skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people think like OPs coworker, it’s a surprisingly polarizing topic. Personally I think anyone who thinks writing a lot of code (irrespective of time) is a good thing is misguided at best.
The federal gas tax was and still is 18.4 cents/gallon.
It would need to be raised to 77.7 cents/gallon. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/7/24/some-perspecti...
Worse, that was in 2014.
The abstract algebra definition is that p is a prime if whenever p divides a product ab then p divides at least one of a and b.

Having no proper factors is the definition of an irreducible element.

The two definitions agree for the integers and nice algebraic structure (UFDs) but there are algebraic structures in which they are not the same which explains why there are two differenr definitions and names in abstract algebra
Technically, all dictators do good if you're talking about the original definition. Someone temporarily given absolute power during times of crisis in order to resolve said crisis.
It's the nature of ( power ) politics where it goes wrong as in politics nearly anything temporary tends to become permanent and institutional. This is where the good dictator turns into a benevolent or bad one.
Estimating just how much bias to subtract is a real black art.
Nearly every live show from club d’elf is on the live music archive at archive.org.

They are a mix of jam band and Moroccan trance. Ever changing line up. Only the bass player/bandleader stays the same. I’ve seen medeski with them 3-4 times. But nearly all music guests are awesome in that configuration.

Ps medeski’s melotron technique is really interesting. He physically touches the tapes to shift pitch.
I'm aware that OSM is widely used (I'm a contributor to it), what does that have to do with the fact that a single website, http://openstreetmap.de, choose to do this kind of protest and not display some map tiles? So no FTFY, those hundreds of apps and millions of users are not affected by this protest. If they were, I'd probably agree with OP in their criticism.
Interesting, have you read this?
https://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.ht...
Without googling, I would estimate 50% by land area, between 1% and 5% of GDP. As America is about 5% of the world population, it wouldn’t significantly alter everyone else’s food production to supply you, leaving only the question of transport logistics.

The frozen pizza right in front of me is 240 cal per hundred grams; assume the average American consumes 3000 cal per day and that pizza is a representative calorie density, 1.25kg per person per day = 148 million metric tons per year.

Googling now, USA ports handle 2.3 billion tons per year [1], so that’s fine. Internal transport I don’t even have to think about because you must already have it in place or you’d already be starving because you couldn’t get the food from your own farms to your own shops.

[1] Figure 3-2 https://www.bts.gov/sites/bts.dot.gov/files/docs/browse-stat...
I’ve seen a few of their videos - their analysis is definitely out of the mainstream.

Defending “whomp whomp” and saying the response is worse comes to mind.
We are talking about a research paper, a paper that can be scientifically refuted. The only reason much of abuse of power and non-scientific angles of attack are because there are no strong scientific refutations.

This is not about my feeling vs your feelings, it is about your tribe vs my tribe. Simple! The whole article is about the opposing faction was obsessed about Alt-Right or Conservatives using this paper as a basis of their arguments.
Very few modems support LTE in unlicensed spectrum (aka LTE-U)
Crazy talk here, but do you have control of the database? Can you get history added to it?
Parent never claimed that the license was violated though. You can be unhappy about something legal.
There are innate character traits in each of us. Of course education/training/practice can move the needle a little up or down, but you can't really turn a very introvert person into a very extrovert one, for example.
There’s also something to be said about the brevity of pain, even if the end is death. As incredible as thst monk’s composure was, hismnerves would have been dead within a short time, and he would have followed in a minute or two. Still an amazing thing to maintain himself in the face of that, butmits different than the same or worse pain for hours, days, or weeks. Being burned hurts, but anyone who has been badly burned can tell you it hurts so much more after the acute injury. Sticking your hand in ice really does hurt, but you can stop it anytime you want, and while it hurts it’s in an extremity. As someone who’s done that, and had an infected dental nerve can attest, it hardly compares. This may sound off but the fact that the pain is in your head makes it somehow worse, more inescapable and debilitating.

I never felt so much relief as I did when the endodontist gave me novicaine, and a large bolus in your palette isn’t pleasant either. Still it was like a cool breeze of relief next to that tooth. People are always scared of root canals, but the truth is that if you need one, it’s actually nothing at all next to the pain that brought you there.
Illinois man convicted – again – for killing the man who answered Craigslist
i remember reading coverage of google fiber in tech publications when it first rolled out. even then they were describing it more as a "swift kick in the ass" to incumbent ISPs than a serious attempt to corner the market. it's like the early intel consumer ssds. intel never wanted to be a big (ie low margin) ssd vendor; they wanted to stimulate the other players to make faster storage to unbottleneck their processors.

even your linked blog post seems to support this point. they conservatively couch the product as an "experiment".

> We don't think we have all the answers – but through our trial, we hope to make a meaningful contribution to the shared goal of delivering faster and better Internet for everyone.

does that sound like the PR blurb of a company that seriously intends to offer hi-speed internet to every person in america?
Link for the lazy http://popmusicmaker.com/
I guess I would love to hear more nuts and bolts information on how this gets done. And that's not what I'm hearing.
thanks. I'll be adding some new leves soon ;)
I’m having difficulty installing a MITM cert on my iPhone 7. Does anyone have advice or can recommend some literature to do so?
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable (2009)
>None of my routers support it, and I'm not gonna buy all new routers.

I think we are moving into the future where ISP provides the router to you, or basically a Unit that combines Modem / ONT / Wireless Router into one. So you will (hopefully) get upgraded every 5 - 8 years.
More marketing for a processor with horrible assembler instructions which exists only in a tinkertoy. Because in IT everybody has to re-invent the same thing over and over again. No technology is discussed.
I think the author is a woman, from the name Emily.
Not without being fake. People can change over time, but the core "being" of a person – what they're really like – tends to stay static.

Here's a specific example. You can be taught to overcome a fear of getting up onstage. You can't be taught to love and relish when you find just the right metaphor to convey an idea to a class.

The latter gives you a dopamine hit, or it doesn't. And if it doesn't, then you have an uphill battle.

From Mathematical Writing, on Donald Knuth:

> Don’s secret delight, he confessed today, is to “play a library as if it were a musical instrument.” Using the resources of a great library to solve a specific problem—now that, to him, is real living. One of his favourite ways to spend an afternoon is amongst the labyrinthine archives, pursuing obscure cross-references, tracking down ancient and neglected volumes, all in the hope of finding the perfect quotation with which to open or conclude a chapter. Don takes great pleasure in finding a really good aphorism with which to preface a piece of writing. So many people have written so many neat things down the ages, he said, that it behooves us to take every opportunity to pass them on. Don has been known to take such a liking to a phrase that he has written an article to publish along with it.

> So how are we to find that wonderfully apposite quotation with which to preface our term paper? Serendipity, said Don. Live a full and varied life, read widely, keep your eyes and ears open, live long and prosper. You will stumble across great quotations. For example, Webster defines ‘bit’ as “a boring tool”—Don was able to use this when introducing a computer science talk.

Of course, this isn't necessarily applicable to high school teaching, which is more about legally-mandated babysitting than about teaching. But the core question is an intriguing one.
The use of the mellotron by Genesis (Tony Banks) is notably remarkable in their "Selling England By the Pound" and "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" albums. Listen for example to the choirs in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTS_NZOIlg and the strings in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5engyVXe0

https://www.planetmellotron.com/revgenesis.htm
It's all context, isn't it? Helvetica's use in graphic arts back in the 60s bordered on the sublime, and for that reason has become a foundation stone upon which everything thereafter was built and refers to. It's hard to escape from.

I just wish I could peek inside the head of someone in the previous century, witnessing the birth of sans serifs such Akzidenz Grotesk - THAT must have been Earth shaking.

And I'm with you on Garamond - I have an entire side project's brand built around it. We outsourced the second iteration of its website (because Shopify is a bit of a dog to dev for on Windows... for me anyway) and the person we outsourced to thought it best to strip out our entire brand language and replace with whatever rounded sans (replete with flat colour scheme) was doing the web fashion rounds of two years ago. We're still putting the pieces back to this day! :)

That sort of thing's my marker of a poor 'designer' — someone who has no concept of how to work with what they're given, instead needing to start from scratch. In that vein, if you can't work to other's rules, you're just a decorator.
Among other tech people, right? Was he ever hated by random people in South Dakota?
Thanks for using this Art19 link, I’d never heard of this company. Glad to know there are folks out there hard at work ruining podcasts.
Try some magic mushrooms and learn something totally new.
Show HN: After Dark
> In the years since then, I came to realize that it wasn’t the assault that had the most enduring effect on me. It was people’s refusal to believe that one man would assault another man. It was the mockery from leaders I had trusted and the implication that, if it had happened, I must have done something to invite it.

While the software industry is not as tight-knit as the Marine Corps, the harsh reaction when people who have experienced abuse come forward has many of the same qualities.

Sexual abuse of various kinds is often perceived to be exclusively one-directional in terms of gender (notwithstanding Kevin Spacey and other examples outside software). I wonder if more male survivors coming forward would make a difference in the industry zeitgeist, or if they would be rejected as violently as this Marine.
I’ve asked, but my concerns were taken as a joke, because in the past I’ve constantly been complaining about our data collection practices. I was objecting when the marketig team pushed in the AppsFlyer SDK, then the Branch.io SDK, then the Google AdMob SDK, then the MoPub SDK, then the ComScore SDK, then the Saasquatch SDK, then the Kahuna SDK. The Facebook SDK is included too, of course.

So after all this complaining over the years, they became kinda immune to my concerns, and when the Chinese handed down their blob they merrily went on with it.
Yes, Amazon is trying to move off of Oracle but they still use a lot of them [0]. Also, most of their retail stack runs outside of AWS which is why they could not scale up during prime day because they completely depended on their non-AWS nosql database sable [1].

[0]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-salesforce-would-love-t...

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/amazon-internal-documents-wh...
Comments like yours make me react because I feel sorry to see people fall for this kind of manipulations.

Don't be deterred from applying advices that have helped thousands of companies because of an unsubstantiated rant by some guy on HN. His comments (assuming poster is male, apologies if I'm mistaken) are light in arguments and sound more like personal attacks directed specifically at Eric Ries, they don't really address the value of the Lean Startup methodology. The language is strong and bullish in an attempt to sound smart and to rally people to some point. What that point is is left to the reader to figure out.

X is not as successful as Y, therefore X cannot give advice to Y. What kind of logic is that? Counter examples abound, Nick Bollettieri never played tennis professionally but is one of the most acclaimed coaches in the sport. Closer to home, Patrick McKenzie had built a bingo card creator (profitable, while admittedly not an earth shattering success if you go by unicorn standards) when he started giving valuable advices to people and companies "orders of magnitude" more successful.

Also, pinning IMVU, a well established company, against other "orders of magnitude" more popular, more affluent, and also well established companies is not only a fallacious metric for success, but it's not even relevant to discredit the book or the methodology, since we're not even talking about startups anymore. IMVU is 14 years old, it has long outgrown the advices in the book. Most founders know that one of the first biggest challenges for a startup is to survive and grow (fast) the first year, then the next 3, then the following 5. Over the course of those objectives you'll make mistakes. Methodologies such as "Lean Startup" are meant to provide you with some tools and guidelines to navigate those shallow waters and to prevent you from knocking yourself out of the game permanently. If you're looking for real metrics to evaluate its worth as a guideline, survival rate or financial loss of startups would be more apt indicators. What's the survival rate of startups following patterns laid out by the Lean Startup (or some derivative adaptation, since there are many now) vs survival rate of startups doing things pre-Lean-Startup style?

"Orders of magnitude" are not indicative of success, objectives are. If your goal is to generate $10k of monthly passive income because you want more lifestyle autonomy, I think reaching those numbers qualifies.

As for your question, I think my main criticism regarding the Lean Startup is that much time is spent telling you to "talk to customers", but very little on teaching you how to actually do it. Therefore, I believe that investing some time to learn a proper approach to leads generation, cold outreach, and sales as it's done in the context of a startup would unlock a major achievement in your pursuit of growth (and success).
Ask HN: Recommended tools for open sourcing presentations?
Hey there,
I have some course materials I wrote on Google Slides, and I'm looking to open source them and encourage others to contribute to the materials. Google won't allow me to require login upon edit if I share my materials via link posting.
Instead, I thought of using some sort of a framework/tools that would allow me to convert the slides into a better for format web developers.
I noticed that many developers use `reveal.js` but I'm not sure if it's the right choice for me, any suggestions/insights? Thanks in advance.
You need to take a trip to your home country and see conditions of poor people there. You are basically mocking them when you say you are a slave who makes $500k/year. Most people in your home country can't even imagine to make that much in their 10 lifetimes. Have some perspective dude.
The article mentioned that after 5 yes-or-no questions in 60 minutes, the patients became exhausted. I'm guessing that activating certain parts of the brain requires considerably more effort for them than for a healthy person based on that.
OpenZeppelin v2.0.0 Release Candidate
You can’t leave what is effectively other guests’ lost property in the room.
Generative Art Speedrun
Thanks. Just wanted to make sure I was understanding things right. Will check out uMatrix.
Thanks for the responses.

Note to self: buy laser printer not inkjet.
In case you've never encountered Clay Shirky's classic essay, "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable", it is a prescient look from 2009.

> It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem...

> Print media does much of society’s heavy journalistic lifting, from flooding the zone — covering every angle of a huge story — to the daily grind of attending the City Council meeting, just in case. This coverage creates benefits even for people who aren’t newspaper readers, because the work of print journalists is used by everyone from politicians to district attorneys to talk radio hosts to bloggers. The newspaper people often note that newspapers benefit society as a whole.

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...
Ray Tracing Without Ray Tracing API
Yes they legally have a monopoly mail service. You cannot compete against them. Package delivery services like ups or FedEx are a different type of service and distinctly defined. But mail carrier is exclusive to USPS.
Why/where would modules be necessary here? Just because there's a feature now that didn't exist years ago doesn't mean it's the right time & place to use it. The code works as-is, a small refactor to leverage built-in functions to do some of the trickier logic parts would make this code a breeze. There's no need for something like Babel to help out with a small refactor.
They’ve been doing that forever and it’s a $15/mo charge for a device that costs maybe $100. You think educated consumers want to pay $15/mo for 60 months = $900? Fewer and fewer fall for that trick.
It may support that axiom but contradict others; specifically that women are helpless victims and men misogynistic brutes.
This is my largest gripe with these recommendation systems. They are patrimonious and regressive and not aspirational in any sense. What do I mean by that? I mean that they are built with a very sacrosanct attitude towards the algorithm knows best (so maybe algorimonious).

They allow no ability for the user to control and guide the process, to mold what they consume to be the person they aspire to be.

More concretely I never ever want a recommendation of “late night talk show interviews celebrity person” even though I am somewhat likely to click on that, and waste my time on hollow vapid content, and tell the algorithm to regressively drag me down towards that content.

I have gone so far as to go to each of those channels and banned them but that doesn’t stop the video recommendations from randomly popping up in the sidebar so I think it must just block those channels ability to comment on things I post.

What I would prefer overall:

An ability to guide and control the recommendations to the point of writing my own code that runs in a google cloud function because everyone will be a bit different in what they’d like to see. Personally, I’d then write something that flat out blocks certain keywords and attempts to show sidebar recommendations similarly to how they used to do them: closely mirror the current video with very little if any skew towards the current users history.

So I think the issue we face here is one of limited user control, users are not being given a voice or meaningful input to the algorithm that determines what content they see. Instead the only input they are given is their own watch history.

Right now YouTube is a buffet. It’s the only buffet in town. It loads the bar with all the junky food people are statistically most likely to eat whether they want to have that food sitting their tempting them or not, and whether it’s even good for them or anyone or soceity as whole or not. It doesn’t give them any ability to say “no French fries” in the buffet. If you put French fries on your plate before and they observed you to eat the French fries, by golly, you’re getting French fries in that buffet from there on out, mental waistline be damned.
Feels like a lot of work went into coming up with these WATS
You can’t teach someone to care. Teachers that don’t care deeply can’t push through all the barriers to succeed.
So you have air conditioning but no heating or ventilation?
Certainly they could and are both (prime, composite) described as properties. The difference is that one can be described positively as 'having' and the other as 'not having' or 'having only'. If you've read Godel Escher Bach, it's very much in how it describes axiomatic space with 'foreground' vs 'background' when looking at the boundary of what's inside and outside a set of a given property. Compositeness is a construction. Primeness is what's outside.

A sort of example from the book that plays in the "backgroumd': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox
I'm proud of you for only mentioning CrossFit twice. That must have taken a lot of will power.
The FAQs on the proposed reform for anyone who, like me, was not up to speed:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/faq/frequently...

Note that it is a very biased source and uses a lot of hedge words like "major" and other fuzzy words like "majority" which can be interpreted in diferent ways.

Per the FAQs "Article 13 of our proposal does not target services similar to Wikipedia."... just because it "does not target" does not mean it won't be unintended collateral damage. I haven't read the reform but I'm curious what safeguards it has to remove uncertainty from platform providers on if their service is effected by this.
Goal Setting: How to Achieve Goals Without Losing Focus
a hint: it's very customary to inject a proper disclaimer into such kind of posts
What the parent charitably didn't stress is that this proof is the totality of mathematical work in this paper.

The rest is a stream of words.

As such it is a work of social science. It might even have been respectable in social science journal. Economists input a lot of assumptions into calculus 101 level equations and call that a "mathematical proof" of an economic theory.

If the author wanted this to be a interdisciplinary discussion, why drag it into a mathematical journal where actual mathematical truths are published?

Author says himself he was unable to formulate actual mathematical idea and recruited help. Why ask Tabachnikov, who is a geometer specializing in classical mechanics, instead of someone with like a clue about statistical modeling? He then compares his experience to one he had fighting in Vietnam... which only makes me wonder if that wasn't the point: to either succeed with a flag-planting diversion or be able to make that comparison and hero of himself anyways.
Aaand it's dead. Drat.

(500 internal server error when clicking on Generate Pop Music.)
That doesn't make any sense as a comparison that I'm trying to find between real life politics and the the above commenter's analogy about sacrificing a baby just to "win".