skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately, I’ve been learning sleight of hand and card magic and I’ve seen this mentioned in the magic community too. It’s advised not to teach friends who ask you to teach them, instead you should point them in the direction of self study resources (books, courses, search keywords) and let them figure it out for themselves. The reason given for this is that many people want to learn just so they know how something is done, but are not motivated enough to actually put the hard work (practice) in. By learning how it’s done without practicing, they ruin magic for themselves (you see this a lot in YouTube comments, where people don’t enjoy a routine for the skill and performance that it is but instead feel the need to figure it out and reveal it to others, often in a derogatory way “I figured it out, it’s shit” but of course they figured it out if they can watch frame by frame over and over...)

Basically what I’m attempting to say is that the brick wall is a useful tool to make sure that the people who want to learn without putting any work or practice in are filtered out from the ones who want to learn and do put the practice in.

I recently said to someone that I believe that (almost; obviously disabilities and such exist) anyone can learn (almost) anything, all it takes is three things:

1. Motivation. You have to want to learn it. In the in text of learning to program, I do believe almost anyone can learn it, but many people have no interest in programming and they will struggle if they try to learn.

2. Practice. It takes time to get good at anything. If you don’t put the time in, you will struggle.

3. A good teacher. Sometimes even with motivation and practice, some things are still really hard. A good teacher can break things down or give you a different perspective. A good teacher makes a massive difference. You don’t always need a teacher (good or otherwise), but some people will. Sadly, not all teachers are good and not everyone has one.
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Interestingly, one of the recent fads I've been seeing has been for "turmeric lattes" - maybe can reach that level even if you're not keen on Indian cuisine?
Think of it as Pascal's wager. We are talking about catastrophy here, the cost function is quite out of balance when looking at the alternative of "Reducing our standard of living a bit even though the catastrophy would not have happend anyway".
thanks for the clarification
Light table/eve was one of the influences for swift
When you make judgements about individuals based on their race and not their individual actions you're being racist. It's as simple as that. This is what the paper is looking at.

You can argue for being racist if you want but you can't say "it's not racist, because 'racist' is a word with bad connotations and I think what they do is good" without being called out on it.
His e is trapped in a time anomaly.
>> Football has a lot of ads because there is a lot of stopping during the game for time outs and such.

I'd always assumed the causation arrow was in the opposite direction. Or at least a big reason a sport is popular in the US is its ad-friendliness.

The other kind of football is flowing and therefore less attractive to ad supported TV networks.
The thing about placebo is that you can't measure it on yourself - you can only find out with large enough double blind tests. But as long as it works for you - placebo or not - good for you!
Service boundaries identification example in e-commerce
That blind trust in Apple on this board is frightening.
Rest sure, but sleep isn't usually employed much in endurance events. In RAAM (bike from west coast US to east coast) winners sleep maybe 10 to 20 hours over the whole race which lasts 10 days.
Would bad PC-Ports with a ruined UI qualify to that?
The latest gensim does support fasttext .bin files and subwords (certainly using it with out of vocabulary words right now.) It doesn't support fasttext classification though.
Straight up Selenium.
Getting to net zero emissions means turning off many perfectly functioning power plants before their intended life. It means any emissions that are practically impossible to remove (eg aviation due to the high energy density fuel required) need to be balanced out by negative emissions, which remove existing CO2 from the atmosphere. This inherently (thermodynamically) has a huge cost and little economic benefit (unless you include externalities like environmental effects).

I suggest reading/watching any recent talk by Kevin Anderson at the Tyndall Institute, and this paper for an overview:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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Still using Light Table as my favorite light-weight IDE.

I hope things like https://clojuriststogether.org/ or possibly patreon will make clojure open source projects more sustainable for developers.
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"I did not want to post this snippet on Twitter ffs".

I know exactly what you are talking about, drives me and others insane - but I can't help it.
This is a different problem than what people are complaining about. In fact it may be the exact opposite problem in some ways.

The problem you state is that, if you base an outcome on some measure, people will manipulate that measure. E.g. a companies use college education as a proxy for competence. And now everyone has to get a college education to get a good job. Society may be better if use of these measures is banned, even if they are predictive.

But this is not what's happening here. I don't see anyone claiming they changed their job, marital status, age, neighborhood, or any of the other measured factors. Just to manipulate this algorithm. These measures are probably safe to use in these circumstances, as far as this specific problem is concerned.

>Justice should be individualized or it's not justice.

There's no such thing as "justice". If you don't use an objective statistical algorithm to decide these things, you must use humans. And humans are far more biased and less fair. See my other comment.
Post-Panamax Ro/Ro Vessel MOL's Brooklands Debuts at the Port Canaveral
How is more skilled jobs a plus? Doesn't the US have an excess of skilled job vacancies and and excess of unskilled people? I would think more unskilled jobs would balance the market out better.

Of course any kind of job is also a cost to the company running the plant, which means more of an obstacle to the adoption of more nuclear power. If we could do it without any jobs, I'm sure it'd be much cheaper and more prevalent!
All stars become gradually hotter the older they get. G-type stars like our sun are no exception to this. On a certain point in time (currently estimated at 1Gy from now), the energy output of our sun is so big, that the Carbonate–silicate cycle[0] cannot continue uninterrupted. Thus CO2 and CO cannot be absorbed by the geosphere. The breaking of this process will gradually enrich the atmosphere with CO2, leading to a runaway greenhouse effect (a bit like on Venus).

But I would not worry about that. It took 500My for life to evolve from trilobites to humans. This timespan is twice as long...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate%E2%80%93silicate_cyc...
should also take a look at https://datproject.org

very interesting and maybe better than SSB..

it has hypercore - raw distributed streams, and hyperdrive - file abstraction on top, and a whole bunch of related projects, like Beaker browser.

https://github.com/datproject/awesome-dat

the protocol could be turned into a generic federated messaging framework..
That's what I should have responded when my fifth grade teacher always wrote "NEW SENTENCE!" in the margin, if you stacked that many sentence commas.

I should have said "it's practically poetry" :)
Or playing PCM on the old PC speakers having only on/off beep function... It seemed like a miracle at the time :)
Depends on the type of 'game'.

For eg. a racing sim, it could take 90+ minutes just to set up controls satisfactorily (this has happened to me).

And for some titles, even getting them running is something that previously takes hours. Stream counts any time the game exe is running as play time, regardless of playability.
I don't know if it's constructive, but I find it remarkable enough to note that I really don't know if you are correct or if the parent comment is correct.

It's because I'm a human being, isn't it.
Pinterest is among the website I dislike the most for their antifeatures and usual "social" trickery.
But the claims are no longer that Russia manipulated social media to get votes for Trump specifically. Therefore any Trump/Russia link is irrelevant to the current narrative, which is that "someone" is using "bots" to generically "sow division".

None of these claims have any actual evidence backing them, and when claims can be sourced the sources collapse under examination; see my article above.

But we shouldn't need to deeply analyse academic papers to see that this narrative is nonsense. It is just not internally consistent. Putin had clear reasons to want Trump to win, that I accept. So why would his staff post things supporting Clinton? There is no logic to this idea whatsoever, and it's not where the narrative started.
Going back to your original post:

> and this was scientifically proven

which renders moot any discussion as you simply did not use the same assumptions. The discussion was about specialist decision systems using correlation as a heuristic for causation. You cannot explore the merit (or shortfalls) of this common practice and its possible effect on policy-making when positing that causation has been proven. This is nonsense.

Have a good day.
What dream? I think cloud providers should stay away from my data concerning health.

I trust my doctors and Belgium if something should happen, Apple should back off. If i want them to know my health, i'll install a heart monitor with bluetooth. Encrypted data is only one software update away from being unencrypted.
correction.. you probably meant https://blockstack.org

:)
The Ph. are just off the equator. I’ve been in the water in northern Australia and the water was 30c and on the verge of being too warm. Definitely not refreshing, felt like a salty bath tub.
Here's a thought - Bitfinex has been one of the largest exchange. Today's coinmarketcap says they had 500 million in volume. Assuming 0.11% charge that is nearly 50k in fees today or 15 million a month. And this is just in bitcoin. I assume that they are doing equally good in other pairs too. So, if someone is funding them with an eye to become the biggest player in the market like Uber, Amazon etc, this might be feasible.

Or they can be taking out a line of credit on the future cash flows from the exchange fees.

Without knowing the full picture this might be just speculation on whether they have the money.

The unwinding might come from their funding (or line of credit) running out. At least that is my theory.

What other reasons can cause their downfall?
> Or playing PCM on the old PC speakers having only on/off beep function

That is PWM, pulse width modulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_speaker#Pulse-width_modulat...
If you're interested in this topic, watch this film based on a true story about an Icelander who survived at sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deep_(2012_film)
> What if programming is just hard?

It's not.

I remember learning to program in Logo on a Commodore 64 when I was in the third grade. Even back then, I was decomposing my code into functions, playing around with recursion, etc. 30 years later, I was presenting to my son's 4th grade class, and was getting reasonable questions on CSS, github, etc.

The basic concepts behind programming just aren't that hard if they're accessible to elementary school students.

Where things do get tricky is when you start to scale upwards in terms of complexity, volume, and duration of service. But even then, it's all too common for engineering efforts to overestimate the need for those things. That then leads to architectural choices that not only make the system more difficult to work with, but also likely fails to meet the initial targets.
You could apply pre-trial detention to anyone accused of a crime, not offer bail at all. The upper classes might start to care more about speedy trials and police harassment once it became impossible for them to buy their way out of pre-trial detention.
You're not generally wrong about tone. But:

> He has stressed, for over half a century, the importance of the treatment and access of information, which turns out to be the top priority of the human race in the contemporary sphere.

Jason was being as polite as he could to someone coming after Ted. It's not unreasonable to emphasize. More politely: Please catch up.
Nice one. Can I use that?
If you think real computation is in any way feasible why don't you build one and make a silly amount of money?
Does that mean- if i have a chip, which gets speed reduced by 30 % via patch, that i can return it under australian consumer law?
Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation
Please read my article. The sources you believe are "well documenting" these things are junk - see the paper that generated stories about 100,000+ Russian bots and how its analysis simply doesn't support their conclusions at all. Their definition of "bot" was equivalent to any human who happened to use Twitter slightly more than average, so not surprisingly they identified huge numbers of "bots".

I've looked into these stories about Russia repeatedly. They never survive basic fact checking, and I'm not a journalist with special sources or access.
I guess that AIML ( Artificial Intelligence Markup Language ) is the first option when it comes to AI.

This article might help - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages_...
Circuses have been profiting from (large) cats for many centuries.

Personally, I think the concern with the profit part is abstruse. You can make money from the cat while treating it well, and many harm cats for no gain at all.
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I understand. It read like a statement of doubt, and since you also referred to him as "they", it sounded like you didn't know of him. Just wanted to point out that he's a pretty well known blogger, and in my opinion one of the best software developer bloggers, I highly recommend looking at this past work.

Which is not saying I disagree with you about this particular case, it sounds a bit overblown to me too.
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> 3. I want to label every possible type(that can be expressed in a programming language) with an integer.
Let me know if you manage to do this, the serialization application for this is boss.
"only to find after 6 months that the job isn’t what they expected."

Far too many times, even after discussing the role at length. It's nothing like was discussed. Then after starting, I want to start looking immediately.

If you're not pinched for a job, where you need it now. Because of life. Then:

* Don't be afraid to negotiate. If they say no to a minor bump. What does that say about your raise at the yearly review? An approach I've taken is a 90-day review. If I've not exceeded your expectations, then I have something to get better at. But more often than not I get that minor bump.

* Hash out career growth, if you want. There is nothing wrong with coming in and doing your job. But if you want to grow, make sure you have the platform to do so. Be specific, technology, languages, processes. See if they're open to you grabbing the ball and running with something.

* Ask additional questions about internal processes. Agile, development, etc. This has been one of my bigger qualms when I end up joining.

* If you care about this. When was the last time the office layout was changed? What were the improvements made? This hones in on making a larger bullpen style.

* Does it line up with your technical development flow. If you've gotten used to blazing through something in a specific team setting. It can be quite jarring to pull a 360.

* Do they provide the tools for you to work at your best? I'm not one for the latest laptop, etc. But do you get admin rights on your laptop? Can you install the software you need to work? Does the way they develop enable or hinder you, etc.

* etc.

We spend a large chunk of our times at our jobs. If it's something we dislike, or at worst hate. It can really detract from our quality of life. A good company should be willing to talk with you about your concerns. I'd almost think they'd be happy you care to dig in and get to know your workplace. Because they want you to be happy. Because as noted it's expensive to interview, hire, then retrain someone.
End-to-end encrypted data should be safe, but most iCloud services aren't that secure yet (I bet Health will be): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Great story, should have gone to bed but couldn’t stop reading it.
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I would write this with one hand on E and the other one on B and N. All it takes is to get out of sync (and it happens to me fairly often when I sit at the computer after a longer period, e.g. an hour).
Why would it be barely enough?

I'm not being snarky, asking because I used to surf and wearing a wetsuit would seriously make me warm, to the point where surfing on 10C would require me to unzip the wetsuit every half an hour to make me comfortable.

After my body warmed up the water inside the suit I didn't feel at all the cold of the water except on my feet/head, like I mentioned, I actually felt overheating after a while.

With that said I never calculated or researched how well do these wetsuits insulate for a prolonged period in water, have any data on that?
After watching the talisker atlantic challenge for the last month I think you're wrong. Or is the pacific much quieter than the atlantic?
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It's not pinterest and Kitty Xu, the trend for advance in neuroscience and understanding of brain mechanisms is to be applied in marketing and advertising to influence and manipulate people's minds.

Basically exploiting knowledge on how our brain works against us to profit a few among the richest instead of trying to improve everything for everyone.

This kind of behaviour is considered a marker of a declining civilization on the verge of collapsing, so yeah it's worth worrying about.
> What is the brain using except conditional probabilities derived from past inputs?

Hormones, reflexes, instincts, empathy, etc. Again, human inference and learning are (as of yet) insurmountably more complex than statistical regression.

> regression (which I wouldn't characterize as "relatively simple"

I encourage you to study brain chemistry, and compare that with any stats course ever.

> Why would the use of some kind of regression (which I wouldn't characterize as "relatively simple") a problem if the overall result is nevertheless more accurate than the human equivalent? We judge models by their results, not their complexity.

Because there is no way to universally judge "model results". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_matrix

Even a 99% true positive rate + 5% false positive rate can be worse than a 5% true positive rate and a 0% false positive rate, when you're talking about irreversible decisions.

> The brain is applying some function over its inputs, after all, and we can apply that same function, either explicitly in code or implicitly via the training of some kind of model.

Yes, that's very true. Executing the model is easy, and maybe even works similarly in NNs and brains. Figuring out that "some kind" part is what we formalise as "learning", and turns out is the hardest part of this equation.

Again, clearly, current regression methods are nothing like human learning. Else, they'd be able to learn a language like a human, without seeing billions of annotated data points.

> Machines are already better than humans at ...

Neither the article nor the paper claim the machine performs better. Their strong claim is that the machine is faster.

> I see no reason to believe that bail-setting is some unapproachable problem domain.

I think justice is a more important domain for many people. My guess is it's because it can set precedent.

> Putting a human in the loop just invites those humans to inject unstated, socially-determined biases into the decision system

For drastic contrast: unstated, socially-determined biases is what prevents nuclear wars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

More plainly: people have compassion, empathy, and can understand things about convicts that are (still) very difficult to encode into a computer.
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Virtualization will reshape the telecommunications industry if it matures
> There is no medical wisdom in any of the old texts (from any culture) that are relevant in 2018.

Seriously? We can do better than that - if you're going to make a statement that extreme, you'll need to provide sources to back it up.
Doubt that. You think in the PowerShell design phase, the team would have shrugged if some MS decision maker somehow mentioned "BTW, 10 years from now, for developers, we're going to be promoting installing a Linux emulation layer and using Bash"? I bet the PS folks would have been dismayed.
Thanks for the comment mate, I am glad you liked it :)
I had some intuition for that, but I imagined this was mostly the "muh freedoms" type of people.
Yes. Volkswagen has started using Google's 20-qubit quantum computer (or possibly even the 49-qubit one, which will be announced this March):

https://media.vw.com/releases/951

IBM is also giving select customers access to its real 17-qubit quantum computer.
Can't reply to child asking about the pacific so here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrCI9eSJGQ

That whole 30 days is calm.
Yes! I too make that exact tea, it tastes of the earth and really chills me out! Recommended!
I've been reading through those comments, and all the top comments are about Grab, not about Google. So while the previous discussion is relevant, I wouldn't call this a dupe per se.
PC speakers ended up being pretty amazing for some games though - there was this golf game with good environmental sounds, some platformer that had spoken text, all through the old PC speaker. Sound blaster? Pffff.
That's a micro-computer.
Yes, that's why the quote was already suggesting to use better languages, but mainly it's about attitude and being aware that things go wrong, so you should turn on what you can you responsibly decided to stick to C.
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Sounds like your client was a moron.
I don't see how the government is going to continue letting companies get away without paying employment taxes on all these workers.

Guess by the time they realize they are losing that revenue the self driving cards will be here.
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>The sun goes up in the morning.

Citation needed

It's would be difficult to have a discussion if you had to provide citations for every single well known fact.
I was not expecting to be linked to what appears to be properly conducted science based trial. As others have noted the sample size was small at 40 people which just leads me to looking forward to a larger scale controlled study.
Store child porn in the blockchain.