skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developers play games on this platform.
The games are testing their technical competence.
This info is passed/sold to recruiters.
Hypothesis: If you are good at these games, you will be good at your technical job.
My farm, my stable, oats, and me, because people have been riding horses places for the past 5,000+ years in my metaphor (where a car is the bot and a horse is a web page), and there's no good reason to not ride a horse (use a web page).
In this specific instance, I wonder if some people, when panicking about their courses or under a deadline, are comforted by the notion that a TA is out there and willing to help them.
I always found median income a little bit frustrating in these class and lifestyle discussions. Median income doesn't expose people who don't work because they receive passive income nor does it capture wealth very well. Let's say I am working 60 hours/week to bring in $125k and $4k/month of that goes to rent. My neighbor has $2 million in SPY yielding $40k/year and minimal overhead because his parents bought him a house free and clear (and, with no job, he has the free time to exercise, cook his own food, and enjoy a higher quality of life). These are extreme examples (although increasingly more common in SF, LA, and NYC) but demonstrate how median income can be misleading.
I guess that's true, I'm just a fancyite. Gotta have that sushi delivered to me, etc
If worker is good, and have enough cognitive power to learn all that algorithms and solve problems, he can land in Google/FB and enjoy life and safety.
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Well, preferably you wouldn't be growing conscious clones. Ideally, you'd sabotage the brain's development so as to prevent consciousness from developing in the first place (keep the hindbrain, chuck the rest so to speak) or come up with a way to artificially control vital functions.

But don't worry. There are lots of other ethical concerns to focus on after you get rid of the conscious clone problem.
IBM Watson

Here's a better article that was linked a few days ago:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/if-your-teacher-sounds-like-a-ro...
Think about it as getting a time series of previous measurements to aid in the detection of anomilies. If you just give me the metrics of a production system at an instant in time, it's hard to say whether anything's wrong. But when I know the response time has been in the same range for the past year, and then increases to 2x and stays that way for a week, I can be pretty confident that something broke.

Whether we're anywhere near feasibly getting that resolution of data is a different question.
Protection != prevention
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I agree that there can be low caliber comments, but some comments provide helpful new insights on the content. Additionally, the funniest comments I've ever seen are on YouTube videos. I currently don't use any messenger apps (I use FB messages in browser) but I would likely be a user of a Youtube Messenger.
Perhaps it's a trope because the computer business basically originated in California, which is famed for its good weather.
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My go-to coffee shop in Cambridge, MA is in the same building as the Broad institute and across the street from MIT. I'd say about half the conversations I overhear are about biology/life sciences and a quarter are math (topology is common, as far as I can tell).

Of course the people sending out invoices aren't having conversations! But still, almost surely there'd be a different distribution. More science, less film.
This seems bizarre. Why are they wasting all that time and money? Just move to another place where there is no condom law. What is it about California that can't be reproduced in Miami or Little Rock Arkansas???
> The only thing I do not like about this is that in Python strings are also iterables.

This touches on a big pet peeve of mine, and coincides with some ranting I was doing on the Scala Native post the other day. :)

Languages that support coercion should try to make sure they don't overload core operators for different types of operations for different core types. E.g. '+' for numerical addition and string concatenation (one is commutative, the other is not, and if you decide on which action to take depending the order of variables, that's confusing), or ==/!= for string equivalence and numerical equivalence (10.0 and 10 are numerically equivalent, but for strings we generally want an exact match).

Having an iterating operation work on a string without any preparation is one of those things that seems simple and useful, but likely causes a lot of confusion in dynamic languages in practice because you lose track of exactly what it's possible a variable can hold because it's often dependent on the return value of someone else's function. I imagine exposing a method on strings that returned an iterable interface, and requiring that be the method you iterate over a string, would reduce that confusion quite a bit.

> I ought to learn Perl, because that's pretty cool.

I think it's worth picking up the core concepts for anyone, because there's a few concepts (e.g. context) it implements as core parts of the language that are still rarely used elsewhere. Unfortunately, its hybrid beginnings mean that you can largely miss the importance of things like context early on because the code looks enough like what you are used to that you assume it works the exact same way, and 95% of the time that's true. The other 5% will leave you scratching your head and wonder why Perl seems so stupid or inconsistent, when really your mental model is wrong. List and scalar context and how they apply to the core types should be the first learning item on a new Perl programmer's list if they know another C-like language.
Url changed from http://news.softpedia.com/news/website-of-albanian-hitmen-fo..., which points to this.
I'd say less "a strategy" and more "an issue which we know we need to work on, eventually, but which is not crimping the funnel in such a way that it should be the #1 thing we have to care about right now."

Once we have a team of placement engineers hired and they're bugging me to send them more players who are interested in having career planning conversations, then I will prioritize making sure as many people as possible read one or two sentences of copy and slot Starfighter into their lives as a consequence of it. At the moment, though, lack of smart geeks to represent is not our problem.

For anybody in the audience who doesn't think our challenges are for you yet: no worries! There's an entire Internet of stuff you're not using right now. They'll be around (and hopefully improved) in 6 weeks, 6 months, or 6 years. No need to rush on any given Friday.
You can access a recent copy of Molecular Biology of the Cell through the US National Center for Biotechnology Information:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21054/
Small, Modular Nuclear Plants Get Their First Chance in the U.S
"We're going to be stepping up our operational tempo as a recruiting company, rather than sinking back into the dev cave where we're comfortable for weeks at a time."

Without respect to whether this is the right move in this situation, which it may be, I'd like to point out that, as 'advice', this is suspiciously trendy lately. I can't count the number of times in the last month where I've had people who have never seen or used our product tell me that our product is already good enough, and we need to spend more time doing growth or sales stuff.
Could you elaborate on how this ruins the yubikey 4? As a security measure, the software on the YK4 cannot be updated. Therefore, the software in question could have essentially been implemented as hardware. It is hardwired and will never change. I can't find the reference, but since there's no software update functionality, I'm under the impression even Richard Stallman would be okay with it under these circumstances.

Edit: Found it. https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

"As for microwave ovens and other appliances, if updating software is not a normal part of use of the device, then it is not a computer. In that case, I think the user need not take cognizance of whether the device contains a processor and software, or is built some other way. However, if it has an "update firmware" button, that means installing different software is a normal part of use, so it is a computer."

Straight from the big GNU's mouth.
Thanks for adding the perspective - it wasn't something I was familiar with, re: Midwest and that kind of demographic. I was familiar with good wages in a lot of dominant industries (when jobs are available, etc). The region should be interesting to watch, as you note, regarding how the bloc is courted (and whether it works or not).
I was always told the lower class or poor are there to scare the middle class into working and supporting the upper class.

The middle is the padding/margin that keeps the possibly of moving up and out of your class a seeming reality, but also keeps the divide from rich/poor from being too strong. If you just have rich/poor, the opportunities seem more dire, less opportunity and less mobility is possible and lots of bad things start to happen.

A society that tends to the middle is a more healthy one, one that tends solely to rich/poor needs leaves those middle people out of luck, that is what we have now.

This is also a consumer economy, the lower/middle spend over $1 or 100%+ of their incremental dollar earned, the rich only spend .05 or 5% of their incremental dollar. It is good to have consumers that can spend in a consumer economy, it helps all levels of class/wealth. Rich/poor do not spend enough to keep a consumer economy afloat that actually moves money the way it is supposed to move and you end up with stagnation and long drawn out recessions. In downturns, the poor have no money and the rich don't spend or invest in downturns enough, the middle always has to spend.

If you sell products it is also nicer to have middle class out there that can buy, not just upper class. The products that target each are fairly different and there are only so many rich consumers.
Yeah, I'm with the article's author; those delivery bots won't last 5 minutes in most American or European cities once people understand what they are.
> Anyone know what percent of questions the AI answered, vs redirected?

That's actually a very good question. The article doesn't give many details other than: "There are many questions Jill can’t handle."

For comparison, here's are the highlights of a study from 2014 on the mobile assistants (Siri, Cortana, Google):
http://searchengineland.com/google-now-beats-siri-cortana-di...

Google was able to offer "enhanced" answers (i.e. more than a web search) 58% of the time. Siri was at 29% and Cortana was at 20%. Siri improved some with iOS9, but not enough to beat google: http://www.recode.net/2015/9/20/11618696/how-intelligent-is-...

From the actual study: ... we took 3086 different queries and compared them across all three platforms. These were not random queries. In fact, they were picked because we felt they were likely to trigger a knowledge panel. ( https://www.stonetemple.com/great-knowledge-box-showdown/ )
Maintainability would be the biggest benefit. The first question I would ask is why do u feel ur existing design is no longer suitable?
This sounded cool until, "Now Goel is forming a business to bring the chatbot to the wider world of education.” // are all educators just trying to create companies these days?
That would just give a false sense of security.

In the end, you DO download a binary. Whether you download it with a script or not doesn't matter.

And at least the script, you can examine before running.
This is awesome! My father makes signs, he'd love to read this article.

I grew up helping him install signs. It's a pretty neat thing to be involved in.

This is also great advertising for Panic ;)
He can put up whatever self picture he wants. It's social media
I've never read much of the Washington Post, so I can't say whether there's actually been a decline since Bezos bought them. But there's been a remarkable quantity of terrible reporting from them lately, so at least we can say it's not very good under his ownership.
Because in many cases, the lazy are paying the bills.
It went down: $135K in 2000 => $124K in 2014.
What he means, but phases poorly, is to use compounds.

On your other point, at least German is very specific with how compounds work grammatically, namely that they follow a head-right principle which defines genus and declination and which essentially relegates everything left of the head to the status of further defining the head. Additionally, none of your examples work in German for the term "Krankenhaus" (sick house/hospital) for that very reason: a sick house (a house in disrepair) would have to be a krankes Haus following general rules of declension, which would also be the grammatically correct (though completely non-idiomatic) version for a fallen noble house. And while there is a very specific way that defines how stems of a compound are related, German can mark grammatical units differently from English (and akin to Latin) by requiring the agreement of case/numerus/genus between say an adjective and a noun, specifically making it grammatically impossible for krankes Haus to be understood as hospital or Krankenhaus to be understood as a dilapidated house.

edit: the above holds true for Norwegian and Danish as well, by the way.
That book is so totally "OMG, what's WRONG with those people???" Emphasis "those people."

While that's one interpretation, there's Long been conflict in the US on the rural-urban axis - see Andrew Jackson's vision versus Alexander Hamilton's vision

Race is only useful in this sort of thing as a predictor of rough economic class, and even then it's less than useful. IOW, I don't think it's specifically race.

A better resource is "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America"
http://www.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-Cult...
If the variables have no meaning other than argument placeholders in a transformation between functions, then they must not be given descriptive names that falsely hint at some deeper meaning.
nsxwolf pointed out that WebTv was something I've never heard about [0]. I guess we didn't get web on the tv so much as tv on the web. I'm guessing the original purpose was to give more people access to the web and that as such is fairly solved by phones. I have a hard time being upset over "they promised us WebTv, but all we got were internet access everywhere".

I think VR was both in the 90s. In large part VR was an interface to getting access to another world. A lot of it stemmed from things like neuromancer for example which isn't really natural world. It wasn't necessarily how realistic a flight simulator is. HTC Vive is quite interesting hese days with the room concept.

It's hard to argue perception of the past though. I'm just saying that plenty of things that are commonplace today, like kids playing (as in the traditional sense of the word) together online, would be science fiction in the 90s.

Regards to timing, I don't think it is unexpected that technology takes a few, or even many, years to live up to expectations. A smartphone is way more like a PDA than it is an early cellphone.

In the end I think the most important part is just having more qualified discussions about these things. We know self-driving cars are going to be a thing and internet connected devices and digital currency, in which capacity it can, should and will be is the interesting part.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_TV
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Yea, for many people their student loan payment is by far their largest expense (even over rent), so it makes sense to maximize, maximize, maximize.

Not sure how your friends' or co-workers' lifestyles have any effect on your own, though. I have friends who work for Google and live what I see as pretty extravagant lifestyles, and overhear co-workers (who must make a shit-ton more than me) talk about their nanny, their maids and their kids' private schools, but it doesn't really have any bearing on my life. You have to live the lifestyle you can afford or you go broke.
Abstracting out the essence of this article: It's arguing about the danger of ubiquitous "big data" in certain contexts.

The human population around 8 billion, which is 2^33. 33 is roughly the number of pairs out of 9 objects. Heuristically, this would mean that if we test for more than 9 boolean variables (high/low), purely by randomness we will start seeing correlations due to a "limited" population size of 8 billion. If we start treating people just based on those observations, we would seriously wreck human health.

Diagnosis (decision making) based on correlations (rather than causality) is very tricky.
Not sure if this matters to you, but keep in mind that there is a chance that "Open Source" projects can become closed source, taking all of the user's work with them. Users don't get as much protections as one would get from a free licensed project.

ie, there's a difference between "free software" and "open source".
Have you seen their homepage?

https://starfighters.io/

"Starfighter is a recruiting firm that
detects and introduces the best programmers on the market."

And to learn how they achieve it, see: https://starfighters.io/approach

And to provide some context as to why Patrick and Thomas are in this venture, http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ (my all time favorite article by Thomas)

Hope this helps.
"For example DigitalOcean pays $200 per 1500ish"

Most professional writers/reporters would consider that a terrible wage.
In my honest opinion, innovating in the Educational sphere and showing value to one or more groups - educators, students, administrative tasks - should really be rewarded fiscally. An institution won't really do that, except in the long-term by way of job stability and benefits (all subject to modern fiscal pressures). So, while it might seem the case, I think this avenue is perfectly reasonable.

Now, educators who write texts in concert with publishers and then somehow coerse students into buying brand new copies every semester, that's what I'd call profiteering. Not so highly esteemed to me. But, as noted, the profession is a tradeoff a lot of times.
Why would anyone complain about such a law?

Shouldn't the same law forbid removing condoms digitally as it would then lose the second positive effect of encouraging use (the first being protection of actors)? (But then, why is it a thing in the first place? Mind blown by dumbness).
Mitochondria mutates at very fast rates because of the fact that it's constantly exposed to free radicals. Apparently sexual evolution occurred because of mitochondria
Pillow does have Targa RLE support, but test coverage is sketchy.
It is a simple concept but if you aren't familiar with CTF or the movie The Last Starfighter it can take a moment to put the concepts together as to what they are trying to achieve.

- create games/challenges that require programming and problem solving

- recruit individuals based on success in the challenges and related data points
How many users have you folks gotten to register?
You could try this out -

https://github.com/othree/eregex.vim
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I wouldn't be so sure of that part of the finding, assessing lateral gene transfer is extremely difficult - consider the situation of the tardigrade.
Investment != business.
This is idealistic in the extreme. I think it could be easily argued that for our own sake and that of the environment we live in, humans could use more natural attrition, not less.

If we get to a point where large portions of our population are no longer oppressed or in poverty, where horrendous wars are largely a thing of the past, and we are already managing our population and environment in a healthy way -- then I'll be in your camp but right now we're doing exactly none of those things so, uh, no way getting rid of death is a good idea IMO.
I don't think the results in SF would be that interesting - everyone is working on their app!

I have a metric now for interactions with strangers in San Francisco: Time to App. It's like Time to Crate in games, but here you time how long an otherwise interesting conversation turns to someone talking about their app.
5-10K per post?

That's what companies pay for a finished small-medium scale coding project.
Did you submit a bug? We're using libjpeg, so the support for that functionality should be there.
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Society might need death, but I still want to live forever.

Anyone who is sufficiently math literate should know that they're very unlikely to live forever. If there's some finite chance you're going to die each year, as you consider longer theoretical lifespans, the probability you'll die gets so close to 1, it's basically a certainty. Anyone who is sufficiently science literate should know that thermodynamics and the heat death of the universe precludes anyone living forever.

All that said, if you offered me a life-span boost to 250, 1000, or a million years, I'd take it!
NYC? Tourists, people looking vaguely-homeless, students and Type-As.

And many of us would just look at you with a "wtf are you talking to strangers for?" expression.
So $125k is much more likely in one of the big cities where cost of living is dominated by real estate.

Since we tax labor and we don't tax land, this raises the suck factor. $125k in Northern Alabama probably means a darn good living. In SanFran? Probably not.

Also, Dallas used to be the place where land was cheap(er) and jobs paid relatively well, but that ended after Enron.
We're not talking about developers developers developers, we're talking about web developers.
Shouldn't the title be renamed for "The World's Most Accurate Natural Language Parser For English"?

It's impressive how Google's natural language features, since the simpler spell check, degrades when it work with languages different from English.
Copying my comment from last time which went unnoticed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448323

Thomas and Patrick:
First, I want to thank you for trying to address one of the most frustrating part of a developer's career.

As you know very well, after Silicon Valley, it's the finance companies in NYC area who pay top notch developer salaries. Even though I am a competent developer, it was quite a struggle for me to break in to the finance industry (They only wanted to hire people with finance experience). It took me a little while but I was able to break in. Now I am over that hump but I am faced with another problem. I have been working in 'Back office' for hedge funds for several years and would like to transition to 'Front office' and I am faced with the same problem again. I am not able to switch roles because I don't have experience working in the front office. The Stock Fighter CTF is a perfect way to demonstrate the relevant ability to prospective employers. Do you guys have any plan to work with hedge funds/investment banks for your recruiting platform?
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... which leads me to think there's a general growth-lacking/deflationary process at work. And this is due to bad monetary policy.
Petitions are a different animal. When asking what people are working on you are taking interest in them. When you want them to sign a petition you are asking something of them, and making them take interest in what you care about.
demand for electricity remained relatively flat over the previous decade.

To me, that might be the best news in the whole press release.