skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do you think that we are more than 'thinking meat'? Seems like there is no evidence for that at all.

Irrelevent

> but that's even unrelated to NDE's

Exactly

What is interesting is how NDEs share traits of the unconscious mind and its archetypes. Commonality that is shared by everyone from dreams, through to meditative states, vision quests and various states of psychosis. Even Jung started building his framework with insights from an NDE; the incorporation of eastern philosophy into our western analytical model allows for a very deep study of our psyche -- regardless of world-view -- and opens up horizons for the mind that were previously inaccessible due to a lack of sophistication in that area. NDEs are another intrigue that can be added to the list of phenomenon that allow us insight into our psyche.
Second hand plastic ThinkPads are hardly an alternative... They are seriously outdated now.
Umlauts are not distinct characters, but modifications of existing ones to indicate a sound shift.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29

German has valid transcriptions to their base alphabet for those, e.g "Schreoder" is a valid way to write "Schröder".

ß, however, is a separate character that is not listed in the german alphabet, especially because some subgroups don't use it. (e.g. swiss german doesn't have it)
> I'm very skeptical that approaches based on "conceptual abstraction" can tell us the right thing to optimize, as opposed to my preferred approach (defining a utility function over mathematical objects directly).

And I'm very skeptical that mathematical Platonism is useful for AI: "mathematical objects directly" do not exist in the real world, and it is very much real-world things on which we want our software to operate. "Conceptual abstraction" simply refers to a learning algorithm that possesses a representation of, for instance, a chair, that is not composed entirely of a concrete feature-set (visual edges, orientations, and colors) and can thus be deployed to generatively model chairs in general.

Computational cognitive science is working towards this sort of thing, and the results should start to hit the machine-learning community fairly soon.
Meh. I can.

Windows 8 works quite well on both of my touch capable laptops, my gaming rig, and old 4-5 year development machine.

With 8.1 the Start button is back, but pressing the Windows key on the keyboard and selecting one of the pinned applications, or typing for search, works perfectly.

It took a while for me to put aside my feeling that things had to stay how they were, but once I did (touch capable device helped) I liked it. A lot.

I hope 10 refines things further. With the cost of touch capable Windows machines so low, the installed OS needs to work.

Edit: and if they can improve startup times even further with 10? Wow. Windows 8 was already faster than 7 on the same machines, even older machines and on non-SSD drives.
My wife's mother was unable to leave hospital until my wife put on weight. My adopted son lost tonnes of weight and only gained after bottle feeding. My daughter simply could not be taken away from the breast.

That was enough for me to make a decision that breastfeeding my second daughter was impractical.

EDIT: I do say "produce" but it may not be as simple as that, again it's complicated. Production may not be impaired, but perhaps the ability to dispense might be. There may be some matrilineal genetic factor present that prevents a baby from latching properly or taking enough milk. I'm not an expert but there are a few stages in the process where things can and do go wrong.
Oh, thanks for that :)
You were absolutely right in calling it a trick. Browsers explicitly[0] stopped putting the favicon there as sites started to trick users like this.

Seems like an odd choice of UI chrome that browsers decided to keep.

0: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/25/firefox-fires...
Reframing it like that makes it seem like parents who formula-feed (because you can pump breast milk into a bottle) are harming their children.

There's already enough pressure on women to breast feed and I'm not sure it's useful to put more on. It'd be better to make sure women can get rapid access to breast feeding consultants.
Once I was sent to Tokyo. The language barrier was difficult. As a European I'm used to the idea I can figure out French, German, Spanish, etc. But the symbols were just alien. One day we were looking for food and found a small place which had pictures on their menu. Perfect I thought. I can see exactly what I'll eat, with no confusion and no complicated discussions.

I ordered a burger. Or I thought I did.

What I got was a fish-cake in a bun.

And that's exactly why picture menus fail. A bowl of soup? How do you photograph that? If it is green does that mean pea soup? Does it mean asparagus soup? Does it mean lentil soup? They will look identical.

Similarly a chicken-burger, vegetarian-burger, fish-cake in a bun, or hamburger will look identical. You need the text to differentiate them. (Not to mention the text is more concise. Just imagine "jacket potato with toppings such as: tuna, cheese, beans, salad, tomato." How many pictures do you include before you just give up and say "More available"?)
Making networking not to suck
Linus has a sense of humour that is often misunderstood, especially by the PC crowd. Abrasiveness is an innate Finnish quality. Just think you're in a Monty Python sketch.
'Thinking meat' is mere derogatory verbiage appropriate for an arena like HN but that's just jousting.
Unless you buy it in a country where you know......Apple is forced to offer a 2-year warranty by law(some EU countries).
The Power of C++11 in CUDA 7
What gives you the impression that it won't be cheap to run?

Presumably, if they've got the automation figured out, each unit will just manage itself, launching when wind conditions are favorable.
I always thought the Internet Explorer branding was the one thing they got right. If you're not a technical person and you've got a new computer and you're trying to get onto the internet for the first time do you use:

Firefox
Chrome
Opera
Internet Explorer

The last one says exactly what you want to do.
>For example, for unpaid summer internships my college just gave out $5000 in living expenses so undergrads could do any unpaid internship they wanted.

What... the... hell? Nobody gave us anything like that at a state school.
Is that a sarcasm site?
Microsoft gives Chinese pirates amnesty and free Windows 10 upgrades
> Despite all the evidence to the contrary?

It's fast in benchmarks… but it's either single-threaded or has horrible locking. One slow script somewhere will not just block the tab, but the entire browser. Good luck hunting it down with 40+ open tabs.

(I really miss Opera 12, it's still the only browser to decouple the UI to its own thread so a long-running script doesn't lock up the page. Or the whole browser…)
He amassed that fortune by paying that kind of attention to detail. He keeps his fortune by paying that kind of attention to detail. All great artists are great because of attention at the macro- and micro-level. To you it's disappointment. To him it's a missed opportunity because of a bad decision. An opportunity missed, whether great or little, is something the man clearly dislikes.
This handling comes from readline, rather than your terminal/shell.

Readline has many shortcuts available here's a random assortment:

http://teohm.com/blog/2012/01/04/shortcuts-to-move-faster-in...
Wait -- you think it's your money?
July 2011, and a lot of people still use it and want full functionality because being 4 years out of date isn't publicized enough
I do not think that's the point. For Buffet, allocating capital perfectly is extremely important.

I used to read his letters regularly until a couple of years ago. In all his letters, he always seemed to blame himself for investing in bad companies. But at the same time, gave all the credit for profits to his CEOs. IMHO, there is a lot of humility in that.
Is Bengali your first language?

A better question is, Are there any native Bengali speakers creating character set standards in Bangladesh or India? If not, why not? If so, did they omit your character?

I ask, because although you prefer to follow the orthodox pattern of blaming white racism for your grievance du jour, the policy of the Unicode Technical Committee for years has been to use the national standards created by the national standards bodies where these scripts are most used as their most important input.

Twenty years ago, I spent a lot of time in these UTC meetings, and when the question arose as to whether to incorporate X-Script into the standard yet, the answer was never whether these cultural imperialists valued, say, Western science fiction fans over irrelevant foreigners, but it was always, "What is the status of X-Script standardization in X-land?" Someone would then report on it. If there was a solid, national standard in place, well-used by local native speakers in local IT applications, it would be fast-tracked into Unicode with little to no modification after verification with the national authorities that they weren't on the verge of changing it. If, however, there was no official, local standard, or several conflicting standards, or a local standard that local IT people had to patch and work around, or whatever, X-Script would be put on a back burner until the local experts figured out their own needs and committed to them.

The complaint in this silly article about tiny Klingon being included before a complete Bengali is precisely because getting Bengali right was more complex and far more important. Apparently, the Bengali experts have not yet established a national standard that is clear, widely implemented, agreed upon by Bengali speakers and that includes the character the author wants in the form he/she wants it, for which he/she inevitably blames "mostly white men."

(Edited to say "he/she", since I don't know which.)
'Always show checkboxes' was something I tried early on. It simply doesn't scale well. There are already more than 200 checkboxes and 10 double-ended sliders.

Each single checkbox presented is the most important feature for someone. It is interesting that the HN crowd is stressing high CRI but many feel the reduced efficiency is not worth the trade off.

Here are all the waterproof high CRI lights:

http://flashlights.parametrek.com/index.html?led_color=high%...

Though generally if you are serious about nice CRI you will end up buying a regular light and swapping out the LED.

It might be worthwhile for me to provide levels of detail. Like in your case, you don't care if something is IP-X7 or IP-X8, you just want waterproof. And no good manufacturer would say "waterproof" since the word doesn't mean anything. Though that sort of modal configuration screens (advanced mode, etc) are almost universally considered bad UI on HN, so who knows.
Wow, i don't know if it's because the pdf here is big but my computer froze when I opened this link.
> Why would a wealthy diamond merchant in a three-thousand-dollar suit want to cheat me out of a hundred bucks’ worth of gold?

How else do you become wealthy and buy $3000 suits?
With Virgin Media I have to pretty much double the TV volume on HD channels to get the same volume level.
Works on mac too.
Sure, as I said in another comment, diamonds could probably be replaced. But it would probably be by something just as useless.

Or maybe if you can find a way to mimic the effect, but make it useful, you have your hands on a very valuable startup idea.

I guess it would be something like helping friends move, which is considered a good signal for true friendship. I don't know (not an expert on this), maybe if you find a way to "help your spouse move" for the equivalent worth of 3 months of your salary, you are good.

Why don't you get your down payment back if you get divorced?
I can't edit any more, so I'm posting as a reply.

I compared my dataset and their data, and it turns out that even in Brazil there is significant correlation between mother education and breastfeeding, barely less so than on the dataset I have. So you should probably disregard my edit in the above post: accounting for confounders could be important in both cases.
> That's still an electrical keyboard; it just has switches that click.

Not even. Cherry switches are linear, they only have a plastic latch glued to them to fake the clicking sound of a buckling spring switch.
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18828">
Enterprise can mandate complex pass codes, not the 4 digit pins.
The 11 hour number will increase rapidly with complex codes. However I assume they will still want the wipe feature to actually work.
Depends what you do with them. Mine is fine for what I do and is probably fine for 80% of people out there.
The reason people keep talking about those incidents is that a lot of people defend that behaviour (see other posts in this thread) or even promote it as the best way to manage a project and deal with 'inferior' programmers.

If everybody was just saying that those were unfortunate incidents where he lost his temper and agreed they were inappropriate then this debate wouldn't keep happening. Some people aren't prepared to admit that Linus is ever at fault in any way during these episodes. There is even a group of people who think that those episodes are examples of 'telling it like it is' and 'sticking it to the PC crowd' and thus should be replicated as much as possible to make sure your project isn't 'swamped by idiots'. Unfortunately some of the people with that attitude maintain open source projects (and have downvote powers on HN).

I have found buffer overflow bugs in widely used open source projects that I have not informed the developers about, because when I've made previous bug reports they acted like assholes. I don't feel inclined to open myself up for public humiliation just to contribute to their project.
A dead simple browser extension that tips sites you visit Bitcoin
Well, then they've gone to some lengths to make it look like it's not.

> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18828">
> I don't think Buffet has a good concept of financial disaster.

Buffett's brain is not wired like the rest of us. He even takes losing small amount of money very seriously.

I remember watching Buffett's old video where he bought a gas station when he was young and then sold it as loss of $2000. He said that that the opportunity cost on that money is about $6 billion in early 2000.
I'd think something in the line of "Microsoft Web" or "Windows Web" would be better.

The name "Internet Explorer" was right, but the feeling that web developers have with it, ain't. So that's why they have to change it..

If they use Microsoft Web for a cross platform application, the naming would identify Microsoft and "Web". With Windows Web it's solely targetting the Windows platform (and not crossplatform as their goals are changing)
Speaking of heat: It would be interesting to know how many of those affected used their MBPs in clamshell mode.

(My pet theory: Acids and oils left by the user's hands/fingers on the keyboard/case that react with the screen coating when the MBP is closed. Heat from clamshell mode could act as an additional catalyst.)
This is difficult in the US to the point of being impossible (if it's not unenforceable from a legal standpoint to begin with). It can only work as debt, which is why similar companies have created P2P student-loan financing[1][2][3].

In the US, you can't issue shares for sole proprietorships (meaning you yourself are the business). Any entity whose ownership needs to be sold to multiple people will need to be a partnership or corporation.

Let's pretend there's a student named Bob. Your company must create a corporation for Bob and then sell shares in it to investors. There would also have to be a contract between Bob and the corporation saying that Bob will pay x% of his future salary to the corporation for y years.

Now let's say Bob doesn't want to continuing paying the investors. He can work as an independent contractor, which would make it nearly impossible to figure out how much he's earning. He can also just refuse to cooperate.

This would inevitably end up in court. A judge would decide if the original contract, where Bob agreed to pay the corporation x%, was enforceable. It's possible the judge wouldn't agree.

But let's say the judge agrees it's enforceable. All Bob has to do is declare bankruptcy, and any damages awarded by the judge go away. That leaves the corporation (and your investor clients) with huge legal bills, at least in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Even if that scenario only plays out 1% of the time, you still have to adjust your interest rates to compensate for the risk. At that point, your interest rates have now become higher than a regular student loan, which a reputable person can get for under 8%.

Furthermore, once people have graduated, they can refinance their student loans for much more reasonable deals, which means that even your stated 5% rate would be higher than what they could potentially get on the open market as a gainfully employed adult.

If you then consider the huge percentage of college students who fail to get a good job (or any job at all), plus the ones who die or become disabled, your investors just can't feel confident enough to accept a low interest rate like 5%.

In the US, Congress passed a law saying that student-loan debt is not forgivable. That means that even if a student goes bankrupt, s/he can't get out of paying back the student loans. That means that, even with a guarantee of payment and the goodwill of the federal government, a student loan is only worthwhile at more than 6%.

So basically I don't think this concept works from legal, financial, or economic standpoints. It also smells a bit too much like indentured servitude, which the public would frown on anyway.

1. https://commonbond.co

2. https://www.sofi.com

3. https://www.lendingclub.com
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This is a great philosophy. It's going to hurt a lot of the time, but not as much as losing a bunch of your own money and firing good people. Keep it up!
It seems that the MacBook Air for instance has other screen coating. So maybe it's more resistant.

As far as i remember the Air has a "plastic screen" while the MacBook Pro has a real glass layer with some special anti-reflection coating.
Can you use a Rust library easily from all the current C code?
72 hours is crazy - do they expect people to be buying stuff all the time?

What's crappy about it is that they force a moderately complex password strength which is much harder to input on a touch screen keyboard. I'm constantly having to enter that - the 'touch id' for using the apple store, to me, is effectively uselesss. For unlocking the device, it's fine.
He references "Where Are the Customer's Yachts?"! That's a great fun little book, written in 1940 looking back on the madness leading up to 1929.
I love Warren Buffet's quote on hiring:

“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”

Often we tend to focus too much on intelligence and too little on integrity.

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/76790-somebody-once-said-tha...
I don't get it. Loudness normalization past the mastering stage (i.e. at the audio track uploaded by the label) will only make all audio louder or quiter, it can't increase the actual dynamic range of the track. Furthermore, the DR meter can easily produce bogus results if the equalization changes or with non-lossless joint-stereo encoding algorithms.

I'd be cautious before celebrating.
Theoretically, they'll get the liars, and they'll suffer s a business for that. In practice, I've seen this happen, but everyone else suffers too, and it's a long drawn out process for the incompetence to surface, and often brings down others too.
Why would you even join or stay at a startup who's not prepared to give you the real % figure ?
Your first step is to figure out what elements exclude people. Personally, I think your current activities have strong elements of competition & machismo. There's also a large skill-based component to some of them (it's hard for someone new to computer games to have fun while joining a bunch of experienced gamers playing Halo). So your new activities should favour things that prioritise other elements: non-competitive, accessible to beginners, and not so bro-like. Here's some concrete suggestions:

- Handicrafts. Get some supplies that let people make something. Sculpey, for instance, sell kits that come with clay & instructions (http://www.sculpey.com/product_category/kids-kits/). Creative types can freestyle it; beginners can follow the instructions. Plus everyone gets something they can take home or keep on their desk afterwards as a memento. It doesn't have to be clay - there's many other options like pipe cleaners & fuzzballs, felt cut-outs, picture beads, and origami.

- Learn a skill. If you've got a budget you can hire an outside expert, but you can probably find someone inside the company with a good party trick. Get a magician to teach some basic sleight-of-hand, a juggler to teach juggling, or an entertainer to teach some balloon animals. There's also cookery, improv, flower arranging, astronomy, and many more.

- Play with toys. Find some unusual/expensive items that your attendees can play with throughout the night. An Oculus Rift, a 3D printer, a unicycle, an Apple watch, Google Glass, a photo booth, a double-necked guitar, a Segway, a candyfloss machine, etc.

- Engineering games. Given 1 roll of stickytape and unlimited straws, what's the tallest tower you can build? Given half a pack of blu-tack and unlimited paperclips, what's the widest gap you can span? Given 10 sheets of cardboard & a craft knife, how many coke cans can your structure support?

- Movie night. If you've got a projector, a stereo, and some comfy chairs in your office you're in for a treat.
YOU NAZI! Thanks - fixed it and am feeling ashamed of it a bit :)
You know what's the problem with boring code? It's boring. This means its information content is low, and its abstraction level is low. This means that you need more of it to express an algorithm.

Code may also be boring simply because it is unsurprising for someone familiar with the subject matter.
Good luck in your future ventures. I hoped you learnt a lot that you can take to your next business.
How many lines were tests?
> I wonder how they will run things when Warren isn't around.

Most probably Ajit Jain would take over as CEO. A significant part of the investment portfolio is already handled by two other managers.
Based on the detail given, I'm not even convinced that this was a bad decision for Buffet.

Somebody else has $5b, but this is not a zero-sum game.

Every decision, including this one, contributed towards Buffet's and Berkshire's position today.

Presumably Buffet took that decision to rather invest the cash in something else - which has apparently done just fine.
FWIW there is an interesting project called Swarachakra[1] which tries to create a layered keyboard layout for Indic languages (for mobile) that's intuitive to use. I've used it for Marathi and it's been pretty great.

They also support Bengali, and I bet they would be open to suggestions.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarachakra
I use Visual Studio all the time, but the node integration isn't quite there yet (especially when building node_modules using vc++ compiler )

I'd use SublimeText otherwhise :)
It's a shame he ended up at Facebook of all the places he could've worked for - Space X, Tesla, Apple, maybe even Google X. Such a waste.