skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I recently read a book in which the author, describing rural life in the early 19th century, casually mentioned clothing as being ‘all made in the home’. I laughed. Anyone who has ever tried to sew anything (let alone make an entire family’s wardrobe by hand) would not be so cavalier about the amount of labour involved.

Hmmm, true. Thinking about it, I now realize that whenever I have thought about time-frames pre-industrial revolution, I always just assumed clothing was quick to make.

I have an aunt who knits. My mother, who also knits, regards her sister as the best knitter she knows. I've seen her pieces and, while they are something I could never make, they don't have the "flawless" quality of sweaters and such you can buy at the store, and they take sometimes months for her to finish (depending on what else she's doing in her free time). I've therefore always assumed my aunt was kind of medium-tier at knitting. Kind of a silly thing to contemplate. But anyways, I never thought that it was a very long process, or should be, and that the results of hand-knitting should mimic exactly the factory-quality you see at the store.

I always just thought women who knit in the "old times" could churn out a sweater or a pair of socks in a couple days, kind of along the same lines as the thought that "everything was better back then". Similarly, when I tried to knit a scarf for my mom for Christmas one year, I gave myself a month (figuring I could work on it for an hour now and then) and I nearly did not make the deadline AND the scarf was uneven AND it wasn't long enough.
A Guide to Mini-Hackathons
No. Complaining about horrible behavior is not horrible behavior about itself.
There are a lot of variables, but one thing to keep in mind is that when people switch from $language to English, a subset of them may simply see the conversation as their chance to practice English (rather than as your chance to practice $language).
I have the same urge to make music.

The problem is that music isn't something you can just pick up and create, especially if you're past the point of "just write a song" and want to actually produce something. The latter requires too much immersion to do in the 30-60 minutes of free time I get each day.
Digital currency can only be the #1 use case if we find a generic, uniform way to pull in real-time real-world data of which we can verify its confidentiality, integrity and availability.

There are several known solutions which attempt to solve this problem; oraclize, bluzelle, chainlink, ...

How do you see this? Do you think the #1 use case can be achieved without having a secure, high available oracle?

Another topic I find interesting is the recent discussion on XRP: "Banks won't want to shift around hundreds of millions of dollars on a public available ledger."

How do you see this? Do you think fintech/banks can work use public ledgers?

Kind regards,
To pay journalists directly there are platforms where you can already pay directly for the article (Blendle), plenty of blogging platforms and new media startups than pay journalists at least in part by page impressions/revenues, and online tipjars.

Whether these clickbait factor or article quality depends on the journalist and audience as well as the model, but all of these approaches seem much closer to the ideal of helping journalists earn by the popularity of their output than a startup paying part of journalists' salary in tokens whose main utility according to the white paper appears to be votes to censor/censure other publications for ethics violations.
ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better (2017)
I tried doing that, but I didn't find any pydontknow module on pip.

Your comment reminded me of this xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/353/
Michael Thomas really helped me with my french but he doesn't do the language I am learning right now. A pity as I love the sound of his voice, so calm yet authoritative.
>This is the million dollar question. Why didn't the pilots turn off the system and fly in "legacy mode" like they would if they were flying the prior revision of the 737.

As a pilot, if my plane is doing something which I don't expect it to - my first thought isn't to disable auto-trim, but to consider why it's doing that. A previous crew did have the issue, and did report the problem. As a pilot, I trust that it has been fixed, so no, it wouldn't be the first thing on my mind.
The definition of the second law of thermodynamics at the top is not right. A closed system can have energy put in from the surroundings to decrease entropy. Only isolated systems that cannot exchange energy with the surroundings follow the second law. Only the universe is truly isolated (see the common definition of the second law),

You decrease the entropy (disorder if you like, or not) of things by putting energy in.
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Racket is not academic to me. Racket equals programming fun and really is a joy to use. Academic seems to not convey the feeling one gets when using Racket. To me Racket is really the future of what languages will look like, a language to create your own DSL.

The greatest strength of Racket is its documentation. Secondly the way Racket actually teaches you how to be a better programmer. I personally grew the most due to "How to Design Programs" https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/ Third the executables for cross platform is its reason why I use Racket at work. I can make it and create an executable with raco.

I feel like Racket is the most general purpose language I have ever used. I grew up on C64 Assembly, Pascal and Forth. When I learned Python I felt like I could do anything. That was until I wanted my Python code to be used on a computer that wasn't my own computer.

Python was my go to language for everything at work but I ended up moving to R about 6 years ago. I felt my R was rough around the edges and picked up Racket to learn about R's Scheme roots. It was a night and day difference. I have several pet programs that saves me hours every week.

My Racket programs are much more readible than my Python Scripts. The libraries are certainly not all there but it is actually easy and fun to create your own implementations in Racket and a library for your own use.
Accumulation of Ribosome-Associated Isolated 3' UTRs in Neurons in Aging Brain [pdf]
/some/ power saws can stop instantly - if you try and touch this one with a finger it will stop before it can do damage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiYoBbEZwlk
What a surprise to see this on here! I love these songs so much, more than any other classical songs. (musician/composer here)

In my 20s I studied/listened/loved/played/sang almost everything Debussy wrote (including nothing but Pelleas for over a year, that felt like a musical nand2tetris)..when I found these 3 songs, I didn't bother any more with his earlier songs; Bilitis seemed on another level.

Some other absolute-favourite classical vocal works: Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande and Martyrdom of St Sebastian, Rachmaninov - The Bells, Strauss - Four Last Songs, Britten - Billy Budd.
It doesn't go anywhere except by radiation, which sucks as a way to cool things compared to conduction.
Italian has plenty of "soft versions" of expletives: your examples would translate to "cavolo" and "caspita".

Here is a list of euphemisms that can be used in place of swearwords: https://www.parolacce.org/2016/12/07/eufemismi-in-italiano/
Much closer than self-driving cars, I'd venture to suggest.
Really apart from nukes which had a brief preproliferation period when have superweapons been worth it? Most of the time they have been holes to put money in and get ego out from the Paris railway gun to the megatanks of Nazi Germany.
But did these problems caused the crash?
> The reason the number is worth something is because there's real money tied to it.

That's the reason why Tether and stablecoins like it ostensibly have value. Bitcoin and friends have value because they are fungible and because people assign a value to it. (Much like fiat money.)

There was never any guaranteed value, but many people saw Bitcoin transacting at $0.05 and put it through the paces, understood what they were observing, and saw that it was massively undervalued as a new technology. Since then it's been proven to work on a repeatable basis, with some caveats like the issues that come with increasing popularity scaling up the volume and value per coin, like $50 transaction fees, but that's another engineering problem.

If you told me for some reason that you thought Bitcoin and every cryptocurrency will simultaneously become worth less than that $0.05, overnight, I would assume that you are either a kook, or again, perhaps, that you've discovered another engineering problem... demands further explanation.

We're not talking about Tether though, we're talking about fungible instruments. You wouldn't say that a stock is valueless because its value fluctuates.
By the 5th time you see the question, you're fuming so you shout, "YES! I ANGER EASILY!!!!"

Ahem... Sorry.

I worked at a place that was bought out and the new team immediately made everyone take a battery of these style tests. A few days later they did a mass firing based on the results. I survived long enough to find work elsewhere.
Yes, the transcription errors convey a vaguely machine-generated feel, and together with the weird typography (contrast insufficient, background too bright, line spacing too tight, timing marks every 30 seconds) you ask yourself if the whole speech wasn't a machine-generated prank. Considering the subject of that speech, that's ironic.
I read that a different way. I understood it as an ad from Company X which lists '5 years of Python' as the requirement. Candidate 1 has 5 years of Python at Google, and Candidate 2 has 5 years Python at InfoSys.
>they respect their personal qualifications enough to expect that they will get hired somewhere just might decide not to apply for the job

From my experience people judge the company both by the hard facts, and also by the feel (impression, emotions) the first contact conveys - usually an ad, or word-of-mouth information. Potential employees will skip over word-of-mouth offers and ads that don't convey the kind of workplace they imagine themselves at.

While we may abhor stereotypes, there's often a kernel of truth to them; different professions attract predominantly different characters. The first contact better be tailored to either the prevailing character - or perhaps to the long tail, depending on the current state of jobs marketplace.

Point in case, first contact for sales associate ought to be much different - literally "make mad money, meet demanding sales targets, enjoy strong coffee & fast growth!" than for a highly skilled production worker - "good morning, consider joining team of experienced people like yourself; we offer efficient organization, well-supplied workspace and regular working hours, discounted meals and parking space.".
New Newaita Icon Theme for Linux is one of the best of the year
Customer service chat services see everything you type even if you don't send it
It comes from "slide decks", because not too far long ago, presentations were made with actual 35mm transparencies which were slid into a projector, and were carried in decks.
tbf, the whitepaper is unusually candid in suggesting that journalists on the platform in control of their revenue model will often charge in other currencies instead...
Kinda unrelated but I was amazed at the speed with which the webpage loaded. In the age of bloated websites, being able to start reading the content within a second of clicking was refreshing. Kudos to the NYT developers!
One very negative moment for this slogan was the moment one of their pilots was very audibly high on drugs on the PA before a flight.
Is pilot error more or less of a cause of fatal aircraft incidents than automation gone awry? What does the data say?
Where source code hosted? How should I launch app on Linux if I don't know what is inside it?
It's also partially caused by the fact that most of the time, HR people write those ads (maybe with some input by the division). A lot can get 'lost in translation' here.
Entropy is more accurately defined as hidden information, or the number of possible microstates that a system in a certain macrostate could have.
Here's a great lecture by Leonard Susskind on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7eW-xPEvoQ
I mostly find the readability the same, except for acronyms in the middle. RemoteHTTPIPAddr vs remote_http_ip_addr. I prefer the latter, but my go-to language these days encourages the former.
Did The Incredible Melting Man (the novel based on the film) figure in your childhood as well? That was a bit of a shocker for 12 year old to read back in 1979/80. That one gave me some sleepless nights for a long time :)
Stephen Krashen's Input Hypothesis says that you need comprehensible input. Immersion as a complete beginner does not give you much comprehensible input. He advocates that you need what you listen to be 95% understandable, which means you have to start with very, very basic input. Personally, I find 50 - 60% is good enough for me to improve if only slowly. I went to France this year after 7 months of listening to French for 2 hours a day. During that 7 months I went from DELF A1 level material (complete beginner) to YouTube videos from native speakers talking about things that interest me (such as physics). I took a French immersion course in France and was tested at the beginning as B1 level. So, the input hypothesis method got me from complete beginner to intermediate in 7 months without immersion. I did not do any speaking until after 5 months of listening.
I have a bought licence of subethaedit, from years and years ago. I still use it, but I never upgraded since I had to re-buy a licence to do so!

Glad I waited. I still love the coloured changes for modified text in a document (that stay on after saving!), it's really really handy when working on a longish file to have quick visual clues when scrolling back/forth. I wish more editors had that.
I'm not meaning to take away anything from this announcement, which I think is great. But what options are there for collaborative coding in Sublime? (I don't use Atom)

Having tried Floobits, the experience was ok. But I do a lot of pairing online with 0 day beginners, and need something as little setup as possible. ie. The students are able to install Sublime and Packages. Having to sign up for Floobits is just another step I'd like to avoid.

I suppose I'm looking for a service (paid or otherwise) that provides urls which would relay the keystrokes between editors facilitated by a Sublime package. Does anything like that exist?
The Well-Tempered Clavier was a novelty in JS Bach's time. He did write new music just for it.
And all the crypto hype that burning inside me is that as an engineer and a technologist its frustrating as hell that our banking system is so danm antiquated. Crypto for me is a manifestation of thousands of frustrated engineers saying, we can do better and technology is powerful, stop holding us back.
Wow, women have an interview rate almost double that of men, an also dismiss jobs almost twice as often. That's some serious female privilege!
My last job hunt resulted in a 12% success rate of getting an interview, which matches well with this data.
Maybe not so surprising - Bulgaria and Estonia are both in the EU and Malaysian-US co-operation on security is pretty tight.
>> Don't let perfect get in the way of improvement.

Let's not forget that "simple" often beats "complex".

I'm still not sure what blockchain actually brings to this particular use-case, compared with a digital yet non-blockchain-based alternative.
Nice one, after all those sweatshops trying to interview like if they were Google (w/o any of them ever working there) the next logical step would be having random people administering "personality tests" found after a few minutes of googling or searching on wikihow ;D

Competence is hard to assess without having to ask hard open technical questions. The alternative I hope you are not seriously proposing, going with gut feelings or "personality tests", is actually the epitome of surrendering to bias.
Don't do it, resist.
People can also swap houses with a friend for a day or two. Any time my girlfriend needs to concentrate, she comes over to my house where she's afraid to touch my electronics and synthesizers ;)
Obscenity doesn't cover much more than child pornography. It used to, but not anymore. You should read Reno v ACLU.

The reasonable time, manner and place restrictions aren't enforced and also wouldn't be upheld, but you're right, perjury, blackmail and some kinds of harassment aren't covered. Solicitations to commit crimes actually aren't always illegal.
I assume they would have read news, Reddit, or Digg ( in the old days ) Internet forum, HN etc.

If they have not heard of Nim, Crystal, D, then I would not be surprised. But Rust?
I was thinking a bot might be useful.

BOT:What would you like to do today?

create a lead form for our website.

BOT: Why? Just kidding...Would you like to see some examples of lead forms?

No.

BOT: ok...What fields you like to add to the form from my library?

Name, address, do you like sushi?

BOT: Would you like to split Name into first and last name?

yes.

BOT: ok.. I have a form with first name, last name, address and do you like sushi? would you like to see the form?
Let me make something abundantly clear to you: There is no news outlet in existence that is free from bias. Not NPR, not BBC, not NBC, none of them. None. NONE. Zero. 0%.

"News" at this moment in time is either propaganda or advertising and has nothing at all to do with any high-minded "un-biased" attempt to report information to a mass audience. You are their product--they wish to shape your mind and allow their paid for agenda to be promoted through you. You are on your own for finding out real, useful information.

I suppose there are a few feel-good human interest stories about cats out there that aren't biased, however, the bias there is that those stories exist to sell ads to people who like soft stories--lacking the market for the ads, there would be no soft stories.
Presentation is the process. You can have a presentation without using a deck.

The term you are looking for is Slideshow.
The point of immersion is not to absorb the language by osmosis with zero effort, but rather keep you in a daily linguistic/cultural context. Your learning efforts will simply stick a lot better than just doing Anki cards in your home country.
Nice. Got any tracks you can mention? I'm a bit out of touch now..
EU Exit: Long-term economic analysis November 2018 [pdf]
No care for I don’t buy audio equipment named for prominent Nazis.
As children we went to the CeBit to raid the booths of Commodore, Atari and others (a friend of mine brought back 2kg of stickers one day), and as a student I worked there each year as a night guard (Silicon Graphics, best booth evah!). But obviously times have changed. One could argue that the technology presented at the CeBit made the CeBit obsolete. Still, feels a bit sad to see it go.
Pro tip froma friend who was learning Dutch: if you open every conversation with "I'm learning Dutch, so I'm going to try speak only Dutch" (in Dutch), people are more inclined to help.
The UK government started worrying about the same thing when Huawei won a bunch of BT 21CN contracts for network renewal.

The chosen solution in that case was to set up a dedicated engineering facility onshore, where evaluation of the products could be performed at various levels before deployment.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/huawei-cyber-secu...
I still have my future retro 777 I acquired during college years. I expected to keep it as collector item but considering parting with it for the right person that would put it to good use in NYC! Hit me up if you’ve been looking for it.
The humor might be a bit much. Also, recommendation could get tricky.
This is when experts think we’ll build a truly intelligent AI
I'm worried about emissions from the aircraft, which I am guessing will probably be gas powered. Airplane emissions are not as tightly regulated as automobiles. In fact, airplanes are allowed to use leaded fuel [1]. Now imagine a fleet of uber planes flying around constantly over your city.

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lead-in-aviation-...
https://dilbert.com/strip/2008-03-01

I'm not a fan of HR in general and it's frustrating that they are often the clueless gatekeepers.
> Require initial knowledge of many probabilities.

This is not a really big issue. You can always use uninformative priors, which is simply the Bayesian way of saying "I don't know" what the probability distribution looks like upfront. Then the data can help you infer the right shape of probabilities.

> Can become computationally intractable.

This is a bummer, but modern methods like variational inference and better sampling techniques are making Bayesian analysis on large-scale data and complex models tractable.

I linked a video the article that I highly recommend watching. Variational Bayes and Beyond: Bayesian Inference for Big Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYRK0-_K2UU
Brexit will make UK worse off, government forecasts warn
A Search for Alien Life Begins in Earth’s Oldest Desert
Go's GC is deliberately non-relocating, which precludes being generational. https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote The repeated state in question might be benefiting from escape analysis, but I can't tell from a cursory examination.
Optimize Your Programming Decisions for the 95%, Not the 5%
Well there doesn't need to be a fully working, always up internet connection. A satellite connection will do just fine, and these tend to be available at camps. One way of doing this would be with state channels, where most of the oltp is done off-chain and signed messages can be relayed via sneaker-net until an on-line node is found days / weeks later.
Dance Mania FTW. My favourite label out of Chicago, so many great gems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U_BUIT1axg
Boring Co. Drops LA Westside Tunnel Plan
The problem is that there is no form of digital good that is incorruptible and unfalsifiable that is not blockchain-based.
The best part is that this "Audio to Text" transcription service says on its web page:

Proprietary algorithm

Built by our machine learning and speech recognition experts.
Shannon - "Let The Music Play" also used it the year before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-0sUuGufmw

& has more of a squelchy what-you'd-think-of-as-303 type bassline sound, but the sound isn't tweaked through the tune, just constantly resonant.
Is ‘flying’ code for being on drugs? Most people don’t know about drug culture and wouldn’t make these kind of connections. I think it’s just an generic marketing phrase.
The FAA thinks that cockpit automation leads to complacency. It's a question on the commercial pilot written test.
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[0] http://libreoffice.org/download/appimage
Göttsching is krautrock - a terrible but accepted name for the pre-techno synthesizer scene that formed in Berlin in the late 60s and became popular in most of Europe (not so much Germany) in the 70s.

The biggest names on the scene were Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, Göttsching was in a peripheral band called Ashra Tempel but also played drums for Schulze. The less famous names on the scene - Roedelius, Cluster, Conny Schnitlzer - influenced Brian Eno's ambient music when he went over to Berlin to produce Low for Bowie.

As for techno vs house - the big difference is the rhythm pattern. Techno is square and on the grid, house feels like it has some swing and the beat is "skippier" with offbeats, anticipations, and sometimes triplets.
This is a particularly bad example to make that case over, as it is hard to discern any scientific or medical justification for it, while the known risks are considerable. Frankly, it looks to me like a posterity-grabbing stunt - an attempt by the researcher to write himself into the history books.