skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Babies that can run, jump, faster and higher, and live longer, and are generally smarter and just more advanced evolved.. It's like some breeds of dogs/monkeys are smarter than others. So will the 'smart' ones think they are better than all the rest of us.
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„YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers“ = Snapchat
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> Actually, you only have the sample of developers you interviewed for the job. How many didn't get an interview? Are you confident that your resume filter is good and that the resumes rejected were actually bad?

More specifically, I have the sample of developers who I did a phone screen with.

I'm reasonably confident that my resume filter is "good" in the sense that it's not rejecting people prematurely. If your resume shows any hint that you'd be able to do the job (ie. any amount of programming job experience and/or a CS degree) then I'm willing to give you 15 minutes.

> Following up my previous point, how many interviews did that yield?

A dozen or so. I'm deeply skeptical that the pool of applicants would be better than the pool of interviewees.
> There is nothing about: part of speech categories, relative clauses, morphology, affixes or compound words, the theta criterion, the content/function distinction, verb tenses, agreement, or anything else related to actual linguistic phenomena.

When you learned you native tongue, you didn't need to know all of these. You just learned. So, maybe the problem IS about math and algorithms instead of linguistics.
Does your printer set up its own WiFi? Had this happen at one location, interference caused spontanious connectivity drops.
The GP post is suggesting we make what HP did illegal, so that companies will be discouraged from doing it in the future.
I see two options: 1) they're using Hyper-V and exposing a small number of hypercalls to allow for rendering and interaction. 2) they've overloaded the Hyper-V name for a user space sandbox.

I'm really hoping for the former, as it'll mean they finally might expose a KVM-esque API. That would mean a drastic change for virtualization dev on Windows.
You're forgetting that they also have YouTube Gaming [1] as another separate app.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
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ISTR looking into the divorce statistics once, and mostly finding articles that (through malice or stupidity) compared divorce rates per capita, instead of per marriage. Evangelicals had a higher divorce rate than atheists, but married evangelicals had a lower rate.

Don't put too much weight on this.
Libtcod is the roguelike game library I most frequently see recommended to new RL devs. It has a fairly complete python tutorial[1] thanks to its python bindings, and an equally complete c++ tutorial[2]. It's been a while since it was last updated, and I'm excited to see there are still people working on it. It looks like the major new feature is a port to SDL2.

[1]: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Complete_Roguelike...

[2]: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Complete_roguelike...
Do you have any stats on youtube usage? Personally I don't use the offline feature very much.
My problem with these theories is that people like me just don't fit into them at all.

I've always been slow. Never did all that well in classes. When I was on a FIRST Robotics team I was phased out by the genius programmer that was already there and barely saw any code. I never really had a problem with for loops or if statements. But never really instantly got the more complex programming concepts, either. My father was a programmer so I was exposed to a lot of the things earlier, maybe that's why I missed the not getting for loops stage. I shouldn't be a programmer if many posts in this thread are to be believed. My father shouldn't be, either.

Worst of all, my programming understanding has went through several key developments in a very jagged fashion. For loops and if statements just didn't give enough to push me over the edge. And it wasn't just programming, but the general theme was that sometimes I would just not get some concept, or miss a simple concept, and after that, I would get stuck, and I could not get unstuck without some unusual event like getting the right help from the right source at the right time. One of my most important degrees of understanding did not develop until I took a certain class in the second-to-last semester of college.

After a while, it seems that enough things clicked all at once, and the problem went away. I don't get stuck anymore, I always know where to go. But that was supposed to happen earlier, so much earlier, but it just didn't.

While this was all happening I was definitely the kid who doesn't get it in the eyes of others. Maybe there's some teacher or mentor out there right now writing a blog post or a comment somewhere else about how they tried, they really tried, but I didn't get it.

And, yet, leaving for another industry would have easily been the worst decision of my life.
That just moves the responsibility from "people" to "people who program the AI".
>"Not true. Instead of burning fuel, you can use electricity (something like an arc welder) to generate heat. And the efficiency with which that heat is turned into mechanical power will be dependent on the compression ratio, regardless of whether the thermal energy is coming from electricity or burning fuel."

Turning chemical energy (low entropy energy) into electrical energy (low-medium entropy) into thermal energy (high entropy) to make mechanical energy (of intermediate) would be incredibly inefficient. Combustible fuels are much better than batteries at making things hot; I don't have the time to run the numbers right now, but what you are saying is incredibly wasteful. Please take a thermodynamics course.

Fans are commonly used on supersonic aircraft. Most modern fighter aircraft use medium or low bypass turbofans, which are using fans to go supersonic. Turbofans are less efficient than turbojets over Mach ~1.6-1.8 (or in reheat), but a ducted fan could probably do better.
"Interestingly enough, despite the need for more IP addresses, only 33% of the top 100 sites in the world have IPv6 enabled. Big properties like Bing, Twitter, Live, MSN.com, Amazon, Paypal, WhatsApp, Dropbox, and many others do not support it."

I was under the impression that this number would be bigger.
Hopefully this will actually work in all countries; I'd love to save videos for offline viewing while I have a wifi connection and watch them later when I don't. But that would compete with "YouTube Red".

For that matter, since an offline video eliminates the buffering problem, I'd love to have the "playback speed" feature in the mobile app. The web version of YouTube supports changing the playback speed to 1.25x, 1.5x, or 2x, but the mobile version doesn't.
Similar risks are taken when two native people from different parts of the world have a baby together.
I know I'm going to sound like a crank, but I can't get over the fact that Lincoln killed 3% of the population of the United States.

Every other Western country was able to end slavery without an insanely devastating civil war. Only Lincoln had to field armies, burn the homes of non combatants, run prison camps, etc.

I'm glad slavery ended, but Lincoln isn't remotely a genius in my book.
> Are they giving to charities ran by their church (or an affiliation)?

No idea, and I'm not sure it even matters. Such charities tend to help anyone afflicted by the plight they chose to alleviate.

> Are they giving to their church and it's called charity?

Since it was coming from a LessWrong contributor in Skepticon, I'd say this is improbable. Most likely, he scanned the study for such errors.
I love a good click-bait title.

What exactly grew and how much is 50%? Are you getting 15 hits per month, up from 10?
Because people in the US don't understand value, only cost.

A lot of what you discuss fits into this pattern. Buy a cheap $30 printer on sale, and then spend $30 more per ink cartridge for the life of the printer. A lot of people when they run out of ink literally buy a new printer, because it comes with ink, it's almost as cheap and they 'may as well'. They don't realize that it doesn't come with a full tank of ink, or that spending more on a printer means a better quality printer that lasts ten times longer.

Likewise health care. People don't want to pay more (or perceive that they're paying more) in order to have a better-functioning system that works better for everyone. They don't understand that everyone paying slightly more into the pot means a health care system that doesn't turn you away because the nearby hospital isn't 'in-network' so you have to go across town for your insurance to cover your emergency. My wife had to go to the ER the other night, and she chose based on reported wait times of nearby hospitals, rather than which one our insurance would actually pay for. Likewise, not having to pay a $25 co-pay every time you go to the doctor means that you can go to the doctor more often and keep your health up to date, rather than waiting until things are dire before you cough up the $25.

I've also seen lots of people buy Android phones because 'it's like half the price' of an iPhone or a premium Android, and then find out that they were never going to get software updates from the manufacturer again, that the performance was awful, and then turn around and end up buying a new one a year later. Meanwhile, people on the iPhone 5 (five years old) are reporting that iOS 10 actually works pretty well on their device and doesn't slow it down as much as they'd expected, and I know people with a Nexus 5 (three years old) who are still going strong on the latest Android updates because they paid slightly more at checkout.

Fundamentally, commerce in the US has become a race to the bottom: who can offer the cheapest product without consumers realizing that it's cheap because of cut corners and misfeatures.
I get especially mad when people suggest that there are some ideas that are just special, that only special people can get. Pointers and recursion are at the top of this list.

Take Joel Spolsky, a person whose ideas I read and respect: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing...

> For some reason most people seem to be born without the part of the brain that understands pointers. Pointers require a complex form of doubly-indirected thinking that some people just can’t do

Really? Here's my 20 dollar challenge: give me a person and I can teach them pointers. Pointers, referencing and dereferencing, null pointers, pointers to pointers, the whole deal.

The problem is the pedagogy. Learning a new abstraction and a new way of thinking takes time. It's easy to get it but really not /get/ it. You have to do a lot of examples. One on one with a person, with real time feedback. Until they internalize it. Many many many simple examples at first, and then examples of using it in a real world context. Then more. If you already know this abstraction, consciously or unconsciously, it's impossible to un-know it, and the reaction when someone is struggling is "I explained it as simply as I can and I don't know why they still don't get it". It's not like that. It's like basketball: you can explain how to shoot, but really the student needs to do it, and you comment while they're doing it.
A lot of less technical management doesn't understand how important being able to find corner caeses is. This is what separates a good and solid application from one that is routinely failing.
Lincoln was a manipulative political genius of the highest order but he was not a highly moral person in any respect.

Lincoln didn't want to free the slaves and even wanted to make slavery "irrevocable" (see Corwin Amendment). After the bombing of Ft. Sumpter he suspended habeas corpus, muzzled the press, and arrested hundreds for discussing secession. He arrested and imprisoned state legislators and even issued an arrest warrant for the chief justice of the supreme court when he did not do Lincoln's bidding. Luckily the US marshal given the warrant did not serve it.

Lincoln became a tyrant, putting himself above Congress, the Supreme Court and the Constitution.

Lincoln had severe mental problems. At that time they called it "melancholia". He would likely be unelectable today, although his tyrannical political bent matches that of the current executive (riding roughshod over the Congress and Supreme Court, administrative directives, secret arrests and tribunals, wire-tapping and eavesdropping of all US citizens w/o warrant) almost perfectly.

Suggested readings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corwin_Amendment

"When In the Course of Human Events" by Charles Adams

https://www.amazon.com/When-Course-Human-Events-Secession/dp...

"Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe" by Thomas DiLorenzo

https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Unmasked-Youre-Supposed-Disho...
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We tried solving this by analysing language for decades; the reason we're doing this now is because it actually works a lot better.
I have a silly question - if, as observation allows, some existing people are objectively better than others at things we can measure reliably, what is the ethical problem?
They will be. :) Nothing wrong with that, it's just evolution.
To make clinical tests it is necessary to focus on single genes or loci.

Whole genome is not controlled enough to meet clinical standards.
This is fascinating:

This is mostly because with a true CVT acceleration is very smooth and difficult for the customer to perceive.

Can you provide any more insight or further reading? I am considering a CVT (Subaru XT), and smooth acceleration without jumps is precisely what I would be looking for (which I believe was provided by my Scooter with a CVT as well).

If companies are adding artificial jerks to a technology that is designer for smooth experience, I'm not sure whether i'd laugh or cry, but I feel I'd like to know more :-/

Thanks!
I was in complete disbelief when I was in a similar situation. What scumbags.
You can develop a phone using open band (CB radio for example).
Why not hire them at a salary below the threshold, and not ask them to work overtime?
Having been in the hiring and compensation path at a few companies both north and south of the boarder, this seems to only apply to the US, and in particular silicon valley.

Up in Canada, the compensation seems to be more of a normal distribution.
Nobody who has taken a course in energy conversion (an second or third level thermodynamics course) would even bother to propose this. It is not coincidental that all mechanical engineers take this course, and mechanical engineers are also the people who design engines.
There is a novel by Kim Stanley Robinson whose plot revolves around a city that moves along tracks that circle mercury. With the heating and cooling of the tracks, due to the sun, being the force the drives the city, rather than electricity.

It also depicts people walking on the dark side staying just shy of the sun side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2312_(novel)
It is an actual paper, but it didn't appear in a high-ranking journal (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_Magazine)

https://www.researchgate.net/journal/0025-570X_Mathematics_M... gives it an impact factor of about 0.2.

The formula certainly wasn't novel in 1977, and chances are neither is the visual proof.

(Edit: http://hyrodium.tumblr.com/post/94237657514/inspired-by-this... has a nice animation of this proof)
If it was closed-source, we would assume it had lots of issues until reviewed by a qualified, third party that we trust saying otherwise who also gives us signed hash for binary that was reviewed. The way it's been done in proprietary evaluations a long time. It would be done more if companies were actually interested in a real evaluation instead of a stamp that knocks out their liability. ;)

Under DOD's TCSEC criteria, the high-assurance systems (A1-class) also had to be delivered in source form to paying customers with evaluation evidence. They can check hashes/signatures, check the evaluation evidence themselves, and build it on site. So, vendors got paid large sums of money to develop the products, independent evaluation ensured you got some pentesting, and you could inspect the source yourself. My modification to the scheme involved evaluators with hacking background in mutually-suspicious countries working side-by-side with developers every step of the way.

Traditional open-source development is weak against all of these given there's usually a lack of qualified expertise or just people willing to dig into it. Just open-sourcing something gets people almost nothing in security. Has to be reviewed.
Choose a project vendor that creates Open Source, not one that just uses it
Since not all fell the actual need in increasing it, there is not much efforts in changing to IPv6. Probably this explains why some are not supporting it.
> "we have to change the way we approach this dramatically, the same way that vehicle manufacturers in the 1970s did."

I think he's probably right. It might be interesting to build the kernel (or more realistically, a new distro) with some of its recent lxc/sandbox features as opt-out rather than opt-in.

> "people are finding these bugs sometimes immediately when they're introduced."

How do we know this is the case?

>"I hear a lot of blame-shifting of where this problem needs to be solved," he told the audience. "Even if upstream says 'oh sure we found that bug, we fixed it,' what kernel version was it fixed in? Did it end up in a stable release? Did a vendor backport it? Did the carrier for the phone take that update from the vendor and push it onto phones?"

IMO this is not the kernel maintainers' role. A curator like The Linux Foundation might be appropriate to shepherd critical fixes somehow. But ultimately downstream consumers bear the responsibility to accept new patches and schedule them in their own release cycle. If the linux kernel could offer anything, it might be some kind of smaller-scope upgrade feature. If each of the syscalls, VFSs, block devs could be individually patched without downtime, maybe that would somehow make for a lower-risk upgrade.
There is data suggesting that companies have already been moving more employees to part time. It is tricky to see exactly what is going on, but you have people who are employed "full time" but just working for multiple employers, who end up paying less because all sorts of other rules won't kick in. If there is a big pool of labor this would probably continue to occur.

Raising the minimum wage is pretty scary when taking a look at the trends of telecommuting (a decade of experience with this and counting, global broadband, better hardware, software, continuing to get better), mechanical automation, and software automation (which one might say AI but includes a lot more.) A lot of employees are already on the cusp of being non competitive. Instead of incentivizing a calm transition policy we are incentivizing a rapid expansion of automation.

Creating a bunch of additional layers of policy to force employers to hire humans and pay them a lot misses the point. The answer is to make sure it is cheaper, easier, and more sustainable to meet both basic & advanced human needs rather than try to focus on inflating prices until some sort of magic prosperity emerges (besides the magic of urban land owners making a great return on their investments.)
Related blog post: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...
As much as this sounds like something I would personally be very interested in, I can't help but think it doesn't fit into Google's ideal of how customers use their products. Rather I get the impression they're pursuing this begrudgingly just as a way to get into the Indian market; the announcement is notably non-committal about it ever being rolled out in the US.
It's not novel (though the paper comes from the '70s and may have been novel then), but it's a beautiful proof. I was first shown the proof by a maths teacher at my secondary school, and he didn't tell me what it was proving; he let me work it out. The "aha!" moment has stayed with me.
For men they did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch#Wristwatch
You say that in a shocked tone as if we don't already accept a huge number of motor vehicle deaths for the convenience of driving.
Microsoft built their next-generation platform around RC instead of GC, despite their enormous investment in .NET, and years spent pushing it. That's clearly taking a step back.

It may be the embedded world has very advanced GCs that would perform well on modern mobile platforms, and just nobody has gotten around to integrating them yet. I don't know! But embedded devices with predictable workload that you can model and test are quite a different beast from a general-purpose computer, so that remains to be proven.
This is not (at the time of publication) the production backend for Google Translate:

"In addition to testing on publicly available corpora, we also test GNMT on Google’s translation production corpora, which are two to three decimal orders of magnitudes bigger than the WMT corpora for a given language pair. We compare the accuracy of our model against human accuracy and the best Phrase-Based Machine Translation (PBMT) production system for Google Translate."
> Did you even read about any of the features here?

This was referring to the fact that the main features that the article discussed were about previewing videos and peer to peer video sharing, which are tangible UX improvements that have nothing to do with showing the user more ads.

Can I clear anything else up for you?
Fascinating. Now I want to know why! Maybe at mach 3 more heat's coming from inside than being absorbed.

Concordes were specced with Anti-flash White (high reflectivity as used by US and UK nuclear bombers), and the main reason I remember is there was some publicity when France painted one Pepsi blue (not wings) for a sponsorship. It had to have speed restrictions.

Wikipedia has a little more (not much), but says the white finish reduced the skin temperature by 6 to 11 degrees Celsius.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
Thanks, did not see that. Not all vector clocks provide conflict resolution though - actually, they can very much lack in this regard. For instance, you are much more likely to get two clients that increment to the same vector while offline than two clients getting the exact same millisecond timestamp.

Which would make the problem worse, not resolved. What type of vector are you using?
Don't forget YouTube Kids as well!
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But the 300/400 are almost as high.
ASDF as a system building tool is widely used in CL-land.

> To be fair this seems like a pretty common mindset in CL-land.

My Lisp Machine has around 60000 functions, and I have only written a tiny fraction of them... Strange. If nobody else has written them, where are they coming from?
I don't think this is accurate.

Most cars with a CVT don't have this but tout gearing as a special, unique feature. Often costing more than the same vehicle without.

Case in point: Subaru Forester. All but the most bare bones models come with a CVT. But it's only on the XT turbo charged model that you get a CVT with fake "gearing" and it is touted as a special add-on feature.

Other cars that come to mind with a CVT without gearing: the rest of the Subaru line, Nissan Versa, Nissan Sentra, etc.
Christopher Manning, a somewhat famous NLP researcher before and during the deep learning craze, has a great perspective on this that echoes your statements which I recommend reading:

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/COLI_a_00239
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