skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things may have changed in the last year or so, but plenty of System 76 Clevos have been notorious for problems in the past. I'd be interested in knowing that things have improved significantly because I'll probably be upgrading to a new laptop around the middle of next year.

For me probably the biggest issue is that they usually have mediocre keyboards and sometimes they even have keyboards that drop keystrokes. It seems like every model they release should have a top-notch keyboard because their target market is mostly developers.
Yeah, this is what I have as well, mine is over a decade old however.
Dawn draft
I think "crappybird" is being ironic and making some sort of meta-comment about how Android may be free-as-in-beer, and somewhat free-as-in-speech, but it isn't really free because REASON GOES HERE.
It's not uncommon to use "sic" as a sort of irony punctuation mark.
Those two, and Basque, I've wondered a lot about. Hungarian, presumably deriving from the Huns, goes back to pre-historic Central Asia, possibly as far east as Mongolia or Siberia. Finish, I'm not as sure of the consensus provenance. And Basque? Who in the world knows? Possibly some kind of pre-Celtic holdout, I've seen it posited.
What's the utilization in the construction industry? I think that'd be a more fair analog for mining.
Given that they define ‘early’ as before A, they simply mean seed fundings have dropped off a lot. There’s a lot of reasons this could be true, but a couple that resonate for me (an investor in three pre-A and two post-A companies) is that 1) the series A cliff is real and is backpropogating to seed rounds and 2) seed is full of dabblers (me included) who have hopefully realized the economics aren’t great unless they have quality deal flow and can afford to invest at least $1M+ being an angel (which means they should have overall portfolios in excess of $10M minimally).

Bonus theory: the bloom is off the crowd-funding rose. Crowd funding was producing a lot of low quality startups that tanked fairly rapidly and probably never had a chance.
Solar powered smart windows break 11% Efficiency
Lords of Scotland is a fiendishly tricky game that appears simple at first. It's very quick to teach, but there is both strategic and tactical aspect to it and many non-obvious paths to victory. Beware of high player interaction (some people like it, some are hurt). It's rather chaotic in higher player kinds, you need to appear relatively harmless to win.

Tigris and Euphrates is an old classic that has very few tile types to place, but they result in complex outcomes. I can't say very much about it because I only played it once on a game show, but it's on my to-buy list.
Yes, AGI as a discipline distinguishes itself in large part from machine learning by its focus on architecture over training or data.
I think the implication is that "free" is being quoted from elsewhere and the author doesn't necessarily agree that it is without cost just because such cost is not denominated in dollars.
Not that I know of, but having intimate experience with one thing probably implies you have experience with another, so I don't necessarily see any foul play if it's not listed explicitly in the job listing.
The MS foldable has really nice keys but the gap between the two halves is rather annoying on the long run. The above keyboard has no gap like the original stowaway keyboard.
It is going short on the asset.
Many, many learners wish Japanese had more available phonemes. One of the biggest problems with Japanese is it imported batches of tens of thousands of Chinese words and forced them into a language with only a fraction of the sound complexity. The result is loads of words with the same pronunciation but completely different meaning. "Shoushin" can mean a work promotion or cowardice. "Shinkou" can mean attack, (military) invasion, progress, encouragement, pickles, or religious faith. None of these usages are rare.

If English had half the available consonants and vowels it had now, it'd be far more difficult to learn rather than easy. Japanese has the same problem.
The average time it takes an English learner to reach some level of proficiency?
Disgruntled developer breaks thousands of JavaScript, Node.js apps (2016)
Citation needed?

I'm not aware of any work doing this combination - but I don't follow the simulation space closely. My impression is that NNs haven't been used broadly successfully in simulation until a couple of years ago.
Comparing RFTG to Monopoly made me barf up a little, frankly.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/disgruntled-developer-breaks-th...
I think you may have gotten a replacement when CA was short on the correct paper.

http://www.ocregister.com/2015/11/25/paper-shortage-puts-bir...
habitrpg like carbon footprint reduction app. And/or a "pyramid scheme" where you could challenge friends to participate and get credit for onboarding people and their reductions.
Hospital? I'm not sure... But women are much more likely to see a doctor regularly than men are.
A few reasons. Prior to the existence of udev, all devices had to be created with mknod and have permissions set; a script called "MAKEDEV" did that. That didn't handle dynamically created devices, so (skipping "hotplug" and an old attempt called "devfs" which was filled with race conditions) the kernel started sending events to userspace for dynamic devices, and udev created those. Then, it made sense to "coldplug" all the existing devices and have udev create those, to use the same unified path for everything, and use udev to set groups and permissions. But that did take some time at boot time, and it meant that you needed either udev or a manually created /dev for tiny embedded systems. devtmpfs handled that use case, automatically creating devices from the kernel. But then, if the kernel knows how to create devices, why not have it do so all the time? So, udev jettisoned the code to create devices itself, and started requiring devtmpfs.
Isn't it also the case that floating point addition may not necessarily be commutative? I'd imagine there would need to be some standard to enforce it as such.
I was once on a team piloting a new inventory planning model in Excel, testing it out at a handful of distinctively different manufacturing sites to stress test it before paying SAP's ransom to bake it into the official system.

When I started, I was backfilling someone who created the Excel model and was responsible for batch exporting data from SAP, crunching the numbers in Excel, and sending that out to the sites every morning. My onboarding consisted of being given his laptop and his login credentials[1], and being met with a desktop full of dozens nested folders of Excel sheets in that exact version control format. I still have nightmares of that week.

[1] My manager had successfully kept IT from being able to get the laptop for re-imaging. But my senior VP located on a different continent had to get involved to get IT to reset the guy's password for us.
Settlers with more than four is not the greatest.

Ever play Dominion with a kid? Their slow shuffling kills.
Bonus theory #2: few IPOs means few newly minted angels.

Bonus #3: huge companies still sucking up VC like Uber are crowding out smaller investments.
Ugh my union does no such thing - but you won't believe me so let's just stop there hey?

Even if it did, I have no moral objection to labour banding together to restrict supply. It's just the free market in action. Actors (capital, labour, consumer) are free to band together and increase their functional power.

There is no perfect state of equilibrium in a market, just a temporary pause. Same goes for capital and labour - what works now won't work tomorrow and so constant tension and negotiation will occur. Some parties will lose and some will win. Either way the situation is merely temporary.

Or is the free market just for capital to band together to increase it's power?
He's debuting the Falcon Heavy Roadster in a week.
Read The Last 100 Days or listen to Dan Carlin's Ghosts of the Ostfront podcasts to get a sense of how apocalyptic that conflict was. No wonder the psychic scars persist for generations.
One thing that video games have learned is how to 'onboard' the player.

Portal is a good example. It tells you the bare minimum before hand in the first minute : move mouse to aim, wasd to move and then every other rule of the game is learned along the way.

I just can't stand board games that consist of 20 minutes of explanation followed by one hour of game.
It's not great, but there's an existing SQL IDE called Microsoft Query. You can find it in the Data > Get External Data > From Other Sources area of the ribbon. It's straight out of the Win3x era graphics-wise but it lets you do drag-and-drop style query structures. It does fall apart horrendously once you get to anything approaching complex datasets with many tables, joins, etc. but the precident is there for a graphical IDE baked into Excel.

I used ODBC connections to pull in data for further manipulation in Excel to run a ~$200m project for a couple of years. It saved a great deal of time compared to the manual system that was in place prior whilst presenting the data in the familiar excel system which didn't scare away the old baby boomer who was doing all the manual work beforehand. Once I set up the queries and showed him how to refresh the data from the ribbon, he was able to do it without breaking it and whilst still feeling at home enough to get the job done on his own initative.

edit: I note that the above all falls apart somewhat when you need R/W access to your DB. I've only ever done SELECTs because I want to know info from a DB, crunch numbers, then feed decisions into another system. I don't know if you can UPDATE, INSERT, etc. via Excel/MS Query as I've simply never tried it.
A Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death
Blank copy paper is available everywhere. Get yourself a tacker and maybe a cardboard in the right format. When done, remove the tacks, scan it, and upload your notes to your cloud.
For a few of examples: Two languages with some shared history will have a lot of words from similar roots. That makes the vocabulary of the new language easier to learn. If the grammar is similar, it takes less practice to get used to the word order. If the grammar of the new language is more regular, it means fewer special cases to remember. And obviously, things will be easier if you don't have to learn a new writing system, or if the writing system is quick to learn.
The barcode is on their badge, the scanners are at the checkpoints. You could scan a copy, but if you're the only person in the building you'll still have to go to each scanner.
From your own link:

> The two-second rule tells a defensive driver the minimum distance needed to reduce the risk of collision under ideal driving conditions. The allotted two-seconds is a safety buffer, to allow the following driver time to respond. [emphasis mine]

> Some authorities regard two seconds as inadequate, and recommend a three-second rule. […] The United States National Safety Council suggests that a three-second rule—with increases of one second per factor of driving difficulty—is more appropriate. Factors that make driving more difficult include poor lighting conditions (dawn and dusk are the most common); inclement weather (ice, rain, snow, fog, etc.), adverse traffic mix (heavy vehicles, slow vehicles, impaired drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.), and personal condition (fatigue, sleepiness, drug-related loss of response time, distracting thoughts, etc.). For example, a fatigued driver piloting a car in rainy weather at dusk would do well to observe a six-second following distance, rather than the basic three-second gap.

I've had to veer to avoid accidents. At least three sitautions I can remember on the interstate: a semi truck tire blowout in front of me leaving large parts of the tire in my lane; a bike rack with several bikes falling off the back of a car in front of me; a truck in front of me veering around a obstacle (it appeared to be a pickup truck bed liner) I was blind to because I couldn't see beyond the truck in front of me.

I was lucky to avoid all of these because I had a parallel lane or shoulder I could escape into. When I drive now, if it's congested I leave extra following diatance. If that reduces the road capacity so be it. Compared to drivers who follow much too closely (which itself causes sudden slowdowns since they tend to over brake) or who drive in the wrong lane for their speed, I don't think I'm the person you need to worry about.

FWIW, I haven't been in an accident in over 25 years.
ICE is not a normal police force where warrants are issued by judges, they can pick someone up with no specific warrant, they can detain anyone they wish, for as long as they wish, with no due process, provided they believe they are not a citizen.
Another game with tight decisions and high strategy is Seasons. Don't get discouraged by cutesy graphics. There is a rock-solid foundation in there and you need to plan well ahead as well as make good tactical decisions.
Auschwitz inmate's notes from hell finally revealed
>> it could take ~8 hours just to regain the state I had in my head

Sounds interesting, can you please share more details about what you were working on?
I think someone once told me this story in person at a conference.
The Unseemly Side of Wall Street
> Unlike Japanese, Cantonese has a very simple grammar and no registers, so it would be easier to learn to speak.

Registers being different levels of formality (informal, formal, slang, etc)? If so, Cantonese has that in spades.

Your answer also ignores the tonal nature of Cantonese/Mandarin. Most guides can't event agree to how many tones there are. I get by with 7, but it can range from 6 to 10 depending on who you speak to (in contrast to 4 in Mandarin).
Nice, thank you, this is a US option: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3413
I've never soldered, but I can use a hammer!
I didn’t imply in my post that boost is the better choice for experts. Exactly because I also don’t think that is always true. I only mentioned that lots of Boost libs are harder to use for beginners than Qt base once since one often needs to understand a good amount of templates. whereas Qt is mostly based on a sniper object oriented model with inheritance.
Another user wrote a great answer to that in the original article comments: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/coderpad-interviewing-pla...
I've had this question lately also, and now have another reason for asking.
Well if someone knows fraud, it would probably be the Goldman CEO lol
Lol men died at war and you talk about baggage, do fuck yourself Cia shill.
> The second is a good concurrency story, ideally one that is compatible with JS-style async/await keywords for easy interop

Algebraic effects are also in the works which will help with stuff like async/await, but works over arbitrary effects (not just async). Like monads but nicely composable without the ickiness of MTL. Alas it's still unclear what the ETA is. :( Something I'm really looking forward to!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/63hgid/tracking_mult...
Yeah, it's not like the U.S. can get a top-secret blanket order for call records of everyone in the country or anything. /s
Shout out to “The Sizzle” daily newsletter tech round up - slight australian flair but not crazily slow.

https://www.thesizzle.com.au - $5/m with free trial

Author is https://twitter.com/decryption
sounds like talesfromtechsupport material.
I tried to run their ipynb but it wants something called skip. I don't think it's the "skip" on PyPi (that doesn't work anyway) - so what could they be using?
The way I read this is that so called "supercookies" are illegal? That would be great.
If anything, computer games have much to learn from board games. Tight, elegant game mechanics. Widespread mechanic innovation.

In computer game world, Heroes of Might and Magic III is called a sequel. In board game world, it would be called an expansion - no joke. The rules are almost the same, almost all additions are incremental.
I don't understand their editorializing

> contrary to expectations,

ingore the weasel words

> a great deal of image statistics are captured by the structure of a convolutional image generator rather than by any learned capability.

> To show this, we apply untrained ConvNets to the solution of several such problems. Instead of following the common paradigm of training a ConvNet on a large dataset of example images, we fit a generator network to a single degraded image.

How is that _untrained_, if they are training it on an image? Is a generator network different from a ConvNet?

> This is particularly remarkable because no aspect of the network is learned from data;

but they just said "we fit a generator network to a single degraded image"

As others have commented, they appear to be training on all the parts of a single complex image, and using that training to repair local deviations from the global average. This may be better than classical denoising algorithms because the NN can model the image structure better than other approaches, but this doesn't seem like a novel use of NNs.
Not intending to attack you or anything and legitimately trying to understand this: what did the officer mean by her statement? I think I'm missing something that I need to understand why you were offended.
Free printing service as offline traffic entrance
I buy your first one but not so much the second. People and funds investing in seed rounds aren’t putting money into Uber right now.
In pursuit of Otama's tone
Maybe it's the presentation of the restoration process, but I'm particularly impressed with the inpainting sample.

The idea of not running the simulation `past` the realistic interpretation and using that result makes sense but the results are way beyond what I would have expected!

Great work on the write up.
And my monitor has an extremely bright pulsing white LED. I have a piece of orange electrical tape over it, and it is still on the bright side. Dell e2414h if anyone's curious.
> Given that they define ‘early’ as before A, they simply mean seed fundings have dropped off a lot.

Thanks, we've updated the title to reflect this.
And turn crappy music into good music.
As an English speaker, the entire concept of tones is more than a little daunting.

On a lesser scale, the hardest thing about learning German, as, again, an English speaker, but one who had poor grammar instruction and no grounding in Latin, the idea of cases for verbs and pronouns was... weird.
I don't necessarily agree with this. If you audit finance, you break open their speadsheets and step through it all. It's even got some basic tools for this - Formulas > Formula Auditing in the ribbon. The spreadsheets become an auditable artifact.

Your objection seems to be more that it's proprietary and you can't crack it open with any tool you like. Finance doesn't really care about closed ecosystems though (case in point, Bloomberg).
Oh hey, how is the Power BI eval going?
MaxCompute 2.0: Evolution of Alibaba's Big Data Service
How about a single large scale smart contract launch that doesn’t end up needing a hard fork or result in people having money permanently frozen?

I hold ETH and I am excited for what it could do. But Solidity is hot garbage and that Python inspired alternative is a close second. I also don’t care about quantity of developers. These things deal with real money from real people, it demands a level of seriousness an average developer should run screaming from.
Personal attacks aren't allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone's comment may be. Please don't do this again.
Progress in AI Isn’t as Impressive as You Might Think
The Galileo Galilei Lesson That Helped This Company Avoid a Disaster
Database Restoration Solutions
True, but whatever supplants SSNs must be safeguarded via partial encryption.
Facebook Own Standard  NEW CAPTCHA TEST: 'UPLOAD a CLEAR PHOTO OF Your FACE
I'm guessing that for Korean it's mostly the grammar differences, honorifics, and writing system.
The concern isn't about US consumers, it's about the US government (law enforcement, defence, etc.) using the drones and having data sent back.
I took three years of German. Never had problems with the word order, including verbs. I guess I'm lucky in that; I've taken some Japanese too, and all the verbs are at the end there ;-)

After all these years, I've forgotten the genders of most nouns, and I'm very shaky on my declensions.
I think we have some conversational difficulties (using words differently, perhaps different understandings of what's going on) that is making it hard to have a decent discussion, so I'm going to conclude with where I think we agree.

Some system roughly like this has potential use cases, even if it may be unsuitable for others. While I wouldn't expect a public company to store their financials in it, there is a lot of data that is held less tightly out there.

And more speculatively, "The street finds its own uses for things." Who knows what obvious-in-restrospect thing emerges. Maybe after 10 years and some evolution, commercial software and data systems live in a system like this and purchases are ledger operations, so the user-base of a given product becomes the distribution platform.
Are currency trades taxed? I think bitcoin should fall more into that category.
Get your Bitcoin shirt while it rises
I ended up making my own notation early on, for exactly the same reason.

Adding to the difficulty is that some native speakers will enthusiastically correct your tone by over emphasiszing and embellishing their words (with trailing tones, ah's and lah's, etc). There are some people that I simply can't learn words from because I can never pick the tone. Luckily after a while you can pick those people fairly quickly!
That's actually why I had so much trouble with it. I feel that every language with this "feature" is wrong. They need to be normalized in to a more proper form where there is no implicit gender for words. Much like I prefer letter forms with less embellishments.
What's weird about a white dude referring to himself as 'watashi'? I'm a white dude and I have done that plenty of times.
The rubber band mechanism in RftG that gives the runners-up a chance to win is that once someone's "engine has started", everyone around the table is going to have a pretty good idea of the phases that someone is going to play. Then you can use those and your own phases to effectively get more actions out of a round. The lead player is still the one expected to win, but it's not usually a done deal by any stretch.
Raiden Network
My native language is a German dialect, I grew up talking Portuguese, learned French in school for 5 years, 3 years of Spanish and I strongly disagree.

The French language is full of irregularities and weird, complicated sentence constructions (try to negate something in a conditional past tense), and worst of all, so many flowers of speech, that francophones love to show off.
As a person who makes these decisions in an engineering company, I can tell you for the first time management is now coming around to the fact that the autodesk licensing model needs to be contained and reduced. For a good 50% of drafting (perhaps much more), zwcad will do. It has a .NET and lisp dev environment, and many tools run natively. Most importantly, the application can be purchased permanently.
The autocad product for almost all drafting is essentially unchanged in 15 years, and yet the yearly licensing cost is now more than the total capital cost that was originally incurred.

Autodesk is really starting to look like they're pricing their own product out of the market. Will it be completely removed? Probably not. But if you can translate CAD formats from consultancies into the format for your work, and then transfer them back, and the solution to doing that costs 50K to develop, and saves you 150K a year, it's hard to ignore. The only reason I think it hasn't happened up until now is the boiling frog situation. But the frog can't take much more heat.