skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dropped out in 2004 to start a job as a Programmer. I was broke and needed some cash. I was left with 4 subjects to complete Computer Systems Engineering qualification. Which is 60% IT and 40% Electrical Engineering. I decided to enroll for an IT qualification in 2015 at the age of 33. Best decision I have ever taken.

I graduated last year September at the age of 36 and I am no longer considered an IT dropout or self-taught Programmer. Reason I decided to go back to school was because I was always considered a self-taught Programmer, even though I was taught programming in a formal qualification which I didn't finish. The fact that I finished all programming related modules and was only left with 3-4 Electrical Engineering related modules, didn't help.

Studying when you are older is easier because you are doing it with a purpose. Plus when you are older, you spend more time at home and party less. Freeing more time for studying. The course I did, was heavy in programming, mobile app development and web design. Something I have been doing for over 10 years before I decided to go back to studying.
I would recommend check out urealms[1]. It is a improv/role playing show running on rules similar (but simplifed) DnD rules. The format is a group of twitch personalities steam their gameplay for a live audience, contents including improv jokes, pre-planned dramma, pre-made animation cut scences and at the center of it, dice-roll based table top game play.

The primary tool used for the show is tabletop simulator[2], which is a game designed for any tabletop games: cards, dices, chess etc. and can be customized quite a bit. It's mostly a low-tech solution, replicating physical acts of throwing dices, moving pieces and shuffling cards on a virtual table. In addition, the creators of URealm also invested in other custom softwares and artwork. However, the show is a for-profit project seeks to provide entertainment value for an audience rather than purely for the enjoyment of participants.

[1] https://www.urealms.com/
[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator...
> You call me a liar now? Tone down a bit, would you? By "formatting" I meant formatting output of error messages (changing size of the buffer down to 80) and data (ensuring that newline markers are preserved), not the source code cleansing.

1. Once again, this is provably false.

2. Once again, this is no jsutification for the fact that nearly all bugfixes contain no tests.

> You've raised important points, so I tried to elaborate and explain why things are the way they are, so you can judge by yourself.

I have, and my initial an subsequent posts remains just as valid.

> Time will tell.

It has already told. At best, Red sees one minor version increment per year. At best. It's more of a one patch version increment per year.

So, going back to this statement: "hence there isn't much contributors ready to provide the code of acceptable quality.... [lack of comments as] a stumble block for other contributors, which, alas, will be moved away only after 1.0 is reached." This means that we will not see this for any foreseeable future.

Somehow this is viewed as a normal course of events even though it isn't.

Well, to each his/her own, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

BTW, have you ever seen any tests to your own bug reports, or have you written any tests for the bug reports where you provided a fix?
Apple is selling its products globally, not just China. Why China's economy decreasing would impact Apple's revenue so dramatically? All blames go to China?
It's not a market of 512M, it's many small markets of different languages and different cultures that all need to be targeted individually whereas the US is actually a much larger market of a single culture. Focusing on the big mono language mono culture market instead of chasing dozens of smaller markets that require much more effort in internationalization is actually good business advice.
Read their bio. They are propagandist.
I don’t see that happening as the iPhone 7+ costs $1100. The price had fallen just $330 in more than two years. Not a considerable fall if you ask me.
> Fascism is a direct descendent of Marxist socialism with class consciousness replaced by nationalism.

Pure Nonsense. Fascism is simply extreme nationalism. It is believing that one's race is superior which makes you hate immigrants. Makes you build up walls to keep them out. This is born out of the constant exploitation of the capitalists.

When the people stop believing the Capitalist lies, you start getting demagogues like Trump.

This has nothing to do with Marx and Socialism.

Just to repeat, Soviet Union and Communist China Vangaurdism has nothing to do with Worker-owned-and-directed enterprises.

Soviet Union and Communist China is very different from Mondragon and John Lewis. Power is decentralized as much as possible. Managers and Executives (if needed) are only in power for a few months and is subject to call any time. Unlike today where C-level persons act like Feudal Lords.
Many big corp products have very high margins and can afford to pay premium taxes on production or they can just charge more. Perhaps the tax income could be used for the good, but, unless such tax is a stigma and consumers can see that 20% of the price is for dirty practices and not i.e. "design", they will pay.
Welp, sounds like Yelp's algorithm for this is sort of wacky. Ratings supported by fewer data points (which I would call less reliable for that reason) are over-represented.
Four-lungual, I needed to learn English too.
Apple really have an enviable position like few hardware companies before them: when there’s a demand anomaly they can just ask their suppliers to turn the dials. Apple in this regard doesn’t have to worry so much about keeping factories running.

Separately, while Tim C may have pointed the finger st the Chinese economy, there remains a growing concern that the global economy is also slowing. China may just be going through an isolated economic change or it may be a signal that other parts of the world are to follow.
No it isn't because Firefox is not using Servo as its browser engine. To elaborate, it has been using a Rust component called Stylo to calculate CSS values for a little over year now. Stylo originates from Servo. If you switched away from Firefox a few years ago because of slowness, it has nothing to do with the Rust components.
> Likewise we cannot just redefine the set of real numbers to be restricted to the set of computable reals. Analysis rapidly breaks down when you do so and it follows that the real field is no longer closed (by definition, and therefore no longer subject to the field axioms).

Whilst this is true, I feel it should be noted that there exist constructive and computable versions of analysis which exist to work under under assumptions like "all the reals are computable".

Of course, the big difference is that we've mostly agreed on a single canonical version of the classical reals and of classical analysis, whilst there are numerous versions of different constructive analyses depending on what exactly you mean by "constructive".

Additionally many theorems of classical analysis "split up" into multiple independent versions which would be equivalent classically, but only some of which are true constructively.

Worse than that, often there is not a single definition of the "reals" any more. For example, two definitions of the reals (Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences) may result in entirely different objects constructively speaking. And, in fact, it may be that neither one is actually a good way of capturing the concept of a "real" "number" in that particular universe, so you need yet another definition.

As terrible as this might make it sound, it is worth the effort, in my opinion. In trying model the real world, classical mathematics throws away just a little bit too much information, in my opinion. This messiness is not just the result of wanting to work under some weird axioms, but an actual statement about the messiness of reality. Trying to sweep these issues under the rug is not a sustainable strategy if you eventually want to solve real-world problems.

Using classical mathematics is fine as a first-pass. It's a good way of investigating the problem under some simplifying assumptions and getting some good and useful results. But after that is done, it's not always enough to just declare the problem "solved" (or "unsolvable"). You need to consider what the practical version of the results will be, especially if you want to write a program to use them.

I am glad that the world is moving towards more computable and constructive versions of mathematics. It is still early days, and there are still way too many different takes on trying to solve the same mathematical issues, but soon enough we'll converge on a select few "generally acceptable" versions of constructive mathematics (in particular, something based on some form of constructive Type Theory) and we'll be able to reform our mathematical and scientific knowledge on a more stable base.
Not sure if it’s anyones job to search for evidence for you or the parent.
True.

But, the 60-minutes reporter didn't justify his claims based on risk or on math. He was skeptical because Sears is huge, and to him it was laughable [and yes, he did literally laugh many times in that interview] that Amazon can someday be worth more than Sears. To him it was "messed up", and a sign of things wrong with the world
For the same reason a photo take of you in a public place isn't yours, it belongs to the photographer. The Internet is a public space; you don't own the public space and you don't have any right or authority to tell anyone collecting public data that you own it just because you're in it. It's not your data, it's my data, I collected it. You don't want it collected, don't go spewing it out in public spaces.
Somewhat off-topic: Tegernseer is a very good Bavarian brewery whose beer is available at almost any currywurst cart in Munich but (regrettably) is not exported internationally.

Their brewery/pub in Tegernsee is an excellent day trip by train; far less crowded than the Munich beer gardens, and delicious food to boot. One of my fondest memories of visiting Bayern :-)
And? That doesn't refute anything I said. And no it wasn't a canned response.
Don't get me started

College education is hugely overrated, and especially by using bad reasons like that

Spare me the hyperboles, using the "well rounded" adjective makes no sense except for objects that are supposed to be round.

College is essential if you are in a regulated profession and/or is it too expensive (or impossible) to learn it yourself (like medicine, other engineerings, law, etc)

For other areas? Not so much
It is context based. In the case at hand, I think it is fairly clear that the Eve corp wants users from Europe, since otherwise other corps which take users from Europe would out compete them. I'm not an Eve player, but my understanding is that you want your corp to be as large as possible to produce certain ships/stations? Other contexts, like a company offering investments to US based startups is unlikely to be seen as offering services to European residents even if Europeans can create accounts there.

As to jurisdiction, you can always sit in your home country and ignore any rulings against you from other countries so long as you are sure that your own country will not extradite you for such a thing (I am confident that Canada would not extradite a Canadian residence for such a thing). Just don't ever try to cross the border into a European country.
US regularly tries to enforce it's laws on other countries, people / organisations in other countries
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Note: it's a gene expression pattern. It's not like there's a monogamy gene that you have or don't have; rather there are genes that are more active in monogamous species (or vice versa).

So it won't show up on your 23andme test. It's a completely different type of analysis called RNA-seq, and in order to perform it they had to obtain actual brain tissue samples (not blood or saliva), because gene expression is different in every tissue.
Guys think about the ranking lists.. you want your data deleted and you kind of also have to delete all related data to that account like everything. I can imagine already some people hacking top 100 ranking list accounts and deleting them to remove them from the ranking to get elevated themselves.
- I've never been motivated by external acknowledgement of anything I've done.

- I don't like getting attention.

- I'd gladly accept a non-trivial cash bonus instead of a trophy.

The company for whom I work does not officially have any such trophies but some managers-of-managers in some departments tend to publicly acknowledge some achievements now and then. This is not structured and not regular. However, I know many people who _are_ motivated by praise and kudos. I suppose a good manager will try to ensure everyone in his/her team will feel appreciated in a way that works for that person.
Can second this, have multiple times in the past to quickly spin up prototypes/internal apps, worked nicely.
When bumping training from 3 to 5 days/week, a common mistake is to increase total load to 5/3=170%. The trick is to lower the load on each day to 60-70% and advance from there.
Which is why I added rarely; personally I was thinking of thepiratebay trials in Sweden. I do believe both Mega and TPB are as a result of breaking US law but TPB was at least tried in Sweden and found to be breaking Swedish law, not sure if the same goes/went for Kim.
Yes. It is illegal to lie to shareholders in the US and I refer you to the quote above.
I would be surprised if there are more than 50 people alive today who have read Hayek's "pure theory of capital" cover to cover and understand it. I read "prices and production and other works", which was difficult, but pretty interesting and made me understand the major flaws in KeynesIan economics. However, "Pure theory of capital" is over my head though. I am glad to see that even Milton Friedan agrees with me.
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So I personally disagree with what you are saying. If anything, most countries are extremely under-regulated when it comes to driving - it just happens that US probably leads the way in how under-regulated it is. In most western countries it's far far far too easy to get a driving licence - I think it should be extremely difficult and it should be testing a whole range of different situations on the road, not just the operation of a vehicle + 30-60 minutes on the road. Mandatory 30-40 hours of training followed by a two practical tests in different conditions sounds like a good start.

And no, driving a bigger(especially larger than 3.5 tonnes) vehicle is not just about the vehicle being physically larger and harder to park. That's why the European categories for driving such large vehicles(C and D categories) have very different theoretical tests than a regular B category for driving small(<3.5 tonne) cars. There's a whole host of laws saying where and when you can drive such a vehicle, and speed limits are different for them, regardless of what the speed limit signs say.
Part of the test for C category includes safe loading of a heavy vehicle - like in your example, if you rent a box truck and put a 2 tonne pallet on one side, you're going to have a bad time. That's why the training is important.
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HECS repayments are one of the only Australian taxes I can think of that actually isn’t progresssive and the percentage is applied to your whole income, not just that above the threshold. Which is why it’s also such a gradual tax, not even hitting 8% until a fair way past 100k.
Legally, the EU is claiming that if you do certain things which affect EU residents, then it will declare a judgment against you regardless of where you were when you did those things.

This idea is not new and certainly is not seen as unequivocally wrong in law.

If you produce libel against someone from another country, that person may sue you in their home country. That you performed the libel in another country is not generally seen as problematic to the libel laws of most countries. The US may refuse to recognize the judgment and you are fine as long as you do not travel to said country or a country with extradition agreements.
It's published in Nature Machine Intelligence:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-018-0002-3

But at least this article seems to be available as Open Access. I am not sure if this is temporary or not.
China is a big part of Apple's growth strategy.
> Our only hope is a technical solution.

There are many technical mitigations to the problem, but a technical solution is well out of reach I'm afraid. The problem with carbon removal/storage and the like isn't that it's technically impossible but the scope of the effort required - of a similar magnitude to that of global carbon extraction over the last century.

Malthus was staved off by the efforts of the green revolution but its practises, intensize use of fertilizers and pesticides aided by mechanisation, may not be sustainable due to topsoil erosion and carbon emission. We don't know what the long-term carrying capacity of the planet is.
Thats what happens when you put the metric maximizing corporate robots in charge. They keep things running hyper efficiently for no sane reason, other than the fact that it is the only thing they know to do.

After the iPhone 4 or 5 it's been going no where vision wise.
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> why hasn't Samsung's share price suffered as much as Apple's?

Samsung’s and Apple’s stocks are apples and oranges. iPhone is a principal value driver for Apple. Small swings in iPhone demand mean big swings in Apple value. Samsung, on the other hand, is a diversified conglomerate. Moreover, Apple is—corporate structure-wise, for an investor—simple. Single Delaware corporation priced in U.S. dollars and traded in New York. Samsung is a chaebol. Lots of interlocking entities and agreements, parts of which are listed in Korea.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-018-0002-3

Published in Nature Machine intelligence. Publicized through the regular Nature site.
There's no science behind meat affects the environment, fakenews as always, what else can you expect from journalists.

Also a meat diet is the healthiest diet know to man.

Too bad so many people are uninformed. For example a meat only diet is the natural cure for type 2 diabetes.

www.justmeat.co

Plants are medicine, not food.
Don’t they typically “reduce production”
in January?

Last year at this time, people were saying the iPhone X was dead.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/01/21/apple-ip...
Fiji has this too. The Tertiary Education Loan Scheme (TELS).
To clear the minefield someone has to step on them basically. Fortunately these mines won't kill you and you will learn how to disarm them as you walk through the minefield.
They're not very similar. The nuclear tests graph starts at 0 at 1950 (when the cigarettes-smoked graph is three-quarters of the way to its peak). Lung cancer incidence has been rising steadily and pretty much linearly since the 30's, until the 80's.

If nuclear tests are the main reason for lung cancer, then why did lung cancer incidence start rising before nuclear weapons were invented?

If nuclear tests are the main reason for lung cancer, and their effect is due to background radiation, why weren't all cancers increasing steadily rather than simply lung cancer?
And all of those demands are an unreasonable burden on businesses. Fuck the GDPR, they have no more authority over me than China or North Korea does.
One commercial alternative to Node-Red is ThingWorx, a PTC product. However we did some internal testing with ThingWorx and I would absolutely not recommend it. The web portal for creating your dashboards also gets gradually slower (massive web leaking SPA), and the platform is generally flakey.
China is a big market for Apple.
> ThePhysicist: I don’t understand where’s the difficulty in answering this request? If the person doesn’t have a user account anymore on the site there shouldn’t be much data of him/her left anyway.

Deleting all posts in a forum by a certain user will not delete all posts in a forum by other users that quoted the user who desires to have their data deleted.
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Ugh, that article is a truly pointless opinion piece.
> It turns out that people usually work more than a few years, and their salaries rise over time.

It also turns out that people know this and don't appreciate your trite condescension.

Even more amazingly, it turns out that when people get a raise they expect to actually take home more money, which is only possible when the rate of taxation or whatever this thing is acts on marginal income rather than total income.
Hey i am using Windows 7 and Firefox as daily 'driver' here.the lastest firefox is rocking here as i can tell.
Ask HN: Problem/Solution for Education in America
In three parts: (contd in comments)1/3

Specific to California.

Problem:

1. Teachers and teachers unions disrupt education because they feel teachers are underpaid.

2. They are also recipients of lifetime pension under CalStrs.

3. Any incremental increase means an incremental increase in pensions when they are retired and not working.

4. Education is funded with property taxes in California. This is one of the reasons govt wants more housing and especially expensive housing.

4. We have Prop 13 that is a low tax and based on sale value and not perceived assessment. This was to protect retirees as real estate became more and more speculative in CA.

5. The domino effect of this has been a need to increase incoming property tax for the burgeoning public education expenses. CA is lagging in education.

6. We are also suffering from unfunded pension liabilities as the retired teachers draw 60-80% of their last pay stub. This was an ill conceived plan during Gov.Gray’s time when they thought Wall Street will keep blooms on forever on the money tree.

7. Result: unions threaten strikes and walk outs by teachers. Teachers are discouraged and feel they can’t afford to live and work in an area where they cant compete with Silicon Valley neighbours and their million dollar homes and life style.
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There is a new fully visual flow based programming language. I like the idea, there is no coding required. It is currently in early development more like alpha/beta, but looks quite interesting: https://tryslang.com
International laws aren't really laws, they're suggestions; the US ignores them all the time when it feels it's in its best interest.
Let's set aside China. iPhones have increased drastically in price over the past two years. Even if their revenue would still be the same, doesn't this mean people are buying less iPhones and more people are leaving the Apple ecosystem? Leaving the ecosystem is a bigger threat for them, because they also rely on the sales of the accessories. People are more likely to buy a mac or an iPad if they also have an iPhone.
on the "negative" side: we're living longer so odds of cancer increase, and we're obese. Or close to /above it.