skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tried to write and edit a document once using just voice commands. (Let's say someone has carpal tunnel and needs to use voice commands). It was eye opening. I realized how much more frustrating it is to go back and try to delete or fix something than anything else. And if the software didn't recognize an unusual word, it was really hard.

I've tried that as well. It was very frustrating. I used the Windows speech-to-text features.

Programming code is made to be typed and read. If you can't do either of those reliably, you'll be simulating that you can, which sort of by definition can't work well, because if you could simulate being able to write well, then you wouldn't even call that a disability, you'd just be different.

What I'm getting at is that the problem is simulation. Ideally, there would be a way to program by voice (or with a mouse, etc). Not program by typing code with voice, but find a way to describe a program (i.e. program) via voice. A voice-centric toolkit. I hope I'm not being too vague.

What we have now is such a typing-centric development world that we don't even think about all the other possiblities. Isn't the modern laptop just a really fancy version of a 100 year old typewriter?

I think Bret Victor would have a lot to say about this [0].

[0] http://worrydream.com/#!/TheFutureOfProgramming
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Well, that's not what I said, was it?
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Hi there - Out of curiosity, what kind of add-ons would you want a forum-as-a-service? Right now, we're working with our users to understand what solutions they need in a no-code product.

Would love to learn more about what you're thinking to see if we could find a solution.
> IMO the issue isn't MS, really (though parts of the org are still worthy of strong skepticism), it's the cultural phenomenon of a certain generation of developers who essentially eat, breathe, and die by Microsofts product cycles...

Although to be fair, they were taught this by Microsoft. Before Microsoft saw the writing on the wall and changed approach not that many years ago, the strategy was to provide a Microsoft solution for everything. Useful stuff from outside Microsoft would be either be cloned, or MS would simply not implement compatibility or integration.

The .NET ecosystem was, and still is, utter dominated by Microsoft at every level, unlike Java where multiple vendors provide implementations, innovations, certification etc. It's a bit unfair to blame the developers in the ecosystem for not pushing back hard enough against the organization that provided literally everything, from the software licenses to the professional certifications.
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> that nobody will buy

Quite a few people already have bought it.

> or support

Quite a few applications will run on it. Linux on ARM has been a thing for years... it's not like this is some walled garden bullshit 'ecosystem' that has to be painstakingly grown from nothing.

It's really odd to support manufacturers who create walled gardens in order to lock in customers and prevent users from actually owning the device they purchased.
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Got it. Thanks for the feedback!
I think that's pretty typical throughout the US.
Which zones/ISPs are going with China? As near as I can tell, absolutely nothing good comes from Viet Nam, Turkey and Ukraine ASes. If they go with PRC's Internet, we'll all be better off.
They used to. They called it Eat24, and then they sold it to Grubhub.
https://qz.com/1045776/grubhubs-purchase-of-yelps-eat24-may-...
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Wouldn't that require that the school provide the loan? If the debt is not held by the school then they are not impacted by bankruptcy. I like the theory of what you are saying but I'm not sure I want schools to become creditors.
Beyond console.log()
I have a family member who worked in a factory that built electronics backplanes. His entire job, for eight hours a day, was to pick up a back plane from a chute, flip it over, and place it on a conveyor.

I got so mad when I heard he was being paid to do that. I'm not mad that he was being paid, but that his time was being wasted.

Give me a week, a pile of old junk, and a micro-controller and I could have a solution bashed together. I'm not saying it would be good, but at least it would be functional.
Dear god:

Information theory
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits
Beta distribution
Binary code
Block cipher
Boolean algebra
Channel capacity
Computer chess
Data compression
Digital electronics
Digital Revolution
Digital subscriber line Edge coloring
Entropy in information theory
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Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula
It's NVMe to the T2 SoC, which acts as the storage controller (among many other tasks). It would be nice to have the raw NAND on a removable card, but the market for "raw-NAND-on-a-stick" would be entirely limited to these machines.
Ananova (circa. April 2000) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananova
The rise of the machines as described by Thomas Ridd.
I don't have any sympathy for a site that purposely cripples the web mobile site to force you to install their app. They lock you out of pictures after around 20 so you have to go to desktop or install their crappy app. Yelp will not be missed.
Yea they could have easily added reservations ( opentable) , deliveries ( grubhub) , group dining ( meetup).
The image and voice synthesis is powered by deep learning. The news anchor itself doesn't possess any intelligence.
Browsing on Chrome with uBlockOrigin and PrivacyBadger gives me a completely smooth experience on this website. Feels like a static site.
It's a tricky question. I agree that often morals involve making though choices. At the same time, those choices have to balance the magnitude of the evil, the consequences of sticking to your morals, and the consequences of just going with it.

To give a concrete example: let's say I have to choose between unemployment and working in a casino (assuming I believe casinos to be evil). I can work there and do nothing. I can work there and donate an X amount of my salary to addiction-recovery ONGs. I can refuse to work there and compromise my (hypothetical) children's well-being.

Which one of this is the "moral" choice? I can't say. And I'm willing to bet that you can make a moral argument for each one of those.

I'm with you in that sticking to your morals often involve sacrifice. But I wouldn't assume that the weights I add to each aspect of my morals are the same as everybody else's.
The number of people who clearly had no idea what they were signing up for was always amusing to me.

Example, if you go to a hole in the wall taco joint, you're going to get greasy tacos served on plastic or paper plates. I mean, it's not fancy, but they're also $1 each. By complaining about that on yelp you're just showing off your silliness, not providing anything useful to other potential customers.
it's a characterization. It's a colloquialism.

You can argue that all day long, but calling it an "invasion" (which I don't really agree with btw), is a subjective statement based in opinion. The fact is that there are a lot of people travelling up through Mexico to the US border. How you characterize that is an opinion.
Pentagon Draws Back the Veil on APT Malware with Sudden Embrace of VirusTotal
having been a biochemist (and maybe going back) but also a professional programmer, I am very pessimistic about this.

One time, though, I used ruby to scrape a chinese website where they made 'public' the genome of an organism. They clearly weren't interested in actually making it public (as the sequences were very hard to pull), and after we had gotten the data they made it impossible and took down announcements that it was public, so sometimes real computer skills are welcome!
PlayStation Classic Uses the Open-Source PlayStation Emulator PCSX ReARMed
Anti-vaxxers usually say the benefits outweigh the risks and don't consider herd immunity. When you've just been bitten by a rabid animal the risk-benefit calculation is different, no cognitive dissonance there. You'd also predict that an antivaccionationist hunter has at least his dog vaccinated against rabies, you see rabid foxes and raccoons out there with your own eyes.

What you'd really like to do is ask an anti-vaxxer woman who is pregnant or trying to conceive what she thinks about measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, especially rubella.
>Alpha Go (Zero) is very specialized for the game of go, not sure how much of its specialized algorithm could transfer to other generic use cases.

AlphaZero is a generalized successor, and it does just that:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaZero
The only use I ever saw of it by others was to make mobile apps for both Android and iOS so I think it will stay there worse case.
My neighbor stole mail right out of my mailbox. I had it on video. The police declined to do anything about it. So... anecdotally validated.
It all comes back around in the end.
Exactly. It doesn't accomplish anything other than making it difficult to deal with our own nuclear waste.
The problem I have with yelp is really the central idea of it. Who said random people are good at reviewing restaurants? Everyone's meaning of good is different, everyone's expectation for everything is on different scales with different meanings. Consolidating it all into a simple interface doesn't work. I really want two different services, one for finding something I'll be very happy with and may return to (usually found through trusted reviewers) or I'm someplace random and want whatever I get to not be terrible. Yelp is only okay at the later of two.
Remind me again how many Severn estuaries we have in the UK.
Yelp is incredibly annoying as a business owner. After signing up to setup basic NAP consistency, they will automatically flag it as some sort of tag often incorrectly and then continue to call and email you asking to spend advertising dollars on their site for months. Even after asking them to no longer do so.

I'm glad google reviews and others have taken their place.
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Have heard this quote attributed to einstein.
Kind of uncanny valley. The pronunciation of the words is good but there's no emphasis through the sentence so it sounds flat and kind of unsettling.
> Fire departments (i don't think these exist, at least not yet, but the idea comes up in Discworld)

Can and do. Check out Grant's Pass, OR.

Three competing private fire companies, one of which was dubbed "the worst fire department in America" and after repeated excursions into infamy/incompetence, was yanked by the Oregon State Fire Marshal:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhD_5T4F7aw&t=255s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaG6fYBKXg8
I worked with an IOS guy from Argentina, before software, he was paid to write reviews for companies in the states.There's some plausible deniability, he worked for a contracting company that did this work. Since then, I stopped using Yelp.
As someone with a severe fear of needles, that is pretty much my personal nightmare. It is my personal nightmare because I assume they also do blood test.

I may still choose to go through with it, but I am not entirely sure.
I think you are still confused. Replace DL with software.
> They called the postal service and an investigator was out in days.

Even underfunded agencies can prioritize. A call notifying them of a problem is a world of difference than them identifying and pursuing issues on their own.

Just like how an underfunded police department may not patrol all the areas they should, but if you call them to notify them of a crime, an officer will likely show up at some point. Even if the officer shows up quite a bit later, the relative difference to when an officer might stumble across that area, much less evidence of the crime, is probably somewhat comparable.
Ah, my current location/phone number is not in the USA/Canada, so I can't link it.
Sounds like half-communism to me. It's messing with the reward/punishment mechanism of profits/losses. They have 50% of control, but no skin in the game. If their policies hurt dividends, it doesn't matter, because they didn't invest their own money in the first place and the salary is stable. If the company goes broke, they can just find another job.

> Obviously, this hasn't destroyed Germany's economy, so it's doubtful it would hurt Google's profits much either.

You can't say the Germany economy wouldn't be better off without this regulation.
It's very easy to derive a good business model from bad ethics. All business models derive from friction, right? We make money doing things for others that they find difficult or unpleasant to do for themselves. The more difficult/unpleasant it is, the greater the potential value.

Something that can make a task difficult or unpleasant is that task being unethical. Take for example an investment scheme that bilks the elderly out of their retirement savings. Technically, it's not difficult to do. Ethically, it's awful. So it's profitable because it's unethical. If robbing the elderly was ethical, a lot more people would do it, and there'd be a lot less money in it.
Yes, replacing "he/she" with "they" was discouraged because it is plural. Since then gender issues have come to the forefront and this drawback has been deemed less important. "They" is now recommended by most folks, but wasn't the case 12 years ago.

Times change.
I didn't mean it's a requirement, but a fact that what ever DL could do is based on its input (labeled data), and that input has to come from human, or the task underneath is possible for human.
Finally someone in Congress who represents me.
You are begging the question of gold (or anything, really) being "tangibly valuable" versus having "constructed value."
- police forces

- military

- prisons
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Truth be told, when a website is totally unconventional, it has my attention for a short time, generally on account of novelty.

Once that has worn off, unless the site is exceedingly usable, memorable or memorable, I'm out.

It's taxing to have to visually search, analyze, scaffold, and navigate a new mental model of how I expect a website to behave.

And therein lies the problem, people have expectations of websites, and it is generally in their best interest to conform to existing standards.
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Interesting. Thanks for the detail. Streisand is just WG implementation then?
Faster build time with a custom checkout (CircleCI)
It's not great but TBH I still find it to be better than nothing. You've pretty much described every review site on the Internet. "My hotel room in Manhattan was small." You don't say.

I still prefer Zagat (though it's not what it was when it was pretty much limited to foodies) where it's available. But if I'm in an area I don't know well I still will take Yelp over picking a restaurant on total whim or because it has a clever name.
I'd assume turn over is low if by leaving they now have to change entire career paths. I'd put up with a lot of shit to not have to learn a brand new trade.
Thank you to you also. I had read Hesse only because someone gave me the used books too. A fine gift it is.
They don't look the same; you can make an argument they look similar though.

"Fabian and Florian turned Hacker News into an interactive visualization. The social media site is a news aggregator, focusing on computer science and information technology. Its design is bare-bones but it has complex functionality for voting and discussions. Fabian and Florian have taken the existing structure and turned it into a typographic space of timelines and networks. The visual presentation is based on the sequence and connections of news and comments. They also connected their design to the API of Hacker News, so you can actually use it to read the site. View the redesign of Hacker News."

And the redesign is a usability nightmare. You cannot easily skip a topic you're not interested in, and you cannot even skip the comments easily which are emphasized. In normal HN, you can browse news.ycombinator.com and click on the links from there. You can open the original links and the HN discussions in tabs. Not in this redesign. Perhaps it is God's greatest gift on mobile (I tried it on desktop), I don't know. Examples of doing it different should be objectively better; this one doesn't appear to be such an example, so don't mention it [1]. Instead, go back to the drawing board.

[1] There's also a bug that clicking on No. and Pts. gets you to that user's hompeage. Which could be 1 or 76, but it has nothing to do with that userID.
For your services, do you charge only the amount you need to live on, or as much as you think you can get?
I had to get the post-exposure series of shots after getting bit by an unvaccinated dog earlier this year. The rabies vaccine shots themselves are not too expensive. I want to say Kaiser charged on the order of $500-1000 for the series of vaccine shots.

The real cost came with the Human Rabies Immune Globulin shots I had to get after being potentially exposed to the virus. These are shots of the rabies antibody that they administered in the area where the dog bit me. Kaiser charged $15,000 for this stuff (insurance brought it down to $1,250 to me). It is costly because they make it by vaccinating humans and then collecting antibodies from their blood/plasma.

I would add that the rabies vaccine shots themselves were not painful and are like flu shots. However, I ended up being allergic to the shots and would break out in hives and get flu-like symptoms for days after each one. I actually stopped the vaccine series early because the symptoms kept getting worse after each shot and by the time the last shot was due animal control told me the dog that bit me made it out of quarantine without showing rabies symptoms.

The Immune Globulin shots were the most painful because it was a thick gauge needle and a super viscous material. I could see a big, swollen lump under my skin after getting the series of Immune Globulin shots. There was pain and bruising for a few days, but it eventually went away.
People love stating this fact because it's likely most people are surprised the law allows for such severe serious penalties for what might seem like a petty infraction. What you've said about underfunded enforcement and rare investigations could be said about almost every other type of non-violent crime.
Would it be feasible to order the model with the smallest buil tin storage and put the home (/User/*) directories on a fast external TB3 SSD?
Everything people in England say is tongue in cheek though... but I get your point :)
SELECT *
FROM a, b
WHERE a.x = b.x AND a.y='foo' AND b.z='bar'

The best plan for this simple query depends on the selectivity of the predicates. For example, if 20k rows have a.y='foo', but only 10 rows have b.z='bar', then it's best to scan a b.z index, then lookup matching rows in a. But if the #rows is reversed, then it's better to scan an a.y index and lookup in b. This is a simplified example, but we do see queries along these lines in real OLTP workloads.

You're correct that for many OLTP workload queries, simple heuristics are sufficient. However, even if that's true for 90% of queries, it's the last 10% that gets you. We've seen customers with 10 queries in their workload, where 9 work well but the last 1 gets a bad plan that is 10x slower than it could/should be. Maybe they can rewrite it, or maybe they don't have sufficient knowledge to do so. Or perhaps they're using an ORM and don't have control over the queries it's sending to the DB. In addition, many mostly-OLTP workloads contain a few OLAP reporting queries in the mix. Developers don't expect their OLTP database to perform like a dedicated OLAP data warehouse DB, but they also expect it not to fall over when it gets a more complex query.
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Restaurants: Tripadvisor, Google, Zagat

Service Providers: Homeadvisor, Angie's List
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It isn't a proprietary language. Anyone can implement the language spec.

Do you people do any basic research, you know just googling or reading the license?
Google maps reviews is just as good if not better in some ways IMO. That's what I use as an alternative.
Applied! Just tried out the app and will be using it next week to keep track of my dev tasks. Looks and feels great so far
Bigger sure, but can you point to one that has had better performance than the medallion fund?
Soon we'll release a post about bot detection and protection with HAProxy. If you'd like to see us cover a specific topic feel free to reply to me here and I'll pass it onto the team.
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Apply for a replacement card and wait seven months for it to arrive is more like it...

That's my experience after hand delivering the form to the SS office so it would be quick.
Yes, you made some decisions that turned out to be good, twenty years ago. A lot of folks didn't. Personally I've got a mixed bag.
Well, if it's in the contract..
Depends on your desirability.
The point was that this isn’t indicative of this being a first time this happened. Ops comment had nothing to do with jurisdiction.
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I was going to blame Bootstrap for this but then found this on the site: https://expo.getbootstrap.com. Some really good examples of innovative design even using good old Bootstrap.
And so I would. As far as I'm concerned, positive feedback loops are a feature of the human experience. You see them everywhere. That doesn't justify Trump's, Acosta's, or America's behavior. It just helps us understand the context in which the behavior occurred.

I don't forgive Trump or Acosta for the way they behave. If you're caught in a loop, it is your responsibility to break out. So I criticize Acosta for this indiscretion and I criticize Trump for past and future indiscretions.
What exactly did it turn into? This is a non-story that only turned into one because the WH revoked Acosta's press pass.
Isn't that (EF6, I mean) only on Windows, though?
New tracking system could show how pesticides are harming bee colonies
I can’t tell if you’re joking. Is the second photo showing something important?
> and that they're timed so precisely that you could set your watch by them.

While your local news may not adhere to an absolutely precise schedule, most broadcast mediums are scheduled to the second. When a program starts, the anchor has exactly 15 seconds to fill. Roll a minute of ads. Then they have 3:45 to fill, etc.

Watch CNN or listen to a nationally syndicated radio show, and time it. You'll see that the entire thing happens with sub-second precision.