skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Something I'd like people to consider is simply taking the middle value.

> This supports any crazy rationale you might have for a particular order, and it is resistant to a lot of bugs you're likely to make since the code isn't particularly repetitive no matter what language you use. Oh and it doesn't have any comparison operators either.

Most of your examples seem to call a "sort" function. Are you sure you're not using any comparisons?
>A Cboe spokesman told CNBC: "We take our regulatory responsibilities and the oversight of our markets very seriously. This letter is replete with inaccurate statements, misconceptions and factual errors, including a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between the VIX Index, VIX futures and volatility ETPs, among other things. As a result of these errors, we feel the conclusionary statements contained in this letter lack credibility."
Your memory of that time is significantly different to mine.

I recall Bush being constantly vilified by the left for having a tiny intellect, for constantly making gaffes like "is our children learning", for the Iraq war (he's a war criminal etc), for drone strikes, for supporting torture, for not caring about the environment at all - especially the shock when a simple minded Texan oilman won out over intellectual climate change activist Al Gore.

There were many people not just in the USA but around the world who felt they could not speak up in support of Bush, outside of rural America.

Seems like time is erasing or distorting these memories. I remember him being just as hated as Trump is today.
Very good observations. I think it partly explains why innovation is so hard in places where people live hand to mouth. It is simply excludes those demographics from participating in innovation and changing status quo.
One more alternative to many listed here is SPARQL-Generate. A single query language that works for XML and JSON, and has syntax borrowed from SPARQL.

https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/sparql-generate/playground.htm...
nice to see yathletics here :) I'm a customer.

It's a pain to ship outside US (because of taxes/shipping prices) , but aside from that you make great products. keep going, and it's nice to see some bootstrapped examples too.
Gluten is in virtually everything.

I've found packaged salad that contains gluten because the vegetables were on a conveyor belt dusted with wheat to keep the salad from sticking.

Flour is used to thicken. If it has a sauce or gravy, it was probably thickened with flour. If it's a soup, it was probably thickened with flour.

Flour is used to make things stick when cooking. If it's breaded, it probably has flour. If it has added spices, the spices were probably mixed with flour. If it has ground meat, the meat was probably mixed with breadcrumbs to make it stay together.

Wheat is used as a filler in fake foods. If the food is made with tofu or fake meat, it probably has gluten. If it has bacon bits, its chock full of gluten.

If one of the ingredients is soy sauce, it probably has gluten. If one of the ingredients is malt, or malt syrup, or malt extract, or malt anything, it has gluten.

Sometimes restaurants will put pancake batter in scrambled eggs to make them fluffier.

Almost everything in grocery stores and restaurants has gluten in it.
There oughta be a law to force women into STEM.
Do you have any evidence to substantiate this? Because currently it looks like two sides calling each other liars and outsiders taking sides based on who they like.
I suspect we're the first to attempt to codify rude behavior.
It depends how you define intuition. Maybe we could define intuition as your personal "model" for making guesses on how things work.

Let's claim that writing a proof is similar to writing a program. You start from a state, your premise, and have your assumptions, input, which you process through a series of steps, maybe taking cases in between (branching) and return an output (hopefully True).

Then considering this correspondence, it will be fine to say that you, as a programmer, can guess the output/behavior/semantics of any program without running it. Similarly, a mathematician would be able to reach the conclusion that the theorem holds, without going through all the details of the proof.

Sure, in most cases you can, and as you get more and more experience and knowledge as a programmer you can say you improve your guesses. But this ends up backfiring with a good probability, when our model skipped a step, e.g. the interaction of two concurrent data structures.

Thus I don't think it is right to say "as you are able to know all axioms and rules of inference, you should be able to achieve perfect intuition". You can know the fundamentals of each layer on your stack and you would find it insane if one asked you to guess the output of any non-trivial terminating program.

Note also that the way of inference (logical consequences) can and does change (e.g. ZF vs ZFC).

() I may be misusing the word model here -- it is usually defined (at least to things I work with) as the interpretation of a theory that satisfies all theorems (inferences).
() constructive proofs yes. No flame wars please :)
Sure, this question definitely deserves further probing for other causative factors. But about discrimination, what stage are we talking about? During early childhood when males tend to be pushed towards mechanical toys and construction sets, and females towards caring for dolls? During university when you're repeatedly singled out as the token female in a STEM class by the professor? At the workplace? Discrimination can exist independently at multiple stages and these data only talk about equality on some levels, and that too only overt discrimination. I'm not saying it is (or is not) the primary cause, but it may be too early to rule it out entirely.
This could be true, assuming USA is a poor/developing country.
What a story! Though I am not depressed, I find myself extremely frustrated with a performance-obsessed society at the moment. I go to one of the most prestigious schools in my country. That should feel like an accomplishment, but I am now surrounded by people "better" than me. It's inspiring, but it also demolishes your ego, from time to time.

Last night I had a dream of becoming true friends with a colleague that i idolise. Upon waking up, I realised that the women that I love, sleeping next to me, should've been the one occupying that mind-space, and i suddenly felt pathetically insecure.
> Have you considered how a combination of innocuous data points, such as "browser + city + top 3 popular sites" can make a person uniquely identifiable?

While this is certainly the case. As long as you do not use the data in that way it is not illegal to collect it. Intent and actions are very important in GDPR.

Standard law: Purchasing a knife is not illegal, but using it to kill is.

GDPR: Collecting browser, behaviour and city is not illegal, but correlating it in order to connect collected data to a single person is.
If SpaceX ever gets into asteroid mining, it’ll be good practice to return it to earth.
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Early versions of DR-DOS was (kind of), but eventually I think they redesigned the kernel to use true DOS data structures etc.
the most successful startups (in term of numbers that don't fail) are those where you sack your boss and do a better job, not where you create a new industry or disrupt markets.
1. intelligence is a matter of applying the correct model without allowing your emotions to interfere.

2. your models and your application of them are affected by your experience, emotions, and social constraints; and the specific information you have been exposed to. it is important to continue to attempt to understand how your perspective is distorted by your own self.

3. in order to do that, train yourself on common mental biases and iteratively seek improvement.

links included-
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

https://www.fs.blog/2014/02/decision-journal/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
“And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music.” — Nietzsche
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script was main inspiration for asciinema. I read its source code many times, and in the very first version it was used for recording. However on BSD based systems (and so on macOS) the shipped version of script doesn't support writing to a timing file, which pretty much killed it there.

Anyway, if you're only interested in replay inside a terminal, and you don't care about sharing the recordings on the web then reaching for script first is my recommendation. However, if we forget about the web part, there are still useful things for local workflow, like idle time optimization, pausing/stepping through recording and a single recording file instead of 2 (if you record timing info with script).
It certainly is not dead. One example I can think of that uses it as an art style for a game is Stone Story RPG https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=42354.0 which has some of the prettiest ASCII art I have ever seen.
This just in: having kids reduces your life-maneuverability, precluding you from embarking in some kinds of projects! :P

> If you have a family, a few kids and maybe parents that rely on your financial support, a single dry month without income may spell disaster.

Sounds like you are asking for all companies to be stable and reliable sources of income. That wouldn't make any sense.

I actually agree with a lot of what you're saying. I'm working at a non-SV start up, and we've made many efforts to create a "normal" work environment: paying everyone at least enough to stay alive and out of debt, leaving at 5 and trying to reduce the ammount of extra-time people have to put in...

But we also realize the ways in which this is limits us, and I totally understand that when someone needs a breakthrough innovation or to fix a very hard problem, extraordinary sacrifices may have to be made. I know other startups working in the more SV/crunch style and honestly it probably makes sense for them.

Being willing to go this far for what you believe (or may be for the money you expect to make) has value.

Being able to go this far of course is very dependent on your lot in life (which is something we should work against, with a social safety net that enables people from all wealth levels), and also on the decisions you made before (like having kids; which I don't know we can be doing all that much about).

(I hope I made any sense, mondays are bad for my english-writing skills.)
You can use https://github.com/asciinema/asciicast2gif to turn asciicast into GIF animation.
I read about the new Raspberry Pi Zero here first. And was able to buy it directly, to receive the first batch and had not to wait 2 months before the next batch was available.
FWIW I never said anything about the guy deserving the title of co-founder or not. Arrington is claiming the guy had literally nothing to do with Techcrunch, which is directly at odds with the one piece of information we know: the guy owned 10% of Techcrunch.

As for the co-founder title, my point is if you are investing in some business because an advisor is either a real co-founder or a fake co-founder of Techcrunch, you are making a stupid investment. And that goes for this guy or Arrington himself.

And yes, it is pathetic if somebody is claiming a bunch of credit for something they didn't do. But it is also pathetic to give 10% of your business to somebody who did nothing (assuming the blog post is accurate). As a neutral observer I'm inclined to believe Arrington, but at the same time I don't think he made a very strong case and presented basically no impartial evidence. Frankly I think this blog post makes them both look bad.
Is there a realistic alternative?

I read a lot on entrepreneurship during 19th century and early 20th century US.
My limited understanding: in those days entrepreneurs came from much wider range of demographics. In other words, entry barriers were much less during those days.
I know the feeling. But there may be an illusion in it. People are more likely to post on topics they know about, so the posts here tend to represent their high points. (There are plenty of low points as well, but when you're vulnerable to feeling inferior, those don't register.) If you only look at the high points of a large enough group, it's going to seem overwhelmingly superior.
Thanks! I'm glad it's useful to you!
The phrases like "grew out of ..." is interesting. The thing is that you can use this phrase to steal someone's work as long as both of you were working on something that is even remotely related. I have to add this phrase in my Credit Stealer's Handbook I'm writing :).
> If I want to call a business I have to go to their website just to look up the phone number.

Google Maps’ business lookup works 90% of the time for me, including listing opening hours. They’re good at listing numbers for non-retail businesss too.
For those interested in the topic, there’s a fascinating book “Show Stopper” detailing the making of NT.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416925.Show_Stopper_

The core NT design with its kernel personalities is what allowed them to things like adding linux support, but in the book they describe there was so much pushback because it pushed ram requirements up to 8 mb (outside the abilities of consumer pc’s at the time) that Gates himself had to intervene several times to keep Cutler’s architecture intact.

I also really loved the bits about Cutler’s personality. They came across as more myth than fact but you do get the sense that working for him must have been a singular experience.
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Don't forget the animated ASCII art, aka ASCIImations, which is a large field in itself.

- The most popular ASCIImation is the famous Star Wars fan art: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

- I created some of my own when I was a child, which I later polished and published: http://asciimation.de

- Finally, there is the BB demo: http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/

- BB on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WubDqdV2r9k

- BB essentially demonstrates the capabilities of the general-purpose realtime ASCII art engine "AAlib": http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/
I'm in my mid 30s and I think I'm in the middle of the pack as far as productivity/focus/procrastination go. From that perspective and from your own description of yourself, I would put you below average, and much more importantly - your performance is making you unhappy.

I think this calls for a self-diagnostic. I would definitely see a therapist and maybe a doctor to make sure there aren't any subtle undiagnosed issues holding you back. This could be mild depression, ADHD, or heck sleep apnea. Or maybe you're completely in the wrong field for yourself and a counselor could help to quickly suss that out. Or maybe you're a wild perfectionist and don't even know it. There's a million possible explanations that could be completely invisible to you but accessible to a trained 3rd party.

If you were in your early 20s I'd say... muddle through, no one starts off awesome. But by your 30s I think it's reasonable to expect more and appropriate to get proactive about getting to the bottom of this.
What could be so particular about the Middle Eastern culture that would result in a different treatment of women in these countries? Is it about the climate? Is it about the diet? The research must continue to resolve this mindboggling mystery.
When techcrunch started it was just a WordPress blog. It quickly grew to much more than that, sure.

> However Keith claims on his LinkedIn profile that he advised Arlington and helped him to be successful even initially he did not believed in TC.

I've personally been present when Keith gave Mike advice about Techcrunch on more than one occasion (and I was only over about 1 week every 6 or so, so it'd be odd if I caught their only discussions), so while whether or not he did enough to justify calling himself co-founder is something I don't want to wade into as I simply don't know (and is trying to keep my personal opinions out of this when I don't have first hand knowledge), I for one was an eye witness to Keith advising Mike more than once (whether or not Mike took on that advice, or whether or not it was good advice, I don't want to try to assess).
Sigh. As the sibling comment points out, what you are saying is not true. It is contradicted by the text of the memo itself. Moreover he wasn't "very vocal about it", he wrote a memo that was then deliberately leaked by his ideological opponents in order to destroy his career: successfully so.

Five years ago I felt my political views were pretty mainstream for the tech industry, for the Valley (although I did not live there). I'd have described myself as a centrist or maybe centre-left.

These days my views have shifted, I can feel myself getting more conservative with time. It's not an age thing. It's more that I've started to notice the sort of tactic you used above - faced with someone making conservative arguments you disagree with you didn't bother debating the points he made. Instead you just lied about what he said and then attacked a straw man.

This is consistently how Damore is treated. There are liberal arguments that can be made about what he wrote - people could point out methodological errors in his studies, or logic errors in his arguments. But they never seem to do that. Whether it's in the media (who love calling what he wrote an "anti diversity memo" even though it praises diversity and has ideas for how to increase the number of women in tech), or on Hacker News, the tactic is always the same - pretend he claimed women are worse than men and then viciously attack him on a personal level. And it's just totally false.

The same tactic crops up in other similar contexts. Jordan Peterson being interviewed on Channel 4 is a recent notorious example. The guy made debatable but essentially conservative arguments about how men and women are not the same, the gender pay gap has multiple causes and so on. And Cathy Newman (the interviewer), who clearly isn't really interviewing him at all but rather sees her job as destroying the ideological enemy, just constantly twists his words. The entire interview consists of her exclaiming, "So what you're saying is ..." followed by some absurd straw man that bore no resemblance to what the guy just said.

It got so insane that by the end of the interview, after Peterson made a long and complicated point about the biological roots of social hierarchies using the nervous system of lobsters as an example, she replied "So what you're saying is, we should organise our society along the lines of the lobsters" and the guy doesn't even blink or miss his stride. He just gets right on with correcting her, because by that point the lying and distorting of what he just said has become so predictable:

https://youtu.be/aMcjxSThD54?t=26m55s

It's one of the most astonishing TV interviews I've ever seen and that sort of debating "tactic" is everywhere.
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> Am I suffering from some form of undiagnosed ADHD?

It's worth looking into this. I know people who found a diagnosis extremely helpful - even those who chose not to avail themselves of the medications available. There's several online questionnaires that would give you an idea of the kind of questions you'd be asked if you went for a consultation. Some of the traits are quiet distinct and you'll have an immediate sense of familiarity. If you find yourself saying "Gosh, I thought that was just me" then it's probably a sign. :).

Feel free to msg me and I can pass on a bit more info.
Yes, this is read-only. I believe it's a nice example of how you can combine different unix tools together to achieve interesting result. It's not a scalable, reliable streaming solution. But we'll get there :)

For collaboration tmate/tmux or atom+teletype are definitely better options these days.
Interesting fact: when you ran a Rexx program, the OS precompiled it to IR and prepended it to the script. As a result, Rexx programs could run pretty quick (for the time).

Source: wrote whole systems in OS/2 Rexx!
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Yeah appear.in works quite we for us as well, low latency voice is nice.
I've been a lot of places, and I have some experience with sleep deprivation. One ought not assume too much.

If you're regularly working 20-hour days, as opposed to the occasional all-nighter, then you're not doing anyone any favors -- not your company, not your friends/spouses/children, not yourself.

But anyway I was alluding to the tendency to boast about how little one sleeps...
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Thanks, but I really only care about what structural engineers think. (Also as evidenced by my previous comments.) So no, I don't have any followup.
The more stable the library, the more accepting the trade-off might make sense to an app developer.
> the Kubernetes patterns here would mean we need to duplicate the secret data into each applications namespace, allowing a compromise of one to compromise the TLS of all

yeah, this would be wrong indeed.

Is there any requirement for an TLS terminating proxy acting as k8s ingress to actually store the TLS secrets in the same namespace where the requesting ingress object lives?
I’ve uploaded a few videos of the tool in operation to Twitter:

MIDI->evdev https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/965384962848456704

evdev->ArtNet https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/965337284982837248

MIDI<>OSC https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/882368440811606020
At the end of the article he says:

> Eventually the forces of entropy will take their toll; and depending on the circumstances, the business outcome will either be frustrated or happy people — be they developers or customers.

This must be a mistaken attempt to be even-handed. The "forces of entropy" he mentions usual overpower circumstances and rarely result in either happy developers or customers.
I'm out of touch with reality but you're deriving moral outrage from the use of blimps?

I'm very confused by your responses.
The same argument works in reverse though. Clearly conservatives feel discriminated against at Google, and with good reason to do so - look at all the screenshots in Damore's legal complaint. Many comments from managers flat out stating that Trump supporters should be fired, or even anyone speaking out against such punishments should also be fired.

So why does Pichai still have a job?

We know the reason - because CEO-firing moral outrage only works in one direction in California.
I'm familiar with this. There's no magic solution, sadly, but I'll share one thing that has helped me and may apply at least to some of your situations.

I realised a while ago that my main issue was with nebulous tasks -- that is, the more concrete, defined, and _meetable_ a task was, the less trouble I had with it. So I started to break down large tasks, which never got started much less finished, into smaller ones, in the same way you might break a scrum-poker 20-pointer into a bunch of 3s.

You want to go from this:

- I should really write [some great app idea]

To this:

- I'll make a list of technologies that I want to use

- I'll read the docs, like a book, for the ones that are new

- I'll write a single api endpoint

- I'll flesh out the api for the rest of a feature

- I'll MVP a UI for that one feature, without any concern for design

- etc.

In my case, a combination of the size of and amount of ambiguity in a task is inversely proportional to the ability I have to both get it underway and get it finished.
So have I, but not as a regular thing. Working "20-hour days" implies it's regular, and that means -- assuming no commute -- you're sleeping max 3 hours a night, which is pretty messed up.

o/t but I'm surprised this random comment touched a nerve here...