skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You certainly implied that it did.

"in my book" is often used to cast a statement as opinion. So something "definitely" being X "in my book" is pretty clearly not meant to be any sort of argument (necessary! sufficient! proof! -- gag me with conversation killers) where I come from.

I don't think there's any good way to define a toy in any hard-and-fast way, so rubbing words like "necessary" on it is just not in play.

In the original discussion, lamp oil was interesting when framed as a toy. The background given was enough for me to think of it as such as part of the thought experiment. I gave a couple of dimensions that I think supported its toyness when some balked.

You could:
1) not have a monitor on your desk
2) use a smaller monitor
3) use a laptop
4) get a bigger desk

Each of these has a number of ways you might achieve them, easily meeting or exceeding the throw-away number I posited.

For example, with (1) you might use a school computer lab. Or you might eschew computer use altogether. Or you might borrow a computer when necessary. Or you might devise an alternate mounting scheme. Or you might get a lap desk, so you need less real-desk surface for other things.

Anyway, we're way off in some boring-ass woods. The woods that kept me from participating here for years.

Good day, human.
I call this the essential learning skill and am totally bummed that our public education not only does not cultivate it but actively deters it.
Thanks to the union for that, I think.
Which is why I question the usefulness of a computer science program/degree for the vast majority of dev positions. Learning how to learn would I imagine be the best use of such a degree; but then one with at least half a brain, given a few years in the field, starts to pick that up independently.

I chose to avoid computer science degrees because in those days, in the late 90's, it was pretty much 80-90% math classes. I don't regret getting a degree in a totally different discipline: it turns out learning philosophy, history, linguistics, writing, etc. etc. was far useful to me as a person (and, arguably, a worker) than some boring math classes ever would have been.

Have comp sci curriculums improved in that time? Given that job interviews these days last 4-8 hours, require group approval and whiteboarding in front of an audience, I would argue, NO. Obviously, no one trusts the degree.
If the IV reduces or eliminates the discomfort of dehydration faster (which it seems it would do faster than hours of spoon-feeding?), that might also actually reduce the overall trauma level.
LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S II
Do we know if Uber is getting preferred or common shares in the settlement?
> too big to be delivered to our home

That's a thing? I've had tons of large packages delivered via USPS and have never had them hold something for being too big. Are you in an apt complex that doesn't have a package pickup area?
> Praise and blame are an inherent part of that communication.

Language acquisition presents what is perhaps the easiest falsification of your claim. Children don't learn verbal communication so well because of a system of instruction inescapably based on rewards and punishment from an instructor who can teach the lessons that the child wishes to learn (or thinks they should learn). They learn so well because their brain essentially builds them a nice filter chain based on the sounds they hear at an early age range (thus language exposure is an important factor in later language learning).

We hoist praise and blame onto that process mainly because most parents have decades- (or sometimes centuries-) old concepts of learning that aren't based on modern research. Still, I'd much prefer they err on the side of too much praise rather than risk abusing their children. We have plenty of research that tells us the clear risks when that happens.

> In certain circumstances, especially where (b) is less true, then praise and blame get upgraded to reward and punishment.

The example above is a case where (b) is less true. Infants don't desire to build a language filter based on the sounds they are hearing. It happens involuntarily. But your system would actually guide a parent in the wrong direction-- escalating praise/blame to reward/punishment in a situation where neither are warranted.

> For example, in a computer game you're learning optimally if your win:lose ratio is somewhere around 80:20. I would guess this applies to our relationships too.

For that to be testable, your character in the game would have to stay dead once it gets killed. Or at least its injuries would need to follow it everywhere. Like a friend tries to show you a new move and hands you the controller, then the game says, "Hey, you're that guy with the broken leg," and doesn't allow you to do the move.

I think the win:lose ratio would change significantly in that case.
Secret hedge funds being run by huge corps is the new norm. that is what makes it relevant?
You need a technology or skillset to sell. Focus on business to business as that is easier and more stable and pays better.

For example in my city there is a 35 people company that does nothing but Magento projects.
The author has the right idea. The company I work at hires junior engineers somewhat regularly, and the quality of bootcamp grads varies wildly. It'd be awesome to see additional CS courses on a resumé, as fundamentals like time/space complexity are usually the biggest weaknesses of the bootcamp grads we interview.
> places outside of North America and West Europe have lagged in attitudes to software development.

This is right. From my experience working with an offshore team in India, the main problem is cultural. A large majority of the developers in India I've worked with have no interest in furthering their development carrier, but see it simply as a way to transition into management as fast as possible. In practice, this means that you can go from a junior developer to a project manager in the span of 2 years or so. 2 years is not enough time to solidify your knowledge and become the t-shaped programmer that this industry requires. I think one needs at least 5 years of work and experimentation in this field to reach the level where you can contribute positively to a company, without creating huge amounts of technical debt.
How does one go about telling the DMV that your car is no longer in use because you sent it up to space on a rocket?
It's nice that there are laws requiring the split.

A similar story happened with Sue[1] the most complete T-Rex skeleton ever unearthed. The archeologist who discovered it and did the work to unearth the bones and preserve them got nothing while the landowner got $7.6 million because he owned the land where they were found.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_(dinosaur)#Dispute_and_auc...
IOTA is a fantastic example of how far a heap of shit (yes, we're talking unary logic shit-tier) can get with a home run marketing wise and an absolute lack of ethics.

The IOTA team deserves every bit of backlash coming their way...
Amazon can think they will build fedex in next 1 year. I think they're out of their depth. Building software is much different than building manual labour centric systems. Their efforts will be fruitless. To build a shopping website, where things are pretty much well interfaced, it took them, 20 years. Though, they do deserve credit for AWS. Again human systems aren't analogues to software system. They have fortune to spent, so let's spent.
It's a common misconception that Nagle's causes the delay problem. The problem is tcp delayed acks. Nagle's can improve network efficiency (and latency as a result) on slow links. On fast links it shouldn't have much impact at all.

The rest of what you said doesn't make much sense to me. Searching for \n\n is a property of HTTP, it's nothing to do with TCP. TCP is meant as a generic connection oriented protocol that uses packet switching, and it's largely optimized for that.

The main benefit of QUIC it seems is that it hides itself in UDP so middleboxes don't tamper with it. It isn't really a fault of TCP itself that middleboxes mess it up so much.
Learning a lisp is on my to-do list and I've narrowed it down to guile or sbcl.

I'm curious what kinds of projects would cause you to reach for common lisp over scheme and vice versa. Also would be interested in any other thoughts comparing the two.
More bad news for dinosaurs Chicxulub meteorite impact triggered global volcanic
This is great news, although I'm not sure it gives me the thing I _most_ want, which is just to be able to refer to the 'current' row within a filter's where clause.
I love the different yet similar 3D environments for RL agent learning. OpenAI has a similar environment they call OpenAI Gym[1] to train agents, of which RoboSchool is the closest environmental[2] analogy to DMLab-30.

From a cursory glance, DMLab-30 levels are based on id's code, while RoboSchool uses a full-blown physics engine (Bullet[3]).

Pretty exciting times!

[1] https://gym.openai.com/envs/

[2] https://blog.openai.com/roboschool/

[3] https://pybullet.org/wordpress/
Bitcoin turning into a multi-layered system is most interesting thing in crypto
EthPyramind – A self-sustaining, secure and transparent pyramid scheme
Many thanks to the VLC folks. Awesome work.
>No, the dowry wouldn't be the classic example because that's more akin to prostitution or slave trade than monetizing and marketing affection.

Tossing aside slavery, it's akin to prostitution because it's very similar. But prostitution is also a classic example of the commoditization of affection/sex.

>This especially considering a lot of marriages were done out of convenience and need rather than out of love.

Well yes, that's what commoditization does. It turns something into a marketable commodity. That people bargained over dowries/marriage like they do over other goods is exactly the point.

I think what you and many of us feel is that there is some intrinsic quality to our affection that is degraded when it's turned into a commodity and I'm using that to suggest that there is something similarly degrading about turning our attention into a commodity, to be bought and sold and exploited for profit whenever possible.

I do like the example of Christmas, you could draw a parallel between the message of a Charlie Brown Christmas and the message of a Target Christmas commercial that would prove a similar point.

>I think your comparison with gambling was more appropriate, or one to video games / TV like the in the comment you replied to.

You're right, cigarettes are an overblown comparison. I was just hunting for something which is pushed on children, fortunately gambling isn't usually. (maybe csgo lotteries are something are an exception here which would be a good example)
It is quite simple to explain. When your best guy gets hired away from your company, you are generally angry at the company that stole your employee, not the employee. Most of the tech is still trial and error so patents don't hold much water at this point unless you are TESLA. So this was always about "See what I can do to you because you hired my best guy"
Also underplayed in the media thus far, yet a key feature. I wonder whether this is because the media were not briefed on that?

Normally the media just parrot talk press releases so I guess the name plaque was there just for the team and not really for the wider audience.

Incidentally, is 'presure' an American version of British English 'pressure'?
It's been getting slower over time with noticeable stalls. Performance is a feature
Fear in a Handful of Dust
What are 2 or 3 of the "4channish/the_donaldish" media outlets you are referring to, other than 4chan and The_Donald?
I'm not sure how your comment is supposed to help.

I don't think a web server is ever a good idea. All it takes is one successful remote attack and soon your users could be installing ransomware! We'd better shut down the internet.
I was intrigued recently reading a relevant blog post by Stephen Wolfram that made me think a lot more about this topic. Here is the link for those interested:

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2018/01/showing-off-to-the-un...

And its discussion on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16269500
Facts. UPS has excellent perks for their employees.
The thing I love about HN is that you say something to be amusing and the engineering types (I am one, so I am making fun of myself) always make some logical argument in response. The best part is 90% of the time you learn something!
Pretty much the plot of the HBO series "Ballers". It's not the most intellectual show, but it does tie together the fallacy of "Balling", essentially how trying to maintain an outward perspective of wealth and excess usually leads to a quick demise of said wealth...
Compound interest and 5% yearly returns are boring. Technical analysis is too complicated for kids. "WHEN MOON??" is much more relatable.

Go to the crypto subreddits and look at all the people who laugh at stocks, saying market returns are basically worthless.
Time-Series Prediction Using RNNs, TensorFlow and Cloud ML Engine
Google Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:soISHS...
Yes. More of this. Amazon is starting to slip. It takes literally 1 minute on support text-chat to do this and it always saves more $ with less hassle than you would have if you went with another site. I've done this 3-4 times and every time I say it's the Nth time I've had to do it and they keep offering more and more.

What's especially annoying is that you have to pro-actively reach out to them. This isn't customer-obsessed.
I just wrote my name down on a paper "plaque" and now it's orbiting the Sun too
Ironically that's the most common error that bootcamp graduate see when they first deploy their app.
It did something worse: it severed everyone the same ads and propaganda. The phrase "Television rules the Nation" didn't just occur to Daft Punk because it sounded cool.

It was a broadcasting-only service with a high cost of entry. You need big money to put your thoughts on TV. As someone from a country where the big media conglomerates and the government are helplessly colluded, social media comes as a very welcome break and counter-force.
These days I feel like it's more "if it's even a little bit decentralized and uses public key cryptography then you can call it a Blockchain and people will throw money at you". It's the new "Cloud Computing" basically.

Cryptocurrencies are pretty mainstream nowadays, everybody and their grandfather want to be a crypto-millionaire. Very few have the skills to decide whether experimental technologies like Ripple or IOTA have a future[1], it's just speculation for speculation's sake. Ask the average Ripple owner what they think of the "trustlines" and the risks associated with it. Actually, just ask them what a Ripple trustline is. I doubt you'll get many answers.

[1] Honestly I feel pretty knowledgeable about how cryptocurrencies work and yet it's not rare for one of these whitepapers to lose me. For many of them you need a pretty good technical background on cryptography, game theory and economy (with maybe a hint of sociology) to really be able to gauge whether an idea has merit or not.
Egypt's government is blocking news websites like the New York Times
I guess the graduates are supposed to fix that
"Also use LBFG so you never worry about learning rate."

Literally never happens in practice.
Can Winamp send email?
For cases where the payload is small (<100kb), Caffeine (http://www.caffei.net/) is a good solution (TCP based)
Is it a working model? does it have an engine?
Day trading is pretty much gambling. This guy could have ended up with a $500k loss.
"We like to say that people (especially children) shouldn't be punished; they should only be rewarded."

I think neither is correct. I think this is a tactical decision that needs to be made in the moment based on time and energy.

Which is to say, it is neither correct nor incorrect to slowly, agonizingly, peel off a band-aid. This can be a successful strategy. Sometimes, however, you just need to rip it off and get on with your life ...

(three kids)
What are the laws on space salvage? Just wondering in case I happen across that Roadster someday.
Police in China Are Now Using Glasses with Facial Recognition in Train Stations
Java uses GTK bindings on Linux.
I won't be surprised if they put a real teapot somewhere.
This is what n-gate.com would call “webshit”. Other than showing an animated GIF of an audio player from 25 years ago, no sound comes out when I press the play button. Even though “README.md” explicitly says that it supports Safari (I’ve latest Safari).

I hope this story gets enough points so that it makes it to n-gate’s “Webshit weekly”; can’t wait to read what he’ll have to write about it.

+1 from me!
If your service is mission-critical, you’ll have a support contract, and there absolutely is a number you can call. I have high confidence that Google and Amazon will make every effort to make sure their services perform to spec, the real problem is the feeling of helplessness when something does go wrong.
Animals have grunted at each other for hundreds of millions of years, and human speech has slowly evolved from this. Text however was an instant revolution, a complete game changer. I don't think text is going away.

The immediate benefits of text are that text allows information to be stored, verified, indexed, and searched (assuming it was indexed correctly). It's only very recently that these same benefits have become available for audio and video. But they are still way behind text. For example, it's a lot easier to quote a snippet of text than to cut and paste a scene from a video sequence.
As someone who grew up in ATX with family from originally from NYC, I have a very unique and somewhat ephemeral "southern accent".

But I find myself talking the way this article depicted. Oddly enough, most of the time people are either disappointed I don't have an accent or think I'm from Chicago.
That's not IOTAs fault.
Plain text is the only format that has survived from the beginning of computing. It will probably survive for the next 80 years of computing too. I'll stick with it :-)
SQL?? What is the argument for that?
Uber settles lawsuit with Waymo
A sociopathic, yet brilliant biollionaire? Probably the most realistic part.
Why is this comment getting down voted?

EDIT: And why did I get down voted? Genuinely curious; he didn't say anything inflammatory, polarizing or _wrong_. Replies are not even disagreeing, just "explaining".
What about "¡Viva la Revolución!"? Stallman was an ardent supporter of the Chávez regime in Venezuela. It took him some years to realize that Chávez was, to put it mildly, kind of a dick.
Now take the 100k to create an infomercial on your remarkable system for making money over night.
I don't know how accurate any of this is, or how supercomputers or Bitcoin have changed in the past half decade, or how seriously such comparisons can or should be taken, but:

The suspects had tried to use one of Russia's
most powerful supercomputers to mine Bitcoins

4-5 years ago:

the entire bitcoin network is roughly 256 times
faster than all the top 500 supercomputers around
the globe combined.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/28/global-b...
Once you've become a highly paid software engineer it's very human to try and justify your status by claiming that programming is exceptionally hard and therefore your status/salary is justified.

That's not to say that the job isn't hard... but lots of jobs are hard. Dealing with the constant loss of people around you if you work in a retirement home or hospice is also hard; but those jobs aren't rewarded equally.
> I've been using VLC for years.

Good point: there is plenty of software where people have no issues with buying a new licence every couple of years,

Compare that to (in my case) sixteen years of happy VLC usage across many different computers and phones, and it's obvious that I have some donations to catch up on!
Show HN: A new Symfony User Bundle
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Eat more fat.
I am about to graduate from law school. I also agree that a law degree "hardly scratches the surface" of law.

That's why in most countries lawyer candidates are required to do mandatory legal internships. And even after becoming a lawyer, you need to gain a lot of experience before you can be trusted to practice law without the supervision of an experienced lawyer.
Text is going to die for exactly the same reasons that audio-video killed pure audio. That's why radio is now obsolete, and podcasts never took off.
Author here, thanks for the feedback.

Well the only thing I know about DeltaE I know from Bruce Lindbloom's website, where he uses the terms interchangably.
http://brucelindbloom.com/Eqn_DeltaE_CMC.html

But I'm happy to try out the CIELAB deltaE as well. I can already see another dropdown for comparing difference metrics coming up :)

Will fix the text error you found.

--edit: after reading again I see that he used DeltaE as a sort of broader category. worth fixing as well
Adding to this, representative nodes (DPOS) do not get any rewards for being online and behaving correctly. Which is a recipe for tragedy of the commons. Worse yet, a voter can issue two conflicting votes, and the system has no mechanism let alone penalty for handling this. The defense against these attacks seems to be, reps have stake, therefor they wont take actions detrimental to coin value..

The marketing is strictly speaking false. A transaction is not instant, as you must wait for sufficient time to ensure that a conflicting transaction has not been published (and hope that you are not network partitioned). Otherwise, you might as well settle for "instant" BTC 0-conf transactions. Free, is debatable, considering the difficulty of POW that would be required to effectively deter spam.
Ethical Tech Will Require a Grassroots Revolution
I've been using DataGrip by JetBrains for a while now. I have no qualms with it, but the price would be an issue if I didn't have the full JetBrains pack already from my employer.

What is the killer feature of TablePlus? Should I try it even though I'm happy with DataGrip? Or is it just as good for a lower price?

https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/
Have you tried clicking the play button or double clicking the single, 5 second audio file in the player? It doesn't play by default and it isn't a .gif

Unless you're using Safari 5.1 on Windows (it also explicitly states modern versions), the supported browsers are seen here https://caniuse.com/#feat=audio-api
> Yea... it's like that except neither AWS nor Google have phone numbers to call.

At my current company we have access to AWS support. I'm not high enough on the ladder to know the specifics (separate contract, size threshold?), but when we've had issues in Aurora we've had personalized support. I have no doubt if you're scaling to thousands of instances you would have personalized support, if for no other reason that a cloud provider would not want to lose such a huge customer.
What about Beyond Good and Evil made such a big impact on you? I read it and enjoyed it a lot as well but struggle to put it into words how it has impacted me.
I have all sorts of issues on a 15rMBP (non touchbar). There are apps that works fine before 10.13.1 and still don't work on 10.13.4. My machine runs at high CPU a lot of the time, fans blazing away.

I'm actually considering going back to 10.12 for a while. All of my 10.12 machines are stable. 2 of my 10.13 machines seem to always have some quirkiness.
Sorta hijacking the question here, but I'm curious if anyone here prefers using some concatenative language. If so, what language (s) and why?

I recently stumbled across http://concatenative.org and my curiosity is thoroughly piqued.
First phone or watch with a 'diamond' screen coming by end of 2017