skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading a bit more into the financial side of things — PayPal users must be 18 or must be using their parent's account. Adults can have one personal and one business account, so that wouldn't really work. It also isn't easy to get a plastic PayPal card.

I hadn't thought about the minor accounts which obviously complicates things. It would have been harder to pitch but easier to start with small payments between friends in the app and work back around to the chores/PiggyBank idea.

Still seems reasonable to expect a parent to set up a bank account for their child and then facilitate PayPal deposits into an account. ACH deposits have low fees but they're delayed one or two days. Was instant gratification the blocking factor? Why not use Bitcoin, for the hell of it.

So I don't see what the problem is with — supply your own debit card, child's bank account, and adult PayPal account — then sign-up and press on.
This really hits the nail on the head. The problem with onsites is really the "quick prove to me you're smart" type of tests that both are time intensive and also very frustrating to a lot of people in that they're often calibrated with a heavy bias towards avoiding false positives with nothing to even track the amount of false negatives. Success with something like start fighter provides a reasonable benchmark for the latter which is in itself pretty valuable.

The thing to consider though is that it would be crazy to take a job without going in to meet your potential future coworkers. It's also a quicker and less unpleasant process (and more of a two way street) to try and make sure it's a good cultural match. Thus, solving a bunch of the problems with technical interviews shouldn't actually eliminate onsites, it should rather make them more effective and less awful.
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If nothing else, a tighter clustering of incomes implies a certain degree of commonality of experience and interest compared to a less-tight distribution.

This means a lower probability, all other things being equal, that a majority-supported position will be extremely unwelcome by a large minority, which is probably a good thing for a democratic state.
This syntax is available in julia as well, but I'm not sure it's a great idea to encourage mixing the two indexing behaviors, even if they have different syntax. As I hinted
in the original reply, I have seen very few cases where the
choice of index offset actually makes a difference. For
example, loops over indices generally use `eachindex` which doesn't care about your choice of index base.
Yes, it is its successor.
Increased efficiency is definitely a contributing factor as well. It's very inspiring to see that our population and economy have both grown, yet demand for electricity has remained flat.
Likewise. I may be in the minority but I won't normally downvote comments, only when I think it really is deserved, but complaining about downvotes -- especially in your original comment, before you've even received any -- well, I will downvote you for that.
> You can dream of a world where writers make 100K a month from projects like this, but with 30 years in the business I don't know anyone even close to that.

I've never been, but if you go to some of the big leadgen conferences then I suspect that you'd meet or at least hear about a lot of folks like this.
Octave is much slower than MATLAB.
Have you seen the USB Armory? Seems like you would be interested.

https://inversepath.com/usbarmory
Yup. It's a beautiful example of (subversively) following the rules exactly.

(And kudos to the originator for acknowledging that.)
> What's the argument for not testing in the first place?

The wider the pool of people being tested, the greater
the chance of false positives, which is why screening
guidelines generally limit the population to be screened.
The more independent tests you do at once, each with its
own chance of error, the larger the chance that at least
one of those tests produces an incorrect result, said
Rebecca Goldin, director of STATS.org and a professor of
mathematical sciences at George Mason University.

It's not just panic, but that if the false positive rate is too high then untargeted testing becomes overwhelming and counterproductive. There's a slim, very slim, chance that as a man I could develop breast cancer. But there's little value in testing me as it's not present in my family history (male or female).

So let's say (in this example) that the false positive rate is only 1% in men and the true incidence rate is 0.01%, and we test 100 million men:

10,000 men have breast cancer, great we've detected it
999,900 men don't, but are subjected to more testing

That more testing is likely costly, time consuming, and potentially invasive. This acts as a net drain on medical resources because we've just performed nearly 1 million unnecessary mammograms. They take technician and physician time. They take machine time. And so on.

So false positive rates may be low, but when applied to a massive population the total number of false positives can overwhelm the system.
What would be ideal is if there were like "real reviewers" that are verified and their review carried more weight.. Which obviously sucks for the seller if they give a bad review.. Maybe there could be a mitigation system where the seller could try to fix something then mark the problem as fixed or something and then the reviewer could mark it as they agree, then they could update their review..
same with europeans.
Ditto on the "don't get discouraged". I've gone through a few levels now and part of it has been perserverance (and sometimes a lot of thinking & sketching ideas over coffee).

The "5 minutes with cURL" comment is definitely offputting if you get stuck. Ignore it. Consider it a convenient lie that helped motivate you to start, but don't kick yourself over it.

As for the unreliable bot - many of my first solutions were something unreliable. Then I went back and improved the code's reliability / performance. Having a stroke of "luck" is usually just a first insight into what's going on.
Solar thermal is terrible for electric power. Photovoltaic solar is vastly better as it provides more power, does not need direct sunlight, and costs less.

The real reason Solar thermal is still a thing is they can burn fossil fuels and produce base load power, while pretending to be 'green'.
Suppose you spend 30% of your pre-tax income on housing. A 125k income then supports a $3125/month payment, which works out to about a ~660k house. That's enough to buy the median house in every state in the country and all but 4.8% of zip codes[1].

Let's be a little more conservative. Suppose you spend 25% of your post-tax income on housing. A 125k income supports a $1750/month payment, which works out to a ~370k house. That gets you a median house in all but 3 states: Hawaii (556k), DC (550k), and California (462k) - the next state up is Massachusetts (343k). You could also buy the median house in all but 16% of zip codes.

I couldn't find that much data on school districts, but just as a point of comparison, 370k is enough to buy the median single family home in 7 of the top 10 school districts in Michigan[2]:

1. 350k, Bloomfield Hills Schools
2. 411k, Birmingham Public Schools
3. 219k, Okemos Public Schools
4. 429k, Novi Community Schools
5. 343k, Ann Arbor Public Schools
6. 276k, Saline Area Schools
7. 370k, Troy School District
8. 285k, Grosse Pointe Public Schools
9. 335k, East Grand Rapids Public Schools
10. 429k, Northville Public Schools

If you bumped up your payments to about $2023/month (~29% of post tax income in Michigan) you would be able to afford a median single family home in every top school district (~430k).

Also, anecdotally, I grew up in Michigan and a 400k home was solidly upper-middle class even in nice areas like Ann Arbor and Bloomfield Hills. In Ann Arbor, a 600k home would be either a mansion or a family home in an extremely desirable area.

[1] http://www.zillow.com/research/data/
[2] https://k12.niche.com/rankings/public-school-districts/best-...
Doesn't matter terribly much, everything trends to 4.5 stars anyway.

I have come to trust that if an item has tens of thousands of reviews, few 1-star reviews, and some useful critique/criticism in the reviews, that while it may not be the best [vacuum|pot|canoe] I'll probably do just fine with it. Much like with Android vs iOS, there are real differences but both have a very high quality level and the non-professional vacuum user is really fine with either choice.

If I really, really, really care about the exact details (e.g. digital cameras, computers) I'll go elsewhere, simply because storefront reviews are never a good source of side-by-side tests & sophisticated, in-depth analysis.
Batman fear is?
Also note that the author asks for the native code for arguments of type `(AbstractString, Float64)`. The first is an abstract type — which means that this code will never get called in the first place. Julia will resolve the type of the string, and then dispatch to the concrete implementation. Which, for an ASCIIString, is 3x shorter.
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Part of the problem with the Vine program is that there's no real need or want that other reviewers have. If I'm looking for a backup battery because it's something I need every day, and I get shipped one and it takes two weeks and then it doesn't work consistently (something that happened to me), then I'm going to have a review that says that. If I'm a Vine reviewer and a backup battery shows up and I use it a few times and it works fine, I'll probably leave a positive review and then set the item aside. The lack of need or want completely taints the review process

The other issue is that psychology studies show that being given something ingratiates a person to the giver, which also greatly taints the Vine program.
I didn't know there was a coffee shop there! My wife used to work in the Koch Institute. I could have commuted home with her.
Because this is a saturated market. They were differentiating by adding the bank integration.

See also:

* http://www.forbes.com/sites/learnvest/2013/06/11/need-to-man...

* http://www.jumpgapsoftware.com/allowance/index.html
The problem with statistical information is data sparsity. You could read all English texts ever written (or spoken for that matter) and the number of meaningful combinations left to see would still be infinite. If you try to learn language only from finite examples, you'll never see enough of it to learn it well. That's why Google reports results against the Penn trrebank. It's not even clear what's a good metric outside of finite corpora (that the field has been overfitting to for decades like someone noted above).
"You really need about a million dollars to make a marketable product."

wat?

There are countless examples which disproves this (eg. Basecamp)
My problem with vine is that it's good for general stuff like lamps or cords but when it comes to more intricate things like say an embroidery machine or a vinyl cutter (guess what I'm doing as a hobby recently) then they don't have enough domain knowledge to give accurate reviews. I also feel like a lot of them feel they have to give good reviews to keep in the vine program which I directly know is not true.
One potential solution is for Amazon to do a better job of encouraging users to rate every product they buy. That would quickly drown out the fake reviews and make such tactics uneconomical.

Off the top of my head I would suggest that on the post-checkout screen they should list the customer's most recent purchases asking "Please rate your current satisfaction with your recent purchases". Just a quick 5-star rating, a small button to write a textual review if the user wants, and a note clearly stating that their review can be changed later if their opinion changes.

I suggest putting that at post-checkout because it's a point where Amazon still has the user engaged, so asking is not annoying (like their emails currently are), but the user is done shopping so they aren't preoccupied with something else. In other words, it is the least annoying time to ask. They should, of course, also have a rating box on the home page (again, a list of recent purchases, possibly muxing in older purchases at random).

And then weighting reviews is super important. Reviews given by users later in their ownership of the product should be weighted higher than reviews given just after receiving the product. Changed reviews should be weighted higher, as well as reviews on returns.
It seems like you'd get there automatically as soon as you have some sort of smart-contract enabled judge system. Ethereum's first killer app, maybe.
You also need to keep in mind that bandwagon hopping and fan flame wars/arguments/raids play a large part in these ratings (especially for movies and games on sites like IMDB or Metacritic).

So if something has a large, extremely passionate fandom, ratings can easily be skewed way higher than expected. If it's got a large (or at least vocal) group that seriously hates a movie or game, its ratings will be rock bottom. For example, Call of Duty Infinite War and its really bad Youtube ratings. Or the really, really critical coverage of Paper Mario Colour Splash and Metroid Prime Federation Force.

Not saying fake reviews and ratings don't exist for commercial gain, they do. But an angry (or really fanboyish) internet mob can cause this phenomenon about as much.
Personally I usually select my os based on the applications I intend to run on it, but for "web" development all I need is a text editor, so really any of them will do. Linux is nice to work in, but Windows will probably support the wireless card in my laptop.
> students who could not find admission anywhere else in India through merit, as measured by board examinations of course, but had parents who could buy a seat for the kid with a fantastic sum of money.

Well, I don't know much about the past but that is certainly not so much the case now. Sure, everybody still wants to get into the IITs, and the peer quality here is not a match for say, IIT Bombay, but there are some very good people here. I myself could have gotten myself into a public school, but chose Manipal because of it's exposure life quality. I suspect that is the major driving factor for students.

There are no bought seats now. And there are heavy scholarships for meritorious students too. And this is just talking about the engineering school.

The Med School here, KMC, is one of the best in the country without a doubt (even though shit expensive).
"It brings up one of my pet peeves. There's no good site for asking for what (usually enterprise) software I should look at. Whenever I ask on stackoverflow they yell at me :)"

http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/
Passions and dreams are dynamic, not static. If one "dies" you can find a new one
I love python and I don't like Julia at all.

But, I think judging a language (which claims math and scientific computing is it's strongest point) by print screen performance is not fair.

And, the authors last example is a little bit misleading I think. The C code sets up registers and jumps to the main sprintf routine. I don't know why didn't he tell that routine's instructions count...

Has any one counted?
The problem is, no one wants to fund solar thermal power. There are worries that advances in photovoltaics might make solar thermal power obsolete over the 30 year life of these plants.
How do you handle words with multiple meanings?

Like "bank" etc. Even "fork", "spoon" etc have multiple meanings.
So, when do you use a Container or VM?
> rustup is a toolchain manager for Rust

I'm hoping this follows the "functional" paradigm, where a compile command is invoked, and the compilation result depends solely on the arguments of the command, and not on configuration files and such. This makes it much easier to script things, to use alternative build systems, and, in general, to keep things predictable.

I'm saying this because I'm detecting a trend in a different direction, where tools are making things more confusing instead of more clear.
For Heroku's managed Kafka in the common runtime, you can just `heroku kafka:tail topic`. For other environments, you might look at something like https://github.com/EnvisionX/kafcat or https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat.
Actually the java-everywhere thing worked out pretty well, but Oracle is suing the OS that made that idea comes true.
> have substantial capital stores... some living paycheck-to-paycheck

This is due to income, not job function. AKA NFL coach vs. high school football coach.
"You can either put a million dollars of your own blood, sweat and tears in, in which case it'll be the wildest ride of your life, or you can deploy capital."
This is definitely a big step forward. I had become spoiled by Go's cross compile capabilities, which Rust had paled in comparison to. Prior to this, it was a pain having to get the right toolchain for each platform. With this, I can download the toolchain as needed for the target platform, and build against it.
Oh. I think metrognome had shown the point. Didn't read it. sorry.
Sure, but last I heard rustup wasn't recommended yet (i.e. it was still beta, missing some features, etc). Is it recommended over multirust now?
Fourth.

I kinda wanted one in the hopes that if it worked well, I could theoretically get a lot more to trigger actions for things with my Z-Wave setup.

20$/each isn't amazing but its not exactly terrible for this. But 20$/each/year (or less!), horrible.
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There are two kinds of laziness: one which makes you visit course website, copy teacher's email and send him some stupid question whose answer is one CTRL+F away on the same website, and another which makes you want to automate responding to such emails.

I'm not sure if the former is that virtuous. Those people look like they are growing completely helpless.
> ...the fact that you seem to be an inexperienced Mac user...

By what measure? How exactly did you come to that conclusion?

> ...you also don't mention other OSes like Linux.

I absolutely did. Perhaps you should read my comment again.

> So your whole point is 'windows is best, because i dont know how to use other OSes'.

Incorrect. Please don't quote me incorrectly because it seems like you're putting words in my mouth. Did you miss the part where I said that I've been using Linux and Macs professionally since early releases of both? (EDIT: Seriously...Are you calling me a liar?)

> You literally haven't stated a single factual and concrete example...

Sure I did. I said Windows serves my needs better and that's an absolute fact that I have observed empirically throughout my decades of professional and hobby experience. It's certainly not because I don't know how to use Linux or the Mac OS. And I find it hilarious that you've come to that conclusion despite not knowing anything about me. It shows your true color, so thank you for making it easy for me to end this conversation right here.
For many users of Julia, long-running performance matters more than microbenchmarks. Having converted a naively written Python program to Julia (there was a huge amount of computation being done over a large search space), I experienced a massive speedup even against PyPy. My Python scripts ran for about 10 hours before I called it quits (.6% of the work had been completed). Converting to Julia allowed me to finish within 3-4 hours, AND it was easy to parallelize.
I don't think the app ever solved that problem. From the article, it sounds like the company spent most of its time trying to find a partner to implement that feature, but ran out of cash after being strung along by multiple Fortune 500 companies.
This is actually a good point, but what about Unicode? Will `(UTF8String, Float64)` emit another function?
Distributed list is, to a first approximation, a solved problem. I wouldn't suggest trying to build a business on it. You need that twist that sets it apart from Keep, to name just one example.
Photovoltaics don't come with a built-in energy storage solution (needed if you want solar to be part of a base-load solution). The risk is really from photovoltaics + better batteries (or some other generic storage system).
Never? Minus some actual pleb revolution, banks all but run federal governments through rotating door hires and friends in high places. Banks paying millions in fines have billions in cash and assets and trillions in managed assets.

As long as money rules the earth, there will be no tech lead "disruption" of any kind.

Besides, their tech is incredibly advanced.
Obviously static/strong typing is winning. Last man standing are JavaScript and Python, the former transforms into a compilation target (like Elm), the latter doing some kind of gradual typing (like mypy).

I think dynamic typing has its place, but more in experimental design and prototyping than in bigger application development (big IMHO).
The Ivanpah solar thermal plant was funded [1] and many others [2]. Why do you say no one wants to?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_st...
i asked this question many years ago. +1 Count me in. The best thing is to be proactive and start making the list of people who want such a device. For me even just the monitor is enough, not need to wait for a full laptop. next time when they crowdfund a new project we will be ready to act.
>> We now have multiple implementations that get 94%+ success _without_ knowing anything about the world. Isn't that remarkable?

That success only lasts in the limited context of the corpora used for training. Step outside that and success goes down to 60% or much worse. And that's just tagging and things, shallow parsing. Meanning? Discourse? Don't even think about it.
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That's interesting - thanks. I don't think anyone is eager to mix indexing behaviors either.
To me, the City itself is London's dirty little secret. The City is not like the rest of London, in terms of political governance. It is a very old enclave, governed by the City of London Corporation.

The City is an ancient creation, centered on the old Roman city. It has a government that far precedes that of modern Britain. It has its own constitution, council, and chief executive (mayor).

Over many centuries, the power of the City has been tested many times. Even the Magna Carta specifically excludes reforms to the City in stating "the City of London shall have/enjoy its ancient liberties."

In addition to self-government, those "ancient liberties" include a certain amount of regulatory independence, especially in the financial sector. The City embraces finance, with the government having an explicit mission to promote it.

As a result, the City is an endlessly useful haven for all sorts of companies and individuals to escape financial scrutiny, right in the heart of modern day Britain.
The IEA World Energy Outlook, and other realistic detailed future energy scenarios (including IPCC reports) say we're going to double or even triple nuclear power production from now until 2050.
> This is due to income, not job function

Its due to past circumstance, including past income, past life choices, inheritance, and a number of other factors. Its not a function of either present income or present job function, though its loosely correlated with both (and, of course, having any job function indicates that you are to some extent dependent on renting out your labor; really, the classes aren't crisp categories, they are ranges on a continuum.)
Note that this is from early 1996, when Steve Jobs was CEO of NeXT. Apple didn't acquire NeXT until nearly a year later.
This sounds like a huge boon to game development! With the piston.rs ecosystem doing a stellar job of centralising Rust gamedev libraries, Rust seems primed for use in game tech.

One thing I'm not hearing much about yet is iOS though. C# relies on Xamarin. Java's best bet is probably Intel's Multi-OS (since RoboVM is no more). What does Rust/Rustup have planned?