skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You put me on a roller coaster of agreement and disagreement. I don't want want to frame beginners publishing amateur level tutorials and "bad" or "evil" necessarily. I DO think the apparent "internet pollution" is worth considering in the context of "what helps us as a community".

> Yes, please write your tutorial. The best way to learn something, by far, is to teach.

I absolutely agree! This one of the reasons school and university is great: you have tons of peers at about your level of knowledge and who need only the level of rigor you can supply. School work is fantastic at avoiding the kinds of robust rigorous information production work needs.

> To those who say "but we don't want another crappy tutorial we only want to hear from experts" I heartily disagree. First, it is your responsibility as a learner to decide if something makes sense or not. You can not and should never just believe something on the internet.

I agree with whomever you're quoting. I don't want wade through hundreds of crappy tutorials. We don't need experts per say but intermediate skill and some actual experience goes a long way. I think the appropriate tone and style of writing can go along way towards mitigating the frustrations of "internet pollution". Putting the onus partially on the learner is reasonable, but if all of their resources are poor or wrong theres only so much you can do.

> Second, experts are far detached from the beginner's mindset and often lack the ability to explain something in simple terms. Someone who is a few steps ahead of you will have a better chance to explain things in your language.

This is too true. Experts aren't always the best resources, but beginners are virtually always terrible. I think the keys is here it sucks when you're learning something but it turns out the author isn't a few steps ahead but a few steps off the path in a sand trap.

> We need to spread more knowledge, not less. A beginner's experience with learning a new technology is valuable knowledge, even if some details may not be correct. As long as the reader keeps his critical thinking hat on, we all win.

Mixed feelings.

My proposal:

If you're just learning working with your peers (in a very localized), teaching others, and writing your experiences is invaluable. You've gotten all the value you're going to get from it. The broader community doesn't have the context of what level you're at so they're not likely to get a ton from what you're doing. Publishing this is probably not bringing anyone a ton of value unless it's pretty narrow like a messaging board for your class.

When you're at an intermediate level and you have some experience under your belt I'd say putting your ideas out there is the only way to get to the next level. Bringing beginners up the rungs with you is important. It's okay to be a little wrong if you're tackling bigger topics but this is also the level when you're a "reader [who] keeps [their] critical thinking hat on". You know where you're publishing something that fills a need.
Once upon a time I got an undergrad degree in economics and accounting. I then later was awarded the CFA charter. Having cleared my throat with such wanton credential-ism, when kinds of articles come up I want to recommend strongly:

"A Random Walk Down Wall St" by Burton Malkiel [1]

Anyone wanting to have any kind of understanding of investing should have read it. Even if you already know it all from extensive study elsewhere it is important to see it all in one place, well written and explained. I say read it! Really!

You have a startup and you need to understand investing in your business - this is a flying start. I can think of no better.

[1] My affiliate wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street
Programmers should be paid for their work on OSS projects.
It’s very strange. Hard to judge because I’m not in their shoes, but if you must cheat, do you have to do it with a subordinate? Is it a power thing?

It looks like another corruption scandal got Condit, no?
30-45 minutes? That sounds extreme. In the very worst crowding situations I've seen in the Netherlands I've only had to miss my bus a few times, and I just got on the next one which was fine. And that's from Leiden/Delft, where lots of students take the bus.

2 double-bendy buses is 300 people per minute. If he has to wait 45 minutes, he's in a line with 13,500 people. At 3 people/meter, that's a line 4.5 kilometers long. Now, I imagine it's more like a large crowd. But are you sure he has to wait 45 minutes? And are you sure there are two double-bendy buses per minute? 9292 says in the spits from the Uithof-Centraal there is one bus every 4 minutes.
Video editing? 6/8K raw video takes a lot of space.
And yet, despite all the errors in the article and the title, the basic premise, that stock market indices should not be used to talk about the economy as it is experienced by anyone other than those invested in stocks, is sound. Also, old news. I learned this in 1987.
How much do you end up having to pay for TaxJar? It looked to me like the monthly plan was cheap but you'd get totally hosed if you tried to use them to auto-file all the taxes. Are you filing yourself?
Ok. So, even if everybody says "the universe exists", that doesn't it exists because not everybody _mean_ the same thing by saying those words, correct?

I can see the above. And that the assumptions and problems in languages shape our thoughts and view of reality (the universe).

But, like I said before, instead of tackling what the sentence _means_ you tackle it's tools and execution (language and it's use). I find it like facing a a physics equation and starting to question "what is lightspeed 'c'?", "why is it in m/s?", "why is it base 10?".
A friend of mine is playing with neural networks and training them to play reversi. He's working with a lot of matrices so he tried AVX extensions and CUDA. AVX runs circles around CUDA, probably because of the setup time of moving things back and forth to the GPU. Also, CUDA can be a big pain in the ass to get working.
You seem to be conflating online vs. physical with large vs. small. There are small online merchants and large physical retailers — for example, Walmart is significantly bigger than, say, the online bakery Vegaron.
Speaking of tomatoes -- all the tomatoes in that tube were beautfully colored, exactly the same shape and size. (And beefsteak variety, so nearly tasteless. That's a different issue.)

In the real world, tomatoes come graded. You pay a lot more if you want them all exactly the same size. They need to be washed, and frequently have woody stems that need to be excised. I didn't see that happening automatically.

And onions don't come pre-peeled in restaurant quantities. The pickle tube is going to jam. The condiments might signal you when they're out, but the nozzles are going to need a good cleaning.

I wonder if they're planning on going Juicero and selling their franchisees preloaded tubes.
Dropbox recently posted about their new 4U / 1.4PB chassis.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/06/extending-magic-pocke...
Well, I'm not Apple, so I can only speculate. I wouldn't be surprised if core low-level font rasterization isn't that well maintained, though. Often that stuff was written in the '90s and early aughts and so hasn't been touched.
Samsung also demonstrated 16TB NF1 SSDs. 36x 16TB in 1U so ~24PB in a 42U rack...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12567/hands-on-samsung-nf1-16...

http://www.samsung.com/us/labs/pdfs/collateral/Samsung-PM983...
Ask HN: Do countries with lots of cheating also have high education standards?
Sort of historical note. Depending on how such a program is formed, you could inadvertently spawn e.g. Somali piracy out of illegal dumping. So while the idea could work, it could also be implemented in such a way to go horribly, horribly wrong.
Of course it's counteracted by the plants.. You can see this signal strongly in the CO2 timeline as seasonal variation since most plants are on the land masses of the northern hemisphere and metabolize less in winter, leading to a temporary CO2 buildup.
> an undisclosed maker of servers

So Supermicro
Do you not think they may have addressed the obvious issues a layman thinks up.
But is Linus actually telling anyone to go away for the good of the project?
Net Neutrality advocates: Care to try some technical solutions instead?
Amusingly in the context of this article, the current Pantheon has an inscription from the previous temple on that site, built probably 100 years earlier.
I take it you didn't read the link. The problems with "biodegradable" is that often times it's not 100% and will result in particulate and toxins.

If someone is composting they'd prefer not have toxins in there - goal is to grow stuff using the compost. So how do you get rid of this stuff cleanly?
In addition to maintenance, don't forget about upgrades, newer versions and installation/maintenance of those.

Early on in the food making robot game it will move fast, new versions will come out all the time. Noone wants to eat at the place with last year's robots.

Early on, competing will be intense if the new versions also cut costs heavily. No restaurant that has gone automation will be able to survive if using too far outdated robots in the beginning at least, until it is refined after many iterations.

Humans are self-cleaning and maintain on their own time. Robots will be like any other kitchen equipment, probably very nasty unless there are humans there to clean them on the regular, good policies or really good self-cleaning technology.

Eventually there will be robot upgrading and maintaining third party services, but at that point are you really getting a difference across restaurants other than ingredients? Sometimes people like chefs cooking because it is unique and harder to replicate. We already get lots of food made by robots, they are frozen foods that aren't all that great compared to food made on the spot by real people.
The idea of ToList(), .Count() etc., is that the query isn’t executed until you use such a function, you can keep composing the query and it will be translated and run on the server instead of the client.

For instance....

var seniors = customers.Where(c => c.Age > 65).ToList()

foreach(c in seniors) {}

Will be translated to a query and run on the database server.

var seniors = customers.ToList().Where(c => c.age > 65)

foreach(c in customers) {}

Will give you back the same results, but you will get back every record in the table/collection and the filtering will be done client side.

Btw:

The first query could be rewritten as

var seniors = (from c in Customers where c.Age > 65).ToList().

You would only do .ToList() if you want to keep the scope of the connection small if for instance you are passing it outside of the class.

You can iterate the results directly from the query instead of returning the results in memory (using ToList()) and it would work just like any other database style cursor.

EDIT:

Just to clarify from my first post, the example should have been

List<Customers> Find(Expression<Func<bool,Customer>> predicate)

{
....
return customers.Where(predicate).ToList();

}

This pattern also works great for unit testing. You can mock out your database Context and use a List<T> Customer to store data and you can still test your queries without having a dependency on a database.
Meh. You can reasonably expect someone interested in this project would have at least some passing understanding of functional programming, if not the niche of programming Elm and Elixir are trying to fill. In which case arrows and lambdas should be fine. Even if you're a C++ developer, you've seen arrows drawn in some capacity, I can't imagine what confusion using an arrow could possibly cause.
Bird is gone from Miami
That's still allows you to segment the market. I like McDonald's but can't get it where I live because the majority of the people prefer higher priced fare. The McDonald's couldn't compete with a mid tier burger joint down the street and got replaced by an upscale Korean restaurant.

If it manages to actually lower operating costs then it will lower prices in all the segments but it won't just get rid of segments
For people downvoting forgot-my-pw, "lol no" was the complete content of the pdf.
YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos
Why IT should start to sell?
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it, but the bureaucracy of licensing, taxes, and now national sales tax collection is unhelpful to the startup. Not that it's a startup, but I just jumped through all the hoops required to legally hire a nanny in the US state of Washington:

- obtain Federal EIN number
- obtain state business license & UBI number (still waiting on this, and I need childcare now)
- file with state employment security department
- pay state labor & industries insurance
- pay state employment security taxes
- pay my portion of income taxes for the nanny
- pay payroll company to deal with all the tax payouts and paychecks

Oh, and actually pay the nanny.

All of this to just have a nanny and be above board. And what I do for my startup is way more complicated than this.
Nope, I'm well aware. Built/worked on two android based 3D graphics stacks at two different companies and I've worked directly with just about every mobile GPU vendor aside from PowerVR(which is pretty similar to all the other tiled GPUs that are out there).

Your GPU is actually running much less than you'd expect. Unless pixels are changing there's a 95% chance that everything on the system is sleeping and just the display controller is being kept spun up. Battery requirements mean that DVCS on any mobile chipset is going to be really aggressive.

Either way GPU compute has a pretty large overhead both in terms of latency and scheduling. Earlier GPUs didn't schedule nice(hello waiting 16.6ms for your next compute request) and generally the type of places where you use SIMD(3D transforms, audio processing, etc) are so tightly coupled with other CPU operations that even the act of moving them to the SIMD registers is something you need to consider before diving into it. A lot of times waiting for some work queue to complete(or adding pipeline latency by waiting for next frame) just isn't feasible.
Only if cost isn't a big factor vs. space/power reqs for the specific application. For example, in my home NAS I have 5x spinning disks in a RAID 5 configuration and don't see myself switching to SSDs any time soon because doing so would be a huge cost increase for very little performance gain (network speed is the limiting factor).

I think spinning metal will be around for a while yet as a low-cost alternative when performance isn't critical. Remember, tape backups are still widely used and those things are ancient by tech standards.
FWIW, Electron actually supports all of those things, except the text rendering engine.
'Textbook Definition of Bias'
SIP (session initiation protocol).

It’s superior to the PSTN in every way, and problems like spam can be solved just like we did with emails (not to mention, there’s plenty of spam on the PSTN too).
Not a lawyer. However, isn't the usual advice, specially for CEOs, to keep quiet and not engage in any way? From a legal and PR perspective.

In any case, I find this to be refreshing. Enough with the sterile press releases drafted by lawyers.
I'm confused, to legally hire a nanny you need to start a legal entity and hire the nanny as a contractor/employee? It seems to me that this would be the nanny's responsibility to start a business and charge the customer (you) money for their service.

I'm sure you're much more familiar than me, can you help me correct my intuition?
To be fair, old Opera was (partially) ad-supported in the past. Not shady like this, though.
Dr. Rosie Bosworth discusses vertical farming and clean meat startups
Colorado has home rule cities with their own tax license, rules, submission. Even due dates van be different per municipality.

It's a system designed ages ago, not only pre-internet, but even pre-car.

For internet businesses it's really unworkable to require they submit anything other than state sales tax but even that is onerous due to registration fees and old and nonstandardized submission systems.
House cleaning is getting pieces mostly solved. I've used a Roomba and now a neato for a few years and the only real improvement I'd want is for the container to get automatically emptied into a larger can so I only have to empty it weekly/monthly
Good point. It's only half the distance without stopping since there is a full workday before going back, but it's still not close.

3 miles is pretty standard around here, I think about 75% of people could do it. (excluding small kids and bedbound elderly) (some of them will have muscle aches at first, maybe, and be really slow)
What I'm saying is that among entrepreneurs (of which I'm one) that I know, most forego health insurance in the early days because it's too expensive to buy on the individual market. And yes, damn right - if you're not healthy and risk-prone at the same time, you're probably better off not walking down that road and staying under the umbrella of an employer-sponsored health plan. It's sad that health costs can be prohibitive to starting businesses, but it's a reality.
Soviet Union also had concentration camps, Nazis don't have a monopoly on them.
Fair enough, but it still seems like the language you're looking for, feature-wise.
The screen of a mobile device is off just as much (or more) as it is on. More and more processing is happening in the background, when user is not actively doing something.
> The disparate impact doctrine is extremely controversial, especially the ever more aggressive applications of it.

What's mostly controversial is fictitious applications of it.

> For example, it’s (generally and presumptively) illegal to hire based on intelligence tests, but totally okay to hire only from elite universities that select students largely on the basis of SAT scores, which correlate very strongly with IQ.

No, it's not. Both policies have differential impact, and both have the same requirement of a tight connection to job performance under disparate impact analysis. The main relevant differences are:

(1) There is an widespread cargo cult belief, including among many people involved in hiring, that IQ tests are categorically illegal in hiring, so people avoid them in part based on a prohibition that does not actually exist, and

(2) The same false belief above also is common among workers, so they are particularly likely to seek legal counsel if they experience an adverse hiring decision and were subjected to an IQ test; at which point they are likely to discover the actual disparate impact rule. People who have adverse results and were, even overtly, subjected to another criteria which might invoke disparate impact analysis are less likely to seek a remedy.

(3) IQ tests are overt and the failed applicant is unlikely to be ignorant of the standard used; places that filter strictly by elite universities rarely disclose that, they just require a resume and apply opaque criteria to it. Even if those criteria (such as an elite university filter) would provoke disparate impact analysis, it is difficult for an injured party to know what criteria were used (and to prove what criteria were used even if they know or suspect that one was used that would be subject to disparate impact analysis.)
Thanks for the quick response. I guess I’ll try to be more specific. What are they specifically looking for and how are they measuring that?

Granted, everyone wants the “smart, motivated” + some other synonym for a great person. But are they looking only at c.s grads from surrounding Bay Area schools/Ex-Google and the like?
Thank you for sharing your experiences and insight. I hope your oldest is able to find his way and pursues his passion.
Report: San Mateo Co. Only Built 3,800 Homes While Adding 72K New Jobs
100k or 200 transactions... that 200 bar is pretty easy to hit w/ monthly subscription SaaS providers.
We use git for all our code and svn for our electrical design files. These work reasonably well for engineers but not for non-engineers (sales, marketing, admin, corporate). We tried using svn with word processing files (word and open office). This generally sucked.

So we’re tryig something new: google docs. Recently we migrated our file server to google drive and have been moving from open office to google docs.

Google docs works great for light weight version control of non-engineering documents. Just name a revision as x.x.x and only distribute named revisions. This obviously only works for documents with a single “branch” but for 99.9% of our non-engineering version control needs, this works GREAT!
> You'd think something this important would be all over hacker news and social media

It's the top story on... Hacker News.
"You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole."
Can you name even a single app that _actually does this_
Orlando Becomes First Airport to Require Face Scans of All Intl. Travelers
I think his point was as a consumer it is difficult to know your final bill since some items are exempt, some are taxed at a lower rate, etc.
Here are some moral judgements against Elon:

* shopped around US cities to bargain for the most corporate welfare tax breaks for his gigafactory, effectively shoveling the taxburden onto the residents.

* promised so many new jobs to Reno for the gigafactory, but most of the construction contracts were given to out of state construction firms.

* uses "third party" contractor loopholes to separate workers from the company so they can be easily over worked (12 hour shifts) then discarded

* same is true for the tesla factory in CA.

* overworks the engineers at SpaceX and throws them away if they don't work 7 days a week.

* started paypal, whose profits derive from circumventing banking laws by claiming not to be a bank, whose reputation for stealing/freezing money is unsurpassed by anyone except criminal enterprise.

So I'm sorry bud. I don't have any sympathy because some guy copied your files. In fact this is likely just a publicity stunt.
Wife is on ProjectFI and I'm on Ting. I may switch over to FI when the Pixel 3 is launched but I'll miss Ting. Ting could teach customer service, it is a pleasure to call them, plus they play the theme to Buckaroo Banzai if there is a queue.
What is a country with lots of cheating?
10 Programming Books You Need to Read
I liked Takasebune by Mori Ougai as a short parable that's written very powerfully.
It's easier to sort broken glass cullet than bottles.[1]

The actual sorting step scans each small piece of glass cullet individually, and air jets kick different types into different outlets. This is very fast - 30 metric tons an hour.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkILrp11Jq0
Aventus Blockchain Ticketing Is Live on Ethereum Mainnet
That's awesome to hear. I'm thankful for your insight and feel encouraged to know that I'm not the only one. I'm starting to realize that it would be good for me to grow my local network with individuals such as yourself. Having people to talk who can better understand and appreciate my uniqueness is important for general mental health.
has there been any generation that laughed in horror and derision at anything in history till now?
I couldn't find exact numbers, but extrapolating from the one that I did find [1], it seems plausible that the # of PhD/Masters students starting businesses has stayed flat while the actual # of degrees awarded has doubled (US population in that time has only increased by ~30%).

To me this indicates that while there are increased barriers to starting a business, the trend is more reflective of a mix shift in the types of people who get higher degrees.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/08/number-phds-a...