skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall some effort in moving from imperial measurement to metric. Reality itself does not care, but the math sure gets easier if you carefully select units.

Actually, another neat example is analog vs digital computation. your models can get very different answers. I recall some Mandelbrot guy talking about that.
At its peak (in the early 40s) it had 4.5M people living in it, and only has about 3.5M people living there now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_population_statistics#/...

The city was built for a population bigger than its current population.
As an interesting note, it doesn't work with MS Office.
EDIT: I rewrote this comment because I thought it was too combative, and not with the guidelines.

So. I think that the idea that we should tax the high earners of their entire income is a very bad idea! Would it not destroy the motivation of those top earners to work hard, to keep innovating, and to strive for success? It also makes the assumption that, should we take the income away from the top earners, that the state will do a better job at putting that money back into the economy. I think that assumption is incorrect. A person who has figured out how to make 5M a year, whether it's through advertising or a manufactured product, is probably better at capital allocation than a bureaucrat or politician.

You also mention that "the root cause needs to be addressed." Unfortunately, we don't know what the root cause of wealth inequality is, and all historical attempts at "fixing the root cause" with wealth redistribution have ended in catastrophe; we really do need to remember that because your comment is quite similar to Marx's famous quote "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". In fact, unequal distribution of resources is a natural law, called the Pareto Principal, and it is everywhere: The height of trees, number of progeny of chimps, number of players that win Monopoly in a given game... Inequality is not an evil force, it is a natural force that has been fought historically at the great peril of the populations that decided to fight it.

Now, perhaps there is some variation of this progressive tax law that encourages investment. Perhaps that is even suggested in your comment. I would be open to something that allowed people to have 5M/year in income, but above that, they were heavily incentivized to invest.
You're saying that, because Twitter is not allowing a custom emoji who's entire reason for existing is to be a negative attack on someone, it's censorship?
Ha, many people have asked for that :-) I jokingly suggested we should go get some VC and launch a plugin company...
It was an example of a cheap plan in the US.
Because before, it was even more affordable (prices doubled in the last ten years already) and before that there was no Berlin (in the form we know it today ...)
I'd say that to be offended by something you have to believe that things ought not to be that way and the fact that they are can only be a personal attack on you carried out by some evil forces. This is not too rational, so yes, most conservatives do not get offended. (Another reason could be that idea of loving thy neighbor as he is, not as you believe he should be.)
Controlled substance and cannot be prescribed more than 1mo supply at a time.
There's an interesting link between Facts 1 and 2 that the author misses:

> Fact #1: Since 1960, child deaths have plummeted from 20 million a year to 6 million a year.

About half of this reduction (from 20 - 10 million) is because:

> Fact #2: Since 1960, the fertility rate has fallen by half.

Globally, the population of young people has decreased. Child mortality has decreased, too, but not by a factor of 3.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.0014.TO.ZS World Bank reports 0-14 years, rather than 0-5 used for infant mortality.
I am still confounded how people continue to say that Tim Cook has no vision, as if he's simply some sort of bean counter with green shades who just lucked into become the CEO of one of the world's largest companies.

Tim Cook's vision is much larger than computers if you haven't been paying attention. Look, from what I can observe, ever smaller devices, lifestyle devices, the focus on privacy, their take on the cloud; Apple is looking to position itself to exist intimately in our lives. The only way to get there is to have the same level of trust that you do with family or even a lawyer.
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Why is that the case instead of, say, Twitter not wanting to turn custom emoji into attack ads?
What exactly do you mean here?

That you don't feel safe receiving your medicine being delivered last mile from some random UPS guy?

If this is what you mean -- I get my medicine by mail order from CVS. I cannot imagine now having to go to CVS every single month I get my medicine.
Hi HN,

This is Jon from the release announcement. AMA!
Amazing! Excited to see how this turns out!
True, and it seems you actually need exactly one extra bit for all positive numbers
I think it’s the banks way of taking some of the money before it’s legally taken by the state. In many if not all states, if a bank account is inactive for 3-5 years, the state considers it “lost” and takes the money until it’s claimed in the future. So the bank will try to drain as much as possible for themselves before that happens.
Because small claims court judges tend to side with the consumer in these cases.
Of course it does. That's why I just rephrased it for him in a way that isn't right-wing propaganda to maybe open his eyes.

"liberals are easily offended" is just right wing spin of the clear fact that the left have always cared more about real people.
From my readings the scientific consensus feels that we have disproved strong versions of linguistic relativity (Linguistic determinism; that languages determine the scope of how you think), but have mostly been in favor of many of the weak versions (Linguistic influence; that languages influence how you think).

The Wikipedia article you linked has some of the details, but they are obscured a bit if you aren't looking for them. The linked main article on Linguistic determinism has some more direct details in its Criticism section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_determinism
I would imagine that there is less than 1% of people under 50 that speak Romansh natively that don't speak another language fluently, most likely Swiss-German, but also English. With the huge amount of homogenization of culture around the world, I think its cool if some corners try and keep some differences. These Swiss are surely not suffering in some backwater area, unable to move to the big city if they want.
So because China aligned their term limits to Germany's they're now moving to be a dictatorship?

Or Germany's not a dictatorship, because they never had term limits in the first place?
‘Unsolvable performance problems’ that could have been fixed by adding an index??

How did these team members pass their job interviews?

By practicing algorithm puzzles?
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> > Integer & NULLS

> If the admin interface knows the field is required, why does it even attempt to insert a null value? It could return a validation error.

There's a lot going on here. In this case, you're telling the admin interface that nothing is required of the user. There could be a default value, for example. On the more technical side, blank and null are different concepts that are codified differently in different database systems. Here, in most systems, a integer attribute is nullable. If it were a string attribute, however, there are cases (Oracle) where null and the empty string are not distinguished, which is rather sensible for text.

This separation supports all of these modes.

I'll give you that `blank=True` lives in the wrong place in today's Django, but it was an early design and it stuck.
FWIW I've found MAAS and Juju the easiest way to get a Kubernetes cluster up and running on bare metal - I've not tried every other method though so YMMV :)
I had a full touch screen, color, icon grid of 3rd party apps, internet enabled, smart phone in 2001.

Samsung SPH-i300

I had multiple web browsers, email, irc client, telnet and ssh clients, and an open marketplace of thousands of 3rd party apps for every oddball purpose, like I had a resistor color decoder, netmask calculator, etc.

2001.

iphone came out in 2007, and had no 3rd party apps.
I often eat while computing for work and personal reasons. Since eating while using a keyboard is a fact of how I live and work, I use a keyboard condom when eating or drinking beverages (especially coffee).

Except for my smart phone, I don't really compute in the outdoors.

My go-to provider for keyboard covers is http://kbcovers.com (no relation except as a satisfied customer).

As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
hm, I did not know that. I'd picked up a perception that the Nazis were innovative in quite a few scientific disciplines, at least partially due to their complete disdain for ethics, but it sounds like that belief is unfounded.
I've been using a QRNN in PyTorch, is this similar to a TCN?

https://github.com/salesforce/pytorch-qrnn
There are a good amount of people who are "asking" those questions in bad faith. And, after a while, it gets exhausting to those who get bombarded with those questions. And those doing that in bad faith know it. It's kinda like a DDOS attack on them.
What Cloud Providers are less tolerant to abusers?
Two additional quotes from Bezos himself:

> "If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness."

> "If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table."
The GM brand that nearly died and the unlikely buyers saving it
> He didn't have vision, nothing he "made" was revolutionary at all, and he didn't make anything after the NeXT.

Maybe vision is the wrong word. You're right that he wasn't imagining the future most of the time. What he did have was a degree of objectivity and restraint. He wasn't blinded by the "wow" factor of a new technology and could objectively weight it's merits. Where as most tech companies try to cram the latest and greatest technology into their products to have an impressive bullet list to show around, he held back until he felt the technology was ready.
If someone figures out how to make 5M/year of income, I am absolutely certain they are better at capital allocation than the current administration. You are suggesting that they are not, and that we need to have the state decide where the money of the top earners go. I'm sorry, but we have tried that before. It does not end well.
In theory, there is some law that should prevent rent increases too much but you would not get anything like that anymore now. Now you get fixed term contracts and after that rent will increase by whatever amount is possible. The time you describe is over (and only valid for old but still existing contracts)
When people say they expect someone to implement cycle detection, they usually mean Floyd's algorithm.

Not necessarily. Sometimes the dataset only has on the order of 10k nodes, and you just want to warn users if they create a cycle, or keep particular routines from going into an infinite loop.

If you come up with something else (like tagging nodes), you get a strike for inefficiency.

A few days ago, I implemented cycle detection in an event notification system where the graph size is relatively small in just 4 lines of code, which should be immediately understandable by any competent programmer. That you should mandate Floyd's algorithm in all cases gives you a strike for pedantic design without regard to cost/benefit.
Your dislike of mercurial is noted. But that does not change the fact that the staging area is objectively confusing and hindering users (don't have a link to the study here that looked into it).
Ask HN: Is NPM having connectivity issues?
Yesterday there was an NPM issue which yielded 404 error messages [0].

However, `npm install` commands are taking too long (i.e. 10+ minutes instead of the usual 2-3 minutes for a given package.json file). The problem doesn't seem to be generalised: my computer located in Spain installs npm dependencies normally (no delay noticed) but on the Codeship pipelines for some of my projects are yielding timeouts due to the `npm install` command taking more than 10 minutes.

There are some issues opened on Github such as [1], but no official response yet.

Have you noticed this kind of problems during the last hours?

[0] https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/xt6t05ffsqfh

[1] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/21101
Not the person you replied to but I can answer: yes. Yes it is.
Amazon only has a supply chain issue because they allow 3rd party sellers to provide inventory with essentially no oversight.

I'm not sure anyone thinks Amazon will allow 3rd parties to sell prescription medications. Although if they want to let me cash in on my dead mother's extra chemo meds and pain pills, let me know where to sign up.
Surplus energy rides the 'gravity train'
Sounds like you're trying to work backwards from your production setup into a "toy" one. Honestly, HMR is a double-edged sword. Your son is much more likely to understand the fundamental HTTP request lifecycle if he needs to manually refresh, than if his environment does magical web-socket-based code rebinding.

I'd suggest going the opposite way: start off with vanilla local HTML files. At the very start, he's going to have his hands full with HTML and CSS, then eventually JS and dev tools. It will make way more sense for him down the road if you introduce templating/routing after he realizes the tediousness of copying and pasting layout changes across multiple HTML files.

For introducing server-side things, I'd suggest something web-centric like PHP. It may not be sexy, but it does two important things: 1) it won't bog him down as much as Node with configuration/plumbing stuff like setting up a database or adding static asset middleware, and 2) it will expand your son's horizon from just-javascript-development to polyglot development.
Since they don't have a pricing page (have to ask for a quote). In what price range are they in?
Maybe those bug fixes should be documented so that they don't look like cruft :)
I found this podcast[1] on the subject interesting. It should give you a sense for at least one direction the scientific community is going.

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2014/0...
Tip: “fake it til you make it” refers to emotions, not skills/knowledge
How many SREs does Google have on said IRC system?

How many SREs are at Slack, working on keeping their systems up?

Finally, how many SREs could your company dedicate to keeping an internal IRC server up, and supporting it as an internal product?

I can throw ircd on a server; no problem, but there's a little bit more to 6 nine's of uptime than `apt-get install`, the decision wether to use IRC or not should keep in mind Google's resources (in number of people, number of data centers, and amount of money to throw at redundant hardware) to make sure it never goes down, especially when the data center is on fire around you.
Here's the hip-hop group referenced in the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRvM2KKDeGA
> Cultures that have lost the evolutionary race, who failed to instill competitive world comprehension in the carrier population, are not really useful.

I was thinking the other day about that language that has no relative left/right and instead everything is based on (effectively) compass direction. The speakers reportedly have excellent direction sense compared to the average non-speaker. Their language is much more efficient at certain tasks we struggle with (English has crutches like "stage left", "starboard", and "your left" to compensate, but unless expected and practiced those are always effort/error prone. I myself fail at simple right/left way too often.)

Obviously this is a linguistic (and arguably cultural) trait with some value, without denying the value of also having relative kedtýright.

This language is unique (? or at least very rare), which tells me it failed to spread. Logical, as it would be hard for non-native speakers to pick up.

But that means "losing the evolutionary race" has no particular relation to the VALUE to us.
Hopefully sooner? I think, hopefully never. As soon as you take the money away from the geniuses, the insanely industrious businessmen, and allow the lame bureaucrats and politicians to decide where it goes, then you destroy a generation: No more will angsty, thirsty, motivated young bloods work 20 hour days for a decade to build a business.
She’s been charged with fraud, which carries a jail sentence. So most likely, yes.
I do not agree with anything that you said. However, it is an argument and a basis for a discussion.

You state that such a discussion should not occur, and that those new parents should not have access to those (including our pediatrician, by the way) who state that the current schedule is much too aggressive and can safely be spaced out.

Denying new parents the opportunity for such a discussion is pure and simple arrogance and it does nobody any good except the egos of those who engage in that censorship.

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Whackadoodles. Nice. The arrogance is strong in this one.

Your own linked article (about not a study, but merely a survey whose demographics and actual questions are hidden from us) states that parents concerns should not be dismissed. This is a discussion about censorship, and you've shown yourself only too willing to engage in it.
What about tf.keras? https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r1.9/programmers_guide/k...
They said sometime in June I thought, and we're nearing the end without any communication. Wonder if they’ve hit a snag.
Just to be clear; members of the party controlling all 3 branches of government and putting children in internment camps is mad about not getting an icon from a website. Got it.
The leaders of Home Depot have come out in favor of conservative ideas. Does that mean Home Depot censors liberal things?
> Rust for example uses Hindley-Milner type inference, putting it squarely in the functional camp.

That's not a very good way to characterize functional programming languages. Obviously you can do functional programming without type inference (see Lisp), and type inference is similarly applicable to non-functional languages (see OCaml's purely imperative sublanguage).

Also, as far as I can tell, Rust uses (a modification of) the Hindley-Milner algorithm to infer lifetimes, not types. As languages in the functional camp typically don't have lifetimes, this argument is a bit strange.
From my perspective there's little reason to be building html serving webservers these days.

1) Frontend React+Redux paired with an API (eg golang http server serving json)

2) Your boss is going to want "APIs!" soon anyways. le sigh.

3) IMO its as easy to do a JSON API HTTP server in golang as python, but you get typesafety, compiled code and multicore ...
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Having the same problems on my end.
Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
If you really mean tense, then there are plenty of languages without tense at all. E.g. Chinese. They seem to be doing ok.

It is not necessary to have a grammatical future tense to talk or think about the future. In fact, English does not have a future tense in the technical grammatical sense of 'tense'.

More generally, there's no evidence for the existence of human languages with the sort of lack of expressive power that you're talking about. All languages appear to be more-or-less equivalent in their expressive power, although of course that does not imply that exact translation is possible in all instances.
I had the impression when going there- that many of the misconceptions where copy pasted from the Japanese stereo type of mid 80s fame.

At the southern coast, china actually has a Mediterranean, Italian/Cote d Azure flair- and the people seemed to have a similar relaxed attitude to live.
Choosing who to associate with is also a form of speech.
The issue isn't fakes, it's the fact over medication is a real problem.
Thank heavens that where I live drug advertising is illegal. After a visit to the US and encountering the brainwash machine of drug companies I realized just how important this law is.
I've heard that, but I'm skeptical: does Dell maintain the integration, or do they just install Ubuntu on it? If I seem to have a problem with the integration between the installed touchpad, who do I go to? The Ubuntu forums, or Dell support?
Yeah, the penalties for selling fake insulin are muuuuuuuuuuuccccccchhh greater for distributors than selling a fake Gucci belt. Also the number of companies with licenses to sell regulated substances is pretty small making it really easy to validate.
I mail order my recurring prescription medicines from the hospital pharmacy all the time. No waiting in line and they give me a substantial discount.
There is not such thing as an "evolutionary race". Race to where?

Would be OK to forget how to make stone tools because we don't need them for now?

Traits are useful in some circumstances and not some useful when circumstances change, who say you would not miss them in the future?

Knowledge is knowledge, it adds to our always imperfect understanding of the world.
I agree. You can use the same algorithm for computing both. But Arabic has better constants. Because it's a discrete convolution instead of grouping and aggregating.

1 6
1 1 6
7 7 42
1, 6+7, 42 = 100 + 130 + 42 = 272

Same process in Roman

X V I
X C L X
X C L X
I X V I
I X V I
I X V I
CC LL(=C) XXXXX(=L) VVV(=XV) III = CCCLXVIII = 16*23=368

This supports the arguments that Arabic numbers really are better suited for things like multiplying. They don't have the property that multiplication is convolution, so you can't even do things like truncate your computation to get an approximation.

There's probably a way to formalize this with an entropy argument: that roman numerals are inefficient encoding. Because given some n-length string of numerals, firstly many are invalid encodings, and secondly among the valid numerals there isn't a uniform distribution from strings to integers. Something like that.
No, TCN is similar to WaveNet (dilated convolutions + masking the future + residual connections). It's a plain convnet, not an LSTM with a twist. That's why it runs efficiently in parallel on GPUs, like image processing convnets.
>> but one idiom I teach is "slow is smooth, smooth is fast"

Same saying is used frequently in the fire service. We teach cadets things like throwing ladders, we start slow and practice, practice,practice until it's a fluid smooth motion.

Also we teach them how to breathe, right from the go. Proper breathing enhances focus. Then a simple reminder "breathe" and they remember to slow down their mind.

If you want to talk about excitable, look at a rookie firefighter jumping on a fire engine with sirens and lights blazing on the way to a structure fire. We try to get them in a relaxed, focused state as quickly as possible.
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It bugs me probably more than it should, but I find it strange that issue 0x09 was followed by 0x10 instead of 0x0a...
You're trying really hard to find a connection between implementing a GC and debugging memory leaks... and failing.

I spent years at a vendor for a Virtual Machine. That you would compose such a sentence shows that you are ignorant of some aspects of optimization. You don't even know what you don't know, and projected that ignorance on another.

The whole freaking point of a GC like say Java's is that an average programmer can use it without having to understand how exactly it's implemented.

One of my company's most frequent consulting tasks was helping clients optimize to maximize throughput for the generational GC. That you jumped to the conclusion that I was talking about memory leaks is pretty damning.