skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That Cambrian explosion is fun when you are programming, but if you are writing a product, you will want to make sure you don't pick a dinosaurus or trilobite to build it on.
Why the focus on China and India? By their own graphic, the Republic of Korea is the country that features the largest number of polluted cities, yet it isn't mentioned once in the article text.
Honestly if I go to your website to read some "news" or whatever, and you ask me for money or to enable ads or-else you won't show me content. I'll just close your window and never come back.
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It's the same situation in Brazil. I don't know if it's a law or a company rule of most big markets, but they simply added a few pennies to the price of the products as a form of insurance, then they don't call the police when they find someone stealing low amounts of food. It doesn't happen very often (the clerk that told me about this year ago had said it was the first time it happened in his shift)
This is an illuminating definition of deep learning from the end of the article:

The goal of supervised deep learning is to solve almost any problem of the form “map X to Y”. X can include images, speech, or text, and Y can include categories or even sentences.

Interesting to think about the implications when such systems become commonplace.
My reply was very US centric and I didn't make that clear. My figures were in USD. 50k is the median household income in the US which, now that I think about it is not that useful a number for this.
100% solar isn't the only scenario where a battery in the home would be useful. Even today, one could install a battery with an intelligent monitor that charges during non-peak hours and discharges during peak hours, effectively arbitraging the price of power. I have no clue if this actually makes sense economically, however.
Thank you for pointing that out. The job # is 22136BR

I redid the link and this one should work now https://ibm.biz/Bd4pDn
THe article says that in Dubai there are no subsidies
I'm in Europe and it's unusable for me as well...it all depends on a lot of factors, it's easy to get cheap flat if you are OK to live far from the city center of a city with good job opportunities
> when this task used to be as simple as:

a) Immediate Mode has been out of fashion for since before the turn of the century. Even the good old NVidia GeForce2 of 1998 already had OpenGL extensions that are essentially vertex buffer objects; you can in fact use the GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension on a GeForce2. If you don't believe me, I'm currently headed to my mother's and I have a old box stored in her cellar with a GeForce2 in it; I could give interested parties a SSH into it (you just have to live with a old Gentoo installation that I didn't touch for some 10 years or so).

b) There's a certain complexity cutoff where the whole shader loading boilerplate plus shader code is less, than what it takes to setup an equivalent fixed function pipeline setup. Making an educated estimation I'd say, that the break even point is, when enabling a register combiner on two textures, one a cube map, the other a normal+shininess map, setting DOT3 combining of normal with vertex secondary color (for normal mapping), directing the normal map into the cubemap texture coordinate lookup and fading between reflection and dull shader based on shininess. Sounds complex? Indeed it is, but keep in mind that this kind of thing was already possible with the GeForce3 (at least, I think it may even work on the GeForce2, but after over 14 years since writing the last time a program targeting it, I'm a bit shaky on the details).

Anyway, to set up this kind of register combining you'd need between 4 to 5 calls of glTexEnvi per texture. Another 3 glTexEnvi calls for setting up the secondary color muxing mode and another 3 calls for setting the final stage fading mode. Add to that the hours of twisting your brain to figure trying to wrap your mind around all the relevant state switches in the register combiners.

With shaders you simply write down what you want.
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Since Rust does not provide sec-libs in standard distribution nor they are available in larger ecosystem, Rust benefits seems theoretical to me. As with other things in theory C/C++ code could also avoid memory/security issues.
The system is also tracking everywhere you go on the web. Yet another entity that wants to track everything you do. Somehow I doubt they'll pass up the opportunity to monetize that data.
This really should've been an ICE car feature: "Don't worry about all the pollution you're causing outside with your humongous SUV - you're safe inside."
Yeah, even I applied in July '15 and still no reply!
> There's no reason why we can't rely on peaker plants a little bit longer.

No reason other than them being more expensive than batteries:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-22/batteries-...

>We need something to work on cloudy / rainy days after all.

Even without storage, interconnecting grids with HVDC across the US (or across a continent) solves this problem really really nicely. China is already building tons of HVDC to do this, and we need to as well. Long haul transport over HVDC is also cheaper than peaker plants.

That said, natural gas peaker plants stick around as long as the fuel costs are low, and the capital has already been sunk into the plant. But for new capacity, I think there's going to be a huge shift towards storage.
If "Organisation X" has acted in a morally corrupt and hypocritical manner for thousands of years, as far as I'm concerned it would be entirely irrelevant what their so called "morals" are. Therefore referencing them at all in this discussion is equally irrelevant.
This is exactly what we're doig.
Our rent in San Francisco was higher than the maximum allowed on the form (€3000) :(

To be clear, the amount I actually pay is lower because I have roommates.
Although these general numbers won't be a surprise to someone who has experienced a PhD program or is well informed about them, I do think the detailed data is useful.

Congress recently considered legislation that would automatically grant a green card to anyone who has completed a PhD in certain STEM fields (not all branches of science qualify). An MS would also count under some circumstances. The logic behind this is that the people who receive these degrees are very talented, there is a terrible shortage of them, and that it makes no sense to force them to leave the US.

I do agree with point one and three. People who get PhDs in hard sciences and engineering are very talented, and it is truly bizarre to force them to leave the US. I'm also in favor of the green card, because truth is, people with these degrees who want to stay tend to be able to, and I think it would be better to grant them full and free membership in the US labor market, rather than forcing them to work under more restrictive conditions.

However, I also realize what this legislation means - that PhD programs, which I consider to be fairly abusive of their students, would now have an amazing weapon to coerce in their arsenal - they would now be institutions with the power to bestow green cards. A RAND study found that the aversion to STEM graduate degrees among people who already have US residency and work rights is economically rational when you consider other options available to elite students. [1] The "shortage" is simply a rational response to long completion times, high attrition rates, and relatively poor employment prospects (again, compared to the outcome for shorter, more certain degrees with vastly lower attrition rates). Keep in mind as you read this PhD data that elite law and medical degrees typically have attrition rates of below one half of one percent. Pretty much everyone who wants to finish does. I understand there are some differences here (half a JD isn't useful, half a PhD in CS could be). But we're talking about a stupendous difference in attrition rates, in a field where congress is taking legislative action to correct a severe shortage that supposedly threatens US competitiveness in high tech!

Before we grant this power to universities, they need to answer some tough questions. Why are general attrition 50-100 times higher than they are in professional degree programs? Why is it so much higher for women and some minorities? What are you going to do to remedy this?

[1] http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html
> What's your "new N=0 point" on the graph?

In essence I meant that, in a construed way, the buying power of $10000 would approach the same buying power as the pittance that the impoverished have today. Your argument was very educational so I have to do some more thinking about this and may discard that point. Thanks for the food for thought.
That's the sort of thing you say when your bollard is not strong enough to stop a fully-loaded tractor-trailer driving into it, which is the use case you would expect for a bollard. Mentioning bomb resistance is just trying to equate different types of large forces in the mind of the buyer.

If a bomb goes off, no one would even care whether that one stupid bollard survived it. The major failure mode of a bollard will be due to buckling, shearing force at ground level, or cracking the foundation cylinder, as the force from impact is transmitted down the lever of the bollard into unyielding earth. And even if the bollard itself is destroyed, it is still partially successful if it can slow down or stop the truck. Does hiding behind a bollard protect you from a bomb? No. Bombs and bollards just don't ever meet in real life.

Bioweapon defense mode is something I would expect in a top-shelf building HVAC controller for hospitals or AAA office space. The bioweapon defense mode that already exists in my own car is "drive as fast as is prudent, away from the attack site, without stopping to refuel/recharge". The bioweapon defense mode for my own home is putting duct tape on the edges of the windows and doors. Anything more would be overkill--a waste of money, over something that will likely never happen.

What is the actual use case here? Pollen. If you're allergic to tree pollen, you will sneeze less on your way to work while driving the Tesla in the spring. Is that statement not exciting enough to sell those cars?
So Chrome & OSX probably solve this somehow, but all my chromebooks have crouton, and yes Windows'10 support for 4K displays is not there yet. Most of the apps work, but then there are some that don't (Electronic Arts's Origin client, which is written in Qt was not scaling properly, same for Minecraft Launcher, there are other examples too). Also in the "4K" mode I would often see screen tearing in some games (if they can't stick to 30 or 60fps), but that's more due to the 4x pixels that needs to be drawn. For that I've hard switched my son's laptop back to 1920x1080 - so it still looks kind of crispy, and things look well.
In this case:

>DEWA invited developers to submit bids for configurations made up of three sub-phases: a mandatory 200MW to be commissioned in April 2018, and another two optional 300MW tranches in 2019 and 2020, respectively,” the firm said in an analysis of the results.

so it's not being built for 2 or 3 years and they are probably hoping costs will continue dropping during that period.

The details of the situation are quite complicated, more details here http://www.apricum-group.com/dubai-shatters-records-cost-sol...
No, it became a problem when 1) microprocessors evolved into being able to do real work 2) Vast hordes of the great unwashed (I'd say even including me ) were vacuumed into the resulting void and 3) tools vendors for languages with better safety furniture were found wanting. Delphi existed but was found wanting. Ada ads were in the back of oh so many magazines. But...

And I'd throw in 4) - the CS industrial complex failed to address this except to rail against it. The first CACM I ever got was the one with "Reflections on trusting trust." If a Haskell or Rust is the answer, it needs to be more interesting. And if you say "but Java", name your second; I will meet you on the field of honor at dawn :)

I personally found "nobody is going to save you; you are on your own" very liberating but perhaps that is unusual. "In order to live outside the law, one must be honest." - Bob Dylan.
What i would love is a 11-12" chromebook that has ~8GB of ram and an expandable SSD option, a good screen and is military spec so it can take a beating when i go travelling.

My current macbook has a very narrow operating environment (10-35 degrees centigrade) and can't withstand being taken camping on the beach.
How is a Core M considered premium?
16GB of RAM for running Chrome. Sounds about right!
I think at least part of the implied tradeoff is resolution vs. battery life. More pixels == more GPU computation == more power required.
Disadvantages: do I have an account on this site? What email address did I use to sign up? What is my username (Many have user name requirements)? My password is too long. My password is too short. My password has the wrong characters. My password does have enough numbers. My password doesn't have enough special characters. My password has too many numbers. My password had too many special characters. Now you are remembering tons of special cases. If you are specifically targeted they can compare your password in two hacked databases and find out your scheme.
Not sure I'd call fine-tuning political brainwashing "benign". Your Jedi mind tricks will not work on me.
or billie holiday:

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
Sure, at work I have two 1920x1080 24" monitors, and used such configuration for several years (had exact same config at previous job). I like this better than the other offering of one huge 4K display (30" or was it 36" - I don't remmember).
This is why I clipped it in the title. :-)
Yes the rich would probably pay more even with getting their basic income. The point of giving it to everyone is to reduce the administrative cost of figuring out who qualifies, and to get rid of "welfare cliffs" that give poor people a disincentive to earn more for fear of losing assistance programs.
Still no more info on storage? I'd buy the $499 model in a heartbeat if it had a 32GB SSD (or if it was upgradeable). The fact that they haven't released those details yet makes me think the number will be rather unimpressive.
Not only are your numbers misleading (we've dug into that in depth in previous conversations - the students who choose to spend more time on their studies are not producing tremendous, irreplaceable value), but the comparison is absurd. The problem in Great Depression was not that too many people chose not to work because they had sufficient other sources of income - pretty close to the opposite.
Working in the commercial sector for a PhD isn't "throwing in the towel".

Academia has always been political and competitive just from the limited economics of it, so don't construct an MBA scapegoat for "ruining" it.
Yeah, the headline is essentially false.
Those interested in reading a more narrative-style recounting of Mr. Shannon's efforts ought pick up a copy of "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood" by James Gleick. It is one of the most fantastic books I have ever read. Informative, entertaining, engrossing. From Babbage's learning machines through the present, I can think of no better introduction to these critical concepts.
I would guess it would run it fine. My C720 has significantly reduced specs from this and I don't notice any problems with ubuntu mate
But what is Angular doing with that 200k (which is minified)? It doesn't seem like I should need to pull in the whole of Angular to make a component with a template.

Granted, React is pretty big too, but other frameworks, like Riot.js, have shown that they can be much smaller. Then there's Polymer which gets smaller as web components roll out.

In the competition again native apps, web apps have to load really, really fast. Their ability to run without installation is an advantage that needs to be maximized, an on potentially slow and high-latency mobile networks.
Well, a poor choice of words then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation)?

Anyway, I do not think that this was the case you are describing. The guy acted like he was really starving. So perhaps he was, I really do not know, I am just describing what happened.
+1 Someone had recommended this on a previous thread; and i believe this to be so cool!
The only thing that should be transparent in these conversations is the profit per engineer, not what your jackass co-worker two cubicles down is making.

You as an engineer have the capability to make wealth, massive wealth, that scales. Know what monetary value you bring to the company and then negotiate from there.

Don't apologize. And certainly don't position your salary negotiations relative to some introverted programmer who doesn't have enough courage to ask for what he's worth.
so the bucket of crabs approach to salary negotiation.
From the article

"India is also struggling tremendously; the country has the dubious honor of claiming 13 of the 20 slots in the top most-polluted cities in the world. "
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Where I work, you won't last long with too many memory overwrite bugs. There is no such... evolutionary feedback in open source.
What does it cost to replace the filters? Never seen that mentioned anywhere.
So much anger.

The point is that developers should express themselves for a general audience. There is already sufficient macho separation between developers and the real world that we've just stepped into The Matrix.

The point here is we should aim for clarity and explanations instead of reappropriating words and meanings, often for truly random reasons.

Yes, I know what _fibers_ allude to in this context. I didn't like it when it was first used when I was younger either.

Too many exclusive high horses here, I think.
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fixed it, thanks
Or Sci-Hub and Libgen.
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The permanence of employment has changed yes. But not, in general, the amount of money you can make. If you feel like you can't buy things your grandfather could it's probably because they aren't the same things and because you're spending money on things he never did.

See what I said about houses being much bigger today than they used to be.
As far as energy goes, that's still very near term. But costs will continue to drop in that time period, without a doubt. Perhaps as important, they're hoping that interest rates remain low for the next few years.
Apparently they gathered the data by scraping. http://blog.rentswatch.com/writing-scrapers/

The scraper is here: https://github.com/jplusplus/rentswatch-scraper

Hm, they don't seem to include a specific implementation for Craigslist, though they mention it as a datasource on their blog. Maybe email them for a copy of that.

In Omaha, Nebraska, at least, Craigslist isn't the final word on rent prices. You'll find disproportionate representation of certain classes of apartment/house. The cheapest and the most expensive housing won't be found on CL.
I'd love to see this, and my daily laptop is an Asus C300 Chromebook, but I think it's more likely we'll see dependence on cloud IDEs/environments rather than much native work. If they could get me a Ruby install and Android Studio on there I'd be a happy bunny.

This HP one looks really nice, and might solve a couple of gripes (last couple of ChromeOS updates have slowed it down a bit).
Yes. You are allowed to drive under the influence of alcohol if you are trying to save someones life.

Or even shoot someone, as long as you could reasonably expect that your or someone else life was in danger. Even if it turns out that there was no real danger, for instance you where threatened with an unloaded or even a fake gun.

If you are very hungry, and steel a sausage, the crime compared to the need is very low.
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With Chromebooks I typically do not need to worry about hardware compatibility. Besides, with Crouton I can have full-fledged development environment under CromeOS while still being able to give the notebook to guests or children for Internet access.
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It's in alpha.

"Relax isn't yet ready for production, stay tuned for releases, beta version will come soon"
I've always liked the idea of Flattr and this is exactly what I've wanted to see from them since the beginning. It's like Spotify, generalized to the web: one monthly payment to support all the (web) content you consume in the month.

But I prefer uBlock Origin to ABP for ideological and performance reasons, so I'm not sure if I'll use this yet.
It's not about morality or property rights... Of course the man stole food. And when he gets caught he will go to jail where he will have a cover over his head, resemblance of a bed, and free meals...

This is a case of economics. The courts are ruling they no longer want to foot the bill, send the homeless man back to the streets and let him beg, feed, and steal from the businesses.
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AIUI the backlight dominates the power consumption, so more pixels at the same physical size makes very little difference.

But sure, that's a lot more concrete. So are you unhappy with the battery life on this device? Does the laptop the grandparent was talking about have worse battery life than comparable models? Certainly I'm very happy with the battery life of my Surface Book (which is a lot better than that of the laptop it replace), so to my mind it's not a problem in practice.
This is just selection bias - you probably just don't run into 'C' programmers.
From the title, I thought it was going to have only a single usb-c port like the macbook, thankfully it has 2 usb-c ports and a usb-a port.
If you do a binary search on their API you discover they have 138 cities, somewhat more than listed in the drop down: http://api.rentswatch.com/

They're claiming to have the largest database of rent prices in Europe, is this true?
Very incomplete: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.7.txt
~5% of developers, while small compared to the whole, still encompasses about a million of the estimated 20 million developers worldwide.

The other poster rightly mentioned the embedded space, and that is absolutely true (and indeed it is where I gained my affinity for C and C++), however there are easily 20 middleware / web / mobile developers for every embedded developer.
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The infrastructure belongs to the utility. Why do you feel entitled to use it for free?

It would be like demanding free Internet because you run a website lots of people visit so your upload is greater than your download.
> Only available to the rich.

That's where new technology always starts? Eventually everything trickles down. That's how tech works.
The site punchline "All rents, all over Europe, in real time" seems pretty straightforward to me :)
There's, at this point, nothing to worry about. The insanely dedicated people who maintain the ad blocking lists are the real heroes here, the client that uses them is completely replaceable.

If/When ABP goes over to the dark side people will stop using it. There are plenty of replacements, uBlock Origin being the current winner.