skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not arrogance if it is true.

Trust is a slippery thing, given it can be swayed by biases. So is blaming others, which is exactly what you are doing with your comment. Arrogance comes from blame based on a comparison operation to the one doing the comparison. There's clearly biases involved in that operation.

The quotes you are using in your third paragraph are a way for you to speak for others, which is exactly the type of arrogance being referred to in the article.

Let others speak for their own thoughts and actions. Stick to your own and we'll all get along!
Am I the only one that sees this as a good thing? The only real holdouts are some of the top selling artists, the ones who, in my opinion, already get way too much attention. If a few people end up trying something new because they can't immediately stream the latest Kanye or Taylor Swift, I think the world will be a better place for it.
It does seem to have issues wit garden path sentences - in "The old man the boat", it colors "man" as a noun rather than a verb.
It's a pretty common acronym in the field, actually.
Where I'm at right now in my career, I'd like to work on Python, but I don't. I don't want to do .Net anymore but I do.
As far as I know this (Actulus) is still primarily a research product in search of real world customers.

Edlund primarily has customers in the danish labour market pension sector, and was recently acquired by KMD (a largeish danish it company).
Thanks for the perspective.

This is why I encourage all developers to take some time to teach new people. The "everyone knows this obviously" attitude goes away very quickly if you start doing this.

The aim of the video was to make it accessible to just about everybody. So if you know this stuff you can watch the first minute and stop the video and get value out of it. On the other hand, if you're a beginner and you just did Codecademy, you can watch it through and follow it too.
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It doesn't even demonstrate freedom from races.

TDD is a valid software development methodology for certain use cases (mainly sequential algorithms, e.g., financial calculations), but not for concurrency control.
The idea that good programmers are as easily trainable as good welders is ridiculous. If that were the case, we wouldn't have a shortage.

My company actually does try to train people. We hire people who come out of coding camps like General Assembly -- and we actually pay these camps when we hire them. Students attend these camps for free.

After that, we pair program with them, and painstakingly explain various concepts to them. We hold them by the hand, and literally teach them. I found it amazing that my company had to do this, and shocking that they literally could not find good developers. My company is just looking for developers that can get shit done. We are not looking for rock stars, or master algorithm puzzle solvers. Just people who can build decent, functioning non-broken software.

FYI, I graduated very recently with a B.S. in Computer Science, and my total comp (incl. bonuses) is slightly over $150,000. And, at my company, the typical workday is from 10 am to 6 pm. I am not over-worked, or under-paid.

It is clear that you've neither been in a position of hiring developers, nor have an idea of what good programming skill is.
Then we should provide context about america and whether it is really a democracy

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Overthrowing other peoples governments

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-people...

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

Democracy Inc

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Democracy-Governability-Democra...
There's really no question here. If the engineers refuse to comply with the court order the court can hold them in contempt. This means possible fines or jail time.

This is old territory, really. Courts have been ordering people to do things under the All Writs Act (including skilled labor) since it was first enacted more than 200 years ago. (The government's brief has some examples, starting on page 17. http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016.03.10-1...)

If an employee claimed he or she did not have the skills to comply with he order then, yes, there could be some sort of hearing to determine whether this was true. But establishing the requisite level of competence probably would not be as hard as you think.
I think it was pointed out because vanilla is also associated with "white". In this case, one reading of the comment is "an industry you're trying to make white".
In my experience, it's usually those with the "people are lazy" opinion that are against UBI, and those with the "people are industrious" opinion that are for UBI.

IMO, getting structure, meaning and belonging from your workplace is a fairly American phenomenon, and is a pretty poor place to get it. The traditional places to get this were from your church and family.

There are much better social constructs than the workplace. UBI should allow them to thrive. Let people self-organize according to their hobbies and taste rather than being thrown together by their job, and I think society will be much improved.
Egypt announces ‘discovery of the century’ hidden behind King Tut’s tomb
This is important information, but man, I really applaud the writer for stretching the story "they forgot to redact his email" and repackaging it into 10-15 paragraphs.
Though I agree with you on expanding TLIs, if you have to have "ETL" defined for you, you probably won't get the "joke". And though this will come out more cynical than I intend, if you don't know the acronyms, then you probably won't be buying what Stitch Fix is selling. Filtering their funnel, maybe?
> Maybe they are just a convenient way for (culturally, if not financially) upper class whites to signal virtue to each other?

That's just silly. You don't know what you don't know. How do people find racial, social, and political consciousnesses? They aren't born with it. Not upper class white people, and not black people either. Something has to perpetuate it, some event that forces you to awaken to all in the world that's shitty and motivate you to do something about it, and, more importantly, change yourself so you don't perpetuate those things.

Blacks can't get away from the various hells of the world, they naturally find that consciousness at a really early age. Whites are insulated from them through a process that, these days, we call privilege.

It's easy to lampoon white people who suddenly find their social consciousness through some picaresque encounter with world-weary minorities, it's a much-mined cultural cliché. But it's the wrong reaction. Worse, it smacks of egotism, perhaps you think that you're one of those white people that aren't affected by privilege.
I think the answer to that depends on whether or not you think the current economies of the US/Canada/Europe/Scandinavia are capitalist or not (I do, and am myself a capitalist). If so, then yes it is. We already tax income for redistribution programs - UBI is just a very large, very even redistribution programs.

With UBI, the economy would still based on capitalism, using money, private ownership of capital and property, and using all those things to create profits (which would then be taxed). People will develop marketable skills to earn more money (which would be taxed). All this is the same as it is now.
>In my thesis work, the main issue I encountered was that RK4 was a vector operation, but GPUs are matrix processors. The bottleneck in the application was the memory bandwidth, not the GPU itself. We ended up with a speedup of 16 w.r.t a single-core CPU implementation of the same problem.

I know more than one large property/casualty company that still uses APL[1] internally, which is a matrix language. I don't have any close friends on the health/life of things, though.

Would be interesting to see how that runs on a GPU.

That said, I imagine most places would rather throw more metal at a problem than have to move their actuaries to a new language. Processors are a lot cheaper than actuaries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
You download the new package (or rsync the whole tree) then run installpkg on it.
What rational person would purchase a home in a neighborhood in which they felt fucking terrified?
> nothing more, nothing less.

That's not quite true. There definitely is a culture that is specific to Silicon Valley. Of course, not everyone in the valley matches that culture, but on average there are some values and a certain rhetoric that comes out of that area that is very recognizable. You can see that by watching the silicon valley show, the guys in the show represent the different stereotypes of people that you encounter all the time in the valley.

This is important to the argument here, because one aspect of the silicon valley rhetoric is that its objective is to do good, to make the world a better place, to not be evil. It is that rhetoric that pisses off people. The fact that ruthless businessmen (because they are ruthless businessmen) put themselves on the right side of morality. It is going way further than Wall Street's "greed is good". At least the Wall Street guys had some actual cynicism behind it. Here, you get people who actually believe that they are making the world a better place, and that humanity owes them the insane amount of wealth they're getting out of it. And that's where the arrogance comes from. Instead of telling the world: 'we're making life a little bit more convenient' they say 'we embody human evolution, we are progress and progress is good'
No, actually gentrification can occur in developing countries as well. Finding ways to rationalize the negative effects of gentrification is the first world problem.
Definitely! Email is in my profile. I also made the same thing as you! Fits four boards per 5x5 panel, I'm going to write it up properly after it arrives.

http://dirtypcbs.com/view.php?share=16892&accesskey=996a11f9...
A lot of people don't recognize "drug crime" as a crime. Your comparison is actually like comparing apples to oranges. There was no legal drug industry, so how people were going to it legally?
This is just bad statistics. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-m...

>For example, all of these “equally likely to have used drugs” claims turn out to be that blacks and whites are equally likely to have “used drugs in the past year”, but blacks are far more likely to have used drugs in the past week – that is, more whites are only occasional users. That gives blacks many more opportunities to be caught by the cops. Likewise, whites are more likely to use low-penalty drugs like hallucinogens, and blacks are more likely to use high-penalty drugs like crack cocaine. Further, blacks are more likely to live in the cities, where there is a heavy police shadow, and whites in the suburbs or country, where there is a lower one.

...

>Finally, all of this is based on self-reported data about drug use. Remember from a couple paragraphs ago how studies showed that black people were twice as likely to fail to self-report their drug use? And you notice here that black people are twice as likely to be arrested for drug use as their self-reports suggest? That’s certainly an interesting coincidence.
Technical Talk at University of Toronto on March 23
Been using this off and on, I like it. I wish there were a way to turn off the no-repeat mode... I want to play the same song more then once after a few hours.
Yes, it's good business ethics, but it's not good human ethics to completely base your moral judgments of something on whether or not it's legal and profitable.
And even larger threats than terrorists, like toddlers with guns. [1]

[1] http://www.snopes.com/toddlers-killed-americans-terrorists/
I think they are doing this to try and turn the sinking ship around. I've seen a few people cancel accounts over this (not just Mandrill, but Mailchimp as well)
My intuition tells me this just doesn't hold water with respect to information theory.. i.e. the number of bits of useful information about a finger you can pull from a microphone. Putting aside human digits, has anyone even demonstrated that you can reliably detect an eighteen-wheeler rig moving toward a phone with this technique? And what about the range of the speaker? Complete nonsense.
So, what about people who are not capable of doing more than semi-skilled labor? Let them starve?
It looks like you switched to using an affiliate tag to promote that book. Can you share with us what the earnings are from a typical link on HN?

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
Official Post-Coital Offer Letter
You are right that tech people are easy to hate on because we often think differently. Unlike the rest of us, you've signaled mainstream virtue with your comment. Congrats!

Is there a point beyond that? Note that I didn't advocate any specific policy, I just pointed out that a specific argument was internally contradictory, which you don't seem to disagree with.
This is 100% not an RPM issue. You have missing dependencies that is a repo issue. Same thing with Debian or any other package management system.
Add a type parameter! One 'simple' design change, a panoply of outcomes
This article is so one sided it is painful. it is almost like Sheldon Cooper wrote this article. As an engineer I am offended and hurt that we are referred to as “Tony Stark’s tailor”.
In my personal opinion the problem is a lack of arrogance throughout the rest of the world. In most geographic areas, you can clearly describe a specific set of actions that will result in a material creation of utility for huge numbers of people, and people will not only not support you in executing those actions, nor join you in building it, but they will tell you to get a grip on yourself and not to do it.[1] This isn't conjecture on my part, I've personally witnessed this.

In fact, a study of startup markets shows that an extremely large percentage of founders in other cities are transplants from Silicon Valley (or lived there in the past). Why is that?

I would bet that when it came to pure ability, 80% of the people reading this post have what it takes to potentially do something used by millions of people.

Though we can't learn it, it is a matter of cold data where anyone who actually will do so is located. That data is very skewed geographically, and in my personal estimation, it is skewed toward Silicon Valley. This could probably be demonstrated.

[1] articles about the "arrogance of Silicon Valley" can themselves be construed as being someone telling people to get a grip on themselves and to stop changing the world. "You're not special enough to change the world" means: stop doing it
I agree - the human curation is great and beats Spotify (plus family sharing). Sadly, the bugs with offline playlists are really frustrating.
Yes, v4 is going to be packaged similar to v3.

While it may introduce some dependency issues, breaking out d3 into modules makes it easier to write/maintain tests for everything. Hopefully this makes the d3 universe more robust, but only time will tell.

https://github.com/mbostock/d3/tree/4
GWT is weighed down heavily by its mission to be both a Java->JS compiler and a UI framework. Scala.js is, first and foremost, a Scala->JS compilation mechanism, and only incidentally can have a type-safe interface to UI (or any other) pure-JS libraries.
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Or a code-locked safe. The government can blast in with a warrant, but they cannot force Acme Safe Inc to change their product line to flimsier models, nor force them to work on the extraction-job.
Might end up sounding like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpMwZDfSLBk
UK Launches National Cyber Security Centre
From Impossible ($1m) to Inevitable ($100m)
I totally agree with you about this guy in particular. He is a felon, with a conviction relating to the industry he wants to work in. Don't let fraudsters become accountants, don't let illegal dealers become legal ones.

But the problem is that there are a lot of white people who are guilty of the same offenses, who are currently operating businesses he isn't allowed to operate, but who were never convicted of those crimes due to previous racial profiling.

Whether or not we do something to right the wrongs of our ancestors against blacks, Native Americans, or other groups, and what that something might be, is a hard problem.

The horrors of genocide, racism, and slavery hundreds of years ago or decades ago are one thing, but this is one guy's lifetime - racism played a part in getting him convicted while the crimes committed by his white competitors were ignored. Does that help the argument make more sense?
This is a great way to create APIs that are hard or nearly impossible to implement properly or efficiently. I can imagine how this could easily lead to horrible API design like a well-known stdlib `gets` function. From the user perspective, gets is a perfectly fine function. Unfortunately there is no way you could write a safe implementation, because in C you have no way of checking arbitrary buffer size. Low level implementation details do affect how we design APIs.
A felony conviction is a far cry from a mere moving violation. A felony conviction means you cannot be trusted. Full stop. Selling dope is a choice. The man made a choice and paid for his actions. Should he now be allowed to profit from the same (now legal) action that got him barred in the first place? No. The legal dope industry, as shady as it is, has established laws that says "felons not welcome", and that's OK. Nothing stops this guys from pursuing some other line of work and making something of himself. The problem here is that the legal dope industry is easy money. Too many people want "easy". They don't want to go and actually work.
If you're looking for Python jobs, there are plenty of alternative job boards - including Python's very own: http://python.org/jobs/
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The problem is that that stat is heavily misleading. See section C of http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-m...
If my rhetoric is too grandiose, or my illogic too hazy, then I have to concede that you can parse details out of it which seem to be incorrect.

So, sure, that's exactly how we want our businesses to be, you are right, I concede for the sake of a limited argument under all the rest of the assumptions you have when you make that statement. I have unstated assumptions as well, everywhere.

Overall I was trying to make a hard point. I think that people are a just a little too content with the status quo. I believe only radical changes can fix the brokenness of our systems, and only on a long time line. (Our systems are broken at so many, many different levels, we could start by talking about problematic broken hardware/software systems if we wanted, and probably arrive at the conclusion that the present paradigm needs a radical change in the long run, saying nothing of money, law, or politics.)

I wanted to complain about how we expect our businesses to behave, because I think it's dysfunctional. But in the pragmatic sense, I'm not making any useful complaint. You are being more pragmatic.

The first thing I've come to realize the importance of by now, is that talk is just talk, and radical changes aren't going to happen on any time line, not without a lot of consensus.

I sincerely hope that some aspect of the human nature itself does not prevent us from coming to healthier consensuses than what we currently have. All I see is a system that maximizes paper profits while not counting environment damage or exhaustible resource availablity. Accounting is everything, and I fear for all humanity if we don't come to some better system of accounting value.
I totally expected it to be "just" a part-of-speech-tagger.

It does at least these correctly:

It takes many tries to succeed.
It takes only one try.
It takes a try.
I want to try and succeed.
I'm gonna try it anyway.

Man the boats!
Man and the boats!

What you'd want it to do? To show the parse tree? If I understand correctly, even the non-computational linguistics have had (and still have) trouble to come up with a system that parses all the natural language correctly – or even a system that could represent all the parses of natural sentences correctly.
One reason is that it's only App Store apps which are subject to individual approval by Apple.

If you are an individual developer simply wanting to learn/dissect/play with the inherent flexibility of the obj-c runtime, restricting access to private methods/subclasses would be incredibly counterproductive and demoralising.

If you are a registered Enterprise Developer (which requires a DUNS number, a phone call with Apple Dev Relations, and a few hundred dollars) you gain additional distribution options. For example you can sign your own apps and distribute them within your organisation "over-the-air" using emailed links or a custom web portal.

In general I think Apple are more concerned with the integrity of their mass-market public platform (App Store etc) -- avoiding vast numbers of App Store apps all failing at once because they make some internal framework changes -- than they are about other use cases.
> The morality in America has slipped precipitously since our heyday as a nation in the 1950s.

oh man
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Let me edit my post.

The link to the DMCA should really be included in the api response
I agree. Censorship hidden behind a 403 (or national security letter, for that matter) is worse than censorship for all to see. It's our response to it that legitimizes it or not.
>You Probably Don’t Have Big Data

"Big Data" is like sex in high school. Everyone talks about it but few people really have lots of it and some just don't have any.
Oh, webpack is a great example of my frustration: I suspect it might be better than browserify for my needs, but I'm already so shell-shocked from adopting browserify at work that I no longer have the nerve to disturb the house of cards that I've built here. Thus webpack will have to wait.

Anyway, I hear you, although the only way to make Scala.js work better for everyone is to use it. Otherwise building a community is an insurmountable chicken-and-egg problem.
and little opportunity to go to college

Well, SV isn't exactly perfect, but it's one of the few places where capabilities are more important than credentials.

I'm not talking about the 135 IQ kid who grows up in a shack in Appalachia, because that's a situation that is at least theoretically addressable.

I'm talking about the ~40% of the population who, even if we addressed the problems of parenting, would still be completely left behind by policies that ignore the realities and limitations of the largely biologically determined working memory capacity and abstract thinking ability. THIS is the intractable problem, short of living in GATTACA.