skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say China's rise to global power (in many different categories) was due to "luck". China has been one of the most advanced civilizations in history. They also have the second largest military force. The US did not have to manipulate the Chinese workforce into global trade. China was a willing and very capable participant. You need to realize they are a large and powerful country. Not a banana republic.

Further more The Great Leap Forward is estimated to have cost 20-50+ million Chinese lives. I'd say China did pretty well on its own with out foreign intervention when it came to "greed".
This is great for working with python - https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython

I haven't had as much luck using it for other languages, but I also haven't put in much effort into trying.
Yep, in general yes, though watermelon doesn't have much fiber IIRC.
The Union of Concerned Scientists says the exact opposite. One is funded by industry, the other from individual contributions. I know which one I think is right.

https://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food...
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But there's nothing they can do to fix that, aside from the founder being stupid or diluting his stake by putting in a massive amount of money.

Sell them back at a good price, or keep them. Whatever option you prefer.
have been running browser mods for ~5y to do this.

it's a pain. but it works.

currently greasemonkey 'direct link out' and 'bypass google redirect'
If you have Mathematica, you might not need R as both are like Swiss Army Chainsaws for Data Analytics.
I loved my Pebble because it helped disconnect me from my phone. My phone's ringer got turned off, and I could rely on wrist vibrations and read alarms and text messages from my wrist. This lead to me getting 1/2 hour of my day back, because I would stop accidentally reading the news, opening Reddit, or playing a mobile game.

But it's much easier to monetize a product that forces more screen time on you, and keeps you more distracted. Does the Apple Watch get subsidized by Apple because of the App Store? Pebble could have gone that route, but it didn't feel like the customer they were targeting.
OK, but you have to admit that Damian Reilly writes beautifully. I'm looking forward to his next story for its entertainment value.
This has been pointed out here before, but that's not entirely inaccurate for a significant number of users, whose stack is:

- Entering a query that is sent to Google by one of many channels (google.com, browser omnibox, Android omnibox)

- Choosing a result from a Google search

- Pages following guidelines defined by Google

- With ads displayed, published and managed through Google-owned platforms

- Atop standards initially implemented in Google Chrome, with design influenced by them

- Displayed on a browser made by Google

- Retrieved through protocols often designed with influence from Google

- From an IP resolved by Google Public DNS

- The client device is running on an operating system made by Google
Most browsers already did, and some (not all) of the ES2015 stuff requires property ordering. Probably easier to just keep everything ordered since it could be needed by those methods.
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Something like that would probably speed up more code than it breaks, but it would be a breaking change, so probably not what could be strictly considered optimization.
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We do need to realize this is being driven by George Soros.

"Soros' Proposal to 'Regulate' Google, Facebook Infuriates Internet Users"

https://sputniknews.com/viral/201802181061784072-soros-inter...

I also purposely linked to Russian media. As also Russia been after Google.

Not saying they are not accidentally aligned with what is best but rather realize there are other motives at play here.

Soros is only going to care how he can make more money from this and suspect spends ZERO time working on the greater good for society.
You make a good point. There are many situations in which it's fairly obvious how the comparison ought to be made: the human should not be allowed to use a horse in competing with the horse in "running", and should not be allowed to use a computer in competing with the computer in "guessing sexuality". However, if the competition is in "predicting share price movements" then surely it would be strange not to allow some kind of computational assistance for the human, so in those cases, at least, it gets a bit hard to decide where to draw the line.
I did try it, but it seemed to break "undo" unfortunately. That's something that will make me stop using a package immediately. I also tried ob-ipython for org-mode but found it not ready unfortunately. I think I will have to do what you suggest and just minimise the amount of code written in the notebook itself.
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Who do you think is the authority on this?

The German KBA (Kraftfahrtbundesamt, similar to the DOT in the USA) classifies the Model S as Oberklasse, the same class like BMW 7 series and Mercedes S class.

Coming from a BMW 7 series and now driving a Model S myself, I sure have the feeling that the Model S carries a prestige comparable or higher to that of the 7er.
In JupyterLab, under the `Settings` menu, there is a setting you can toggle (Autosave Documents) if you prefer to turn off this behavior.
The reason to think and speak in such a manner (with regard to law) is because we live in a society where we have a social contract with all of the other people and businesses in it. It is frowned upon for individuals to go around and commit illegal acts that they deem ethical because of that social contract. It would be chaos if we did not adhere to the laws that society has agreed upon. This is why we come together and vote on what we deem to be unethical and make it illegal.
The wordpress article says academic meritocracy doesn't exist because teachers are biased. The author is calling it a myth to say it exists in our society. Doesn't seem like they are against an actual meritocracy.

Though I suppose it's easier to dismiss complaints about bias when we pretend those complainers just hate our meritocracy.
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There's a deeper argument here, too. Growing inequality is an indicator that the iron law of oligarchy is taking hold. The book "Why Nations Fail" divides societies into those with inclusive and extractive political and economic institutions. Inclusive institutions allow the benefits of productivity improvements to be shared broadly, while extractive institutions fear that the creative destruction of technological change will imperil the position and authority of the elites that benefit. There are some great stories in there about Tiberius and Elizabeth I banning technological innovations. https://panglott.wordpress.com/2016/12/10/books-why-nations-...
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Ask HN: How do you start a career as a software consultant?
Employers keep passing on me because of my recent criminal history. So I think my only hope is to adopt an alias (which I'm legally obliged to notify the government about) and become a software consultant.

I've researched on HN already about how to price myself ($200-$400 / hour), that I should buy a nice suit and meet a client and don't tell them I'm the software team, things like that. But everyone says they find clients through previous client referrals. That's not an option for me. Any resources or tips you can provide would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hellishly expensive in comparison to a product that wasn't sustainable. It's probably priced right where Pebble should have been.
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This is my favorite end game. Modest, reasonable, full of happiness and enjoyment without costing you decades of your life to achieve. You have good taste.
I have tried to use Google alternatives a few times and always go back. Now I also been using Google for a long time and so they have my data and I probably have learned how to use Google efficiently.

One of the biggest difference is something that happened very recently. Google is much faster at updating then the alternatives for some reason.

I suspect it is about event driven versus polling. That Google is given update when things happen from trusted news sites instead of having to poll or crawl for new things. Would not be surprised Google just has a lot more of these connections than MS has.

But I am probably unusual in that I now just try to keep all my data at Google instead of it being spread around.

A big one is my ISP is allowed to sell my data without even me knowing. So I use Google DNS instead of my ISP and also use YouTube TV. All to try to keep my data away from my ISP.

My biggest issue is companies being hacked and people getting my data like what happened to Yahoo. I just trust Google better able to protect.
As far as I can see there's no way for a user to set the size of their infrastructure.
Libertarians are not Nazis. Full Stop.
>I find it funny that you can't discuss factual things that relate to your company's decisions and plans with your coworkers in your workplace.

Especially when they ask for your feedback. Actually perhaps there is an actionable error on the part of Google - did Damore have a reasonable expectation of confidentiality? Why did Google let it be disseminated publicly by other Google employees, heheh?
I'm a scientist (PhD student in microbiolgy) that works with lots of data. My data is on the order of hundreds of gigabytes (genome collections and other sequencing data) or megabytes (flat files).

I use the `tidyverse` from R[0] for everything people use `pandas` for. I think the syntax is soooo much more pleasant to use. It's declarative and because of pipes and "quosures" is highly readable. Combined with the power of `broom`,fitting simple models to the data and working with the results is really nice. Add to that that `ggplot` (+ any sane styling defaults like `cowplot`) is the fastest way to iterate on data visualizations that I've ever found. "R for Data Science" [1] is great free resource for getting started.

Snakemake [2] is a pipeline tool that submits steps of the pipeline to a cluster and handles waiting for steps to finish before submitting dependent steps. As a result, my pipelines have very little boilerplate, they are self documented, and the cluster is abstracted away so the same pipeline can work on a cluster or a laptop.

[0] https://www.tidyverse.org/

[1] http://r4ds.had.co.nz/

[2] http://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
How much do founders typically get when their startups sell for less than what investors put in? Not a troll question, genuinely interested. Any data on how this averages?
...and here come the downvotes to my comment. Good job HN.
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Just look at patreon. It is fairly unreasonable to expect even your fans to spend more than $1 a month on you, so if you want a reasonable income (and I'd consider reasonable to be peak happiness if you want success in life) than you want around 100k USD in yearly earnings. Take out the 40% self employment tax, the 3% Patreon takes, and you need roughly 12,000 people giving you a dollar a month to "succeed" in terms of income happiness as a creator on Patreon.

Now, some of your audience are going to be whales that have vastly more money and are willing to treat $100 like $1. But you also have a huge portion of your audience that pays nothing, by nature of the default state of Patreon being a free main product with only supporter bonus content rather than paywalling your main focus (because how are people going to discover your stuff if its paywalled?). I imagine the best conversion ratio is like 20% and that is wildly optimistic. Twitch subscriptions are comparable, where most streamers float around 20% of their average viewership as subscribers.

So you need 60,000 fans, at least, to make happiness income creatively. Now, each fan would probably support more than just one creator per month, and there are additional revenue sources including ads, merch, cons, kickstarters, etc. But no matter how you subdivide this economy the ratio of creators to consumers has to be drastically biased towards consumers over creators.
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No mention of restricting access to keypairs and removing access via password login? This is the #1 thing I do with all servers I deploy.
Maybe Wikidata if the knowledge can be expressed in a somewhat structured way? They don't have the deletion as Wikipedia does, AFAIK.
I would guess that in 50 years people will look at current tech trends in the same way. “They had to have known the apps and content were being created to induce maximal stress and addictive behavior!”
I found biking in London much easier than in many large European cities, especially since a large fraction of drivers keep enough space on the left for bikers to pass, making commute fast even in heavy traffic. In France or Belgium on the contrary, you often have to slalom between cars, either on the left or on the right.

I wouldn't say it's much safer in London, but definitely a little more than Brussels for instance, where many small streets are a nightmare.
Also, it should be noted that, since it just proxies a single user notebook server, JupyterHub doesn’t support any interaction, sharing, or other collaboration between users (though one could implement some of that by mounting an NFS share inside notebook containers). Still, I’ve found it quite useful for teaching. IIRC, there’s also a project underway to bring collaboration features to Jupyterhub.
For all of the hardware, yes. For the incremental cost of better hardware versus development cost, it makes sense to spend more on development to save hardware between 10k and 100k units.

I have worked on embedded projects for extremely expensive hardware selling in moderate numbers with underpowered SOCs that could not produce smooth UIs. Bad hardware decisions.
If I recall correctly a bug in chrome was disclosed before Google could fix it by the project zero team as the 3 month deadline had passed.
I had more energy when I got to the shop and then had more energy when I got home.

I envy you people. I've been cycling to work for about six months now, and while I enjoy it and it probably does me good, I don't feel more energized. Exercise has always left me drained.
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Biking in Singapore's humid heat does not sound pleasant at all.
Totally feel you! I tried taking Ofos from Boat Quay to Chinatown and it‘s just not working at all. This city is not designed for bikes.
But what you were asking for wasn't context, it was:

> analysis or critique of the roots of right-leaning conservatism or libertarianism

That's a full article in itself.

Basically, it seems you are unhappy about the article's topic and focus, and wish an article about something else that's more tailored to your predilections. I'm sure you can find want you want elsewhere, given the current political climate and the fact that conservatism and libertarianism are far older and have been widespread for far longer than the relatively novel "social justice ideology" discussed here.
When my shareware was pirated and posted on torrent sites, but had a fairly low number of seeds, I forked transmission and changed the source to give out bad checksums, so that downloaders would never see their downloads complete. I figured I would run this on a bunch of computers and become the top seeds and peers and ensure that few downloads ever finished.

It did not take long for me to realize how crazy I was being over this. My time was better spent improving the software and focusing on customers who would pay.
Sure, but it's not like you have to choose one or the other. You can have the beneficial short term effects while avoiding the long term effects by using moderation (which is key in any diet).
From

> Bizarrely, the pixelated stuff in the images you linked look way better.

To

> But then I remembered I look way better in the morning light.

In one step. Lovely!
This sounds like poetry.
Every discussion I've seen about functional programming is entirely divorced from the practicalities of real programming.
Yes, they do. Having a masters or not is orthogonal to being a quack, especially in an environment as buzzword-laden as data science/ML.
Huh, that's actually quite interesting - but for an entirely different purpose.

My better half enjoys a bit of cross stitch. For a cheapo little gift I've played with outputting custom cross-stitch patterns based on pixellating images and reducing the number of colors to something more manageable, but it's often a little janky in GiMP and requires a bunch of manual tweaking - for anything remotely detailed it quickly becomes more hassle than it's worth.

This, on the other hand, might just do the trick!
Yes, see "persistence hunting". It turns out that although humans may be thrashed by a poodle over short distances they are really rather good at extreme-long-distance races.
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The reason why is because in the 80s it was useful to build up programs from scratch. So you could build an introductory course around that and even use an arcane language like Scheme, which the students are bound to almost never encounter in real-world usage, to illustrate the principles. These days, to teach someone real-world software development, you have to show them how to find and use a library that does what they want, or maintain an already-existing code base -- use cases for which Python is a much better fit. Building a program up from scratch is almost never done.
A friend of mine recently got one, and she likes it a lot. Her commute is more than mine (nine miles over some of the hillier parts of Boston), so the electric assist makes it easier for her to get to work efficiently without excessive overheating.
I would say it's necessary in all climates - in colder climates you wrap up warmer, which means the same amount of sweat. On shower availability - all the companies (big and small) that I've worked for in Glasgow and London have had showers and cycle parking.
It'll actually probably be hard to do it unnoticed. My guess is that self driving accidents will be heavily scrutinized to try to figure out why it happened. Also the government already can kill pretty much anyone at any time with various means
> Any programming language that you are proficient in.

Oh I don't know about that. Programming languages are force multipliers, and each language has a different force coefficients for different problem domains. They are not all equivalent. They have their different points of leverage, and simply being good in one does not mean you can solve problems in any domain with ease. In fact the wrong programming language can often be harmful if it's ill-suited to the problem at hand, and especially if it contorts your mental model of what you can do with the data.

One example I encounter a lot in industry is Excel VBA. I'm fairly good at VBA and have seen very sophisticated code in VBA. I've also seen many basic operations implemented badly in VBA that should not have been written in VBA at all. By solving the problem in VBA, the solution is often "hemmed in" by the constraints of VBA.

For instance, unpivoting data is often done badly in VBA (with for-loops), but is trivial to do well in dplyr or pandas.

So I would say one has to choose one's programming language somewhat carefully. Not any language will do.
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Guess what? More Teslas are being sold than Ferrari's as well. This is an apples-to-oranges comparison, every German brand that sells cars in this segment outsells Tesla 5:1 or more.

Sales for 2017:

Tesla Model S: < 20K
BMW 5 series: 109K
MB E-class: 125K

Note that the EU tax situation for vehicles is very complicated and can cause the price to change so much that a Tesla model S can be much cheaper, about equal or more expensive to a BMW 5 series or E class depending on the country you are looking at.
To all you chaps asking for "proof", just think about it from the precautionary principle perspective: it's incumbent on those introducing large change into a complex system to prove the lack of harm, instead of us proving that there definitely will be harm.

A simple analogy:

We don't know for a fact that climate change can result in catastrophic disaster for the earth. But from a precautionary perspective, we need to do what we can to minimize our impact on the environment.

Similarly, the first few years of smoking a cigarette will show "no harm". However in the long run that is not the case.

GMOs are frankly too new, and too risky a proposition to blindly accept, even given so-called "expert" opinions. I also don't buy the sensational title, that GMOs "provide health benefits". The article makes claim about reducing contaminants, but it's a bridge too far to go all the way into "health benefits" territory.

I fully expect the down-voting from the Monsanto and GMO shills, but for the reasonable, independent readers, hopefully some of the above points make sense.
Well get to work then : )

But seriously, I hope data-minded grad students/sociologists are investigating this more.
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> Wanting to be profitable doesn't make a company intrinsically evil, that's what companies are for.

I think it's evil to want profits at the explicit, direct cost millions of people suffering and dying (not to mention the societal drag of hundreds of billions in healthcare costs).

I personally don't believe that companies should be viewed as entirely amoral agents. I do understand that the vast majority of the time, profit incentives outweigh any moral considerations. But not 100% of the time.

Of course, public policy / laws / regulations are powerful tools that should be used as wisely as possible to help some of these issues. But I don't think we should view law as the only barrier that prevents companies from doing evil things -- the law will always be incomplete and limited in power. Human social factors, culture, and morality play a big role, I think, even in broadly affecting company behavior. Still working out my thoughts on this.
Thanks for your contribution -- I must admit I'm not a teacher, and my degree is in another subject. I also acknowledge that the second part of my answer is a weasel exit clause which uses the same reasoning as the stackoverflow answers ;)

> but I highly doubt that someone asking the difference between sharps and flats is concerned with niche subsets of early music and contemporary classical

Well, the OP's question has the sentence: "If we can get away with just having sharps (aka black notes on a piano) then why complicate things and add flats as well?"

To my mind, this means the OP understands the idea of enharmonic equivalents, and wants to know why it wasn't simply decreed that, e.g., "sharps it shall be". To give an analogy from mathematics, it doesn't matter whether we add 0.5 to 1 or subtract 0.5 from 2, we still call it 1.5, not "two minus point 5" or "one and point five". (Notwithstanding those crazy French and Germans!)

So I'm curious, given your background, what your response to this latter question would be. Or to phrase it differently: if music notation were invented in 2018, would it look substantially the same?
Only police are allowed to commit what would normally be crimes in the act of pursuing criminals, and even then these cases are limited. The only exception I can think of for normal people is self defense, which is not always legal.
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