skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your solution works only in metric spaces. In non-metric spaces (distances are arbitrary and you are forced to return a cycle, not a tour that repeats vertices) no constant-factor approximation is possible.
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Yep, the fact that you cannot install a skill from Alexa is a huge barrier. I'm not saying it's difficult, but users are not aware of how to do it.
>>I am employing and uplifting someones family who doesn't have other means of income.

You are making a virtue out of this. This is really like the British saying they ruling over us was good for us because of english, railways and parks. So they were screwing us for our own good.

Most of these maids, work on hourly basis on slave wages. And are generally treated badly. There are even spaces in Restaurants where they have to sit outside while their masters indulge in fine dining. And other times most people give away old throw worthy food to them. There is no 'help' going on here.

>>We have a thought process here to buy from shops near by(albeit little costlier) instead of amazon'g the whole requirement so we can help people near by.

Kirana shops near my home are shutting down like no tomorrow after GST, and a DMart opened near by. Indians are known to think through their wallets.

>>Please understand that we can enjoy our lifestyle without any gripe. Why is it so hard to swallow?.

There is a big difference between getting seasoned or at best indifferent to problems, than having no problems.

>>In my case - my mom is a cancer patient. I don't know whether i could afford a house nurse and cook in the west from a decent paying job.

I hope she recovers soon. Yours is a different situation and I understand, most of us(Including me) have many reasons(in my case, old parents) to not move to the west. But I imagine if I was there my life would be way better.
The demo might be down for now, but their vision http://erlangonxen.org/case/a-personal-facebook is something I strongly believe in.

Basically, the cost of spinning VMs is coming down drastically (with Hyper.sh and Intel ClearContainers offering 200ms boot) and it is now feasible to run your apps on a personal cloud sandbox. You data resides in that box and runs code you have approved; away from the prying eyes of FB, Google and the government. Everyone's facebook will be an individually hosted app, talking to each other over agreed upon protocols; as opposed to exchanging data within the facebook infra.

Of course, a lot of UX and engineering problems need to be solved along the way. Provisioning a personal sandbox cannot be any harder than creating an account on a Social Network. Beiber's sandbox will need to distribute data to 105M followers efficiently. You'll need to patch vulnerabilities at scale, so there needs to be some trust model for applying patches. You need relays to overcome censorship etc.
Getting rate limited or banned may not serve your goal too well.

And one would do well to set their ego aside and try to first do no harm. Getting converts to your fasting religion may feel like a rush, but you may wind up harming someone. It does not sound to me like you really want to look at the possibility that your cure may not be all that and a bag of chips, which just sets off alarm bells for me.

I am a potential ally. I have done similar things. You choose to not engage those facts while justifying your admittedly trollish behavior. I don't think this speaks well of your motives.

If you want to make the world a better place, the best place to start is with the man in the mirror.
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learn online, and while a mentor is great I think teaching yourself offers the best lessons. youtube, reading other peoples code, etc. just don't give up and you're good.

as for leadership, start building projects and a solid portfolio. if you don't end up working for yourself or finding someone to start something with you'll at least have a faster way to the top in a corporate environment with a lot of experience.
Thats definitely jumping to conclusions. I don't fully disagree with you, but from my experience, I can say that what WeWork is doing is incredible.

At a conference I attended recently, one of the WeWork chief data scientists presented on their process for analyzing cities and determining venues for expansion. The detail with which WeWork acquires and analyzes public and private demographic data is incredible. Based on their information, they are making highly targeted decisions about property acquisition. From my perspective, when compared to any other real estate entity, I can wholeheartedly say that what they are doing the right thing.
Thank you. Had not even heard of it
It's not.

https://perimeterinstitute.ca/people/lee-smolin

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singular_Universe_and_the_...
> everyone sees the same data in block number X

The same data in a specific block, but not everyone necessarily agrees that the same block is the latest one. That's why you don't have 100% confidence in a single block confirmation.
It's not about getting converts. That's the first problem here - that getting someone interested in a water fast as remedy to a disease is considered "cultish", some crazy conspiracy or religion. Seriously, have the pharmaceutical companies infected our minds this badly? That radiation seems normal and applauded as a great suggestion, but a water fast, simply the act of just resting and not eating.. is.. dangerous or some wild crazy tinfoil hat idea?
Thanks for the note on Toki Pona, my son is learning other languages, and I dabbled in quite a few over the years, and this looks like fun to just play around with. :)
And of course, the name is in reference to Daniel Kahneman's excellent research and book by the same title. One of the most influential pieces of literature I've had the pleasure of reading, everyone should read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
This is an excerpt from my book THE FRIENDLY ORANGE GLOW which was just picked by WIRED as a Top Tech Book of 2017.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-top-tech-books-of-2017-part-...
>>Our schools, though are called the same name as institutions in US, are basically skill training workshops.

All schools/colleges are that way. Unless you join a PhD program. Also in the west, emphasis on taking skill based courses is high. They even have a term for the other type of courses, they call it, Underwater basket weaving.

>>Last time I checked there are 100000 graduates coming out of school in each state, and there would be at least a million engineering graduates produced every year throughout whole of India.

Thanks to our population numbers. And why is this wrong. STEM education makes a person think, at-least, comparatively, more rationally than other courses do.

>>Remember there are no strict rules and things have to change with the changing world. India needs to think different than the rest of the world.

India is already doing enough. But at our scale everything breaks.

>>I mentioned ML/AI, and latest Data structures which is 100% relevant for any recent graduate to learn or at least be aware of.

Why only ML/AI? Because they are in demand now? A few days back it was Hadoop etc. Before that Java...
Are GAN's pretty hot these days or is that just a coincidence of the authors preferences? I just received Ian Goodfellow's Deep Learning textbook [1] and I know he pretty much invented the technique, so I'm wonder how influential / important GANs are in the field.

[1] http://www.deeplearningbook.org/
> IE of course handled these "correctly", i.e. interpreted ASCII or ISO 8859-1 to mean Windows-1252. I think this behavior is now specified by HTML5 under certain conditions.

You can leave out "under certain conditions", whatwg just plain specifies the "iso-8859-1" label identifies the windows-1252 encoding [1]

[1] https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#names-and-labels
前端近些年发展很快，作为前端技术的核心支撑JS也从ES5过渡到了ES6，强有力的推进了前端的发展。作为一名前端从业人员学习掌握ES6是必不可少的一项技能。本项目对自己项目中运用过的ES6语法知识给予介绍，并给出大量简洁易懂的示例代码,对于初学者来说敲过本项目中的代码，基本就入门ES6了，再在实际中运用所学知识、补充不足，相信很快就能掌握ES6的。
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This shadow rate-limiting is so disgusting. The user doesn't know about it, she writes a comment or submit a news and sees a info message "slow down" which makes no sense at all (2 comments per day displays it, yah). A rough mod rate-limited my account, some years ago to only 2 comments per day. And there is no way to recover the account.

HN doesn't support free speech, very unfortunate that pg isn't around anymore to sweep up. It turned from startup, SV and VC news to a popular but unfocused news site, sponsored by whoever.
I learned about Esperanto from the novel series the Stainless Steal Rat. I was really disappointed with the audio books though, because I always pictured him a young guy, maybe a bit pompous or silly. But certainly not an old gruff grouchy guy. :(

I thought it was just awesome when 10 years later I found out Esperanto was real!
paywall.
Reading HN comments about the Indian IT industry triggers the Gell-Mann effect for me. Few people know what they're talking about and those that do are usually at the bottom of the thread. Of course then I open all the other comment threads and consider the comments in those threads correct and well informed.
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Your last statement makes no sense. I already started with the man in the mirror. That man is arthritis-free since day 20 of a water fast 6 years ago. That man plays soccer every weekend, after not being able to for many years.

I made my own world a better place. Friends and loved ones who listened to my real-life non-troll opinion are better off today. Every single one. A coworker who dismissed it 2 years ago came around a few months ago and said he's no longer diabetic. Nope - the doctors did not find a special pill just for him. No new injection discovered. He checked himself in to a fasting clinic and walked out a new man.

I'll consider toning it down in the future. It will still be downvoted and the only difference will be less discussion, which will result in less attention from those who need it most. Me? I don't actually enjoy this. I spent a couple hours refreshing HN today just for this when I could have been doing something else. I choose what threads to comment on very carefully because I know HN is very science-oriented, but people will die waiting for the pharma companies to admit this.
Not sure if this is new but I recently installed a skill via voice on Christmas. I'm not usually one to "test" Alexa but I said "Alexa, when is the next Bainbridge Island ferry?" just to see if she could query it.

She said, basically, "The Washington Ferry skill can probably help you answer that. Should I install it?" I replied "Yes" and she took a moment to load the skill and then also automatically answer my original question.
No, the first problem here is you are certain you have a cure. You will listen to nothing to the contrary. Anyone who has evidence or experience that contradicts yours is dismissed as not having fasted long enough.

Your behavior is egomaniacal and casually callous.

I have cystic fibrosis. I am getting well when doctors claim it cannot be done. I have been in your shoes in arguments. I am trying to give you the benefit of the doubt and be constructive.

But, sorry I engaged. Carry on with your knowingly and intentionally trollish goal of getting converts to your totally not a cult.
Well I'm not exactly jumping to conclusions as I've shopped for office space for multiple startups and toured multiple WeWork locations as well as dozens of other co-working space and sublets over the past few years, and IMHO WeWork is cashing in on easy money from boom-time founders. Clearly they are doing something right, but I don't know what data they would be analyzing that would protect them from a downturn.
Being able to "open a socket" kind of implies you actually get the socket, not just "Oh, if the far end negotiates the protocol we've pre-agreed then you can also send bytes over it". Web sockets "open a socket" in the sense WebRTC does too, but of course that isn't what you want either.

Only Flash actually has an API like BSD sockets where you can do make TCP connection and send an arbitrary protocol over it. Hence, since they want to test protocol compatibility, they used Flash. Doubtless if Flash didn't exist they would provide a handy Python program or something, and 99% of visitors would never run it.
I have not seen or heard today of any evidence that says water fasting is either (a) harmful or (b) not useful. Do you have any sources?

It is well known that fasts need to be from a few days to 40 days. I'm sure you've come across that 40-day number before if you're not entirely new to fasting.
It's encouraging to hear the situation may be getting better.

I brought up my example because it shows a friction-to-innovation ratio that seems way out of proportion and because the missed prior art makes the comparison unusually clear. The academic paper treated the idea as almost a throwaway -- I can imagine it as one of the first things to be dropped on tighter page limits. (By dim memory -- I ran into this over a decade ago.) More usually when a patent gets argued about, the interested parties make the matter harder to follow for the rest of us without the attention to spare. I think most of us, if we're fair-minded, when we read about one of these disputes should go "That sounds like ordinary junk but the law is complicated, the patent is complicated, my opinion about this case won't be worth much unless I spend way more effort than I can justify." Here was a patent that just by chance I could easily judge, which didn't otherwise look different from others I've heard about. (Maybe I could dig up the patent number since I've been harping on it. I'm not sure.)

Having lots of friction from many small inventions helps the big established companies more. My own patent, it'd never have occurred to me to patent it -- but it was work for a tiny startup that needed a defense in this system. (I don't think this patent was a bad one as patents go. It got referenced by a VPRI STEPS paper.)

A patent system could encourage growth, or it could get mired in a rent-seeking equilibrium. It seems hard to tell which we've got, but I'd bet on the latter if we knew how to settle this.

There's also a freedom-of-thought cost, in that independent invention happens all the time, unlike the case with copyright. That is, even an unarguable finding of welfare benefit wouldn't settle the question if patents are right. It'd have to be a substantial benefit to offset the cost to liberty.
Me? I don't actually enjoy this

Then you are free to stop, no?

I have one and only one person listening to what I have to say about my condition and getting better.

I was you a few years ago. I have been doing this 17 years, not 6.

Anyway. Probably just wasting your time and mine both.

Ciao.
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Also - why shouldn't I be certain that water fasting IS helpful and likely to cure many diseases? All the evidence I have and been exposed to shows precisely that. I'm not saying people should start it tomorrow. All I say is - research it, you will be introduced to an entirely different world of medicine.

Yet you have no issue with people who have never even heard of this concept coming here and making definitive statements that this is all non-sense?
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Likely unions or insurance reasons.

I’ve heard similar things about airplane pilots.
I am pretty new to fasting. I don't know of the evidence you are pressing me for. The request tells me you don't actually understand what I am saying.

So maybe take some time to digest it and if you ever want to really talk, my contact info is easy to find.
I think you are right about this.

As a thought experiment if there was a magical 3d printer that could take any number of raw materials as inputs and combine them in any way would it become more efficient to ship a mix of raw materials to each end consumer? Say I consume x amount of rubber, y amount of cotton, z amount of plastic, etc in my consumer goods in a day, week, month whatever. Could it be more efficient to get the rubber and cotton to my door and run them through the printer than it would to build the shoes, basketballs and t-shirts somewhere else and ship them?
Yes. I can see how that term might have a negative connotation for some people. We do indeed live in a world where most people more highly value their current beliefs and their ego than they do the truth. Those people, unfortunately, battle with the intent to defend their beliefs and ego and that kind of battle is admittedly unproductive.
But there are other people, like myself, who genuinely value truth more highly than those things. For us, there is a hunger to get to the truth AFAP, to solve problems AFAP, to accelerate innovation AFAP by leveraging collective intelligence more efficiently because it could mean saving lives or solving really important problems.
Currently I know of no forum which meets this need but hacker news does seem to attract a lot of really smart people who do indeed value truth more highly than beliefs and ego.
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I'm curious if you don't mind sharing, how long was your longest water fast?
You seem amazed by their secret sauce, but fundamentally, are they that much better than their competition in terms of the product they offer? Is it 10x better in price, service, quality?
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I really can't figure out the commonality of these metaphors
whois topcoder.com | grep Creation
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archive.org sample: http://web.archive.org/web/20010401182116/http://www.topcode...

So plausible, but extremely early adopter. More likely would be craigslist, IMO.
>>it is more aspirational to join Paytm, Ola, Zomato in India than to work for a US based outsourcer.

Its hilarious you mention this. Those companies are in double digit billion $ debt, with no sight of returning even a single $ in profit back to their investors. Snapdeal recently bombed. Ola and Flipkart are next.

>>It is not even a competition anymore

Competition between whom. IT services firms haven't posted a loss making quarter in their history. And Product firms in India haven't posted a profit making in their history. Which is the real trash here?

>>I'm able to very easily get highly qualified Indians in Silicon Valley to move back and work on something cool in India.

They won't unless you beat Bay Area salaries and award stock options graciously. And that will happen only if you have massive VC backing. Also no one is going to quit their job in a first world country for loss.

>>This is the reason that nobody in India (incl the govt) gives a shit about the H1B rule changes in the US.

A lot of people do.

>>The entire focus of the IT industry is shifting to move up the value chain.

Increased salaries on VCs expense doesn't mean we are moving up the value chain.

>>We are trying to build more Freshdesk in India and sell them to the world... Rather than body shopping.

We were doing that before as well. The IT services firms you see today all started as product companies. In fact they were doing far more tech intensive work than the current breed of product companies will ever do. Most old IT services were early product companies that made banking sotware, embedded systems products and other stuff.

The start reality in India is without a VC pumping billions of $s and then ready to write off, all of it. You largely depend of debt(Why do you think real estate is so hard in India), or you have to bootstrap. If you bootstrap you need the financial discipline of a demon. You certainly can't pay Bay Area salaries to build MVP apps and write HTML/JS.

Most embedded systems start ups which are not in VC fashion catalogue pay peanuts even today.

The sad part of software engineer salaries in India is either US companies pay it, or VCs pay it. If you have to bootstrap, you have to pay atleast 5x less than what somebody like Flipkart pays today.
http://archive.is/ almost always has the full version of any WSJ article cached. Feel free to make use of it. :)
Why is it irresponsible? Stone age did not end because of the stone shortage.
Wait really? That's... actually really cool. I've dismissed this all as a fad and a voice interface to a search engine but that's actually neat.
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I quite enjoy a lively debate. Most argument on the internet is not debate. It us ugly and personal and fighty.

I think HN has been a place for lively debate at times. Perhaps it shall be again.
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hbosch seems to describe the ability to install skills by voice, if that's not what you had in mind is it possible to install a skill that makes installing skills easier?
We are very early on. Like' it's still very much in the beta stage.
Err, no, there’s significant interference with the market via green subsidies. Read the comments above yours.
> The major complaint seems to be having to use our app name

A minor sidenote: Picking a good appname is vastly more important for Alexa than it is for typical mobile apps. It needs to be something people are not ashamed to say out loud.
> 10 minutes a day

Except it's not 10 minutes a day. It's like a half-hour a day because, "Oh, it's 10 minutes to scrum. I can't finish this task in 10 minutes. I'm going to go get a drink of water and talk to John by the water cooler until scrum." + the one person at scrum who explains everything they're doing in detail because they never learned to summarize so it takes longer than 10 minutes + 10 minutes afterwards because, oh look, it's almost lunch time and I can't finish anything up in 10 minutes.

> an hour every other week for retro

Plus the after-talk that people do with each other about things like, "I don't think they really understood my point about our dev tools being a problem," or whatever things didn't or couldn't be said in the actual retro.

> a half hour every other week for showing the work to the stakeholders

Except that the stakeholders never show up on time so you end up waiting around for them, and they want to ask inane questions for the next few hours...

it never ends.
If it's down, just hit reload a few times.

I see phase A from 126.3 ms to 187ms.
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> Which country is being excluded?

Until the very last minute, Saudi Arabia refused to issue visas to any players from Israel, Iran, or Qatar. At the last minute, they allowed players from Iran and Qatar in.

They continued to refuse to allow any players from Israel in.
Had a dumb phone until a few years ago. I decided to get a smartphone mainly for Urber/Lyft and do use them a lot. To try and keep my old phone sanity I turned off notifications, turned off location except when needed, use airplane mode often when I decide I don't want to be disturbed, have code only access (no easy finger unlock), and leave the phone at home sometimes when I go out. Working well so far. Nice to have maps, camera, video camera, and email on the go sometimes.

Also, no phone out at meals or bars except to look up facts.