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Ask HN: What are your goals for 2019?
They say that making a commitment public strengthens it, so here is a place for you to state your goals or resolutions for 2019.

I'll start:

1. Go to gym 305 times (each session at least 15 mins run, planks, and 4 weight sets)

2. ‎Weigh less than 70kg from February 1 to December 31 (currently 71.4kg)

3. Start an online school similar to Lambda School, with at least 5 graduates getting a job in IT and paying money back to the school
I'm still using C# (CoreCLR) for most of my day to day stuff. This posts series is part of my ongoing efforts to improve my knowledge and skills.

I've talked extensively about performance in CoreCLR and how to approach it. Several records talks are found here:

https://ayende.com/blog/tags/performance
Thanks for the insight. Yes it is presumably one user. Interesting algorithm also with overwriting. There is a risk though that someone might get passively punished simply because someone overwrote them.
Are you a lawyer?

I'm not but I work with lots, and that's not how derivative works are interpreted.

You may think it's right and the logic is sound, but there are good arguments the other way too, and that is how courts have found.
> I think the mistake is thinking that one measure will be absolutely predictive

And I agree. I believe I said that I think IQ isn't an absolutely predictive measure. I didn't say I thought there was one.

Another commenter talks about "taste" being an essential ingredient. That's what I mean about meta-analysis of focus: applying intelligence to the topic of what you're applying intelligence to.
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Google and Amazon have proprietary datasets for important sub-tasks (e.g. recognizing "consumer good" entities, or more accurate sentiment recognition, or supporting other languages better) that are not available to the public.

In other words, if your problem looks like one of the benchmarking tasks in NLP research (e.g. recognizing persons and locations in fluent text) you can expect good performance out of open source tools. If you go beyond that, you have to concoct your own dataset and/or use proprietary cloud services.
A judge will be annoyed and/or amused. You will lose a lawsuit. It will be expensive.
> 20-40 years into the future (if not delayed)

that seems to be unreasonably long. In germany, both the city I am studying at and the city I was born are undertaking big changes in their transportation infrastructure, and both don't take that long. In munich, building just started and is expected to last unit 2026 [1]. And we always complain that it's taking too long to plan and build!

40 years seems to be crazy! You would have to start repairing the old stuff when the whole project is finished.

Or are you talking about the whole process, including the financing? Then it's more understandable, many big project here also stall for 20 years until everyone has enough money and the political will to follow through. But I thought the financing is covered due to the sales-tax increase.

While it's easy to complain about projects not moving for 20 years, the sums are often quite enourmus and i am not sure whether inefficiencies are to blame, or whether gathering enough money just takes a long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_line_2_(Munich_S-Bahn)
My point is that ads are essentially the only way to gain visibility for a lot of products.

The fact that internet ads are in such an harrowing situation is a consequence of perverse incentives on ads delivery and reliance on clickbait titles.

wouldn't it be nice if there was a culture of treating your own site or page as a place for "editor choices"? If there was a model of trust between page owners (or admin on social media) to choose quality advertisements in a model similar to television? (I do not live in the US, here television ads are mostly reasonable)

My point is that ads are not just a way to monetize your own page, they are also a way to allow easy product discovery. In may opinion, before you can call them purely evil it is right to also point out the beneficial effects they do have.

Also many of you point also apply to most modern journalism and articles online. They are strong negative point but they do not imply that a whole practice is irredeemably evil.
I can think of a few rural cities in Maryland, but I'm not going to list every city I've lived and frequent to some stranger on the internet to prove a point.

Blanket statement that all of anything usually is wrong.
If this was true, people wouldn't be leaving.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/herzbergs-two-factor-theory...

Please look here. It is funny you talk about being a MANAGER, I see a problem in hygiene(not the physical one) on your company. Give it a read on hygiene factors, know it well. Check if you are providing them. That is always the reason people leave in hordes. It is that simple.

To be honest, if a company was really paying good salaries, as you claim, respected people(working time/conditions), I would only leave if the management were clowns.

Are you one? I mean. I'm doing more management now and I know how people in management are afraid to seek into their own mistakes and defects and stick to saying like "Everything we do is great! I have no idea why we aren't successful", as doing that takes much less effort and courage than stepping up, finding out problems and really thinking through.

People here in HN have commented a lot of things, but you really negate basic things, such as salary. "salary is competitive", that doesn't mean anything... Most of the companies are competitive, if they are willing to give me a similar salary to avoid all the problems your company currently has, which you even affirmed, why would I still work for your company(and fix its problems) if you wouldn't pay me _above_ the market?

If you gave 2 raises in a year and can't say "we're paying like FAANG or above the market", barely "compatitive", it means your company 1 year ago was underpaying people and that, like a virus, has spread discontent in people. Those things are cancerous, even after they are gone, there is still the trauma. People don't like being underpaid, they feel like losers. That's why they move to other companies, even if you fix the problem.
Most affiliate networks provide product data feeds for a lot of their members.

Nearly all affiliates I've seen prevent scraping in their terms and conditions of affiliation.. they will also have a limit of the types of marketing you can do, which may exclude comparison sites.

Alternatively, write a few blog articles on some of the products you are comparing and add some links to them, then you have content.
Comments like that are included for a kind of shock humour effect. It's mostly satirical and designed to get a rise out of people who will take it seriously and get defensive. But nobody would react if it didn't contain at least a grain of truth :)
Long read but very interesting story that I had never heard before.
> Studies pretty consistently show that IQ is a valid predictor of performance all the way up the scale, so that, for example, someone with an IQ of 145 is likely to perform (at school, on the job, etc) better than someone with an IQ of 135.

To be fair, he doesn’t say that high IQ are not correlated with high performance, he conjectures that they ‘decorelate’, by which I presume he means the correlation weakens. (It’s pretty obvious at the end of the post that he’s arguing that).

If true, that is concerning for a measure. Heteroscedasticity is a serious problem for accurate prediction - in particular it tends to conceal the inaccuracies of predictions.

He also points out other issues, non-monotinicity and intransitivity which would be problematic. If your measure predicts candidate A is better than B and candidate B is better than C, you generally want it to predict candidate A is better than C. If it predicts candidate C is better than A, it creates confusion.
Are you on a low-carb diet by any chance? I only ask because I've been on one for a while and one reason I suspect I'm having similar effects as you're describing is maybe because of long-term consequences of carb restriction.
The Nvidia drivers are binary-only kernel modules that involve re-signing when installed.

> Some kernels may require that kernel modules be cryptographically signed by a key trusted by the kernel in order to be loaded. In particular, many distributions require modules to be signed when loaded into kernels running on UEFI systems with Secure Boot enabled.[0]

[0]: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/390.48/README/i...
That is indeed how the subject has been developed historically and often introduced in optimisation courses. First one studies Linear Programs (minimize a linear function with affine equality and affine inequality constraints), then Quadratic Programs (quadratic functions with affine constraints), Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs, etc. So we often assume very specific properties of not just the objective but also the constraints, and we get some extra juice in these cases. Through this process of seeing what results we can prove in more generality, we finally arrived at getting a good body of theory and algorithms for minimizing convex functions with convex constraints. In some courses they start with the general theory, as the top down approach can save some time and brain space.
if i'm doing it myself why do i need IINA? these things are just niceties i know but the competition has the niceties built in
I am probably naive again, but it seems for me that you don't need to verify other transactions, only the one between A and B. You could ignore the shards/channels not affected by the transaction.

Another optimisation would be that for example an exchange tries to pull all its local transactions into the same channel. Or people join the retail's channel before paying. The idea is to avoid ascending as much as possible. In other words, a variant of Lightning Network!
Yes. I was just trying to learn Hammerspoon. This is more familiar language and has an IDE to boot.

7 days for trial isn’t that much for productivity app. Then again its only 8 dollars or so.

I wish there was repository or discussion forum for automation scripts.

Also, I would like to react to Mac notifications. That has been seemingly impossible to do...
I'm not aphantasic, but experience something very similiar I guess. Sometimes when I'm exhausted and close to falling asleep, I experience very clear images of either faces or rooms. The faces always belong to people I know personally, change shape, then as soon as I become aware, they fade almost instantly. As for the rooms, I get the impression of being able to see with closed eyes. Usually I'd see my blanket, random items (such as a chocolate bar laying around) and room interior. Again these are very clear, but fade rather quickly.

This phenomenon I found referred to as astral projection[0], mostly in esoteric circles.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AstralProjection/comments/7ofaol/se...
Can someone explain what the expected behaviour is with punctuation and Named Entity Recognition? Is there an assumption that punctuation is preprocessed in some form?

I'm a noob but it's not what I expect - periods change what is extracted in inconsistent ways.

e.g.

"I love Berlin." -> "Berlin."

"I love Berlin ." -> "Berlin"

"George Washington loves Berlin." -> "George Washington"

"George Washington loves Berlin ." -> ["George Washington", "Berlin"]
> Also latest release is almost 4 years old, could do with some further development.

There's a "2019.01-RC1" tag on github, so we can probably expect a new release soon.
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> Plays and movies aren't just people spewing lines non-stop.

Screenplays contain more than just lines.
The name for what you're doing here is "argument to moderation" and it's a fallacy.

The fact you're able to imagine two different positions and label them both "extreme" does not in fact mean the truth lies as you'd prefer somewhere in the middle.

"Four is an odd number"
and
"Four is an even number"

... can be portrayed as two extremes with the option to take some vague bullshit middle ground position like "Maybe four is sometimes an odd number" but actually the situation is just that one of them is right and the other is wrong.
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> people doing utterly foul things like pissing or shitting

Based on my (very limited) experience of SF, that seems like an area-wide issue. I've travelled reasonably extensively and SF is the only place I've been where I've suspected more of the shit on the path (inside and out) was human than canine.
This is why I like kids to try sports that use precise measures of performance, where one can compete with oneself. I also think sports and games that encourage teamwork is very important. But by having the performance exactly measured, in most cases "hard work" will pay off. When the kids see the correlation between "hard work" and results, they can apply it to other areas such as studying.
Then there are "gifted" children that are very early in their maturity and will excel at everything, and will have a very easy ride until their growth curve flatten out, but will have a very hard time when the others catch up.
Obviously a software should not be just a giant chum-box, there are no kind of upsides to that.

Still I do not understand why everyone should keep a mile away from them and be shamed for trying to ameliorate the bad sides of internet advertisements.
Do such people experience differences in the study of topology?
No, lolipop offered the new api that allowed to ask for granular permissions, but apps using the older api were still using the old permission system, and the store still allowed to publish apps using the older api (because most phone of the time weren't being updated).

Now (like right now and for the first time) google is making is impossible to publish new apps, or update to existing apps, using the older api.

That's two very different things, "X is deprecated but still there, the new Y is available for those who want it" and "X is removed now, you must use Y".
> But at the world level, it's just some of us choosing to consume more than we produce right now, and others of us choosing to consume less than we produce right now.

Then why the 2008 financial crisis happened? It was because of bad lending which resulted to defaults.
Parent poster's point is that your "savings" are money owed to you by the bank: ie "debt". And the only way the bank can make money on those savings is to lend them out again as debt to the bank.

What's the alternative, equity? Traditionally regarded as more risky?

> when society as a whole over-leverages itself, there's no easy path back to a safe level of debt.

This is a rather climate change like situation, isn't it? It's always advantageous to each individual to have more, and it produces economic growth - but if there is Too Much, then it's a problem to society as a whole.
People should stop quoting this "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". It's very outdated. Every malicious person is just playing dumb these days.
even better regarding discoverability: the macOS menu search, available under "help".
The rights for Star Control have historically been seen as follows:

• Reiche and Ford own the entire copyright on Star Control I and II, including code, story, universe, etc.

• Reiche and Ford own copyright in the characters reused in Star Control III, but Accolade owned the code and all characters/concepts new to the SC3 universe. (Accolade had to get permission from Reiche and Ford to use their characters in this game.)

• The name/trademark Star Control has always been owned by Accolade.

• Distribution rights and royalties for SC1 and SC2 were granted to Accolade for a fixed period of time, or until a fixed period went by with no sales, or until Accolade ever went bankrupt.

All this was written down in a contract between Reiche/Ford and Accolade decades ago; the original document is readable in the court filings.

All three of the termination conditions above have since occurred, so Reiche and Ford claim—correctly, in my layman’s opinion—that the distribution rights for SC1 and SC2 (except for the name) reverted to them years ago.

When Atari tried to sell SC1, SC2, and SC3 on GOG in 2011, Reiche and Ford disputed it. Both sides agreed to split revenues equally, and the game went back up on GOG (see the email chain in https://www.dogarandkazon.com/blog/2018/2/27/report-from-pla...).

But when Stardock tried the same thing on Steam in 2017, relations soured dramatically, leading to a Stardock lawsuit claiming Reiche and Ford hold no rights and were not the creators, and DMCA takedowns from Reiche and Ford.
IMO human device interfaces have been going in circles ever since Doug Engelbart's demo in 1968.
True. And TFA doesn't name the company:

> ... but it is a real, aftermarket device for Lexus RX-300 series cars being sold by a company in Florida.

However, parent's argument applies to "company in Florida".

Also, ironically, to the author of TFA. I'm guessing that it's not an accident that he doesn't name "company in Florida".
I sometimes wonder if a shortcut would be to hire & Fire quickly but only for short-term contract work. After X time as a contractor devs can upgrade to a full position.
> A large number of women think George Clooney is attractive and that Danny Devito isn't.

Nevertheless Danny Devito is extremely charismatic and if I were him I would certainly appreciate my parents didn't modify my genes to make me look a different way. In fact my actual look is much more close to that of George Clooney than Danny Devito but if I could choose now I would prefer to change my look into exactly that od Danny Devito than of George Clooney. This is exactly the example of how subjective this is.
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You left out "right now": the key here is pensions. People spend a majority-but-shrinking proportion of their life as net producers and a growing part as consumers.

Not to mention student debt.
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I completely agree, but I also believe that it could be relevant to keep in mind the difference between what ads are right now and what they could be.

If Mozilla can grow a small but reliable advertisement space and impose significant restrictions on the style and taste of the ads this could actually improve the whole industry.
where have i seen this product before...
Production engineering is a thing, and it's almost a separate domain to basic electronic design. There are production shops in China that will take almost any design, build it, package it, and deliver it, for a short run of >250 units or so - often for less than the cost of buying the parts and doing all the assembly at home.

It's still not quite trivial, but it's not exactly hard now for small designers to go circuit -> Amazon without ever having to do any assembly at all.
> When a sovereign nation cannot pay its debt, often times the effects are generational, and very much nonconsenual. The current generation cannot go back in time and vote against the profligate spending of the previous generation. One wonders if this is ethically tenable, yet every government does it.

I do think this might be one of the big questions of the 21st century. Stable society requires long-term commitments (debt, investment), but people demand the ability to swing policy back and forth on 4 or 5 year timescales.

> Moreover, when a government overspends, the ill effects of that overspending typically hurt the poorest the hardest.

This is usually inflicted on them by the lender of last resort, the IMF.
The leftist position isn't that everyone is inherently equal but that everyone should be valued equally and afforded equal opportunity regardless of their race/gender/ability. The idea of an "IQ" measure is too close to the idea of measuring inherent value, which shouldn't be contingent on things like how much nutrition you had as a child. Furthermore, the idea of "IQ" could be considered dangerous because it often serves to mask the harmful biases that actually inform our impressions of people.
So what is a Tselin machine?

Maybe I am lazy but a don’t see an exact description.

I am assume it is a function that takes an input, a state and produces an output. But what exactly is it?

A neural net is a fairly general construction. Is this not just a nn with a particular activation function, a particular network layout?
Well I haven't come to a conclusion. It's a hypothesis and rests upon more than just art tutorials. That was just an example that I was reflecting upon. In fact I would say that it doesn't rest at all upon that but rather that it was the starting point of my thoughts.
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Sometimes we get the interface we deserve.
I don't think that this is a constructive post. It is probably totally true - in whatever seat you're sitting in, there's no situation where code is exploratory, but unless you're saying something about how common that is then it's not interesting for the problem. I think you might be implying that there are no/few seats where an exploratory approach is useful, in which case I really disagree.
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I kind of agree, my comment was toward his about the previous version of (non granular, must allow all at install) permissions.

Though if we're being frank, just like I said about the app store quality, I believe that apple permission system is well above others, but it's still nowhere near good enough. Rule is, don't install crap on your phone thinking "the permission system will protect me from all abuse", it won't.
Italics seem too similar to regular for coding. And anyway terminus or consolas are better for that.

Maybe for screenplays it's the best.
I wonder about this as well. That example on Wikipedia had no effect on me. On the other hand could it be the advertising industry using it too much and some people getting "anesthetized" to it? I don't think it's autism for me because generally I'm hyper aware of people's emotions.
Has the post title been altered by mods? I recall last night it mentioned something about Scad being parametric or programmable - a fact that made this post potentially more relevant to HN readers.

It's a terribly generic title now.
Ars has a detailed walkthrough the mess leading to this - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/star-control-cou...
Where is that post?
It is. If the salaries were raising, the supply would follow.
If you need "export to JS" in a similar app, you might like Mesh Spreadsheets: http://www.mesh-spreadsheet.com

Slow functions and trees/graphs are currently a problem with Mesh as well, but timeouts may take care of the former, and we're thinking about the latter: https://twitter.com/MeshSpreadsheet/status/10794804493138206...
The jung/MB tests are probably the most unscientific drivel that is in wide use. It is insulting to human intelligence that is given any significance at all.
> Another common thing Architecture Astronauts like to do is invent some new architecture and claim it solves something. Java, XML, Soap, XmlRpc, Hailstorm, .NET, Jini, oh lord I can’t keep up. And that’s just in the last 12 months!

I wonder what Joel would've said if he could've (in 2001, when this article was written) seen a decade and a half into the future and looked at the "oh-lord-I-can't-keep-up-is-my-middle-name" web development frameworks of the past decade and counting. The dust is nowhere close to settling yet!
Don’t store the private key on the local filesystem then. Use a USB stick or build and sign the modules on a separate machine. Depending on your threat model, a strong passphrase on the signing key might already go a long way.
That's from 2013. I wonder how successful the font has been in Hollywood over the last 6 years.