skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a great analysis. We like to think that jobs are clearly defined, but in reality they aren't, and they differ from company to company.

I have spent many a year being as a mid-level exec in medium size companies. Wherever I've been, I have demonstrated ownership and leadership (I'm not bragging, that's just how I work). However, I have alway felt a 'lack' of technical expertise, probably because I fit so well into the leadership roles I never spend that long on 'deep' technical work. Recently, I have sought to remedy this. I have traded my mid-level 'get stuff done' to become a developer, to scratch an itch that has been there since I programmed BASIC on my ZX Spectrum. I'm no spring chicken and I have spent the past 5 years getting up to speed on modern web and mobile development techniques and have pushed myself as a developer to anyone who will listen. In my latest role I've already been earmarked for a lead developer role - and I think this validates what the article is saying and also what a few comments on here are saying; I have demonstrated that I am technically competent with 3-4 years solid experience (which for 90% of jobs out there is probably enough), but my approach to working; owning problems and solutions, leading and mentoring others show that I can be relied upon to deliver product.

Just to counter the self-congratulatory tone of the above (I'm English, it makes me uncomfortable), I'm acutely aware of my shortcomings both technically and personally; I should write more tests, I should plan more before writing code, I sometimes don't speak up because I don't want to look stupid etc. But I think everyone has shortcomings that they learn to accommodate or change, it's all part of life.
Any chance you can give a rough number on the costs you were quoted? The linked pages don't mention it at all, as far as I can see.
Illegal? Setting us up for a nice WAR ON INFORMATION, huh?

Illicit NNs will then become VERY valuable.
> It also does look like a laundry list of buzzwords and techspeak.

Thanks, interesting. I've tried to define difficult terms, and it is aimed at a technical audience, but there is definitely room for improvement. If there are any readers having trouble, I'd appreciate hearing where. Will take a look myself as well.
Yes, that's why the EU is doomed and will be gone within a decade no matter what they do now.

"I give the Bolsheviks a year, two at most". Quote from a famous Czech movie [1] about the ill-fated Prague Spring, 1968 :-)

But in fact, communism survived for more than another twenty years...

My point: these things take longer than one would expect. Unlike logic, where a proven theorem takes its "logical effect" immediately, the politic process has massive inertia. The time gap between "result obvious and unavoidable" and "result effective" can be decades.

I second your sentiment, but I'm afraid it will take much longer for the EU to fall apart. Just like with communism before (and about as "reformable"). I personally think it will take a generation, starting now -- especially in parts of the west that have to tread this glorious neo-marxist path for the first time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDEsj5QEWwY
I read it; I'm not so cynical. When kids get erratic money, they spend it instantly. When they get regular money, they can learn to save/invest/spend on regular expenses.
No, it still isn't being punitive.
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Woah, interesting article. The perils of a litigious society geez.
Well, barring space transit, humanity will be wiped out by the Sun long before the heat death of the universe, if not by some other catastrophe first.

I am Christian as well, but I didn't think the article handled religion well. In Christianity, "God's chosen people" are the tribes of Israel, not Christians. In Christianity, the meaning of life is love, something you don't have to be a Christian to believe or understand, so you certainly wouldn't have to cling to Christianity to hang on to this meaning.

Buddhism is about relieving suffering. Something that you don't have to believe in Buddhism to understand. You don't have to cling to Buddhism to believe that your meaning in life is relieving the suffering of others.

Anyway, the paragraph about religion and meaning didn't ring true for me.
How much time should an freelancer or agency be spending on sales and marketing?
Yeah, that's not the case for us. We do have Vanguard funds amongst other low-cost mutual funds. We also have our own investment committee which evaluates and adds funds as appropriate. We have no fund relationships and do not make commission.
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While marp looks great, reveal.js[1] includes markdown support and has a huge ecosystem.

[1]: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js
How does one actually... well, display the presentation? (without the markdown on the side)
There's also some good discussion over in the Rust subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4sdncw/why_were_start....
The tech lobby should be really nervous about what Hillary Clinton just said
triplebyte.com specializes in this.
No. There are no purposeful 'implications' in my comment, there are only explicit statements.
Many, but certainly not all. Redbook audio (along with tons of grainy low resolution FMV) was more common in the earlier days of the CD-ROM, when creators were trying to justify the format, but hadn't figured out more interesting ways to make use of the space.
I think the article is drawing conclusions that may not really be the aim of the regulation. Fail to see how one could claim that the decision to show a particular Facebook Ad (or almost any Ad) would "significantly affect" the person. Just because something uses said "AI", does it mean that it would automatically be covered by this legislation.

Now, a self-driving car probably would be...
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What was the point of your comment?
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> If it turns around and says "we will give those countries tariff-free access to our markets but not the UK" this will send a powerful message to all EU citizens that this is not an organisation with their best interests at heart.

I think that you wanted to say that "this is not an organisation with UK best interests at heart.

UK government has little sympathy in the rest of the EU
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Yes, but unless these experiments are done by pairs or groups, you are getting what is passed off as scientific results from someone who is experimenting on their own brain with a sample size of one and no control group. How do you trust the results from an experiment conducted on the experimenter's brain? What if the experimenter loses the capacity to properly conduct the experiment in the process? How would you know the difference between that and he or she being incompetent in the first place, aside from the fact that they're attempting this in the first place?
They undermine their own case with the example of Hillsborough, and a national newspaper slandering basically a whole city in the worst possible terms, stuff that would make Trump blush and getting away with it, just to avoid responsibility for causing a tragedy. And how technology, in that case would make sure the truth got out, as we see with multiple examples of poorly trained cops being caught on camera.

Though now I think of it, there's still the birther/truther/sandy hook hoax element where facts really don't matter. You'd hope they were really out on the fringe, but since one of them is running for president, I guess not.
That's definitely a problem, which we're thinking about.
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Thanks to the author -- it does like like your labour of love and written with some personality. (That's a good thing!) Attractive layout, lots of insets/quotes/diagrams, and sources. Will read more later.

The "Models & Methodologies" chapters looks great. It may become my new "here, read this!" when people ask me "what's agile?" or "how else?"

http://mixmastamyk.bitbucket.org/pro_soft_dev/models.html
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Whoops, yeah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
Isn't this the actually the wrong solution? I thought I was told I should be pulling my dependencies into my own cloned repos. Then my project uses my clones. When I want an update I test it out, update the cloned repo and update the project to use the latest tag/hash of my cloned repo. Isn't that what pretty much all the top projects do?

This way everything is under my control. What good is it if I'm told my dependencies has been deleted? And then I what? Copy my old dep from my dev machine to a cloned repo and point to that? Isn't that the same step as above?

Or maybe I just don't get it.
I'd rather have, "We know some of you want this feature so we spent considerable time giving it to you without the complexity."
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Unfortunately that link doesn't lead to anything that can be used to submit this type of complaint. The categories are all wrong, and even in the general/catch-all category, the questions don't fit this type of issue.

I realize the FTC gets lots of complaints, and that some issues they deal with are more egregious than this. However, violations of this nature (but related to other products) are potentially very serious and can have repercussions for both violators' customers and competitors.
Firefox for iOS is just a wrapper around webkit since Apple refuses to allow any alternate engines.
I wish there was a service like this for IPv6. And I mean proper IPv6, and not the bullshit that for example Digital Ocean is peddling: 16 addresses per server my foot.

Also, proper HTTPS and HTTPS-only support. There are still way too many sites that offer HTTP as a valid option.
A lot of gamers aren't using game reviews from these major outlets to help decide to buy a game or not. These reviews are mostly used to validate an existing purchase or compare to someone else's favorite game. [1] Much like fandango star ratings virtually no one gets an actual bad review.

1. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fandango-movies-ratings/
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Good guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606467.
"And the company also faces criminal probes from the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission over whether it misled investors and regulators [..]"
Well then feel free to expand because frankly the sentence I quoted cannot possibly in any way be interpreted to mean what you said; you're having a reading comprehension issue if you think your interpretation in any way matches what I quoted. What you said is an entirely different thing than what he said, they aren't even close.
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Yeah, that's my point. You're talking about a retirement plan that impacts retired people who vote in droves. For the considerable future, those retirement age people will be baby boomers. They also happen to run the government. So why would it be unreasonable to expect them to pass laws that are favorable to them during their retirement as opposed to our retirement in 20/30/40 years.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-baby-boomers-retir...
Thank you, I've tried to do exactly that, give new people a good overview with not too much information at once, and encourage further study with copious references.
Are you kidding? Titles mean something. And then there's the pay raise...
It seems safe to say that a JIT-trace -> Rust -> machine code compilation pipeline will probably never be fast enough to satisfy the requirements of a high-performance JIT compiler.
This is a side-effect of how regular the HN codebase is at its best: when you make a change, you get it everywhere. It would require special code to make this not work on /threads pages. Perhaps we should do that, though.
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What is it with hacker news commenters and assuming other people don't know things?

The comment I was responding to was talking about training sets, I riffed on that. Depending on your definition of "full explanatory power", the model itself might very well not be enough, especially in the case of neural networks. Could you take a set of weights in a 5-deep neural network, look at an input vector, and have any kind of intuition about the output? It could be that there's some really interesting research that I'm unaware of here, please let me know if there's something I'm missing.

You'll need additional descriptive statistics at the very least, combined with some stochastic meta-models to relate a given record to the "whys" of their output. It's doable without access to training sets, but convincing to us and convincing to a lawyer reading the letter of the law regarding "all inputs to the decision" are 2 different things.
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thanks for the additional data point, interesting that this was so widespread but ended up more or less disappearing as a copy/paste paradigm
Great to see this classic. But when I saw it was on worrydream.com I got my hopes up that it would be a link to a Bret Victor explanatory web experiment...
Will there be a PDF or an ePub version for this?
lol.

So, it's all the parents fault. Look, companies advertise because it works, banning deceptive advertising is a good idea with minimal downsides.
And CNRS in France.
The first British one is University College London, after Max Planck Society and CNRS.

The Nature Index (http://www.natureindex.com/annual-tables/2016/institution/al... ) has CNRS 3rd, then the Max Planck institutes 4th, and the first British one, Oxford, is 7th.
Thanks for bringing this up. Small things can have huge personal significance. I think the article makes sense until it tries to model meaning in an impersonal way; there's a bit of a switcheroo when the author goes from saying meaning is an emotion to saying it is a matter of fact.

I'd say that meaning, as a cognitive emotion, is heavily dependent on what "facts" we hold to be true and what stories we tell ourselves. Most people are not telling themselves stories about the entirety of time and space, so it literally has no impact on their experience of meaning. Death, on the other hand, affects us all; everyone has an attitude towards their own future and eventual death, however unexamined it is. That doesn't mean everyone has the same attitude, though. Some people would like to become immortal above all else, while others are not bothered in the slightest by having a finite lifespan, or believe that their "spirit" is somehow infinite.

It is possible to intellectualize about where meaning comes from in order to bring more into your life, as a kind of therapy; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy
He must be referring to one's own first cousin's children. Not the children of two first cousins.
The motor won't produce much heat, since it's really efficient, but that will definitely help.

And yes, there are certainly use cases which come up as the technology improves. Actually, the airplane I want to buy when I win the lottery is electric: the Antares 20E. It's an electric self-launching glider, so it really just needs enough to get airborne and to a decent altitude, then you use the weather to stay up. Short hops like you describe would work too.

It's much like cars. The Nissan LEAF was useless for driving across the country but great if you just need to get around the city, and then better technology and range increase the number of scenarios where the cars are useful.
Most people with European ancestry are 10th or 11th cousins to each other based upon how every US president is related to every other. This includes the current President who is half Eoropean.
There isn't going to be a Britain to have that vote. Scotland is leaving and the Brexit vote has reraised the spectre of terrorism in Northern Ireland.
For someone who is on windows, this is a godsend. The Mac guys all have Deckset[0] which is amazing. Was searching for something like this to make quick slides. Thanks much :)

[0]: http://www.decksetapp.com/
Discloser requires more than posting a footnote in a random small town newspaper readership 12. You must clearly communicate to the recipient and failure to adequately disclose is failure to disclose.
Do you really want to type either of those prefixes thousands of times?
Brevity and lack of special chars in the name would be nice to have.
Under "Features", one of the bullet points are "* Export slides as PDF!".

I don't know if that's the only option or if there are more than that.
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Cool, thanks. I mostly want to make sure we don't have any blind spots here; this is an issue we care about deeply. I think it's also important to remember that even languages which are known for "no breaking changes" do introduce breaking changes. Take Java for example, known for being an exemplar in this space.

> However, implementation of some Java SE 8 features required changes that could
> cause code that compiled with Java SE 7 to fail to compile with Java SE 8.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8-compatibilit...

Especially in a statically-typed language, technically breaking changes are a fact of life. The key is to make them as minimal as possible, so that you don't struggle to update.

(Oh, and glad to hear you like the errors: we're actually working on making them even better. Elm is really leading the way here...)
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Sure, you voted for the PPE and they're free to select the government. How's that for EU democracy working for you?
An album with tracks called "New Dawn Fades", "	"Wilderness" and "Disorder" seems oddly appropriate for a book on Project Management... ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Pleasures
It is mentioned in some comments of comments further down but Wolfram Alpha has some great family tree generation.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fourth+cousin
> It is a fundamentally unattractive entity.

This presumably explains why 28 countries have joined and there are still more waiting to join.

> The people who run it (...) believe the EU is inevitable and unstoppable

The people who run it are for the most part the elected leaders of the member states, who are no strangers to euro-skepticism, since they never fail to exploit it when it suits them (e.g. to deflect criticism of unpopular legislation by claiming that "Brussels" requires it).
The article measures meaning by the amount of directed connection to other meaningful things. Interesting that this is almost exactly the same as PageRank. I think there's actually a significant relationship here.
Also, the OpenCourseWare course 6.450 by Prof. Gallagher on YouTube can be helpful to digest the main ideas.
E.g. "in practice, if the EU doesn't strike a deal with the UK (which it won't) then I think it will suffer more exits."

That is quite a bold statement that needs a lot of statements from people who can make these decisions to back it up. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
Going the long way is just a 'proof of concept' sort of thing. You could design a high-performance JIT around equivalent safety mechanisms, and even prove the tricky parts.
Yeah, I think I am. When I'm cooking some elaborate meal, I'll put on the jazz station. I don't enjoy every song, but I do like feeling that sense of connection to the guy in the booth several miles away. It's a sense of intimacy.

But I can also totally see how, if you really had nothing but 4 or 5 clearchannel stations, that radio would have nothing for you.
This is a good way to get sued.
> She's led a company that has either committed such gross negligence as to not be trustworthy to operate a lemonade stand let alone a medical company OR been openly defrauding both consumers and the Government but remains near as makes no difference completely unaffected and will walk away not only a millionaire, but apparently still employed.

There's a lot more investigations still going on where she might face personal consequences (including criminal ones), and she's still employed because she is both the employee and the employer (being the majority shareholder of the firm by which she is employed), so to be fired, she'd have to fire herself.

Of course, she's only employed as long as Theranos can stay in business, and its hard to see how they do that going forward.
Fair. But if I thought too hard about a list of every video game element with some vaguely unsettling real-world proxy, I wouldn't be able to play a single video game. When viewed from this lens, even something as innocuous as Super Mario Bros. is subversive. ("Solve problems by eating psychedelic mushrooms and stomping people's heads.")

Fortunately, most people are able to separate the fantasy/gameplay elements from their (real or perceived) violent equivalents IRL. This is the first time I've encountered the Pokemon/cockfighting analogy. While I find it novel, and while it made me stop and think for a second, a second is all I needed.
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product hunt might have some
ER=EPR
Echo chambers significantly affect people on a broad scale.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/pop-culture-pu...
Yes, there will be a day when nobody is using iPhones anymore. Hopefully our ancestor will still be able to run some of the apps in the future. Social media apps are off course thin clients.
One can find much more objective meaning to existence without outsorcing it to some imaginable friend.

> Christians believe that for folks who don't know Jesus,
> nihilism is essentially true

And folks who don't give a rat ass about what Christians believe do know that nobody has monopoly on meaning and don't see the need to reduce everything else to nihilism. It would be much nicer if religious people would only use religion to measure those who are part of it, not those who are outside.
Here's an observation of mine which Simler misses: I suspect that Meaning is the categorical dual of Power. In this context, Power is defined as "your influence on the state of world". Whereas Meaning is defined as "a phenomenon's influence on your state-of-mind and decision-making".

E.g. when a Vietnam Vet looks at a War Monument, that's meaningful because it impacts his emotional state. Maybe his buddy Bubba Gump died in the war. Maybe he'll resolve to live life to the fullest and open a Shrimpin Business.

Connections make it more likely that a phenomenon will impact your decision making, or carry an affect on something you value highly. The connections/gravitas hypothesis that Simler discusses is just a corollary.
No, I was just giving some examples. If you follow your logic the UK needn't worry about not having a trade deal with the EU.
> However people frequently tout the "<region> runs at a deficit, therefore it cannot be independent" argument.

An argument frequently trumpeted by the No campaign in 2014 during the Scottish Independence debate with their unionist press lackeys trotting out the same tired old "too wee, too poor, too stupid" articles that were debunked time and time again.

Deficits aside, economically speaking. these people have no imagination. Who's to say Scotland would continue with the same ruinous economic policies as implemented by Westminster, our priorities are somewhat different.