there would be a different URL per file that you edit (www.photoshop.com/image001.psd) but not per edit. Well, if the app saved versions, then you could append ?v=203. But in general I think it's enough to align URLs to "documents" (like a news story) or "records" (like a particular profile in a contact database).
Having used eBPF/kprobe for work, the main advantage over a precompiled kernel module is convenience. It's much easier to write a C file which hooks a kernel function, then reports that back up to a python script than it is to build and maintain a kernel module and have that talk to some higher level code.
To be fair, you do also have the people that wrote the OS for the Band commenting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8531803
IEEE articles can be 'obtained' on Sci-Hub.
Until the weeds become actually identical to the actual crops, and we just have weirdly recreated the crops. This is hilarious, and actually precisely how Generative Adversarial Networks work (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Generative_adversarial_networks), although obviously with gradient descent in the generator network, not biological evolution
It was the condition of a hypothetical scenario that the study was correct. Obviously. You can discuss what evidence is in the real world, but scenarios are meant to exercise your reasoning powers in the steps beyond what you think the actual facts are.

This is no different from thinking about what would happen if you could teleport. The correct answer isn't "but you can't do that".
Are you saying that optimistic locking isn't strongly consistent? If so, that's not quite correct. When the locking is optimistic, a serialisable transaction would abort if found conflicting with another transaction.
Pretty much the only way would be to either swap the gearbox connected to the synchronous motor, or the sync motor itself.
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Probably cheaper side channel attacks, too. To some extent this depends on the software running under SGX.
For confused non-Canadians: To "write the test” is to take it.

Even knowing that tidbit I forgot on my first read and so thought YOU as the author of the application now needed to take a course.
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I asked a simple question and I’m already on a slippery slope? That way any counter-argument is a slippery slope.

The logic of my question lies in the fact that the US played the biggest role in recent Middle East history. Why would a country with the biggest economy/military complex in the world bother to involve itself? This is an open question I don’t have an answer for. I’m sure that anyone in power does not do anything in altruistic nature though. That certainly includes Feds/governments.

You’re right on point though, free will is an illusion.
> The fun bit it that this procession of thought is somewhat guessed at because writing things like this down or debating them publically was a quick route to the afterlife via a bonfire!

Theatre and Philosophy have always been able to have a lively chat with one another
cool (y) I wonder how much time did u spend everyday
More info please, i never knew this.
Buy Etherium, Litecoin, or ?
Bitcoin is clearly the king of crypto currencies. I don't understand the battle going on in the community right now, but recently read that Litecoin doesn't have some of the short comings of Bitcoin as far as scaling is concerned. That makes it attractive as an investment.

Similarly, I just read an article about a bunch of big banks using Microsoft's Azure-based Etherium 'Blockchain As A Service' service. With so many big companies behind it, it seems Etherium has a good chance of doing well too (though maybe not the current public blockchain?).

Are there any other reasonable contenders? Dogecoin seems too much like a parody to be taken seriously.

What I'd like to do is put $100 into a few of them and see where it goes (I did that years back with Bitcoin and am very happy).
> I really give zero fucks about the monster's backstory

And this is exactly why it keeps happening.
It was really the timing and scale of the innovation that mattered. Seat-back video in economy? In 1991? [0] Hugely innovative.

$10 Million in 90's money is like $18 Mil now [1](according to this site i don't fully beleive). $2.5 Bil = $4.5 Bil. That's a lot of money to keep the kids happy.

[0]https://www.virgin.com/travel/how-has-inflight-entertainment...

[1]http://www.in2013dollars.com/1991-dollars-in-2017?amount=100...
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> by cddadr

My TXR Lisp actually has that function. :)

Oops, I mean accessor.
Basically you can rewind things at a certain prison where many islamist insurgent were kept, including al baghdadi. This prison was managed by the Iraqi or I don't remember who.

To say that the invasion of Iraq did not fuel the escalation in Syria is a little naive.

There is an endless debate between keeping Saddam Hussein in power and letting Iraq slowly reconstruct itself, and removing him and letting all the bad stuff loose.
except that everyone except native americans are immigrants?
Furthermore, their qualifications after graduation from these school are more respected regardless of the quality of the education described by the degree.
I did the same journey as you are about to embark on a year ago. It did not end well.

The job itself was titled "scrum master", but the description read more like a team lead/product manager role. I've done a little bit of both and was interested in exploring this career path and I jumped on.

The recruiting was not what I was used to. All in all I had 8 interviews over a course of 6 weeks. They focused heavily of my personality and I did a lot of self-assessments. No coding or case studies. When I reached the end of this I was so fatigued that I forgot to do the due diligence of my part, this turned out to be a BIG mistake.

- first and foremost, i inherited a team. If this is the case with you, MAKE SURE YOU CLICK. While I get along with most of my team on a person-to-person-basis in a team setting they've been working as six one-man teams for several years and Weren't interested in changing that.

- make sure you can tolerate the product you're building. If I had joined as a developer i would have quit within a week. This has an impact when you need to defend it/the team to the outside world. How much belief in the product can you fake?

- you will be alone. Your team won't be your friends anymore and neither will the managers above you.

Long story short, after almost burning out a second time in my life I resigned and am now looking for new work.
I've been a technical manager for about a decade. Chuck's comments would have been incredibly helpful 10 years ago...
40 hours per week is detrimental to the health as well, especially if you don't take breaks where you exercise vigorously. I've seen research that showed a 4% reduction in lifespan for people that worked 45 hours versus 40. I'll look for it and be back with more details.
It's weird because I've read several times over that violence in the world is decreasing on average, so it would seem the middle is the last violent place. Still quite violent...
Obviously. I think the biggest benefit this group has is the safety to fail. I worked 40+ hours and was doing 12+ credits for my undergrad. When I graduated, I had massive loans and bills to pay. I wonder what I could have done if I had two years with no bills to work on something and zero debt looming.
Nope, I've never had to pay on United or Delta. From the United page,

> This free service gives you access to a library of movies and TV shows that you can watch on your personal laptop, Apple iOS device or Android device.
Interesting to note as well that under Trunp's executive order, for every new rule, two must be rescinded. Which two? Conversely if two are being rescinded, for which new rule is taking their place?
Soy is self pollinating.

Corn, rice and wheat wind pollinate (along with a lot of other grains).

So most calorie production doesn't depend on insect pollination. Vegetables and fruits tend to though.
I think most solutions are capital intensive.

The general business model is:

Build software that provides a service that loses a little bit of money on every transaction. Use VC capital to fund this.

Continue the model until volume is very high or some critical velocity is reached, creating a barrier to entry.

Slightly pivot the business model to profitability.

Profitable monopoly created.
What he did was absolutely horrible. However, killing him is not going to bring anyone back. Do you really think killing him is going to act as a deterrent to future mass murders? He committed his crime thinking he would die. Study after study shows that there is no deterrent effect from the death penalty.

So, what is the point of executing someone? The only thing it does is reduce our own humanity, it doesn't solve any problem.
Also, unless you are heavily invested in CL, most people actually can't afford to pay $600 on a compiler license per year.
Your attempt to short circuit any rebuttals with infinite regress aside, this didn't happen organically or spontaneously - humans caused this, and I can give you the names of many of them.
Also, from a _very_ quick test, it looks like Atom has ok support for SLIME.

Just grab the latest release from https://github.com/slime/slime/releases
Install atom-slime and sbcl (something like brew install sbcl on osx)
Point atom to the directory you extracted slime to and then hit packages > slime > start
Also, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Internationaux_de_Strasbo... (random page) you get into loop around "Languages".

But if the algorithm should ignore the already visited links then it would probably work because the pages usually describe something using the higher level concepts first. The question is how much larger the pool of "always found" pages becomes.
I wonder why there aren't more good IDEs for Lisp. Is it just because Emacs is already there? It seems like it would actually be easier to create an IDE for Lisp than for other languages. Parenthesis editing should be very simple, as should sending definitions to the running system... Is it more complicated than I think?
For a guy who knows nothing about tracing, it was a post that made me understand atleast some of it. The doodles really made me smile instead of a boring flowchart or diagram using a drawing tool. Another post going to my collection of interesting posts.
vim + slimv is a pretty good combo, if you're used to vim. Also, although it's not widely used, Atom seems to support slime:

Just grab the latest release from https://github.com/slime/slime/releases Install atom-slime and sbcl (something like brew install sbcl on osx) Point atom to the directory you extracted slime to and then hit packages > slime > start