skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, it's a one-sided kind of intelligence. Maybe what Casseres said would be better phrased "people who are proud of being smart".

The fact that it's one-sided smarts, the fact that one is probably not as smart as one thinks, and the ability to imagine another person's shoes, are all life lessons that may click into place at different times for different people.
> For someone coming from Eastern Europe - not at all.

> Yes, you will be outbid by competitors from cheaper countries, but hey, welcome to reality where half of the stuff you buy is produced in China, because you compete with people and companies from all around the world.

That's what a race to the bottom looks like, if this trend keeps on going it won't be long before everybody has the income of somebody working in India, without even living there.

This is not meant as an attack on the OP (or India), most people would act the same way if they'd be in that situation, just a somewhat scared observation where the future seems to be heading.

And it's not like we got any good solutions for any of this, bringing the living standards up for everybody won't work, due to resource and economic constraints, so down it is.
In what universe is marketing and sales not a key element of a business?

That's like saying Samsung doesn't have to put effort into marketing and sales just because it's important for Apple.

Sales and marketing IS a universal truth in business. Try telling shareholders/stakeholders that it's not.

That a business sells software is irrelevant. That a business is run by one person is irrelevant.

Outsourcing your marketing changes nothing. That should be one channel of many. There are no services which remove that need (though they may make that claim).

As others have mentioned, people seem to be getting freelancing and employment mixed up. The wording "freelancer" seems to be putting this through some sort of warp which changes the laws of physics.

Perhaps the issue is that this person is really an employee getting painted as a business as a target for getting screwed over. Perhaps this person wants to be an employee, but the harsh world is pushing this person to be a business. But if you are a business, you need to model your work as a business if you are going to survive.
Nope. There is no precedent for invading a nuclear armed state. So much can go wrong so fast that diplomacy is always preferred to war. Isn't it wonderful what a little nuclear leverage can do for you ?
Where did our passion for the handheld device originate?
When someone writes a book and you read it, the best thing you can do is try to interpret their meaning. You should really read the whole thing, and the context might make more sense.
Even in that 27.2 percent, a family of 3 lives on $3k a year. I don’t think 4 months of living expenses is unobtainable, especially when we take into account Chinese people high savings rate.
Like most marketplaces, they are only interested in making themselves profitable. Always remember that.

Working at freelancer.com or similar sites is saying:

"I should spend a large portion of my life to become an expert in my craft, and then I should agree to have my privacy stripped away from me while I race to the bottom and undercut my competition because I will actively place myself into situations where I have the highest competition to ensure I receive the lowest rates. Lastly, I will bust my butt and bend the world to satisfy clients who take advantage of me."

By the way, if anyone is interested in making $ on their own as a freelancer I wrote a mini-guide on how to get your first paying client by tomorrow at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-start-a-successful-fre....
You should release the name of that garbage agent at least. Such pathetic people lower the dignity of human beings.
Figures Cisco, the inventor of the IETF router "lawful intercept" standard would be against the more stringent security protocols in TLS 1.3.

I wish the TLS 1.3 supporters and IETF would just ignore these opponents. Too bad Cisco has embedded itself along with the NSA right in the top IETF boards.
you wouldn't be able to authenticate on the data network without a sim. unless you exclusively use wifi the carrier network is still a huge part of everyone daily phone use
Related article which came out a few days ago, concerning high profile alt-right Twitter personalities, which turned out to be Russian run accounts.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/russ...
Sexual Harassment Is Becoming a Serious Investment Risk
(I was using an iPhone 5s.)
I think the US military uses a different GPS signal that provides higher accuracy positioning.
Here's a whole stack app built by JetBrains themselves in Kotlin with React for front end https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-fullstack-sample
10:1 is an amazing ratio. Either your work is of exceptional quality or your userbase / following is very positive and supportive (or both!). Either case takes skill and hard work, so my hat is off to you :)
Homosexuality and number of brothers: large meta-analysis
The RF signal is the same, the additional accuracy comes from the use of cryptography.
A lot of them were right. We live on the bones of numerous dead civilisations. You really don't want to have a collapse happen in your lifetime.
This pulls in over 200 dependencies, with a total weight of 37MB. I'll pass.
What's a reasonable cost per word for specialized content? EG, something about a specific field (although doesn't require a college degree to write, some specialized knowledge would be good).

I've seen about 20 cents per word, making a 2k word longform around $400. Is that somewhat realistic?
I generally do internationalize apps that I build right from the start. The cost for switching at a later date I have found to be very significant.

I do not however localize them until its needed. Often working with translators and ensuring the quality of the localized application is not a huge priority in the beginning.
I should have clarified my point better. Yes, those two main types of people are exactly who is supposed to go to grad school. But desire and qualifications are not enough. One also has to be willing to live in near poverty and delay starting a family for ~6 years.

It is hardly surprising few people take that option when instead they could be living comfortably (even 80K/year is well above median US income) at a job they're not passionate about.
I understand that, but companies are trying to have it two ways.

They're either curators and editors and somehow responsible for the speech on their sites, it their carriers and just providing a forum.

If Reddit isn't responsible when people post libel or legally actionable threats, then they shouldn't be taking responsibility for policing their content for ideological alignment, much less politeness and courtesy.

I'm saying it's time to explore whether we need common carriers of speech like we have for raw data.
Circuit Challenge: Two Transistor 3.3V Regulator
Why should filesystem specifics matter to the device itself? If you believe that is the case, did you rewrite the whole drive with zeros or something, or better yet use some device builtin erase function?
There's was also some cellphone outage reported in Baltic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/latvias-cellphon...
How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster
Nuclear EMP as an Existential Threat
In their defense, the one thing that bothers me most is if I specifically tell someone to code something a certain way (for example, to skip tests on this project), and they don't listen and do it anyway because "it's the right way." I on the other hand know what is right for my project... not the person I'm hiring. That's why I asked X person to do it a specific way.

Btw Im not saying they arent toxic, they sound like pieces of shit. Just pointing it out more generally.
plenty of people complaining https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%40freelancer%20scam&s...
I don't really understand RxJS that well, but here is where my understanding is at. RxJS helps with composition and dataloading. On a theorectical level, isn't it ideal to have Redux used with RxJS? How do you do global state management with RxJS?
> I would be so happy if someone took away my power to choose and just forced me to use something that will "just work".

You are looking for django/ruby on rails.
I don't know what you think the studies on this say, but I assure you none of them support the position that it's dangerous to walk past someone smoking.

Again, it's only because there's a deliberate hysteria around this issue that my claim seems even remotely controversial to you.

And, yes, even the CDC is capable of hyperbole:

Secondhand smoke harms children and adults, and the only way to fully protect nonsmokers is to eliminate smoking in all homes, worksites, and public places.1,2,3

Yes, I mean, that's trivially true. Eliminating all smoke in the world is the only way to ever truly be safe <cue scary music>.
oh my god, as soon as i saw this video was from 3Blue1Brown i immediately thought "this gonna be good!". I didn't realize he was posting a Deep Learning series.
And 14TB RAM in future
Integrated Earth Systems - a plan to cool the ice-caps with a mix of old and new tech.
It doesn't have to be a wall of text, just something like 'using library Blah should work' or something
Would be interesting to see if this shows up in GPS occultation data.
If you program like that i'm sorry, you are doing it wrong. You really just need very few try catch blocks in a standard lob application, a few more if your are using some style of communication that requires it. If your code base is polluted with try blocks i think it's a mistake.
I agree with this. I really think most people are better off being hired and trained on-site for their careers. Students who show tremendous promise make more sense to attend a university, and that should just be federally funded.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease rather than the nail that sticks out gets hammered.
Summary: SciPy added Windows binaries for pip and formalised their organizational structure.
Yes, that's another problem with programming books and courses. Literally, few books talk about intermediate/advanced topics, whereas, these reference/glossary type books popup every week on Amazon.
If only there were some kind of... structured query language of sorts... maybe call it SQL. And there will be relations... with data... and the data will have schemata, so you can make certain inferences and assumptions... oh, if only someone would create this!
I don't think this breaks my point. For example, I don't see of any reason a language could be compiled but not interpreted. And that alone breaks the idea that a language is necessarily either compiled or interpreted.

Moreover, the distinction that Shutt makes in this blogpost between compiled and interpreted is not very clear: most of what he says rings more to me as a distinction between static and dynamic rather than between compiled and interpreted, but I concede that I read the blogpost rather quickly and without taking the time to fully grasp everything.
Novels and political punditry are very, very, far away from each other.
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I do this all the time. It's a form of rubber ducking.

Articulating myself, to myself, even if I don't share it, is often worthwhile. Why do I agree? Disagree? Is my observation novel? Enough to share?

Once I figure out what I'm thinking, do I care enough to share? Is the recipient worth my time? Do I really want to interrupt someone who's digging themselves into a hole?

Etc.
They didn't give me any instructions about how to implement the feature. I had just arrived 2 weeks earlier and there was a lot of code there so it would have been impossible for me to get it to work (without breaking existing stuff) if I did not write tests.

Also this is a company that handles business transactions; high-value stuff; there should have been more tests.
Are there docs or maybe a blog post that identifies the value-add on top of Express? While I see the API design example (which applies to me), we already do that with Express v4 (it's more code organization than anything else.)

I'm super-interested, but I'd like to know at a deeper level what this gets us over plain Express.
Assuming that comment isn't simply trolling...

GarageBand is certainly powerful, especially given it's deliberate limitation, and both myself and friends have used it to great effect, but Ableton Live it is not. If you look at Logic - which GarageBand is really a cut down version of - you see a similar degree of complexity to that in other professional level DAWs.

Not everyone needs a professional level DAW, and even those who do wouldn't necessarily use one all the time: as I've said, I still use Audacity, and GarageBand on the iPad or iPhone is a super-handy tool.

The parent was commenting on people who ridiculously bleat on about the the UX of complex professional level audio tools, not suggesting there isn't a place for tools that are simpler.
One of they people said there was no school that day. It's safe to assume it was on the weekend.
Amazing Best Inventions #366
The aspect the article did not raise was that according to the recent Kaggle survey, a majority of people practicing in data science work have graduate degrees (57.4%). This will likely drive a new interest amongst Americans.

https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017
The externalities of oil are burden we don't want to address. It's a subsidy which allows the world to maintain the status quo.
Thanks for the recommendation - there's still something appealing to me about the tracker way of working (and it's only €68!).
It stings but you can't get pedantic into these sorts of tutorials. Maybe he could [*] warning: crude classifaction, more to learn in these books
Each one of these videos consists of thousands of lines of code. The attention to detail is impressive.
Only 37MB? I expected more TBH, I guess I am too used to the dev side of it. 37MB is really cheap compared to the hours that you save by not doing everything manually, even more when you consider the quality of the underlying libraries from a security point of view.

Long-term I would like to reduce this and have some ideas in mind, but right now this is not an issue.
Private Data on Public Clouds: Low Hanging Cloud Leaks Reign Over Data Privacy
I am always amazed at the level of acceptance for these types of injustice there is in the US. Even here, most discussion is about the economics of college degrees, and how to deal with it on an individual level.

While the problem, it seems to me, is entirely one of political choice and justice, and the current situation seems very unfair. Young people from poorer backgrounds seem to be destined for slavery for a large part of their lives, unless they get extremely lucky.

People argue: but his degree is not worth it. On a meta-level that is simply impossible: the guy is a teacher, by definition in his lifetime he will produce much more to society than his education cost. If he can't reasonably pay of his loans the system cannot be fair. He was shortchanged and then punished for it.

Also it seems strange that 10 years after default he still has to pay rehabilitation and his debt is still growing. Is nobody in the US protecting people like him? I know in a situation like that where I live (NL) municipality instances will be all over you and your live will suck for 3 years, but after that your debt will be gone and you can start over.
Greenblatt and Gosper and Stallman back when he was competing with Symbolics. Giants of yesteryear. Whenever I get sick of it all, I read Levy's "Hackers" again and come away inspired.
https://feathersjs.com/, https://github.com/zeit/next.js/, and https://github.com/jedireza/aqua/ handle more of this for you without turning into the black-box Meteor.js.
How are international students paying for the degrees? I know a masters degree can cost nearly $100k for a student without any scholarships.
The feature is called "Selective Availability", and has been disabled since May 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_...
Remote pinning would work as any other node that you give the permissions to read the feed. This node would follow the CRDT changes, persisting them locally.

Each keystroke produces a change in the CRDT, which is then eventually propagated to all participating nodes.

Each CRDT message is signed and encrypted before being sent over the IPFS pubsub network.

This protocol is not IPFS-specific, but there are plans to change this:
https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peerpad/issues/107

The snapshotting occurs over IPFS, producing a static and encrypted self-contained snapshot, published over IPFS.

It is possible to access the CRDT properties inside the core library, where the CRDT is formed: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peerpad-core/blob/master/sr... . This could be exposed if you would require it..
It's bad if you relly on one and only system. As there is NAVSTAR GPS, Glonass and Galileo you'll have to jam your own system too.
I agree with this assessment. But meteor's main problem is being able to interface with providers that are not Galaxy, at least they dont have good documentation on it and you have to rely on blog posts. Plus galaxy is at least twice as expensive as aws for small projects.
> ...that should just be federally funded.

Why?
There are tons of things I'd want to try if I became redundant due to automation. However, if that were to suddenly happen the world would quickly change so dramatically that we would not be able to determine what careers are stable and worth training in, so I'm not sure that's a fair example.
You're looking for Adonisjs.
Everyone thinks this.

I was the hub of a PC-Relay network (the FidoNet era), a moderator on CompuServe, and very active on various game boards. It's never been any different.

Social circles have a life cycle, span.

When the current one sours, go find the next one. Or start a new one with some friends.

I think Clay Shirky's article about a group being its own worst enemy applies. Probably monkeyspheres too.
In my opinion this author produces the best math videos on youtube.

If you can afford it and enjoyed this video, consider supporting him on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/3blue1brown
Can I use this outside IntelliJ (Atom perhaps)? I despise JavaScript, GWT is underwhelming and Kotlin seems like a nice way to bypass these issues + React is becoming a de-facto standard. IntelliJ became too big/slow/feature creeped and I am not having good time with the latest code completion changes, so I am considering dropping it (PyCharm as well) for something more light-weight.
There needs to be some sort of organized push for visualization tools. I know, I might be bringing the proverbial owls to the proverbial Athens with saying that here, but I really do feel that if done right this could impact the course of the world like nothing else. This could be as important as idk, invention of book press or smth. Make computer "the visualization machine".

I think that one of the fundamental problems is that to be a visualization machine, you need to have easy access of the GPU and OpenGL is provides anything but. I think that shadertoy (shadertoy.com) is the thing that comes the closest but the learning curve is kinda steep.

I know that people like Alan Kay, Bret Victor or Michael Nielsen (his post was on the fp the other day
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15616637) share these sentiments but this is a task bigger than a single people.

Idk what I really mean by "organized push". I'm not sure if the problem is well defined too
I've always been of the opinion that timestamps should be stored UTC datetime or unix timestamp on the server side and then displayed to the proper locale by the client's device. Is this not a good method?
Visual Basic .NET is not much like the Visual Basic of 10 years ago.

As far as I can tell, Visual Basic .NET is now essentially as powerful as C# or any other Microsoft language on Windows.

Supposedly C# has lambda expressions. Okay. If I need those, maybe I'll write some C#. But have VB.NET call or be called by C# is relatively easy. So, I could have a function in C# called by my main code in VB.NET.

I wrote enough C to understand it fairly well, at least at the level in K&R. I've looked at some C# code, and it seems to read easily enough. Maybe I could be writing C# in a few days. If I want to convert to C#, I understand that there is a translator to do that for me.

I do like the more traditional syntax of VB.NET instead of the deliberately "idiosyncratic" syntax of C borrowed by C#. So, I see no biggie reason not to use the syntax I prefer in VB.NET.

I learned programming long before C++ or even C. I skipped C++ -- never wrote a line of it. My first code with objects was essentially VB.NET. The objects are easy enough, close enough to what I did with structures in PL/I. Now with .NET, VB.NET, and C#, there's reduced reason to write C++ on Windows. There are plenty of serious criticisms of C++ for important production software. Yup, it's possible to write good code for big projects in C++, but just from memory management I'll let VB.NET handle that for me.
Parents are required to support their children into their adulthood in Germany? That doesn't sound likely, but then, I'm not German.

Edit: found a reference that says parents must support children until they are 21 or have a profession to support themselves (presumably whichever is sooner -- I hope!).
Why use this over TypeScript?
I think “Anglo-Saxon” is the term you’re looking for
Honest answer? I was just starting grad school.

I went for my MS and had a wonderful experience. Would do it again in a heartbeat. There are many positives about grad school if you enjoy learning and research.

There is definitely an opportunity cost and it is not surprising there are so few US citizens in grad school -- at least in technical fields. I hear it's a different story in the humanities.
Fair enough, sounds like a horrible place to work. D:
We need more people teaching math through visual intuition. Life a friend of mine said, "if you want to do computation fast, phrase it as a problem for your GPU, er, visual cortex".

Here is a tool you can play with to visualize this: http://playground.tensorflow.org

If you liked this video, try this different visual intuition of what a neural network does that I find even better:

http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/

Also, remember that back propagation is a very general algorithm, it works not only on linear transformation weights but on any direct acyclic computation graph that is differentiable in its weights.
This article is one-sided and full of factual inaccuracies.

Leslie did not start the product safety safety and security team in 2014 -- it had been started long before he arrived. He didn't even start the engineering arm of it, which also existed long before he arrived. While I can't say so conclusively, I also do not believe he was the head of engineering at Slack. I believe that was/is Michael Lopp (@rands).

Twitter has regularly been deleting spam, bot, and fake follower clusters for years, at a massive level. A cluster of Turkish fake followers was discovered in my time there and deleting it threw off user growth numbers for the quarter and also forward-looking guidance. That predictably had a negative effect on the stock. I'm sure there was discussion about what the right thing to do was, but they took the action that hurt them financially (both at the company and individual level) over the easy path.

Twitter is not perfect, but the people I worked with there were honestly trying very hard to strike a balance between protecting free speech and removing bad actors from the system.