skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read quite a bit of books of that kind when I was young. I didn't read in English, but "One hundred thousand whys" - maths in Chinese was a great one, and this [1] in Vietnamese is a great one. They are all old books and some have solutions we can figure out by using a computer, but in general, they are really cool.

My personal favorite that has an English translation available, although it's not on Maths is "Physics for entertainment" by Perelman -- you can get it on Amazon right now. It was published 100+ years ago and problems are still relevant now. It discussed questions such as "When you jump out of a train, should you jump forward or backward?" "Who is wetter, a person standing in the rain or a person running in the rain?"

I guess basic maths and science hasn't changed that much, or maybe I was reading them when I was young, so I might not have known any better.

1: http://khoia0.com/PDF-Files/80-BAI-TOAN-THONG-MINH_handuc_v2...
In the Dot-town suicides, say the stranger says "Alice has a blue dot." Alice then kills herself. Why would the other residents die?

I think this satisfies the requirements: there's certainly some number of blue dots for which the statement would be false, namely zero.
a us border guard once asked me if i hated america because i hadn't visited it in nearly 18 months
> I don't understand this obsession with mouse-less text editing

For your information: the issue with mouse-laden text editing is that you need two hands on the keyboard to type, so you are repeatedly moving a hand between the keyboard and the mouse. This takes time: in my experience enough time that it's often faster for me to use keyboard navigation _anyways_. Plus the constant wrist motion can be bad for RSI.

That said, if you can edit more efficiently with the mouse, and your wrists don't hurt, then go for it.
I'd love to learn more about your setup. Do you know of any resources for those looking to do the same?
Rooting a Logitech Harmony Hub
That's a beautiful expression of a possible shift to the underlying economics model of social media sites, and one I would contribute energy and commits (and hard drive space) to.
There was a fair amount of discussion on this a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16806657
Hey that was my Alma mater.

My wife went to Berkeley and I am profoundly jealous of the quality of her education. UBC is fine but it has a local view and doesn’t deserve to be called world class imo. It doesn’t develop a worldly viewpoint in its students. And why would it? It’s mission is to educate British Columbians.

This is a hard topic for me because I was forced to move to Seattle in 2001 right after I graduated. Initially I was only semi willing, but the job market in Vancouver for new grads just didn’t exist then. It’s hard to find fellow Canadians who share similar viewpoints.

I’d love to chat more about this with you, somehow!
This was the best advice I got in undergrad (as an EE). We had a seminar from a mechanical engineer who argued that the best thing we could do for our careers was take a drawing class or otherwise get to a point where we were competent at sketching an idea.

People, especially the non-technical, are so visually oriented that, no matter the engineering field, the ability to draw a coherent picture of a concept can be enormously valuable.

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Nevermind, I just finished the second half.

A bit necrophilic if you ask me. Author would probably be a lot less romantic were he to come back with life and not limb.
> A sends their open padlock and a box to B

And they are both promptly stolen, because neither is inside a padlocked box. "anything sent through the mail will be stolen unless it is enclosed in a padlocked box". Anything includes padlocks and boxes. In fact, even the padlocked box would be stolen because it's not inside a padlocked box. And if it were, the outer box would just be stolen. The puzzle as written is just turtles all the way down.

The proper form of the riddle would be that anything except for a padlocked box will be stolen from the mail.
Would people really search for "reddit"? You'd think they'd just go straight to the site.
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

— Robert E. Lee
they can work for FAANG in canada at a 30-40% discount (well not FN, but AAG)
> Not everyone thinks or feels like you. That doesn't necessarily make them morally corrupt individuals.

Who are you trying to convince? :)

If violence appeals to you, then by all means, embrace it. If you are a morally wicked person, then embrace it. But denying your true nature is strange to me.
I guess that Germany and Poland do have problems similar to Canada, except that their brains are harder to be drained by America due to the distance.
housing is clearly an enormous issue in SV, yours is anecdata.

For one:

http://observer.com/2018/03/silicon-valley-housing-market-dr...
Lightning strike on house disables woman's brain stimulator
Come on man, your best advice to imprisoned black people is, "well, you shouldn't have chosen what to put in your own body" and you can't see your mistake?
Yeah PWA vs Native. It really depends on your use case, Its all fine and dandy. The practical problem for us when working with a start up for version 1 is the money. We can build a very simple responsive site with image camera upload using a form ( recent use case)for $10k and its working for them. The customer for us, is not gonna have a budget or want to pay $30K-$50k+ for a native app from the get go or version 1 to test their AMAZING WORLD CHANGING IDEA that'll make'em arab weatlhy, its a risky and a costly wager to loose. To me it seems it kinda always comes down to the money and how much you wanna spend also if the solution is WORTH the cost + benefit ( gross sales going up)... PWA or responsive site OR whateva you wanna call it, is cheaper. The fundamental goal of any / every business on planet earth is to reducing costs ( get stuff done cheaper). Mars also. :-) maybe.. I don't know what im talkin about but thats just my view.
Data parallelism in CUDA, OpenGL, and other GPU APIs is doing fantastically and has for decades. (If writes are allowed, these APIs technically have the same problems as threads, but in practice they're easier to deal with since traditional mutex locks and condition variables are mostly unavailable in that environment, and the APIs force you to carefully declare the sharing semantics of your data buffers.)

Most parallel (not concurrent) problems map well to the data parallel model. Even Make is basically a data parallel API with read-only constant data, just with a more complex dependency graph.
OK then. And you believe that there are literally 500 million phones going to suspected terrorists in the US?

Also, I'd like to point out that the fisa courts do not limit anything. They are a rubber stamp, that never rejects anything.
This would be lovely - it will take a long time to regain people's trust (knowing the current Facebook they'd still stalk you even if you pay), but if it happens then it will be awesome.
Only with very specific results, and I'm not sure goggles and gloves would affect either.
Another alternative would be to thread a small steel cable with looped ends large enough for two locks through the eye and then lock the loops together.
Our core banking app has 1000+ tables.
This information may be a bit dated, but I visited Berlin circa 2008 and my friend (American expat) who had been living there for 10+ years insisted that we not pay at the subway, because no one checked. Following his guidance, I never paid for the subway, and was never fined. This was just within the city of Berlin, though.
Somebody needs to create PWA Store. Because, https://medium.freecodecamp.org/i-built-a-pwa-and-published-...
You don't even need to get that exotic. OpenGL shaders, for instance, offer a simple, safe data parallelism model.
Mainframes came before all of them and they used the records model.
One space between each sentence, they said. Science just proved them wrong.
> Or, they made their money in an old-school industry, like resource extraction, and they flip out at the risk levels in tech startups.

Fuck, ain’t that the truth. Or their great-grandad made the money and each subsequent generations job is to not fuck up the gravy train.
> People miss the old, quirky, simple web of their childhood

No, we understand that answering the question "Is this Javascript I received from a unknown remote party safe to run and free of any malicious side effects?" is undecidable. If you want to defend the idea of running potentially hostile Turing complete code, you need to tell us how to answer that question or you are advocating that everybody should regularly accept the risk of running malicious code. I suggest first addressing the simpler question, "Does this Javascript program ever halt?"

> none of which really undermine the premise that computation in the browser has value.

Obviously Javascript - and computation in general - has value. I have never seen anybody suggest otherwise. Lots of things have value. The problem is that running Turing complete code is always going to be a risk, because describing the behavior of any grammar more complex than deterministic context-free is provably undecidable.
> and to respect my privacy, and I'll happily pay good money for that

That's the issue for me. If it's proprietary, I simply don't trust it to keep my data secure. I have no way of knowing that myself.

And that's the great thing about gpodder too, you can host your own instance of it so you are in total control of your services.
I agree with you except for the morals part. I think there's a fancy name for looking back fondly on traumatic experiences.
This the first cryptocurrency-related thread I've seen on this site in which overtly skeptical comments like the one above and a few others (including luka-birsa) are the ones getting swamped with downvotes. Is it this particular token that is special or are attitudes shifting in general?
I am so glad I have no idea what any of you are talking about. I have been using ublock origin from the day I heard of the possibility of adblock jumping shark.
But that's not the case most of the time. Many apps aren't just one man operations, they pull in contributions from other authors and if it is GPL in any way, it becomes a mess to change that after the fact.
Tangentially related: every now and then I do some graphic design, and I've seen this "okay I'll just throw down a quick mockup → the client likes it so it basically becomes the final version" progression so many times...
The "content" gets rendered either server-side or client-side. There's not that much difference between the browser filling in a template from a database vs a server filling in a template from a database. https://hnpwa.com/
Those who have left are not accepting it. Those who stay are.
Amen! You nailed it.
I feel the same way and have even been encouraging my girlfriend (who finds it gross) to try.
This is my 6th go round doing 7DRL. I've had a lot of fun every year, turned one of my games into a complete polished Steam game, and come up with some wacky stuff each time. But this is the first entry that got the top score in the challenge.

DEAD FACE lets you pilot huge, multi-tile mechs. Projectiles move exactly as fast as you do, so you can dodge them in a turn-based setting. There's a pretty fun realtime hacking minigame too, which is all based on hexadecimal (the title itself is meant to be a hexadecimal magic debug value).

Figured ya'll might get a kick out of this one.
Because Ublock Origin is more memory efficient than Adblock Plus.
I just want a solution that I know is FOSS, secure and won't use my data for analytics. I have no way of knowing that from a proprietary application so it doesn't fit my use case.
Humans appear to have a separate thought module when it comes to war - my guess is it is probably biological and has undergone a great deal of selection over the millions of years since the first proto-wars were fought successfully by our ancestors against our non-ancestors.

It is quite useful to keep this is mind when trying to organise social unitary to tackle important issues and why calls for a "war on x" fail unless the x is real war target.
If you are going by that definition of "wouldn't matter" then it probably holds for all movies. And lots of other enjoyable stuff. Not a very useful definition.
We really need that bindings from TensorFlow C to JS
I believe that im not the only one excited about TensorFlow JS.

I'm very impatient to have that bindings, the TF team is talking about on the FAQ.

Whos with me?
I don’t like the data collection either, but it’s impossible to know the untold disasters that it may or may not have prevented.

“Assume that a legislator with courage, influence, intellect, vision, and perseverance manages to enact a law that goes into universal effect and employment on September 10, 2001; it imposes the continuously locked bulletproof doors in every cockpit (at high costs to the struggling airlines)-just in case terrorists decide to use planes to attack the World Trade Center in New York City. I know this is lunacy, but it is just a thought experiment...
The legislation is not a popular measure among the airline personnel, as it complicates their lives. But it would certainly have prevented 9/11.

The person who imposed locks on cockpit doors gets no statues in public squares, not so much as a quick mention of his contribution in his obituary. "Joe Smith, who helped avoid the disaster of 9/11, died of complications of liver disease." Seeing how superfluous his measure was, and how it squandered resources, the public, with great help from airline pilots, might well boot him out of office.”

-Quote from Taleb
I initially had considered two padlocks being on the box, but ruled it out because "come on, that would just bring more attention to it such that they'd spend enough to break our measures".
This is the single thing that freaked me out the most about our military and made me realize it wasn't the place for me when I joined at 17. Being a high school kid and meeting people who will look you straight in the eye and laugh as they talk about murdering someone, or watching their comrade's head explode. And not hypothetically, but in real, gruesome detail. I guess there's a need for that kind of person to exist to do our dirty work. But they are broken human beings and it is an absolute tragedy.
As someone who works/hires in the field, the salary reports are all wrong. I have not seen a single one yet that was close to accurate. In software a 90th percentile engineer can easily make 2-3x what a 50th percentile engineer makes. (And it can get even crazier as you move higher up the tail.) This is not true in virtually any other industry, which seems to cause problems for the salary reports.
How do you find remote work? I have 15 years experience, and pretty darn good at what I do. I just find it so much easier to get in-person work.
Given that much more Chinese and Indians still prefer US to Canada, further and further elongating the lines for green card, it seems the Canadian advantage is not so enticing after all.
Acme's big thing isn't the mouse. It's the plumber and regex-based logic, which has the effect of making the mouse more useful. But the same would be true of the keyboard, it just hasn't made it into a popular implementation yet, probably for lack of plumber on popular unices. There was a project on GH that tried to do acme/Sam with the addition of keyboard modal; it would make a very powerful editor. Here it is:

https://github.com/driusan/de

I currently use kakoune which is probably the closest thing to that idea in a production ready editor, only the 'plumber' is done with shell commands, which can send variables back to running instances, so it's more DIY than plan9 plumbing.
No, in all seriousness are you kidding?

>Reading speed only improved marginally, the paper found, and only for the 21 "two-spacers," who naturally typed with two spaces between sentences.
Functionally from an smtp perspective it doesn't really matter if the rDNS is delegated to you, just that it's set correctly... ordinarily it's something you only have to set the PTR record for once, even if you need to manually ask your upstream to do it for the /32 that is your server, get them to set it to mail.whateverdomainname.net
> urine is sterile when expelled

No it isn’t. There are loads of studies saying this, here is one. http://jcm.asm.org/content/early/2013/12/19/JCM.02876-13
If there are use cases even now where a roll-your-own solution is best, imagine the 1980s.

My first programming roles were in a mainframe shop with a major defense contractor, which had some brilliant mainframe system programmers over the years. Their major unclassified systems (payroll, shop order control, etc.) were internetworked with a homegrown real-time system, and they all had a home-grown disk access system (random and sequential) that was surreal in its speed and reliability, all coded in 370 assembler. On the business applications side, they had a thorough API that was callable from even COBOL programs.

By the mid-1980s, upper management decided they had to "standardize" and began developing replacement systems using IBM's IMS. Performance was unusably bad. I left around that time to join the UNIX RDBMS world, so I don't know if they ever found a solution that could actually be rolled out.

Working with the older stuff was actually fun because things just worked, and the customers of our legacy systems were really happy.
Anecdotally, the process to get to Facebook for many members of my family is to Google "f" or "facebook". They know how to go directly there but for whatever reason prefer Googling it. I have heard the same from friends about their (typically older) family too.
I agree this keyboard is the worst. I also have aching fingers from using it, compared to my previous 2013 pro 15", and beloved thinkpads.

I currently have a broken 'S' key (a couple of the very fragile teeny tiny clips have broken off the keycap) after just a few months - Admittedly, becaue a liquid spill rendered the 'S' intermittently unresponsive, so I removed the keycap to clean with alcohol, which did at least fix the contacts, so the key works, but broke the keycap.
Hopefully I can get a replacement keycap to keep me going until probably the liquid spill (a splash of beer, countered immediately with turning the laptop off and upside down in front of a fan overnight etc) starts corroding.

But regardless, the most egregious fault is that the keyboard can't be replaced without also replacing half the laptop, at excessive cost, not to mention the affront of having to pay again for the same crappy keyboard.

This is unacceptable, as the keyboard is one of the few moving parts on the device, and the one most exposed to external dangers.
>they are also engaged primarily in self-serving funny business

Such as?
Agree completely. Born and raised in Toronto. Canadians are nice and the diversity is great. But San Francisco was a breath of fresh air I didn't even know I needed until I came here. Toronto feels so rigid in comparison. I don't want to ever leave California.
I get the impression that the fares are lower than the AC and WJ website fares, but they're not exclusive to Hopper -- they sell the same "secret" fares to other travel agents. In which case, should we be checking the price on kayak.com or similar sites when booking? Normally I book directly with WJ or AC because I assume that will always be the cheapest, but perhaps my assumption was wrong.

Anyway, it was silly of them to put out this press release without running it by AC and WJ first.
I add reddit to search terms when I want to search reddit for a topic.