skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found that what is important for a software team is having members that can work well together. It takes time to make such a team and some people can never work well together. Organisations should spend considerable effort building and maintaining effective teams. I am often surprised at how poorly this is understood.

Technology also takes time to understand and be effective with. A good team can usually work on anything and still be a good team, given that they have enough time to ramp up, though.

My personal feeling: build strong teams. Ignore technology for the most part. Put all your effort into getting people who work well together, working together. Allocate time and money into making sure that the team has time to gel and that they have the resources (tools, equipment, and working environment) that they need (hint: each team requires different resources. Think hard about what each individual team needs).

After that you have choices. Keeping a team on a single "product" eliminates ramp up time. On the other hand, it also leads to singular ways of thinking and silos. If you have a "product" that absolutely needs responsive development all the time, then consider having a "product" team.

On the other hand, not everything requires instantaneous response. A good team will usually be able to ramp up to very near full speed in about 3-4 months. For some things, that is completely reasonable. You have to consider the cost of maintaining a "product team" vs the cost of ramping up a "project team". The advantage of the "project team" is that a new team can often come in with new ideas that will improve the project. Moving project teams around from time to time can ensure that teams are exposed to other ways of thinking and this can help your organisation. The advantages and disadvantages are not necessarily obvious.
Nevertheless, an interface for "politics with 0 human interaction" is an open research problem.
> It's made me believe that modern psychiatry is myopiclly focused on identifying and treating symptoms and largely ignores the avoidable causes of those symptoms.

I disagree with that, even though I agree a lot of mental issues are heavily environmental. The reason psychiatry tries to work around them is that the environment of modern civilization is what we have, it's not going to change (easily), and in the meantime, people need to live somehow. Backpacking retreats are a cool hack if you can afford it regularly, but most people can't - they get maybe one longer stretch of free time a year.

The environment we live in is wholly unlike the environment we're adapted to. I'm not sure if we can or want to get meaningfully closer to the old days to alleviate our mental pains - for all our adaptations, the ancestral environment sucked hard compared to today, and modern civilization fixed at least as much as it broke.
You should consider whether the cynicism is just HN's personality or whether your marketing needs a lot of improvement.
I don't know that heavy use vs light use drives when they buy a new phone.
It's over now. I just caught the last few minutes where they were talking about "Drive Xavier" -- which, I think, is some sort of system for self-driving vehicles (they featured a VW minibus).

AI and an SDK were mentioned.
Car Nachdi and Hornn Blow – MixTape Mp3 Song with Lyrics Quotes, Reaction
Investing regularly will change your life, and the odds are in your favor.

You're probably more likely to have a jetliner fall out of the sky on your head than win the lottery.

But hey, do what you like. Feel free to "invest" in the lottery. Don't forget that you won't get any tax breaks on the jackpot if you win it, either.
It's well referenced only on on a numeric scale; the breadth of topics makes the 209 links irrelevant. A great deal of the points are semantic in nature-- yes, It's not exactly correct to say that schizophrenia is "genetically determined" if genetics only are 90% responsible, so what? Yes, antidepressants are technically selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors. Authors tend to use simpler and mostly-correct terms instead of very complicated but completely-correct terms in order to communicate their ideas properly. This is a necessary trade-off that is made when communicating with human language.

It's akin to clickbait in that it's inflammatory by design. "50 Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid" or "25 Foods You'll Never Be Able To Eat Again", the point is to cheaply engage the reader with terms they probably use (or food they probably eat) in order to reel them in. Then you hammer the same point into dozens of different situations.
Funny, but I feel phone/Internet addiction in my own life. I don't need a study or concerned parents to know it's real, at least for some susceptible people.
It's like making guns and guns.
The point there may have been that the sticker over-powered the banana. The article does leave me with more questions than answers.
Do people really think search is a solved problem ?

I still have difficulty finding information I need for work from company Intranets

I still have difficulty finding really local information

I still have trouble finding news that is objective and not slanted or click bait

I still have difficulty finding recommendations on finding recommendations for good books to read

It seems to be like Google has really dropped the ball on search since they acquired "lock-in" through Gmail, Chrome sync, Android etc.
For the record, these shareholders seem to control about 0.2% of apple stock.
Returning a function would be returning a callable object, which is what I was alluding to. The section under "Decorator Toolbox" contains no suggested usecases for returning a non-callable object, will try and think of something.
For those not patient to wait for the official YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AGHwSJ9-9o
It most certainly does...it does for most if not all kind of products.

One example I have at hand is for mobile apps...not the best one in this context but here we go: Most users forget about a app if they haven’t used it in 7 days!

It’s not like they forget to use it, or forget they had it...they forget that it exits!
ISPs should be dumb pipes. They should not be inspecting nor blocking packets and should transmit data regardless of its content.

The alternative, that ISPs should not route unlawful traffic, would require ISPs to search packets and block the ones they find unlawful. That is censorship.
My god, what if someone forced a child to eat their vegetables? Or read a book? Or clean their room?? What if someone said a kid can't go to their friend's late night unchaperoned party??

Real answer:

If using a computer is addictive, then parents and schools will manage kids' use of computers (most already do), and arm kids with that knowledge and help them learn to manage it themselves as they get older.

Sending a kid out into the world purposefully ignorant of risks they might face is a terrible idea. This is also why sex ed is important, BTW.
You might be interested to check out https://gobuffalo.io/
TL;DW for those who don't want or can't watch the video:

It's a demo of a game called Plonat Atek, which is a radial-coordinates version of Breakout / Arkanoid. The special thing about it is that the game itself only produces audio, which is meant to be visualized on an oscilloscope (in the X-Y mode, as far as I can tell).

The game itself was written in Pure Data, a visual programming language for audio processing.

Plonat Atek was submitted for Ludum Dare 38. Here's the description: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$22417.

itch.io has downloads & all: https://s-ol.itch.io/plonat-atek

(presumably either of the two would be a better link than the video)
Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics Launched: HP, Dell, and Intel NUC
Awesome! Always get bored by the first movement, that one is so much better!
To get good startup ideas, look for anomalies
This is pretty old, but seems to still get occasionally update:

https://www.cvdazzle.com/
Systems without ECC do crash, have transient "weird issues" and corrupt data significantly more.

If stability matters to you, you should really demand ECC for any system you purchase. It's the best bang for buck to that end.
> There are unexaggerated 100% odds that what Pāṇini specified was not a complete description of the speech of his time or any other point in history

That is an odd claim to make because Sanskrit was not a language of day to day speech. Those would be the vernaculars of the time. Sanskrit was very much a crafted language used for much more formal purposes.
I really can't understand this comment, the homophobic dad just wouldn't buy my little pony in the first place.
Field testing of Spectre on various Power Macs – G3 and 7400 survive
Please remain civil, even if you feel someone has insinuated something. Which, incidentally, they often haven't. This kind of thing is notoriously difficult to read, which is an additional reason to remain civil.

Edit: unfortunately you've broken the HN guidelines with incivility quite a bit in the past too. We ban accounts that do that. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and clean up your act if you want to keep commenting here.
I'm guessing the opportunity here is to disrupt the face detection step - make the face detector zero in on your non-face sticker/image, so the face recogniser never gets passed an actual face.
By then, can't we just CRISPR the fix into banana?
> If you use an ORM-like coding style

Not the op but for me the defining word here is "coding style".

Would be interesting to see if their is any serious ORM frameworks that recommends ops steps.

That kind of steps you normally see in novice code, that does not understand sql or the orm framework.

So for a novice a fetchall into memory, loop over each row in memory, and after each modification commit, not a issue, ignorance is bliss.

And it will most probably stay a non issue until performance hits are taken, then optimization can take place. This time maybe with a senior that will look at the sql logs and show the junior the error in his ways.

At least with the junior code you could move the product forward... but maybe it a case of one step forward, two step back.
> No need to get worked up about simple things.

Please don't cross into personal rudeness, regardless of whether someone else did.
Announcements, ranked by likely impact to $NVDA stock [0]

1. Xavier shipping Q1'18

2. Drive AI "ecosystem" deployment, Tier1/SI collaboration opportunities

3. Drive X "cloud based training" system sales to OEMs (ie., NVIDIA enterprise sales initiative)

4. VW partnership

5. Shield update - $199 4K HDR

6. GeForce Now "on-demand gaming" - $25 for 20hrs of hosted Steam games?

7. Uber partnership

[0] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2017/01/04/live-nvidia-ces-201...
This npm blogpost about them was published almost three years ago: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/116936804365/solving-npms-hard-pr...
PC Gaming: More Than 1B Players … and Counting
Seems to me, they're asking the wrong question. Decades ago when I was a much younger artist I studied the subliminal suggestion meme that was popular at the time.
The practice was not to place subliminal ads into images, it was to place subliminal suggestions into images so that in alcohol related ads the word 'sex' would be vaguely drawn into ice cubes and distorted images of faces and bodies.
Its unclear if any of this stuff was ever commissioned or if it was just boredom being played out by the ad designers.
Hard to understand how the effect could even be measured.
any other week, yes. but it's CES. It's a tech press feeding frenzy for the next few days.
80-year-olds looking and feeling like teenagers is stretching it, but Yoga is magical in making you look/feel younger.
I've also heard the same thing about killer bees in California and IPv4. Basically don't trust "experts". Experts typically misunderstand actual risk, and they generally forget about how innovative humans are when we need to be.
The middle class is quite capable of investing in the stock market. 50% of Americans own stock.
Amazon's real org chart (humor)
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Scaffolding sounds lame. I wonder how many engineers are treated this way at Google, implementing someone else's idea that is likely confined to the scope of the company. I mean, someone has to dig the trenches. "Working at Google" sounds overrated.

I would hate to get employed at Google and then work on Google+ for ten years. Seriously? No one cares about Google+. You're a slave at Google, they are literally doing statistical experiments with your time.

It is known, people turn down Google offers all the time to remain independent. Working for a big company doesn't give you a lot of freedom, unfortunately.
Don't play CSS tetris
Oprah Winfrey: 'For too long women have not been heard or believed'
Academic papers, patents, textbooks, anything with citations also works
Vanguard, Fidelity, and other funds all offer "Target Retirement date" funds which basically shift your asset allocation from stocks to bonds as you get closer to retirement. The individual mix is generally held in typical total-market index funds, mixed foreign/domestic based on the relative size of their economies. As long as you're okay with exactly-average investment performance (which is what index funds always give you), that's a good alternative, and the expense ratio is super low - 0.05% for Vanguard's offering.

Actually, I just looked, and Wealthfront and Vanguard invest in the exact same funds (Vanguard's VTI and foreign equivalents), but Wealthfront's expense ratio was around 0.12% vs. 0.05% for Vanguard.
I fail to see why, given the innovation going in those industries, like cars, medical, building materials and so forth.

Creating IRC clones, UNIX clones, talk clones, FB clones is anything but innovation.
Building a quotation system for small business.
In userspace, you can protect capabilities within a process by forcing people to use a capability-safe language, or you can let people use whatever and instead focus on protecting capabilities between processes (or between a process and the kernel, or between machines).
Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (1943)
> Vedic Sanskrit has three ways of pronouncing it (similar to the Chinese four accents)

Just a nitpick: Vedic Sanskrit has pitch accent, not tone. Chinese is tonal. And I'm a huge fan of ghana patha as well!
The new Black Mirror season had an episode about this very concept called Arkangel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkangel_(Black_Mirror)

This episode explores some of the risks that monitoring and censoring children can have on their development and also the effect it can have on the parents themselves.
I really really liked them, but I wasn't able to buy them since there wasn't a shop for single stickers.

So I created: https://hexstickers.com/

The shipping is a bit slow but overall you should get them.

Sorry for the plug.
Sequencing might become cheap enough to do that, but our understanding of the functions of the different genes is so lacking that I don't think a lot of meaningful data can be extracted for most studies' subjects.
So it's a variety that would quite possibly die off entirely if humans were no longer around to cultivate it?
> Why is only a single banana cultivar typically available in US stores when there are multiple cultivars of apples, pears, and even avocados typically for sale?

There was an interesting Forbes piece I read last night that answers this question:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensavage/2018/01/04/yes-we-...

TL;DR: because most varieties of bananas in nature are ugly as hell and have seeds; the banana people want must not be like them, and it must also ship efficiently and have good shelf life; only two cultivars managed to hit all of the requirements so far - Gros Michel, and - after it got eaten by disease - Cavendish, which is the one we eat today.

The article points out that the industry has been fully aware of the problems with monoculture for a very long time now, and they don't really have much options to fix it. The text blames modern anti-biotechnology/anti-GMO movements from taking away the one good option we had to solve this - genetic engineering.
Yeah, purposeful convolution to confuse scientific/psychological journal editors is far superior.
There are ways to mitigate this if your ORM is good. I made the poor decision of moving to a much more powerful but geographically distant DB a while back, and while some operations benefit greatly from the extra hardware and memory, you really learn where your inefficiencies are when there's a 50 millisecond round trip involved and you find you're hitting the DB a few hundred or thousand times for this task.

Pre-fetching relations is amazingly useful in that context, as are alternate input methods that allow multiple inserts in a single glue opening (but be prepared to divide.and conquer if one or more items might fail to insert, such as when a unique key has a duplicate). Updates are generally the biggest problem, but if you're lucky you can reduce those by grouping similar updates into single update statements.

Many of these have more specific solutions depending on the particular RDBMS you are using, but ORM support for those features is generally poor. If you're lucky your ORM is extensible enough that you can hack some in without too much effort and while being fairly clean.
That says nothing about the possibility to patch the missing page table isolation with a microcode update. They have enough spare registers for a seperate C3, they could workaround the TLB flush. Since the fdiv bug HW problems are not HW problems anymore.
This reminds me of one of my favorite Planet Money episodes. We need a David Bedford for bananas.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/27/410085320/epis...
> The more you get away from that, the less you should be considered news.

So from that perspective, what makes CNN the golden standard here? I don’t have cable TV, but browsing the listings for my zip code, their lineup seems to be filled with talk shows. I guess the exception would be the airport darling the CNN Breaking News channel.
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Comparatively I still believe they're more trustworthy than the fiat currency ones. But that doesn't really matter in practice :

As long as your assets are in the cryptocurrency itself, and you're happy with that, there is no need to trust any intermediaries at all.

You can have local and international money transfer that safe, final and trustworthy. Money, of course, meaning bitcoin (or ether, or ...). That's a valid usecase.

That's the key.
this is not what i thought it was

the term "triage" means to order items (patients, originally) according to urgency

this paper has nothing whatever to do with sorting a bug list according to urgency

the paper describes a model to assign a particular bug to the developer who can resolve it most efficiently

to me this is "assignment" not "triaging"

but at least you can see how a supervised learning technique is a good fit for the problem they actually describe

so one row in the training set is a set of attributes relating to the bug itself--where in the codebase it resides, etc

the class labels are of course the developers assigned to fix the bug

what actually is presented in this paper might be useful--although i have my doubts that the net value of such a model (optimum assignment of devs to bugs). In other words, even if the model can generate assignments better and more efficiently than manual assignment, the developer time required to write the code to convert the raw data to model input (to train/test/validate the model) is not small--for intance, look at how much unstructured text is involved

i doubt i would go to the trouble--mapping devs to bugs is nothing something we do poorly at my shop, and even when i get it wrong, the devs sort it out by swaping out tickets

not nearly as useful as an automated bug triaging sytem--ie, a system that would auto-sort our bug list based on urgency, but again, that's not the subject of this paper, title notwithstanding.
> doesn't necessarily mean that "new things kids like are especially likely to be bad" is a good heuristic

That heuristic is a strawman. Who employs it? Quote someone, I doubt you can. And then there's the countless new things kids like that nobody on the planet says a peep about, how do those figure in?

As for "heuristics", consider the notion that if kids like something new and untested en masse, they themselves may not be able to discern what is going on, so adults need to pay attention. Full stop, that's before getting into the actual signs that this particular issue might not be all peachy.

A study is just a study. You can hardly fearmonger about Apple sponsoring studies that skew the results against mobile devices. So why does this thread even exist? Because FUD exists, and even though this isn't FUD, it needs to be pre-emptively countered by false assurances in the form of memes?

Last but not least, it's not as if "let's study X" is how it used to be said... so to imply the equation "let's study X" == "X is of the devil for sure!" shouldn't slip under the radar the way it does.
My partner, mother and sister take ssri's. This is my mental model for them and the depression it treats.

1) I see depression as the relevant neurological area of the brain learning to get too good at paying attention to negativity. (Overfitting to associating things with bad feelings, outcomes etc)

2) serotonin is a key chemical in the process of learning which I model as changing the way we associate emotions with situations, things etc.

3) by taking ssri's you provide the brain with an excess of serotonin which increases the capacity to learn new emotional associations provided you are exposed to those situations and positive feelings / outcomes.

In this way, I believe (based only on my own reading and more as a thought aid than anything else) that treating the checmical aspect of depression is only viable if you treat the environmental aspect simultaneously.

So just taking ssri's won't work. You need a good, safe, supportive environment to learn to be positive in again.
Apparently, "cultivar" is what is defined by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. See:

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banana_cultivars#AAA_G...
These are two different things IMO. In what I understand this is an isolated usage of face recognition to replace a manned booth with automation. The underlying need for manned booth may be questionable, but it's cultural so let's leave it aside and look at the possibilities of automation, especially when AI is so hot and threatening to eat into our jobs.

In this case there were human employees behind the dispenser to notice that toilet paper was issued more that once to same person within a minute or so and he is pocketing it(you may think it's toilet paper, but it's more that a billion population and theft is a theft). Now with facial recognition they can eliminate that job done by a human and make it compeletly automatic.

Of course they do use face recognition or other forms of AI to track civilians (as seen from some videos openly put in YouTube) for surveillance but which govt isn't?
The cryptocurrency bubble is strangling innovation?
> People in IT should really stop to pretend that they are the only smart people that know how to run a business.

But one problem I have seen as a consultant is companies don't realize they are software companies now. For instance, they are no longer a bank having a small IT department, IT is now their core business and should be treated as such.
so exercise is good? weird.
I have a childhood friend who played as much on the computer as I did. He even wrote some simple games himself (as I did) but he is not a software developer now and I am. You can give hundred kids lego technic and most of them won't become engineers.