skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, for lots of reasons. First, it's a flamewar topic that has been prosecuted ad nauseum on this site for many years, and the guidelines specifically ask you not to introduce those "unless you have something genuinely new to say about them" [1], which you didn't. Second, venting indignation is not what HN is for. That's noise, not signal, and the worst noise is noise that leads to more noise. Third, debating a human being's mental health in public, which some of you are all too eager to do, turns HN into a freak show that is a form of sickness in its own right. Let's call it social illness. Fourth, once you've seen all of this dozens of times it becomes bone-achingly tedious.

In short, nothing is less in the spirit of HN. I'm sure you didn't do any of the above intentionally, but the trouble with all such problems is that they're the sum of unintentional addends.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This type of social criticism is fan service to people who want to believe they are better than the upcoming generation. If we were having too much sex, there'd be an article saying that too, eliciting the same response from the same people.
That's why Amateur is one of the most popular categories - though most of it is fake.
Yes but in this instance it frequently includes sexual degradation and exploitation.
The French are fairly well regarded in current-gen nuclear power tech. I wouldn't call them joined at the hip with the US. They compete with US firms worldwide for plant construction business. They built the Daya Bay plant in China, and I assume, a number of others.
I like this one by a Hello Internet listener:

http://i.imgur.com/WT7TUAf.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/37udsu/my_best...
The Bay area is often a losing proposition, financially, for engineering talent.

Taxes, housing, general expenses are all outrageous and do not often come with commensurate salary increases.

I personally will not move anywhere in CA due to a few of the things you've listed (NIMBYs, PC, CA political climate in general.)

Venture capital is about the only thing SF has that can't be found elsewhere.
Point 2 is a reasonable concern, but in this case, I think it's fine. If a child draws interlocking rings with a crayon, it's impossible to tell which ring is on top. So children can draw this without a problem, they just draw each circle in whatever order they want and it will look fine. The ordering concerns only come into play when using a medium that can represent which ring is on top at each crossing.
Why not use the Olympic flag. Isn't that the purpose of the Olympic Games? To unite humanity?
The problem with pornography is not that it reveals too much of the woman, but rather that it reveals too little.
Every nation has bad episodes in its history. What good would punishing the present-day Republic of Indonesia do?
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- Python and at least one of the following: Java, C++, Scala
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Exactly. OpenWorm [1] is trying to do exactly that, emulate C. elegans, with all of 302 neurons. It doesn't work yet, but they;'re plugging along. When that problem is totally solved, and the neural model is working right, it's time to move up in complexity. Probably to lizards or birds.

About two decades ago, I heard Rod Brooks talking about building a human brain. He'd done some good artificial insects and was big on purely reactive AI. At the time, he was promoting Cog [2], as a way to get to human-level AI in one big jump. I asked "You've done an insect brain. Why not try to get to a mouse brain next?". He replied "I don't want to go down in history as the man who created the world's greatest robot mouse." 20 years later, Brooks doesn't even have mouse-level AI, although he does have a robotic vacuum cleaner company.

A mouse has about 1g of brain mass; a human has about 1000g. But they're both mammals, with about 90% similar DNA. If someone could simulate a mouse at the neural simulation level, that would be real progress. Once you have a mouse simulation, human level is a scaling problem.

The Human Brain Project blew through a billion dollars in funding while OpenWorm is a volunteer effort. That's the real problem.

[1] http://www.openworm.org/
[2] http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/cog/c...
We'd better not sign TPP, that way we can steal the new nuclear power tech back from them.
Would love to hear some comments about this, that's what we've been doing and saying at Bubble for a while (https://medium.com/inside-the-bubble/you-shouldn-t-have-to-l...)
Careful. Sex is an agreement, not a choice. There are lots of people in this world who would like to have sex but for whatever reasons cannot or do not. Abstinence is also a focus of countless religious traditions. I would hesitate to tell any of those people they lacked in personal development.
Neat, you can explore all sorts of comparisons.

It's interesting how renewables are basically absent from the deep south, apparently because there aren't as many renewable resources there.

Calm winds weren't surprising, but I was caught off guard to see that Mississippi and Alabama don't have the same solar potential as states to their west and east at the same latitude.

Wood power plants are huge there and along the coasts, I thought those were only used in third world countries.
> The porn industry does have some specific practical issues. Probably the most is the reliance on very young actresses. Most start while under 20 these days. People that age are too trusting. They get put in bad contracts and don't know their legal rights.

I would argue this is not specific to the porn industry. For instance colleges rely on students being too young and naive to really understand the student loan that they are given. 10 years later many feel betrayed or scammed because they have a degree that isn't always the best in the current economy and still in thousands of debt.
You can create VERY lightweight offline-cacheable offline apps, try adding this to your home screen:

App: http://staticresource.com/quotes.html
The College President-To-Adjunct Pay Ratio
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MOCAP Analytics, Inc. is a Silicon Valley tech startup founded in 2011. We bring pedigree from some of the finest academic institutions and premier sports franchises, including: Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Princeton, Georgetown, Wharton, Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Bears, and St. Louis Cardinals. MOCAP's strength is in making sense of the richest dataset in sports and we work with leagues, teams, and content publishers to provide analytical tools and insights for coaches, athletes, and fans.

We are searching for someone to join our growing team who can work in a fast-paced, high-energy, results-oriented environment. Someone who can express complicated ideas simply, and is excited to have the freedom to make decisions, and be accountable for them. We believe in sharing the ball and want somebody who is a team player (to a fault).

Specifically, you will be building graphical tools and visualizations that display our data and convey our insights and stories for teams and fans in a scalable way. While the math can be complicated, it is your job to make tools that are simple, engaging, and informative for our non-technical users.

Desired Experience
￼- Web applications that interact with large datasets
￼- Visualizing mathematical analyses
￼- Confidence to contribute UI/UX input when needed during the development process
￼- Data visualization tools in Javascript (such as D3)
￼- jQuery and Angular
￼- Python and Django
￼- Automated testing
￼- Database basics

Bonus Points
- Familiarity with statistics and machine learning

If you're interested, send your resume to work@mocapanalytics.com.
Somewhat off-topic, but what service do you guys recommend for someone who just wants a cheap server to play around with (maybe getting something like an rsync script or BTsync and a website running)?
Exactly. It's especially hard to compare, when things don't move straightforwardly, every new thing is 9/10 old and 1/10 new, and all new things have their own 10th. Things wave back and forth, in spirals. Knowing history avoids looping too much. I didn't understand that about it as a kid (it holds in tech but in society, politics, musics etc too). Good for you you're already sensible to that.
Here is a much better proposal, with the added benefit of keeping our planet safe:

http://traipse.com/upgrade/
This passage really distills it down to the essence of what happened:

"Despite skepticism in the neuroscience community, Markram won over the people who really mattered: funders at the European Commission, who seem to have looked less closely at the proposal's scientific feasibility than at its potential economic and political payoff."
> pay and mobility, and so will not follow you to the middle of nowhere.

I've never seen pay properly compensate for the harsh (tangible) expenses of living in SF/CA.

Seattle, Austin, Boulder, in my experience, have all had far better value props.

> Chicago housing market into SF's

As much as I dislike Chicago (political reasons): SF-style-housing-market can't happen there. The city has massive amounts of sprawl, vehicular commuting is common, real estate is plentiful and inexpensive. It's not a peninsula full of NIMBYs.
Worth mentioning that this is by Martin Sustrik of ZeroMQ fame.
I haven't looked at Metal's API. I have programmed PS1/PS2/PSP/PS3 which all used command buffers completely under your own control letting you pre-create them and removing all overhead for "Draw Calls" so I'm excited about these new APIs that seem more like consoles.

I found this Vulkan video from Siggraph exciting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quNsdYfWXfM

There are several demos shown which demonstrate the advantages of getting rid of the draw calls. Not only can you draw a bunch more stuff but you also get much of your CPU back to do other things.

The showed one example doing 400k effective draw calls on some tablet which would be impossible with the older APIs.
Without javascript, this page renders as empty white space.

I suppose it is made up of complicated things like text and images, so maybe an unfair observation.

Anyway, the flag. Sure, make an Earth flag, good idea. But I think it should look better than a few interlocking circles. Needs a bit more spice or something. Let's call the 7 circles version 0.1. Looking forward to version 0.2.
Why would you put the flag for planet Earth on Mars? That just seems confusing.
I wonder how many problems in the middle east would be solved by bringing em' easy access to porn...
Was about to hunt that one down to post. Glad to see I'm not alone.
- better support

Need to prove this with some data

- more services
- more options

Sure, because of earlier start.

- and is easier to use

How do you measure the ease of use? APIs? Documentation? Management UI?
I'd say it creates a sense of unity with those that travel into outer space.
Personally, I think it is crucial in personal development because, as you put it, it is an agreement, not a choice. There are some lessons to be learned from getting somebody to agree with you on something.
When you aren't paying a 9%+ state income tax, CA SDI, or more importantly: some of the most expensive housing prices in the nation, it's a much different deal.

Lot of speculation, but, it's entirely plausible these employees will come out ahead in take-home pay. Their net worth will likely improve if this is the case (you can feasibly own property in Nashville.)

I would imagine they'll also come out ahead in quality of life.
I'm one of the people who could have been insulyed and I say please STOP. Stop this nonsense where we cannot even describe anything.
I don't buy this. I agree that the quality of modern porn is low, but we need only look to the modern tv/movie market to know that it is possible to produce high quality works in a large industry with large productions.
Then come up with a better mnemonic or trick that captures the essence of the general case.

Like Fanana: First times all of them, next times all of them, next times all of them... it's not 100% clear but it took 10 seconds to come up with and it works with trinomials and beyond.

Or FettuchENE: First times each of them, plus next times each of them.... Ok, that's kind of bad, but you get the point. FOIL sticks around not becuase it's the best but because it's the most memorable, it's a meme. We should introduce better memes to compete with it.
There are a large number of political and practical reasons why the U.N. flag isn't going to be used to represent earth, the biggest one being that few nations would say the U.N. as a body represents anythijg more than the interests of the five permanent members of the security council.

Add on the fact that the organization as a whole is bloated and encumbered by institutional dogfighting that would put Microsoft to shame, I don't see any UN funded/backed/approved space ventures happening anytime soon. Theres a reason the ISS isn't under a UN flag.
just grab something from lowendbox or vpsboard's offers section.
> Sure, because of earlier start.

So? AWS will always have that head start. If GCP can't catch up to or beat AWS on features, or find some way to differentiate from AWS, that's always going to be an AWS advantage. Customers buy based on what's best for them, not by comparing what two services look like at the same point in their lifespan.
And that's the fundamental flaw of human nature that prevents collaboration at a large scale: Everything needs a story, a hero and a name. That that slows decision processes down almost to stagnation, and it often results in decisions that aren't based on reason, but on names, heroes and stories. To some extent reputation is certainly a useful heuristic, but at some point everybody has to accept that they are only bags of cells that have to execute the most rational action sequences in order to survive. In that sense I would actually be in favor of a simplistic Earth flag design. We'll likely have to remove any memetic baggage from our decision making in order to survive.
Some people might say Digital Ocean or Linode or Ramnode or whatev, but I would go straight to AWS.

The 't2' class of servers are competitive with Digital Ocean in terms of pricing (roughly the same), especially if you do a 'reserved instance', and you get a ton of other benefits "for free", like a sane firewall and network, better monitoring tooling, snapshot tooling, and an easier path forwards if you do need to expand to other things like databases or s3.
> A pay cut is too much to ask

Is it really, when you're not paying $3500/mo for a studio in TL?
It was at AsiaBSDcon 2015. Was there a more recent one?
Compared to GCP, perhaps, but AWS's support is pretty atrocious too. The real reason AWS wins is because they know how to sell platforms: as you said, it's about more services, more options, and yes, more _selling_. You can't just build the best components and wait for people to try them. You have to go listen to customers and propose how to build what they need using your platform. This is by far the biggest difference between GCP and AWS: the technical salesperson mindset.
> Implicit in what you're saying is that one of the reasons you're cool with having a "subpar" conversation with someone half-way around the world, is this idea that you're unable to find anyone in your immediate vicinity. Otherwise (if you agree that text is subpar) you would always prefer just calling up someone who is across the street.

Yes and no. I used "subpar" in scare quotes to refer to what I think was implicit sentiment in your comment above. Personally, I don't find text subpar, just different - trading off additional information for more control and efficiency, as well as range.

As for being unable to find someone in my immediate vicinity, there are two issues here, both of which involves self-selection. First of all, people in my vicinity often are preoccupied with something else, whereas whoever signals his availability for conversation on-line is probably a safe bet to talk to.

Secondly, when you look for people in your vicinity, you sample the general population. When you interact on a forum like this one, you sample through a much smaller population of people particularly tuned to that forum's topic and style of discussion.

I don't mean to say here that people around me are inferior to those I meet online; on the contrary, there are conversations I prefer having with those next to me (often, not surprisingly, about topics related to local context). I find off-line and on-line forms to be different enough not to substitute for one another.

> But I don't think that its necessarily the best option or that we should think that the only people that you can talk to on any given topic are necessarily not people who are sitting right next to you - on the bus/train/plane/park bench/etc.

I agree. Though again, self-selection. I'm equally fine with talking about things with people on the bus or on the other side of the planet. But I'm having this conversation here with you, on HN, and not with my friends over beer, because it's Sunday night over here in my timezone; most of face-to-face conversations I could have have selected themselves out by going to sleep :).

> Or to turn it around, it would be so much better to live in a society where you could just strike up conversations with strangers and not be judged for superficial BS like crumbs on your face.

Oh I would so love to live in such a world! But that will require serious rewiring of both our societies and our own insecurities, which would be a change of much more profound (whether good or bad) consequences than mere smartphones.
Personally i would recommend you to set up your own server, so you can learn how stuff works.

If you don't want that for some reason i have used Digital Ocean found their service to be very simple to use.
I have also tried amazon's stuff and i found it to be expensive and not very user friendly. But when it comes to price i know there is other ones that are cheaper than Digital Ocean.
I like the new Infrequent Access, but I'd like to understand the tradeoffs better. What's the downside compared to regular S3?

It mentions 99.9% availability instead of 99.99%, but it would be useful to understand how that is manifested in reality, and what the underlying architectural difference is.

I tried to ask jeffbarr here[1], but got no answer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230937
Haha, as someone who would prefer to live on the west coast for getting my career started (but ultimately wants to settle down in the South since family is nearby), those cities are my top choices as well. I'm currently in Knoxville finishing up grad school, but I've been scouting out possible technology-oriented cities in the South (unfortunately, there aren't many).

I toured Chattanooga the other day. It's a cute town, but it felt kind of small and somewhat empty to me. I lived in Atlanta for 4 years during my undergrad. Despite being only 30 minutes away from my immediate family, Atlanta is one of my least favorite cities in the US. Too much crime, too little ambition (at least compared to SF and NY), horrible traffic, and not much "living" going on within the city. Everyone basically commutes into it from the suburbs for work and then drives back out in the evening. If you wander around SF, you see all kinds of people out and about. In Atlanta, everyone's cooped up inside; the sidewalks are mostly empty.

Raleigh, Cary, and Charlotte are nice, but they're a little too suburban/vanilla for my taste.

Nashville is quickly becoming my top choice (if I'm unable to live in San Francisco or Austin, TX). I have some family there, and I recently read that it's one of the fastest growing cities for 25-30 year olds interesting in technology.

So, I don't know... as someone who's lived here almost all my life, I just wish the South had at least one big city that was world class in something.
I might go so far as to say that the issue isn't with the management structure so much as the complete lack of a management structure. It takes a well run and managed organization to spend a billion euros effectively.
If you want actual industry discussion, I recommend SemiWki articles 1-5 by Scotten Jones.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/...
(my apologies on the link, but the direct one I tried did't work without login)
The issue isn't Moore's law (either speed or #transistors), the issue is cost per transistor. If that doesn't scale we aren't going to double the price we pay to get 2x more cores. Power/Cooling and the increasing cost of fabs has also put a dent in things.
For a good podcast / ted talk on the elements of a good flag design, check out:

http://99percentinvisible.org/news/99-invisible-at-ted/
Thanks for reporting. I just fixed it. http://gearz-lab.github.io/react-metaform/demo.html
I'm not so sure. All sorts of things appear on flags that aren't to do with nationalism. You can put a smiley face on a flag if you wanted to, and hoist it above your outhouse. You can put a skull and cross bones on a flag and put it over your DJ mixing desk.

There probably is intelligent life out there. If we meet them one day, and they have a flag representing their planet. "Hi Earthlings, you don't have a flag?"...awkward.