skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't say "it's Germanic" and then say "it's hardly related to Dutch or German".

That's not what I said. I said "it's Germanic" and "it's not a child of German or Dutch".
A pity if its bread and milk? Or medicine? We really have to sort this out before that happens.
Duke has $4B in their trust, they can't foot the $45,000 for this? (Duke grad)
That's a workaround of IFTTT limits not Nest
I didn't see the link in the article, but this seems to be the crowdfunding project to sequence all remaining kakapo:

https://www.geneticrescue.science/projects/genome-sequencing...
Do US Citizens deserve a job more than a non-citizen?
The original article stated that the prof. didn't understand why american politicians were trying to get more STEM-educated/skilled people into the US.

1) Rubio is bought by Microsoft. They're his biggest donor. (or 2nd biggest depending on how you dice the numbers) MS' profit margins would benefit from driving wages down.
2) The job of the politicians of the United States is to make life better for American citizens, not people abroad.
Agreed, but I was implying that he didn't simplify it nearly enough. I actually understood the parent post more clearly than this ELI5 version.
"Used by" smells of being a vanity metric - probably signed up users, rather than monthly active.

My guess, they weren't commercially successful, and aquihire was the best way out.
My question was if the VC had funded any women led start ups. He said "no"- I said that I thought it was strange and asked him why he thinks women aren't getting funded, and that is where the conversation begins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_Playe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Players_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Players_As...

Not to mention, unions/professional associations for doctors, lawyers, etc.
Thank you, I had no idea that the statement was tempered that way. The quip and the explanation together are a much more powerful and useful idea than the quip alone.

This article (http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/12/29/the-spirit-of-the-first...) expresses much the same thing, but takes a couple of pages to do it. Having a word ("intolerant" has been diluted, but maybe we can forge a new one) for people who silence arguments instead of answering them seems seems like it would greatly simplify almost all discourse.
There has to be a more and better inclusive model. Because we really need to all learn how to get past this
Also, most people are supporting a mortgage + one/two kids + spouse. It is easy for a person with FU money to just quit the job on a whim, and search for a new job. A majority of software engineers are still scared of being unemployed. Imagine being without a job in Silicon valley for a few months (high mortgage/rent + kids + spouse). Your savings will deplete fast; It is kind of scary and it is the biggest reason why people put up with abuse till they find a way out.
I've been in a situation that could have been described exactly that way, and in my case it was the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
that seems an egregious misreading of the parable:

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a
famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird
which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he
was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic
and calculation and geometry and astronomy and
draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the
use of letters.

Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the
whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great
city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian
Thebes, and the god himself is called by them Ammon.
To him came Theuth and showed his inventions, desiring
that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the
benefit of them; he enumerated them, and Thamus enquired
about their several uses, and praised some of them and
censured others, as he approved or disapproved of them.

It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus
said to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts.
But when they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will
make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories;
it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit.

Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or
inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the
utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users
of them.

And in this instance, you who are the father of letters,
from a paternal love of your own children have been led
to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have;
for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness
in the learners' souls, because they will not use their
memories; they will trust to the external written
characters and not remember of themselves.

The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to
memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples
not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be
hearers of many things and will have learned nothing;
they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know
nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of
wisdom without the reality.

from Plato's Phaedrus(o)

much different than claiming Socrate's criticised reading and writing

it's a parable, and one i read as intending to warn people of technology's ability to encourage the thinking that one can inform without comprehending

memory without understanding

mastery without failure

this reading allows for readers to be able to ask questions

(o) http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html
Bucardo does this and the setup it a lot easier than most tools. I'm currently using it to migrate a live postgres database to another location but it can perform ETL as well.

EDIT: doesn't really address your point b) however.
As someone who's tried to quantify the Reddit hivemind by analyzing word usage (http://minimaxir.com/2015/10/reddit-topwords/), I think the spaCy semantic approach is a much more robust approach to the Reddit data corpus.

However, I'm not sure if I agree with the use of phrase similarity as a indicator of Reddit hivemind behavior, which was discussed in the complementary blog post. The tool is more of an indicator of the writing styles of Reddit's primary demographics (Male, 18-30) and phrases which are coincident, instead of weighting the importance of given phrases to Reddit discussion.
I'm not sure how it would work since the DOM is not reactive. At the end of the day, any "view" library for the browser is a DOM builder. It cannot be reactive, by nature.

edit: s/nature/definition
Their YouTube channel has 100's of videos that show what they do. The one that blew my mind: GovCon7: Introduction to Palantir: https://youtu.be/f86VKjFSMJE
Better to run "launchctl list | grep -iv com\.apple" for both yourself and root; there are multiple places that startup items can be placed.
If you haven't seen this interview of Tony by Aaron Levie, it's good insight into how Tony thinks. FWIW, more violent metaphors than I've heard in violent movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsk3nagSDRU
It's gross they're giving their customers 2 weeks to "GTFO".
One side likes high skill immigrants but does not like low skilled immigrants. The other side likes low skilled immigrants and thinks high skilled immigrants are a-ok too. To try to get their way, the low-skilled side says we won't pass your high skilled stuff unless you pass our low-skilled stuff. The other one refuses and you have legislative deadlock that prevents changing much of anything.

That's what I've heard about the problem currently.

Also I wouldn't base it on federal taxes, because people with state taxes will pay less federal tax since the state tax is a federal tax deduction or similar. I would base it on total USA tax load.
Assholes, the self righteous,plain evil, or simply stupid kind, are a minority but they have a tremendous impact in any community which does punish or prevent bad behavior. This is why we have to have door locks, police, jails, passwords, etc. Any sufficiently large online community will end up including a bunch of douche bags which, unconstrained by the these old school deterrents, will eventually destroy it.
> optimized scalar code performance has moved, what, maybe 40% over the last two decades

I'm not convinced. Raw single-thread number crunching performance is somewhere around _two to three fold_, clock-for-clock, on Intel x86, over that of 10-15 years ago. What methodology do you use to attribute only a fraction of those gains to language optimizers? And even if you are correct, why is it meaningful? Who is going to have invested energy in optimising the shit out of mundane codegen when hardware performance will have just come and stolen your thunder a few months later?

The problem we have now is that CPUs are gaining ever more complex behaviour, peculiarities, and sensitivities. I'd say compiler engineering is far from a "solved problem", even for statically-typed languages.
What I don't understand is why it apparently doesn't occur to the HN admins that "fading" peoples' posts into oblivion makes people pay more attention to them. If HN's intent is to make undesirable opinions less visible, it's a colossal failure.

Often it's a waste of time to highlight those posts with my mouse, because they're usually downmodded for good reasons. But I still feel compelled to look, and I doubt I'm alone in that respect.

To fix this, I'd limit the text contrast to two levels -- normal and obviously-but-not-illegibly faded. In other words, don't make it look like you're trying to hide something from me. If a post is so bad that it deserves to be rendered at near-zero contrast, then it's bad enough to delete altogether... and only blatant spam falls into that category IMO.
Maybe they are useful for students to signal their lack of ethics to employers? “Look, they once worked at Palantir, so they’ll have no problems doing whatever shady stuff we tell them to!”
You have paying customers - that's more than most people achieve, so congrats.

You mentioned possibility of angel investing so I'll address just that part.

Do you expect that, in your best case scenario, this business will ever reach $100M of yearly revenue?

If not, then venture capitalists (including angels) will not be interested in investing.

Business model of VC is based on 1 out of 10 companies getting really big. If a company has no chance of ever getting really big, VCs have no reason to invest in it.

You seem to have what might, at some point, be a small business.

The chances you can grow it into a big business is small (on one hand, WordPress market is huge, on the other hand you're only solving a small pain for people creating themes and plugin, which is relatively small number of people).

So it seems like bootstrapping is the way to go.

Given that you have a working product that people are willing to pay for, you probably have a marketing challenge at this point.

A small tip: you have a decent website but your copy could use some tweaking to focus on the product and what it does for users. Remove the parts about you ("We've worked hard to make Kernl awesome and affordable.", "We take development seriously at Kernl." - nobody cares), superfluous parts ("so give it a whirl.").
Please, read the article under discussion which contains a link to the Center Of Immigration studies. The article under discussion does provide evidence. You may not agree with it, or question its strength, but really hard to deny the article, the statistics it provides and the studies it references provide no evidence.

If the facts quoted in the study do not suffice, let us try a dialogue of rational reasoning. Assuming H1-Bs do occupy job positions, i.e. are employed. Then either the job is only opened if and only if there are H1-Bs around, which doesn't make sense, or not a single qualified US citizen can fill the job. Give the working age population of the US is 204 million[1] this also seems highly unlikely.

[1]https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LFWA64TTUSM647S
Nah, it doesn't pass the sniff test once you start looking at the details. I don't have time now, but you could look in the archives of NavList at fer3.com for more info.
100% agree with this. The state of modern journalism (in general) is pretty much appalling at the moment, and it in its current form going away would arguably be a positive for the world in general.

And the kind of news and editorials provided by the community (social media posts, forum content, blog posts, wiki articles, etc) could well be a better replacement for it. After all, they're already more accurate than the vast majority of the commercial media (since there are fewer financial/political incentives to lie), and the amount of ads and tracking is a lot less as well.
Unions don't confer benefits to people not in their union and actually increase costs to them by putting up barriers to entry. Nations can do the exact same thing with immigration policies with respect to citizens and non-citizens.

A union in this case would benefit the majority, but at the cost of people not in the union.
Tighter/more strict immigration would benefit the people in the country in terms of reducing downward wage pressure, but it would remove opportunity for people abroad/non-citizens.
Major portions of our economy function through planned obsolescence and doing everything possible in design to make old products look "old", even though functionality hasn't really changed from the old model. Think car manufacturing.
6.5:6 is certainly not saying that malloced memory always aliases with “everything”. Quite the contrary, it says that malloced memory cannot be used for type-punning. The following works and is idiomatic:

uint32_t u;

float f = …;

memcpy(&u, &f, sizeof u);

/* use u as a uint32_t in computations */

You cannot do the same thing with malloced memory: if u had been malloced memory instead of a variable, it would have been illegal to access that memory with an lvalue of type uint32_t in subsequent computations. 6.5:6 is certainly no license to use malloc'ed memory any which way.
The evidence is flat wages in the past 20 years.
I'm not sure about 32-bit Windows 8+, but I remember the 32-bit version of Windows Vista still had the NTVDM, which is all you need for Win3.1-era apps to "just work" out-of-the-box.

With a little modification, you can run apps from Windows 1.01 and 2.03 on XP, probably Vista, and maybe even newer: http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html

Also, I admittedly have no experience with OS X, but I was recently given an old G5 to play with that I hope to get up and running at some point. This theme file looks quite fun to play with - will it work on PowerPC?
Do you think this contributed to the lackluster software upgrade/update cycle. To be clear，I'm not blaming you but it sure seems that Nest has had significant challenges rolling out software updates (I'm a Nest user)
Model Minority perfect for scapegoat?
I've arrived at the opposite opinion over time ... I think people need to recognise that a build system is code. When we pretend it isn't we ultimately end up contorting the system to make up for the missing flexibility. A lot of it looks declarative, but it is not always the case. Sometimes you want imperative constructs. The build should be recognized as code, maintained as code and use a first class language suited to the job.

I do have a problem with Gradle which is that it is almost entirely magical unless you are a pretty advanced Groovy programmer to understand how it is doing what it is doing. I have never felt more disoriented than when trying to learn how to customise a simple aspect of my build and having people post snippets that work but seem completely disconnected from anything else in the build process.
with (ex)-council house / flat there is a good chance it is surrounded by operating council houses / flats.
Vancouver for all its development is still a beautiful place.
I thought the same thing too. Although the trust might be set aside for specific purposes, of which funding research is outside the scope? My best guess.
I honestly don't know, but haven't they been advocating for "lowering" of borders?
Man, if I could live in X I would!

You're saying that one ideological change won't enable that for me (and every one of the other 100 million like me)?
>My solution? Let anyone into the country as long as they can prove that they are receiving a salary of > 125,000$ /year.

Perhaps the real solution would be to approve H1B visa applications for the top N salaries. You're clearly not experiencing a labor shortage if you're not willing to pay one of the top N salaries.
We can conclude from this that they weren't doing very well, right? I mean, you don't accept an acquihire if you're doing great.
You may in theory have a choice of employers but in practice you may not. I'm an experienced programmer and have a fairly wide choice of jobs I might take up but in the past I have literally had to take whatever job was available.

Starting your own venture may be possible but is dependent on aptitude, access to capital and the state of the economy (it's unlikely that we could all start our own businesses for example; the market wouldn't support it).

The recent rise in economic migrants suggest that it many cases it really is easier to switch countries than switch jobs in one's own country.
I've brought up this issue in mathematical circles before and have encountered incredible resistance. The culture is very deeply entrenched, and the current stakeholders are not going to allow it to be changed.

Just to briefly establish that I have some qualifications here, while I do not have a PhD and am not nor have I ever been a professional mathematician, I did have a lot of success in mathematics as an undergraduate, publishing research in the intersection of algebraic topology, differential geometry, and analysis with a professor at an Ivy League university.

I was myself a practitioner of the school of It Is Clear That..., until I realized that my mentor for the above research, a famed professor and former Putnam Fellow who even has inequalities named after himself, didn't follow some of the stuff I'd written in some notes I showed him. And if he didn't follow it, then I knew that meant I probably didn't understand it as well as I thought I did. It wasn't a big surprise to me then that, after a few weeks of effort, I was completely unable to take my approach further. His approach, of course, worked.

He represents one of few mathematicians I've personally known who emphasized clarity just as much as correctness and technical depth, and he had no desire to appear smart. But at this point in time he already had his career mostly behind him. There was nobody left for him to impress.

Part of the problem, ultimately, is that phrases like "it is trivial that..." do serve a purpose when used appropriately. As a result, it's hard to argue that they should categorically be excluded from mathematical writing. But that then opens them up to abuse, and in a culture so obsessed with appearing smart, that abuse can be quite extreme sometimes. Because instances of abuse are often motivated out of appearing smart rather than legitimate economical concerns of space, bringing up the issue with the author amounts to a moral accusation against them, which makes their defense of the phrases even more impassioned. They're not going to admit that they're just trying to puff up their ego.

The worst part is that, in some circles, if you criticize this sort of writing you'll just be greeted by a bunch of people who are proud to exclaim that, of course, they are smart enough to fill in the blanks, and if only you were too then you surely couldn't possibly still have any objections to it.

For me, transitioning from mathematics to software development was a huge breath of fresh air, as the culture is (generally) the exact opposite. Nearly every good programmer I've met has valued clarity and maintainability equally alongside correctness.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-h-wu/peter-liang-an-asia...
Yes, US citizens deserve first crack at US jobs. No other country allows mass immigration of professional jobs - because their citizens wouldn't tolerate it.
I don't know much about the development of the project, simply that it exists and is usable. I'd file an issue with the project and see what comes of it.
http://modelminority.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content...
Sony launches universal remote control with e-ink screen
I'll love to hear about your experience when you return.
I've always wondered if sometimes it's worth it to keep the furnace/AC on. And if so, at what point is it worth keeping it on?

I figure it's a bit like the car ignition where if you're stopped for more than x seconds, it's worth it to turn the car off. Is it like that with heating/cooling? I wonder if so, if we'll have a Thermostat that'll tell us "no it's better for you to keep it on rather than stop for the amount of time you're wanting to turn it off for"...

Anyone got helpful numbers/anecdotes?
Oh this is fun if you look up politically charged words like 'thug' or even something that should be pretty harmless like 'girls'.
Something I've suspected for a while here in the UK too.

There's no shortage of available workers, there's a shortage of companies willing to pay well.
File delete bugs are (obviously) dangerous and sometimes have surprising causes.

A long time ago, we had a Java web application that we'd deploy, and after a couple of days would stop working. We'd investigate and find it hadn't been deployed properly, yell at the person who installed it and go on our way.

Until the day data disappeared. That was weird.

Then we saw files physically disappearing while we had Windows Explorer open in front of us.

So it turned out that a library we were using was using exception handling for flow control, and in a limited set of circumstances this meant a file wasn't closed. That was fine. Usually.

Except that Java 1.4.1_01 had a bug on Windows where if you opened more than 2036 files open THE NEXT FILE THAT WAS OPENED WOULD BE DELETED[1].

I'll never forget the pain.

[1] http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4779905
Oh, sorry then :)
I had to deal with similar kind of shit in the past. Just not worth it unless you can cash out in a short time. Too much of a toll on your health. Better to be paid 5-10% less if necessary and do something I enjoy in comfort. However I think most who work at Nest could easily switch to new jobs given their credentials.
> I don't think our conversation serves much purpose. You seem to regard as good practice what I consider utter lunacy.

It seems to me that, if you're able to unpack that all and get at why these dramatically contradictory beliefs are held, someone is likely to learn a lot (perhaps both parties!). That sounds like good purpose to me.
Yes there will. Then price will just increase to 200$ a loaf. And if there are still too many people looking to buy, then 1000$ a loaf.
Globalism is a political philosophy, not a moral imperative. Here in our country we [citizens] get first dibs on jobs. Our land, our laws. We have every right to enforce that. If the market punishes us for it perhaps we'll change.
The contents of the GraphQL working draft[0] do not include any of the following words:

permission

authorization

authentication

role

[0] - https://facebook.github.io/graphql/
Great to see another use case of spacy...I've been wanting to give it a go ever since OP pitched it as an alternative to NLTK.
Thanks for the response (and critique). I think you're probably right. Unless this can target a much larger part of the Wordpress development community, it probably won't attract VCs.