skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the average pop reader's digest human experience, they are pretty close. Sure, it's interesting to know that GPS is affected by time dilation, but the hours spent on thought experiments on intergalactic travel are a distraction from all the things one can learn about their everyday life.
Actually coding has a pretty decent outcome: if you just put in the work and dedication, someone will hire you for a pretty good salary.

Other “occupations” however, such as actors, musicians, chefs, and yes entrepreneurs, are often mostly or wholly dependent on luck to get a good outcome. They have to be extremely good and be lucky. Coders just have to be decently good to get a job.
Ask HN: Could you help me to build a database?
Recently, I am doing a Deep Learning project, which related to the PRNU (which can be described as a fingerprint of the mobile camera). But we need a lots of training data (pictures and brands of devices), so I want to ask if you can help me to collect photo data.

All you need to do is installing a small app, take several photos then upload to our server. The application is totally open source, We will not collect any of your private data, you can checkout the source code. And, once the raw pictures database is established, it will be free for anybody to download.

I need your help, it only takes your very few minutes to finish, we appreciate your help, Thanks.

The project: https://github.com/CXXT-Projects/PhotoCollector

The APK: https://github.com/CXXT-Projects/PhotoCollector/releases/download/v1.0/PhotoCollector-v1.0-release.apk
You use the phrase “public cloud” like cloud is a mundane municipal, state or federal resource like NPR or the office that distributes license plates.

It is a sleight of hand that the big cloud corps have gotten people using the word “public” to describe them.
Kodi, using LibreELEC, on an aging PC I built myself (with one of the smallest cases I could find back in 2010 or so).

I'd recommend reading the recommendations on the Kodi forums regarding hardware choices, depending your needs/wants:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=252916

At any rate, I think these days the which media centre question is mostly settled, it's Kodi. The question is: running as an app on Android? On your laptop? On a proper dedicated box and OS? If so, from scratch? Using one of the purpose built distros? (OSMC, Libre ELEC).
It amazes me that (a) it has an unhealthy relationship with the task bar - eg crashing it can take the task bar down too, (b) MS keeping messing about with it and removing useful things (c) 1989's xtree was better, (d) its search is horrible (e) like you say, that any of these issues are a thing considering how central it is to all Windows users
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There‘s still a huge difference between „certain people are not allowed to live“ vs. „I want to be allowed to love whomever I chose“. That former group should still not be excluded from certain basic „rights“, at least until they act on their beliefs (but that‘s up to the courts to decide). But again, you are comparing apples to oranges and questioning the moral principles the (at least Western) society is built on.
It all seems like a fuzzy memory now. My exposure to warez started with BBS then migrated to IRC/FTP. As a teenager during this time I remember how many enterprise networks were easily compromised. Seeing this from the outside, I just figured that security wasn’t important to them — or they didn’t know how to manage their security.

I wonder if that was really the case in the early internet at an enterprise level. Did security take a backseat to functionality?
The Feynman lectures were specially designed for creme de la creme undergrads who already did a course in physics in high school. They are a terrible way for a noob to try to learn.

Also strange that the author warns against exotic topics and then 3/5 of these recommendations are exotic things 99.9% of readers will never encounter.
Wait why would Congress care about employees near DC, aside from the reps for VA and MD? I could believe Bezos wants to be near the political action... but DC doesn’t really have much pull in. National politics
Why doesn't the government just use eminent domain to buy out some Nimby's in crucial areas and build some high rise apartments? The housing issue is 100% supply and demand. If I could wave a magic wand and create 1,000,000 apartments in SF rent prices would drop.

I'm assuming there's political pressure from wealthy land lords who don't want their cash cow slain?
As long as you don't remove it, you haven't made performance worse, but you may not have made it better either, and you have probably done damage to intrinsic motivation.

For sales, this may be fine, to the extent that no one has intrinsic motivation for sales, and the countervailing forces of how sales folks are usually compensated, but fixed salaries are probably better for motivation, but maybe not for your hiring/cash flow.
Not everyone can afford thousands of dollars for tutoring. But forums and MOOCs are good.
They have started to call people "resources" at my company since the last one or two years. It feels so dehumanizing.
Types are documentation. Documentation isn't types.
I don't want to trivialize a complicated subject, but...

Prostitution and street-walking are two different things, and it would be possible for prostitution to be legal whilst keeping street-walking illegal.

I suppose it could be argued then a single person could operate from their home, but groups would have to work from licensed premises. Seems like that would have an advantage.
Used it in first year into to functional programming class. We didn't even get to see half the features of full Racket because the class used the student versions. Plenty of my classmates who had been programming in Java for years were getting overwhelmed by it.

I know from what I've read outside of that class that Racket is powerful enough to implement any other programming language as a library. A single programmer leveraging all these features can write an application that uses bespoke domain specific languages for every component. This is wonderful for a solo project but good luck passing that on to the new recruit.

P.S. guilty as charged. I am an old Slashdot reader.
And the rest are Linux boxes.
I read your question too fast. Sorry.
For storage, a NAS will be nicer than a rpi with a drive. There might be some other single board computers with better hardware options for managing multiple drives, but from what I've seen this is not an area where SBCs shine.

I expect your TV to understand UPnP, possibly SMB and maybe AFP. That info should be in the TV's manual/manufacturer's website.

The Kodi answer still stands as I'm guessing you will find the TV's media centre limited, as they usually are ;)
Isn’t labor demand a curve with a slope, rather than a point? Does not the cost of supply curve interact with demand?
We can only know your device information and the picture, whatever you took. The contents of picture are unnecessary.

Thank you for your understanding and help.
Thanks!
Not sure why you were downvoted. I agree that the average popular person will get more out of physics doing things they can (re)discover themselves, like Archimedes work on bouyancy and Newton's work on optics. Too many folks are stuck in the read/cram/exam mentality from competitive schooling.
PlusCal is not higher level, it just has constructs that programmers are used to, like assignment, sequential composition, processes and procedures. Even in this particular case the specification would be clearer in TLA+ than in the PlusCal version, had it not been a translation of the latter. For example, the PlusCal version contains an unnecessary and confusing sequential composition of the send and receive bits.
I had my unobfuscated email in my HN profile for no more than 2 weeks, and received a couple of cold mails in turn (to this date, actually).
>It's applicable to C because most realistic implementations of malloc(3) store the size of the malloc'd area to the nearest word[2]

This is not so true anymore, and I'd be very careful with that sort of tricks. While the default memory allocator on most distributions (ptmalloc2) still probably works like that, there are other memory allocators in use like jemalloc/tcmalloc, which store metadata for a group of blocks (e.g all equal-sized blocks in a page) rather than for every single block.

Like Asooka wrote, you can malloc_usable_size(), if available. But have in mind that malloc_usable_size() returns the size of the block that malloc has given you, which can be _larger_ than the size you requested, as many memory allocators round block sizes up.

I actually wrote a memory allocator that works that way: https://github.com/ricleite/lrmalloc
Advice to a Junior Developer – Awasum Yannick – Medium
Assuming it's German, would you like to list some of your favorites?

I've noticed that I mostly read English textbooks on all kinds of subjects, because it's easier to get recommendations on HN or sites like chicmath.
The LIGO result is actually excitingly available as an IPython notebook, which provides a tutorial to verify the data yourself, using entirely open source software.
https://www.gw-openscience.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tu...
The actual signal processing isn't that complex IMO.

I don't know how open the LIGO hardware is, but it's very unlikely you would build one yourself to verify.
None of those places have Prop 13 or California's environmental rules, so why can't they build appropriate density?
I'm actually having a lot of fun at my job because I'm not actually a developer, I'm in change management. A lot of our processes are old, clunky, and involve a lot of manual steps. I've been writing Perl scripts to automate this stuff and my boss is loving it.
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I've just watched the first 10 mins, but it's amazing how he's incredibly aware all of the technical details, and combines a strategy perspective ("unified email client") with all the technical details (low level networking details) to make those strat decisions a reality.
This entire article is deadpan troll. A mildly amusing one in fairness.
I like the iPad as a secondary device but the lack of user freedom and true file management would be an issue for me if it was my only computer.
Sometimes I think my Python code has 7 lines of validation or plumbing for each line of algorithm.
Do they allow write access, though?
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Small things: from tweet to product
Reminds me of FSV: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/screenshots/10.png (which was a clone of some even earlier SGI demo app - http://www.siliconbunny.com/fsn-the-irix-3d-file-system-tool...)

Anyone know of other metaphorish visualizations that might be useful for navigating code or graphs?
getaether.net is kinda sorta what you might be looking for. There was a recent HN post on it.
This is just how capitalism works. Poor must exist in order to create wealth, but only an small percent of rich population share the majority of the wealth. I would recommend to any one the film Zeitgeist: Addendum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist_(film_series)
>Babe Ruth's home run record was about to fall.

1961?
Someone I know tried learning programming in Code Academy. She finished it, and then completely stumbled when faced with real-world programming challenges, dropping it soon after, never to come back. A closed off bubble like environment, like Code Academy, is not a good way to learn, though I've not tried anything like that, so I'm not speaking from personal experience.

However, programming really is easy, in that its learning curve is very shallow. It might be a long way, and you might become afflicted with the "C language brainwash", where you fail to distinguish between algorithmic and engineering details, which will further impede progress, but the learning curve is shallow, which means that overall it feels easy.
I strongly feel a lot of success is who you know, not what you know. I think this is vitally important when starting out. Hopefully later, you'll have a natural network to fall back on.

If you've been blessed to know to look to CS and had the skills to do well, and the knowledge to take that to a FAANG early in life (or similar), good on you. For everyone else, networking (including having a mentor) could ratchet up your professional/financial life.

It took me _years_ (about a decade) to get to the point that some kids get right out of (or before) university. I lacked any mentor to draw experience from and I lacked a network to draw upon. I was left with the broken model of seeing the chonic failures of those around me and seeing what not to do.
I just went through YC's Startup School [SUS] [0], the video/lessons alone are pure gold for software companies. I have had a couple employees in the past and I have had 2 different business coaches and took a business course, but the YC's view is very software centric and gave me a new perspective on how to move my business forward that none of my other training/education helped me with.

That being said, our businesses may have some overlap [1]. I risk putting a link to my business here, but in SUS they hammer it into your head that if you aren't embarrassed about some aspect of your product you launched too late. (also, forgive me as this feels a little like a shameless plug)

Email me info at archetype.media, I may have some ideas where you can move forward depending on what kind of focus you have. Also, I have a few resellers that have various industry focuses that may overlap with your interests as well.

Also, I wouldn't mind getting some advice back from you on how you grew your business.

[0] https://www.startupschool.org/latest

[1] https://www.startupschool.org/companies/archetype , https://www.archetypewebsites.com/
You're under the mistaken impression that there is a free market for postdoc positions. Postdoc salaries are fixed by government salary level tables and postdoc positions are opened as part of a planned economy. Plans range from 5 to 10 years.

Moreover, universities are not companies and could not possibly be run like companies, and foundational research usually does not produce any consumable products. The effects of foundational research on economy are soften only noticeable years or decades later, sometimes (like in mathematics) centuries later. Regarding publications in foundational research as "products" is highly misleading, they contribute to a net effect in science that can hardly be quantified.
According to the Wikipedia article linked above, it was included in the remake as well (I haven't seen it):

> The starter became famous as a plot device in the 1965 movie The Flight of the Phoenix, in which pilot Frank Towns (James Stewart) has a limited number of cartridges with which to start the makeshift aircraft's engine; this was also featured in the 2004 remake of the film.
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I read the entire article trying to find the rationale on why this cuts down on prostitution.
Just as a minor correction: Neo4j does have a built in query engine, but it is for the declarative query language Cypher, not the graph traversal framework Gremlin. Using spark as the example, think spark-sql vs operating over RDDs
Isn't that similar to all those people that wake up at 6 every morning to do the lowest of the lowest of jobs? The only difference is that their work is not related to sex.
They can suspect all they want, but stopping an questioning someone simply due to their presence on a public street, in the absence of an exceptional situation or investigation, is not acceptable.
>think up many anecdotes that align to The Leadership Principles. They're all over that stuff, you cannot be a follower you must demonstrate Leadership.

If the principle they set is that you must be a leader and not a follower, then you should presumably refuse to follow any leadership principles they dictate to you, purely out of principle.
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The fact that you say "you just can't sample your way out of" indicates that your mental model of how electronic pianos work is about 20 years out of date, because current ones do get the many-strings-interaction right with complex physics models.

I have a Kawai CA97 and a grand piano, and I've occasionally asked guests to close their eyes and guess which one I'm playing, and people are usually not sure at all.
A percentage of this effect is due to "restrictions" on manufacturing. i.e. you had to make things with a certain thickness of steel, etc. You see this effect with American goods too. You have avocado green fridges still running for 50 years or washing machines from the 1970's that are still running. Things don't last today because we have paper thin metal and various other cheap parts and there is no incentive to make a washing machine that lasts for 40 years.
Generally, neural networks do not memorize their training data. If they worked that way, they would not do well with samples they've never seen before.

So no, I would not say that the labellers are driving the cars. They do play an important role in the process of building these systems, though.
So for some context I’m a black male, early 20s who just moved to NC from CT.

I’ll address 1,4, and 5 out of order and point out I don’t see their relevance to moving.

If NC had particularly egregious holes in its gun laws or something, I’d understand 4, but it doesn’t. It just doesn’t have notably strong gun laws, which puts it in the majority of states.

The other two are pretty inconsequential if you’re talking about the average person considering upending their entire existence to move somewhere, not a weekend romp

Now the other two...

That tweet was so egregious I had to look for context. It’s not a good context but it’s more of the gerrymandering conversations that have gone on around the country and it’s a technicality that they had to use that language.

Now if you think attempts to exclude blacks from politics is a southern problem, you must be out of touch with the rest of the US...

But of course it hurts to admit this is such a systemic issue that it’s not unsurprising to see a state grappling with it.

On the other hand, it’s also not going to fix itself by avoiding the many states it happens in.

I don’t believe in just sitting on my hands and waiting for change. I gladly moved to NC knowing of it’s troubled politics because they’ve been moving in the right direction.

It feels like what you’re saying is “NC is not SoCal” and in a way you’re implying “why would an average tech worker want to move to somewhere that isn’t a spitting image of California and SV culture?” (bringing up MJ legalization is a dead giveaway...)

The reality is places won’t change until people of other cultures join them.

My criteria for moving to NC wasn’t “will there be fewer religion nuts per square mile”, it was “is this a place where I can feel accepted without bending over backwards and changing who I am”.

And so far it has. I have gone on weekend trips to “the middle of nowhere” and wondered if I was getting looks because of the small black sports car in tractor-and-pickup-land, or because of the black person inside, but immediately felt ashamed when I entered a gas station or a store and had nothing but hospitality shown to me. (A friendly reminder, you can be woefully out of touch with Israel and Judaism, obsessed with religion [by our outsider standards] and still not be a fundamentally bad person)

Expecting other places to coddle your tastes and expectations to the point you’re complaining you have to buy certain types of liquor in a special store when bringing up blockers for people living somewhere... it doesn’t scream awareness of how the world at large works.
Any political party checks all those boxes.
Great comment. Oh, only problem is I do understand the language used, I do have the required background and I don’t point at the Sokal affair.
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A state of Cold War presently exists in the Middle East between the United States and China... because China needs Iran's oil and wishes to 'colonize' it first. If we tread on Iran we will incur the full wrath of China. You won't hear this in the news.
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Reproducibility is a desirable quality but ultimately neither necessary nor sufficient for science.
> Most Haskellers write out the types

Maybe that's partly because Haskell can easily become a bit too elegant. Between all the currying and combinators, the type helps to understand code "top down", i.e. when you don't have studied and memorized all "bottom up" component parts.
Thank you!!! I’m pretty determined to not have a kid glued to a screen. So I’ll do my best. Intend to ready story books to her a lot and get her interested in reading. I don’t have any tablets. So that’s a plus. (Gave iPad to Mother in law)
On Motif, Irix' theme was really great:
http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/12/07/desktop-uios-...
I woudln't mind a GTK theme adaptation. A Motif one exists in Gnome Look, and it's more usable than you think.
> exploiting one of the hundreds of RPC/DCOM/LSASS vulnerabilities in Windows

And then Microsoft got tired of it, and (IIRC starting with Windows XP SP2) locked it down. Now if you have a legitimate need to use DCOM (for instance, OPC-DA), you have to jump through a series of hoops.
I have written a blog on how to secure your AWS CLI credentials on macOS using LastPass CLI. Hope this is of use to someone else.
Yes, as is the original article. "Valuable collecible memes" is a (long-) running internet joke.
That is the taboo undercurrent of most discussion sections of science papers
Being vulgar not makes it more honest in my book. Also, on one hand he tries to sell cooking as a meritocracy, on the other he says cooking is not for fat and old people and btw it is full of nepotism. Sounds dishonest to me.
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Comparing spear making and rock chucking to modern knowledge acquisition...

It's actually a perfect metaphor for conservative vs progressives views of the world.
A lot of public key cryptography involves computing a very large number that is a product of two prime numbers.
Very interesting! We built something very similar a few years ago for visualizing code complexity (or other metrics) over large code bases, it's also open-source:

http://quantifiedcode.github.io/code-is-beautiful/

Here's e.g. the cityscape visualization of the Django codebase:

http://quantifiedcode.github.io/code-is-beautiful/code-city/

We also did some 2D versions of the same graphs, which are often a bit easier to interact with.
> People in developing countries (most of the English speaking internet) overestimate the efficiency of the Chinese government.

I disagree. I suspect that people in the developing countries have quite a clear view of just how brutally efficient the Chinese government can be if it wants to be.

You don't just magically create industrial quantities of a banned gas without having a market for it. As there is no other market for this besides inside China, these producers likely got at least tacit approval/gave solid bribes from/to important folks in the party.

If the Chinese government wants this gone, it will disappear. If it doesn't disappear, the Chinese government doesn't really want it gone that badly.
Yup - if you have control over your code base and can keep it totally consistent you have a fighting chance, but as I say - some shifty person introduces a problem and all goes very very wrong. The big demonstration is that it's really rarely used in industry. Which is a big shame as if we could sort out the programming in the large then I believe big value is on the table. The new generation of reasoners are a good start!
From what i remember, the method wasn't impossible to implement with SSO, it would just be painful. But, exactly as you have, people took away the conclusion that SSO was impossible.