skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both business intelligence and machine learning are narrower terms with a more specific meaning. Business intelligence has the connotation of a certain set of techniques (e.g. reporting, SQL, querying, PowerPoint presentations) while machine learning is a fairly specific set of tools that is much narrower than what most software data scientists do. E.g. I'm a software data scientist and I spend much more time on descriptive statistics than machine learning.
It annoys me that polls and articles like this ignore that there is clearly support for 3rd party candidates, and there would be more if they covered them.

Last poll I saw puts Gary Johnson at 12% and Jill Stein around 5%, which is significant given that they are barely covered and that many polls just say "other" instead of listing them.

It saddens me that decent news organizations continue support the duopoly of government in the US. 2 choices is only 1 better than a dictatorship.
You're correct that it was a bit of a pontification, but does it not seem like to much of a stretch to say that the more wealth you have the more options you have for entertainment? If you spend a majority of your time stuck at your house around the opposite sex and can't afford to do much else that in turn you will end up having more intercourse?
Why, when they can collude (implicitly or explicitly) and keep the profits high for both of them? It's much more profitable to put someone out of business through methods other than competition.
Thus the reason I know carpentry :3 but, having programmed for a while, it seems like the hardest problems are converting plain english requirements to source code. At the point that that becomes trivial (and doesn't fall into WYSIWYG editors or graphical languages, which already exist and haven't brought about the apocalypse), wouldn't you just ask the computer to make itself smarter over and over? Or ask it to automate any other profession with stupendous ease?
Ready player one was disappointing. Dune and Enders game were superb.
> I can't sympathize much with those app developers, since they are making proprietary software. They all deserve to fail.

What a shitty, shitty attitude.
Retraining a farmer's kid to be a riveter on a bridge construction project in the late C18/early C20 is a whole lot more feasible than retraining a 40yo professional driver for the jobs opened up by their obsolescence, such as rocket surgery and brain engineering.
Yes that's true that him being an Indian hastened the adoption but mostly because he knew what the pain points were and how best to get started.

However, he is hardly a celebrity in India. Google has been popular here much before he became a CEO.

Also what damaged FB was the tweet by Marc :http://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2016/02/10/marc-andre...

Directly implying that India was better off colonized.
I think Jason plans on having _every_ system up there (all the things!) but they're just working through them one at a time...
Searched the page for Ender's Game, I've always really enjoyed that book. I never had to read it for school but an older friend of mine did and told me to read it. I did and then a few years later was able to use it for a "pick your own book" report in school. I was always embarrassed to lend out my copy as it had writing in the margins that I had to do for school so I just bought it and gave it away whenever I was going to lend it. Really great book and this reminds me I still need to read the rest of the Ender series, I read all of the Bean/Shadow story line but somehow never got around to the continuation of the Ender line.
in my country (Italy) there is no importance (or almost)
to quality of projects (especially Technically), you
have to face with ridiculous deadlines, poor team
mate (in order of thech knowledge) and tremendous
customers.

Quality versus deadlines, jousting with shitty team members, or suffering the burden of demanding and insipid customers. All of this is normal. These are human factors, and they exist within a spectrum (or gradient). Some areas can be worse than others, but none are ever quite good.

Moving into a different field (one which is more specialized than generalized-enterprise-business development-in-yet-another-problem-domain) won't fix any of those things.

i constantly feel interested in IT Security, then
low level programming (C/C++) than again "new"
languages like GOLang, RUST etc.. i can't focus on
nothing, i think it's due to my work frustrations

Having tangential interests (security, low-level computing, new languages) is also normal, and a symptom of possessing a naturally curious creativity.

So, the question: Is an inability to deliver on hobbies, and convert them into productive professional skills, driven by miserable distractions? Nah. Whether you make something of them, isn't going to be the cure of the things that you find frustrating, BUT the time you spend tending to frustrating tasks will be time that is poorly spent, under any circumstances. Fluffy bean-counting busy work will eat up the precious moments of your life, no matter the career.

So, now you'd like to migrate your skills over to newer hoobyist interests, that you've explored tangentially? Makes sense, but it won't solve the human factors stemming from social circumstance. Nor will it prevent unfulfilling, soul-crushing toil from creeping into your newfound career path.

It WILL, however, temporarily cure your wanderlust, and relieve that dreaded sensation of stagnation.

I dunno, try this, for starters:

https://taylorpearson.me/limits/

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman looked back over his
career and cited his biggest career mistake as not
leaving Microsoft for Netscape.

At the time, Netscape was where all the innovation
was happening. It was spouting out entrepreneurs.

The right question wasn’t “how can I learn to be a
product manager?” It was, “how can I get in the
building at Netscape?”
He's right to criticize Google and Microsoft. There is no way in which they are morally superior to Apple.
That's a semantic argument really. The license fee funds the BBC, and the BBC are the ones who care about collecting it (even if at arms length with the official 'enforcer'). Every argument about the future of the license fee, or not paying it on an individual level, explicitly state the BBC as the benefactor of this fee.

The fact that it's tied to equipment capable of receiving live broadcasts (until September) is not much more than a clever workaround.
Home computers? Almost nobody. Just those who work from home.

And those who have, no upgrades, but shining new cell phones and tablets.
Mmmmh yes, often ML produces data which supports human decision making; I see what you mean. In fact, now that you mention it, in my company the BI team is starting to use ML techniques to recognise some particular patterns.
It's a form of culture jamming to disrupt the cognitive processes by which we accept things as "truth" or "reality".

Can you express this a bit more clearly? "Culture jamming" is not a broadly understood term. It's not clear why the words "truth" and "reality" are quoted. Additionally, it seems odd to combine a specific term like "cognitive processes" with a ultra-broad term like "things".

If there is an argument for postmodernism being something more than word salad, your comment does not make it well.
Great book, one of the few I enjoyed the first time around reading it. I had to read it for school and I strongly believe that required reading for school has a way of ruining a book for children. There have been a handful of required books that I re-read when I got older and enjoyed immensely more (and found more applicable).
I'm probably not doing the justice of describing the book particularly since I am especially weak at writing.

Before I go on and waste everyones time with me falsely explaining things I recommend you just read up on the book (ie just read some summaries).

What I mean by "inherently mathematical" is that everything is based on math. That all thing in the universe are mathematical and everything can be represented with formulas and constants. That math makes the universe work and not the other way around.

It may seem obvious to some that of course the universe is mathematical but many believe that it is a human's way of modeling patterns that just so happen to happen in our universe.

Like I said I sort of want to avoid prolong discussion of this topic as it could be its own HN thread and I also know I'm doing a great injustice to the book and people actually working in this area of attempting to try to explain it.

Here is SA article on the subject (SA is hardly academic but it might be better than my explanation):

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-universe-ma...
In an ideal world these criticisms would be relevant. The reality is, most people who buy computers aren't RMS, they won't be able to build and support their own stack. These consumers own their computing devices in much the same way as a Nintendo GameBoy or a Thermomix; his principles are contextually irrelevant for anyone looking to purchase a tool to access Facebook.

Most of his reasons fall away when you consider the product an appliance rather than a computer. Heck, I'm a computer programmer and I treat my smartphone as an appliance. It makes me wonder how seriously RMS takes his stance. Does he refuse to drive any modern vehicle with an ECU? Does he refuse to refrigerate his milk in any modern fridge with a microcontroller?
The table was just an example. The point is that if you use a declarative rendering approach, any non-trivial rendered output you want to generate only needs to be specified once, relative to a neutral starting point.

React certainly doesn't own the idea of declarative rendering, I agree, but what template libraries do you have in mind that offer that sort of functionality without either being limited to some specific case (tables, say), having questionable performance properties, or implementing the same sorts of techniques that virtual DOM-based libraries like React are using?

Perhaps it would help if you could give some concrete examples of the libraries you are thinking of, and point at some documentation (or give your own example code) to show how they would handle the kinds of events I described in my post above more efficiently and/or with cleaner code than a library using declarative rendering and a virtual DOM such as React.
"Calvin and Hobbes: there is treasure everywhere"

This book was amazing.
Which, unless people are literally paid in physical gold coins, also doesn't help.
There are some really interesting developments in clojure around this, if you're interested.
I'll say it again, a French organization... ;)
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Spiritual revolutions are natural forces.
"I can't sympathize much with those app developers, since they are making proprietary software. They all deserve to fail. However, that doesn't excuse the way Apple treats them."

This is one of the first things I read on this page.

This kind of uncompromising, unsympathetic view makes me think less that Stallman stands for something valuable, and more that he wants to use his principles to be a dick.

I mean, I get it, it's Stallman. He always has a few nuggets of insight, wrapped up in page upon page of pontification. But "they deserve to fail"?

The other thing that gets me is how muddled his political views end up being. Like this bit, "Apple is culpable if its products are made by people working a longer workweek than is allowed in the US." Really? They are culpable? Or you think they should be? China's a sovereign nation, it can set its own rules, but that's worth discussing and not just making some blanket assertion.

And, for someone who tends to play so pedantic, I'm surprised he's claiming that "the mere practice of referring to service staff as "geniuses" is dishonest already" without actually assessing whether Apple has only hired geniuses for its stores.

Last..."iBad"? Where's the eyes-rolling emoticon?
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In case anyone else was wondering about the tennis without socks death: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/coolidge.asp
I'm not the GP, but I imagine I'll be in that situation in a few years. Well, except for that I'd never buy anything from Apple anyway.

No matter how good your eyes are, you can only go so small without stuff becoming blurry. Personally 15"/1080p is about as small as I can go without text becoming unreadable without HiDPI scaling, and some of my friends complain about reading text on my laptop as it is.

So, for me, switching to a higher-DPI screen is not an option since it just means a higher cost, awful blur for the many applications that don't support DPI scaling, and somewhere between no and very diminished benefits. At the same time I'd never want to give up on all the extra screen real estate so 17" (or bigger!) would inevitably be the only option for me.
Yes, I agree that both ML and BI are narrower definitions compared to that of data science.
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1Q84 is probably my favourite Murakamai book so far.
I think there's a huge difference between Android's Play Store + sideloading + other app stores + unlocked bootloader and the ultra locked down iPhone.
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I'm hearing lots about this low-growth economy from various major news sources, but it doesn't seem to me to be consistent with the data that I can look up on my own.

For example, the chart here seems to me to show regular traditional reasonbly-fast growth rates.(http://www.statista.com/statistics/188105/annual-gdp-of-the-...)

If you look at a 20-year plot of the S&P 500 (not the same thing as the GDP, I know, but still some kind of indicator of economic health) the net growth probably is low, but only because of the giant housing crash that causes a rapid setback right in the middle of the time period we're measuring. It looks like we've been growing at full speed ever since.

So what's the deal?
Rehashing 2012?
That's a really nice gift
At the HOPE conference last month, Stallman said he would on occasion borrow a stranger's smartphone should he be in a public place and need to make a phone call.
Are you thinking of computed properties? If so, there are many libraries that have solved this, e.g.:

https://vuejs.org/guide/computed.html

https://guides.emberjs.com/v2.3.0/object-model/computed-prop...

When implemented using one-way data binding (as both of the examples do), this is more performant than DOM diffing.
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> The author says you used to pay a lot for Apple because you knew you were getting "the best computer".

Must be rose-tinted glasses. Apple has been about peddling (what would otherwise be) low-end budget computers to fashion enthusiasts for massive markups for at least a decade.
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Having tried to use a 2012 Macbook Pro with the default spinning rust hard drive, no, it's not fast enough to run OSX. Sure, I can replace the hard drive when ordering it (for close to 5x the retail cost of that style of hard drive), but that doesn't change that the base model is not fast enough to run a modern OS.
I was wondering if that wine actually works. You just solved one of life's mysteries for me!
No, this is the CUDA toolkit, it doesn't depend on the driver version. You can compile CUDA code without having a GPU (which is the case during a "docker build").

Edit: in other words, your Docker image doesn't depend on a specific driver version and can be ran on any machine with sufficient drivers. Driver files are mounted as a volume when starting the container.
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And it seems most people do it when they're in their 60s and older... and they'd start sooner if they had the finances to.
Paradise, not S3.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/univalent-...
It's not the worst attitude in the world. Wanting a kind of business to fail is not wishing harm on the actual people.

But it ignores all the people making apps that do have open licensing.
The Lean Startup
Just like that guy who was open about going thermonuclear on free software.... I mean the same who "took" several ideas from Xerox and got around taxes and became rich by creating extremely profitable products built by people super uber poor on China.

http://techrights.org/2011/10/23/steve-jobs-exposed/
Can we just adopt that as a general rule? All things done with a good intention will backfire.
"It should be illegal to make or distribute computers which are platforms for censorship."

Stallman understands the consequences of these things in a way that most humans are blind to. I am so glad that someone as high profile as him has the guts to stand up and persistently deliver the same message, maybe someday everyone will wake up and figure out they've been paving the road to hell before it's too late (if it's not already..)
He also called people who don't agree with his stance fools, and said that he holds them in contempt. I guess that doesn't extend to refusing, on principle, to get the benefit of contemptible foolishness when he finds it useful to do so.
Pinker's https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/... is longer but still focused and very good.

The Elements of Style was fine for me as a first peek into the subject in junior high; it's just as a kind of bible that it's overrated.
His criticism of Google is awfully scant.

https://stallman.org/google.html
The non-Retina 2012 MBP is their institutional laptop product. If it was a consumer oriented product, they would have gotten rid of it, but they keep selling thousands at a discount to universities and high schools. They haven't dragged in an update as the specs and prices are good enough for what those customers need, and they are pushing a move to iPad for them anyway.

Their other products should have been updated by now. Especially the Mac Pro and Mac Mini. And they've been skimping on the graphics card for lower end models. The price/performance has been very frustrating as you can get a good (e.g. Alienware) desktop with the same high end graphics as the high end iMac but for the same price as the low end model now.

Their laptops are still good even at the price, but the rest of the line could be much better.
For more up to date technical knowledge, I really liked his software 3d renderer articles. He talks about Pentium 4s and such, which are old of course, but he gives good tips on optimizing for a cache hungry, superscalar processor (which is pretty much relevant today).
It makes sense to not measure those things because they don't increase our overall happiness or productivity.

You can't live off imgur cat pictures or spreadsheets about big mac nutrition. If that were the case the Western populations would be as happy as they were never before. People need a house, an occupation that gives meaning to their lives, the right to political participation and shape their everyday experiences. These things are currently under a lot of fire and it won't go away by appeasing the population with Netflix.

It's really not that much of a mystery, if a whole segment of the population is robbed of these opportunities it's going to get ugly.
> This kind of uncompromising, unsympathetic view makes me think less that Stallman stands for something valuable, and more that he wants to use his principles to be a dick.

Stallman is at war, and there are casualties in war. He probably feels that the ends justify the means.
Now I recall that Israel has operated and used drones to take out a suspected shipment of Iranian arms somewhere over North Africa or East Africa. I don't have the source, but goolging should help you, if you're interested.
> "As for microwave ovens and other appliances, if updating software is not a normal part of use of the device, then it is not a computer."

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
The discussion near the end of Philip Scranton was the most interesting and coherent part of the article for me, while earlier Dutch is mostly just incredulous about the words used by Latour and Derrida.

I think he makes a good point about a mutual misunderstanding:

> The history of science as presented in science texts, especially older ones, is rightly unsatisfactory to sociologists. In the interests of providing students with a heuristic framework (frequently a historical approach is the best way to explain a complex concept) and a sense of historical orientation, the accounts were streamlined to the point where they presented a highly linear view of science devoid of false starts, blind alleys, and personality clashes. The reason textbooks do it perhaps a tad better than they used to, by the way, is partly due to the insights of sociologists.

> Sociologists, on the other hand, need to realize that the way they present the history of science can seem just as distorted. However honorable their intent, their language seems at times to deny the existence of objective knowledge.
Devices like lower end tablets often have 2 gigs of ram and 32 gigs of flash, which would be problematic because a 64 bit version of Windows uses 3-4 gigabytes more disk space, which would be further amplified by needing that much more space for the recovery partition. These devices are useful, if limited purpose, so putting a 64 bit OS on it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Here's an Intel blog post from last year talking about it: https://blogs.intel.com/evangelists/2015/07/22/why-cheap-sys...
Good way to print an int as a string in golang
log(string(x))

xxd file.log

you'll see the binary value of x
heh. I tried to get my friends into Jiddu Krishnamurthi but unfortunately people in the west seem to have a pavlovian revulsion to eastern 'guru's from the east nowadays.

There seems to be some sort of strange obsession with applying the scientific method to psychological issues. Bunch of my friends started meditating because it is 'scientifically proven' to make them happy, make them rich, make them have good sex or whatever . Nevermind that all those "studies" are pure nonsense[1]. But people will buy anything with the stamp of science on it, they are not joking when they claim 'I believe in science not god' .

Congratulations on your wedding and for finding a compatible partner. That's really great!!

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19123875
There are tons of articles covering this mindset. It's exactly part of the problem, "pick up artists".
Richardo Stallmanu - the quintessential /g/entleman incarnate, no? But hey, here we are talking about him.
I would say on the whole, yes - that is actually true. Now you only need one "smart" person to program up the machinery, whereas in the past you did need multiple skilled craftsmen in a variety of roles - not exactly apples vs apples, but I think that one of the unfortunate side effects of too much specialization is a lack of a broad knowledge base that lets you apply skills from one field in a different area.
It doesn't mean "barely using anything", it means changing the computer scene from the Macy's bastardization that it has become thanks to corporations and get-rich-quick schemers, and bringing back the community spirit that was spawned in the early days of MIT computer clubs.

There's a way of thinking that was born or embraced in those free-software circles which the majority of our consumer world is unaware of, and if we could teach it to them it could have dramatic and positive effects globally. But the corporations don't want that, and they often turn the volume on their ads up to 11 to drown us out.
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