skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the 'in-world' resolution can match 1920x1200 at 2ft

Sitting about 2 ft from my 24" monitor at work, I'd estimate that it would take 9 such monitors to get to around the same field of view in my HTC Vive. So you're talking about 5760x3600 pixels there.

Maybe we're going to need iris tracking as an optimization? That's a lot of pixels to push at 90 Hz.
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> see the table here for a summary of Google's repository statistics from January 2015.

Is it just me or is there not actually a table there?
You're right, I forgot about that. It was my thinking that Stokes must have some say in the direction Ars goes. I mean he's going to look at the site and give feedback, maybe even have say over who is hired and for what. If stories coming out of some department start getting too biased one might think Stokes would want to take action. Strange how he didn't put that story on Ars. It would have worked. Perhaps he wanted to keep it personal and keep even his own bias off the site. Which is a big plus IMO.
> It doesn't need to be 3d, or need all these fancy bells and whistles. Nowhere has that been suggested (at least in anything I've written)

You literally just suggested a pretty isometric visualiser become the new basis for the game UI.

That's a bit like complaining that vim is obtuse and to fix it we should switch its rendering engine to use proportional fonts.

> just make the UI intuitive

Oh yes, "just" do that.

If you actually have something new to suggest, feel free to contribute: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?board=5.0

Generally the attitude is perpetually "yes, it'd be nice, but then we also want all this other stuff". And at the end of the day, Toady does what Toady does, he doesn't owe us anything.
Full disclosure: I used to work at PP so I have an obvious affinity towards my former colleagues. That said, I respect endeavors to reproduce and critique data work. I haven't worked through the numbers myself but I don't see any immediate reason to distrust the numbers or interpretation you've stated.

But the fact that you keep referring to COMPAS as "machine learning" when neither COMPAS (in the various papers I've read on their site) nor the ProPublica article describes it as such makes me wonder if you're missing a few key things about the actual reality. AFAIK, COMPAS clearly involves statistical heuristics, but its not clear the data pipeline used to create those heuristics, nevermind how it would feed into a machine learning system. And that's kind of the problem here, with so much of this algorithm being proprietary, there's no way to keep it accountable, other than the imperfect ad-hoc way that ProPublica devised.

You have a highly emotional reaction to their process -- calling them flat-out liars -- despite the fact that they were the ones who not only procured the COMPAS scores via FOIA, but the also wrote their own scraper to automate the collection of criminal records from the Broward court system. They then reconciled this with the databases from Florida corrections and jail records from Broward's sheriff's office, and the databases required manual reconciliation. They then packaged and posted all of this data for public use, along with their workbook, on to Github.

And this is the work, in your opinion, of a group of deliberately dishonest journalists who are looking to sell clickbait. And you can't stand that they went out and talked to people (anecdotes, as if data weren't the plural of anecdotes...and as if COMPAS itself isn't built on anecdotes because it requires practitioners to go out and interview inmates in person, for fucks sake)

Again, I haven't run through the numbers myself, so I can't agree or disagree whether ProPublica has conclusively argued that race is a statistically significant factor when COMPAS fucks up the prediction. Or if the "bias" that they speak of is more focused on the "hazard ratios" differentiation between racial groups, and perhaps that's not as sexy a bias as its headline warrants.

But I'll be honest. Your conflation of COMPAS with "machine learning", and your simplistic view of the law and the justice system -- "we've taken a flawed and racist human system and replaced it with a much better machine learning system"...um, there's an actual Constitutional process to adjust things in our judicial system that shouldn't just be overridden because statistics -- makes me think that you come into this fight with at least as raging a bias as that of the ProPublica journalists.
Sweet that some one is trying new things with ideas.

But Oh boy, Life does not revolve around tech interviews. Make peace with it. An old school psychologist would observe us and say that the people obsessed with tech interviews faced an emotional toll of rejection during early career and are trying to get over it.

Google, Facebook and other companies are like parents of the tech kids and the kids are seeking some kind of approval or validation from them via passing their technical interviews. You are not cool enough if you don't crack our interview.

Its possible we are doing something very wrong here.
Even regardless of significance, the "analysis" is just correlation dressed up as some kind of shocking revelation.

> Our analysis found that black defendants who did not recidivate over a two-year period were nearly twice as likely to be misclassified as higher risk compared to their white counterparts

Which is exactly what you would expect to happen if the algorithm predicts that black defendants are more likely to recidivate. Being in the group predicted to recidivate more will make you more likely to be predicted to recidivate. It would be quite unexpected for that not to still hold for the people who didn't actually recidivate.

And if being black does correlate with recidivism, what is the algorithm supposed to do?
It's a simple fact that if a potential employee cannot communicate with the rest of the team, that is a detriment.

The employer should be able to decide whether or not that detriment is enough to justify not hiring this person.
"Developed" is a relative term (more fully, it would be "More Developed"), not a statement of completion (this is somewhat confused by the currently-accepted alternative, "developing", but it was more clear with the more accurate, previously common, alternative "Less Developed".)
> I'd love to see a product/social network that confront their users with opposite point of views.

It has dawned on me over time that HN is like this, mainly because there's a single common site, i.e. no subreddits into which people silo themselves. That means that on any divisive topic, anyone who feels strongly has comments in their face that they strongly dislike, and vice versa. (I wrote more about this downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12003205).

This is not an entirely good thing. It's responsible for most of the conflict that happens here.
It doesn't appear that the country is after an empire the same way the British had one 100 years ago

US empire is defined more by squashing incipient threats to its global hegemony than by UK-style colony management.
FILED: saves and organizes your mail attachments in Dropbox or Box
In the example clips, to me, her vocal fry was a gender tell, even after modulation.
Hillary Clinton wants broadband for everyone by 2020
That's interesting, I would have thought being able to see actual finger movements to analyze mechanics is a part of the evaluation process. Could be totally off base though I suppose.
SaaS customers are extremely busy
I understand the sentiment, I just don't understand the facts. People keep saying "if anyone but Clinton did this they'd be in prison", but there's a bunch of people who used private servers and had email reclassified and they're not in prison. Karl Rove used RNC servers, although it sounds like the email was all archived with the White House; that doesn't seem to address the initial security concerns though.

Forgive me for being dense, I just really don't understand how the first statement (these actions would put anyone else in jail) can be true with the number of counterexamples (people who did similar things, aren't in jail, aren't Clinton). I'm a mathematician. I'm stuck. So is it about being well-connected, as MrZongle2's most proximate comment says, or is it about being Clinton?
Ask HN: Should I learn how to program, or come up with an idea first?
I'm only interested in programming as a tool to execute and make tangible my entrepreneurial ideas. If I don't have an idea, is it worth it to learn programming? Or should I first come up with an idea, then learn programming?

Thanks HN.
Aline from interviewing.io here. Great idea!
What evidence do you have that some speaking patterns are more common with women? Can you link to some data?

Edit: Lots of opinions here. Still no data.
I'm not sure what you mean with "make decision making worse". Are you suggesting that having the EFTA option explicitly listed might have made even less people choose "remain in EU"? I'd say that in that case, the government has been given a clear mandate on what route to pursue. Right now, I don't think the Leave side has any idea if the public wants the EFTA option, the "own island first" option, or the chunnel option.

Thinking about that last option some more, maybe it would make sense to put a nuclear option (like "destroy chunnel") on the ballot, to weed out the spiteful votes from the constructive ones. Even if you explain beforehand that the chunnel will never be closed -- some people just need to vent.
> Don't get cute. Code golf is for competitions, not production code. Even if something takes 10 lines that you can do in 1, if 10 lines is clearer, do it that way (you'll thank yourself in 6 months when you have to figure out what you were doing).

Brian Kernighan put it well: "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"
So we all realize technical interviews serve no practical purpose and should be quietly abandoned, but instead of looking into the future and discovering better ways of identifying talent, people keep inventing stuff that makes the torturing mechanism even more sophisticated so that the suffering can be prolonged.

I'd like to see the people behind this project apply their technical skills to something more useful to the industry and the society in general.

>> to get to pipeline parity, we actually have to increase the number of women studying computer science by an entire order of magnitude

Any woman who's gone through that process will likely want to get another career, that where people are treated with more respect. And I suppose many men are having the exact same thoughts.

The more you mock your talent pool, the more actively that talent is running in the opposite direction, just to get out of this mess.
Or the experience of row houses with basements. Natural lighting can be provided via light pipes and modernized deck prisms. If you want outdoor views, just go upstairs to street/garden level.

The whole idea is to remove the "dead" area that is currently solely occupied by residential feeder streets and suburban setbacks.

A 1/8 acre lot (0.05 ha) is 5445 sq.ft. (506 m^2). The average total square footage of new homes in the US is now over 2500 sq. ft., usually divided over at least two levels, making the lawn and garden for many lots at least 3 times the surface area of the house itself. You only need to reinforce the parts that people will actually drive over, and that space will likely be used for laundry, storage rooms, and utility closets. The utility corridors will likely be under the roads, so that's where your power, water, network, and sewer connections will come in to the house. People are a lot more accepting of windowless reinforced concrete bearing walls in their laundry room than in their bedrooms.

If the average lot size is 1/15 acre (0.027 ha), that's 2904 sq.ft. per lot, which is a lot depth of 88' (1/60 mi) with street frontage of 33' (1/160 mi). Give the public way an easement of 66', half out of the lots on either side, with 15.5' sidewalk and greenspace on either side, and 35' street. So on the ground level, you have 33'x35' of clear space, with 33'x20' of topsoil fill for the back garden, plus 33'x33' of space that may be obstructed by soil-filled tree pits, structural support for the street, and utility pipes and conduits. On the first floor, you have 2.5' setbacks between "houses", and 20' for the back garden, giving you 28'x35' of clear building area. Then you stack a third level atop that for another 28'x35'. That's about 3000 sq.ft. of interior space, with a 660 sq.ft. private garden, plus whatever is usable under the street and sidewalk. If basements are economical for that region, that's another 1155 sq.ft., minus the area for supports and bearing walls.

In one square mile, you can then have 30 parallel 2-lane streets with on-street parking, with 8 perpendicular 4-lane streets, for 8640 total buildable lots, each having more living area than the average McMansion. Assuming that you build 40% as parks, government services, and retail rather than residences, and an average occupancy of about 4 people per home, that's 20736 people per sq.mi., which could make your square mile the 14th most densely populated muni-corp in the US, without even having any multilevel apartment buildings.
Brain: An esoteric modern computer language based on Brainfuck
The only occurrence of "clin" in the article is in "decline." It's not like he is going out of his way to specify who this person might be:
"We need a president who will vigorously support international cooperation that brings the people of the world closer together, reduces hypernationalism and decreases the possibility of war. We also need a president who respects the democratic rights of the people, and who will fight for an economy that protects the interests of working people, not just Wall Street, the drug companies and other powerful special interests."

Is he still in the race or is he just trying to steer the Democratic party policy?
Why does HN hate the TSA so much?
Based on the history of comments related to the TSA, the sentiment towards this organization and its staff is obvious.

But why? They are just trying to do their jobs. I personally appreciate the service they provide. Of course, it could be better. The delays are irritating. Some agents are bad apples.

But with every inconvenience, my thinking is, without them, the probably of a terrorist attack at the airport or in the air increases. So every time I go through security, I'm thankful for them.
> NOTE: This is not to say that there aren't major issues we still face, like climate crisis, religious radicalism, terrorism, and so on.

The author felt compelled to include this disclaimer because people are afraid that by pointing out the good trends, that we are taking our eye off the ball in eradicating problems. As if by pointing out any promising trends in poverty, that this is equivalent to saying that we should stop trying to eradicate poverty. As if we declared mission accomplished!

I think this explains the aversion to good-news reporting, not that we over-emphasize the negative because of evolutionary bias. We always feel we need to add a disclaimer: but there is more work to do!
I think it would be amazing if they could combine this voice-modulation technology with a facial motion capture technology (like in Avatar) to display artificial/shifting faces as well as voices. You could effectively create a computer screen-based version of the "scramble suit" used in A Scanner Darkly! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/mediaviewer/rm1872861440

I think a combined face+voice system would be even more useful in interviews (since a significant amount of human communication is expressed through facial cues). It would also add another dimension to your proposed voice-modulation gender-blinding experiment.
If you're only interested in programming because of entrepreneurial ideas, you will be a crap programmer.
Can Brotli compress streamed blocks, with SYNC_FLUSH or FULL_FLUSH the way zlib can?
So wasteful, but not without precedent. With brand-new cars, even. [1]

[1] https://consumerist.com/2008/05/01/mazda-to-destroy-100-mill...
I'm not sure you're right about that. There are legitimate reasons to criticize this paper (its unclear, confusing security claims, for one) but the basic functionality they build can be used for an IDS, which seems beneficial to users to me.
Did you read the article? They changed both males and females, and had 2 control groups (one that was modulated without gender change, and 1 that was unmodulated).

This is by far one of the best ways to do it.
>1) two wrongs don't make a right

true

> 2) we're talking about Clinton, specifically, since the story is about her announced tech plan

also her technical incompetence and willingness to ignore advice and regulations when it's convenient. I don't think it's out of line to point out those propensities in Trump as well.

> 3) as far as I know, no IT-related investigations have been launched against Trump.

No, but he has been sued numerous times over his business dealings, and elsewhere in this thread it's pointed out that he considers all experts to be "terrible."
When people say this, they usually mean that HN is all in favor of X where X is something they personally disagree with. In fact, though, the community is divided on most issues. There are a few exceptions (anti-Snowden doesn't do well here*, pro-CFAA worse) but not as many as it seems.

I think this impression of 'the community lined up against my view' happens because when you read HN threads on any divisive topic you're inevitably confronted with comments you dislike and disagree with. That follows simply from the community being divided while the site content is all in common (i.e. no subreddits into which people silo themselves).

Such comments are unpleasant—indeed painful—to read, and therefore more memorable, so we notice them more. These impressions accrete into a mental model of the community all being on the opposite side. But this is actually a side effect of the site not being homogeneous—of the fact that for most X, everyone who feels strongly about X has anti-X comments in their face, and vice versa.

* Edit: this eventually changed.
This is misleading. The question is, what is a better strategy? Like, you lose real value after this scenario, but you would have lost more if you'd have kept the money under your mattress. The only relevant question is: compared to other strategies, do you come out ahead?
Awesome product. Signed up for the beta.

One small idea:
Once the network traffic starts flowing, it's difficult to switch to the Javascript tab because it's constantly flowing off the screen. Maybe make the tabs fixed in place? Or have a check mark that can make them fixed or unfixed?
Sometimes they stay at exactly the same level forever.
Go tell that to people who live in Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, Palestine or Libya.
At will employment. The new contract can be dropped off at your desk this afternoon for any reason. You can quit, or argue (aka fired for argumentativeness), or refuse to sign (fired for insubordination).

It is highly confrontational for a company to do this. The company is stating its willing to ruin your life over nothing, literally nothing, just for the sadistic joy of it, so you better be able to ruin the company as best you can, to keep up.
NewSQL: Trying to solve what SQL and NoSQL can’t on their own
Maybe interviewing is over-important because of the frequency in which tech workers/engineers change jobs.
I don't see the need for publishing the constituent studies before publishing the "meta-analysis". The individual studies aren't contributing unique theoretical arguments; they are additive toward a single argument that the original results can't be replicated. It's fairly common for a single paper to incorporate multiple experiments (the paper is closer to this style than a traditional meta-analysis) which are all addressed by the same reviewers.
Look into Indie.vc as a funding vehicle - it could be perfect for you right now. From my understanding it is a loan that converts into equity if you take VC investment in the future, unless you've paid it off. It's an experiment though it looks like it's going well as they're increasing the max loan sizes.
I second this. You have to have some passion to be a good programmer. You are better off hiring someone.
Taking a Second Look at Lyft’s Leaked Financials
Who do you think created HFT (High Frequency Trading) systems? Surely bankers stick to banking but hire developers to give them that competitive edge. The odds are that software engineers would have come up with the idea of and implementation of, a working high frequency trading system before bankers would have despite banking probably not being a software engineer's specialty.
And now you're disagreeing by downvoting.
Good mechanics are a given at that level of performance. If you can play like Yo-Yo Ma with bad mechanics, more power to you, an orchestra is not going to care.
Preparing for a Technical Interview
> I'm only interested in programming as a tool to execute and make tangible my entrepreneurial ideas.

In that case, you need to have a specific entrepreneurial idea before you can advocate whether learning programming is a useful course for you to execute on it and make it tangible. Depending on what your entrepreneurial idea is, that may or may not be the case.
I don't believe "dividends are becoming increasingly rare in the stock market". One measure of that is to compare the S&P 500 yield with treasury yield, the latter being near a historic low, but the S&P yield near a consistent 2% for over a decade, and quite attractive now relative to treasuries.

http://avondaleam.com/sp-500-dividend-vs-10-year-treasury-yi...
if (!idea)
no necessity to learn a methode to execute non-existent idea;
else
rethink utilitaristic attitude;
This app allows you to code GLSL programs to create images, movies, etc, its a great way to get started:

http://www.syedrezaali.com/store/fragment-osx-app

Here are a bunch of sketches (GPU Programs):

https://github.com/rezaali/FragmentSketches
> I can be productive in bash, but I think we all agree "stringly typed" is not as good as most other approaches to programming language design.

That depends on the language, and how central text is to what it does.
One of the graphs struck me as odd - percent of per capita disposable income spent on food, falling. The problem with that is inequality - it's been widely discussed that most of the gains of the last decade have been made by the richest, while wages for the poorest have stagnated. But that means the percent of disposable income spent on food by the poorest might not be falling at all?

It turns out USADA do have that graph as well (in fact it's the one right below the one in the article, taken from http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistics...) http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/detail.a... - for the lowest quintile of the US population, the % of disposable income spent on food has gone up from 32% to 34% from 2006 to 2014.

The abundant future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed?
This hasn't been the case for me. I don't really have much problem reading text on the CV1 at all. The fact that you're not looking at a static image makes a pretty big difference. Tiny head motions give you kind of a temporal anti-aliasing effect that makes the resolution seem better than it is.
I have a friend who was "reminded" by his first employer that he had signed a non-compete after he changed jobs to a second (competing) employer. He ended up finding a third job at a company in a somewhat different field.

This was in Ohio where non-compets are enforceable, and the courts likely would have sided with the first employer if it had gotten to that point.

I don't think he ever realized what he had signed until he was "reminded" of it.