skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I opened deepgram.com but the video search example isn't working. It could be useful to apply to lectures, podcasts and video presentations. The most relevant keywords could be automatically extracted and used as tags.
Yes! It hasn't been demonstrated in mammals, but in the elife paper linked above, I think they saw synapses regrowing in the same positions. However, its not clear if it's actually necessary for them to be in the same position.
I completely disagree, data scientists who can not create the data they need are at a significant disadvantage to those who can. Our job is more than being able to analyze and interpret data. If you have someone in your organization that spends no time thinking about how they get the data, you need to fire them or reduce their salary.
How Kip Designed Their Chat Bot for Commerce
Interesting idea. Are you aim for companies that don't have a team of developers?

I think for companies with their own dev, they would either put some resource to resolve the problem, or live with it because they can't resolve it(be it politics, sensitive data, legacy architecture, lack of resource, etc).

What about a web service for people to advertise their pain point with requirement, and put a bounty for solution?
Anatomy of a crypto vulnerability
I would highly recommend seeding the ecosystem with comments from other platforms. Sure, those won't be "users in your ecosystem," but you won't have any users in your ecosystem if there are no comments to read. You need content for people to consume first, so they use the extension for that. You don't need to make them look like fake comments -- you can attribute them to reddit/HN or put them into their own section of the extension. But the point is that you want users to use your extension for READING the comments, because ONLY THEN will they begin to post. Nobody wants to spend their time writing a comment in an empty feed that nobody will see.

(You could even go the other direction, for comments posted in the extension, e.g. build a reddit bot that syndicates comments from Epiverse to reddit like "Someone commented on this in Epiverse, <link>".)

I understand it's a large undertaking, but so was making the extension. All that effort will be wasted if you don't get users!

To reduce the workload, you could consider modularizing the "comment syndication" system, and making the scrapers open source. Then you could get contributors to help you. i.e. a repo for scraping reddit comments on an article, a repo for scraping HN comments on an article, etc... Each repo would take in the URL of an article, find any posts on reddit/HN/etc, and push their comments into the epiverse system. Honestly, it wouldn't even be that much work... there are well-maintained APIs for reddit and HN, and probably many other link aggregators as well. But if you open source the design of syndication, then imagination is the only limit of where you can syndicate comments from (think: news sites, blogs, twitter... anywhere people write about the article and link to it).

It's a really well done extension and I want to see it work. But you gotta believe me, man, you NEED a growth hack to make this work. It will fizzle out otherwise.

Also, I really like the +N indicator icon that represents new comments. I have the extension installed now, and when I start to see that number growing, I'll know the extension is working. :)

Good luck!! It's a great idea and well executed. Now you just gotta grow it.
The blogger is writing about what's happening in maybe 4 (top) schools. The rest of the country doesn't have this "problem."

Why the downvotes?
On a smaller scale, the "q" utility has been a boon for me in the handling of ad-hoc delimited data files.

http://harelba.github.io/q/

Really one of the best things I've discovered in the past 5 years. Saves so much work compared to doing stuff with sed, awk, and the like.
If you look at the theme of "workers get a smaller fraction of income because they have less bargaining power", women entering the workforce doubles the potential workforce, thus cutting the bargaining power and cutting wages.

When women entered the workforce they took many of the entry level service positioned filled by black men, so now black men are in jail.

Similarly, if universities want to hire professor's children to be professors, now there are twice as many professor's kids. Every (other) kind of discrimination can be pursued with twice the intensity with women in the workforce.

Of course, women entering the workforce mean that women's work gets taxed, makes billionaires rich, etc. And then of course two-income families can afford to spend more on housing, driving up the cost of housing, they can spend more to educate their kids.

Women entering the workforce has been a huge driver of economic inequality but neither the left nor the right wants to talk about it.
Quick fact-check, both E-Class and S-Class are common in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_by_country
I see nothing wrong here. It appears it was an informal request that a private company could have nicely said "no" in response. YouTube is taking down videos all the time due to informal requests that have no authority of law behind them, no one complains that much about those.
It looks like they are a high frequency trading outfit.

It would be interesting to know how these private black box firms actually performed compared with the returns on a transparent security like the Vanguard S&P 500 fund.
Perhaps that magical shredder would look something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_htzscFkkg
Uber is an interesting company for a number of reasons, but here's the part that interests me the most:

Uber operates in a grey-area legal environment in the cities it operates in. Uber's defense / view on this is that they generate such a societal positive in terms of jobs that it outweighs the legal constraints.

But, when your goal is to eventually use a fleet of self-driving cars and eliminate the job possibilities for drivers, isn't that a moot point?
The last geeky conference I went to, Github's Atom conference, I saw virtually nothing but Macbooks. I've even seen a presentation by Microsoft given on a Macbook.
What a dumb cuck. Should have taken care of his wife first.
Only in the same way that watching a YouTube video changes the view count. Do you believe that's an invalid use of GET?
I agree. I think it's cool that somebody is trying to create a JS API runtime for Win32, but the same criticism for using RubyMotion to build iOS apps applies. It ends up feeling too unnatural and stressful to use, with an extra dependency you have to rely on for support.

I believe that using Win32 API in C/++/# (maybe one day with Go if all the OS functions are mapped) is much more natural than forcing yourself to do it in JS. A lot of the Windows APIs still require you to manage some memory (I'm not sure how much is abstracted in C#, but if you are doing it through DllImport, Win32 will still expect you to free memory if you are using OS API functions as it was designed for C).

On top of that, you will spend a lot of effort trying to box/re-package documentation intended for the C/++ (ATL/MFC/WTL/etc) or C# (WPF) audience. This is probably the greatest cost. In the end, I suspect NativeScript code looking a lot like the C equivalents. Consuming third party libraries written in unmanaged code is likely to produce very ugly code.

I tried using RubyMotion a long time ago for iOS development. All of the sample code I found was in Objective-C, and I pretty much spent most of my time rewriting the code in Ruby, or parsing docs in ObjC and figuring out the Ruby way to do things. In the end, it was simpler to just do it in ObjC.

Writing the app in a SDK with a lot more support is just much better. Your sanity will thank you. And if you are writing cross-platform code, C has endured the test of time.
From personal experience, I can say that Google was only willing to extend an internship offer a week past their initial two week deadline. This is despite the fact that I was still interviewing with other companies at the time. From speaking with my university's career center I am not the only person this happened to.
Great analysis but this makes it sound even less likely. Going from zero marginal costs to something like this seems totally against their current model.
Your site will be much more usable in developing countries with low spec mobile devices and high latency, low bandwidth networks if you design it to function first without JavaScript. You will reduce page weight, and client side CPU usage.
I'd like to see answers to my comments or postings in real time, not having to reload the page. HN doesn't allow me to do that.
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Do I have the language for you. https://scratch.mit.edu/

You can make compelling interactive things probably without even making a loop.

I think that's the closest we're going to get, at least.
They aren't creating jobs thou? They are creating a cheaper/better car service?
OSBoxes: Ready-To-use VM's for Linux/Unix/FreeBSD
No need for AI. You can just use an rfid sensor on the animal's collar.
I'm reminded of the scene in Back to the Future where Doc reveals that he got his nuclear fuel from terrorists. The name of the country has changed, but the problem is an old one.

The biggest thing we can do to keep people safe is to stop giving desperate people the means and motive to kill.
If Uber really is buying 100,000 cars, or anywhere near that number, it totally undermines their argument that they are a ride sharing app and not a straight up taxi/limo company.
It's happening outside of schools. In my own network I know roughly 100 or so junior to mid level devs who have sought jobs in the last year and roughly 25% of them have dealt with exploding offers from NY and SF companies -- most frequently from the smallest and/or lowest-paying companies.

One of my friends saw an offer explode in less than an hour. They had emailed him at 3pm on a Friday and had made another offer and received an acceptance from somebody else by 3:45 and didn't tell him till he emailed his acceptance around 6pm.
I've never seen someone so pissed off.
i don't necessarily want to limit myself to one language, but i want to be damn sure which language i'll be grilled on during the interview gauntlet, and prepare accordingly. personally, i can typically only be technical-interview-good in 1 or 2 languages at a time max.
Probably not intentional, but that title made me think of Yosser Hughes from Boys From the Blackstuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aObZJN9zDtA
I love the tone of the article. It struggles to assert that although the gun could be used as a weapon, it had more potential as something to launch a satellite.

You would have to be pretty naive to think the Iraqi's, who always wanted to be the dominant Persian Gulf state in the region, would actually use this for its intended purpose and not weaponize it to intimidate its neighbors in the region.
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I think NdT (and many others) illustrate perfectly the problem of being an expert in one field and then straying into other fields thinking that somehow your expertise in Field A carries over to Field B. In most instances it absolutely doesn't![1] This is where humility comes in -- it's something most scientists should have been taught by failed experiments, failed classes(!), &c. NdT (el al) probably had humility early on, but I think the spotlight may have gotten to them. Richard Dawkins seems to have fallen into the same trap wrt. feminism ("Dear Muslima" and all that crap).

Plus, Twitter -- it seems -- can make idiots of all of us. Without someone vetting it's just way too easy to say the first thing that comes to mind... which is usually the wrong thing... and then you're stuck defending it because PRIDE.

[1] By way of example he recently ventured into commenting on biology... badly. I'll spare you the details, but if you want to investigate, here[2] is a decent takedown by an actual expert with links back to the original. (Not that you need an expert to see the idiocy of NdT's remarks, but if you want authority, you've got it.). I believe NdT has also previously spouted off about the uselessness of Philosophy... which requires a pretty ignorant view of Philosophy.

[2] http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/03/17/some-days-...
It's like a Kickstarter, but with several billion dollars.
When that happens, skirting the law will no longer be necessary. A company with no personnel costs, rather than low personnel costs, should have little trouble cutting a more attractive deal with municipalities. Or they can just lease the technology to the existing medallion-holders.
This article is a pretty good discussion on your exact point:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/04/uber...

"Back in September of last year, Kalanick said at a conference that Uber was creating 50,000 new jobs for drivers around the world every month—more than doubling the 20,000 new monthly jobs Uber estimated it was generating in May.

...

Usually when we talk about job creation, we’re thinking in terms of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly payrolls report. So the economy added 126,000 jobs in March and 264,000 in February, while the unemployment rate was basically unchanged. That’s the language of the labor market. Because the drivers who use Uber’s app to accept your request for a ride and pick you up are independent contractors, they fall under the BLS’s umbrella of “alternative employment arrangements.” "
TDD is best when you're writing code that talks to other code. So APIs, database models, etc. Pure functions, and code that has dependencies you can inject and mock. You should never abandon TDD in situations like this.

It's true that it's harder to write TDD for code with side effects or that draws UI. It doesn't really make sense to use TDD for this.

You shouldn't conflate the two. Also, "always pass the majority of tests" is a trap. You should always pass all the tests.

Source: I've been managing and working in automated testing and continuous integration systems for 8 years, dating back to before the term was coined. I was the manager of the system, at IMVU, that coined the term "continuous integration". I've also worked on testing at Sauce Labs and Google.
> "über's defense/view on this is that they generate such a societal positive in terms of jobs that it outweighed the legal constrains"

I doubt they care a bit about the amount of jobs they are creating, I would say their view is "they generate such a positive amount of cash that it outweighs the legal constrains" and if they see a possibility of removing their highest expense of getting that cash - they won't bat an eye on doing so because they already have a history of doing stuff that is on the edge of legality/morality.
Probably because:

* SQL Server is proprietary

* SQL Server licenses are expensive

* SQL Server runs only on Windows (or least used to?)
It can take awhile for things to "click" with Vim before you really understand it.

Start by reading this StackOverflow answer[0] titled, "Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi."

Like that poster states, when you are using Vim correctly you are speaking a language as you are editing. You provide it an action and then you tell Vim what to apply the action to. This is usually either a motion command, or a text object. Combining these concepts allows you to have a level of expressiveness that non-modal editors cant easily replicate.

If you are just using Vim as you would use a non-modal editor you aren't going to see any gains. But if you embrace the "language" idea of Vim, learn to spend most of your time in command mode, and start combining actions + motions/text objects, you will start to see the real power of Vim.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/2635
This seems like it would be useful for education. I don't see how it helps reading, which is the purpose of highlighting source code.
That seems way harder unless they plan on buying a very small number of car models. Every different car model (even the same model between years) has different performance characteristics (do you issue the same orders for "hit the brakes" to a car that needs 100ft to go from 40-0 as a car that needs 50ft?) and physical dimensions which would necessitate different software optimizations and sensor calibrations. Development plus rigorous testing of every configuration means this quickly gets out of hand unless you standardize on 1 or a very small number of models.
Thanks jazoom, that made my day.
>Hindelang, Hirshi, and Weiss (1981) compare police records on
arrests to self-reports for a sample of individuals and find these to be
similar, with the exception of self-reports for young black men, which
appear to understate the amount of crime committed.

If the fraction of drug users are equal, but blacks lie about whether they're drug users more often, then your statistics will show that whites use more.

The reported difference between blacks and whites is less than the known difference in honesty between them with regard to drug questions.

You also don't seem to have responded to my point at all, which is that blacks have a higher rate of reported usage within the last week. This is before taking the self-reported nature into account. See the source originally cited, http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rdusda.pdf

>Among black drug users, 54%
reported using drugs at least monthly and 32% reported
using them weekly. Such frequent drug use was less
common among white drug users. Among white users, 39%
reported using drugs monthly and 20% reported using
them weekly.

I'll let you do the math to determine how this affects usage rates.
The HN layout is center justified.
Good question. Is it this [0]?

[0] http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?i...
They are driven carelessly, smoked in, eaten in, etc...
It's hard to imagine what it must be like to go from feeling no emotions to feeling them all, like the colourblind glasses.

It's relatively easy to imagine seeing the world in black and white and then having the colour switch flipped. I can't imagine the same for emotion... what a wild ride it must have been. It must have been so painful at first, especially when he realized that some of his "funny friends" had really been making fun of him...
I want to go on record saying I agree with the idea that more control of guns is necessary, and I use this statistic to beat into my father's thick skull that guns are a problem in the USA. But I think a better intro into the problem is Vox. http://www.vox.com/2015/10/3/9444417/gun-violence-united-sta...

There are a LOT of decent arguments people in the US use to keep guns in the hands of their citizens. The most compelling one for me is that if you want to take my guns then lets have a plan in place to severely reduce the number of guns police have. That resonates with me on a personal level but I'm not expecting the police to give up all guns until results are shown on both sides. I can only think of Swatting in the USA. If I can prank call the police and they swat my neighbors house how can we say that citizens are the only problem here. http://time.com/2916554/aclu-police-militarized-report-swat-...

I use swat teams as an example of the paramilitarization of police that bothers me and is another side of the gun problem in the USA. If they broken into houses with battons and stun guns this would be bad but a different story.
The Secretary of State calls up and asks you to take down a video and that's an "informal request"?
Car rentals are fairly expensive. People tend to take better care of things they've put a lot into. Case in point, rental cars tend to be in much better condition than the back seats of taxis, which in turn are in better shape than the back seats of buses. I think people's concern is that single rides in self-driving cars might even rank below buses.
"Comfortable living" is where UBI falls apart for me. What's comfortable? If my parents are [google|fb|apple] execs and I decide I want to just write poetry and live off UBI, will I be able to afford to live in the same neighborhood as them? The same city? The same region?

Clearly the answer is no, and it will result in the ghettoization of those that choose to take only UBI for income. This already happens with Section 8 housing, retirement havens (eg Florida), and so forth. There would be an even starker contrast between the haves (who perform "useful" work) and the have-nots (who subsist solely on UBI for whatever reason).
Here's a case that I have published under before: Their software is ready for their own use for research by them personally. However, it has no help, documentation, automation, magic, or even small amounts of assistance. It doesn't work until you have it spit out a page of numbers, which you feed into Matlab and hack on for a week before compiling a new copy of the app that has the resulting calibration matrix baked into the code. The instruction manual for the apk you're asking for would be equivalent to a bachelor's in computer science and half a PhD on DSP and machine learning. That's why they're not releasing it. It proves that their math works and the approach is valid. Replacing their expertise and making it fast enough and reliable enough for general release would require a startup, six developers three of whom need PhDs, a UX team, and a year and a half of work. The approach works and they can prove it. That's it.
Man, that must be loud.
Well, it's not. Not unless you live in one of a very few countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Nigeria, or Iraq, http://qz.com/552334/more-people-died-from-terrorism-last-ye...).

People forget that there has always been terrorism and that it has historically been much worse than it is now. Scroll down a bit to the chart of international terror attacks on the US in this report: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/05/terror-tren... (You can also run your own custom report here: http://smapp.rand.org/rwtid/search_form.php)

The 1970s and 1980s were much more dangerous in the US and Western Europe than the 1990s and 2000s. The idea that we are now fighting terrorists and weren't before is ahistorical nonsense. The idea that terrorism is more dangerous in the US today than it has been is purely a result of politically motivated fear-mongering. In the US at least, there is always a war on something. If it's not the cold war, it's the war on drugs, or the war on terror. It's just another system of control.
Everybody who writes code does ETL in some form.

That's the fundamental action of computation. Read, compute, write.

This is a stupid article.
I always wonder what developers feel when some project they haven't touched in months or years gets leapt on by an eager Hacker News.
I think it will be very interesting to see what happens with self-driving car regulation. I foresee the money going from taxi drivers -> Uber -> Gov/Uber Split & no more jobs.
Are those patterns likely to be used, though? If one is detected, could the tool we're hypothesizing about inform a human who'd be able to understand what was going on?

I'm always confused between symbolic evaluation and abstract interpretation but, according to Wikipedia, abstract interpretation is the more general term. I'd love to have the time and the ability to work on this kind of thing, up to and including partial evaluation. Really a lot of potential in this area, I think.
The closest thing to a clear definition of privilege that I've found is this checklist:https://www.deanza.edu/faculty/lewisjulie/White%20Priviledge...

In a couple of weeks I'm giving up nearly all [1] of those benefits for what is very far from the first time. The 18-36 hour flight bothers me more than the loss of privilege. I know exactly how little privilege is worth.

[1] I don't have children, so a few items (e.g. 8, 14) don't apply. 35 doesn't apply since I'm not a scheduled caste.
Please note that the results are not reproducible.

This effectively putting a current the the subject's brain and can be dangerous if not administered by a doctor