skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What, you'd rather drop data on the floor? Your scientists would prefer you keep all measurements, even the bad ones. Sometimes those "bad" data actually have information.

Why not have two databases, one with all data without constraints and another, or even many which impose various constraints?
Well, good code obviates the need for most comments. A comment shouldn't cover up a bug of clarity in a piece of code, in almost any case imaginable (basically, if it isn't a Fast InvSqrt() level of utility, the dev ought to reconsider the "cleverness" of the code). And anyhow, the implementation details of the code are liable to change; the comment becomes outdated, and there's a good chance that it won't be updated.

What about a comment that notes what part of a spec some code implements (i.e. something outside the actual behavior of the code)? A comment that answers "why" can be helpful, and can sometimes be worth the high cost that an unchecked, unexecuted part of the program inherently carries.

If Fowler's claiming that all comments are bugs, I'd call that damaging.
I think this one factor alone probably accounts for most of the happiness described here. It sucks slaving away when you don't really have an option but to work. No matter the job, it's still a job. I'd be happy as hell too if I didn't have to work jobs I hate (pretty much all of them).
My Experience with the Cool New Augmented Reality App: Eureca
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Their ex-CEO claims they did, FWIW [1].

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/cambridge-an...
Speech has never killed a man.
Good memories sitting with dad at the VIC-20 when I was about four years old, typing in BASIC programs from magazines. Once, we typed in a drawing program and drew the planets with the joystick. We also went to local computer shows and brought back programs on data cassettes to try out. Fun times, and I was hooked!
Once all the Germans were war-like and mean.

But that couldn’t happen again.

We taught them a lesson in 1918 and they’ve hardly bothered us since then!
Tell that to the victims of the Holocaust
As someone that lives in the south, this trend is extremely frustrating. A few weeks ago I visited SF for an interview, and it seems like every tech company on earth is in that one spot. The whole city feels 20 years ahead of where I presently live. But all of my family is in the south, so I’m stuck with the unfortunate tradeoff of choosing to focus on my career or living near family. Because it sure doesn’t look like the tech companies are moving where I am any time soon (with the hopeful exception of Amazon HQ2).
The steadily disappearing American car
This is a downright depressing read.

You probably have more talent and money than any previous time in your life, yet you're ready to watch the sun set and don't have any reason to dream and your drive is gone?

Is there not a dozen things on your "bucket list" that still need checked off?

Sounds like you're more comfortable then you've ever been, but does your comfort translate into true happiness?
Last I checked, guns and gas killed them.
I think data science moved into the hole where analysis used to be.
No discussion about inconsistent spelling and pronunciation is complete without The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité, a non-native speaker!

http://www.businessinsider.com/english-spelling-pronunciatio...
I love how they show a pop-up every single time you use the mobile web site, listing things the app can do, and every one is something I don’t want.
I will correct it, thank you. Good catch!
I disagree. I don't see why you always have to do more to be happy. What more do you know about happiness than this guy? If he's satisfied with his life, that sounds pretty close to happiness me
Another comment I just read noted you can add the handles you follow to a list like "people I follow" and simply read that instead of the default view. this preserves chronology and helps reduce much of the junk they otherwise introduce.
Space is still still hard.

SpaceX are making it look easy but we saw how a single failure two years ago pushed them back quite significantly. Elon seems to have a good ability to recover, is likeable (by most people) and has a good investor base so hopefully any future setbacks (and there probably will be) wont be cause for concern, but with success brings Jealousy and there are plenty of vultures waiting to feast on any errors.

I wish Star-Link every success, it will only improve competition and choice for consumers but the FCC imposing such a ridiculous clause that 2000+ satellites need to be up in 6 years may not be doable as the system is still under development from what I can see and manufacturing 2000-4000 800Kg satellites and them launching them and putting in software and ground infrastructure just to meet a false deadline is a recipe for disaster. I dont think the FCC are doing SpaceX any favors and may even be setting them up to fail, I certainly hope SpaceX succeed.

I just wish Blue Origin were less secretive. With Bezos's money and ambitions I certainly wouldnt rule them out, they dont need any customers at the moment but many people expect big things from them in the next few years and I suspect within 5-10 years they will have there own project the size of starlink (maybe a space station) at that point there will be two players in town.

ULA seriously do not count, they will be chewing on the NASA pork until the barrel runs dry after that I dont really expect them to be competitive unless they have some serious shift in direction.

Just my 20c
Is Giannandrea an "AI guy"? His background, albeit impressive, suggests he's more of a search guy who got AI added to his plate of responsibilities. Maybe that matters, maybe it doesn't.

Anyone know? I'm just wondering if Apple hired a fine executive, just maybe not the best person to run AI.
That tweet might have been amusing if our President was not a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist (not sure what he thinks about black helicopters).

Question for down voters: Can you seriously make a case that he is not a conspiracy theorist?
You can‘t extrapolate from one court case.

We all agree that GDPR applies to companies that operate in the EU.

Beyond that, there‘s a big uncertainty. Time will tell how the GDPR will be enforced with regard to companies that don‘t have a presence in the EU.

My guess is that smaller ventures (like HN) are going to fly under the Radar, while bigger companies are going to comply.
(For when tweets are TL;DR)
I guess they're also putting out tenders to sharpen the guillotines.

We'll see a lot of sock and meat puppets from the central panopticon playing in this discussion. They'll say how normal this is, nothing to worry about and insult those who are worried. Watch them, it's quite amusing.
I’ve had tinnitus for about 9 months now after getting a viral infection. My advice is stop reading too much about it on the internet, there are too many severe and scary stories. Yours may go away, or it may not. If it sticks, I guarantee you will find it easier to live with over time.

The first 3 months of my experience was terrible. It was constantly on my mind. I was convinced I could not live with this damn ringing in my head. However, just as others have said, you get used to it, and I don’t really think too much about it anymore. It’s definitely there, and it’s loud at some times and other times days go by before I think about it. For me being tired and lack of sleep definitely makes it worse.

I’m definitely more concerned about my hearing now, and take my Etymotic ear plugs wherever I go. I’ve also stopped listening to music with headphones. I’m ok with background office noise so my work is unaffected.

Hang in there. It seems horrible and life changing right now, but I bet if you wait it out a few more weeks/months you will be fine :)
They’re mostly starch, which the enzymes in your mouth convert to sugar.
I am as incensed over Cambridge Analytica's effort to microtarget, as I was over OFA's similar effort, using similar data from similar sources ... though ... Cambridge's source was an allegedly dishonest broker from what has been reported, and OFA went to the source and got assistance.

The headline isn't and shouldn't be that Cambridge impacted the election. This is obviously not true. There are other similar claims about other entities impacting the election with positively miniscule spends on adverts that are even less true than this, but they seem to be taken as gospel as being true by some.

The headline should be that we all collectively give FB, Twitter, etc. as much information as we wish, are encouraged to provide more, and thus increasing the value of us as the commodity being sold.

I resisted FB for many years, until I saw it could be used as an communication system for my family (who were not responding to emails/calls). It has some value to me there.

But the sheer scale of the humint gathering, the analytics they are putting in place, boggles the mind.

Cambridge used a bad data broker, and did exactly what OFA did 4 years earlier. Mebbe we should focus our anger on this, and demand no microtargeting using socially derived data for elections. I didn't see anyone protesting that in 2012. Why now in 2016?

That's part of an important question to answer ... as we cannot excuse violations of privacy when it goes in a direction we like, versus a direction we don't.
Hardly. I work for a media company, and they were very clear to us that they are a provider and not media company, and have no editorial stance, nor do they do any journalism.

They can't have it both ways I'm afraid.

However, it's pretty ridiculous really. If they claim to be journalists, then it should be possible to also sue them for defamation if they publish defamatory material. Currently you can't because, quite rightly, they use safe harbour provisions to prevent being sued. They are now sailing into waters where they are at risk of not being able to claim this.

The folks at Google haven't thought this through clearly.
> If you are the only car doing something then there is a good chance you are doing something wrong.

Following this principle would probably result in a lot of people angry that their autopilot had gotten them a speeding ticket.
Sad you have been downvoted, I largely agree.
Why were those guns and gas used? Because of the hateful rhetoric of an evil man and an evil ideology.
I’m with you as much as the media portrays him as a knucklehead with no self-awareness he wouldn’t be anywhere near his station if he didn’t know what he was doing. By constantly using cheap theatrics like the giant Reese’s cup he’s distracting from the fact he’s a Chicago JD and was an editor of a law review who’s also systematically disassembling public protections. He knows exactly what he is doing.
My impression is that he's very technical, but his background seems to be in search, not AI.

Perhaps there's AI work in his background that isn't evident just looking at his LinkedIn page.

Perhaps he doesn't have a long-term AI background but has come up to speed since getting AI put on his plate at Google. Or, at least come up to speed sufficiently to be able to distinguish between bullshit and non-bullshit.
Validation Framework for .NET Framework
Not the U.S, that's for sure.

But from what I've heard practically anywhere in Europe, and definitely in Japan.
"yeah boi" That's one good reason why I wouldn't even try this package.
Interesting, but how does it actually work on the user side?

Does it work on Desktop or Mobile? Does it use the normal phone system (why not display a number then?), or does it use a VOIP app, or does it work from the browser?
There is plenty of stuff I want to do but I don't feel the pressure to prove anything. To me that's true freedom.
>Incidentally that is why I think Facebook is so valuable. Cambridge Analytica managed to affect U.S. elections with a small subset of this data.

Facebook is powerful. I wouldn't call what Cambridge Analytica provided valuable.
Enjoy: Your medical record is worth more to hackers than your credit card

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cybersecurity-hospitals/y...
As far as I know, there is no evidence Cambridge Analytica managed to affect U.S. elections. If you have, please share.
Just like all ideas for any sort of business, building a product on top of a platform like Facebook or Twitter has risks.

But to extend that observation to mean avoiding any opportunity that involves those risks seems rather ham-handed. It is patently obvious that building a third-party twitter app has been a lucrative business for TweetBot (for example) for the past seven years.

Even assuming Twitter cuts them off and their business ends, is 7 years of success really such a failure? Particularly when so many new apps and businesses die much sooner, and in unremarkable obscurity.
> The guarantee is not that the system never enters one of those states, the guarantee is that if the system enters one of those states it never (well, so extremely rarely that it's "never" for all practical purposes) fails to recognize that it has done so. Why do you find that so implausible?

Stated so, that is plausible. However, "it is possible to engineer a system that never fails to detect that it has failed" is not; I claim that any subset of states which is amenable to this level of detectability will exclude some other states that any normal person would also consider to be "failure".
Still not seeing any reason as to why it’s bad for users.
Depends, guns protect and enforce the speech
Speaking as someone who got a degree in CS / software and then taught myself electronics after I got out of school. I relied heavily on Sparkfun.com to get started. Adafruit.com is also a strong competitor these days. They each have a ton of really great tutorial material for beginners. There are a lot of links here that people are listing that are great content but not for beginners. Along the same lines I would explicitly avoid reading any books on the topic cover to cover. I bought the Art of Electronics because it is billed as a bible for the field. It is, but I never use it.

As for tools and supplies. I would avoid buying very many things upfront* instead buy them as you need them to complete a project. The only general tools I would buy are a multi-meter (Fluke 115), bread board, jumper wires, resistor kit [0], solder iron (Weller WE1010NA), and maybe oscilloscope / digital logic analyzer combo like the Saleae Logic 8. You can get all these things, name brand top quality tools, for about $800 total. I would stay away from super cheap import type stuff to start. Some of it is fine but it isn't worth the frustration for a beginner when it doesn't work. The more expensive stuff will also grow with you as you get more advanced where as you will quickly out grow the cheapo stuff.

As far as formal equations you need to know the only ones I ever really use are V=IR (Ohm's law) and P=IV. If you paid attention in high school physics you probably already know these.

*The problem with buying a lot of stuff up front is that you end up with a bunch of less expensive stuff that doesn't really grow with you or a pile of parts that are a pain to keep organized and are obsolete by time you get around to using them or that you can't find datasheets on.

[0] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10969
They didn't have a single jurisdiction where their activity was actually legal, hence no ability to arbitrage. Prostitution is legal in at least some places, and it would be easy to find a jurisdiction which, for money, would permit a prostitution-organizing site which exempted the local jurisdiction.
Boston is similar.

With so many universities, local leaders are always bemoaning he fact that more of them don’t stay. For any type of specialized field, we’ve got the school... in triplicate. God knows how many law schools and business schools we’ve got scattered around the metro area.
Speech didn't kill them a single bit more than water did, if you're using that logic:

What killed Holocaust victims?
Gas.
Why did they let that happen?
Because the people forcing them to go in had guns.
Why did they force them?
Because they worked under a man who commanded that they be killed.
How was he alive?
Because he drank water, preventing him from dying of dehydration.
Yeah, you won‘t get far if you never tell anyone about your idea...
> It is true that the definition of demand says that all else equal, a higher price results in less demand, but in the real world not else is equal when the price rises due to minimum wage increases. A higher price does not always mean less demand.

That is exactly the point I was trying to make and I think the article was trying to do the same. Unless you make the assumption that demand for labor is perfectly inelastic or is one of the very rare goods, like Veblen goods, that have a positive price elasticity of demand, raising the minimum wage would be expected to decrease the amount of labor demanded. If it doesn't, then one of those assumptions must be incorrect. Either labor has perfect or positive elasticity of demand (unlikely because very few things do, even things that most people would describe as absolute necessities) or there are more factors at play than just the law of demand.
But you agree that the motive in both cases is to take away constitutional rights.
Another clue beyond those mentioned is misspellings: if you see a modern person write “should” as “shud” you know that the “l” is silent.
I graduated with a CS degree and the offers in my peer group were pitiful. TXDOT, USAA, Defense Contractors etc.

The best companies were Visa and Intel, back in 2013.

It’s definitely not a place where you can hop around every 2 years working for big brand names on the coolest tech (read: Java). A higher-end salary is 70-90k with maybe an ESPP vs a 300k package on the West Coast.

I’m definitely eager to go back but damn every time I check whoshiring it’s deflating.
What an arrogant prick. Get with the times. The web is what it is and sorry but empathy doesn't pay the bills.
Do you trust this computer? [Documentary]
Maybe of note: I've always dreamed of building stuff in excel with c#. And I craved something that let me use linq inside excel.

I'm a consultant working for corporations and excel is part of my life. Your plug-in has a market. In fact, I'll advertise it inside my company - if I like it, of course.
Sorry but to put it bluntly, this is a very ridiculous thing for you to stay. I tell everyone, it's easy to remove constraints, but it's very difficult to add it once your data has been polluted. Think of constraints like a canary in the mine for your data. If things are wrong or perhaps have changed, it alerts you. If you can expand it, you do so, if you have no choice, you can drop it. But always begin with constraints!
It's one thing to remove the warning stickers from a gas-fire oven, its another when you're commanding several thousand pounds of unintentional killing machine.

Keep your rooting to your phones.
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Calling this well intentioned series of mistakes "Autopilot" has got to be the dumbest fucking thing Tesla has done.

Actually, I stand corrected. Their stock gamble is about as dumb too.
I was asking you why. As a search engine developer, I'm very aware that the EU is trying to put me out of business before I start.

And yes, the DMCA is also a barrier to entry for search engines, but at least it's one that I understand well.
I worked at Polycom for two years out near the Freescale campus. Talk about a lifestyle company, the product (cheaper conference phones than Cisco) barely changed and we had so many company outings. I felt it was a scam, like some kind of middle class adult daycare.
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It would be nice if the US had GDPR policies like the EU has. Shit, it would be nice if we had a functioning democracy.
No, I don't. The motive in the case of speech is to silence a populus/punish dissenters. The motive in the case of guns is quite overwhelmingly safety.
I’m disappointed that a respectable website like the guardian is trying to take the heat away from Facebook and google in this recent privacy fiasco. Please don’t click on that article and give them your cookies/clicks/profile/$$$
Or if you don't listen to music. Or if you use a desk where you don't ever have to adjust the screen brightness.

I never realized all of the complexity that developers were required to deal with.
Fair enough. But I imagine you have an incredible amount of talent at this point in your life, there has to be some urgency to use it before you really do become "old."

I would consider 50 to be probably the most productive period of time in someone's life. They finally have enough experience and knowledge to do some pretty amazing things.

Doctors, artist, musicians, programmers? are just getting onto the highway of what's possible in life.

I should hope your brain has this sense of urgency that "you've made it" and now is your time to REALLY do something cool with your life because you've managed to do so much already.

Cheers
I guess we're both right then
The point wasn't to pedantically count diphthongs, it's the idea that English is biased towards them in a way that Germanic languages aren't, and which affects their pronouncation if left uncorrected. If it helps, replace "most" with "many".

This all depends on dialect, of course. Words like "ride" can occur both as diphthong (/ɹaɪd/) and monophthong (/ɹa:d/). Southern American dialects have things like vowel breaking that further puts a spin on vowels.
Then you truly cannot be enlightened. How very sad.
Unfortunately, not even plain water is uncontroversial.
Why make a new database when they could just use Cision? Does government not already use that?
Speech cannot directly kill anything. Guns, however, can.
More basic lane assist in other cars already solve this problem. 100% teslas fault. My car will disable lane assist the moment the lane gets too wide.
Enlightened? That's a very cultish way of putting "You'll never agree with our rhetoric."
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Three Generations of a Hackneyed Apologia for Censorship Are Enough
The last place I worked at, we 7.x.x.x network for MPLS stuff.
Enforcement of the law has become self-serving and those in power seem to enjoy that power. Arbitrary laws need to end. jaywalking, marijuana, escorting, a busted tail light .. these things need pep talks not forces of swat teams.
As citizens of earth, we should never stop dreaming and having huge ambitions. We're on the shoulders of people that dreamed of having things better.

We're programmed by modern society to be consumers and not producers. Surely there is more happiness in waking up each day and working toward fulfilling your dreams?
Samsung supports AES-256 hardware encryption on pretty much all their drives I don't see that on these WD / Sandisk products that is kind of a deal breaker for me.
Mysterious sunstones in medieval Viking texts could really have worked
So there wasn't torture destruction and murder on a mass scale before guns?

Humanity works itself into a fervor of anger sometimes. That is what kills people. The implements of anger are irrelevant.
If not, give it by Monday and I'm sure some one will create an asterisk box with hylafax and have it mail it over to something to do ocr.....
Cooking Alone has some good content.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxnR4FnZUGyUogykxh_AlgA?app...