skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to happen on around 50% of the take home tests that I have been given. Funnily enough I only take the time to do 50% of them.

Hackerrank is even worse. They have strange ways of wording the questions. I have to Google around to work out how to use their input and output (I work with databases all day long, not reading and writing to STDIN/ STDOUT). No step through debugger (which makes a lot of sense for the algorithmic type questions they ask). Cut and paste only works in some browsers.

No one expects you to set up a database and connect to it in that sort of timeframe - yet I would probably manage it better as I do it regularly.
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It's actually quite straightforward: provide easy access to birth control. Studies show that this simple measure is very effective in reducing birth rates. No genocide required.
FYI applypage.io is available.
Yeah, "Python 4" sounds _less_ compatible with 2.7, not _more_ compatible. I like the "TwentyEight" name, or how about "Two4Evr". :)
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Why is that a bad idea? If you sell to one of them, you will most certainly get paid in full and on time.

Or were you thinking that they would try to bust you for illegal hacking instead?
Thinking about this overnight, I realized that this is a historic first.

For generations and generations, children have whined about homework. Of course; nearly everyone would rather play than work, and the goal of many working people is to put together enough moola in order to get out of the rat race permanently. People who win big lottery jackpots tend to say "oh, I will still keep going to work; nothing changes". Doesn't last.

The historic first may be that now children are starting to have millennial parents who do the homework whining for them.
That was a particularly unpleasant website to view on mobile
The benchmarking study done by Yahoo was fairly comprehensive, and quantitatively assesses the different stream frameworks (including Flink and SS) https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/135321837876/benchmarking-s...

We also did a podcast about it if you're interested in digging deeper -- http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/02/03/benchmarking-...
There is So You Start[1] which offers 2x3TB with soft RAID.. Dedicated server, so you might be able to pay some amount and get them to add more space to it

1: https://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/
As far as I know, the only way to have something close to Wireshark for CPUs is to do a simulation. Then you can measure network latencies, cache hits and so on, but the simulation will be extremely slow. There's GEM5 (http://www.gem5.org) - a simulator with couple of DSLs designed to do just that, but I'd bet that Intel has their own thing. I did my thesis on simulating MESIF in GEM5, here's a link: https://dip.felk.cvut.cz/browse/pdfcache/kadlej16_2013dipl.p... , that could get people started if they are interested (it also might be a good introduction into the subject of cache coherency protocols). I have the code laying around somewhere, I've been wanting to make it public, but it needs cleanup first.
Anyone else have trouble with that webpage? It froze my browser (Chrome).
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With my limited experience of talking with federal prosecutor interns in a bar in DC, they would be very excited at these prospects. The general feeling, was that anyone interacting with a federal prosecutor was guilty and that rules were part of a game to be manipulated for one thing, winning.

Both Trump and Clinton will support and expand these data sharing programs.
"It should not be a heavy meal, consisting of over five to seven hundred calories" is still good advice. That's about how big my breakfast is. Yes, I weigh it and count the calories.
>The point is computation is an abstract concept and not tied to the physical medium that we use.

That's not exactly true

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_computation
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Well if this works it seems better, I'm mostly a user of hypertext so a bit ignorant, sorry.
> but the computer has had much more training samples as Lee Sedol could process in his lifetime.

That's not obvious at all. I don't think you appreciate how rigorous and demanding the training of a Go world champion is, how utterly devoted to Go they need to be: http://lesswrong.com/lw/n8b/link_alphago_mastering_the_ancie...
Yeah I prefer year version numbers too. Makes life easier to know how up to date everything is from a glance.
Google’s DeepMind Defeats Legendary Go Player Lee Sedol in Historic Victory
> Shopping lists, weather, home automation

Funny, I felt the article gave unusually short shrift to Siri, which I use for all of those things, in addition to "What time is it in X?", alarms, and so on.

Siri is not working so well when music plays, and I wish I could easily add skills to it, so if they've cracked that then it's something.
Nope, OVH doesn't have data center in Germany afaik.
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Charging for KVM access.... Sounds extremely unpleasant. Why would you want a provider like the that, who is going to kick you in the genitals when you're down?
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> KVM access is expensive

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I got the impression that KVM access on KimSufi or SoYouStart requires somebody to walk over to your machine and plug a USB key into your machine. That would explain why it costs $30.
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>But when they were found to have done it, it was covered up. And yes, because it would have interfered with another lie of theirs, not that it's a defense.

You were trying to claim that Russia intentionally shot down a passenger plane, when it's obvious that they didn't.

>As I said. Russia doesn't care about ISIS, Russia cares about a handy puppet state. If ISIS turned back-around into Iraq Russia would stop fighting them. If Russia kills more people than ISIS in freeing the country they won't care at all.

So, yes, Russia DOES care about ISIS. If ISIS magically teleported to the Moon and turned into pink unicorns, then Russia would stop caring about them, but that's about as likely as ISIS turning around and staying in Iraq, so it's pointless to discuss such possibilities.

>Hmmm, yeah. No. Shooting ISIS is awesome, helping a dictator is not. If we actually collaborate to help Assad hold the Syrians hostage, we're as bad as ISIS.

And you're as clueless as George W Bush. How do you propose to deal with the power vacuum when you get rid of ISIS and Assad? Just let the other Islamist groups like Al Nusra take over? Great plan! Or no, I know, let's have elections and set up a democracy!! Yeah, that worked so great in Egypt, where they elected the Muslim Brotherhood!

And how are the Syrians being "held hostage" anyway? A large chunk of the Syrian population wants the Assad regime, just like a large chunk of the Iraqi population was happy with the Saddam regime.

You have three choices: back a dictator, help Islamists overthrow the dictator, or stay out of it. I don't see how #2, your choice, is at all morally defensible.

>Commit to fixing it, or expect to paying for more over time as you continually half-fix it.

You haven't actually come up with any kind of viable plan to "fix" the problem, other than putting more people like ISIS and Al Qaeda in charge.
WOW, I had never heard this from anyone else, but it's very similar (without the labels) to the theory I've had in my head for many years.

Thanks so much. I'm gonna look into this more now!
Maybe it was a typo and they meant "minutes" instead of "seconds"? Later in the article they say:

> Downloading a typical app with 20 MB APK can take more than 30 minutes on a 2G network

Then again overstating accomplishments is pretty standard for tech blog posts.
This failure mode is correct and very real. It's actually one of the reasons why we're starting to see significant pushback against p-values. https://xkcd.com/882/
> To say that we cannot do that is to say that Science itself is too weak a method to overcome the level of complexity presented by advanced biological organisms.

That's not what science does. Science is the process by which we learn about natural processes. It doesn't overcome anything.

To invoke "Science" in this way is to treat it like a religion, like an all-powerful god. I mean, you even capitalized it.

Kurzweil, De Gray, and many others do this too. Either they don't actually know what science is, or they are cynically feeding a misperception of what science is. Either way, it's bad.

The process of using scientific knowledge to achieve human goals is generally known as engineering. And the heart of engineering is dealing with constraints. We have no idea, today, what constrains human life spans. Therefore we have no scientific reason to believe that we can ever use engineering to extend them significantly beyond what they are today.

We do know that all lifeforms have a limited lifespan, and most animals' are shorter than humans. That's a big clue that the constraint might be something fundamental and not easily overcome.
This looks nice – I've been using [Isso](https://posativ.org/isso/) for the past year or so.
"His argument was simple: Energy consumption has been rising at 2 or 3 percent a year. Even at that modest rate, within a few centuries, the energy usage would be equal to the energy produced by high-efficiency solar cells covering the entire surface of the planet. “We’ll be using all of the solar energy that impacts the Earth,” he said. “That’s an actual limit.”"

What now? I was under the assumption that the solar energy levels hitting the earth were quite higher/more than we could ever "need" and also that energy usage isn't going to increase at a consistent rate. Anyone have data on this? Does his timeframe (few centuries) exceed than existing reporting? Does it even make sense to project a 2-3% increase in energy consumption over ~300 years?

Found:
http://illumin.usc.edu/assets/submissions/675/murphy_CSP.pdf
> I've never been able to convince an employer to switch to it though.

And there's no point now. Just get them to switch to Visual Studio 2015 and you'll gain most of the key features, and less of the lag/bugs/memory usage.

Between VS having Resharper's features built in, and Microsoft making it easier than ever to find and install VS extensions, Resharper's days are numbered (in particular as they've said they have no plans to reform their extension to use Roslyn).

I'm moving away from Resharper after my current update subscription expires.
That's not quite a fair reduction; if it was just down to Guido map would be displaced too, or even gone.
This is excellent. I've been thinking about rolling my own blog software since Medium took away their marginal note feature (IIRC, you can now make notes but they're for yourself only, readers can't see them). Since reading Ed Tufte's books, I'm convinced that margin notes are infinitely better than footnotes or (egad) endnotes for sharing little "extras" with your readers.
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Actually, I'm speaking of middle school.
Maybe this will bring back the CLI when average users start asking for a keyboard equivalent of this. It's funny how there have been numerous iterations of Siri for at least a decade---but there still aren't textual equivalents that do the same level of NLP.

$ find . -name "*.jpg" -type f | xargs rm -f

to

$ delete all the jpeg files here
And when that happens I guarantee someone will be on HN saying it is "trivial" and "not a real advancement" and "we already basically knew how to do this". Because that's what people say every time something interesting happens in AI, without fail.
Amazon will lease 20 Boeing 767s to get its cargo service off the ground
We just introduced an SSD cached storage solution at MNX.io

$15/TB -- scalable to 40T.

https://mnx.io/pricing
USG extends OPT STEM extension to 36 months
But in a global economy, who cares about being intelligent or being good at anything unless you already also inherit? Inheritance is the best way forward to economic success, and failing that companies are primarily interested in obedience. In a globalized hypercapitalist free-trade economy you compete with other potential workers for jobs based on how willing you are to be exploited and abused, not how intelligent/competent you are -- in this context I think soul-crushing busywork is exactly what students need to prepare them for what's to come.
The problem is not so much the voting and the community, but the extreme non-linearity of the flagging mechanism. Getting flagged is mostly invisible until you cross a threshold and then -- poof! -- your article is dead. It was intended to keep spam and kitten pix off the front page. Vouching was introduced as a counter-measure to inappropriate flagging, and indeed my article was vouched for once and was briefly resurrected before it was flagged to death a second time.

Keeping control of an on-line curated forum as it grows is still an unsolved problem.
Totally same for my wife and me: 15 minutes up into mountains and the nonsense is 10 miles away.
I'm really happy with TransIP. You can get a cheap VPS with an SDD, and attach a multi-TB network disk to it. That said, it's not the same as having them locally attached, I get ~35Mbps on writes.
Almost all modern frameworks allow a request to be executed on multiple cores, though if all you're doing is HTML/JSON rendering there would very rarely be any performance advantage to doing so (though if there's an async point it will probably happen, i.e. one core will execute the part up until the call to the backend and then a different core may well pick up the continuation when the result comes back). The actual compute time to render HTML/JSON is utterly minimal (even if you're doing it in a super-slow language like Ruby or Python that requires a hashtable lookup for every function call); if you're doing linear algebra in your web frontend then you'll notice slowness (especially as a lot of SoCs may not have much FPU), but for typical frontend workloads the CPU usage is just utterly irrelevant compared to the cost of the backend I/O.
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No problem! I updated the post to be clearer about this.
If you do CPU-intensive work on these servers, might not the electricity cost surpass the 0.02/hour income? Example: if a kWh costs 0.10, then to have something burning 200W costs 0.02 per hour. (Someone substitute real-ish numbers.)
Pretty much this - Nothing happens in China during the new year celebration. We've had recent contact with Chinese companies who all warned us that there would be no progress until after the holiday.
Ask HN: “Save to pocket” for HN that saves both the article AND the comments?
I use Pocket to save for later everything interesting I find on Hacker News (which ends up being almost everything) but I'm kind of tired of having to save the article first, and then the comment threads, for every story. Ideally I'd like an extension that saves both the parent article AND the comments thread with a single click, but both the official extension and unofficial ones don't support this. Anyone else in the same boat? What would you recommend?
Hours of homework is generally a ridiculously low value activity. The main problems is it's pre-focus. Memorizing history, trig identities, writing essays, memorizing names for bones, etc are all 'useful' things, but not everyone benefits from all of them.

PS: It's common for most states to have 'state' history as a subject. Sure, you can force kids to memorize such things, but it's generally a complete waste of time.
they were amateur expert games from the KGS server.
True I could EASILY see that happening. I think the important point is to provide the feedback then stop communication (unless it's like a simple thank you or maybe some clarification you could give them or something). Arguing back and forth with an employer who already made the hiring decision isn't going to help things but it's hard not to be defensive if you think someone is wrong.
I never imagined there could be an essay that funny on the failure of Dennard scaling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling) and the period immediately preceding it when hardware designers had more transistors than they knew what to do with.

Yeah, thinking about it:

386: we can put a 32 bit CPU on a die

486: we can improve that, add a serious cache, and FPU on die

Pentium: more than one instruction at a time

Pentium Pro: and out of order

Pentium 4: No one listened to those warning that “THE MAGMA PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR OUR MISTAKES.” (Intel high level engineering management frequently screws up big, see also the multiple memory architecture errors, two resulting in 1 million part each recalls.)
This really isn't an accurate representation of what happened. WebKit's success didn't happen overnight, and people weren't jumping on it from the get-go. In fact, there was a long period of people using Gecko and engineering their own embedding/browser solutions because it was widely, and correctly realised that Gecko was a more mature and featureful engine. This was my job for several years before I was employed by Mozilla (and indeed, I did do some WebKit work at the time too - but there was far less demand for it).

It was only through a long period of neglecting these users that WebKit was allowed to mature and become successful. There was a good reason for doing this (see yoric's blog post, linked in my other comment above), but I think we've past the time now where we need to reconsider this direction somewhat.
I'm not arguing against anonymity, i am arguing that there is a ethical difference between releasing information about that there's a difference between what a politician says publicly and what the politician really thinks, and the same situation with a private citizen.

A politician wants to change the laws and circumstances for our lives, and he/she gets a mandate to do that by convincing the voters that they have aligned interests.
I think the post doesn't make any sense. For example look at the kids that are from India, who have rigorous syllabus and also homeworks. They CAN definitely do better in University level entrance level exams and crack one of the toughest exams in world called IIT JEE(Indian Institute of Technology- Joint Entrance Exam)

First of all I can't imagine average joe from American schools to crack it(not saying that few gifted/ self-home hardworkers can't get thru) at level of 12 grade.

And if the post advocates to remove that minimalistic homework..then I can only wish to God save your children.
> Before Amazon started selling eBooks, publishers were able to sell hardcover books, i.e. new releases, for a higher price point. Then Amazon, being the only ebook retailer, was able to very quickly undercut the publishers' in-store new-release prices on a global scale due to the nature of digital products and their position as a monopoly in the ebook retailer market. This cost the publishers money.

What? Apart that Amazon paid full price for the ebooks to publishers, there was a time window before the hard cover release and the ebook release.

> Then Apple appeared as another retailer and publishers asked Apple to give them their agency model back. And, publishers said they would only join Apple if all the publishers would do it. Apple said okay.

You strangely forgot the part about the publishers forcing the agency model to all the stores.
This is a helpful table for converting sigma levels to percents and fractions (although those you listed are pretty good rules of thumb):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/68–95–99.7_rule#Table_of_num...
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Well, thanks to that technology I can walk, play sports, sit, etc. Engaging in real estate speculation is far less important to me than picking up a girl and banging her against the wall or even just walking. I guess if you've never had major injuries, this sort of thing doesn't matter.

As for "less personal freedom", I don't mind living in a rental with the girl of my choosing. So far all the girls I've chosen or even considered were not white. I'm sure an African or Indian lady would have posed no problem whatsoever back in my parent's era...
Today you can be healthier at 1, 20, 40, 60, and 80 than you could have been 100 years ago.

However, just like 100 years ago, you will almost certainly be dead by age 100. For certain by 120.
AlphaGo machine-learning program defeats top Go player in first match
Isn't this jumping the shark a bit? It's a 5-game match. The first was really, really close.
There needs to be a corollary considered here, possibly something like "never invoke the stupidity out lane for those who have previously demonstrated their malice"
Those are the two biggest differences, for sure.

All the big players have done a good job of speech to text (at least for USA English—saw an Englishman have to break into his best John Wayne impression for an on-stage demonstration about a month ago). But the Echo hardware does a great job of isolating your voice and the platform allows us to write skills for it quite easily.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the other guys make steps in a similar direction if the Echo continues to succeed.
I think, almost by definition, you won't be afraid of anything until it's already coming for you. By that time it will already have the capability to decide your future.
Or websites could just optimize themselves for fast “first render”. It’s not rocket science. Start by making sure your non-critical assets don’t block rendering. (E.g. many large news sites still have FOIT-inducing web fonts, which should be considered an amateur’s mistake at this point.)
In my experience online.net/scaleway support is better than ovh/kimsufi. Also, the scaleway offers have some sort of API at https://developer.scaleway.com in addition to web ui.
> But how was Apple supposed to negotiate their store deals with the publishers? Wasn't it an optimal goal offering all the publishers the deal they'd accept? Such a deal can't be made without discussing the prices. How would you make the store deals in Apple's shoes, given the goal to reach the uniform deal with the publishers, in order to avoid some of them being given "unfavorable" deal? And given that app store worked with 30%? And that publishers actually favored agency model? What would you do differently?

This is irrelevant and has nothing to do with the case. The case is about Apple colliding with the publisher to FORCE all the stores to change to the agency model.

The case is not Apple dealing with their OWN store
To the contrary, "you" are constantly changing as your existing neurons reconfigure themselves. Replacing them would have at least the same effect.
Did you RTFA? https://www.facebook.com/lite/ is what this article is about...
I've never lived in silicon valley, but I moved to Nashville (actually Franklin) from SW Florida a few years ago and agree with everything you say here. Tech scene is very active---we have Nashville Coding School, a growing number of startups, Hack Tennessee (formerly Hack Nashville), and more user groups and meetups than you can shake a stick at.

As far as schools go you definitely want to stay away from Davidson Country, but Williamson County is about 20 minutes south of downtown Nashville and has fantastic schools.
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Thanks for the link. Myungwan Kim's commentary is superb, am I the only one thinking the american guy speaks a bit too much though?