skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get your point and I am well aware of the rudeness of looking at your clock during a conversation and how rude that is. However, I am not someone who is constantly getting notifications, and my phone is kept in my front pocket and is generally a pain to stand up and pull out of said pocket. Knowing I dont have to do that and can at least see who is contacting me from my wrist is a minor, yet still net benefit to my life. I am a big fan of everyone taking stock of how their phone habits are affecting their social and professional lives. I personally hate the phone pose where everyone is on autopilot while staring at their phone. I think this is a way to kind of back away from that and maybe avoid the temptation to be stimulated 100% of the time.
Why AB and Multivariate Testing Sucks
Hi! Your comment is very vague and damning considering it contains no specifics.

The gist is served over https so that's secure. It's well documented so it's not really doing anything unintended so there's no problems there. It requires admin privileges, but so would similar changes in other operating systems.

How specifically is the gist full of insecure shit?
FWIW Texas is a weak governor system. Pretty much the only thing the governor does is throw the switch during executions which W did with abandon.

The Roman Republic had a concept, the New Man. W was not a New Man nor was his father. Neither were upstarts.
While I can’t expect many to follow suit, I myself often type educated quotes and nice apostrophes. The macOS keyboard combinations (nearly-intuitive combinations of Option-(Shift)-[ and -] for “”‘’) have long been committed to muscle memory. And since nearly all (web) file formats seem to be UTF-8, the days of manually typing &ldquo; and friends are long, long gone.

Benefits of typing and using typographer’s quotes directly in your JS/JSON/HTML/source:

1. No backslashes or other escape sequences needed!

2. WYSIWYG

3. Retina screens and gorgeous modern fonts mean that your sloppy quotes will look extra bad if you just use ASCII quotes
Strange, I haven't heard of anyone being arrested for promoting genocide yet, why not? Your comparison with Islamic terrorism is a red herring since we don't have Islamists holding public rallies demanding we impose Sharia law.
> Cantor will never get a list because I will never really be done generating it.

That would be true even if you weren't diagonalizing because the list is infinite. In fact, just a single item in the list is potentially infinite. So you can't generate the whole list regardless.

What you have to do is to produce an algorithm that takes any two natural numbers i and j as input and produces as output in finite time the j'th digit of the i'th number in the list. Because you have to produce your digit in finite time you can only diagonalize a finite number of times, so Cantor can always do you one better and produce a number not on your list.
Indeed! It seems to me that parents have largely left parenting to schools, which aren't really designed for that.
Deriving the 1D diffusion equation, Poisson distribution from discrete processes
"Linux still sucks shit on the Desktop. I try it every year,"

No, I don't think you do try it (Linux) - you simply shout stuff ... because ... reasons ...

I suspect that you ... read your history ... are a clever person but slightly biased against FOSS.

If you really have snags about Linux then that is fine. Your employer should always come first.
Show HN: Weekend bootcamp for engineers
Peter Corke and his huge team at QUT are doing great stuff in this area. They have spot-spraying robots, that zap only weeds and fertilize only crops, and also a great device that just mechanically smashes up weeds one-by-one.

Peter has an admirable ability to choose projects and deliver the goods on them. Robotics needs more like him.

Interview with Corke on this subject:

http://robohub.org/robots-zero-tillage-robotics/

Homepage with free stuff including books and MOOC:

http://petercorke.com/wordpress/

edit: I'm not affiliated with QUT and have no conflict of interest. I'm an academic that does related work but not in agriculture.
Elon Musk says 'unreal' Tesla semi truck set for October unveiling
Okay. In that case I question what motivated your initial comment correcting your parent? I agree that it's not worth discussing further, so I'll sign off after this comment.

People who take the time to correct others (particularly when it's off-topic) are generally motivated by the desire to genuinely help the discussion or by mean-spirited nitpicking. If the former, they're also interested in learning about how discussions tend to behave on the forum in which they're participating, which is why I chimed it. If I assumed the latter, I would refrain from commenting at all.
Thanks, glad to see someone stand up for Jesus on HN. People act like religion is stupid here, but you make a great point to the contrary. If everything truly is relative and all that matters is what you want, why is opioid addiction a problem if that's what you want?

There is good and there is evil. The attempt to deny it, as you correctly say, causes huge problems. Like how we tell school children that they are no more than evolved animals, then wonder about why they go shooting people then take their own life.
> They do. There are lots of ways to do that. Just none that are attractive to the pedagogic establishment.

Could you elaborate?
It's just a friendlier way of saying 'you probably weren't doing it right'

these are operating systems that reward expertise - it takes time and patience to get your workstation the way you want it. It's a time investment to learn it, to some it's worth the effort, to others it's not.

edit* and I will concede that the various linux desktop environments have learned a ton from apple's design and UX concepts, and some of them have branched off into very interesting directions.
I refuse to legitimize calls or organization for genocide as an acceptable speech act.
Marbles. Hula Hoops. Water bottle flipping. Yo yos. These fads have spontaneously manifested since at least the 80s with no central control or in some cases marketing campaign - you can't even sell a product with water bottle flipping.
> He is known for making jokes/tolling people.

I'd say he's known for being convicted of felony securities fraud by a jury of his peers.

> Also, part of his expertise is in pricing things and his net worth is supposedly in 100s of millions - if he was serious, the price would have reflected that.

His net worth is nowhere near that. He's auctioning off nearly everything he owns because he's broke. Part of the criminal charges were that he lied to his investors by not telling them that he owed Lehman Brothers $2.3M from a previous settlement. He also told them he had $35M in assets when the total was actually $0.

> My guess is that everyone involved in the legal process knew very well that this was a joke - his bail is being revoked to teach him a lesson for insulting the legal process + infamy from his misunderstood price hike.

In common law, the elements of a contract are an offer, acceptance, intent to create legal relations, and consideration --- If someone had pulled Hillary's hair and asked him for $5k, they very likely would have prevailed in court since Shkreli's post contained all the elements of a contract. No matter if he's "Joking".

> That sounds a little too extreme for a joke while on bail for white collar crime.

If you run through the Federal sentencing guidelines, it's very easy to come up with a sentence of 5+ years, why would the judge go easy on someone who's out on bail commissioning crimes against public figures when they're up against several years in prison?
I prefer VSCode mostly for the intellisense/auto-complete.

As far as git is concerned, I use it from the command line an cannot understand why anyone would want to interact with git from VSCode or any other text editor.
You're probably going to have a bad time. Some of the lower-level network APIs are pretty buggy last time I checked.
Ask HN: How can I buy AirBNB stock – if I'm happy to pay a premium?
Any ideas? I know about equityzen but they seem limited to a few companies.

Is there any reason I can't buy airBNB stocks from employees?
I've been using the WSL bash inside Conemu. I pretty much only use it for SSH'ing to other boxes, but I spend a lot of time in it and it's the best Windows setup I've found.
Are you happy?
Facebook's Ad Platform Is Easily Gamed and Your Privacy Is Cheaply Bought
No; the JPEG is a pattern.

There are a variety of ways we could recognize the pattern.

+ The series of bits you start with.

+ The bitmap on the screen.

+ the BMP which would also generate that bitmap.

+ The GIF which results in the same frame.

+ The emotional impression you take away from it. "That meme I remember so well"

And so on.

The JPEG is closer to qualia than is the arrangement of bits; closer to "your experience".
I've found the docs to be complete but lacking in examples.

Examples often say more in 10 lines of code than a page of docs, but I didn't find this to be an issue. To write Requester, I cloned plugins with features I wanted to implement (e.g. GitSavvy) and used them to complement the docs.

I think the docs could be improved with examples of small useful plugins that touch on various areas of the API. This might be a good project for the community.
Huh? If it was compiling the native extension, then it would work in cygwin also?
Kakoune doesn't run on Windows, so not cross-platform.
Yeah, I still find GUI applications crashing on modern distro's all the time :(

... but this works amazingly well :)

$ flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam
Sunk cost fallacy. Investors put in $100 million in 2011 when the mere concept of Fintech would give venture capitalists chubs. Back then, it wasn't so clear that millennials and personal finance are like water and oil -- and that you would need more than a landing page and a webform to drive organic growth.

SoFi would also feed investors both false information (as mentioned in the article), and inflated user growth numbers fueled by their freedom as a "startup" to spend insane amounts of money on customer acquisition with no regard for profitability.

Basically, SoFi spent all their money convincing people through advertising that they were "a new kind of finance company", all without actually creating anything new.

Turns out the company stops growing if you stop giving them money, and VCs didn't want to lose their $100 million commitment or admit that the company was DoA, so along came more rounds of funding.

There you go, that's the path to a $4 billion tech valuation with no actual tech product.
No, iamlucaswolf is correct, describing a countable dense set (the dyadic rational points) and an uncountable dense set.
Ah. "Flexibility."

This is a much deeper debate, but through my subjective experience programming for two decades, stand-alone as PhD, and also leading a 200-person engineering team, I thing flexibility is by and large the last thing to optimize for, and almost always a sign of a novice engineer.

You don't know the future. You don't know what will work with the end users of your software, or where your research will take you. The best thing you can do is to accomplish the task in front of you in the simplest, most directly performant way possible, and put it to use - in front of customers, or in doing your research.

True flexibility is not having to wait for every iteration so engineers can program in every iteration of the future.

There is a huge cost you pay today for 'flexibility', most things advertised as such are not in fact flexible, and the trend in designing complex real world systems is in fact for each project to do exactly ONE thing and do it very well.

Btw you're assuming I've rejected algebra, and I've done so immediately. I have no objections to using abstract algebra or category theory in designing and thinking about programming languages, and none of my opinions are a jerk-reaction to anything.
And I suppose the "break lights" are lit when the CPU is nonfunctional?
Encourage them to set up a Patreon page? Do people use Patreon for software projects?
That would be an interesting idea... Except then the service provider would essentially have a database of names, SSNs, and addresses... I think we all know what could happen next. :(
It literally doesn't :)
I have to suspect the fatal flaw is that these code points don’t look like anything and can’t be found on the keyboard.

Granted, that’s the whole point, but it also makes authoring and instruction harder. (And we all know how many programmers are really just competent copy-pasters.)
This[1] page covers a lot more commands. I didn't even know it was possible to do some of those in linux without installing more packages. It is very long so I would just bookmark it.

[1]:http://baturin.org/docs/iproute2/
I don't think he's advocating shaming people with problems. I think he's just pointing out that the way our culture acts like obvious sin is hunky dory is a real problem.
What direction would it point in?
Yes, yours is the Breitbart definition. Just google 'globalist', look at the wikipedia page, etc. If I defined 'libertarians' as, say, 'people who won't answer the question "How often do you beat your spouse?" with a simple yes or no', it would be just inaccurate and loaded, not something libertarians would want to 'nuance'.
I dont agree at all, and I do not think the data backs it up. Jeb is a clear loss mono e mono against trump in the primary, no question.

the candidates you mentioned only did well in limited/specific geographies (such as their home state). i followed the primaries on both sides, and had you consolidated the votes to trump vs other, trump would have won. its also very unlikely that 'other' would all vote for 'other' if they weren't specifically allowed to vote for someone like Cruz.
what I am interested in is robots that can reforest unused land. Imagine the possibilities with having armies of robots re-establishing green cover in Amazon delta. kinda like this but with robots:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_GreenHands

good thing is that would be not require nearly as much 'babysitting' as growing crops just ability to charter uneven terrain.
Yes, but at that point the text file is basically binary - it contains exotic characters that confuse most text editors and can't be typed.

I know XML et al are frustrating, but I'd rather see them than a "creative" solution. It seems like 60% of the reason we still have to deal with archaic flat formats is support for Excel.
The impact on the final price of the produce matters more than the comparison to pesticides.

Like if pesticides represent 0.1 percent of the retail price of some vegetable, I personally would consider it reasonable to spend 10x avoiding some pesticides. Because it would only have a modest impact at retail.
Speaking as someone who has multiple loans from SoFi (consolidated credit card debt, and then re-financed a couple of times as my credit score improved), getting a loan from them was remarkably painless.

Their online application was easy to use, and once it was approved, an electronic deposit for the amount simply appeared in my bank account a couple of days later. The interest rates were low, the terms were easy to understand, and there were no gotchas like front-weighted interest or unexpected fees.

If another company exists that will happily give me a hassle-free, unsecured loan for $50,000 at 5-6% interest, via an easy to use online form, and then deliver the funds in only a couple of days... please, by all means, let me know!
I've been impressed by this as well (not just in the blender project). I think having a good leader who can maintain a clear architecture for the project has a huge impact on the consistency of the result. It can be expressed as something like coding style or source tree layout, but also affect which features make it in, and how they affect a user's workflow.

I don't know how they manage it, exactly, but it contrasts quite a bit with other projects I've seen that feel more haphazard, get-any-feature-in-and-we'll-polish-it-up-later. With blender, things feel polished long before we see them in the release.
Still pretty healthy if you include laptops, which are functionally desktops, down a bit but still quite healthy (includes a forecast): https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-...
not sure why you were downvoted. Your comment is relevant and the convention can be useful. (PHP worked exactly the same way as your first two examples, although the third would have produced <'15:22' is 15:22>.)
I think it's unfair to BTC to say that its price comes entirely from speculation on its future value. It's certainly a major component, but BTC also has value in its own right, derived from its special properties. So it's not quite like tulips, which were pure speculation.
We are absolutely not. Productive farmland in the USA is fairly expensive and farmers are extremely interested in preserving its value. Most "destroyed" topsoil is due to eg suburban developments spreading into former agricultural areas, but it's still minimal in the grand scheme of things.
Arianna Huffington has a different take on the issue. Others do as well. Davis blames federal regulation while at the sane time has retrospectively apologized for being slow to act as the crisis began.
In 99% of occurrences, yes, Audio and MIDI can be intertwined, but in this particular project, I was using MIDI CC and PC messages to change preset and parameter settings on a rack mounted effects processor.

Oh, and we needed to use SYSEX a LOT in order to intercept clock timing messages, as well as complex data like preset names and multi parameter effect settings (EQ etc.). None of the messages sent/received affected music notes at all - it was all setting configuration only.
This is not stuff you can do as a fresh grad, typically. Don't try this until you've been around long enough to demonstrate how much work you do and it's clear your boss trusts you. And even then probably really hard to do without a lot of experience.
What's wrong with convolutional nets? Geoffrey Hinton (2014)
It's a little more complex than that. Chelsea did what she thought was right (and I generally agree in principle) but the actual dump was just... everything.

It wasn't a well curated dump, much of the data wasn't whistleblowing.

If you compare how Chelsea handled it vs Snowden they are worlds apart. Chelsea wanted to be a whistleblower but IMO behaved like a leaker/dumper.

Of course intent does matter but, even though I'm very pro-Chelsea, lets not pretend Chelsea behaved admirably in how she handled the leaks.
Hand-harvestable-only crops like lettuce and tomatoes. Basically the CA Central Valley.
I love Sublime for writing anything, not just code.

MarkdownEditing (https://github.com/SublimeText-Markdown/MarkdownEditing), optionally combined with Distraction Free mode, is my preferred setup for anything that's not code: docs, blog posts, prose, etc.
I have linux distros running on 3 of my apple laptops with broadcom cards - it just meant using a nonfree firmware
Except pipe is really easy to get as a typo. It's right next to the enter key. And then you're dealing with escaping characters and before you know if you've rolled your own file format.

Been there. Use a lib that implements a documented standard, even a bad one. Only problem is Excel, which basically standardizes on CSV and occasionally mangles your data into malformed dates because reasons anyways.
Careful — some of the Unicode pseudoalphabets won't render on mobile.
The "need" for qualia?

goatlover has explained it well: Subjective awareness exists. "Qualia" is a name for the content of awareness. We know awareness exists because we have it (or are it.) We literally know nothing except as qualia.

The content of awareness is obviously mediated by our nervous system, but the subjective experience of "redness" is a mystery. (To take a simple example.)

Why is red red?

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edit: Chathamization what do you mean when you say "qualia"?
Your thoughts actually do have mass, just like the data encoded on an SSD or hard drive has mass. If thoughts are the activity state of the brain, then the mass of the thoughts would be derived from the potential energy of the electrical impulses driving those thoughts. Your memories also have mass through a slightly different mechanism.

You could also construct a physical storage medium that doesn't change mass to encode data, e.g. an array of objects which are rotated to encode state.

This spiritualistic view that thoughts have no mass == consciousness is not material is demonstrably wrong at both sides of the equation. Thoughts certainly have mass, and consciousness is certainly material as is evidenced by observing anyone with severe traumatic brain injury or degenerative brain disease.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/is-a-hard-...
5 years at Amazon, almost all as an SDE. I don't really feel like what you've said is entirely accurate.

> for every success Amazon has about a hundred failures

This ratio is off, but even if it weren't it's still not a detracting statement. At Amazon, we're allowed to fail sometimes. Try something quickly, iterate, test, and let it die. Google used to be similar, though they've 'streamlined' a bit more lately.

> outside of the AWS organization you end up working for idiots

Never worked for AWS, can't speak for them. But in my org (Fulfillment) I've worked for incredible managers and a few not-so-great ones but never anyone I'd call an idiot. This isn't a place where smooth-talkin' MBAs thrive. If you bullshit and can't back it up with results, you won't last long.

Most of the MBAs I've met at Amazon were for the Operations world anyways. The Pathways program (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/university-mba-graduate) puts new MBA grads into leadership positions at the fulfillment centers and sees what they're made of. Hard work, but if you do well you go really far very fast.
I'm currently in South Florida, that just had Hurricane Irma blow through. I have no power (but I do have a generator [1]) and the DSL is down (no dial tone on the landline). I'm currently using my cellphone as a hotspot and an iPad as a laptop. I don't have a large data plan because, frankly, I don't use my cellphone as a hotspot all that often.

But when I do, I am painfully aware of just how much crap is included on every page. Oh, Verizon makes me painfully aware. Yes, I could get the "unlimited" dataplan, but I don't use the dataplan to make it cost effective for me (the last time a hurriane knocked the power out for me was back in 2005).

And I have it good! A few of my fellow cow-orkers have even worse cell coverage than I do.

[1] Keeping the refridgerator, freezer, a couple of lamps, a few fans, and iPhone/iPad chargers going.
Yup, suddenly your parser needs to keep a count of how many nested strings deep it is.
Hello! I've been running a coding bootcamp (for free) to teach our local community. I came up with this idea because I believe that our students could benefit a lot from technical interaction with engineers. I personally know engineers who do not have time to learn web development on their own (all these technologies to choose from) and I have beta tested this curriculum with them with great success.

I hope someone finds our weekend efforts valuable. In addition to being free, I see this as a huge win on both sides. Students get to see how seasoned engineers learn and problem solve, and engineers get to learn front end development from students who do this 12 hours a day.
I'm not quite sure how your points contradict the parent saying school was about affording the expense. Saying people chose to have kids work for money doesn't seem to contradict that.
The claims of immigrants stealing jobs isn't founded in fact, and the penalties for illegal entry are wildly disproportionate compared to other countries or other kinds of administrative violations in US law. It must take considerable effort to maintain oblivion to the tide of ethnic slanders from certain quarters over the last couple of years.