skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have both a MacBook Pro 2015ish and a Thinkpad T430 2016 issued through work and I would be hard pressed to choose which one I prefer. They're both well build and both keyboards are nice. Oddly I find the MacBook much more comfortable to use on my lap but prefer the Thinkpad on a desk. I have not found glare to be an issue and prefer the glass screen of the MacBook to the matte screen of the Thinkpad primarily because it's next to impossible to remove finger prints from the matte screen. I hate hate hate the sharp edge of the MacBook which digs into my wrists. I like the battery bump on the Thinkpad because it gives me a grip to carry it. I baby the MacBook because I know it will be a chore to repair or replace where as the Thinkpad is just a 15 min HDD swap so it receives a lot of abuse.
This was in Maryland
Why not use Electron to wrap the Web player?
And then they'll buy back at horrendous prices when the Price goes up again? Seems like shortsighted people do this. At least they could play some tremendous video games in the mean time ;)
Agreed, though unfortunately, every attempt to change them has resulted in bikeshedding and no real progress. See: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/973

Now, the general consensus is that they should be changed gradually, rather than all at once. Some obviously bad keybindings have been removed this way (eg. Esc->quit.) If you create an issue for your most hated keybind, it can probably be changed.
Ask HN: Do you lift?
Was wondering if anyone here goes regularly to the gym.

What's your routine?
Goals?
Diet?
Having your personal human rights respected is about a lot more than just what a place "feels" like. There are plenty of SVers who, if they go to Idaho, will be discriminated against in a variety of ways, whether it's because they're immigrants, or LGBTQ, or a person of color, or like weed, or need good health insurance, or might need an abortion, aren't religious, want good public education for their children, etc. None of this can be "made up for".
> list of New Year’s resolutions [from 2014] and in red marker, the word “quit.”

This is so true. Most addicts actually DO want to stop, but it's fucking hard. And trying to explain to an employer "Hi, I'd like a month off, so I can start quitting heroin. Oh, and when I get back to work after that, I'll be unpredictably angry and depressed, with an uncontrollable sleep cycle..." I have notebooks with TODO lists going back a decade plus with the words "Quit Heroin" somewhere near the top, and I'm still trying. I don't know how to get employers to be sympathetic towards what is, after all, just another (mental) health issue - well, maybe that answers my question ;(

I'd be interested in how many software engineers have drug addiction problems, I don't know how common it is. And there should really be some kind of self-help group for us to discuss issues and provide support for each other, since most addiction support networks assume you are homeless and unemployed, and focus on providing that basic structure and stability to their lives. As an employed engineer, I have that, it's the next steps I need help with.
Or you could just get wireless headphones
Looks like $1500+ here. Bit steep, but I may try to find the cash so I can send one to any developer who can make HiDPI not suck on Linux.
Because they were raised in upper middle class suburbs and are scared of being in working class neighborhoods.
Downloading porn and culling the old stuff. Currently automated management of over 100TB and growing!
For spot drip irrigation, I take an empty gallon jug, poke a hole in the bottom with a tack, fill with water, and set it next to the plant.
I'm trying to learn React/Redux - do you have any tips/guides on learning how to get register/login working?
At least in my experience on several Lenovo laptops and even a 2012 MacBook Pro, OpenBSD has a much better GUI experience than FreeBSD, down to things like suspend and resume working with no tweaking required.
I got pretty far in math (ms in cs with half of the classes being legit math classes) I never got the obsession either. in general it always felt to me like a bunch of awkward people trying to ascribe aesthetic value to something that had none. it also always felt self-aggrandizing: here look at how beautiful is this game I play where I made up the rules.

edit: down votes on hn without comments? boo
Pay walled articles are not welcome here. Find somewhere else to advertise your paywalled content. And the subject is hardly relevant for hacker news for something that even needs paywall.
The fleeting advantage of being a narcissist and do nice guys finish last
Oh boy, sigh, I wish I could share something I just automated, it's insane. Like, everyone that sees it tells me it's pure genius.

Problem is that it isn't ready to for the public. I'll do a show HN next week, but by GOD it is a brilliant piece of automation and scaling :P

Soon (this is more for me than anyone else, i'm literally bursting with pride right now)
What is EARs?
Interesting, and funny, talk on a documentary about Iran:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtELk8S3dhU
Maryam Mirzakhani, Only Woman to Win a Fields Medal, Dies at 40
It is not pay walled for me in UK
> Are Uber's actions an example of necessary assholish behavior?

No, I don't think so. But I have a conflict of interest here because in 2008 I made my own attempt at starting an Uber-like thing (I called it iCab). It failed before launch because we were unable to get any of the local cab companies to work with us. The idea of using black cars never occurred to us, so Travis gets props for that. I think he's gone way too far towards the dark side. But on the other hand, he succeeded where I failed so take that into account when deciding how much weight to give my opinion.

> The problem with this vague advice

Well, the problem is more fundamental than that: it's a judgement call, one which always depends on a totality of the circumstances at the time. I can't give you a formula for how to decide how ass-holey to be, just as I can't give you a formula for making any of the other myriad decisions it takes to successfully build a successful company. If I could do that, I'd be running my own successful company instead of wasting time hobnobbing on HN.
They can still profit off the GPU's at current rates, if a glut is coming. For personal use I bought some brand new R9 390's last year @$270. If I had wanted to sell them used about 2 weeks ago I could have sold them for about $700 pretty easily.

Lots of room for margin in selling them early and getting back in after the glut if you're looking long-term. Just take a few weeks out of mining.
There are observations. Just go to http://data.worldbank.org if you want some. My point was that people in deparments aren't the ones making them.
Depends on how it's done, but generally local politics can be more reactive to local needs than centralised politics. As always, there's a balance to be found, but that's generally the case. To give a more concrete example, who do you think has a better sense of the struggles the Greek people currently face, people who live in Greece or people who live in Belgium?
The question is just whether it can eat dead things...
YOOOO podcasts are lit fam I just started listening to them check out the turdsters podcasts they talk about funny shit
So the day of its release, all the pieces are already obsolete.
linux 4.9.35, should be 4.12
systemd 230, should be 233.75
Qt5.6.2, should be 5.10.3
firefox 52.2.0, should be 54.0.1

I guess I'm spoiled by Arch.
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Meh, thus the push for expressing heterogeneity over the past few decades in the literature. Sample papers: [0] [1]

[0] http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEC/Resources/JDSAntmanMc...

[1] http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/10915/3512/Docume...
> Actually the "fighting the last war” effect was the reason everyone passed on Google.

Yes, that was exactly the point I was trying to make: Google is a counter-example to the theory that you should not fight the last war. (On the other hand, it is also a positive example, because no one has been able to displace Google despite there being no shortage of attempts.)
I do most of my weightlifting workout routine at home with dumbbells now, but still do deadlifts and squats at the gym. As soon as I buy my own barbell and weights, I'll stop going to the gym altogether.

I lift on Monday and Thursday, and run at least 2 miles a day Monday through Friday. I used to lift four days a week, but I came to the conclusion that was too much and I needed a little more recovery time. It's working quite well, as I've lost about 20 lbs. over the last three months.
Isn't MPC-HC for Windows, and Brew for macOS?

MPV is indeed a good alternative, though.
The ultimate interview question for hiring software engineers
He said "immigration", not "illegal immigration".

Good try though.
A good mix of both, surprisingly :)

To be concrete, IBM Watson has several products that leverage it that we sell to customers. For example, Watson Company Profiler, Watson Virtual Agent, Watson Discovery-related tools, and more.

Other organizations use it as well inside of IBM, like IBM Cloud and IBM Watson IoT, but I'm less familiar with their products off the top of my head.
I've made $64,000 so far this year working online and I'm a full time student. Im using an online business opportunity I heard about and I've made such great money. It's really user friendly and I'm just so happy that I found out about it. Heres what I do,
•••••>>http://www.joinmate2.com
Welcome to the end. Ethereum crasheses, bringing NVDA down. Bringing the NASDAQ down.

Down and down it all goes. This house of cards, these castles in the sky.
Plain old cash, including western union, money gram, gift cards and even PayPal.
Bitcoin is used more by "bored" western whales and by the Chinese that need to put their money into something the government can't control than by drug or arms dealers.
There are two types of systems:
closed loop and open loop.
Most systems are closed loop. The only place the pipe is open to is the inlet of the system, and the outlet of the system. They stick u shaped pipes in the holes

So they do something like:

outlet
|
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manifold inlet in the ground
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a bunch of pipes formed into U's, stuck in very deep vertical holes filled with thermal grout
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manifold outlet in the ground
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inlet

The manifolds look like this:
https://www.geohydrosupply.com/index.php/fittings/socket-fus...

If it's done in series, each u-bend connects to a set of two outlets on that manifold.
If it's done in parallel, each u-bend connects to a single outlet on each of two manifolds, one in, one out.

Here's a drawing:
https://blog.heatspring.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/paral...

If you can imagine a really huge refrigerant loop, that's what they are, with water+glycol as the refrigerant going through the pipes. But the water only moves in this loop, it's never going into the ground, etc.

Open loop systems exist, and those are the ones where they are sucking something in one pipe, and pushing it out the other.

Sometimes this is done in a pond, sometimes a well, etc.
What happens depends a lot of the design (horizontal, vertical, etc).

Open loops are pretty uncommon.
How is it that a $10k check even gets a startup to take your call? That pays like one engineer for a month, if that. (Genuinely curious)
WWII Warsaw rebuilt using 18th Century paintings as guide
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All these years I didn't know about this.
I feel like the list of things "every programmer should know" tends to include "all the things I know,"in which case you may be right.
Hey, I just checked out your app and a few quick notes:

- the web version costs money after 90 days but the app is free. Why the differences?

- it seems that I cannot add any other exercises apart from the ones provided, would be nice to be able to quickly log what I wanna do.

- the records list view on mobile is a bit squished (i.e. I find it difficult to horizontally scroll)

- no support for super-sets: I do a lot of circuit training and I somehow managed to add this feature to Ewolo using a rest parameter. I'm still not sure what the best way to model this data would be without making it cumbersome.

Anyways, nice work though that you got a web and a native iOS app out there. It seems that making a nice, simple workout logger is not the easiest job.

Good luck to you as well!
Go do sales for a bit
The story is on what I consider the boundary but I thought it interesting to academics. I don't disagree with flagging it, really -- the Post has already sent my checks.
A. I was talking about the "immigration" bullet point, and when modern Americans talk about immigration, they don't mean "white Europeans coming to America", like they did back in the day with Irish and whoever. I have not seen an anti-immigration argument in decades that didn't have racist undertones.

B. Not really sure what China's middle class has to do with America's middle class, but OK.

C. I think the modern leftist victim complex is a load of hogwash and I don't think immigrants are always a good thing.
I frequently wipe and install from scratch my Linux desktop and laptops. I've been spending more time recently working on setup scripts that automate as much of this as possible. Things like installing packages, setting up firewall, checking out code projects and installing dependencies. Currently this is mostly a bash script plus my dot-files, but I'm always looking for ways to improve this process.
Suppose we grant the premise that human intelligence is doing something over and above computing functions in the Turing sense (I'm personally not convinced that anything in the universe can do that, but that's beside the point). That still doesn't preclude the possibility of artificial intelligence. Why? Because, you can't claim with a straight face that human brains are the only arrangements of matter that physics will grant general intelligence. That would just be too insanely arbitrary. There are a lot of possible arrangements of matter. You would expect, a priori, for a tiny proportion of those arrangements of matter to be smart. But a small fraction of an enormous, combinatorially large number is still combinatorially large.

Note that consciousness isn't necessary or relevant for the purposes of this argument. We only care about what the AI is capable of, whether it's experiencing qualia while it's taking over the world or whatever is immaterial.

Once you grant that there are other possible configurations of matter that could be generally intelligent, the only other thing you have to grant is that humanity will one day be capable of manufacturing some of them. Assuming a wide variety of possible arrangements, it would seem unlikely that there was some fundamental law of the universe that prevented us from manufacturing intelligence.
I've loved plain old SQL for years, but have recently started using sqlalchemy's declarative ORM extensively in my company's data analysis work-flow. It means I can provide a database as a python library, which is great when I'm trying to encourage more of our electrical and mechanical engineers to use notebooks for their data analysis tasks instead of excel.

Not only can they get data out without learning SQL, but they can also have a look at the relevant models.py any time they get stuck, and see the entire schema and all of it's relationships clearly spelled out.

Worth pointing out that the three databases that I have set up like this are all read-only, which certainly makes it easier to design an elegant API. YMMV
Habit probably.
The beauty of the blockchain is that everything is open.

Most of the bitcoins sit in the wallets of rich Americans (or well westerners) and Chinese "investors".
The former looks for a cool new investment tool the latter seeks to have global financial influence and a way to get money out of China without ending up in prison for life.
VLC in a nutshell: Rebuilding fonts...

Fortunately, I believe MPC-HC will still likely be updated if necessary, or forked and updated if need be. I know I haven't updated mine in years and haven't had any problems.
It's definitely bittersweet. I have a soft spot for raw Win32 programming. On Windows, I'd rather see a program written in Win32 than in something like WPF or XAML, so it's sad that there isn't much interest in developing Win32 programs these days. This news about MPC-HC came as a shock, because I thought it was popular enough to stay around. Still, I'd rather see a cross-platform program than one that only works on Windows, and unfortunately, MPC-HC falls into the latter category.
This is absolutely correct. Before the end of last year, getting approval to use it was a very challenging process.

However, many teams went through the process in order to use it because of how valuable they believe React is to their products. Groups like IBM Watson IoT were fortunate enough to get portfolio-level clearances as well during that time.

Thankfully the process changed and many product teams add React to their list of libraries/frameworks to evaluate for their use-cases.
Medicare Part D is the bit of law involved. Here is a randomly googled column with some history from a reputable paper: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-medica...
Yes I can definitely try and help you to the best of my ability. Feel free to email me: vic@ewolo.fitness

Also, just to let you know that my timezone is CET :)
You're right. It's a shallow single network with the weight embeddings of words at the intermediate layer extracted as the vector-space representation of a word, depending on its context.
I totally agree. In not so many words, the author explained how implicit bias works. It's not so different from the processes that shape the incoming classes of prestigious universities.

Want to know why these people can be recognized by experienced investors? At least part of the reason is that they know who looks like an NBT builder to other experienced investors. I would assert that this makes a massive difference in a founder's ability to close rounds and continue executing.
Asset backed by pure hype crashes. Good numbers on tulip futures though.
People work on what they want to, a lot of times without much regard for the user.
New Horizons Flyover of Pluto
Considering that "cool kid" founders do engineering themselves and that they typically don't pay salary to themselves, 10k could cover their initial hosting or say hardware prototyping costs.
Nice work and nice idea, a clean and functional UI can be motivating in and of itself. But definitely rework this part:

> To convert from kilograms to pounds, enter the weight in kgs and hit the convert button. To re-enable the button delete and re-add the exercise.
Complaining about them is off topic. Read the FAQs please.
Just took a quick look at this.
If you are located in the 'mining valley' of Washington where power is ~2c/kwh you are still getting healthy profits.

A computer with 7 GTX 1070 graphics cards should produce ~230 mh/s and draw 1 kw. This would cost approximately $30/month in power factoring in kw demand + cooling.

The above setup will currently generate $385/month in ETH.

So basically for miners who are in the right spot with the right facility, this is still profitable. The question is of course for how long. You also need to factor in the cost of equipment, datacenter, employees and difficulty/price.

But even if you dont have a facility in washington and just mine from your apartment, your power cost would probably be $100 a month. So its still 'profitable', just not nearly as much as it was in the run up.

Cliffnotes: 'professional' miners dont care. Even with the 'crash' today, they are making more per day than they were before the entire run up. For instance the 'worst' time for mining was December 2016 where you would only make $7.50 a day gross in ETH.
Agreed, he has given away his best work, to the world for free, which is an act of extreme kindness where I'm from.

This is work that improves many lives.
The GloVe project just happens to have pre-trained models on their official page.

Word2vec do have a Google News corpus model on their official page, but there are many more trained word2vec models in the literature.
I'm a tech ops/security guy who would love to know how to love into investment banking/hedge funds.
Mandrake was my first linux, back in the day. I found it easy to install and use. I'm on mint nowadays, but I really should take a look a mageia.
what happens you only consume popular media and can't self express without cliche
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AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It?
Nope. KDE is a microproject when it comes to money -- they don't pay to Qt devs afaik. Automotive companies, etc are the actual customers.
Yea, our banking system in the states is pretty behind.

I've had it happen to me once and a family member once where we each had to close a bank account to make someone stop taking out money. Both were a while ago, so it may have gotten better in recent years, but it burned my trust in the system.
Not remotely. KDE is not a customer (they're not paying) and is insignificant software in general.
I think it might be a different story if you didn't have to pay to use the web UI (and consequently the desktop app). That's a pretty big risk, and would mean having an awkward conversation with a support person about why you were violating their ToS, and also not being able to use the web or mobile apps anymore.
NASA Video Soars Over Pluto’s Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains
>, not on the energy level required.

It was about energy in this case because I was responding to BenchRouter's specific context for "difficulty" when he wrote: "expend the extra effort to type out "this is stupid"". (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14782723)
Become President?
Yea, here in the states we have a crappy insecure version of direct debit that I've seen abused more than once, so I don't trust it anymore. For one thing, you can't do charge backs. Once the money is gone, its gone.
My initial thought was that if you want to rewrite emacs, why not rewrite it in common lisp? Apparently there are a few cl editors/ides - along the "original emacs" path - but like all things GNU I gather GNU Emacs is more than "just" (a) Free Emacs.

Now, there's a fairly recent (and active) project for implementing a common lisp in c++[clasp] -- perhaps making a real common lisp in rust would make sense?

[clasp] https://github.com/drmeister/clasp
law of demeter?
Great video, thank you! Yes, most of the work is done outside of Boeing, but it is done specially for Boeing, not that people work on whatever sort of aluminum they want but they know Boeing demand and supply them with the particular sort. On the other side Boeing pay them money so they can proceed to mine. This is what I mean under the collaboration.
You can attack the idea more directly as well. Whilst we don't have machines running computable functions that exhibit general intelligence, we unequivocally have ones that exhibit narrow intelligence. Things like telling the difference between cats and dogs by looking at photos, playing superhuman go, learning to play Mario, etc. This gives us an indication that computable functions are capable of a very broad range of interesting behaviours.

So then, the question becomes, what is the fundamental, lawful difference between narrow and general intelligence, that would cause effectively computable functions to be able to perform behaviours that we classify as narrow, but not broad ones? This would also seem surprising and arbitrary a priori.
In my experience founders taking a 5-10k check often do it as a favor to an advisor they like and who can't afford to invest more. Maybe the advisor helped them out in the past, or their personal brand or connection are relevant to the startup.
I lift 3 days a week and follow a routine based on this -> https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/the-best-3-day-plan-wor...
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