skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am yet to see any ad setup that guarantees they are not visually annoying. Most (reputable) ad networks guarantee they filter ads and remove the evil ones. I haven't seen one that delivered. I do not see how they could - manual review of each ad is not scalable and advertisers would not abide by it, they'd just move to network with less stringent rules.
Refinement Types in Typed Racket
A technique I have found that works well is read a lot of paper and their citations, but don't dive deep. Each paper usually provides some easy to grasp insight (far too little per paper, but that is elitism for you) that you can use to get a good picture of the field. Reread papers to grasp more insight. Once you have a good overall picture, find some area/problem that really interests you, you like the math, and isn't covered well and bone up on the math techniques. Do your research and present.

Showing up at thesis defenses is good too. Learn a lot from the back and forth with advisors.

The key is to understand at a high level why the different math techniques are being used without actually understanding all the details. This won't be sufficient for your own work,but at least you'll have a good idea how your part fits in the scheme of things.
That killed the effect :)

Reposted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15682670
Do you think that the sum of rolling two dice isn't random? That isn't a uniform distribution.
The south didn't have to "win" they just had to not lose before the Union got tired of the war.

If you want to send an army into another country without local support you need a massive manpower and material advantage. After you account for that the two sides look more equal.

If Gettysburg had been a southern victory things could have turned out very differently.
On the other hand, well-known constructs as used for translating FORTRAN labels to switch statements have been around for ages. E.g.,

function main(entrypoint) {
switch (entrypoint) {
default:
case 0:
// do some (...)
// now drop the thread and wait for input (external)
myInputFunc(function(result) { main(1, result); });
break;
case 1:
// return to here from input
var value = arguments[1];
// now do something with it ...
break;
}
}

function myInputFunc(callback) {
// in actuality this might be servicing a more complex UI
document.querySelector('#inputField').oninput =
function() { callback(this.value); };
}
If they weren't so far lost they would stop to applaud the German peoples' disdain for state surveillance. It makes Germany a safer base of operations than the US or UK.
It’s correct. For a long time diet was the limiting factor on the length of see voyages. Terrible things happen to you if you don’t get Vitamin C for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
I've made friends with many local Chinese workers; I speak Mandarin as well. The (very few) workers that are intelligent and knows about foreign things, usually tends to be very pessimistic about China. Most of the workers that only reads stuff put out by the government, and reads censored mobile contents, are optimistic (logically, since the government approved contents are optimistic). or they're just very afraid to speak their minds.

Ironically that's why China will fall sooner rather than later. It's because most people aren't aware of the downfall until it's too late, because of censorship.
I understand that the scope of the business is geographically limited, but think of the tech it takes to achieve this ;)

Reposted since I forgot to include the URL in the last post[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15682464
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I saw an episode about this years ago on PBS (Frontline?). They studied 401k investment results at a company where all the employees participated in the same plan, with the same choices.

The lower paid employees consistently had much lower investment returns than the higher paid employees. It was pretty clear that the higher paid employees were managing their 401k investments better.

In other words, it wasn't random.

The company reacted to those results by offering free investment education classes to all employees. What the outcome of that was I don't know.

It statistically stands to reason that people who are better at managing money, finance, and investments will accrue more wealth than those who are worse at it.
Lysine and threonine (essential amino acids) would be a problem if you were only eating oats, rice, and pasta (assuming it's made from wheat)
Of course, I'm sure this highly depends on the individual person, the type of work, and the project itself.
Linux 4.14 released
How your boss can break SSL to see what you are doing
Article is unreadable as presented, and fails to render in Outline.com, Pocket, or a console HTML-only browser.
Yeah, that was a wasted click for me too
Vladimir Putin. Spring 2014
The Truth about Courage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15680129
Did anyone else notice the claim that “The computers had never been connected to the Internet,” followed in the next paragraph by “On another screen, Obermayer opened iHub, the encrypted Facebook-like forum that the ICIJ created to make collaboration easier across borders”? Something doesn’t add up here...
A lot of practical difficulties with your proposal.

A CS/AI PhD program is nothing like a Math/AMath/Stat PhD. In the latter, there is zero expectation that you will start producing anything in the first few semesters. In fact, it is explicitly required of you to load up on rigorous core courses, so that you can pass your prelims at the end of 2nd year and become a formal “PhD candidate”. The attrition rate in those programs is about 40% or more, so a lot of these people simply find out they don’t have the math maturity, drop out with a Masters at the end of2 years, get a job and call the whole thing off.

So in the latter case, yes, such a person can follow your guidelines. In fact, most of the material you listed in called AMC ( applied math core ) or CACM or other abbrev...and is already taught as part of core.

Now in the former case is where this particular student is. CS PhDs programs are a sort of weird beast in the US. They are housed in eng, not liberal arts. The expectations are to produce papers right out of the gate. Atleast lightweight papers, posters, something...you cannot coast for 2 years saying you are learning convex math & stoc calc. So if you read the material that comes out of students in that phase, it tends to be of low quality and heavy on empirical evidence ( i tested 7 functions on 3 datasets and these 2 came first, here are the charts and graphs). As the student matures, his papers gather more heft and by the time he graduates the final 2-3 papers will be very good....atleast that’s the expectation. Reality again is quite bleak and results are all over the place. Because of the hectic hiring climate, lots of cs grads will just take an ABD and get the hell out. 150k starting plus rsu is nothing to sneeze at. The ones who do finish tend to take a full 4+ years and are in the teens % of incoming cohort :(

Also, you are not really permitted to sign up for whatever you want just because you have math deficiencies. Your advisor will have to sign off on each sem load. He has to ensure you are on track, not just following your own whimsical path into theoretical math because you fancy it. CS core is quite distinct from AMath and touches upon the material you mentioned very superficially. All in all, this student is between a rock and a hard place. Its not going to be easy for him at all if he truly wants to understand everything. Best bet is to do what the top reddit advice is - pick some narrow corner where you are comfy, write 2-3 papers in that corner, get the hell out and learn the rest later on your own time in your research career.
> The speculation driven movement of the BTC cannot be compared to the speculation on the USD or any other currency.

Care to explain this a little more? At face value I'm not sure I agree with that statement, but I get the feeling I'm not understanding what you're trying to say.
EPIRB is a fantastic technology, saving thousands of people at sea every year. A modern beacon will do a quarter second burst of digital information at 406 MHz at five watts (which is a helluva lot) then becomes silent for about 50 seconds. Today it is precise enough that only about two square kilometres needs to be searched. Fun fact: the 50 seconds is randomized so that two beacons don't become sync'd. A real lot of thought went into creating the protocol. As for the devices, the author was only half kidding about them surviving a nuclear war. Once deployed it's less tough but their brackets (which most autodeploy from if it gets four metres deep) definitely survives some real bad stuff although I can't find hard data on how they are tested.
You mean:

(a<b)||(a==b)||(a>b)

Double ampersand is logical AND, you want double bars for logical OR.

And still, that's equivalent to !(std::is_nan()), unless you're suggesting using the operator on other non-floating-point types which have a similar problem...
People tend to assume that if Firefox 57 or other version will be faster then Chrome, then a lot people would then start to use Firefox instead of Chrome.

As much as I would like to see that its not gonna happen, and I am writing this as a Firefox user.

Remember what 'REAL' Opera 12 did in its times comparing to Chrome or Firefox? It loaded pages faster, used less memory, was most standards compliant and also came with bundled torrent client, and mail client and RSS client and ... and having 100+ tabs opened DID NOT EVEN SLOWED IT!

... and guess what, both Firefox and Chrome had more users while Opera had about 4-5%.

It did not mattered if it was faster or better.

Currently Opera is just a Chrome with different skin, so I moved to Firefox with Midori and Iridium as 'backups'.
Neither a game nor a single line (using semicolons is disingenuous)
That struck me as implausible.

But https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-sex-prob...

men: "Women are scary."

women: "Men are lazy, just into porn."

That sounds all too familiar :(
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Webkay – What every browser knows about you
> What if the Japanese don’t want to move forward and are happy to live out the remainder of their lifespans as is?

They don't want to move forward, under the condition that Japan would still be rich and prosperous as it is/was today.

No, not anymore.

The Japanese has lost their electronics industry to US/South Korea/China. The myth of Made by Japan equals high quality is debunked by scandals that just doesn't seem to stop. And look at the crazy policies Japan had used to stimulate their economy. Don't want? No, they are more than desperate.

When you stay static, the world moves forward, you will be left behind. If US decides not to move forward, then China would happily reap all the economical outcome for the years to come, and US would become poorer and jobs would go away too. It is indeed a myth that politics can fix this. No, it cannot. Conservative thinking that they can freeze the time by voting is fantasy. Growth is a game you have to participate, it is a capitalist world, after all. However, what politics could fix, is to solve the redistribution problem, to have more people share the pie, not a handy few.
At one point I wondered how seawater killed you since there isn't anything (directly) toxic in it.

Your kidneys excrete the excess salt you ingest. The problem is, sea water has higher salinity than the kidneys can excrete so your kidneys have to excrete more water than you ingested of sea water and you actually die of dehydration.

This is why it is so horrible: the more sea water you drink, the more dehydrated you become, the thirstier you get, and the faster you die.

Ref: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/drinksw.html

See also salting slugs: http://www.slugoff.co.uk/slug-facts/salt
I haven't thought about it carefully, but since magnetic fields don't do work, my initial reaction to your example of iron near a magnetar is surprise. But, I also expect that the iron magnetizes in a strong field. Wouldn't that be lowering its energy (compared to an unmagnetized lump in a background field), however?
My point is societal pressure doesn't have to end with laws. If a company wants to play the 'but-it-isnt-illegal' game, they should still be subject to suffering a rejection by the public, and as members of the public, we have a moral obligation to reject those companies.
I might have missed it, but is this asyncio-ready?
As a fellow pedant I made sure to use words like "almost" (:
Only white people get together with friends to eat and socialize? News to me.
From the OED:

1. A cruel and oppressive ruler.

1.1 A person exercising power or control in a cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary way.

1.2 (especially in ancient Greece) a ruler who seized absolute power without legal right.
BitBank.nz referral program: .003 btc per paying user referred
This is a niche I think Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) does a pretty good job of filling
Indeed, the reason most objects seem to be neutral is because of how strong the electromagnetic force is! Were it weaker it would be much easier to separate charges on longer length / time scales.
What about the BBC? Are they bad now as well?
I just picked up Hackers and Painters by PG at local library. Hoping its a good read !
> because it was clear to everyone that the North was going to win from day 1

I don't know that this is true. I think that the Lost Cause movement has perpetuated this based on pure numbers while ignoring all the other factors that could have impacted the outcome of the conflict. The North did have an overpowering industrial advantage, but that doesn't mean they had the desire to commit to a conflict. In fact, they spent the first 3 or 4 years of the war not committing fully.

If the Revolutionary War had failed, I think we would say the same thing about that, but a war is a complicated thing and I would never say an outcome is "clear to everyone". Clearly France saw some advantage in undermining an enemy, despite Britain's advantage over the colonies.
That would have worked if people did really act on "I don't consume from non-responsible company". But people pick cheapest, or nicest, or trendiest. They don't give a crap about the company practices.
This all does bring up a good point. Why not create a publicly accessible 'math tree' that people can use to learn about any kind of math. If there is a symbol or step they don't understand they should be able to follow it all the way down to basic counting.
> UK "journalism" is simply stunningly bad now.

The Guardian[0] has done some great reporting in recent years[1]:

Notable scoops include the 2011 News International phone hacking scandal, in particular the hacking of murdered English teenager Milly Dowler's phone. The investigation led to the closure of the UK's biggest selling Sunday newspaper, and one of the highest circulation newspapers in the world, the News of the World. The newspaper also released news of the secret collection of Verizon telephone records held by US President Barack Obama's administration in June 2013, and subsequently revealed the existence of the PRISM surveillance program after it was leaked to the paper by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In 2016, it led the investigation into the Panama Papers, exposing the then British Prime Minister David Cameron's links to offshore bank accounts.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian
Have you tried Flattr, I've not used it but I see it on a lot of sites and gather it fits that niche.

https://thenextweb.com/tech/2017/10/24/flattr-now-lets-pay-c... may be of interest too.
No mention of The Guardian? I have a pretty high opinion of their newsroom, and donate regularly. They’ve been doing solid investigative work lately, even on American topics.
This is not about your child, this is about making the most profit through collecting personal data and advertising while keeping the target engaged. you know, google.
You've been down-voted, but it's something I often think about as well. Chinese speakers - even those who speak chinese languages that aren't usually written - seem to have a deep attachment to characters. But the attachment is not free.
Sadly many people behave like that in positions of power, frequently because they are ill equipped to handle the pressure and responsibility. The root cause here is we need to better educate those leading others.

How do you feel about it in retrospect? Do you regret the outcome? If so why?
This would not help their business.
Correction: I meant PowerPC, not POWER. The latter is not likely to fit comfortably in a laptop. If you want a POWER-based workstation, check out the Talos II from Raptor Computing.
Easy. SoftIron.com. No quotes, just order.

Also, calling is easy. https://www.phoenicselectronics.com will sell you a Gigabyte MT30-GS2 (Cavium ThunderX 32-core) 1U system for around $2k. If you want to provide your own ATX case - much less.

Hardware is accessible, but there are a lot of big players buying things en masse, and the market isn’t oversaturated. This means long lead times and some price fluctuations. But things have been getting much better with every year (out of Arm servers’s whole 3 years of public availability). Definitely more accessible than anything OpenPower (which sadly will set you back the price of a small used Kia). The recent launch of third-gen Arm servers like the Qualcomm Centriq will lower the price for older kit.

This is yet another SBSA board with a low price and 1-click order: https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/armada-8040-...

All ECC.
For a long time one of the big promises of Bitcoin was that you can easily, cheaply and quickly transfer them even to people in other countries.
I assume the benefits you are referring to are political? Like lack of central per controlling it? If so, I don't think that will run over every day Joe.
I've written executable user stories that stakeholders can read, which is a good way for them to verify that the implemented business logic matches expected behavior, and is significantly easier to read than turing complete code.

I'm honestly not sure if there's value in going beyond that though. The "signal to noise" ratio in any turing complete language is too high even when you try to write code as clearly as possible (which I do).

Implementation details aren't all that interesting to stakeholders and understanding code even in languages that emphasize readability requires tons of implicit knowledge.
No, 左 is "left" and 右 is "right", they're saying that the 𠂇 radical itself means "left hand", and they later added a similar one for "right hand".

Looking it up (on wiktionary, at least) it seems like originally 又 was "right hand", however if you look at really old versions of that character it looks mostly like a mirror of 𠂇.

Interestingly, Wiktionary lists both left and right as phonosemantic compounds where the phonetic part is "left hand" or "right hand" and the semantic part is "assist" and "mouth" (I think in this case the "mouth" is used to bolster the "pronounced like" of the phonosemantic compound, since it's used on the right side not the left). This seems to be because the word for "left hand" became the word for "left" and same for "right hand", so they're pronounced the same; and the semantic component was added later to bolster/specialize the glyph.

Anyway, it seems like the 𠂇 radical in 右 is etymologically a variant of 又 which is a mirror of 𠂇 (well, a mirror of a three-pronged historical form of that) except it was rotated around the glyph so that it looks exactly like 𠂇 but the stroke order is reversed.
Do you sit in my office!?
In mandarin people tend to add lots of little "particles" (not sure about the proper linguistic term) when they speak, which seems to be a way of adapting to homophones.
They can but they won't. Simply because it goes against their business model.

Besides it is not that hard to download local copies of the videos you want and now you do not even need to be online.
Look up Prop 13 and Prop 8, it's essentially rent control for property owners. Property tax cannot exceed 1% of the assessed value, and the assessed value cannot increase more than 2% a year. Prop 8 ensures that property taxes go down when the assessed values decline.

The caps stay in place until the property changes hands. This applies to all property in California. Commercial? No problem. Second home? Same discounts. There's been talk about either abolishing or reforming Prop 13 via a split roll system, but it's a political third rail.
It currently isn't. I'm holding out until there is some demand for it as I currently don't need it for my own stuff.
To be fair, we were also executing people on the suspicion of treason in the 50s.
I used to work as part of the helpdesk for a large company a few years ago. Calls that never made it to a live person were considered "solved by the phone-tree". Everyone there knew that 9/10 of those were people who just got too frustrated with the phone tree, hung up and tried to call back again. It's all about padding those reports.
These kinds of stories don't get made into blog posts because they don't help sell any kind of narrative. Novice eCommerce store owners will focus on the "top 10 things you can do to increase conversion" from blogs like the one mentioned above.

At a large scale page load time would have a discernible impact on your bottom line, but for most it is a premature optimization (as long as you aren't trying to deliver 10mb webpages).
Musk: Tesla Semi Truck unveil Thu. 'This will blow your mind out of your skull'
Yes, you and absolutely everyone else in the world that loves math, didn't have time to get a phd and isn't elitist wants this.

Sadly, the monetization of this is tricky. Probably has to be an open source effort. Need some visionary like wales or khan, but they are very very rare.
Brains and know-how my good man, not copypasta.
They have different computers. Some are not connected to internet, some others are.
Disney’s streaming service has won, and it hasn’t even launched yet
I think no people anywhere at any time has been happy with their media.
"Jeff’s Pop once tore the top of his thumb off. He had tried to jump out of his moving truck and unlatch the farm’s gate before the car slid through"

Jeff's Pop was a loony, but extremely characteristic of what Amazon became. Guy couldn't stop his TRUCK long enough to open a gate for that same truck to go through? That's an… unusual attitude to driving a truck.
Just because there's no need doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Yes, this is a solved problem, but companies don't like using those solutions. They'd rather you punch in your id number into a phone tree, only to be asked for that same id again as soon as a human starts talking.

You are correct that there is no excuse, but companies still do it all the time.
another comment provided a good explanation (see below), now it remains to check the editor

"Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr. van Dam received a research grant from the Nestec Company. No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported."
Guys, Nestec own the world's biggest coffee machine company, Nespresso.
Japan answered "Yes" to that question. Every river in Japan is dammed and concreted, ~all old growth forests have been logged and replaced with cedar plantations, and all native minorities (Okinawan, Ainu, etc) have been steamrollered by mainstream Yamato language & culture.
If you want people to pay for this, you should at least show some profound examples of your Service(and the outcome) and explain the process a lot more in depth.
Exactly this ! Do not let young children unsupervised when online or watching tv or videos.
> If he feels like he’s adding value and is a productive member of a team at work, “it makes me better at home.

The constant switching in and out of first person quotations in this article is weird and off-putting.
Yup I've just quit, I have no intention of wasting my life suffering under someone, I'd rather move on to something else.