skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These preferences of yours appear to be a step back from installer scripts like Softaculous. Fantastico, etc.

It's a nifty/fun project, but why in the world would I bundle MySQL with a simple blog platform?

It seems like you're trying to reinvent the wheel, and making it less functional in the process.
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I think it's most useful to think about these questions in terms of the quality of the technologies involved. Technology does not just include computers and the Internet, but also books, paper, writing utensils, chalkboards/whiteboards, workspaces, etc.

Taken from that perspective, we should then judge each piece of technology on how well it does its job. A high-quality textbook with a good index, good writing, good editing, and good organization is extremely valuable and useful. A poor quality textbook with an incomplete index, errors, and poor organization is not nearly as useful.

How does this compare to computer tools for learning? Well, we can't just judge the tablets or laptops as hardware. Computers are only as good as their software and the content available. And how does that fare? In my experience, it's universally terrible.

In general, content on the Internet is poor to counterproductive in terms of quality. Some sources are good, but the general trend towards massively huge variety served up by completely automated tools, not to mention the inevitable spam that shows up in low-barrier-to-entry zones reveals itself across the board. Current search technology is woefully insufficient to make sense of the surfeit of content. This is obvious on Google, but even in narrower cases like Amazon.com or the various mobile app stores, there's just too much content out there, 99% of which is junk.

That doesn't even begin to address the terrible user interfaces. Compared to a book, which is far less flexible but light-years easier to use and interact with, most software fails miserably.

Virtual textbooks, for example, are easier to search, but harder to use in every other way, from just reading to browsing, to perusing indexes or sharing with classmates. And that's assuming the licensing and access issues don't cause you problems. My daughter's online history textbook was taken away a week or so ago because of a mistake somewhere between the school administration and the textbook company in renewing the license. So now the kids just don't have a textbook until someone resolves the problem. This doesn't happen with actual books.

Books and lecturing have had centuries to be perfected. We take it for granted, but it's true. Computers and the Internet are newborn tech by comparison. So long as we fall for snake oil pitches and pour money into this new tech indiscriminately in the hopes it will solve our education problems, we're just encouraging the already horrific state of the technology. Let's focus on the stuff we know works and let the flashbang tech mature a bit more.
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I have the same almost instinctive reaction. I think we're probably guilty of it as well, just not as aware of the shape it takes (just look at the emacs vs vi folks, perl vs php, .net vs j2ee).
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What's more interesting is that Salter was Studying AI at the university of Edinburgh
Thank you for answering my question. I think I now get a sense of thinking using tactile representation. I can imagine it is incredible hard to work on things that don't have 1-to-1 mapping between visual and tactile.

It is a fascinating topic. I hope to have a chance to understand how brain really works in my lifetime.

Thank again!
wow. that's a lot of comments. like. a lot.
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> I am a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan.

Wow, I can't think of anything you could say that would make me hate you more instantly!
I feel like the roots of this movement were to make a more computer literate society, when access to technology was a larger hurdle than it is today.

Kids of all economic classes are currently exposed to technology daily, so the aim has to shift. Can we create software that helps children learn faster than a traditional environment? Can we teach them things that are not available without technology?

Slapping a kid in front of a computer to play some stupid vocabulary game might have been useful in 1990, when learning to type, use a mouse, navigate an operating system, was a useful skill. Not so much now.

Can we teach them logic and problem solving skills through coding? Can we create software that makes them eager to learn and explore? Become Critical Thinkers?

The physical devices are only part of the issue. The curriculum has to be targeted and useful.
The point was that being a tremendous athlete and an intellectual/scientist aren't mutually exclusive.

Edit: Also, astronauts.

So there's that.
My understanding is that doctors tend to lack empathy, not control it. A quick google brings up this article which agrees with that understanding: http://news.legalexaminer.com/study-finds-doctors-lack-empat...

Your suggestion simply does not fit with anything I have ever seen or heard. I would be happy to see data suggesting that your idea is true instead. Care to cite a source?
I am the guy who did that paint shot you linked to above.

I think you might have mis-understood a part of my post. We don't replace all of the film grain. We go to great lengths to try and maintain as much of the original grain as possible. We certainly add grain to anything we add to a shot but we go to great lengths to match the grain we add to the original grain.

In the example you linked to, I did completely remove the grain from the image before I started to paint out the wire (the painting softens and blurs the grain). But I then took only the areas of the image that I changed with the painting, and but that over the original image, with the original grain on. I then only added 'fake' grain to the areas that I had painted.

The grain that we do add to the visual effects isn't usually 'fake' either. The visual effect supervisor usually takes the cameras that production was using on set and shoots grain samples on the same film stock. We then add these samples back to our VFX work so they match the original footage.

We all so have to do exactly the same with footage that comes from digital cameras but this is more 'noise' than grain. And if the footage came from a compressed source like a GoPro we have to match compression artifacts.
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I also have no idea how to quantify the benefits of shade for cars, but want to point out that they're non-negligible. Everything ages faster when exposed to sunlight and heat -- your paints will fade, the rubber bits will lose their flexibility and crack, your vinyl seats will slowly evaporate. There should be a measurable difference in how long a shaded car lasts versus an exposed car and a savings for taking better care of your car.
Eh. This is more like just saying that you need enough general knowledge to sustain a conversation if you want to get along with people, and that you don't repeat yourself too often.

The person who is into <extraordinarily specific topic, no matter how interesting> is always tiring to be around after a while (and can create a very one-sided social interaction).
Same experience here. I've rotated through a few number of personal sports into adult land though. That really helps because you'll find others that similarly enjoy what you're doing and don't care for watching sports either. Good exercise too. Stuff like cycling and rock climbing are particularly good cause it makes sense to go on road trips.
I guess I'm thinking not getting vaccinated doesn't actively cause you harm. It might. So someone getting drunk/stoned/high might cause you harm. I guess there is some lessened ability to make a decision, but causing an accident for example is something no sober person would do. But we allow people to drink and take the chance. Seems similar to allowing people to not get vaccinated to me.
I really enjoy "I'm not into Pokémon".
I remember meeting my sister's friends in Chicago once. Even before their first son was able to walk, they were putting an inflatable baseball bat into his hands and teaching him how to swing it. Giving him big smiles when he did an approximation of the classic bat swing. Later they threw a giant beach ball as the ball. They happen to be Cubs season ticket holders - so yes by the time he was in kindergarten - he'd been to more games than many adults.

While this is an extreme example, it shows that a love of sports is passed down by parents to their kids. Really, a love of anything can be passed down (working on your car in your garage). Love and passion, can't beat them.

I grew up without watching football or major professional sports on a regular basis. Mostly because my dad did not watch any. To this day, I really can't understand football (American) - not the game, but the obsession, TV commercial timeouts and all.

Sports is such a big part of American culture that it is part of many of our childhoods.

As one of my college friends explained to me, watching football on Sundays with the guys is not really about watching football - it's about hanging out.
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Are there any available solutions for a permanent PO box/mailing address for digital nomads? A place to have mail delivered, digitally scanned, with the option of opening (for scanning) or forwarding?

I remember watching Earth-Class Mail featured on the Startup Junkies series in 2008, but it looks like they haven't changed much since their initial launch.
It surprises me to.

I guess it's mainly oil companies that get's excited about hydrogen, because it can be produced from hydrocarbons (and serves as a chimera, to extend petrol's life): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
We only establish or change what "people" want done with their tax money by public discourse on whether we think it's a good idea. That something is done by the government is hardly a reason to not question it.
Searching for "heroku wrangler" would be wiser, and produces a number-one result suggesting that it's a report generation tool for your database: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/wrangler
Nepal. Lax visa, inexpensive, mostly safe, okay Internet (not the fastest), nice weather for sure, and a very beautiful country.

Ping me if you are interested. I can hook you up with hackers/entrepreneurs there.
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I unfortunately don't know too many others. I have this book as well: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Science-Algorithms-Se... and because I'm so far removed from any academic math study now in my life, by about page 3 I was lost.

My plan is to dive into Linear Algebra and Statistics book and courses first before I head into ML again.
If you've been incorporated for 16 years and still haven't made it, you really shouldn't be allowed to call yourself a startup.

You're just a company. There's nothing wrong with being just a company. But you're not a startup.
I am not a native speaker FWIW but "upper" is exactly what I wanted to say. My point was that if you replace football with golf and working class with upper class the whole idea of cultivating interest in sport to fit with some social group starts to sound really cheesy. And that author's "noble" intent is a fig leaf on what sounds like a rather pointless exercise to me. Although I cannot pinpoint exactly why.

(btw, I am not the one who downvoted you. HN got really trigger-happy lately)
> What you do is compare your secret blooper reel with the post-production highlight reel of other people. You know more about yourself than anyone else.

What a great quote.
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This strikes me as the perfect political investment. It passes the "new one on me" test, and it passes the "green is hip" test, and it would be a constant reminder of the politicians involved (ala Boris Bikes for Londoners).

It also promises to kick start a maintenance industry and lower costs as stnadrds are formed.

Overall I would expect this one to be subsidised and persued more hungrily than any offshore projects or windfarms
Cf. https://spqr.eecs.umich.edu/emi/

It would be very important to know if a digital equivalent is possible.
If you're only getting 384 dB out of 64 bits, you're doing it wrong by using integers. 64 bit double floats go from, what, around E-308 to E308 in the exponent. So that is around 616 Bels, or 6160 dB. :)
Exactly, but that's why the area IS meaningful... Something the size of the Pearl River Delta can't possibly be cohesive enough to qualify as a single metropolitan area (yet). So comparing it to one is a bit arbitrary.

Also, those two cities I was talking about are Hong Kong and Macau. Both were governed by the UK from the end of the First Opium War (1842) until 1997, when control was handed back to China. The terms of the handover included maintaining independent boarders (and forbidding complete freedom of movement and immigration). You can read about it and the other terms of the handover here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_sovereignty_over_Ho...).
I got a lot of mileage out of Coherent, and learned a lot of tricks and stuff about "user level unix" that I use to this day.
I would be surprised if it was a lot longer. And regardless, it seems very likely it will eventually happen, thus working towards that goal--even if the hardware isn't yet ideal--is probably a good idea.
" (...) partol officers (...) more time to visit with community members (...) also include more high-powered weapons (...)"

Interesting to mention those two facts in one sentence.
Sports is a huge financial drain on the school? Do you have any data? What I heard was that college football tends to pay for all of the other sports at a school. If anything sports creates a lot of opportunities for students that otherwise could be done due to budgets.
Sports, like any large body of knowledge, requires a dedication of a great deal of brain-hours to become proficient at. Actually participating in sports requires an order of magnitude more investment, of course. Since human beings have limited time available to them, they MUST sacrifice something else in order to become knowledgeable about sports. For me, this is why I have no interest in sports. The game mechanics interest me, the statistics interest me, and I could find a lot of avenues to approach the subject enjoyably... but I would have to give up something else. And the other things I occupy myself with are, in my opinion, more worth my time.
That may be the most compelling game review I've ever read.
This is a bit tangential to your post, but I think there's an important distinction that's being missed in most of the comments on this thread:

Not liking watching sports and not liking _sports_ (i.e. playing) are very different things with very different causes (though they are, to a degree, correlated).

The article is primarily talking about watching pro sports, so IMO what you're describing doesn't really give a complete picture of the topic at hand. As a single example, playing sports is one of my favorite things to do, despite finding watching pro sports to be extremely, extremely boring (regardless of the context: Soccer is my single favorite sport and even at a World Cup party I found myself bored out of my mind).
"On the flipside, energy costs are rising at much more than 1% a year."

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/natural-gas.aspx?timeframe=10y

huh?
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>how the sporting department despite those figures manages to be a net budgetry drain on almost every school which has one

And so are music departments.

Which I think is part of the point here. I firmly believe that playing right tackle can teach you just as much as playing the oboe, yet intellectuals tend to look down on former and praise the latter. Organized sports are not only a hobby and social gathering, but they can also serve as part of a greater learning and education experience. There is a reason why a few of the Ivy League schools rank near the top of all universities when it comes to the number of varsity athletes.

>that college-level sports is hugely abusive and exploitative to the players which actually play it.

You need to be specific here. Big revenue college sports (basically only Div I basketball and Div I-A football) are definitely exploitative, but most college athletes participate in sports that generate little revenue and it would be hard to argue they are being exploited.
As someone who doesn't watch sports - hasn't fantasy football basically ruined football?

1) No one has team allegiance anymore, it is now player allegiance
2) People waste more time watching football to cover their entire team.

The NFL shoves so many shitty ads in your face it's painful to even sit there and pretend to care. I have trouble understanding why everyone watches games in real-time. Sign off twitter/facebook/whatever so you do not get updates, record the game, and fast-forward through every horrible ad/time-out/whatever else you have to sit through

I know this isnt going to be popular, but I had to say it haha.
What? So if I don't enjoy exercising it's intrinsically bad for me?
I'm talking about the video on their website:
http://www.magicleap.com/#/home

if they can really achieve this effect, then it will be shocking. if this is just design concept, it is misleading.
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http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=564601

this is the paper in which the theorem was formalized. they talk in terms of 'the initial value' of an atomic object, and its 'subsequent values' - so this only makes sense when the system is _implemented_ in terms of objects which have values that change over time as the result of operations:

---
More formally, let v0 be the initial value of the atomic object. Let c~1 be the prefix of an
execution of A in which a single write of a value not equal to v0 occurs in G1, e
---

If requests that come in are expressed as "give me the most recent value of A," and the response comes back with a history of all operations done on A along with timestamps, then you're no longer bound by the CAP theorem because 'an operation was missing' is no longer a _problem_ - its' just an outdated answer.
Thank you, I've bookmarked your profile :)
Sorry, but as much as I'd like to take the credit, I didn't author the article... By I "wrote" I meant I typed it in. I can see how my choice of words gave that impression, though, and I feel awful! I am truly sorry!
That $2.3 billion figure is for a lot more than the road surface.
Russia was an interesting country until recently, but it fails on every one of my points. That's the thing.
yes, i'm saying that the cap theorem only applies when you have a shared state storing mutable objects which change over time. if there is an append-only record, the CAP theorem - as formalized here (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=564601) - doesn't apply
I've seen what you're talking about, but when I've seen it, it usually seems more like an acknowledgement of the amusing mild awkwardness inherent in being surrounded by people who are REALLY passionate about something and not being able to partake. I can see it having elitist intent in some cases, but in a lot of cases it's just poking fun at oneself for being so out of touch with whatever all the people around you are into.
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Based on that article, I'm not convinced that it's the best that the part could do, based on the circuit schematic. We would not be using the windings of a transformer as a load in a typical gain stage in a musical instrument preamp. A typical inverting stage would have a large-ish resistor as its load, in parallel with the fairly high impedance of the next stage (another tube circuit that is similar).
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Let's face it - 90% of recruiters are pretty awful. Who are the best ones you've worked with? Why are they exceptional? Especially curious about independent recruiters!
A bit of a correction: Google acquired Liftware, who were the ones that made the spoon.
hahahaha yeah not really ethical and not something most SEO's would do
If someone comes up with a version of Android with better privacy controls and a app store which has around same number of apps available. I will jump the ship. Google Apps are great but I am sure I can live without them.
I love sports that are one on one but couldn't care less about teams. When somebody brings up "the game", I usually respond with "the fight", and then we'll both race to cut the conversation short.
I think people already do write things in a hierarchical way. They have one main theorem which is supported by multiple propositions and lemmas and corollaries. At least, this is how all good papers I read are organized.

I think Lamport's vision is that the hierarchy extends down to the very last detail. This is what I'm skeptical of, because no mathematician has time to do this. To paraphrase Newton, you need to stand on the shoulders of giants to make progress.
For x86_64 Linux only, here's a single-file crt0 (with arbitrary syscalls working from C-land): https://gist.github.com/lunixbochs/462ee21c3353c56b910f

Build with `gcc -std=c99 -ffreestanding -nostdlib`. After -Os and strip, a.out is 1232 bytes on my system. I got it to 640 bytes with `strip -R .eh_frame -R .eh_frame_hdr -R .comment a.out`.

Starting at ~640 bytes, maybe you could come close to asmutils' httpd in binary size. Failing that, take a look at [1]

You can get pretty far without a real libc, keeping in mind:

- You probably want fprintf, and things can be slower without buffered IO (due to syscall overhead)

- `mmap/munmap` is okay as a stand-in allocator, though it has more overhead for many small allocations.

- You don't get libm for math helper functions.

Of course, you can cherry-pick from diet or musl libc if you need individual functions.

[1] "A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux" http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
ST3 is noticeably faster for me with some plugins like SublimeIntel, and faster with large files as well. It may be my imagination, but RegExp "feels" faster compared to ST2 as well.

And as others mentioned, a few plugins are ST3 only. The linters are on my must-have list for editors. ST3 added support for additional "decoration" of the gutter and of code, as well as minimal "dialog" support - I suspect that's why those plugins are ST3 only.
Is that because of the security of Sandstorm as a platform or because each app would need it's own DB engine bundled with it?
>Feeling like a fraud keeps you humble, it keeps you sane, it keeps you on your toes.

Or it just erodes your self confidence until you're committing fixes that miss obvious details which then goes to production and breaks things. Now I'm just stuck in a positive feedback loop and frankly I don't think I'll be able to justify my pay in 6 months.
The tongue is incredibly sensitive, I've seen some work on giving blind people the ability to have low-resolution vision by having an array of electrodes on the tongue (before the tongue, they used the back, but that's not anywhere near as sensitive) and a webcam.
Ah very sorry! I thought you may have been typing on mobile or something. You are totally cool by me and I'm sorry if I offended you.