skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, it worked for my RSI with semi-crippling pain when typing.
That's an inspiring story. Do you advertise yourself as a generalist or a specialist? When it comes to the actual role, how important do you feel is raw engineering ability versus managerial and political skills?
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I read the Sarno book and I didn't get anything out of it. From reading your comment it seems that it may apply to psychosomatic pain but not to pain where there is a physical cause. Is this correct? It kind of makes sense. When I am stressed I am much more susceptible to pain and disease than when I am happy.
The content distribution problem is capital-s Solved. The reason why publishers are floundering is because their product doesn't add value anymore.

As a group they have slowly been cutting out all the value-adds and buckling down on only one thing: distribution. Distribution is not valuable anymore because distribution has no marginal cost. This is classic rent-seeking. Cut your costs so far that your business does nothing, nothing except extract rent out of a pre-existing monopoly. This lasts exactly as long as it takes the market to make a competitor.

How do you win against free? Be better than free.
For a start I say we stop referring to people as lower class, middle class, upper class. It sounds like something out of a 19th century Dickens novel.
Facebook Gave Counsel  Mueller More Details on Russian Ad Buys Than Congress
Plastic is one thing that comes to mind.
It is interesting to note that ESI, the company that is sponsoring Scilab development, has recently hired the lead Octave developer too:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2017-09...

This follows up on this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603575

Furthermore, reports of the death of Matlab (in favour of Python) have been greatly, greatly exaggerated.
You're not the target market. A person with a corporate credit card is willing to pay that much to read it, in certain industries.
The usual answer to these types of questions is “In 20 years, when the patent expires.”
The Washington Post’s robot reporter has published 850 articles in the past year
They do take big risks. The average restaurant in a big city will set you back half a million on the cheap side. But owners are no way on par with employees.
Simulating lidar returns in a way that has noise similar to real devices is difficult
Is the purpose of those video games to compell you to commit violence in real life? Games and ads have completely different goals.
> The price of a good is reverting to its cost of production--near $0 for copying bytes.

That needs the word "marginal" inserted just before the word "cost".
I have a PIN that's longer than 6 digits, and it's just ingrained in muscle memory after a short time. It's not a big difference to a shorter PIN for me.
Related: x86info (which produces some similar information on x86) is cross-platform, and works on FreeBSD (and likely OpenBSD).
Yes, good point. Though text streams are still valid nowadays too, it just depends on the usage and context, whether they are that useful or not. I've seen the discussions on HN about Unix text streams vs. JSON or vs. Powershell piping objects, etc. I do know about the background of the early Unix people and the initial uses to which it was put, having read about that.
According to the video on the linked website, ZARM can do 3 drops a day with 4.7 seconds of microgravity per drop.
There has been this assumption that software is "free" for so long that many people must assume it is nearly trivial to create and maintain.

Perhaps every download page should have a preamble reminding people how many staff, how many collective years of effort, and how many dollars for laptops, web hosting, etc. went into what they are about to use. Perhaps every "./configure && make" should print a similar dump to the terminal. Put it front and center, clue people in.
As far as I know, not supported under FreeBSD yet and definitely not on OpenBSD.
Indeed. Thanks very much.

Coincidentally, the h() function up there looks very similar to what we used to render HTML in a 15-year-old Perl application that I maintained at work.
The thing about clocks is, they sit in only one position, so there's no justification for a tourbillon, which averages out the errors caused by change of position.
To me, the question sort of misses why (I believe) people use Excel instead of something else. I think people use Excel for all the things that are missing from other spreadsheets. Google gives away its spreadsheet and markets it to everyone with a Gmail account and makes it easy to use and people still pay for Excel because the cost of the missing features outweighs the price of the paid software.

Sure there are people who will express dissatisfaction with Excel. And many many use cases for which Google's product is good enough. But it is all the edge cases that Excel covers that makes it viable to standardize upon across a user base where some users have a significant level of expertise and that expertise is diverse.

To put it another way, free and available anywhere and easy collaboration are all great features. But they are not enough. Killer features will only become killer once a spreadsheet does pretty much everything Excel does (and in pretty much the way Excel does it so that muscle memory works).
I'd take a significant pay cut to have a permanent desk in something like a university library (expectation of quiet on the floor, no conference rooms around the edges with booming teleconference speakers, go to another floor if you need to collaborate).
Like I said it's a tradeoff.

For you, it sounds like it hurts more than it helps, but for others the options may be:

1. Don't use slack at all because they can't figure out how to install the correct version of libthingy.dll. Or they don't get the app at all because it's not for their platform.

2. Use slack

And in that scenario, the option they went with wins hands down.

I'm not saying it's perfect, and I still believe that giving both options would be a benefit for most, but the fact that it is done this way wasn't a "mistake", it was a tradeoff for the targeted audience solving problems that many had.
Predicting the Quality of Short Narratives from Social Media
Why were you required to dump Angular?
The dots are how the 3-D measurements are taken.

the ir dot video would spoof the 3d measurements. look into how primesense 3d cameras work.
What I Learned by Looking at 734 Playboy Centerfolds in One Sitting
I read years ago that they explained that they placed the episodes free online because they were tired of going to pirate sites to get convenient access to their own stuff.
> The purpose of this notebook is to serve as an explanation of two crucial linear algebra operations used when coding neural networks: matrix multiplication and broadcasting.

Um... no. While I like Rachel, and she's really smart and all that, this is a vaaast oversimplification.
What about in small rural towns where rent isn't as egregious?
> Let's say the drop tower is open 9am-7pm Monday-Friday, so 10 hours a day, for 5 days a week, and 50 weeks a year. That's 2500 hours of drop time a year. Let's say the building can be expected to last 100 years (probably lasts much longer, it's solid concrete after all) and cost 20 million dollars to build. Thus, you get 250k hours of drop time for $20MM, so each hour of drop time costs $80.

The drop tower does not allow things to be dropped for 10 hours each day. There are only 3 drops per day, so each day gives <30 seconds of drop time.
FreeBSD has the dmidecode command https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dmidecode

eg. dmidecode -t processor -t cache

which on my system produces the following output:

# dmidecode 2.11

SMBIOS 2.6 present.

Handle 0x0400, DMI type 4, 40 bytes
Processor Information
Socket Designation: CPU1
Type: Central Processor
Family: Xeon
Manufacturer: Intel
ID: 52 06 02 00 FF FB EB BF
Signature: Type 0, Family 6, Model 37, Stepping 2
Flags:
FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
VME (Virtual mode extension)
DE (Debugging extension)
PSE (Page size extension)
TSC (Time stamp counter)
MSR (Model specific registers)
PAE (Physical address extension)
MCE (Machine check exception)
CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
SEP (Fast system call)
MTRR (Memory type range registers)
PGE (Page global enable)
MCA (Machine check architecture)
CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
PAT (Page attribute table)
PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
DS (Debug store)
ACPI (ACPI supported)
MMX (MMX technology supported)
FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
SS (Self-snoop)
HTT (Multi-threading)
TM (Thermal monitor supported)
PBE (Pending break enabled)
Version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 530 @ 2.93GHz
Voltage: 1.2 V
External Clock: 5860 MHz
Max Speed: 3600 MHz
Current Speed: 2933 MHz
Status: Populated, Enabled
Upgrade: Socket LGA1366
L1 Cache Handle: 0x0700
L2 Cache Handle: 0x0701
L3 Cache Handle: 0x0702
Serial Number: Not Specified
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Part Number: Not Specified
Core Count: 2
Core Enabled: 2
Thread Count: 4
Characteristics:
64-bit capable
This argument proves too much. Music and app stores seem to be doing fine selling files for more than the cost of copying the bytes. Also, consider Bitcoin.
Even when accounting for losses? Employees don't lose money when the business struggles or fails.
ZARM: the Bremen microgravity drop tower
Wasn't one of the first tourbillon mechanisms in a carriage clock though?

I thought this was pretty cool regarding tourbillons:
http://www.laimer.ch/laimer_tourbillon

I'm not sure what that would be classed as though.

Edit: Oh, doh, I misunderstood you, yeah I see what you mean
What's missing in today's software is described by the field of End User Development, the ability for normal people to craft new software artifacts without the need to learn a formal programming language.

For most people, using computers means being force-feed a selection of existing applications; and most applications are pro- consumption, which is favoured by the media companies.

App stores (and the Linux repositories that preceded them) were a significant advance for the public, as they allowed common people top be able to find tools to cover their needs; previous to that, only power users were able to tune the computer to their needs.

However, non-developers still depend on the capabilities put in there by the developers, and can't fine-tune their behaviour.
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Though it is not - I believe - the case of this specific Komatsu model, electric driven dumper trucks are in production, getting rid of the transmission, examples, JFYI:

http://www.komatsuamerica.com/equipment/trucks/electric

http://www.cat.com/en_ID/products/new/equipment/off-highway-...

Basically this kind of trucks have a huge diesel engine and electric generator and four electric motors, one for each wheel.

Power is lost in the generation and powering of the electric motors of course, but there is no transmission overhead (though there is a reduction gearbox on each motor anyway).
Exactly this. Want people to publish in open access journals? Make high impact journals open access. People are going to publish in whichever journal most helps their career, not whichever journal has the best licensing scheme.

The reason traditional publishing has failed is because even at the highest tier universities there is not universal access to content or even access to the majority of content. Sure my University will buy me whatever paper I want, but I don't want to wait a day to get a paper and then discover that it is not actually pertinent to my work when I can get it on scihub in five minutes without having to fill out a request form. Until there are bundled services a la Spotify which provide access to almost everything, scihub will continue to flourish.

The issue has very little to do with price and much more to do with convenience to the researcher.
Their reaction: "With so much technological advance, so little change in human nature..."
Hey man after 3 years I just finally beat back pain - it is possible. In my case it was physical therapy until i understood the routine to strengthen the core and stretching. I also changed how I work: no sitting, ever. Laying or standing. I lost weight (i am 6'1 got down to 165). I took stretching serious, you should be able to touch your toes. You need to drink milk. For depression find a position to work while you lay down, so you can get lost in work (most don't get backpain while laying down). The data on back surgeries is not good, plain physical therapy does better. If you need something for depression I would look into edibles with lots of cbd - do your best to stay away from opioids.

ALSO: Research the anti-inflammatory nabumetone. I don't know why doctors don't bring it up. (not additive, no high)
writing diminished thinking and reasoning capacity, computers continued offloading cognitive functions to adaptive machines. dig up, stupid! is a fitting epithet.
> Hopefully nobody endures [over 38°C] on a regular basis anymore

I've heard that people go outside occasionally. Don't know, why, either. :)
I don't believe raising rates will have the damning effect of pushing automation where it is already not going.

A few years ago I saw my first self grocery checkout and the self ordering machine at a&w or the machine to buy tickets at a movie theatre. These things were coming before and shouldn't be part of the discussion where we assign it as the outcome of the wage increase.
A sign that the valley is starting to take crypto currency seriously
This is exactly how it is for me. Even when I actively thought my job was stupid bullshit and that no amount of work from me or anyone else would ever make the thing we were working on profitable or useful to anyone, feeling like I could be getting more done if it wasn't for all these distractions was a huge source of stress for me. The fact that there was no material difference to me or anyone else was ultimately sort of irrelevant.
Chips Off the Old Block: Computers Are Taking Design Cues from Human Brains
FWIW, the changes to Caddy mean I won't be using it going forward.

* I'm not going to build from source - the key differentior for me was that Caddy was _simple_. If I need to build from source, that goes away. ("I do find it ironic that the open source community is so irate about having to compile software from source to customize it the way they want" misses the point IMO - a key selling point of Caddy was HTTP2/SSL with minimal configuration, attracting people far beyond the "open source community").

* The promotional header is a non-starter for me. My current site very deliberately shows no ads and relies on as few external services/resources as possible, so I'm not happy embedding an ad in every request (I know it has been reverted, but it's still shown on https://caddyserver.com/pricing which would make me concerned about it coming back).

* The personal/commercial licence split is something I don't want to have to worry about. Currently the personal licence is fine, but what if I decide to add ads to get a few pounds a month back? It's not something I really want to have to think about.

* Pricing - I would consider paying to avoid the header/concerns about personal/commercial split, but starting at $1200/year (billed annually) is a complete non-starter. It's nowhere near what I could afford, but I'm also not seeing why you would pay that - basic email support doesn't seem compelling, there are no additional features over the free version, and it seems any company who could afford to pay it would also be in a place to build from source (or pay for an nginx consultant and get a comparable feature set).

Of course the Caddy devs are entitled to make these changes, but they make it into something I don't want to use.

Two other quick points while I'm here:

* Brand guidelines of "Please do not call it Caddy Server" seem strange when the main domain is caddyserver.com

* Linking to an EULA (from the footer of caddyserver.com) that contains e.g. "{{if eq .Type "personal"}}" is less than useful.
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Most music can be found for free on pirate sites and YouTube (but I repeat myself). The Music and app stores are providing convenience, not the actual bits.
your first point about diminishing returns posits a reasonable (if ambiguous) definition of (incremental) value to the consumer: that it should improve the lives of users.

but then you say...

> Google is a pretty big improvement over older search engines and is worth quite a lot although the price we pay as privacy is not obvious.

which is puzzling in light of your very own definition of incremental value.

is google's search engine so much better than bing or yandex or anything else that it deserves a much higher valuation? if you apply your own incremental definition of value to search itself, the billions of searches done on other search engines seems to contradict that conclusion. it seems the other search engines are just fine for many situations, so the incremental value of google's search is not high on either your "time" or "improvement to well-being" metric (price is hidden in ad revenue, but likely higher for google).

google's valuation broadly comes from (1) it's ad business and (2) speculation that google will conquer another industry, not from it's search technology per se, although search is certainly a core component of the ad business.

it seems to me the way that search contributes to value is that it exhibits winner-take-all characteristics (not considered in your model), so that even a slight (perceived) improvement leads people to flock to the better search engine en masse (which is how google won search in the first place, then they developed/borrowed the ad auction model and became a runaway financial success). by garnering more search queries, google has greater and better ad placement inventory (i.e., your eyeballs) to sell to advertisers.
That's functional vs imperative programming.
>Yet, here are people begging, pleading for their employer to make them be able to produce more for their corporate overlord.

That's not the point. Let's say I need to produce 80 UP (utility points) per day to be considered an average value producer. If I produce significantly less than that, I'm fired. Now let's assume I can do 10 UP per hour in open office plan, and 20 UP when left alone. In an open office plan I need to completely devote every single hour of my work day to producing UP. In a private office, I can only work for 4 hours per day to meet my daily quota. I can do whatever I want the rest of the time. More productivity = work less! That's what we want.
Yea, there isn't much in Pleasant Hill. There's an Air Force base, a couple of hospitals, a couple of software/web agencies, and a few other things around Dayton, though.

I work remotely for IBM, and also have a side business that's mostly wound down now.
Think dropped requests. If you're operating with 99% packet loss like many people around the world minimizing the absolute number of requests can have dramatic impact on load times.
> Thankfully the internet created another door, but we'll see how long that lasts...

Can't put the toothpaste back into the tube. The interesting thing about the Internet is that its creators were either unaware, didn't care, or more likely, didn't see as negative (regarding the economic impacts) they were creating something that would eliminate scarcity of information. Everyone else observing either shared that lack of awareness in slowing the train, or was not able to foresee the practical impacts.

Any attempt to put the brakes on now is going to be a net economic loss. Profit-seeking entities have an interest in preserving the internet as-is, even if they make occasional short term decisions counter to that (like abandoning net neutrality).

The handful of industries that profit entirely off of information scarcity will either adjust or go away. They really should spend their money finding new value streams rather than fighting piracy. That's not winnable.
I'm reminded of this passage from the delightful article "Why Chinese is so Damn Hard":

'I was once at a luncheon with three Ph.D. students in the Chinese Department at Peking University, all native Chinese (one from Hong Kong). I happened to have a cold that day, and was trying to write a brief note to a friend canceling an appointment that day. I found that I couldn't remember how to write the character 嚔, as in da penti 打喷嚔 "to sneeze". I asked my three friends how to write the character, and to my surprise, all three of them simply shrugged in sheepish embarrassment. Not one of them could correctly produce the character. Now, Peking University is usually considered the "Harvard of China". Can you imagine three Ph.D. students in English at Harvard forgetting how to write the English word "sneeze"?? Yet this state of affairs is by no means uncommon in China.'

http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

Book looks very interesting, just ordered a copy.
If I have no income, how can I pay taxes? Bushels of carrots?
I'm not sure the academic publishing industry is going to get what little goodwill the music industry has. With iTunes and so on, there's at least the idea that some small fraction of the money spent is going back to the artists.

That doesn't seem to be the case with academic publishing, where you have these purely rent-seeking corporations. Why would I want to give Elsevier my money, when the authors of the paper don't get any of it?

That's the problem academic publishing has, making it hard to recognize sci-hub as illegitimate.

(One of my happiest academic publishing experiences was when I wrote a paper while working for the US government, which meant there was no copyright for the publisher to insist on stealing from me.)
If anyone in the Boston area is interested in whiteboarding high-skill software development environments in the context of 2018/2019 hardware, I'd be interested. So: continuous speech recognition; hand tracking, controllers, and haptic exoskeletons, but still keyboards; HMDs with 30+ px/deg, and eye tracking, but still screens.

Dynabook was a nice vision. As always, society executed poorly, and failed to realize much of the potential of its technologies. No doubt that will happen again with VR/AR. For example, there's a toxic cauldron of patents brewing. Screens and keyboards and mice, have had a good half-century run. And GUIs, and personal local hardware. But perhaps time to shift focus.
There are delivery options, but lots of people don't use them.

(1) It's nice to see food first, especially produce and to a lesser extend meat.

(2) "Buy X for me every week" is where delivery shines, but you can't adjust for deals.
Running Universal Dashboard in a Docker Instance
> … my point is simply that the benchmark … tries to compare incomparable things.

That trump card wasn't actually mentioned in your original comment.

The difficulty is that programming languages (and programming language implementations) are more different than apples and oranges, but the question is still asked - "Will my program be faster if I write it in language X?" - and there's still a wish for a simpler answer than - It depends how you write it!

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...
If writing code paid no better than flipping burgers, I would still do it, because I enjoy efficiently solving challenging algorithm problems. I don't enjoy failing to solve them because I'm continually being prevented from remembering something clever I just thought of. If I only get to spend a couple of hours in the zone where I belong, either I'm in the wrong role or the wrong industry.
sagemath is monolithic, and incorporates many other foss libraries within it. Other commenters here are discussing comparing scilab with Octave, and sagemath includes all of Octave.