skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Indians should create a great society for themselves, not simply essentially siphon off success that other societies have built up. The thing about this matter is that is a net negative for all parties involved, it's essentially akin to tearing others down instead of working to build one's own success.
Its because in real conversations, you talk to 1-2 other people and not a million. If a lot of people are discussing something (as they do in parliaments) people have a way of upvoting (by banging tables) or downvoting (booing) others.
Didn't see that coming haha. Glad you liked it. At 135pts & front page, you apparently are cool enough for Hacker News. Probably a cool project in a HN-favorite language led to this. ;)
Maybe they are trying to distinguish it conceptually from the private boarding school.
I don't see the explanation of how it will backfire in that post. They seem like good suggestions for Uber to follow, but it doesn't me they would work.
Nah, as another commenter mentioned, the dual version has normal, removable cables. So no idea why the single variant couldn't: https://store.google.com/product/usb_c_dual_port_charger

Funny how (other than current limit) the original iPhone charger cube is still like the gold standard for chargers.
I know they don't overlap! I'm saying they should overlap.
But the extrodinary includes issues discovered by those processing the data.
Once my Evernote underwent a dramatic sync error, resulting in duplicates of all my notes. Evernote support's only help was to suggest I use Time Machine to recreate my notebook. They couldn't move the notebook back in time or anything like that.
I don't think it's a "conspiracy," but HN has many means of opaque moderation (shadowbans, slowbans, arbitrary score penalties to control the front page), and they continue to be applied with no accountability. We play here at the mercy of capricious Gods.
Obviously it sucks for people losing their jobs. But if someone's job is such that another person can come, mimic what they do and take away their job, aren't they already at risk of losing their jobs to automation in the near future?
The linked article clearly says they don't decide how to count. Maybe they get involved if there's "cheating" but there's no rule that you can get more than three clicks by typing xyzzy.
Thats the title chosen by the article's author though.

How do you conclude that it's misleading and linkbait?
The parent comment's explanations and terms match the explanations throughout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass–energy_equivalence. Is the Wikipedia article all wrong?
What It Takes to Become a Data Driven Organization: 3 Leaps of Faith
IBM Data Visualization – Many Eyes
Nope, ReText is not the project. But it has quite different goals. I'm actually an academic in the humanities (though lots of my work uses digital tools). I got so thoroughly sick of marking essays with shoddy referencing and inconsistent formatting that it seemed like there must be people who could use things like your example of auto-completing citations; that isn't the purpose of retext at all, and its goals are much more to help people who know what they're doing.

ReText is also not very cross-platform, in practice for Linux only, although it's possible to install on a Mac with effort. It might be more justifiable to work on improving it, but the maintainer isn't interested in pandoc support, which, first makes citations very difficult, and second, means submission either to academic journals or university tools like Turnitin is more complex then it needs to be.

Then there's just little things -- like quoting verse in Markdown, which requires two spaces at the end of each line. That's easy enough to make happen automagically, but it's a feature that would never be used by a typical ReText user, or someone using Mou or MacDown, so they're unlikely to want to support it.
Really? How so? I have about 60GB in total stored across Google Drive, OneDrive and DropBox. Other than OneDrive requiring me to login too frequently with the desktop folder syncing app they all work identically. I've yet to have an issue with syncing with any of them after editing documents in multiple machines.

I'm not saying you're wrong I just haven't seen what you might be referring to hence why I asked.
That seems a bit unreasonable. How many people have as part of their tests "Put the computer to sleep and make sure we don't accidentally wake it up"? I could understand if they had some hardware or software with that specific feature, but in general, it would be a waste of time.
Even after adjusting for miles (or hours) traveled?
The US is actually not very representative of what the whole world looks like out there. In most modern cities you have apartment buildings with several floors and they have separate mailboxes - either common ones or individual ones right at your door.

Amazon is a global company and they would need to address the local differences everywhere.
Your selection arguments make sense to me. We are conscious, so consciousness must increase fitness. Maybe impulse control is a key aspect of it. And thinking of Hofstadter, maybe it's just the top of the self-referential stack.
Most IMSA kids I knew went home to their parents on the weekends, every weekend.

Most boarding school kids I knew only went 'home' for summer, winter holidays, spring break, etc.
"When Congress designed temporary work visa programs, the idea was to bring in foreigners with specialized, hard-to-find skills who would help American companies grow, creating jobs to expand the economy."

This is a common misconception. The H1B visa laws are generally used to hire very low wage workers. (I doubt the authors of the legislation are surprised by this result.)

Companies are required to pay a prevailing wage, but this wage can be one of four levels. And of course most H1B applications are for the lowest levels.

Here are levels for software developers in Chicago [1]:

Software Developers, Applications
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL Metropolitan Division

Level 1 Wage:$24.45 hour - $50,856 year
Level 2 Wage:$33.14 hour - $68,931 year
Level 3 Wage:$41.84 hour - $87,027 year
Level 4 Wage:$50.53 hour - $105,102 year

For context the 25th percentile wage in Chicago is $68,670 and average is $88,630.

Of course, more ambitious companies may file applications under job titles with even lower wage levels like "system analysts".

You should also know that if a H1B worker is fired, he and his family are out of status that day and must leave the country unless a visitor visa is granted (which is not guaranteed).

How would you like working here if you could be fired and your whole family could be sent packing at will?

If you were an employer, do you think you could you hack this system to your advantage? I'm pretty sure I could.

[1] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/
Part of the beauty of Omega is that there aren't just multiple schedulers, but schedulers with different profiles (this solves the head of line problem for long-running jobs while accelerating small jobs). Mesos, from the Borg paper[0], seems to have issues with head of line problems (including going so far as to silently fail jobs without queueing them).

FWIW, Omega seems like the answer if the overhead for resolving inconsistencies becomes low enough such that the benefits of optimistic scheduling outweigh the costs.

[0]http://www.slideshare.net/sameertiwari33/scheduling-on-large... See slide 6.
Yes, in a way that is correct from a high-level understanding. However, there are nuanced pieces to the problem that requires data science such as the randomness of each process - patients and doctors are not widgets and they vary in behavior significantly. In a manufacturing plant, each process has the exact same duration every time but in a hospital setting, the same process can be different for Patient A vs Patient B due to a variety of reasons. In fact even in manufacturing facilities, they are starting to use big data and advanced data science themselves to solve their operational problems and get smarter at forecasting, predicting, etc.
The plnkx philosophy
I know! But I'm not interested in money, and it seems possible to provide something much easier to use then emacs, which, although inferior, can still help people who can't invest the time in learning to use emacs. (There's actually a sociologist, Kieran Healy, who's devoted lots of time to carefully explaining his emacs-centred workflow, with almost no uptake. There's just an enormous class of people who use Word -- horrendously inappropriate for this class of work -- when it's easier to make something much better, though still a long way off emacs.
What I do is watch the pilot do the preflight. If he doesn't do it by the book, I won't fly with him.

For example, checking if there's gas in the tank. Bob Denver forgot to do that, ran out of fuel, crashed and died.

Make sure he warms up the engine all the way before takeoff, and does the magneto check at full power. Not doing this causes engine failure shortly after takeoff - a common fatal mistake.

If the weather looks dodgy, don't fly no matter what the pilot says. JFK jr flew into haze without being instrument rated, and died.

Failing last 3 are the most common causes of general aviation crashes.
Evernote is notoriously bad at keeping notes.
http://jasonkincaid.net/2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elep...
See also "Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science" :)
Had this discussion with aws multiple times. Never going to happen
> It happened because the difference between the aristocracy and the peasants grew so large that a few years with a poor harvest were reason enough to topple the whole state.

Pff, looks like you have no idea what you are talking about. Disclaimer, I'm French and what happened is nowhere as simple as you make it sound like. '

> If a society wants to survive and remain stable some of the benefits rich people have must also be accessible to the general public (for example health care and education)

The poor people have never had as MUCH opportunity as NOW to get education and health care compared to the previous centuries before us. Wake up, seriously.

> otherwise social unrest is inevitable (remember occupy wall street?).

Yeah looks like OWS changed a lot of things : a bunch of hipsters camping in NY with no real agenda, big deal.
I used to be the same guy complaining about all of the phones being too small. I like the big phones of today, but I understand the complaints some people have.
(I'm not a lawyer, I've just read a bunch of blogposts/discussions on the issue)

There's a legal difference in some places between having your phone secured by a fingerprint and a password. If your phone is secured by a password, then in some places you cannot be obliged to provide the password, but a fingerprint you can.
The newest version of the Android app is actually a huge improvement here. It's now possible to launch a quick note from the desktop basically instantaneously. (It probably averages 0.3 seconds on my Galaxy S6.) Hopefully a sign of things to come.
why should I be able to live in a better house than you just because my parents left me money when they died?

Our ancestors built this nation. We current citizens are their heirs. Whatever benefits there are to having been born here, those benefits should accrue only to citizens.

America is ours, we and our ancestors built it. If there are any benefits to living here, they belong to us, and not to foregners. Likewise, my nice house belongs to me and not to you, despite the fact that it was purchased with money willed to me by my parents.
That's a good point. I was thinking of narrative self. And I am conscious of my narrative self, so they're distinct. So arguably they're all levels in a self-referential stack.
A great essay. Although I found this pdf a bit hard to read.

This version has better typesetting: http://www.stoa.org.uk/topics/bullshit/pdf/on-bullshit.pdf
Looks good, but I am over Android. Moreover I feel like Google is never in it to win with their phone hardware. I am hippyish with my Apple iPhone but look forward to killer open option.
Neat. San Francisco is big on this as well.

https://data.sfgov.org

(.sg URL is most definitely a coincidence. ;)
Practical programming for adults
I am mainly talking about the first 5-10 years of autonomous cars being available. Beyond that, I won't even attempt to make any predictions.

During this first decade, most cars on the roads will still be human-driven. I don't see the insurance end-user cost being decreased much for the autonomy-capable car owners. If anything, I see it costing more during the very first years until there's more statistics & operational experience. So even if there's some price reduction during the later years of the first decade, I think it will probably only even out with the initial premium, at best.

As for new overhead costs, I guess during the initial years there could be a learning period of how to handle crash drama where the car owners don't agree as easily to what happened and who's at fault. Those same first years the A.I. will probably be pretty buggy as well, with some surprising crashes.

However I think the insurance companies will account for these new overheads and raise the price accordingly.

Overall, I don't think investing in car insurance is a goldmine opportunity. I do think that they will continue to make nice profits and definitely shouldn't be sold short. At least not for the reason of autonomous cars by themselves, maybe sell short a selection of companies whose management you think will be unable to adapt.
Simply, in a perfect world without bad governments, this would be true. Buy we live in world where if I lose my job in the U.S. I will not get any support from the Indian government. If I am stranded in some jail in some undeveloped country on trumped up charges I can't go to the Indian embassy for assistance, etc. It also affords us better environmental oversight, better roads, infrastructure, etc.

That's to say nation states are selfish and are at the service of its people. That's how we've got things set up. That's why Bangladeshis aren't allowed to work in India, or why any state adopts tariffs, etc. All selfish self interest. That is why.

It's also not racist, unless you use the old definition of race meaning nationality. If these were going to the English or to the Russians, you'd see similar backlash.
Reminds me of the HD remake of the Resident Evil remake for the GameCube (the remake of the remake of the PlayStation original, just to be confusing).

Back when it was released on GameCube it looked absolutely amazing. When they released the PC port, more than a decade later, they talked about re-creating some of the iconic scenes in the game engine so that they were more dynamic. In the end only two scenes re-created. The remaining scenes were just upscaled from their GameCube originals. This was unfortunate since not only where they a low resolution (something like 700x300), but some of the scenes were heavily compressed and upscaling them produced a lot of haloing and noticeable compression artefacts.

Why Capcom couldn't just re-render the original scenes is beyond me.
Finally implemented my favorite Windows feature, window snapping.
Starting at $2k/year for up to 50 developers? No kind of pricing for a small team?
School! And robotics team stuff.

I'm currently polishing a Slack chatbot for engineering-notebook-chatops, working on some boards in Eagle for a universal, multicell NiMH charger, and also hacking on my fork of ReplicatorG (I'm trying to clean the code up, it's a bit WTF-y right now).
There's also an Alabama School of Math and Science (asms.net). It's a veritable sanctuary in Alabama for intellectuals.
Learning language by playing games
> Moreover I feel like Google is never in it to win with their phone hardware.

1) [Pedantry warning:] Google doesn't make phone hardware. ;)

2) The OLED Nexus S was a really nice phone back in the day. It's still pretty nice today.

So, -in short- I don't agree with your heavy-on-managerial-platitudes sentiment.
>If this is possible you don't have a real job and the Indian will be shortly be replaced in turn by a piece of software.

This is actually possible for a LOT of jobs that Americans do, modulo edge cases. Most of what nurse practitioners do, for instance, can very easily be replicated by a random forest. Try telling the nurse practitioners they don't have a real job. Hell, by that metric, most of crud isn't a real job either. In fact, the whole point of "work experience" is that the newhire with zero work experience mimics the more experienced worker until he passes the Turing test ie. the Boss, given the work output, can no longer distinguish if the work was performed by the newhire or the oldhand. Its turtles/strike/mimicry all the way down.
I disagree. I see them as very different value propositions.

Chrome OS is about giving you a baseline (80-90%) computing environment with as little administrative overhead as possible (easy to setup, easy to share device, no driver issues and so on). That's why Chromebooks are doing well in the education sector.

By contrast, an Android convertible like the Pixel C is about giving you a general-purpose Android environment in a different form factor.

There's some blurring around the edges (Android has a Chrome browser missing some desktop features, Chrome OS can run some popular Android apps), but they're nevertheless aiming at very different targets.
> Actually, if a state does any welfare, it probably has this problem already. Basic income offers significant reductions in those inefficiencies by simplifying the process of selecting eligible people (and retiring the required bureaucracy).

Never been proven that UBI would reduce the inefficiencies. The State find ways to be inefficient even when it's not supposed to be.

> That you have under every system, from despotism to socialism to capitalist democracy.

Nope, if you did not have a Big government doing wealth redistribution in the first place you would not have much money being lost in such transactions because the flow would be very limited. Look at the US Federal budget, how humongous it has become.

> Inequality will be a false problem when the bottom level of society won't be starving to death or due to lack of basic health care.

Oh come on. Mass starvation is a thing of the past, check Wikipedia, the last starvations happened more than 30 years ago and the only recent ones are due to conflicts mainly - poor people do not die anymore of hunger anywhere - we have large amounts of excess food, even in the poorest places of the world, like the countrysides of China.

> Again, basic income proposes turning inequality into a non-problem by securing a decent, humane minimum level for everyone.

The advocates of UBI fail to understand that by raising the minimum earnings to everyone, you will probably make prices go up everywhere (increased taxes + prices adjustments based on purchasing power) so it won't result in any meaningful difference.
I've never understood the point of Chrome OS's existence as a separate thing from Android. So I'm glad it's an Android device.
It's so hard for me to imagine a service like Twitter crashing.
Hello! I think it's possible to encapsulate unsafe pointer operations so they're only required in memory allocation, I/O primitives, and device DMA. I'll open a github issue or two with thoughts.

Out of curiosity, are you modeling this on an existing code base/architecture, or is this a new design?
Why Most Innovations Are Great Big Failures
Well probably you don't live in Europe (or have not lived there either).
Where are all these purfessional kitten-playing-with jobs?
With H1B, the government is providing assistance for the activity. In the case you mention, it's on the companies dime.
Google Keep
I'm surprised at how many Ivy League/top-tier college recipients there are on the list. On the one hand, it makes sense as these people are at the forefront of their fields and therefore should be at the best institutions. On the other, I would expect that they would get enough funding from their universities and that the grant might serve a maverick/independent candidate better. Do half of the grants usually go to top-tier institutional researchers and artists?
Evernote is probably the buggiest "professional" software I've ever used. While I never lost all of my data, I lost a few individual notes, and I lost formatting on my notes (e.g. bullet points/numbers) so frequently that I just resorted to using plaintext/whitespace formatting.
It's easy from a consumer point of view in the sense that it's readily available and easy to set up. The fact that it is still technically difficult to set up from scratch doesn't matter to consumers (or businesses) when there are multiple providers that hide that complexity for the end user. Hence Dropbox no longer has a competitive advantage from having produced a solid solution to a difficult problem.
This cache throws 2 Ajax errors then doesn't load the images. The main page also doesn't load the images. :(
> We lack the priority of taking care of ourselves.

We're definitely not wired to weigh long term consequences properly :(
This is great, huge thumbs up to all the people involved in this effort. We use ClojureScript on the web and we love every second of it, I'm sure the experience on Android will be the same, especially with the reduced startup time.
As an H1B, I whole-heartedly agree with you. The H1B gives American employers disproportionate power over their foreign employees.

The ideal solution which has been proposed by several people, but will probably never see the light of day in legislation due to entrenched lobbying interests is very simple – separate the visa from the employer. If an employer sponsors an H1B once, that person should be automatically be free to work for any company he/she pleases for six years. This will make H1Bs more of a realistic "high skill level" visa and less of a captive labor pool for the industry.
Is it just me or is everything starting to converge?
Avoiding dependent types wasn't due to a problem in Julia. Proper dependent types are essentially not something you want to mix with Jit compilation due to undecidability, at least not if you want to use bignums in your dependent values.

Of course you could emulate them some other way in Julia, but they are deliberately not baked into the language.

In the end we used the model that some computer algebra systems, like Sage and Magma use, of having parent objects for the rings in which the element objects live. I'll leave it up to the experts to figure out if this is dependent typing or not. It obviously works very well either way.
I don't know what they've dropped, but a few auxiliary features I personally don't use are Skitch, Hello, and Work Chat. I'm sure some people do use them (although I expect few compared to the core product). But everyone uses the editor, and there are significant bugs there that have literally gone unfixed for years. That said, some have been fixed in the past couple months, which is part of why I'm hopeful about this new direction.
I'm missing the relevant comparisons to the similar Italy case.
OK that looks much better designed. Definitely would recommend that over a flat charger, based on my experience.
I didn't talk about how to implement (or represent) the body of the function! And besides, Church seemed to like single arguments, so actually he would write something like that. :)

Physicists wouldn't (my degree is in physics).

Programmers would write f(x,y,z){return {x,y,-z};}. But actually, I would say that this is nasty because of asymmetry - it can't consume it's own output. f(p){return {p.x,p.y,-p.z}} where p = {x,y,z}
I think so many of today's "controversial" topics / issues are related. Capitalism, if it were generalized and mapped to a function, optimizes in the same way as the "least squares error" ML function does. The world is just getting too good at capitalism too quickly and it's causing too many people to lose out on the happy / comfortable lifestyle they would have were this not the case.
When people are posting images of text, you know your product is broken... but in a good way.