skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> who believes strongly in the absolute innate equivalence in aptitude for our profession between men and women

This sounds almost sarcastic. I get that hyperbole is a rhetoric device. I agree to a certain extent, too, while I understand that positive discrimination is discriminating never the less. But: The absolute "innate" equivalence between any two persons is not comparable.

Prejudice is not allowed, sure, but it goes both ways. You can't just take any 50% of the population and claim they must be as good as the other half, just as you can't take any half and claim they must be inferior. Because that is subjective -- concerning subjects -- whereas you want to be objective -- judging actions by their objectives.
I think they have considered that

Remote driver with xbox controller who controls a car every 1,000 miles.... one person per 1,000 cars? Or your idea of 1,000 drivers for 1,000 cars. Hm....
This is not the first time the PULP project has released a chip without a FPU. In the other case they have latter added a version with one.

The atomics they seem to want to support but arn't quite done.
>Keep in mind if more people were proactive about their own digital landscapes, things like LineageOS and open source software would not seem like second rate diminished quality of life to people like you.

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. I prefer to deal with the world as it is rather than the world as I’d like it to be. Also keep in mind that if more people with proactive about their own digital landscapes, they’d be spending more time managing their platforms and less time doing the stuff they actually want to do. It’s solipsistic to think everyone should have YOUR preferred priorities and time allocation.

>idk what has you convinced that Facebook and Google equal better life

Not having to sound like a fussy prig anytime someone wants to get in touch with me is kind of a thing. Not having to have a “well actually, don’t you know that Facebook is bad!?” discussion whenever I meet someone new who wants to stay in touch with me, likewise. It’s like that old joke about “how do you know if someone does CrossFit/is vegan?”

“Real social interactions” means actually being able to participate in the social interactions where people are having them. I don’t know why you think being able to keep in touch with distant family via WhatsApp, or not not having to create extra steps for people who want to send me photos, or not needing to insist on a special process for inviting me to things are all valueless functions. What you’re proposing is like the equivalent of insisting, after the invention and mainstream adoption of the telephone, that people come to your house and drop off a visiting card if they want to speak with you.
Assembling Software from Independent Systems
ITER is about farm more than just plasma physics. Tritium breeding from lithium is critical for any D-T reactor design and requires taking the vessel apart remotely and processing the blanket because of it's half life. That's just one of the many things involved and why you want a 'safe' design.
But then we're not comparing the same thing. If you were trying to learn manual memory management, type declarations, linkers, cross-compilation and packaging in 2018, would that really be any easier than in 1998?
Isn't there an international court (the one in Den Haag?) that could be used to clarify this difference in interpretation of international law?
> Destructuring doesn't require it to be a list/s-expr. You can destruct ASTs in any language that supports pattern-matching.

It's not about requiring. It's provided in Lisp. Macros already provide destructuring in their arglists.

> That's what languages should aim to do. For example rust's procedural macros can transform a TokenStream to another TokenStream and doesn't have to satisfy Rust language parser. Although that doesn't extend to lexing.

A tokenizer is not a language parser.

> I am not talking about a specific language compiler, but modern languages are heading in the right direction without using s-expr.

That's nothing new or modern. Code transformations and code representation has been used for decades.

> Yes, but then you write your own macro-expander.

No, quasi-quotations have nothing to do with a macro-expander. It's a general feature in Lisp - independent of macros. One alternative is to procedurally build up code.

There is no functionality difference between

`(a ,a)

and

(list 'a a)

Both compute the same list structure.

>> operations on the data format can be supported in an text editor and then can be applied to both data and code

> Yes, but they will not be very helpful without additional tooling.

There is nothing wrong with tool building.

>> the code structure is not limited to what syntax a programming language parser implements or what an AST can represent

> And you have lost the previous point, now your "code as data" is not so well-supported.

But I gain a lot of flexibility.

> True, but these all can be provided without s-expressions, the compiler just has to be designed properly into reusable modules.

That's what Lisp already provides.

> Rest of your points just suggest that the tooling part is easier and simpler to do and understand, which ofcourse i agree with. But not all programmers prefer Lisp like syntax and most languages haven't really cared about it or see as undesired(macros bring some undesirable properties as languages like loop pop-up) flexibility.

All true.
This is why I'm still on Firefox 55. Fuck quantum. I used it a little on a different system and the slight speedup (main bottleneck is still WiFi/uplink) is nowhere near worth breaking all addons without even providing APIs to make replacements.
Why I refuse to give up code comments
Weird to send people to jail for something like this. How is that proportional to the ‘crime’ even if found guilty? More people in jail is a lovely plan anyway...
As someone who makes developer courses / training material I think it's a really bad idea to use online services like PythonAnywhere or Cloud9IDE.

It's really important to learn how to set up your own development environment as a developer and if you're making this content, I believe it's our responsibility as teachers to show people how to do this.

Personally I use Docker in my courses (because it's what I use for my own stuff) and it's been a smashing success. I do get occasional people questioning "why" but after I explain what the process would be like to set up a proper Python dev environment without Docker they immediately see the wins.

Of course I do get Docker related installation questions but it's a small percent compared to questions on the course content. One of my courses is building real world web apps with Flask and it's probably 80% Flask / 20% Docker related questions.

That's much better than punting a local development environment off to a third party service / pre-built VM and then leaving people stuck in the dark for getting anything done on their own.
...not to mention death penalty, including states where the family of a victim were allowed to watch the execution and even cheer.
That was very good (thank you!), but it led me to this, which was even better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAHcZGjKVvg
The current solution is to rely on a Blockchain Oracle, a third-party smart contract that is hooked to real-world data feeds and acts as a data career.
Oh the cynicism here is so sad. To everything there is a season, I guess. Anyway! Does the Dai stablecoin not undermine this idea that nothing worthwhile can be built on Ethereum? Don't like ICOs? Neither do I. While the evolution of ICOs in 2017 was really interesting I think DAOs (and things like DAICOs) will see more prominence in 2018. It is an exciting world!
Hey, those corporate prisons need to make their profits somehow.
Whitespace gets mostly passed straight to the browser, meaning newlines, tabs, and consecutive spaces get rendered as a single space. The exceptions are: two consecutive newlines start a new paragraph, and two spaces at the start of a line denote a preformatted (“code”) block.
Software that does it: puppet, chef, salt, ansible, ... You can have chef as a service in AWS via OpsWorks. Alternatively almost every cloud provider supports cloud-config at boot time.
Yeah I did not want to mention that; most people in the EU do not know that privatized prisons exist; when I tell them they simply do not believe it until they look it up. There are not many ideas worse and more perverted than that on this earth.
Are you saying BRK.A pays a dividend?
> Luckily for those of us who cannot speak Chinese, even papers from Tsinghua University are generally published in English.

Generally published, so already not always, and I sometimes wonder for how much longer it will be until the ratio flips to the majority of Chinese produced papers being published in Chinese.

Currently they need to publish in English for the recognition. As the Chinese tech and software industry grows stronger, that may get less and less necessary.

It's likely to be decades away, but it'll still be interesting to watch if it happens.

Luckily I can speak/read Chinese :-)
"No senior GCHQ officer is going to sign off in a cyber hack of an ally unless they had a really good reason and had covered their own ass."

good reason: much more information

Covering: was very good, only because of Snowden it got linked to the UK

So even though it might be possible, that Belgium was in it on high level (you hack, but we get data conveniently without legal issues), it is also very possible, that they went for it without saying anything.
Cardiogram prediction using RNN
Related question.

Suggest a Twitter client that...

is not Electron based

shows tweets horizontally, maximizing number of tweets, minimizing scrolling

hides crap like images and video

shows replies as threads

Windows

Thanks
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Pretty much. I underestimated how quickly we would see robot cars that drive in straight lines on smooth, well-marked, first-world roads, but I suspect it will be awhile before they venture far out of that context. The developing world's city traffic, and rural roads everywhere, are a bit more complicated, and there's less money out there, so I doubt the robots will be there anytime soon.
> Even if one of us does not respond or get a response from the other for a couple of months

This kind of interaction does not fit my description for a friendship.

>Most of my real life friends have difficulty even responding online

Is taking one month to reply on IRC not to "have difficulty even responding online?"
But I bet Mr. Miyagi could beat up your Tathagata in a coding contest.
Apologies if I ask stupid questions, but can someone explain me the relationhsip between the tokens created in ICO and ethereum (or bitcoin)?

I mean, are these new tokens completely indpendent (economical) entities with no connection to the value of other cryptocurrencies, or do they somehow derive value from ethereum?

To put this in practical terms, if I want to raise money via an ICO and promise that you can use a token in one year's time to buy USD100 worth of gadgets from me, is that doable without anyone taking any risk on the fluctuation of value of cryptocurrencies?
China Warns It May Retaliate If U.S. Imposes Metal Tariffs
These are cool, but how practical would it be to produce a blog post akin to, "Here is a web app running J in the back end"?
You can smoke in dedicated smoking areas outside, but it's actually not allowed to smoke on bus-/train stops/sidewalks etc. There are just no one to enforce it.

I guess the places where you get escorted from in the US are privately owned and not due to a law (but I could be wrong).
The companies firing you for smoking might also have to do with a bit stronger labor laws in Norway :)
Some people like a linear history. Personally I don't, because it produces commits which have "never existed", and have certainly never been tested to check they even compile.
If you are thinking of investing heavily (relative to what you can afford to lose) in any speculative activity, it is not rational to limit your analysis to that most basic economic truism.
Why do we need this NAFTA thing again? And why does involve copyright? It would be much easier to enact NAFTA if it skipped copyright entirely.
Plus, I find the idea of "sentence stacking" absolutely absurd. It just encourages prosecutors to throw the book at you and scare you into taking a "shorter" sentence with a plea deal.
Open source: who's paying the bills?
At least my case, our compute servers are 4 dual Xeon servers in a 2U format, sold by Dell. I haven’t yet found any vendor with the same core density based on AMD.
On the other hand, nowadays if you think (for example) for web development you need Babel and webpack and npm modules and vue.js, it's easy to give up before you even get to hello world.

Now of course you don't need that to do hello world, but a beginner doesn't know that!
For the ideas and philosophy behind J have a look at the paper [Notation as a Tool of Thought](http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/%7Ejzhu/csc326/readings/iverson....) by Kenneth Iverson. He originally presented this paper as his Turing Award Lecture in 1979.
No Bullshit Guide to Microservices
Merely Watching Others Perform Can Foster an Illusion of Skill Acquisition
Just because you don't like his citations doesn't make you right in saying he didn't have them.

But first a side-note: Stop changing the subject. I was saying the null hypothesis is irrelevant here. I'm saying don't discard new evidence because it goes against the null hypothesis. A few comments up (and the answer to "why") was said "[I] strongly believe [in the null hypothesis]", which to me is very strange. How can you "strongly believe" in a null hypothesis?

I didn't like his references (and stop attacking me, and implying my position), in that you can't just cherry-pick a study you like and call it fact (though doesn't make it wrong. Just unproven). Everyone does this. It doesn't make it right, but stones and glass houses.

To understand what you consider legit studies, I randomly clicked on three of his links. At least two of them must not qualify as legit study, so could you explain why you say two or three of these are "blogs and magazines"? I guess you qualify the journal "Science" as unscientific and merely a magazine? So that's one.

Mind you, it'd be a real coincidence if the one supposedly legit study he referenced just happened to be in this list of three:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9004....

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/310/5749/819

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976341...
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Well, that's an effect of experience. You don't just become a better programmer with experience, you become better at software development. Better handling stress, better understanding requirement, gathering requierment, better navigating political corporate structure, better explaining yourself, better defending yourself, ... and yes, better getting your environment sorted.

That said, the specific point you raised is interesting because I was having the same problem at work. Except it was caused by automation. We have automated pipeline for everything, zero downtime deployment, containers, ... all of that is working very well - so well that there is just no enough big stuff to do so that newcomer on the project can build enough experience with the pipeline to master it. The best people achieve is some sort of very rudimentary debugging capability, earned from the monthly minor tweak the system require. Basically either you build similar pipeline on another project, something that is extremely unfrequent, or you missed the train.
insufficient light intensity does that
7 Punch Points – Why Ruby on Rails Is Preferred Among the Developers?
Does MIT encompass BSD?

If it doesn't then surely they can't just re-license code that was contributed by others without their permission.

I'm not fundamentally against this and I doubt anyone cares in practice, it just doesn't seem right in terms of the contributor's rights.
This effort is part of the PULP Platform [1]. They have a number of cool chips and projects.

Its a pretty large effort and they are releasing more and more of their work into open source. Here [2] you can see what they have already released and their plans going foreward.

Project like LowRisc Open-SoC [3] using some of the smaller PULP cores as minion chips for things like IO offloading, security and so on. They can also reuse a lot of the work done for PULP.

[1] https://www.pulp-platform.org/

[2] https://www.pulp-platform.org/release-plan/

[3] http://www.lowrisc.org/
Relevant: 'Dawn of the Billion Dollar ICO' https://hackernoon.com/the-dawn-of-the-1b-ico-a0486f6587a2
The real difference is that the jail system is privatized in the US, so that it has become a profiting system not that different from hotels and resorts. Hotels and resorts need to get a constant influx of customers to be kept in business, so do private prisons, and harsh punitive laws help to get that goal. Make prisons public and the sudden need to save taxpayers money will force them to keep only real criminals behind bars.
Oh, Rodney Brooks is hardly "some guy". His wikipedia page is a start, but you can find more information on him in AI - A Modern Approach (the standard AI introductory course textbook).
Thanks for taking the time to write this tool. Can you explain how it is distinguished from jq?
Cofounder of Black in AI on what’s poisoning algorithms in our lives
This looks interesting - but doesn't MongoDB basically achieve the same effect? I kind of prefer MongoDB because you query JSON with JSON - but I'm open to changing my mind :)
To be truly fair the claim is "truly native", not just "native". If the claim was, native GUI, that would work, but "truly native" is a huge stretch.

These apps are about as native as the Java based Eclipse IDE whose SWT based UI uses native GUI elements for display.
It has very little to do with feelings though. In my specific case I am not affected by these politics and policies whatsoever as I am thousands of miles away from the United States, and I am self employed.

To constantly read about cases where biology determines whether or not people are eligible for a particular opportunity, i.e. imposing inequality of opportunity in order to arrive at equality of outcome, is violating the very principles one claims to be opposed to. The excuse for this kind of implementation is that it is justified, in order to fix historical inequality. The people who are being discriminated against had no say in historical inequality. They were born into this kind of a society by accident of birth. If a young boy in Saudi Arabia goes to get a driving license and is told that he is no longer eligible because they have decided to randomly reject 4/5 male applicants to correct for historical injustice, he is being penalized for something he had nothing to do with. When a young boy is rejected for a job he is qualified for, citing the fact that he is the wrong sex, he is being penalized for something he had nothing to do with. Nobody should be at a disadvantage imposed on them by others using biology as a reason to do so. This is immoral, and no outcome is worth this kind of violation of principle.
There are 2U dual EPYC servers e.g. from Supermicro

https://www.servethehome.com/dual-amd-epyc-7601-processor-pe...
Fun fact: east asians (Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Mongols) seldom use deodorants, because of a mutation of the gene ABCC11 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCC11) resulting in dramatic reduction of the sweat glands responsible for the strong body odor.
Writing J code feels a bit more like you're interacting with a database, in that the code is being executed in a way that isn't immediately obvious based on the logical instructions you give it. It seems like the higher level and terser you can make the instructions, the faster it will generally run, because J can more ideally optimize the operations.
Private prisons are a small percentage of all jails. That's not the reason for long sentences.
Prison guard unions have exactly the same incentives, whether in the EU, Canada or the US.
I find the idea of plea deals absurd. They seem to encourage results before justice
I think I'm in the group that doesn't immediately see the obvious gain of teaching in a Docker container vs. teaching how to install pyenv/virtualenv.

Is it mainly cutting out troubleshooting differences between host OS's while also getting isolated python environments?

Maybe I do see the win there, after all?
Having lived in the US for 6 years when I was younger I became very acquainted first hand with Americans' touted importance of freedom, and their pride in the freedom they get as Americans. At the time I was too young to question this, and just thought of Americans as very proud and free people - I even got the bug myself and felt a great sense of pride and appreciation about having the privilege to live free in America.

That was a long time ago and I am now on my fourth country of residence. Now the espousing of "freedom" some Americans often express when discussing living in Europe vs the US is sort of baffling when there are so many examples of Americans being the opposite of free. This is one example of greater restrictions on their lives which Americans are forced to accept. It seems like freedom in the US is crippled at so many turns, either by corporations or lack of government support when you really need it in a bad financial situation. You're not free to expect your health to be taken care of no matter what your financial situation; you're not free from living in often astonishing debt just to to get a higher education; you're not free to feel any sort of real sense of job security when an employer can fire you at will with little protection; you're not free to make a mistake, maybe like this one, without facing overblown charges and/or prison sentences; etc...Living in the US now just seems like it would be so stressful.

Europe has its problems, but having lived in both places I know where I personally feel more "free".
You are putting the emphasis on 'speculative' rather then 'bubble'. All speculative markets go through bubble-like phases, and your success in speculating in a market depends quite a bit on your ability to understand what is driving prices in that particular market during the times you are active in them, and in understanding when, and to what extent, they are bubbling. If one thinks tulips are just like art is just like bitcoin is just like cattle futures, you may not be well-enough informed to speculate successfully in any of those markets.
‘99.9999%’ uptime – it’s an illusion
Here's a fun fact: when the US abolished slavery, they lost out on a lot of cheap/free labour. Guess what bridged the gap? Forced prison labour. Guess who filled the prisons? Former slaves. The old bait 'n switch.

Guess who's filling the prisons all these years laters?
This is one of those topics that needs to be addressed but really cannot be because it's just so callous (and because the AARP is such a significant lobby in American politics).

I think assisted suicide should be legal. But even setting that aside, we spend a massive amount of money on prolonging people's lives for a few more miserable weeks at the bitter end. That money would clearly be better used on patients with better long-term prognoses, but this is unfortunately the stuff that gets people screaming about death panels.
Wow what a brilliant idea! Thank you so much for making this project, signed up already =)
no mention of plus lens therapy
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