skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of good comments. It sounds like you have lots of programming breadth, the question is how much depth you have, can you be a regular programmer or are you a special area of knowledge type programmer. You don't sound like a UI programmer necessarily from that skillset.

1. Data science is often deeper stats knowledge, less programming (ie can sketch something up together using python and libraries, then a programmer can take over to make it production). But you have to understand stats and ideas. I'd expect you to do this or pick it up. Most CS people aren't very deep in stats, so you can do better than them in that area.

2. Regular programming jobs - I think this would be a bit harder to start in. Companies will not know how to evaluate all that various different experience. So you'll have to find something that matches up with a companies needs.
a. Maybe some scientific or statistical scientific programming, other than data science?
b. Maybe you can find some open source project to contribute to to show you capabilities.

You could take a very short term gig to build up your resume and confidence of what programming is like today.

Interviews - interviews at many companies are unfortunately more about passing a potentially tricky design problem. Try to do one or two problems every day or two at one of the "leet" code type sites. When I interviewed recently at several big-software-cos I was surprised to get multiple leet code problems - and I'm a software engineer with 20 years experience, working on infrastructure.

You should search for data science interview questions to get ready for that. There's huge demand for different kinds of software expertise, but you will have to work and network to get through until you can talk to engineers and interview.

I could boil all this down to:

1. data science looks very promising for you
2. look on linked-in for companies hiring
3. search for data science interview questions on the web
4. interview and get that job!
Keynes wrote that that would be one way - although, he stressed, not actually a good way - of escaping from a liquidity trap.

The real irony is that he was actually decrying digging gold out of the ground and burying it in vaults as he wrote that and among his critics, that kind of "digging a hole in a ground and filling it up" is typically considered above reproach.
Another explanation I’ve heard is widespread adoption of new technologies that have a lot of deflationary force behind them. E.g. Amazon giving consumers extreme price discovery, forcing companies to compete on price. Fracking and other new extraction technologies keeping oil prices down. Businesses adopting new tech to lower costs. Globalization (enabled by tech) keeping wage growth in check.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/commentaries/2018/07/24/...
Mars: Chance of global extiction event mostly uncorrelated with Earth

Antarctica: Chance of global extiction event almost literally 100% correlated with Earth

Mars: Surface gravity 3.7 m/s², escape delta-v 5km/s

Antarctica: Surface gravity 9.8 m/s², escape delta-v 11km/s

> every metric you can think of

I thought of two in under a minute with almost no effort.
I haven't studied QE specifically so I can't address that directly, but it might be helpful to think about what inflation is and how this behavior changes in a depression. Inflation is an increase in the general price level of all goods and services.

The global economy left to its own devices would likely have entered a full-blown depression, and deflation usually accompanies this. The decrease in demand across the economy puts a great downward pressure on prices, this puts pressure on decreasing costs, this puts pressure on decreasing wages, and so on. You have a real threat of a deflationary spiral as demand further dries up due to people having less money to spend on goods and services.

So, as a lot of economists argued, there was a significant threat of a deflationary spiral facing the economy, more than any threat of inflation getting out of control, which had already been low to begin with.
> Very classy of you to post this kind of biased and offensive comment.

I don't know how my comment was "biased and offensive", I even said I liked the approach in general? I pointed out factual inaccuracies and things that don't make sense in your landing page copy and sample report, that's all.

> I am not spamming people. I send them a request if they can fill out the survey to help a company. All of the people we contacted agreed to be contacted.

I was using "spamming" in the sense of "mass-emailing people". This introduces a non-response bias.

> the question "How accurately do you think this idea solves the problem?" should explain that.

I still don't understand this question. Does a flower shop _accurately_ solve the need for floral gifts? It's just not a term I would use in this context, but ok, hopefully your survey respondents will understand what it means :).

> Sorry, I can guarantee you that's not what you're doing." - great, how?

Let's suppose I place an order for the following idea "I want to open up a burger food truck next to the AmeriCar Insurance office building in Chappaqua, NY" - this is your example on your landing page. No problem, right? Please don't make promises that you can't keep.

I'm not saying one or the other approach is better - there's definitely a need for both, I just don't think that you can consistently deliver this. Good luck!
This means that Dactyl can rediscover grasps found in humans, but adapt them to better fit the limitations and abilities of its own body.

Then why not evolve commensurate dexterity with mechanically simpler manipulators than a human hand? I'd bet that a robot with 4 arms with 4 different specialist manipulators and a few specialist tools (like a generalized screw-threading tool) could eventually be more efficient than a human with 2 human arms. You can even see this happening in real life, powered by human brains. The kind of dexterity people can get out of a crude instrument like a backhoe is very impressive.

The simpler device will always have an economic advantage.
Just in case it was not obvious from the URL (/tmp/p), this is not a durable URL and not guaranteed to last there.
> so according to you paying to pretty much-untargeted people to answer questions is better than getting some of the relevant people to fill out the survey? Interesting.

Could you address this feedback directly instead of making a straw man? How do you prevent non-response bias?
r/nootropics
The Chinese dictatorship is literally setting up concentration camps in Xinjiang.

"Zenz’s research demonstrates that such facilities are not only of significant size, with some exceeding 10,000 square metres, but also are akin to concentration camps: Many bids mandate the installation of comprehensive security features that turn existing facilities into prison-like compounds: surrounding walls, security fences, pull wire mesh, barbwire, reinforced security doors and windows, surveillance systems, secure access systems, watchtowers, and guard rooms or facilities for armed police."

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/xinjiangs-tran...

It's pretty disgusting how another previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17645273 has people wanting 'new leadership from China' to lead the world
DNS for letsencrypt.org broken
Personally mine is only a year old, but I don't think it matters that much.

Like everything it depends on what you are doing. If you are doing frontend work that requires you to have 3 browsers open at a time + an Electron-based editor + a dev server you are going to need a lot more than someone who is writing low-level C code in Vim.

As an aside: newer =/= better.
> Then why, oh why, do we have so many people who spout, "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"

It's a joke/dank maymay that Haskells still find funny long after it's pissed everyone else off.

The idea is that since category theory is described as "generalized abstract nonsense" by its practitioners, describing monads in terms of their strict category-theoretical definition helps no one, especially those new to Haskell. The problem is that unless your audience is steeped in category theory, they can't appreciate the irony of the situation and you just come off sounding like a dick.
Yeah, that's my feeling too. No one is "losing" these books. Archival libraries like the Library of Congress exist and are very good at their jobs. (Though I still cry sometimes that the Google Books project didn't work out as originally envisioned).

Local libraries should be serving their community, and that involves making hard choices about spending their existing floor and storage space to make the most useful content available.
Thank you. No, I wasn't thinking of "herbal tea" in that sense. Not of L-theanine.

Rather, of people promoting [product] without having real knowledge of it, including appropriate application and dosage.

This would be more in the vein of traditional Chinese medicine. Only, "intuitively", without the normal training and basis in extensive empirical observation condensed into an effective curriculum, apprenticeship, or similar proven method of conveyance.
Do we need an article every few days on Xinjiang? These articles reveal nothing new.
I would add "- Better stack traces" to the pros.
There's still a Space Age Inn in Gila Bend, AZ.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/best-western-space-age-lodge-gila-b...
I was talking worldwide not just to the US. Shipping to the US is an example of sth completely different - US actually paying for being taken over https://www.google.pl/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard...)
Thanks!

1. Breakpoints are definitely something we’ve heard and are actively working on!

2/3. Another great idea - would love to hear more about what you hope to extract from the full css diff, versus change by change? The patch file/PR is an awesome idea and something we definitely want to push on as we integrate more with the chrome dev tool api :)

- Jono
I've been waiting for TypeScript to solve the problem of param destructuring, but surely this is not it?

Param destructuring is one of the absolute best features of ES2015. TypeScript breaks it.

Reading this page I can't actually tell if param destructuring is even being addressed but I can see alot of at first glance weird and obtuse looking code.

Not an obvious up front win.
Serverless architecture certainly benefits from a localhost-first environment with mock data and unit test feedback prior to deployment.

But then... any architecture benefits from localhost-first.
One neat thing is that their fallback mechanism is to have a human being sort out the mess. There are offices full of people whose job it is to find a workaround or at least smooth ruffled feathers. Sometimes it doesn't work out.
Change in amount money available relative to goods/services available causes inflation/deflation

Money and credit can both can be used to buy goods/services. Role of credit here is/was underestimated by economists.

In 2008, bunch of credit was destroyed. In response, central banks printed money, bought assets These things generally netted out.
I get the sense that that relationship will reverse itself as soon as the market turns down. Bear in mind that a day trader can cash out in a second; you and I will will have to wait two business days.
> It's a pleasure to read an article by a writer who understands of the history economic thought

He basically wrote two paragraphs with the most oversimplified and honestly often wrong intellectual history of economics.

> First, because I like his intellectual shit-stirring.

You mean you like it if somebody writes a book criticizing another profession even while he clearly has not studied either modern economics or even the history of intellectual thought in economics. I wish more people would do that, sound like a healthy thing for science.

> Second, because I think he's right about the origin of money. Money evolved from debt. Debt did not evolve from money, as liberal 17/18th century thinkers assumed.

That was one of the nice tricks he pulled. If he actually bothered to read the history of economic thought and not the 2min cliff notes he would have found tons of interesting and complex thought about money and its origins.

He later claims that anthropologists had studied gift giving and debt economy then were the once that studied these things, while economist had done so 50 years earlier and were far more nuanced and with greater integration with economics then the the later anthropologists.

However Graeber is so anti-economics that he literally refused to read that literature to such extend he made the incredible embracing mistake and mis-characterizations that I could not take him seriously.

He didn't know the primary economist who wrote about origins of money and when writing about him he claimed 'he only added math to Smith argument'. That is particularly embracing because Carl Menger was known for not using a lot of math. So where did this notion of 'adding math come from'. Well there is another Carl Menger (the son) who was a mathematician.

So quite simply Graeber is so certain that he is correct and all economist are stupid that he never read the most influential economist on the very topic he claims to criticize economist about.

Graeber himself has admitted that money can arrive both from sustained interaction and trade, as well as from debt systems. So his whole me against the economist argument never even made sense, most economist didn't disagree with his main point.

What he did was trying to make this simple point and the argument that debt is not always good (Britain in Madagascar and so on) and then he hoped people would buy the rest wholesale.
Anything more complicated than a little jQuery stuff is going to need build tooling anyway, at least Webpack and probably JSLint and Mocha. Since those are already there, adding either Babel or TyepScript isn't all that difficult.
imo, it's none of my isp's business what I have on my network and so use my own network equipment.
Show HN: On-Demand Content For Startups @ $149/mo - Can I say, AWS for Content?
"Simplicity" can be a negative indicator of security. If it's simpler for you, it might also be simpler for an attacker.

Manual steps with the physical hardware, or even requiring a local wifi/ethernet connection, are always going to be more secure than an internet-accessible god mode.
Using Nginx maps to switch seamlessly between Xdebug and regular PHP configs
2018.31 Check Out Garbage – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
Facebook: Want to see more posts? You must pay the friendship toll.
"Do you want to see more posts?
The more friends you add, the more posts, photos and videos you'll see in News Feed."

If you scroll down the News Feed far enough, you will hit the bottom of the feed, as a new limit on how much wall content you can see has been established. Also, you will be greeted with the message above.

Must be a new feature to encourage more friendship.
Even another large bank...

I moved away from BoA because they kept canceling my Visa and sending me a new one anytime I shopped somewhere that had fraudulent activity reported by another cardholder. I would go through a 3-5 cards a year. This eventually became a huge pain the in the ass because all of my autopay accounts had to constantly be updated and every website I shopped on had to constantly update my cards (which isn't as easy as it should be on some sites).

I switched to Chase a few years ago, still on the same card.
I'd say it's actually not the easy to think about. There is a lot of complexity it's easy to just ignore when your brain keeps dragging you back to the trivial, computationally, scheduling concerns in your own life. It's a good example of how the brain can have a basically wrong model that is good enough for a tiny part of the problem space commonly encountered.
I've got a working theory that I am bouncing around my head. It's basically thoughts about the efficiency of markets and their ability to price in all value provided. The biggest growth is in housing and education. Basically, if moving from Iowa to Silicon Valley will result in a net gain in income, then housing will adjust to consume as much of that gain as possible. If education will result in higher lifetime earnings, then the price of an education will rise to capture as much of this value as possible.
It's kind of crazy that Facebook has let TypeScript takes so much market share.

I've been using Flow for so long now. The techno is good, the integration with the code editors is good too, but Flow has a lot of small-but-really-annoying bugs (2235 issues on GitHub right now), the type definitions for third-party libs are meh (you often have to update/fix the definitions by yourself), the team seems extraordinarily unstaffed for such an important project, they don't share the roadmap at all, the priorities are clearly internal first (like improving the performances instead of fixing the bugs) and they don't seem to do much marketing or communication about it.

I wonder what's the future of Flow at this point.

And I'm seriously thinking to move to TS (for pro and personal projects) once create-react-app will work perfectly out-of-the-box with TS.
Frankly, if you go look at these stacks of books it is often no mystery why they don't sell.
Yes! Dropbox really nailed this. I keep hoping it’s a feature iOS ends up implementing natively in the camera app with the ability to save to iCloud Files.
I wouldn't be surprised if several of these exist already.
"Great Britain" is a pathetic, bankrupt nation. It's been a has-been since 1940 or earlier.

Bleating about its failed space program is laughable at best, considering even the Falklands War was a stretch.

The only thing Britain has going for it today is the City of London, a money-laundering haven.
The new Tuple improvements in Typescript 3 should help give Ramda the chance at much better type improvements soon, if a smart developer takes a crack at updating the definitions for it.

The tuple improvements should be quite exciting for many FP/FP-ish libraries in TS.
I don't quite understand your question. Why does your free speech example have to fit ... some other situation?
Localhost first is ideal. But not always possible.
This looks like a fantastic service and it's really great that you are being open/public about your progress. Well done!

I suppose being open also opens you up to attacks from your competitors. Sorry to see that.

I could definitely use a service like this and most of the questions asked (and that you've answered) so far have addressed my own.
They show up in some recent Alastair Reynolds novels (House of Suns and the Revelation Space stuff, at least), though mostly as a bit of a dead end technology which doesn’t go as fast as people might have liked.

Pity they’re not workable, really, they were a fun idea.
Umm, for AWS, you place the Lambda function into a VPC and open a db connection the same way you would from another server?
Uniqueness and well-roundedness are traits of privilege. The activities typically used to signal "uniqueness" for college admissions like philanthropy and political activism have roots in privilege. If you're not from a rich, well-connected white family, the best chance for success is through the typical tryhard, academic STEM path. You can't afford to be unique. You don't have cronyism or money to fall back on.
In 100 years time this book will become of great interest to historians that are studying the dot com boom and wanting insight beyond the newspaper headlines of the era. What was it that powered this dot com thing?

Why was so much money speculated into it?

How hard was it to write code for the early web?

Where is the seminal classic concerning how to program in the language of the era?

Why did 'kazinator' say 'burn that book?'(!)

All this future historian might have to go on could be the review on Amazon, as preserved by the Wayback Machine:

For a supposedly easy-to-use language Java has generated a range of enormous books. The ever excellent Schildt continues the tradition--even allowing for the added coverage of Java 1.3--in this 1,000+ word tome.

Schildt divides the book into four parts. The first third is a solid tutorial on Java programming with neat code examples showing how various features work. Nearly half is taken up with a detailed view of the Java Library followed by 150 pages on Java software development. The last section dissects four Java applets.

Although described as a reference, Java 2: The Complete Reference is a lot more than a list of facts. There's advice, demonstrations of best practice, asides for those using languages such as C and C++ and a pleasant absence of the justifications for various Java design decisions which clog so many books on the subject. Schildt takes the line that Java is the future for Net and networked programs. Coming from perhaps the best-selling writer on C and C++ this is more than interesting. It's a pity Microsoft didn't read it. Perhaps it would have changed its mind about supporting Java.

One oddity is the way Schildt gives more coverage to the largely superseded AWT, the Abstract Window Toolkit, than to its easier and more flexible replacement, Swing. However, both are big areas; perhaps Schildt thinks you should be reading books dealing specifically with these subjects. He'll probably write one. --Steve Patient

Review

First developed in 1991, Java is an excellent first language for the aspiring programmer because of its growing popularity in the development community; seasoned pros will find it easy to learn. Primary among this revised edition's offerings is information on the recently released Java 1.3, known as the 2.0 in the techie world becuase it represents such a major upgrade. Schildt, a renowned programming author, skillfully combines code, theory, and reference matter. Libraries that already own the third edition (1999) should purchase, as Java 1.3 is the only version that Sun Microsystems now supports.
My favorite guidance is Pollan's, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."[0]

Another piece of guidance I like is this (paraphrased):
Eat absolutely anything you want. But make it all yourself. If you want cookies and cake and ice cream, great! Buy flour and sugar and butter and chocolate and milk and cream, and make them yourself.[1]

Now, these don't directly address your point about conflicting research. They give reasonable heuristics that work well, though. Now, clearly you can come up with pathological examples that follow the advice above - any of us could come up with dozens that are reasonable. But being precise and 100% correct is not the point of a heuristic.

[0] https://michaelpollan.com/reviews/how-to-eat/

[1] Paraphrased from an interview in Cooked. The 4-part series was produced for Netflix.
Kind of, from what I (complete physics noob) hear.
This image and variants showing how basically every food brand rolled up into one of ten companies was pretty viral around 2012: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/75/0a/0a/750a0a2ae95cc27a45ce...
I'm not sure I've ever thought that qualifications for being a CEO have to be shared by most or some of the population....
Why would that be a mystery? QE simply reduced the interest rates on treasuries by introducing artificial demand for existing treasuries from newly printed cash. That's obviously not going to result in increased spending on cabbages, jeans and PS2s. The total level of spending remained static.

It's going to mean people who were getting 3% on their bonds and are now getting 0% will go looking for 3% in whatever other financial assets they can find - San Francisco property, shares, etc.

> inflation happened but it was all concentrated into financial assets, real estate

... because demand remained static while supply (of yield bearing invesment assets) was restricted.

That was basically the whole point of QA. It bailed out the banks without needing to give them taxpayer cash by bumping up asset values until their loanbooks started to look healthy again.