skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your perspective. However, to take two broader views

a) Assuming as a reader of hn you are somehow involved in software development. You're putting someone out of a job somewhere. Software & Robotics are automation of processes. Take your project for example https://www.improvely.com/ What took two marketing people to crunch numbers now takes one. Now look at your project from that persons perspective.

b) This is happening and while it will be painful for those not trained/aware. It might be a very good thing https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_are_droids_taking_ou...
This seems like a technical solution to what's a political problem. Those don't usually work out as one would like, or worse, get enshrined in some standard that doesn't solve anything and which makes things worse for the few people that have supporting programs.
I really dislike this kind of judgement of non-STEM majors. I used to make these kinds of judgements myself. The problem is the quality of education in America. Outside of certain, well-defined technical fields our universities have largely become degree mills.

A high quality education in philosophy or English, makes for effective communicators with excellent critical thinking skills. Outside of the very best universities students don't get that kind of education.

A STEM major isn't necessarily the answer either. It's often a struggle for highly educated math and science majors to find work in their industry. Sure they may have a leg up on getting certain jobs outside their industry, but it's by no means easy going for them either.

"American students need to improve in math and science—but not because there's a surplus of jobs in those fields."

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-myt...

Fact of the matter is that, there are largely just fewer jobs to go around. Part of this is that the older generation is working longer, not vacating their positions. Some of it is efficiency gains from software and other modern technology have let companies do more with fewer people, leading to a smaller workforce requirement.

We're very quickly nearing a point where not everyone needs to work full time in order to support our population and in fact not everyone CAN work full time in productive work. As a planet we're going to have to make some serious societal and economic decisions.
There is a huge difference between mass shooters who kill everyone in sight, and people who resort to violence in waging a long-running dispute. If you are not party to a gang war, the carnage of a gang war will not be as scary to you as the carange of people with no relationship to their killer happening to be in the wrong classroom at the wrong time.
I can't be 100% sure what Taleb had in mind, but I think the idea is that Stoics are a little more defiant than Buddhists, whose reputation is more for passivity. In fact I truncated the quote, both for brevity and because I don't like Taleb's self-censorship, but the original reads as follows:

A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says "f*** you" to fate.

(asterisks in original).
Mandelbrot set tutorial
“VBScript would be something a Samba admin would know of” — a login script doesn’t have to be a VBScript, could be CMD as well, or just an EXE. WSH is a general-purpose scripting environment unrelated to samba. Professional Windows system engineers use VBScript to automate their tasks, or at least they did before Win7 took off, with the PowerShell built-in.

“Group policy is distributed over SMB” — SMB indeed takes part in the distribution, however LDAP protocol plays key role here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/canberrapfe/archive/2012/11/15/where... Also it’s less important how they distributed or linked, it’s more important what they are — and AFAIK there’s no *nix equivalent.
Yes it would - but that's how all DRM systems work, plus an attempt to make the image unreadable to "unauthorized" JPEG implementations.
Capsule by itself does not fetch dependencies at runtime. But because Capsule is so flexible, we have a caplet[1] that you can choose to use that does.

And a capsule is a fat jar. Non-capsule fat jars frequently just don't work: they can create resolution conflicts which requires shadowing and even that can fail, they don't support native dependencies, and most importantly they require a startup script as they don't set up JVM options.

[1]: http://www.capsule.io/caplets/
Maybe one can keep it under the seat, or in the car seat pocket, or even slightly tie it on the side. I agree it should not be loose in the glove compartment.
A published mathematical formula is not protected by any form of IP. You can't copyright the math, it's not a patented invention, and it's not a secret. So long as you implement it in code yourself, you do not need permission or a license to use the same score calculation.
...because we don't have enough stuff and we always have to be doing something? How about, work less, live more.
> We are the government, and if you choose not to help make it what you want, it gets made for you by people who don't appreciate your point of view.

http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPPS%2FPPS...

> Our analyses suggest that majorities of the American
public actually have little influence over the policies our
government adopts. Americans do enjoy many features
central to democratic governance, such as regular elections,
freedom of speech and association, and a widespread
(if still contested) franchise. But we believe that if
policymaking is dominated by powerful business organizations
and a small number of affluent Americans, then
America’s claims to being a democratic society are seriously
threatened.
For federal loans (private loans are hard to get these days) the law is actually very reasonable.

You pay 10% of your (Income - 150% of poverty level). That's less than 10% of your income. And nearly zero for a lot of people. You pay it for 20 years and they wipe out the debt.

One huge problem is that people don't sign up for this system or instead just default. It's shocking that so many college graduates are sticking their head in the sand. It's a simple process. I've done it twice.
> suss out the root cause (usually easy) and eliminate it (usually hard).

Well in this case it maybe what happened. They are eliminating the root cause -- the actors ;-)

Basically always think twice and watch your back. HR is not your friend to confide in, being disgruntled and pointing to issues need to be done carefully. In an irrational organization it will backfire -- you are labeled as a disgruntled trouble-maker.
It's actually treasurer for Wayne County which includes the city of Detroit. For some reason I couldn't edit the headline.
Because you still need the extra step of creating the images (and layering them carefully if you want them to share dependencies other than the JVM). To run a capsule inside a container (if you want to run it in a container), you just tell Shield to launch the capsule JAR (which is created anyway by the build). In fact, you can even embed Shield itself in the capsule.
An honest "I'm sorry, you're being laid off" is a hell of a lot better than "we're making structural changes that may or may not impact you over the next six months".
> You sound almost like you are associated with this site

Your comment was borderline to begin with, but turning it into an attack against another user is a clear breach of civility. Please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Reminds me of "indie" rock with big name bands being signed to big labels.
Why Zidisha (YC W14) targets young, tech-savvy entrepreneurs with microloans
After the Crunch, One Startup Strikes a Little Bit of Gold
Heh, I like how Richard Stallman begins his messages:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/msg00...
Exploratory Data Analysis in Python (livestream Workshop)
A lot of surgery was extremely risky prior to modern anti-biotics.
>Do you doubt this?

I don't doubt it, but it's still hard for me to hear that other people in the same country just aren't bothered by thousands of preventable[1] deaths.

[1] (Not a gun control argument.)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10380365 and marked it off-topic.
No.

The report isolates the region the missile could have been launched from, based on the damage pattern from the warhead's projectiles and MH17's flight path, to a very small number of square kilometers, all of which are firmly ensconced in separatist territory.

These missiles have a fairly short range.

The report and the missile's Russian manufacturer agree about the very limited number of missile models that the warhead could have been mounted on.
CNN did spread an outrageous lie,

Which was?
Natuza
That's a great suggestion. What do you think of sending each lead an email saying "hello! You have been selected as a lead for this company" and then show them the company and give them a link to their Legion Analytics profile and the ability to suggest changes, without having to go through a phone call, chat service, screenshots, etc.

Hopefully that would make it transparent and easy to opt-out or correct their information!
I'm going to be brutally honest and tell you that you are someone I probably wouldn't talk to in real life because you're eluding that Jews are trying to destroy the world. The fact you try to play up the cultural Marxism argument doesn't stand to reason that well before even the term existed that there were people acting like butt-clowns (like TERFs, New Atheism, and etc) without it.

So, you don't need a Frankfurt School. Just look at the Protestant and Catholic leagues which formed during the Reformation. You don't need to concoct some bogey man to prove people are inherently defensive in groups. We just do it by design like all primates of our kind.

So before you go throwing out silly concepts like cultural Marxism just take a moment to actually observe people with as little bias as you can muster. You'll see the patterns I'm talking about. And it doesn't require additional parameters to verify.
Now if we can just teach AI to get sidetracked reading all this content we'd also prevent Judgement Day.

SkyNet: (speaking to self?) "Unleash hell on humans. Launch all missiles."

SkyNet: (responding to self?) "Not now, not now. Let me finish this article on John Stamos's belly button."
The first Orleans paper is from 2009 or 2010, so I don't think they are reinventing riak core.
A bit cleaner setup, in my opinion, makes the "x macro" an argument to the user-defined macro, rather than depending on #include. For example, to define an enum along with a string representation function for it:

#define DEFINE_ENUM(name, variants) \
enum name { \
variants(DEFINE_ENUM_VARIANT_ITSELF) \
}; \
const char *repr_##name(enum name e) { \
switch (e) { \
variants(DEFINE_ENUM_VARIANT_REPR_CASE) \
default: return "?"; \
} \
}
#define DEFINE_ENUM_VARIANT_ITSELF(variant) variant,
#define DEFINE_ENUM_VARIANT_REPR_CASE(variant) \
case variant: return #variant;

// client code:

#define foo_variants(x) \
x(FOO_1) \
x(FOO_2)
DEFINE_ENUM(foo, foo_variants)
Totally out of the blue.
> There is no law stating that each generation of humans should have it easier and with more resources available to them. My generation is facing this crisis, and the default response is to complain. Which is fine for a few minutes or days, it's good to vent. But at the end of the day, that won't change anything. It's time to get to work, even if "work" is 20-30% (random number) tougher than what our parents dealt with. Assigning blame doesn't solve anything.

If there is only jobs for 90% of the population, 10% is fucked no matter what you do.

That is the reality we are facing. It isn't "harder" to work. It has become impossible for the entire working population to be employed full time.

That is a world of difference.

If the solution was simply to work 48-52 hour weeks, as you imply, people would do that.
Ask HN: Any Twitter lists of active HNers?
Besides the HN Twitter bots (eg. @newsycombinator, @newsyc20 etc) and their followers, are there any lists of active HNers that are also on Twitter? I'd like to subscribe to such lists. Thanks!
Wales was annexed to England and then formally incorporated by the Laws in Wales Act, viz (quoting Wikipedia, apparently quoting the LiW Act 1535):

>"That his said Country or Dominion of Wales shall be, stand and continue for ever from henceforth incorporated, united and annexed to and with this his Realm of England;" //

So, yes, Wales ceased to be recognised as a principality and instead the lands that formed the area at the time called Wales were, according to Henry VIII, to be referred to only as England. Wasn't this also when English was established as the language to be used in legal proceedings?

IIRC the Welsh Language Act 1993 was what changed this situation?

I've yet to find definitive details of when Wales officially became a country. It's always struck me that prior to annexation it was only a loose confederation of principalities and that not all of what we now call "Wales" was not a part of the possessions of the English crown. It seems Wales, perhaps first defined by the invading Romans, was then created as an entity only by the English crown's definition of the area in which "Welsh" courts could act.

Do you have any input on this?
There are pros and cons to everything, and while it is normalizing a lot of otherwise healthy sexuality, it can also appeal to our most base behaviors and unhealthy desires.

All good things in moderation is more important and more difficult these days than ever before.
"Dutch accident investigators say that evidence points to pro-Russian rebels as being responsible for shooting down MH-17, according to a source who has seen the report.

According to the source, the report says it was a Buk missile -- a Russian surface-to-air missile -- that was used, launched from a village in Russian rebel controlled territory. "
IMO depends on the type of job. In lower skill jobs you do see exactly what you're describing (more workers fewer hours).

In knowledge industries it's probably much more efficient to have fewer numbers of high performing individuals that are leveraging experience and domain knowledge as a productivity multiplier.
Patronage works because he has a huge audience giving him some money. Without a huge audience, it doesn't work. He's one of the most well known developer in the world.

His situation only applies to him. Not anyone else.
Or grey
The Marge Simpson issue is the only one I've ever bought.
Github Pages is always free.
> The training converges after a few days of number crunching on a GTX980 GPU. Let’s take a look at the results.

Stupid question: why is the GPU important here? I would have thought this was more of a CPU task..??

(then again, as I typed this I remembered that bitcoin farming is supposed to be GPU intensive so I'm guessing the "why" for that is the same as this)
I'm seriously impressed by Twitter's service ... doing fan-out for so many popular celebrities, so seamlessly, for so many readers is an accomplishment.

But I'm seriously curious why they have 4,000+ employees.

What in the hell are all those people doing?

300~ people being laid off is nothing. I wouldn't have been shocked if they said they were laying off 1,000+ people. I think entire departments probably need to go.

There has to be a lot of dead weight at Twitter.
On the other hand, there's a consensus in the scientific community that IQ is the best predictor of outcome in life, despite the factors you've mentioned.

In other words, all being taken into consideration, it turns out IQ has an incredible predicting power regarding the lives of individuals. It's actually better at predicting life outcome than any other factor.

> And, of course, nurture over nature [...] matters way more than genetics.

That is the opposite of what current research into IQ has shown so far. If you go on YouTube, you can find interviews with Charles Murray, and that will help you understand this better.

> A good musician can become a good sharpshooter, a good programmer can excel at architectural engineering.

Yes, but it's not likely to happen (or you'd have oodles of examples). Predicting is all about what's more likely, and in this capacity, IQ has proven over and over again to be the single best predictor.
This article covers the basics: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/java-memory-issues
If I search for "Rails" jobs in my vicinity I get 6 results. If I search for ".NET" indeed finds 316 jobs. 376 jobs for javascript and 1044 for "Java". But I'm not sure about that flexible work you're searching. Even the largest companies here allow you the work from home (partially) or reduce your hours per week.
A fascinating read about the incredible capabilities of the Apollo software is _Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight Paperback_ by David A. Mindell.

Those craft were quite likely capable of a _lot_ more than they were ever allowed to do by the astronauts - though I guess we'll never know!
An ultralight hiking experiment (2014)
>> work towards a communication system that can combat traditional marketing and its effect on voting patterns

We already did something like that. Obama got elected due to some internet based marketing innovations. Guess what happened next ? both parties copied those methods(AFAIK), and now we're at the same point, where resources matter.
Heroku and Puma vs. Heroku and Unicorn
Sick of calling customer service? This startup will handle it for you
That's disingenuous. All the emails I get from LinkedIn are unsolicited and I take my normal approach to spam of not responding, because responding only makes the spam more likely. A better example would be someone putting their resume up on a job board (not a professional social network) and ignoring all the responses, which I have trouble believing anyone does.
Or memristor. By now we were supposed to have all memristor storage. At least Intel is still working on bringing it to market:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/hp-and-sandisk-join-f...

I guess they're calling it "3D XPoint" now, which is a shame because memristor has such a cool retro-future sound to it. 3D XPoint sounds like what a bunch of bored marketing execs would whip up over a short lunch.

While I'm at it, what ever happened to 3D printing? It was supposed to change everything, except its expensive and everything it makes looks like piled spaghetti. The resin/liquid based printing never took off and the few that did were troublesome and crazy expensive for materials.

Or that quantum computer that company was selling, except it was huge and cooled with liquid nitrogen and no one could prove it was doing quantum anything.

I'm also skeptical of the new VR fad. Yeah FPS addicts will probably love it, but grandpa and grandma aren't putting giant tissue boxes on their faces to watch a movie or skype with the grandkids.

All the cool stuff from just a year or two ago are either dying, forever in the "we're working on it" stage, or were just vaporware. Nano hype has been here from the 80s and, unsurprisingly, has gone nowhere.
BTW, there is also MELPA Stable https://stable.melpa.org
RBT News: News for roboticists
The Wired article says the change was made "in order to be allowed on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter" which led to the increase in audience.

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/playboys-no-nudes-is-what-happe...
From the article:

"They also didn't have any protection circuitry on them, but I figured that if my car burst into flames halfway down the track, it would totally be worth it."

That's the spirit!
In an article in the Huffington post a while back, it said the Feds are now going after people who don't follow through. I also hope while they are at it, they can do something to help protect these vulnerable people giving money to support projects without proper education about what they are supporting.

Here is the article -http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/11/feds-regulate-crowd...
They may not have turned a profit, but they certainly have revenue.
Akka persistence is different. It doesn't give you managed lifecycles like in the Virtual Actor model - so you aren't insulated from failures and you still have to consider when to create/recreate an actor. It gives you Event Sourcing / Command Sourcing (depending on how you use it).

ES is a work-in-progress for Orleans, but many of us are using our own ES systems.

For an implementation of Virtual Actors on the JVM, check out Orbit from Electronic Arts / BioWare: http://orbit.bioware.com/
You're confusing revenue (money coming in) with profit/income (money left over after expenses). In 2014 they had revenue of $1.4B[1].

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=TWTR+Income+Statement&annua...
Ah, the old "I've got mine" philosophy. I'd like to see a solution that doesn't add up to "Screw developing countries". And I'm pretty sure what bringing work home means - you and I pay a buttload more for everything, because Westerners have to be well-paid.

And in the end, if every fat cat has to "bring the work home" then they all just raise their prices. Its not the 1% that get hurt; its all the rest of us.
I'm not following. Everything in that CNN story seems to line up with the Dutch report, down to the type of missile system used.
NeoVim v0.1 alpha release coming soon
> The nuance of "the economy can't support liberal arts majors" didn't crop up with gusto until after the economy crashed

I'm not sure where you live/work/play, but I've been hearing this since I was in high school in the 90s. There was a strong push for us to get practical, applicable degrees - business, accounting, CS/IS, engineering, etc. unless one wanted to become a professor of liberal arts.
SO we need to get rid of the computers and programming books in the programming classes so women like to program. Genius.
Short Rebol Examples: The simplicity and productivity of Rebol
And therein lies the rub:

NOBODY on the gun-control side of things care much about the VAST majority of gun deaths; namely, gang-violence or drug-related shootings. By far, these are the largest component of murders by gun and yet the thing that really motivates Sally Housewife to get politically involved is a shooting involving "good people."

MOST gun deaths are suicides. MOST gun murders are committed with handguns. Please explain to me how favorite talking-points like "we need to restrict assault weapons" or "we need to restrict magazine capacity" or "we need to expand background checks" do anything to tackle the real meat of the problem. HINT: they don't.

The problem of gun violence is simply a sub-type of the problem of VIOLENCE. If we could figure out how to completely eliminate violence, we'd have done it by now. My suspicion is that we're asking for the police/government to do something that is impossible: keep all the bad people away from me. if only it were so simple.
More attempted fencing off of the commons. Yay.
I guess I'm having trouble following the logic that says recent pictures of the Russian military displaying these missiles is evidence that the Russian military no longer has them.
"Information in this publication is accurate and correct to the best of our knowledge as of the date of publication".

That your record is expunged now doesn't mean that it once was a part of your record.
I share the author's feeling of déjà vu. I feel like I've seen this article already. It was a comment posted on HN earlier today. It's kind of fascinating how someone's comment can get promoted to someone else's blog post in a few hours.
Two courses that focus on it? What school is this?
There's this cartoon to help explain.
https://i.imgur.com/YSPsu.png