skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who taught themselves greek to read Homer, Aristotle, and the bible, it’s not as hard as you might think. Grab a grammar book and a dictionary for the dialect and get to work! Checking with other translations is not cheating but encouraged—that’s how you learn the subtly of obstruse (to a romantic ear) greek words like sophrosyne and common idioms.

Of course, it’s an absolutely massive time commitment, but not a terrible way to spend a sunday afternoon.
The mandate of this site is intellectual curiosity. Take a look at the first paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I'd say this video footage easily qualifies as gratifying intellectual curiosity (it did mine, anyhow), despite the provocativeness of the material. Had the discussion gone haywire we'd have downweighted the thread, but it isn't too bad.

Actually we've downweighted it a bit, but before that we turned off an automatic software penalty that applied. Balancing act.
200kmh/h is the generally accepted threshold for high speed rail.

EDIT: from the UIC website:

"In any case, high speed is a combination of a lot of elements which constitute a whole "system": infrastructure (new lines designed for speeds above 250 km/h and in some cases, upgraded existing lines for speeds up to 200 or even 220 km/h),..."

http://uic.org/highspeed#What-is-High-Speed-Rail
You make a compelling point. I will need to think more about this.
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Once you reach 120k LOC in a machine learning project, you should have split it up into disparate projects (input adapters, interactive applications, transforming results...) many orders of magnitude ago, even in verbose and refactoring-friendly languages like Java.
There is no reason to settle. It is like religion. Most people believe because of society.

That is, unless you "really" want to raise your kids. Otherwise, I'll just book to Bangkok.
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So I'm looking to integrate Machine Learning and Computer Vision with drones.

What I had in mind was having a separate computer to be the server, the drone would stream video to the server and it would use OpenCV and the like to make decisions and control the drone based on that.

So that way I can just have a video stream that I can process in whatever language I want ( Python ) and then send commands back to the drone in real time.

Which drone is best suited for this kind of task ? I heard that the parrot drones are programmable to a degree.

I like the Parrot Bebop 2 but am not sure if it's suitable for my use case.
It's more interesting that they incremented the version of the script. Apparently modifying comments justifies increasing the minor version.
you can always hide colorama's import and initialization behind try: except ImportError block, which will allow it to work when it's available, and skip when it's not.
I came to Ruby from a different direction, working on Puppet/Chef and VMware/NSX, but I came to a similar conclusion. I'd always assumed the reason I liked it so much was because I wasn't a programmer. The language operates generally as expected (to someone without a real coding background) as well as being so much more flexible and powerful than the other options available.

Since then I've done a little rails work, learned enough Python to be moderately useful, and stumbled through a few other languages. I still try to be impartial, and to use the best tool for the job, but it's always a joy when I find a chance to use Ruby again.
The US had active eugenics programs into the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
The question isn't "will this ever work?", the question is (while keeping with your airplane analogy) is Elon Musk's design closer to the Wright brothers airplane or Da Vinci's ornithopter. I'd guess the latter personally.
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
I disagree. Online dating empowers those at the top tier. By a lot.
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I am basing this on my own thought experiments while browsing jobs in various over-heated markets: Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, Boston etc. Actually, the 100% increase is understated, the true figure is probably higher depending on the inputs.

Let's say you're living in Topeka, making $75,000, you happen to own an average home with a market value of $150,000. Amazon Seattle offers you a job for $130,000. Is taking the job a better deal when the average home in Seattle is $700,000? Your $1,000 Topeka mortgage payment will quadruple consuming 50%+ of your take home pay.
> Your "refactoring" tells me that the code probably wasn't well structured in the first place

Well considering this is a realistic scenario for fallible humans, it’s still decent advice to keep your exploratory projects in python small to avoid ridiculous tech debt. It’s not quite as bad as with ruby, but it’s close.
Good response! I read your article. I agree with everything in it, but I don't think it argues that Twitter is a threat to democracy. The word democracy does not appear anywhere in it, for example.

You argued that Twitter is vacuous, empty, filled with half or quarter baked ideas and that the brevity of messages leads to anti-intellectual arguments. That it's a notch above monkey speak. And you speculated that this may have some sort of impact on society, possibly, or maybe it was just useless and a missed opportunity.

I actually never used Twitter and actively avoid it, for all the reasons you give. Still, I wouldn't argue it's a threat to democracy. The sort of people who get into empty headed Twitter fights weren't going to write rational, well thought out essays if Twitter didn't exist. They'd just not write at all.
It's easy to come up with reasons why something won't work.

But, usually, it's more productive to start with the understanding that other people are smart too, and that they may have thought of these problems. In this particular case, I believe that the original white paper addresses these points. I'm not a structural engineer, so I've no idea if their solutions are valid and I'm not saying that it's never okay to criticize, but this reads to me as if you may have fallen into the trap of forgetting that the people who designed this are very smart people, and thus likely thought of the obvious problems.
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It’s not clear eg what use you would get from sharing a language between your model training and request processing.
Mechanical storage is only efficient for bulk storage because NAND chips are still being price-fixed just like LCD panels and RAM chips before that. It's no accident it's the same manufacturers involved either. And just like those other products eventually saw a large international investigation culminating in "punishments" for global price-fixing, so will NAND. And when that happens, the fact hard drives have material costs that radically outstrip basic NAND chips (which are about as dead-simple as it gets) will very rapidly result in NAND storage offering tens or hundreds of times as much capacity for the same price. It's absurd the mechanical charade is being allowed to be perpetuated as long as it has been.

You can't make devices that deal with motors and rare earth magnets and spinning platters coated with ruthenium and other rare materials at insanely exacting tolerances, encapsulated in hermetically sealed Helium bubbles for cheaper than you can photolithographically lay out a bunch of NAND gates in cheap bulk semiconductors. There really isn't any word for it other than absurd. And the fact that NAND chips are in literally EVERYTHING means they are commoditized. Which means economies of scale make them cost almost nothing to manufacture. And yet... it still costs you 4x or more to get an SSD rather than several pounds of spinning metal? Nah, that's not how things work without help.

Why stop with microwaves? Why not make platters out of pure gold and the read/write heads out of synthetic diamond? Maybe integrate a cryogenic cooling system and store the data in a Bose-Einstein condensate? At this point it seems people will believe even that is cheaper than some NAND chips run off a line like printouts.
Minitel[dead]'s comment below is worthwhile:
> I left Kentucky for California in my early 20's. I've been making > 100k per year since then and living as cheaply as possible to hold on to it despite the cost of rent. Most of my friends back home make 20-30k a year.

> The tradeoff is that quality of life is terrible. The cities are full of petty bug people. And COL makes living standards precarious for all but the wealthy and the extremely poor (government programs). The precariousness also inhibits the formation of stable IRL (as opposed to chat group based) friend groups.

> That said, after half a decade of this I've saved enough money to go back home and use stocks, real estate, and side hustles to put down roots with a decent quality of life.

> Sometimes I feel like Odysseus on Ogygia. It's easy to be trapped in one of these hubs so long that you miss out on the chance to exit young-adulthood gracefully. (Very sad the number of friends I have who decided to start a family too late and couldn't quite make it work out).
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Good luck making it to where you want to be!

It's good to remember that different people have widely varying preferences of quality of life - urban/rural, ocean/mountain/plain, wet/dry, tropical/temperate/less-temperate, etc. I'm glad not everybody wants to live in the same place!
Yes it's possible to build, but no it's not cheap enough to make money on = not worth building.

We can build lots of fantastic things today but they would cost trillions so clearly are not a good idea. You also missed the ending about construction + maintenance, those will be the real costs and aren't likely to become radically cheaper.
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Well, you're criticizing him for only acquiring things and slapping his brand on them. But the criticism is leveled in the context of him investing in an unproven technology. It seems like your comment would be more apt if he were taking an action that follows the pattern you are criticizing. For example, if he were acquiring a computer company and calling it Virgin Computing or something.
> I thought it was common knowledge that support for Nazis in America was widespread all the way leading to American involvement in WW2.

It's certainly not common knowledge, and most school history books don't include it (at least when I was in school). They do cover the Jim Crow laws and the KKK but don't make a connection between those and Nazi ideology.

Even less common is knowledge of how much the Nazis themselves were inspired by American style racist laws and organizations:

http://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-j...

EDIT: wording
And what you focus on is to be determined by who votes for what? And that over the whole Topic of Computer Science but you probably know what I mean.

Lets say you create a Theory Hierarchy like learn-anything.xyz. Is the vote in a collection supposed to mean the most useful order in which to learn the given Theory in the Theory Collection? Or is it what is the most interesting for the educated? What is the upvote supposed to mean here?

Is the Software also to navigate alternatives to a Theory? How would you handle different focuses? What if a Book handles two Theories both located in a Theory Collection? Will it be in both Theory Strands(collection of alternatives for a Theory)?

I‘m interested in this too.

Regards.
Very much agree. Hard fork has the implication of people disagreeing to the point where two things go in the opposite direction. Whereas this is just improvement for the future. Using the term hard fork is fine, but throw "update" in the phrase to make it sound positive.
Good to know that Sylvan! Honest suggestion: you should debunk that misinformation on Quora which has a bigger audience than HN here.
It doesn't bother me too much, all in all. Distracting, sure, but then again, they found a way to draw your attention to the most important button on their website (in their opinion). It doesn't obscure the content like a popup or prevent you from closing the tab with an alert. By my book, that's playing by the rules.
HyperLoop does NOT run on an air cushion (remember, the entire tube is supposed to be nearly evacuated!), but instead floats on a maglev track.

He's also missing another requirement: 5) The entire track, including any possible expansion components, valves, inspection hatches, etc etc etc have to be at least mildly tolerant to intentional or accidental damage. Running into a sudden wall of air at 700mph is a good way to destroy any passenger craft in the system.
It seems that no matter what goes wrong with Bitcoin the price hardly reacts at all. It's been practically banned in China, its community is centralised, riven with censorship and infighting, the ledger split in two, it is presumably about to split again, fees are sky high, the network is saturated and unreliable, the innovation has gone to Ethereum, Lightning Network is nowhere to be found and actual usage can't increase due to the block size cap. Overall it's just a constant stream of bad news.

Yet the price keeps going higher. Where is this money coming from and where is it going? Is it really all coming from speculators who don't actually use the system at all or even read about it?
...yes, which is very unfortunate.

Without the moral baggage of WW2 and the unfortunate implementation history of eugenics programs in the 20th century, it may be easier for people to accept that encouraging the gradual improvement of the gene pool would actually be a positive thing for human civilization.

The one and only semi-acceptable eugenics practice in the modern West is the termination of pregnancies of Trisomy-21 fetuses. Any hint of extending that acceptance any further, and you're instantly a Nazi.
Number 3 is really massive and a large reason I picked Denver over the valley. I can wake up everyday, hike a 14er for the sunrise, and be back in the city for work. If you're into mountaineering or an outdoor lifestyle, the cost of living is easily worth it.. The great thing is what you bring up though, the cost of living isn't actually that large when wages are sky-high for techies. I live 3 blocks from my office and I don't have to spend thousands a month for some shitty studio 30 minutes away.
> Sure, but did we need continuity? Also, if you want to be awkward, you can get around this by using the discrete topology

This is indeed possible - but this is clearly not the topology that "ordinary people" and physicists mean when talking about continuity of functions from R^n to R^m.
Running a node is more like running an email server, rather than just using email. If you're running a server you should keep up with things.

If, say, you use a hardware wallet and MyEtherWallet to issue your transactions, then you don't have any updates to make.
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If you already have a good stack that you're very effective, the switching cost may not be worth it.

However, if you're more algorithmically focused, python is a great DSL
Kristelnacht happened around that time, concentration camps (the final solution) came later. I imagine that from a foreign/non-jewish perspective nazi militarism and expansionism (Czechoslovakia, Poland & Austria) were way bigger deals than racism.

Anti-jewish state action and/or thuggery was relatively commonplace. Kristelnacht is just another pogrom without the historical context making it the symbolic first blood of the holocaust.
Cost of living is higher and the increase pay doesn't always make up for it...but also keep in mind the non-tangibles. If you move to one of those areas, you're going to surround by some of the top tech talent in the country. That means you're learning, collaborating, competing, and socializing with some of the best peers you could have anywhere. That has a lot of career advantages...mobility, huge potential for upside, exchange of ideas, etc. It also boosts the standards of local universities, schools, etc.
What relevant stack of Microsoft technology are you hoping to leverage for high performance numerical computation? Surely nothing involving .NET.
Python for Windows and Python extensions can be compiled with Visual Studio; I don't see other ways to be more Microsoft-friendly.
My friend, these are incredible insights I honestly haven't got the chance to consider deeply yet. I'll get back to you asap
unless you tell Ben Affleck to fuck off.
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Most DL researchers are more into math/stats/theory than programming and Python is faaar easier to pick up and grok than java/.net/etc.
The track should be cheaper because hyperloop has (almost) no impact on existing infrastructures. Expropriation costs for train are huge.
It seems to me that a system with zero efficiency gap would be equivalent to one big election with proportional representation. If that's what people really want, why talk about voting districts at all?
I'm not sure I like the name "Efficiency Gap" but the metric of "require the overall district results be within a certain range of the popular results" seems pretty straightforward to me.

I've always thought they should just reverse the order of operations. Instead of having people draw the districts, then machines evaluate them, they should have machines draw a bunch of potential "low efficiency gap" districts, then let people pick the best ones.
Definitely agree that more, better transit would have a much bigger impact.

But I'd say the problem of commuter rail is frequency, coverage station locations, acceleration, level boarding, dwell times etc etc. Given that line speed is dictated by acceleration and dwell times, top speed is really far down the list of priorities.

Also, top speed of commuter rail is already up to 200km/h (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALP-45DP).
Does he not realize that you can't just take up all the slack at the ends? That would mean the pylons nearest the station would be pushed over around 300 feet. How would the hyperloop stay elevated without pylons?
Such a great idea. It's too bad that Twitter doesn't embrace it's programmer base and add integrations like this.

A Zapier-like platform, made available to all Twitter users.
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On my laptop (plugged in) I'd much rather donate CPU cycles than deal with ads/trackers/malware/etc.

If I could generate credits when I'm plugged in on my laptop, then use those credits later from my mobile, I wouldn't have to worry about battery.

Even better, if I could generate credits over-night when energy is cheapest - maybe I'd have enough credits to browse the internet ad-free the next day while supporting the creatives/content-producers.
Ask HN: Interest for online bootcamp on Hive/ETL?
I've recently found myself doing a fair amount of ETL work. There seems to be huge demand for this type of expertise, but it hasn't hit the bootcamp scene yet like "data science". Is there any broader interest for training materiels/tutorials/courses?
I don't know much about that, but ever since the 'Traingate'[1] spectacle I've lost all respect for Branson.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47fqjA8CwGE
Ethereum foundation is not the custodian of the network. This is a debatable point, since it's not perfectly clear what that would mean. Ethereum Foundation doesn't own the miners or the validating nodes on the network, and can't control who joins or what software they run. Like other development teams, they can propose and try to drum up support for upgrades, which they've been successful at so far.

Detractors of Ethereum would prefer to view the Foundation as having much greater influence over the network, since that would mean it's less centralized. Proponents of Ethereum on the other hand would say Ethereum Foundation's role is similar to that of Bitcoin Core, except the divisiveness hasn't set in yet (or in the case of Ethereum Classic, opposing factions split off before it got bad).
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> they plan to have a 1.0 release by the end of the year.

Actually that was delayed to next year.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/crystal-lang/k0yjUGfzc...
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People often, rightfully so, confuse the misappropriated name of Hyperloop One with Elon's Hyperloop idea, his of which I believe does have sound economics and certainly its pro list outweighs Hyperloop One's technology.
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He's worth $5 billion. He's a high-school drop-out dyslexic that started from nothing. He built a successful airline and record label, along with countless successful branded companies whose success partially rides on the vast effort he has put into building his own well-known brand - a substantial feat unto itself.

Yes, golly gee, what HAS he done.
Sure, it's a combination of political/social/economic factors but "futuristic" doesn't seem to have much impact right now (if it ever really did). NASA's trip to the moon was funded by war motives and we've since had the decline of both the space station and the shuttle programs. It's great to see SpaceX doing new things but there's definitely profits in reducing launch costs (again driven by war and business motives).

What exactly is the Hyperloop going for? Short trips are already served by buses, subways and light-rail. World-wide trips won't be feasible against air travel anytime soon, and will probably require the same security procedures as flying because of the speeds and risks involved, especially if crossing national borders.

So connecting major metros is the potential scenario but airlines have already proven that the vast majority want wifi and food so we can be productive and entertained in transit rather than paying a big premium to save a few hours.
CS PhD and professional software engineer here. I can edit files very slowly and inefficiently in both vim and emacs but it would be a mess to use them for real work.

Some people never learned either of the editors. So what? The physical act of writing text was never the hard part of software engineering.
...what are you even responding to?
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It's here too:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/
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Wowza, 5" bellow is $450, how cheap could they make 6' one, even in bulk?
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If I had to guess, I would say that there is at least some benefit to having politics be local. That is, it may be better to ask people to choose between a small number of "local" candidates, rather than a large cohort of state-wide candidates.