skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To get better, learn how to run a business based on building such software so that you eventually have the resources to pursue your own dream.

Why would you not want to do that instead of a job which you admittedly feel rather "blah" about?
I'm struck by the fact that, if 600M people were living together in one area, they'd spontaneously create jobs around the fact that 600M people will have to figure out ways to interact with each other in an civil way.

I tend to believe that the reason we don't have enough jobs right now are because of market distortions that place unequal value on certain, expensive things, like college educations, personal vehicles of far greater passenger capacity than strictly necessary, private dwellings of extremely large size, and the latest and greatest smartphones ever two years. Our "betters" have successfully created a scenario where people willingly enter into debt slavery to acquire what they believe is their entitlement.

Because, sans weird pricing, there is real need for work to be done, that is not getting done, in our current environments. There are roads that are falling apart. There is food that is not getting to hungry people. There are children who are not learning what they need to learn to be successful. There are hydrocarbons that are continuing to be burnt. There are routine medical physical exams that aren't being performed.

There are things that people want, but can't acquire at a price that is reasonable. This could be a function of the constituent inputs being too expensive, but I doubt this. Arbitrage is a powerful force for innovation. I suspect there is a much stronger force at work that is preventing the goods and services that people need from being created: mega-corporate-backed government regulation.

There are people in 1st world countries who are going hungry, who don't have heat, who don't have doors on their house. I have seen this with my own damn eyes. Yes, they are poor, but is their poverty their fault? And even if, in some extremely twisted way, it is their fault, does it justify forcing them to live in squalor? Should the laziest of lazy people be forced to live in literal shit-holes?

As long as there are people willing to work but incapable of moving, I think a little "undeserved" compassion is a good enough reason to create a job. Just because some vanishingly few poor people are slovenly doesn't justify completely writing off the entire class.
I really question how controlled these diets where. It's one thing to keep someone in a controlled environment select specific foods, but suggestions to eat in a specific way for long periods of time seem largely untenable.
Engineers generally use 24h time and SI everywhere on Earth (at least when engineering), regardless of local customs.
And anyone worried about not having a good answer to that question doesn't list the job they just started last month in their employment history.
Hmm? The stripping of metadata is done for privacy reasons. People accidentally expose too much info when they take a photo if the metadata is left intact. When sharing a picture online, user's don't expect that they are also sharing the datetime, location, camera model and settings, and possibly their name (or the camera owner's name).

The number of people that intentionally add their info to EXIF and want it to stay there is dwarfed by the people that would view that as a privacy violation.
Eh, i've personally affected local elections with both money and door knocking. But in that case, i'm one voice in thousands. At the national level, i'm one voice in 320 million.

You can change local stuff pretty easily. If you want to scale up to state level, you need to be state level worthy. The guy who owns 100 hotels controls tens of thousands of jobs, and his voice should carry more weight, about some issues at least, than mine alone. It's up to me to get a few thousand friends to counter his voice.

Yes. The feds are heavily influenced by oil and finance people. but every person's life is heavily influenced by oil and finance. Are they unethical? At some level, sure. Do they understand the national system better than anyone else? yeah. yeah they do.

There is no magical oracle we can consult for the right answer. we stumble along in the dark trying out different stuff. an 80% right solution is better than nothing. Given the size, the system is pretty nimble. If something sucks, we change it. Sometimes it takes a while for the million voices to come into harmony and say things like everybody deserves equal rights.

I get where you're coming from. You feel like you have no say and no influence. That's largely true. You're a nobody. but your influence is not zero. You can affect local stuff greatly today. You can join with others for larger scale political change. Realistically, it's a pain in the ass and you probably have better things to do with your free time like laundry or coding or whatever. But people do it. you can to, if that's what floats your boat.
For one, "fold" is a foreign concept to people who were introduced to programming using an average imperative language. I understand that it's easier to comprehend if you mentally translate `Foldable t => t a` to `Iterable<T>`, but even Iterable is a lossy analogy. I'm not sure any mainstream language has a type that is equivalent to Haskell's Foldable.

I'm guessing you have experience with languages that have generic types. The issue with the new Haskell prelude is that not only do you have to grok generic typing in order to write the most basic of Hello World introductory programs, you also have to be able to make sense of the Haddock docs. And that now requires knowledge of the type class syntax as well as basic understanding of generic programming. Whereas previously you could have softened the blow by teaching the special case of "[a] means a collection of a" first, and ramping up to more precise definitions later.

Overall, I'm supportive of the FTP initiative. But I can't shake the thought that the vast majority of people who voted for FTP have long passed the point where they can fully understand the downsides of the change for others.
I met several of my now coworkers at a meetup group.
I didn't know about her either. Thanks for the reference. The Wikipedia page on the language looks like it was hit with some nationalist propaganda: claims credit for all kinds of concepts without backing it up. Her page looks legit, though. I'd like to see English versions of her original work and subsequent papers.

I also like that they tried the automatic programming with algebraic methods. Their approach might be interesting. A few correct-by-construction software and hardware approaches developed here took that approach. DDD toolkit for hardware comes to mind.

Hmm, we need more info on her to see just how much credit she's missing and give it to her.
The list of speakers at the "Machine Learning Methods in Materials Modeling" stream at this recent conference [1] are a few people in the area, though some of those are more predicting properties than making atomic potentials.

I chatted to Gabor Csanyi (Cambridge [2]) during the conference, who I think is probably one of the furthest ahead in the area, and they've recently moved away from their gaussian process based methods to kernel methods. With regard to NNs, he seemed of the opinion that CNNs (the more obvious NN model) were too expensive and ultimately unnecessary compared to carefully chosen, physically motivated kernels. I have to admit I didn't quite understand everything he presented, and I can't seem to find a recent publication, but I'm sure there's one out there.

Despite enthusiastic presentations with lovely results, I suspect from the slow progress in this area that transferability is the main problem plaguing these methods. You want a local atomic potential which doesn't depend on its environment beyond a certain radius, sort of like a convolutional kernel, but a lot of this sort of materials modelling/quantum chemistry is pretty inherently delocalised. Machine learning isn't magic and ultimately has to reflect and represent the underlying physics.

[1] http://nano-bio.ehu.es/psik2015/programme.html

[2] https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/wiki/site/5b59f819-0806-4a4d-0046...
Especially when combined with new copyright/DRM laws from TPP/TTIP/TISA, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10363500
Right. We have reached a point of post scarcity. A tiny portion of humanity (at least in first world nations) provides food, shelter and things like medical care.

Personally I suggest we just get rid of the concept of "non-exempt" workers (without paid overtime). Boom, instant work-life balance and less unemployment.
Your whole first paragraph came off as extremely luddite. Knowing that you didn't intend it as such, I'm not sure how to interpret it.
How we forgot to negative test our integration with another service
I really appreciate that Facebook resisted the urge to build the Ultimate Framework, with one thousand bells and whistles.

Instead they kept things simple and low level, to the point that writing vanilla React and Flux is kind of verbose. However, I much prefer this approach to some of the other frameworks that try to do everything for me, but which mostly just end up confusing me with too many abstractions.
One can opt out of "us" relatively easily by moving their personal support (i.e. tax revenue, GDP contribution, et c) elsewhere to a place that supports the universal application of human rights regardless of skin color, religious affiliation, or national origin.

In 2008 I left my job, girlfriend, friends, and family behind to do so. It's tough but it's possible.
Or ... just not implement the DRM feature? After all, everyone from the OS on up is gonna have to agree to respect this JPEG DRM feature.

In fact, for it to work at all, it'll have to be implemented in hardware or hardware-equivalent software (i.e. not in Firefox or anything where you can dump RAM or modify the software).
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I am always annoyed by the argument that torture is unacceptable AND it doesn't work. It's not totally implausible that this is true, but I think it's very likely that torture "works" in some sense and certainly everyone practicing it expects it to work.

So... for an anti-torture position to have some meat to it, you have to make it clear that you think torture is unacceptable even when it does work.

If you're not willing to sacrifice real lives and safety to avoid torture, I don't think you are meaningfully against it, and you certainly stand no chance of persuading those convinced of its efficacy.
You might want to read up on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
> The committee concluded that existing reports argue that replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats seems to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events and mortality.

"Polyunsaturated fat" is a bad category; it includes both omega-3 (generally considered good), omega-6 (generally considered bad), and omega-9 (generally neutral). Statements about polyunsaturated fat which fail to distinguish these have no possible hope of being correct.
Wow. Dark.
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Are promotions handed out to only the worthy? Are technical decisions always made by the expert that should have been there? Is every interview candidate perfectly evaluated and ranked relative to their competitors? Are only expertly programmed and well tested code bases valued at billions of dollars?

Of course not. Political skills, connections, self promotion, being in the right place at the right time etc etc are all hugely important. Ask anyone giving advice on everything from getting a job to advancing your career to funding your startup. Within a huge (huge) swath of ability, your technical chops just aren't correlated with your eventual success.
Start local. You absolutely can get into office if you've got some good ideas and you get people around you interested in what you have to say. Get in at the smallest local unit of government you can, whether it's the town council or water board or whatever.

You'll discover how much relationship-building goes on, and how that leads to bigger and better opportunities to make a change in the world.

Guess what, it isn't easy, but it's absolutely doable. (Not for those who call it all a myth, of course.)
Paranoia can be healthy sometimes
> an always-connected car

Hmm, I actually find that very unsettling in the context of this article and the recent VW debacle. Detecting fraud and recall worthy software failures was already a scary prospect. But a random companies' random engineers tuning a few thousand cars here or there to see what happens in real time.. I feel like we are about to enter a horrible new world where computer forensics meets regular forensics.
I guess I don't understand what makes this Electron specific. It looks like a UI kit similar to Bootstrap and others. Maybe it's too early in the project, but some mention of how the Node portions of Electron are used would be helpful.
I see you're point there. Her story did kind of become a meme about women in science in general. I surely don't mind it but think Hamilton's accomplishments are more empowering. And not just to women: anyone trying to deal with the mess that is software.

"P.S. Happy Ada Lovelace Day!"

Back at ya!
You would have to buy special light bulbs anyhow, you won't be able to use a commercial of the shelf bulb for this no matter what the BBC thinks.

The LED's need to be able to turn on and off in nano-seconds so you can't just twitch the AC power because the voltage regulator will not respond fast enough (there is enough juice in the capacitors to drive the LED's for a few seconds usually this is why cheap LED light bulbs don't turn off straight away, the more expensive ones have usually have a current shunt that will clear the capacitors to ground when you hit the light switch) and most likely simply die after a few minutes.

So you need to do in-circuit modulation which means a dedicated light bulb.

Well in theory you start building light bulbs that can be effectively turned on and off about about a billion times a second which is not going to happen and even then you'll still need some device that will modulate the light so instead of a dedicated light bulb you'll have a dedicated lamp.

Considering the engineering limitations and the cost involved having normal light bulbs that can connect to your network via either WiFi or well via basically "DSL" via sending a phase modulated signal over the AC wiring in your house similar to how those power plug Ethernet / WiFi extenders work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication

Again this is a very kickstarter / TED talk worthy idea that sounds brilliant but it will probably go the way of the GyroJet because it's just so dumb on so many levels.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz specifically mentions it being terrible.
Seconding the recommendation! I read it last winter and was the most enjoyable / interesting read I've had in years.
Robots in China, quite likely. Foxconn is moving to robots as fast as they can and laying off people as they do so.
Then you end up with a key distro problem. And unless the idea is to do it with hardware-protected keys, it's pretty much DOA for such low-bandwidth, simple-format as a still picture.

Otherwise, as an example, Firefox wouldn't be able to decode these images without some plugin. And that plugin would be just as subject to key-dumping.
In a time like this is when they should show how much they care by being a bit personal about the lay off. That was insensitive.
Coarse rule-of-thumb: running on Geforce class GPUs you can get up to 5x, maaaybe 10x the performance per dollar as compared to a top-line CPU. Assuming your problem scales well on GPUs, many problems don't. The GTX980 is actually a great performer. For Tesla class systems like the K40 it's a lot closer to equal with the CPU on performance/$ (they're not much faster than the GTX980 but a lot more expensive). But you can get an edge with the Teslas when you start comparing multi-GPU clusters to multi-CPU clusters, since with GPUs you need less of the super-expensive interconnect hardware. (You're not going to put GTX cards in a cluster, you'd have massive reliability problems.)

IMHO, the guys showing 100x speedups on GPUs are Doing It Wrong; they use a poor implementation on the CPU, use just one CPU core, consider a very synthetic benchmark, or a bunch of other tricks.
Good point. We wouldn't even need to stop referring to spending them as 'dropping Hamiltons'.
We can still recognize it as being dishonest and unprofessional. One must meet the criteria of being dishonest and unprofessional before we can label it as such.

The fairness is in the labeling (we do not want to unfairly label those who were not actually dishonest or unprofessional; sometimes mistakes do occur), not in the response to the behavior.
You remind me of a scene from the movie Lawrence of Arabia (based on the life of the man by that name) where he talks about "We do not let any of our people fall into enemy hands because they are considered (something something) thus not protected by the Geneva Convention." In other words, it was their policy to shoot their own people who were too injured to travel rather than let them be taken as prisoners and tortured by the enemy. It was considered a mercy killing.

Edit: In other words, they were not recognized as a proper army and were deemed to be something like internal rebel forces, subject to internal law only, with no International protections, such as the Geneva Convention. They were treated horribly when taken into custody and often tortured.
I agree. As I told another, I essentially meant that as they're both great. Just more emphasis on the one that invented our field and put it into production nearly flawlessly. A lot more inspiring than even the heavy-hitters from academia because she didn't build "toy" systems. ;)
In the mean time John Kiriakou, who confirmed the existence of the torture programs to the public, has been in prison, forced to plea bargain "guilty" under threat of otherwise getting locked away too long to see his children grow up.
William Binney was being gracious when he described this as merely a "national disgrace".
>> if you want to work on cool software that does something novel and exciting it seems like it's better to graduate with a degree in math or physics

Speaking more generally, you need domain knowledge outside of computer science, so that you understand which applications to tackle and how to apply the engineering knowledge in a specific vertical.
So is this just some sort of UI elements for electron? I don't understand what it offers that's new?
No one knows why Facebook blocked the phrase ‘everyone will know’
Does anyone know of a good place to learn about these different approaches. I find this so fascinating.
http://www.htius.com/poems/poems.htm
We've had African founders go through YC, as well as startups doing business in Africa. One example is Saida from the lats batch: http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/31/saida-tktk/.
Fox news once reported that by 2000, hedgehogs might be a more popular pet choice than either cats or dogs.
This is good news for Tesla. Elon Musk has often stated he welcomes the competition and his goal is to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles.

Hopefully they will use the same charging standard so they can use super charger network. I suspect Tesla wouldn't mind just making drive trains and super chargers for all the world's vehichles. There is also talk of giga factory as a product, so that's another possibility.
How Bad UI Killed Jenny
All of the engineers laid off could have job offers this week if they wanted, so this is not exactly like that situation. There may be people whose skills aren't in as high demand, but these are the folks that are often the last to see the writing on the wall.
The arm is not the hard part. That is why this doesn't exist.
>For that word to have any meaning at all, it needs to be a more direct reference to government and politics.

wait...what?

politics are everywhere: at home, at the office, in your local bowling league. it doesn't apply exclusively to government.
Also an unfortunate name clash with the Photon and Electron embedded boards by Particle...
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. GIGO basically: the US records it would be using would suggest poor, black, mentally-ill etc. people are most likely to be criminals. The software will pick up on that.
> That is what I love about the Tea Party (not their politics but that they decided to do something about what they felt). In just under 10 years they have become a strong voice in national politics. Many of their members were brought into office by people just like you, passionate about what is wrong (in their opinion) with the way things are done.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/study-confirms...

> A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/25/1189761/-Big-Tobacc...

> That a tea party themed PR campaign was proposed by Burson Marsteller back in 1992 is somewhat interesting, but certainly not surprising. And it in no way proves an operative connection between anyone.

> The other big find of the study is that the PR group Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), which back then, did work for big tobacco, split off and became Americans for Prosperity and Freedomworks, which is now behind the Tea Party. But the fact is, CSE wasn't just funded by big tobacco. Like all these groups, they were funded by a whole host of big, right wing corporations. Here's just a partial list of CSE's corporate clients/supporters:

> The Tea Party idea may have been the brainchild of right wing corporate PR groups. But it was only possible with the help of the corporate television media. And not just Fox. Whoever pulled the trigger on Operation Tea Party has powerful friends. If Occupy Wall Street had had such friends, we'd probably be living in a different country by now.

One argues it was the brainchild of a PR group, the other argues the first group is wrong but powered by Right Wing Media.

Either way, the Tea Party but was astroturfed into existence by rich people.

"I" do not have access to billionaires who back my interests.

The problem is not getting elected but rather how the elections are structured. Pretending otherwise is simply perpetuating the system.
That was exactly the problem, bottle+gevent serving static files. It's moved behind nginx now. (But you might have to wait for a DNS propagation before you get to the new server.)
I didn't say vote FOR the madness, I said vote against it. Even if that's voting for third party candidates. A vote is a metric. Non-voting gives them no reason to care about your opinion, while a vote (even for no one) means you act. [And once you consider policies, I think it's better to vote for a less-bad option that can win, but if you disagree, by all means vote 3rd party]

And I'm comparing voting in this case to not voting and just bitching, or taking up arms and revolting. Neither seems like a better option. If you have a third option that you feel is better, please share.

A question I like to pose: If the US system is truly unsustainable (American-style democracies are rare and have all failed save one...so far), AND you don't really believe that there will be some sort of country-wide rebellion, then what is a future you can believe in, and what do you think gets us there?

So far the answers I've gotten are:

* Country fractures
* Dissolve the Senate
* Adopt a Parliament system
* Greater empowerment of Prez.

Mostly done not per the constitutional means, but just done, and everyone agrees to let it stand, kind of like the creation of West Virginia.

Though mostly, I get blank looks. It's not an easy problem.
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