skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have kids and I don't know anybody who has kids on ADHD medication, so I'm ignorant about this, but I have a hard time believing that people put their kids on stimulants without knowing what these drugs are and what they do; especially when it's possible to look up the Wikipedia article on Adderall and see that it's nothing but amphetamine. I'd be further surprised if none of these parents were interested enough to try out their kids' prescriptions on themselves; I would be.

It's awfully cynical, but I think that a lot of parents have a good idea what they're giving to their kids and do it anyway because they think the stimulants will give them a competitive edge in school, college admissions, and ultimately lead to higher incomes. The cost of not drugging your kid might be that they don't fit in, are singled out for punishment by school staff, and end up handicapped by their negative experiences in school. It's a very tough decision, even if you know what's in those pills.

I just wish the dosages were lower. Having tried a few of my friends' prescriptions over the years, I've found that even "low" doses get me high and then leave me with a hangover. I might be particularly sensitive (I get euphoric from taking 30mg of pseudoephedrine), but I'm a 180-pound adult. I can't imagine what an 18mg dose of methylphenidate does to a prepubescent boy. At worst, the 'high' from taking these drugs therapeutically should be subliminal.
I guess it came from the tendency to call a technique that is frequently useful a 'pattern'.

Oddly enough the DRY principle seems to discourage patterns, but in the end it seems that it's a matter of moderation.
Well, all I can say is that this is a known design trap that we have strained every sinew to avoid.

Anvil provides a toolbox of help you can take or leave, all driven by a real industrial-strength programming language (Python). And if all else fails, you can always drop down to the HTML and Javascript, and/or a REST API.
It's badly worded, but most people should get the meaning in context of talking about capacity factor.

"Every minute of every day" is just a common English expression to mean "all the time." The word "minute" in there isn't significant and doesn't factor in the calculation, it's just for emphasis.

So really all the author means is "producing 30MW consistently for the whole time it's been in operation." Or if they did use minutes as a time slice in the capacity calculation, it would have to be "averaging 30MW during every minute of every day".
It is a contract and is completely legal. A contract does not need to be "fair" to both sides, only "reasonable". There might be some argument that this contract is unconscionable, but that is a difficult battle, especially when one has so willingly given up their rights to their material. The court system was not designed to come running in to save individuals just because they have made a foolish deal.
> Correct there are not 255 possibilities, it’s closer to 50

1 in 10 values have two representations, 1 in 100 have three, etc., since you can only change the exponent when the (normalized) value is 0 mod 10.

> For hardware it is probably cheaper to unconditionally normalize.

Given normalization is going to be infrequent (most values will either just be integers or have a single representation), and that arithmetic is more common than comparisons, I don't see why this would be. Normalizing a binary value is much easier, so you can't carry floating point intuitions over.

> All math operations will also need to normalize inputs first because otherwise you throw away precision for no reason.

No, you just conform the exponents and handle overflow.
"BMW was one of the first to come out with electric cars with the "i series"."

That was one car. A single model - the i3. The i8 does not count since it's a hybrid with a little lawnmower engine hidden inside.

I am hopeful that things can change but what I see from BMW and (especially) Volvo is the same old press releases about a concept car that will be available three years from now.

They just keep writing the same press releases but shifting the dates forward.
Exactly! Recreating the visual layout of a table is only half of the problem. You also need to think about making it accessible (which this component does not appear to attempt). You could get the for free by just using the proper semantic element.
Not OP but sharing expenses is not the same as splitting them down the middle. If one person makes $30k and the other makes $200k you're really not going to be able to split expenses unless the $200k person takes a major cut to their standard of living.
Maybe it's because this place tends to be quite negative if you don't confirm to a very specific set of norms.
Was just wondering about Defcon actually. Maybe the amount of parties around Defcon and Blackhat makes up for the lack of gambling, in terms of revenue?
If I had to carry a smartphone, I'd make sure that it had hardware switches for camera, mike, WiFi and radio baseband.
> the program requires

Except in the event of exploit of vulnerability...
I had a couple "similar" experiences. For a long time now, Google has been collecting data and building shadown profiles, but so far they never used their data for ads. At least not in any apparent way. But recently, I noticed that even with my cookies deleted, Google "checks" to see if it's me with 2 major ways: one is IP and user-agent, and the other is queries/browsing preferences. If it figures out it's probably me, it switches to personalized mode.
Of course it's one of the things you can't be certain about. I'm certainly not. I could be just my idea, but I think it might be happening.
I hear stories like this a lot in the context of "Facebook is listening to my conversations through my phone microphone"

I think more likely is that we forget how many ads we're exposed to in a day. The odds of occasional eerie coincidences is high.
>Speed of light transfer of information latency

That's not a thing, at least not in this context or that phrasing.
In vim editing mode, enter normal mode and push v and the line will be opened in a temp file.
What we are seeing is that the ad providers are considering themselves "controllers" under the GDPR and the tracking of device ad identifiers as critical to their business. Hence, their plan is to inform of the collection via a privacy policy but not to offer users the opportunity to affirmatively consent to allowing their advertising ID to be tracked. It's dispiriting.
Why not make all the web readable again? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/just-read/dgmanlpm...
Not late at all. Thanks for trying us out, Ty!
Your platform fee is waived, and I'm glad to buy your first coffee <3
Isn't there a point where it's more desirable to have 'features' available through patterns, than through the language itself? The larger and more complex the language grows, the more cognitive overhead - so programmers of a hypothetical 'perfect' future language might still use patterns, simply so the language didn't grow out of reasonable proportions.
Detroiter here (typing this in an apartment right off Grand Circus Park)

Duo Security (in Ann Arbor) and Plex Systems (Troy) are the two 'Metro Detroit' anchors - pure software companies doing over $100 million+ in recurring SaaS revenue.

I was thinking to myself - who is #3-5 for SaaS in Detroit?
This doesn't seem worth it. At best you've got a company that can handle this arrangement today, but it seems to dramatically limit your options for new employment or even to survive a changes within the same org.
i thought they were using the blog data because thats what the MIT study was using.
As much as I love reader mode, with this and the various other work arounds in this thread are we actually enabling them to make bad UI's? Avoiding sites like this might be a much better solution in the long term.
> What I don't see anyone saying is that the fact that if Amazon were to rip someone off, their reputation would be tarnished.

Studios screw over writers all the time. There's a reason that screenwriting is strongly unionized. Studios don't care about their reputation with writers, because a) there's always more writers, and b) the films aren't going to get made without the studios.

Studios especially don't care about tarnishing their reputation with un-represented writers (i.e, writers without an agent), because all the good writers already have representation.
Say what now? You’re saying npm is a disaster? That is surprising.
I never play the games, either. Once I took the "learn craps" class where the casino gives everyone (fake) chips to learn with. That was relaxing and fun, and they were all gone in ten minutes.
Ask HN: Any Python libraries I can use to build a photo ID verification system?
I am curious to see how things like Jumio's NetVerify system works under the hood and how you could replicate something like it an ID system they don't cover.

I know in general there is stuff like object recognition and matching etc, but i am more interested in the actual process and if there are any libraries out there that could be good to start off with.

So far i have discovered PassportEye (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PassportEye) which might be helpful.
In-store paiement / in-shop experience.

The fact that mobile are now / will very soon nbe used in every shops for paiement will open a huge new array of in-shop experiences. This is not a new idea, but wechat is proving time has come.
I thought it was explained really clearly at the very beginning: It's what those cargo cult architecture conversations are full of. The ones where people sound smart but aren't actually designing anything useful.

I think the author might be taking it a bit too far, but they are certainly describing a real thing that I see all the time. Which is bad engineering choices made without thinking and then justified with a string of design pattern terms, used incorrectly.
Always liked this - but everyone wants Docker and k8ts nowadays...
And now they want to preserve the charm, so it will inevitably become another ultraexpensive place.
LSD is 'harmonizing' for the brain – and can change your personality for years
Did someone say coffee? I am insufficiently caffeinated. First time trying something like this. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/grzm
I'm sorry but you are plain wrong.

var transactions = account.getTransactions();

...tells you nothing. Is transactions iterable? Is it an enum? Is it ordered? Are duplicates allowed? Maybe you're returning a basic type? Maybe it's another pojo?
Pure Talent Is Never Enough: The Case Against Leonardo Da Vinci
Paul Graham had this thesis that there was untapped potential by targeting young people. I've always believed that same principle could apply to the midwest. Where I grew up everyone wanted to be an entrepreneur. Not because it was hip, but because there were no good jobs (the town was built around a factory that closed down in the 80's).

The exceptional talent moved to the coasts, but what's left is still pretty persistent, and given that the trends of technology have been to lower the barriers to entry in startups, "exceptional talent" isn't required. In fact what the midwest has is a plentiful supply of ambitious, and persistent people... which arguably is more valuable.
HBO step aside. Reality is stranger than fiction!
Bittrex blocks several countries from using their exchange
I think there are other places to work besides the Bay Area.
> Meanwhile in Bend, a one-bedroom will set you back about $1,100

Funny, my 3-bedroom, 1600 sqft, corner lot just north of Houston costs just $1200
It's basically a form of Cronyism, promoting each others work without regard to merit or qualifications.
I love design patterns because they tell me where my company shouldn't be focusing.

One thing we did very early on was going after clients where there are no well-established design patterns.
YouTube Says It Has No Plans to Ban Alex Jones
Best coder I know is fluent, as in he can code the solution as fast as most people can accurately describe the problem. He pretends to be a lot slower than he is however by very carefully managing the client milestones and coasts on 70 thousand UKP, doing roughly half an hour a day of actual work.
At the level where you cite the work of others.
Don't understand if you are being sarcastic. I can say that the giant blobs of XML in our text fields are very annoying. I have to compare them with Kdiff and too many of them don't fit in DBVisualizer's buffer.
> In the meantime, though, alternative rounding methods are missing, and those can be quite important for both scientific and business computations.

My inexpert understanding is that modifying rounding modes is super niche and poorly supported by most things, so this doesn't strike me as much of a problem. A saner replacement to rounding mode flags would just be to offer different operations for those rare cases they are wanted.

> Dealing with that efficiently in SW is difficult, and more so in HW.

Not really; you never really need to normalize values and not doing so makes basically everything other than comparisons cheaper. I don't see how normalizing around every arithmetic operation would make the hardware any simpler.

> if it can be "undoubtedly improved with effort", why hasn't it been done in several years?

Because this is one guy's project and it hasn't seen much (any?) use.
Product management. Own it.

The best product guys treat the product like their 2 year old daughter. Push code? They want to know why. They saw a dip in registrations Wednesday so they spend hours figuring out why. They are ruthless testers, every bug they label and harass anyone that will listen. They love ideas and quickly turn them into tests.
> That said, it's a choice I didn't choose to have. I'd much sooner choose to live in a world where gender norms would allow me to both a) pursue the things I want to pursue and b) have as much dating success doing them as I do now (a fair amount, having led up to several successful long term relationships) instead of then (going months without a date while actively trying to date).

I would also like to live in a world where I get to do whatever I want and get from other people whatever I want. However, we live in a world where we have to give and take, so we need to give something we dont want to give to take something we want..
Your move, Google
I do the same, and I think it originated back when I had a mouse with no scroll wheel. Dragging a text selection up and down to the top and bottom edges of the viewport let you scroll up and down by arbitrary distances. I'd call this "selection scrolling?"

The thing I do nowadays rarely involves scrolling, though, so it's probably just "digital fidgeting."
The only problem I can see with that is that most diseases aren't caused by gene patterns. What we're mostly looking at is a combination of gene patterns and environment; which means that the first priority should be to modify the environment to better support human health. We've been through this stupid line of reasoning so many rounds now that it's about time we tried something different. Nature doesn't make mistakes, humans make mistakes; there's nothing wrong with most peoples DNA, and the human foot is more advanced than any jogging shoe.
The 6.7 is average age for a car on a road today, not average lifetime of a car. You've as many brand-new and 13 years old cars on the road to have that average.

Keep in mind that scrap age is lowered by company cars and taxies which could easily clock 200'000km in few years.
2008 Recession led to increase in obesity, diabetes and mental health issues
Hey Elliot,

Glad you like the platform, and thanks for sharing those thoughtful suggestions. We've already started working on it.

1. Noted. We're doing a complete revamp of buttons and widgets with step-by-step instructions on how to use on popular platforms like Medium, GitHub etc.

2. Very true. Work in progress.

3. We want to keep the coffee analogy, but I get your point and we'll work out a solution. Thanks for the suggestion.

4. Answered this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16491026. Hope it's relevant.

5. That's a good idea. We'll see if we can somehow share referrer stats without cluttering the dashboard.

Thanks again for all these suggestion. Cheers!
But cheaper.
It's already here: Blockchain and crypto.

The worst about this comment is that even I cannot decipher if I'm being sarcastic or not.
their interpretation isnt nessiarily going to hold up.
Going through YC in 2014 and every single VC asked (and were perplexed) when we told them we were not moving our company to SF/ SV.

That strategy was effectively read as our team signaling we weren't "going for it".

It was joked about how we would have to do board meetings in SF because people wouldn't fly.

I wonder if times have changed or rents just finally got too expensive for the younger tier of VCs.
> The average age of a passenger car in Germany is ~6.7 years.

From a US perspective that number is insanely low! The average age of a car in the US was 11.6 years in 2016.[1] The average US driver drives 13.5k miles (21.7 km) per year[2] so that means the average car in the US would have around 156k miles (251k km) on its clock.

I wonder if the German number is skewed lower because it's only measuring a relatively wealthy part of the EU. Do most used German cars simply get exported to less wealthy parts of the EU instead of being re-sold within Germany?

[1]http://www.autonews.com/article/20161122/RETAIL05/161129973/...

[2]https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm
ETI message? Kill it with fire.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsTheOnlyWayToBe...
Texas has 0 income tax. You win.
I absolutely do, it's invaluable to be able to reference old conversations for wisdom that hasn't made it into documentation.
Neat! What’s the mountain sports scene like in Houston?
The type definition alone wouldn't tell you if it's an enum, ordered, or no duplicates allowed...

The writer would know what type they're working with through intellisense. The reader would know it's iterable based on just reading the code that follows it..

So again, what does the type info give you? Most of what you mentioned you wouldn't be able to figure out from just a type name...
Haha, we did.
Welcome to BuyMeACoffee, @grzm. Your platform fee is waived, and I'm glad to buy your first coffee!
What do you think it means to “use math”? If you want to train human spreadsheets you’re wasting everyone’s time: the spreadsheet already exists as a product for electronic computers, and is much faster and more reliable than a human will be at doing huge piles of arithmetic. (But anyway, even if you wanted to train expert performance at arithmetic, the way schools currently go about this is horribly inefficient and doesn’t take into consideration research on neuroscience / psychology.)

If you just want to train people to be unthinking drones who can follow narrowly specified procedural rules without understanding their context or meaning, then I guess the current system is a relative success.

In general, the point of mathematics education in primary/secondary school is not to train future mathematicians, but to teach people important problem-solving skills. The same skills are (to some extent anyway) useful in essentially any field you might name, from childcare to plumbing to legal analysis to fine art.

In particular: self-confidence that hard problems can be tackled and that anything one person can do another typically can also with training and effort, time management, lateral thinking, learning when to keep trying a strategy vs. when to switch and try something else, salvaging useful partial results from failed efforts, drawing diagrams, careful record-keeping of works in progress, more generally externalizing problem state so that it can be worked with outside your head, converting fuzzy problems into precise formal terms to they are amenable to careful logical analysis (including making explicit all of the assumptions involved in the model chosen), exploring the relationships between different problems, investigating specific concrete examples of general rules and generalizing from particular cases to abstract theorems, searching/skimming published literature for solutions to problems that are too much to handle or finding relative experts to ask for help and knowing how to do so productively, clearly explaining an original problem and its context and any simplifying assumptions and then clearly explaining a solution step by step, checking solutions by solving a problem multiple ways or doing quick sanity checks, .....

I could probably keep listing more here, but you get the idea. Anyone who plans to do any kind of real-world technical work will be at a huge advantage if they have significant amounts of problem-solving practice going back to childhood.

You might similarly protest that we should not bother reading and analyzing novels in school because few careers explicitly require reading/writing fiction, or that we should not bother with physical education courses because few careers require playing dodgeball, or that we should not bother with music courses because few careers require skill at playing the recorder, etc. etc.
yes but isn't that what the asus phone is doing as well? they've trimmed the bezels by forcing the camera onto the screen surface. the ulefone looks to have a chin but was able to get rid of the head. the huawei device looks to be the most egregious chin but again, the top of the phone is pretty thin.

so seems like these phones are copying the design for having a thinner top bezel.

(didn't downvote you.)
If I might ask, why product management? You mention that you have no experience in it.

People change over their career, different things become important to them, and other things become less important. Their interests shift as well. This can lead to them changing into different roles over time.

I would not suggest to someone to change roles if they were doing so because they felt "too old" in their current role, especially if they still enjoyed it and were good at it. I have seen my share of engineers do that only to put themselves into a horrible bind as they got "lost" trying a bunch of different roles for all of the wrong reasons.
"You could produce that deep bass if you knew exactly where the listeners are."

I'm unsure what you are trying to say. The problem with deep bass, as far as I know, is not that it only works in certain places; it is that it can't do it at all. See the frequency response chart in the page I linked, which I suspect if anything is probably overselling its bass capabilities. As I said, I don't know if it's merely that nobody has cracked the problem, if it is somehow fundamentally impossible with this technique, or I'll add a third one here, if it's possible but impractical (i.e., "requires a 100x larger piezoelectric array" or something).

If you've really never heard one, they have a very characteristic tinny sound. Usually when you have a conventional tinny speaker, the speaker has a relatively narrow range and is missing both the low and the high ranges. With the ultrasonic speakers, the bass is entirely gone, but the response up through the higher frequencies is pristine pretty much all the way up the human range. So you get voices with no bass at all, but that are extremely, extremely clear and easy to understand because all the higher harmonics are intact, if not outright emphasized. Very distinctive sound, even if you don't notice the highly directional and sharp sound immediately the acoustic signature is unmistakable.
"An excellent and helpful correction, but here is why I am still right."
Slack's "pay to search archives" feature is really ingenious. What content will people pay for? Content that they created!
IPFS is still equally as usable as I2P and full-syncing the Ehtereum network.
It's already the most expensive place to live in Oregon. The atmosphere is a little bit like Aspen (from what I understand, never been to Aspen).