skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why it annoys me so much when apps like Signal refuse to run on open source Android, yet claim to be pro-privacy and call anyone who doesn't like it "FOSS moralists". What privacy?
Tutorials on Topics in Statistical Pattern Recognition
To start, oversized influence. Hard to be a democracy when money == speech and some people have way more than their share.
Maybe it's an homage to Bill Gates who campaigned so hard for using intellectual property laws to protect closed source software.
Yes but only because the rest of the world came from a much worse place.

In the west however it's stagnating which it also will other places over time.
Why No One Cares That Netflix's New Logo Is Bad
But some of these values have to be reserved for those extra colors in the wide gamut colorspace. And sRGB just fits in that range. That's why to truly take advantage of the wide gamut, the whole rendering process from a software through a GPU to an output device has to be at least 10 bits per channel (relying on what's being widely adopted). Otherwise, customers will be missing out with almost all available content.
Choosing Stocks Randomly [pdf] (2013)
One of my first jobs (in the US) had a great strategy for getting low cost talent:

1. Hire cheap
2. Train on the job
3. Lock in your investment with a multi-year employment contract, broken down into options to "not renew" the contract at 6-month, then 12-month, intervals.

Worked great, they got cheap talent and a means to weed people out, and I got valuable training I used for the next 15 years.
How would that be a solution? The problem is that managers don't want to pay engineers and would rather pay themselves, so everything else follows from that.
The point is the opposite. The logo is not untagged -- it's P3 tagged. When on a P3 display, you see the two colours as barely distinct -- as if you overlaid the logo with an opacity of 2%, I'd expect. It's barely there. The colours were picked close enough together that when properly rendered mapped to sRGB you cannot distinguish the colours without additional transformation. Consider a very high resolution, 3x monitor. Now view a 3x image on a 1x monitor: most browsers transform the image, prioritizing viewing all detail over image size. Safari here, by comparison--and only if the image is tagged with a colour profile--or in our hypothetical example, 3x--is trying to preserve the image as it was intended, losing the details just to show it at approximately the size appropriate on a lower quality display. Obviously the best approach is to provide two images, one for high quality displays and one for low quality displays so you have full control over the transformations applied.
Get a phone that allows you to flash a custom ROM and pick one without Google's apps.
Venture Capital and the Great Big Silicon Valley Asshole Game
>> Here's the 30 seconds if you don't have anyone around. Start with trying to group the next most important thing to do in a 2 week chunk. Every day, talk with each other and make sure to surface any problems and risks as fast as possible. Have at least one person who will use the software sitting with the team to answer questions as they pop up. And every week, take an hour to figure out what's working well, what isn't, and what you need to adjust to make things work more smoothly

Pretty darn good summary.
That is an extremely insulting thing to say.

And even if it were true, if jealousy is a barrier to happiness, why shouldn't it be seriously addressed? What is the point of human society if you're just going to casually discard the concerns of the vast majority of people?
The problem is consolidation. If more and more earn and own less and less, while less and less earn and own more and more,this creates power imbalance, impededes real growth( as in, new value being created due to Innovation. A balanced portfolio motivates less than starting the company/research yourself) and since the investors still want a return, even without growth, somebody will get shafted. There are people dying in London because their fridge was shut of, causing their insulin to go bad. why did get shut off? Because they did not have the money to pay for electricity.

Mind you, this all goes out the window if a good , if austere life is guaranteed somehow, then capitalism and consolidation away.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte tells people 'go ahead and kill' addicts
He already did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

The J programming language, developed in the early 1990s by Kenneth E. Iverson and Roger Hui,[4][5] is a synthesis of APL (also by Iverson) and the FP and FL function-level languages created by John Backus.[6]

To avoid repeating the APL special-character problem, J uses only the basic ASCII character set, resorting to the use of the dot and colon as inflections[7] to form short words similar to digraphs.
In practice, many parts of the rhetoric of "diversity" and "inclusion" end up using the same tactics as the jewish quotas that were implemented a hundred years ago in the name of white supremacy.

Resentment and discrimination towards a successful minority is nothing new, only now the resentment is in the name of a rainbow coalition rather than just white people from western europe.
This is standard practice and applies to Android too.
We didn't move them to EdX, we just made them private and available to Berkeley students only. I think this is because of some rulings stating that lecture videos have to be provided with CC if they are to be made public (OCW was sued for this).
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> They handle taxes in all sorts of countries in different states.

And they handle it so poorly that you have to write them to get a proper invoice in order to recover your VAT.

If your customer buy your application through the app store, they ask "you" an invoice with VAT, and you have to tell them to contact Apple, that's so unprofessional.
For a 30% cut, they could clearly put a download link or include a PDF in the sent email.
This promotion stagnation happens in the US as well, but if the market is fluid enough you can get the promotion by changing employers now that you have your 5+ years experience in skills and methodology.
If I have to agree with Jobs on anything, I'll start w/ the noise of spinning fans.
In the same way that you can reasonably say "I don't know how many kind of insects there are, but none of them get as big as BMW's." Within a certain range, it's hard to find insects in nature, but if they were big enough they'd be hard to miss.
I can't speak about FB personally, but I learned the hard way my first few years out of college that at most companies managers are simply given more respect, power, and money than engineers in general. It takes an extraordinarily talented high-impact developer who revolutionizes the company's technology in order to match a run-of-the-mill Director or VP who just shows up to work and "manages" teams of developers -- and even then the match will only be in salary, not in overall power in the organization and probably not in bonus structure either. You'll still be left out of countless meetings and kept in the dark on many decisions you could contribute to effectively.

I say that I learned the hard way because I focused on being that high-impact developer. At my first job, I rewrote the company's core software to make it (really) an order of magnitude faster, providing the basis for the company's sustainability for the next decade. My salary skyrocketed. My title did not. I was forever stuck in a limbo of being just a "developer" while being paid as much as an executive but being excluded from every executive meeting and not even being involved in hiring for the team that would maintain the software I wrote on which the entire company depended. I was still stuck in a cubicle while the managers were sure to get very nice, spacious offices with ludicrous window views.
how did they come across these remote-friendly positions?
"most direct reason is economic growth"

Bingo.

The "economy" is a measure of the velocity of money. Any one advocating economic growth must then logically advocate some form of redistribution. To keep the money moving.

I'm undecided if economic growth is a worthy goal. But until a better idea comes along, us pinko commie hippies have favored the time proven battle tested progressive income redistribution in the form Keynesian economics.

It's no small irony that the result of anti-tax jihadist policies is less economic growth. Whoops.
Then how do you explain the same Asians people being successful in other countries where the immigration process is not as strict as USA? By saying that "already-high-IQ" people immigrate to the home country aren't you in effect saying that there is no one in the native homeland with a higher IQ than the immigrating pool? Isn't that a self-defeating argument in itself? Are you saying that there is a preference given to Asians over white people by the employers?
For me it's mostly because of build quality (keyboard, casing, screen, feel, ...) and a functional pointing device.

No other laptop I have used has a useable trackpad and most have a keyboard that is unusable. The only other laptop I have ever used with a pointing device I liked was the Thinkpad nub.

Also, everything seems to "just work" when compared to using a Linux. Sleep/hibernate, syncing with my iPhone and iPad. It's nice not worrying or having to tweak this only to never be satisfied with the end results. I remember spending hours and days trying to get things working sometimes. I expect some would argue the everything "just works" statement, but for me I have not had any problems of note.

I have not tried a Thinkpad + Linux in years or the Dell alternatives I have seen. I'm really eyeing a Thinkpad 460p and want to put Fedora on it and give it another try.
Nobody knows for sure, but it seems to be somehow tied to the number of fundamental types in programming languages. And there is wispy evidence that the universe is written in JavaScript.
No, that is not what I said. When people say overtly awful things, they are downvoted. No one defines HN by those.

The problem is the well intentioned but naive opinions that are upvoted and popular. Do you remember the popular comments from the GitHub diversity posts? Any diversity post for that matter.

The demographic here is mostly male. In a homogenous environment, regardless of which combination of race, gender or anything else, people have blindspots. This remains true when the majority of participants are decent. For example, a group of polite dudes can create an environment full of casual sexism.

Lastly, I flag insults and one line jokes. Maybe you can help us understand what gets flags and what gets downvotes.

However, I am happy the comment is removed. You are right, maybe I don't give the moderation enough credit.
Di-Photon excesses, Pentaquarks, The Higgs Boson!!! The LHC has just been an absolutely unmitigated success, and it's got plenty left to offer.
First, we have culture fair IQ tests. Raven's Progressive Matrices is entirely symbolic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices... very hard to see how it could be culturally biased, and if it is, why do Europeans do so poorly compared to Chinese and Japanese people?

Regarding differences in average IQ, Ashkenazi Jews are the most stark example. It is indisputable that they score roughly a standard deviation above gentiles:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289606...

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...

Some claim this is purely cultural. But I think genetics is a much more parsimonious explanation. Ashkenazi Jews are about 2% of the population yet 22% of nobel prize winners are Ashkenazi:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence#... The difference in culture between secular jews and gentiles is just not enough to account for that.

Also note, I think acknowledging this fact prevents racism. Antisemites love pointing out that jews are overrepresented in many high status occupations, postulating crazy conspiracy theories for why this is the case. But once you acknowledge the IQ gap, we have an entirely benign explanation and it's evident that these conspiracy theories hold no water.
But surely you must agree that wealthy people do drive up property prices more than mere high-income earners. Just look at the case of Mark Zuckerberg's purchases in Palo Alto (as an extreme example):

First he bought a house for $7 million (which was widely regarded as massively overpriced at the time). Then he ended up buying all adjacent properties for $30 million.

In a few short years, he single-handedly contributed to a massive increase in property prices in his entire neighbourhood. This is essentially the story of San Francisco's property market over the past 10 years.
It's a religious thing. It's a big set of rules people push to feel superior over other people without any evidence. Like any cult religious rules are superficial, so as to not limit access. Anyone must be able to achieve them easily, but not entirely without effort. There must be a big show about how important and massively advantageous they are [1], and especially how superior followers are to others. It can't actually make a difference, because otherwise the habit would spread which would negate the attention it calls to the cult/religion, so ideally religious/cult demands should be bad for you, but not too bad.

Besides if they weren't bad, why do even you yourself add medical warnings to it ? Things that are healthy do not come with big warning labels that you can fuck yourself up with it.

And then of course there is a discriminatory and dictatorial "state" structure associated with the cult that mostly treats people unfairly and forces them to work under very bad conditions. Well, sorry to say but islam certainly has that.

Nobody is superior because they slightly change their eating habits once a year. Nobody gets any advantage out of it. The best property I've ever known any of these things to have is that they get families together.
Taking the US in isolation...

Absolute poverty is a solved problem. People rarely starve to death in the US. It's an El Niño year; out here in not-SF we're having a bit of a drought, but no one is seriously afraid of a famine. Sure, there are things like health care that could be better, but those are second-order effects and fairly minor on the poverty scale.

The actual problem is power. (That may not be a popular statement[1] in this forum, where single young adults are commonly making 2-3x the median household income and yet are fond of complaining about disenfranchisement.) Money is power, the power to do things and the power to tell others what do do.

Now, I admit that the technology industry seems spectacularly bad about translating it's assets into political power, so it may not be apparent to people reading this, but I don't expect that to last forever. (C.f. Thiel and Gawker.)

On the other hand, a lot of money in a small number of hands is not in the hands of the tech industry. Consider the Kochs, or Citigroup/JP Morgan/Goldman Sachs. That money buys politicians, to an extent, but it also buys agendas, access, and, rather amazingly, consensus. (Why do Americans seem to have a weird habit of voting for ideology instead of their presumably enlightened material interests?)

This power held by a few people means that the actions of a country may not necessarily be in accord with the wishes of its citizens. Take a look at the third graph in the article. The peak of the England-Wales line is roughly 1825-1875, roughly the high point of the British Empire and, strangely, including things like the Irish famine.

But, fortunately, for the likes of you and me, there isn't a problem. Yay. (As long as no one sets up guillotines.)

[1] Dare I say it?: not a politically correct statement.
No, this could totally have worked. Once the Euro was implemented, they had a choice: Either do what's necessary for real large-scale labor-market mobility (where migration becomes a typical part of life and a substantial part of every paycheck gets remitted back to one's family), and-or create a fiscal union where Spanish spending gets subsidized by German taxes for the sake of unity.

They opened the door a bit to the former legally but didn't force the issue sufficiently to make the numbers work, nor did they let economies collapse in ways that cause large-scale migration (preferring to buoy them up with unsustainable debt). They did little towards the latter.

This was inadequate, and caused a massive, entirely foreseeable debt crisis because the ability to print money for the use of a single national economy that desperately needs inflation, was lost. The thing that the Eurodollar politicians were trying to force the 2000's politicians to do, did not come to pass.
I don't understand this "selection bias" argument at all. How is it that in all other countries in the World with a significant minority Asian population do Asians always top the rest with respect to earning? I'm sure not all countries in the World have as strict an immigration policy as the USA.
I do film color work as part of my job. It's nuts how many hoops one has to jump over to give proper, almost proper, image experience on a variety of viewing devices. It's akin to sound mastering.

When there are gradients visible, more or less the only thing you can do is to introduce artificial monichromatic noise to the image to hide the perception of a staggered gradient.

I would like to see an industry-wide push for consumer-grade (at least) 10-bit signal chain from graphics cards to monitors with high dynamic range. That would have more impact on image quality than crap being pushed for now, like 4k and VR.

HDR B4 4K, chaps!
My View on IPv6 Deployment
I mean for all I know bigger insects could have existed at another time (or elsewhere in the galaxy...); that doesn't mean we think nature somehow fundamentally forbids them. Is the comparison really apt?
Suggestion:
You're not allowed to use the term 'unfilled' in this conversation.

Use the term 'unfilled at the listed salary'.
Lisp & Perl according to xkcd :P

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/lisp.jpg
Do you have any experience using POSIX async IO (aio_read, ...) or Linux kernel async IO (io_submit, ...)?

I'm curious in how throughput performance and CPU usage compares with these to SPDK. My (relatively confident) guess is that performance will be better with SPDK, but if it's not that much better programming against a more general interface (a filesystem) is appealing.
Just in case anyone else is tired and drew a blank and needs to google that, the confusion was that of strong vs weak not dynamic vs static. Strong vs weak applies to explict vs implicit type changes. Dynamic vs static applies to run time or compile time type assignment.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11328920/is-python-strong...
Does this mean that if you stand next to the car, you are being X-rayed? :)
In Alan Greenspan's testimony to Congress on the 2008 crash he said he believed Wall St. was smart enough to do exactly that: collectively manage systemic risk by factoring it in, which would necessarily reduce profits by forsaking some short terms gains.

He was wrong.
Late response. I have to reply.

Yes. China and India (and Pakistan and Brazil and...) are disasters in progress. Yet there are encouraging signs.

I choose to hope that Nigeria and others will improve their lots as they climb the economic ladder. Their people certainly deserve it.
"Incomes were more equally distributed in colonial America than in any other place that can be measured"

If you weren't a slave.

Stopped reading right there. hahahahahahahahaha.
Crazy Snapchat Outage
It all makes sense. The universe progressing toward heat death is a memory leak, and it causes a reboot every 10^10^10^56 years. Unfortunately there is no non-volatile memory.
This boogles my mind. How can you be sued for providing a free educational resource?
If her publisher thinks memoirs are more profitable, why on earth would they ask her to remove the memoir bits?
To the people that downvoted yummyfajitas' comment; can you maybe explain why it's wrong/not germane?

Please and thanks.
Original paper here https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00824
> Why should they though? This is their monteization strategy and it seems to be working well for them.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ because it's anti-competitive and anti-consumer?

There used to be a type of monetization strategy in the USA known as 'company towns':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

The company owned the land, built the stores, so it only seemed right that they payed their workers in scrip and only allowed merchants to accept scrip in the town, yes? Eventually the country decided that such monetization platforms were too controlling and unfair...
You're apparently unaware that not all tax appears on your salary receipt. Employers have to pay 20% to SS, on top of the 11% that the employee pays. (This amount doesn't count toward your gross income for IRS purposes though, which is relevant to your point)

The distinction is largely a technicality, all the more because both parts of the SS contribution are paid by the employer directly to the state, but it does have one effect: because the 20% don't show up in the salary receipt, most portuguese people are, like you, blissfully unaware of what the real tax rate on their salaries is.
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I need to know what is it that I can build with C++ so that I can demostrate to people who hire start-ups. I just want to show them that I am capable so that they'l hire me.
Embarrassing confession. I've looked at Nim before and don't want to use it because I think the crown is a ridiculous logo. Not being big on authority and not being big on people that think too highly of themselves, I'm suspicious of the entire project simply because of that poorly drawn crown.
I think you might have fallen for an easy misreading of the title. In fact, the new particles are still made from quarks, just as protons and neutrons as well as less quotidian matter like pions are. In that sense, it's not an increase in the "number of types of particles" in a similar sense that finding a new element is 'just' another configuration of electrons, protons, and neutrons.

Of course, it's still very interesting, particularly that these are apparently composed of quarks in a manner than previously particles had not been.
Tesla driver dies in first fatal autonomous car crash in US
Who decides who are the experts, and who checks their work?
It is a bit silly, but try thinking of it as "one developer who helps makes ten others be twice as productive". It could even be a non-technical manager who is really good at taking care of all of the non-development work for the team, allowing them to focus on what they do best.
How well do you know C++?
I really don't understand this view. They're different jobs. If you want to have the power an exec has become an exec. More than likely you cannot do both effectively at the same time. Yes, there are shitty managers but there are also a lot of them doing stuff an engineer doesn't have the skills to do. In all industries people think they could do a better job than their boss - usually it's not true and if it is learn new skills to take their job from them or start your own company.