skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume potential sarcasm would be related to the difficulty differentiating between similar symbols, based on length, with different lexicographic meanings.

For example, dash vs endash vs emdash, etc:
‒ – — ―

If those symbols were used in a programming language and had different meanings, differentiating quickly could be much more difficult than seeing the difference between -, --, ---, and so on at a glance.
What it can enable/improve upon according to Goldman Sachs [0]:

Assorted banking use cases, trade settlements, payments to notaries, voting systems, vehicle registrations, wire fees, gun checks, academic records, cataloging ownership of works of art.

The Ethereum alliance contains many big name companies such as Mastercard as Cisco [1]. They all believe there is real use in Ethereum

[0] http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/pages/macroeconomic...

[1] https://entethalliance.org/
Automation is going to cause one of two things, UBI or death. You must pay to survive in current society and work is money, this will not change. If you cannot find work you have no money. UBI or death.
The ‘Joint Sea 2017’ drills
People never really do accept the notion that success, genius, wealth, etc are not so easy to replicate. Meanwhile people selling these books have actually figured out a way to replicate the wealth aspect, hence the existence of a self help industry. It's not much different from people here goggling at Thiel or Musk.

Hindsight is a bitch, and our heuristics tend to fail in the face of it.
I have a Das Ultimate - look really cool, but the switches started failing at random recently. I then found out they don't use Cherry switches, but another unproven brand. Either I'm just unlucky or they need better switches.

I picked up a CODE keyboard with Cherry MX Greens that works great. The greens are a little harder to type than I expected, but I'm used to them now and quite happy with them.
Nice hack. Can it power a fan for a night? That might save you some money in cooling, which would help with payback.

I won't be using it for my apartment but it has great potential for an off the grid light power use workshop. Good job, thanks for showing.

Just a note, the biggest expense these days in solar power installations, home, is the manpower and incidentals needed to install it. Reduce that and solar power replacement begins to look good. As we saw here, where there were no installation costs.
If only Sublime Text supported fonts with ligatures… I miss out on these amazing fonts!
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> But people who buy books and read articles on geniuses would be better served buying and reading science-based books on intelligence.

I'd say they'd be even better served buying and reading actual science books. Suddenly they could realize they're smarter than they thought.
I recommend using Pass or Keepass, because we can see the source code. But like all these password managers, you need to synchronize your password vault.

If you do not want to synchronize your vault among all your devices, but still want to have a unique password per site, try LessPass[1]. LessPass is a stateless open source password manager.

Disclaimer I am the creator of LessPass

[1] https://lesspass.com/
A bunch of people are saying on this project that the core should be open including the classwork. In the real world you don't have the ability for a Core to be open at all. Having a closed core with IP issues is probably more representative of the real world. It would be nice to have another class that you could take concurrently that would be the ying to this yang that would have an open core though.
The best I could find about one with an open core is http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1617/P35/ which details the OpenRISC 1200 but I don't think it goes in depth.
Really looking forward to having this capability in Sublime Text. I really love Fira Code. It looks great in Emacs for Clojure development and is right at home with my powerline-esque ZSH theme.
Oh, I didn't even know ligatures is a thing. Learned something.

When coding in Haskell, I used to use the vim-haskellConcealPlus [1] plugin for vim to swap chars being display into nicer unicode chars for various operations.

I'm no longer using it now because it wasn't monospaced and moving around lines was jarring.

If only there's a way to combine the benefits of the two. Monospaced font with ligatures seems to only work for operators that take the same amount of space as their ligature counterpart.

[1]: https://github.com/enomsg/vim-haskellConcealPlus
> How do I take that model and make a real image OCR that can take a photo from my phone and analyse it?

I assume you're talking about some kind of endpoint to submit the image to, and offload the computation entirely.

However I just wanted to clarify for people that are new to this, that running the neural net on a mobile device usually requires entirely different models, because of the memory/compute limitations. It's a rapidly developing field, but it is not quite as accessible as developing for desktops yet.

I do believe Tensorflow allows you to run models on mobile now though [0]

[0]: https://www.tensorflow.org/mobile/
Video is gone :(
That really sounds like the computer would have to understand you and your shifting moods better than most people could.
I'm a fan of Das Keyboard Silent. The feel is slightly different from my clicky but it's still pretty solid.
All you had to do this year to reap a 20%+ return is not watch fake news. No algae required.
Stanford Researchers Prototype “Growing” Robot
You should be able to generate an SSH key that you can use in your application, right?

If you can't that's definitely gotta be an issue in their backlog. Seems more robust to have a key for an application to connect with that you can simply revoke.
That's if you have one trade per year. How would you model this if you have 25 monkeys throwing, say, 300 darts at the board per day, for every day that the market is open (252 days), for five years?

If you're going to quantify survivorship bias, you can't use entire years as data points, because that doesn't properly represent the amount of activity that occurs. We should reason about each event, because if consistency emerges on an event basis we might not even need more than one year for our sample. The decision-making that is being empirically examined here (i.e. acumen capable of beating the market beyond chance) ostensibly functions on trading events, which means years are not the correct data point to use (and will provide an incorrectly pessimistic sample).
There are a few of us at work that love Topre - HHKB + replacement controller board <3
That's not exactly correct - part of my basement is heated/cooled but I'm pretty sure that doesn't count towards square footage (at least, the appraisal didn't count it).

Are you somewhere where people don't have basements?
Speed is significantly less important than your suggesting.

The hard parts are not damaging the crop and most importantly not doing the wrong thing.
It could be an attractive place to live, if populism doesn't rule the day for too long, and we do actually bother to invest in some infrastructure. Without that, it could very rapidly become a singularly ugly place to live. Meanwhile if you're rich enough, maybe Switzerland starts to look more stable and appealing in the long run. You can still travel to wherever you like, but your wealth would be elsewhere.
Crazy idea but i'd like to see a monospaced version of Comic Sans Neue. The proportional version is very well done.
> but it seems true.

It's definitely true. Here's a proof (?):

1) The universe has a static (if high) and objective number of rational facts that can be stated about it.

2) Anyone can discover these facts via accident, intuition, trial-and-error, experimentation or direct observation.

3) We have a smallish but more or less constant percentage of people who are obsessed with discovering these various facts as their life's work and who are gradually teasing out these facts from the mountain of mystery that lies before us.

4) Therefore, if Shannon hadn't discovered some of these facts, eventually someone else would have.
Ask HN: Do you keep track of what you learn? how?
I think this is precisely what 'sillysaurus3 is arguing against. Studying relativity a bit closer in its historical context shows that most relevant groundwork for the theory was already laid down by other scientists. Einstein might have been the first to connect those dots and publish, but I seriously doubt that he was magically smarter than all the other interested people. That is, if he didn't do it, someone else would, probably at most few years later.
> I'm 40

Well, heck, you shouldn't be programming at all. You're much too old.

(And in case your irony detector is broken, I'm 52.)
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you suggesting that Venezuela hasn't been undergoing a recent period of extreme economic and political turmoil and uncertainty?
It's too late. 90% of Americans used to work back-breaking farm jobs for 12 hours a day. Now almost all of those jobs have disappeared.
That's one of the benefits of being accepted as a YC company. They have the distribution advantage with Hacker News :)
Sounds like prices need to rise then in order to compensate labor enough to do the job in the first place.

Or robots, I guess.
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Helping circular economy business leaders see beyond their own time
For a second, I read this as Hedge Fund uses Agile to Reap 21% Return and thought what the...
I'm normally using Optima when working on Retina displays (because of serif typeface). Screenshot [1] of some old project for solving Project Euler problems (no solutions can be found in the screenshot).

[1] http://imgur.com/a/JiYhD
By far my favorite "mechanical" keyboard is the Topre Realforce 104u[0]. When I initially purchased it, I thought it was the biggest waste of money. Over the span of about a month, maybe I broke it in or maybe I just got used to it? But it essentially felt like I was typing on buttery smooth pillows. It's not sensitive until you actually try to type on it. And it just feels so good. Like no other keyboard I've ever had.

I would honestly recommend it over every other mechanical keyboard I've had (blues, reds, clears, browns, the hi-profile version of the topre).

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Realforce-Keyboard-English-Layout-Xf0...
Last I knew it was about once a week or so, but there's also an absolute limit on the number of active posts across all companies to prevent Hacker News from becoming Job News.
Gleening actionable insights when combining Google Analytics with ML/AI
As a musician I've wondered what generating actually good music would mean. Music is such a cultural experience, tied in with a sense of being part of a social group, that I don't think we would ever let computers completely replace humans in producing it - until they become sentient and we start seeing them as friends. (How could a computer be a part of my social group unless it was sentient?)

I think the non-research value will be like the value of chess computers to chess communities. It enriches the community, helping them develop their craft, but the community is still a community of humans.

http://theconversation.com/how-computers-changed-chess-20772

I can think of a few ways machines have beaten humans before, but where human experience is still valued in a way the machine achievement isn't. Modern weapons are valued for what they do, and they can beat any human, but the human practice of martial arts is still valued despite that fact. A player piano with a roll performed by Rachmaninoff will deliver an excellent reproduction of a historic performance, but I'd still rather listen to my friend play, even if what I'm hearing comes down to objectively worse key pressing.
When I type 'calc' I get the calculator as the first entry in GNOME.

Even after I move over and opened LibreOffice Calc, subsequent searches still gave me the calculator as the first entry.

I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I don't seem to have the same issue that's being mentioned.
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Haha, yeah, sci-fi.

Luckily I'm not yet at the copy-editing stage ;-)
There basically is. Meetup.com does what you are looking for.

People without any common interests are boring to spend time with. You need at least something in common.

I move all the time and every time I move to a new city I try to find a board game group and a Linux User Group.

I'm not super into Linux anymore (I used to be a Systems Administrator) but I can help new users and the people are geeky and people that I often get on with. In the past I have joined Toastmasters groups. They are good with a much more varried group of people going to them. The point is the people then connect you with other people.
A pattern on a union just interprets it as the specified field. It doesn't try to determine which one was actually written to last.
www was unnerving to me (and a couple of my team members) too.

In a way I am interested in psychological basis for my innate rejection of this. Conceptually, I comprehend why it is made into it's own ligature, like !=, it is a unit of information these days.
I just want to point out that it's humorously appropriate for a user named "Spivak" to mention pullbacks.
Farms have been replacing people with technology for at least 200 years.
>However, even when this attack is blocked over the internet, it is very rarely blocked over LAN, meaning it could be used as a method of pivoting within networks.

That's frightening, and I wonder if there are any exploits in the wild which do just that?
I think working from home some days changes the dynamic potentially quite a bit. I have a relative with a ludicrous commute from Lincolnshire down to London -- but they only have to do it one or two days a week I think.
5) Where 'eventually' means months to years at most. Not sure about Shannon, but to the extent I'm familiar with discoveries in physics, they're usually pretty incremental - at some point the state of the field becomes ripe for a breakthrough, and the first person to connect the dots is the one that gets credited as genius, even though their direct contribution is pretty small.
Given differences in monitor pixel densities, OS zoom levels, and distance from eyes to monitor, comparing any point/em/etc measure is practically worthless.

For example, I can use a 12pt font on my macbook pro's screen, but have to go up to 16pt on my 4k display at home, and down to 9 or 10pt on the 1920x1024 screens in the office. It's a pain, but... <shrug>

Instead, if you really want to compare font sizes, compare either the height relative to the window, or actual size on a ruler held at arms length while at normal viewing distance. That way you can measure the arc-height of the font - something that translates much better with such a wide variance in displays.

My fonts, corrected for device, all end up being around 1/8" ( tall (for capital letters) on a stick held at arms length.
For those interested, I've been working on something similar but for
journal entries instead of passwords. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/schollz/gojot
It's never about the children but the parent's desire to express a reputation through their children.
My problem with Iosevka (and Input and others like them) is that the [x-height][0] is too large, ie the bottom-half parts are too tall compared to the top-half and uppercase letters. Especially in less-wide weights, it feels muddy and hard to distinguish.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-height
I have what people would probably describe as an extreme commute. 2+ hours each way (maybe 1.5 hours in the summer when there's less traffic). I leave the house before kiddo wakes up and am usually back after she goes to bed. It sucks. But my spouse is stay-at-home which is barely do-able financially in the Bay Area. I think it's important to let my kid have her own room and sharing walls with neighbors sucks, so apartments and townhouses are not acceptable. I'd move elsewhere but there are very few areas in the country that actually have more than a handful of good tech jobs that are also close to housing.
> Do customers in general mind that the people making their electronics are underpaid, abused and unhappy?

happy employees -> happy customers

does not imply:

happy customers -> happy employees

Likewise:

>Consider telcos or ISPs as a pretty stark example of companies doing totally fine with very unhappy customers.

happy customers -> happy share holders

does not imply

happy share holders -> happy customers.

* replace '->' with one 'leads to'
Leveling up as a junior engineer
I'm in the same boat as OP. When I type "calc", I want the calculator. LibreOffice Calc is on my list of things to immediately remove on every reformat.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/896/ (on becoming the next Marie Curie):

"But you don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process."
> the participants to such a contract have agreed that the execution of that software is the entirety of their transaction

This is where the law could disagree with you. If you and I agree that you are my slave, that agreement is null and void. Similarly, the law does not automatically recognise the supremacy of smart contracts just because the parties thereto said so. If a dispute arose, damages could certainly be ordered by a court of law.
Or just import more from Mexico and have Californians concentrate on the higher value jobs.
Viewing it "good ones" versus "bad ones" terms is misleading. Prosecutors work in situations where (1) they constantly view the worst aspects of society; (2) the bulk of their job involves people who are obviously guilty.[1] There's some prosecutors who are just downright unethical. But for the most part, within the model of "better to let X guilty people go free than to put Y innocent people in prison," prosecutors are people who select different numbers for X and Y than other people.

I think juries should be clearly educated on the limitations of DNA testing, and other kinds of forensic evidence should be banned. Then again, I recognize that for every person unjustly convicted based on lab error, there are a dozen who just want to throw that possibility out there hoping to confuse the jury enough to get an acquittal.

[1] Courtrooms are open to the public, and I'd encourage everyone to go to your local federal courthouse and sit in on a dozen sentencing proceedings.
Honeslty, this should be handled by the language itself. If a language supports unicode, why not support ≠ for not-equals instead of "!="? Then provide a pre-processor that will replace all your ugly "!=" with the correct mathematical symbol.
This is my solution at work; I love it. The only caveat is that some font smoothing doesn't work as well on rotated monitors, since the pixels are no longer arranged as expected. Of course, with 4k monitors, it's a non issue (not that I can even realistically drive 2x 4k monitors on my MBP.
A system of bad incentives in banking infrastructure
Interior Dept. pulled climate scientists from Zuckerberg's Glacier Park tour
I currently have a 2hr+ commute, one way (so 4hr+ a day) and surprisingly it's not a problem for me.

Key is that you have to embrace the commute and not fight it. But some important factors make it possible for me:

-it's by train, and the bulk of that (1hr 25) is a single train leg. It's far enough out that I'm guaranteed a seat every trip, and it's only really the final two stops where things fill up. Really it feels like my commute is the bit after that train.

- that train journey is great: it's quality 'me time'. I can do some work, I can surf the web, I can play some games. Previously, on a 30 min commute, I'd get home and need unwind time on the sofa doing the same - no longer necessary now

-home is properly amazing and a real escape. I live 2 mins walk from the sea and it's the opposite of London. Ie the destination feels worth it

-many others in my office have similar or worse commutes (2.5 hrs is common, and the CEO has this length), so culturally no-one bats an eyelid at leaving the office whenever

- I always leave the office at 5:20 to catch my train, and if I need to work I just do that on the train. So I'm never back particularly late

-when things are busy that extra quiet time on the train in each direction is a god-send and can be super productive

- I can walk to the station so no additional leg in the car, and hence no buffer needed for traffic etc. It basically feels like I'm still at a tube station just one further away

- I work from home 1 or 2 days a week

A few years ago I would have strongly said I'd never live a long commute away and always want a <30 min commute. I was wrong. With the right ingredients not just doable but weirdly enjoyable
Report by company which sells tests that are less predictive for college success than the GPA tries to dissuade people about the usefulness of GPAs. Film at 11.

That is, film at http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2017/07/did-sat-unmask-gr... . As one of the things it points out, the original report at Inside Higher Ed says "But during the period studied, SAT averages (math and verbal, 1,600-point scale) fell from 1,026 to 1,002.", but that appears to be well within the margin of error of 60 for the SAT.

Meaning, it's a meaningless difference.
It's a little more sinister when you realize how much money, land, and power rests on those frilly, fanciful notions. It's not just Americans, but plenty of British people who fall for the illusion to some degree, much as many Americans buy into "Exceptionalism" or some flavor of nationalism.

Often the debate ends up centered around the monarchy, and then dies a quiet death when the turkeys in the HoL fail to support the notion of Thanksgiving.
> If research on highlighting for natural language can be transferred to code (I'm not entirely sure, but I suspect it might), highlighting might actually be harmful to comprehension.

Interesting. Could you share some of that research and its conclusions?
This really is a great idea.
You mean something like this? [0] As far as I know from the mailing list, they are always working on more tools for integration so musicians can use them in different environments and different ways.

As an amateur composer as well, I have found uses for these types of models even without plugins / with "data I have no control over" for small flashes of interesting motifs/progressions that I rework, modify, and expand on my own. Inspiration comes in many forms.

[0] https://github.com/tensorflow/magenta-demos/tree/master/ai-j...
That would include a tax on your job would it?
Disclaimer: Was a Psych student. Now a programmer. :)

I have to agree that the word "genius" is just too loaded and misleading. There are many ways an individual can excel and many ways they fail to; most people are a mixed bag.

Shannon was gifted with a powerful curiosity and love of discovery, something not shared by all (and I'm not making a value judgment here at all; simply stating a fact). He never chose to have those motivations, so he should not be overly credited with the consequence of having them.
Picking fruit and vegetables has always been peasant and serf work. The market has never once said, 'you should be paid more,' because there always is an underclass and even if you paid triple what you pay now it'd be the same class of people working the job. The problem is every American thinks he's too good to be at the bottom of the barrel these days.
I do that at work. Thank God for screens with pivot.
Not to be a downer but put this one under the category of "it's not AI if a character based ngram model can do it".

But fun regardless of the hype-y AI title.
agree except for the pre-processor part which should belong to the editor macro or keyboard shortcut space.