skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean to say when can computer scientists are able to create an algorithm that computes best move for a game? Not too far. Sorry that I didn't use the word AI.
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I'd love to use VSCode but can't until they or someone else rolls out a dockblockr extension that works for php as I'm mostly tied to Laravel right now, and my company requires docblocks and they are not fun to write by hand.
But fast growing startups are funded by private investors, not taxpayers.
You forget the massive amount of plugins and conversational bots that you can plug into slack that are ready to use right now.
Looks only matter for vary small amount of time after that its all about "does it get the job done".
I think one of the preeminent examples was his initial and sustained support for Pol Pot [ignoring evidence of wrongdoing [1]] while there existed much evidence for not supporting them [the KR] because it clashed with his sympathies for the Communist movement in SEAsia at the time.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom...
The article is remarkably uninformative. Is 18F doing a terrible job at consulting? Or at navigating governmental accounting? It does matter.
I think you can still run it in the browser. Not quite the same, I know (the iOS app is nice), but I think it might do for now.
I've already disposed of two or three spare batteries. I have two chargers and 3 batteries that I rotate in a cycle. It's always cheap to order them off amazon or ebay.

Universal battery chargers are a life saver if you have multiple types of batteries to charge.
Since lot of people is talking about HIPPA compliance.

Have you heard about https://teamstitch.com/product/
(nope, not affiliated in any way)

When it came out it was basically a copy cat of Slack, with HIPAA and other security standards compliance. (now they've updated the ui)
A surprising number of news pieces actually end up giving you some sort of opinion.

As a made-up example, a news article on Samsung's falling stock might focus on its Note 7 failures, making the assumption (and thus giving the reader the impression) that the mobile phone is the main cause of the company's decreasing revenues, when in fact the company's general electronic components sales have been dying for months. But this slow decrease is much less sensational and might've missed the headlines. This sort of "opinion" is far more difficult to notice, but still exists in reporting in the form of attempting to speculate on the reasons behind the facts.

This article just happens to be particular blunt about its assumptions.
This is related to point 7, solution in search of a problem. I myself have been guilty of this when I wanted to use deep learning models just because I could. My much more experienced boss gently dissuaded me and I ended up with a 'boring old' logistic regression, which was completely adequate for the job.

Another time I was working with an engineer who built a neural net to predict something. Turned out it was a really poor choice as interpretability was important for the problem and the neural net's predictive power was actually worse than more traditional models.
I don't get your point at all, I'd say the US's ability to project force is worth 19,000x a year more to me than what 18F does.
> balance the budget

Reducing spending power through austerity policies directly reduces the GOP. Lower GDP means lower taxes. This is practically guaranteed to make debts worse. You don't balance the budget by cutting a large portion of the revenue. Historically - as Prof. Blyth shows in his academic work - austerity programs have always lead to increasing debt.

> the long term problem of living within one's means

Then why aren't austerity programs aimed at the people that actually overextended their spending: the banks/etc that bet against everyone else by becoming such a large systemic risk that they had to be bailed out? ("too big to fail")

If you want a much better description of Prof. Blyth's point that he only briefly summarized in this article, I suggest watching the talk[1] he gave last year.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6vV8_uQmxs#t=778
Byte Foods / Pantry Retail (SF and Marin, CA). Onsite or remote.

60sec video: http://youtu.be/pVGkFfhvhHg bytefoods.co

Outside of Silicon Valley, most offices provide on-site food through traditional vending machines filled with convenience store junk, cheap snacks, candy and soda. Byte is successfully replacing these with smart refrigerators filled with fresh, healthy, local foods that use real-time inventory data to make automated decisions about replenishment to control spoilage, which directly affects prices and makes the solution practical. At the same time, some amount of spoilage is inevitable, and we’re proudly one of the Bay Area’s largest fresh food donors.

Byte is growing quickly, with 100s of offices and 10,000s of employees using Byte fridges, including diverse customers like KQED radio, 2K games, Amazon silicon valley, Chevron refinery, Gilead biosciences, the SF SPCA and more. We're on track to grow 10x in the next year, while expanding to other metros.

The company’s product team is distributed with an office in downtown SF; the food and business operations are headquartered in San Rafael a few blocks from the SR bridge, 101 and 580. While the views are spectacular and we love hallway conversations, we're already a distributed team and expect that most of us will work from home a few days a week, both to save on the commute and help focus.

Current openings:

Tech Lead - strong techlead/manager to scale up the backend and team, design new algorithms and weave data and code into complex business processes, and run 24/7 server operations for a growing fleet of refrigerators. Python3/Postgres9.5

Product/Consumer Growth Manager - A hybrid Product/Marketing role define and help create the Byte consumer experience, with an emphasis on the "out of fridge" experience that grows food sales through data driven, programmatic electronic marketing programs.

jobs+hn@bytefoods.co
They just could take the payment to view an article. Getting upset is not a valid reason to restrict consumers' rights.
>In a perfect market, they would be able to sell their services at the same price as the value of those services.

Uh nope. A perfect market means the price is equal to their costs, not the value provided. A monopoly is when you can extract the value provided as rent.
This reminds me a time when I used to work closely with a design team in a web agency, it was very frustrating to work with them because every little modification to things like colors, sizes, buttons and the like would be accompanied with several hours of "design strategy", time that the designers would waste thinking and prototyping new ideas for the corporate image of any of our clients, I say "waste" because most of the time they would end up with a design similar if not equal to the original.

Their GitHub organization [1] shows significant activity, it is sad to see people spending their time, energy and resources on things that are ultimately not supported by their financial funds.

[1] https://github.com/18f
Fta:

"What the ROI chart says is that the return for the social ads was zero. They were a complete waste of money. They generated a lot of “action” but it was at best the wrong group of people, and at worst some type of fraud. This held true for facebook.com and its audience network. Ditto Google search ads, display ads and the Twitter campaign."
Yes they were in the wrong, they did ethnically cleanse 300k Russians from Chechnya before the Russian military even took steps against them.

And they proclaimed the Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus that was very similar to ISIS.

Also they didn't stop aggression after Russia lost the first Chechen war and they got their independence. They instead started attacking other non-Chechen territories in Russia that were peaceful until then.

The Russians were right to bomb the hell out of them. And we should do the same if these people don't stop attacking us.
Hi Silicon Valley! Thanks for visiting our nation's capitol!

kisses,

DC

--

Seriously, this shouldn't be surprising. It's a noble effort, the work is probably worth the so-called "losses", but the reason the government is the government and not Silicon Valley is that in government, there are a bajillion rules to keep you from screwing up too badly.

There's been a fetishization in DC of Silicon Valley techniques, but 1) it's not at all clear that the current Silicon Valley ethos really is worth replicating, and 2) the conditions aren't right here, it can't be replicated without fundamentally changing the conditions. One of the conditions is that there's oversight over everything, and there's the press.

One little article in the federal section of the Post isn't going to kill off anything alone, but it will be interesting to see what happens to 18F after the presidential transition. If there isn't high level cover for it, it will be ground to dust.
Hi,

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Some of my portfolio:
www.cubey-studio.com

I'm an experienced independent creative designer , as well as a creative thinker. Producing a diverse range of work across multiple disciplines. Specializing in concept, strategy and design. Working across branding, visual identity, creative art direction, graphic design,editorial, print,typography,illustration,websites,mobile interface and more.
Strategy , Design and Innovation are my core value.

I'm extremely flexible to adopt different design, with a diverse range of design style, so I don't have a very solid style, I can work dependent on project and clients need. I have a good communication with a great understanding. I work independently, from initial concept to completion. I also have a high attention to detail.

As you saw my work, I'm a graphic designer/art director before, but since last year I changed my career into UIUX/WEB/APP field, I want to go deeper. As a newbie/junior in this area, I study fast and have a good understanding. I'm also learning UI Animate, Html/CSS now, so I believe there has a big possible in future.

As a well-around designer, I also can help you full branding, logo, print design, promotion market material(like brochure/catalog/poster/booklet/flyer etc.), online social media kits, illustration, web/app/UI etc. and more aspects.

I'm also a full-time freelance designer so I can start immediately as we agree. I'm especially available for long-term ongoing type, I can work 40-60 hours per week if needed.

Especially current most of my projects are remote type, so I already have a steady work process, I mainly use skype/email/trello/slack to communicate with clients. But of course open to any tools.

Please let me know if you interested, I can introduce my basics work process, time frame etc, so more details we can discuss.
Look forward to hearing from you.

My skype: nikiyo-studio
My email: nikistudio@hotmail.com

Thanks,
-Nikiyo
You mean, imagine another government agency receiving a budget of $600B a year? shudders

If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
MS has always been good at developer tools (in their own way)
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I believe that switching to a stack machine is short-sighted and a big mistake:

The AST format could open up new possibilities for software, some of which are observable in Lispy languages like Scheme (I won't list them here). Instead, we're looking at locking the software world back into this 1960's model for another 50 years out of a misguided concern for optimization over power.

It's like foregoing the arch because it's more work to craft, and instead coming up with a REALLY efficient way to fit square blocks together. Congratulations, we can build better pyramids, but will never grasp the concept of a cathedral.

To really grasp my point, I BEG you all to watch the following two videos in full and think hard about what Alan Kay & Douglass Crockford have to say about new ideas, building complex structures, and leaving something better for the next generation:

https://youtu.be/oKg1hTOQXoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSGEjv3Tqo0

As Alan Kay states, what is simpler: something that's easier to process, but for which the software written on top of it is massive; or one that takes a bit more overhead, but allows for powerful new ways to model software and reduce complexity?

I believe that an AST model is a major start in inventing "the arch" that's been missing in software, and with something that will proliferate the whole web ... how short-sighted it would be to give that up in favor of "optimizing" the old thing.

Imagine if instead of JavaScript, the language of the web had been Java? Lambdas would not be mainstream; new ways of doing OOP would not be thought of; and all the amazing libraries that have been written because of the ad-hoc object modeling that JavaScript offers. Probably one of the messiest and inefficient languages ever written, yet one of the most powerful ever given. C'mon, let's do it a step more by making it binary, homoiconic, and self-modifying.

Thanks.
They could've created feature/bug bounties and/or grants for open source contributors, and tried to build an open source community around what they're building. This would naturally attract/increase volunteer contributions, but they might also be able to control costs better with such a model.

18F is an uniquely special position since they are building software for the general public, and so are in a great position to attract OSS contributors, as contributing to 18F would be a way of helping your community/country, and would make people feel better.
A negotiable pricing structure hides the true value of the product behind needless bureaucracy and interaction. Not having a sticker price (even a "no one actually pays this much" sticker price, like MSFT's) makes fair comparisons impossible without getting into a high-touch sales cycle.

For them, it's almost surely meant lost sales.

In my org, I'm the one who would be making the decision to trial products like this. For me, it's meant that they haven't gotten a serious look-in. We don't have particular code quality issues so I'm not shopping around between static analysis tools, but I am always open to improving our processes. The bar that they need to reach in order for me to spend time seriously evaluating their product is much higher. If the software was eg 10k/yr it's a very different matter to it being 100k.

I'm curious about the product and the benefits that it brings over our existing static analysis setup (SonarQube + Resharper + Microsoft Code Analysis), and if I had any idea what I'd be getting into I'd probably have set up an instance somewhere, but that's time that I'm not prepared to spend without at least some idea of whether it could even result in us making a buy.

Neither my time, nor that of anyone else in my org is free. I'm not going to evaluate a product, make a decision and then ask how much to see if the vendor has reasonable prices. Even used car lots list prices on their cars so you can judge a "worst case" cost and filter out the absolutely ridiculous ones.
Unexpected hanging paradox
Meh. I'm sure google spent millions on their logo change, and it was just a font tweak. Hackernews was gushing. God knows what they spend per week on google doodles.

There's no winning here for 18f. Either their sites are archaic disasters and they are criticized for not being up to par with the top tier consumer sites. Or they spend some money to bring them up to par and its "OMG! An $800 toilet seat!"
Can only assume this is sarcasm or some definition of "whiff" I don't know. He's had FC, AdBright, TinyLetter and DistroKid - wish I had a track record that strong with my projects!
Even though many people see "guys" as a harmless, genderless word, not everybody does. You can think of the opposite word to guys (for example: gals or girls) and wonder if a group of men would feel comfortable being referred to as girls. When someone refers to you using a word that you don’t identify with, it's easy to feel excluded from conversation or misidentified.

Good grief. What a bunch of girls.
...and if you're brave enough, think about how Christopher Alexander's philosophy of "unfolding wholeness" applies so much more to an AST than to the stack-machines of the 1960's:

https://youtu.be/98LdFA-_zfA
I don't get why companies would hire data scientists to do ETL jobs. These are properly left to engineers with expertise in data warehousing. From what I see though, this is a pretty common occurrence in Silicon Valley.
You are not alone:

https://neo900.org/
This is a complicated question that can't be addressed thoroughly (breadth and depth) in a comment in a Hacker News thread. A bullet-point list that overlaps other comments and summarizes my views:

* Voting isn't easy
* Lack of candidate variety or genuine difference in candidates voters have information about on the ballot (two-party system is a problem)
* Lack of responsiveness from elected officials (vote doesn't matter)
* Vote tabulation is opaque and at best suspect (electronic voting, vote-by-mail, and other schemes hide the counts--they simply cannot be trusted, at all)
* Little or no voter education efforts
The difference being, of course, that Google is a massively profitable company that can afford that kind of expense.
I find linguistics one of those topics that I have questions about but don't know enough to use the correct terms to find an answer.
- Is there an objective metric for 'efficiency of communication of an idea'? If so, what is it?
- Are some languages more efficient at communicating ideas than others?
- What is the most efficient language?
- Are there any attempts to create a new language using all the best features of historical languages? like how programming languages take the good features from one another?
I always find this criticism silly. It's a form of normalization. "Elites must have elitist opinions or they and their opinions are not elite." No, there's usually more than one way to arrive at the same position. Not all paths will be equally complicated or well founded.
$32m is not nothing, it would pay for a big chunk of a lot of programs. The federal government could actually pay the amount of educational money promised in the original legislation to the tribal colleges for many years. It would pay our tribal college's general fund for well over a decade.
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Yeah, this is super frustrating and a big part of why the flag system is bad. There are real lessons for people building marketplaces here, but this system keeps them form being discussed.
You don't need a private backbone to be able to mitigate attacks across multiple locations. I've done it fighting off multi-hundred Gbps attacks and it was never an issue. You can QoS your own intra-site GRE tunnels.

Linode is moving 200-300 Gbps globally. That is about 37.5 Gbps per location, and when you figure in a 20% utilization (because you need to be able to burst)... they have about 300 Gbps of transit per location. Spread across 3-5 carriers I would guess they have 40-100 Gbps from each. Way more than your estimated 10 Gbps.

As far as "routing performance" they appears to be buying from a few Tier 1 networks per location, and a mix of regional Tier 2s. That is in line with best practices. Sometimes to reach the right networks you do need to spin up circuits with multiple Tier 2s, there is no such thing as "diminishing returns" if you are doing traffic engineering properly.

The right way to build networks is to meet your performance needs first and foremost, have enough headroom to grow and serve your customers, and work with your upstreams to manage incoming attacks. An external scrubbing service makes no sense when you can adapt your network as Linode has done so they can easily blackhole targets at their upsteams edge.

I applaud their efforts. This is some smart network engineering.
I want government sites and buildings to look like archaic disasters, because it at least implies that my tax dollars aren't being pissed away on frivolous opulence.

Google can spend ten billion dollars changing their logo because they're profitable and they answer to their board & shareholders. I don't remember anyone asking me if I wanted to contribute money to a government tech startup.
Classic quantum experiment could conceal theory of everything
Doctors in the US capped the supply, so it isn't a great comparison. Law currently has an oversupply problem, with low wages for most lawyers.
Imagine that you passed your dream job interview, you pack you things and move to another state! 30 days into the new job you get the news, you are fired for being a low performer! You go online and post about your experiences, how horrible this company is for not looking out for their employees. You get a lot of responses saying that they have experiences the same, a large part of new hires are fired within the first month at this company!

Now tell me, do you think that said company will get many quality applicants in the future? At least I prefer harsh interviews and then being relatively safe compared to the reverse.
"Ditto Google search ads"
checks article
He spent less than $5 on Search ads...
Hard to be drawing conclusions with that data set.
Ha ha ha this Americans and their political correctness. I cringe every time I see things like this and the HN community doesn't escapes from it, in fact, I have seen more "political correctness" towards sexism here more than in other communities on the Internet (at least the ones I visit). I still do not understand why people pay so much attention to these things. I can only imagine how people would react in countries with a language with Latin roots like French, Portuguese, Spanish where there are multiple ways to refer to a individual or group of people with different genders more than in neutral languages like English.
Non-lazy or should I say ok-to-deal-with-all-this-shit
http://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.th...
Why is it that 18f lost ~10 million dollars a year, but the military does not lose 600,000 million dollars a year?

Sounds like a double standard to me.
Sorry, I meant in this case, since they are a monopoly. Good clarification!
One piece of 18F that I've always appreciated is their published API standards - https://github.com/18F/api-standards. They spawned it off the frequently mentioned White House API standards, and it phrases a lot of the opinions well without being preachy.

But more than anything else, this made me feel like there are real humans behind 18F. So I wish them all the best and hope this article (and ones like it) falls into the camp of "Haters gotta hate" and just inspires them to find more visible success.
How well integrated is it into the rest of Android? Can I have the Google search bar open results in ff by default?
that said, assuming you are working in the US, are you willing to work an extra few minutes over the course of the next year to generate the tax revenue for this?
Am I the only one to see or missing obviously. The following is wrong, where clause has table name (baz)?

SELECT foo,
bar
FROM baz
WHERE foo > 3
AND baz = 'craig.kerstiens@gmail.com'

Edit: Technically you can have a column name exactly same as table name, however I am finding it hard to find difference between the two queries presented.
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