skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had this suspicion that I've been meaning to look into to find out if the numbers match up. The biggest growing industries to me seem to be the service industry and entertainment. Both of these are really superfluous. If is true, I see this as a symptom that we have fewer useful jobs and are pushing people into these superfluous jobs--kind of a sign that soon we'll have more people than jobs.

More to your case, the more specialized jobs get, the more difficult it is to transition in and out of. Liquidity of skills comes up a lot in history. I've heard the U.S. specifically makes it really difficult for doctors trained in other countries able to practice here. Usually, if there's an under-supply of a skill someone steps in to remedy it.

So why if there's demand for certain jobs, why there aren't more programs to train more of them. It seems like many businesses aren't willing to take on people unless they have the exact skillset where years ago they'd be willing to train people at the business' expense (another feeling I haven't looked into if it's true).
But you can still buy a car without signing up for uber.
You can't, only its application. Genicap's patent does cover application in software though.
> But don't flush any ex-soviet train toilets when you're stopped at a train station.

Not just ex-Soviet trains, British ones too. Newer and renovated trains have sewage tanks, but older trains flush directly onto the tracks (and often therefore have a sign in the toilet asking you not to flush when stopped at a station). According to the BBC, as of 2015 this applied to about 10% of the trains in service: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30541015

The tabloids periodically have a field day with it when people notice again that these trains are still not quite phased out. E.g. in 2014, there was a minor sensation about the quantity of "fertiliser" on the tracks producing tomato growth: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/trains-dump-much-human-...
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Not true: for example, you can't sign a contract that makes you a slave.
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Maybe it flies in to a net and footage is just unsexy (maybe it even took minor damage)?
I didn't watch the video for several reasons, so if I was off, I'm sorry. From the comments I couldn't deduce what's actually wrong with the notation, or which notation for that matter. Yes, bad HN ettiquette is to respond anyway.

> If the mention of different domains is about the fact that you can't divide by zero

> I intend all quantities to be drawn from some multiplicative group

That's it. Still, I was trying to draw some hierarchical network, where log and root are both inverses of exp.

In the same way, multiplication is a special case of addition. Although It might not have to be, if it's just my preference to look at it that way. It reminds me of the diamond dependency problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_problem#The_diamond_pr...).

Multiplicative groups to me look like a special case, too. The arrow diagrams look like category theory. I on the other hand just talk from intuition and my experience with the elementary functions, the order I learned in school.

EDIT: Subtraction and division as well aren't associative, so do they really form a subgroup? Another problem besides needlessly complicated notation is ambiguous notation. Wikipedia lists two alternatives for multiplicative groups. One is a special case of a ring which does have a null element. Now, in c/b=a, c can be the null element, but then a would be too, so c/a=b is still undefined. I'd guess that holds for the non-commutative version as well.
Why assume anything? Why not simply call things what they are? The issue is that browsers don't signal that you're using http2 and they decided nor to use a new schema either to help confuse us all. His point is literally based on nothing supporting http2 without TLS. What if something did? Would http also be a meaningless word? Why not call things what they are, not by what the browser is hiding.
Or if you need GiST indexing, can't wait for someone to write the bindings for JSONB, and have non-nested data, in which case hstore is probably the right choice.
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According to the Wikipedia page (which links to https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP05100648&lng=e...), the patent on the superformula was withdrawn in 2006 because the renewal fees stopped being paid. Seems pretty strange that Genicap could assert ownership of the formula when they let the patent expire.
Nevertheless, the headline could easily answer the question.
#2 solution isn't about moving existing jobs, it's about lowering the barrier to entry for new jobs, since demand isn't fixed and variability will increase.

You will always have tug-of-wars between municipalities (e.g. Applebee's HQ between Missouri and Kansas) - but businesses in states or munis with a low barrier to entry for new jobs can fulfill and capitalize on variable demand faster.
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This is twice in a week where me and 'grandalf are in enthusiastic agreement. Something strange is going on.
> What we do have is plenty of regulations that constrain the supply of physicians, services, medical supplies, insurance, and everything else needed to perform operations. It is one of the most un-free markets in America, with predictably disastrous results. Sure, those laws prevent a few people from being duped by charlatans, but they also prevent people like me - who are willing to sit on the phone for hours and days, and willing to do research for weeks on end - the possibility of a longer life.

Sounds like a pitch for medical tourism (traveling to another country for certain kinds of medical procedures at a fraction of the cost of the US)
Why the “attack alert” app failed during the Nice slaughter (Google Translated)
I'm not a lawyer either, but I doubt that clause has much effect, if any. The DMCA defines "effective technological measure" as follows:

> [A] technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

This seems like an objective metric, not something the copyright holder can arbitrarily "deem".

However, in the usual case people worry about, where a user is "circumventing" by modifying software on their own device, one could argue that given the "Installation Information" clauses and the other parts of the GPLv3 aimed at ensuring the user has the ability to modify the software, it does not "in the ordinary course of its operation" require permission from the copyright holder. The "no covered work shall be deemed" clause could be seen to clarify intent.

There are other cases, like if the GPL software was, say, a web server that someone had configured to password protect files they had copyright over, and a hacker bypassed the password protection. This would normally be covered by the CFAA and other hacking statutes, but the DMCA could apply too. In this case, the GPL's "waive any legal power to forbid circumvention" clause wouldn't apply because the hacking wouldn't be "effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the covered work". But if the "no covered work shall be deemed" clause is effective, it would close off using 1201 against the hacker anyway...
Yes, it's a good thing we don't build our bridges the way we write our code...
This was DSTE [0] connected to AUTODIN [1]. AUTOVON [2] was still around -- I only heard of Flash Override being used once, and the recipient of the call was sent back stateside shortly thereafter... We had a Siemens phone switch at that base, probably because AT&Ts 5ESS wasn't available at contract-signing time.

At a later base I was at, they were installing the then-new X.400 system [3]. It didn't last long, as SMTP ate it's lunch. Which is funny, as I got to watch an IMP [4] get installed by the BBN [5] contractor that same year.

[0] http://www.1882nd.com/images/DSTE.jpg

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Message_System

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBN_Technologies
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It was transferred in early 2015 and the new owner started paying properly: https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP05100648&lng=e...
>No, (3) is insane because it implies that biologically-driven preferences can change dramatically in just a few decades.

That's the strawman. You've said either everything is sexism, or everything is biology. Then you've used the fact that clearly biological preferences have not changed in a couple decades to suggest it must therefore be sexism.

Somebody who's apparently a lawyer should be able to recognize how terrible that logic is. So you're either being disingenuous, or you haven't thought to examine your reasoning.

>And it's hilarious that you keep criticizing me for not offering evidence, when your whole position seems rooted in "women prefer certain fields, because [???]". Seriously, what goes in that box?

Your box: sexism, and only sexism.

My box: absolutely everything that goes into people having preferences for things.

Seriously, your reasoning here is atrocious. The null hypothesis is not "there is pervasive social discrimination against women that prevents them from entering this field", and yet that's what you leap to for all explanations for everything.
who pays this tax? the person that forks the github repo?
> No, the problem is misallocation of labor.

Exactly. In the US, right now, paved roads are being downgraded to gravel* because interests aren't willing to allow the money be spent to keep up public infrastructure.

https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-...
I'm actually halfway through writing this post! I was hoping to finish it today. :)
I am not arguing that population growth would be a good thing, the population growth rate has to become essentially zero at some point. A constant plus or minus one percent per year means extinction within less than 2000 years. Overpopulation will resolve itself by starvation or resource wars, underpopulation seems actually more dangerous in the long run. But I am relatively sure that we will manage to avoid extinction due to a bad fertility rate.

And the population structure will probably become something like a rectangle then, almost everybody becomes 80 or 90 or whatever and dies within a relative narrow window. Setting aside radical changes like getting hit by an asteroid or discovering the key to eternal life.

I really only wanted to point out that it is not absolutely certain that increasing wealth surely leads to a decreasing population. If all work is done by robots and nobody is at risk of a shortage of good and services, what would people compel not to spend some of their years raising three children?
Quoting from that Derek Lowe link to http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/04/02/sil... since it seems to describe your situation almost perfectly:

> There’s another problem that’s not unique to [Silicon] Valley, although it does tend to give people a bad case of it. That’s the “Clearly I’m smart and successful, so clearly I have something to offer in this other field over here” one. We all succumb to that one now and then; it’s human nature. ... If you’re used to being able to sit down and bang out code, any time, anywhere, with all kinds of tools (libraries, compilers, virtual machines, what have you) at your fingertips, then yeah, working up a new assay protocol in a cell line is going to seem agonizingly slow. Multibillion dollar ideas can be cranked out in the coding world very quickly, if you hit the right place at the right time, but just you try that in the lab. ... The real bottlenecks are figuring out what assay to run, and what to do with the data once you have it. ...

> As much as I might like to see something like that happening in biopharma, though, I can’t quite make myself believe it. Technology, Silicon Valley style technology, is human-designed and human-optimized for other humans. As human beings, we’re playing on our home turf there. But the biology of disease is an away game if there ever was one. The inner workings of cells and the ways that they work together are flat-out alien compared to anything we’ve ever built ourselves. People who are used to coding up apps have never experienced anything like it, and many of them don’t seem to realize that they haven’t. Expecting the sorts of behavior that you get from human-built technologies, and expecting the same effects from the techniques that work to optimize them, is an expensive accident waiting to happen.

As a related example, in the early 1990s AutoCAD thought they could enter molecular modelling, since they figured they could leverage what they knew from designing structures to design molecules. https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_82.html . You'll notice the lack of success, and HyperChem is a dead product.
> the idea that written flat text is inherently a global maximum

It's quite the opposite, text is a global minimum. Sequential text is best suited to represent some first order logic, a recursive enumeration of nouns. Or better yet a zeroth order logic, a simple enumeration of nouns. That is a desirable logic to work in, because it's complete. But we do need second order logic to ... beats me :)
There must be more than two alternatives, though? Surely we can have a 21st century economy to match 21st century challenges?

I don't know what that might look like yet - but I think we will know in a decade or so. Currently there's a storm of protest from those being left behind (Trump in the US, Brexit in the UK), and it won't be long before different solutions will be tried for these - eg UBI, direct democracy, charter cities, etc. Eventually, one of these solutions will stick and look obvious in hindsight.

Also there is an argument that even if everyone objectively does better under a particular system, increasing inequality is still a bad thing. To take just one example, access to money may be correlated to access to better outcomes from the criminal justice system (eg rather than the facts of the case).
> To see why that is true, imagine we lived in a sports-based economy.

Sports are zero-sum, the real-world economy is not.
It should be noted that these are the same researchers in both articles. I would guess that the inkjet method didn't work otherwise they are just ripping off the police department?
PlayCanvas is built on WebGL which leverages hardware antialiasing by default.
If only my precious American vote had any power over this whatsoever. (My foreign colleagues seem to think it does.)
The UK government is trying to push for OSS as the default for all government software. As a default for all "societally beneficial"'software is a better goal and one highlighted here.

Now my attempts so far are stymied by this weird half world. Most government contracts basically want either bums on seats contractors or to fundamentally hire "someone who has done it before" (effectively the same as wanting to buy off the shelf)

So there is almost no way to seed fund the initial OSS development.

Down thread people talk about a fund for starting OSS projects to provide things like this. Plover is an example of people trying it on their own - but a funded system that basically follows current gov work seems better.
Cities in general could be much denser. Those 7k people/km could be 27k people.

We know this because there are currently places that are 27k.

Those place in NYC that are 10k could ALSO be much more dense if the NIMBY didn't stop them from being so.

And yes, it could be done quickly. Just stop preventing developers from development. The market would LOVE to make tons of money by massively expanding.
It is important to separate challenges of "second level" (sometimes called director level) management from "first level" (sometimes called line level) management. If you will be managing managers, that requires you to be able to evaluate their group as a unit much like a line manager needs to evaluate employees for their effectiveness. Group effectiveness is very biased by management style and communication.

I wouldn't read too much into the fact that you'd be replacing a manager who is already working there. One of the "perks" of being a manager is that you have a big target on your back when it comes to overall organizational goals and morale. Scott McNealy used to joke "one step up, one step closer to the door." because directors and executives don't fire individual contributors, they fire managers when things aren't working out. And there are a ton of reasons that things might not work out, not the least of which is that the manager's manager can't effectively communicate "through" them. It can be a leadership style, it can be mutual respect, it can be different baggage that each of them are carrying from previous experiences.

What is important for you to understand in the interview is the sort of communication issues that got this person into trouble, you need to know that so you can evaluate how likely it is that you're communication style would be compatible. Some senior managers will say "get it done" and some will be very prescriptive about how (aka micromanaging) and some will be open to feedback and others will consider feedback insubordination.

Understand what they expect (both things they expect someone to do, and things they are expected NOT to do in that role) and how they evaluate what they see. Then ask yourself if you feel like you can live in that system or not.
fear mongering much? "blatant authoritarian"
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My main complaint with Pandora (and what encouraged me to try spotify) is that they seem to repeat the same songs over and over again for a given playlist. For some stations it can be as few as 10-20 songs which really gets boring when you are using the service to find new songs.
The United States has a very skewed view towards work and individual employee production. At some point in time, cultures must shift to realize that two individuals at 40 hours per week can do the work that one individual at 70 hours per week is performing. The key here is incremental corporate profits must shift from shareholders to employees through aggregate increases in employee costs (2x the employees, half the hours for each). Realistically - this problem is a matter of greed at the business owner level.
To hide the fact that they're nothing more than a bunch of privileged straight white males?
SF has a lot of homeless people because it has relatively good services for the homeless compared to other places in the US, and the weather is tolerable. If you're mentally ill and homeless, SF is a better option than most.
Alternatively, would be fun to get the OS to lie about the USB device ID. This would definitely be possible on Linux (probably with a kernel module, but perhaps you'd have to modify the USB core) but no idea how flexible Windows is on this kind of thing..
One Z, two blanks. It can be done.

A bigger problem is that it's one letter longer than the Scrabble board admits.
IANAL,

Is the FCPA applicable outside the context of business transactions?
What if you use the blank tiles as well? Don't remember Scrabble well enough to know if it'd still not work.
It's not really archaic as a name, it's just a very rarely used concept.

When would you need to refer to versions by name?
ssh logic not welcome here... move along
Almost all modern Indian trains are like this too. But I dont think you will get into trouble for shitting on a station.
>we have an arrogant economic royalist lamenting the consequences of women having a political voice ... but equally clear that he has no novel, reasonable justification for disenfranchising women.

Hilarious! This is exactly what I'm talking about! You have no idea how he got to his position, but you've already made up your mind as to how he got there. And to top it off, you go on this big rant that places you above him in terms of virtue because obviously he's "an arrogant economic royalist" and you're not therefore you're better.

It's fine with me if you want to behave that way. All I'm suggesting is that if you want to be intellectually honest, then you need to explore the 'why' of a person's viewpoint, rather than commit the fundamental attribution error and simply make up the 'why'.
We've used both at Heap. I wouldn't expect much of a performance change from switching in either direction. JSONB has the advantage of being in a data format that lots of tools speak, and has generally been less annoying to use. But if your app is pretty stable and all of your code already speaks hstore, probably not worth it.
The Google C++ style [1] guide bans exceptions entirely and strongly advises against RTTI.

[1] https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
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There are plenty of docs (official and unofficial) explaining the internals of how and why Rails works; here's an example: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/initialization.html

The documentation for getting a blog built in 15 minutes doesn't explain why you put your code in each place or how it's put together, because that's not the point. Rails is about making default decisions for commonly bikeshedded questions like "how do we name our database tables" so you don't waste mental bandwidth on them when you're trying to build an application. But explanations for how and why all that happens is very readily available.
Many of your comments are great --- including this one --- but the one Dan marked off-topic was not. I don't know if it was actually off-topic, but it made a sweeping generalization and wasn't a high-quality comment. I read through the threads you linked here, and I didn't see much evidence that 40-somethings were complaining about Snapchat's interface. There were many people who were bemused and confused by it's popularity, but I didn't see any clear correlation with age.

So I think Dan was right to consider your "oogle of 40 somethings complaining about how useless and unintuitive it is" to be a spurious putdown. I think your "first" comment makes the same point about Snapchat's utility, but in a more acceptable manner. So please keep posting other comments, even controversial ones, but if possible avoid such generalizations unless they are well-supported and central to your argument.
> There is no profit motive. I am not paid for this story.

There's building your personal brand and/or company. You know, that startup you're the CEO of.
>it could become worse very fast and if you are caught with that, you'll have to bribe much more people or end up in a jail with a very serious offence

by association, how even the ones with Masters in Bribery can make a rookie mistake - right these days the top staff of the Moscow DA office (the first deputy) and Russia AG office (the head of the Internal Affairs and his first deputy) have just been arrested by FSB on charges of taking bribes (on the scale of 1M euro) for helping the recently arrested "thief in law" (a king in organized crime hierarchy) and his "colleagues". The issue of course not the bribes itself :) The "king"'s group tried to extort from a restaurant which was under "protection" of ("roofed by") a group of former KGB officers (thus FSB involvement). One would think that challenging KGB/FSB wouldn't be a smart move, and it probably can be explained by the fact that the "king" - Shakro "Young" - was crowned only recently after the previous "king" had been killed (that guy was "Grandpa Hasan", i kid you not, it is Moscow, 21st century :). By taking the bribes the DA guys made the same rookie mistake of going against FSB.
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