skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rentals (not repairs), to be clear, but man were they heavy to ship. I did have a few rentals to bigger companies (Google, Samsung), sometimes it's easier for them to rent.

Yeah, most of them are random hacks. I don't mean to imply they were all intended to be businesses, though some were. More just meaning I have a lack of direction and haven't produced much of real value, despite thinking I was. After ten years, you realize the code and time spent starts to pile up.
What about using bandwidth to the extent that it degrades performance for other users? Is using 80Mhz for my wifi for my legitimate use-cases in my apartment while copying lots of photos to my NAS and thus using up most of that an attack? It would measurably degrade the performance of nearby wifi, and given a location in an apartment and my naive default power levels of "everything to max" (as most wifi routers operate by default)...

Why is everyone in an apartment who isn't a radio engineer guilty of interference given the broad definition? I know that it's only who they choose to prosecute, but that seems to be the problem with laws like this.
on StackOveflow there are more Elixir jobs than Erlang but not Clojure

http://www.reallyhyped.com/?keywords=elixir%2Cerlang%2Ccloju...
> For me, what helped was to think of what I'm working on as the collection of ALL of the projects that I've done.

A project portfolio
Everything you need to know about joke of an Intel IoT/maker offering is right there in hackaday comments:

"Chinese companies, even with a language barrier, are BETTER THAN INTEL at documentation"
I don't know about GP, but I'm an aggressive skier and very, very rarely hit my head. I have maybe a dozen falls a season, wear a helmet and am not colliding with anything. This is a silly comparison.
Just nick picking but any irrational belief is mockable, if not the people holding it themselves. And when people holding risible beliefs speak from authority, it is not unfair to cite those.
> Because neural nets do not work that way

Are there works that expose this limitation of MLPs more formally?

>not everything good can be made More Neural.

Neural networks are universal function approximators, so you probably mean not everything good can be made with MLPs trained by gradient descent?

>It's the lack of [...] the ability to perform inferences over discrete spaces.

How would you judge the extent to which AlphaGo has learned to react to single discrete changes in the input. It seems that it learned very well to react very sharply to whether a single stone is placed at a strategically significant position.
Thanks for the tip - I'm clean :-)
>and how can we get them the help they need

By telling them about OneTab.
Instead of calling them worthless, enjoy that your side projects have no deadlines! Say no to deadlines!

Having side projects is a luxury of true joy. I notice this all the time when life(tm) tries to push side projects aside.

I love my side projects.
Yes, you are into something. However I think you can forget about getting the 2017 version of google to implement it.

You might have better luck with trying to implement it as an extension to Firefox although the extension API is (at least for now) going to be a shadow of its former self AFAIK.

My tab tree is the closest thing I've come to an effort-less mind-map that works for me. (Effortless as in ctrl-click to open a new sub-tree so I can always see what is related to what and how I found something really hard-to-find-but useful.)

Even though my current setup works well I'm quite sure I or someone else will be able to create something event better in the future.
Transmit only for the high power active radio is often a great way to save power, so long as you have an alternative data path to send information to the device to change settings or do firmware updates. For example, see the Omni-ID Power 415 active RFID tag which transmits up to 400 m distance with its active radio every few seconds for 5+ years of battery life but also has a passive 900 MHz RFID interface that's bidirectional for changing settings or doing firmware updates.

http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?11873
Wait... index funds, e*trade, 'you can day trade your way to retirement at 29!'... quants and HFT, the fact that there is a Wall Street after 2008...

Money still sells most of all. Fear is just catching up now that the "news" is instant.
Well, the linked calculator seems bogus (at least for me here in Germany). It assumes that the income is AFTER taxes. Let put some numbers in:

Given I am a programmer in Germany And I earn 4000€ (above avg.) before taxes [1]

That means I will have around 29000€ after taxes and other social charges [2]

Now if I only spend the bare minimum (9000€) [3], I can save 20000€ per year.

Now I am able to retire after 9.5 Years according to calculator. This seems right, as if I still want to live off 9000€, but guess what: The living costs (even if I do stay single, live in the same small flat and never do any vacation) rise with the years.

Now you could argue, that a saving rate of 68% might be too much, but even if you decrease the saving to 10000€ per year, you are working around 25.2 years which is plenty of time to burn out...

[1]: https://www.gehaltsvergleich.com/gehalt/Programmierer-Progra...

[2]: https://imgur.com/a/IArku

[3]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grundfreibetrag_(Deutschland)
It's basically an Uber for truckers. That's all they had to say.
Anyone have recommendations for learning about mechanical linkages (books/MOOC/other)? Recently I've been intrigued by things like straight line linkages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaucellier%E2%80%93Lipkin_lin...

...and the Chebyshev "paradoxical" linkage:

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/01/03/chebyshevs-paradox...

...and of course Kempe's "universality theorem", that there is a linkage that traces any polynomial curve.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09002

I recently came across "Planar Linkages Following a Prescribed Motion":

https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05623

...which looks awesome. Especially intriguing are sentences like:

"In modern terms, the procedure proposed by Kempe is a parsing algorithm. It takes the defining polynomial of a plane curve as input and realizes arithmetic operations via certain elementary linkages. In this work, we approach the question from a different perspective... ...By encoding motions via polynomials over a noncommutative algebra, we reduce this task to a factorization problem."

But currently the terminology used is considerably over my head. Anyone know what branches of math you should study to be able to understand things like:

"...we recall that one can embed SE2 as an open subset of a real projective space. This allows us to introduce a noncommutative algebra K whose multiplication corresponds to the group operation in SE2, hence mimicking the role played by dual quaternions with respect to SE3. A polynomial with coefficients in K therefore describes a family of direct isometries, which we call a rational motion."

...other suggestions for what to study to be able to synthesize new linkages? Places or forums for a beginner to ask questions about linkages?
This Matrix Helps Growing Teams Make Great Decisions
If the product is dead, that means the licencors are likely to no longer make any money off it it. This means they will likely be open to open sourcing the code for free or next to free.

Open sourcing dead projects do have advantages for the licencors:

1. nobody likes the code they worked hard on to be dead

2. it's valuable free marketing for their brand name

3. they can charge for support
Moneyball for Art (and Pollock's Tallest Painting)
Yes, and in order to state "this is definitely a genetic cause" you would need to rule out other factors. Including fraternal twins is interesting, but unless they were separated at birth (and not even then really) this could just as easily read "How Kids See the World Depends a Lot on How They Were Raised" which is a pretty obvious conclusion to draw and not particularly headline worthy.
> Almost as if the fundamental conflicts built in to capitalism are harmful to us as a species -- who'd have thought treating life as a competition would lead to so many of us losing.

I think competition was always there. My point is people selling things get smarter.

So it may be a good idea to improve my arsenal too to withstand the forces that be and use what is out there.
> That's something like $10-20k per year, at most.

You are obviously not married.

> Which means you really only need to work 2ish days a week.

And where do you find these unicorn jobs where you work only two days per week?
It almost feels like we have regressed.

Making simple CRUD SPAs using HTML5/CSS3/JS/whatever frameworks is way more complicated than using AS3 to do the same thing.

It all feels like a giant kludge.

What have we gained by going into using modern web stack to make application like pages?

Perhaps source is shared more freely and code is more "open", but as the React licensing ruckus shows that is not clear cut.

We have certainly not gained more consistency over AS3.

There really wasn't anything wrong with the idea of flash compiler doing the heavy lifting for app like pages.
Just because you don't click on an ad or think you ignore them doesn't mean you're not being manipulated by them.

Subconscious influence/manipulation is more powerful and prevalent than most people realize.

The most skillful forms of influence are invisible to the target.
I don't read "give until it hurts" in "give over and over myriad petty, unsexy ways". That's your own bias creeping in, I think.
Link is broken. Try this: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/symspell-vs-bk-tree-...
Senate Health Care Decision: Critical Republicans to Vote Yes
I have been thinking about the GitLab IPO for a while now. GitLab is not in Canada and it might be years before they IPO, but one thing I dislike is the CSA's position that is more strict than SEC: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/social-me...
I think the GP comment was intended in the sense that it's trivial for someone who does this for a living as an employee of a hardware product company to get this sort of power-draw out of bog-standard components; they weren't suggesting that it's an easy DIY project.
This is probably my favorite crypto blog post of the year. LLL comes up a lot in attacks on asymmetric cryptography.

If you're interested in crypto or linear algebra but don't know what a lattice is, a great starting point is Hoffstein's _Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography_:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.182...

(If you know what a vector space is, you know what a lattice is; it's a vector space where only integers are allowed as coefficients in linear combinations).

Here's Antoine Joux, one of the world's most renowned cryptanalysts, talking about applications of LLL to crypto attacks. Amusingly, he sort of opens by making fun of cryptographers for using LLL without really understanding it:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.11.7...

Here's Babai's application of LLL to finding close lattice points:

http://www.csie.nuk.edu.tw/~cychen/Lattices/On%20lovasz%20la...

From here you're a [boneh hidden number problem] Google search away from attacking dlog/ecdlog crypto from vulnerabilities like biased nonces.
Bizarre physics of Fire Ants [video]
It is not a verb form. It is just a short form. Both forms can be used as predicates but have different meanings.
For example, "ты болен" and "ты больной" both mean "you are sick", but in the first case it means a temporary state.
Another example, "эта юбка коротка" and "эта юбка короткая" both mean "this dress is short", but in the first case it has an implication of being short relative to something. For example, you would use first form to mean that this dress is short for you.
The author mentions being a full time software engineer and working on these projects after work. I think he isn't a starving programmer; and I'm going to guess he's probably even getting more than "reasonable money" (but not filthy rich).

It's really more of a question of finding meanings; I see where he's coming from. There is a certain kind of despair when you look back at 10 years worth of side projects and none have "taken off". I've only seriously worked on side projects in the past 3~4 years (full time engineer for 10 years), and even with less than half the time spent, and less than half projects completed compared to OP, I still feel a bit of this.
The swf format has been open for years.
Can you please clarify the point you're making here?

Because this is a complete non sequitur to me.
I was thinking that as an auxiliary language which is intentionally kept a second-class language, Esperanto might be more resilient to that kind of fragmentation.

But I suppose that's somewhat circular reasoning. At least, it presupposes that an auxiliary language can see substantial uptake and remain viable while not succumbing to the typical forces that shape language.

I've always thought of liturgical languages (e.g. liturgical Latin, liturgical Syriac) as the closest example we have of languages resisting those forces. But I really have no clue how well they've done so. For example, I haven't read any papers that analyze the stability of liturgical Latin, such as whether the vocabulary has narrowed or pronunciations shifted. I'm sure it exists, but I'm not a linguist (or anything of the sort).
I don't think they're idiots. I think they feel justifiably desperate and are acting rationally within that framework.

Who do you trust more -- coastal and city elites who think your religion is hogwash, your values are garbage, your biggest problems are that you're ignorant, racist, and white?

A Republican Party that says they're for you, and then turns around and nakedly passes legislation that will gut your communities and keep shipping jobs off shore?

Or an untried, loud-mouth demagogue who promises everything to you, but at least he's not part of the same system that's been screwing you over for the past 30 years?

When you feel your back's against the wall and you've nothing to lose, you roll the dice.
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Redbus-world’s largest bus booking platform moved from full .net to .net core
I feel like there's a cycle where parents who struggled want their children to have practical careers; parents who had success in practical careers want their children to "follow their dreams;" then the cycle repeats.
Oil and Gas Upstart Has No Reserves About GPUs
Given those numbers.. the problem is the salary. It does not matter that it's Sacramento; it's still California. And, honestly, as a fresh out of college dev, why would I go to Sacramento for 40k when I can go to the valley for 3x that, and still come out ahead?
>There are bookmarks for keeping references to pages.

Bookmarks are a pain to manage. Tabs are meant to be temporary - even if I have one open for weeks on end. They are like a TODO list. Bookmarking the tab blurs the line between temporary and permanent stores.

Blindly bookmarking to solve the problem will leave you with thousands of bookmarks.

>FF also has Pocket for keeping references to pages I want to read later.

And you'll end up with thousands of entries in your Pocket.
And this is why FF fans like me refuse to use "toy-browsers" for work.

Chrome might be faster than FF and a Ferrari might be faster than a pickup truck.

But:

FF and the pickup truck is more useful for work IMO

and the Ferrari and Chrome comes with a price I'm not comfortable with.
> Because over the long run policies adopted by your country should be scoped to help the members of your country.

I am fairly convinced that economic protectionism is bad for economic growth, particularly in the long run. And even if I'm a direct beneficiary of a certain protectionist policy, I'd like to think I will oppose it, because it's essentially equivalent to the government taking resources from a non-protected job sector and giving them to the protected job sector.
I came to the US in 2000. At first I found the constant excitement in TV news interesting but after two or three years I noticed that I couldn't handle it anymore. It just wasn't comfortable for me.

Is it maybe that most people have checked out too and only a small but loud minority is addicted to all the nonsense? On Facebook it seems it's only a few people that constantly post web links or engage in flame wars. Most people I know are very quiet.
Adobe's marketing team dropped the ball on this one, and now it seems like there's a ton of FUD about what they're doing.

In 2020 the Flash player shouldn't be needed any more, because HTML5 will hopefully be good enough in every browser by that point. All the rest of their tools are still going to be useful.

Why they didn't make this clear to everyone just baffles me.
> notoriously low margins.

Some of those trucking companies take 10%. What are you talking about?
> I'm sure you can guess what he looks like.

Until you said that I was picturing a white person. Maybe there is a natural tendency for people to picture themselves in the shoes of the story.

There is definitely a stereotype that police pick on African-americans more. But they also pick on a lot of all of people in general and there are way more white people in the USA, so I don't immediately assume that a person being picked on by police is black. There is also the stereotype that blacks are not attentive fathers, so the setting (picking a kid up at daycare), would have at least canceled out the police stereotype IMO. I'd be surprised if most people had the same assumption about skin color that you had.

Either way, I think calling attention to his skin color in the way you did is petty and rude.
I'm not clear on where the disagreement is here? I guess "unique to the wealthiest" is rather strong, but the claim made is pretty specific.

The general explanation for falling fertility rates like '5 -> 3' is that it's mostly about falling infant mortality and improved birth control. People have more control over pregnancies and more confidence in the survival of their children, so they can achieve a small family with fewer births.

That's a substantially different matter than being voluntarily childless. I admit I'm summoning up complexity here by claiming that 'N -> 2.1' has a different mechanism than '2.1 -> 1.46', and that there are some odd examples. North Korea I'd largely discount because famine warps birth rates, but Cuba is interesting. Presumably this is some of the same effects, but I'm not sure if there are very many people in Havana doing the "young and rich and childfree" thing with the same cultural markers. I'm actually not sure, I'd need someone more familiar with Cuban (or other) cultures to answer that.
"The idea that <9% of the general population at death have degenerative brain disease is highly implausible. " If you consider dementia explicitly, than the epidemiology suggests a potential rate as high as 20-40% - which is much higher than the lowest possible CTE rate.

(In fact, it's possible that all CTEs diagnosed in this report would be classified as purely dementia in the general population).
The Evolution of Trust: An interactive guide to the game theory of cooperation
Tab trees would be pretty cool, especially if you list tabs in column view like I do. Opening a link in a new tab would list as a child tab, and the list of child tabs could be collapsed/hidden. Drag child tabs out of the tree to become parents themselves.

This would be great for dynamic research tasks. You could collapse trees and get a top level view, useful if you're in the weeds; you could close trees by parent, great for killing avenues of research you no long need. It would also be good for when you need to quickly check the syntax of something or fix a minor bug without disrupting the larger project you're focusing on.

From a Dev/LiveOps perspective, it would be huge- grouping all my AWS pages, CMS pages, custom dashboards, would be a huge help. I can easily sprawl tens of separate tabs to get different services to talk to eachother.
Isn't the control group the part of the graph from 1993-2000ish, where perception and reality are fairly closely correlated?

I guess that raises more questions than it answers. What about the rise of cable news? That tracks the change in the graph more closely than the rise of social networks. What about 9/11 and the war on terrorism? A significant portion of the US population lost their shit and never got it back. I'm not sure we should pin all or even most of the change on social media.

I think you have a point that the "good old days fallacy" has been around since forever. But it also seems like something dramatically changed 15 years ago or so.
Well being called a Nazi on an internet board is a first for me, and is rather disappointing considering my general high regard of the level of discourse from people who frequent this forum. Purporting that a person whose ethnic history includes wartime internment camps would wish to perpetuate our country's penchant for prejudice is an unusal claim. Perhaps you are taking aim at the fact that my ancestors were indeed allies of the Nazis, regarding which you would be correct.

For what it's worth I consider Peter Singer (the philosopher) to be a man of strong reasoning who builds a tower of logic on top of a questionable and highly subjective statement of morality.

I believe that the decades long wave of software outsourcing to India has lifted the standard of living for many thousands of people there. I believe that the decades long wave of electronics outsourcing to China has created opportunities for rural residents there to attain upward economic mobility. I believe that these have come with a real, undeniable cost to American citizens and residents, and thus believe that an individual can justifiably be for or against such normalization of economic well being on a global scale.
I'm basically your age and my grandmother passed away from Alzheimers almost 10 years ago. It was another 5 before that when she last recognized anyone in our family. She neither played football nor had any history of concussion that any of us are aware of.

The point being, from what I've seen on the subject, there's no way to diagnose CTE until the patient has passed away and you can slice open their brain. It's possible that your grandfather's symptoms are related to his concussions, but it's also very possible that it would have happened anyways. CTE usually manifests 8-10 years after these brain injuries and has a lot of symptoms beyond the dementia you list, so it could be garden-variety Alzheimers.

Regardless, you have my sympathies. Alzheimers-type dementia is truly a terrible way to lose a loved one. The anti-climactic nature of it makes it really difficult to get closure in the way that you do when someone's death is more abrupt. Instead, they slowly fade away in the "boiled frog" fashion and you're left at whatever funeral you end up having realizing that they died a long time before their body expired and you never got to grieve. Be sure that you're intentional in remembering the person he used to be and don't let the empty shell of a person that exists now replace that in your memory. I didn't do that enough and it made grieving for my grandmother very difficult.

If there's a silver lining to my story, my mother is now past the age when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimers and is, thus far, not showing signs of the disease. Given some of the research that's tying Alzheimers to particulate air pollution, I'm hopeful that the strides made by the EPA and others in reducing our air pollution will mean that she won't have to go through that ordeal and I won't have to lose her the way I lost my grandmother. If your dad is more than a decade past his football-playing days and symptoms haven't shown up, there's a good chance that he won't either.