skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know someone (an old friend of my wife) who went to school for accounting, and did indeed donate time at local libraries to help people with taxes.

I'm not sure if that was because they liked accounting, or liked helping people and had skills in accounting.

I could see "side projects" being interesting ways to interpret different tax laws with each other. As a "game" with a very large set of rules and formulas that occasionally changes in small but fundamental ways, I could see a certain type of person reveling in their ability to find interesting rule combinations ("loopholes").
Once they bleed out!
Take a look at F#. Huge library (all of .NET), cross-platform, has JS as a target, and is a great community.
You might be interested in this study as a way of refining your interests and goals:

http://loonwerks.com/publications/pdf/cofer2013fmics.pdf

It's a big world out there; this has been an active area of research basically since Turing. Many of the "relationship between" questions you ask have their own conference or workshop series.

> formal provability

IMO the best way to start down this road is to just begin using some of the tools out there -- TLA+, Coq, whatever - and touch base with the community around your choice of tool (conferences, workshops, or even going back to school for a phd). The best way to learn about the strengths and limitations of current software practice is to sit down and churn out code, preferably with a strong mentor. The same is true for proof programming.
Ask HN: Snap's road show video has vanished, where can I find?
With Snapchat changing there focus and trying to court a broader audience I am trying to locate the video shown during their pre IPO road show.
It isn't available on their site nor is it on youtube.

I want to see how they presented Snap's future then compared to what they are doing now.

Anyone have the video?
So cool! If only there were a position for VFX or graphics! Sounds like an amazing opportunity for a web developer.
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Well, blockchain has exactly the role that peer-to-peer has in Joel (on software)'s architecture astronautics essay. A technology that is fashionable due to one successful application. Charlatans and honest fools try to use it for applications where it makes no sense, the press reports straight-facedly because of dem clicks. It is painfully obvious.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
And it's not available outside of US, which seems to be a huge mistake. At the moment in UK if you want an electric car with decent range the only option is a Nissan Leaf.
Release early and often.

Keep in touch with your audience and give them clear signal that this is your hobby project and you value their input before they leave any rating etc. Side-project which doesn't make you happy sucks. You may be afraid of success or failure, but avoiding validation with users and constantly imagining what they might need more will make your burnout worse.
I would hide non functional features and release now! Then do small update releases often - this boosts brain's instant gratification nicely.
I like your article and the example you used, code clarity is vital. Poor code is often accompanied by many poor comments which only helps in overwhelming the next poor soul who has to read the code.

However, I think that the larger the project, the more sense it makes to comment heavily. Again, code clarity needs to be a priority, but so does comment clarity, so much time is spent reading code by humans who are optimized to parse natural language. So we should cater to our users, not just the users of our executable, but the users of our source too!
I just found that workflow described in a blog post elsewhere too:

"Pro-tip: tracking cash withdrawals and purchases can be a pain. I typically just maintain an Expenses:Cash account for these sorts of things. If I can remember how I spent a bit of cash, great: I can just debit Expenses:Cash and credit the appropriate account for what I spent the cash on after the fact. Otherwise, I just leave the amount attributed to Expenses:Cash. It's often not worth the trouble of trying to keep finer track of cash purchases than that." -- http://matthewturland.com/2014/03/29/ledger-basics-and-habit...

Sounds smart, though at the scale of my personal finances, I get much more value out of tracking the petty transactions. I guess I'm pound-wise but penny-foolish.
Are you sure? It looks like it does requests to the Fitbit servers.

I've done some reverse engineering myself at https://github.com/mrquincle/fitbit-fatbat, which gets part of the data from the early devices. However, I'm not aware of anyone cracking the encryption and obtaining the rest of the data.
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I might put a warning on it.
That looks like a nice tool for generating a graphql schema. Resolving functions are still required.
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It's an interesting historical fact that the modern CPU was invented specifically to power a desk calculator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004

There is a direct line back from the Intel x86 architecture all the way back to that 4004.

Another neat little item in the same line:

http://curta.org/

I've been on the lookout for an affordable one for the longest time but so far no luck.
Looks like my name was used but I can't see the whole comment or address.
When the underlying value of the ETH/BTC has appreciated significantly, and the likely value of the Tezos token has plummeted, trying to extract core investment is reasonable.

Personally I would do it quietly, with good legal backing, and as a single entity or with a small group of investors rather than a large class action - and reach an early settlement to get our own investment back without causing too much of a stir for other investors.
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Isn't it simply hardcore overfitting of network?

I haven't read the paper yet but it seems to me that it shows you can use overfitting for output interpolation with great results.

Same should be possibile for example for interpolation of video images instead od pixels.
As a native speaker of a Romance language (a.k.a. "latin" language) this puzzles me too.

I'm guessing it's the vocabulary. English has imported a lot of Latin roots over hundreds of years. There's also the outcome of the battle of Hastings that may have tilted the results here.
Be very careful of those tests. Look at who is running them, often a particular church. Many have questioned their methodology. Not of the testing per se, but in how they selected their sample "representative" populations. They didn't do the science to determine whether a sample person was really representative, beyond some questionnaires. And their sampling was based on a particular world view, one that locked populations down circa 150 years ago into modern national boundaries and ignoring previous migrations.
It's not hard to understand what this.completePurchaseProcess(paymentInfo) does.
If I'm at a client: a little more formal than the client's dress code, usually.

If I'm not at a client or am travelling: shirt, sweat pants, keds or fred perrys
I have much more experience with Japanese. I started Japanese a year earlier than Chinese and studied them concurrently after that. I also studied abroad in Japan for a year. I have also written/read/used Japanese considerably more. While I did concurrently speak/use Chinese often during that period, I found I had to put less effort into Chinese. (We're still talking 1000s of hours). Nowadays, I use Chinese much more frequently because my wife is Chinese and our language-of-communication is Chinese. We've been married for 6.5 years, so that certainly helped my Chinese ramp up and overtake my Japanese. However, in terms of scientific vocabulary, only until recently, my Japanese vocab was greater than my Chinese. I've been reading many more books and forcing myself to write more in Chinese to build up my skills. (Have a few random posts on my blog) It's amazing how important all aspects: listening/reading/writing/speaking are important to learning a language. :)
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I wonder if the paperwork (eg. term sheet or whole contract) got signed before Dave McClure left and (some) LPs are holding back their money now. Is that a realistic scenario?
Am the only one that finds listening to startup podcasts to be useless?

I've listened to countless startup podcasts and read countless startup books. Without your own experiences running a business its hard to sift through the cruft of bad advice out there. I guess it's more entertainment than an actual productive pursuit.
do any of these publishers have paywalls for specific premium articles rather than x articles per week? presumably they could a/b and tweak more that way
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"Volunteer" internships are illegal in Canada
Is this how we keep the poor uninformed?
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They're serious.

https://medium.com/kylevogt/why-testing-self-driving-cars-in...
Big podcast fan here. After looking at the page, I tried:

https://www.listennotes.com/api/v1/search?q=hello

And got an empty result.

Looks like you need to sign up with some external service to use it? Why that? For the monetization? Or am I missing something?
Who was born first the chicken or the egg?

And Ethereum did a crowdsale. On Counterparty and Ommi.
It’s literally in the first paragraph of their Wikipedia article:

>> Ethereum was proposed in late 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency researcher and programmer. Development was funded by an online crowdsale between July and August 2014.[5] The system went live on 30 July 2015, with 11.9 million coins "premined" for the crowdsale.[6] This accounts for approximately 13 percent of the total circulating supply
All these subscriptions are starting to add up so I don't want more. I wonder if they lowered their prices whether they could make up for it by more subscribers. I guess they have run the numbers...
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Some commenting is okay and necessary. The point is that generally, if you are adding heavy commenting, you can probably refactor the code in such a way that commenting is not necessary. Even in a large codebase.
Do you code complex Arduino projects? Use Arli to search/install libs
The unit error is in the comparison between USD/year (a rate) and USD (a value at a single point in time)
I think sharing the data with others would be a good start.
Note that a lot of public libraries and universities provide free one day access to the NYTimes, and by using such passes you are supporting the company as there are fees paid when users take advantage of these things.
Even better: I've had it pop up the auth codes on my laptop, but iCloud didn't actually ask for them.
It's still not the default.

Causal hookups are about physical attraction, for both men and women. And if genders were reversed, and this was an overweight, 50 year old woman trying to hookup with young, good looking guys, the men here would think to themselves, "eww, no."

That is exactly what these young women thought (and said as much in the article)!
If they're out of money, they're out of money. Was it all just coming out of McClure's pocket? IANAL, but presumably a substantial failure to adhere to contract terms on 500's part will release the startups from their contract requirements?
Speaking as someone who learned French in school, I agree.

Goddamn plus-que-parfait, it's a trap.
Might be easily hacked, but has anybody hacked them?

I contacted a few sellers on Aliexpress because I wanted to see how many I had to order to get them to give me the source code so I could make a value-added product from them but it was beyond what I was willing to invest.
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In my opinion, journalistic integrity is more important than ever and I'll gladly pay for quality instead of being swamped with clickbait.

I don't want my journalist to be beholden to advertisers instead of trying to provide the most truthful, unbiased facts to their readers.
>I don't think the police would appreciate it if you started firing off guns in the middle of the city.

We're talking on the order of a hammer on steel here.

I was under the impression. trapping was happening indoors. Go somewhere you know there will be rats, pop a few, toss them in a bucket, wash rinse repeat. Depending on who the research is being done under it would only take a call to whatever department (probably something having to do with trash) you want the undergrads to tag along with for a shift to collect rats.

>That seems harder than setting traps and checking in a day later.

Going to where you know rats will be once to shoot them is easier than going twice to set and retrieve traps.
I know that Russian has these forms, but it's not like that you can say that Russian is difficult because of singular/plural and male/female forms and the verbs, because also Italian for example shares the same difficulty (actually the verb conjugations are even more complex).
The difficult part in Russian are the 6 grammar cases.
But this difficulty pales compared to having to learn tens of thousands different characters with some of them with very similar shapes.
I never studied the 6 Russian cases, but I studied the Latin ones, and once you know the rules they are pretty straightforward.
Still requires more brain processing then plain English, and if your spending hours parsing code it is taxing and reduces your overall productivity.
It just gives me a blank page on search.
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In most cases private data can be separated from code so you can stack up the application with an empty database or supply a test database which is sanitized.
Ironically the only ethereum dApp which people actually use - EtherDelta decentralized exchange - was never ICO'd and makes piles of money.

The incentives for token sales are to raise as much Eth as you can, spend as little of it as possible on the actual project while watching its value appreciate, then either have a product launch that semi-fails or have some good excuse why the project just couldn't work for some reason while minimizing the chance that people bring legal action against the project.
There must be an insane amount of cognitive overload when having to parse through 2x the number of lines because every line of code is accompanied by a line of comment.
At this point, I'm glad to get away from the abusive ad-supported model and support sources of information I trust directly.

Information wants to be free, but it's not free to gather and vet.
Fund manager: profit

Developer: overhead

If you do not believe me, go ask your manager.

It is not different from food service

Customer => profit

Restaurant staff => overhead

The job of overhead is to enable making of profit. Without profit, developer would be out of a job. Without developer, fund manager will not be out of a job - he would be using Excel.
Not surprisingly, FCC search appears to not be working.
I linked to this before. As previously, i don't know their methods or whether they are neutral observers it not, but i did find their findings to be interesting: http://www.emprata.com/reports/fcc-restoring-internet-freedo...

Seems there was ballot stuffing on both sides.