skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also:

>> "Bad developer experience."
> Use a framework.

What is the point of WebComponents, exactly?

Let's quote from here:

--- start quote ---

Web components are a set of web platform APIs that allow you to create new custom, reusable, encapsulated HTML tags to use in web pages and web apps. Custom components and widgets build on the Web Component standards, will work across modern browsers, and can be used with any JavaScript library or framework that works with HTML.

--- end quote ---

They don't allow any of that, do they? Because, as you so eloquently put, "use a framework". As I'm already using a framework (there are dozens of them out there), what is the selling point of WCs exactly?

Oh, right. "Use Polymer", how can I ever forget.
CS 11-747: Neural Networks for NLP
I collected Simpsons season DVDs until I lost interest... last one I purchased is season 14. So there's a data point on when I had (re)seen enough of the show (Although, I've seen S15-22 or so completely, sporadic watcher since then).

I think season 10 is a fair cutoff point.

The jarring thing about the more recent episodes is the decline of Julie Kavner's (Marge's) voice. It sounds...weak. Unhealthy. Other actors on the show have a similar problem but hers is most notable.
There have been a few 'selfie phones' (Zenfone Selfie, HTC Eye, Xperia XA Ultra) with identical front and rear cameras but clearly they never really took off.
"Shaming" denotes ridicule, sure, but is generally used to connote iniquity, i.e. that the one doing the "shaming" is wrong so to do. I think you're getting the pushback you are because you're using this word, with this connotation, to describe a deployment of ridicule whose degree of virtue seems less to you than to others, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15578837.

Perhaps using other words might improve the light:heat ratio here. And even then the fact merits consideration that, in some cases, ridicule is earned.
I didn't include a plug, but since you asked we have a website: http://hab.education/ which has video and some information. That website also links to a twitter handle and a facebook group. The founder of our group is extremely active on Twitter. The facebook group is quite active in terms of discussion too, with the obvious condition that you have to have a facebook account, something that I didn't think over very carefully when we built it.
It’s likely that they weren’t responding to your question about Wikipedia.

Your other question, “Did you move for your passion, or did you learn your passion from living there?”, suggests unfamiliarity yet genuine interest in the topic. So, their response makes total sense.
Yes, definitely a snobby, elitist tone.

The funny thing is, it's totally hogwash. Brilliant minds exist all around us, in every locale.
Bold predictions

http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...
Discovering https://mbasic.facebook.com has restored my ability to use the little of Facebook on a mobile browser that I need without it entitling itself to further prominence on my attention span. Even keep it wrapped up in a separate web browser, that I go to only to check FB, works great for me.
How Many Barrels of Oil Are Needed to Mine One Bitcoin?
And yet, investment in the US continues unabated.
> We also tried to keep the theme for day 1
> On day 2 I wanted us to showcase

That's why you run several parallel tracks, each with a separate theme. As an example, see Erlang User Conference programme: http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2017#programme

This way you give people a chance to prepare more specific presentations around a specific theme: tooling, components, apps, deployment, distribution, development, what have you.
Both, but mostly on the null hypothesis, and on its converse I think I must insist the payout be in gold.
Yeah that would be amazing. I am litterally working on a song where I would love to play around with ryhtm a little bit. As I do a pretty good human beat box I woule love to be able to explore a couple of things there.

As I said. I would buy it and I would probably turn it into a hosted service if I were you as you probably need the cloud to do some of the computation?

Anyway. If anything else I think it would have a future as a plugin or service. And for a lot of novice music enthusiasts it would be a great little ipad/tablet app.
Time is money and fast cheap and good often beats slow expensive and great in business.
No. Dollars have an intrinsic value as long as the IRS and the police exist, because you have to settle your dues with them come April 15, and they only accept USD.

Also, you need dollars if you will ever have any kind of dealings with the American Judicial system.
I find this HN story title misleading (or clickbait-y): <popular programming language> is just a tool; it doesn’t implement anything by itself. You can write bad and good programs in <popular programming language>, and you can probably implement anything you want from it.

How silly does that sound? Part of the explicit appeal of these kinda of articles is a toy demonstration of the tool or technique mentioned in the title.
> The decline was much like Fox News’ transition to a hardcore sex channel

When did that happen? Granted I haven't paid close attention in a while, but that still seems a surprising departure, to say the least. What have I missed?
Well I've said several times that he may deserved to be shamed.

> ridicule is earned

Your comment only emphasises part of what I've already said.

Of course however, he may not. A person who deploys the ridicule of a person's character (over said, the ridiculing of the idea that P=NP) is one who should be aware that this itself has moral downsides and is open to fair criticism.
I think it was MIPS[0] rather than Mhz.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second#MIPS
This fact check gives estimates between 3 and 6 billion a year in direct health costs and possibly 14 billion in wider costs including e.g. missed work days due to illness and responding to more fires.

https://fullfact.org/economy/does-smoking-cost-much-it-makes...
Tor’s website actually tells you what it does.

And the design is nothing to scoff at. It’s not hip, but it’s functional and readable.
I believe that ship in this context means to complete, not to market successfully and close a deal which presents a different set of challenges.
Ubuntu isn't too slow, unity & compiz is just bulky with all the transition, fades, visual cues, etc.

Install Ubuntu, read about i3, install i3, and enjoy the speed.
> Smoking costs the NHS £2Bn/year while tobacco raises £12Bn/year in taxes,

If you ask the tobacco industry. They have a lousy track record, so you can understand people who don't believe them.

Also, note this is a dubious claim in the UK with a > 80% tax rate, it's even shakier in countries with a lower tax rate.
It’s not that the episode itself is all that bad in and of itself. Fans think of it as a turning point in tone (changing the long time Skinner character). Think of it as the beginning of the very long and steep decline.
Agreed - concept testing.
Splundig vir thrigg
>Everything the article says - [...] - is extremely useful to anyone else

The post you replied to tried to explain why it's actually not useful. The journalist uses a style of seductive writing (some call it "narrative fallacy"[1]) which connects plausible-sounding causes to its supposedly logical effects. That style of explanation can actually make readers dumber about what happened because it leaves out counterexamples.

That "narrative fallacy" is common in writings from Harvard Business Review, histories, biographies, newspapers & pundits trying to explain why the Dow Jones Index went up/down, why startups/products failed/succeeded, etc. All of those suffer the omission of counterexamples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayden_White
Hi, another author from the paper here.

> Whitepaper abstract says you use "A blockchain-based stochastic payment mechanism with transaction costs on the order of a packet". But how is such a blockchain transaction scalable to the entire internet when considering that it does a transaction for every packet? (pretend you're talking to someone who won't read the article).

I'd like to add to Mr. Simonsson's excellent answer that stochastic payments allow you to remove "dust-type" transactions from the blockchain.

Imagine I wanted to send you $0.01 100 million times, for a total of $1 million dollars. Let's also imagine that the transaction fees associated with 100 million blockchain payments are high enough that we'd like to control them. If instead of actually sending you $0.01 each time I send payment, I send you a provably fair lottery ticket with an expected value of $0.01 (for example, a lottery ticket with a 1/10,000 chance of being worth $100), this doesn't change the number of payments I need to send you, or your expected profit, but will decrease the number of transactions which need to be committed to the blockchain by the inverse win-rate (in our example, we'd reduce the number of transactions by a factor of 10,000). This allows the effective transaction costs to be arbitrarily low, down to the order of a packet (as at that point, physically sending you the lottery ticket starts to dominate the transaction costs.)
FWIW, I was taught in school that passive voice is the default mode of the English language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXwwNXMKAY
Yep, trying to synchronize those files for an interpreted language is a lot of work. At GitLab we have 5 people to maintain our day binary based on Omnibus. Docker is much simpler.
Because choosing Docker requires boiling fewer oceans, and whether those oceans should or should not be boiled has no bearing on whether I can afford to boil them right now.
Those were the halcyon days of the Simpsons.
The part about scrolling through your feed for 30 seconds, realising it's all crap and exiting is true. I unhooked simply because the content isn't interesting.
IIRC, his "Bayesian interpretation of the noise" actually shows that dropout performs approximate integration over model parameters. As he says, dropout doesn't work because of the noise but despite the noise.

https://youtu.be/3ONLxYeM1Sc?t=19m21s
I'm not sure "this time it's different" really applies to the stock market at the moment. The valuations seem a bit steep but not that out of line with history given the low interest rates. There have always been companies like Snap where it's unclear if they'll make it or not.

Now cryptocurrencies do seem to fit the "this time it's different" model.
"all it takes is one bad actor"

How is it that Norwegian companies haven't yet had one bad actor?

"If the company accumulates enough unproductive people"

Norwegian companies can fire unproductive people. Just because it's easier to fire people in the US doesn't mean it's impossible to fire people in Scandinavia.
Hmm but can you really tell how good an episode is by ratings?
"Kill your TV" was already on bumper stickers in the 1970s, so I don't think it's a new phenomenon.
These are IMDB ratings, not viewership ratings.
I think it's time for it to be cancelled but It's still a money-maker i guess
But here's the thing: You can dockerise a PHP app. How am I meant to make a fat binary out of one?

For years Facebook (reportedly) did this with hPHPc. Not a very good idea these days, but it's certainly within the realm of possibilities for large companies.
Show HN: Curio + Requests: Async HTTP for Humans The same taste as Requests
https://github.com/guyskk/curequests

$ pip install curequests
s/Your/You're/

egads...
It annoys me to no end when I ask someone if they've seen $tv_show and they respond "I don't watch TV." A simple "no" will suffice. It's extra annoying because I don't habitually watch TV either, but that doesn't mean I've never seen a TV show. The smug superiority is maddening.
Time Travel in Fiction Rundown
I miss both of my Clips. Especially the second iteration. Too bad the company had to sell for peanuts and manufacturing is done.

I really like the idea of Narrative Clip. Google seems to be going for something a bit different with the price being high and battery life being low.
I've never had trouble installing Docker anywhere, whether from package managers or installers. Where have you, and what kind of trouble? If I might run into something similar down the road, better I should know about it now.
I have been using pass[https://www.passwordstore.org/] for two years now and it works reasonably well.

Desktop "GUI": rofi-pass[https://github.com/carnager/rofi-pass]

Android Client: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.zeapo.pwdstore/

Sync: Git+Manual download

All components are open source and actively maintained.
Heuristics may only work for practical values of n when the answer to P?NP may not be applicable.
Here’s Our First Look at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. LA Tunnel
And yet it already references the simpsons.
I did this. I took all non iOS apps off of it, except my password manager. Even the useless iOS apps are gone, pages, and the like - I mean I would never use apps like that on a phone.

I use my iPhone to READ text messages and sometimes send them, to call people, and to take pictures.

That is it.

Unfortunately, I tried removing safari, but couldn't handle it because I needed to look up phone numbers or addresses when out.

I turned it gray scale (old school photographers captured images first and processed them a few days later)

I recommend doing all of the above!
This is a fantastic idea. I'm going to try this tomorrow.
Could this not be better achieved by using/augmenting with writer credits?
I have never seen a baby picture on Snapchat. I'm sure it'll get to that point with that happening a bit. But Snapchat is pretty far away from being like that.

There also isn't any other social network that is close to being big. There's just the current incumbents. For teens i can think of Musically, but that's a focused app. On the other hand I am actually surprised Snapchat didn't try to go and buy Musically.
Are Successful Writers the Smartest People Alive?
They can mine bitcoin. They can't be used for mining bitcoin. It proves nothing whatsoever about the utility of old S5s, any more than this[1] shows that old 60s mainframes "still have some power that can be used".

[1] http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-...
Why is it not good? It is in line with the robustness / Worse-is-Better ethos, and importantly, it lets you get on with delivering business value, which is what we're supposed to be doing. (At least in a business context. If you want to rewrite code to perfection on weekends, for fun, so do I, I am all for that, but that's almost never what my employer needs.)
Laws are not applied based on its goals, but on its text. And it's incorrect to say that any service that falls under the telecommunications act must "be open to external parties to allow for competition." The Act distinguishes different kinds of services and only applies certain restrictions to some kinds.
The often-overlooked random forest kernel
I'm guessing you won't see this anymore. But your profile is empty here. I was talking about feeling like a community plus potentially making acquirances or friendships. I've never had any of that happen on HN. My profile is filled up. I'm guessing you haven't either. That doesn't really feel at home to me in the same way as the older days I'm describing.

I do get your point though of feeling at home in a general sense.
'One word' seems almost a little unfair. Many words convey complex things that are expressed using a single word.

Point still remains, but it still seems a wee bit unfair.
What you are getting wrong about AB testing
My sentiment exactly.

The only way to do this is to turn a smartphone into a dumbphone.
Where are your citations?
A lot of the camera features on smartphones are software and hardware enhanced. I don't think you would be able to pull the iphone and samsung camera features into a 3310.
Really? My problem is that most of it is uninteresting, but there's just barely enough that is interesting that it keeps me from shutting it all off.
PHP Image Upload Using JQuery and MySQL
I live in a somewhat rural area and attended a Halloween party in town last night.

I had an interesting conversation with a few people that live in an area where no connectivity is available (land-line phone is only option).

They use VHS tapes they buy at thrift stores in town (stuff Netflix cannot stream) for less than a dollar each, and LP records (a bit more trendy). Also, books.

After staring at screens for over 10 hours a day, I do enjoy reading printed material (books, newspaper, magazines, etc).
Imho, it boils down to solving problems, explaining existing phenomena, and to gain a deeper understanding of things. For example, if you suspend a rope between two anchors, empirically, it looks like a parabola, but it's actually a hyperbolic cosine. fascinating.
"Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's" -- Matt 22:21

That story is all about Jesus telling people "religious law doesn't get you out of paying taxes."
You may have a point about many applications of ridicule, especially when it is unjustified (i.e. the position being ridiculed is not actually ridiculous), but I think that if you had seen the whole exchange in this case, you would realize that there is little chance that Motl could be coerced into feeling shame by anything, and certainly not this - it's just banter. As there is clearly no possibility of inducing shame, then it seems unlikely that this was intended to do so, and so is not shaming (and if it was, then frankly, its use in this case does not bother me, though I don't think it will be successful.)

But discussing whether this is shaming has no more to do with P=NP than the phrases you quote. On that, I think Aaronson has a point, but I don't think there is much to be gained through speculating about the possibilities. If you work in security, you should be aware that at some undetermined point in the future, anything dependent on P≠NP may no longer be dependable.
I know? I wasn't denying that.
Pretty sure Motl is being ridiculed for reasons other than not thinking it very unlikely that P=NP. The man seems to have earned a considerable degree of infamy through exactly the kind of behavior Aaronson calls out.

And I think you may too casually gloss over the point around connotations; a cursory review of the history of privilege rhetoric would suggest there's more substance there than might initially seem to be, and I think this case is parallel.
Which sites lure you in?
> Maybe it is untrue but it is possible to define the set of cases where it is untrue. If this is the case, it seems likely that class is very small, so it is mostly true. That is the opposite of a proof of course, but it does seem reasonable to think about your confidence of it being true as being somewhat proportional to the likely size of the class.

Any NP-complete problem reduces to any other, so if P=NP for any of them then it's true in general. Some more efficiently than others, of course.
But isn't Scott's point that "he's an asshole but hear him out, he might have something interesting to say" isn't true because his arguments are intellectually dishonest? He's rejecting Luboš's claims based on a factual argument, garnished with a side of "that dude has issues", and not because he's an ass.
Off topic - an interesting observation by economist Tyler Cowen in his book "Average is Over".

Tyler talks a lot about the role of computers that can surpass humans in various tasks, and looks at chess as an example (he was a highly-ranked Chess player when he was younger). He also talks a lot about education, especially with regards to the government's role in it.

He at some point mentions that chess players have gotten much better over the last 20 years, with the rise of chess-playing and chess-analyzing computer programs. He looks at this as an interesting natural experiment in an area of education that is highly optimized, and sees what a huge impact education-via-computers has had (as contrasted with usually a government-run classical educational establishment). I don't even remember his conclusion, but I though the anecdote was fascinating.

I highly recommend the book, btw.
This era is going to show that we need locality and sophisticated person to person interaction.

I loved the freeing of remote chat, you get to talk about subject freely without the burden of group or geography. But it's only good up to a point.

Having a nice chat with someone in a space digs deeper into you than anything internet can.
It's healthy for people to discuss this and similar topics such as unplugging. People should be able to do so without fear of being ridiculed and accused of "Virtue Signalling.

While going around accusing people who advertise a lack of Televesion ownership as virtue signalling I think you're missing other reasons they might be doing it, for example:

- Openly seeking some validation from their peers about their lifestyle change

- Find people who feel similar about owning a Television and share ideas.

- Yeah, some people might brag, so what?

Why be so quick to judge?
Adventures in Angular
Narrative Clip (http://getnarrative.com) is pretty close to what you're talking about. The intelligence of the software isn't/wasn't there. Though you could upload to google photos and get some of that.

In the near term there's no worry about ethics. My friends and family found the Narrative Clip interesting to varying degrees but almost none of them were interested in it for themselves.
Nefarious People Jump for Joy, Amazon Wants the Keys to Your Home
Next time I'll just go low-effort and paste 2-3 Wikipedia links :p
For an actual exploration of what happened, I highly recommend this video. The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
I believe the adage is, 'Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.' The Internet is full of terrible things. There's a site that keeps track of spree killing totals and celebrates new high scores. Well, there was. I'm not sure it exists anymore and I'm too lazy to Google.
There was definitely a few seasons (probably 4), I watched hoping and anticipating it would get better ;)
That isn't what intrinsic value means.
> It's just a process with a fancy chroot. Don't believe all the docker hype. Sensible admins have been doing something similar for years.

You can easily break out of a chroot jail: http://pentestmonkey.net/blog/chroot-breakout-perl

Thats not possible in Docker (okay, it is if you're running a container in privileged mode but that's another can of worms and you shouldn't do it unless absolutely neccessary). Also, Docker gives you networking isolation and especially RAM/CPU usage limitation, which is a real headache doing with chroot.
Creative writing has a huge subjective element to it. You can take two pieces of identical writing and get entirely different responses by changing variables such as the author and the audience. Michael Crichton famously demonstrated this when he turned in an essay to his professor that he copied from Orwell and still got a 'C'. An essay under the nom de plume an influential person is likely to receive more acclaim than the same essay by someone unknown. Why is 50 Shares of Gray so successful even though it is stylistically poor? Why do so many competent writers struggle to get recognition? A lot of randomness.

it depends on:

-audience,and the expectation of the audience

-the expectation of the agent and publisher

-the role of the editor

-societal tastes and mores

-how much promotion the author does, and or the author's connections

Skill, however, is less important. Active vs. passive voice or 'show don't tell' is not hat important.

Being a competent writer means one can probably make a living ghostwriting or writing sales copy, but it's not enough to be influential.
Ideas on how to store energy