skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building a clinical collaboration platform with Clojure
A pain in the react: challenges behind server side rendering
They had given me a live demo of their product on a call beforehand, so I know they didn't have this. They wanted me to design a feature they didn't have yet on their current product.
I guess the difference between _how_ to write something compared to _what_ to write.

If people writing qwerty couldn't understand people who wrote dvorak, I would understand your argument, but languages are so much more different than a keyboard layout.

But in the end, both keyboard layouts end up being able to write exactly the same words, the only difference is the speed (as I understand, only once tried using dvorak so I don't really know)
Hyperdimensional binary vectors??

What like:

010101010111010101010111011001

So they are encoding perceptions and actions into the same vector space. Cool. But the marketing is just gibberish.
Getting a mentor: Is it worth it?
This is a very click-baity headline. I'm tempted to flag it!

Has anyone here seen the actual paper?
Maybe not the best analogy, but teaching Dvorak is like forcing left-handed child to write with right hand. But maybe it’s other way around. I wouldn’t actively try to teach them anything, but let them learn on their own. At some point they would understand that my laptop keyboard is different from mommy’s and adapt accordingly.
Don't worried. Let them choose what to play with. They will learn faster than you, I promise.

Off-topic: I'm kinda worried our kids might not know or use pens correctly if we keep pushing keyboard use.
Who Invests in Renewable Energy
Others answered the question, I'm just about this "I'm too old to switch" bullshit.

Whatever age you are, it will be hard. It will be very uncomfortable at first. But that's kind of great. You get to teach your brain something new. Keep pushing that neuroplasticity.

When you are old(er) it's really hard to learn something truly new. Learning most things is just connecting a few existing patterns. You'll get some dopamine and you will be really proud that you've done that.

You can also rationalize that it will pay off on the long run, but let's be real, if you are an advanced programmer you likely spend more time thinking than typing. It can be a more pleasurable experience to type though.

Take the challenge and teach yourself Dvorak (or Colemak, doesn't matter). Even if you are a proficient typer it's also a chance to do some refactoring of the skill.
Slack S-1: Will ARPU Drive Long Term Value?
>I wonder how you'd avoid this, even if parliament had the inclination.

You need a populace that overwhelmingly believes it is not ok for the government to operate a surveillance dragnet. Then the politicians will do that. The only reason the government doesn't go full Waco on people who haven't paid their parking tickets is because the overwhelming majority of society don't tolerate that. This is also why it's important to not let this kind of crap be legitimized in the public's mind.

Unfortunately it looks like that ship as long since sailed as far as a damp rock off the coast of France is concerned. With all the crap that's being dredged up as a result of Brexit there's still hope for the Irish saying they see what Britain has and they don't want any.
Probably because of the source (Cracked.com, a humor site, albeit one which does often share interesting knowledge in a quirky way). Downvoters could be reading the post as a joke rather than in earnest.

Apparently it is a legitimate published theory, as noted in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam#Portrayal... So is the theory that the shape represents the postpartum uterus, which seems thematically more fitting.
Substitute "free will" for "God", and it basically seems like a restatement of Pascal's Wager, along with the prevailing (and untrue) belief that atheists (or, in this case, those who reject free will) are incapable of morality or of finding meaning in life.
Algebras
They tell the interviewee that, the the given task actually takes 2-4 hours in-house.
I'm not sure I support the wider set of tariffs (I really don't know a lot about the impact of that), but I totally support the banning of buying major telecom equipment from foreign countries.
this seems like a pretty significant step towards a sort of “holistic” agent whose past informs its present and future in a more human-relatable way.
> less documentation, less oversight and a reduced need for consensus

This is TL:DR; about gamedev in 2019
Correct. What I said only applies to this particular use of bolts to hold pins in place, which in turn hold the truss together.
I can not imagine trying to use voice recognition for programming for one thing.

And I don't think COBOL or BASIC will suddenly have a huge comeback.
Henry Ford was an early, outspoken (and reviled) advocate of the 40-hour work week. Not because he was concerned about his employees' welfare--he absolutely wasn't--but because he tried running factories at everything from 20 to 80 hours a week and found that 40 was the sweet spot. Anything beyond that and you're actually losing total productivity per week.

And that's for assembly-line work. It's mostly rote. It stands to reason that the number is lower for knowledge workers.
have you read the content of the link? i wouldn’t flag it
Here is a collection of fractals in 140 characters (or less!) of JavaScript: https://www.dwitter.net/h/fractal
It includes Mandelbrot, Fern, Iterated Function System (IFS), Cantor Set, Dragon Curves, fractal animations and other recursive functions and iterated geometric transformations.
Dwitter is a great place to find clever code tricks and very short algorithm implementations.
Yup. Both were mocked at the time: "militant Catholics [...] solemnly disavowed modernism, monism, masochism, vegetarianism, and Esperanto" (Rydwan, September 1912)[1]

[1] https://docplayer.pl/112655650-Rydwan-miesiecznik-poswiecony... page 29
The way to avoid this is to make dazzle makeup fashionable.
> Very cute if unoriginal, someone says that anytime I bring up this argument...

And every time someone brings up free will, someone will shout hard determinism from a pulpit like they are the final authority on the matter.
I have no doubt it would save money. But my point was that healthcare companies would no longer be seeing that 5.1 trillion dollars and as a result those companies would lose value and tank the economy.

I just counted 62 Healthcare companies in the S&P 500. 5.1 trillion of lost revenue to those companies would be detrimental to the economy.
There's a google sheet floating around reddit that's pretty much a YNAB clone. I just use an excel spreadsheet thats formatted to take a copy paste from my bank/cc .csv transaction list, then I go through and categorize the transactions for the past month. Takes 10 mins or so.

I used to use mint which was more automatic, but things rarely get categorized correctly, and by doing it by hand, I'm a lot more aware of my spending habits than if I just looked at some pie charts. I can still make pretty charts in excel if I ever wanted too.
It's funny how the notion of diminishing returns is never mentioned with regards to work performed.
Not posting your machine learning paper on arxiv.org is a red flag.
> Suicide is not the answer to the problem - you need to exist and not decide

It is the answer to the problem as stated. Of course, if you move the goalposts to require two properties that are logically inconsistent, then sure, no conception of free will would qualify. I'm not sure why I should find that compelling.

Finally, your focus on "control" is telling of particular assumptions that free will must have certain properties (a connotative definition). Consider whether you are simply mistaken that these properties are necessary.

As I said, there is a clear distinction between the behaviour of people and inanimate matter. There is a lot of latitude there for a process that we would recognize as free will.
It's definitely not the first /vehicle/. Waymo has fully autonomous cars driving people around in Phoenix.
I taught myself Dvorak my first year in undergrad. It definitely felt easier to type, but as soon as I went to physics lab I realized I couldn't use the lab computer! I have stuck to Qwerty since then.

When your children go to school, do you think using Dvorak will make it easier or harder to use school computers?
I recall hearing/reading that a lot of the time in the office is passive/suboptimal. The productivity gain is that you have the people there in standby. The gain is that the important work that do happen is not blocked by people being off work since you can pull them in instantly compared to "Only Bob knows X and he left for the day, lets schedule a meeting tomorrow"
I use GCE (Google) for this purely because they had the lowest per-byte cost for block storage, at least when I looked. The instance itself has the smallest CPU/memory config. IIRC my bill is about $7/mo for the instance with separate 200GB volume.
Reminders sync when I create them and recurring reminders show up on every device, but I have to mark them complete on every single device. Sometimes they show up again right after being marked complete.

I've stopped thinking about it as "glitchy" and more "the new Apple way".
It's not about brand marketing - it's about having cheaper options. I don't know where you go shopping, but at those prices I just listed, those name brand products are still cheaper than comparable products, local or otherwise.

It's not just removing the markup - they're usually priced at a discount relative to competitors. Also, in my area (SF), local products tend to be priced at a premium relative to standard rates for national brands. So for the ice cream example, the local pint normally would range anywhere from 5-10 dollars, whereas buying a pint of Haagen Dazs would run you about 4 bucks. Now, when I go to grocery outlet to pick up a two dollar pint of ice cream, I'm not buying the pint because it's brand name product for cheap relative to its normal cost - it's cheap relative to the cost of any ice cream. There's no comparable product at two dollars a pint.
Define "deep innovation". Are you saying that private enterprise is only capable of "shallow innovation"?

If so, do you think that the world will do just fine if we removed large financial rewards for "shallow innovation" like the smartphone, new drugs, medical devices, software, etc?
The WSJ CEO Pay Ranking: An analysis of 2018 compensation for S&P 500 leaders
Bengaluru colleges set higher cutoff for girls for 'diversity'
2-4 hours is anywhere from $100 to $800 worth of free labor depending on how the dev values their time. The GP was bragging about how generous they were in providing multiple days and weekends to finish it.

How did this become acceptable practice for hiring people? Do any other industries besides tech do this?
I've always wondered if companies even need a HR? Especially when they are huge separate departments.
How about something a little bit more than "it worked" and "business tripled". An analysis of contributing factors, maybe. There's so much bullshit in the media with people claiming things that are half-truths, or outright lies. It'd be nice for something like this to have some actual justification to support it. Warts and all.
Self-Driving Shuttle Gets Pulled over by Police Just Hours After R.I. Launch
Romford is on the outskirts of London and is not especially wealthy.
Then I think krm01 answer is the right path: "best way is to build a product for a single customer, who will pay you upfront".

About it being B2C product, there you have the exact reason why it is better to bootstrap B2B products than B2C.

Building a B2B product is how you bootstrap a startup effectively.

If building a B2C is "non-negotiable", then you should try to minimize the cost of building a product the most. For example, not coding a product.

There is a new site that aims at this sort of solution: https://www.makerpad.co.
Validating business without code. Might be useful.
Voynich code may have been cracked
> Do you want to keep the world vulnerable for a 6 month window?

There exist far more bugs than discovered bugs. By revealing it, I put some people at risk (those who fail to update), and by hiding it I put more people at less risk (everyone, but only if someone else discovers the bug).

It's a tradeoff, but 6 months is a good window for most people to update, while there still not being too much chance of the bug being independently discovered.
Thanks for sharing the data. That wasn’t my impression.
> Sure I can go down in the streets, shout my hate speech at the top of my lungs, put propaganda flyers in random mailboxes, &c ... Or I can upload a video to all video hosting websites and reach more people a single day than I could do in a lifetime of organic propaganda.

Because the printing press, newspapers, filmed movies, radio and television never existed? /s

Mass media has been around for a long time.
Same reason why some would sabotage possible good candidates just because they never wondered how a toilet works. People are weird.
Though, they don't own theme park rights! Fox previously sold theme park rights to Universal
> 1) I think free will is a concept that has to be approached in a practical matter: as in we get better social outcomes if we assume people have free will.

The concept has utility.

You must understand, this is the most horrifying part! People are sentenced to prisons, torture, and death for "making bad/evil decisions". I'm not saying we should let murderers be murderers, but what I am saying is we should start looking closely into possible "down to the hardware" remedies instead if prison. If we are operating on this whole free-will notion, then that will never happen.

> 2) Processes with simple rules can still exhibit emergent behaviour.

Define emergent in this case, I dont know of any truly emergent behavior that violates the rules of what caused it, you could say 'organic life' was an emergent behavior, but it still obeys physics.

>you'll forgive me if I don't just take your word for it.

I think if we can't get passed an agreement that magic isnt real, that may be a reasonable time to end the discussion.
They used to let people build alternative clients, but those days of user customization are long gone.
Yep. Seriously. R w/tidyverse is a ridiculously powerful data wrangling tool especially when dealing with text files.

I tend use Notepad++ when starting out on a data-wrangling adventure. It has an uncanny ability, unlike any other editor, to open hundreds of files at the same time and to perform regex operations on all of them without dropping dead. I uses Notepad++ for initial manual exploration to get the lay of the problem, and then switch to R for the actual analysis.
Up to and including ASBO's

Which whatever their intention became a useful 'we don't like your face' tool.

My default position is 'explain why you want these powers with evidence they are nescessary' unfortunately the average person here doesn't pay any attention, which is why we are one of the most heavily surveiled democracies in the world.
You are not too old to learn Dvorak. If you're interested in it, go for it. It took me about a week and it was a fun project. Then, after a few months I dropped it and went back to Qwerty. The world uses Qwerty and I was being too contrarian.

There's no need to subject your kids to this mess of a debate. You don't even use Dvorak at home. There's basically no chance they'd continue to use it later in life. Prepare them for the world that's actually out there.
Very nice. I was also into amateur civil engineering as a kid.
> It's not faster, that's a myth

This is false. There a plenty of statistics showing that Dvorak is faster (albeit it's true that the main benefits is around finger movement)

> native hardware keyboard layouts

Never been a problem: you don't need (or want) to look at the keys anyways.

> limits to the users ability to configure software keyboard layouts

Also not a problem: you cannot touch-type on a phone and also you type with thumbs.
Math.random() or what part?
I am totally confident that they will handle reports of censorship by media that supports them completely and totally the same way as reports against media that doesn't.........
Doctor gives hundreds of people HIV with contaminated needle
For me it's often in spurts. Some days I get nothing done but then there are other days when I can go 12 hours straight. Worst for me are days with one meeting in the morning, one before lunch and then one in the afternoon. These days are effectively lost because I lose my train of thought and spend the whole day struggling getting things back together in my head. Such days are negative in productivity.
If you want to compare yourself to dead people... so be it ?
I was condoning lying about offers or salaries on offer, just that having more offers signals a perspective employer that you're a desirable candidate.

I've heard of companies asking for proof of other offers so saying so and so offered me 2x is a very risky play if untrue.
Sounds good in terms of lack of pauses between words and his general voice, but you can tell something is off due to the cadence and at times it seems like words trail off into breathlessness.
Not a stupid question...it's the central question here.

Unix time is set up to allow programmers to assume every day has the same number of seconds. Is this the best approach, or would it have been better to try to educate everyone not to make that assumption and to use a standard library for all UTC calendaring?
So people extremely knowledgeable in a domain don't make mistakes in that domain? Or are they just "one notch too low" on the continuum- enough so that they make a mistake? I just don't think that holds.

Mistakes aren't always made due to incompetency and extremely competent people still can make mistakes.

I think most of the "seven factors that lead to stupidity" could still affect someone very competent:
https://fs.blog/2019/01/how-not-to-be-stupid/
> 1. They will be exposed to Qwerty on devices where touch-typing is meaningless, such as smartphones and tablets.

I'm not sure having a keyboard layout completely interalized is ever really meaningless. For example, I typed this entire reply on my phone without looking at the keyboard once, based solely on knowledge of the positions of the different keys in relation to one another. Furthermore, even if I had been looking at the keyboard, having memorized the locations of everything in some part of my mind would definitely make it faster to type than if I had no idea where anything was. Besides, if someone were most familiar with a non-Qwerty layout, why wouldn't they just set their phone to that?
Link poster here: I am not the creator of the app and don't know its author Andrew Burton. So there is no intentional coordination. Heck, Andrew may not have yet noticed that his article is a top page HN.

I have just stumbled upon this article in a UX mailing list and thought it'd be interesting to share it on HN.
Ask HN: Career Advice for Transitioning Vet
Hey HN, I've been a long time lurker on these boards, but I'm looking to get some advice from the community.

Background: Undergraduate in Computer Science, 5 years as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy with strong track record of performance, and currently working at a software development company as an intern before starting an MBA program this fall. Did some freelance work through college in Android dev and website design between military committments.

Goals: This is where I am looking for some feedback and advice. I know that MBAs are sort of controversial in much of the tech community, but I'm looking for some information and advice on where the community has seen MBAs with a technical background succeed in the past. Additionally, any advice or words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Oh yeah? How about the fact that he drove a car, or ate meat or spoke english or traveled a lot?

The "online radicalization" thing is complete and total bullshit: it's an excuse to ramp up the totalitarian surveillance state in a more obvious way than the "war on terror" -now it's a war on people who read things on the internet. Magic internet forums might make me into a terrorist ... or a hacker; better put me in prison!
Is HN truly this bad of a bubble that everyone thinks interview tests are normal?

The last time I had to do a test it was on site and I was just out of college. Most interviews just talk about the challenges of the team, my past work on similar problems, and how I solved them. I've been on the other side of the table too. It's usually easy to tell if the applicant is a quack or if they are skilled by how they talk about different technology: commiserating about familiar pain points, how they solved common problems. I almost feel at this point that it's unprofessional to hand out tests to people.
In many countries recording someone in public without their consent is simply illegal. If you notice someone caught you in a picture or video, and you visible (not just a blur in a giant mass of people), you can request (force) the person to delete the footage. I've seen this happen multiple times.

Concerts and other closed events routinely have as a condition for attendance that you consent to have your photo taken.
With something this important, I'd expect something more substantial than the equivalent of "I stayed on this diet for a year and it worked! I shrunk by 1/3rd!"
I used to work for some of those guys (very indirectly) when they used to work at Medco as senior execs making millions. They are smart guys that don't need $$$ at this point. In their defense, operations/call center leaders are very metrics and cost-driven at most companies. 50% annual attrition rate is business as usual. Driving down call volume, average handle time, and increasing first-call-resolution are name of the games. Call centers are viewed only as cost center at most companies. This trend has been changing in the past few years, so I'm glad they are also in the right side of the fence.
> It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
China Is Gradually Blocking Wikipedia in Every Language
> I'm going to argue they can't type

They push the buttons and letters appear on screen. That's typing - everything else is optimisation :P
That's dependent on your interests though. In my field people are too busy writing manuscripts to write a tweet.
To be fair, automation is also a form of electrification, just not of the powertrain but of the driver ;)
One could easily argue they would never become paying customers anyway, though.
I don't know why mruts is being downvoted. The only reason to use Dvorak, imho, is the better ergonomics. I switched to it over a decade ago because my hands were showing early signs of repetitive stress. The pain went away right after switching and has not come back. The other benefit is that nobody can use my computers because nothing but gibberish comes out when they type.

That said, if you can type comfortably in Qwerty, I suggest using it. Being able to type on any keyboard without having to hunt around for the keyboard layout switcher is nice.
I learnt QWERTY as a kid/teenager in Australia.

Arriving in France 13 years ago I was a bit lost tempoararily with the switch to AZERTY, almost to the point of seeking out a keyboard online to get back to a ‘normal’ keyboard. I stuck it out, though, and soon anything but AZERTY seemed strange and slow - visiting my parents in London and henpicking around their keyboard when I am meant to be ‘the tech-y one’ is always a little amusing.

Go with QWERTY, and if they want to change later they can and will.
>And every time someone brings up free will, someone will shout hard determinism from a pulpit like they are the final authority on the matter.

The same could easily be said on the reverse, but that's the whole point of a discussion isnt it?

And I dont think anyone considers themselves the final authority, the idea of the falsity of freewill has been around for quite some time.