skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes indeed, many used them in the past to deny minorities jobs.
Awesome! We also have plans to record podcasts down the road. I'm glad text-to-speech worked well.
I think it depends on the circles you travel in - those are the professions the most practical/dependable people from my area went into, so from my perspective they do get status to a certain degree, at least from my friends. There will always be the illusory gap between blue vs. white collar workers.
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If the landscape had fundamentally changed since 2012, we would have heard of it for sure. No marketing department would let that slide.

Besides, you can call finding another person that one clicks with a “personal issue” all you want, but it's the problem dating services set out to solve, or so they say.
I think it is both an cause and a consequence of societal changes.
Off topic, but I must: comparing salaries alone makes no sense. In Europe, you don't have to pay $250K/child for college education, you don't have to pay $20K/year/family in health insurance, etc.
It's hard to figure statistics for the stuff as it's all a bit vaguely defined which is kind of inherent to the nature of the problem. In the essay http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html PG suggests power can be equated with susinctness.

I'd kind of guess the most succinct language for startups to write in would tend to be Ruby as there is so much existing code to do things - Rails, gems and all that. It also seems associated with successful startups like Twitter, Github etc so maybe there's a correlation there?

(Disclaimer - I'm not a Rails programmer - kinda guessing there).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_medical_education

Doctors have to do 50-80 hours per year of certified continuing education thingies. That's probably way less than the average software engineer, but at least now we have a concrete number :)
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The article talks about docker-compose deficiencies and how a new tool is going to solve then. One of the premises is that managing a huge application with docker-compose is difficult. But I just do not see how writing XML-based config on top of compose files can simplify things.

If docker-compose is complex due to repeated volume, network and port declarations, I can just replace it, for example, with a shell script that generate the compose file and that will use much denser and clear notations. As a bonus this avoids introducing yet another template language on top of the compose files just so the tool can adjust them according to XML config.
Yay for Italy! Where not only software developers are paid less than the general population, but also where the real wages of everyone are very low compared to the cost of living of other European countries!
You must live in a different Portugal than the one I know. While I admit perceptions of corruption are quite high among Portuguese, actual corruption is not that high, at least according to the international metrics I've seen. We're certainly not a mafia state or anything close to that.
This is a great idea, and we're currently working on a system that will accomplish this.
This coheres with my dating experiences as well. The medium may have changed, but we're all still people, with mostly the same spectrum of motivations we've always had.

My issue with dating apps is that they're too efficient. Our attractiveness fluctuates dramatically based on context. If we're doing something we love, doing something interesting, or exhibiting a particular behavior or trait, we can be far more attractive than any five curated photos will show. And vice versa.

Dating apps remove all contextual variety and flatten us out. And in that case, "efficiency" is actually inefficient.
I don't like the method they use (ignoring that it's an online survey). They measured that most of the people don't know the meaning of the word "overdiagnosis". There is a small chance that some of them know the concept, but don't know the technical word to name it.

I guess that most people really don't understand overdiagnosis, but I'd like to see a survey that really measure that.

For example, with the same method it's possible to make an article with the title: "People don't understand surfactants"
Bigger for who. That kind of story works to US's advantage in negotiations with Brazil. Especially considering leaks showing NSA spying on Petrobas with NSA proponents defending if as necessary due to their corruption.
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Interesting that you mention that. Such a thing exists, is fairly widespread in some countries, and is quite successful at encouraging the correct behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize-linked_savings_account

Basically, every so many dollars that are in a savings account for a set period of time counts as one ticket, and so of course the way to increase your chance of winning is to "buy more tickets". Winnings are paid out in lieu of interest, but in the end averages to about the same.
Ask HN: What are the resources you would suggest for Machine learning?
I would like to know resources which you have used (online, I get 100s of things and I feel paralysed by choices) and found useful?

I would like to know some beginners friendly things (beginner level in this field, not in the programming domain), which focuses on concepts and their applications in a balanced way.

And also, do you recommend to use some special programming language for this? I use Java on daily basis and/but open to learn some new languages (pyhton may be?, though I was told, Java as almost equal ML related libraries, if not more).

Thanks in advance.
You are right - it took me a few secs to realize that.
Better title should be: How big I estimate to be the Google Earth database?
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Never build an application, here is my first!

https://github.com/Finlod/loiste

All feedback is appreciated
Thanks for pointing that out -- there are many optimizations that we need to do.
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Just when you'll have 1TB ram and 128-core CPUs.
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I'm not entirely sure that will happen. My anecdotal info is that I actually have less data stored locally than I did a couple of years ago. Most of my data is now held online and retrieved on demand.
There was a recent item in comp.risks about an Amber Alert broadcast using speech synthesis software, which asked listeners with information about the abduction to "call September 1, 2001."
I'm passionate about supporting content like this, so I'll be paying for it as long as I can!
feel free to email me with your thoughts at joe@compellingsciencefiction.com!
They have data centers around the world.
https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/in...
No. Welfare programs are not communism or socialism. The single defining characteristic in both ideologies is the degree of which labor owns its means of production (the resources, facilities and tools needed to do a job).

Welfare programs do not even begin to touch on who owns the means of production.

Communism implies a stateless society after a period of power by labor that is devoid of private ownership of the means of production. Supposedly, this transitionary period should do away with class. According to theory, once class is no longer a factor, the state is no longer needed.

Welfare programs, again, do not touch on this at all.

You've read too much Ayn Rand.
I felt compelled to mention it's available free on Project Gutenberg although printed copies are also available on Ebay.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
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Tt will take quite a while, 1TB aught to be enough for everyone.

Kidding aside, you can assume that in 10 years storage will be about 1000 times cheaper then it is now, so 3PB of storage would be around the cost of 3TB drive today, around 100$.
FYI: One more thing - I've also started Awesome Static - a collection of awesome static site builder / generator tools, directories, showcases, books n more -> https://github.com/statictimes/awesome-static Cheers. PS: Maybe someone starts Awesome Lektor so I can add it the list ;-)
What basis is there for this comment?

Google Fiber stopped offering a (very expensive) product for free. How is that extending or extinguishing anything? It's not like Google's competitors stopped offering broadband.
I would call it refreshingly quiet. I am not a fan of loud ICE engines in any vehicle. I do worry about the quietness of these vehicles and sight impaired pedestrians and distracted pedestrians. I wonder if there will be an adjustment period where car-pedestrian impacts increase until cars are autonomous enough to stop for those who step in front of a car, and/ or pedestrians realized they cannot rely on their hearing to monitor traffic at crosswalks.
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Yes, they did. I saw the XML and it didn't look much different from well-written HTML. The amount of markup you need for a book is fairly minimal: h1, h2, p, b, i, c (code font), ix (index entry). Think of it as a customizable HTML.
To my knowledge, the housing projects in the US don't involve the tenants in shared ownership / membership, which is different than what I understand of the parent post.

The Netflix culture deck references Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. I submit that there is a similar level of empowerment at play regarding housing. That's one reason why many who can afford to buy a house do so even in situations where it's cheaper to rent (when factoring in maintenance). So as a recipient of government housing, feeling like you're in a giant bureaucratic housing solution where you have no control is demoralizing. Of course, there's always the argument "that's better than nothing; these people should not complain".

But I think we can do better. What if every tenant was in some way responsible for some part of the maintenance of the building? Some can garden, others can plumb or be apprentices under an electrical engineer, etc… Then there can be some pride associated with maintaining a dwelling that may be modest by worldy standards but that makes others smile and generates thankfulness.

In a larger sense, we must include the human dimension in what is fundamentally a human problem, instead of only being focused on the technicalities.
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If you weren't the bottom of the range, shouldn't you have been selected by (roughly) all women your range and below?

Or do women rated a 2 not select men rated a 5?
32 FP ops per clock? I don't think that is true, and if it is it is very misleading.

First with Haswell introducing the fused multiply add, suddenly all the 'peak flops' numbers doubled, which is technically true, but only if everything you do is a fused multiply add (with no cache misses of course).

Even so only the Xeon Phi (and only the unreleased silvermont cores?) has 16 wide vector units, even Skylake still has 8 wide AVX units, which would be 16 fma operations.

Are you saying that AVX instructions are pipelined (or some other technique) and have a throughput greater than their width per cycle?
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If you assume that the number of workers is static, and also that the average 55-year-old will live to 85, and that new workers get paid about 75% what a 27-year-veteran makes, then the calculations and solutions are simple:

Require everyone in the agency to put 100% of their salary into the pension fund, or double your budget for staff salaries and direct it to pensions.
No methodology in Infosec is every 100% prefect. You nest your defenses like Russian Dolls.

Each layer of protection fends off another class of attackers.

An attacker with infinite determination, money, or time will always push past your defenses.
It would be interesting to see this done with drag races. Those cars are loud!
Also it would be a shame to whiz by your destination at 20% speed of light without being able to stop and look at the planets.
And a large base of C# developers who can now easily deploy to RHEL servers. Which will increase the need for support services for it all.
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I went to the last season's final race in London. They are indeed significantly quieter than Formula 1 cars, but they're by no means silent. It's more of a not-uncomfortably-loud whining noise as the cars pass you.

Formula E has been pretty exciting to me since I first heard about it 2 years ago. I wonder if it will really ever become a mainstream event though - as Formula 1 and similar gradually involve more EV elements

Due to the relative quietness of the cars, the Formula E events usually involve background music, sometimes live from a DJ, usually electronic style music.
It's always been Firefox's position that features that don't get used by very many people are better off as add-ons. That way you don't end up with a browser with 1,000 features each of which adds complexity and slows development. The official recommendation is to use this add-on, which was created from the original Firefox Panorama code. http://fasezero.com/addons/

Edit: The page that made the above recommendation https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-removal
XML may have been made for documents but it is certainly one of the worst language families ever for actually typing documents by hand.
Doctors and lawyers have created their own barriers to entry via the AMA and Bar Association. Honestly, I don't think I've ever met a decent software engineer that wouldn't have the intelligence to make it through either medical or law school, should they apply themself. OTOH, I've met numerous doctors and lawyers that would never be able to handle the typical high-level math and CS courses a decent undergrad requires.

I've said this before: there are a lot of 20-something developers on HN that continue to push back against organizing as they're making decent money and in high demand (for the moment), compared to their friends in other professions. The problem is that once a software engineer hits his/her thirties, those professional friends have caught up in salary. We'll still be working in open-office environments with free soda, while they'll have real offices, expense accounts, salaries based on profits, and most importantly, respect.

By late 30's, we've hit the glass ceiling, but doctors, law partners, finance and business pros are just getting started. There are exceptions (e.g. the lucky start-up guys, consultants that own their own shop, etc.), but for the most part, this is reality.

The lack of any sort of organization for our 'profession' is one of the main reasons I'm beginning to look for a new career path. The H1B is a disaster - I actually worked in India for one of the big abusers, and realize that without something, things will get worse, especially since we've probably maxed out this latest bubble.
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They link to a conference paper for the full technical details: "ispc: A SPMD Compiler for High-Performance CPU Programming", https://cloud.github.com/downloads/ispc/ispc/ispc_inpar_2012...
I meant quite the opposite. I'm aware that it's very hard to read something sticky and not end up implicitly believing it. Sticky accurate ideas are great - it's an efficient use of the hardware. Non-sticky inaccurate ideas are mostly harmless. But sticky inaccurate ideas are dangerous and invasive, so if I notice something is sticky it instantly puts me on guard. And if I can't find the underlying evidence to convince myself that it is accurate I get worried about what kind of ideas I've just allowed into my mind.
For the record, my dad's a strad nut, but also believes that modern luthiers are more than capable of producing instruments as good. And he owns one he thinks falls into that class, so he's put his money where his mouth is.

It sounds good, but no better than you'd expect given his ability, which is dedicated amateur level.
Clearly there's no or very little correlation between similarity of attractiveness levels and relationship stability because ignoring the whole internet dating topic, people have lived in communities ranging in size over at least 5 orders of magnitude if not more, yet actual divorce stats of small rural villages vs megacities are not separated by anything near 5 orders of magnitude. Or whatever other measure of stability you'd like to use, none of them approach the incredible variation in size of the dating pool and therefore similarity in first impression rating.

A physics analogy would be that no matter how strong the theoretical argument, its widely observed that over many human accessible orders of magnitude in mass of the object, gravity makes things fall at the same rate. Leading to the (actually inaccurate) theory that the force of gravity has no correlation with the masses of the objects.

Given that there's observationally no correlation between two variables and not much theory either, then observed variation in one variable is by the above, unsurprisingly not correlated to the other variable.
You can mark it execute on click.

Granted you still need to know how to cut and paste
It's not that eccentric. For instance, Marx didn't look just at what the job involved but at the terms of employment. In his terms, programmers making some of the highest salaries are still working class because they are paid a wage by a corporation. A plumber operating a business by would be middle class in the same system (they are working for themselves).

There are ways in which those distinctions are much more interesting than wage levels (which tend to dominate "class" discussion in the US).
Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish is typically seen as a bad thing that takes a highly competitive market, turns it into some form of monopoly or oligopoly. And it is almost always associated with Microsoft not Google.

How is this relevant? There already exists a market where consumers have little to no choice, they are locked into the stale and almost ludicrously bad options of one or (if you're lucky) two service providers. You are already within a form of control that you can't hope to break out of.

Now if I were to coin a phrase for Google it would be, Data, Data, and Data. Where this gives them just another angle for sucking up user data and using how they see fit, but that's not to say that Verizon, Cox, Comcast can't already do that. They just don't have all my search history as well as email to boot.

Final thought, Microsoft was known for Extinguishing some cool and open companies in it's time, I for one don't mind seeing Comcast, Verizon, or Cox get a little competition to make them step up their game.
Do you think internet networks will be able to keep up?
These are Formula E racing cars, racing on closed circuits. There are no pedestrians!
OK Cupid also has questions covering:

- Evolution.

- Whether or not dinosaurs were a thing.

- If the Moon landing happened.

- The relative size of the Earth and the Sun.

- If Astrology is scientifically accurate.

... among others, all of which I had marked, with the correct answer set as "mandatory". If someone answered enough of these with the wrong answer, you won't even see them (if you do, you'll have a high "enemy" percentage), so you won't waste your time talking to them.
While there is a segment of autodidacts, it's not like people can become expert software developers overnight.

Software developers work longer hours. I've never been in an environment where developers hang their coats up at 5:00 and go on with their carefree lives.

And while unemployment may be low in IT, developers do not enjoy job security.
The same problems that plague capitalism plague communist implementations.

In power structures, things are great if you're part of the class that receives political favors and not so great if you're not.

In capitalist societies, capital owning classes have the time and resources to be the political class. In previous communist societies, party and administrative members were the political class.
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The local/import map looks similar to the red/blue state map.
Well put. I'd go further to say protecting economic interests of UK is British intelligence's primary goal. Britain has been imperialist nation pulling shit on other countries for economic/political gains and justifying it internally with propaganda. To minimize risk and maximize opportunities, they definitely need a spy agency supporting that. Same as our CIA except maybe more active and effective due to legal differences.

On the side, they might try to stop this or that threat tl people's lives in UK or many eyes alliance. ;)
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I used to love reading his little notes at the end credits of those games, nice personal touch.
In the old horse days in Europe (and presumably everywhere else too) lots of very nice houses were built next to roads. Nowadays as I drive past I pity them and the ugly sound-deflecting fencing and berms they have to invest in to make them habitable. I look forward to quieter cars rejuvenating these old houses.

UPDATE: so my hopes are dashed :(
Exactly, yes. For small enough amounts of money, rational behavior is not expected, its surprising. Especially when its not mere quiet consumption, but the transaction has a fat dose of social signalling mixed in.
How do you figure the 1000 times cheaper?

Data storage today certainly isn't 1000 times cheaper than it was a decade ago, I'm not sure it's even 100 times cheaper.

For some reason you seem to believe that storage prices will remain the same while we double capacity every 12 months, that isn't even close to reality.

(Even if you've misapplied Moore's Law to flash storage, that predicts doubling every 2 years not every year.)
Firefox is pretty terrible on Linux, too. Presumably there's something about their posix threading or X11 integration that's busted, but it's hard to tell.
By adding a dependency to do a one line task?
What would you use instead that would allow you to define your own markup? LaTeX? \em{Hello} isn't much better than <em>Hello</em>.
From the number of women interested in dating him, that's where. Women go gaga to date a doctor, but they're about as interested in a software engineer as they are a plumber.
Well you need to consider purchasing power parity. In many European countries, these things are paid out of taxes (but also provided at a lower cost in total), so you can't just deduct/ignore them.
It would have been nice to do the tables in markup instead of images. I wanted to Ctrl+F the cities I actually cared about.
Newspapers so often bandy about the million unit that readers can get inured to its true significance. But if at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day you were lucky enough to get one pound coin every single second, it would still take 114 days to amass £10m. You would even now be waiting till Sunday week to collect the whole amount.

I have a very hard time imagining that. Surely it would be better to describe what having £10m would allow you to do.
Of course they do...what are we supposed to do about it?
Nobody should have to offer bounties. Researchers should not expect to get paid for their unsolicited work.

We probably agree that vulnerability reports should be seen as a positive thing. What software owners should have are policies and procedures for transparently handling vulnerability disclosures. At most, I think having some flexible process should be required as part of a certification (PCI, etc).

I do think that knowledge of a vulnerability and lack of action to fix it in a reasonable amount of time, which results in a breach should be treated more seriously. At the same time, encouraging reports of breaches is hard as it is and introducing more punishment would make everyone want to just keep quiet or as ambiguous as possible. I'm not sure what a good solution to this would be.