skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pursue what you are passionate about, but be realistic about how you are going to work and handle the real issues that come with being an adult and having a family (if this is your goal).

My daughter is pursuing a degree in Art at a good university. I gave her the same talk. As she seems to have some genetic predisposition to computers and science (and math, though if you ask her she'll claim that the tests lie), she looks like she'll be mixing computer science and/or engineering into this.

My wife and I struggled to find a solution to the two body problem [1], which is part of what informed our collective decision. As much as I wanted (at the time) to be a physics prof, I saw my contemporaries struggle for years afterwards, with low pay, long hours, while having to put up with a spouse in a different city (and often a different state/coast), as their solution to this problem. That didn't appear to me to be a solution. And in the language of theoretical physics/mathematics, this problem did not appear to admit a general closed form, simple solution.

The FSU collapsing was a large part of my (really our) choice (we got married in grad school). The lack of "secure" job until early 40s (tenure track starting around 35, decision around 40-42) caused us to rethink what was important to us.

The trajectory you take is one you should undertake with eyes clearly open, aware of all the pitfalls on the path you take to the end point. And have a few concepts in mind for plans B and C in case plan A's endpoint becomes out of reach for any reason.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-body_problem_(career)
That's definitely not true. The first two sentences are clearly statements of fact. The third is pointing out something interesting.

In the "view from nowhere" style, a journalist would get quotes from experts to make those points. But The Economist writes as an expert. They work from a clearly established and frankly declared viewpoint. That's why people read them

If you believe their facts are wrong, you should demonstrate that. Indeed, they regularly print letters from people claiming that. But as far as I can tell, you just don't like their viewpoint.
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The Guardian has been pushing the line that non-Guardian news sources are 'dangerous for democracy' for a long time now. Other similar publications like the NYT have the same viewpoint.

It's impressive double think: what they mean is, exposure to views they disagree with might cause people to vote against things Guardian writers like and for things Guardian writers dislike, therefore, it's important that such people are not exposed to "wrong" views. The assumption that the Guardian can't or shouldn't argue against those views is held very deep - if they took opposing views seriously and tried to engage in debate, that would "legitimise" such views or worse, they might lose the argument.

I used to be a Guardian reader. I read it religiously around the time Snowden's stuff was getting published there. But I came to find it manipulative and extremist. The amount of vitriolic hate they publish in their comment is free section is very disturbing. If they go bankrupt I won't miss them.
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Ok, maybe you can give an indication of what is the period of independence of Catalonia and a reference.

You mentioned Orwell’s “On Catalonia” but I’m not aware of such a book. I guess you mean “Homage to Catalonia” but I don’t know what makes you think that the region was independent during the Spanish Civil war. Orwell clearly thought he was in Spain.

(Edit: by the way, I don’t know where do you see the circularity of the references in the wikipedia links. Are you suggesting that these proclamations didn’t happen?)
That wasn't really what I intended to suggest. I wasn't suggesting that it specifically inspires people to plan to pretend to die at sea.

I was thinking more like a) it makes them feel less like incompetent dolts for not readily escaping their own problems, because, yes, you can disappear, but, wow, what a cost to pay and b) it fuels the imagination that perhaps escape from their current problems is possible (without such extremes of drama and suffering), if they keep at it.
You believe you're contradicting them here:

> Globalization has primarily benefited the poor

But you aren't. It is simultaneously possible for globalization to have strongly benefited the poor and for "Globalisation [to have] disproportionately benefited the rich in part by rewarding capital more handsomely than labour."

They quite regularly make the point that trade has broad benefits, and on net they're fans of globalization. But unlike you, they are willing to hold that opinion while simultaneously noting that not everything about it is perfect.
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What are your Unix pipeline commands that saved you from lot of coding/time?
Again, I would like you to show your numbers, because I am not seeing the vast majority being owed to retirees, either.
I like that people making life and death decisions for others are sleep deprived.
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Ask HN: What alternatives to Powerpoint/Prezi are there?
I'm doing a lot of teaching and I've been using PowerPoint. I recently saw some people use Prezi and liked what they were able to do to map concepts visually to make them easier to understand. Unfortunately, it looks like a lot of the features that made Prezi powerful have been neutered in Prezi Next and isn't able to do a lot of what I'm looking for (no path editing, no infinite canvas, etc). What alternatives are there?

Some requirements for me:

* WYSIWIG editor
* Tutorials
* Infinite canvas/Path editing
As shmerl noted, The Machine turned out to be vaporware and they released something significantly different under the same name. HP couldn't mass produce memsistors. :-(

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207897-hp-kills-the-mach...
The creator is Ishac Bertran who hails from Barcelona. He currently lives in Seattle, and developed the project while at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Seems like a pretty international individual.

http://ishback.com/about.html
And then there are media companies that try to shoe-horn 1) into 2) because it gives them more control over the user and allows them to track the user and serve them ads.

If only there was a way to collectively punish this type of behavior.
When talking about cost recovery of transportation systems, we absolutely should talk about the positive and negative externalities of those systems.

Transit systems and roads for private vehicles provide massive benefits to society in terms of mobility. Transit systems have different (i.e. better) scaling characteristics when very many people require mobility. Also, the shared marginal cost characteristics make it a better fit for offering lifeline service to the poor.

In terms of negative externalities, society’s private vehicle fleet is a major source of polution, often the major source of polution proximate to where humans live. And then there’s the > 10x 9/11s worth of traffic fatalities that we in the United States endure each year.

So yes, we absolutely should consider the mobility benefits of roads and transit systems in context of cost recovery. As someone with a background in transportation planning, I’m inclined to think that the United States is a little too obsessed with cost recovery for transit systems, and is pretty blind to cost recovery for the public infrastructure that serves our private vehicle fleet.
No, this is incorrect, and you are clearly inexperienced on the subject of being poor, or rich. Perhaps somewhere in between?

I started off poor. I worked very hard. I'm much richer now as a result of it. Nobody will ever take that away from me.
Ah, Google. The tech gods giveth standards, and the tech gods taketh standards away.

This is what happens when you let a single vendor define web standards, and have a majority share of the browser market. They can take their toys and go home, and websites won't support what they don't support.
Is there anything you would recommend instead? Or any resources you have on hand to get more information?
Having the model produce realistic interpolations through areas of the latent space that had no associated training data is surely something that people will be trying to make happen.
Is there any indication they’d like to leave the EU as well? Aren’t they very pro EU?
You're just restating the same mathematical impossibility. Compounding means that since you only pay sales tax at consumption rich people will pay much less as they will invest before the tax and have gains on all that pre-tax money. Estate tax is also definitely not higher than sales tax pretty much anywhere in the world. In the US in particular estate tax is only paid on very large estates which excludes almost everyone that matters for this calculation. For the purpose of this calculation estate tax is 0.
For me, this sums it up [0]. I prefer HN to Redit because it's snappy. But every site I've ever worked on that didn't start off with a good front-end framework wound up being a huge mess on the front-end. The front end generally becomes more and more complex even for simple sites.

"Can we add discussions to this page?" "Great! Now, can they be live-updating?" "Great! Now, can we have a nice little notification counter?" "Great! Now can it be collaboratively edited?"

Eventually, the front end becomes a monstrosity.

When starting out, if you just plan for a complex front end, and choose a well-structured framework, your life as a developer will be much less painful. Yes. It's overkill for a blog. But who among us is really building a simple blog? We're building applications that happen to run in the browser.

[0] https://hackernoon.com/why-does-this-site-require-javascript...
And kids between kindergarten and their last year of highschool who need to be pushed to get ready for school, sometime by 6:50 a.m.
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I don't read it as a tantrum. It is an accurate description of the attitude that prevails in SOME Silicon Valley corporations:

1) Take an existing valuable codebase and add some personal touch.

2) Promote the heck out of it.

3) Slowly, people associate all the goodness with said company and the "new" codebase.

4) Tell critics to take a hike.
1. One would think there is a big correlation between people that think that the referendum was not valid, and people who did not vote.

2. Ballots were only overseen by proindependence people, and questions regarding tampering have been raised. A small number of radicals* should suffice to widen the gap with a normal voting process.

* I define "radical" here as someone that seems justifiable to create fake vote or vote multiple times, gaming the election process, for the "greater good"
Not at the moment. About a year ago I did a proof of concept that replaced ActiveSupport's Inflector module with a fully working Crystal version, which was then compiled as a native extension. Since then, language changes have broken the way that I had things hooked up, although it was suboptimal anyways.

There is another strategy using macros, which is much better. I wasn't familiar enough with macros when I first tried it, which is why it was a bit hacky.

Crystal's core team has plans for a DSL to do this, so there will surely be something nice in the future. It's definitely feasible, and the performance was decent.

If you're interested (just remember mine's broken with current Crystal), my work is https://github.com/phoffer/crystalized_ruby and a macro approach is demonstrated at https://github.com/spalladino/crystal-ruby_exts
I (at least partially) wish I didn’t spend so much time looking for my „true calling” (which I didn’t find), and just ground my way to early retirement in high paying jobs. The search made me a more interesting person, but without it, I could be retired already.
How about Sozi? its an extension for inkscape - http://sozi.baierouge.fr/
Come for the brutality at 0:16, stay for the HOVERCRAFT at 0:54:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQpO9UJhck

It's goofy rather than grim, but it is still pretty damn sinister.
I think you're about 12 months behind. The cost of the (LIDAR) sensor suite is down to $5000 from $50-100k and poised to go lower, and the processing power needed in the trunk is being achived with simple dev boards that cost as much as an enthusiast GPU. You can buy an off-the-shelf Vega GPU and have tens of teraflops on your desk.

That's still more money than not having those components in your vehicle, for sure, but that's well within luxury car territory and costs are still coming down rapidly.
You install tariffs on the products and services of those corporations attempting to subvert the taxing authority, utilizing payment networks if necessary to capture the tariff.
Kind of sad to see such a generic "journalism is bad!" rant with IMHO useless generalizations at the top of the comments here, instead of a discussion of the specific example. Yes, the relationship between Facebook and the media is problematic, but that doesn't mean every journalist using it "sold his soul" and that Facebook shouldn't be careful about how they experiment with changing this.

I get cutting down on noise, but it sounds like they made following a page basically irrelevant (since the "explore" tab apparently has "recommended content it thinks you might find interesting, including posts, articles, photos and videos from sources you haven’t followed yet" (https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/18/facebooks-discovery-focuse... ). That sounds a bit much.

Large media companies that "sold out" might be able to afford to promote some stories (which then will have to have a higher profit, pushing even more click-bait?), but for smaller actors as described in the article that seems unlikely. That kind of sounds like this move pushes what you dislike about "journalism" even more?
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HPKP doesn't protect against MITM via locally installed trust anchors. It explicitly permits that in both Chromium and Firefox.
I thought it was interesting that 2 objections raised by Steve Jobs so he "could feel in control" are actually normal UX items and have been ever since. (smooth scrolling, selecting text being an outline)

Maybe this is a difference between someone totally focused on feel and experience versus pure computer science.
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Front-end developers could solve all of this by just learning the base technologies of HTML, HTTP, CSS, and JS really well and ignoring everything else.

We're at a beautiful point in web development where browsers are finally unified on open standards, and we're all too locked into these outdated JS frameworks to take advantage of it.
Because Sum_{i=0}^{k} a_i = a_0 + Sum_{i=1}^{k} a_i.

When k = 0, the left side equals a_0, while the right side
equals a_0 plus the empty sum.

Similarly for products.
Though an anti ISIL militia backed by the US, other western nations and Russia.

'The YPG is regarded as the "most effective" force in fighting ISIL in Syria' according to Wikipedia. I dare say Erdogan hates the YPG which is probably why the Brits have to be a bit half hearted in their backing. Got to think of the arms exports after all https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/22/uk-arms-sales-...
I think your argument shows why the web is such a poor platform in many areas.

Second, there's no reason WebGL 3 couldn't be based on Vulkan

Vulkan is a very low level API designed for ultra-high performance use in engines written by professional engine teams, like Unreal. It requires the developer to write large quantities of code to even render a single triangle because you have to take manual control over the GPUs low level details. To a large extent it's preferred to GL because of better interaction with multi-threading.

It'd make no technical sense to try and expose a low level hardware-oriented API designed for multi-threading to a slow single-threaded language like JavaScript.

Do you pick the 3D standard used on Windows, or do you pick the lower-end one used by iOS and Android (and can be made to work on Windows)?

Somehow C++ does not have this problem. So how about: don't pick, expose all of them and let the developer use whichever is more appropriate?

You say you don't see any alternative to how WebGL handles driver extensions. Of course there are alternatives: just expose them all. Let there be vendor specific and proprietary stuff in web apps. Just because this is considered politically unacceptable by the ideologues who control the web platform does not mean it's actually unthinkable.

But that'd be against how the web is "designed" (browser makers cabalistically picking winners).

So in fact, I will continue to bet against the web and against mobile. People have been predicting total domination of iPhone/iPad since the day they were launched. I'll still be playing AAA games on consoles or high end Windows PCs 10 years from now, I'm sure of it.
> It might get a bit trickier when WebViews are involved though because, at least on Android, SSL in WebView is subject to different security rules than the java-initiated connections

They've started changing that:

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/android-8....
Libertarians traditionally called Basic Income the Negative Income Tax. Milton Friedman was a big proponent of it, and many Libertarians are big fanboys of Friedman and the Chicago economics cohort.
Crystal looks interesting based on the comments in this thread by those using it. Anyone know why it seems to not be available for Windows (without WSL)? Does it have some POSIX dependencies?
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HN, Reddit and FB are all aggregators, not journalists. They are not sources of news, they merely link to it.

Producing quality journalism is expensive, the business model doesn't work to pay for the journalists and also pay for our traffic.

Having been through this test, our only viable long-term choice here is to gtf off FB. That's going to be extremely painful.

Let's hope a few good news sources survive the pain, eh? Otherwise all you've got left on your lovely FB/HN/Reddit feed is the shite that's cheap to produce and optimised for clicks...
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Hey guys,

Do you know why WiFi works so poorly? My biggest two problems are log ins over forwards, which of course do not work for https connections. And bad chosen WiFi access point, when two different WiFis with different SSIDs are in reach. Both problems seem to have possible work arounds and probably annoy a lot of people. Do you have the same problems? Do you know why that is?
Agreed. I think the best way would be to use Linux as the kernel, maybe with Wayland for display, and Chromium/Firefox in a sandbox, and then the custom OS system running alongside this. Emacs with the Elisp window manager is an example.
I’ve always wondered why Crystal doesn’t get more attention.
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Buddy, based on your behavior here I'm explicitly calling you an active supporter of systemic sexism. You may or may not be personally biased, and I certainly have a guess, but that's irrelevant to my point here.

Your insistence that the only way that sexism and racism work is through the law is ignorant and ahistorical. They preceded the laws that expressed them; they also survived the demise of those laws. I've told you repeatedly that you are harming people through your ignorance. You don't care, and have never cared enough about this topic to actually learn about it. There is no point to arguing the minutiae of your weird little self-constructed justifications. My extensive experience with MRAs, etc, is that when proven wrong on point A will just drag out points B-Z. Or they'll go quiet. Or start introducing irrelevancies, like exactly how many young kids I've tutored in STEM this week. I've got better things to do.

If you're serious about helping women, you'll go take a women's studies class and learn something about this. Either way, I'm done.
>It's like saying Christians go to church against their will because because their parents brainwashed them when they were children, and them in turn back many generations to a time when it was done for the political power of extremely wealthy people.

You realize that's actually a provable thing, right? That it's significantly harder to break that cycle when it's introduced at a young age because it forces children to remove their parents from the pedestal they're naturally placed on.

You say that as though you think it's just something people make up, when there's actual provable science behind it.
Python has something similar:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html

For software with a command-line interface, perhaps it would be useful to do some testing at that interface, perhaps using BATS:

https://github.com/sstephenson/bats

That is also automatically tested, but describes the actual user interface.
> You know how often Breitbart links appear in Facebook or Google News? Never.

Both Google News and Facebook tailor what you see based on your search history/engagement habits. Just because you've never seen Breitbart in your search results doesn't mean no one's seen it.
+1 for cubehelix... https://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~dag/CUBEHELIX/
There's not a Wikipedia page for "visual metaphor", but there are pages for "visual rhetoric"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_rhetoric
and "visual thinking" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_thinking

Negative space can be both meaningful and useful later on.

I learned about visual thinking and visual metaphor in application to business communications from
"The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures"
http://www.danroam.com/the-back-of-the-napkin/
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I vaguely remember something similar going on at my school way back when, though that might have been The Hacker's Handbook. Probably still enough to freak out the authorities these days, yet remarkably, I'm not aware that any of my class went on to become evil masterminds with secret underground lairs.
I see. But it seems rather unnecessary, specially given that it's only shown on the article itself. If it were displayed along search results or recent edits, I'd get it. But as it is it doesn't seem to do much.
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The interpolating animals look so much like my dreams it's unsettling. I often wake up when things get too "unrealistic" and people or animals are changing shape too rapidly. Whenever I see something come out of a NN that looks like something that came out of my brain I get a little future shock.
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Who said they should be poorly regulated?
When you’re more successful you have more control over the direction and type of films you’re in. Since almost all of his later movies are kids movies, I think GP’s comments regarding Chan are valid.