skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As well noted, Glassdoor and other places already do this. Why do software developers feel compelled to constantly "invent" things we already have plenty of. Do something unique, original, or amazing. Stop copying everyone and just putting new UIs and a few extra database fields on stuff and calling it 'innovation'. So tired of the internet and all the noise clogging it up. Once the crash happens, we will have a glut of 'developers' who will claim they are disenfranchised and out of work and blame the economy... just like the steel-mill workers of the 70s/80s. We don't need this now, and we won't need it later when your main employer stops paying you because you don't actually BUILD anything interesting.
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I wonder if the 10-20% reduction in jar size[1] in current Scala 2.12 milestone will carry over to Scala.js? Or maybe Google Closure Compiler is already stripping out loads of anonymous classes in pre-2.12 Scala.js via aggressive DCE.

Would obviously be nice to get generated js blob as lean as possible since Scala 2.13 and overhauled/streamlined collections is still a ways off (at least 18 months post-2.12 GA if release schedule holds).

[1] https://github.com/scala/scala/pull/5003#issuecomment-198150...
20% VAT and high import taxes.
Completely agree, it's premature optimisation!

Design is how it works, any designer working on motion design early in the lifecycle of a new product, to the detriment of focus on say, utility aren't designing. They're playing.
The header file for compatible OpenGL 4 will run to 50kloc. The jump table and normalization routines will be twice that. That's more LOC than the Linux kernel, and all it does is sigbus.
DARPA Robots are full 2.1D autonomous. Cars have far less degrees of liberty and their "environment" is heavily subsidized.

Why are drones (3D evolution) and electric train (1.xD evolution) easy to build?

Well in the case of drones makers don't care about limiting the movements so rules of feedbacks are easy. In case of train, it is even easier.

It is all about the size of the decision tree and the number of input(sensors)/output(effectors) that are coupled you need to control. There probably is a metric to give you the domain of "accessible" low hanging fruits of automation that can be set according to the domain.

General purpose automates are at best expensive, at worst a scam (see the mechanical Türk).

One way to make bots efficient is to specialize them. Hence the Jacquart mecanic computer that created the industrial revolution of 1830 and set the workers on fights and created the conditions for WWI.

I guess no one saw the problem of efficiency still exists even with infinite R&D budget.

The problem of robots is by requiring quite a lot of investment for their deployment they set an unfair competition between people being backed up by capital and innovative self made man without capital.

That was the reason to be of the Luddites.
Are We Expecting Too Much from the Tesla Model 3?
That's twisting what they said. Google (and everyone else working on self-driving) is still targeting a 2020 timeframe for autonomous vehicles to be ready for the public [1]. However, the first cars that hit the road will likely be somewhat limited to certain geographies and weather conditions until all the corner cases are figured out and the sensor tech gets a bit better.

I think it's more likely that BD's robotics plans just don't mesh with Google's goals since BD is mostly focused on military tech, and Google is not. It just doesn't fit in well with the kinds of things X and the other Alphabet hardware teams are working on.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/google-inc-says-self-driving-car-will...
>They're going to have a running Model 3 at the announcement.

I guess we will see. The battery swap was also a "running" demonstration.
Well, but they can tick "female". Right?

I do think that "none" would be a useful addition, however. Or "whatever", maybe.
German: Living life and pursuing your dreams
Found myself agreeing with all of this. I very much second the decision to not use a framework and instead use the core to libraries and a standalone multiplexer. Another huge benefit of this is that you can write some glue code and test your end points without using the http mocking interfaces, which are absolutely terrible for testing.
Why should "per capita" matter to YC?
Some discussion here:https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/4azhmm/freebsd_a_l...
Similar how Google did with Motorola Mobility.
Maybe fill it out via Tor, and fuzz the postal code.
From what I understand the particles you need to probe distances on the order of the Planck length are so energetic that their own gravity would start interfering. Their Swarzschild radius would become bigger than the distance you're trying to measure.
That'd be the kicker if it was extremely difficult to get into either Government or Finance but it's not.

Either way, places that'll pay this in Government are The Home Office, DWP, DVLA, MOJ & GDS. Pretty much every arm of central Government pays decent rates.

But rather than me just talk crap, why don't you just look:-

https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/JobSearch.aspx?shid=E3A30197F...
https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/JobSearch.aspx?shid=E3A30197F...
https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/JobSearch.aspx?shid=6E57F8DA8...
I don't think this question will be honestly answered.

Maybe we should ask is there over three successful applicants that were over 50?

It's not an unfair question.
According to the article, the portion of the tape that caused his firing was not included in the Gawker article.

"Bollea's reputation took a huge hit last year, and he got fired from his job at World Wrestling Entertainment. That outcome wasn't fallout from the Gawker article, however. In a section of the sex tape that could be described as "pillow talk" (which wasn't published by Gawker), Bollea went on a racist diatribe. He repeatedly used the N-word and other racial insults, expressing disappointment that his daughter was in a relationship with a black man. The racial epithets were leaked by other news sites, including Radar Online and the National Enquirer."
From April 27, 2013, http://www.skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAKING-NEWS/GAWKER-SAYS-... :

> A Pinellas County Judge, Pamela A.M. Campbell issued an order Wednesday directing Gawker to remove a video of Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) purportedly having sex with the ex-wife of a disc jockey named "Bubba the Love Sponge" Clem, as well as a 1,400-word narrative about the tape and hundreds of user-submitted comments.

> The site did take down the video, but the narrative and comments remain on the site with the website's attorney, Gregg Thomas saying the order to remove that material infringes on the website's First Amendment rights.

So, yes, the video was taken down. No, the post concerning the video was not, despite the court order to do so.

I believe "Hulk Hogan sex tape post" refers to the latter commentary post, not the actual video.
Yes? And then they built a swap station and it's in operation right now. They haven't rolled out any more because demand isn't there. Superchargers are good enough for most. But if you're implying that they hacked together a demo but don't have it actually working, that's not so
Use of the Hough transformation to detect lines and curves in pictures (1971) [pdf]
Not so. I work in the industry and most people agree that first-gen robotaxis will hit the streets of LA and SV around 2020. Obviously these locations are ideal for the use case since they have nice weather, flat terrain, and generally decent roads. It will be years later that a robotaxi picks you up on a snowy street in Manhattan, but this is a situation where incremental launches and improvements make sense - some markets are easier than others, so you can launch to those markets where autonomous is good enough.
No, what you're saying is terrible.

Allende was, good or bad (I think more good than bad) a democratically elected president. In contrast, Pinochet was a brutal dictator who came to power through a coup d'etat and enforced his rule via bloodshed, murder and repression of dissidents, students and anyone he didn't like; this included a clandestine plan of cooperation between intelligence agencies of neighboring dictatorships to kidnap and murder dissidents abroad (so that if you were a Chilean dissident living in Argentina, "Plan Condor" ensured you'd be captured and/or murdered there).

There is no possible comparison between Allende and Pinochet.

Being "close allies with Castro" isn't a crime, and to think so reeks of ideological persecution -- the very thing you accuse Cuba of! In democracy, if you don't like a president you wait for your turn to vote a different one. If the president does something grossly illegal, there are legal procedures to remove him from power, like impeachment.

Removal by military force, assassinations and political repression IS NOT AN OPTION IN DEMOCRACY. No matter how allegedly ruinous a government is removal by military force IS NOT AN OPTION. That's not how democracy works! There is no possible crime a democratically elected president can commit that justifies a military coup, the banning of all political parties and clandestine torture centers. Nothing.

At this point you might tell me that you don't think democracy is above all possible problems, that some emergencies may justify suspending the rule of law... but in that case, your criticisms of Cuba and Fidel ring very hollow. You'd be on very shaky ground.

You disgust me. We have nothing in common. I'm stopping this discussion now.
Is it possible to call F# code easily from C#? Or vice versa?
I think that is to some degree also how most of the other diplomatic posts are filled, the people that get the job usually have very strong ties to the political system and aren't particularly bright or qualified. For example the current ambassador of Germany to the vatican Annette Schavan lost her doctoral degree and position as minister for education because she plagiarized large parts of her dissertation. Obviously someone like that should represent a country.
I'd be interested in hearing @cpercival's take on this. He was the FreeBSD Security Officer for a while (but stepped down some years ago) and is definitely properly paranoid about security.
I don't believe we will. Exponential growth is going to make it more likely that we will get some sort of strong aware entity before we figure out how to merge. Also it still leaves the problem of transcendence.
I could see a market for a Google Hydraulic Robodog that follows me when jogging, fending off and biting aggressive real dogs until I call it with "Ok Google, don't be evil!".
AYFKM? This is right down there with "You should wear something more attractive to work."
>Microkernel Design

Stooped reading right there!
I like the concept of deducting some of my time for open source contributions but every solution I've seen is a boondoggle waiting to happen..

* Deduct based on (hours spent * prevailing wage) -> Which prevailing wage? Personally, I'd love to use the hourly rate of Google employees in my deductions. ;)

* Deduct based on (hours spent * current rate) -> Who said I would have been working those hours anyway?

* Deduct based on hours spent * (any number)? That means I need detailed accounting that can stand up to an audit.

* Deduct based on LOC? Woohoo! Time for bloated code!

* Deduct based on time/money saved by companies? Time to call in favors!

* Deduct based on the value of what I learned as an educational credit? I like this one the most but we don't always know what will be valuable at the time.

As much as I want this to work, I don't see a structure that won't result in abuse and shenannigans on day one.
Hi Sam. Not sure if you'll read this, but thought I'd take a moment this morning on the off chance you might.

I just wanted to say hi, and say thanks. 5-6 years ago I came to realized how much I enjoy creating/making things, how little that process resembled work for me, and shortly later after reading Paul Graham's essays felt like I had finally found a community that who shares my interests and values.

Although my background is in mathematics I've spent much of the past 6 years in coffee shops during evenings and weekends teaching myself to code and bringing my projects to life. Equally important has been my business education during this time. I now view business as a means to spend more of my time in that creative space, and creating successful business as an equally enjoyable engineering challenge.

So thanks. Thank you to you for the countless videos, the (awesome) recent lecture series, the Stanford Entrepreneurial talks, and for curating this community. Thank you also to Paul and Jessica, from whom I continue to learn so much as I try to get to the essence of the deeper, most important questions in life. Thanks to you all.

Well, it's Saturday morning which means Pam and I are off to the coffee shop - her to write and me to code. Although my current project/business (that I'm super excited about!) doesn't lend to a startup-style investment growth model, hence no immediate YC application forthcoming, I hope one day some context will exist where I can thank you in person.

Have a great day.
There's a difference between "the size of the universe" and "the size of the observable universe", see also "cosmic microwave background", "dark energy", and "inflation."
I don't understand why this matters. I can see why someone graduating just now from an Ivy should demand a better salary, but 15 years ago ... ? Not criticizing, I'm just curious as a foreigner. The US university system kind of remind you of the Indian caste system.
Apparently not http://www.redox-os.org/book/book/introduction/what_is_redox...
I bought the primary focus for Boston Dynamics was military applications. I can see Google wanting to distance themselves from hat industry.
I would guess unlikely. The reduction in JAR size as mentioned there is due to relying on Java 8 now which gives more JVM-native approaches to things Scala was otherwise emulating (e.g. multiple inheritance). Scala.JS works off of an IR and is not related to native JVM constructs or JVM bytecode.
Humans don't feel anything either and our neurons aren't aware of our thoughts either. He is subscribing to some sort of Chinese room argument, but as we learned with Searle the answer simply is. We don't know. Not never or always.
Yes, very easily. Both are compiled to .NET assemblies and can see types of each other.
I've seen this project a few times - very impressive work! It'll be awesome to see if they can get it self-hosting (right now, I think you need to compile with a different OS).
It's pretty easy to imagine conflict arising from how Google wants the software to evolve versus how BD has been doing it up to now. And that there could be huge resistance inside BD to disregarding their IPR or even practical/talent implications that were not obvious at the start.
They buy application suites like peoplesoft, Oracle Finacials, Identity Suite, seibel, etc and end up getting an ELA for the database.

Once they get the shoulder in the door, they push to expand the database horizontally in the organization.

Microsoft has a similar strategy with CRM and SQL Server. SQL Server drives their corporate success.

Postgres vs. Oracle, etc is a pointless argument because it's answering the wrong question.
Honestly (having been through plenty of meetings where this type of stuff happens) it's because Oracle has someone out there spreading the word to
The decision makers. The Oracle sales team isn't converting developers, they're in the ear of the person who signs the check.

Nobody is out there on the Postgres side doing the same, so that decision maker doesn't even know who they are. Then when someone suggests pgsql for something, the first question is, "Where do we get support?" Everyone then looks around the room and starts searching the web for support.

There is no question if and who will support you with Oracle (which is why I will never choose them).
How to Kick Down a Door
Give us today our daily media outrage. Amen.
Connection?

http://www.cnet.com/news/microsofts-new-surface-tv-ad-its-su...
It's kind of funny that they included that when Microsoft is beating them on both axes (and with a far lower TCO).

I have this feeling that Microsoft is going to be announcing some really big things in the data management area in the next 12 months.
I'm reading through now, and would love to contribute. I've been trying to break into this space (systems programming, especially OS and compilers) for a long time and the biggest hurdle for me has been to actually do it. I really appreciate that this project is focused on explaining just enough to jump in, complemented with nods to further resources that can add on to whatever knowledge the reader brings.

Steve, thanks for all your work on this and with Rust. Your attitude toward teaching and your writing ability go a long way in encouraging people to learn and in having the lesson be worthwhile.
I think Google is selling BD (and is putting all of the BD propaganda out) because the BD robots are 1) fairly useless outside of military applications and 2) BD is a ghost town because Andy left and took a lot of the brainpower with him.

For Google, selling BD now is probably the last possible time BD will be worth money.
Yeah I am going to end the philology here. My advice and concerns above is more than enough.
Bike tires are typically inflated to a psi (lbs per square inch). A bike tire is a bad example in this context because most are filled pretty high (80-130psi, mine are 90psi). The average car tire is 30-40psi.
Juttle: One query language to rule them all
But you want to lie about your identity on purpose; this person wants to get identified but cannot.
I think you're right, particularly about the apps – if you don't work at a large shop it's easy to forget how many businesses run the various financial apps which Oracle sells, and such apps tend to be used by senior management so e.g. the CFO is voting against changes unless there's a really good justification. Once you've got it in house, the argument will be that you don't want to have to hire experts for more than one database, which is how some people end up running a normal web app on Oracle because it's the only supported HA/backup/etc. option offered by the central IT group.

At one previous employer, we had to deal with several hours of downtime daily because they kept not getting the $$$$ budget needed for Oracle's online backup product and so it went down for how ever long it took to write data out to a poorly configured tape backup. Trying to use MySQL or Postgres happened by necessity but was heavily FUDed over what might happen and all of the (internal) users had just been trained that the systems weren't available before 7:30 AM.
it's actually a pretty common task in undergrad CS programs for an individual or a small group (3-4 students) to write an *nix-like OS from the ground up, including most of the core utils, scheduler, process management, etc.

This is obviously much more full featured (includes a GUI), so this is actually a very nicely sized team for the task.
> Deep in the archives of San Francisco-based Aquarius Records, buried between several days’ worth of “laptop glitchery” and “brutal industro-crunch,” lies this gem: Insect Noise in Stored Foodstuffs,

Aquarius Records is awesome.
Can somebody please build a scrollblocker for Chrome and Firefox?
A short story about Xerox PARC
Yeah, but would there be a market for it when the robots cost as much as a car?
If you know almost nothing about the field, then introduction to statistical learning is a good choice.

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ISLR%20First%20Printing.p...

It assumes some understanding of calculus, but doesn't require matrix algebra.

The original (and amazing) book that lots of people used is Elements of Statistical Learning.

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/local.ftp/Springer/OLD/ESLI...

Chapters 1-7 are worth their weight in gold. This is one of the cases where the physical books are much better, as you'll need to flick back and forth to see the figures (which are one of the best parts).

The forgoing assumes that you already know some statistics/data analysis (the latter probably being more important).

If you haven't done this before, then I suggest that you acquire some data you care about, install R (a good book is the Art of R Programming by Matloff), and start trying to make inferences. And draw graphs. Many, many, many graphs.

If you keep at this, finding papers/books and reading theory, and implementing it in your spare time, then you can probably get a good data science job in 1-2 years. You'll probably need to devote much of your free time to it though.

I'm assuming that you can already code, given the context :)
I followed up your idea.
Gartner identifies Micrsoft and Oracle as the leaders on the top right.

Mongo, EnterpriseDB and Redisnare in the upper right as well.
Worth watching that one episode - but be warned, it messed with my head for a while afterwards.
Working at a startup: Expectation vs. Reality
I doubt that we know enough to say how exponential growth will go. I do agree that baseline humans will be left in the dust. But that's just how it goes with selection.
If your operations are tied in some way to government, it might be required that software you are using have legally recognizable developer or owner, officially certified by competent government structures (e.g. in terms of being secure) and/or has someone who is contractually obliged to help you resolve any issues you might face while using it.

I would assume Oracle has a very strong presences in Russia in those terms. Unlike Postgres until Postgres Pro.

More details (in Russian): http://obartunov.livejournal.com/181484.html
People may think they despise cubicles, until they don't even have that much space to themselves.
You might also compare this with the traditional system of distributed dispute resolution that held sway in Iceland at the time of the sagas. While quite different cultures, many similar solutions and incentives acted to minimize violence between familial groups. In that case the system failed when it fell out of decentralization and into control of a sufficiently small elite for them to become a defacto government, but it took 300 years to reach that failure case.

A very high-level summary: https://mises.org/library/medieval-iceland-and-absence-gover...
Having a self driving car follow me to fend off the dogs doesn't work on my running path though.
> Please use US dollars, thanks! Free currency converter http://www.xe.com/

Ah, too late. And I don't think that's a good idea. Exchange rates vary. Comparing within a country/region/city makes a lot more sense than across the world. Let people input their salary in the local currency.
I think most professional Salaried jobs quote salary per year.
Cppclean: find problems, unused code in C++ source
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I'm not really up to date on Android here, but iOS uses a scene graph that lets you do a lot of things with great performance as long as you keep in mind some basic guidelines.
Compare it to that Watson/Carrie Fischer commercial, where Watson is presented as being able to carry on a conversation. It can't really do that, but that's also misleading.