skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with some colleagues who use this kind of conversation. Full disclosure: I am a female, they are also female. They wouldn't talk to you like that -- it's a female-female communication style with a lot of subtext, common in parts of corporate America as well.

The majority (by far!) of my colleagues are male, and part of the subtext and context of this type of conversation is (1) to comment on things guys "can't" comment on, like "did I wear the appropriate jewelry or footwear for this event to project the social and intellectual persona that I'm trying to project", and (2) to combat the everyday little degradations you encounter, like someone at the registration table not registering you because they figured you're a girlfriend not a real participant. Women who are trying to maintain and accumulate power know that they can support each other in maintaining a stance of confidence rather than acceptance. Being primarily socialized into a stance of acceptance due to my historically all-male and socially inept professional circles, I was way confused when I got a female boss who started saying nice things about/to me. It is true that I do good things at work, although I don't manage to find the right shoes to project being corporate -- but I've never had anyone say anything about either of those things! Ever!

It's a reasonable management tool in some ways. My male bosses asked me (forced me?) to do my job and also take care of "women things" (recruitment and retention of women and minorities) without ever saying anything nice or giving me any credit, so I quit doing most of that. Altruism has limits that are often reached at the bank account. But now I have a boss who views outreach as a positive and actually says nice things ("you're incredible! I'm amazed at how much you do!" etc) so yep, I'm more likely to do it. And it is good for my organization.
Wouldn't it be more shocking if her daughter didn't have access to her own mother?
The guys is a bully and just looking at some of his tweets and emails, looks like he has a mild mental illness.
It doesn't support Python 3 :(
Yeah, that math is not going to work, even closely.

$200K a year works out at around $11K/month after tax.

15% on a $1.2M home is $180K - even by your estimations that's 6-18 years savings.

So a $1.02M loan over 30 years... 1.1% property tax, 0.5% PMI, 4% interest...

You're looking at a $6,000 mortgage payment (www.mortgagecalculator.org).

Yes, frugal living says you could manage that at 200K.

Your mortgage originator is not even remotely, no matter how convincing you are, going to underwrite a loan with a mortgage payment of 55% of your after tax income.

At 130K, no. That's 85% of your paycheck going to mortgage.
The announcement is the climax of a century of speculation, 50 years of trial and error, and 25 years perfecting a set of instruments so sensitive they could identify a distortion in spacetime a thousandth the diameter of one atomic nucleus across a 4km strip of laserbeam and mirror.

The phenomenon detected was the collision of two black holes. Using the world’s most sophisticated detector, the scientists listened for 20 thousandths of a second as the two giant black holes, one 35 times the mass of the sun, the other slightly smaller, circled around each other.

At the beginning of the signal, their calculations told them how stars perish: the two objects had begun by circling each other 30 times a second. By the end of the 20 millisecond snatch of data, the two had accelerated to 250 times a second before the final collision and a dark, violent merger.

The observation signals the opening of a new window on to the universe.

A century of speculation, no wonder people are starving. Come on are u guys reading this? Are you just closing your eyes opening your mouth and letting them stick in what ever they want?tf?
firstly i think there is bs going on but if i do accept this bs then we are way far behind in our spiritual growth. Dont forget what sting said... we are spirits in the material world....better get balanced soon or the world will do it for you. Or is that what you need?
I totally agree. I have un-followed a few people and now I only friend people that actually want to be friends with. I try to avoid posting political or technical things (mostly). So now, my FB is mostly just sharing pics and events with friends. (Actual friends, that I see IRL.)

(... now if only I could get rid of the ads...)
It wasn't accidental at all, they all knew they weren't on government email servers.
Great image!

But that freedom is troubling for many. No truth to proclaim. Too much uncertainty.
Hey femto, I'm Dean McPherson (@dean_mcpherson), the dev making Curbit. Our current plan is exactly that, if the user is posting their own stuff, we ask them to place it in a legal, accessible location. This is accomplished by asking them for special pickup instructions (e.g. "On the porch", or "On top of the mailbox").

The other big use case though is reporting stuff that others have dumped. Using the app makes no statement that you put the stuff there, and we in no way are trying to encourage people to break the law :)
I've put my details for trial, awaiting for activation.
Less than functional or not, it is the duty of people with access to classified information to protect it. You sign tons of paperwork to that effect.

Honest mistakes happen all the time. If you're lucky, your hand is slapped and people move along. But it is possible to have your clearance revoked - like Sandy Berger - or even serve prison time for purposeful malfeasance or disregard for the rules.

And this isn't a new thing... remember how when Obama took office everyone talked about securing his Blackberry - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/politics/23berry.html?_... ?

> While lawyers and the Secret Service balked at Mr. Obama’s initial requests to allow him to keep his BlackBerry, they acquiesced as long as the president — and those corresponding with him — agreed to strict rules. And he had to agree to use a specially made device, which must be approved by national security officials.
> If it was a two star general who did this, he'd be in jail.

You go to jail if you anger someone powerful and/or are disloyal, e.g., by leaking something without authorization or whistleblowing. Everyone else gets a slap on the wrist at most, afaict. General and CIA Director Petraeus gave classified information to his mistress; CIA Director John Deutch kept classified information unsecured on his home computer. Neither received significant punishment.
Scientists may have at last found a way to beat jet lag
Blaming China for market rout obscures focus of real problem
In Melbourne people seem to leave stuff out on the curb all the time and people just come and grab what they want, after its been there a week or so the council comes round and picks it up (I assume).
At first reading them was funny, but it quickly became sad. So many tweets, and almost all insulting someone he feels isn't giving him the attention he feels entitled to.
At the moment, we're not really interested in monetising. We're treating this as infrastructure that we wish existed that doesn't. However, if it does turn out to solve a problem for people, I'm confident that we will be able to generate enough small methods of monetisation to keep the doors open.
As it should be. The problem is when you start blending the two.. conducting official business from personal accounts.

That's opening the door to trouble as we're seeing.
The most ridiculous thing about all these chat apps is not that they all essentially do the same simple thing as each other (send text), but that they each managed to do it in a way that was incompatible with every other chat app. It's almost as if there was some omniscient God of Incompatibility out there pulling the strings.
i really like this mythos argument that the first lesson is about communication to enforce the convention that languages should communicate

this is interesting

and trying to dream up languages that fail, or refuse, or do anything else but communicate, is fascinating.. what would a language like that look like, what would it be capable of?

i do like the idea that conventions supersede standards, but hello world seems even counter intuitive to the programming convention of efficiency

print("hello world")

demonstrates communication, but also has the individual typing 20 things to print 11 thing out of the same editor thae typed into

print(2**71)

demonstrates communication and running code, as well as having the potential to elicit awe at the capabilities of a collaboration with this machine

i said in the original comment that i think programming should be folded into mathematics education, in time parallel

stead trying to compartmentalise education into disparate parts we should be showing everything's interconnected nature
I thought these jobs were gone long time ago. There are 143,288K jobs in USA [1], so 100%*12K/143288K=0.00837%.

The article portraits these jobs are in process of disappearing, looking at the numbers above, looks like BI is rather late with their "news".

[1] http://www.deptofnumbers.com/employment/us/ (assuming data is correct)
Hopefully soon: http://blog.dato.com/state-of-the-sframe-2016
Hi there --

This is my first project, while trying to teach my self about web development. I should have been more clear that this site only searches the data posted to Tesla's US pre-owned website. My goal was to allow people looking for a used Model S greater searching capability than is available from Tesla. I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks!
Chelsea vs. George P Bush 2024.
It's not the default thing to do, but I've found that installing Homebrew under your home directory to work well. Everything's owned by that user, and there are no issues with shared machines (since other users don't see it at all). The downside is that casks (i.e. pre-built installers) might still end up installing things outside, but that would have been the same without Homebrew existing in the first place.
I have worked for world leading companies in both scenarios for many years, and can tell you that the dimensionality, caos and scale of the manufacturing industry is difficult to match. Actually, depending on the place, it is difficult to comprehend, even for those who have been working inside that industry for just a few years.

Retail's challenge most of the time is the lack of resources on those situations when the business is a low margin one or they just don't want to invest. Dealing with unreasonable and incompetent external customers is frustrating too. Receiving incompatible POS data from each customer, realigning sales organizations or cleaning products hierarchy, and even, getting the numbers from sales and finance to match is a pain. But the amount of processes is about one or two orders of magnitude smaller. In addition, the amount of data collected is huge (Plant Historians alone collect 200k to a 1M values every second), and your KPIs can be as diverse as the many internal and external regulatory agencies that oversee your processes.

Consider just a few of the systems in addition to PI Historian: ERP (you know this one), Manufacturing Execution System, Laboratory Information Management System, Laboratory Electronic Notebook, Change Control System, Non-Conformance/Corrective Action System, Process Control System, Building Management System, Preventive Maintenance System, Learning Management System, Raw Materials Information System, Regulatory Submission Information System....and those are only the big ones.

When the plant is in a highly regulated business like pharma, the amount of bureaucracy needed to change a single parameter in a process control system is disheartening.
FDA specifically, is mandating pharmaceutical industry to perform process monitoring to prove that the processes remain stable. In these industries we do multivariate Statistical Process Control, not because of the big data trend, but because we have been able to save multi-million dollars batches by observing weak multivariate signals that would pass unnoticed in a typical, retail oriented OLAP cube.
Poe's law :)
> But that is 250 households whose kids can longer afford to go to college. 250 home purchases vs 250 apartment rentals (folks on 2-3 yr visa rent not buy in general). So on and so forth.

Because it's completely impossible for any of these people to find another decent job?

Sorry, don't buy it. I've been through companies folding and so on, and I have a better job than I did then.
Hey jsankey, the advantage of Curbit is simplicity. All existing solutions require a fair amount of effort of the person wanting to get rid of something. Freecycle is solving the exact same issue, but I feel that the burden that comes from having to manage pickup / messaging / condition reports all from a very rough web UI deters a huge portion of the population. We shouldn't have to work to get rid of something for free :)

Compared to classifieds in general, it can be much simpler to use, because money isn't changing hands.
Don't get me wrong: I enjoy the European system and I think you are mostly right.

What I don't like is the constant framing going on from the currently politically correct ones on the left. I do not think it would be better the other way around, just state my wish for a bit of sane discussion.

"democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the rest" I guess.
The longer emails, like this and many others, feel seeded for history. They give me the impression they are written knowing they will be made public down the track. As though they're trying to establish a good record/history for future political work. E.g. Happy to be the invisible soldier type lines.

Maybe I'm just jaded with the politicians of today...
Curbit is my side project, I work for travel startup townske.com.
I think it's just the business model... whether ICQ in the 90s or Facebook Messenger today, there is no incentive for interoperability (especially if you're one of the bigger networks.)
The North American correction in property values post the 2008 financial crisis was due to two factors: 1) Increase in inventory levels as subprime borrowers tried to exit their mortgage via a fire sale 2) Total shut down of the mortgage markets, meaning only cash buyers could get deals done.

Given the profile of the typical buyer at the high end of the market in Vancouver, an outsized effect like the one described above is unlikely. These homes are not mortgaged and their owners have savings they draw upon instead of income from employment. Job losses a la 2008 do not affect them as much. For these reasons I doubt we will ever see the kind of corrections in Vancouver like we saw in places like Phoenix and Las Vegas in 2008.

Finally, a somewhat normative question, what's wrong with cheap housing? I agree with you that ill-thought out planning is detrimental to the city's quality of life. But to me at least it seems that the planning and permitting process is overly restrictive.
If someone does this, and wants to use a full-text search-as-a-service to power the search, I'll provide a free Searchify account for it (I'm the founder). For example code, see our Enron email search demo: http://gosearchify.herokuapp.com/
The daemon exposing completion kind of reminds me of the design YouCompleteMe uses, though this takes it several steps further offering quite a bit more funcionality.
Only when one of the scripts is blocked and I get placeholders sprinkled from title and down, main content was readable though IIRC. Happened to me on a MSFT site recently :-]
A number of other responses are suggesting that the explanation is all about the switch to mobile. I'd argue it was less about the platform transition itself and more that people misjudged what behavior that transition would enable. People generally thought the future was voice and video and text was of the past. Few people thought that one of the smartpjone's most powerful features would be a semi-decent typing experience.

When I think back to 2008, sure, geeks used irc, but for most people the thought of typing messages in a chat room seemed hopelessly anachronistic. It wasn't something you do on your fancy new iPhone. Siri, released in 2011, seems driven in part by this perspective, and a vision that the future will be voice-based.

The fact that a lot of people actually prefer texting kinda took the tech industry by surprise. People thought the more advanced technology that more accurately reproduced a conversation with another person would dominate. It turns out that the more psychologically comfortable technogy won, which I think is often the case.

Of course, there are a lot of other reasons why apps like WhatsApp and WeChat have succeeded in developing markets that more driven by local infrastructure and economics.
I feel like these are solvable problems. Even if SMS isn't the right solution, it's clearly already technically possible to send text between phones in an efficient manner using the existing cell phone infrastructure.

I could see some low-ranking Google engineer pushing out an update to the default chat app on my $50 Android that allows it to either use SMS or a Google-operated HTTP endpoint, without realizing that he accidentally caused tens of billions of dollars in chat app valuations to evaporate overnight, since the default app is now good enough for most people.
Any chance you'll also have a Markov chain generator? Bonus points if you can pick your subreddit, give it a starting topic, and let 'er rip.
They did a similar thing with our office elevators. They replaced the physical call buttons with a touchscreen. It doesn't do anything other than call the elevator.

It's far less usable because someone who's blind can't use it.
Is a "data frame" just a table with (edit: a lot of) storage optimization?
Thank you for offering this to any takers. I personally don't have the know-how to do this but if somebody out there does, it would be great if you could donate your time.
This isn't a git flow issue, unless I'm missing something. If anything, you can more easily revert a bad set of changes by simply reverting the merge commit.

Front-end testing is hard, but you need to figure that out. Ruby Motion can come in quite handy for that.
Combining Crowdfunding with a Registry to Improve Cancer Care
> If your job is to travel to another country to render aid because of conditions caused by your own country sending troops to facilitate a coup...

One of these days we'll hold the Canadians accountable for their wanton coup-facilitation and unreasonable toilet-related demands.
The notion of "professionally offended" implies making money off the whole thing. If you don't, than you're merely an amateur offended.

Also, saying that Twitter has a problem is like saying that fires can cause property damage. Twitter is a problem. It's designed for propaganda, whether corporate or political. There is very little else to it that an RSS feed can't do. You cannot use it to run a community or have a real discussion. 140 character limit dumbs things down. Retweets encourage mob mentality and echo chambers. Embedded pictures server to spread stupid memes (think 21st century propaganda posters) and also as an ugly workaround for the character limit. You can't even link to stuff properly, because... uh, reasons. (URLs really shouldn't have counted towards message length.)

If people thought things through, it wouldn't have taken off in the first place.
If it's this importing why not propose it: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

Ruby has a place for this sort of thing and they'll answer you.
I skimmed it, didn't see IRC or ICQ and didn't read the rest. Just another filler article from Ars Tech...
no ragrats
Yep, one of the many Windows headaches I don't miss:

Compare and contrast

Step 1: Install AwfulSoft. Step 2: Cool! Let's run it: START -> Program Files -> Uhh... where the hell is it? Browse, browse, browse, browse... What's that folder? "RogerSoft LLC"? Nope that's some shareware I installed a few weeks ago... Browse, browse, browse, browse... Oh, of course! "WorkerWare Inc." I think that was the company's name... Oh, another nested folder, "AwfulSoft", found it! Finally, the program launcher is a single icon inside yet another nested folder. So five clicks plus some browsing just to find this damn program......

Step 1: Install GreatSoft. Step 2: Cool! Let's run it: START -> Program Files -> GreatSoft. BAM!
> Uh, movie subtitles?

Movie subtitles are very rarely actual transcriptions of what is spoken; they are instead summaries, edited for brevity and quick comprehension.

I don't know much about what kind of corpora is required for training this kind of model, but subtitles don't seem appropriate.
Not really a limit so much as a feature that you wish it had.
Curious, how are Web workers helping you counter UI Thrashing?
Second amendment "freedoms" like background checks, prohibition of most types, mandatory licensing, legibility to private regulation, and a minefield of draconian legal gotchas?

No thanks. We'll make our own freedom.
To get a job while doing sideline startup may have legal consequence? your employer may claim what you developed belongs to him.
I think you are underestimating Apple's apathy when it comes to doing anything of real interest anymore. We don't even get Darwin .iso releases or changelogs anymore. [0] We are left in an arguably worse state of affairs. It's not just sad; it's boring.

[0]: https://opensource.apple.com/static/iso/
TeX, at least from MacTeX, now installs in /Library/TeX.
> There are teams of pickers who come around just before council pickups and take away anything of value

That's illegal too, someone was recently prosecuted for this. Councils own anything put out for council cleanup. They make money selling and recycling this stuff.

EDIT: My council (like many others) don't enforce this rule. They do come down hard on illegal dumping though.
Letting the developer tell the engine when to batch is actually not the hard part. React works exactly like that, for example. Mithril defaults to most-common-scenario call profile, but mostly as a matter of convenience, not because there's anything inherently difficult about exposing that flexibility to the developer.

The pain point that templating engines address is automating the process of figuring out what DOM changes are caused by what state changes. In order to do that, you have to either dirty check the state tree (as Angular 1 does), dirty check the template tree (as React/Mithril/vdom does), or have an observable state tree (as Knockout does). If the templating engine defers its responsibility to the developer, then if, for example, you do a `dataList.pop()`, you are responsible for writing out the code to remove the last item in a DOMNodeList, or updating some count label, or whatever else the view may be doing. This works ok in a small app, but it tends to become hard to maintain as a codebase grows in size (due to requirement changes or whatever).
Sales tax is still tax. While they don't personally hand the money to the government it is still coming out of their money. I am not qualified to talk about how the US tax system fits together but I assume that 50% is paying some form of land tax through local government fees that are passed on as an increase in rent. I would also assume they drink or smoke (pretty hefty taxes there too). Consider also that fees are pretty much tax by any other name (they are government revenue), there is a rather large fee to cancel US citizenship.