skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this to see if anyone else thinks this too, it looks like Discrete Multi-Tone that is used in DSL, to me.
>Do those apps that 14 year olds work on require an in depth understanding of how threads work?

I am constantly surprised that when other CS students in my classes have zero idea how anything beyond the particular language we're learning works. Even in higher skill-level classes that require a fair amount of proficiency with the language if you asked what the length of the pointer they just properly used was all you would get is blank stares.
Even Pokémon Go used by extensive Russian-linked meddling effort
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Mysteries of worm regeneration solved with artificial intelligence – ExtremeTech
Here’s one, you buy a Mac and use it for 5 years with all your Mac software you bought and then you decide to switch to a pc. None of the software can be used on the pc, and you have to buy it all again for the new machine. Consumer hates it, developer loves it. The intangibility of software makes for a bad comparison to using/buying physical goods. Switching does suck for consumers, but I think you’re very wrong about it being shitty for developers. They have a new opportunity to sell their product! Also, there’s a reason why vendors pay a huge premium for Costco shelf space - it’s worth it. To have instant access to Costco members for vendors is a big deal, otherwise they wouldn’t be there.

Another thought...we live in a capitalist society (assuming you live in the US). With the customer base that Costco has, you can’t realistically expect them to give away the most valuable thing they have to vendors, can you? Sure if you run a single convenience store you can’t charge for shelf space, but if you run 1000 of them you probably can. So if you’re Microsoft for example, you need to beg developers to build apps for your mobile OS because the value proposition i.e. paying users just aren’t there. Flip that story on its head and you have Apple.

Also, I don’t quite understand what you mean in your last point....
It's really frustrating how hard it is to properly manage/use a resource like the ocean.

We're not running out of chicken, but we are running out of fish.
Eh, no, there's no special Vitalik key.
This stuff is compelling, especially after having recently read Ready Player One. However, how do you type? There's all this talk of how this tech is great for programmers, with tons more screen space, etc... but unless I just missed it somehow, don't see where a normal keyboard fits into the picture.
1. it seems to be more complex than that. i mean, if you look at, say, the SEIU's position on immigration, it does not oppose additional immigration to the US. if anything, the SEIU has taken a pro-immigration position: http://seiu.org/cards/solutions-for-immigration-reform-expla...

2. protectionism from people insecure of their ability describes both tech workers and tech companies. Google, Facebook, Apple et al have increased their political presence in recent years with additional lobbyists. corporations love an unfair playing field as much as anyone.
All the shady and under the table transactions of APP development industry
"India" is a huge country that includes some of the tallest and coldest mountains anywhere in the world. There are places in India where heating is required 100% of the time.

I'm unaware of how much of New Delhi needs heating. Even tropics can be cool at night.
This isn't something that is forced. All of these are planned from the beginning. Frontier -> Homestead -> Metropolis -> Serenity.
I like your response, however I refrain from future arguments because I'm never right and probably the other side is neither. I guess this is more of a circumstantial issue, maybe in the future there is no radical change of employment or maybe UBI gets implemented for a totally other reason.
Will this lead to a new coin, or is everybody in agreement this time?

Also, what's the plan for ETC, will that also hard fork?
Yup, companies like Accenture have been doing new hire "training" programs for well over a decade. It's a great way for young college grads who didn't go to one of the elite schools that the Googles of SV recruit from to get over the "Jr. Engineer with 3 years experience" hurdle.
AR and HUD are two completely different things.

AR is way more technically challenging but the payoff IF you pull it off is not even comparable to HUDs like google glass and the examples you mentioned.

AR actually "augments" your reality, for example it makes you believe some "thing" that's not actually there IS at that spot.

HUD is just information display and it doesn't have to fix whatever it's displaying at a certain point.
Tesla Recalls 11,000 Model X SUVs Over Possible Seat Issue
That's the crux of what's wrong with commuter rail thinking in North America: "Serving the city is what the subway is for". Your original post, asking for 200km/h commuter rail, is a sign of it.

There's a meaningless separation of modes based on technology, and ascribing attributes to them. In Japan or Europe, the technologies are converging and so are the modes. Any infrastructure will have it's utilization maximized, and may function as what North Americans understand as 'commuter rail', subway' or 'light rail' all at the same time.

The result: more coverage, more service, better integration of services, more overall effectiveness, more ridership, less reliance on driving.
Germany shares closer and deeper ties with both countries than most would imagine in modern days.

Propaganda aside and looking at facts, one company is providing access to review their source code and the other one is not.

Which one of them is a terrible idea to purchase?
Even variable names are usually not lost.
Gave the railways to BNSF for basically free? I presume you're talking about the land grants back in the 19th Century; nothing else I can think of counts as "giving for free". Even then, though, the (Federal) government gave the railroads land for the track, plus blocks of land on the side. They didn't give them rail, much less an already-built railroad. True, the railroads were able to sell the land off to the side for money. But the government also required the railroads to carry the US Mail for less than cost. That continued until World War II, when the Federal government, desperate for additional money to fight the war, allowed the railroads to buy their way out of the obligation. That's hardly "for basically free" - it's an expense for the next 70 years, with a balloon payment at the end.
The author of this piece is clearly incredibly well read and yet it seems she read all of these classical works with disdain for their authors or at least with the deeply held belief that they can't truly be taken seriously. That belief is probably so deeply held that she's not even aware that she holds it.

I know that in my own experience I grew up thinking that way. When you truly accept that we today are not smarter nor necessarily more 'enlightened' than the people that came before us it opens your mind to the lessons of history in a very real way.

>After all, if we cling to this primitive idea that an addictive substance must be eradicated, and if we live in a world in which sex and food are considered addictive, where does that leave us as a species?

Have you considered that this "primitive" idea comes up over and over again among great thinkers and writers throughout human history because there's something to it? Do you think people today live happier, more fulfilling lives because food is superabundant to the point of excess and sexual proclivities are uninhibited?

Why are you so sure?
If you need employees who are committed to the success of the company, then you can't really "get away" with paying them less. If you have competition, having loyal motivated employees can make a difference and provide a competitive edge.

But if you don't need loyal motivated employees, paying extra for that is unnecessary and basically just very inefficient charity.
I agree with the substance of what you say but I don't think it's wrong to invite everyone to have a general sense of the big picture.

And by big-picture standards, because of the way the US is constituted, the questions that make their way to SCOTUS are usually pretty strange.
AFAIK in the US, you're not required to check in with local authorities when you move to a new city (contrary to many European countries where you need to notify them, else you'll be fined), so there's no official register the IRS could use to find all taxpayers... maybe that's the background.
Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache
Are you sure that their numerical method isn't new? The abstract says that the author created it in 2009 and this paper further develops it to apply to the three body problem. If it already existed, can you say why it had not already been applied to the three body problem?
For CTOs: the no-nonsense guide to containers
These companies do on-the-job training. The problem is that a college degree in computer science or software engineering doesn't actually prepare you to work at these companies. It makes you effectively literate, so that you are feasibly trainable.
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Having more code technicans is great. I'd love to have more people to help maintain shit, write documentation, do small bug fixes etc...

There will be a differentiation between Engineers and Coders soon. Hooking up to a few different APIs, doing some JS and HTML does not count as engineering.
It's a good measure of the values of our culture that the only argument we can make (that has even a remote change of working) against willfully causing the extinction of great numbers of species is "those species might be useful to us in the future for medicine or engineering".
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928761/
I think true spaghetti code requires teamwork. I mean that seriously. You need at least 3 people all with different incomplete and incorrect mental models trying to modify the same codebase at the same time.
For me, it's just another way of thinking about change. Even when a value changes over time, it is possible to capture or model an immutable truth about it: the relationships that determine each new value.
What exactly happens when the user modifies the field customer.name but doesn’t hit save/trigger customer.http.update()? I usually resolve this by mirroring customer.name to this.formData.name and having a reset property for this.formData.

Also how does it work with nested models returned from the server? Can I do user.tickets.push(newTicket) in some form?
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Product strategy: What to avoid for a perfect product strategy
That's like saying I should tell everyone who has cancer to eat more salad because it's healthy, even though there is little hope that salad makes the cancer disappear or affects it at all. Got cancer? Just eat more salad!
Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias
As for verbiage, you may want try the phrase you later used in a follow up post. It's not really your personal data. After all, it was data from an interaction with another entity which makes it their data as well.

So, personally identifiable information (PII) is a less-debatable phrase and more legally defensible.

In the first case, if you do business with a bank then the data from that belongs to the bank as much as it belongs to you. They are reporting their information, namely that you interacted with them. Thus, that information would belong to them.

In the second case, it is personally identifiable information - which is something that's difficult to dispute. This also gives you interest in that data which is a stronger point to stand on.

As mentioned before, I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. However, I have extensive experience with the justice system due to my career and have taken quite a few classes concerning the law.

Also, the word 'shall' has stronger implications than 'will.' I am not sure why but it is handy to know. The defendant will comply vs. the defendant shall comply.

Best of luck.
I did the same trying to write a Minecraft clone back in 2012: https://github.com/beager/craftalike

I'm very much not proud of the code, it's sloppy, incomplete, quite copy-pasta. But it helped me learn a lot of concepts about game dev that a web dev wouldn't know, and it was tremendously exciting to create something in code that you could compile and play around with. No regrets.
... and the ability to be trained into learning arbitrary skills is IQ. Higher IQ means its easier to train yourself into being able to use a new system of thinking.

Like, being a soldier doesn't require any sort of exceptional intelligence either. It doesn't even require average intelligence. What it requires is an IQ of 85 - below that point, and the US army cannot effectively train you to become a soldier. Despite having every incentive in the world, the US army still rejects about 15% of the population.
This is quite clear terminology in cryptoworld, although I can understand why people are a bit confused with the events that unfolded in August. A hard fork is any fork where new nodes produce blocks that old nodes do not accept (and vice versa). A soft fork is one where new nodes produce blocks that old nodes accept, but not the other way around (e.g. new nodes reject blocks made by old nodes). That's it.

So this _is_ a hard fork, albeit not a very contentious one. And it _will_ result in a chain split, with the minority chain probably having low activity/worth due to (1) lack of support (2) the ice age which will increase block times to slowly kill it (and that it itself has to be hard forked to stay alive).
A tangential question: to what extent are conscious processes conflated with symbolic/linguistic processes which have an explicit reification that can be conveyed to others?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keepasshttp-c...

source: https://github.com/smorks/keepasshttp-connector
I think he's planning on making lots of tunnels.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-test-tunnel/
I'm not for or against, I just don't understand the market. I had whale prepared a few different ways in Japan and they only decent preparation was thinly sliced and raw. It just tasted like a tougher, slightly fishier, worse version of beef. I could understand it if it was significantly cheaper than beef, since domestic and even imported beef can be pricey. But it's often times more expensive than anything but the highest quality.

I expect the market will slowly collapse as the Japanese who grew up eating it in school slowly die out. Most people my age had never even eaten it.
Global state causes code to be spaghettified. Having worked on several code bases that qualify as spaghetti code, the hallmark trait is that the execution flow is wound back around itself many times, like noodles in a bowl of spaghetti, in a way that's not easy to trace. You may have nice abstractions or none. You may have deeply nested type hierarchies or a seemingly nice flat structure. You may be using an IoC container with neatly separated services. None of it matters, you can get spaghetti code with all of them.

Just use global state! Then you can have something where Module A depends on Module B. Now, at one point Module A calls into Module B which fires off an event that's handled in Module C that then calls back into Module A. If that event is going through a pub/sub notifier, bam, hidden global state. Good luck tracing that subtle bug down when you swapped out implementations of Module C thinking the new one explicitly filled the contract of the old one, or worse yet not realizing Module B indirectly depended on C in the first place, and that A's response to the call from C may repeat the cycle several times. Soon you realize everything depends on everything else and your tooling does you no good. That's spaghetti code, just as bad or worse than the gotos sprinkled through some ugly C code that an undergrad wrote in the 80s.
Your Audi runs?!?
My probably naive intuition says that if you had a system with two "suns" in the centre rotating around each other very closely, and one distant planet rotating about the centre of mass of the two suns, that would be stable surely?
My guess is they are using partial classes and generating a bunch of the code from other, much simpler files.
So that's basically the original proof-of-stake design. People figured out various ways to attack it (at least in theory, I don't think there's been a successful attack in the wild).

Ethereum's version is a bit different: to stake, you have to lock up your ETH for at least four months. Then you have your node start betting your staked ETH on which blocks will be accepted by the network. The blocks which are accepted are the ones that get the most stake-weighted bets.

You start with low-confidence votes that won't lose much when you're wrong, see what everybody else does, and progress to high-confidence votes that pay off better when you're right. There's a little bit of inflation plus transaction fees so it's not a zero-sum game, and it all converges on finalized blocks.

This is somewhat analogous to mining; if there's more than one finalized block available, miners have to pick one to build on, essentially betting their electricity on which block will be accepted by everyone else.

Here's an interesting FAQ:

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
Oops, not public.

Downtown SJ bank buildings under a reddish-brown sky. Taken at noon today.
I already use a Das Ultimate keyboard. No key caps. It's pretty straightforward to learn the keyboard if you don't fall back on looking. It's like full immersion in a foreign language. If you _have_ remember things, then you will.

So I can type while wearing an Oculus Rift. It's not a problem. And I'm sure you can do it too.
> Studies have shown that psychological issues, often caused by pain or unmet needs in childhood, are far more likely to lead to an addiction to something than that something (whatever it is—heroin, sugar, sex) is likely to cause an addiction in a psychologically healthy, happy person who has the skills to cope with the stuff life constantly throws at us.

Obviously having studies is nice, but I feel that this is pretty intuitive (I wonder why/if Dr. Andrew Doan would disagree).

With that said, I think the correct headline would have been "Socrates Would Have Wanted Us to Unplug." And, because it's Socrates we're talking about here, we can't really take him seriously. I'm not sure about him being the Ur-millennial, but he was certainly the Ur-troll. The author herself admits she's being a bit facetious (w.r.t. books), but I think the distinction is important.

> Plato probably would have approved of Waldorf- or oppressive-Religious-homeschooling-style extremism—hell, he kind of invented it—and if we want to follow in his great tradition we should not only ban all screens but also all forms of writing and most literature.

This is really pushing it. Quoting from his "Republic" is kind of iffy because it's hard to tell whether or not the book is meant to be serious, sarcastic, taken literally, or taken in semi-jest. Interpretations vary wildly.

Either way, the article was a great read and I wholeheartedly agree with the conclusion that instead of demonizing substances (or video games), we need to fix the underlying psychological issues.
On top of that, my experience of (southern) Californian roads is that they are muuuuuch wider and take up much more space than the coaster/amtrak train tracks take up, so roads have been much more damaging to historic sentimental land than rail is or would be.
If the user modifies customer.name and then doesn't trigger save, nothing happens, ie: doesn't persist to the backend.

To "reset" a form, I guess you could get it again from the server via customer.http.fetch()
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Thanks for that, belly laughing. One common thread of these "brilliant" dismissals, mine included, is that they undervalue how much people don't like going through technical hurdles with products and how much they will pay to avoid them and get on with what they want to do. Also, for ambitious goals like hyperloop, many assume technical challenges are insurmountable.
I never heard it from that perspective - only from below, as in "I'm not paid to worry about such things". (And/or implied not qualified, which is how I read my OP-ish.)
In proof of stake a single node decides what the next block added to chain is. This node gets the block reward and any transaction fees. They don't have to do any calculations, they simply get to decide, according to a set of rules, which transactions are in the next block. (Ethereum complicates this a bit by having multiple nodes "bet" which blocks will be accepted, instead of just one node choosing the block)

In order to decide who gets to be this node, people Stake coins. The probability that you are the chosen node is proportional to the number of coins you have staked. If you are chosen, and you do something against the rules, like double spend coins and try and add this to the next block, then you lose your staked coins.

So instead of rewards being proportional to hashing power, they are proportional to staked coins.

This is still being tested, but it's going pretty well.
Plato was going to every tables (banquet) where rich men were filling his plates in hope he would use his sharp tongue to advocate the idea that democracy (people rule) sucked and that only the best (aristos)/wealthiest should rule.

Plato being such a venal corrupted dickhead if he were alive, I am pretty sure he would convince us to stay plugged with the latest iphone, trust google, and vote zuckenberg

If plato were alive he would have a WS/SV sponsored reality show
Exactly.
And to paraphrase some other comment read in this thread:
"It's 1000s years that people practice religion, so it must imply that it is good for them".
Mindfulness or meditation is just the usual wave of religion or spiritualism or whatever you want to call it mimetized as something more exotic and powerful.
The peculiar thing is that for the most part the self-professed atheist are the most fervent proponents of this.
So maybe it is true that spirituality is an innate need of the human race...
IQ just means potential not capability. Given enought time I believe most people can be trained to do almost any job.

I don't think our brain suddenly evolved in 200 years from illiterate peasants to software engineers. We just have more school time these days.
Those CTOs.... they really need things presented in the simplest possible way.

Ideally crayons and paper.
Reminds me of the ol'Amiga days with Imploder compressor
I agree. But then again, I'm like a completely different programmer than I was a few years ago, and even more different than I was years before that. I've got some long running personal scripts and projects I tweak every so often, and the end result is pretty much the same. "What the hell was I doing here? Whatever... I'll just add a bit of code and get it working. Done."
Well I didn't do it without losing a life! It was a little more luck than judgement though. I beat him on my last life (and I had quite a few at that point).

I still remember the music from that scene having this awfully jarring "DURRR-DUNNN" tone siren in it that was rather disturbing. Not... Sonic drowning music disturbing, but close
But how do I know when to fetch? With my approach global state is not modified until the user explicitly does it. Modifying customer.name and not saving it will persist until the next fetch() and in the meantime the user will see it as if the name was actually saved.
Why is that a good start? They are ex employees. Perhaps they are no longer there because they quit due to bad leadership, bad security, bad company ethics, or maybe they were fired for continually reporting their security flaws?

I get that some people like meting out punishment, but it seems like a good idea to limit it to the people responsible.