skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see such reports disclose whether or not the job numbers include bootcamps that hire graduates to teach, which to me inaccurately skews the numbers. Moreover, I'd like to see numbers on bootcamp graduates who are still in the industry after 5 years.
It blows my mind that a company this small would have any desire to have an international presence. I get that the "growth first, profits later" mentality can have some benefit, but why on earth deal with the hassle of language, culture, currency, and legal barriers? These things are bad enough from state to state and city to city. The international push seems more about hubris and ego than out of any practical concerns -- at least until urban areas in the home market of the company are saturated.

Also, buying cleaning supplies for 1099 workers who do other jobs on the side? Why this was ever considered a core competency is beyond me.
I'd also include that they received the coded message twice showing that it's unlikely it was misheard or misread on either end. That was my initial reaction/theory, that the code was close to the confirmed order but one side messed up some how. With a second confirmation it seems like the 'NOP' (dummy) code either accidentally matched the LAUNCH code or the correct code was given to (or procured by) the major who transmitted the mid-shift messages.

It's an interesting question of how do you ensure you never accidentally transmit the correct code without the sender knowing the correct code and being able to command a launch single-handedly. Even if the code is really long, generating random NOP codes doesn't give the level of safety I'd like when accidental collisions can end the world.
What would be great is if you could add a clause stating that any assertion of copyright (by them), including automated systems, would result in a revocation of the license. Then whenever you get a notice from youtube respond by demanding take-down or monetization of their videos.
Feinnstein is a very long running senator with a hugely entrenched power base. Because of that it's hard to remove her from office. She also despite being very authoritarian is fairly progressive in other respects so she is able to appeal to her base of older democrats in that respect.

I really really dislike her, but it totally makes sense that she is basically invulnerable within her senate seat.
"Fleur de lawn" is a lawn alternative I am looking at for the Pacific Northwest. It is a hardy mix of lawn, herbs and flowers. It is drought tolerant and most importantly to me, never needs mowing. It was designed by university researchers.The plants are small, but the roots go down 2 feet. Each plant helps feed the other plants, so they are synergistic. Maybe they have something similar for the Southwest area.

http://protimelawnseed.com/products/fleur-de-lawn
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Thanks for the feedback. As a general news organization we struggle with definitions/scoping for stuff within AI as it's such a new area and we try to write for a broad, albeit informed, readership. I'll keep this in mind for future articles where we classify the two.
I love how the disk drive and keyboard/CPU look like they're brand new.
I admit to a fair amount of emotionality in the face of a persistent and overwhelming attack on my privacy by my own government, and I have zero shame in that admission.

Perhaps if more people played into that, we would not be in this situation.
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Many of the laws are crap anyways and due for replacement - taxi medallions being the canonical example here.

And quite honestly, most Uber drivers don't want to be employees. They want the freedom to drive whenever they want just by clicking a button on an app.

The only person that wants to force an employee/employer relationship on Uber are a small handful of angry drivers, and the state.

Kind of puts the motives into perspective.
In other words, if this is a real problem, your undeniably good advice actually isn't constructive towards fixing the root issue. It's allowing it to perpetuate.

And raging on Tumblr is?

Look, if there's some deeply embedded injustice going on, here, it's not evident from this single exchange.

If this single exchange is part of a broader pattern with this person, that's something a manager and HR can help deal with, and you would be very well advised to keep cool in order to avoid escalating the situation further. Maintaining the moral high-ground isn't just about ideals, it's also practical advice for winning out in an exchange like this.

If this exchange is part of a larger, company-wide or societal trend, speaking about it rationally is still the better course as, right now, it's very hard to take this person seriously. Without additional context, this just looks like an insecure 20-something who's just struggling with their first workplace confrontation.

To some up: I can think of no scenario where behaving as this person has done will improve the situation, whether it's a one-off, or something systemic.

Edit:

Incidentally, it's entirely possible that this person raged out on their blog as part of processing this whole thing, then stepped back and started looking for a constructive path forward.

If that's the case, great.

Everything I've written, here, presumes that this post represents their definitive reaction to the situation, which may be entirely unfair.
Your statement is extremely smug.

I looked at your other comments. You live in north England and earn £20k per year.

If you have children, you will find that this does not go very far. If that is your sole income then your standard of living will not be far above one of the recent economic migrants.

If your children is not as academically gifted as you, they will likely live a life of chronic underemployment and a far lower standard of living than you.

It is the simple rule of supply and demand. Bringing in large amounts of economic migrants will depress wages and drive up living costs.

One or two generations ago, one wage would have been enough to afford buying a house in a decent suburb.

For our generation, you need two incomes for a similar setup.

For your childrens generation it will be three incomes as you will need to significantly contribute.

Every day in Nigeria close to 20000 people are born and this is accelerating. Even if 1% chose to come over, it is demographic suicide.

It is our grandchildren that will suffer the most. We are giving away all that we have worked for.
Something you're missing is that autonomous cars can bring an end to the era where everyone feels compelled to own at least one car, if not two. Most cars spend 1-2 hours per day on the road and 22-23 hours parked somewhere. With appropriate resource planning, a network of autonomous cars can probably serve as many people as our current urban highway systems do with 10% of the vehicles. And you can rest assured none of them are going to be burning gasoline.

People don't understand just how insanely different things are going to look in another couple of decades. Trains make sense if, and only if, everything stays exactly the same.
My theory: humans prefer grass and open-canopy tree coverage on a biological basis. It's our natural habitat, and perhaps even has roots in the African Savana.

Every other animal has an instinctual attraction to an appropriate habitat, so why wouldn't humans? The problem with us is that we "nest" in a desert and then try and make it look like a bucolic grassland.
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My guess is RankBrain is the personalization piece that operates on user data (location, history, etc.) while PageRank is the search index piece that operates on web data (web-pages, trends, etc.).
The short answer is no, not easily.
A more elaborate solution would be to install a global proxy on the device and route the connection through a server you control, filtering the traffic you don't want to go through. You can use Apple Configurator to configure the global proxy.
It's not perjury when they just tell youtube (or rather, it gets detected by an automated system). Does google even require DMCA notices anymore?
Hiya. They wouldn't explicitly confirm that it is word2vec, but everything we discussed indicated it's likely doing something roughly equivalent to word2vec, and is also doing similar conversions for sequences which is likely connected to Sequence to Sequence learning (PDF: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5346-sequence-to-sequence-learni...). It also links to Geoff Hinton's stuff on Thought Vectors which implicitly involves word2vec.
I had the exact same thoughts when I first read about web components, or rather HTML imports in particular. The extra requests and latency introduced are not worth the benefits of having pluggable components. I can already imagine people writing server side code to include these "web components" inline into the static markup sent to browser, which somewhat defeats the purpose of having these components be dynamically interpreted by the browser.

Or maybe the correct way of using web components would be to create component "rollups" on server side, to reduce the latency effect of the extra requests. Or the browser might start caching common components between page requests.

Maybe the current web component spec is just the first step to get the reusable web started...
While I applaud 18F's goals this whole scheme seems dangerously close to unlawful bid splitting to avoid procurement requirements. Even if it doesn't cross the line in this case abuse, whether purposely or not, seems extremely easy. If this takes off I expect it won't be long before we see an OIG from some agency weigh in.
Think of it in context of coding bootcamps. I imagine there's fewer for Android than say Rails, and that the production readiness may be lower.
Right, and the Benghazi attacks were the result of a video and if you like your doctor, keep your doctor.
I totally understand why Matt would feel uncomfortable around this person.
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Imagine what would happen if serious hackers decided to go after this company. Maybe they will implement https this time.

The kid exposed a major security problem and overall helped everyone, even the company in the long term.
It's a little hard to make that argument when web components themselves aren't standardized yet, and are fully supported natively in only one of the major browsers.

There's pretty ample evidence that common webdeveloper behavior does make it into the spec, eg. JQuery => querySelectorAll, Javascript animations => CSS transitions & animations, long-polling => websockets, common layouts => <header>/<footer>/<main>/<nav> elements, dropdowns => <details>/<summary> elements, the addition of date/datetime/color/number/range/tel input types, etc. If you're still coding HTML like you did in 2000, you are now very obsolete.
Distributed hpc? GPUs? Wake me when distributed HPC or a GPU machine wins gordon bell.
I'm saying that to deliberately undermine and dismiss the experiences of women in our field, in a public forum, is sexist.

This is true regardless of whether you find their rhetoric agreeable or not.
The video takes up most of the screen and can't be scrolled/closed. I can only see two lines of the coding block.
I thought good faith did have some level of standard associated with it (at least to the point where a judge could rule you were just a liar)?
Considering that Cheney used exactly this justification for the "free speech zones" that were the hallmark of Bush Jr's. administration, you're not misreading anything.

welcome to the sad reality of our "democracy".
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I have a young child at home. He eats bamba, peanut butter, and a worrying amount of New York City dirt.

That said, this is such a dangerous article, and I'm honestly surprised the NYT published it. It's written by a non-scientist making a "common sense" claim, and it even closes with a paragraph-long variation on the "how much can we really trust science anyways?" claim.

My understanding is that there has been a single study, done among a largely homogenous population, that has indicated Bamba's benefit. Maybe Bamba does help inoculate against peanut allergies -- I think it's plausible, even likely. But it's certainly not anything approaching scientific consensus, the author is not a scientist of any variety, and I think this article has a real danger to mislead.
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He comes across as pretty sleazy in the article.
Experiencing emotions is a completely unavoidable part of existing, but reacting to your emotions is the behavior of a child.
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There is no law that says you have to treat your customers well.
(the answer, of course, is that it can't)
To play devil's advocate that kind of makes sense... in the advent of a nuclear launch you have no idea how other people will respond, and if China et al were to respond it's reasonable to assume it would have been directed at the US (even if the US was not the aggressor). At that point you have to go scorched earth and take out any possible retaliation. It is nuclear war after all, when you're launching an arsenal of 32,000 warheads there's only going to be one survivor at best so you might as well do everything in your power to make sure it's you.
Government in the US protects the "Opulent Minority" from the majority. This is by design. If you look at the persons elected to federal government positions, there is no:

1. Initiative and referendum to override Congress.
2. A way to recall elected officials
3. No popular vote for the president.

Originally, there was no:

1. Universal sufferage, or for that matter a way for people to vote who did not own large amounts of real estate.
2. Direct election of Senators.

So yes, it's not hard to believe that we are a government for the Opulent Minority, by the Opulent Minority, and for the Opulent Minority. I don't see how this will change without a constitutional convention, and the only way a constitutional convention is going to happen is through (violent) revolution.
Given that agriculture accounts for most of the state's water use, even a drastic reduction in any other sector will look small in comparison to the whole, since they can't possibly account for more than ~20% of the total.
There's always Supybot which runs basically anywhere :)
Then you just follow the installation instructions on your iron behind your corporate firewall: https://hubot.github.com/docs/

My team controls our hubots on iron behind a firewall with hubot-control, which can also create hubots for you too: https://github.com/spajus/hubot-control
Is this bootcamp craze and the overall increased media coverage of 'coding' as an easily learned unskilled trade making anyone else consider a career change? I am pushing 40 and the diminishing earning potential, lack of respect, and relentless ageism are really making me wish I'd done something else.
Sounds like a difficult to quantify phenomenon; I don't think statistics would increase clarity. A historian has a better claim to understanding whether or not it is true but I am not one.

In other words, I'm full of shit unless someone backs it up.
There's zero reason to give young children added sugar. The lack of benefit of honey combined with the small risk of botulism and the severe risk of dental problems means it's probably a good idea to avoid honey.
"Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser also covers a lot of the close calls and mishaps during the Cold War inside the missile and bomber program. There was a big confluence of technical and policy issues that lead to the inflexible SIOP. First being able to keep target lists up to date and distributing targets to the silos was a big hurdle. Policy wise there was a huge rush to get the SIOP in place so that the looming threat of a Soviet first strike could actually be countered, because without some plan in place the US would be in a huge disarray after the theoretical attack.
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Interesting. I've seen the few articles that discusses this happening to women, but this is the first I've seen applying to a man. Though, it does make sense that it could happen to either gender.
I immediately thought of Jonny Lee Miller's character in Hackers, who is caught in a major hack as a child and banned from using computers until he is over 18.

Of course it is now many times more difficult to avoid computers than it was in in the early 1990s.
I am surprised by the disparity of the salaries for different languages. $80k for Python vs $37k for Java. How do you explain that?
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Thanks for the suggestion. That would work for whitelisting, but would block random web browsing. Or is there a way for the proxy to associate traffic flows with individual apps, e.g. permit all Safari traffic, block all other traffic that is not whitelisted?

Could a per-app VPN be used to blackhole app-specific network traffic at the VPN server? If so, would this need a third-party MDM solution, or could the native IPSEC client be used?
Nice work Chris .. doesn't work on all my PDF's, though:

j@w1x8-dev:~/Documents/PDF Documents {}
$ pdfx xhyve\ –\ Lightweight\ Virtualization\ on\ OS\ X\ Based\ on\ bhyve\ _\ pagetable.pdf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/pdfx", line 9, in <module>
load_entry_point('pdfx==1.0.1', 'console_scripts', 'pdfx')()
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.10-x86_64/egg/pdfx/cli.py", line 66, in main
File "build/bdist.macosx-10.10-x86_64/egg/pdfx/__init__.py", line 137, in __init__
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'items'
j@w1x8-dev:~/Documents/PDF Documents {}

If you want some sample PDF's on which it is borked, just let me know .. in the meantime I'm using pdf_scraper for most of these ..
I have a scratch folder full of stuff like this written in whatever scripting language is closest at hand, ruby, perl, python, etc. I'd wager most people here would have something similar.

I wonder if it would be an interesting project to comb though it all and see if any useful tools could be extracted. Probably not, like the code in this blog most of my one-offs are unashamedly terrible.
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I'm immediately skeptical of any reports that put "piracy" anywhere in the top n list of problems for a platform. The great majority of people use the play store and buy their apps just like everyone else.

..Now whether it's a bogus perception, and the perception is causing people to eye the platform with suspicion, is a legitimate question. Correcting misinformation is hard.
I understand your point, but wouldn't worry much about it. He's actually very well balanced, has a very good overall development.
Yeah, "Java jobs" as a category is going to run from the kids coming out of schools in the Midwest and going to work at an insurance company in Omaha to senior devs at Google. That's a big range, and there're a lot of jobs at the bottom end of it to pull the average down.
This is the sort of thing a combination of bash/grep/awk/sed is good for also.
The Silicon Vallex is in a large metro. It's still pretty dense and you have 8 million people around. I don't think the experience would be different in Oakland, Fremont, San Francisco...
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I am not upvoting this. I would like to see less of this on HN. As a woman, I sympathize with her frustration. I understand her anger. I think this could go over well in a different forum. It will not play well here. It will not help further productive discussion about a real path forward.

It frustrates me that this kind of stuff gets upvoted -- often far more than more even-handed writing that looks for a real path forward instead of someone to blame -- and then gets a lot of dismissive commentary. This only helps reinforce battle lines. It doesn't generally make men sympathetic to what women face; it doesn't propose an effective path forward; it doesn't provide new tools or mental models for genuinely improving things.

Men blame women for the fact that women feel crapped on. Women blame men for the fact that women feel crapped on. Neither of these positions gets us to a place where women stop feeling crapped on. Neither gives a new way to view the problem space so we can stop pointing fingers and start working together better.
"And unlike washing cars, I'm not saying making it illegal"

Wait, you're suggesting washing cars should be illegal ?
For all the innovations in the hardware, it was the software that really blew me away. The amount of customization available is staggering, along with the ability to share profiles online and see which ones are the most popular for a given game.

If any of the popular game consoles were to implement something similar for their own controllers, it would be considered a "killer feature".
Let's try an experiment. Let's meet in the lobby of an office building in the middle of downtown LA, and see how long it takes each of us to get to a bar in downtown SF. Loser buys the drinks.

You fly at 500 MPH, I'll drive at 65-70 or whatever the speed limit on I-5 is these days.

I will win this bet, most likely. You will lose. A train won't help you much, if at all, because it's going to embark and disembark on its own fixed schedule, probably in some crappy/scary part of town miles away from where you need to go. (Here's another reason: eventually some terrorists are going to attack the train. The TSA will muscle its way in, and you'll have to arrive at the station an hour or two early, just like we do now when we fly.)

There's just too much hassle and overhead involved in multi-modal transit... which is why people who can afford to drive still do, even when they have alternatives.
Thanks for the response! I agree that ZooKeeper is not exceptionally difficult to run, but it does bring in some additional overhead and complexity for a development team that is just trying to get started with microservices, for example sorting out the deployment and quorum bootstrapping. For a team that might not have an experienced systems or infrastructure engineer it could become a nightmare. By bringing in Exhibitor you've added even more initial complexity to the deployment just so you can get started gluing services together. That's what we're primarily trying to solve with Baker Street at this time: super simple deployment and usage; minutes versus days.
Huh?

(int)nil == 0
HTTP2. In the HTTP2 world, extra requests don't add any additional latency. The browser multiplexes them over a single connection. I think I'd heard that it even uses a common compression dictionary for all requests, which means that boilerplate code that's duplicated between components will get compressed away.
Look, all things considered I like that we have someone like esr. He's an important figure in the history of software engineering. Whatever my opinion of his software output might be, that doesn't affect his impact a bit.

But the man's writing - and that statement in particular - is just so pompous. And here of all cases we have two opposites colliding. One is a world-class expert on the topic in question, NTP, and the other is a world-class self promoter. So when esr says that Kamp might `possibly produce something better` than him while working on an ntpd successor, I can't help but smile. =)