skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the companies involved have clout to lobby to change it.
Instead of breaking it in the dark, apply sunlight and expose the problem, then fix it.

This used to be how the US operated, how both majorities (women) and minorities got the right to vote, and more.

Apparently certain countries have no such problems, with near full employment. For instance, South Korea, and it's a pretty rich country. So it is not impossible to do legally.
And everyday I hear people saying that direct democracy can't work
I wonder if they expect this "trial week" out of all candidates. A trial week of work, paid or not, pretty much eliminates from the hiring pool anyone who currently has a job (i.e. people who were already qualified by some other company at least once).
yeah, he started with it but didn't learn much.
By competitive they must surely mean expensive and selective. Hahahahaaa
Doesn't Apple Maps use openstreetmap? Are they donating?
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> Anyway, it seems like a mystery to me why tech firms like Google set up shop in small expensive Zurich instead of say cheaper, bigger Barcelona or Vienna, for example

Have you seen where Google HQ is located in the US? Same story. And it's not about tax avoidance: California is not a low-tax state.
Chrome makes use of binary patching. Just the deltas are sent. Originally they used bsdiff and ended up implementing their own (superior) version. https://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safe...
Are these serious questions?
The big area for AI is to replace a human being with an AI program and not have the customer notice it.

Then those webchat and help desk jobs will be gone and replaced with AI doing robocalls and acting like a chatbot.

I'm getting Robocalls that ask for a Chris or something and as soon as I say there is nobody here by that name (so they can take me off their list) the bot cuts in saying "Maybe you can help?" and then tries to sell me something. Most of the time the Caller ID is spoofed and it calls back with a different Caller ID and number, etc. I'm on the Dot not call list, but Robocallers just war dial numbers until it reaches someone and then tries to hook them in.

Not only that but AI can take the jobs of writers, programmers, managers, legal assistants, and in robot form burger flippers and checkout kiosks.

As we reach 2020-2030 the AI is trying to get as smart as a human being. As long as it has electricity it can work 24/7 without getting tired or hungry like a human being would.
>it's expedient to use available information

It's intellectually lazy and it's why blind peer review is a thing.
One hard nut: the cost of provisioning datacenters with enough GPU capacity to meet the demand curve of a "hot" title, and still make sense in terms of inevitable idle time and depreciation.

Either you have insufficient capacity to meet day 1 load when everyone piles onto a hot new title, or you over-provision, meet that demand and have much of that hardware doing nothing during doldrum seasons (or when a title bombs).

Probably you need to figure out how to make GPU capacity useful when it's not rendering games, and sell that as a service as well (GPU-based machine learning?). It doesn't help that OSes have been prickly about letting processes share GPU resources; I imagine there are a fair number of thorny security problems, even with GPU MMUs.

This doesn't seem like something a cloud gaming start-up can really tackle; lots of capitalization, with lots of competition from entrenched providers, and no really compelling reason to put games in the cloud to begin with. The bigger (console) players probably realized that having consumers buy their own compute is not only cheaper and more resilient depreciation-wise, but also causes a nice platform lock-in effect once the customers have purchased a few titles.
How many years for SDE3?
Canberran here - not to detract from your point, but possession of cannabis plants here isn't legal, it's merely "decriminalised", which in this case means for small quantities that are for personal use, police have the power to issue a "Simple Cannabis Offence Notice" which can be discharged by payment of a fine similar to a traffic ticket. The plants will still be confiscated.
This is on heroku though. You cant really do any of that?
Which means more money to invest in the country fixing issues, hopefully, instead of being wasted on mansions for corrupt politicians or spent recklessly.

For example, issues that cause crime. Wouldn't that be nice?
Or at least advancement of science and engineering. Someone gets to fund the space program.
Common Lisp compilers may implement static typing. The default type is T, though — but with declarations, a compiler can enforce anything the programmer declares or it infers.
Frequently it seems that caring about immigrants or refugees in the abstract is an oblique way of attacking your fellow citizens.

Additionally, if government officials are supposed to be governing the nation for the benefit of all mankind rather than looking after the interests of the people whom they theoretically represent, we might as well dispense with the pretense of representative government and try to formulate some other basis for state legitimacy.
rkt can already download and run OCI (draft) container images[0].

As for Kubernetes rkt support: it is usable today and continues to develop nicely. If you want to try it out on your laptop it is super easy with minikube: https://tectonic.com/blog/minikube-and-rkt.html

Overall, the rkt support is in a good spot, works today, and the team is working on how to make all of the corners of Kubernetes work flawlessly. And it will support all of the parts of OCI as that specification matures.

If people are interested in joining in and adding a runc backend to rkt that would be great. However, all of the pieces needed to support Kubernetes is already there so we haven't seen much reason to do it. Inside of rkt there is an abstraction called a "stage1" that enables swaping out of the actual containerization system. This is what has enabled us to support Virtual Machine "wrapped" containers[1] inside of rkt for a long time.

For some more background on this article in particular. Folks in the community working at Google, CoreOS, and Red Hat have been working on a container runtime interface[2]. This interface is helping the Kubernetes team refactor the code that currently interfaces with Docker and rkt into a cleaner subsystem. As part of that effort the team is also exposing a gRPC interface to enable various implementations and experimentation. This is the interface the team at Red Hat building cri-o (formerly OCID) is using.

[0] https://groups.google.com/a/opencontainers.org/forum/#!topic...

[1] https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/running-lkvm-stage1.html

[2] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/pr...
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This is exactly what the opponents of democracy said during the 18th century, and exactly what China says now "we are too big for democracy".

But well, we have a proven implementation at 8 million people. Let's promote it to all countries of that size or smaller then.
Ask HN: When are you considered a “senior” programmer?
I have been doing web development for as long as I remember. I get by with tools that are needed for the job. I don't fancy the new and shiny. I just get things done fast and done properly.

But I feel like I'm always a step behind the rest. There's this guy in the team knows how to operate Amazon, or this guy who that knows how to use Spring, or this guy that knows how to scaffold a Java app in minutes. Sure, I can write in the Java language but I don't know Spring by heart. I can build and run containers, but I don't know how to launch them in the cloud.

When is one considered to be a "senior" developer? Is there a means to measure where I am? How do I get there?
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Acutally not neccessarily. You can as well end up in a traffic jam. In fact that's how they display traffic info on maps: many phone users doing what you just described.
Well, Switzerland had centuries of focus on education.

But California seems to do OK according to my metrics: higher GDP per capita and life expectancy that the average in USA. What makes you feel California as a failure?
Yes, you are the only one. He isn't guilty for being valuable enough to warrant such a salary.
I actually think that taxes functioning as user fees on things with significant social costs is the ideal policy approach to internalize the externalities at play.
>> came to work jobs no one else would take

> If there are jobs that are structured such that only an illegal immigrant, who by definition exists outside the normal labor pool and its protections, will take

Typically, that statement also refers to jobs that are perfectly legal, but most Americans wouldn't take anyway. For example, many of the experienced people reading this wouldn't drive a cab, deliver pizzas, work as unskilled construction labor, a dishwasher or a janitor if they became unemployed. They'd continue to look for their next IT job. And they'd be choosy about that - not selling computers at Best Buy, for example.

(I'm not putting down those jobs; personally I respect any work.)
Adds up very well with almost contemporary evidence from Monte Verde in Chile http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... so "mystery" is a non sequitur. But that's the headline.

The original research paper is worth a read (open access FTW).
For how long, give a number of years. Forever?

and how does embracing this help Iranians? It only serves to excuse why things never get better, and offers no solution
Provisioning the cluster should of course be automated. Does that mean you'll never need to ever access a node for any reason? Of course not.
Perhaps your average router needs a button to 'add device', only allowing new devices access via something like the WPS button with a term second window for new DHCP request incoming? Otherwise the DHCP ignores any incoming request, just sleeps. Adds one step in the quickstart guide.
Which is why you shouldn't read just the conclusions, but get the actual source data they used.

Easier said than done. It's easy to dismiss, but hard to verify.

Science found hard! News at 11! ;)
http://www.theonion.com/article/national-science-foundation-...
Either way, we still mock airheads
Wow! That's a ton of stuff. I wish you were working with us at gonum. Can we work together?
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Not only is it huge, it has lots of ornaments (figures, carvings), was originally painted colorfully, and best of all: the Swedes built the museum around the wreck, so that you've got access on five(?) levels and can get pretty close.
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I already described the difference between fear mongering and pushing for caution, so don't conflate those terms. It's incoherent to not engage the arguments--take the control problem into consideration. Are you familiar with the reasoning for the expectancy that an AGI will be built that is smarter than humans at any reasoning task? Are you willing to go along with that? If so, then what follows is that the AGI improves the design of its own software and hardware better than any human engineer. At this point, there is a recursive improvement process termed an "intelligence explosion". From that point forward, we have no idea how to ensure that the goals of the AGI remain in alignment with human values. And the AGI can out-maneuver any attempt to turn it off. It's not guaranteed that it will want to avoid being turned off; but you could easily see how avoiding being turned off would improve the probability that it achieves its optimization parameters.

Where do you check out?

Edit: Nick Bostrom is the thought leader on this subject and he spells it out in this talk: https://goo.gl/DzNnk2. His book, Superintelligence, is really good.

Edit 2: And here is the audio for a Sam Harris talk also on this subject: https://goo.gl/6wdG43
There will be outliers on either side obviously, but I would guess most SDE3s at Amazon fall into a range of 6-10 years of experience.
IMHO it is Maps.me by far
My experience has been very different. I can walk into my doctor's office without an appointment, wait an hour, and immediately talk to him. Appointments can usually be made for the next week. I had to see a specialist or two, even get an MRI, and those appointments were not more than 2 weeks out.

Maybe it's the city you live in. I'm in Munich and have TK, and about the only thing I've paid out of pocket for is 25 euro for some blood work, and of course some small fees for prescriptions such as antibiotics.
This assumes calories are all equal and the best measuring stick. Do we know this to be a fact?
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It sounds like the system you describe does not use end-to-end encryption.

To put it another way: WhatsApp claim to use end-to-end encryption for their messaging service [1]. If a hacker gained unrestricted access to their online server and database, could that hacker read any user messages?

[1] https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/28030015
I was starting to get worried about the data collection already happening individually at these big companies. Now that they have announced a partnership which potentially combines all this data together, I feel so much better!

The funny thing is, the companies are ALWAYS going to put a positive spin on this. Not very different from the WhatsApp "we won't show ads, ever" messaging. Now I am in the camp which says "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me". Almost none of these companies can be trusted at this point. [1] Their refusal to ask OpenAI to be at the table really does not reflect well on them [2]. And the less said about the tenured professors who are now becoming company mouthpieces saying things like "we create products which cannot make profit but which is meant purely for data collection" the better [3]. And lastly, if these companies had such a sincere desire to "improve AI for the sake of humanity", how about they start by letting OpenAI (or a similar company) do a data audit of all the information they share so that we can actually be certain it is not just a data brokerage masquerading as a public service?

I wanted to say that I wish the AI community will boycott this effort completely. I find it a bit worrying that this community now resides almost entirely within the walls of corporate America.

[1] Interestingly, the only company which is even making noises about user privacy is Apple. Is it possible they saw something in this partnership that they didn't like?

[2] https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/781243032582578177

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12428883
Look at it from the perspective of the people who have bought their computers (e.g. Google, Lockheed). Suppose there's any remote chance this is the first step towards scalable quantum computing. If that's the case, getting your researchers in on the ground floor could lead to what would likely be one of the most valuable pieces of IP since the transistor. D-Wave's patents might not cover it since their patents describe devices that don't really appear to work, and you're big enough to buy them if they do. Governments, every physical science, and plenty of firms big data would be dying to get their hands on your devices.

Now look at the cost of the D-Wave. A few million dollars, compared to the trillions you could make just in licensing fees if it pans out and you were the ones to crack the code. Considering how deep these companies' pockets are, wouldn't you take that bet? I would, and I side with the evaluations of some of the biggest D-Wave skeptics in academia.
I'm looking forward to the day the cloud fades away.
I am really against the notion that waiving sovereignty is something that elected leaders are allowed to do. It is too easy to design a deal that will benefit one leader but open the country for pillaging under its successor.
Yes, and that's why atomic weaponry is unusable and largely irrelevant. In contrast, AI is eminently usable in business and government, and in such a wide range of means and purposes that it is much more likely to change our lives, in ways that are largely still unimaginable. As more AI is adopted and shapes policy and practice throughout the world, business, gov't, and Joe Public will gradually relinquish ever more personal information to it, inviting excess oversight, micromanagement, and abuse by those who control the AI.

After all, the corporations joined in this partnership are the very behemoths that gather and control almost all the world's social and personal information, which is their primary product and essential to their revenue stream and their very survival. If the public (and gov't policy makers) ever conclude that these firms and their AI are a rising threat, then like various European countries, the US too might enact 'onerous' regulation which could diminish their access to our data, AKA their life's blood.

I think THAT'S what this AI partnership is really about. It's the start of a political action initiative, apparently led by unthreatening figures like CS academics rather than capitalists. It's intended to diffuse the visibility of these companies' advancing political interests and lobbying in Washington so their growing injection of AI into our lives won't suddenly show up on our radar one day soon as an inbound threat from the clear blue sky above. Once they gain a sufficient foothold in Washington and assure that we remain inured to the idea of AI, they can turn up the heat until we froggies boil, blissfully oblivious to the rising clouds of steam.
I've done almost all of those things before (general maintenance rather than construction, and I've never driven a cab) -- including retail sales at an electronics chain (Radio Shack before Best Buy was the thing) -- and would again if I didn't have better prospects elsewhere (with my experience and expectations of the future labor market, I don't expect to need to do any of those things again, but that's a different thing than being unwilling to consider it if there was a need.)

I suspect that's not all that uncommon here (well, maybe not having done as many of the less-skilled jobs you talk about, but not being unwilling if it was genuinely the best prospect.)
> You are proving my point

You are ignoring mine. Never taking responsibility means things will never get better in Iran. It's the conservatives that blame the US so they can keep control, it's the reformists that realize it's Iranians that will make change, and that can't happen until their admit they are in charge of their own fate.

> Then I can rule as long as you want.

Wrong. North Korea is the longest standing "authoritarian" state, and they are barely surviving. Their days are numbered.

> Have you been in middle East?

I live in the ME, and the refusal of anyone to look at themselves in the mirror when discussing the very real problems in their society is universal. Everything is a conspiracy, nothing is their fault.

You aren't wrong in saying the west has been a negative influence in the region for peace and stability, but they are not in control anymore. Iran is a mess b/c of the fundamentalism at the core of Iranian society.
Katsuren Castle was known to have been the focal point of trading partnerships with China and other Asian countries

There is loads of evidence for early trade... the Periplus[0] is a well known period navigational text showing knowledge of India and China. Roman coins have been found in Cambodia[1] and Vietnam[2]. Coins from East Africa have even been found in Australia.[3] Essentially we know that seaborne travel was very much going on in prehistory but we have no way to track a lot of it... most of the evidence is gone. In the case of Japan, however, they probably obtained coins by land trade through the Silk Road[4]... much like they did Buddhism.[5]

[0] https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/periplus/periplu... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funan_(Southeast_Asia) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93c_Eo [3] http://www.smh.com.au/national/out-of-africa-20130908-2tes7.... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Chinese_exploration_... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanto_Rokush%C5%AB
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PM me. In short - 'meh'. 'hell no' if it's for Amazon.
Could a D-Wave be used to perform Shor's algorithm? I remember reading a long time ago that In-Q-Tel and an unnamed 3-letter agency had invested in D-Wave
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Good point. I was going to disagree with you, but then I tested some apps just to make sure. I'm actually surprised how much stuff works with split-screen. I have apps that I use once in a blue moon, for example the Avianca app, and it works despite throwing the "this app may not work with split-screen" notification. Same for Spotify.
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Links to WSJ should be replaced with a link to Google with the query being the title of the article. That way we can easily navigate to the article without hitting paywall. I can't be the first one to mention this! :)
The main question for me is whether people accept there are basic biological and neurological differences between men and women?

Women consistently score higher in empathy and lower in spatial recognition tasks than men. Maybe that's something you shouldn't fight against?
Stateless depends on the context, it doesn't violate any theory of computing. Here are some elements of stateless systems:

* all the state needed for serving requests is transient, not something that needs to be persisted
* any particular instance can disappear without affecting the observable behavior of the system
* the system is infinitely scalable: it doesn't matter if the cluster is comprised of 1, 100 or 1000 instances
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That's so wonderful.
Why would IBM care? It's AIX is live and well.

Canonical tried to compete with Upstart but failed.

What's curious is why Debian fell. It was the cornerstone.
Never said you shouldn't look in other directions. Sure, you can look in all the possible places. It's better if you do.

But unless I'm going to write a report and spend a few hours/days doing a complete research, finding opposing views (and opposing views to those views) is a good approximation.
Technology is broader than just software (though I'm not implying you said it is just software). Apple is a phenomenal technology company - their hardware + software integration is unmatched and they have made advances in everything from software to hardware to supply chain optimization to manufacturing technology.

Also, they are ( or at least were) a prime example of a company that can bet on high risk, longish term investments that don't have an immediate application : e.g. their investment in chips, touch technology etc. It may not be as long term as some of the Google X stuff but I don't think it is fair to call them averse to making high risk long term investments.
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Yes, you have icgrep 1.0. The current development version has about the same build process, sorry that it is such a pain. It is available by svn checkout as follows.

svn co http://parabix.costar.sfu.ca/svn/icGREP/icgrep-devel

AVX2 is autodetected and used if available and enabled by the operating system/hypervisor (Although icgrep1.0 can be compiled to use AVX2, it had some issues).
Wow, that's a lot of good work.

I asked recently about go wrappers for the Cuda Runtime or Driver API's and didn't get much response, I don't see a lot happening with openCL either, is there anything like that in the prospects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12528206