skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what point are you preserving a skill for points rather than for usefulness? You're totally set if some kind of electro-magnetic event destroys all technology and remembering appointments becomes a relevant skill in the ensuing chaos.

Joking aside–it's important to remember that some people have really complex lives. Two full time jobs with a couple of kids and you're potentially juggling a lot. That's four different schedules, three you have to be keenly aware of and the fourth you need to keep in mind for certain events or exceptions. Those kids are probably part of a sports program and at least one other extra-curricular activity. Then there's the PTA and various other school activities and events.

There's also people that simply don't have the mental ability to remember things like appointments because they have disorders that prevent them from doing so. Add that family complexity to someone's plate with a disorder and you're looking at a level of chaos you've probably never experienced in your entire life.
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Beautiful arguments. What's the solution put forward? Being critical is easy, but what's something better we can build with the internet?
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Generally what many others have said: that the API has changed a lot.

Specifically I didn't like it when named routes were removed.

But hey—it's open source. Sometimes I get worked up about this or that, but then I remember that all of this I'm getting for free and I must be grateful.
Can you provide more support for the argument that "mega-store purchasing policies" make farm co-ops a "moot point"? It looks like even Whole Foods, one of the largest mega-suppliers of produce in the US, readily sources from co-ops.

A bigger possible reason farms tend not to join co-ops is that they integrate vertically and do direct marketing both to chains like WF and to farmers markets and, particularly, restaurants. For vegetables, there are a lot of farms like this in the Midwest.

Obviously, if you're growing soy or corn or wheat, it's a different story. But I think nobody is particularly surprised that you can't readily make a living selling crops that are standardized and bid on in commodities exchanges.
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And some people like living in a bubble. A friend of mine "unfriended" me (and a few others) because we dared to present differing points of view to what he posted (in my case, it was a study that showed marijuana use had potential side effects).

It's all too easy to remove yourself from alternative points of view, which was another prediction David Brin made in his novel Earth.
I believe you are making the common mistake of confusing what people really want (the desires they act on), and what they say they want. What people say they want is usually "the thing that they want to want" - it's a bit meta. You can call that "lying" if it makes you feel better, but pretty close to everybody does it.
I'm not sure how this relates to MBA's? Please expand if you would
Not really. One could be deaf or blind from birth, yet fully intelligent. It's more a matter of getting sensory from the world into the brain. That sensory may be visual, auditory, touch, etc. The brain is very plastic in this manner.
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I was really slow on picking up Babel too. But I've been using Babel 5.x in production for six months without errors - main things were docs that referred to old versions of babel and babelify.

I needed to plug this in the package.json of my private modules:

"browserify": {
"transform": [
"brfs",
[
"babelify",
{
"presets": ["es2015"]
}
]
]
}
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Hi, I'm the author of these benchmarks, and yes, they are getting old. One of Scons' maintainers kindly asked me a few days ago to try again with current Scons version, so I've started to update and run these benchmarks again with current software and hardware (SSD).
It takes some time to do it right (blame API breakage!) and collect all the results, so I won't be able to publish them before at least a month or so.
I will include the meson+ninja and cmake+ninja combinations, and the new CBS tool (an experimental build system from Qt).
Ask HN: What is your advise to move up the ladder?  Any anecdotes?
Hi HN,

I am asking for some specific advise regarding my case. I am on H1B visa working for one of top 10 software firms in the valley. There are about 10000+ employees in my org.

In 2013 , I actually joined startup to move up but our startup got acquired by big software company.

My question is - How do I move up ?

I have 9 years of experience so far in software development. I hold Engineering degree from India and 3 certifications that are business , management related.

To move up I finished Stanford APM certificate in 2013 before joining said startup. However, that didn't help in getting management position.

I like coding , system design, large scale systems, scalability, contribution to business in general. I would say I am good , if not best, programmer and can get stuff done fast without any supervision. I can contribute to technical discussions, can mentor junior programmers, can help determine long term approach and more.

However, after 9 years of programming I am feeling there is too much stuff now to learn. Everyday I hear about new tool, every other week / month there is new language out there. I am also 31 years old and unmarried. I would like to have some time for personal improvement rather than running every second like everyone else in bay area ( at least ).

What are your tips for moving up in the organization? I would love to do coding but I want to make equal contribution to business. I look to someone like Jack Dorsey , Paul Graham, Marissa Mayer as inspiration on who I want to be when I will be 40. Jack is not favorite of many people ( especially on HN ) but I think he is strong leader.

My goal is both money and position in new company. I don't care about size of the company.
I can switch jobs but that might not be immediate due to visa. Does joining Google, FB make any sense or should I join startup and move up ?

Any tips ?

How did you move up in large organization ?

Thank you !!
Swift-Evolution: Nope, not merging that
That's actually starting to happen. Deepmind built an AI that can learn to beat the best human players on many atari games. After just a few hours of playing the game and learning. And of course it uses all that advanced image recognition stuff. That has always been the hard part. The actual game playing part is just a simple reinforcement learning neural network that is put on top of it.

The reason it's AI is because it isn't specific to speech recognition. Deep learning is very general. The same algorithms work just as well at speech recognition, or translation, or controlling robots, etc. Image recognition is just the most popular application.
I realize that a managers job is to keep people around because it helps the company. Sometimes though, people need to leave to grow and a manager should be good with that, even helpful. A parent hasn't failed if their kids want to move out on their own.
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I want to cut Linode some slack they have been great but those were my thoughts when the employee above divulged that info. It all seems a little like using cold fusion to run your whole shop..

People dont need to jump ship they need plans in place to deal with problems like this, even just a rsync.net account.
This project is _not_ about bringing UNIX to Windows. It is about bringing the open ssh protocol to Windows. As a daily UNIX and Windows user in an enterprise environment, I can say that a fully integrated sshd is a welcomed addition. I have written and maintained many WinRM interop ruby gems and cannot wait until we can deprecate them in favor of a better and sane remote she'll implementation. This is a real milestone, keep up the great work.

As for Cygwin sshd, it does work if posix is the order of the day but if you need a reliable terminal (for things like powershell) that scales to hundreds of servers and many admins Cygwin simply fails the test. Clunky domain authentication, private key auth is a joke, powershell only works sometimes (thanks PTY), network tokens are non-existent, etc. the list goes on and on.
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I think Twain is indulging himself. He's conflating trivial social conventions about dinner arrangements and clothes, with deeply-felt political positions, with social and financial farming of political influence.

There's evidence that far from being social conventions, political biases are partly neurological. Whether the biases are due to nature or nurture, brain function can't usefully be reduced to superficial observations about creative thinking or self interest.

Twain should at least have noticed that voters reliably support people who take away their bread/corn instead of supplying it.

In fact humans are quite incredibly bad at calculating genuine self interest. We seem to be programmed to equate effective leadership with a certain kind of strutting acquisitive self-indulgence and macho mammal posturing. Being a follower of same can often be a terrible way to meet your bread needs - but a very good way to be treated as a disposable resource.
Not exactly, but...we adopted two thirteen-year-old girls from Ethiopia. They're 24 now. One of the best decisions of my life.
Yes it is not the ideal solution but I implemented it for the sake of completeness.
I went to high school with the guy who started Smarkets, he is a good dude! Very smart guy. Great to see you guys on here.
Another one: https://github.com/behdad/glyphy (SDF, but full vector outlines, not texture sampling)
Agree. I avoid updating apps that are working satisfactorily because many later add ads or other annoying functions.
GitHub is popular. More people will come in contact with the development of Python by Python being on GitHub. That's a significant benefit to any open source project; one that I believe outweighs the concerns of a private company valuing business over developer ideals.
I'd say bootstrap and the likes are killing the need for a fresh look at design by offering templates. For me the savior has been Basecamp's design. Always made sense and looked great.
This headline and title shows the New York Times' bias very succinctly.

Look at that title: "excluded from Israeli Classrooms", as if it was banned to read, or even possess.

The fact of the matter then leaks out in the opening line: "(The M.E.) has decided not to include a novel about a romance between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man on the list of required reading for Hebrew high school literature classes.

So, all that happened is that the book won't be assigned as required reading in Hebrew literature (!) class.

Does the title resemble the truth of the story?

In contrast, is this book even allowed, let alone assigned, in schools on the Palestinian side of the border?
2700 doesn't strike me as remotely crazy. I'm guessing that some of those projects all serve the same goal, e.g., for their speech system, they have: acoustic modeling; language modeling; named-entity recognition; intent classification; domain classification; grapheme-to-phoneme conversion; language detection; wake-word detection. This ignores other stuff that happens around speech (for example, I know they were using a CRF to label different types of numbers for training their spoken-to-written form converters, which AFAIK are still using WFSTs, although at this point I wouldn't be shocked if both of those systems were converted to DNNs). So let's take an estimate of 10 DNNs for their speech systems. Per language, so make that 200 DNNs to support 20 languages. This ignores that they have separate models for YouTube, voice search (one model for on-device and a cloud-side model), voicemail.

Their machine translation system probably has a similar # of DNNs, and there you have to deal with language pairs, rather than single languages. Let's call it another 400.

That's two side-projects. Then you pull in query prediction, driverless cars, all kinds of infrastructure modeling, spam detection, all of the billions of things that are happening in ads, recommendations, I haven't really even mentioned search yet... Honestly, if I'm right in assuming that the cited figure is really "# of DNNs that do different things", then I'm surprised it's not higher.
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Netflix set to be launched in India next week
This is one of the better sourced articles on the subject I could find in a quick googling (interestingly, it comes from a libertarian think tank, which makes them interesting bed fellows with the food justice and local farms movement): http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/agriculture/subsidies

This article doesn't claim that large farms are subsidized disproportionately, which is the claim you made when you said,

I think the danger in our agricultural policy is that large farms are favored (through subsidies, tax breaks, regulation, etc.) to an extent that small farms can't exist profitably, even charging higher prices at market

Are you claiming that large farms are being subsidized non-linearly? I.e. out of proportion with their size and output? That is certainly not the claim that's being made by that Cato article, and its not born out by the USDA page that the Cato article links to.

I'm surprised so many people on HN think it is even a little controversial to suggest that large farms are favored by current regulation, enough that several people are requesting references. I kinda thought it was widely known. So, that's an interesting bit of news for me.

Agriculture is subsidized - I think that much is well known. Perhaps I wasn't clear - I was asking for sources that would indicate that subsidies favour large farms. In many other places around the world, like in Europe, agricultural subsidies are perceived as helping to protect small farms.
Fisherman is a shell manager for fish that lets you share and reuse code, prompts and configurations easily.

This tool is not a framework, it does not pollute your shell public scope with superfluous functions, it does not make your shell slow, it's just a handful of 4 ~ 5 commands that let you share and manage your configuration, plugins, prompts, snippets, etc., and does not care whether they come from Oh My Fish!, Wahoo, or other vendors. You get the most of your shell and Fisherman gets out of your way.

Features include a flat tree structure, strong UNIX ties (everything is a stream), unified plugin architecture with automatic completions, documentation via man pages and support for utilities that use Make as a build tool, external self-managed database, cache system, plugin dependencies, quick shell start, extensive documentation and compatibility with Oh My Fish ecosystem of plugins / themes.
I'll second this recommendation. I picked up the 4th edition a few months ago.

It's a great book, but also a very long read. As a developer who is interested in developing usable apps, but not in being a full-time UX designer, I've found that I've been able to pick and choose the bits of the book that are relevant to the tasks I'm working on. It helps if you've read the introductory bits, but later on it has sections about web, desktop, mobile, etc. that are useful on their own. It's almost like having several books in one.
I could be wrong, but think the OP is talking about virtual assistant services like task rabbit since they listed many of their advertised tasks.

As far as a "real" assistant goes, it can be easy to find one if you live in a city with craigslist. You can find someone to hire hourly once in a while, or bring them on full/part time with a salary if you have the means. The payment range is minimum wage up to whatever you want to pay. Whether you want something official where you run payroll, provide health insurance and everything, or just pay someone under the table - there's pretty much going to be a long list of people who will want you to hire them. I've taken out ads before and gotten over 200 responses (Chicago area). When you become directly responsible for other people's financial livelihood it can really change how you think about employment and life in general.
It's very laggy and slow on a quad i7 16GB Macbook Pro. Presumably this is because of the retina display.
Packt has always had a bad signal to noise ratio. The sheer amount of books they publish should be a warning sign.
Meh. Hypertexted linked blogs and web pages are still there. Facebook et al aren't killing them any more than radio killed books, TV killed radio or the internet killed TV. I doubt he would have lost his blog audience if he had not been imprisoned. It wasn't social media that did that.
I can scroll that PDF at full speed on my rMBP without significant pauses.
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See my other posts for more depth on work-life balance (& hiring working parents = many of us), building something that improves life/health, our culture (collaboration and good communication, not competition).

Superb communication skills required -- we all need to be highly articulate, clear, and at ease talking through complicated concepts with each other (skills talking with strangers: useful, but not an everyday requirement). Sometimes remote work tools are (nearly) flawless, but with some bad luck you might be explaining something complicated over a choppy connection with a 4-second delay and a marching band in the background.

If you're interested in PKB's growth, funding, profitability, contracts, etc., ask -- our CEO is also active on HN. Or Google us. I'm in the CTO role.

Current positions we're filling (continuously):

- Mobile developer: existing apps with Steroids(better Cordova, basically), OAuth2, JSON, REST. Later this year: helping choose tech for our next-gen apps.

- Mid-level to senior full-stack devs: Java expertise required. Of interest / stuff we're using: migrating bit by bit from J2E (JBoss/Hibernate, Tomcat/Spring/Struts) to simple microservices (DropWizard/SpringBoot) -- experience on either side of this migration is useful. TeamCity, Artifactory, Docker, Vagrant (dev environment), Selenium-based integration testing. CentOS, PostgreSQL (should be comfortable with native SQL), Hadoop DFS (just adding in now...). Crypto at various levels ("using it carefully", not "inventing it"). REST and SOAP/HL7 APIs. This isn't a checklist; we like partial overlaps in particular if you've worked with tools/ideas we're not yet using (but maybe should).

- Product manager: technical background (not just mgmt), startup mindset (look ahead, self-prioritize, adapt fast). Gather the best ideas from customers & us, and help us guide projects through to completion. Bonus points: good grasp of healthcare and mobile apps.

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I take note that I should put a date on the page!
I actually ran again some of these benchmarks again over the years (last time about one years ago), on the same hardware and updated software, and results didn't change significantly.
FWIW, at the time these results were first published, I had my working dir on ext2 because it had higher performance than ext3.
Sure, but tell me what your bill is at Amazon when you get hit by a massive attack. Amazon is incredibly resilient against attacks due to their size, but it comes at a price too.
Editor: title should say "planet", not "planer"
Bought one of these awhile ago, the stock firmware and UI is easily some of the worst I've ever used.
Sublime Package Control is down
"Brain-consumer interface" is pretty great even if it was a typo.
See also: http://www.msr-waypoint.net/en-us/um/people/cloop/LoopBlinn0... (work done on the subject at Microsoft Research, with more of the math described).
> Or, conversely, someone might see that line in a proposed standard and reject it as non-portable, whereas a precise description of memory layout would not come across as such.

Yap that makes sense, I din't think of it that way first but that probably explains it.
More like a bulged spiral.

http://www.av8n.com/physics/periodic-table.htm
Honestly for difficult technical subjects in technology, science, or mathematics, nothing beats a good book with exercises along with lecture videos or notes (just like MIT OCW gives you). There are some great Coursera courses, but many don't do the subject justice.
Looking back through time for all the horrible UI sins cataloged in the opening paragraph, I'm pretty sure all of those were much more common in the past than they are now. Somehow, we actually have made those pieces of progress.

Except for cryptic icons, those seem on the rise again.
This makes me shake my head for so many reasons. Way, way too clever for 99% of Web applications.
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>I believe you are making the common mistake of confusing what people really want (the desires they act on), and what they say they want.

In other words drug addicts really want to be addicts. Otherwise they would have given up already.

I suppose it's a useful canard if you're trying to justify American pro-corporate agricultural policy.
Says MSRP is $149 but they are $229 on the ubiquiti store and amazon. Ugh
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It is an interesting project. I love the idea, actually, and would enjoy playing with it-- especially if I was stuck somewhere isolated with no other connectivity options. To me, any access is nearly always better than none.
Here's my experience on my local devices:

* Quad i7 16 GBytes GTX 970 OSX FFox - perfectly smooth
* iPhone 6s+ - very smooth
* Nexus 6p - slightly jumpy / laggy but still impressive
* Lumia 640 Windows Phone 10 - dFdx undeclared identifier (120,33)

There may be issues with webgl on the MBP if it's using Intel graphics, but I'd be pretty disappointed to get worse performance than an iPhone ...

For the curious, the Lumia error appears to stem from this: https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/#!topic/angleproject/-...
Forking a repo creates an alternative authoritative repository. That's a huge part of the D in DVCS.