skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the answer with the examples. I am not much of a math person so am not following the math example but I think I (at least) directionally get what you are saying.

Follow up question:

Based on what you are saying does it mean that forming different hypothesis on ways to solve the problem can be considered an attack on the problem OR it has to be more than a hypothesis whereby you might have a general approach to solving that class of problem but the detailed steps for solving a particular instance of that problem needs to be figured out and tested?
I think there are a lot of people on here who think that "conquering space" is a giant distraction from the many very real problems that exist here on Earth that can actually be solved by self-sustaining businesses.
government is us. should "we" not take of each other?
> There are a whole lot of reasons why you'd choose to stray in your country vs going oversees. For instance, how easy is it to get a US visa vs just staying in your native country?

there is only one western company in the top 25 top employers list, is that related to US visas?
The Martian atmosphere is extremely thin — per wikipedia, "the atmospheric pressure on the Martian surface averages … about 0.6% of Earth's mean sea level pressure."

It is not really sufficient for capture braking / parachute landings with any efficiency or safety.

Also, mars takes more delta v than the moon.
The writing has been on the wall for a while now.

Even Gerard 't Hooft, famous physics nobel prize winner and one of the ambassadors of Mars One said the schedule and budget were off by a factor of 10. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/23/mars-one-pla...
Back to yellow cab, the bastion of human rights.
> What this means: have everyone spend a couple years doing laborious tasks: construction, mining, fishing, dishwashing, etc.

Taking food out of the mouths of people who'd otherwise be paid to do such work.

Not to mention giving the government what amounts to slave labor, in the form of people who can't say no to whatever work they're assigned.
It's more like Rust is still young and there are far from enough people with same level of skill as there are C/C++ programmers.
As an example just think of the amount of work that's gone into libavcodec/libavformat, it will take years to replicate and reach the same level of functionality.

Eventually it will happen though (at least I hope so).
I think there's just not really a way for high quality, user facing applications to be open source. And when you download free of charge proprietary apps, more often than not you're giving up your data/privacy as compensation.

There are plenty of really great, free software applications: VLC, Handbrake, Audacity, etc. But most of the free software world is not end user applications. It's the OS, HTTP server, and other infrastructure software. The software that is open source is the software that big companies need, but it's not their main product. So they can justify paying employees to contribute to it, and get the patches upstreamed.

I would definitely prefer my apps like Omnifocus or Overcast to open source. But even setting aside the financial viability, running an open source project opens you up to a million people flooding you with patch requests and flame wars. If you're developing a high quality app with opinionated UX and design, that's the last thing you want.
It's a fairly good answer "how do you limit dissent when you have easy control of media in your country but do not have it for foreign sources?"
Considering that Chinese tech companies have grown dramatically because of the GWoC and have enough money to invest left and right in foreign countries, it would be nice, but utterly unrealistic, if EU could copy that success model.

EU values the privacy of its people, the online interactions are certainly not tracked like in China.
Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts
A spacecraft attempting that would have to scream past the surface at extremely high velocity and low altitude and get really lucky not to intersect with terrain (mars is not a perfect sphere). It would also require many orbital passes to lower apoapsis to merely circular orbit (i.e., a lot of time). It is probably not practical.
I think American Sniper is pandering to American audiences by film studios trying to make commercial decisions, and not the US government putting their thumb on the scales to appeal to foreign audiences.
If your goal is to die while having fun -- there are much cheaper alternatives available right here on Earth.
Cryptocurrency valuation and how to determine value
A lot of people have been finding it very difficult to value cryptocurrencies the right way. This is actually, one of the major reasons why most beginners in the cryptocurrency investment or trading world loose huge money. It’s either they invested in a crypto coin that has little or no value at all.

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How is resume parsing tool beneficial for small-scale businesses?
That's not really relevant to the point though. Also how about the gdp of Ireland or Brazil or Bahrain or South Africa or Singapore or Australia?

GDP doesn't have much to do with it.
I'm all for buy-and-hold, but you do realize that there's a group of people for which this is very hard? Psychologically, they'll have trouble staying the course when seas are rough.
ECMAScript 2019: The features are fixed – FrontNet Blog
By that logic, we should celebrate Madoff for sacrificing other people's money. I don't think it's unreasonable for society to set limits on the scams and cons businesses are allowed to be based on.
That seems kind of crazy actually. I maybe spent $10 over the past year on apps, if that. I don't need yet another notetaking app, and I refuse to be bled dry by subscriptions.
I've also wondered whether it is underrated. I looked into it a bit recently and one thing I noticed is that nearly all the emphasis is on interactive "notebook" style work, with very little emphasis on writing code to be structured into modules and executed as a standalone piece of software. (You have to dig really hard to even learn how to write a module in a plain text source code file.)
They obviously have sales there and probably cloud front infrastructure too. Maybe a az in the future, only they know.
That's a lot more work on the developer to do that. They're going to get a million unwanted pull requests, code bike shedding, and issues raised. And they're also going to get dozens of people putting their own copies of the same app on the store to try to undercut them.

So why would any sane developer do that? Getting people to spend a few dollars on an app is already no easy feat. Most users think a five dollar app is outrageously expensive.
There is a decent argument that line of business apps in unmanaged languages are taking silly risks, but this is the operating system. If the platform has already spent the processing power, application developers are going to be pretty constrained.
Does macOS have any security features similar to pledge/unveil or any of the Linux hardening packages?
I probably randomly misused a term I overheard in some bar some time.

(I have a great picture of Claude Shannon's hand holding a literal mechanical mouse: not a modern computer mouse, a simple robot mouse he built do do maze-solving. I wish I could find it, its such a nice example of dropping words and names into another context: "Claude Shannon's mechanical mouse" means probably something completely different to what many people think. https://www.google.com/search?q=claude+shannons+mechanical+m... shows things I think it was taken from. Its a kids book on computing from the 1960s)
Ask HN: Entrepreneurs who do their own bookkeeping and accounting
Would love to hear from entrepreneurs who do their own business accounting and bookkeeping:
- How did you learn accounting and bookkeeping, what resources did you use?
- How did you simplify the financial process of your business?
- What simplification did you make?
- Do you get our financial statements audited?
- How do you use your company's financial data for decision making?
- And what financial data do you use for decision making purpose?

Thank you!
I jailbroke my Android tablet. El Goog won't let me update it unless I flash a new ROM. Because how dare you control your own device!
I can see how you would think that, but the author is Gerd Gigerenzer from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Human...
No, because Germany is also a democracy supporting almost identical views on freedom of expression.
more like stopped routing on ISP level.
That may be more interesting than it looks like at its face, as that give a tie-in to declare dependencies on system libraries.
Rwanda is set to have its own smartphone factory later in 2019
A lot of the moderators in Reddit are powerhungry or are marketing shills. Since it satisfies their needs I don't think they mind it being not paid.
My point, that you seem to have missed, is that sometimes what may objectively be the "best" long-term decisions are quite often not "worth it" short-term.

Acting on feelings is usually good for the mental health, even if it seems irrational or inefficient.

Don't knock it until you try it.
also important that you can configure these terminal servers to have different TCP ports corresponding with each serial port. this would enable you to set up a router for the console server and NAT so that each device can have its own IP
> If you have a good client who regularly needs small tweaks, charge a monthly retainer instead of an hourly rate.

I like this idea, how does that work? I have worked with clients who would (after completion of project)contact me few times a month for minor tweaks which require less than 30-40mins of work and I am unable to bill them logically for it until it accumulates to actually charge them in total.
Efficient Way to Win Up to 60% Off Runescape07 Gold for X Marks the Spot Feb.15
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Additionally, Veos' boat that takes players to the Great Kourend has been moved to a small dock in Draynor village, making it easier to access and distinguishable from the ships at Port Sarim.

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The comp I work for has half bought into the O365 thing. Most of us are on the semi-annual channel for desktop clients, a lucky few are on monthly no rhyme or reason.
And bec HQ is in EU they've decided to localize all web stuff to german. this makes entering dates or modifying formulas in excel online near impossible. Also for some reason they've chosen to keep flow and teams off by default, I can activate the free version of flow by going to it, but we don't get any of the powerBI integration we're already paying for. trying to explain the idiocy of this is like talking to 2000's era chatbot that can just assure it understands but doesn't really respond to any prompts.
The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
There are a ton of apps that are "expensive", but worth it. Omnifocus, Overcast, Soulver, 1Password, Blink, Working Copy, Coda, Procreate, LumaFusion, Affinity Photo, etc.

People spend upwards of $1000 on a phone, but are unwilling to spend a couple bucks on good software for it. It's ridiculous.
Go to /r/all and count how many posts are his.
In Krakow, Gärdenfors pushed against that prejudice. In his talk, “The Geometry of Thinking,” he suggested that humans are able to do things that today’s powerful computers can’t do—like learn language quickly and generalize from particulars with ease (to see, in other words, without much training, that lions and tigers are four-legged felines)—because we, unlike our computers, represent information in geometrical space.

On the contrary, it's pretty common to represent information on computers in geometrical space. This is what the whole concept of embeddings is, and it works really well!
I tried that but I get FOMO. Like I feel like I get to discover so many interesting things (news about niche games etc) because of Reddit but at the same time I also hate it.
What if it’s not mice you’re talking about?
Not really, that is more for when you have sensitive data and want to show that data publicly. I want to have only insensitive data and make sure I don't get sensitive data from the visitors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_(software)

(You know, since we're tossing grenades)
The de Havilland Comet
One shortcoming in economics is the inability to model cognitive costs. This is best visible in game theory - no model of cognitive costs has gained traction in the last few decades despite the desire for one.

The closest that I recall is representing strategies with finite state machine and having a preference for strategies requiring fewer states. A main difficulty there is mapping strategies to FSA.
Shipping from Poland Has Made International
No because we respect Germany more than China, for obvious reasons. China's conduct in business, treatment of its own people, politics and history should raise enough red flags.
Yup, it was TIFF in the iPhone case
Ask HN: Idea HN?
I get ideas reading comments on HN. More like, I see features applications should have, but they don’t. I’m never going to make the app, so take the idea and do it before they do. Maybe my idea is just bad. Maybe you can make it better. Criticize it before I spend months to Show HN for criticism.

Example, I read about Twitter feeds. You want to follow people, but want to filter politics from those people. I posted a reply with an idea, but no one will see it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19140659

Idea HN: Add feed filter to block posts from people you follow unless posts are tagged with a subject. Show users that your post may not be visible unless tagged. Show how many of your followers follow your tags, how many block your tags, or how many filter you unless you tag.

Idea HN: Filter comments unless comments are tagged. Put tagless comments on the bottom or to the side to let others tag.
Do you also take care that upstream isn't forced to focus somewhere else to actually pay their bills?
Just to go out on a limb here, I am guessing that the "one way" bit put a bit of a kink in their marketing efforts...
Clickable link:

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19140659
I want to see what the App store whales spent.
He may be the most successful shill in history... @jedberg, is it you? (although youre not greek and never stated your mom recently died...)
You're throwing out a lot of heat in this thread but not much light. To address just the very first 'factual' claim in your comment here:

> I’m no denier, I have facts. The declining hash rate

Please check the difficulty page on Bitcoinwisdom [1] and scroll to the bottom where the history of hash rate changes over the last year is shown. You will find that over the last year it has gone from 18,633,553,122 GH/s on January 25, 2018 to 43,390,041,906 GH/s on February 10, 2019. So more than doubled over the last year while the price was rapidly declining. You will also see that there was a drop in hash rate over November/December after a peak in Octeber last year but the trend is now back up again. And as I said above, the trend over the whole year is obviously up (it more than doubled).

[1] https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
A good balance between risk and returns is often considered to be 10% annualized. Annual comfort living expense for family of 4 is at least $120K net in most urban areas. Adding taxes, your gross would be around $150K. So $1.5M in investment is often considered good in theory for achieving financial independence.

The big issue however is that returns are averaged over long duration and so on some years you can end with as little as 2-3% or even negative. So you need to have 25-50% cushion to ride out bad turns in economy where you will be eating up principal itself. This is also important for any unforeseen circumstances such a medical issues that might rack up huge out of pocket (especially in US). Or children leaving for college needing to pay as much as $50K in tuitions. You also need at least 6 months of buffer ($50K) in case some bad event triggers losing your investment, for example, someone trying to to sue you. Given all these more practical investment asset size is $3M for financial independence.
TIL that that is not what neosporin is.
Since hearing about that liquid bandage thing back in the 00s, I started hearing about people in the US putting "neosporin" on minor injuries; I had just assumed it was the liquid bandage stuff.
I only just googled what neosporin was now.... it's a topical antibiotic.
In case of a SaaS, it takes just one.

And that's still just a "plan B" for when just selling the business to someone more interested in continuing it doesn't pan out.
FYI - a good thing to do is add a /u/ as a 'friend' on reddit, and their username will stand out in an orange box if you want to spot it easily...
There is a large winter tourism market in the Yukon for aurora, Japanese tourists are particularly fond of them and are frequently up to try seeing them.
Nah, it's the initial step to create a Great Firewall.
I like to think at least once there was a secret group that built cabbage cannons (at scale).
Iran Unhinged: Regime Threatens to Raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the Ground
Oh yes to clarify! I don't mind them being nearby. Not inside.. that would be awkward.
Now Windows95 is consuming more than 4GB RAM.
As someone that likes to be paid to develop software, I also buy my tools and software from other fellow devs.

For FOSS stuff, I regularly donate either directly, or by buying books and merchandise from project.
People without college degree don't do well. They have less debt, but also less jobs, are paid less and work in worst conditions. And no, they can't all find coding jobs in SV tech companies. And as they conditions were worsening personal responsibility argument was that they should work harder in school.

When people talk about personal responsibility they always talk about it all as if debt was only problem. It is not. The other problem is what happens when you dont have degree. We read and shate articles about plight of college educated, because they are our group.

Personal responsibility is malleable argument. No matter what they do, it was their lack of personal responsibility. Struggle unemployed without degree? Should have go to school. Struggle with debt? Should not go to school.

Somehow not false information (especially in case of private schools whose students are in worat shape and who literally lied to them). Somehow not a fault of system where expensive school makes or break possibilities for ambitious people. Somehow it is not economy, not school.system where professions like doctors study way more years then would be necessary.

And people who do worst are the ones who did not finished college but started.
I didn't say that webgl would do everything this can do, I said it would do the things I copied from the post I replied to.

Again, my issue is that they seem to put a lot of focus on this having some sort of sophisticated new rendering when it seems to be marketing of trivial techniques. People seem to like what this library does, but they didn't invent new rendering algorithms and their buzzwords and clever names just show a lack of awareness of what they are doing in the rendering department.
Air New Zealand flight’s U-turn sparks claims of China tension
Startups are even worse - most seem to care only about growth, not even profit, their goal being to hand off the hot potato they built as soon as possible, to whoever gives enough money.
Pure nicotine in the doses people take it is pretty safe. I really don’t think it is any worse than caffeine.
It requires a certain amount of energy to "punch through" a problem. You just have to focus and commit enough energy.

Most people have unfocused energy. They try to do too many things and never hit the boiling point on the harder things. Because they don't succeed, they start to lose confidence on attacking hard problems, and start to give up earlier.

You might be playing a game. It's easy to give up on them. Commit to a certain stage, maybe a level, a round, try out a build, or play until one defeat.

I'm reading a tough book. Instead of commiting to properly reading it, I've committed to highlighting major points in each chapter.

I tried to learn to use a breadmaker today. It's quite intimidating - the instructions are very precise, ingredients have to be collected, and there's a lot of unknowns. I committed to just doing one loaf of bread. It took me the whole morning's energy, it was quite pointless, and it failed. But I learned a lot and I'm glad I did it.

Want to learn to do mobile programming? Commit to it until you can do a to do app or something.

Want to learn a concept? Then do it until you learn and can repeat the concept.

Phrase it as a challenge, a puzzle to yourself, not something you have to do.

What I strongly don't recommend you do is to only commit a certain amount of minutes. It works for some, but often I see people stop before hitting that boiling point. It's actually incredibly fun to focus on something for a few days, just as long as it's not an endless treadmill.
Obviously there's more efficient farmland elsewhere that works better than the Sahara. Why would we do it now when we feed 7 billion people under the current system?
amb without side-effects can also be expressed in terms of the List monad, e.g.:

do x <- [1, 2, 3]
y <- [4, 5, 6]
if x * y == 8 then pure (x, y)
else []

which can be equivalently reworded as the list comprehension:

[(x, y) | x <- [1, 2, 3], y <- [4, 5, 6], x * y == 8]

i.e., the underlying structure of amb without side-effects can also be understood as just a search of the input space for values that fulfill some criteria, rather than as backtracking via continuations.
Thank you for this; always reminded of my favourite paragraph from pg's article:

>A friend who moved to Silicon Valley in the late 90s said the worst thing about living there was the low quality of the eavesdropping. At the time I thought she was being deliberately eccentric. Sure, it can be interesting to eavesdrop on people, but is good quality eavesdropping so important that it would affect where you chose to live? Now I understand what she meant. The conversations you overhear tell you what sort of people you're among.