skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting concept - an entire timeline can focus on a single theme, unlike Twitter or FB feed.

I can see myself using this as a travel log to share with friends, _if_ I go on an interesting journey (which sadly I haven't done in a long time).

Using it for documenting progress in a hobby is also interesting. I have never done it before, so can't say I'll start now, but still it's a mildly attractive idea.

I don't see myself using this to document my career. Firstly because I don't think there's anything special about mine to document it publicly. Secondly, because it's already documented in personal journals - warts and all - and lessons learned which I don't particularly care to share with anybody. Thirdly, I don't have any great photos or anything to make my career timeline look interesting to other people.

I can't think of any reason why anybody would document their relationships publicly. Do people actually do that?

I think you should focus this product on serving travel and hobbyist communities, and market this to them.
No, I am not mistaking ACH for wire transfer, or any kind of "credit" system. If your bank is taking longer it's because your bank sucks.

But yes please provide those "technical details" whenever you have a chance.

https://www.frbservices.org/assets/financial-services/ach/09...
> having universal algorithms for solving problems and describing the universe is really what math is more about.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. What universal algorithms are there currently for solving problems and describing the universe? And why are these universal algorithms more important than estimation skill in practice?

Are you suggesting that there's always only one true way to do things in math, and that the quest for the one true way is the only noble pursuit?

FWIW, to me that sentence somewhat reads like a pre-conceived idea about math that could possibly impede your appreciation for valid alternative approaches.

It's worth considering that in computing, the algorithms that have been used for math in processors and standard libraries have been changing dramatically ever since the first transistor. And it's not because the newer algorithms are more universal, it's often because we're simply making different tradeoffs over time. Sometimes it's because better algorithms are being invented, because the algorithms we thought were great turn out to be not universal. Sometimes it's because a new fast approximation formula is discovered that is accurate to the precision of the machine.

There's very little in computing today that is "universal", despite the pedagogical emphasis on this abstract idea. There are, however, lots of algorithms that are canonized. Math constructs that seem universal because everyone knows them and they're popular, and alternatives aren't well known, enough that it becomes hard to imagine the alternatives.

> My kids are entirely missing that in their common core education...

Are you absolutely certain that's true? Common core, as the author pointed out, is still required to teach the old algorithms. Are you sure you're not having an emotional reaction to not quite understanding why some of the new methods are there and/or being unfamiliar with them? Your reaction here is exactly what this entire post was addressing.
These major retailers have closed more than 5,000 stores in 2017
Not the author, but this just came up in the Ubuntu app store when I was installing Evolution. From a quick search around the web, it seems like it's gotten some good coverage and, despite appearance, is not electron-based [1]. The second interesting thing is solidly monetized, so may not be as much of a long-term risk to download/install/adapt to. They've also apparently been around for at least a year or more, getting some TC coverage [2], so I though I'd share with the HN folks, after seeing an increased amount of discussion around the difficulty of being in the email space :)

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiri_(email_client)
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/07/hiri/
They're not mutually exclusive but the point is that single-minded ambition towards cultural excellence is a one-way ticket to a rudderless company that has no means of averting disaster.

Such a company can only exist in a fantasy land where growth and expansion are always eschewed for social justice.
I would recommend Brilliant [0], it contains courses and exercises on math, science, and computer science. This site also offers weekly challenging problems.

[0]: https://brilliant.org
Yeah, LaTeX tables are a pain, so I usually generate them with a script and include them via "\input{...}". But I've come to rely on TeX macros to generate repeated things like fancy chapter intros, and on packages to customize page headers, etc. This stuff is not necessary for a homework assignment, but I doubt it's as easy to accomplish in Pandoc.

On an unrelated note, I hadn't checked out Pandoc's output in awhile, and this bit from http://pandoc.org/demo/example13.pdf looks pretty bad: https://i.imgur.com/Kxy4mic.png . Granted, the terrible word-breaking and spacing is TeX's fault, but typesetting usually seems to require dealing with a few special cases by hand. I wouldn't trust Pandoc, or any other program, to "take care of the presentation" without a bit of hand-holding.
Panasonic Eneloop vs IKEA LADDA – Are They the Same?
I'm surprised nobody has brought up the scrollbars yet. The original post mentions the bespoke UI, but only faults it for using MDI.

The non-native scrollbars were smart and nifty, but, at the end of the day, they were jarring to use. I don't remember many single UI features that ever made me alternate so frequently between "neat!" and "WTH?!?". And I've seen lots of interfaces on many platforms.

http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/11/15/google_waves_scroll...
You need to quantify what you mean by polymorphic. Do you mean sub typing, ad-hoc, or parametric polymorphism? The latter requires no inheritance.
Yeah, I think "claims" would fit a lot better here.
Show HN: Famous quotes in your terminal (golang cli app)
The information density of that map is pretty amazing
Maybe that's the team where the Microsoft ME devs they poached back in the day go to retire?

I jest, I jest...

It is crazy annoying how needy they are with their "engagement" emails though.
Like so many industries, technology increases efficiency for usually the wealthy, but has a human/humain cost.

I'm being a hypocrite, but I think I liked the US before all this cheap tech?

I'm trying to think of the positives, and coming up with not much.

Cops are being watched closer? No--they just shut the door on their cam.

Doctors treat me better? Haven't seen my doctor in awhile. The last time I saw him, he was awkwardly hitting a keyboard.

The lousy jobs have just gotten worse, but each employee is more efficient. Forget about wages/conditions. Work conditions--history my friends.

Technology has made politics just more slimey, with the added bonus of letting dictators into the process?

But hay, I can get cheap products delivered fast from China. Yea!

I sometimes feel like the time I walked out of Chiropractic School on a hot august day. I had this Ph.D of whatever/DC throwing the light switch on, and off. Blabbering on about how we have over 17 upper cervical manipulation techniques----long dramatic pause---and they all work equally well. "It's just like turning on the light switch, and the patent is Better. And it cures a litney of diseases."

I looked around the the sheep, and locked eyes this one guy from the Bronx who seemed like the only one who shared my disgust of the denial of students.

I didn't walk out of that room because of the profession. Not that it was obviously all Placebo. Not even about the existence of the Subluxation--that allopathic doctors missed in their patients.

It was my fellow students who sat in that class like good little followers.

I did pay back my $12,000 in student loans.

Today, I feel like that disgruntled student, but technology is the evil stench in the room.

I guess most things are fine in small doses, and those in power, don't end up controlling the technology. (Those in power=the Wealthy)
Specifically old Egyptian.

Demotic and Coptic Egyptian is much better understood with the latter being still in use today.

What most people think of Egypt is actually fairly recent history people tend to refer to events which usually happened during or around the Ptolemaic Kingdom period, by that time the Egyptians have already lost the ability to read or speak the language of the old kingdom and today we are closer to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the pyramids as far as time goes.

Heck even if we take the biblical exodus story as a historic event then the pyramids were already ancient by the time Moses was stuttering let my peeps go.

As for the article I don’t exactly understand it’s premise they open with Sanskrit and Persian having shared history with European languages but as both are indo-European languages why is this surprising? AFIAK this was known and acccoeted even in the 19th century.
It completely depends on the location. I'll believe that overall, China's education produces better students than the USA, and that overall, the attitude towards academic excellence is more positive.

However, there's definitely pockets in the US from which a large part of the US academic elite come from for which it's not true that academic excellence isn't revered. A couple examples off the top of my head: The Palo Alto high school triangle, TJHSST, Exeter, the NY magnet school system, etc. A startling percentage of the US's top CS/math/physics talent comes from these schools.

In my personal opinion, top students at these schools will perform better than top students in China. Although the high level of academic rigor in high schools in China raises the average ability, it also dampens the amount of time that the top students have for extracurricular activities.
If terrorism killed as many people as opiates and ruined as many lives, it would be justifiable to fight that war. There is also a difference between reforming corrupt Rx and business practices, and fighting a “war”. Most of all though, this is not a case of people making informed choices to use dangerous drugs, they were grossly misled.
it is pretty misleading to call it a timber building, there are clearly two concrete and steel cores there.
Definitely want to do some research up front to rule out places where it will never fly. But- negotiating shorter workweek is different than negotiating salary (in most countries, anyway).

My experience, as well as others I've heard from, is that if you say upfront "I want fewer hours" companies will just say "no". This is not as much an issue with salary, because there's diversity of salaries, but pretty much no companies will hire you for 4 days without extra negotiation. So: if you ask for 4 day workweek upfront the vast majority of companies will just walk away.

On the other hand, if you keep your mouth shut, once you have an offer already you're in a different situation. Worked for me, as well as person I interviewed who has done this way more than I have. The company has decided they like you, you've impressed them, now they're in "what do we do to hire this person" mode. So if you ask at that point they're much more likely to say "yes".
Don't forget diagnostic scans and tests. Those are quite expensive. However GP is proposing a service that doesn't actually exist now: paying a medical expert to spend a lot of time considering a challenging case. It would have obvious benefits, so we shouldn't dismiss it out of hand just because it would be too cheap.
This level of surveillance is a shame given that by luck of never being invaded by the Nazis there's no ID cards in the UK. Somehow also people managed to stop attempts to get ID cards introduced.

It might even be because of this. That is, it's easy for other European governments to track people as they have to carry ID at all times. Because the UK government are worried about the lack of this, they go down the CCTV route.
A stealthy space startup is testing its rocket in Alameda
Absolutely. Squeegee after use also helps a lot.

If you get mildew, using a squeegee will usually prevent that. To get rid of it, though, use fresh hydrogen peroxide instead of bleach.

The vinegar/dish detergent mixture really gets the soap scum, though.
You might be right about the OT idea, or even some code, having been borrowed from Wave. I wouldn't necessarily have known about it (or I might simply have forgotten). But I'm pretty certain that Kix as an overall project was much more closely connected to Trix than to Wave.
It does make one wonder how broken the system is. Consider how often we hope this is the norm, and yet it is held up as something exceptional:

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“When I see people suffering and I know that if I took the time and effort, I could figure it out,” he told me, “then I have to do something.” He looks for unexplained pathological findings — in this case, the high level of IgM.
Is "we decided to do this then later decided it was a bad idea" a "bug"? I thought bug implies unintended behavior. Not intended behavior that wasn't fully thought through and may have conflicted with other silos in the org.
(Controversial) Corollary resulting from this 16:9 domination: the maximum length of a source code line should be increased. 80 characters seems to be not the best fit for modern IDE on 16:9 screens. (I hate that, but praying for a 16:10 monitor comeback did not work. Also, it is getting worse with hidpi monitors)
> A hermetically sealed home with no insulation is generally warmer than a leaky home with walls stuffed with insulation.

Warmer, maybe, but bad for people and good for fungi. Many contemporary buildings are built too airtight, lacking natural ventilation, which causes huge problems with interior air quality and traps moisture inside structures, creating places for mold to thrive.
My compromise to address the lack of 4:3 screens:
Laptop on the left. One monitor in normal orientation in the center. One monitor in portrait orientation on the right.

I still wish for more vertical landscape in the middle, but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At Shelf [1] we use:

Front-end: React, Redux, Vue.js, Meteor.js. Served from S3 via CDN (AWS Cloudfront)

Back-end: Node.js in AWS Lambda with AWS API Gateway, also Node.js in Docker hosted on AWS ECS, spot instances

Storage: MongoDB (on mLab), Elasticsearch (on Elastic Cloud), S3

Other: GitHub, Circle CI, Terraform, Jest

[1] https://shelf.io/
There is also the Chinese model of finance. The Economist has been predicting a Japanese style financial crash in China due to enormous debt levels since at least the early 90s and it never happened. That's because money is electronically printed by the government and given to banks in exchange for bad loans on a regular basis. There is no debt default crisis. The banks just keep lending and no government debt is created like it would be in America if the government wanted to do the same thing.

That this whole system has worked so well for 30 years completely undermines the entire basis of western macroeconomics and is the equivalent of telling a traditionally trained economist that the earth orbits the sun while they believed the opposite. It just does not compute and they can't even wrap their heads around it. Thus they keep predicting an imminent economic collapse every years even though they've been wrong for more than 25 years.
And if that's your metric, then why slow-roll the launch by making it invite only? If the answer is performance, like I suspect it may be, then why launch if you cannot achieve success by the sole metric you appear to be looking at?
Well, there is the problem. If monitors and notebooks are sold with 16:9 only, then of course there is no "demand" for 4:3, because you don't sell any! This argumentation is scewed.
the salts formed by mixing the 2 are abrasive. but thats it.
Microsoft regala 300 libros de programación que puedes descargar gratis
Elixir vendors dependencies as well by the way. It's very useful as you pointed out.

Additionally, I agree with your points about Go.
> Back in the early 2000s, a question that kept attracting and frustrating people in quantum information is how to build a quantum hard drive to store quantum information.

In the early 2000s, there still existed "Quantum" branded hard drives, in very popular use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Corporation

At first I thought the image was a joke.

Nope; you're just old now if you remember "Quantum Fireball".
Are you "ascerting" that dermatologists never make mistakes?
> without engaging the incumbents, the decentralized system would have absorbed his money and given him nothing

I don't see how that follows, given that the failure was at VISA, a centralized system, in its interaction with Coinbase, another centralized system. The decentralized cryptocurrencies continue to work as designed.
>Nobody knows why, you just have to memorize it.

While that's clearly a bad answer, it's not clear that an answer to the effect of: "That's a great question but answering it requires getting into a number of somewhat advanced topics. But if you're interested, here's a good place to start." would be.

Personally, I actually could not tell you the answer myself--although I could look it up.

I agree that, where practical, understanding "why" is preferable. But, even in more advanced subjects, you sometimes just don't have the basics to derive everything from first principles. High school physics is an obvious case when most students haven't had any calculus yet. But even intro courses at a lot of good colleges often ask you to accept certain things as true because understanding why they're true requires significantly more background in the subject.
Isn't this what concierge doctors offer?
> The 21st-century is not looking for humans who serve as calculating machines, but instead it seeks problem-solvers and innovative thinkers.

I distinctly recall how one of my grade school teachers justified learning maths: "In the future, you aren't going to be walking around with calculators in your pocket!" Yet today I routinely check even simple calculations with the calculator in my pocket.

I've found that error-checking is the key to doing 'well' in maths, yet that's something humans are bad at and something machines are great at. Given this, I'd love to see a future where learning to do math strongly emphasized learning how to best leverage computers for error-checking. That's a skill I wish I had developed earlier...
Update wikidata taxonomy!

I’ll probably do this when I get around to it, but it would be great if more people did this. This dataset is the only cladistic dataset that is fairly comprehensive that I have found.
Velocity is too often used as a stick to beat people with — "Team B is doing 15 more points that you"; "Last month, we were doing an extra 5 points every sprint, but now we've stagnated — what happened?"

The only worthwhile external measure of value is features that the team deliver (i.e. broadly counting improvements to non-functional requirements as features too). Velocity is meant to be constant (in an ideal world) to allow the Product Owner (i.e. someone _inside_ the team) a broad brush to provide estimates on when things may be ready — even used in this way, they depend on a stable team with a velocity that's not too volatile. They shouldn't be shared externally to try and show how productive the team are.

For example, I've previously had management ask if our team can try a bit harder & deliver another 30 points per sprint. As points are meaningless outside of the team though, that's a false economy: I think they got the picture when I said our team could deliver another 1,000 points per sprint if they wanted us to.
>This means that even the designer of a neural network cannot know, once that network has been trained, exactly how it is doing what it does.

This is just false. The reason neural networks seem so mysterious is because in a fully connected neural network a large portion of the interactions (non zero w_ij in the weight matrix) are completely spurious. We look at the fully connected network topology and we throw our hands up. We can apply algorithms to trim out the spurious weights and what we’re left with is a logical circuit that we can analyze. Show an electrical engineer the circuit diagram of a 3 bit added and she’ll know exactly the function. Add a bunch of spurious circuits to that same diagram and of course it’s not going to make sense.
Udemy Is Profiting on Stolen Content
Then you inherit from a virtual class, which is not actually inheritance in anything but name.
I like this post overall, but the idea that credit and scrip are the same as money and currency is a bad mental model to have. The difference is that credit and scrip are tied to a single business or institution, whereas the price of a currency is driven by the value that many independent institutions contribute to a network.

Most cryptocurrencies today are glorified in-app tokens that just happen to be stored on a blockchain, but some of the few that are actually currencies will be worth trillions.
It would be an interesting breakthrough if Alpha Go could explain its reasoning for various plays.

Maybe one day we'll write a deep net that captions other deep nets. Who will build the supervised learning training set though?
Acquiring mass is interesting. It means that in the course of this process they must be interacting with the Higgs field.
Apologies, was an earnest attempt to answer parent's Q, didn't realize they were flagged for it
There's a solid inner reactor wall. It's 3-D printed and replaced once a year; the reactor has a modular design that makes it easy to do that.
Hue released as AGPL-3.0
Cure53: Browser Security Whitepaper (2017) [pdf]
The Wikipedia Zero program will end in 2018
I highly recommend this one:

https://www.hello-startup.net

> This book will teach you how to build products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment. It's based on the experiences of the author, Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, as well as interviews with programmers from some of the most successful startups of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and many others.
You weren't kidding about the small farm! The dealers in your area can't do field repairs?