skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMIcast – Text Interview 2 – Guillaume ‘zzd10h’ Boesel
There is no way I would ever buy a new apartment. One of my friends is a builder and the number of horror stories he tells me about current building practices is near endless.
That wasn't anti-Java snark. I was complaining that the headline format suggests some unusual thing in common for those projects. But it would immediately occur to you that they are all Java-based.
The big question is: will this work on scale?

Sure, 1 programmer can use this donation to pad his resume, but will this work if everyone is doing it?
Most bookmarks don't inform the site that you've bookmarked it, or let that site keep a very public counter of the number of bookmarks to it, or keep a public record of your bookmarks (delicious(however it was punctuated) not withstanding). It actually behaves very much like Tumblr's "Like" functionality in all of those regards.

I agree, it acted at least a little like a bookmark, but not more than it acted like a "like".
Preschool appears to have little if any benefit as measured by school achievement or teacher assessments of school readiness by first grade teacher

http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/research/pri/VPKthrough3rd_fin...

A Randomized Control Trial of a Statewide Voluntary Prekindergarten	Program	on Children’s Skills and Behaviors through Third Grade

>The third question we addressed involved the sustainability of effects on achievement and behavior beyond kindergarten entry. Children in both groups were followed and reassessed in the spring every year with over 90% of the initial sample located tested on each wave. By the end of kindergarten, the control children had caught up to the TN‐VPK [preschool] children and there were no longer significant differences between them on any achievement measures. The same result was obtained at the end of first grade using both composite achievement measures.
In second grade, however, the groups began to diverge with the TN‐VPK children scoring lower than the control children on most of the measures. The differences were significant on both achievement composite measures and on the math subtests.

>First grade teachers rated the TN‐VPK children as less well prepared for school, having poorer work skills in the classrooms, and feeling more negative about school. It is notable that these ratings preceded the downward achievement trend we found for VPK children in second and third grade.

Further commentary and discussion

http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/null-hypothesis-for-pre-k-ed...

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/10/new...
There would obviously have to be a change in the tax rate to balance things out.

If we had a $10k/year UBI then a person make $100k/year would pay less than $5k taxes net if the tax code didn't change. I think if we a a 25-30% flat tax the numbers would make more sense.
"Tough on crime" sells. "Compassionate towards murderers" does not.
We had multiple groups and plenty of other staff, they just wouldn't be assigned to my group.

For instance, I might have the soccer field for a given rotation (we had several each day), and on the playground nearby was another group or two, supervisors inside, etc.

Any kind of non-herding-children emergency would have been handled without issue. Fire could be an issue, though I'm not sure an additional staff member would improve the situation much--the problem would be the doorways creating choke points.
The low-passing with a brick wall filter on 44.1KHz audio can be a bad thing sometimes, for example, pre-echo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-echo
You won't hear the pre-echo on a 2.8MHz DSD audio.
Ah, very interesting...
There are 12 months in our non-metric years.
> If no recording equipment would pick it up, no human would pick it up either.

Have you been to a concert? There's no recording/playback technology that can reproduce anything close to the sound of a full orchestra. It's all lossy.
In Norway, there is a max price on child care which makes it affordable and the best option for most people. The government subsidizes somewhere around two thirds of the costs. I guess labour costs are 70%+ in most cases. There are both public and privately run child care centers/kindergardens. The privately run are subsidized on more or less equal terms as the publicly run, and the norms for employee density and other minimum quality requirements are the same. About one third of the employees are pre-school teachers (three years of higher ed), the rest are either skilled (there is a child worker professional vocation ed you can take) or unskilled. I don't think there are many cases where employees can not afford to have their own kids in child care. In my municipality parents of all children in child care are surveyed every year and the reports from the survey are public. My guess is that the whole thing is more or less funded by the increased taxes paid by keeping a larger part of the population working. (I could also mention that parents share about a year of paid leave for each birth so most kids are around one year old when they start in child care.)
Child care is cheap. We pay $1,100 for full time care in Baltimore per month. That works out to $5/hour. 8 kids per class. That's $40/hour, and pays for two teachers plus overhead.
thanks for the note. We have fixed it now
Why just men? Aren't we glad they have to complete with women in the labor market now?
I thought you had to ask exactly one question to each god. This solution uses god B twice.
The patient also had HIV, which explains why the cells were able to multiply.
Well if it doesn't scale, presumably the market price will converge on average back towards what is actually fair.
People always look at their tax expenditure in terms of services they are provided. It's not a product! It's a social contract that collectively binds us - we will provide a safety net for everyone, in terms of lifelong healthcare and making sure you always have shelter, food and water.

So yes, we the mob have decided you will contribute - we simply cannot watch the less fortunate suffer when we have the capacity to stop it!
British baby given genetically-edited immune cells to beat cancer (leukemia)
Good piece, the OP sums up why even as analytics show that a diminishing number of users visit news site homepages, I still will type in the URLs to domains such as Grantland, NYT, and the New Yorker...and only ever visit places like BuzzFeed and Vox through Twitter or HN: the sites in the former category still have front pages in which the majority of content is original...the sites in the latter, you have to work to get to the good stuff.

I liked reading the linked-to Deadspin piece about Simmons and Grantland [1], which contains a lot of detail about the site's size and cost (linking to a NYT report [2] of Simmons earning $5M)...also, I didn't know Simmons conceived of "30 for 30"...that alone explains his worth to me (in terms of ESPN video content).

[1] http://deadspin.com/how-to-employ-bill-simmons-1703224603

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/sports/bill-simmonss-retur...
Alibaba pays all cash to acquire Youku Tudou
1) Ads work whether you care about them or not. Google isn't an exception to anything, they run ads and you either have a problem with ads or you don't. You're just more accepting to ad suggestions when searching since you're in a natural discover mode and Google is extremely relevant because you type your intent right into the search box, that's about as good as it gets.

2) The producers/manufacturers get all the data they want. Don't you think they know who's buying their stuff? The money comes from them to the agencies and ad networks so they will always know the most. And yes, marketing is a race because it works. They have to spend to get people aware and interested in their products and services. There's always a user acquisition cost, especially if you're competing with another company for the same user. It's not some made up thing. These companies aren't stupid. If they could do it without it they would.

3) Have you read the journalism that Buzzfeed puts out? They have an acclaimed hard news section and are partners with even the White House. They have several levels of content in depth and coverage, much like many other media companies. Again YOU are not the judge of quality and the mass market already spends lots of money on tons of things that are similar to what you claim is low quality media. It's just not that simple to suggest that certain things somehow don't value to someone else.

4) Wikipedia isn't a business. They don't do anything except host servers and have some developers building features. ALL of their content is user generated. No real business can work that way.

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It's FAR better to have democratic and free access to content rather than tying it to direct payments and vastly limiting access and amount. That is going backwards to the entire intent of the internet and the spread of information.
Google : Deep learning based automated mail response system
Nearly any living human being can do "child care" (if you think about it for a minute, there is an excellent reason why this should be the case). Half of them are probably even above average at it.

Thus, high supply and limited demand -> low wages.
Someone might be able to do it, but they're not easy to find or cheap.

There was a structural brick house that remained an eyesore in a DC neighborhood for years after a car accident demolished part of its cylindrical masonry wall (picture a round castle tower). The owner gave the reason that the masonry skills to construct this type of feature were not something easily found, and had been a sort of lost art, and they had been looking for a long time before finally getting it repaired.
If we can't have a UBI how about creating work at home jobs for the disabled and people on welfare to do with a computer and an Internet connection? Most can't afford transportation to get to a job, and need more that welfare or social security needs.

I'm sure some startup can handle the issue of providing work at home jobs for the poor, disabled, and people on welfare and the software for them to work the job where it has a GUI interface and they fill out forms and push buttons. Stuff like data entry, video captions, video transcripts, or even running something like a Bitcoin miner that attaches to a USB device that earns money and pays them some of it.

There should be a way to create jobs using technology that don't require a lot of skill and training and that basically anyone can do.

Even an app where they fill out surveys and get paid, or do small things like write a 500 word essay for money. Stuff that people can do that an AI can't do yet.
Everything else is fine and good in the article, but I can see the infrared in the Apple remote (and all the other IR remotes I've tried). It's faint, but plainly visible. Am I the only one?
The irony is that the publicity generated from the mass banning might actually be helping tsu
How well do you know Linux system administration / scripting?
Well I went looking for this and it's not as clear as I first thought. The fire risk is the biggest issue. The webbing for "TJI" is made out of OSB, and it seems there is definitely a long absorption time for this material so I'm thinking the collapse risk from water during firefighting is not all that high. Nobody is recommended ignoring long-term dampness (like from a leak) and the manufacture will certainly void the warranty.
3 days ago, 192 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500724
The Perils of Loading Native Libraries on Android
If you need code written in Language X but insist on using Language Y "yet another step" probably isn't the deal breaker you imagine it to be.
Expanding losses, part-time CEO, what's not to love?
"Pay extra"? Like you were paying for it in the first place. At the end of the day, somebody gotta pay the ramen. Besides, a certain project you might be familiar with is basically monetizing automated security patching, so throwing stones is really not a great sport.

(also, projects like requests are not desperate for users. One user paying to contribute to the well-being of the codebase is worth hundreds of users who won't even bother sending in a patch. Again, a certain project you might be familiar with is awfully aware of this state of things.)
I think all FOSS projects need a support model. State the situation explicitly on the website of the project.

1. How many are working on?

2. If a patch is requested what is the SLA of that getting merged. It should be based on the bandwidth available to the maintainers.

3. Provide "priority" support. It can involve money, resources, anything actually. It is better to call out, how someone can get "priority" help. In case of money, provide hourly rate for different priorities.

4. Offer a chance to for 3rd party developers to "charge" a company and provide a "quality" fix for the project. The money may be shared between the committers and 3rd party developers, based on some pre-defined contract.

There are several open source projects that have "paid" support. So, this is not new. But it does require, thinking from the angle of money.
Quantum Operations simulator
Furthermore, is any non-parasitic industry paying that kind of money for any coding?
Taxes. A person staying home looking after the kids and cleaning after them is not taxed. If that person goes to work instead and leaves their kids with a carer, the person has to pay income taxes, the carer will also have to pay income tax, the business have to pay sales tax, the premise the business is staying at will also pay tax on the collected rent. As soon as you outsource caring kids there are 3-4 more sets of taxes to pay. 20% from the person, 20% from the carer, 10% for the business sales tax and perhaps an additional 5% on the tax on rent. Every dollar spent on childcare, 50% goes to the government. The benefit of going to work has to be twice as good as staying home with the kids, as determined by economics. I haven't even begun to mention the intrinsic benefits of spending time with your children...
"There is no capitalist road to communism. There is only, as ever, the calibre of the confidence of labour."

Actually Marx himself thought that capitalism was a natural historic necessity proceeding communism. This issue was widely debated at the founding of USSR --whether they could skip this phase. Obviously they choose wrong.
I heard that Norman Steenrod was pacing back and forth in Fine Hall thinking about this puzzle, until he solved it. This was before it was attributed to Boolos, according to my sources. The author might have been Mark Kac, or it might have been communicated to Steenrod through Mark Kac, I was told.
Steps Towards Porting a Unix Single Server to the L3 Microkernel (1996)
Hitler was never elected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_presidential_election,_... He ran for office twice and lost by more than 15% both times.
(transpiler) I think it's pretty useful. It signifies that the translation is "fairly" simple, as in the case of CoffeeScript, as opposed to traditional compilers targeting assembly or byte code, or even something like Emscripten. It implies that the translation is hand tuned to the target language to be minimal. (I believe Jeremy pretty much coined the term). See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler
It is, probably, a global shift from slow and costly perfectionism to quick and cheap "good enough" (in worst possible sense of "getting shit done"). What they call a cost cutting or " optimization " is merely a form of cheating and concealing inability to and unwillingness to provide quality.

BTW, the most of buildings with have collapsed in Kathmandu around the new bus stand were these which has been built quickly with cost cutting (chap, thin steel bars, thick cheap cement layers between bricks, etc).

And this trend is everywhere, from clotches to Java. The age of getting shit done.)
My point is that the other bids offer some support to the concept, regardless of the final bid and PR.
What does it do when operating hands-free if conditions change and it loses confidence, but you ignore the signal to take over?
But what if companies overreact and develop technology that lets them employ, say, half as many people as they do currently? Then some people would have cushy union jobs and even more people would be unemployed?
Is it just me, or has IBM been resting on their laurels for quite some time now?

I fear they have given in to bean counters. They only recently made a lot of experienced staff redundant, their outsourced operations are quite awful (especially in the SAP space), they seem to no longer be able to do infrastructure well, their consultancy division has lost a lot of lustre and it's been quite a while since I've seen anything terribly innovative come out of IBM that made me sit up and take notice of what they doing.

Does IBM have anything going for it any more?
LOL Nothing Matters: A Defense of the Internet’s Absence of Meaning
Thanks this is a very inspiring interview.
This is cool, but once swift is open sourced I'd imagine that you'll be able to use emscripten to generate JavaScript code instead of native asm. In fact you can probably do that today by havin swiftc emit llvm IR and imputing that into the emscripten backend like that guy did to get swift running on his android phone.

Hmmmmm
I think you really hit it on the head, Square really needs to integrate a real inventory, accounting system and you might have a real winner. I've used all the competitors, but so far go back to square. Their software is great for small inventories, but do no scale well. Intuit's software is pretty antiquated and integration is really pathetic and they are really dishonest with their fees.

Square more ancillary offerings are really terrible though, like their online store and loins. They are also offering more services with "hidden" fees like instant deposit which they charge an extra fee if you read the fine print. They are also losing out in online transactions with google, amazon, visa, mastercard, and amex doing half ass jobs.

The B&M marketplace is in for a big shift with the chip and pin starting to commence. I've only used it twice, but so far the machines that read them are ridiculously slow and cumbersome. I'm still waiting on my Square reader to see if they have a good solution.

This is a big pie, and Square needs to capitalize on its good start if not be overuse by the old goliaths.
Abiti da Sposa stile impero con prezzi economici online di OkMi
Inflation is not caused by price increases. It is caused by an increase in the money supply relative to the value it represents.
I don’t actually care what economists are really up to. Where I care is that inasmuch as many (prominent) economists interact with the world, they do so from a perspective where homo economicus is a real thing (they don’t use that term; instead, they use terms like “rational actor”, which amounts to the same thing—a disconnect from the real world as it would detract from their theories).

This is, IMO/IME, much more common from economists that believe in unfettered, minimally-regulated capitalism. The same folks who think that healthcare would be better if it were actually treated as a market, or there is such a thing as perfect information about markets. I have far fewer problems with behavioural economists, in the same way that when it comes to language I side with descriptivists far more than I do with prescriptivists.

Essentially, I think that there is very little one can learn from economists—especially the famous (macroeconomists) called out in the article. Except, perhaps, what not to do.
If there were higher standards required before you can tech then higher pay would be deserved.
All of the companies I've worked for have had no problem with an engineer investing the time to fix a problem in an open source project and doing the work to feed the fix upstream---that's the fastest way to get a problem they're having resolved, correctly and permanently.

On the other hand, many of the engineers themselves haven't had the interest in doing the work to contribute the fix. They fix the problem apparent to them and go on, repeatedly fixing the same problem when they are forced to upgrade (they don't upgrade willingly, either).

And then there's the projects that make contributing as difficult as possible. You not only have to diagnose and fix the problem, you have to update the tests and docs and build system (which I'm perfectly fine with, personally, in the name of quality if I know how to do so, which I may not since I don't have time to track everything) and you have to do so in such a way as to satisfy the whims of the project's real developers, which you as a mere user manifestly are not.
Right now none of these countries is breaking even. They are paying these cost through deficit spending--borrowing from the very children they are asking their neighbors to pay for.
Went to a dark room with an Apple Remote; let my eyes adjust for a little while. Pressed it many times; I couldn't see the infrared coming from the LED with my naked eye. (But the camera on my iPhone imaged the infrared from the remote's LED.) I envy your biological wavelength detection.
I agree that their product set is unfocused to their detriment. But I would disagree that core payment processing is small or low margin. In fact, their margins are north of 30%. And small business payment processing is massive even without considering international and online, two massive areas where Square has completely dropped the ball.

I don't love the lending business because it seems a bit outside their competency but I can understand continuing it since it's currently hot and they do have decent visibility into borrower ability to pay, etc.
Oh oh: http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/06/linux-ransomware-is-now-att...
That's an entirely different discussion having nothing to do with intermodulation products.

Have you read the article/quantization discussion on what is meant by lossy? If your recording equipment is good and your reproduction equipment is good, 16/44 is enough to reproduce the concert sound perfectly (as far as human hearing goes). What you do not experience is everything else but the sound -- the vibration of the super loud bass on your skin, the energy of the public, the beauty of the venue.
I hadn't read about this before. From Wikipeida: The software of the probe runs on Nucleus RTOS operating system. Nucleus RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS) offered by the Embedded Software Division of Mentor Graphics for various central processing unit (CPU) platforms. Nucleus RTOS is embedded software and is in an estimated 2.11 billion devices worldwide. ... The Nucleus RTOS is designed for deeply embedded systems applications including consumer electronics, set-top boxes, cellular phones, and other portable and handheld devices. For limited memory systems Nucleus RTOS can be scaled down to a memory footprint as small as 13 KB for both code and data.

2.11 billion devices world wide, and 1 device beyond Pluto. The most wide spread operating system developed by the humans of Earth.
I think this applies more to companies requesting bugfixes as well as their scale and scope. For me at least, I don't mind fixing bugs in my projects if some random person is having trouble; heck that can be fun many times. On the other hand, a company using my project requesting that I drop everything and fix a bug that's only a problem for them? Seems perfectly reasonable to say "sure, it'll be 300$/hr" or whatever a reasonable rate might be.

This is of course all a hypothetical though, since I don't have any projects that more than like 5 people use and I have to hold them at gunpoint to get them to submit a bug report T_T.
I'm a bit surprised by the title of the article. The content was a fun and interesting read. When I read the title I thought to myself: "of course assembly is still relevant!"

Which group of people or school of thought would say that assembly isn't relevant? I'm genuinely curious.
In the long run it is like shifting zero on a scale. The market will react in exactly this way.

The paid housing would be better idea, BTW.