skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool!

Now make it compelling for folks who like ONeNote!:)
At the same way that you can force everything in a deterministic or non deterministic Turing machine, depending from the problem.
But something that is just looking at data and relationships, akin to a relational database, while extremely powerful, can’t solve every problem in the world.
There are much better tools for that.
And they have something more than just data and relationships.
I guess his point is that fish do things which are way-out crazy by ape standards... like Nemo's family group in which the biggest one literally becomes female:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphiprioninae#Reproduction
. Getting a bit horny after the footy isn't quite the same category.
The fundamental problem I see is that doctors treat patients as threats to be managed: They will take too much time, they might sue, they will misinform you, they tire you out (per another comment). That's not a healthy attitude and it doesn't lead to productive relationships.

My experience with doctors is that they are unprofessional: Their communication skills are poor, causing potentially dangerous misconceptions (someone mentioned a secret 5 minute rule; what if critical info is in the 6th minute?), and a lack of understanding on my part (they barely listen so they don't know the question and therefore don't answer it); they are disrespectful, often treating patients like mentally challenged children (5 minutes and that's it, and we won't tell you there's a time limit), have no regard for patients' time[0], and won't return phone calls or emails; they are often sloppy and often unprepared, which I know from personal experience[1] and from the fact that hospital errors are a leading cause of death (at least in the U.S.).

Doctors behave as if they are the only ones challenged by constrained time, by communicating with clients, and by weariness at the end of the day. But every other profession, from lawyers to accountants to IT consultants, has the same problems and deals with it. My lawyers and accountants master communication skills, respect clients, and are productive. I want to say: Grow up, be a professional, I don't give f- that you're tired and busy, so am I. Every other profession manages.

[0] I'm busy too; I have people waiting for me too; how about if I make you sit around for an hour in the middle of your day? Doctors commonly schedule patients to come before the doctor will be ready, to make sure the doctor doesn't have to wait - as if their time is more important than mine. They fall behind schedule every day, making patients wait - after the third day, you learn and adjust your schedule; after three years, it's just complete disrespect for patients' time. One doctor I had to see regularly for awhile would schedule me at 8:15 and wander in at 8:45 with a bagel, coffee, and reading the news. Another schedules his entire day at the same time in the morning, and patients just sat around the waiting room all day; after 2 hours, I asked others and the nurse, found out what was going on (and that it was his standard procedure), and left; the woman waiting for hours in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank and nurse apparently didn't have that option.

[1] Just off the top of my head: Seeing a doctor for a second opinion on a serious back problem. When the doctor walked in, opened the file, and started reading, I told myself she was just refreshing herself. Her advice was for the wrong problem in the wrong part of my back; when I tried to tell her, she didn't listen and when she finally realized it, she just tried to cover for herself.
They also dislike long stories, as evidenced by their short tails.
How to hear (and delete) every conversation your Google Home has recorded
That is the power of the circle.
Although I loved this paper, he isn't fair to MULTICS in it. MULTICS had a nice, feature set:

http://multicians.org/features.html

After Karger et al pentested it...

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf

...it also got a security upgrade. Its security profile was stronger than most other OS's. Although mostly a flop, its combo of features and security did cause some organizations to buy it. The last one shut down in year 2000. It was just too expensive ($7+ mil?) to justify in a market that, at the time, mostly cared about performance per dollar with security and maintenance activities a non-concern. On other hand, Burroughs B5000 and System/38 (later AS/400) were reliability/maintainability-focused products from that era that did manage to survive to present day.
I don’t concur.

Received a comp-sci degree in 2008 from a small liberal arts college. I was one of five grads in my year, and most of the last two years were not spent learning “practical” tech, but rather theories, algorithms, etc. My liberal arts educating taught me how to write, how to discuss solutions, explore tough concepts, break problems down into smaller subtasks, and more.

Skills are important. But theory matters too. Just because one has value does not rule out the other.
The surprising benefit of hiring interns to write your code
Journalists have tech conferences? That isn't quite what I meant.

What I mean is, what's the journalism equivalent of proggit or hacker news or arxiv - a place where people come together to debate the latest techniques for raising the quality of journalism on a massive scale? Do they have one? In all my years of reading I've never encountered a rigorous attempt by journalists to define new systems for better quality journalism or debate the decline in their trust.
I'm typing this on a desktop running NetBSD.
I'm calling your bluff, I don't think you have any counter-arguments to the article and you're leading with your best argument already: nitpicking one paragraph.

But we had this discussion before and I pointed out that Google, an online services provider with zero mobile experience and no name recognition had a very poor chance of convincing manufacturers to go for their unproven, inferior to pretty much anything OS (including Symbian and Blackberry).
They might as well have just licensed Windows.

Google not charging a license for the OS and making it open source must have been a big part of what convinced them to pick Android instead. It's just very logical that they would be swayed by price and the possibility of changing Android if they wanted to.

Why on earth would they pick Android otherwise?
Not exactly. I really enjoyed my undergrad and grad CS programs, but I agree I don’t get to use most of it in everyday work. I also haven’t exactly sought out places where I would yet.

I can’t speak for yters’ experience in school or work, not least since they didn’t name names.

Tech is a huge and diverse industry, but it seems to be treated homogenously when stuff like this comes up. Writing web apps in React is very different from game programming, mission-critical embedded, chip architecture, etc. I see much more demand for frontend devs than more specialized roles, and I think that should lead to lower enrollments in CS programs to match. Today it is way oversold (as I believe a lot of university is in America), but still necessary in some circumstances. For instance, someone teaching a bootcamp should probably have undergaduate level training in CS and/or teaching.

University and even bootcamps also serve as validating authorities that vouch for the abilities af the people they graduate. Maybe not perfect, but I don’t profess to know that licensure or some other method is better or worse. Programming jobs aren’t just about code, and uni/bootcamp isn’t just about learning code: you need discipline and self motivation, executive functioning, ability to research and navigate systems.

Is having a github repo with 1,000 stars now a necessary and/or sufficient condition to be talented?
We should praise people for speaking truth. Power has nothing to do with it. Cognitive genomics will confirm or disconfirm all the really shocking and offensive stuff very shortly. I have my priors and you have yours. We will see how it pans out.

In general we should do our best not to be offended by descriptive claims and hypotheses, as reality is not constrained by ideology, though we may pretend it is.
The paper also has some positive results (which TFA conveniently ignores), so also publishing a null result is quite nice.
It's weird that whenever talking about a remote place with nothing to do, people always recommend a brewery as the highlight.
Treat delivery startup, Doughbies, has abruptly shut down
> if you want to sell laptops with Windows you must agree to never sell laptops with other OSes

When Nvidia tried this move with its GeForce Partner Program just this year[1], they faced a social media shitstorm (rightly so). Similarly, Intel received a record fine by the EU in 2009 because it "made payments to some manufacturers in exchange of postponing, canceling or putting restrictions on the introduction or distribution of AMD-based products"[2].

I don't see how Google's behavior is any better just because parts of Android are open source, in fact it strikes me as even more dishonest.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326122/nvidia-geforce-pa...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/business/global/14compete...
First, that analogy is wrong. Android manufacturers have sold many devices running other operating systems, both free and proprietary. Second, pre-emptively accusing anyone who disagrees with you of pro-Google bias is fallacious.

There are no complaints about "Windows fragmentation", on the other hand, because you can't fork Windows at all. Or any other major OS, such as macOS or iOS.

GPL components such as the Linux kernel must be open sourced, but other parts of Android could have been made proprietary. Carriers and manufacturers only cared that Android was free-as-in-beer, not free-as-in-speech. The flip side of complaints that Android's development isn't community driven enough is that it's hard to turn around and claim Android owes its success to the open source community either.
What are good linux laptops for 2018?
I'm a developer who's getting a bit sick of the high price of apple laptops. Their hardware used to be more reliable and I could justify the price for a great trackpad (the best I've ever used honestly), good battery life and OSX. I realize though I spend most of my time in chrome and the terminal and in theory I could be spending a lot less for something almost as good. (Maybe something with a better keyboard?)

It's been years since I've looked at the PC ecosystem and I frankly it scares me. I have no idea what's a marker of quality and what I can trust.

What are good linux laptops for 2018?
The author's more recent work is here:

http://arc.cecs.pdx.edu/publications
In ancient greece they were just as certain that consciousness comes from the liver. It's hard to know which facts that are completely obvious and self-evident to us today, will be considered silly and misguided in the future as you new evidence arises.
This attitude is exactly why people don't trust journalists (and that's a fact, check opinion polls). You flatly reject even the very idea that journalism can improve or become better.

Yes, selection of facts is a place where bias can enter. But parking that issue for a moment, modern journalism is awash with false claims, retracted stories and repetition of clearly wrong statements made in interviews or by sources. In many cases, basic knowledge of statistics or even just using common sense would be sufficient to challenge the source, check the claim and drop it - but it doesn't happen.

There's such a vast gulf between the rigour you find every day in engineering and the mental sloppiness you find in journalism that I'm not even sure journalism can be reformed: your own post here indicates you never even tried.
Do you think the mobile market would be less healthy without the OHA that the article criticizes; say, if Asus were allowed to build Fire Tablets for Amazon without risking its own Android phone business?
Can you elaborate a bit?
What kind of DE?

Openbsd user here:-)
The story of one latency spike (2015)
It's not about past crimes and past wrongs; it's more about rising moral standards and rising expectations of peace and comfort.

The past was just a lot more brutal than the present. Judgement should be in that context.
The original thought was, that it wouldnt need to know, it would get the operands on a tail-call eliminated, recursive need to know basis- very slow, but very space efficient, basically lazy re-compute it every time its needed.

Still was wrong.
Clever Beagle is a great starting point as it's optimized to how Meteor works. Ryan Glover, the brains behind CB and Meteor Chef, is both generous and smart.
Actually that's mostly true. Rubin's open source Android didn't have to stay open source. But there was no choice, unlike Apple Google didn't plan on making the phone. So they had to have a lot of partnerships with OEMs and carriers.

And as Google was trying to sell that phone (with keyboard and no touchscreen) and OS to carriers Apple launched the iPhone. At this point Rubin and Google changed course and made their phone and OS less Blackberry and more iPhone because they were smart enough to realize that was the future.

The only way to make it work, to convince carriers and fight Apple, was to keep it open source. Or to sign it away to the carriers :).

Rubin himself said that the iPhone was the thing that made them reconsider their entire strategy and come up with the first Android phone as we know it.

If you're curious about the story there's a good book with all the behind the curtain details: Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution.
The way I understand it, is that the Cold War was actually a War, although we forget about it, but the propaganda arms of the governments did not allow anyone to be a human being, you must be either a heroic figure or a villain. Maybe it is human nature to idealize, and in conflict to hyper-idealize.

The thing we also don't hear about, is his book "Two hundred years together", which IIRC was never even translated because it was so anti-semitic.
The typical user might not need https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave support. I think understanding the limitations is important though. Being fast vs being accurate.

Country boundaries change over time and there's many disputed areas (let's say the Kashmir region. Are coastline or maritime borders used (useful for island states)? Explaining how and when the master data was created would help. Ideally a repeatable process. If the master data came from a different source then the possible license should be named.

How are coordinates rounded? I see geohash is used.

Simplified boundaries as input also have an effect.
Have you read the paper or just the review? I'm interested in your opinion as an experienced reviewer whether this article appropriately evaluates the paper.
Curious if one looked at their back issues from the end of the 60s whether you'd see similar pieces re Limits to Growth, massive food shortages, choking to death on pollution, etc.
What's wrong with the book ?
I have read it and I think it provides a great introduction to Unix.
A big part of Secondlife is object and scripting development.
Born in Denmark to a Danish father and American mother. When you're born on foreign soil to an American parent that parent declares your birth to the United States and you receive a Consular Report of Birth Abroad: your US birth certificate.

I know for a fact the Danish state allows for dual-nationals because I just renewed my Danish passport and because of new biometrics requires dual-nationals to give a copy of this Report.

There's one big downside to all this, since Denmark now knows very clearly I am two people. Should the state decide to revoke this law I will most likely be forced to choose. Which would be unfortunate, since I can't imagine living in just one or the other country.
Sure, and they also used a geocentric model of the solar system. Should we weigh our certainty of the truth of the heliocentric model the same as they weighed the truth of the geocentric model despite our vastly superior scientific methodology and body of evidence?
>The brain is a wet computer.

>Consciousness is what thinking feels like.

Do you think computers are conscious?
It’s a Will Self article. Par for the course.
Thought experiment. Would S. be supportive of Russia and Putin in 2018?
Autonomous vehicles will make deliveries become almost free. This in turn will make food delivery explode, to the point of kitchen becoming an option in houses.
In general, owning stuff won't be as important as before because you'll be able to simply borrow anything you need.
I probably don't - my experience is very one-sided, as I've never tried Kubernetes.
Should also check out Singleton's in Proctorsville. Guns, booze, Carhartts, smoked meat ... it's a classic.

Stemwinder & Homestyle Hostel are good dinner/drinks spots in Ludlow.
This title really reads like something from The Onion.
most embassies are unable to help if you are in the country of your other citizenship. e.g. i won't get "help" from the UK if I'm in trouble in NZ (UK/NZ national)
I think the rules should be simple:

If the government ever mentions any part of a standard in any law or binding regulation, that standard becomes public domain, forever. Because the law must be publicly available.

This would effectively be government action taking rights away from the copyright holder. So, when such a mention occurs, the government must pay a fair price to the copyright owner, as required by the eminent domain clause of the US Constitution.

This satisfies the public interest in making the standards freely available, while making sure the people who developed the standards are paid for their work. Thus preserving the economic viability of having the private sector develop these technical standards.
The government does use eminent-domain like powers for patents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_patent_use_(United_.... But using eminent domain costs money (the government must pay "just compensation"). That's a hard sell here. Take, for example, the ASTM standard on diesel fuel (an example used in the opinion). Only companies selling diesel fuel have to know what's in the standard--they are the ones charged with following the law, not Joe Everyday on the street. Using eminent domain would vindicate the abstract principle that the law should be freely accessible, but as a practical matter it would just save a few bucks for big companies that can afford to pay for the standards.
> As far as I'm concerned, after Wittgenstein, philosophy has had nothing to do. All the "big questions" are either answerable scientifically as a matter of neurology or they're ill-posed and nonsensical.

Science is in the business of answering what is. It can't answer normative questions, i.e. those about what ought to be. That, at the very least, is one of the domains that philosophy is still both sensible and productive.[1]

As others have pointed out below, this article was written from the analytical perspective -- the tradition that stands in contrast to continental thought and critical theory.

[1]: Which is only to say that only a single counterexample is needed to invalidate a claim about "all the big questions." There are plenty of fields besides ethics where philosophy inquiry continues to be relevant and productive.
Microsoft was fined in 2009 for bundling IE with Windows. At the time IE had... 65.5% market share. Today's Google market share is larger than that in basically every segment that counts.
First time I see Amazon book reviews from 1999!
I was reminded of that by the recent news in France after they won the world cup https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/989289/world-cup-final-...
If you restrict the realm of phenomena to just what you can explain and thus believe it is real, then you will conclude that you can explain everything.
Why do you hate beer?

;)

Breweries are God's/Cosmos' gift to us mortal, fallible, sinful men.
Sure . . . but they might have made more money with someone with better technical skills. Additionally, Ballmer had some dogma (Jack Welch style up-or-out review system, the "everything has to be Windows" nonsense [1]) that did a lot of damage.

We'll never know. But Satya seems to be doing very well indeed with a combination of better technical direction and removing Ballmer-era toxicity.

[1] On one project I worked on was an embedded system, and I joked that the only way that Ballmer would let it ship (if he'd known about it) would be to rename it "Microsoft Windows, Event-Loop-and-Some-Interrupt-Handlers Edition," whereupon it didn't matter what the heck the software looked like on the inside. As long as it said "Windows" somewhere on the outside, he'd be happy.
I’m with you.

It’s been a struggle to reconcile life on it and off it.

For six years I pinned. EW or EOD or ED. I got tired of it. It was consuming, and I felt like an addict.

Testosterone is a carnal experience.

I got tired of the mood swings. I felt amazing but, unstable. Certain things were not stable. My relationships specifically.

I’m off it now, and I have to say, life is not as colorful, not as intense, not as visceral, not as exciting.

My sex drive is average.

I retained a lot of muscle mass. I still look good, and healthy. But I am a larger human being. I don’t see that changing too much. I’m not as lean. My hair has receded faster than it otherwise would have if I never took it. I have more bodyhair, specifically the back and chest and stomach, which isn’t all that sexy. I used to shave it. But I don’t even care anymore. Take me as I am.

I miss the pump. The fullness. The excitement. The leanness. The vascularity. The ability to have sex 10 times in a row. The euphoric organisms that were like pure ecstasy. I loved sex.

The endless energy.

But I also felt like it was all artificial. That I was not really this person without it. And it was self obsessive. Mostly worried about what other people thought. It was so carnal, so... superficial. Physical.

That didn’t leave me feeling too great.

I think about getting back on. I’d look better. I’d feel better. It’s like the best antidepressant, if you can handle occasional mood swings and intense reactions.

But I’m happy. I’m calmer. My life is more consistent. The highs aren’t are high, but neither are the lows. The relationship with my girlfriend has gotten more stable. The fact that I’ve had a girlfriend more than a year is a testament to being off.

I’m focusing on my intellectual pursuits once again.

Maybe when I’m approaching 40 I’ll consider TRT again.

Until then, I’m okay with the way things are, and the way I am.
Minor correction - "Two Hundred Years Together" was never (edit: officially) translated into English; but was translated into French and German at the least.
Ecuador will hand over Julian Assange to the UK
I love how un-apologetically "skeumorphic" this blog is. Ah, I miss the days...
Let’s burn all history books while we’re at it.

After all, nothing can be learned from the past.
You only think you know so much because you don't know what you don't know.

For example, a "model" cannot be "true". A model is a model, reality is a different thing.
Look again. In different ways, moral standards have fallen.
You have an infallible source for this correctness? Offensive to some, sure, not NYT material... that's OK.

We have a lot to learn about viruses. And viral-like ways in which life uses genetic material, that don't quite fit into how we're used to thinking. Probably he's wrong about this idea, but generating lots of such hypotheses & finding ways to test them seems like a great idea.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17540094

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139798
> I have many degrees in computer science

If you have many I'm going to assume that's at least three. Surely that's a PhD then? Otherwise you've been standing still doing multiple bachelors or masters degrees, which wouldn't make any sense.

If you've done a PhD and then go into a field which didn't need that research, then that's unusual. Why did you bother with the PhD?