skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use the (1) best tools to solve the problem that (2) you know best (3) if your goal is to create a working solution as fast as possible.

For web apps, I moved from .NET MVC + jQuery over to .NET Core (or sometimes nodejs) for the backend and VueJS for the front end (axios for ajax calls). I've went through 4 projects like this over the past 2 years and my personal productivity is through the roof using Vue. I output only JSON from the backend, and Vue snaps that up on the client and I'm off an running with total control over the user interface and overall experience. It's reinvigorated my entire outlook on web development as a whole, and I've been doing this for 18 years.

The author seems to slam the VueJS community for not being as native-mobile developer friendly as React. Well, yea - React Native is a mature option for mobile development. Maybe Vue will get there, but mobile has not been the focus of the VueJS community.
According to all the anecdotes at my disposal, the Amazon last-mile delivery is strictly inferior to the incumbents, due in no small part to scheduling and pathing algorithms that make no accommodations for the biological functions or psychological needs of the human employees.

Those gig workers will dry up immediately the instant a better job opens up, and the delivery infrastructure Amazon thought it had will turn out to be owned by someone else. If the robots aren't ready in time, they will fall on their face.
Those numbers are meaningless without knowing the % share of income as well. FWIW, it looks like the top 20% take home ~50% of income: https://www.statista.com/statistics/203247/shares-of-househo...

88% is obviously more than 50%, but when you figure in fixed living expenses, etc, it's not unreasonable on its face. More information (like the breakdown above 20%) would be helpful, but at the very least you need to know the % of income to even begin to be able to understand the implications of tax revenue distributions. This is the case even if you don't believe in progressive taxation at all!

The fact that necessary information is missing should be a huge warning sign--it was immediately apparent to me that the site had a strong ideological bias because of this omission, before I realized ATR stood for "Americans for Tax Reform", which I then recognized as a very right-leaning advocacy organization that plays fast & loose with facts.
Snap-On may makes quality tools, but their prices reflect it. Unless you're actually a mechanic that uses those tools constantly, the prices are tremendously prohibitive. Enter Craftsman. Combined with the warranty, they were a FAR better deal with 90% of the quality.
I meant, unless you have some very specific reasons, Pascal is not the first language to pick for a new project nowadays.
Interesting, this might be why soy is pressed for its oil before being used as cattle feed. The resulting patties are used as feed and the oil byproduct is sold.
My wife's experience with Zuckerberg hospital is very similar to this story. She was taken to the hospital by ambulance while she was unconscious. This hospital "took" her insurance info but it is actually out of network for private (employer-provided) health insurance. They also said that because it is out of network, everything in this hospital would be more expensive. The billing office made confusing bills and refused to work with our insurance company to clarify the bill. The billing office did not answer phone calls in stated business hours. A lot of other unprofessional or questionable communications. Avoid this hospital if you can.
Facebook AI Year in Review
I had a similar situation, I had a partner at the beginning but since that failed dramatically I had to dive into the deep end on my own. Running a business is just as much work (or more work in some ways) as building the tech for the business.

I did Startup School this past fall, and it was very helpful to get in contact with other people in startup mode. And I just got an email the other day notifying me that Tiny Seed (https://tinyseed.com/) is opening up for applications in 10 days.

The premise I liked about Tiny Seed is similar to how YC does things, group the businesses together. I think it may at least be another avenue for connecting with other startup founders.
Non US Citizen here (haven't even visited yet), and pretty anti-military. But out of available options, I would definitely prefer the USA have the military upper hand.

I suppose that means, I could do my part to keep it that way, by investing in US defense contractors. (Have been looking for investment opportunities.) Something to think about.
Can't tell if you're joking, but if you do, post a picture! heh
I can assure you, people who hold a university degree are not particularly conscientious or consistent.

What matters is not whether they are very conscientious or consistent, but rather how conscientious or consistent relative to candidates who didn't earn the degree. Employers use this signal to perform statistical discrimination on their pool of applicants. The situation here is similar to the statistical discrimination that happens when you are shopping for car insurance: women pay lower premiums not because they are particularly safe drivers, but rather because they are safer (or less costly) than men, on average.

This kind of statistical discrimination, that is, using educational attainment to make hiring decision, is often somewhat illegal (based on straight reading of Griggs v. Duke Power Co., e.g. for most BA in History graduates it is hard to argue that their diploma is "reasonably related" to the jobs they are doing, but the employers will happily choose the graduate over someone with only high-school diploma). To my knowledge, however, nobody ever made an actual legal challenge, so employers happily keep using it.

I'll admit they probably do well in the "slog through mind numbingly boring work", but that's often a negative. Whenever I've been in a team full of people who have no problem doing the most tedious work you can imagine, the result have been the very same people tend to oppose ways to improve efficiency (usually "automate the boring work").

This may be true for people in highly-skilled jobs requiring high intelligence, which probably describes most of HN readers, but many other employers will value consistently slogging through mundane tasks over creativity and innovation.

I don't want to work with people who don't mind really really boring work. I want to work with people who hate it enough to eliminate the need to do it. Engineers tend to be of the former category, and software people of the latter.

So do I, but, as you noted, the management doesn't value these very much.

Also, depending on which school you go to, getting a degree from it is just its own skill. Knowing how to work the system (e.g. get previous years' homeworks and exams, etc) can play a big role.

Precisely. This is more important, considering that less than half of college students are proficient in reading (NAAL 2003), and the rest only has intermediate level or worse. The point here is that people tend to forget most everything they learn in school, so what they learn exactly doesn't matter all that much in the grand scheme of things.

There are down sides to a low ranked school (lack of smart peers and perhaps a slightly watered down curriculum), but I think quality of instruction is not one of them.

Right. My understanding is that while teaching quality in low ranked schools is lower than in high ranked ones on average, there are still plenty of low ranked schools with high teaching quality, better than most high ranked ones. One might ask themselves then, why then are they lower ranked? The truth is that the education quality doesn't matter that much, what matters is student selection.
What’s your whole idea? You completely ignore the comment you reply to, in order to apologise for ads. It’s terrible discourse.

New York Times makes most of their money through subscriptions (you ignored this). They make additional money through ads (you pretend like that’s their only revenue).
http://norvig.com/java-lisp.html

Start there, some more links from there to details on the study and follow-ups.
Blockchains: Uberizing IoT data and digital assets
Am I the only one who can't read this because it's behind a paywall?
Google I’ll buy, but Facebook does sell your data. NYT has been hitting that story pretty hard.
I've barely adjusted waking up at 6 daily, and consistently going to sleep around the same time has been near impossible for one reason or another. What is your secret
A maze of google doc directories and files.
Yup - life becomes more complicated with kids especially. You get a schedule which works for a year or two, then school start times switch. Then your partner has to leave at 5.30am a couple of days for work shifts and you're on duty those days!

Currently managing most weeks Aikido twice a week 6:30-8:00 (I teach), and 1-3 runs per week with a buddy on a flexible schedule 6:45 - 7:30 start depending on getting kids off and being able to work at home a couple of days a week.
I agree that the best vegan and vegetarian food does its own thing, but for me, a pescatarian, the idea of not having the delicious taste and texture of salmon slowly baked in a cast iron pan for four hours whilst being basted with oil every half an hour … my tongue just disallows it. It's not yet a sacrifice I'm willing to make until I encounter a viable alternative, and so efforts like these are a step further not just for people like me but for the general population.

Fortunately, fish is fairly easy to imitate with soy, but nothing quite beats that melt-in-your-mouth quality of slowly baked salmon. That's about the only meat I eat anymore, though I still experiment with substitutions. Usually some kind of tofu and a thick-but-viscous sauce of some kind, but even then it's flavoured with dashi.
> Pee, to our American friends

"Wee" also means "pee" in the US, as well as meaning "small".
> we have reports and information that proves that the claims are not true

I don't this is an accurate summary, rather it says

> we don't have reports and information that proves Iran is continuing to develop weapons.

And why would they? They aren't a spy agency, they are a monitoring agency. Assuming for the sake of argument that Iran was actively developing nuclear weapons they would have had to fuck up for the IAEA to be aware of it. The IAEA's purpose in all this is to force them to be circumspect, not to catch them if they are being sufficiently circumspect.
Student Loan Forgiveness Program Rejects 99% of Applicants
Did you consider a mixed approach like the one Telerik is using with Nativescript?
Which is... fine?

We don't need millions of people learning unproductive things for excessive prices.

Obvious people who can afford to learn something for fun can do so, and knowledge that is socially valuable but not economically valuable can be supported by government or private patrons who see the social merit. Both are better than duping kids into huge loans.
I never said or implied that poor people are able to shop at Costco.
Indeed. If not for IBM clones, then CP/M would probably control the "clone" business. CP/M-based clones were already expanding rapidly. Sure, they were 8-bit at the time, but bit-ness changes aren't a clone-market-stopper, as x86 showed.
Future of AI: Reinforcement Learning Corrects for Deep Learning’s Blind Spots
I do think that the Impossible Burger is much better than Beyond Burger. It's a lot of subtle things that Impossible gets right. (The fact that it "bleeds" is fascinating and interesting part of its appeal to old carnivore instincts.)

That said there is room for both at the table and right now they both have different strengths (Impossible handles "medium rare" much better; Beyond hits greasy spoon / fast food "medium" or "medium well" better).
A mature role model in this field could be Ptolemy Project (https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/)
Their Q-Experience FAQs are a much more substantive way to approach what exactly this thing will deliver:
https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/tutorial?section...

Beginner's guide to working with System Q:
https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/tutorial?section...
Humans with the ability to explain something in a structured way are rare because it requires a lot of different skills. First you need to know the topic well. Second you need to have emotional intelligence to know to current level of your trainee, to get him/her onboard with the new knowledge. Third you have to think about how to group and link the information you want to communicate. Forth the content must be reduced to the bare minimum and then plan what else should be explored, since learning with a tutor is most times the beginning of a voyage and not the end. This is hard, so people fail at it all the time.

The default – a.k.a fallback method – is to just list all things. This is not only confusing as hell, it is even worse. You never know what you don't know with this methodology, because you have absolutely no context about how something is meant to be use...

For example Books about programming languages often explain only the rules of the language, but totally forgets to explain how the language is used in practice and which tools are commonly used or which homepages have useful content that almost every programmer of language X uses. A greenhorn has understandably a very hard time without all those information.

E.g. setting up a Common Lisp project with Quicklisp which has the code under a namespace takes 20-30 steps (installing Quicklisp using a Lisp REPL, configuring Emacs, configuring the project) – no wonder almost everyone gets lost in the process. And a lot of programming languages are like that.
Trojan Horse on iPhone: Google Assistant Added to Maps
Internships. Or work, or study. Up to you. You have an informal exam when you get back and if you annoy the profs enough they'll kick you out for failing it. But that's pretty rare.
A different way to think about it is to think of the web. Back when ads were just static banners, I never saw a point in blocking them.

Then, ads started actively degrading my browsing experience. Some ads would make a web page load slowly, or not load at all. Other ads would cover up the page that I was reading.

I can assume that the same can be said for some web radio ads?
Maybe part of it is updates that are just failing to finish.

I have a PC that’s been “updating” to version 1709 forever. Its progress-tracking is abysmally primitive (one spinning indicator for an entire OS update; this is useless for any length of time, much less when spinning for literally days). Occasionally it reboots to “install Windows updates”. Returns to the same point though, spinning, hoping to install 1709 yet again.

And I don’t care because I don’t use Windows 10 by choice. Still, I don’t know how they could tell if half their customers were just never able to update.
Yes. How else are they going to prevent plebes from lawfully owning them.

note: will be buying my drone today before the US FAA gets any brights ideas.
this is the modern day equivalent of rounding up detractors and taking them for a long walk.
silencing dissent doesnt have to involve violence anymore
Not everybody has the time or inclination. There's something vaguely nagging mother-in-law-ish about simply being told to stop being lazy and cook. If I don't want to cook, that's my business. In the modern world, when both adults in a family are working, not cooking shouldn't be a barrier to healthy eating, nor should it be considered mutually inclusive with eating junk.
Isn't functional programming just a gui on top of machine code?
Subsidized college is for the rural and urban poor, no the elites. Elites don't wait for subsidies, and low-SES people need more cheap vocational/technical colleges to raise their SES.
This appears to be right. It’s a valid disclaimer to note in such a discussion.
> I finally sold the house, but couldn't pass this problem off to the next owner.

As someone who's had his share of problems passed on to him when buying a house, I'd like to know (1) how the next owner found out about the problem and (2) how they managed to strong-arm you into fixing it.
TempleTiler has inproved my workflow tenfold since installing. 10/10 would recommend.
> I'd suggest that one obvious comparison is with not having the GDPR.

> Perhaps time will tell and regulators will be more effective in curbing the excesses of the big data crunchers that these rules were presumably aimed at...

Fair points. We've spent a decent amount of time working through GDPR implications for clients, and if nothing concrete comes out of this for the Googles / Facebooks of the world - which may take 5-10 years to judge - I'll be pretty angry too.

> until we start seeing evidence of real benefits for the average person in the street

I think there are already obvious tangible benefits. Our clients now have very clear markers on their websites about what data is going to be used and how. We've persuaded some of them to purge tens of thousands of email addresses from their lists that probably weren't even DPA compliant just because of the threat of GDPR, and I've spoken to non-tech people who feel more in control of data when signing up for things now. Not all organisations are following best practices - bundled consent seems to be pretty common still - but it feels like it's going in the right direction.
No, my comment was "will likely be faster than a bash interpreter loop". The key phrase is "bash interpreter loop".

I was not comparing find|xargs to find -delete.
The short version is we have gone so far back in the history of UNIX that we don’t have filesystem paths yet.

Incidentally, the same was true of MS-DOS: no paths in version 1, only drive letters; directories and paths were introduced in version 2. However, early UNIX doesn't seem to have drive letters...
WeWork is a new low. It's not even necessarily the demographics or the chatty beer/coffee scene; their standard fitout couldn't echo more, or block less noise, if they tried.

Source: spent over a year in a WeWork, with a desk, using meeting rooms etc. I've spent 14 years working in various open offices and WeWork was the worst.
It gets easier as they grow older.
There's some systematic issue with naming that has existed at Nintendo since the 90s.

Thinking:

Nintendo entertainment system and super Nintendo entertainment system. Not necessarily bad, but also kinda "meh." Probably the best 90s explanation for what a "console" is, before everyone already knows what a console is. I bring it up because here begins Nintendo's critical error: failing to understand the customer in America isn't children, it is their parents and grandparents, who have no fucking clue what the difference is between "the Nintendo" and "the super Nintendo." I remember peripherals were a nightmare already. Also: consider the competition. Sega Genesis. Badass.

Gameboy: what the fuck does this even mean. And thus: Gameboy color. Advance. Sp (what?????). Mini?

DS is even worse. Dual screen, maybe. And then, DS but smaller. DSi, also some games for this aren't compatible with DS regular. 3ds. 3ds xl (not too bad). "New 3ds," good luck grabbing the right one at GameStop.

Wii vs Wii U is just a crime. What does the "u" even mean??? How do you communicate across parental units the intended Christmas purchase? "Sally wants what? We? We want to what? We you? Honey what are you saying? She wants the Nintendo we with you? With enhanced we motes?"

The switch, I argue, is the only time Nintendo has applied a sensible name.
Yeah a brick and mortar book store could never compete with an online retailer warehouse when it comes to selection.

Eventually book stores started to create their own websites but by then it was too little too late.
Why do you think I was talking about people who are poor to the point that they are relying on public assistance? Did you gloss over the part where I said 'not saying it is doable for everyone'? You even quoted it. This thread was debating whether or not Costco is an 'upscale' place that only the well to do can afford, not whether or not Costco is an option for people on public assistance.
I beg to differ - it has basically become the norm for pigs. It didn't used to be, but it has become so.

I grew up in Indiana. Now, I've not lived there in 5 years, but I did live quite some time in a place that pigs outnumbered people in the county. The county seat was 3000. Even smelling pigs was becoming a rarity while out on a country drive and a flood meant that thousands of pigs drowned in a flooded barn ("pig factory").

Perhaps you are in a place where the pigs usually roam free, but I certainly wasn't.
Libraries & tools are not aspects of a language's power, but rather of an ecosystem's. A language can make it easier or harder to write libraries & tools, but libraries, properly speaking, postdate the language itself.
Not really; most university graduates can find jobs relatively easily. Unemployment among young diploma-holders in the US is very low, and the diploma premium to income is high, though of course varies by the major. What will rather happen is that less-well-paying majors will become cheaper.
Until we stop wasting farmland growing crops for cows their is zero difference between crop land and farm land.

Scrub land filled with cows is obviously terrible for the environment, but so is the wasteland traditional farming creates. We call it insecticide but it really kills off entire ecosystems. Minimizing impact means minimizing the land we use.
I'm confused. I'm pretty sure that the issue isn't "no one can begin to say whether the Continuum Hypothesis is true or false," but rather that we know it to be independent of the widely-used axiomatic set theories (at least ZFC). Since "truth" is defined in terms of the chosen axioms, and we have proven that the axioms of ZFC can neither prove nor disprove the continuum hypothesis, that means that we already know that you could arbitrarily choose to use "ZFC with CH" or "ZFC with !CH" and either will be consistent (or as consistent as plain old ZFC).

> The Continuum Hypothesis is more like P!=NP, in that most mathematicians suspect the CH is true (that is, there's no cardinality in between the integers and the reals).

I don't think this is correct. It's very well-accepted that CH is independent of ZFC. Now, you might mean that most mathematicians suspect that adding CH to ZFC is more intuitive/natural/useful than adding !CH to ZFC, but that's a quite different statement. I don't know much about this, but it seems plausible that both extensions of ZFC could be useful for different things, in the same way that using the parallel postulate is useful for some things (Euclidean geometry) and using alternative parallel postulates is useful for other things (non-Euclidean geometries).

The P=NP problem, AFAIK, isn't yet proven to be independent of ZFC, although I have heard some seemingly educated people suggest their suspicions that it may be.

And now you have me wondering if you win the Millennium Prize if you prove that P=NP is independent of ZFC. Surely you would.