skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not disagree with you at all; however college or school does not necessarily educate you; the education you speak of can be obtained elsewhere these days and much more cheaply. This also is relatively new to the world - the ability to obtain philosophy, art, and other liberal arts knowledge without going to a college or university...not to say there is no place for it in institutions of higher learning; but for the vast majority of people a great liberal arts education can be obtained without institutions of higher education but the education of a civil engineer - not so much.
Factories and jobs in China (and other countries with factories) are good (in general, at least). It doesn't get much simpler than that. The only people that have issues with it are the consumers thousands of miles away who are completely detached from the issue and realities facing those workers, and who at the same time fuel demand by purchasing and funding those workers.
Atom wranglers create rewritable memory with chlorine
The RIAA imposes DRM for streaming audio, they probably have yet to switch over to EME.
It doesn't supersede anything, it should be completely unrelated. Do you have any evidence that residential tenancy law applies to office leases or co-worker spaces?
Yea, count me as one. I have literally never played any Pokemon game before, and half-caught maybe one episode of some TV show featuring some comical evil cat villain thing.

But, I'm catching pokemon on my walk to/from work (makes it less boring, and doesn't make it take any longer). My wife is now dragging me to the park every other day to run around in circles catching pokemon.

I'd be interested to see some survey results on what percentage of people playing this are actually pokemon fans.
I think what the OP means by winning is keeping control of the gym, to your point exactly.

I am also at level 23 and can take out pretty much any gym. But right when I walk out of range, someone half my level using either a full six roster or type advantage or both will boot me out. When the game came out I could maybe stay in control of a gym for a day but now it has not exceeded half an hour so I no longer try.
Very interesting. This is much like ad fraud detection software.
Yes, the government and the sweatshop owners are working hand-in-hand to exploit workers and both are culpable. Sometimes they like to present themselves as good cop / bad cop [0].

First, the ability to be self-sufficient is curtailed by the government through entitlements granted to a select few by the ruling class.

The Enclosures in England [1] are the canonical example. Agricultural land once used by everyone is privatized. With their livelihood threatened, the rural populations are driven to the cities to seek employment in dangerous factories.

Most industrial societies are based on this concept. The sweatshop isn't doing anyone any favors. They are simply another side of the same coin.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_cop/bad_cop

[1] http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/enclosure-acts-indust...
Now please tone down the incredible amount of unwanted mail you send to new signups, got my colleagues fairly puzzled after I insisted we use GitLab instead of GitHub. :(
I don't know if that's true, but I imagine that in order to get redress for such a claim, one would need to take them to court.
Sewbots =~ mechanical loom?
True but in practice it doesn't really matter. With sensu, you have offbox checks, and you just pick some internal server (there's always some "misc" server hanging around).

What matters is that the alert about the issue is raised and relayed to the proper notification channels. Since sensu doesn't concern itself with a fancy dashboard, it doesn't really matter if the alert pertains to the host or not.

Any decent monitoring will have customized the alert handling based on what's alerting, so there's some amount of post-processing possible.
Why not just place it in a shielded bag that blocks RF?
Got to love Hacker News! Fastest downloading app of all time, global phenomenon, absolute zeitgeist..."The execution has been rather poor."
Yes there's a small but significant percentage of transactions for my company that are flagged and completely withheld because of some non-related issue of fraud. For example they lost their card, or their card had some other fraud on it, or they mistakenly reported fraud.

Despite not being our fault, the CC companies withhold the cash for months....
I still think it was probably done badly though. Using performance reviews to do this for example is probably a bad idea.
My point was not that they wouldn't be able to learn it, only that the tools and methods of design have changed and become much more automated. That process has not stopped, only accelerated. The people in this article are saying that the process of making software in 50 years will be very different from the modern method. It will rely heavily on automation and what was done manually by writing in programming languages will be integrated into systems in which the intent of the designer is interpreted by a machine. You can see it in IDEs today. They already analyze and interpret code. This is extremely primitive compared to what we will have on 50 years. The progress of machine intelligence is clear and doesn't require any major breakthroughs to continue for the foreseeable future. It will be as irresponsible for most people to write everything manually in 50 years as it is not to use a debugger today. No doubt there will be people doing things the same way, just like we have traditional blacksmiths today, but we will not have billions of people typing into terminals in 50 years. The criticism is against the idea that in the future, everyone will need to learn how to code in the same way as everyone needs basic arithmetic. That is not a plausible version of the future. It's trending the other way, more automation, more code reuse, less manual entry.
> I don't mean to attack this work, but what good are formal methods if they still allow failures like this? Honest question.

It's research and not a production product: they're likely concentrating on problems that are original and interesting to the research community instead of looking at problems that the community knows are already solvable.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12145783 and marked it off-topic.
That must depend on where you live. I've caught quite a few Pokemon from my couch.
you took the ponzi scheme and applied it to marketing. That's glorious. I am starting to believe what I once read about the brightest minds of our era being too busy trying to devise new effective ways to make us click on the ads.
Are you saying that because you think about murdering people all the time? It's a valid question; I pass no judgment.
You're actually consistent with what I had in mind. A 3 year old quad core is 2-3 times faster than a 9 year old dual core, in most of the embarrassingly parallel benchmarks. I.e. despite all the process improvements, computing power per core stagnated. Personal computers mostly remain at two cores, four accessible at a premium. Personal computers are simply fast enough and the progress is better used by moving more pieces off the motherboard onto the CPU. If someone needs more power, then he's considered to be building a workstation or a server and charged way more than for personal stuff.

I have no clue if you're right about arm progress saturating, I haven't been following that.
India, using a low grade ISP. May be it is that my ISP has very limited number of IP addresses, and he shares the same of IP with many users.

I have noticed the issue with IP addresses in Indian train ticket booking site also. Tatkal train tickets [1] open at a specific time of a day, and there is a huge rush to book tickets at that time. and the site allows only 2 tickets for an IP. Sometimes when I try to book Tatkal tickets, I would be denied because of some else already having booked from my ip. so I wondered whether my ISP has been lending some of it IPs for some automated train ticket booking brokers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatkal_scheme
>>My point is it’s fine for a “connoisseur” to only like sushi made of the freshest highest quality fish, perfectly cooked rice, real wasabi, etc., prepared by a specialist and eaten immediately, at a $$$$ restaurant.

I disagree for two reasons. First, it is important for any connoisseur to experience a wide range in order to truly appreciate the items on the finer end of the spectrum. Someone who only eats high end sushi is a pretender, not a connoisseur.

Second, low-end restaurants sometimes contain amazing dishes that any connoisseur may enjoy. Similarly, cheap wines have won blind-taste competitions before, even when they were pitched against high-end, expensive wines.
s/kubernetes/box no?
Figure out a way to serve others
Alternatively: "How to build a low cost Linux cluster simulator using Pi's" :)
This is great. One of the biggest hurdles is getting started which is why there are so many react boilerplates. It would be awesome to see projects like this grow so that it would auto configure based on libraries you would like to use. Want to use Redux? Just run the `create-react-app -m redux hello-world ` and you would get everything with the addition of redux and it's configuration.
> that those with religious beliefs specifically should not be taken at their word

For better or worse, the idea that religious people shouldn't be taken at their word is a core belief of the LessWrong crowd, of which Scott is one of the most notable members. "Belief in Belief" [1] is one of the earliest grounding chapters of the beloved Sequences, and I'm pretty sure that's where the meltingasphalt post got its inspiration.

> Rather, why does a belief in some bearded guy in the sky suddenly invalidate the content of your other, when belief in "The Equality of Humanity" or "The Progress of History" or "The Zeitgeist" or "Free Markets" or other such fluffy abstractions not[1]?

It is, at least for some people. For example, I feel roughly the same way about people who "believe in Free Markets" as I do about people who believe in God; interpret that as you will.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4/belief_in_belief/
How Noise Makes Music
>thousands of users

You're seriously underestimating KATs size.

There's no chance they weren't making millions off of the site (and various other similar sites they operate).
Riemann comes with collection clients as well
I think it's probably hyperbole.

If it's "thousands" as in 1002 rejections, that's almost 3 years of doing one interview every day, from Monday to Sunday. Even if you assume two interviews per day, that's still more than a year.

Edit: Assuming you only do one interview per rejection.

I wouldn't take it as an indicator of the job market in Canada.

I would think maybe he refers to having a lot of rejections but still I would hope it's in the order of 100 or so at most
I know this isn't exactly what the OP is asking for, but I'd like to share my experiences working remotely for 8 of the last 10 years.

* It's not for everyone. You have to be pretty motivated and driven, and also a good communicator. You additionally need some good non-work relationships. (Although, that's probably true regardless...)

* It's a lot easier when everyone uses phones/email/slack/etc. Being the 1 guy on the phone during a 30-person meeting sucks.

* Those little "water cooler chats" can and do happen on slack and phone calls. It's helped by having met the people in person before, but even that isn't a requirement. I was talking to a co-worker that I've never met in person about pokemon just yesterday...

* I usually shoot for about 10% of my time being spent on-site in 1-2 week chunks, perhaps a little more right after joining a new team. I try to go out for dinner & drinks and whatnot with team members for at least one night on a visit. This can help with those virtual "water cooler chats" later on.

* Mentoring can happen remotely as well. Mentoring and guidance is a large part of my current role, and I've never met the majority of the folks I help out.

* I do occasionally take time out of work for family things. But I also occasionally cut out family time to deal with pressing matters at work. So I think it works out in the company's favor overall.

* I've been told by more than one manager/CTO/CEO that I was fit for a leadership role but wouldn't get it because I worked remote :(

* I joined IBM a year and a half ago partially because of this: I believed that being remote wouldn't hold me back from promotion here but...

* A few months back, the Watson division got a new guy in charge. Everyone was told to either move on-site or find a new job. I managed to get a temporary exception until the end of the year but I'm still not sure which one I'm going to choose when the time comes. Maybe both (I've always wanted to see Europe... ;)
Astronaut John Glenn's historic flight plan sold for $67K
Right. Those systems ate the world a long time ago.

This is sort of a proxy conversation about money. I'd like to point out that manufacturing your own money from scratch is a good way to get shot.
Granted the author is not doing anything with it, but it is still a fun experiment. It can very easily be used to run a simple zookeeper/Kafka cluster or try out deployment automation etc.
I was thinking of Eccl., but wanted to be a bit more generic.
By the way the ones you are thinking about are Candy Japan: https://www.candyjapan.com/candy-japan-hit-with-credit-card-....
And ironically the capitalists always get blamed by the left for this unholy union between the state and upper class. There's a reason many pro-market people want smaller gov and it's not just personal selfish gain to save a few dollars in taxes but to prevent the predictable selfish incentives of the power players from exploiting the absolute power of the state for the benefit of a limited few.

No wonder there is a backlash against globalism and 'free trade' agreements when this same group of insular regulators and powerful market leaders are designing the agreements and calling all of the shots. Sweatshops are hardly the result of free trade but government controlled/financed trade that only prioritizes the interests of the mega corps, sometimes pushed to the point of exploitation in countries with poor legal systems and weak concepts of human rights.

The process of creating the TPP made this even more apparent to the public, they hardly even tried to hide the obvious favoritism and complete lack of openness. Clearly it has become so status quo that they didn't even bother with pretense.
If Regus did this, they'd have zero total tenants. And I'm only kidding a little.
Why is their execution poor? They've broken every record in usage and growth. Designing a back-end to expect and support that level of usage out the gate would have been poor execution.

Servers crashing and people still tolerating it is strong evidence they made something people want, which in my mind is excellent execution. I guarantee if they made a crappy game they will not have server problems or loud bug complaints.
Hippopotamus that sounds like a trumpet
>sadly it's just worse than Credit cards for most merchants.

Don't most merchants just use something like a 'pay with bitpay / coinbase' which results in them directly getting cash? I can't imagine how that would be much worse?
See you at the soup lines!
You can see visitors segmented by datacenter/TOR/spoofed user agent/hidden attributes. There is an API to score users in realtime.
> I actually wanted to know about the reverse operation. Can we get some formal verification and modeling software to generate Rust(or C) code?

Haven't tried it but this claims to be able to extract Rust programs from Coq proofs:

https://github.com/pirapira/coq2rust
Over a period of 18 months.

Canada is nothing like the US in terms of the developer market. I read all kinds of blog posts about people who learned to code, built stuff and found a job, but it took me a bit of time to realize that Canada is a totally different beast. The amount of junior dev job openings in this country is cute next to New York's. So I started applying there and all over the US, and to Europe, and to Australia, and to South America, etc.. None of those worked out. Those add up to thousands.

I still apply for dev jobs to this day, but only when I have a new project to add to my CV. The way I see it, with every project I complete, I get closer to landing that job. And who knows, maybe one of my projects will eventually be able to support me by itself.
Or just spin up 7 Xen VMs with no material cost. :)
Our Incredible Journey?
Loss avoidance rather than gain maximisation.

Yahoo is apparently still worth ~$4 billion. For quite a while there, its nominal stock value was negative after dispatching Ali Baba, despite cash-on-hand in excess of zero.

I'm not a fan of Meyer's, but she managed to keep the beast alive, where her predecessors were killing it swiftly.
So much from Wikileaks this week. First, they published 300,000 emails from the Turkish President, Erdogan. Now they've published tons of credit card and social security numbers. Good luck to them!
You should mention something on their bug tracker.
Drawing rather than writing is just one method. A lot of it will likely be conversational. I could imagine a designer with an AR overlay speaking to a computer which offers several prototypes based on an expressed intent. The designer chooses one and offers criticism just as a boss would review an alpha version and suggest changes. The machine responds to the suggestion and rewrites the program in a few fractions of a second. The designer continues the conversation, maybe draws out some designs with a pencil, describes a desire, references another program which the machine analyzes for inspiration, and the machine adjusts the code in response. This is just one of many possible examples. The point is that software design is trending toward more automation. Coding is not a new essential skill that everyone will need on the future. Human-machine interactions are trending toward natural and automated methods, not manual code entry. Most people need to learn to be creative, think critically, analyze problems, not learn the conventions of programming languages.
Aquila’s First Flight: A Big Milestone Toward Connecting Billions of People
Facebook auth is also failing for me as I receive an internal server error during auth.
> Is server side rendering basic or necessary in most "tiny" apps?

Isn't it both?
What's wrong with your "frond end"?

Shouldn't you be posting this on a gardening forum?
There's alot more that can be done. AR really feels like a chance to merge the real world with the digital finally. The indie developer would build on top of the platform that these new AR experiences create, not necessarily rebuilding these monoliths themselves (there should be no need). Once everyone is "living" in this AR world, we start all over again with new things that need to be made for it.
> What's annoying as a customer is many companies flag legitimate transactions, wait a few days to say so, and then handle it poorly after the fact.

If by this you mean they don't notify you that the transaction was flagged until a few days later, that's (probably) part of the fraud prevention system. There was a post on HN similar to this one awhile back about how another site handled fraud prevention. One of the most successful techniques is they found was to delay notification. Fraudsters are less likely to target you if it takes them a long time to find out their transaction was declined. Credit card fraud is very much a hit and run operation, as the card is likely to quickly get flagged and blocked by the issuer within a few hours of the fraudsters using it.

That said, a few days is pretty bad and I imagine it really only takes a few hours delay to make the technique effective.
The Aesthetic of Non-Opinionated Content Management
Would be awesome to have import option from CSV file. After jinni.com folded, I've been tracking my movie ratings in spreadsheet file.
He's right but he doesn't understand why. We'll write less code in the future but it won't have anything to do with visual programming languages or other fancy tools for "programming without code". Code will always be the best way to write programs.

The reason we'll write less code in the future is we won't need as many programs. The future is in machine learning and machine teaching, which enable a single program to perform a huge variety of different tasks. We'll train the computers of the future by showing examples and correcting mistakes, as we do with our fellow humans. Machine teaching is a different thing entirely from programming.
Here is the post:

https://medium.com/@justin.zhen/deep-dive-into-weworks-user-...

http://archive.is/ou72L

Don't forget they are also suing an employee for talking to reporters:

http://www.businessinsider.com/wework-is-suing-an-ex-employe...

I'd say this is a pretty clear case of where there's smoke.....
As others have mentioned, you're probably having an existential crisis. This isn't a bad thing so don't let the uncertainty of all of it bring you down, this can happen to people multiple times throughout their lives. My suggestion is to find a place where you can be completely relaxed so that you can think through and figure out your emotions. Personally, when I need to figure something major out, I go out on a clear nights sky and smoke a cigar under the stars. You're the only person that has enough information to figure out what you need to do, so treat it like every other problem, and think it through.
It's a very insightful article about nitty-gritty details of working on ML problems. However as an outsider, I can't decide if some of very specific statements without any reasoning (e.g. good range of value for parameters) are highly valuable wisdom coming from years of experience, or merely overfitted patterns that he's adopted in his own realm.
The Brachistochrone: The Problem of Quickest Descent
linking to third-party scripts is foolish.
the speed gain is outweighed by the cost of the additional attack vector & point of failure.
I think this is common. For me the front page and JSX threw me off. React was so un-opinionated that it can loose its appeal when it presents itself. Once I took an opinionated tutorial it became much clearer to me.

Since then I've used React in conjunction with Django, PHP/Laravel, converted large jQuery codebases to React and created frontend-only sites. I've not yet gone full-on with a NodeJS back-end and isomophic and that's fine for now.

Pass your data into a root component via props. Or use XHR requests to load data from your backend into your root component and manipulate them in your state. Let the data changes in the root component trickle down via props. Keep it simple with React loaded via a <script> tag and work from there.
No, farmers have very little power. Agri-corps, big business which collects the majority of those subsidies, have power. These laws keep little guys down.