skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Unless we as a society can get over showing off by buying things we don't need, I think we're in trouble.

Good luck with that. Maybe if you eliminated human sexuality first, somehow?

We've been "showing off" since we were cavemen. The iphoneX is just a really, really nice spear that you can throw further.
The problem is that if I'm giving a company a 5 or a 6, I probably just sort of tolerate the company in lieu of reasonable competitors, ie McDonalds being the only quick food anywhere near where I work. If I'm giving a company a zero it means I hate them and have a strong desire to see them go out of business (ie Google), and will also help with any endeavor to speed that along if it's easy for me. There's a massive difference between those two.
I had similar call just after a 10 day stay for a kidney transplant they rang up to ask how likely I would be to recommend the hospital to someone!
> Think how much that would help in cases of disaster: earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, wars, and so on.

Don't forget censorship… :)
Reminds me of this:

> According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality."

[(8) Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyu7v7nWzfo)
This was posted over a month ago [0] — and has been discussed in numerous ways since then.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk

EDIT — Thanks to cpv (below), this is the discussion I should've linked to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15900551
Besides that 99 % 6 = 3, so if the browser fired the setInterval function precisely every 99 ms, only two emojis would be displayed.
“Thinking in Systems: A Primer” by Dana Meadows. One of the best books for understanding the worlds systems intuitively. Allows you to use a mathematical framework without needing precise numbers to get a model off the ground.
But how is it wrong? Saying "there's an infinite amount of X because someone can create Y and everyone will switch to Y and call it X" is a silly pointless argument.

Of course that could happen, but it would require basically everyone to agree that Y is X and to switch over to Y, which is basically an impossible task, let alone when tens or hundreds of billions of dollars are involved.

It's a criticism that can be applied to literally anything.
I think it's a different way to think about prices, but I think the terribleness of it is subjective (assuming one understands the pricing model).
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I agree. The problem with the X is that every new feature comes with a downside. It has a edge-to-edge screen but the notch is really ugly in landscape mode. It has Face ID but no Touch ID. It has wireless charging at the cost of a fragile glass back.

It is a phone beset by compromises, the only thing it does reliably is broadcast that you are rich enough to buy a $1000 phone.
Regardless of the solutions chosen to make cities a better place, closed borders and immigration quotas are descrimination. People should be treated equally.
Why is that a terrible way to think about prices? Most people earn money at a predictable rate per month, so it’s perfectly reasonable to talk about these phone payment plans in the same terms. Obviously this isn’t true for things like credit card or mortgage payments, where interest is likely a significant factor, but AFAIK these cell phone payment plans are interest free.
I think I'm still missing how it saves energy. Does it require the non-discarded results be kept in memory and reused? Like caching the result of function calls? Generating the result of the operation in the first place generates heat as I understand it.
Everything on https://www.lesserwrong.com/ - start with the recommended collections then dive in. Many of the more established texts are available as ebooks if you prefer.
Sadly, it was a bubble. While media pushes stories about self driving trucks and cars, big compute is sucking the air out of the it job market at an accelerated pace.
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Ever since I saw Gattaca, I knew it was exactly where society would be heading. Minus all the fear-mongering and scary music.

It's a very fundamental human (nay, multi-celled organism) instinct to try to pass on our strongest genes.

If there was anything I could do to ensure my kids had 150 or 160 IQs (without any obvious downsides) I would do it in a heartbeat. And so would everyone else I know, if they're honest.
Generally speaking, most of the people "working on the problem" are actually working out ways to profit enough from the existing mess that it doesn't affect them personally.

If you intend to visit the US, you absolutely need to buy traveler's insurance, with medical coverage, before you enter. If you can't afford the premium, cancel your trip, and go spend money in a country with a better paradigm for emergency medicine.
This is not entirely true. Your link leads to a 56 minutes video while my linked video is just 4 minutes and providing the relevant discussion point.

Moreover, I couldn't find any larger discussion: I searched HN with the link you gave and found only two postings, one with 1 point and another one with 7 points and only 2 comments.
Check out this biography of Col Boyd (the OODA Loop guy):
https://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/031...

It's a total hagiography with some dubious historical claims, but a fun and interesting read nonetheless.
I used to do that, then I realised that a minimum wage call centre employee's salary/bonus/happiness probably depends in some small way on my answer, so I stopped being clever and just gave the answer they're clearly asking for.

(I do keep an exception for NPS surveys on automated interactions. No, Barclaycard, I will absolutely not recommend you to friends based on the text message you sent me about my increased credit limit, are you literally insane?)
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Yeah, that’s it. OP asked for books, so I figured that would be enough. Sorry for the confusion.
Not using them or any similar services, so I wouldn't care if they disappeared overnight.
And it is.

The 'sh' is only a hint about the language (shell).
Date: 5 March 1980 08:54-EST
From: Mark L. Miller <MILLER at MIT-AI>
To: Dave.Touretzky at CMU-10A, RWK
cc: KMP, HIC, BUG-LISP
Re: CAR and CDR

Of course, you could rename them to, e.g., "LHS" and "RHS" for "Left Hand
Side" and "Right Hand Side". This would address the composition argument
in favor of CAR and CDR: CADR -> LRHS (left-hand-side of right-hand-side),
CDADADR -> RLRLRHS, and so on. It's easy to provide these as macros.

Later, you can explain that the original names are CAR and CDR, and isn't
that silly, etc.
Regards, Mark
Reminds me of the internal surveys at my company, but I don't think we're given room to elaborate.

> How likely are you to refer a friend to a position at <company>?

The answer is 0. That doesn't mean I think it's a terrible place to work, it means that I don't know anyone who is both interested and qualified.
Mental Models Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young is excellent.

http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/mental-models/
HardenedBSD (https://hardenedbsd.org) also. Which is a recent fork of FreeBSD that has a focus on security.
The newsweek article claims 2 of them were directors.

I can see how Directors can afford to spend 30k - 50k a year for sex
The former is the most common way for Americans to pronounce it, and matches the mouth shape of ah, and the latter, while not common in the US, also matches the ah mouth shape. I really don't know how yesenadam is pronouncing it such that his mouth doesn't take the ah shape.
Probably this one
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15900551
It also wishfully assumes that the one mind can't think of better things to do with its infinite amount of cloud computing power than to simulate one particular stone age mythology.

Then again, maybe it's something like the 1996 LucasArts game Afterlife, where you simulate every different religion's version of heaven and hell at once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterlife_(video_game)

The primary goal of the game is to provide divine and infernal services for the inhabitants of the afterlife. This afterlife caters to one particular planet, known simply as the Planet. The creatures living on the Planet are called EMBOs, or Ethically Mature Biological Organisms. When an EMBO dies, its soul travels to the afterlife where it attempts to find an appropriate "fate structure". Fate structures are places where souls are rewarded or punished, as appropriate, for the virtues or sins that they practiced while they were alive.
A Study of Homepages Over Time
That none of those "tricks" will make you more charming.
Goodness. Everyone is speaking with such authority. I bought my X because I wanted to switch out of Android and because I only buy a phone once every three years it pays to buy the best phone I can buy. Why should I care that it’s 1000$ when I buy a phone once every three years?
To me, the title meant that she understood subtle relations between apparently unrelated facts in life and how to make the best of them. Did not expect that she studied fairy circles on a Namibian landscape.

"Instead of office chair package contained bobcat. Would not buy again."
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/325:_A-Minus-Minu...
>"they want to be seen with it"

How does this contradict the article? Demand is limited because fewer people will or can spend $1000 on a status symbol. Seems like basic economics.
Many places don't have urgent care facilities. And you'd still need to use an ambulance (or Uber) to get there otherwise if you aren't well enough to drive.
> Neither the text nor the address are necessarily "correct", and the text might be formally a nodename, a hostname, a domain name, a fully-qualified domain name, or a text representation of an IP address (which, again, is not necessarily correct).

Please don't make claims about standards that you haven't read. SNI supports only DNS FQDNs.
The truth is that IQ is a determining factor. It's reality, why are we painting it as something else?
You're the one being disingenuous.

Cash has four transaction fees:

1) cost of storing it and counting it

2) cost of physically moving it to the bank

3) transaction fee.

4) increased risk of doing all of the the above.
YeH exactly
Can't we agree that there are people on extreme ends of the mental capabilities spectrum? That is, people who are mentally challenged couldn't reasonably hold down a programming job, and people who are geniuses discover new theorems.

We know that a whole host of mental handicaps are likely genetic (they show up very early in development).

If that is the case, then why is it not reasonable to assume that there is a whole range of IQ in between that might be genetically determined that result in differences in educational and employment outcomes for different people?
If you're anything like me, losing out on iMessages will be painful. I'm itching to get back to iOS.

Also being able to access all of the apps that I've purchased on my phone again will be a very nice plus.
After reading the wikipedia page on Landauer's principle, I'm left with some vague questions.

If irreversible computations have an effect on entropy in the environment, does transmitting a bit so it is not lost have an interesting effect too, even if it is done with a conventional computer and not a reversible one?

The amount of data transmitted over the internet has reached over a zettabyte per year - does thermodynamics tell us anything interesting about the consequences? Yes, it produces heat, but beyond that...
One of the least attractive behaviours is trying to be liked. Don't follow the advice in that article.
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My favorite is the Jeff Dean paper from NIPS in using NN for data base indexes.
Well, depends on your definition of "a few minutes". Here is what we did:

There is a company (I forget who) that sells kits of walls and pegs that meet the official Micromouse specifications. Each kit builds a 5x5 maze, good for debugging. With 9 of those, you can build a full maze. The walls meet the precise dimensional specification, wall color (white) and reflectivity (must reflect IR), and have a red stripe on the top (Micromouse allows cameras with a limited field of view to look at wall tops.) The pegs fit in 7mm holes. We got 16 people to buy a total of 18 kits, on the assumption that we could usually round up 9 people when we needed to construct an official maze.

A member identified a material call MDO (medium density overlay, I believe) that is basically an MDF board with a smooth laminate top. It is used for highway signage and such, and can be obtained at the lumber yard by special order. The surface has a smooth finish and takes paint well. A member was put in charge of finding paint that matched the floor specification, flat-black, must absorb IR.

The Techshop was still in business then, so three of us that were members used the Shopbot (CNC router with 4 foot by 8 foot table) to cut panels of the precise dimension required to do a 1/2 of a 5x5 maze, and pocketed a grid of 7mm holes at the correct spacing. Without CNC, it would be impossible to hold the spacing precisely enough, I think. So with two panels and one kit, you can build a 5x5.

It takes 4 to 6 man hours to set up a full 16x16 maze. It requires a flat surface. One thing we are missing is a way to keep all of the edge transitions between panels precisely level. That is a big problem. Our maze simply doesn't cut it for "world class" competitions. Luckily, we usually don't have world-class speed-daemon robots show up, so we can have a referee wearing socks stand in the maze trying to keep the edges from screwing up peoples runs.

Overall an interesting exercise, but the line following maze is much more practical to move around and set up, and gets used far more.
There’s so much FUD around JWT that I feel compelled to answer this everytime it comes up.

Just to get it out of the way, you’re correct that the JWT spec doesn’t do a lot to prevent implementors from doing stupid things, particularly bad was downgrade attacks from asymmetric to symmetric keys.

Here’s the thing, these issues don’t exist anymore. Amazon’s Cognito relies heavily on JWT and I tend to trust Amazon’s security folks.
You are not wrong, but that's like arguing that a Porsche is the only way to drive.
Also important to remember is that even when someone thinks JWT will allow avoiding database lookups they eventually still add them for one reason or another (e.g. for instantaneous token revocation).

Macaroons look nice and simple on the surface but have many edge cases that are not at all supported by the existing libraries or have bad/insecure defaults.

For random keys it's good to remember that plain lookup in the database is prone to time side channel attacks, see https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/02/split-tokens-token-based-...
Thanks and this link makes much more sense (but the video is again 56 minutes but there is a marker).
There's always Mutt, of course. Easily beats the ones you listed, especially when handling larger volumes of mail. Development picked up some steam again in recent years, with forks like mutt-kz[1] (now deprecated and folded into neomutt[2]) integrating awesome search functionality.

Claws Mail has some fans, too, and might be more accessible to Thunderbird users.

[1] https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz
[2] https://www.neomutt.org
Which websites are you talking about? I'm yet to encounter any important ones that are really slow.
This is not surprising. Like PC sales a decade ago phone replacements were going to slow.
It’s terrible because any difference between carrier prices is a large multiple of what the sticker/brochure says. Most plans here (New Zealand) are over 2 years, so any difference in price is 24x greater at the end of the contract.
And no one here is paid per month, that’s seen as completely antiquated and they are paid per week or per fortnight.
I think one of the hardest parts of ML is not learning how to write it but learning how to pick features and clean data. So, assuming this is a run down of types of ML algorithms (which is how most "learn ML" things seem to go) this is not going to be much more helpful for someone who is still trying to figure it all out. It's important to know these things but knowing the actual algorithms is kind of the low hanging fruit. Data organization and features are the real complex pieces of most ML.
How would something like Enigmail be possible without malicious add-ons being able to access your mail?
Just fyi :)

Docs:

https://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/

Reviews:

https://review.openstack.org/#/q/project:openstack-infra/jen...

Code:

https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/jenkins-job-b...
2017 was pretty quiet, so we are probably on a verge of something spectacular.

- Good batteries or small autonomous power sources is what we really-really need now, so I'd expect that in the first place.

- More advances in the area of AI creativity. Music and paintings are already scary good.

- Biohacking enthusiasts are about to bring in something really valueable.
Most American people don't receive training on how to make valid arguments either. Maybe Israel...
Launch, and figure it out later. Something like that realistically isn't going to give much, if any, added value to your eventual end users.

This is the reality of development -- mature projects do get un-fun, but that's why you charge :)
Well, actually, you could build a swarm of 8 or so robots that are wall segments, and just have them scurry around dynamically constructing the part of the maze that is around the maze-solving robot.
The qualities will vary, of course, but the bad hutongs can mean 1.) shared outhouse (no indoor toilet) 2.) dilapidated building 3.) communal politics from what I've heard (hutong grudges and fights for example) 4.) poor immigrant families stuffed into a small room

I don't know much about Beijing, but I found a good article on it: http://designhotpot.com/infographic-four-perspectives-to-und...
L-Systems are context free grammars. There is a generic OSS 3D parser for context free grammars called Structure Synth[1].
It is based on Context Free[2] which is also OSS but 2D only and very powerful. It had non context free features added to the grammar in recent years.

[1] structuresynth.sourceforge.net

[2] contextfreeart.org
The iphone X is very overpriced when viewed as a utility object, because it doesn’t provide 4x the utility of a $250 phone. But it is very reasonable when viewed as a fashion accessory. A $1000 phone to go inside a $2000 purse is not crazy at all.

People keep looking at apple as a tech company and struggling to understand them, but if you view them as a luxury/fashion company who happens to specialize in technology they make a lot of sense. Nobody complains ferraris are overpriced for the mileage they get and the amount of trunk space, because utility is not the point of a ferrari.

I expect the iphone X to sell really well, to the crowd that buys luxury. The question is whether that is a big enough market to sustain the volume.
Because that idea could eventually affect the people in charge of applying it.
7 states in 8 years. Only 3 of 7 homes did I have more than one option for high speed, many with 1.5down on a good day. Outside developed and high income areas, the situation is still quite dire in the USA. Oddly, I found suburbs to be much better served than rural or downtown areas. One rural area had no options at all (beyond hughesnet and dialup), and I was forced to find a different area.

When we complain about rural folk being backwards, and extending none of the future to them, we only have ourselves to blame. Quit forgetting about the rest of the country that does not live in cities.
Because $1000 is a lot of money to most people.
very clever format. A search will do normally.
If everyone was satisfied with keeping their computers for longer or buying used then it stands to reason that the price of new computers would go down, e.g. what are now $300-500 Chromebooks would be top of the line.

In any case, I think, with respect, that you're postulating an absurd hypothetical scenario that's never going to happen. There's always going to be some people who buy new and others who buy used, think used cars, clothes etc.

Phones & laptops are now a mature technology, the days when you need a new computer to run spreadsheets or browse the Internet are over. Nowadays a 5 year old computer is just as good for pretty much any application except AAA games.

The GP was mentioning students as needing phones & laptops. I'm pointing out that students in particular think nothing of buying say used clothes because they don't have a lot of money, but for some reason a lot more people have expensive new gadgets they don't need.
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The English Friends and Family test a large scale implementation of this kind of scoring system.

Data is available here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/fft/
Maybe in your corner of the world. In mine, programming in and of itself, i.e. devising mechanically executable (a.k.a. algorithmic) solutions to well-specified problems, is by far the hardest task.
This was "Last updated 12/08/2017." That update does not include removing portions that are no longer true — instead they have published an update section at the very bottom.

Re: sendmail, check out the age of most of those CVEs (2006 or earlier). But also, see https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2017-Decemb... .
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> Even sillier is LOGO's alternative to CAR and CDR: FIRST and BUTFIRST. As in "BUTFIRST recursion" (giggle).

Frosh-level CS classes may introduce linked lists as classes in some OO programming language -- often with the accessor methods getHead() and getTail(). Huh huh huh huh huh.

You'd think CAR and CDR, being abstruse acronyms steeped in technical language, would be immune from this sort of unfortunate double entendre, but no: my AI class professor had an Eastern European accent and pronounced CDR like "cooter".
If you're not using a lot of data a mobile phone is a great way to do it. Low end Android phones are cheap and surprisingly powerful. Prepaid phone plans are inexpensive.
Content is king. Google and Alexa rates it right at the top
Possibly not what you’re looking for, but the Leonardo Da Vinci biography by Isaacson has the clearest example of that I’ve ever seen. Leonardo’s methodology of learning is incredible and inspiring.
Those are not required procedures, so obviously there is much more of a chance for a real market there. But you can't just compare that with e.g. ER or cancer treatment.
>you can see slums and sometimes dead people lying in the streets with no assistance

hahaha nice try anti China shill with your 2 hour old shill account, Shanghai isn't India or Africa.

This guy obviously has never been to Shanghai. There are neither slums or dead people. Low skilled migrant workers just like mexicans back in the US sometimes live in rundown apartments stacked 10 deep but the government has recently banned that as well.
Moving out of London during the Blitz was a way to avoid death.
Currently though, even if the patient is paying for insurance out of their own pocket, the real decisionmaker is generally still bureaucrats (in the literal sense) at the insurance company + hospital.
I agree with this analyst analysis.
These days `first` and `rest` is used in Racket to indicate the input is a list. Since `cons` can build non-lists, the traditional `car` and `cdr` are used when working on trees.

Well - actually most Racket programmers use pattern matching when working on trees.

Note that `first` throws an error in modern Racket when used on a non-list.
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