skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder sometimes if our modern structured and red taped upper education model could ever cope with such exceptional individuals at all. I cannot stop thinking they will never get the unbridled space they need to express their ideas and concot together without an heavy amount of supervision and channeling toward 'agreed' topics and behaviours, I think education and the application of the law should be very flexible when exceptional individuals are at stake...
> I realized I could never really make the watch my own creation unless I developed and manufactured the movement myself.

Exactly. But clocks are definitely doable and once you have mastered clocks who knows, you just might be able to use your experience and graduate to a watch small enough to be worn. The good news is that there isn't anything that 18th century clockmakers knew that hasn't been documented somewhere.

This guy has the right idea and has some interesting movement workarounds for tools he could not afford:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1CaZaNSrTM

It's unconventional but it is an actual watch movement. Far more impressed with that than the generic movements in some case.
More people voted for Hillary Clinton than voted for Donald Trump. You are generalizing your hatred of her to be a country wide fact. this is how propaganda works, by creating narratives.
Anybody who went through the effort of typing in (and debugging) the source code of programs by hand probably deserved a copy of it. And hopefully learned a lot in the process.

(Though this wouldn't apply to the later versions where you were just typing checksummed data. That is just a lower bandwidth, more labor intensive channel of binary data transfer)
> Is it really so hard to believe that people didn’t like Hillary and didn’t think that another 8 years of the same would be good for them?

Yes it's unthinkable for a particularly vocal portion of the electorate that rabidly supported her and Clinton herself. Hence the non-stop "X rigged the system for Trump ... it's the only explanation!" rather than holistically looking at the causes of defeat.

The simplest example of this is Clinton not visiting a swing state like Wisconsin at all during the election. Compare that to Trump holding ten rallies there[1]. Is it really a shocker that a State chose the candidate that actually went to their doors, spoke to them, and listened to them?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rallies_for_the_Donald...
Not a fan so not defending but I wouldn't classify Google as social login.
Bill Gates at the Wedding of Fatima Dangote and Jamil Abubakar in Lagos -Photo
Most programming problems are pretty trivial to solve if you're willing to ignore performance. It behooves us to realize that the main difference between mathematics and computer science is that computer scientists have to account for the several orders of magnitude difference between the runtime costs of different operations. If that weren't an obstacle, we'd basically only need one programming language, and it would like pretty much like standard mathematics.

So I interpret your comment as something like "I don't want to program, I just want to assemble mathematical statements", which is a fine and perfectly legitimate thing to do, but it also seems a bit lazy, impractical, and probably irrelevant, given the subject.
Equating the two strategies is to be technically ignorant of the methods and quite dishonest in the comparison tbh.

The only similarity is they both used social media.
This will probably depend on what market the project is in. Tesults does not have a social login option but it is a business/dev app and not consumer so it would be strange to allow a social login, you’re supposed to add your colleagues/team from work using your work emails.
Absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand, but Rachel had a really cool scanner project online for a while that paired well with my temporary obsession with all things RF - http://scanner.rachelbythebay.com/

Back then your options were basically Ettus transceivers for >$1K or the little RTL dongles for $20 that didn't have sufficent bandwidth to do much good. Since then a whole crop of SDRs have hit the market in the <$500 range that could do this kind of thing.
The whole point of non-coercive education is to allow children to pursue what they actually want to do, not what some adults believe they should do. It is just as counterproductive to force a child to learn computer programming when they want to be playing outside as it is to force them to play outside when they want to be programming computers!
I don’t understand your examples. How does race affect medical treatment of an individual? Should people be treated differently in the eyes of the law depending on skin color?
I tweeted an analysis of the S-1:

https://tinysubversions.com/spooler/?url=https://twitter.com...
Opening HTML mail in a browser is risky due to all the scripting possibilities ... Thunderbird's HTML component allows no scripting and disables loading (remote) images (tracking when I hope the mail) how do you deal with that in such a setup?
(Actually use evolution, but would like to switch to something smaller ...)
> I just kept reparsing and trying to error correct that sentence over and over until it finally sunk in that yes, they are saying Matlab is actually the name of a place in Bangladesh.

I'm Bengali, and I looked up the spelling of the name. It looks like it's spelled মতলব, which means it's pronounced more like "Motlobe" (the second "o" is halfway between "lob" and "lobe"). It means "plan" or "project", which I'm guessing refers to some attempt at creating a township at some point (or being named after a place that was).

For reasons, Bengali words are often transliterated in the Sanskrit form, which means that the spelling doesn't really always represent their actual pronunciation. (This is why people often have a harder time pronouncing my name when they see it spelled out in English, because the final syllable is transliterated according to Sanskrit, but pronounced differently. It's sort of like -ough as a suffix in English.)
The web page links to a journal article that you have to pay for, but you can find the freely-readable version of the full article at https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08257 . Section 4.2 discusses dust emission. The original paper they're correcting is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00578 (section 3.2). This paper concludes that the previous paper had wrong assumptions because a flare happened during their measurement, so they didn't need to hypothesize that there is a dust belt (at least the 2 inner ones; they didn't have info about the far outer belt) to account for the supposed "excess emission".
Maybe we need to rethink unions and employment at will laws.
Email was the original social network (still left).
Because race is a very good predictor of class in the US.

Are you poor? Probably black.

Are you in trouble with the legal system? Probably poor -> black.

Can you afford good health care and preventive medicine? Probably not poor -> probably not black.

Funnily enough this also explains why redneck whites are looked down on by everyone else.
[on the team] It helps if you use the official ASCII spelling, Cforall -- a DuckDuckGo search for "Cforall" in private browsing mode pulled up our homepage first result. (I have no idea who the OP for this thread is, they're no one associated with the team.)
PyRexecd – Standalone SSH Server for Windows
Playing games and reading HN/the internet. Going out for drinks. There should definitely be more gym in there in place of all of those things.
> No one is going to email you

I get emails from my blog with some frequency. The people who write me come with questions or additions to my content. The signal-to-noise ratio has been amazing compared to any comment/forum system I've used in the past. I think the very small barrier to contact greatly improves the quality of the contact.
Because the US electorate has shown itself to be, over the last 40-50 years, easily manipulated against “the other”?

The fact that Reagan - one of those destructive and incidiously evil influences on modern US politics - isn’t villified but in fact bizarrely lionized by a large section of the population should be proof of that enough.
"Tech" is one of the richest industries in history. It has literally enabled people like Elon Musk to create their own private space programs, something most nation states are unable to do. It is also the industry that, again literally, is based on building systems to gather, present and organize people and information.

People in "tech" overall does not want to study other subjects than computer science, they do not want publish publications with other people, change the way the Internet works (in their own direction) nor organize with other people.

There is very little indicating that the support for free speech in "tech" is any more substantial than any industry's support for what serves them at the moment.
> I do not think it was 'just' that people didn't like Hillary and somehow happened to choose against their own interest.

This is exactly the flawed takeaway from this election.

Mainstream voters kept telling us that they are not optimistic about their economic future, they kept complaining about their jobs going overseas, they kept complaining about immigration and our response was: ”it is better for you”.

We lost 2016 and will lose 2020.

Political advertising has existed for a long time. In news papers, radio, tv, and on social media. Most advertisers and political ad agencies will tell you that pschographic targeting isn’t useful at all. The only thing that works is raise money or “get out the vote” campaigns.
Isn't it about time people just abandoned cheques? We haven't used them here in Norway for so long I can't remember how long ago I last used one, before the start of the century I think. Most shops and services haven't accepted cheques for years. Although they are still used for very large transactions they accounted for only 0.02% of transactions in 2015.
This is exactly what led me to build Dependabot - dependency management was a minor pain at my old job that we'd written some scripts to handle better.

Another group of friends started Personably from exactly the same strategy - we had a script to create dozens of calendar invites for new joiners with all their onboarding details, so things didn't get missed.
Prototyping Magic (YC W15) in 2.5 Hours
I have my resume stored in sharelatex.com. The formatting issues of Word were driving me crazy. The only thing that concerns me about Latex is that is not as machine-readable.
Also means that already high achievers get the support to perform even better while eveyone else gets nothing special. Set all expectations high, teach everyone critical thinking skills.
What was the point of acquiring Tutum killing it, rebranding to Docker Cloud and killing it as well.

Tutum actually worked and I really liked it. Now I plan to use Rancher on top of kubernetes for my docker hosting
http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Bank+Of+The+West&job=&city=...

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=visa&job=&city=&year=All+Ye...

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Adp+Technology+Services+Inc...

I could find you 100s like this just in the Bay Area.

The joke was always, "You're white, why aren't you the manager?"
it really depends on the root cause. there are times when I bill for debugging. someone else made a change to a system which caused issues and it took a bunch of my time to resolve? yes. if the root ends up being my own fault, generally no.

The overhead of recording time and dealing with every call and email ends up being - for me - way too much time/recordkeeping. Scheduled calls/meetings, yes. Someone has a 3 minute call where I can answer a followup question - I just answer it. "But you'll be interrupted all the time with 3 minute calls!" - except, if I'm too busy or don't want to be distracted... I just don't take the call.

Daily/weekly can be, if the clients are OK with that too. I've found some that aren't. along with that, I typically have multiple projects running simultaneously, and I can't - in my mind - ethically charge for a 'day' if I've split my time on 2-3 projects that day.

I don't like charging for time at all, really, but some orgs aren't really set up to handle any other mode of work (and/or, want flexibility in change, so time may be the least unfair approach).
> "perform UB, then check whether it happened" doesn't actually work

This raises an interesting point, because in many cases, assuming 2's complement and wrapping around, checking for overflow after the fact, as opposed to preventing it from happening in the first place, is actually easier. (And actually works if you use the `-fwrap` flag.)

The right thing should be easier to do than the wrong thing. It's a shame this is not the case here.
I think the claim was that the cuisine in question that uses them is European, not that no one used them in South America but rather that the use of them in Europe is specifically European.
Excuse me for my lamerism, but can you tell me what is a polymorphic function?

My idea was that if it is better to do as much compile time checks as possible before you introduce run-time checks. Does that void pointer protection run faster that code that was checked at compile time? How?
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I looked into this a year or so ago with the idea of making my own mechanical watch movement, not just a kit watch. I could only find one source of a hobbyist doing this themselves: https://ashtonwatch.com/2012/01/04/its-alive-and-a-bit-of-a-...
Here in Mexico, all I remember is the anti-Trump narrative that was being pushed the by mainstream news companies (in a scarily coordinated matter). If these organizations were able to defeat this non-stop barrage of articles and news coverage, then they should be commended for taking on essentially the entire American establishment.

Perhaps all the attention from this news coverage (almost all negative) gave Trump the edge.

Perhaps the average person realized that something is fishy about all this coordinated negative coverage and looked for alternative sources.

Perhaps his message was powerful and important enough for most people that they could ignore the negative media assault.

Either way, I think it's time to stop looking for scapegoats and move on.
I'm quite aware of HK's status under British rule. I'm also aware that it was dramatically better than Mao's rule.

What I was referring to was the erosion of rights since the takeover of HK by the PRC. Looking at your commenting history here on HN, I see quite a bit of love for dictatorships, and hatred for democracy. For this reason, I assume that you knew very well that I was referring to the erosion of rights since the takeover of HK, but decided to derail the thread, so as to avoid discussing the anti-democratic nature of the current PRC government, and the threat this poses to Taiwan.

> WHITE governors of HK

I'm a bit unhappy about your blatant racism. Please ponder the following question: how many non-Chinese General Secretaries of the Communist Party of China can you point me towards?

Note that UK governors did a much better job of ruling HK than did Mao and his cronies in China.

Note that it was only when Deng Xiaoping decided to copy the UK model that was trialled in HK and Singapore, that Mainland China stopped being a basket case.
Critical mass?

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I haven't had an FB account in over 8 years, but I rue to this day the fact that 'most' people 'mostly' rely upon it for their communication. Doesn't matter what i believe or what I use, it matters what everyone else 'mostly' uses.
Interesting take on the Galileo angle. I always thought of him as anti-authoritarian, but I'm sure he was a bit of a pariah in many cultural circles as well.
I don't know anything about watch making, I'm just wondering are the gears etc. these days mainly milled with a CNC machine?

I assume there's a lot of skill in assembling as well.

I'm very curious how they made gears etc. say a 100 years ago too considering they're so tiny.
That is a very interesting point that I hadn't considered before: that authoritarianism could leak from country A from country B via lobbying by companies in B controlled by entities in A.
If you want to work on something in public, you potentially have to write public-facing prose. You have to explain what the project is, where to find stuff, who to contact, documentation... set up a website, wrangle newcomers, commenters, press, etc. For a research project, that's a lot of work to do by people with limited time/budget for something that hasn't even been demonstrated to work.

Basically, day 1 transparency either requires a budget or misplaced priorities.
This is an interesting argument but I think it fails to coherently restate what it means for race to be socially constructed. Nobody is denying that genetic differences between people exist and are important for health. They’re saying that reusing racial categorization schemes in genetics is scientifically ungrounded because these racial categories have no inherent biological content— they’re more like receptacles for political and social debate.

It’s not clear what value it adds to use (e.g.) US Census racial categories in genetics research. The salience of racial identification changes over time and is deeply politicized (as the author notes). More sophisticated and granular categories that are actually based on genetics would be much more appropriate than trying to recuperate categories that weren’t developed for science.
If you have any interesting observations from it I think a lot of people would be interested in that.
It's reasonable but also kind of.. straw-manny. Outside of a few crazy fringes, nobody is suggesting that its not "Politically Correct" to point out that certain races are carriers for various genetic disorders or disease risk factors.

I've never heard of anybody calling someone racist if they said "People with African heritage can be carriers for sickle cell anemia." Likewise, I've never seen anyone called an anti-semite for pointing out that Jewish people can suffer from or be carriers for "founder effect" genetic disorders.

If anything, there's a distinct social justice angle to recognizing minority population health concerns in medicine, so I'm actually kind of surprised things aren't tilting the other way: where the "anti-PC" crowd is angry that researchers aren't focused more on traits that apply to the broader human population, as opposed to the genetics of distinct minorities.
Suing the oil companies is not going to make a difference, anyway. What matters is the broad public opinion, and the good news is that we seem to have passed one tipping point, in that the consensus now is that climate change is both real and problematical, and deniers are increasingly being seen as cranks.
Love it, it has been my favourite email client since the Netscape days.

Don't forget to donate.
It's still useful in a B2B context - the 'google' login button also works for G Suite (google apps) accounts.
I have 3 kids, i often ask myself this in a slightly different form: what the heck did I do with all my time before I had kids?

I don't know. It's like a mental block. I know it involved a lot more reading for fun and videogames, but that's a vague piece of knowledge that lacks detailed memories. I have a lot more fun now though, with the kids. I laugh a lot more.
So before I was a father, I incorrectly thought I was quite busy. Mostly though, I would hang out with friends, travel, go see movies, etc.
I generally disagree with the approach of annexing or colonizing other independent countries. China in particular has suffered much from colonization so that's something we don't like to see happening to other countries.

With that being said, we cannot control what happened in the past, as in the conflicts and sovereignty transfers due to wars that long happened before modern China was born. If you look at the history of China and Tibet, China has exerted sovereignty claims on Tibet since Qing dynasty and Republic of China:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_under_Qing_rule

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_(1912%E2%80%931951)

And it is the Britain that invaded Tibet during the Chinese rule of Tibet in 1903:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_expedition_to_Tibet

The reason for the period of de facto independence afterwards is partly due to British invasion leaving a power vacuum and partly due to China busy fighting WW2 and internal civil war between Kuomintang and Communist Party. So I think it is reasonable and legitimate to claim sovereignty properly after WW2 adn the Chinese civil war is over.
Worst thing about all of the information on Cambridge Analytica that has come out, is that now I'm skeptical of anything I read on these forums that is even remotely political.

I don't know if I'll ever get that trust back, (and maybe I shouldn't, skepticism of what you read on the internet is good), but it makes it pretty clear to me that the original promise of the internet will never be realized with the internet in its current form. The reality is that you can't trust any information gleaned from a forum or discussion website. Even something like HN, which holds itself out to be a little better than most in terms of elevating the discussion, is not immune to professional manipulation.
Teaching everyone with high expectations is a great idea. In practice, though, it means that some people flunk. (I'm not talking about the fact that some students require different instruction; for instance, some students are special education students. I'm talking about standard students.)

Many school systems find that flunking folks requires a disproportionate amount of effort. There are ways to work through that, but in the end there has to be a public will to do it. At least in the US, there is a very large thread of public discourse that thinks the goal in the education system is to minimize the cost of educating other people's kids, not to maximize what they learn.
> The whole point of non-coercive education is to allow children to pursue what they actually want to do.

In my personal opinion pushing students to do different things is a good way to introduce new ideas and skills to people. I totally disagree with those who say things like cursive or literature are useless when you "just want to be a programmer", they all give the possibility of finding new ways of thinking or improve some parts of the brain. In the context of cursive for example, I think acquiring better motor skills means that a programmer could type faster thus making that faster-typing programmer a bit better than other programmers.

If I were given the choice to do what I wanted to do I would suck at what I would want to do. For example I don't like math much, but if I weren't forced to "just" do it I wouldn't understand way too many basic concepts in for example programming.

Though I do agree with the idea of mentors guiding students, I remember reading a paper about it being super effective compared to regular classroom teaching, I really wish I would have had that chance back when I was younger.
I've been making my own movements for fun for a while. Most of the parts you can print/order, but for accuracy purposes I tend to use an existing balance spring (generally sourced from any old Seiko movement).

I recommend 2 books if you want to make your own movements

1) Watchmaking by George Daniels
2) Practical Watch Repairing by Donald de Carle

The first is a textbook and second deals with repairing, but actually taught me the more practical side of how to assemble & regulate a watch, and what makes a movement accurate.

I've made my own hand-winding movement. It is within COSC specs but only when it's more than 75% wound, perfectly flat, and in a cool place. Oh did I mention it's the size of a ping pong bat. It makes me appreciate ETAs and their reliability even more now. It's time consuming and drives me nuts at times but totally worth it.