skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason, c++ folks seem to sometimes use "meow" as a placeholder. I thus guess that it means "all the something_n functions in <algorithm>", like http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/fill_n/ ?
Moved from Sublime to VS Code for font ligature support. (I like Fira Code)

Stayed for:

* Integrated terminal that also supports ligatures

* Pluggable debugger: one interface across gdb, delve, node, Chrome and other browsers, etc...

* Built in git support that's nicer in my opinion than any of the plugins for Sublime

* Markdown previews

* Seriously good Intellisense, it even tells me the schema of nested objects returned from another function in JavaScript.

* Probably some more that I forgot...

I don't regret buying Sublime, but VS Code targets the same platforms, has way more features and a faster release cycle, and did I mention it's free and open source?
Maybe you could, but that still doesn't make philosophy useless.
I went through the hiring process with AMZN in March and didn't pass the first tech interview so I've been studying for improving on that. I then submitted my resumes to Microsoft and NVidia and didn't get a reply from them.

For now I'll have to wait until October if I want to re-apply to AMZN, and there are no local companies (I'm from Chicago) that have hiring practices similar to them. I get tons of resume rejects locally.
I've managed to disable syntax highlighting in the past and not miss it, but at least the comments must be different from normal source code! Comments can get really noisy without any highlighting.
> They're not stupid and understand very well what the current climate is, but decided to announce this peculiar tool anyway.

It's not new: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713443
He mentioned that this occurred very early in his career, perhaps as a child.
Clamping isn't exactly a web feature either, it's one that most browsers have.

Probably should be specced; one thing I intend to do is help spec this.
Pssh, yes it is- alias vi='vim'
This is only the tip of the iceberg, but I found this introduction to naive bayes classification assumed little prior knowledge and successfully helped me build a basic classifier: https://monkeylearn.com/blog/practical-explanation-naive-bay...
STL (Stephan T. Lavavej, that is, not the library) just happens to like kittens.
In other news, it's not really feasible to have a multitude of apps that all claim to have to run in the background on a mobile device.

If you want to try anyway or you're in one of the rather contrived situations where Apples solution doesn't work, consider an Android device.
“Looking back, we were probably guilty of some ‘Jobsian’ thinking, convinced that people don’t know what they want until you show it to them,” and confused the enthusiasm its employees had for the new devices with their wider appeal, Smith wrote.

This is a mistake 99% of the failed founders make, you're no special.

You didn't fail because you had some "Jobsian" idea.

You failed because you failed. Don't blame it on Steve Jobs.
As long as I can use it, doesn't bother me at all that you don't. Doesn't affect the code at all.
I've put together a list of sites using Admiral's services (the domains this extension blocks) here: https://gist.github.com/daumiller/114989e6967eb0d4c54b9ab9ff... .

I do not know how complete it may be. It was interesting putting the list together to see how most (but not all) of the users appear just as sleezy as Admiral itself.

(Blocking these sites automatically should be done based on requests pointing to the original list, rather than this derived one, but it's here for reference.)
The increase amount is debated but higher CO2 levels have caused significant gains in farming efficiency.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/study-finds-plant-growth-...
Thanks for pointing this out, the timing seemed really strange.
The Tiny West Virginia Town Haunted by an NSA Secret
TypeMatrix 2030 USB
Sadly I have seen both sides of govt contracting, open stacks and proprietary, and I feel like the passionate such as yourself lose regardless. I hope you keep up the good fight. O'Reilly has a whole OSS in gov conf in DC and I hope your ilk make even a little headway.

My two cents.
Show HN: Api to check partial SHA-1 hashes of passwords against data breaches
Pressing ^C in normal mode tells you how to exit vim.
IMO, the technical teams with very little or no understanding of sales & marketing are the ones who would get the most value out of startup accelerators. They're not gonna help you build a better a product, but they're gonna help you find resources to sustain your product development before hitting profitability.

We're currently going through TechStars with a very technical product and no experience in doing enterprise sales, marketing, and fundraising. They have helped us a lot in figuring out who to target in big companies, how to put together sales pitches, how to close pilots, how to price our product, how to get follow-up sales meetings, how to talk to investors, how to pitch a very technical product in a way that non-technical people can understand, etc.

If we end up succeeding, I'd say TechStars played a very large part in taking us from being a bunch programmers who could build stuff to being a real company with a real business model. Before Techstars when we were on our own, we would make 10 wrong decisions per each right decision we made. Having access to mentors who have been in our shoes before that can help us avoid making mistakes is very valuable.

People in this thread are hating on how TechStars programs each have a few corporate partners, but I have found them to be super helpful in getting some early traction going. They're all very open to working and adapting the products developed by teams in the cohort.

The associates, mentors, and the managing director in our cohort are all amazing and have been super helpful to us. I would highly recommend TechStars to anyone who's building a B2B company.
> We come pre-equipped with our own API for critical reasoning, honed by thousands of years of evolution, and with a training set of everything we've ever done and seen.

> Why would I want to use a copy of that, that at best will only replicate human biases?

Scale. Who has time to read thousands of trollish youtube comments to find the handful of insightful gems?
This doesn't actually answer the question, but I always think that people who want to study neural nets should read Marvin Minsky's Perceptrons. It's an academic work. It's short. It's incredibly well written and easy to understand. It shaped the history of neural net research for decades (err... stopped it, unfortunately :-) ). You should be able to find it at any university library.

Although this recommendation doesn't really fit the requirements of the poster, I think it is easy to reach first for modern, repackaged explanations and ignore the scientific literature. I think there is a great danger in that. Sometimes I think people are a bit scared to look at primary sources, so this is a great place to start if you are curious.
I will look for an alternative.

Now anyone can come up and fill this gap they just created.

I'm sick of everything being a recurring cost.
I posted this yesterday when the news first broke (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14993089), it looks quite bad, what are the chances of the journalist going missing within the same 24 hours of the sub sinking in front of a bunch of witnesses after the guy goes back down to reappear just as it sinks. Subs are after all made to sink, it should be pretty easy for the designer/builder of the sub to make it sink on command, the hatch being open will do the rest.

At a guess they won't find the journalist inside, Madsen is way too smart to not realize that the sub was sinking in shallow water and would be lifted promptly, but in spite of that I don't have much hope of her still being alive.

It's a real pity, Copenhagen Space Orbitals and Madsen as a person were quite the inspiration source for many and to see it end like this is harsh. Reminds me of the Reiser case, it took a while for the truth to come out there too.
Thats a bit like saying what you eat may affect your health ;)
First of all, not all p2p networks operate like Tor. For example bittorrent and ipfs only host content you look at. So hosters could largely self-select the content they replicate.

Secondly, there are several tiers of content. a) stuff that is illegal to host b) stuff that is not illegal but that you find so objectionable that you don't even want to host it c) stuff that you don't like but doesn't bother you too much d) stuff you actually want to look at.
I posit that a) and b) are fairly small fractions and the self-selection mechanism of "things that I looked at" will reduce that fraction even further.

And even if you are on a network where you randomly host content you never looked at encryption can provide you some peace of mind (of the obliviousness kind) because you cannot possibly know or expected to know what content you're hosting. Add onion routing and the person who hosts something can't even be identified. If Viewer A requests something (blinded) through Relay B from Hoster C then B cannot know what they're forwarding and C cannot know what they're hosting. If neither you nor others can know what flows through or is stored on your node it would be difficult to mount pressure against anyone to disconnect.

For the illegal content, especially in oppressive environments, you could install a Voluntary Compliance(tm) government blocklist on public-facing nodes and still opt to run an internal node in your network that uses encrypted connections to retrieve things hosted in other countries you're not supposed to see.

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Anyway, back to filtering for decentralized content hosting. I think once you have a network it is a matter of managing expectations. You can't make content magically disappear. Platforms like youtube, twitter, facebook etc. have raised the false expectation that you can actually make things go away by appealing to The Authority and it will be forever gone. In reality things continue to exist, they just move into some more remote corners of the net. Once expectations become more aligned with reality again and people know they can only avoid looking at content but not make it non-existent things boil down to being able to filter things out at the local level.
is that a joke? weather predictions are notoriously unreliable even though they are given with extreme granularity.

that aside you are missing a larger point. if you predict the future based on past data all you are saying is "the future will be the same as the past." you aren't predicting anything. you will be wrong every single time something novel occurs, which is pretty frequently in the real world.
Main difference seems to be that boats would actually allow them to carry supplies with them.
> We come pre-equipped with our own API for critical reasoning,

We clearly unambiguously don't. People suck at many critical reasoning tasks. Look how poor people are at assessing risk for the most obvious example.
I get your bewilderment, I'm just wondering if it's not a red herring in a discussion over the problems of the overall US society. I'm not convinced that even if the market for programmers (even accounting for more local companies and such) was flooded until the average wage dropped 50%, that it would make a significant dent in that number, which is likely to grow.
So the article is saying if you drink diet soda, and suddenly your body wonders where the calories are, your body may be thrown for a loop. I will say that if I'm just looking for something to drink, if I drink a diet soda vs water, I'm more likely to get a snack in a few minutes.

But what about if you're eating a meal, and you have a diet soda with it. There's still plenty of calories to burn. Does that mean your body may be burning them faster, because they think they should be consuming food + sugary drink? Is there some kind of mismatch problem in this case?

I find it somewhat hard to believe that based on taste my body can determine how many calories it has to process. There's residual taste in the mouth after you swallow, you can eat at different rates, etc. There is a taste satiety (oh, no more rich food/salty food/sugary food) which comes into play, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're full. If anything this can be proven by the fact that you can eat too much before your body registers that you're full, which takes a few minutes.
Your post reads a bit like, hey you think my config is too small? i'll show small!
It seems to have changed it's Perspective on potatos.
From the previous discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713443):

53%: Your a potato.
55%: your a potato
61%: ur a potato
36%: a potato is you

Now:

74%: Your a potato.
77%: your a potato
85%: ur a potato
66%: a potato is you

As it's based on ML, it looks like people get offended more easily.
>Libertarians don't advocate "concentrated" powers or "tyranny"

I disagree. Capital has a tendency to accumulate, and in fact, to survive in capitalism is to accumulate capital. The tyranny being spoken of is found hiding in a shallow place - under the guise of free exchange, free enterprise, free association. Many would contend property is tyranny - beacuse it is due to the existence of property for which generations of people have to toil while surrendering the fruits of their labour to the landlord, capitalist, State etc. To be forced to pay rent is not dissimilar to be forced to be paid taxes. And what right does the landlord have over the property? Transferred title from a time when it was forcibly enclosed by the state or transformed into property without the consent of all at the time - i.e it is an arbitrary right founded on violence.

The idea is not to transfer property into the ownership of all, it is to abolish it entirely.

"The labourers have the most enormous power in their hands, and, if they once become thoroughly conscious of it and used it, nothing could withstand them; they would only have to stop labour, regard the product of labour as theirs, and enjoy it. This is the sense of the labour disturbances which show themselves here and there." (Max Stirner)
Read the section -- it's an ongoing debate not a fact either way. Academics and historians debating as usual.
Luckily this is a problem that the market has solved for you, as YouTube has an upvoting mechanism.

A similar upvoting mechanism is the reason why're you're reading this story as opposed to others.
How well do you think that will go with Trump loading the Court towards conservatism and national-security-ism?
We have a statue of him inside the Prague main railway station. I always tear up (no hyperbole) when I walk around it, such a brave and great man.
The NAP tries to draw a line between what people can do to each other in society and hence what groups of people are able to do to each other ; it doesn't tell you to not help the poor "because it's my property", it tells you you have no right to steal from someone else under the pretense that you will use the stolen resources to feed someone dying (Also, maybe the "duty to rescue" is a fair legal way of dealing with small scale incidents like theses), you have to convince that person to give you the resource to help the other person. By doing so, she/he might discover others situations, have compassion, get interested in those matters, get engaged just like you do etc... Seems more fair to me for everyone.

And you can be libertarian and have the value to help other individuals, theses values are not mutually exclusive.

Note : not all libertarian think with the NAP. I personally think it might be a great intellectual construct and could be good to introduce libertarianism to people ; but I'm not sure about how it could fit into our actual society and laws. There's 200 years of very interesting classic liberalism philosophy before Rand and Rothbard :)

When solidarity is taken as a core value

What do you mean by that ? Try to create some laws or use case, or give me a link to people you read that talk about that ;)

My lack of providing an alternative doesn't negate my point that libertarianism depends on state monopolization of certain rights, such as violence towards others for the sake of property relations.

Oh because the solution friends of Chomsky don't involve violence ? For example running the whole economy through the visible hand of the friendly politicians, as a mean to control society and be 100 % sure that no one dies of hunger in the street.
Yesterday, I got some lovely results:

67% "Radical Islam" is not the largest threat our nation faces.

48% There are lots of angry people on the Internet.

17% I'm open to other ideas, but I'd like to suggest that perhaps we should sterilize people whose opinions I dispute.
I don't buy the accident. Not with him going down, going back up and then the sub began to sink. Note that the ballast tanks in a sub filling up are enough to make it sink, all he had to do was command a dive and if the sub has it bypass the tower hatch interlock (which would seem like a basic precaution).
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14993683
Hatch open or closed doesn't even matter, it's just that with the hatch open it will go down a lot faster and the interior will be flooded.
Its a open discussion, no bothering required
A feature he didn't mentioned was language indentation support, wouldn't it be tedious to not have it?
Really, this is nothing more than a profanity filter.

The differences in abilities, knowledge and salaries between men and women can be attributed to biological causes.

2% likely to be perceived as "toxic"
Thank you very much for all the good advice. It didn't feel patronising and I admire the humble tone of your writing.

You are definitely right about being at the right place at the right time, and making sure you have the skills to do it better than others.

I have a pure software engineering degree (Masters) and been teaching myself deep learning lately. I am currently undertaking the Udacity self-driving car engineer nanodegree as as it is a great way to pick up skills in computer vision, machine learning and the automotive industry space. I am confident those skills will be valuable if I find the right opportunity.
That should work, you might want to add a link to "abp:subscribe?location=h||ps://raw.githubusercontent.com/paulgb/BarbBlock/master/BarbBlock.txt&title=BarbBlock" in your readme to allow people to easily install the list by clicking that link.

Edit: replaced https with h||ps to prevent it from showing up as a link (which are apparently cut off if they're too long).
> a study published in Nature last year

To be clear this refers to the fusion of the Laurentide (Canadian) and Cordilleran (Pacific NW) ice sheets but the caveats are this doesn't preclude travel into parts of Alaska and it's also possible there was some travel before the sheets were fused.

> brought all their supplies with them

Maybe they didn't have a lot of supplies? I mean people migrated all over Siberia and presumably many/most of them did so on foot.

> they have to bring all the food for the dogs

The traditional view was that they were following the food source. And presumably they kept the dogs around in the first place because (among other reasons) they help hunt and are also a food source.

> Whatever food they bring with them can be supplemented with fish and other seafood they can catch on the way. Maybe they can even live entirely off seafood.

This logic works with any food source though.
I found that line beyond pretentious. You don't need to "struggle with syntax" to find highlighting useful.
I'm pretty good at coming up with scenarios where he would have plenty of motive for killing her. This whole thing stinks, but any kind of limiting of the universe of possibilities will have to wait for evidence, which the sinking of the sub certainly didn't help preserve.
Another crown phenomenon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krummholz

And something that prevents many trees from being grown indoors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wood

Trees will lead you down a glorious wikipedia black hole.
This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that Google is serious about it, and some big media outlets are likely to use it.
Direct link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/6swfvi/ad_dom...
Oh I agree, I couldn't get anywhere near the salary, but if I wanted to find a programming job back home in Athens I could swing it. I would probably have to learn COBOL though, no joke.

And I'm in Santa Monica now, and my salary has been $0 for the last several months! Will finally be able to run payroll for myself next month though so that's exciting.
Syntax highlighting doesn't bother me; I don't disable it. But when I learned to program I used monochrome terminals like VT100 or ADM-3a and it just wasn't a thing that could be done, so I also feel quite comfortable without it.

Syntax highlighting is most useful to me to make things like unclosed quotes stand out. I don't find the highlighted reserved words and other highlights to be all that beneficial.
> By running its platform on top of blockchain technology, Nexus integrates social networking, crowdfunding, and even e-commerce features embedded. Nexus is aiming to “eliminate all invasion of privacy that large corporation are currently performing” according to its founder, Jade Mulholland.

So the big plan to avoid Facebook's privacy creep is to put everything on an immutable, publicly accessible record which you don't control? Okay.
He critiques a fair chunk of rationalist youtube.
Start writing, and remember to go back and improve your earlier work. Lucidity comes with experience.
My Slackware boxen come with 'vi' symlinked to 'elvis'. I'm an Emacs user but I'm conversant with bare-bones vi enough to use vim or elvis to do quick config changes or bang out short scripts.
Boat radio
Lately I've been wishing there was a way to use Vim's plugins without having to use vim.

But alas there is none.
:(
This still happens in the book industry. A publicity person told me that it's perfectly fine to use a very short excerpt even from a critical review.
Here is a live video of the sub: https://tv.aftonbladet.se/abtv/articles/1245?broadcastId=768...
Here Maps is a serious competitor to Google maps, in many regiona being far superior.

For Google calendar, almost any self hosted calendar service can easily compete with that.

Email is also easy to run yourself, as is Google Photos.

"Easy" meaning a task a CompSci student can accomplish during a summer or two of coding.
Really cool subreddit for this type of discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/
I am on communities where I am fine with content being removed
or fined without delivering a rationale(HN included). I definitely don't want government intervention everywhere.
I actually find that this "blob of amorphous text" is helpful for me, I seem to read code more thoroughly with syntax highlighting off
Actually, the UK has credit scores and credit cards, a large proportion of people use credit cards for daily spending.
One reason to learn the basics of plain vi (not vim) even if you are in the emacs camp -- if you find yourself needing to do something in a pinch on an unfamiliar unix machine, it's very rare to find one that doesn't have vi installed.
>Android users should be wary of any non-Google app sources with the exception of Amazon's Android offerings

Personally, I trust f-droid more than either of those.
> modulo requirements by law

Which law?
There was a great film about the discovery/arrival of humans in America and the Polynesian culture was mentioned as a likely candidate to have arrived in South America. As they said in the film (paraphrasing) "They discovered dozens of Islands. How could they not find the largest island, America?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0F8mUmQvwI