skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of askvictor's point. Logging every single pixel value would suck down battery life equivalent to recording your screen every moment it is on. If you stored cumulative pixel activations in an array (like I would think of doing), you are going to overflow an integer value very quickly, or run into floating point issues. If you stored it as a video or in a DB, you are going to have weeks worth of video that need stored.
I just found everydayCheck yesterday. It will fit a lot of the daily goals I have. For goals that aren't daily I use a site like 43things.com, which is in desperate need of an alternative, by the way. I tend to look at my 43T goals every couple days. Something like everydayCheck will definitely help me though!
It is entirely true that I think that, these days.
Surprised this isn't flagged.
You cite Office 2000 as an example of bad UI but honestly it's far easier to find stuff in menus if you're not sure where it is the having to hunt through the Ribbon bar for an icon that looks vaguely right to what you want. And sometimes the Ribbon bar just hides stuff completely if the Window isn't wide enough.

The thing with menu driven interfaces is while they're ugly, they do make functions discoverable. You don't need to remember what icon you want nor where it is, you just need to remember it is in the menu.

From a personal perspective, I still find myself hunting for common functions in Office even after years of using the Ribbon bar. I've found that to be the single handed biggest productivity killer to Office
Looks like clojure spec.
How to build your own React (with the Fiber architecture)
Ask HN: Nov 2017 – Cross Ad Network CPA and LTV Attribution
With Google Analytics and FB Analytics being walled gardens, whats the best solution available for mobile start ups to run effective cross ad network attribution for CPA and LTV analysis?
A) that wasn't your point.

Your point was "Damore seems to be wanting a policy based on anecdotes because his reasoning is neither objective nor convincing."

And I don't see how that follows. I think we can at least agree that he's not arguing FOR what he's explicitly AGAINST.

B) "It doesn't mean anything"

See A). The memo may or may not include any facts undisputed or otherwise, but we can certainly get a feeling for its intent, which at least part of was: to criticize Googles policies and possibly open up a conversation about them.

I don't think Google handled that very well.

The way Google has steered advertising on youtube [1,2,3] also makes me think this suit is onto something. At least a better look.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/21/youtube-g...

2. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/prageru-sues-you...

3. Video by h3h3 I can't find right now
Startup's Artificial Voice Sounds Almost Indistinguishable from a Human's
Maybe, but it's understandable after five minutes and you literally have code you can copy and paste. I've seen much worse in basically every other language. We had a 5k line project, after the first day of setup, we've had to touch the webpack config once or twice.

Also, feel free to disagree about the CSS, I think it's a very intuitive way of including assets.
In my experience of talking with people with physical and learning differences it is unusual for them to take the "terrible hand" stance; this is much more common for people who suffer from emotional differences and mental health problems. People who are blind or wheelchair bound tend to say things like "yes it's hard for me to do some things but I've found a way to be happy which is more than a lot of people".

I've had my life enriched by contact with people like that, so assigning them "a negative value" would be something that I would hotly dispute.

We all have limitations imposed on us, sometimes by the time of our birth - no one on Hacker News today will ever travel to another star, or (I believe) speak to general AI, but perhaps our decedents will. Other limitations are economic, I am not a billionaire and will never climb Everest, or just talent based - my daughter plays the Cello, I've tried to learn it but I can't make it go like she does.

None of these things makes us worth less.
Sure, publishing bias exists, as does confirmation bias (on both sides of any debate). Those biases do have an effect, and 'social scientists' do tend to be left-leaning in my experience.

But, those people have done the work, usually had their protocol evaluated, written up their paper, had it reviewed, and had it published (under their real name).

Hacker News critics on the other hand have (typically) not done the work, and have not tried to get their experiment funded and written up, and make sweeping judgements like "methodologically bankrupt" based on unqualified criticisms like "poorly designed" (no specifics or evidence of understanding), usually under an alias with effectively no repurcussions.

You yourself claimed that designing convincing studies without shortcomings is "straightforward", implying that the lack of convincing (in your eyes) evidence is therefore proof that the evidence base can be broadly ignored without actual study. That's rationalising, not logic.

Similarly, when challenged to provide a design yourself you change the subject. My offer is genuine by the way... our investors include some of the most influential organisations in this space. If you have a great experiment design I'm happy to put it to them and give you credit.
I had constant problems with the entire laptop freezing after waking. Sometimes the freeze would result in black screen that never recovered. Sometimes it would happen a minute after the display woke up. Touchbar and touchpad would be unresponsive.

Also many problems with apps using the Java.Framework, such as JetBrains IDEs having no menus.

Newly installed AudioUnits plugins would not load until after a reboot (which is minor compared to the above).

10.13.2 beta seems to have resolved all these issues. I've not had a single freeze since installing this beta.
I don't know about the OP specifically, but I generally dislike that sort of writing. It uses underspecified concepts in an attempt to sound smart, but all it does is fail to convey much meaning.

Whenever I come across it, I think "this person wanted to say something smarter than they could, so they dressed it up in smart-speak".
Ask HN: How do I (and others) get involved with FLOSS projects?
I've want to be more involved in the OSS world. I'm not the most experienced coder (self-taught, tinkerer, not my primary work role), so would be looking to do more grunt-work type contributions to learn and grow.
Not only mining, but also bitcoin gambling.
From my POV it's a great answer and good advice!

I had trouble keeping focus on one project, because I feared missing out on the other things I wanted to do. In the end I not only overworked myself but in retrospect had no long lasting contributions I would still feel proud of. For me it worked to reduce the amount of projects I'm involved with and then make big and useful progress. And to guard some time off to just do nothing (which in fact is time for the brain to reflect and should be taken very seriously regarding mental health).
> and identifies the people, locations, organizations, counts, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day.

They're really serious about counting, aren't they.
At the same time, the system needs to be judged as to if it's secure or not, not if it's the best possible implementation of FaceID or not. After all, something like a fingerprint reader on the back is a valid alternative.

At the end of the day, a system where it's likely you'll find someone who can unlock it isn't very secure.
Ask HN: Impact of headphone usage on hearing?
ASK HN: Are there any trustworthy studies on (possible) adverse impacts of prolonged headphone usage on hearing?
I would like a companion contributors agreement to the GPL that provides the correct legalese to assign copyright back to the project owner.

I decided to go the GPL route, but am not currently accepting contributions. I've managed to successfully license the code under a companion license, which is doable since I'm the only copyright holder.

My thoughts are that there should be a contrib fork for major contributions that authors wish to maintain copyright over, but for minor contributions/bug fixes the author probably doesn't care and it would be better for everyone if the contribution was integrated into the core repository.
I can't speak for MIT, but I can speak for a couple of Ivies.

The content covered in the curriculum and the speed at which it is covered is one potentially challenging aspect of one school over another.

The more important aspect, imho, is your peers. Speaking for myself and what I have heard others experience, peers can push your thinking to more sophisticated levels -- this can be in terms of something like elegance in problem solving (which has valuable real-world applications), the ability to apply the knowledge in a wider range of contexts, etc.

This is also often reflected, rightly or wrongly, in the assessment stages. If you take a class with wicked smart peers, the test is usually going to be much harder just so that the test can evaluate differences in knowledge.

I remember showing my $IVY calculus final to a friend of mine who set the curve in what was supposed to be the same class at $STATEU, and his mind was blown. It took him a few minutes just to realize that the test covered the same topics, while I thought the test was merely "hard" pedestrian content. Once I talked him through the problem, he realized how cool it was, and then he realized one of the key differences between our schools -- the boundaries of my thinking on topics were challenged and stretched much, much more aggressively.

To be fair, some non-elite schools are equally or more rigorous than elite schools, but this is usually on a department level and is the exception rather than the rule.
3) They can control a subset of the other persons limbs.

Seeing out of 3 eyes seems like a much stranger sensory system. It's not going to simply extend to a wider field of view because someone else is controlling the focus.
I created an document explaining TDD (test unit in general) is a real case scenario:

https://medium.com/southprojects/tdd-a-business-crud-is-it-w...

tl/dr: In theory TDD sounds great but in a real example, TDD is not magic with a real limited coverage.
Smartwatch-Ceasuri Performante
Thanks for a detailed response but I still think it’s a bad idea on principle as you’re bestowing authority to some organization that needs to be funded, organized, maintained and skilled to keep track of these rules.

Soon, it will become a giant mess and regulation will impede regular companies/people that would question “Who put these rules together? Our domain doesn’t happen to be fishy”.

Furthermore, how important of a name does it have to be for adding it to these automated rules? How do you quantify that?

Even in an ideal perfect world, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice internet freedom for phishing attempts. DNS is a huge part of the internet whereas phishing costs are neglible.

Every time someone brings an idea about regulating the internet, I just get a repulsive feeling. Stop trying to fuck with the internet. The EFF is not enough.

Isn’t Google Chrome and other browsers already doing this? Phishy websites get tagged and there is a big red screen that shows up - most importantly - allowing users to bypass it if needed. There are times when legit but old websites get banned by these Phishing blockers. I think the solution needs to be more “local” than something on a grand global scale.
An argument regardless of (or even without) evidence would does not mean it cannot be discussed. That is the fundamental issue of the original post.

However, you are clearly misquoting that article and Bloom's statements, why not just use the actual entire paragraph:

"But even if you accept this argument, there is a lot more to life than public policy. Consider our everyday interactions with our parents and children, with our partners and friends. Consider also certain special relationships, such as that between doctor and patient or therapist and client. Empathy might not scale up to the policy level, but it seems an unalloyed good when it comes to these intimate relationships—the more the better.

I used to believe this, but I am no longer sure."

Bloom's statement is that life includes things beyond policy like personal relationships, where more empathy is always seen as good, however he is no longer sure about that and then goes on to describe why in much more detail.
Since the license allows sublicensing, it seems like a business only needs to buy one license at $90/month, which is a lot cheaper than IntelliJ
It was released when the schedule said it was to be released, rather than when it was ready to be released, and things got crammed in half-baked to make the deadline. (Android has the same problem.)
Only three fields are required, the comment itself, the IP of the submitter, and the site which is running the test.

More details are useful, and give a better result, but I've found that often an IP will submit hundreds of spam-comments in a short space of time, so requiring it allows you to do things like insta-reject comments from "known bad" sources for a short period of time. (Off the top of my head I cache bad IPs for 24 hours in some situations.)
Don't do that. That notion does not conform to observable reality.
So TL;DR: tshirts, ads embedded in their docs, and corporate sponsorships. Makes sense for an open source project with a fairly large community at least.
Hmm I'm in the camp that believes setUp/tearDown and fixtures are not only equivalent, but both antipatterns.

This article explains it better than I can [1]

[1] https://robots.thoughtbot.com/lets-not
Here are my thoughts. I've managed to independently learn a decent amount of stuff and do some decent side projects, but I don't claim to have any great insight. In fact maybe everything I have to say is obvious, so take this for what it's worth.

Consider doing less. If you are working a full time job, then depending on exactly how serious you are, 3 learning projects is likely overkill. (But I tend to do the same thing myself.)

Pick the resources you'll use in advance. I've generally had a negative opinion about video lectures, preferring books, but I've somewhat changed my thoughts lately. In particular it's nice to be able to follow a course as it was taught at a serious university, with a syllabus and schedule all laid out for you.

Set a weekly schedule in advance. Something like, M/F I'll watch a data science lecture and Tu/Th I'll do art. Whatever. Include a planned endpoint: by this date I will be finished with the 9 chapters of this book I plan to cover.

Each evening, write a brief journal entry about what you accomplished that day. Also write out a schedule for the next day. I like to put at the top of my daily schedule a list of the major tasks I want to accomplish that day, and then also a couple "extras", which are things I can work on if I turn out to have extra time. The extras can be large or small, but it's nice if you have a small one because you can cram it in wherever you have free time. Even something like "Problem 12.3 from this textbook, which I couldn't figure out last week". If you randomly turn out to have 10 minutes free, well pull out your notebook and think about that problem for 10 minutes.

(By the way, I know an eminent mathematician, one of the few who has done serious work in multiple fields, who says one of the attributes that has helped him the most is his ability to efficiently context switch and get serious work done throughout the day. If he has a random 18 minutes free, he is going to make 18 minutes' worth of progress on a research project.)

Jerry Seinfeld's "Don't break the chain" idea is nice.

As far as tips for learning: engage and fight with the material, do projects incorporating what you're learning, make connections to other things you know. Incorporate reviews of earlier chapters/lectures, rather than just continually charging ahead. There's a bunch of resources for how to learn (see for instance those mentioned in this HN thread [1]), which I think are good ideas, although honestly I have only haphazardly incorporated these techniques.

A major thing I haven't really figured out is maintaining / reviewing. I can personally attest to the fact that it is literally possible to be an expert in a subject one day, and less than a year later struggle to remember elementary knowledge that every beginning student learns. Maybe there is no perfect solution to this problem, but maybe it's possible to come up with some review schedule that helps more than "every now and then I randomly go back and look at a book I once read."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13297250
> I applaud Mother Nature for spitting on our idea of limited identity

The true mother nature's plan was probably killing the mother and both girls at birth time. I would thank the obstetrician at charge and his/her team instead.
This applies only to people with no kids. Real estate is not about the house, its a premium to choose your neighbors. Birds of a feather tax.
Why would Apple put a screen with this issue on their most premium phone ever? They've acknowledged the problem, and I would like a way to fix it when it develops. I'll be cranky if their only offer is to replace the screen when it could be done cheaper (a high dpi scanner and image overlay).
I actually prefer hardware because I find phone timers distracting (i.e. I start procrastinating on the Internet!)
It's actually really frustrating every time I see Gordon Chang on CNN or some other news channel as an "expert" on China. He makes these Harold Camping like predictions about how China will fail by a specific year, none of which have obviously come true.

I actually wonder if people who don't know his history of poor predictions that well see his last name "Chang" and assume that he has some inside knowledge or knows more about China than the actual pundit.
the last time you could discharge student loans in bankruptcy without satisfying special conditions was 1976 in the US. but that was a time where an undergrad degree was relatively cheap, and not many people took out loans in the first place.

I don't disagree that something is seriously messed up in this country's higher education system, but the discharge exemption for student loans is probably one of the few things that keeps the system even slightly economic. like I said above, you cannot just lend huge chunks of money to kids without making any risk assessment and also allow them to default whenever. at least, you can't do this unless your intention is to lose money.

if I had to have a guess, I would say that the main contributor to our outrageous education costs is the government making all these uneconomic loans in the first place.
You can certainly counterexemplify philosophical arguments.

It's also weird to suggest that no historical claims are falsifiable. That seems to put real history on a par with nutty conspiracy theories.
Apple added an Emergency mode in iOS 11 that’s accessible by clicking the sleep/wake button five times. It also disables Touch ID/Face ID and requires the passcode after that. So if you think your phone will be seized, it’s a pretty quick way to disable everything but the passcode.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/08/17/ios-11-emergency-sos-di...
Yeah, and I think that is why these cities mentioned in the articles are attractive. Low cost while still being acceptable for children. You can't find that though in the major metro areas. Cost almost always translates to safety or school quality.
Would love to see Amazon make an integration for Unreal Engine 4 or their Lumberyard video game engine so a game developer can easily import detailed swaths of the earth.
Dunning-Kruger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
The compiler cannot reorder the fields.
This stuff comes up occasionally in optimizing layout of language VM structures, compilers, in the Linux kernel and other low level situations.

I.e. JVM compressed object pointers rely on the alignment and the native objects representation is definitely well laid out to not waste space due to alignment:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/25120926

https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/02/35gb-heap-less-32gb-j...

Lua implementation similarly cares about alignment in some cases:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-02/msg00305.html

This is not exactly 'struct packing' but alignment is closely connected to padding so its part of a wider interconnected topic.
Though for Africa m-pesa is probably way more important that bitcoin.
Yes, and if a scientist is choosing words like "no longer sure", that's not a really strong indicator of belief in it, certainly not a good argument for policy.

If an argument doesn't have evidence, it has less value than something that does, that's why the way people are still talking about it like it's something more interesting than a 4chan post is confusing.
As an MIT alum, I don't see a ton of value in competing over whose classes were the hardest. I've met super impressive people from everywhere from community colleges to Rhodes scholars and do not subscribe to the idea that MIT alums are uniquely good.

But having taken some physics and math courses at multiple universities MITs went much deeper in a shorter period of time. This isn't necessarily reflected in the syllabus because the topics may be the same but the devil is in the details.

MIT had absolutely fantastic problem sets that took me 10+ hours a week per class to finish and were rarely changed from year to year. This is because they've been tuned over so long that whether you get the answer correct is almost besides the point, the useful part for learning was the process of banging your head against them. This was true to an extent at other universities I've been at but usually the expected proficiency required to excel in a course was not quite so severe.

I ended up getting a PhD (in materials science), spent many hours working as hard as I could in lots of classes, and despite honestly knowing my stuff quite well I never got an A in an undergraduate physics course at MIT. Those were only gotten by the students who were obviously frighteningly talented, often with research experience in the course material already. Don't take that as sour grapes or anything, I am super proud of my B's in these courses. But MIT grades harshly, which may be part of why it's "harder".

Most MIT students stop caring about grades freshman year. Most MIT students interact with one another in class as fellow masochists struggling together against a common foe (learning the material) rather than competing against one another for grades. This is what I would personally call the weirdest and most advantageous aspect of MIT versus Ivy Leagues, but I actually think state schools are awesome at this too.

I'd have put that environment on the list of lessons way before any of the ones on there. Learning the value of close collaboration with people, regardless of whether you may think (probably wrongly anyway) that they're "better" or "worse" than you. Learning that when it comes to the real world, on a team you're all up against a way bigger opponent than each other, you're up against the laws of nature. And that success against that opponent is far more satisfying than any grade.
I'm still not clear if this is related to the forensic analysis of the DNC leak? Is the narrative now that American voters fell for social engineering perpetuated by Russian actors? So the attack was a psychological operation, in coordination with Paul Manafort's bad business practices 10 years ago...? How is this 'what happened' in light of Donna Brazil's new revelations?
Mining doesn't need to send much data, so it shouldn't matter at all whether you use wi-fi or dialup etc.