skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my experience, he probably won't be able to leverage this to relocate, precisely because it is a bit military-prone and these things require clearance only a citizen may get.

SDR was actually an area I worked on while at college, and a bit in a few companies after that. Both CPU-based and FPGA-based, on the early days of GNU radio.

There's some niches SDR and RF may get outside military use: RF-based instrumentation (I currently work on a particle accelerator), TV and Brodcast equipment (I also worked before in these areas), but these are VERY niche.

Well, if anyone knows about some interesting opportunity that resembles this, I'd be glad to hear!
How to Multiply Roman Numerals
Skydiving death rate is around 1/1,000,000, depression is around 1/20 IIRC.
f you record that you've done your analysis with Python 3.6.3 and Numpy 1.14.2, and it later breaks on some newer version, it's relatively easy to get the same versions you were using

Better record which compiler you used too, and what flags, and every version of every library and everything else. It’s not as simple as you make out and it’s far from guaranteed that all those packages will still be available or compile on your OS.

Commercial software vendors are usually not keen on you downloading and running a version of their product which was superseded four years ago.

I guess you must not deal with vendors much because generally they are fine with this. It’s part of the support agreement usually, just another service. Getting an “obsolete” version for whatever reason has never been a problem for me.

By “anyone with a computer” you mean “anyone who can exactly reproduce my configuration which I don’t even know myself for certain”
In my locale, all of the firefighters are also trained as paramedics at some level. When I had my "old geezer chest pain" moment, the ambulance was on another call, so the fire truck showed up first. They had the full kit, including portable EKG, and started working on me right away.

The entire system is based on counting the minutes from 911 call to treatment in the hospital, and treating it as a process to be optimized.

I think statistically, you need more medics than firemen, so it may make sense to think of the fire station as a paramedic station that's also equipped to fight fires.

My friend, the former EMT, told me that they like to have a crew of 4, for any call. The reason is that a large number of patients are obese, and it might take 4 crew to get someone out of their house. He said: "That's why you always see a fire truck following the ambulance."
I'd bet that within the next 5-10 years, a lot of neural networks are going to shift from running on graphics cards to running on custom hardware. Probably some opportunities there, given the wide applicability.
On Windows a common approch is just to use Win32 directly, no libc APIs at all.

Oh and link them by ordinal.
I agree that there is concern for large scale manipulation, but it seems like that concern is still there with actively managed investments. Especially from governments manipulating via bailouts. At least with passive index, you're only paying a few basis points.
Metrics Collection from Large Scale IoT Deployments at Vivint
Trading. Check out firms like Optiver, Jump Trading, XR, etc. Big bucks for FPGA devs
I found his comments to be interesting, and related in a train of thought way to the submission. I’m sorry it didn’t add additional interesting content for you, but it did for me, and I don’t find these sorts of comments to be a derail.
Fantastic list!
I hate to say this, but I don't see the point in maintaining complicated old writing systems. (I mean, of course I see the historical and cultural value, but I don't see why should people keep using it)

You write a "new" Chinese character and then there is: a) no way to represent it on a computer unless you draw it b) no way of knowing how it's pronounced

Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew (ok, they have some common roots), Korean are much more maintainable and "portable".

No, Chinese won't be the new English. You get to write and conversate in English in a short time frame (1 yr). Not Chinese. And certainly the learning curve gets steeper the further you go.
Nope. Lesson learned.
What jingle and what Atari game?
With Great Power
hmm, i think i spotted a certain Wendigo during the credits sequence...
Unit Economics (2015)
That's absolutely stupid - the internet's been the best thing to happen to the earth in millennia, if not ever. Apologizing for it would be like apologizing for modern medicine.

> Ellen Pao, former CEO of Reddit. Filed major gender-discrimination lawsuit against VC firm Kleiner Perkins.

> Can Duruk, programmer and tech writer. Served as project lead at Uber.

Ah. These people. Not sure what they've built, really. Certainly not the internet. Pao certainly didn't build reddit, and I'm fairly sure Duruk didn't build the first prototype of Uber.

> Richard Stallman, MIT programmer. Created legendary software GNU and Emacs.

First of all, it's not "GNU Plus Internet;" secondly, Stallman barely even uses the internet and even stopped programming way before it was relevant. GNU isn't software. I'm also 80% sure those quotes of him are fake.
Every invention has a dark side.

* The wheel: war machines.

* Writing: propaganda.

* Jewelry: diamond cartels.

* Internal combustion engine: pollution.

* Nuclear energy: nuclear weaponry.

* Wind turbines: dead birds.

* Cell phones: the death of social skills.

Pick any technology and you could probably find a way that it has caused severe problems. It almost seems like a fundamental law of the universe.

The most incredible thing about the internet is that it works across vendors and across countries. The concept of the entire human race coming together and agreeing on a way to do things is excessively rare and the internet is an example of that - the only example that I can think of right now. Despite all the war, despite all the hatred, we can agree on internet protocols.

The internet is an incredible accomplishment and the creators should be proud. Those who have soured it are responsible for the state it is in today, nobody else.
(2015), please.
That’s the natural conclusion of an individual rights based economy though. There are rules, and the rules lead to concentrations of power, but the rules apply the same to everyone and anyone can take a shot at trying to get that at that concentration of power.

Of course, capital is used to bend the rules, and that becomes unfair, but that’s a whole other topic...

There are places where there is no presumption of rules uniformly applied.

If Oakland were in China, for example, they might decide that East Oakland is a little shabby and has a crime problem, and so they’re just going to raze the whole area and build a new high density eco-city to provide housing for San Francisco offices.

Heck, they might do that to the Sunset!

But that’s not how America works. The people in East Oakland bought the rights to that land. They own it, and so long as they obey the statutes of the city it doesn’t matter how valuable the driving-out of those people might be, if it’s less than the buy-out cost it’s not legally feasible.

The entire system relies on this principle. If I can’t rely on my land being sold at a price I set then I can’t make complex plans based on land use and prices. I have to add in a “government force” slush factor to every calculation and many delicate plans become too risky to try.
Thanks for sharing! Your F – Felix’s Workshop[1] is pretty impressive, and specially for the 64KB category. Thanks for publishing the source code[2] as well.

[1] http://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr/productions/f-felixs-workshop/

[2] https://github.com/laurentlb/Ctrl-Alt-Test/tree/master/F
I've been using Crystal on a mobile checkout application to watch for and parse incoming pricing files. I've been extremely happy with it so far. It is fast, the type system is nice, and I really enjoy the Ruby-like syntax and ease of development. I've also been happy with the developers and the community. The community is supportive and the developers are making good progress on the language and are quite responsive to community feedback.

If you like the idea of a fast, compiled, statically-typed, Ruby-like programming language, you can support Crystal development here (NOTE: I'm not affiliated with the Crystal project in any way. I'm just a happy consumer): https://crystal-lang.org/sponsors/
I guess from a mainstream perspective, Facebook _is_ the internet for many people.
> What are we all supposed to do instead?

Depends on how much you care and how able you are to compel yourself into action.

Almost every one of us reading this is in a position to abbreviate our work with physical activity at the very least. I just wager that most of us are too addicted to comfort to actually do anything about it in the face of the evidence. For example, we already know that a sedentary lifestyle is bad yet most people don't exercise.
When a high paid lobbyist shows up to advocate for a position, the idea that it’s just that lobbyist’s personal contribution speaking is silly. Whoever spent all that money on their salary will also find (generally legal) ways to get way more than $2300 to the relevant politicians. There are PACs, all the other members of the lobbying firm, executives at the companies that contribute to the lobbying group, etc. Think of the lobbying operation as in part a signal “a bunch of people put a bunch of money in play to send me here”. Your opinion implies that all these people can’t put 2+2 together.

I’m not even a big believer in the idea that our elections are bought and sold. We get roughly the government we idiots vote for. And an underlooked fact is that we elect inexperienced people to office, give them inexperienced staff, have them vote on topics they often barely understand (think of anything tech related). One big part of what lobbyists do is just show up with fancy talking points designed to appeal to the particular legislator. But denying that there’s a lot of money sloshing around doesn’t make sense.
I was taught that you should learn at speed (~20wpm) with 2 characters and build from there.

Looking in to it, I see there's two ways - Farnsworth & Koch. The downside of the former is that you get stuck with slow speed and have a harder time to get faster. The downside of the latter is that the initial learning process seems more pointless because there's no actual words.
is my post a complaint or just an anecdote? the actual article talks about the style and design of a chinese character, which is what my anecdote is about. westerners ignore that aspect of character writing, which is incredibly important.

are you a mod? why don't you let the mods mod.
Additionally most of Mathematica is written in Mathematica and you can just read it. Same with MATLAB.

I get the feeling that many of the Jupyter fans commenting here have only ever used a Jupyter setup and are unaware of the wider industry
I submitted it last year, without gaining much interest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907618

Honestly most of what I've done since then has been data collection (song lyrics, movie subtitles, etc) instead of developing new features.

My favourite feature now is to read the song lyrics in church, find 4 characters I know, search my database of Christian song lyrics, load that into Pingtype, and sing along with the pinyin and understand the meaning. It's all automated, but I can't upload it because I've received copyright threats about redistributing the song lyrics. I'm not a limited-liability company (this is a side project) so I'd be personally liable for the consequences of putting it online.

I've done much more research to find new data sources. For example, 9gag helped me stumble upon a translated comic (Mixflavor & HowardInterprets). I transcribed all the comics, and I'm using it with my language exchange tutor every week. I decided I wanted to find more comics that are popular with my friends.

So I extracted my Facebook friends' liked Pages. (Yes, that sounds like Cambridge Analytica, but I did it myself using an AppleScript to scrape and some bash scripts to parse). I found 223,783 pages, in 865 Facebook categories. I reduced the Facebook categories to 30 of my own categories (Art, Music, Cooking, Driving, Pets, Shopping, Religion, etc). Then I found the top pages for each of those. So I know the most popular musicians in Taiwan. That's going to become a blog post and Show HN soon, when the paranoia about Facebook calms down.
Not sure why this is the primary concern but... did you even try it? Webpack is really an internal implementation detail for VuePress and not visible at all in most use cases.
Most demoparties forbid linking by ordinal these days, since ordinals tend to change between Windows versions. Importing by hash is the go-to method now.

https://in4k.github.io/wiki/import-by-hash
There are specialized .exe packers/compressors for 64k intros (more tuned than UPX) such as http://www.farbrausch.de/~fg/kkrunchy/

I think one of the biggest challenges, size-wise, is coming up with good algorithms for procedural content (textures, 3d meshes, camera paths, audio/synths). Code for audio playback and for doing directx/opengl scene rendering shouldn't be too hard to keep small, but you really need to work to get interesting content to fit, since you can't really include much in the way of of bitmaps/audio samples/3d meshes as binary data assets.
I'm curious, how popular is the bible in Taiwan? And why does it use Taiwanese characters not commonly used elsewhere?
Isn't it just the mechanism by which the pleasurable response is created?
Hardware decoding has its own module, commonly called "VDEC" in most architectures. It is mostly functionally divorced from the rest of the GPU.

GPUs themselves are mostly SIMD vector processors for their "shader cores" with a bunch of custom fixed-function hardware for the more special blocks in the pipeline. This is a completely separate unit from the CPU. There was an attempt from Intel known as "Larabee" to try and build a GPU style pipeline on top of an expanded Intel CPU. The consumer product was canned but the expanded CPU went on to be known as Intel's Xeon Phi line.
Its strange to have such a protection for the worst atrocities, (though people tend to agree with you);

Imagine if the government did something so horrible, that just talking about it would reasonably cause a riot... it would be illegal to talk about it. I wonder if this limit could be extended to media (blurred as that definition is now), so it would be illegal to report anything the government or large corporations have done that might reasonably cause people to riot?
Logitech harmony remote glow timer not working?
...and they want the users to keep thinking that. The online ad industry is awfully quiet, you do not hear or read anywhere how lucrative it is.

The users shall keep thinking that the Internet is for Facebook. The boards of the online companies shall keep focusing on growth at all cost. That's what the article actually says. And the interview below confirms it.
Off the top of my head, the only place I can recall the 喫 character appearing is in the word 喫茶店 (coffee / tea shop). To eat Japanese would use the 食べる or　召し上がる. After referring to a dictionary, there is a word 喫する，but it's not common (as in I don't recall ever hearing or learning this word) and means more generally consume by mouth as in drink / eat / smoke. Yes, the Chinese 喫 means eat, but no the meaning is not exactly the same and not used with the frequency of the word eat 食べる or　召し上がる.
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather."
— John Perry Barlow

If this is the founding computer visionary do we really have to wonder what went wrong?
Someone has semi-successfully applied GANs to the problem https://github.com/kaonashi-tyc/zi2zi

Using it to create a new font would probably still require lots of manual labor to create training data and then check the output (you don't want to mess up the rare character appearing in someone's name...), but being able to easily interpolate should come in handy for exploration of the design space.
McNamee: They’re basically trying to trigger fear and anger to get the outrage cycle going, because outrage is what makes you be more deeply engaged. You spend more time on the site and you share more stuff. Therefore, you’re going to be exposed to more ads, and that makes you more valuable.

Ironically, this seems to be exactly what this article is trying to do - evoke outrage.
Yes that's certainly nice, but it would be even nicer if there was some example code for every CPU instruction that you could run this way (accessible using a single click).
Pao also lost her discrimination suit. That fact is conveniently left out of her history. I can claim anything I want but if a jury finds my claims to be false, I don't know how that makes me some sort of expert (let alone someone who "created" the internet).
It's still unplanned, since you don't know when it's going to happen; a home visit might leave 10 minutes before you need help.

As for care facilities, if the need isn't that common (e.g. once a week), is that really more effective than an occasional ambulance trip? Plus the patient might very well prefer to spend his last year as close to his family as possible.
Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu++

Also, Sujato Bhikkhu;

http://santifm.org/santipada/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/A_Hi... - "A History of Mindfulness", large pdf

http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/... - "Satipaṭṭhāna Mūla: A reconstruction of the 'original' pre-sectarian Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta", small pdf
Bloated websites are still a problem and life is a matter of perspective. For those in crummy parts of the world including some backwaters in the US I'm sure bloated sites are especially annoying.

During flashes heyday though virtually everyone was effected. Almost everyone had a slow connection and we pushed slow flashy crap out anyway. Who were we designing experiences for?
Title is extremely misleading. It was 100 people out of 250k in one particular group (.04%), not 100 people total as implied in the title. Using the same logic you could say "Only one person has reported bitcoin to the IRS." (out of 2500 somewhere in the fine print.)
Since the population of Milwaukee is around 600k, that should be 0.016% of people.

Or you should say something like 'of people who made emergency calls'

edit: that second one is still problematic since we only a couple data points on the distribution of calls per capita.
Pricing. Learned a while ago that a good copywriter doesn't come cheap. You definitely get what you pay for, and paying a little extra will provide a return on investment in most cases.

What do you pay for a good copywriter? What's an example of too cheap?

Throw out some numbers, please.
Talking about something upsetting is not inciting a riot, because reasonable people don’t just burn shit down when they’re unhappy. Standing on a podium and saying, “The police shot my son in cold blood, and we need to work to change society,” is different from, “The police shot my son, burn it all down!”

Marching against the Vietnam war isn’t the same as teaching people to make AP explosives to drop in recruitment centers. Remember that the law isn’t code, it’s not executed as written, but interpreted. Going back to the GP, “do I have a right to misinform?” Yes you do, mostly. If you try to convince people to take up arms and start burning shit down with misinformation though, the game changes. “I believe the government is poisoning our children with fluoride,” is protected. “The government is poisoning our children with fluoride, so let’s go to the water treatment plant and kill everyone there!” is not protected.
I have helped an adult to read in the past. I was a lot younger than they were. It's terribly hard for people, who end up where John did, to open up and get help.

It is always amazing to see a person get it. Keys to the kingdom.

What struck me about this story is how he taught. Use of films, and what had to be rich discussion.

I'll bet his students loved him and were engaged more of the time than not.

There is a nugget in there. An important one to be considered, especially in light of the greater information access we all have today.

I also have some experience with special needs kids. Videos, stories, discussion are all very powerful tools.

The power comes from getting perspective, and in how to think.

By perspective, I mean voice of experience. Getting the overall picture, before trudging through details is a big help. One knows a bit more about what questions to ask, and some of why one would ask them.

When I say, "How to think", this too is voice of experience, but of a different sort. Role models, essentially.

Take this guy: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UChWv6Pn_zP0rI6lgGt3MyfA

He's one of my "watch on release" YouTubers. The technical content is very good, but what I find far more valuable are the how to think and perspective elements in most videos.

Skookum. Chooch. Schmoo. Etc...

Those fun expressions are linked to basic, important concepts of mechanical robustness, performance, and how they are valued, why they are valued.

Now, one doesn't need the colorful expression to get that all done, but having it does help carry people through getting it done in a way they will often crave, admire.

I once used adult material, comics, and other compelling, ahem... material to help a young reader get there. Flat out, they were disinterested. When that changed into, "and then what happened?" Right. Reading progress was improved. A lot. And we had some good laughs.

How we educate could use more of this. Obviously, avoiding a life of pain like John's, but taking the good bits he had to sort out to compensate would be the goal.

Sometimes, I get to volunteer. STEM projects, groups. Or, primary school, computers, music... I would do shop, but most schools don't offer it. (They should)

Being able to connect with students, and tell them, show them real stuff is compelling and valuable.
That's a fairly misleading headline.

>Of the most recent 250,000 filers on the Credit Karma Tax platform, fewer than 100 people reported capital gains on their cryptocurrency investments, data released Friday showed.
I enjoyed the article as well (see my comments above). But I would debate your takeaway. The money quote is in the last sentence:

> Three months later, Predata secured a second round of venture capital funding.

People like Jim Shinn will always find a way. At least that's the argument the author seems to be making.
Maybe I wasnt clear enough, libc functions implemented as calls to GetProcAddress (by ordinal/hash) functions directly. :) But just those that you use :)
My opinion is not relevant one way or the other. I am describing the study.
Perhaps read the hyphenated adjective "big-moneyed" that precedes the term special-interest in my comment. The NRA, Planned Parenthood and the AFL-CIO all make 10's of millions of dollars in direct campaign contributions[1][2][3].

This is not at all the same as what the framers had in mind with the right to “petition the government for redress of grievances” in the First Amendment. Big-moneyed special interest and influence was specifically something that James Madison was concerned about. I recommend reading "The Federalist Papers."

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000059...

[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/lobby.php?id=d000000088

[3] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000082