skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the issue the applicants? With all due respect, in terms of effective practice, the sheer number of hours put in has nothing, well not "nothing", but a lot less to do with it than the quality and type of hours spent. One needs a lot of the effective type of hour. It is about what one practices, the repetition, the evaluation of one's mistakes, and the fixing of these mistakes. And then the doing it correctly at least 22 more times. In a row. But mainly, it is the doing, with very short bursts of targeted critique at regular and frequent intervals delivered by a master who can help you learn to spot these pitfalls sooner than you would yourself. Respectfully, a lot of time can be wasted in a shortened educational model like a bootcamp for code with extraneous stuff as a part of the "firehose" method of teaching, which has become a beloved buzzword in the industry. The science on effective practice for efficient skill acquisition is not new. http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti... That isn't to say that students should not prepare to put in hours. But schools should prepare to make the very most of a few hours. I don't know about TIY or Dev Mountain, but I do know that several of the schools in NYC have not yet revised their curricula to optimize the hours spent. Getting better students doesn't help ineffective curricula. The school's job is to teach those who are willing to set aside time and money. When one wrangles ineffective curricula or online teaching materials that behave wonkily and waste one's time because they malfunction constantly, those are precious minutes one could have spent in effective practice. The students also need teachers and advocates who blame themselves first if effective learning isn't occurring. They need schools who blame themselves first if they aren't getting work. As a student, I'd be reluctant to spend money at a school that didn't blame itself for its own outcomes failures.

The thing is, students can't hear about the outcomes failures as much as they should because no one on the student side (the non-moneymaking side of it) can afford to be honest; they are the victims of this, especially once they have spent money. This is why I'm trying to help with that here. "Review sites" (not to name any names) are often just glorified advertising services. (literally handled by the marketing departments of these coding schools) I know this because I have been on both sides of this- inside the school and out. But since we are talking about failures that cause closings of schools here, and since so many will be seeing this page, I think it is time we talk about these issues honestly. The victors will be the schools who take responsibility for their own failures. They will be those who are brave enough to invite anonymous critique they can't control. (not "independently verified" claims of their success metrics they can control by virtue of what they measure and who is doing the verifying, and how much detail they go into in these metrics, and how much they get to leave out of that whole story- which is a lot, by the way.)
They mention ipfs. Ipfs doesn't have a method of multiple people writing to one key.

How do they tackle this problem?

Edit: thanks in advance. I reached my time cap trying to find out
Who's going to maintain the software? Open source projects abandoned by founding companies don't have a stellar track record.
Trying debian? Require non-free or proprietary drivers? Want Wifi to be there on install? Grab the non-free release from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/

Using or considering Gnome 3? The "Pixel Saver" extension may be for you (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/723/pixel-saver/). It merges the title bar of the window with the top menu. Save screen real estate on low resolution notebooks.
What they should have done is made arrangements to have COWs on site from the major providers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_cell_sites#Cell_on_whee...
I can't actually understand anything you've said. You are using this definition of lazy, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation
I read the NYT and Economist regularly, and have seen numerous articles about this minority and area over the past couple of years.
How about a cycle of cutting down a lot of trees, burying the wood and then replanting to sequester carbon ?
What part of it do you think is not decentralised?

And how would you propose they implement the system in such a way that Bitcoin miners are incentivised to include fee-less transactions?

In terms of fee structure, it is quite clearly an improvement over centralised marketplaces. OpenBazaar is not charging any fees.
I guess the entrepreneur in me says I don't want to be managed so I choose to be innovative and work for myself.
You know someone "important" there.

Or.

You already are "important".
Not being well-versed in such matters, I'd appreciate any insight you can offer into why the Nav hijacking happens and what I might do about it.

I created the article using a WP plugin (Aesop Story Builder) which integrates with the WP theme I'm using (Journalist from UpThemes).
> You can acquire cryptocurrency just as easily as you can acquire cash:

This is obviously untrue. Cash is ubiquitous throughout every corner of society, while cryptocurrency is extremely niche to the point of practical obscurity.

> sell things for it

The overwhelming majority of potential buyers will not have even heard of crypto.

> exchange currency with friends

Very few people have friends who dabble in cryptocurrency.

> exchange currency with people you find on LocalBitcoins

Risky, time-consuming and impractical, especially for someone that's only looking to buy some weed. Additionally, localbitcoins puts you back "in the streets", you're better off just exchanging cash for drugs in the streets rather than exchanging cash for crypto in the streets so you can go back online to buy the drugs.

> steal it, run a business taking payment in it, ...

That is absurd. You're not making a very convincing case.
FYI, a network with 1000x more on-chain transactions, that everyone uses, is much more difficult to censor, than one that requires bank-like organisation with IOUs to the main chain.
OK, fine. Well in Haskell we have Dynamic. Of course matching on a Dynamic may fail, but that's OK because the basis for comparison is untyped languages! Matching on types can always fail there too.
I wonder what Bezos and Kiva/Amazon Robotics think about all this. :-)
It's interesting that the article starts with the line "True bilingualism is a relatively rare thing". That's probably the case in the US or English-speaking world, but definitely not the case in many other areas. I live in Catalonia, it is very normal for locals to be fully fluent in Catalan and Spanish, I've seen the same in the Basque region. Go to India and almost every person you meet at all levels of society speaks several languages.

In many parts of the world bilingualism is the norm.

I don't recall the exact book, but I remember reading a Jared Diamond book about societies in remote Papua New Guinea and meeting indigenous peoples who all spoke several different languages. If I recall correctly he argues that being monolingual is the historic oddity.
I thought Amazon had the concept of picking-up shelves and moving them about locked-up due to Kiva patents. Is that not true?
Open source projects abandoned by founding companies have a better track record than SaaS projects abandoned by founding companies.

Anybody who is interested can maintain it. If it has a large number of people actively using it to conduct business on a daily basis, somebody will maintain it. If it's big enough that lack of maintenance would be a problem, it won't be a problem.
This is what you said:

> There are a few compounds (like fentanyl or LSD) where the dosages are so small and the compound so potent that 10-25% makes a difference but for the majority, precision isn't that critical.

As in, typical dosages for fent or LSD are on the order of micrograms, so we expect them to be sensitive to a 25% change, for other drugs where a typical dose is measured in mg or grams, 25% is less likely to be a big deal, etc. This is the only way to interpret what you wrote, and it doesn't make sense. No such trend exists. None of the "basic facts" which you "explained" above (which I already knew) go anywhere near supporting this assertion.

Put another way, if you know the [A]50 you know one point on the dose-response curve, but in general that tells you nothing about the slope or shape of the curve near that point.

Judging from your comment history, you are not an actual doctor or biomed researcher, just a programmer in that industry. Which makes your teeth-gnashing about what an authority you are a tad less persuasive.
Me too (not just squats, but getting getting strong).

Only started in my very late twenties, and it solved all sorts of niggles I had (occasional aches in one of my knees and ankle). It's improved my balance and I also noticed I no longer roll my ankles.

I'm now a few years in, in my mid-thirties and in the best shape of my life.

I also found the continual improvement aspect of training leaked into the rest of my life. Made me think hard about the other aspects of my life, what I was working towards and what I was doing to get there.

Start with Ripptoe's novice program and you'll see yourself do more than you thought possible.
The Next Generation of SaaS Won’t Optimize for User Engagement
Ask HN: For a career in AI/ML research, which academic track would be better?
I have a strong interest in AI/ML and want to work in the field after I graduate. I'm debating majoring in Math (applied or pure) with a concentration (minor) in CS or vice versa. Which would be better for a career in AI/ML research?

Double majoring might be a possibility, but realistically would add another year and not be ideal. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
There was a time when astronomy was only a component of astrology, and astrophysics/cosmology is what happened when science-minded astrologers figured out the whole thing couldn't work because their attempts to make ever more accurate "predictions" (soothsaying) based on ever more accurate predictions (of the positions of celestial bodies) told them the universe was arranged just a little bit differently than they'd supposed. What is now purely pseudoscience was once a proto-science; the woo was still woo, but there was actual science there as well.
Unlikely. I don't believe there's ever been a CPython interpreter in -backports.
Comparing with a super-fancy Apple display doesn't seem that fair. Even today "1080p" monitors are not uncommon - for example the popular Dell XPS 13 defaults to a 1080p monitor. Also worth noting that 2560x1600 (the resolution of that monitor) is identical to the original Retina display.

If people really care about 16:10, it's available with reasonably good specs and they can buy it. If they don't, it will probably die permanently, but we can't exactly blame the market.
How about a spiritual modification? During periods of prolonged meditation, I've been able to pay attention to my heartbeat. It wouldn't surprise me if more skilled meditators were in tune enough with their bodies to be able to monitor it during other times as well. Just because we've learned to tune out signals from the body like heartbeat doesn't mean that, with practice, we can't tune back into them.
You would think monitor manufacturers would the brightness control go all the way to barely visible, but they don't. I have two monitors, an Asus and a Dell, both set to what they consider brightness level 0, and neither quite as dim as I'd like.
Not sure why you're being down-voted -- feedback is an incredibly important process that surprisingly few software engineers seem to be exposed to.

In particular, there are multiple attractor states where the planet's temperature can maintain an approximate equilibrium for long periods of time -- one of these is just below our current mean temperature, and the next one up is thought to be about 10 degrees Celsius warmer, closer to the temperature experienced during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Then of course there are ice ages, which, if aided by low CO2 levels, can result in the extreme low temperature of a "Snowball Earth."

We are likely out of the equilibrium of our interglacial and in the beginning stages of a positive feedback loop that will continue increasing the planet's temperature until most of Earth's ice is melted and deserts expand in the low-mid latitudes, at which point blackbody radiation will offset the decreased albedo from lower ice levels.

There are more complex, unpredictable dynamics at play as well that may serve as negative feedback. For example, less Arctic sea ice is predicted to result in more snow in the far north due to increased evaporation, which may serve to build up glaciers on land.
I thought it was known today that drugs aren't a problem, but people to whom drugs are the only relieve and the criminalisation of those.
Did you know that the Nazis hyped up Jewish criminals as a way of demonizing all of them based on the actions of a few?
MarkDoom: How I Hacked Every Major IDE in 2 Weeks
Still, when you stack up everything that a human adviser provides, according to Gorman, they're actually not that much more expensive for the client than a robo-platform. Here's Gorman:

If you look at the average basis points paid from the various robo-platforms, they range, in general, I think, from something like 20 to 40 basis points. If you look at the average basis points for full-service advisory, like ours, just divide our revenue into our assets, including everything, you get somewhere in the 70s, low-70 basis points.

>>What? 20-40 basis points for robo-platforms verses the low 70s basis points for full service. Not much different?

That is triple on the low end to almost double. He would be better talking about the value added aspects of full service that trying to base it on the difference in basis points, IMO.
Equivalent of the Delphi 6/7 component editor for C#/.NET or Groovy/IntelliJ?
I'm a veteran Delphi programmer from the Win32 days, now working in C# on the .NET side and Groovy on the web dev side. One of my favorite features of the Delphi dev environment was the ability to create your own component property editors that could be nested (i.e. - from within one custom property editor you could launch another child property editor for one or more of the child properties).

In Delphi I used this feature to create a state machine editor that really streamlined my development. When I launched the nested child property editor at design time (not run-time), I could enter viable Pascal into the event handler stubs. Delphi compiled the whole thing into an executable my state machine was off to the races.

I know that C# at least has custom controls and can do some of this, but so far I never have been able to pull off a nested custom property editor that was as easy to use, and easy to code, as what I did in Delphi 6/7.

Has anybody seen a package or library for C#/Visual Studio or Groovy/IntelliJ that lets you do the same thing in a convenient manner? Perhaps a GUI based designer or something?
Short answer yes.
But as already mentioned doing online marketing / promotion is needed.

And I personally would suggest the iOS app store first, because people tend to spend more money there.

Finally think about splitting up your $5k goal across several apps which solve niche problems. They're easier - in my opionion - to market, maybe just make $500-$800 monthly but that adds up.

Best of luck for your journey.
#1 is false since February: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/pull/342
You're right - they got to the equalent of grey by using an unreadably thin font. There's always another way to screw up if you're devoted to finding it, I guess. At least they chose serif, though.
> 3.6 is a very important Python release.

Out of interest, why is it very important?
the presentation slides are here,

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wQM4fhjCJ9r3DQ-c98XJ...
If they want to come to the US at some point, Kiva's patent portfolio will be a big hurdle to clear: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
Does the same logic apply if Bob is your 11 YO son?
Came here to say the exact same thing. I grew up in India and I can speak 4 languages with full proficiency and 3 more relatively well. And I have seen atleast 30% of every classroom, in every school I went to speak multiple languages.

Also, right in my family, we speak three languages on an everyday basis, it's interesting because, say we speak languages A, B, C; dad, mom and me speak language B with my brother, and dad, mom and myself communicate in A and all four of us switch to C whenever we wish to.
Law enforcement needs the same set of tools to solve both of these problems. You are proposing that these tools should go away, right?
I hear ya. SF is a cowtown compared to NYC, a true capital of the world. Our role is to educate these people I guess, but this place is being overrun by the Chinese and they don't have the best of manners. I don't appreciate families hogging the Muni, sitting their last three generations in the first Mickey Mouse seats of the Vehicle, ugh...
Agreed but you gotta get the form down. I'd say start with air squats, kettle bell squats, then work your way up. Plenty of ways to build up your stamina without putting heavy weight on your shoulders.
If e.g. Shapeshift can walk away with my money when they feel like it, that's not decentralized. If the law can kill off Shapeshift for shady transactions and not following sufficient KYC protocol, that's not decentralized.

I'm not sure how to solve the problem of Bitcoin transaction fees. Much, much smarter people than me haven't. But I'm also not promoting a Bitcoin service with "no transaction fees".

And I'm not sure I agree that this is an improvement over centralized markets. With those I can buy escrow and some amount of assurance I'm not being swindled by the platform itself, which the platform is on the hook for legally.
Can't you use a ppa? Or host a python 3.6 package yourself? Maybe build from source?
This isn't consistent with your original claim ("fatal flaw" implies that the perception of any existing value will be destroyed), but OK. I'll check back in ~25 years.
Schook's accusations were more profound, Descartes never attacked specific Catholic doctrines to my knowledge. Nor did the Church ban the writings of every person they knew to be Protestant or non-Catholic, as they banned Descartes' works.
It appears based on the background of the VCs currently, you need to build a product/business, grow it, sell or do an IPO (returning a tidy profit to the VCs that funded you), and then join a firm after 'retiring.'
On a Mac, there is the Shades software, which I used for some time (I think it interfered with Flux, so I stopped). It's quite effective.

http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/shades
I am unaware of any current proposal which requires putting in place a bank-like organisation. If you're talking about Lightning Network: routing things across a network without requiring a central controller is a very well-studied field.
Is the anki package still broken?
Because it's the fastest, low-memory, full of features Python release yet. As Raymond Hettinger would say "Python 3.6 is the best Python version."
I wish we could stop the marginalization, but just free education including university, healthcare, etc, isn't enough apparently.

It's a similar problem as other marginalized groups - there must be some dynamics in play that keeps them marginalized.

Maybe it's as simple as their own pride combined with more or less subtle classism (more than racism) from the middle classes that alienates them.

I don't think this is fixable without rather far going measures, like tearing down bad suburbs and rebuild as low scale areas that encourages a high degree of social control that also the middle class would like to live in, forcibly designate schools to assure an even mix of social background, programs for encouraging studies, repress religious influences, some new ideas to punish young criminals without putting them in crime-scools like now, and probably really harsh punisment for repeat offenders.

Nothing of this is likely to happen except harsh punishment that won't do much on its own.
How do you guys manage large backlogs? Tiny bugs or nuances with low priority that just accumulate and are a pain to review again because you are not even sure they are still reproducable.
OK, using ShapeShift isn't decentralised, but you don't have to use ShapeShift unless you want to pay in a currency that the merchat doesn't want to accept. (And even then, you don't have to use ShapeShift. You can use any currency exchange).

You can buy escrow on OpenBazaar too.

You can't really be swindled by the OpenBazaar platform. It's just open source code that you run yourself. There's no way for anybody to jump in and change the rules from underneath you.
Dude that is not Spanish, that is Mexican. That's mestizzo native Spanish not European Spanish. Me cagó en Dios.
New Decentralized Internet Coming Soon
You can get them to go lower at that point by decreasing the contrast. But yes, you highlighted what my problem with brighter displays is.
one futurist gushed over a visually striking prosthetic arm, musing that it might be worth amputating for the “upgrade.” Another panelist shut them down immediately: doctors and scientists aren’t even close to solving the phantom pain and limited mobility that most amputees face, let alone building something uniformly better than a human limb.

You can upgrade your current arm by eating better and going to the gym. If that isn't enough to get the visually striking look you are after, tattoos and the right clothes can help.

I can't believe there are nutcases in the world ready to embrace becoming a Borg. This is bizarre.
Finally, a Mint.com Alternative. Thoughts?
Does/did make sense. European paper size (A*) are based on the golden section (so A0 Length == A1 Width and 1/2 surface A0 == surface A1 and so on).
Could they have used a mesh network to help load balance connections to WiFi APs?
Not sure that's present in a stable release yet, but looks promising I agree.
> Law enforcement was designed to protect people (or their property) from the actions of other people, not themselves.

Two points:

1. I can think of many counterexamples to this: Self-harm, suicide attempts, people doing dumb stuff like playing with fireworks. We as a society have decided that if you're a danger to yourself, it's OK to have other people stop you and lock you up until you're not. Of course, people disagree on what counts as self-endangerment.

2. Self-endangerment is not the reason most anti-drug people favor strict punishments. They're concerned about the effect drug use has on society. eg: Worrying that addicts will commit crimes to get their next fix.

I lean very libertarian, so my view is that these substances should be legal and taxed commensurate to the harm they cause. That said, I feel compelled to find flaws in arguments no matter what side they're on.
You can get it to go get further by decreasing contrast.
Discussion: What are the scenarios of blockchain technology helping end users?
Describe a scenario where the end user sees a clear benefit from using an app build on blockchain technology instead of a regular database